On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, look at the lanterns. On the fifteenth day, Xue Jiao got up early and dressed up, put on a new jacket and changed her skirt into cotton pants, tied two round buds on her head, tied a red velvet rope, prepared a flannel bag, loaded with various kinds of face fruits, and went to the town to watch the lanterns and enjoy the fireworks when it was dark.

Subsequently, Li Chancian woke up, put on a pink jacket, wiped her face with the washing water that Xue Jiao had washed, patted on the balsam, and swept the rouge.

"Sister Cicada, you eat a cake first to cushion your stomach." Chen Xuejiao brought a plate of honey and three knives, and brought in a bowl of fried noodle tea.

"I haven't been to town for a long time, it's better for you to be here, it's close to town, and it's convenient to buy anything you want." Li Cicada took a bite of honey three times, pulled out a long silk, and praised "What a sweet fruit." ”

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, the town will hold a lantern festival, Baitu Town is close to the Xiaohuai River, chiseled a large piece of ice in the river, carved into flowers, birds, insects and fish all kinds of ice lanterns, these ice lanterns are placed on both sides of the river bank, candles are lit inside, and at night a fun pavilion www.biquge.info fire, reflecting the whole town into a night sky. Wherever there is a bridge, there is a lantern stand built on the riverside, which is spacious on all sides and faces the water, and the water surface that has been chiseled off the ice is sparkling, and large families will charter a dry boat to park on the ice to see the excitement. In addition to ice lanterns, there are also various paper lanterns and wooden lanterns, which are hung on the bridges of trees, and various shapes come to life. When the moon rises in the middle of the sky, the big families in the town and some restaurants will set off fireworks together, and clusters of colorful fireworks will explode in the sky, and the sky on the ground will be as bright as day.

Li Cicada was still held by Mr. Li when she was a child and watched the lamp once, because she couldn't remember the scene at the time, but she only knew that the fireworks in the sky exploded in front of her, which scared her into tears, and her grandfather bought a string of sugar balls and stuffed them into her mouth.

Yesterday was the day when Da Zhuang got married and went to his aunt's house. Li Chanchan followed her brother and sister-in-law to Chen's house, stayed for one night, and waited for the fifteenth and Xuejiao to go to the town to see the lights.

Eating Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the custom in the south of Xuzhou Mansion, and the custom in the north is steaming cotton lamps and walking the hundred bridges.

Lee's guard the stove steaming cotton lamp. The hard noodles are filled with salt and pepper, kneaded into a rolling pin-like cylindrical strip on the cutting board, cut into sections, and the left hand presses the right hand to pinch the noodles into a nest. In turn, on the board pier flat. Pinch a groove on the upper edge and cut the edge with scissors to make it into a lotus edge. On high heat, steam in a pot. A fist-sized cotton lamp came out of the pot, wrapped the cotton on the bamboo strips, inserted it into the lamp, dripped sesame oil, and lit it with fire at night and placed it in the room. Burning all night can not break the fire.

The children who watched the lamp, everyone had such a lamp in their hands. There is the gluttonous one. Without waiting for the oil to boil out, he directly blew out the fire, and took a mouthful of oil.

In the evening, the Lee family lit the cotton lamps one by one. Xue Jiao's children each took one in their hands and followed the village adults to the hundred bridges. There are only three bridges in the village, and each one says a few words of peace. In order to pray for the health and safety of the family.

After walking the last bridge, Xuejiao, Li Cicada, Xueru, and Qi Ping went to the town to watch the lantern festival.

It was the first time they went back to town to see the lights. At night, there were so many people, Li was naturally not at ease, and he packed a bag of food with thousands of instructions, and was afraid that Qi Ping would be cold at night, so he took out a jacket from the house and put it on his body.

In the end, it was Chen Xiucai who said: "The town is close to home, and there are acquaintances on the left and right, what are you afraid of." Only then did Li send the children out of the door.

If it weren't for the wound on his back caused by Chen Xiucai's drinking a few more glasses of wine during the New Year's Festival, Li would have followed the children to the town to watch the lights and scenery. She still went to the town to see the lights when she was a girl, and she became a pro-family for a year and was busy for a year without a day of relaxation, thinking of this and sighing, her two daughters will be people's daughters-in-law in the future, and there is no freedom when she enters the door of her mother-in-law's house, fortunately, she is a mother who does not restrict them, and they are happy for a few years.

Xue Jiao came to the town, all over the town are ready to stop, under the eaves of the shop on the street, a vermilion lantern is lit, with sheep fat candles, bright and not easy to let the wind blow, the ice sculptures on the bank of the river, light the candle cage on the red yarn, along the Xiaohuai River all the way to spread out, the golden dance and silver snake like, all night long, even the lantern and a round of bright moon in the sky to form the fire tree silver flower never sleeps.

A few children became excited and walked around the Xiaohuai River.

The ice lantern festival on the bank of the Xiaohuai River is organized by the government, this year is particularly lively, I heard that it is the king of Pengcheng who is interested in the lantern festival, and has collected the skilled craftsmen of the entire Xuzhou Mansion, and carved out more than 1,000 ice lanterns with the theme of flowers. Those craftsmen brought out all their skills, and the carved lamps were beautiful, and they were really blooming flowers from a distance. Or double-petaled lotus or single-petaled plum, comparing postures, all of them are scored, and the one with the highest score will take the name of "Lantern Fairy".

Or a master of Peng Wangfu said, the lantern race is very good, is not it carved out of pieces of cold ice, no matter how many famous species are also ice, I don't know which one is rising, and proposed to ask the beauty to hold the ice lantern with red silk on the stage, and the first one is the Lantern Festival Ice Beauty.

said that it was the Lantern Festival Ice Beauty, how could the daughter of a serious family stand up and show her face, but in fact, what came out was the little lady of the family in the courtyard.

In order to see the ice lantern beauty, all ten miles and eight towns were dispatched, and people were crowded everywhere.

Chen Xuejiao and the children were afraid that they would be separated, so they blew out the cotton lamp with a thud, swallowed it in their stomachs, and held their hands tightly to drill into the crowd.

found the best place to see on the bridge, Qi An pulled Qi Ping with his left hand and Xue Jiao with his right hand, Jing Hao, Xue Ru, and Li Chan followed closely, and several people lay on the railing to look at the platform above.

The ice fairies sat on the dry boat in new clothes, with hairpins on their heads and ice lanterns under their feet. On the other dry boats, there are several rich sons of government lords, who are the judges of the Ice Lantern Fairy. It is said that many of the ice fairies on the dry boat are imitated by the Xuzhou Mansion, and there is a Cuihualou in Baitu Town, where the girls are not allowed to go on the stage except for a Bai Ling'er and Qingbi.

The identity of the girl who won the first prize is also rising, maybe she will be taken by which son, and it doesn't matter if she is redeemed and carried in from Liang to make a five-bedroom or six-room apartment, it is better than leaning on the door in the Qinglou to laugh or come out from Liang to marry a country horseman.

Chen Xuejiao saw Qingbi playing the piano on a dry boat, wearing a turquoise tulle skirt on a cold day.

The riverbank is as lively as a market, there are food stalls moving to the riverbank, selling wine, snacks, snacks and fruits, a stack of shouting, during the day, just thinking about coming to see the lanterns but not much to eat, at this time Fang is hungry, Chen Xuejiao and Chen Qi'an beckoned to the pancake fruit next to them, wanting to buy a few pancake fruits to satisfy hunger. She turned her head and saw a touch of ginger in the figure, vaguely like a yellow dragonfly, Xue Ru and Jinghao also saw it, shouted a few times in their throats, and saw that the yellow clothes disappeared in a flash in the crowd.

Chen Xuejiao only recognized the wrong person, and during the day, Huang Dragonfly said that there were many people in the town who didn't come to see the lights.

After paying for the pancakes here, I took a bite, and saw that Chen Qilin and Xue Miao in the second room were not far away, and Xue Yao naturally didn't show up because she wanted to go out. Xue Miao naturally saw Xue Jiao, her eyes slanted, her mouth pursed, and she looked away.

The pancake fruit was rolled with shrimp skin eggs and shredded green onions, and they were eating on the head, when the gongs and drums sounded on the stage, and a group of ice lantern fairies came out. For the head of the fairy, everyone dressed like a fairy, dressed in gold and gold, holding a shining ice lamp in his hand, turned in a circle and shook people's eyes.

The crowd was boiling, some said that the girl holding the lotus flower was pretty, some said that the girl holding the plum blossom was cold, and some said that the girl holding the peony was beautiful.

Xue Jiao was not exempt from vulgarity, pointing and discussing.

"The one who looks the best in white clothes is not the Ice Lantern Fairy? Of course, choose to wear white, and white is a fairy. Chen Qiping finished eating the pancakes, stared at the half of Xueru's hand, and pointed to the girl in white clothes holding a lotus lantern.

Xue Ru handed half of the pancake in her hand to Qi Ping.

"Do you choose a fairy or a human?" Xue Jiao smiled and joked that Qi Ping, she also thought in her heart that the girl in the white shirt was the most beautiful.

A pranky grin: "What we say doesn't count, what the prefect says, wait and see, Ming'er who is selected will become the sixth concubine of the prefect at night." ”

This is also true, although I don't know who the prefect is, but I know that he is sitting on the top now. He felt that which beauty was worthy of a fairy, so he put a flower on the beauty's head and chose the oiran.

Suddenly, there was another sound of gongs and drums, and the crowd poured in from all directions, and Chen Qi'an was a little adult who protected his sisters.

Chen Xuemiao and Chen Qilin were scattered by the crowd, she was squeezed to Xue Jiao's side, and she almost slipped and fell, Chen Qi'an quickly grabbed Xue Miao.

Xue Miao looked around, and the people who were pressed couldn't see her brother at all, so she had to stand in Xue Jiao's place.

Fireworks were set off on the stage, gongs sounded, and sure enough, the beautiful woman in white came out on top.

There were bursts of shouts from the crowd, some said that they deserved their names, and some said that the girl in the blue shirt was better in terms of talent.

Xue Miao pursed her lips and smiled, pointed to the stage and said, "Look, that fairy doesn't look like a cousin Jinghao." If the cousin comes to power, the fairy will be second at most. ”

When some of the rogue men heard this, their eyes roamed around Jing Hao's face with recklessness. Jing Hao's already born beauty, under the fire tree silver flowers, more and more apricot eyes peach trees.

Someone in the crowd asked: "Which handsome girl is this, is it really the first to go up?" ”

Jing Hao lowered her head, hating Xue Miao very much.

Xue Jiao stared at Xue Miao, this is too much of a bastard, everyone knows that the sister on the stage is from the sect. She clearly compares Jing to a sister who leans on the door and laughs.

"Sister Jinghao is naturally beautiful, how ugly is you." Snow is squeamish and has a liver ache, and fights back nakedly.

Jing Hao saw Xue Jiao defending her like this, and she also became emboldened, pointing at Xue Miao and saying, "No, my cousin is jealous of me or my sister on the stage." ”

Xue Miaoqi was stunned.

At this time, a rolling crowd came from the right side of the bridge, and in the blink of an eye, Xue Miao was submerged in the crowd.

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Li guarded Chen Xiucai, and in the afternoon he and Huang Xiucai ate and drank, and drank too much, so she kept making tea and handing water. As soon as he wanted to get up and see if the water in the copper kettle was boiling, so that he could make a cup of tea to eat, he heard a commotion outside, faintly coming from the entrance of the village, Li put down the copper kettle and walked outside the courtyard, and just opened the door to hear "the bridge in the town has collapsed, and the dead man is dead." (To be continued)