Winter in the south is not a bit chilly, and the people of Kyoto have not put on their jackets for a few days at the end of the year, and in the blink of an eye, it is the beginning of spring in January of the following year. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It has been more than three months since the troops of the Great Jin Dynasty and King Zuo Xian arrived in Guirong, and the northern front line of 800 li hurried to send a new battle report at the time of the early dynasty: General Shu has cooperated with the Guirong Department to jointly repel the Wuluolan Department and the Huyan Department, and is resting his troops, and will gather 150,000 troops with the Guirong Department to recover the Huyan Department from the east after a month.

There was a cheer of military generals in the Fengtian Palace, Yun Cang stroked his beard, his broad face was full of smiles, and he led all the ministers to kneel, and shouted in unison: "Congratulations to Your Majesty!" Congratulations to Dajin! ”

The emperor also rarely came up in the early court, looking at the capable ministers who bowed down to His Royal Highness, and smiled red, "Okay! Good! My soldiers are brave and good at fighting, which is really the blessing of my great Jin Jiangshan Sheji! Coincidentally, tomorrow is the Shangyuan Festival, where is the Ministry of Industry? ”

Xiao Zheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, came out of the column and said respectfully: "Back to Your Majesty, the old minister is here." ”

"With you lighting 50,000 lamps tomorrow and building a hundred-foot lamp tower, I want to bless the Shangyuan Heavenly Officials for my people of the Great Jin Dynasty!"

"The old minister obeys the holy word!"

The climate of spring has taken off the coolness, and on the evening of the Shangyuan Festival, Hua Jiang was happily busy in the kitchen with a thin layer of wide-sleeved moire shirt, scooping out a few scoops of good glutinous rice noodles from the noodle tank and mixing them with water, and then poked his head out and called Yun Yi who had just finished practicing sword moves in the backyard.

Hua Jiang happily helped Yun Yi roll up his wide wide sleeves, with a mischievous smile on his white and tender little round face, grabbed a ball of glutinous rice noodles and pressed a depression, brought it to his eyes and signaled: "First pinch this small ball like this, then stuff it with walnut kernels, sugar and roses, and finally knead it into a ball!" ”

The young man quietly looked at the Lantern Festival for a long time, and then took out a dough and pressed it as if facing a great enemy.

"Poofha!" Hua Jiang looked at the piece of dough that he had crumpled into slag and almost laughed.

The young man, who was usually strategizing and resourceful, frowned at this time and tilted his head in confusion.

Hua Jiang's face flushed with a smile, helped him get another ball of glutinous rice noodles, blinked his cat eyes and said slyly: "It's good to try a few more times, come, here you go." ”

The two of them hurriedly worked in the kitchen for two hours before they boiled fifty Lantern Festival sprinkled water pots, brought soup bowls and carefully filled four bowls, turned around and saw each other's flour and couldn't help but laugh again.

When the Lantern Festival was brought to the stone table in the backyard, Jia Yue, who was squatting on the side of the stone road and turning a leg of mutton, called out to them, "Wait for me, wait for me!" The leg of lamb is almost baked! ”

"Why are you waiting, dead girl!" The little fat man shook Jiayue proudly with a fat face that was not beaten, carefully arranged the dishes and chopsticks beside the table, and took a box of fine pastries from the accompanying eunuch and placed it on the table.

After a while, Jiayue rushed over with a leg of mutton wrapped in oiled paper, stretched out her hand to "pop" and "pop" to give the little fat man's head a few shudders, staring at the round apricot eyes, "Dead fat man, you owe a lesson again, don't you?" ”

The little fat man covered his head aggrievedly and wailed, "Oh my God, I actually want to marry you savage dead girl-"

The wheat-colored face suddenly flushed with embarrassment, "You, you, who wants you to marry?!" ”

Hua Jiang laughed and pulled the two of them to sit down, "The Lantern Festival is going to be cold!" Eat fast, eat fast! ”

After laughing and eating the Lantern Festival, a few people walked to the lantern market together.

As soon as you enter the new positive, the lights are shining day by day.

The emperor really spent a lot of money this time, 10,000 lanterns are built into a lantern tower, 20 rooms wide, more than 100 feet high, the high platform under the lamp tower has the pianist and dancer sent by the palace, singing and dancing a hundred operas, the scales are cut, and the music is noisy more than ten miles away. Above the lantern tower is the fireworks set off by the forbidden army of part of the patrol, the fire trees and silver flowers bloom with the wind, the lantern fireworks, the gold and blue shoot each other, provoke thousands of tourists to scramble to watch, it is really a good scene of splendid intermingling.

In the streets and alleys, whether it is a tea shop or a wine shop, the lights and candles are burning, the gongs and drums are sounding, and the people in the lamp market are also rubbing shoulders one after another, which is lively and happy.

Jia Yue and the little fat man saw a group of dragon lantern entertainers on the street at the fork, and the two immediately ran over with a call. Yun Yi saw that Hua Jiang had been staring at the lantern shop on South Street, so he patted her little head and said with a smile: "Let's go, my brother will take Ah Jiang to buy lanterns." ”

Nodding happily, the child's eyes sparkled closely and followed him through the crowd to the intersection of South Street.

There were five or six shops selling lanterns at the entrance of the street, and the two of them turned back and forth, and Hua Jiang suddenly pointed to the cricket printed lanterns hanging outside a shop and shouted: "Brother, I want that, that one looks good!" ”

The young man shook his head amusedly, "I haven't caught crickets for so long, but I'm still obsessed." With that, he took her little hand and lined up in the long queue waiting outside the shop.

Hua Jiang poked out his little head behind Yun Yi and looked ahead, probably because of the complete variety of lanterns in this shop, there were especially many guests waiting in line, all the way out of the shop more than five feet away, and I couldn't see the scene of the inner hall of the shop at a glance. The child couldn't help but lose his patience, looked at Yun Yi and wrinkled his little nose and said, "Forget it, brother, many people are waiting, let's go and watch the dragon lantern with Jiayue and them." ”

Yun Yi lowered her head and looked at her annoyed little appearance, and hooked the corners of her beautiful mouth, "No, other people's children have lanterns, and my children must also have one." ”

The sentence "my child" fell head-on, and Hua Jiang's heart bloomed happily for a while, and he couldn't help but stretch out his little hand to cover his hot face. Alas, okay, okay, I'll listen to you if you look good!

After waiting in line for about half an hour, the two finally bought their favorite lanterns, and rushed to the fork street to find Jiayue and the others.

At this time, the dragon lantern performance just reached its climax, and it was rare that the little fat man and Jiayue did not quarrel, and the two rivals jumped and shouted at the artists who were performing, afraid that if no one stood in front of them, they would pounce.

The artists in front of them struck three gongs and drums and played a soft and joyful opera, and everyone saw that the 20 dragon dancers in front of the venue were dressed in bright yellow carp skins that could be opened and closed, shuttling flexibly, like fish playing in the water; But with the change of the bright song, the carp skin on each person's body suddenly ignited the fire, the dragon dancers quickly gathered, the fish became a dragon, a carp with a huge mouth breathing fire jumped over the dragon body several times in the air, circled and jubilant, with the opera sounded, as if the waves of the river and the sea were surging, the momentum was extraordinary and majestic, and the legend of the folk 'carp leaping over the dragon gate' was performed vividly and vividly, and there was no merit.

The surrounding spectators all clapped their hands excitedly, and even Yun Yi couldn't help but be moved: "Wonderful! ”

Hua Jiang secretly looked at the young man beside him Qingjun's side face under the lamplight, and then looked at the jubilant Jiayue and the two in front of him, turned the red and bright cricket lantern in his hand, and the little round face slowly revealed a happy smile.

I only hope that year after year, the lights will still be the same, and the people will still be the same.