From the first day of the first month to the fourteenth day of the first month, the fourteen days are short and long, like a series of seemingly cheerful and lively but actually monotonous and boring flowing water seats, and finally end its final carnival with the splendor of fireworks rising into the sky on the night of the 15th Shangyuan Lantern Festival. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At noon, Shi Jiaheng was forced to drink a few more glasses of hospitality from his colleagues, returned home dizzily, poured on the soft couch of Qingshuangzhai, and slept soundly until the shadow of the Toad Palace was sprinkled with carved windows, and the moon shadow was as bright as starlight, clear as flowing water.

A little girl of five or six years old tiptoed, stuck her tiny fingers into the crack of the door, and adjusted the speed with her hands as she pushed the door, so as not to wake up the people in the room with the loud sound of the door fanning. She shrunk her head and slipped into Qingshuangzhai like a thief, tiptoed to the soft couch, covered her mouth and laughed softly.

The man on the soft couch was covered with a red unicorn silk quilt on his chest, which was neatly folded at his side, and the moon-white underwear stretched out from under the brocade quilt and was gathered around the neck, like the continuous lines in an ink painting, faintly outlining a pair of broad arms. One of his arms rested leisurely behind his head, and a strand of loose black hair hung down his cheek. His eyes were closed peacefully, his long, thick eyelashes were like upside-down half-lotus leaves, and his cheeks were flushed with a faint flush from sleep and drunkenness, like a bright red at the tip of a hibiscus petal.

The little girl took off her shoes and climbed onto the soft couch, knelt beside Shi Jiaheng, and grinned mischievously. She sneakily put her hand under his armpit, and was about to tickle him, but someone took a step faster, and a pair of big hands passed through her squeaky socket, picked her up, patted her little head, and laughed: "Little thing, tell you to make a bad thing." ”

The little girl's trick did not succeed, haha laughed, scratched Shi Jiaheng's body, and ripped his underwear into a mess. Not to be outdone, he resolutely fought back. The two played and joked for a while, and he saw his little sister Shi Lanyin, wearing a gold-cut cotton jacket with a hundred butterflies, looking extremely luxurious and festive, and asked jokingly: "At a cursory glance, I thought it was the golden boy and jade girl next to the Bodhisattva who came down to earth." Where are you going to be dressed up so beautifully? ”

Shi Lanyin hugged Shi Jiaheng's neck, swaying left and right like a coquette, and begged angrily: "Second brother, don't sleep, don't sleep." There's a lantern festival in the city tonight, so come with us to see the lights. ”

Shi Jiaheng was noncommittal, looked at the sky with his eyes, pouted, and pretended that this question still needed to be thought about. Shi Lanyin sat on his lap and persistently continued to tempt: "Second brother, second brother, there are so many beautiful sisters at the Lantern Festival. I'll take you there, and you'll be able to marry me a sister-in-law like a big brother." ”

I didn't expect my sister to say such shocking words, he couldn't help but laugh at his sister's innocent and innocent little face, and in a hurry, he was speechless.

"Lan Yin, come down quickly, fall carefully." A middle-aged woman appeared at the door and beckoned to Shi Lanyin. The woman is plump and beautiful, with a dark green hairpin dress and a skirt mopping the floor, like a leafy ivy leaf spread on the ground. The hands are slightly rough due to the perennial sewing and weaving, but it shows that it is different from the ordinary lady's heart.

"Auntie." Shi Lanyin called out kindly, jumped off the soft couch, and plunged into the woman's arms.

Shi Jiaheng lifted the quilt, straightened his clothes slightly, knelt on the couch, clasped his fists with both hands, and bowed his head solemnly: "My son is greedy for a few more cups at noon, and he really deserves to die if he bothers his mother to visit him personally." Please forgive my son for being rude. ”

Mrs. Shi smiled gently and kindly: "Okay, lie down quickly, beware of catching a cold." There is food left in the kitchen, and after eating, go out for a walk, and don't be depressed. Today's banquet in the palace, I will take Lan Yin to go first, you don't have to send it, there is a carriage waiting outside the palace at night, you can rest assured. ”

"The son sends off the mother." Shi Jiaheng bowed to the end and said goodbye to Mrs. Shi respectfully.

Shi Jiaheng ate dinner, emptied his heart, let the traction of fate, and wandered around aimlessly on the street. He avoided the hustle and bustle of Suzaku Street and walked deep into the secluded place alone. With his head down, he kicked his steps on the deserted street, and stumbled upon a pebble, which was kicked off the distance by the strength of his feet. The sound of the stone hitting the stone slab echoed in the empty street like ripples, and it struck the door of his heart, and he unconsciously followed it as if he had heard the Sanskrit sound of the Buddha.

The stones disappeared into the shadows, hard to find. Shi Jiaheng ran a few steps like a headless fly, looking around, only a mile away, is the small courtyard where Chu Yunxi lives. Whether it is a coincidence to come here, or a finger in the heart, intentionally, but a stone to guide the way, the lantern will build a bridge. Perhaps the two of them have long been entangled in this life, such as "Tsuta is a female dill and is applied to the pine and cypress", tangled and entangled.

Shi Jiaheng was apprehensive, clenched his right hand, and hesitated towards the light.

It seems to be expecting that a guest will come to visit this lonely and lonely courtyard on this day of joy in ten thousand homes, and the gate is hidden and unlocked. He quietly pushed open the door, and a candle flame in the main room cast a huge circle of light in the center of the courtyard. He stopped in the middle of the courtyard, bathed in aura, like a red sun bowing down at his feet. He looked at Chu Yunxi sitting on the edge of the bed in the main room, as if the hot air from the "sun" under his feet poured into his heart, just like a warm touch.

The candlelight illuminated Chu Yunxi's greasy hands, and his fingers like bamboo shoots twitched the colorful silk threads. The long white skirt that has no feet has the pointed corners of white boots, and the left side of the long skirt is finely embroidered with white plums. On the right side of the placket is a row of plum blossoms the size of a cup, piled out of white yarn, extending from the left waist to the shoulder. The green silk that fell to the waist was tied to the back of the head with three silver ribbons, and the smooth and full forehead was like jade.

A ball of thread rolled down to the door, leaving a winding velvet thread at the place where the thread ball passed, Chu Yunxi put down the silk cloth in his hand, followed the scattered ball of thread, and bent down all the way to pick it up. At the door, under the shadow of the lamp, his eyes met Shi Jiaheng.

The meeting is not accidental, and the encounter has a premonition. Chu Yunxi, under the psychological effect of a kind of psychology that seemed to have been foreseen, smiled and said something that seemed to be a question: "Why are you here?" ”

The corners of Shi Jiaheng's mouth pulled out a bright smile: "Today is the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, and my mother took my sister to the palace for a banquet." I don't have anything to do, so I'll stop by and have a look. He followed Chu Yunxi into the room, found a round stool to sit down, looked sideways at the fabric on the bed behind her, and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

Chu Yunxi subconsciously moved a step to the side, covering his vision, with an uncomfortable look on his face, staring down at the tip of his shoe, and hurriedly covering up: "It's nothing." ”

Shi Jiaheng looked at her slightly flushed face strangely, and cautiously tested: "Is it clothes?" ”

Chu Yunxi knew that he couldn't hide it, he was a little inexplicably cramped and uneasy, and said frankly reluctantly: "I damaged your clothes last time, I thought about redoing it for you, one as a thank you gift, and the other as an apology." ”

She vaguely felt that this was inappropriate, and specially added: "Oh, I'm going to make one for Yueyuan." ”

Shi Jiaheng said worriedly: "It's just a piece of clothing, you are just recovering from a serious illness, why bother so hard." ”

Chu Yunxi felt that he was not very good at twisting and pinching, so he raised his head and smiled calmly: "It just so happens that you are here, can you compare it?" ”

Shi Jiaheng nodded, got up and turned around. Chu Yunxi slowly approached his back, her head could only reach his neck, she raised her arms, her index finger and thumb alternating back and forth on his shoulder.

Although Shi Jiaheng is covered with heavy clothing, she can still keenly perceive that her fingers are like a trembling flower branch, drawing from left to right little by little, moving from top to bottom, and an unprecedented feeling in her heart.

Chu Yunxi measured the size, her eyes radiated brilliance, and she was not at all unhappy with what she expected, and said happily: I knew that it was this size, and it would not be wrong again. ”

There was a loud rumbling sound in the distance, and the sky was sprinkled with the brilliance of fireworks, like colorful meteor showers, lighting up the night sky of Chang'an like a glow. Follow the noisy waves of fireworks rising and falling, rising and falling like a tide.

After a few years, it spanned life and death. A familiar and unfamiliar scene resurfaced in Chu Yunxi's mind. She walked quickly to the window, opened the window, and knew that there was a dark room and tree shadows outside the window, but she still wanted to catch the long-lost taste of her hometown. She closed her eyes and asked softly as if she were talking to herself, "Is there a fireworks on Suzaku Street?" ”

"Yes, every year in Chang'an City, the Shangyuan Lantern Festival will be full of fireworks, and the lights are brilliant." Shi Jiaheng cut her hands and stood beside Chu Yunxi and answered for herself.

Chu Yunxi was immersed in mellow memories, as if he was drunk, and whispered: "Then you must go and see, the fireworks in Chang'an City are the most beautiful, and all kinds of colored lanterns are very beautiful." When I was a child, every year during the Lantern Festival, my father would take my mother and me to visit the lantern festival and buy many street gadgets for us. I remember the last time I was five years old, and I was riding on my father's neck with a pink lotus lantern in my mother's hand. When I passed by the door, my father bought me a red rattle, and I was so happy that I played all night, and I broke the string and cried. As a result, the next day, my father gave me an identical one as if he were playing a trick. But then I broke it. At that time, I naively thought that our family would live forever together, you say, I never thought that the three of us would become like this. ”

Time will erase the trauma of painful memories, but it will also coat the good memories with a faint layer of sentimentality, like choking on a bitter almond in the throat, which is a pain that cannot be swallowed.

Chu Yunxi's sentimentality, Shi Jiaheng empathizes, but open-minded men are always different from women. He tried to use the wisdom of his predecessors to resolve her sorrows: "There are a few hexagrams in "Zhou Yi" that are excellent, the middle of the day is the sun, the sun is full of eclipse, the heaven and the earth are empty, and the news of the times, and the situation is not human? What about ghosts? People don't have to be too obsessed. You have to let go to be at ease. ”

Of course, Chu Yunxi, who was beautiful, could easily comprehend the meaning of Shi Jiaheng's words that stopped like a dragonfly dotting water, she was silent, and her miserable expression gradually dissolved into the bright night.

Shi Jiaheng thoughtfully stretched out his fingers and pushed the window back and forth, tilted his head quietly and asked, "Do you want to see it?" ”

Chu Yunxi looked back in a daze, smiled sluggishly, and shook his head in a low voice with a slight loss: "Don't, it's not good to be recognized." ”

Shi Jiaheng understood her concerns, raised her lips and smiled and walked a few steps, took off the white hat hanging on the wall, put it on her head, tied the streamer for her, looked left and right, and said: "You show people in women's clothes and wear a gauze hat, who can recognize you as the calligraphy and painting of the Hanlin Academy." ”

Chu Yunxi was grateful for his good intentions, but unfortunately the other party's comprehension of her extraneous meaning was really unsatisfactory. She went out alone and was unharmed, a small imperial painter, and there were only a handful of people who knew her. But the famous Second Prince Shi is a household name in Chang'an City, how can the girl next to him not attract attention. She embarrassedly corrected his mistake tactfully: "I'm afraid that you will be recognized by others." ”

Shi Jiaheng unexpectedly whispered: "I have selfish ......"

Chu Yunxi looked at his eyes inexplicably, he coughed a little embarrassed, turned his head, and said, "Are you willing to do me a favor." ”

Although Chu Yunxi didn't know what was going on, he opened his mouth to ask for a reason to refuse, and readily agreed.

He was bold enough to explain in formal terms: "On New Year's Eve last year, the flower market was lit up like day. The willow tops on the moon, people about after dusk. Last year, I went to the Lantern Festival alone, and I was teased by several brothers in the Right Guard. I didn't want to go out this year, but now if I have my sister with me, I can block the mouths of those boring people, and I can protect you, go to relax with you, and comfort your homesickness. ”

Shi Jiaheng's words are half hidden and half hidden, but the complete fact is: Last year, he did go to the Lantern Festival alone, but he ran into Shangguan Xueyu's carriage halfway, and the two only chatted a few words in the car. As a result, on the second day, there were inexplicable rumors that he and Miss Shangguan were in love, and the prime minister wanted to recruit him as a son-in-law. He laughed it off as a joke, but the rumors became more and more intense, and he thought that he was a little afraid, so he might as well take this opportunity to take the risk to refute the rumors, and save the future of trouble. Even if the Shangguan girl really has affection for him, if she hears that he has a close relationship with other girls on the night of the Lantern Festival, with her honor, she will not be proud, and she will be alienated from herself.

Chu Yunxi was surprised, the two were friends of life and death, and they had nothing to do with men and women. What he said today was sincere, but it was a miscalculation.

Shi Jiaheng secretly noticed that her expression was wrong, and hurriedly changed her words: "If you don't agree, forget it, don't be reluctant." You can go by yourself, I won't show up to follow you and protect you. ”

Chu Yunxi said in his heart, so it seemed that he was not open enough, as if there was really something between the two. She respects Shi Jiaheng's character and treats him like a brother. But when she thought about it, for example, today, if Lin Risheng or Yang Miao asked her for help, or he asked Lin Yueyuan for help, she would have a trace of concern when facing him, and she was different from him in the end. She secretly blamed herself for not having distracting thoughts, hesitated for a moment, but agreed to him. (To be continued.) )