In 630 AD, the Tang capital was Chang'an

It was the Dragon Boat Festival. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The Dragon Boat Festival is a big festival in the folk, in order to celebrate this festival, the people not only make zongzi, drink realgar wine, hang wormwood and calamus, but also organize activities like dragon boat races to add luster to the festival.

After breakfast, Cheng Cuiying clamored to go to see the dragon boat race, but Mrs. Cheng couldn't resist her daughter, so she had to let Meng Fanchen go with her. Meng Fanchen thought to himself, ready to take this opportunity to find out his identity with her.

After Cuiying dressed up carefully, she took Meng Fanchen's hand and went out of the house. Today she wore a pale pink low-cut dress with a white silk shawl. She didn't pay attention, in fact, her outfit today just collided with Meng Fanchen's.

Meng Fanchen wore a tight-fitting pink-colored jacket on his upper body, a pair of pink-colored trousers on his lower body, and his embroidered shoes were also pink, but Meng Fanchen's color was a little darker than Cuiying's. Because of the heat, he didn't wear the gorgeous armor that Cui Ying bought for him last time. If you walk on the street for a day in that dress, you will probably have to cover your prickly heat. Out of professional habits, when he was about to go out, he pinned the spirit snake that he bought for 2000W taels of silver to his waist.

The streets are full of people, and it is very lively. On both sides of the street, you can see stalls everywhere, and there are fortune tellers and fortune tellers. In particular, the front of the stalls selling festive goods is crowded with women and children. The multicolored threads with bells, the knick-knacks with brooms and peachwood swords, and the large and small multicolored gourds are all their favorites. Every time she saw these colorful trinkets, Cui Ying couldn't move.

"Boss, how much is a pair of multicolored threads tied to bells?" Cui Ying squeezed to the front of the stall.

The stall owner held out five fingers.

"Oh, it's five cents." Cui Ying just wanted to take out five cents from her purse, but she heard the stall owner say, "It's five taels of silver, Miss." "Five taels of silver, so expensive, robbery!" Cui Ying's eyes widened as she looked at the stall owner.

"Miss, take a closer look, this colorful silk thread is dyed with silk spit out by ice silkworms, and generally ice silk is a material specially used in the palace, and you can't buy it among the people. I have these ice silkworms left last year, and this year after those silkworms turned into butterflies, I drew them into silk and then dyed them to make colorful threads to sell, the quantity is limited, until the sale lasts. If you're too expensive, there's a cheap one. Oh, do you want this kind of penny a penny? ”

The stall owner said, pointing to the multicolored threads next to him, "These are made of cotton thread, you see, the color is much worse." ”

Cui Ying took a look, and sure enough, there was no comparison and no identification, and the colorful thread made of cotton thread was much darker than that made of ice silk. People say that you get what you pay for, which is indeed very reasonable. According to what he said, the multicolored thread made of ice silk is indeed not expensive.

"Hey, the dragon boat race is about to start in a while, miss, can you hurry up." Meng Fanchen urged on the side.

"Wait, it's going to be right away." Cui Ying took out five taels of silver from her purse and handed it to the stall owner, and then took the two colorful threads handed over by the stall owner. "By the way, I'll buy you two too, right?" Cui Ying turned back to Meng Fanchen and said.

"No, no, I don't like that, just buy it yourself." Meng Fanchen shirked.

"Hey, aren't you a woman, why don't you like women's things at all?" The two of them walked one after the other, and Cui Ying looked at the colorful threads on her wrists while feeling happy. Every girl loves these gadgets.

Meng Fanchen said in his heart: "Of course I'm not a woman, that's why I don't like these women's things." ”

After Cui Ying finished speaking, she didn't see a response for a long time, and when she looked back at Meng Fanchen, she saw him walking with his head down, as if he had something on his mind. Cui Ying had never seen Meng Fanchen like this, so she felt very strange in her heart, so she wanted to ask what was going on.

"Are you homesick for the holidays today?" Cui Ying asked with concern.

"Oh...... Yes, I'm a little homesick. Meng Fanchen thought, today's holiday, Cui Ying was in a good mood, if I explained my identity to her, I don't know how she would react. Otherwise, let's wait until the evening. Therefore, he coped with Cheng Cuiying in a hurry.

"Otherwise, tomorrow I will ask my mother to give you a few days off, you can go home and have a look." Cui Ying said empathetically.

"No need, let's talk about it later." Meng Fanchen politely rejected Cheng Cuiying's kindness.

East Bay, which is usually quiet, is suddenly lively today. Countless people have signed up for the competition. The organizer Wufu Linmen Pancake Shop set up the competition venue a few days ago, and specially invited Prime Minister Gui Cheng to be the referee.

Although Prime Minister Gui is a bit old, he is very happy to participate in such activities, and specially called his son, Ude, who is now the deputy commander of the navy, to take charge of security during the event. Ude transferred 10,000 elite soldiers from his subordinates to take charge of security, and transferred 5,000 shrimp soldiers from local troops to maintain order.

After all, the main venue of the game is located in the East Bay, in order to maintain the safety of the Dragon Palace and the normal order of the East China Sea, and to avoid people like Sun Monkey from making trouble, it is very wise for Prime Minister Gui Cheng to make such an arrangement. Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years. He has been a prime minister for a lifetime, and he has been a companion like a tiger, if he hadn't been careful all the time, he would have died thousands of times.

"Hey, don't crowd it, everyone who has signed up for the competition, please come here to register." Xiao Er of the pancake shop stood on the table and shouted.

"A group of five, a group of five, hey, don't squeeze, the table is going to be overturned." Xiao Er raised an octave and shouted.

But those who haven't formed a team yet, the voice is louder than Xiao Er: "Who is in a group with me, who is in a group with me," the voice has long overshadowed Xiao Er.

In this competition, the palace also specially sent two teams to participate, they were not for ranking, but for the performance of friendship. Li Shimin is indeed diligent in government and loves the people, and in order to support this non-governmental activity, he deliberately took out 500,000 taels of silver from his own pocket to sponsor this competition.

Looking at such a hot scene, Cui Ying encouraged Meng Fanchen and said: "Xiaofan, you can also sign up, I'll cheer you on the side, what do you think?" Meng Fanchen had long been affected by the crowd, and he was eager to try, but he was worried that he would snub Miss Cui Ying by going to the competition, so he didn't say that he wanted to participate in the competition. Seeing Cui Ying say this, she was very happy. "Then you wait, I'll get you a ranking back."