Chapter 21: The Festival of the Upper Temple
The next morning, after being served by the maidservant and washing properly, Li Hui went to the inner hall to greet the Yan family.
Pu Wangfu is the prince's mansion, a total of three roads and seven entrances, wide and lofty, extraordinary bearing. When it was built, it was repeatedly played by the imperial history because of many overruns and too gorgeous and exquisite. Although Li Xin has already demolished all the places that have exceeded the system, whether it is from the slender and flying owl kiss on the eaves, or the many vivid literary and historical stories carved on the window lattice, or the undulating pavilions and pavilions like picture scrolls, or the garden with five steps, one scene, and ten steps, one can roughly deduce the grand occasion of this mansion back then.
How many romantic people came and went in this mansion at that time? How many of them really admired Grandpa's talent? And how many people are just here to win the glory and wealth of the future? Where are all these people now? Will they regret their choice? Do you really blame the two "culprits" for what happened to you?
Li Hui suddenly stopped and looked around at the silent and empty palaces and silent pavilions. At present, there are only five masters in the Puwang Mansion, Li Tai and the Yan family live in the middle road, Li Xin and the Zhou family live in the east road, and he lives alone on the west road. Because he is the only one in the huge palace complex on the west road, and there are not many servants and maids serving, it seems to be empty. When you walk through it, you can feel a bit of silence.
At this moment, bursts of laughter and laughter came from outside the courtyard wall, and the neighing of horses and cows could be heard from time to time. The smell of fireworks in the world poured over with these bustles, making the empty palace a little more popular. Li Hui listened carefully and asked Zhang Fumu beside him: "It's still early, the door of the fang hasn't been opened, why is it suddenly lively outside?" ”
"Isn't it the Upper Ground today? Who doesn't want to go for a walk by the water? While the hour is still early, hurry up and grab a suitable place to visit? Mother Zhang smiled kindly, "Our Tang people have always liked to play and enjoy the scenery, and every festival, people from all over the city rush out, and there is a lot of traffic everywhere." Such a bustling scene is indeed difficult to see in Junzhou. ”
Li Hui was also quite looking forward to the rumored Qujiang Pool, so he continued to walk towards the inner hall with a smile. When he and his sister-in-law Zhou accompanied the Yan family to eat in the inner hall, a servant and maid hurriedly came to report that the car of the county lord of Changning had arrived.
Zhou was busy getting up to greet the guests, but Yan pressed her down lightly: "What's the hurry? After using up the morning food, you can't get up so suddenly the next time. As she spoke, her eyebrows stretched out, and there was a gentle smile on the corner of her mouth, where could she still see the displeasure brought to her by the Yan family's sudden visit yesterday?
Zhou's face blushed, and he bowed his head slightly: "Then there is Lao Sanlang, who brought Yue Niang in." ”
Li Hui is by no means a young man who doesn't know anything, what else does he not understand when he sees this? However, counting the days, it was still a few years earlier when his nephew Li Qiao was born. Is this child also a change that has taken place in this life? Or did he think that his brother's bloodline was too thin, and he only had an only child under his knees, but he didn't know what they had experienced in Chang'an?
"Congratulations to my sister-in-law, I will let my little nephew follow me to learn martial arts in the future, I can't say that I can still accompany him to play naughty." This is all what the little guy hoped he could do when he talked to Li Qiao in his previous life. Unfortunately, in the end, he disappointed him and left him in the cold world. After saying a lot of happy words, Li Hui still felt a little sad in his heart, so he got up to greet his little cousin.
The lord of Changning County was dressed up extraordinarily pretty, wearing six goose-yellow Yuezhou silk long skirts, embroidered with clusters of smart butterflies and flowers, fluttering in action. There is a bunch of jade hairpins in the shape of begonia flowers around the double bun, and a few apricot blossoms, which make the skin like a blow bomb can be broken, and the jade snow is lovely. She also looked at her cousin carefully, and found that he was wearing a light cyan embroidered blue-patterned robe with a round neck and wide sleeves, and a jade belt around his waist with a jade pendant and leather sieve, just like those ordinary young people from a family in the wind of the jade tree, and couldn't help but smile and crooked his eyes: "The color that my brother wears is too plain." ”
"Today is for you little ladies to compete for beauty, I'm a gentleman, what are you doing when you're dressed so brightly?" Li Hui said with a smile. Because the inner hall was eating in the court, it was inconvenient to entertain guests, so he simply took the county lord of Changning to meet Li Tai.
After resting in bed for many days, but the diet was still the same, His Royal Highness King Pu's figure seemed to be a little fatter, and he was oily and smooth, and his complexion was ruddy, not like a patient at all. In fact, except for drinking medicinal soup regularly every day, and from time to time letting the doctor check his pulse, and then being bedridden, there is really nothing unusual.
Visiting this third father who had only met once or twice, the county lord of Changning was not afraid of life at all. She smiled and told him about today's itinerary, and she learned to speak vividly: "Grandpa said that every year during the Shangsi Festival, he will order someone to open the Hibiscus Garden, so that officials and civilians can enter to enjoy it. This time, since we are all going to go, we will separate half of the garden, and our family will arrange a banquet to enjoy the scenery and drink at will, which is also more quiet. ”
The Hibiscus Garden is the most famous forbidden garden of the royal family. Legend has it that it is full of all kinds of flowers and trees planted in patches of forests, and there are canals and lakes dotted among them like pearls and jade belts, and the pavilions and pavilions are dotted around, and the scenery is unique all year round. Every time a flower tree blooms, it is like being immersed in a sea of flowers, with a vigorous vitality that is rarely seen elsewhere. It is located on the bank of Qujiang Pond, and it is rumored that a view of Qujiang Pond is to overlook the Hibiscus Garden.
In the past, the sage gave this garden to Li Tai, and asked him to convene literary meetings, recite poems, and write books and paintings in it. As a result, talented people inside and outside Chang'an City have come to visit, and they gather in it almost every day to sing harmony. Later, he invited some of the most talented people to participate in the compilation of the "Chronicles of the Universe", which was in the limelight for a while, and almost everyone in the entire Chang'an City knew about it.
Now it is not what it used to be, and the hibiscus garden that belongs to him has become the garden of the crown prince Li Kun. And Li Kun not only let the new Jinshi enter the Furong Garden for a banquet every year, spreading the good reputation of the Jinshi "Hibiscus Banquet", but also regularly opening this garden to everyone, which won many praises.
His Royal Highness King Pu looked at his innocent and lovely little niece, and his mood was extremely complicated: "You are going to Furong Garden......
Li Hui saw that his face was full of nostalgia, so he said, "Grandpa, why don't you go with you?" Recently, I always feel that Grandpa is a little unenergetic, and he must have been recuperating at home, but he is too bored. After enjoying the scenery of the Hibiscus Garden, maybe Grandpa immediately thought like a spring? Recently, His Royal Highness King Pu has been busy recuperating and calming his nerves, and even the calligraphy and painting that must be practiced every day have been put down.
"You're right, I should go out for a walk, or others will think I'm scared of the assassins!" Li Tai's eyes lit up.
The matter of "King Pu was scared sick by the assassins" has long spread throughout Chang'an with the deep brotherhood of father and son in the Heavenly Family. Now, there is no point in going out to clarify. Although Li Hui thought so in his heart, he still had a smile on his face: "That kid will order someone to prepare one or two." I didn't expect Grandpa to go, so the carriage, footsteps, eaves, and food had to be prepared quickly. ”
"What do you care about these things? Let your mother arrange it. Li Tai trembled to sit up, struggled a few times, and almost fell down again. Li Hui hurriedly supported him, and tried his best until a little sweat oozed from his forehead, and then helped him up.
His Royal Highness King Pu took the opportunity to hold his son in his arms and patted him, until he found that the little niece standing on the side seemed to be stunned, and then Lao Huai let go of the young son with relief.
Li Hui slightly straightened his clothes that were crumpled by his grandfather, and turned his head with a stiff face. The county lord of Changning looked at him, then at Li Tai, and finally couldn't help but say, "Brother and the third father are really close. ”
What's going on with this tone full of envy?! If you are an adult Langjun, you are willing to let your grandfather treat you like this?! Wake up, kid! Have you forgotten how you saw the scene where our grandparents and grandchildren hugged each other and cried?!
"......" In Li Tai's proud laughter, Li Hui took the little cousin out and said earnestly: "Everyone has different temperaments, and the way of getting close is not the same. My grandfather is like my grandfather, uninhibited, so he doesn't care about the eyes of others, and he cries and laughs freely. I can also see that your grandfather also loves you very much, but there are differences between men and women, and it is inconvenient to behave so casually. ”
"Don't worry, brother, I understand." The county lord of Changning said seriously like a little adult, "Grandpa doesn't need to say it, he often hugged me before he was three years old." A year or two ago, my mother often hugged me. It's just that now, she thinks that when I'm older, I have to follow all kinds of etiquette, and I'm a little stranger to each other. After returning to the palace, I will tell A-Niang that it should be okay to hug once in a while! Just don't let people see it! ”
Hearing this, Li Hui smiled slightly and patted her little head gently.
The county lord of Changning couldn't help but pout: "Brother, I'm eight years old, don't treat me as a child!" Only, having said that, there was an inmiscruciable joy in her eyes.
Half an hour later, the gate of King Pu's Mansion suddenly opened. The chariot guards of the prince, the county king, the prince and the princess of the county were all added together, and there were nearly hundreds of people, all the way to the southeast.
Because I came out a little late, there were not as many pedestrians on the street as expected. However, with a little attention, you can see that the places where everyone wants to go are roughly similar, either Qujiang Pond or Bashui, Longshou Canal and other places outside Chang'an City. The festival originated from the old custom of purification, which had to be washed away by the water, so people played along the water. It just so happened that it was the twilight of spring at this time, the flowers were blooming everywhere, the green shade was everywhere, and the scenery by the waterside added willows and willows, which made the people of the Tang Dynasty who had always liked to play linger.
Li Hui rode his horse slowly, and the county lord of Changning lay by the window, asking him a few words from time to time. If he couldn't answer, she didn't care, she just smiled and said that she would write it down and go back to let Grandpa and Auntie solve her puzzles.
As an elder brother, King Xin'an suddenly felt that he was a little incompetent. Isn't the so-called elder brother the most trustworthy person? He can't even answer these trivial questions, what is he like? So, he secretly made up his mind that he must work hard to study and quickly get to know Chang'an, Kyoto, in case of emergency.
The royal guard of honor is graceful and mighty, and ordinary people will naturally avoid it, and the journey will be particularly smooth. However, just near Daye Fang, a certain convoy on the side of the road suddenly sent a young man to say hello.
After Li Hui approached, the young man immediately dismounted and saluted him as a sign of respect: "A certain is the eighth man of the Yan family, on the order of his grandmother, he came to greet the two kings, their highnesses and princesses, and the county lord. ”
The Yan family? Li Hui raised his eyebrows, and he didn't have to look back to know how ugly his mother's face should be now.
He clearly remembered that the Yan family lived in the northeast of Lifang, and if they wanted to go to Qujiang Pond or Furong Garden, they would never pass through here. Could it be that they couldn't meet yesterday, and they actually made a special trip to wait here today?
This kind of perseverance is enough to make people feel a little admired in addition to being uncomfortable.