Chapter 488: Lantern Festival

Tokyo Imperial Street, from the Imperial Palace Xuande Gate in the north, through the State Bridge and Suzaku Gate, to the south to the outer city of Nanfumen Gate. It is more than ten miles long and 200 steps wide, and the "street" is actually not enough to describe its scale, and it is called the central square, which seems to be more reliable.

The middle position is the imperial road for the emperor, which is guarded by a squad on weekdays, and no one is allowed to trample on it.

On both sides is the road taken by the officials, and then separates two open areas, and on both sides is the covered promenade where everyone walks on weekdays, and outside the promenade, there are all kinds of shops, as well as the departments inside and outside the yamen.

The lights of the Bianjing New Year have been arranged from Xuande Gate to Nanxun Gate.

In order to attract customers and play the holiday card, they have also developed many new types of lanterns. The more famous ones are the five-color glass lamps in Suzhou, the white jade lamps in Fuzhou, the boneless lamps in Xin'an, and of course, there are now more Meishan Yale glass lamps.

It is still the consistent operation of Suyou, which occupies the most upstream industry without revealing the mountains.

The brightness of the lamp is more attractive, although the lamps of various businesses are designed with various tricks and novelties. But its core, that is, the part that emits light, is actually made in Meishan - platinum gas lamp.

From the seventh day of the first month, the lamp mountain is lit, called "on the color", the gold and blue shoot each other, the splendid and glorious, the visitors have gathered under the two corridors of the royal street - the excitement of the new year has begun.

Small merchants and hawkers, opera juggling, and illusion tricks also began to come to join in the fun.

"Thaumaturgical abilities, singing and dancing, scales tangential, noisy music for more than ten miles, stumbling, stepping on the rope."

"Zhao Yeren, eat cold Tao. Brother Zhang Jiu, swallowing iron sword. Li Waining, a puppet of the medicine law. Little athletes, spit five-color water, spin roasted mud balls. Great specialty, ash medicine. ”

"Miscellaneous drama. Wen Datou, Xiaocao, Jiqin. Dang Qian, Xiao Guan. Sun Si, smelting prescription. Fifty-two, dramatist. Zou Yu, wide fields, miscellaneous clothes. Su Shi, Meng Xuan, build the ball. Liu Baiyu, insect ant. Yang Wenxiu, drum and flute. ”

"There are also monkeys in a hundred plays, fish jumping knife doors, calling bees and butterflies, chasing ants. The rest sell medicines, sell hexagrams, sand book and riddles, and are full of kitsch, and they are new every day.

On the 14th day of the first month, the car drove the auspicious pool of the five mountains, and this time Su You was fortunate to accompany the car as a Hanlin attendant.

The banquet lasts for one day, in the morning accompany the driver from Xuande Gate to travel, after the parade is completed, arrive at Wuyue Temple, start the banquet, and then return to Xuande Gate.

This banquet was not hosted by Su You, and the food was shabby:

Suo noodles, water rice, dry rice, belly soup, wisp pork soup, fried meat, salted soy sauce, group of immortals, roasted golden sausage, roasted bones, smallpox cake, white meat cake, lotus meat cake, row boiled sheep's beard cake, single steamed bun, double hump slot, Taiping Biluo.

Suo noodles are rice noodles, water rice is semi-fermented sour pulp rice, similar to vinegar rice in later Japanese cuisine, dry rice is steamed rice, belly soup is lamb tripe soup, wisp meat soup is shredded meat soup, fried meat is stir-fried mutton, meat salted soy is pickled mutton, Qunxian is a mixture of venison and bear meat, scorched gold sausage is a lamb intestine smeared with egg yolk, roasted bones are lamb ribs marinated and then roasted, smallpox cake, white meat cake, lotus meat cake and cooked lamb beard cake are pies, the single steamed bun is a meat vegetable bun, and the name of the double hump slot is good. is that the meat and vegetable buns have been changed to a shape and made into a dumpling type; Taiping Biluo is a Hu food that was transmitted from Persia to the Tang Dynasty and then from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, which sounds very mysterious, but it is actually a pie, but it is just a pie of seasoning in the Western Regions.

Speaking of which, excluding rice, pies and buns, it is two soup dishes, two stir-fried dishes, and three grilled dishes.

Su You sighed straight at the plate, there is no green vegetables to match the spice, it's not that I pick my mouth, I really can't eat it......

A handsome guy with outstanding demeanor next to him said to him: "Mingrun, what's wrong?" Not satisfied with the banquet of the royal gift? ”

This is the master that Su You is careful to watch out for, if he nods today, maybe he will be charged with the crime: "Lu Xiao's investigation is serious, it is Su You who has been lonely and poor since he was a child, and it is rare to see big oil and meat, even if it is a meat dish for the New Year, it must be paired with most of the vegetarian dishes, otherwise the stomach and intestines should suffer." My Hachiko said that 'wild boars can't eat fine chaff', which is probably what he is talking about. I'm ashamed. ”

At this time, Lu Huiqing was serving as the proofreader of Jixian Palace, editing and editing the books of Jixian Palace, because when discussing the scriptures with Wang Anshi, there were many points of agreement, so he was promoted by Wang Anshi and got this position.

If you want to say that he has any dazzling deeds before, it is just a small official in Zhenzhou. When it comes to resume, it's really not worthy of Su You's shoes.

Therefore, many people are very optimistic about his character when he is attached to Wang Anshi and wants to be lucky.

Lu Huiqing smiled slightly: "The rich do not forget the poor, the Ming Runguo is good, and it is worthy of the prince's attention." ”

Su You arched his hand: "Who are you talking about?" If it is Jiefu Gong, I respect his temperament and learning, but there are still some differences in the ideas of governance, and after three days of fierce arguments with the same boat, no one has been able to convince anyone, alas......"

This is actually reassuring to the person in front of him, you can rest assured that Wang Jiefu's paving will not follow.

Lu Huiqing's expression was obviously unconvinced, but it was not easy to continue the topic here, after all, Su Mingrun was not the person he dared to offend now, so he changed the topic: "I don't know what I'm talking about over there." ”

On the other side of the banquet, Zhao Ji was talking with Zhao Luan, Zeng Gongliang, and the privy envoy Lu Gongbi.

Su You said with a smile: "They are the decision-makers, we are the executors, and now the case and the general are being caught by Tang Gong and holding on to the old accounts, I am suffering like fried oil here, where do I care about these ......"

Lu Huiqing said: "Mingrun still doesn't know? Yang Ding made a big mistake there. ”

"Oh? I don't know what's wrong? ”

The matter of the restoration of Suizhou was very troublesome before, and the Western Xia booby-trapped Yang Ding, the intellectuals of the Great Song Dynasty Security Army, in a reciprocal manner, was also one of the major crimes of the imperial historians to impeach Chongge, framing colleagues, which was equivalent to murder.

In order to wipe the buttocks of Chong Ge and Zhao Ji, Su You instructed Weizhou Tingfeng Pavilion to check this Yang Ding.

I don't know if I don't check the results, and I'm shocked when I check it.

There was information from within Western Xia that when Yang Ding sent an envoy to the Xia Kingdom, he once paid homage to Zuo as a minister, and promised to lure acquaintances along the border for Lang Zuo. He gave him a sword, a treasure, and many gold and silver objects.

After Yang Ding's envoy returned, he handed over the sword and treasure, and then took the gold and silver as his own, and said that the Great Song Liangzuo could be assassinated.

This is the reason why Zhao Ji asked Su You if he could use the Divine Machine to assassinate Lang Zuo.

When the Xia people lost Suizhou, they thought that Yang Ding had betrayed him, so they killed him.

The imperial historians made a big oolong, in order to trap the seed to death, Yang Ding was praised in the bullet chapter, and ten kinds of grass are not worth a Yang Ding's cold hair, and the result was that it was a double agent for a long time.

Lu Huiqing said with a smile: "This time, the summer envoy came to mourn and poked out the truth, and the matter was revealed. The official family immediately pardoned the cultivator, cut Yang Dingguan, and lost his land and house. You say it's a mess! ”

Su You also laughed with him.

In fact, this matter is an intelligence war between Jia Liang, Wang Shao, and Weizhou Tingfeng Pavilion. The reason why the truth made Zhao Ji so angry and must chase after Yang Ding's mansion was that Zhao Ji felt that he was being played like a fool.

If Su You hadn't stopped him, what would have been the consequences if he really handed over the Divine Machine to Yang Ding?

Zhao Ji felt a chill down his spine when he thought about it.

Zhao Ji was surrounded by the scholars, smiling and respectful, looking happy, but Su You knew that it was because he hadn't gone to work yet.

So he also picked up the wine and drank a glass with Lu Huiqing, as harmonious as brothers who had been separated for many years.