On the Suzaku Gate Square, the lanterns of the houses of the high-ranking officials of the royal palace are busy installing, but they don't know the appearance of the lanterns of each family. In order to maintain a sense of mystery, the area of each house is enclosed with a curtain. Outsiders are not allowed to enter and snoop. Perhaps in the eyes of some people, this Shangyuan Lantern Festival with the people has also become an arena for competition and competition, and they also want to dominate the Quartet in this matter.

Even so, there are some clues. For example, the lantern area of the Imperial Family's House located in the middle of Suzakumon Square. Even though the curtain is around, you can still see giant lanterns peeking out from above the curtain. It can be judged that it is a huge pagoda lamp, as high as eight or nine zhang high. In the booth of King Guo Mian's Mansion of the Jin Dynasty, a huge dragon pillar lamp was exposed. The dragon's head is high, with teeth and claws.

When Lin Jue saw this, he not only sighed secretly. It was just a lively lantern festival. The reason why Lin Jue agrees with this is also because he thinks that the lanterns do not need to spend too much financial resources, and it is not a bad thing to spend a little money to have a lively and lively fun. But fairy, it's clear that this is beyond spending a little money. The production of the Nine Lotus Treasure Lantern in Lin Jue's house cost about three hundred taels of silver. But looking at the pagoda lamp and the dragon lamp that are seven or eight feet higher than their own house, the cost must be a huge amount of money. Under such a difficult circumstance as the Great Zhou, it was a huge waste to spend so much silver on this lantern festival.

But in any case, the matter has come to this point, and it cannot be reversed. The only consolation is that the people seem happy. Everyone in the streets and alleys was full of joy and excitedly talked about the lantern festival at night. With that in mind, maybe the money was well spent.

Everyone in the Lin family had dinner early. Everyone dressed up carefully and went to the square inside the Suzaku Gate under the escort of dozens of guards. Lu Wu specially picked up Qianqian, Lin Jue and Qianqian hadn't met since that incident. At this moment, Qianqian was extremely shy, and Lin Jue also remembered the fierce sprint that night, and his face was red and quite embarrassed.

But this embarrassment was soon diluted by the bustle of the streets. From the moment they left their homes and arrived on the way east of Bianhe Street, the people were already crowded and bustling. The night after the snow was bitterly cold, but that didn't dampen the enthusiasm of the people at all. Although only a few people can enter the Royal Street to display their lanterns, there is no restriction on viewing the lanterns, and you only need to pass the checkpoints at each checkpoint to enter the Royal Street and the main square inside the Suzaku Gate to participate in tonight's event.

Thousands of people poured into the royal street from all directions through the entrances of dozens of checkpoints, and soon, the widest ten-mile royal street in the capital, which was more than 20 zhang wide, was already impassable. People call their children and daughters, and come here with the young and the elderly, just waiting for tonight's event. Because the number of people poured in too much and too quickly, at the beginning of the unitary period, the palace guards received an order and began to restrict the entry of the people to ensure the smooth flow of the royal street and the maintenance of order. After all, the highlight of tonight is that the emperor and the queen mother parade with the concubines and princes in the palace, and too much influx of people will make the scene chaotic and difficult to maintain.

The forbidden people crowded the entrances to the checkpoints, and the women cursed their man, blaming him for not taking active action and delaying the time to go in to see the lights. I finally put down the housework and tiredness, put on new clothes and rubbed fat powder to go out for a trip, but I couldn't go in to see the lights, it was really in vain. Talking and aggrieved that he married a useless husband, thinking of his daily hard work, unkempt, and all the dreams of his teenage years were shattered, he was even more resentful and irrepressible. The men were speechless, scratching their ears and cheeks to comfort, stretching their necks to ask when the forbidden army at the checkpoint could enter, but what they got was a merciless rebuke from the forbidden army, and they were also extremely depressed.

But in any case, they can't get in, and they can only wait for news of the release of people at the checkpoint in the surrounding street markets. Fortunately, it is not only on the royal street that there are lanterns, the shops on both sides of the major streets and the doors of the people's homes are hung with lanterns, but you can also enjoy the fun to relieve the boredom and chat to relieve the disappointment in your heart.

At three o'clock in the hour, Lin Jue rushed to his own area in Suzaku Gate Square with his family and the public nursing home. After making some quick preparations, everyone waited for the moment when the lanterns were lit. At the end of the day, a full moon was already hanging overhead. All the wind lanterns illuminated in the market were extinguished, and immediately after, a puff of colorful fireworks rushed into the sky, and countless colorful sparks burst out like scattered flowers of the heavenly maidens. At the same time, the cupola also exploded. That's the signal that the lights will turn on.

At the same time, the lanterns are lit almost at the same time, and for a time the colorful light flows and sings, and the ten-mile long street between the Suzaku Gate and the Daqing Gate becomes a sea of lights. The whole long street is full of light and beauty, and it has become a fairyland on earth.

The people cheered and shouted, and the applause was thunderous. They began to look at lanterns along the long street, guessing riddles, pointing and laughing. Leave all your worries behind. It's the most joyful time of the year, and everyone's heart bursts with joy in the face of such a grand spectacle.

The lantern-viewing team of the daughters of the Lin family also began to prepare to dispatch, Lin Jue and the little county lord led the team, green dance, white ice, Xie Yingying, Qianqian, Fang Huanqiu, mother and daughter, plus Lin Hu, Zheng Nuanyu and others, Sun Dayong took forty escorts to form a huge lineup of lantern-watching brigades to act collectively. In order to ensure safety, Lin Jue asked everyone not to act alone, but to follow the team closely. Fortunately, the security measures for tonight's lantern festival are relatively effective, and no one who can enter the lantern festival area can carry any weapons. This also greatly reduces the risk. Besides, the emperor and queen are coming to participate in the Lantern Festival tonight, and Lu Zhongtian and they are afraid that they will not have the courage to make a big move at this time. But even so, vigilance is indispensable. Lin Jue brought the firearms in with the carriage that carried the lanterns in the afternoon, and Bai Bing pinned her seemingly harmless Qingflute to her waist, just in case.

A group of people can only move on the heavily guarded Suzakumen Square, and they can't go on the long street, because there are too many people and too dense to move at all. There is a forbidden army checkpoint at the entrance of the square, and only 500 people are allowed to enter the square to watch the lanterns at a time, and they need to leave after a pillar of incense. The only people who can enter and leave the square at will are the wealthy and officials and their families, and to put it bluntly, the square is not for ordinary people to wander around at will.

After only a little stroll, everyone in the Lin family was speechless in shock. Compared with these lanterns in the square, the Nine Lotus Treasure Lantern is simply too shabby. The pagoda lamp I saw during the day turned out to be the lantern of Guo Gang's house in Kangping County. This lamp is as high as eight or nine zhang, completely modeled after the pagoda of Xiangguo Temple. The whole body is crystal clear and colorful. On the spire of the tower is a glazed lantern, and the eaves of each layer of the pagoda are hung with small glazed wind lanterns. The whole body is in the shape of a marquee, and the eight towers are changing colors, which is really amazing.

There is also the dragon lantern in Guo Mian's mansion. The huge red lamppost was three feet high. A giant dragon hovered over the lamppost, its mouth and eyes clear, its whole body crystal clear, and its scales were composed of small lamps. Even better, the dragon's mouth opens and closes, the dragon's eyes open and close, its claws dance, and its scales flash like waves. It's like the dragon is alive.

Guo Xu's lamp is not lost, it is a Pegasus lantern stepping on huge colored clouds. Although not very high, the clouds and the wings of the pegasus occupy a distance of fifteen zhang in a radius. The colored clouds are a bunch of glazed wind lanterns gathered out, and the glazed pieces show colorful colors, like huge auspicious clouds. Pegasus in the clouds kicked and seemed to neigh. The two huge wings slowly went up and down, and with each flap, the lights on the wings changed. It's simply vivid and ingenious.

The lamp in Lu Zhongtianfu is a pair of unicorn beast lamps, and the two unicorn beasts are tall and fierce, vivid. The beauty is that the two unicorns can be separated or combined, and they take on different postures as the lamp holder moves. The division is to hold their heads high, shaking their heads and tails. The combination is very intimate. It can be seen that this is not only a lamp, but a brilliant goodness. It is made with the participation of skilled craftsmen who combine obscene and skillful techniques. One can imagine how much human and financial resources have been expended.

Looking at these lights, everyone in the Lin family was dumbfounded. I thought that my own Nine Lotus Treasure Lamp was no longer beautiful, but compared with these lights, it was nothing but a big deal, and it couldn't be compared at all.

Fang Huanqiu whispered to Lin Jue: "Senior brother, I'm sorry. My light is so bad. ”

Lin Jue laughed and said, "I don't think so." The lantern is a plaything, and the lantern festival is the original intention of having fun with the people, but these people do this way, but it goes against the original intention of the lantern festival. We don't learn from them, and it's not worth wasting so much silver on these lamps. These guys, when they were helping and giving relief, they cried poor one by one and said that they had no money, and they gave some like toothpaste, but they were not stingy with these lanterns, which is called being rich and unkind. Each of these lamps costs tens of thousands of taels of silver, and they will be wasted as soon as they pass by tonight. What's the point of just fighting for the face of this lantern festival tonight? ”

When Lin Jue said this, everyone was relieved. After strolling around for a while, I saw several pairs of cavalry in front of the palace galloping and shouting around.

"Please return to their own sheds, the emperor and the queen are coming, and they are already out of the palace. Before the arrival of the emperor, no one is allowed to move around at will. ”

Lin Jue and the others hurriedly turned around and returned to their lantern shed, chatting about what they had seen and heard before, while waiting quietly.

If the moment when the lanterns on the long street are lit up is the climax of the lantern festival, then when the emperor and queen and the concubines and princes go out to patrol the lantern festival, it is another climax of the lantern festival. When Guo Xu's huge guard of honor and guards appeared on the royal street, the people on both sides knelt on the ground like ants, shouting long live like a tsunami. The scene was spectacular.