Xin Wuxian was sighing with emotion, and it was dark in a blink of an eye, and it was time to put on the lights. Merchants along the street took out their lanterns, added kerosene, and hung them on the bamboo tents built by the government. The most beautiful thing to whitewash the peace is the scene of people enjoying themselves and the colorful lanterns.

There are many singing and dancing troupes in the market, performing "puppets, pestle songs, bamboo horses, etc.", and they wear bright beautiful costumes, which seem to be decorated with brocade gold and silver. During the Lantern Festival, the big families in Xinghua will also invite these singing and dancing teams to perform. In a place like the Golden Bottle Restaurant, where there are many customers, these jugglers will perform even harder, and if they perform well, they may be rewarded.

The two girls waited for a day or walked to Xinghua, and they were neither male nor female, and they waited for a homosexual in the middle who was scared, in order to see these spiritual performances, and at the moment, regardless of Liang Chuan and Xin Wuxi, ran to the balcony of the restaurant, and happily watched the crowds and various performances on the street.

Liang Chuan and Xin Wuxian looked at each other and smiled, the girl's heart was natural, and she didn't care. Liang Chuan has never seen any scenes, these are like playing at home in his eyes, and Xin Wuxi, he is not here, and he is even a little disgusted, so he will not pay attention to it.

"Isn't Brother Xin a local?"

"Brother Liang's eyes, the younger brother's ancestor was a Shandong clan, and later there were frequent wars, and the people were not able to make a living, so the ancestors moved their families south. It's just that the younger brother is Meng Lang by nature, after reading books for a few years, he can't stand the restraints, he likes to travel all over the world with a sword, and he doesn't want to meet his feet here today. ”

"Hey, seeing each other is fate, there is destiny in the dark, Qilu is a talented man, the dragon among the disease-free brothers, I have to see it today is also a great relief, but you are a capable person, the current court is the time to employ people, there will be something to do in the future, I am a small people, how can I say that I hate the time, whether I want Brother Xin to break the siege today, my two female dependents will suffer a big disaster today. Won't Brother Xin stay here for a long time? Going somewhere else? ”

"Today with the foot of the next talk, let the little brother suddenly, really know what you see and see the same, but now the little brother I have no hope, and I can't bear to live up to a martial arts, but now the northwest wars are frequent, Li's wolf ambitions, Tubo Liao State multi-front war, the Great Song Dynasty will inevitably have to make a comeback, although the big trouble is in the north, but the current scabies has to be removed, the little brother died for the country, died well, this time I want to go to the northwest to try, see if there can be something to do."

Liang Chuan knows the situation in the northwest, and now Li Yuanhao in the northwest is not an ordinary person, there are a number of Ziwei in his life, and the rewards given by the Great Song Dynasty to send Huazi can no longer satisfy his ambitions. There will eventually be a battle between Song and Xia, although it has not started, but it is also a matter of this time.

The Great Song Dynasty has a lot of dissatisfaction with the Great Liao as a brotherly country, and even this small place in the northwest dares to claim that the emperor is on an equal footing, and the court is even more unbearable. And in the end, the Western Xia, which the Great Song Dynasty never looked at, until its demise, was not done by the Great Song Dynasty, but by Mongolia.

Xin Wuxian is very discerning, if he wants to make a difference, it is right to go to Western Xia at this time. But the imperial court is strict, Wen Shi is in power, and he wants to improve with military merits, which is not easy to say!

"Why is Brother Xin's path hopeless?" Liang Chuan asked softly.

Xin Wuxi sighed and said, remembering this painful memory, and said: "When the ancestor went south to Jiangyin, the situation was turbulent, and he failed to settle down at that time. However, Jiangyin is a wang county, there are many students, but the number of places is limited, the local clan colludes with the government, and obstructs in every way, just not let my family settle down, decades have passed, a little family wealth has been squandered, and when I recall that when I went to settle down in another country, there is no surplus money for the family to squander. Since then, it has also been dead like ashes, traveling everywhere to see the magnificence of mountains and rivers, and the great rivers and mountains have walked around, and they can't bear to fall into the hands of outsiders and be ravaged! ”

This Liang Chuan knows, just like the college entrance examination registration, not allowing the college entrance examination in other places limits the number of places you can admit, and if you don't have a household registration, you are a black household, and it is still a felony to be admitted.

Liang Chuan admires this Xin Wuxian very much, because this young man is a scholar, but he is not as rigid as Meng Liangchen, and he even walked into the magic barrier because of his reading. This young man convinced him that they had disappeared for many years in later life, something called responsibility, something called literati morality, which was very valuable.

"Brother Xin, I have a lot of money, Brother Xin doesn't know how much money is missing, I will fund my brother first, I am alive, since I read a famous hall and don't try my fame, how can I be worthy of myself and the world."

For a while, Xin Wuxi's wine glass was held in his hand and there was nowhere to put it, he only met this Liang Chuan today because of his grievances, but he didn't expect that the other party would be willing to give generously to him. He has traveled to too many places by himself, and he has met a lot of people, but meeting this Liang Chuan makes him feel that he really hates to meet each other, like a long-time acquaintance.

But because of this, he didn't want Liang Chuan to look down on him, his career was bumpy and hard, and his literary talent was as scarlet as Li Du also hit a wall in his life, even if he took Liang Chuan's money, he might have wasted his life, since he decided to go to the northwest, then don't admit to Liang Chuan again.

Xin Wu's plan has been decided, and it is difficult to refute Liang Chuan's feelings, so he sat at the wine table with a sad face. Liang Chuan looked at it and said: "Brother Xin, I just said a safe way, everyone has their own ambitions, I don't force Brother Xin, I just don't know where Brother Xin is going down this staircase now, today's Lantern Festival, it's a pity to meet an evil young man, I'm afraid that the night will not be peaceful, I have a good place to go, I don't know if Brother Xin wants to go." ”

Xin Wuzhi is not stupid, on the contrary, he is very smart, otherwise he walks south and north alone and carries a sword to fight with people every day, if he is not smart, he would have died ten times and eight times, listening to Liang Chuan say this, he suddenly came to his senses, and said: "I don't know what to think about here?" ”

"Tonight, the magistrate held a Shangyuan Lantern Festival, and my two lively girls just couldn't help this lively scene and brought them to me, so there would be this catastrophe. In this case, why don't Brother Xin go to the Lantern Festival with me, there is not much more person, how about pretending to be my guest, the Lantern Festival of the county master, I think that his Xue family will have a future in Xinghua, and he will not dare to attack openly, what do you think? ”

Xin Wuxian was overjoyed and said: "Since this is the case, then I might as well be respectful." ”

The two girls were still watching with relish on the balcony, and Liang Chuan called them and rushed to the square terrace at the entrance of the county government with a little unsatisfied.

The Lantern Festival is not only a festival for the people themselves, but also a festival that has been encouraged by the imperial court. The government will even give money and wine to the singing and dancing teams every day in the name of the government to reward them, and every evening, when the oil candles for lighting lanterns are not enough, the government will also distribute them to increase the festive atmosphere. This benefit of the government is more common in big cities such as Hangzhou Bianliang, and in Xinghua it is only meaningful.

As soon as I came out of the Golden Bottle Restaurant, the crowds on the street were completely different from when I came in the afternoon. Men, women, old people, and children, all with smiles on their faces, rubbing shoulders one after another, lingering in the lively crowd, looking east and west, no one cared about the hurried look on the faces of the four people in Liang Chuan.

The crowd of people in the direction of the county government suddenly surged, and there was a sudden exclamation from the crowd: "The county magistrate is coming out", the gate of the yamen of Yanchipu opened, and the county magistrate sat on a soft sedan car followed by a large group of people and horses.

A few officials were holding a small bag, as if they were handing out something among the passing crowd. Liang Chuan asked curiously, "What are they distributing?" ”

Zheng Yuzhi said: "Send money, you haven't seen this, right?" ”

"Send money?" Liang Chuan couldn't believe that there was such a good thing, "Tut, I really haven't seen it, how much do you send?" ”

"It's not much, maybe a person can only pay a dozen dollars, just as a lottery." Zheng Ruoying said.

It turns out that on the day of the Lantern Festival, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty have the habit of visiting the citizens, whenever this time, the officials from all over the country sit in a small sedan chair, surrounded by the dance team, swaggering through the city, the flute drum is cheering up, the ears and eyes are dizzy, giving a small amount of money and enjoying the public, and the people are happy on the day of their name. Whenever I met a businessman, I would give them money, ten cents per person, to wish them a prosperous New Year, which is called "buying the market".

Although some people will be greedy for a small bargain and receive the reward money, they will get behind the crowd and get it again, but this money is not a big money, and it is meant to be distributed, and the government will not care much about these small people in the market.

The crowd boiled after the county magistrate came out, and everyone flocked to follow the team of the county magistrate, and flocked to the temporary terrace on the square in front of Yanchipu, which will perform wonderful programs at night, and everyone naturally does not want to miss it.

"Let's go, let's go join in the fun." The four of them pushed through the crowd in the direction of the terrace and slowly squeezed through.

The terrace is not open, and ordinary people cannot enter it at will, and there are several officials guarding the entrance, and ordinary people are watching from under the terrace. After the team of the county magistrate on the terrace distributed the laisee, he led a group of colleagues to sit down. Everyone sat down in turn, and the position of the seat was naturally exquisite. The magistrate sits in the front and middle, the most conspicuous and noble position, behind which are a group of county officials, followed by some famous people in the county, and finally some related households.

The four of them finally squeezed to the entrance of the terrace, and the two officials looked at the four hillbillies with indifferent expressions, especially when they saw that one of them was carrying a sharp weapon, they were even more alarmed.

"Go, go, watch the excitement, go down, this is not the place for you to come."

"We've been invited."

"You guys? What about the name? ”