Chapter 003: Love Meets the Earth for a Long Time
The events of that day were just a fleeting episode, and I didn't take it to heart, and I didn't go to see the Linghu siblings afterwards, because I knew that they must be properly accommodated. As to who the noble and mysterious man really is in the royal family, it only doesn't matter to me.
It is precisely because he is from the royal family that I don't want to have anything to do with it, a gentleman does not erect a dangerous wall, although I am not a gentleman, I also do not want to be involved in any crisis that I cannot deal with. The draft is inescapable, but as long as you can protect yourself. If you can avoid it, you can avoid it, and if you can't avoid it, you can only do it one step at a time, this is the current idea.
Time flies like a white horse, and it is the Spring Festival of the forty-first year of Kangxi in an instant, and the strong New Year's flavor lasts until the Lantern Festival. In the old days, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was the Shangyuan Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, and the folk called the Lantern Festival. In the old days, people in Beijing not only had to eat Lantern Festival, but also visited the lantern market.
I heard that the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival in Beijing is very lively every year, and I also want to see it.
The Beijing lamp market has a long history, the most prosperous in the Ming Dynasty, when the emperor also gave a hundred officials a leave of ten days to celebrate the Lantern Festival, when the lantern market puts the lights out of the city, men, women and children pour out of the city, there are no less than 10,000 visitors from near and far, and the name of the lamp market mouth is because of the lamp market.
The lantern market from the 8th to the 18th of the first month of each year, of which the above Yuan Festival is the most prosperous, so there are 14 days to test the lights, 15 days to be light, 16 days to stop the lights. The types of lamps in the Qing Dynasty were based on the yarn lamps, paper lamps, wheat straw lamps, horse lanterns, and five-color bright angle lamps in the Ming Dynasty, and glass lamps and Western lamps were added. The content painted on the lamp is also richer, not only with traditional flowers, birds, fish, insects, Rui beasts and zodiac signs, but also with a variety of familiar stories.
There are drums and juggling performances at the lantern market, and the colorful fireworks and colorful lights in the sky are reflected in the sky. In addition, there are many department stores that sell them, and there are more than two department stores sold in the temple market, one is more than the pearl and jade, and the other is more gorgeous decorations. It goes without saying that most of the people who visit the light market are dignitaries, nobles, women and children.
Speaking of the lantern festival, the spotlight tiger is naturally indispensable - that is, the game of guessing the lantern riddle, but the lantern riddle is generally not easy to guess, and the guesser will be rewarded with fresh fruits, snacks, etc.
I was originally very obsessed with traditional culture, but now that I have experienced it myself, my mood is naturally excited, and I pull Chun'er to see here and there, so it shows a bit of childishness in line with my age.
"Sister, do you see that lantern is beautiful, but unfortunately we can't afford it......" Chun'er pointed to a lantern and said with great envy.
"Little girl, this lantern is not for sale, as long as you spend three cents to guess all the lantern riddles, it will be given to you for free, do you want to try it?" The owner of the lantern stall was the lord who saw it, and greeted the two girls warmly.
"Is it only three pennies?" I thought, Chun'er's family has always been very poor, and three pennies may be a little difficult for her, but it is not very expensive for herself. It's fun to guess the lantern riddles, there was no such atmosphere before, and I'm afraid that there will be no more opportunities for this kind of opportunity when I enter the inner court, so it's better to try, if you can guess all the fifteen lantern riddles, you can fulfill Chun'er's wish, and if you can't win, it's okay, and you should find some fun for yourself.
Under the promise of the owner of the lantern stall, he handed him the three cents and opened the riddle hanging on the first small lantern - the seven fairies married one and guessed an idiom.
"Why is the first one so difficult," Chun'er looked at the riddle and frowned and whispered.
I thought about it, smiled and handed the note to the owner of the lamp stall and said, "The mystery is that the six gods have no owner, right?"
Chun'er couldn't help but applaud happily when she heard the answer, "Isn't it, seven fairies are seven immortals, marry one, and the other six haven't married yet, but it's just that the six gods have no master, and my sister is really powerful." ”
The owner of the lamp stall didn't play tricks, so he accepted the answer and let me continue to guess.
"Look at the flying geese in the south, guess the common phrase of the day - this riddle should be 'long admiration'!"
"Capture the thief and capture the king first, and give it a title - it's 'head catching'!"
"Scholars also have battle formations in ancient times, and the name of the four-character allusion - I know, it's 'throwing a pen from Rong'!"
"A leaf flat boat is deep and horizontal, the weeping poplar gull is not frightened, and the four-character allusion name - such a bleak scene, it is really 'no one cares'!"
Just guess it one by one. The riddles in the back are getting more and more difficult, very remote, and the time to think is getting longer and longer. But it all worked out smoothly.
There were more and more onlookers at the light stall, and the look on the face of the lamp stall owner changed from full of confidence at the beginning to amazement and appreciation.
It wasn't until the last question that I suddenly paused, looked at the note in my hand, and began to feel a little difficult.
"Mandarin ducks are both playing in the water, butterflies are in love with each other, I have thousands of tenderness, who can I be with in this life; red beans are lovesick seeds, planted in my heart in my previous life; waiting for fate to meet, enjoy spring, summer and autumn and winter - guess eight words...... What kind of mystery is this?"
I've never seen such a long mystery, and it just looks like a neat love poem. It's hard to guess eight words from this poem.
"Girl, this is the last question, if you can guess it, you can take away this glass screen lamp, this lamp is from the hands of the master of Babaozhai, it is hard to find, if you miss it is a pity. Seeing my uncertain look, the owner of the lantern stall thought that he couldn't answer, but he regained his previous self-confidence, deliberately emphasizing the value of the lantern.
Babao Zhai, it is said that it is the place where the Ministry of Internal Affairs designated the palace to purchase palace lanterns, among which the glazed color screen lamp is the rarest, so the old craftsman of Babao Zhai easily does not make lamps for ordinary people, and many dignitaries are proud to be able to get a lantern of Babao Zhai.
Chun'er's eyes are really good, and she actually took a fancy to this lamp at a glance, but I felt that I was afraid that I was going to disappoint her.
"I'm sorry, sister, I really can't answer this question. Putting down the note, I couldn't hide my regret and said to Chun'er.
"Don't worry, my sister is really good, she can guess the fourteen lantern riddles, and she does her best, even if you don't have that lantern. Although Chun'er was a little disappointed in her heart, she also understood that it was not easy for me.
Although it is said that "a woman is virtuous if she is not talented", there is also a way to "have poetry and books in her belly", Shicai looked at me in solving puzzles with great energy, Chun'er was very envious, and felt that this sister was not comparable to herself in the future, and she couldn't help but feel sorry for herself.
Seeing that I couldn't solve the last question, the owner of the lantern stall didn't make it difficult, but said that it was not easy to solve the fourteen questions, so he randomly took a small lantern that was visible on weekdays but was quite exquisitely made, and sent it to us.
Although it is a pity not to get the glass screen light, it is better than nothing, and Chun'er's originally disappointed little face was replaced with a happy and happy color.
"What an easy child," I sighed as I looked at her and smiled to myself.
It took a lot of time to guess the lantern riddle, and as soon as she left the lantern stall with the lamp, Chun'er's family looked for someone to call her back.
After all, Chun'er was the show girl to be selected that year, and it was inconvenient to show up for too long, so I didn't keep it much, I just said that I wanted to play again, so she didn't have to worry, so I parted ways with her.
Without the company of Chun'er, walking alone in the lively market, looking at the people walking together, there will be a kind of inexplicable loneliness, and the interest is also lost because of the mood.
"Girl, please stay ......"
Just as he was thinking about returning home, he was called back. At first, I heard someone shouting, but I didn't think it was calling for me, until the man caught up and blocked the way.
Being alone and suddenly stopped by someone halfway through, no one will take it for granted, not to mention that there are not many people who know here. Looking at the person who stopped me, I took a step back vigilantly, and found that it was the owner of the light stall, so I relaxed my mind slightly, and asked politely but vigilantly, "What is the matter?"
"Fortunately, the girl didn't go far. As soon as the girl left, someone guessed the last lantern riddle, and then asked the old man to give the lamp and the note to the girl. The girl just accepts it, don't make the old man embarrassed. The owner of the lantern stall said and stuffed the lantern and note in his hand into my hand, as if he was afraid that I would regret it, and he didn't even have time to wipe the sweat off his forehead and left in a hurry.
"Colored glass screen lamp?" I looked at the lamp handed over by the owner of the lamp stall and was surprised, but I saw that the old man had gone far away and was not able to ask, so I had to open the note and want to know who was playing tricks.
It's a pity that the note is the riddle of the last poem lantern riddle, below the riddle, a beautiful and strong fly-headed small block with a strong hand written "love for a long time" eight words, it is obvious that this is the riddle of the lantern riddle.
"This riddle is really strange, and the person who solved the riddle is even more strange, since he answered the question, why did he want to give the lantern to me" took the paper and looked at it over and over, puzzled.
There are really very few people I know here, and I don't know if the person who delivered the lamp knows or not? If I do, I can send it directly, so why dodge. If you don't know, why bother. I really can't figure it out, so I have to put away the lanterns and notes carefully, so as not to snub this person's kindness.
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