Thousands of trees bloom at night in the east wind. More blows down, stars like rain. BMW carved cars are full of fragrance. The sound of the phoenix flute moves, the light of the jade pot turns, and the fish and dragon dance all night.

Moth snow willow golden wisps. The laughter is full of dark fragrance. The crowd is looking for him thousands of times. Suddenly looking back, the man was there, and the lights were dim.

Shangyuan Night is an annual carnival for the people of the Tang Dynasty, although the Zhongyuan Festival is also extremely lively, but it is still far from being as good as the Shangyuan Festival, and the people have been looking forward to it for a whole year.

Shangyuan Festival is a festival of the night, starting from the fourteenth night of the first month, three consecutive nights of carnival, to the end of the sixteenth night of the first month, although the fifteenth night of the first month is the first day, but in fact, the fourteenth night of the first month is the most lively, no way, everyone has been looking forward to the whole year, to the fourteenth day of the first month can not wait to go out, where can you wait until the next day?

Every family had dinner early, and as soon as it was dark, the family locked the door, and the father carried the children and took his wife to go shopping and watch the lights.

Before the time of lighting, the street has been crowded, there are many places to see the lights in Chang'an, in addition to Zhuque Street, Chunming Street, Anhua Street, Qixia Street have lanterns, but the most famous is Zhuque Street and East Market, West Market Square, millions of people who see the lights basically come to these three places to see the lights, just after walking Zhuque Street a trip will take a few hours.

Guo Song came to Xue's mansion at dusk, he didn't enter the door, he waited at the door, and after a while, Xue Tao, who was dressed up unusually pretty, came out.

She wore a pomegranate red skirt, a thick undergarment on her upper body, a lambskin armor, a single ring bun on her hair, with beaded flowers, and a jade hairpin obliquely.

She was also followed by Xiao Yuniang and Ah Qiu.

Guo Song was stunned, why did he still bring two little ladies?

Xiao Yu Niang covered her mouth and smiled: "Don't bother you, let's go play by ourselves!" ”

She pulled Ah Qiu, and the two ran away giggling.

Xue Tao spat at their backs, "Two dead girls, they said they wanted to follow me just now, but now they changed their words again." ”

She smiled again and asked [ ] Guo Songdao: "Guo Lang, where are we going?" ”

Guo Song said with a smile: "I won't tell you, it's the first time I've visited the Lantern Festival, and you listen to your arrangement." ”

Xue Tao said triumphantly: "Then you are not as good as me, I have been shopping since I was a child, I don't know how many times, let's go to Dongshi first!" ”

She took her lover's arm, and the two walked quickly towards Dongshi.

As soon as the two left, Xue Xun and Han Shi came out of the gate, looking at the backs of the two, Han Shi smiled: "It's okay!" I just hold my arm, and if I put my arm around my back, I can't stand it. ”

Xue Xun shook his head and said, "Where do you think of it, our child's tutor has been good since he was a child, how can he do something out of line?" I said, why don't we go shopping for the lights too? ”

"You haven't accompanied me to visit the lights in your life, every year your daughter accompanies you, today the sun is out in the west, I'll change my clothes and leave!" Han happily went back to change his clothes.

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The lanterns in the east and west markets are mainly provided by merchants, and it has become normal to take the opportunity to advertise on the lanterns, while the thousands of lanterns on Suzaku Street are provided by the government, the large and small wealthy and powerful people in Chang'an City, and the Jinju Yuan in Beijing.

When Xue Tao followed Guo Song to the East Market, the two became hand in hand, and the East Market was one of the three major places to watch the lights, and the crowds were surging.

At this time, the sky has been slightly dark, and some smart merchants have preemptively lit the lanterns, which has become a place to attract tourists.

At this time, a huge lotus lantern was lit, and five small fish were tied to it to play on the lotus canopy, which was particularly bright and dazzling, and countless people rushed to the lotus lantern.

"Guo Lang, we don't squeeze with them." Xue Taoxiu frowned, pulled his lover's arm tightly, and said.

Guo Song nodded, "We're not going!" ”

Shangyuan Night is not all beautiful things, there is also a dirty and dark side, all kinds of scoundrels are also very active in Shangyuan Night, they go to crowded places, take the opportunity to take advantage of young women.

Even in the past few years, the Hui soldiers were even more reckless, robbing the people's daughters, as well as the sons and daughters of wealthy families such as the Yuan Demon King, forming groups of parties on the night of the Yuan Dynasty, taking pleasure in molesting the people's girls.

As for petty theft, there are even more thieves who specialize in attacking people's money and goods.

"Tao'er, look at this lamp!"

Guo Song suddenly pointed to a lamp next to him that had not yet been lit and smiled: "It's actually the lamp of the Treasure Pavilion." ”

Xue Tao looked up and saw clearly, it was a huge beauty flying in the sky, it looked a bit like Chang'e running to the moon, but there was no moon, she was holding a large flower basket in her hand, Xue Tao clapped his hands and smiled: "This is a fairy scattered flowers!" ”

"It's not flowers that should be scattered, but gold, silver and jewelry!" Guo Song said with a smile.

"Guo Gongzi!" The shopkeeper Yang next to the lantern suddenly saw Guo Song and beckoned to him.

Guo Song pulled Xue Tao over and asked with a smile: "Shopkeeper Yang, when will the lamp be lit?" ”

"Hey! Zhang Dongzhu said that he must come to light the first main lamp, we waited for him left and right, and he didn't come, he was in a hurry, or Guo Gongzi should come and order! ”

The shopkeeper Yang knew that Guo Song was the big proprietor behind the Treasure Pavilion, so he asked Guo Gongzi to light the lamp, and he didn't dare to say anything to the proprietor.

Guo Song said happily: "Okay! I'll do something. ”

Shopkeeper Yang was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked the guy to bring the main lamp, Guo Song shook off the fire, handed it to Xue Tao and said with a smile: "You have some!" ”

"Okay!"

Xue Tao happily took the fire fold and lit a large candle, which was as thick as a bowl and three inches high, and was fixed on the base, with bright light and could be burned overnight.

The man hurriedly opened the lamp port behind the fairy lamp, carefully put the lamp in with a long rod hook, and hung it on a copper hook inside, the fairy lamp suddenly shined, and the man lit the flower basket lamp and dozens of small lamps around the pearl gems, the fairy lamp was suddenly dazzling, beautiful, and the people who visited the lamp immediately came from all directions.

Guo Song hurriedly pulled Xue Tao to stand behind the lantern, and after a while, the fairy scattered flowers were surrounded by water, and people were amazed.

Shopkeeper Yang whispered to Guo Song and smiled: "This year, Zhang Dongzhu thought that the Shangyuan Lantern Festival would not be held, so he did not prepare, this lamp was actually Chang'e running to the moon in the Meishou Wine Shop last year, we changed it slightly, and it became a fairy scattered flowers, and the Meishou Wine Store was the same, using the spirit monkey of the previous year, changed to the spirit monkey offering wine." ”

Guo Song smiled dumbly, this method is not bad, but he is afraid that some discerning people can recognize it, so he asked again: "Is it just to look at the lights?" Are there any activities? ”

"Yes, there will be guessing and casting circles later, guessing correctly or hitting the circle, a small pearl will be rewarded, worth 20 yuan."

Guessing riddles was very popular in the Han Dynasty, but lantern riddles only appeared in the Song Dynasty, and now the Shangyuan Lantern Club in the Tang Dynasty guesses the riddles generally by performing an action, or the guy reads a riddle aloud, and everyone raises their hands to answer.

There is a reason why lantern riddles did not appear in the Tang Dynasty, most of the ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty were illiterate, you wrote lantern riddles on paper, and they didn't know them, and the Song Dynasty had a prosperous style of reading, and most of the people knew a few words, so the lantern riddles appeared.

"Why did you light the lights?" Zhang Lei finally panted and squeezed in, and said a little angrily.

"Senior brother, I ordered it!" Guo Song said lightly on the side.

"Aha! It's junior brother, misunderstanding! Misunderstand! ”

Zhang Lei's face immediately changed, squeezed out a smile, and snorted, "Brother and sister are also here, when did you come?" ”

Xue Tao saw that his face changed very quickly, and he couldn't help but turn his head and cover his mouth and chuckle, Guo Song smiled: "We just came out of Xuanyangfang, and Dongshi is the first stop. ”

"Of course! I see, do you still want to go to the West Market? ”

"I don't know! I don't know when I'm done visiting East City. ”

"Senior brother, you are really a hands-off shopkeeper, I run on both sides, my legs have to run thin, and I have never had a chance to look at the lanterns in these years......."

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Guo Song patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, "Don't complain, those who can work hard!" ”

He pulled Xue Tao away, walked out and turned back and shouted, "Senior brother, hard work." ”

Zhang Lei was helpless, so he had to roll his eyes and say, "This stinky boy!" “

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At this time, it was already completely dark, and thousands of lanterns in Dongshi were lit one after another, and the entire Dongshi Square became a sea of flowing lights, full of beautiful lanterns.

Many children sat on their father's shoulders, clapping and laughing with joy, groups of young girls holding hands and slipping past the people, and children rushed by in groups, carrying lanterns of all kinds, like a gust of wind.

"Guo Lang, let's buy a lantern too!" Xue Tao looked at the lanterns in the children's hands, and suddenly became childlike.

Guo Song nodded with a smile and pointed ahead, "There is one over there!" ”

They walked quickly to a stall against the wall, the stall was selling lanterns, one by one the lanterns hung on the wall, or exquisite, or simple and elegant, all kinds of shapes, there were many people who bought lanterns, the vendors were busy sweating, and they couldn't take care of them.

"Let's see which one you like, call me when you're optimistic!" The peddler greeted and went to collect the money again.

Xue Tao stepped forward to take a closer look, she pointed to a lotus lantern with exquisite workmanship and smiled: "I like this!" ”

Guo Song stretched out his hand to take down the lantern and said to the vendor, "Buy this lotus lantern!" ”

"That one is a little more expensive, it costs two hundred Wen!"

"Is one hundred and fifty wen sold?" Guo Song asked.

"The minimum is one hundred and eighty Wen, just forget if you don't buy it."

Guo Song took out a silver horn weighing two coins, handed it to the vendor, and said, "This is more than two coins, so you don't need to look for it." ”

The vendor took the silver horn and looked at the light, and was immediately overjoyed, "Thank you, Childe, I'll help you light the candle!" ”

The vendor skillfully lit the candle and handed the wooden pole to Xue Tao, "The girl has taken it!" ”

"Thank you!"

Xue Tao took the lantern and said with a smile: "Let's go!" ”

At this moment, there was a commotion in the crowd in front, and people flashed to both sides, only to see a dozen scoundrels carrying lanterns and giggling over.