'On the fifteenth day of the first month of the year of Xinsi, on the Shangyuan Festival, there was a vision in the sky. ’

Zhang Xuan held a pen in his hand, wrote this sentence in his book that recorded celestial phenomena, threw the pen aside, turned his head and looked at the celestial phenomena again.

To the east of the observatory, dozens of orange-red stars float in the sky, hovering beside a full moon like a silver disk. There is no wind and no clouds tonight, and under the reflection of the silver moonlight, the stars should have hidden their brilliance, but these orange-red stars are like alien stars, and they still do not hide their edge on the shore of the bright moon.

Zhang Xuan stared at the direction of the rising orange star, and his heart was inexplicably frightened.

Seven Star Protector, no wind and no clouds, is this someone going to cross the catastrophe?

Isn't there a great Confucian in the Guozi Prison who has already attained the Tao and is about to ascend?

Zhang Xuan couldn't hide the excitement in his heart, and hurriedly ran back to his room, took off the green official uniform on the □, and respectfully invited out his Taoist legal uniform.

If you are really a Taoist friend, you naturally can't meet it as a layman.

After some tidying up, Zhang Xuan wore a glaive crown, a chongxu robe, a mixed yuan crane on the outside, and a cloud and a red shoe on his feet, picked up the male and female swords hanging on the wall and put them behind his back, and strode out of the door.

Zhang Xuan has listened to the legends of various ancestors ascending to the Tao on Longhu Mountain since he was a child, but he has never seen a person who has ascended. Now someone is flying in the capital on the day of Tianguan's birthday, which is simply a godsend.

He was wearing the formal clothes of a four-rank Taoist official, and if he was a fellow Taoist, he could tell at a glance.

He only hoped that he could listen to the instructions before the great Confucian ascended to heaven, so that he would not be able to waste his chance.

It's just that after walking for a while, he looked up again, but found that there were more and more orange stars in the sky, as if competing with the sun and the moon. He tilted his head back and stared at the sky with a blank face.

This...... Is this the whole country of people soaring?

"Li Sheng, do you still have a Kong Ming lantern, give me one?"

"No, didn't everyone send one Qi Shao? What is your sacrificial word written about? ”

"Don't say it, it's too cold, my hands trembled, and I wrote the lamp at once."

"It's okay, I'll take a look. So, put the word like this...... Change the ....... Okay, that's it! The student was always quick-witted, and this time he helped him again, and immediately proudly put out his hand, "Xie Lu, thank me?" ”

"Thank you, thank you very much, thank you very much." Silently put a copper plate in his palm.

It is said that after Qi Shao discussed the matter of "Kong Ming Lantern" from Qiu Laotaijun's mansion that day, he ran to Guozijian in a hurry.

Unlike them, the children of the family and the dignitaries, if the children of the poor family do not go home during the New Year, they still live in the national prison. If you want to find them, it is absolutely right to return to the country.

When Qi Shao told this group of poor students about the "Kong Ming Lantern", he put another one to show them, and everyone supported it. Not only for the cost of polishing the pen, but also for the fulfillment of the blessing.

Most of these children of the poor families who stayed behind were from poor backgrounds, and many of them were children of tenant families, so they naturally knew how hard the lives of the people would become every time there was a natural disaster.

There are also some people who are not from poor backgrounds, but they are children of Tongfen Erzhou, and they cannot return home due to heavy snow road closures. These people are worried about the disaster in their hometown at this time, and they can't wait for Kong Ming Lantern to fly home with their thoughts.

Qi Shao's plan is to preside over a small sacrifice at the gate of Guozijian first, and after sacrificing heaven and earth and Laojun, he will sacrifice the souls of the dead in distress and light the Kong Ming lantern for blessing.

After the Kong Ming lantern rises into the sky, like last year, I will go to the East and West Cities to sell this kind of flying lantern.

He thought about it very thoroughly, and the publicity was also in place, so on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, all kinds of people began to pour in on Guozijian Street in Dongcheng.

At the beginning of the lantern, after the students worshipped, they lit the coarse cloth stained with kerosene on the Kong Ming lantern. Dozens of fire lamps suddenly rose above the Guozijian, except for one that fell and was extinguished by the water cannons of the Tai students who had been prepared for a long time, and all the rest rose into the air.

There was no wind tonight, and these Kong Ming lanterns floated into the air, as if they were in the arms of the sky, and kept rising into the night sky, causing a burst of amazement.

These firelights flew higher and higher, gradually attracting the attention of the whole city. Some people came out early to see the lights, and now they saw countless flying lights in the direction of Guozijian, and immediately went in that direction.

People in this world love to get together and join in the fun, both ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign. For a while, the people of the whole city began to crowd in the direction of Guozijian, and it was also thanks to Qi Shao who notified the officials of Jingzhao Mansion in advance to preside over the order and strictly prevent fires, otherwise a student would be squeezed into pieces of paper by the crowd of onlookers.

Qi Shao saw that there were more and more people, and he panicked in his heart. He thought that it would cause a sensation, but he never thought that the collective release of this Kong Ming lantern would be so attractive to the common people.

Qi Shao didn't understand that the more illiterate the people, the more superstitious they were about these things. Especially after the catastrophe, when there is a vision in the sky, there are always other things that come to mind. Qi Shao has read Li Rui's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and there is a detailed description of this thing in Qiu Lao Taijun's annotations, and he knows what Lu Dao is, and other people know this kind of lamp at most, just like knowing Lu Dao wooden oxen and flowing horses, but they don't know what Lu Dao looks like and how to fly.

Seeing that these people almost didn't come up to grab the last few lamps, Qi Shao hurriedly explained loudly the characteristics of this Kong Ming lantern and the meaning of sending thoughts and blessings, and personally set off a Kong Ming lantern full of sacrificial texts, and said in the end:

"This place is a place where the sages and Confucians teach knowledge, and we are all students of the country, so we worship here. Guozijian is not a place to sell things, if you also want to put a 'Kong Ming lantern' with your own hands, it is better to move to the east and west two cities, the center of the east and west two cities have Jingzhao Mansion specially built for us to set up a 'lamp stand', if you also want to bless relatives and friends, but illiterate, you can also ask us students to help with the inscription. ”

Ahem, but pen and ink and lamps cost money. You know.

Seeing that the fanaticism of this group of people had not yet gone down, and there were more and more trends, a group of students who had made a sacrificial trend in Guozijian hurriedly turned around and ran away, and rushed into Guozijian in one breath.

"Whew, whew, I'm scared to death, what now?" Zhao Dan looked at Qi Shao, "We've been hiding here?" ”

Several students looked at Qi Shao with puzzled eyes.

"How is that possible! I also made an appointment with Mrs. Qiu and Li Rui to meet them in Xishi. We still have to 'send blessings' to others, don't we? Qi Shao snickered. Hehe, I expected this situation and asked my father to open a side door for me in the country. Let's go! ”

"It's good to have a father who oversees the wine, and it can be convenient to open the door this big night." In order to prevent idle people from entering, Guozijian closed all the side doors in the evening, and the main gate had to be registered, because many students were afraid of trouble, although there was no curfew in the east and west cities of this dynasty, and they did not go out much at night.

"Come on, don't be sour. Qi Shao didn't take advantage of the side door to find any beautiful girls. ”

"How do you know that there has never been a way? Maybe Qi Shao really had. ”

"Qi Shao, say it yourself!"

"This ...... Let's go out first, shall we? ”

Brothers of Jingzhao Mansion, I'm sorry, let's help them publicize it outside for a while.

I'll go back and drink you!

Speaking of the Xinguo Mansion, Gu Qing took his two grandchildren and a maid and wife after dinner.

Since the last Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival, Li Mao has instructed the generals that if the old lady goes out, she must follow at least thirty generals. These families will obey the orders of the Duke of Xinguo, and as soon as Gu Qing asked his family to go out, a group of people immediately went to the door early to stand by.

Coupled with the girl, mother-in-law, Li Rui, Li Ming, Li Jun, Gu Qing said that he didn't look like he was out of the city to enjoy the lanterns, but like he was out of the city to fight in a group.

She and her three grandsons arrived at the door and were about to get into the car, but they saw a little girl next to her pointing to the sky and shouting: "Look at the sky, what is that!" ”

Gu Qing and the others looked up and saw that it was dozens of Kong Ming lanterns floating in the night sky.

For a moment, it was like a star descending.

Gu Qing is used to seeing the scene of Kong Ming lanterns in the sky. Her family lives by the river, and it is a high-rise, and sometimes when she meets the festival, she can often see the scene of the mighty Kong Ming lantern floating in the sky above the river.

In ancient times, she could still see familiar scenes, and countless fragments in modern times suddenly appeared in front of her eyes.

All of a sudden, a group of friends gathered around the river to set off various types of fireworks, and then put a Kong Ming lantern to pray for blessings; For a while, she and her mother stood on the balcony of their home and watched the Kong Ming lantern gradually drifting away.

Mom would babble and say, "Ah, don't fall down and burn the farmland on the other side of the river", and Dad would say while watching the anti-Japanese thunder drama, "There is no culture, the fire will fall when there is no hot air, what to burn the field", and then provoked my mother to serve with a burst of fans......

Gu Qing looked at the Kong Ming lantern that was already floating near the full moon, this situation and this scene were really confusing. She couldn't help but murmur Li Bai's famous sentence through the ages:

"The people of today do not see the ancient times and the moon, but the present month once looked like the ancients.

If the ancients and the present people are flowing water, they will see the bright moon together. ”

Li Bai, Li Bai, do you know that there are now "modern people" who have seen the "ancient time and moon".

"Grandma? Don't you get on the bus? Derpy scratched her head.

How does grandma look at the moon in a daze? Didn't she make it for them to play with first? Will you still see a daze?

"Oh, nothing." Gu Qing quickly came back to his senses. "Get in the car."

Li Rui glanced at Gu Qing suspiciously. What did Grandma just read? Does grandma also recite poetry?

Grandma probably heard my dad or grandpa read it. ’

Li Rui quickly dispelled his doubts and also boarded the carriage.

The carriage soon drove to the West Market. At this time, Kong Ming lanterns had begun to appear in the sky of the West Market, and more and more people were rushing to the center of the West Market.

Gu Qing originally wanted to enter the city directly by horse-drawn carriage, because the roads in the West Market were very spacious. However, Gu Qing didn't expect the congestion in the West Market. Due to the increasing number of people, if you take a carriage, I am afraid that it will be inconvenient, and you can't move if you don't see that there is a carriage in front of you that is blocked and can't move?

And Gu Qing was worried that if a pedestrian fell next to the carriage, she was afraid that something would happen, so she ordered her family to stop the carriage at the entrance of the West Market, and a group of people walked into the city.

When they finally broke out of the encirclement and squeezed into the "lampstand" set up by Qi Shao and them in advance, Gu Qing could only sigh.

It's not easy.

Around the lampstand, Jingzhao Mansion drew a big place to come out, surrounded it with a bamboo fence, and sent some people to watch from the periphery.

The students inside were all disheveled and sweating profusely, and the scholars in Qi Shao on the side kept inking and ink, and a large box was thrown next to it, which was full of copper plates. Next to the big box were several officials from the Jingzhao Mansion to prevent anyone from stealing. Among them, some students kept throwing money into the box from each table, so as not to pile up too much on the table and block the writing.

The desks of the students were full of people who bought lamps to help with the inscriptions, and some people bought lamps and inscribed on their own on empty desks. The lantern seller and the inscription are divided on both sides, but the lamp is restrained by the people of Jingzhao Mansion on the lampstand.

If it is placed on the platform, once the fire falls in mid-air, there will be special people to extinguish it. If you go to other places and put it, won't it cause a fire all over the city? What's more, if the lamp falls, you have to buy it again, if the lamp seller is next to it......

Hey.

In addition to the people who put the lamps and the people who assisted in putting the lamps, there were also many children around, and the children ran around happily, and the "dong dong" sound on the lampstand kept ringing, like a drum.

Gu Qing squeezed into the infield surrounded by his family, looked at the more and more people on the "lampstand", and said to the three brothers with some worry: "Look, will this platform collapse?" ”

Li Rui glanced at the "lampstand". This stage is big, but it looks like a commonly used stage for singing, I'm afraid that the wooden beams and wooden pillars below are not too strong, if there are many people, it will collapse.

Li Rui looked around, swept a familiar figure by the cash box, and immediately said to Gu Qing: "Grandma, don't worry, my grandson sees an acquaintance, I'll give you an order, and I'll come when I go." ”

The familiar figure is none other than Wang Youzi.

"Wang Youzi, how is it, there is a beautiful lady in the family recently, is it very fast?" Li Rui greeted Wang Youzi with a smile, and then looked at his body, "Well, it seems that you feel very sorry for your bride, and you are reluctant to let her wash her clothes." Look at your official clothes, I'm afraid I haven't washed them since the fourth day of junior high school, right? ”

"If you shoot a few more times, you can paste the wall."

Wang Youzi saw that it was Li Rui coming, but he looked preoccupied, and when he heard Li Rui's words, his face became solemn.

"What? Is there something wrong with my face? Li Rui touched his face.

Wang Youzi looked at it, and seeing that no one was paying attention to this side, he pulled Li Rui to the side and whispered: "Master Li, if you don't come to me, I will go to you in the next few days." ”

"Oh? What are you looking for me? ”

"Eldest son, the girl you bought and gave me that day ran away."

"Ran away?" Li Rui said suspiciously, "Don't you have her deed?" The fugitive slave escaped without permission, and if he was caught, he would be whipped fifty times! ”

You won't look for him to help him catch the girl, will you? He doesn't get involved in these things!

"That's what's weird. As soon as the villain came home, the girl was gone. I thought I didn't beat and scolded him, and he didn't look ugly, so I entrusted a friend on the ground in Xicheng to investigate carefully, Master Li, guess where the girl went after the worst? ”

"Where did you go?"

The more Li Rui listened, the more frightened he became. If this girl didn't deliberately sell her body there to get rich, then there was another mastermind behind the scenes, trying to plot something else. The girl had relied on him from the beginning, and he really couldn't think of anyone else who could plot but him.

"This mansion is not noble, but the sister-in-law of the master of this mansion is married to the Jin State Mansion, and the sister-in-law is engaged to your cousin, the eldest prince of Li." Wang Youzi was worried about Li Rui, so he specially inquired about this family, and it was really not an ordinary family.

As soon as Li Rui heard it, he knew that Lu Dao was talking about the "Wu Zhongjiang family" who was married to Zhang Yuan's cousin. He opened his mouth and closed it again, his face was blue and white, and he didn't know what Lu Dao was thinking.

"Master Li, that girl acted extremely carefully, changed her four outfits back and forth, and circled around the West City, East City, and Waiguo before turning to the East City. Then pretended to be a woman selling vegetables and entered the Jiang Mansion. is so cautious and shrewd, it really doesn't look like a woman who will fall into the situation of selling herself to bury her father. ”

Wang Youzi's voice was lowered. "Your mansion should be careful of the Jiang family, the villain is afraid that the Jiang family and your uncle's family will have another reason for marrying. The villain will help you keep an eye on the Jiang family at all times, and if you find that the woman is out of the house, the villain will let people arrest her and send her to the Guogong Mansion. ”

Li Rui patted Wang Youzi on the back gratefully, "Thank you, Wang Youzi." ”

Wang Youzi smiled and didn't say much polite words. "By the way, Mr. Li came to me? You don't just say hello, do you? ”

"One is to say hello, and the other is my grandmother'......"

"Understood, I'm going to have more brothers......"

A moment later, Li Rui returned to Gu Qing's side. At this time, Gu Qing was smiling and looking at a tender-faced scholar not far in front of him, surrounded by a group of girls writing lights.

Well, the boy was so pretty, no wonder there were so many people around.

The boy was young, he looked to be about sixteen or seventeen years old, and he was handsome and handsome. He was dressed in a bamboo-blue shirt with a fur coat on the outside, and he didn't look like a poor kid. I'm afraid it's for Qi Shao to pull it out.

"Grandma, that's the son of Shangshu of the Criminal Department, Zhao Dan." Li Rui saw Gu Qing looking at the young man, and added. "It's the Zhao Dan who has never been forgotten."

Oh oh oh, I remembered that it was during the disaster relief that the people were exposed, and the messengers let the playful boy go!

Gu Qing saw that the young man was sweating profusely, but the girls wearing sarongs around him were getting more and more around, and asked inexplicably: "This young man is handsome, but he is worse than Qi Shao, why are there not many people at Qi Shao's table, there will be so many people around here?" ”

"Poof, I'm afraid it's that Zhao Dan if someone finds out."

Li Jun said with a smile, "Grandmother, he is now the 'dream lover' of the girls of all families, he is affectionate, righteous, has a family background, is talented, good-looking and benevolent, and is not very old, and he is the youngest son in the family, he is pampered, and the girls are naturally full of admiration." ”

Li Jun looked at the group of girls in front of him, and felt that the pimples on his whole body were about to pop up, so he hurriedly begged for mercy: "Cousin, this is really not the place where I should stay, my cousin begged for a favor and let me go to the West Market alone......"

"Where to go? There are women everywhere. Li Ming laughed at him and said, "Don't faint on the side of the road when you arrive, you can't even go back to the house, we have to look for you......"

Li Jun blushed, "Otherwise, then I'll go back to the house and not ruin your fun." ”

Gu Qing smiled and said, "You stand in the back and let the generals surround you." The streets are so lively. Wouldn't it be a pity for you to go back? "Let's let the generals surround Li Jun and don't let the girls touch him.

'Actually...... Gu Qing scratched his chin and thought to himself. There are so many handsome guys here, if you deliberately run up to touch Li Jun, it won't be true love. ’

Under the lampstand, Zhao Dan inscribed poems to the girls one by one, and fainted from the smell of fat powder.

"Next." He said weakly, "What do you want to write?" ”

The little lady in a pink dress and a sarong said softly: "Please mention: the mountains have trees and branches, and the heart is happy and you don't know." Write Qi Niang. ”

Zhao Dan finished writing in a hurry. He's written too much about this today, this group of girls, is there no word other than this?

"Forty Wen."

"Forty Wen? Aren't all twenty articles written next to it? ”

Zhao Dan smiled hideously.

Damn, the master is about to show you a flower, can't you count more money?

The girl was so frightened that she told the girl to drop forty cents and ran away in a hurry.

Who said that this son is as gentle as jade, so scary!

"Next, what are you going to write?"

"Vote for me with papaya, and repay it with Qiongju. Bandit retribution, always think it is good. Write love Jiao. The little lady in a lotus lotus cotton jacket blushed shyly, and glanced at Zhao Dan from time to time, but found that Zhao Dan didn't even raise her head.

"Nuo, it's written, and I'll benefit forty words." Zhao Dan weakly held his forehead and asked the scholar behind him to collect the money.

He really didn't have the energy to look up again. I've seen all the colored sarongs all night tonight.

He didn't understand, and since he wanted to be strong with him, and he was sitting here as a living man, couldn't he go to the sarongs and veils and talk to him? In this way, the ghost knows whether it is an aunt or an aunt who confesses!

Who would look at each other with a bunch of gauze hats, kiss! I can't even think of a good match!

The little lady sat for a long time, and when she saw that Zhao Dan didn't even give him a straight eye, she hid her face sadly and ran.

Zhao Dan rubbed his face, continued to pick up the pen, and said with a dull head:

"Next. What to write? ”

"Well, I just see you're working too hard. Sit down and chat with you and give you a break. ”

"I only sell words, I don't accompany ......" Zhao Dan raised his eyes angrily, "Huh? ”

When he saw a dignified old lady sitting in front of him, and the two brothers Li Rui and Li Ming standing beside him, he still had nothing to know.

Zhao Dan hurriedly stood up, and without even throwing away the pen in his hand, he made a junior salute.

"Junior Zhao Dan, I have seen Mrs. Li'......"

Damn, can you not call any teenager her old lady, can you? Can you change the name? Even "Taijun" admits it! Can you not mention "old"!

Gu Qing silently raised a bulge in the sky.

As soon as he knew that Lu Dao asked him to mention "cure kidney deficiency and no sugar".

The payment was written about Gu Qing, who was incomparable in beauty and beauty.

Hum!

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Zhang Xuan, who was wearing a magic robe and was galloping, accidentally glanced back in the direction of Xishi.

Then he collapsed.