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Today is different, today is the sixth day of the first month of November, it is the lantern festival once every three months in Song County, but see the orange light fog, the streets and alleys are endless flow of cars and horses, the cold of the winter night can not stop the people in their hearts for the lantern festival fiery yearning, the Great Song Dynasty has been peaceful and peaceful for many years, there are few wars, not only the treasury is abundant, even the people have mostly solved the problem of food and clothing, and many families have a slight surplus in their hands.

People are intelligent creatures, once the basic survival problems are solved, they will think about how to create a more superior living environment and the joy of life, so this era of food, clothing, housing and transportation have been improved more than one level than in the past, in addition to the richness of food and clothing, there is also the vigorous development of the entertainment industry, this lantern festival is one of them.

The Lantern Festival in the past dynasty and even in the Taizu period of this dynasty, it is once a year, that is, on the day of the Lantern Festival, since the Taizong of this dynasty recaptured the eight states of Yanyun, the prestige is rising, and the national strength is becoming richer and stronger, (Chunhua five years, 995 AD) Taizong personally issued an edict to encourage the people of all states and counties to develop normal and beneficial health and entertainment activities.

Human beings, born with endless yearning and love for eating, drinking and having fun, this edict came out, no need to supervise, all states and counties have responded, and the people of the government around the country have vigorously developed and organized various entertainment activities according to the actual situation on their own territory, for example, this lantern will be changed from once a year to one degree to four degrees, which is a major feature of the eastern capital Luoyang and the counties around Luoyang.

Nowadays, the lantern festival in Song County is not only limited to creating opportunities for young marriageable men and women to meet and blind date, in a sense, it has become the city's largest commercial display and noisy channel, and the economic benefits driven by each lantern festival are almost the sum of a month in the county.

Several main commercial streets in the center of the city are overwhelmed, the major merchants not only launched wonderful dance and music performances, but also launched a big discount for purchases, all the customers who enter the store to buy goods have a beautiful gift and other kinds of promotional means, countless street vendors are not willing to be lonely, they will put a dazzling array of goods in their hands into a variety of tricks, the use of orange light dyeing, low prices, with a very infectious tone of enthusiastic sales shouts, so that there was no purchase demand, But the pedestrians who were involuntarily affected by this unique atmosphere stopped in front of their stalls......

In addition to these, there are many acrobatic, lion dance circuses performing in the streets, and there are several tip boards in their performance venues, and they don't ask the audience to pay explicitly, but the audience around them will naturally pay for the reward when they see the excitement.

Passing through the long commercial street in the center, turning to the other end to turn east, it is another scene, the east side of this street is called Donghua Street, the so-called flower street is a street composed of various lantern riddles, this street is not too long, there are only a dozen shops, but in front of each shop there are nearly 100 kinds of lantern riddles of different colors, countless colorful lantern riddles converge into a lantern street of about five or six hundred meters, such a spectacular scene, it is difficult to describe with words and ink.

When Xiao Nan and his entourage turned around from Yanhu Street, they happened to arrive at the entrance of Donghua Street, Rao is Xiao Nan was used to seeing countless magnificent scenes in her previous life, but when her eyes fell on Flower Street, she was still involuntarily shocked, who said that the ancients didn't know how to create? Who said that the ancients had bad aesthetics? Later, if anyone heard such remarks made in front of her, she must be anxious with someone, and the girl was so shocked for a while that she forgot that she had no chance to argue with modern people about this kind of issue.

"Lady likes the lights here? Let's go guess the lantern riddles and see if we can win a few beautiful lanterns back. Song Nuo noticed Xiao Nan's shock, her eyes rolled slightly, she reached out and dragged the three people beside her, and said with a smile.

"With that bit of ink in your stomach, can you guess the riddle?" Song Haoting made some funny jokes.

"Big brother, don't you take you to hit people like this, right? Although I am not a talented woman, I have read a few books and recognized a few words, how do you know that I can't guess it? Besides, even if I can't do it, there are still eldest mothers and Zhiniang, even if the three of us can't do it, isn't there still you, Xie Yuan, who took the college exam last year? Song Nuo didn't blush at all, she glanced at her brother, and her face was full of words.

Song Haoting could only smile bitterly in the face of his cheeky girl, he turned his eyes to Xiao Nan and Lin Zhi, and found that the two girls were full of interest in the beautiful dream-like flower street, so he could only nod and agree: "Okay, since several girls have this intention, Lang Jun and I can only sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman." ”

Lin Zhi heard Song Nuo's last words, and couldn't help but look at Song Haoting in surprise, Song Haoting was only eighteen this year, and only seventeen last year, that is to say, he was in Xiucai at the age of seventeen, not to mention Xie Yuan, the brother in front of him who was born in a martial arts family has such talent? Xu was too surprised in Lin Zhi's heart, and her eyes involuntarily focused a little, which suddenly attracted Song Haoting to look at her.

(Note, since the fifth year of Taizong Yongxi, starting in 988 AD, the unified adjustment of household registration across the country has been divided into three categories, one is the gentry and aristocrats, and the gentry and aristocrats do not need to be said, representing the people who have official status and fame; One is a good household, good households include: business, military, soldiers, farmers, although these occupations are different in household registration attributes, but no longer distinguish who is high and who is low, unified as a good household, all good households are eligible to participate in the examination, as for the tax according to the respective declaration of the family property classification, the higher the level of the account, the more tax paid; A untouchable is a person who has no proper occupation or personal freedom, such as beggars, playwrights, prostitutes, and people who sell themselves into servants. ）

Lin Zhi saw Song Haoran looking at her, and then she realized that it was really rude to stare at a foreign man so intently, her jade face was slightly red, but fortunately she couldn't see clearly in the hazy light, and then nodded at Song Haoting with a little embarrassment, and then quietly turned her gaze away.

Song Haoting is similar to his ancestors, born wise, and in a turn of mind, he knew that Lin Zhi was slightly surprised when he heard Song Nuo say that he was a showman, so he glanced at himself, and after being hit by his own gaze, he did not dodge in a panic like ordinary women, but nodded to himself very calmly, and then looked away, Song Haoting suddenly felt that this girl was very interesting.

In fact, he didn't have a special feeling when he first saw Lin Zhi, seriously speaking, he admired his sister Song Nuo and Xiao Nan as heroic women, although Lin Zhi is beautiful and demure, but Song Haoran because of his excellent reading, he has seen a lot of scholarly ladies, he always feels that this type of woman is too formal and boring, at first he thought that Lin Zhi was also this kind of person, but now he suddenly found that she seems to be different from the average lady.