Both ends of the long alley are officials' homes, this small alley has opened the back door, and it is also full of lanterns at this time, a lotus lamp, ingots, carp lamps are lit from beginning to end, and candles have been lit before it gets dark.

On this day, the palace city is going to walk the moon, the queen mother also has to take the palace people and women to worship the Taiyin Xingjun, and then walk from the inner city to the Taiye Pool, hang the lantern cruise boat, this year's champion Tanhua Lian guesses the lantern fans, even the prince personally drives the boat, the bow of the boat hangs the lamp, passing in front of the Taiye Pool, amusing the queen and the saint.

The palace city is like this, the outside is even more lively, the crowds on the street are surging, the east and west cities are full of lights, there is a temple fair in front of the round wonderful view, go to the Caiyun Bridge to sing, the Qinhuai River is competing for the Oiran today, play the pipa and sing a small song, drive the flower boat to the river, go down a circle, the most flowers fall on the boat, it is the Oiran of today.

It's so lively outside, it's the same in Shangshu Lane, Jing'er is not a curfew, the official called to invite into the palace to have fun, and when he went home, he naturally invited him to play and sing, Shi Gui waited by the door, while waiting for Mingyue to come, and he was faintly thinking about Shi Dad in his heart, maybe he would come in a hurry.

She stretched out her head and waited, but the little guy had to go back to eat and drink, and the mouth of the guard was straight and unlucky, Shi Gui also posted the wine money, and asked him to be accommodating, and the little guy asked for a corner wine to come in, eat some peanuts and plum beans and drink, and after a while, he was drowsy, and told Shi Gui to stare at the door.

Shi Gui stared at the mouth of the alley with a good eye, looking forward to Daddy Shi coming from the other side of the alley, or bringing her a bowl of licorice snow water, or a bowl of sour plum soup, telling her how the family had been in the past six months, whether Qiu Niang still went out to pick tea, and whether Xizi had studied.

From dawn to sunset, Shi Gui still thought that Mingyue was tripped up and would not come again, so he had to turn around and say hello to the little guy, if Mingyue came, this package of roasted duck from the south furnace was given to him, let him take it back to eat, and later, the courtyard would be locked.

She glanced at the end of the long alley, and saw a little halo in a trance, and the lanterns in an alley cast light spots, illuminating this narrow alley into a blur of fireworks, and there was only one above her head that set off fireworks, and the spark jumped into the sky, falling and gradually extinguishing, Shi Gui's eyes were in a trance, and Mingyue was already standing in front of her, and lifted the watermelon lantern in her hand: "There are so many people on the road, I'm afraid that it will be broken." ”

The boss took out a watermelon and took out the meat, carved dozens of lotus petals, and there was a red heart in the layers, the outer scalp was green, and the inner heart was red.

Shi Gui laughed suddenly, one can't come, it's always disappointing, waiting for Mingyue to come, it's better than empty joy, smiled and moved a small pestle out for him to sit, borrowed a small round table from the little guy, put the watermelon lamp in the middle, roast duck and roast pork wrapped in oil paper, and a bunch of black jade bead grapes, red and white soft-skinned pomegranates, and two green red persimmons, a small table, full of them.

Shi Gui was afraid that the soup was battered, so she made cold spring noodles, and put the sesame cake and honey cake in one plate.

In addition to the watermelon lantern, Mingyue also brought her a rabbit doll, which she held in her hand when the child was walking on the street, and he saw that the color was beautiful, and he also bought one for Shi Gui, the head of the rabbit, under which it was male or female, everything, he spent a few more money, and asked the man to draw a colorful rabbit wearing a purple silk skirt and a goose yellow belt for him.

Shi Gui took a look and knew that it was the painting herself, this summer shirt was still her new work, the chassis of this thing was round, no matter how you pushed it, it rested on the side of the watermelon lamp, which was a birthday gift from Mingyue.

Mingyue poured a cup of osmanthus brew, Shi Gui was the first time to celebrate his birthday so decently, but it was the first time he sat and ate a banquet, these many meat and vegetable snacks, so he was already eating a banquet, it turned out that he only saw the master and brother eat, and he didn't even touch the stool, Shi Gui did this, he said something witty for a while, poured a mouthful of osmanthus brew, and smacked his mouth; "Where is this wine, this is sweet water, not strong enough." ”

Shi Gui was taken out of the kitchen and given it to the girl to eat, what kind of stamina could she have, she reached out and was about to hit Mingyue on the head, but Mingyue didn't wait for her hand to reach the door of her head, so she turned sideways to avoid it.

As soon as he dodged like this, Shi Gui remembered what he said about the man's head and woman's waist, and said with a smile: "Even if you are socializing with someone else, you can't eat drunk ghosts and drink too much and make mistakes." ”

Mingyue didn't care, others drank a lot of wine, and only drank one cup when he first got on the boat, those soldiers teased him and gave him a cup, and he drank a glass and fell asleep.

If it was someone else, I was afraid that it would stop, but he didn't admit defeat, and the second time he barely ate a glass and a half, and he was drunk with a quick drink, and he fell down and slept for another night.

This wine is the Zheng family's pouring wine, much richer than ordinary wine, there is a nickname called a thousand days drunk, taking a cup of food can be drunk for a thousand days, although this is an exaggeration, but the stamina of this wine is enough, Mingyue is used to drinking that, where can you still eat such sweet wine.

When Mingyue's body didn't stop, the person sat on the pestle, his feet seemed to be moving, his mouth was full of smiles, he tore a duck leg to eat, chewed duck meat in his mouth, swallowed it in three or two bites, and looked at Shi Gui smiling at him, and felt a fever on his face.

The first time he saw Shi Gui, he knew that she was good-looking, he had been in the Taoist temple since he remembered, but he had also seen some female pilgrims, and she was very good-looking, among those little girls, she was the best-looking, and she smiled again, and reached out to give him a bag of sugar, the sugar was wet and sweaty, but it was sweet to people's hearts.

Since Mingyue got on the boat, she followed the big-headed soldiers, Lord Wu is a person who is afraid of the inside, such a powerful person, with such a long scar on his face, but he is afraid of his wife, and he has to accompany his wife when he eats too much wine, those soldiers get off the boat to have fun, and they never dare to let Lord Wu know.

Mingyue got along well with the veterans, and they also took him with them for fun, saying that they would take him to see him for a long time, so that this little Taoist priest knew what Hua Niang was born like.

Mingyue naturally went, even the bustard in the building knew that he was going to see the excitement, these military masters are big families, since the saint ascended the throne, there has been no such thing as deducting military salaries, these soldiers have money in their waists, and they are not hungry when they are not married.

Mingyue took a look at those flower girls, all of them were flowery, their faces were pink, their lips were painted red and bright, they were tired of laughing, and they slammed their shoulders with a fist, which made those big brothers laugh.

Mingyue consciously saw women, picked up the window and watched them undress, revealing half of their snow-white chest, looking like a piece of mutton fat, white gas, he had seen the world, and when he came back to see Shi Gui, he still thought she was better-looking, little hairy girl, goodbye, she would look better, people leaned back on the table, but their eyes did not stop rolling on her eyes.

Her eyes are good, Mingyue thinks so, it is brighter than those lanterns outside, and it is brighter than the galaxy seen on the boat at night, and she thinks in her heart, and when she looks at it again, she feels more and more that those two eyes are scorching, and she lowers her head unconsciously and unconsciously lowers her head.

There is no curfew outside, but the Song family wants to blow out the lamp, most of the wine and meat on the table have entered Mingyue's belly, he eats a duck alone and doesn't feel full, and he eats all the roast pork and white-cut chicken before he touches his belly and burps, Shi Gui then took out the moon cake and gave him one.

In the old year, the two of them shared a moon cake to eat, Shi Gui thought about it, although it was her birthday, she wished Mingyue: "You follow Lord Wu, don't be too honest." ”

How could Mingyue not know this, those who can climb up, starting from the general flag, first leading five people, then ten people, and finally becoming hundreds of households and thousands of households, he laughed again: "I won't be called Mingyue in the future, Lord Wu said, if I want to go back after the funeral, I will go to him, and he will give me a good name." ”

Shi Gui pursed his lips and laughed: "That's good, if you come again, you can tell me what your name is, and when the incense is on at home again, I also wish you a return, I wish you a long journey." Mingyue burped, spit out some osmanthus fragrance in her mouth, licked her lips, and felt that Pengcheng Wanli was also a good name.

The little guy woke up from drinking, although it was still lively outside, but when the Song family locked the door, they came out to catch up: "If you don't clean it up again, let the night patrol people see, I also have to eat melons, you hurry up." ”

Shi Gui packed up the wine jug and sent Mingyue to the door, Mingyue stuffed a cloth bag into her indiscriminately: "This is for you, that one is for tricks, and this is your birthday gift." ”

Shi Gui also handed him a purse: "Here are some blood-invigorating pills, you can use them for dancing and swords." Mingyue flicked it, and sure enough, he was a little heavy-handed, and he didn't look closely, he walked away in his arms, Shi Gui smiled, there were five taels of minced silver on his head, and he brought it on his body for self-defense.

Mingyue gave her a small cloth bag, wrapped in a red cloth outside, she didn't have time to take a closer look, she went back with the watermelon lantern, the Mandarin Duck Pavilion was already quiet, Shi Gui blew out the candle in the watermelon lamp, and quietly went to the house, pushing open the door Shi Ju Danzhu was still waiting for her, and saw her and said: "You are back, there is a lot of trouble at the banquet." ”

Today is a family banquet, there is only one person who can make trouble, except for Song Zhimei, there is no one else, Shi Gui didn't ask, Danzhu said: "The eldest girl is really crazy, she actually said such things." ”

Shi Gui was impatient to listen to her, and Danzhu had already poured beans into the bamboo tube, and fell to the ground sentence by sentence: "The eldest girl doesn't know much about the pair of lanterns, and what was said on the banquet, where was a girl who said it." ”

Song Zhimei also thought that the second elder of the Song family stopped her marriage, and the lantern that the prince rewarded was clearly given to her, so that Mrs. Song concealed it, that is, when she had a banquet today, the palace rewarded something again, and the eunuch asked, saying that the lamp rewarded by His Royal Highness the prince was not hung up.

Shi Gui rolled his eyes, fell on the bed, put the watermelon lantern on the small table, untied his clothes and drilled into the quilt, reached out and touched the red cloth bag, untied it layer by layer, and it was wrapped in a silver hairpin, not a flower, branch, insect and bird, but a little rabbit, with a round head and a round body, and two ears standing up, making a look like running to the moon.