Chapter Eighty-Six: Shangyuan Festival

It's about to be the Shangyuan Festival in a blink of an eye, there are banquets and fireworks in the palace on the Shangyuan Festival, when the four belles came to discuss with Ruo Ying whether to return to the palace on the Yuan Festival, Ruo Ying shook her head, she didn't see the lanterns in the palace, but the folk, she was a little curious. Let Sibeile bring a good one to Kangxi for himself, Ruo Ying plans to spend the fifteenth day of the first month of this year outside the palace. Sibeile was not at ease, so she dialed a few people to follow her, and Ruo Ying didn't refuse, she was also afraid of accidents.

As soon as it was dark, Ruoyu took the cuckoo out of the house, and the others changed the people's clothes and followed from afar.

"Cuckoo, are there any bridges here?" Ruoyu looked around with great interest.

"Bridge? Not in the inner city. The cuckoo replied.

"I don't know if this 'walking all kinds of diseases' will not work, if it works, I should really let Concubine Liang try it." Ruoyu muttered, saw a noodle stall not far away, and pulled the cuckoo to find a table and sit down.

"Boss, here are two bowls of wontons, a drawer of steamed dumplings, and a drawer of xiaolongbao." Ruoyu ordered a few things familiarly, and then said to the cuckoo, "Come and sit, let's put on some mats first, and when we get to the lively street, it is bustling with people, and this kind of noodle stall can't be put in." When the time comes, let's eat some other snacks. ”

The cuckoo was worried that the things were not clean, so he didn't dare to let Ruoyu eat it, but Ruoyu didn't care, and the same is true for visiting temple fairs in modern times, she was not so expensive.

After a while, the things will be ready, if the eagle does not pick her mouth, the snacks from the roadside stall enter her mouth, and she also thinks it is delicious.

Halfway through eating, I suddenly remembered a few people who were secretly protecting me, and Ruo Yu looked around, but he didn't see anyone. On the street, it's not good to shout out loud, but I blame myself for being careless, I didn't discuss a code or something with them before I went out, and I can call them out at any time. I can't invite them to eat now, so I'll have to ask Four Baylor to reward them as compensation.

By the time the two of them had eaten, there were more people in the area. At the beginning of the lanterns, the inky sky is reflected, like the costumes of the girls of the Lideang tribe at festivals.

There were more and more lanterns, gadgets, and jugglers on the street, and she didn't care much about them, she just liked the lively atmosphere. Just like in modern times, it is clear that the content of going to the lantern festival every year is almost the same, but she will still be happy to drag this, pull that, and then wrap it tightly, strolling from east to west, from south to north, and refusing to leave one behind.

"Gege, why don't you buy anything?" The cuckoo saw that Ruoyu would look at this stall for a while, and look at that stall for a while, but he just looked at it, but he didn't buy it, and said strangely.

"I bought these things and they are useless, and it is a burden to hold, could it be that you think they are too light in your hands?" Ruo Ying smiled and picked up a hairpin and gestured it on the cuckoo's head, causing the cuckoo to flash to the side.

Put down the hairpin and leave the stall a few meters away, Ruo Ying said: "As soon as you check the weight, you will know that it is fake, it is not as good as the golden cicada hairpin inlaid with ruby fragrant leaves at home!" I'll send it back to you. Ruo Ying smiled and walked forward.

"Gege, that's the emperor...... How can you give to a slave or a maid what is given to you? The cuckoo lowered his voice and hurriedly excused himself.

"That's a good fit for you, what's the excuse? You can wear my jewelry, what a pity to put it in dust? The corners of Ruoyu's mouth were curled and never put down, and he turned to a stall where he guessed lantern riddles.

"Girl, guess the lantern riddle? If you guess right, give this lantern to the girl! The stall owner greeted enthusiastically.

"Lanterns?" Ruoyu looked at the lanterns hanging on the shelves, there were all kinds of them, and the most was the lotus lantern.

"With the lanterns, the little sisters went to the moat to put the lanterns and make a wish." The stall owner smiled.

"Miss, guess one." The cuckoo tugged at the sleeve of Ruoyu's coat, a little excited.

"Okay, which one do you like?" The cuckoo always abides by the rules on weekdays and always takes care of herself, and it is rare that she wants a lantern like a little girl today, and Ruoyu is very happy.

In the end, the cuckoo picked a plain white lantern, although it is called a lantern, but it is painted with green bamboo.

"You like bamboo?"

The cuckoo let out a soft "um", I don't know if it was reflected by the lanterns, and his face was even more red.

"Drunk Liu Ling." Ruo Ou whispered the riddle.

"Miss, what does that mean?" Although Du Juan knew Chinese, she could only recognize the characters, and if she was deeper, she did not understand much.

"Drunk Liu Ling...... This Liu Ling is a personal name, one of the 'Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest' in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and is famous for drinking. Legend has it that he once passed by Du Kang's hotel, and saw the couplet outside the hotel that read, 'The tiger is drunk in the mountains with a cup of medicine, and the dragon sleeps at the bottom of the sea with two cups', and the horizontal criticism is, 'If you don't get drunk for three years, you don't need money', and you can't help laughing, thinking that the store is bragging, so you can enter the store. After three glasses of wine, he really got drunk, stumbled back home, and was drunk for three years. Three years later, Du Kang went to Liu Ling's house to ask for money for wine, but was told that Liu Ling had been dead for three years, and Liu Ling's wife was going to fight a life lawsuit with Du Kang. Du Kang laughed and said that Liu Ling was just drunk. Everyone opened Liu Ling's coffin, only to see Liu Ling gradually wake up, stretched out her arms like nothing, yawned, and there was a strong aroma of wine in her mouth, straight and fragrant wine. Since then, the folk have had the beautiful talk of 'Du Kang making wine and drunk Liu Ling'. "If the eagle uses easy-to-understand words, it will be listened to by the cuckoo.

"So, can you guess what this mystery is?" The cuckoo looked a little nervous.

He smiled at the cuckoo, and said, "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have used my dog to crawl and embarrass people on the street!" As he spoke, Ruo Ying wrote five words on the rice paper prepared by the stall owner - "Chess to accompany Xie Fu".

"The riddle is only four words, why did you write five words, miss?" Cuckoo points out the most intuitive difference.

"This riddle is to seek the phoenix, the meaning of the riddle should be against the riddle, pay attention to the level, and there must be ligatures in the middle, so the riddle will be more words than the riddle." Ruo Ying patiently explained.

The cuckoo nodded, as if he understood or not: "Miss, your riddle is a sentence?" ”

"This is a poem, a sentence from the "Tomb of Taiwei in Beifang" written by the great poet Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty." Ruo Ying smiled and explained to the cuckoo, then turned back and handed the rice paper to the stall owner, and said softly, "Look, I am right?" ”

The stall owner gave a thumbs up and sighed: "The girl is so talented, this lantern has been hung here all night and no one has left her." While speaking, the stall owner took off the bamboo lantern, took off the riddle under the lamp, hung it on the empty shelf with the riddle of Ruo Ying, and handed the bamboo lantern to Ruo Ying.

Ruoyu picked a lotus lantern at random to solve the mystery, and took one with the cuckoo and walked in the direction of the moat.

"Miss recite it to the cuckoo, the cuckoo is willing to listen to the young lady's recitation of poems." The cuckoo happily played with the lantern in his hand while climbing on the eagle's arm.

"Okay, then I'll recite it to you." After a pause, Ruoyu opened his mouth and said, "Resume service in another country, and don't stay in the lonely grave." There is no dry soil near tears, and there are broken clouds at low altitude. Accompany Xie Fu in chess, and look for Xu Jun with his sword. Only to see the forest flowers falling, the warbler cries to send the guests away. ”

"The young lady memorized it well, but the slave didn't understand a word." Cuckoo said with some frustration.

Ruoyu patted the cuckoo's head and said, "It's okay, I couldn't understand it when I first read it, but I'll be able to do it slowly." Come, I'll explain it to you. Seeing the cuckoo nodding, the little face became happy again, and Ruoyu slowly explained. The voice was soft, soft, a little sweet and glutinous, but not sticky, and the cuckoo only felt that there was nothing better than this.

After the explanation, Ruo Yu still smiled and said: "Du Fu's poems are a 'history of poetry', reading his poems is like reading the history of the Tang Dynasty." His poems were also relatively easy to read, and it is rumored that when he had written them, he would read them to the old woman on the roadside, and if the old woman could not read them, he would revise them until they could read them. If you want to memorize poems, you can start with Du Fu's recitation. ”

"Miss, would you like to change the song? Today is the Shangyuan Festival, and this poem doesn't sound good. "Du Juan Yang said.

"Change the song? Hmm......" Ruo Ying thought for a while and said, "Okay, change the song, I'll recite a song for you." ”

"Song Ci? Is it from the Song Dynasty? Cuckoo said.

"Words were at their peak in the Song Dynasty, so they are called Song words, and they are not unique to the Song Dynasty." roughly explained, Ruo Ying memorized "The Qingyu Case", "The east wind blooms thousands of trees at night, and it blows down, and the stars are like rain." BMW carved cars are full of incense, the sound of the phoenix flute moves, the jade pot turns brightly, and the fish and dragon dance all night. The moth snow willow is golden, and the smile is full of dark fragrance. The crowd looked for him thousands of times, and suddenly looked back, but the man was in the lamplight. ”

Du Juan didn't understand the meaning of the words, but she just felt that the song poem memorized by Gege must be a very beautiful painting, because she heard that there were flowers, stars, fish, and willows, but these were not as beautiful as Gege's eyes, bright, shining, and with a faint smile. Every lantern here, every jewel in the dressing table, even the stars in the sky, are not as intoxicating as Gege's eyes, and it is crazy to look at them.