The fire tree and silver flowers are closed, and the iron lock of the star bridge is opened. The dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes one by one.

The wanderers are all plums, and the songs are all plums. Jin Wu can't help the night, and the jade leak is not urging.

Of all the festivals in the first month, only the Shangyuan Festival is the only one that can be called the carnival of all the people. On this day, from morning to night, the streets and alleys are full of people, swaying the joy and pleasure of the beginning of the year.

Xu You sat in the pavilion of the rockery, playing against the dark Yao. Regarding Go, it slowly developed from thirteen to nineteen, it took thousands of years, although thirteen and fifteen Go were found in the tombs of the Tang Dynasty, but in the Wei and Jin dynasties, the popular was seventeen, and in the Six Dynasties, the nineteen began to emerge, and then in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the nineteen have occupied the mainstream, and the seventeen have only appeared in remote areas.

Chu is also popular is the nineteen chess game, scholars are obsessed with this way, and therefore gave birth to a lot of national players, every time the hand talks, "forget to sleep and eat, the end of the day, the game is fighting, there is no time to care." ”

There is not much difference between ancient Go and modern times, but there are still differences, for example, the ancient use of the seat system, that is, when the game is played, four pieces are placed in the position of the four stars on the corner of the chessboard, two in black and white, similar to the diagonal star layout, to limit the first-mover advantage to the greatest extent. In addition, white comes first and black comes later, and black does not fit the eye. It also closes, but the closing part is not counted in the score. Other than that, most of the others are pretty much the same.

"Lang Jun, you're exhausted!"

The chess game is stalemate, the two sides are fighting fiercely in the corners, and Xu You's big dragon is in a dangerous situation. But he ignored it, and put another word in the mid-abdomen, so that the sunspot had four solitary children in the mid-abdomen.

Secretly hesitated, he couldn't see through Xu You's intentions, he didn't dare to slay the dragon rashly, and then tentatively made a bait. Xu You smiled slightly and said, "Don't eat the bait!" "The sunspot made a subtle move, flying on the right, and actually responded to the four sons in the abdomen, and successively topped, dug, punched, broken, and long, and after ten hands, the solitary son in the abdomen echoed, and the white son was completely separated, and an overwhelming advantage was obtained.

The dark defeat is decided!

"Stay away from its sparseness, put it around the meeting, and win the way!" Xu You threw the sunspot and said with a smile: "How?" ”

Dark Yao showed a slightly annoyed look, and said, "I was fooled, I shouldn't have entangled with you in the midbelly!" Lang Jun, what kind of play is this? ”

"Liar!"

Xu You's chess power is only at the amateur level, and in his previous life, he occasionally played games on the Internet in his spare time, and the victory or defeat was just free, but he liked to play chess, and he knew a little bit about many famous games throughout the ages. However, after all, he lacks some talent, and he can't become a professional chess player, let alone a big player. It's just that in this era, the development and theory of Go are far behind, and many common playing styles and layouts in later generations have not appeared.

"You think I'm exhausted, but this game is not a victory, but a combination of the four corners by strategizing the situation in the middle of the belly. If you look at it separately, you have the advantage in all corners, but once the encirclement is formed, it is a downward trend, which is what I just said "far away from its sparseness, put it in the encirclement" plan. ”

Darkly lost in thought.

Xu You played with catalpa wood to make chess pieces, round as jade, smooth and clean, and said: "The magic hand of the fate class to lose, the soft wood of the rising sun." Take Kun like in the four directions, and the general is like the five mountains. The so-called vertical and horizontal nineteen ways, there is no heavy game through the ages, you can play chess to cultivate sentiment, and obsession is not necessary, exhausting and troublesome, in vain! ”

He threw the chess pieces, stood up with a clang, and said, "There is nothing to do at night, follow me to watch the lanterns?" ”

Darkness hesitated and nodded slightly.

In his life, he has never been to the light market on the Shangyuan Festival.

At this moment, Frost came in from the courtyard gate, his face was a little unhappy, Xu You beckoned, and said, "Frost, come!" ”

"Xiaolang!" Lu Shuang looked up and saw Xu You, with a smile on his pretty face, and walked up the rockery in small steps, and said, "I said where I went early in the morning, it turned out that I was so interested in playing with the dark here." She was smart and smart, she was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting when she was in Qingle Building, she glanced down at the chessboard, the situation and the outcome at a glance, and said: "Xiaolang is so good at chess, I don't know at all." ”

"What kind of good chess skills are you, chess is also divided into nine grades, and my level may not have entered the grades." Xu You smiled and said, "When you came back from outside, you seemed to be hesitant, but you went to find Su Tang?" ”

"Xiaolang is really a fairy, you can guess it. But you can't guess what Su Tang said to me. ”

"Oh?" Xu You broke a willow branch, put it to his nose and sniffed it, and said, "I'm not interested in guessing what happened between you girls!" ”

He paused unreluctantly, and a few wisps of green silk hanging down his cheeks moved without wind, and said coquettishly: "Xiaolang! ”

Since being ruined by Chen Chan as the foundation of a man or a woman, coupled with the practice of the law of green ghosts, he has long had no feelings for the love between men and women in the world, but looking at the frost in front of him, he still understands how much her smile tempts men, but Xu You treats it indifferently, as if the living beauty is not as beautiful as the willow branch in his hand.

This concentration alone is enough for him to look down on most of the men in the world who are controlled by desire!

"Okay, I guess!" Xu You thought for a moment and said, "Today's Shangyuan Festival, you asked her to travel with her at night, but she may have other important things, so she missed the appointment, didn't she?" ”

Frost's mouth opened slightly, and he said after a while: "Xiaolang, you are really a living immortal!" ”

"I just said that I am an immortal, and this will say that I am a living immortal, could it be that the previous sentence of the immortal is to scold me for being a dead immortal?"

"How can a servant have such courage?" Lu Shuang pursed his lips and chuckled, and said: "But Xiaolang is a little wrong, this Lantern Festival was made by Su Tang to ask me first, saying that he would let the winter solstice and autumn equinox go together." But just now I was invited over and said that I couldn't go along...... As for why she couldn't, she didn't say, but, but ......"

Xu Youqi said: "But what is it, if you have something to say, why do you want to spit it out?" ”

"I'm afraid that Xiaolang will blame me for talking too much......"

Xu You immediately understood, and said with a smile: "You, if it involves Su Tang's private affairs, you don't need to mention it, she is a smart person and knows what she is doing." Besides, no matter what she does, it's her freedom, and Jingyuan has nothing to do with you and me! ”

Lu Shuang was still worried, how to open his mouth to tell Xu You about this, and not seem to chew the root of the tongue behind his back, after listening to his statement, his heart was settled, and said: "Yes, I know!" ”

Su Tang is just an outsider after all!

At night, He Wei also rushed back from the gold fang, and everyone cleaned up and went to the lamp market happily. There are many theories about the origin of the lanterns in the Shangyuan Festival, but the more reliable is that the Emperor of the Han Ming Dynasty began to burn the lamps and watch the Buddha, first in the palace, then in the Buddhist temple, in the capital, and then into the people.

Chinese people are typical social animals, but all the lively things are rushed, so soon the Shangyuan Lantern Festival has become a fixed custom every year, widely welcomed by Li Shu.

Qiantang this night is no exception, every house hangs lanterns, there are yarn lanterns, chandeliers, palace lights, silk lanterns, sheep's horn lamps, rhino horn lamps, or round or long or square or birds and beasts, the lanterns are painted with a variety of landscape characters and flowers and birds patterns, it is really as the poem said "thousands of doors are unlocked and ten thousand lights are bright, and the emperor is moved in the middle of the first month", but tonight it is not the emperor who moves, but the Qiantang city.

Xu You and his entourage of more than 20 people came to Nancheng Lamp Market, which was originally a wide alley hundreds of meters long, because of the surrounding many streams, not afraid of fire, plus the terrain is flat, there are no high-rise buildings to cover, tea shops and taverns gather, the popularity is stronger than elsewhere, and it has slowly developed into the lamp market of the Shangyuan Festival.

Before he arrived at the entrance of the light market, he was almost unable to walk, and the frost and autumn equinox snuggled tightly to Xu You's side, pulling his sleeves, lest he be wrapped in the crowd. The winter solstice is the most daring, walking side by side with the dark Yao, looking east and west, and said: "This year seems to be more lively than in previous years, look, the light tree is really gorgeous!" ”

Following the direction of her finger, a lamp tree up to more than ten feet high can be seen in the distance, the tree is hung with ribbon silk embroidery, and there are many copper coins, the wind blows, the sound is rattling, the lamp is painted with tigers, leopards, eagles and horses, making a leaping and neighing, lifelike.

At the top of the tree, a cockroach lamp is hung high, the lamp is rotated, and the four Liu characters that sway freely are eye-catching, Xu You smiled: "It can't be so coincidental, it's Liu Yan's lamp, right?" ”

He Wei squinted his eyes and said: "Tonight is a meeting of the lanterns, officials and scholars, wealthy families of the world and good and low, all take advantage of the night tour." Carriages and horses, people can't take care of it, drink and have fun, to praise each other, Liu Yan is a smart person, and he will definitely take this opportunity to give Jubao Zhai a reputation. He took your secret medicine, thinking that he could also make a large piece of paper, and he must be eager to win over some big customers who can afford it. This lamp tree is the sycamore that attracts the phoenix! ”

Zuo Yan shook his head and said: "Liu Yan forced Lang Jun to hand over the secret medicine, thinking that he had a plan, it is really stupid!" ”

Xu You smiled without saying a word, stepped forward, and said, "Let's go, let's see if it will become more interesting on such a good night!" ”

The song bell is noisy and darker at night, and Luo Qi is full of dust and fragrance on the street.

This is a poem that Xu You loved very much in his previous life, Shangyuan Night, that is, the night of appreciating the lanterns, and it is also a good time for men and women to have a private meeting, this night the scholars and women walked out of the boudoir, traveled together, couldn't help laughing, and could even walk side by side with men on the street, guessing riddles under the lamp for fun, so that even the dust on the street was a little fragrant.

In addition to the girls on the street who are pleasing to the eye, there are many more interesting people, they wear animal faces, publicize the market, or men and women's clothes, showmanship, not to mention those who advocate excellent acrobatics, weird aliens, just like the cross-dressing balls that are very popular abroad after a thousand years, when young people were fashionable with foreign fashion, but they didn't know that thousands of years ago, these were already the leftover things played by the ancestors.

Xu You has experienced many grand parties, and he has also seen many celebrations with different styles, but he can't help but admit that the Qiantang City in front of him, from people to trees to lamps, such as the starry room, is all beautiful and incomprehensible. Exquisite, prosperous, dazzling, gathered the minds and aura of countless skilled craftsmen, and future generations can no longer reach the dust.

Along the way, I saw the inside and outside together, and I did not avoid each other, the high shed crossed the road, the wide curtain Lingyun, the clothes and makeup, the carriages and horses were filled, the delicacies were on display, and the silk and bamboo were prosperous.

In Qiantang on the night of the Yuan Dynasty, Xu You is willing to indulge in this and linger!

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