After two busy days, it was August 15.

And this day from the morning, the whole Xianyang City began to be noisy and jubilant, Qinghe Garden, Liuxiang Garden, Nightless Street and other Quyuan miscellaneous houses all over Xianyang City began to gather at the door, because these places have begun to beat gongs and drums of the lion dance began to celebrate, Huaxia Qian Zhuang is to arrange an open-top float, the car is arranged with green trees and flower branches full of various color flags to place gongs and drums, knocking on the streets in Xianyang City back and forth, from time to time will also sprinkle down some coins and candy biscuits, The crowd scrambled to watch and scramble, and countless children cheered behind the floats, and the atmosphere was indescribable.

And after seeing the very creative float of Huaxia Qianzhuang, Shui's Tea House, Fan's Winery, Bus Company, Jiangxi Ceramics, which have a relationship with Chen Xu, are not to be outdone, and soon several different creative floats appeared on the streets of the southeast and northwest, and even Meng Yun, a group of gentlemen, couldn't help but get a float with a bookmaker plaque, and also got a few charming young women scratching their heads on the car and swaggering through the city, and a group of gentlemen shouted and rode a horse with an Indian chieftain's feather crown to follow the front and back. Excited batch.

And as soon as this float came out, the street was noisy, countless animals in order to see the charming little ladies on the car, the floats were simply impassable on the street, so it was even more unbelievable, some of the Qu Gardens that originally relied on these women to solicit business could not hold back, and they began to buy their own floats, and in the afternoon, all kinds of floats hanging with the names of Qi Chu Han Yan and other Qu Gardens began to appear in groups, and the little ladies on the car could also be more enchanting than one another, one more than a wave, Wearing a thin gauze skirt all over the street beckoning and throwing money, under the temptation of the hip waves, the atmosphere of the whole Xianyang has directly entered the climax stage like a volcanic eruption, and the two central streets of Xianyang that crisscross are already overcrowded, and one after another floats shuttle back and forth, completely igniting the first festival of the people in Daqin.

"Master Hou's method is really powerful, I didn't expect there to be so many floats!" At the gate of Qinghe Garden, a group of women surrounded Chen Xu and stood at the door looking at the floats in the bustling crowd, Fan Caiying stood beside Chen Xu with a smile and said.

"Ben Hou didn't expect them to be so sassy, but that's fine, hehe, this is the festival, the more lively the better!" Chen Xu proudly hugged Fan Caiying with one hand and Meng Wan with the other.

Liuxiang Garden and Qinghe Garden gate opposite, the two gardens are now the most famous Quyuan in Xianyang, Qinghe Garden takes the high-end route, eating, drinking and Lasa are the most expensive in Xianyang, so they are all rich officials, and Liuxiangyuan takes the route of the gentleman, in which the cockfighting lackeys and the horse race, all gathered are a group of Xianyang's rich second generation of officials, these two groups of people are the most representative class of Daqin at the moment, as for the other Quyuan miscellaneous houses, they are all hundreds of disciples and civilian businessmen, and there is a place full of low-level officials such as Nightless Street, Therefore, the atmosphere formed by each is also different.

There is a huge poster hanging at the entrance of Qinghe Garden, on which are painted some cloudy fairy patterns.

"The first act of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea is drunk into the mortal dust, and the performance time is August 15th, so stay tuned."

Since Shui Qingrou sorted out the story of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, it aroused great interest in Wanwan, and several people often got together to discuss the revision of the script when they were in class at the women's college, and after half a month of preparation and rehearsal, the first scene of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea will be officially released today.

Although the entertainment activities of the people of Xianyang are increasing day by day, with newspapers, with Keju, with the continuous compilation and publication of poetry collections, the spiritual life of the people has changed greatly, but the song and dance drama of Qinghe Garden is still the most high-end spiritual enjoyment, although the large-scale song and dance is only the classic repertoire such as Tianxian Pei, the Legend of the White Snake, and the Tianluo Girl, but Xianyang has a population of one million after all, and tens of thousands of business trips come and go every day, plus the Donghu Xiongnu Yue clan and other tribes also have caravans. Basically, several performances of Qinghe Theater every day are overcrowded, and there are few opportunities for empty seats, although there are several theaters in Xianyang at present, but no matter in terms of singing and dancing or fame and scale, they cannot be compared with the Qinghe Theater opened by Qinghe Hou.

And the poster of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea has been posted for seven or eight days, and the tickets for the premiere have long been sold out, and even the tickets for the next ten days are basically unavailable, and they have long been snapped up by countless scalpers.

Scalpers have existed since ancient times, Chen Xu can't manage it, and the theater steward can't manage it, some scalpers have a lot of backgrounds, such as Meng Yi, who asked for fifty tickets in one go, and didn't give money, which made Meng Wan complain, seeing her father rolling her eyes angrily, these money are all her husband's, and Chen Xu, who was on her son Meng Wan's elbow crutches, couldn't stand it, and criticized her several times on the bed before she admitted her mistakes.

The official premiere of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea was in the evening, Chen Xu didn't want to come to join in the fun, and at night he had to feast a group of acquaintances at the house to eat moon cakes and admire the moon, so he decided to watch a full rehearsal in advance.

The seats in the theater have long been neatly arranged, and in order to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, many lanterns and colorful flags have also been hung, and even the maids have a colorful ribbon on their bodies, and the atmosphere looks very lively.

"Master Hou and the ladies, please take a break in the private room, and the performance will start immediately!"

Bo Daocheng, the director of the theater, took Shi Xuan and Wanwan and several main actors to meet Chen Xu and Shui Qingrou and others, and the maids put on all kinds of snacks and drinks and then retreated, and soon with the sound of the music of the bell chime and the bamboo sounded, accompanied by several puffs of steam and smoke from the stage, the huge curtain that said that the eight immortals crossed the sea was slowly opened, and the stage was revealed, and in a scene that looked like clouds and mist, the fairy palace with flowers and trees pavilions appeared, Countless fairies dressed in colorful groups shuttled back and forth between the fairy palace banquet with all kinds of wine and melons, and during the period, there were even several students from the women's college and the figure of Xing'er Yuji, running around on the stage and being excited.

"The immortal mountain is separated by the sea of clouds, and the jade belt of Xialing is connected, and it is said that there are immortals outside the world......"

With the sound of ethereal and soft singing, eight wine boys came out holding the wine jar with immortal wine written on it......

Chen Xu and Shui Qing, Ying Shiyan, Meng Wan, Fan Caiying and others sat on the second floor of the private room, eating snacks and drinking wine, chatting and laughing, enjoying singing and dancing.

"Husband, I found that Yu Ji is very talented in singing and dancing!" Shui said softly, looking at the stage with a pair of beautiful eyes, and smiling.

"The apricots are also good, and the singing is very good!" Meng Wan also said.

"Sister Xing'er and Yu Ji are two nobles, and the husband still has to tell them not to perform on the stage like this, otherwise they may be criticized!" Ying Shiyan said with some worry.

"Don't worry, life is rare in the world, a few of you are the same, I think the dress designed and made by Wan Niang is very beautiful, now many people praise the regular script font is very easy to use, everywhere the italic characters are called the five princesses, this is also a great honor, right, and almost every song and dance in this theater is gently adapted, everyone likes it, Cai Ying also manages Huaxia Qianzhuang in an orderly manner, you all have your favorite things to do, you will not feel lonely and depressed, These are all things that ordinary people want to do but can't do, I, the people of the Qinghe Marquis Mansion, must not take too much into account the eyes of secular people, not to mention that they don't dare to say anything! Chen Xu said domineeringly.

"What the husband said is that you are a disciple of the Immortal Family, so you are naturally different!" Ying Shiyan nodded gently.

"I, a disciple of the Immortal Family, must have picked it up from Shizun on the road, so I didn't worry about it at all!" Chen Xu remembered about making moon cakes, and hugged Ying Shiyan with a depressed face.

"Hehe, the husband acts so eclecticly, Xianzun will definitely not care about us ordinary people, don't be depressed, today is a holiday!" Meng Wan's body trembled with a smile while holding Chen Xu's arm, and Chen Xu, who was grinding two small steamed buns, was itching in his heart.

Small is small, but there is a taste in the heart, and those who have never tasted it do not know.

After enjoying the rehearsal of the first act of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, Chen Xu took a group of wives home, and in the evening, the whole Xianyang City was already lively, the street was full of people, the houses and shops on both sides of the street were full of lights, and in addition to the Mercedes-Benz buses on the street, all kinds of Quyuan Miscellaneous Houses and even some floats purchased by princes and princes were everywhere, according to the statistics of good people, there were at least more than 100 floats in Xianyang at the moment, These floats shuttling back and forth make the atmosphere of Xianyang lively to the point of eruption.

Around the square in front of the main hall of the Xianyang Palace, hundreds of lanterns of various styles and sizes have been hung, and under the protection of the lieutenant's forbidden army, hundreds of bachelors of the Faculty of Literature have lingered in them to appreciate these various lantern riddles that they have come up with after racking their brains for a day and a night.

Lantern riddles did not exist before, but guessing this kind of thing began when human beings appeared, which is regarded as a kind of entertainment that is seen every day, and the activity of liking you guess you guess is also the favorite thing of cultural people, which is actually equivalent to an opportunity to show wisdom and talent.

As early as the Xia Dynasty, there were hidden metaphorical ballads, and in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it developed the 'thin words', which is actually a kind of hidden meaning of the hidden language, when the countries are in dispute, there are many guest secretaries will use this hidden language to provide advice to the princes and princes who want to take refuge, which is not only to express their own statecraft, but also a kind of show off of their wisdom, so that the king can get a mysterious inspiration outside the text.

"Chinese Jin Yu" records that "there is a Qin guest who resigned in the dynasty, and the doctor Mo Zhi can also be right." It can be seen that these "words" and "hidden words" at that time were the prototype of lantern riddles.

In the Three Kingdoms period, riddles have become a very common form of communication between celebrities and scribes, and then slowly developed, Chinese began to appear a variety of obscure habits, many people speak to each other to figure out each other's true meaning, Chinese slowly become less cheerful to speak, often a sentence will understand a variety of different meanings, and therefore also make Chinese more profound and profound.

With the gradual prosperity of riddles among the people, the construction of lantern riddles has gradually formed different styles such as the southern sect and the northern school.

Therefore, when Chen Xu asked hundreds of disciples to compile lantern riddles in the Academy of Letters, he received a great enthusiastic response, and he came up with hundreds of lantern riddles in one day and one night, some guessing words, some guessing things, and some guessing the meaning, anyway, everyone wanted to make their hidden words outstanding in the mid-autumn lantern festival, the more difficult it was, the more awesome it was.

Because Chen Xu said, all the people involved in the riddle are not allowed to guess the riddle, and they can't get the prize if they guess, everyone guards their lanterns and waits for the people to guess, if no one guesses it all night, the money in the lantern will go to the people who guess the riddle, so that all the guys involved in the riddle are excited to strangle all the people who guess the riddle, and they all start to compete with each other, and they can't guess to get the money is very cool, but they can't guess it also means that their puzzle is very awesome, so awesome that no one in the world can understand, This is a kind of intellectual victory, a triumphant sense of achievement, if a lantern riddle is easily guessed, it naturally indicates that the person who solved the riddle is not wise enough.

In fact, the current Emperor of Great Qin has been guessing a riddle, and this riddle will always make him anxious.

That is the overseas catalogue of the 'Hu of the Dead Qin' presented by Fang Shi.

The words Hu of the Dead Qin are very simple, but the meaning in them makes the emperor uneasy, and Chen Xu does not tell him the answer, so the emperor can only lie on the bed in the dead of night and toss and turn depressed and angry.

The enthusiasm of the people of Xianyang to participate in the Mid-Autumn Festival is very high, and the emperor is naturally very concerned about this opportunity for him to show benevolence, and the whole world celebrates and all the people are happy, which is a sign of prosperity and prosperity of Daqin, and the more enthusiastic the people are, the happier he will naturally be.

Therefore, all the changes in Xianyang City in the past two days will be reported to the palace by the forbidden army, the lanterns and flags on the street, more and more various floats, sonorous lion dances, and the lantern riddle arrangements on the Xianyang Palace Square, each of which makes him feel novel and abnormal, and even after Shen Shi, the emperor can't help but go out of the palace to the square for a turn, watch some lantern riddles and floats, and experience the festival in advance.

At the end of the Shen period, the sun gradually set, although the sky was not completely dark, but a large number of people could not wait to change into clean clothes and carry lanterns to start marching in the streets, the happiest were still those children, men and women children chased and frolicked in the streets and alleys like wild dogs, and the excitement was a mess.

Qinghe Houfu is also lively today, before and after Shenshi, Bo Daocheng, Shi Xuan, Wanwan, Huangfu Que, Sun Shuyi, hemp pole, stick, Tang Ting, Gong Lose, Zhang Cang, Zhao Qing, Chen Ping, Li Shun, Hu Kuan, Liu Bang and a group of new and old acquaintances who are still in Xianyang were invited by Chen Xu to the Hou Mansion to taste moon cakes, after eating this novel and delicious dim sum, Chen Xu sent some back to his family to taste, and after the guests dispersed, Chen Xu arranged lanterns and candles, and took his family out to participate in the festival parade.

At this time, the sky has been completely dark, but the whole Xianyang street is hung with lanterns almost everywhere, and pedestrians are also carrying lanterns, the street is bustling and overcrowded, the sound of laughter, singing and dancing converges into a mighty lively and noisy, no curfew at night, the city gate is not closed, so not only the people of Xianyang City, but also countless people in the nearby county towns and towns have poured into Xianyang, together with the emperor to enjoy this unprecedented lively atmosphere of the monarch and the people, the whole Xianyang has fallen into a kind of noisy tide.

There are also countless floats lining up on the street to shuttle back and forth, in addition to lanterns and flags, there are also sonorous drums, singing and dancing, groups of beautiful women singing and dancing on the cars, attracting the crowd to run and shout.

In addition to the two central streets crisscrossing the city, the mighty crowd slowly began to converge on the square in front of the Xianyang Palace, and the bright lights converged into two rivers, rendering the night of Xianyang into a city that never sleeps.

When Chen Xu came to the square with his family, what he saw in front of him was a brightly lit sea of joy.

Qin Shi Huang had already taken dozens of concubines and princesses out of the palace under the protection of the Xuanwu Guard and the forbidden army, and stayed outside the palace, looking at the bustling and noisy square.

"Your Majesty, Xianyang has never been so lively!" Concubine Shu sat beside the emperor and said with excitement on her face.

"Indeed, I never imagined that the people would be so enthusiastic, and those floats and lantern riddles were an eye-opener for me!" Qin Shi Huang nodded continuously with a smile on his face.

"Father, the Marquis of Qinghe is indeed a capable person, and he was able to arrange everything so richly and properly in just two days, which is really admirable to his son!" Gongzi Fusu stood next to Qin Shi Huang's carriage and sighed with emotion, and there was a beautiful young woman next to him holding a child about ten years old, who was the eldest grandson of the Great Qin Empire.

"Daddy, the master once said that it is better to be happy alone than to be happy with all, and the Son of Heaven should be happy with the people in order to win the support of all the people!" Ziying whispered.

"What the young master said is right, Ziying came up and sat beside me!" Qin Shi Huang smiled and beckoned.

"Thank you, Grandpa!" After Ziying saluted respectfully, with the help of the palace people, he climbed up to the emperor's Tianzi jade chariot, and sat beside the emperor excitedly looking at the crowd of lights.

And around Qin Shi Huang, there was also a group of princesses around, watching the emperor call Ziying to the jade chariot, many people showed envy on their faces, only Hu Hai's face became quite ugly, hiding in the dark and clenching his fists but helplessly hanging his head.

His master Li Si died less than a month ago, but the whole Xianyang almost no longer heard any talk about Li Si, a generation of powerful ministers of the government and the opposition, it seems that suddenly they were forgotten cleanly, every day I heard the talk is about the topic of Qinghe Hou, whether he is in Xianyang or not, his reputation has never diminished in the slightest.

The bustling lights in the distance suddenly dispersed, and at the same time there were all kinds of cries of excitement and surprise, only to see a four-bridled carriage slowly coming from the crowd, and a young man in a gorgeous costume sitting in the carriage was waving to the crowd of people watching around.

"Your Majesty, the Marquis of Qinghe is here!" Outside, the leader of the forbidden army came to the Son of Heaven to report to him.

"Please!" Qin Shi Huang stood up in a comfortable mood.

Soon the forbidden army on the periphery spread a road, the four-bridle carriage stopped outside the forbidden army circle, Chen Xu got down from the car with a girl in his arms, followed by Shui Qingrou, Ying Shiyan, Meng Wan and Xing'er Yu Ji, Chen Xu and his family quickly walked to the front of the frame of the Son of Heaven, put down Chen Xi and saluted the emperor, "The minister is late, please forgive your majesty." ”

"Haha, it's not too late, the bright moon has just risen at this time, but I have been looking forward to Aiqing's blessing lantern and lantern riddle for a long time, so I can't wait to leave the palace after the dinner!" Qin Shi Huang laughed and got out of the car.

Chen Xu beckoned Ying Shiyan to hold Chen Xi over to greet the emperor and Concubine Yun, Shui Qingrou and Meng Wan also followed to salute Qin Shi Huang and a group of concubines and princesses, after a mess of greetings, Qin Shi Huang picked up Chen Xi and teased him a few times and handed it to Concubine Yun, and then took Chen Xu's hand and said intimately: "Tonight, everything is arranged by Aiqing, where to go now?" ”

Chen Xu looked up at the full moon in the sky, at this time the moon rose from the east and hung on the undulating Qinling Mountains in the distance, the night was as cool as water, the full moon was picturesque, and the laurel shadows on it were clearly visible.

"Your Majesty, the minister's arrangement is to first set off the blessing lanterns, and then go to watch the lantern riddles and float parades, and wait for the moon to set off the divine thunder fireworks when the moon rises in the sky!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"That's so good, I can't wait, so I'm going to set off the blessing lantern!" Qin Shi Huang pulled Chen Xu and walked towards the center of the square.

Thousands of forbidden troops suddenly moved instantly, and soon surrounded an area in the middle of the square, and five hundred Xuanwu guards were also surrounded by the emperor and a group of royal families and Chen Xu and others to go to the open space, and after arriving, Chen Xu instructed the craftsmen of the Academy of Sciences to take out the Kong Ming lanterns that had been prepared and distribute one to the emperor and all the royal families who came with him, and each of them arranged a craftsman to carefully guide how to set it off, Chen Xu also took two, and handed one to Qin Shi Huang.

"Your Majesty, the right minister and the imperial doctor have arrived!" Just when Chen Xu personally pointed out how the emperor set off the Kong Ming lantern, the leader of the forbidden army outside came to report again.

"Haha, please, please!" Qin Shi Huang squatted on the ground and waved his hand freely.

Soon Feng Quji and Meng Yi also brought their families in, and Chen Xu instructed the craftsmen to give a Kong Ming lantern to the two bigwigs and their families.

"Qinghe Hou, this lantern has no bones and no bones, only a thin layer of silk, how can it fly?" Feng Qujian watched with two fingers carrying the fluttering Kong Ming lantern, his face full of doubts.

"Feng Xiang is not in a hurry, just light a piece of fire candle below, wait until the heat is full, this lantern will be able to fly, I will show Your Majesty and you a demonstration first, the fireworks are very simple......"

As Chen Xu spoke, he gently shook off the Kong Ming lantern in his hand, pinched both sides with his hands to open the silk bag, and then asked a craftsman to use a match to light the candle in a small hanging basket made of waste newspapers below.

As the flame ignited, I saw that the light silk began to tremble slightly, and soon slowly swelled, and after a minute, Chen Xu felt that the lantern in his hand had begun to have buoyancy, so he slowly let go of his hands.

In front of everyone's eyes, they saw that this thin silk lantern really shook gently and slowly floated off the ground.

"Wow, it's flying, it's flying~"

In the midst of an uproar, I saw that the lantern shook lightly and flew up, and soon floated to a height of more than a foot, and flew higher and higher, and soon surpassed the court hall of Xianyang Palace, like a flame hanging above the canopy in the faint moonlight.

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