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The dark clouds in the sky are a little dense, obscuring the stars, a black oppression, the main gate of the palace is dotted with colorful lanterns, the largest is the two dragons playing with pearl lanterns, reflecting a bright one. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is rare to celebrate with the people, all the lights with poetry riddles are hanging in the corridor of the city, the stars are quite emotional, the most important thing is that even if it is in the city, because of the earth dragon, the heating is dense, you can see the lights and see the people and not be cold, some princes or princesses are guessing the lantern riddles, enjoying the fireworks in the distance, looking at the streets below.

Every five steps on the wall, there is a guard, today is festive, although these guards carry knives, but they are all wearing large red jackets, looking festive.

"The emperor has arrived!"

As a white-faced old eunuch shouted in front, this sharp voice sounded, and the noisy crowd immediately fell silent.

The eunuch was wearing a big red robe, carrying a lantern to lead the way, followed by a few small eunuchs with lanterns, followed by the emperor, middle-aged, wearing a golden robe, wearing a big red cloak, and more than a dozen guards with knives on his side.

The emperor appeared, and the princes, princesses, and county lords who were playing and playing quieted down, and the chief concubine stepped forward: "See Your Majesty!"

Everyone in the stadium knelt down and shouted, "Hooray, hooray, hooray!"

"Flat!" the emperor told everyone to get up, and when he saw that the hour was approaching, he commanded, "Let's begin!"

"Honorable. ”

Suddenly three cannons rang out, and the guards rushed out in armor and immediately intercepted three hundred paces from the city gate, which was a distance that no crossbow could reach.

Even if you celebrate with the people, you still have to have royal majesty and security.

The thousands of spectators below instantly quieted down, only to see that on the city gate, there was a sudden sound of music, the dragon flag went up to the city, and it was dazzling to see, and the guards were even more golden and silver armor, majestic, and the eunuch in the middle hugged Huang Yu and stopped on the city.

The lights are bright, although a few hundred steps away, you can faintly see Huang Yu's next person, wearing a pearl crown, a golden dragon robe, smiling slightly, although he is over fifty years old, but he looks healthy.

In an instant, the crowd bowed down like a large piece of wheat, and the mountain shouted a tsunami: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

After the ceremony, the emperor waved his hand back, only to see the city full of noise, gongs and drums, the sky darkened, the emperor glanced at the prince, princess, concubine, and smiled: "You don't have to be formal, go play by yourself, I don't blame you today." ”

These princes, princesses, and county lords got up to play, and some of the little princes and princesses who were only five or six years old quarreled together, but they were more lively and humane than on weekdays.

Looking around the imperial city is a large square, where the palace eunuchs and guards drive ox carts and carry fireworks, which can be set off later when the emperor gives an order.

Rows of streets in the distance, illuminated by red lanterns at this time, light up the night view of the capital, you can clearly see the distant streets, lanterns, fireworks, and lively crowds coming and going.

Although these are interesting, but see more and that's it, the emperor only looked at the city for a while, that is, turned around and admired the lanterns on the city, this year's lantern style is a lot more than in previous years, the lantern riddles are also interesting, the emperor looked at the nodding, the eunuch looked at this scene, just laughing.

The emperor walked all the way, he no longer had a queen mother, no queen, at this time the highest status of the concubine was the concubine who acted as the queen, and from time to time there were concubines who continued to talk, with no enthusiasm on weekdays, and was talking about happiness, the emperor suddenly remembered a person and asked: "Where did the eldest princess go?"

A eunuch stepped forward with some trembling trembling: "Your Majesty, the eldest princess led the little princess to take the guards to go outside to enjoy the lanterns, and the little one didn't dare to stop her." ”

Hearing this, the emperor's face changed: "How can the royal nobles easily go to such a lantern festival, if there is something, then how can it be good, call it back quickly." ”

Before the emperor's words fell, the voice of the eldest princess came: "Your Majesty, why are you angry, I just went out to shop for a lantern, and I have already returned." ”

The eldest princess came, with the county lord by her side, and the little county lord holding a lantern and couldn't put it down.

Seeing the eldest princess, the emperor scolded with a straight face: "Why are you so careless?"

This is his only younger sister, attached to the horse because of his own great cause died in battle, only one daughter, worried, which is really scolding, the eldest princess smiled and said: "Brother Huang, I just go out to play, there are guards, what are you worried about me?"

"Call Your Majesty!" Listening to the words of the eldest princess, the emperor was helpless for a while, and said with a straight face.

This young sister of his own, usually pampered, after marriage and attached horse relationship is good, since the death of the horseman, this sister's personality is a little fickle, through the identity of the work, add some money to luxury, only do not involve major events, can be tolerated, after all, I only have one sister.

"Brother Huang, don't scare me on such a holiday. The eldest princess pretended to be frightened, she was middle-aged, and she still looked like a bird.

"I can't help it. The emperor looked at it with a wry smile, and it was not good to reprimand again, so he turned his face and asked: "Eldest princess, you have gone out to mess around enough, what is the good thing about coming back so happy?"

"Your Majesty, there are naturally good things, you see what I am looking for. The eldest princess handed over a manuscript with the scent of ink, which had just been written, and the emperor said, "I have found something good to give to me." ”

As he spoke, he took it and looked at it.

The laughter was full of dark fragrance, and the crowd looked for him thousands of times, and suddenly looked back, but the person was there, and the lights were dim. ”

When I first thought of it with a smile, when I read it to the public looking for him thousands of times, I suddenly frowned - I met the queen when I was a teenager, the warmth of serving with my hands, the slender hands of serving soup, and sometimes reviewing documents, and suddenly came back to my senses, and found that the queen was still sitting embroidery, and I looked at my veins and tenderness......

For a moment, the emperor was stunned and stunned...... It seems that the queen's voice and face are like yesterday, remembering that when she was determined to rebel, she was calm, lowered her eyebrows and said: "The big thing decided by the Xianggong, how can I interject, if the Xianggong can succeed, the concubine will only follow the happiness, if it doesn't work, naturally I will only follow you." ”

Everything fell to that drizzly dusk in a blink of an eye, and she was reluctant to look at it for the last time...... Five years have passed in the blink of an eye, and these distressing past events - he deliberately forgot them, but as soon as he reminded them, they were immediately so vivid, and the vividness made him immediately ooze tears, and he quickly wiped them away, and turned around: "Eldest princess, let's go shopping alone!"

The old eunuch stepped forward: "Your Majesty can't." ”

The emperor said with a straight face: "Can't I talk to the eldest princess alone, is there still someone here to assassinate me?"

The concubine was on the side, looking at the eldest princess with some inexplicable expressions, the emperor's connivance and love for the eldest princess was really enviable, and she looked at the scroll she picked up, and the emperor's expression in the dream just now made her startled.

After a few steps, the emperor held the scroll and asked, "Whose work was made?"

"Yingzhou Xie Yuan Pei Ziyun. The eldest princess replied softly, the emperor's expression of looking back just now fell into her eyes, and she knew that this word had touched the emperor's heart, I don't know why, there was no joy, just a little distressed, the emperor is actually a lover, but for the emperor's profession, it seems too luxurious.

"Pei Ziyun, Pei Ziyun, but Pei Ziyun who will enter the wine in Yingzhou?"

"Yes, it is this person, I met this person just now, pointed to the lantern riddle and asked him to guess, and after a while, he guessed it, and pointed to the lamp at the place, and let him compose a poem, and after three steps it became this word, and I also saw Zhenlang, this person is really quick-witted. The eldest princess said.

"This person has such a talent, and rushed to the capital before the spring festival, presumably to take the Jinshi examination, not to beg the eldest princess to take a shortcut, in fact, with this word alone, I have to take the middle, and a Sanding Armor is indispensable. The emperor seemed to be true and false, the expression on his face was not clear, he only listened to the tone, and his mood seemed to be very good, but it seemed to be bad.

"Giggles, I'm afraid that Your Majesty you won't be able to take it, this son has entered the Daomen, this time I really came to ask me to do something, but it's not a matter of the imperial examination......" The eldest princess said generously, and did not hide it.

When the emperor heard this, he glanced around, and when he talked about this, his thoughts were no longer there just now, so he interrupted the conversation, and said after a while: "Tell me after the banquet, now the lantern festival, enjoy the fun, don't talk about things." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. "The eldest princess saluted.

With the emperor's order, fireworks bloomed in the square, and the entire imperial city gate became a sea of fireworks, red, yellow, blue, purple, and beautiful fireworks filled the entire sky.

A little princess was held in her arms by a concubine, looking at the fireworks in the distance, and muttering: "It's so beautiful, I want to watch it every day." ”

An older prince replied: "Sister, this is only once a year, and it depends on the fact that we have to wait for the next year." ”

"Mother, I don't, I don't, I want to watch it every day. The princess grabbed the concubine's clothes and coquettished, and the concubine helplessly touched and coaxed.

The Lantern Festival, an annual spectacle, rises in the capital with the fireworks in front of the imperial city, and the crowd that originally admired the lanterns all looked to the sky.

Pei Ziyun was going back along the street, and he also looked up at the fireworks in the sky, as if he had returned to the earth, he was speechless, for a long time, and shook his head: "Since the eldest princess has agreed, she will have to give a thousand taels of gold tomorrow morning, and Ji Shilang will also have to give a hundred taels of gold." ”

"Exchange all the rest of the gold for silver tickets. Thinking about it, Pei Ziyun left his inexplicable melancholy and headed home.

After the fireworks were lit, the chief eunuch stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, I hope Your Majesty will move to the banquet." ”

As the ceremonial music sounded, the emperor got up, and everyone got up and entered the palace.

At this time, the palace maids and eunuchs all took turns serving dishes to keep the temperature so as not to get cold.

The eldest princess followed the emperor's side, led the little county lord to sit together, and under the emperor's order, it was a banquet, lively and festive, and from time to time there was an emperor's assessment of the adult prince, poems, articles, just casually, wrong and not criticized, and there was a reward for answering well.

After the banquet, the emperor got up and entered the imperial study, and later a little eunuch handed over the sobering soup, the emperor entered the bookcase, a stack of Pei Ziyun materials had been piled up on the case, picked it up and looked at it, and said later: "Princess Xuanchang came in." ”

"Xuan, the eldest princess is here. The little eunuch at the door shouted loudly, and then a eunuch led the eldest princess into the imperial study.