Good times are always short-lived.

With the sound of the hateful husband, the time has come, and Yan Rongyue is going to worship his ancestors with his family. Fang Zhongyong, an "outsider", was not able to participate in the ancestor worship activities of the Yan family, so he had to go to the guest room to rest.

Yan Shu led the people of the house, washed first, wore a dress and hat, placed the offerings on the table, burned incense and candles, firecrackers contended, and the family continued to kneel and worship the ancestors according to the elders and young generations, and bless the "New Year's blessing". Eat something symbolically and the vigil is over.

The good custom of praying for blessings in this way also brings a drawback, and the next day, that is, the first day of the new year, everyone is more sleepy. But the first New Year's greeting is customized, and it's not appropriate not to go! As a result, people yawning and exchanging New Year's greetings can be seen everywhere on the streets.

Fang Zhongyong is not a superman, he was so noisy by the sound of firecrackers that he didn't sleep well all night, and he was woken up by the servants who were urging him to welcome the New Year before the time came. So, Fang Zhongyong, who yawned and kept speaking, greeted Yan Shu and his wife who yawned, and sent a New Year message to Yan Juhou's brother who yawned, and received two red envelopes and sent out several red envelopes, so that he could go back to sleep.

When I woke up, it was noon. Asked where Yan Shu was, the servant replied that he had brought his wife into the palace to pay New Year's greetings to the Queen Mother, the Emperor, and the Empress. I don't know how Mr. Yan guaranteed that he would not yawn when he celebrated the New Year, and what was the situation of the nobles in the palace. Whatever, it's true to hurry up to Zeng Ye's house to pay New Year's greetings.

Zeng Ye's father, Zeng Yizhan, attaches the most importance to etiquette, often claiming to be Zeng Zi (Zeng Shen), and the etiquette is often a mess. Don't get tired of eating, don't get tired of fine. Food and tin are eaten. The fish is hungry and the meat is rotten, the color is evil, the smell is evil, the food is not eaten, the food is not eaten, the food is not eaten, the cut is not eaten, and the sauce is not eaten. I don't know what he will do when he sees the more quaint Kong Daofu - Kong Daofu is the forty-fifth grandson of Confucius.

But since he is an elder, he has to visit him after all, so it's a big deal not to eat his very ancient meals. Holding a two-pound bronze chopstick, he ate the neatly cut half-cooked one-inch square fat pork in the lacquerware beans, and sandwiched the celery that lacked salt and taste in the lacquerware feathers. Is this a meal? It's a workout!

Finally got through it, Zeng Yizhan seemed to be more satisfied with Fang Zhongyong's performance, and said rarely: "You are suddenly lucky, don't get carried away." When we always think about the difficulties of the common people and the sufferings of the people, if we have the opportunity, we should mention more good policies for the benefit of the country and the people. Your previous suggestion, the old man already knows, it is not in line with the way of a gentleman's forgiveness, you should be cautious! With that, he turned and left.

Fang Zhongyong asked in a low voice, "Why is the old man so angry today?" ”

Zeng Ye pouted and said, "It's not because he didn't have his share in the palace to celebrate the New Year, so he sulked here." Leave him alone, let's play it ourselves. ”

Zeng Gong said angrily: "Brother, you are arranging your father behind your back, it's really too much." When my father learns about it, it will make you feel good. ”

Zeng Ye was not afraid at all, he just said with a smile: "Xiaogu, are you the one who sues behind your back?" ”

Zeng Gong couldn't answer.

Fang Zhongyong unconsciously yawned again and said, "What's the matter?" Spring is coming, and Zigu and I still have to have a good life. Just go back and rest, study hard, and make progress every day! ”

It's really not that Fang Zhongyong has gotten rid of low-level interests, let alone pretending to be a young man, after all, the difficulty of the task is different, and he has no common language with scumbags like Zeng Ye. Why don't you go back!

To say that Fang Zhongyong's biggest enemy in this ritual test and even the palace test is that there are two opponents.

The first is Yang Cha, the history of "beautiful demeanor, for the literary agility." It is a system, if you don't care about it at the beginning, and the manuscript is completed, it is elegant and decent, and it is called by the world. Jing Yu's first year list. Fang Zhongyong didn't put it in his eyes (some officials said, you just blow it hard!) ）。 The problem is that this product is Yan Shu's genuine son-in-law in history, and the so-called "love rival" is also.

The second place is the champion Zhang Tangqing. This person is a native of Qingzhou, Shandong, although his life is not good, Jing Yu won the title of champion in the first year, and Jing Yu hung up in four years. But history records that it was because of the death of his father, and due to excessive grief, Tang Qing also vomited blood and died. It's really a big filial son. If it is only a gentleman of benevolence and filial piety, the key is that when Tang Qing was seventeen years old, he used poems to pay homage to Han Qi, who was the general judge of Zizhou for five years. What does this mean? This shows that this champion is by no means a nerd who only knows filial piety as rumored by the outside world, this is a scheming table!

And if you can be selected as the champion, you must look good (this is a prerequisite), and you will also have insight in your strategy, and you will have great luck. If you want to PK with such a person, it is difficult for you not to pay attention to it.

For Yang Cha, Yan Shu probably doesn't know which green onion he is now, and it should already be considered a KO. However, Zhang Tangqing's origin is mysterious, and there are few records in the history books, which is quite unfathomable. Except for Han Qi, I'm afraid that no one knows his roots. Although Han Qi had also received the grace of Yan Shu's support, with Han Qi's "dignified and quiet personality, not easy to play", Fang Zhongyong's identity as Yan Shu's quasi-son-in-law was only afraid that it would be difficult to use. If you want to hear the news from Han Qi, you can only bring humiliation on yourself.

But I'm not afraid, our Fang Zhongyong is also dignified, a handsome guy. As for poetry and strategy, if the thousand-year-old insight can't get the ancients, we will live in vain. It all comes down to luck. But opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared, so let's read more books and prepare more.

Zi said again on the river, and the time came to the Shangyuan Festival.

The Shangyuan Festival is also closely related to Taoism, China's native religion. Taoism believes that there are so-called "three yuan" in the annual season, which refers to the fifteenth upper yuan of the first month, the fifteenth middle yuan of the seventh month and the fifteenth lower yuan of October. Shangyuan is the birthday of the Emperor of Tianguan, the Tang Dynasty is called Shangyuan, Zhongyuan and Xiayuan on the fifteenth day of January, July and October: Shangyuan sacrifices to Tianguan, Zhongyuan sacrifices to the earth officials, and the lower Yuan sacrifices to the water officials, and the temples that worship the Sanguan Emperor will hold grand celebrations in various places. The birth days of the three officials are the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the fifteenth day of the seventh month, and the fifteenth day of October, and these three days are called the "Shangyuan Festival", "Zhongyuan Festival", and "Xiayuan Festival".

The custom of putting lanterns in the Shangyuan Dynasty flourished in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the lantern time was three days (from the fourteenth day of the first month to the sixteenth day of the first month), after the founding of the Zhao and Song dynasties, Song Taizu issued an edict in the first month of the fifth year of Qiande: "Shangyuan Zhang Lantern old stop for three nights." Now the court has nothing to do, the district is safe, and the harvest of the valley is abundant, and it is appropriate to indulge the people in their fun. It ordered Kaifeng Mansion to put 17 and 18 night lights. Later, for example, the time for putting lights on the sun was extended to five days.

And the festive atmosphere of Shangyuan lanterns has been brewing for a long time. Just after the winter solstice, on the royal street in front of the Xuande Gate in Bianjing, Kaifeng Mansion has already built a shed for putting lamps with bamboo and wood, decorated with flowers, colored flags, brocade silks, and hung cloth paintings, "all paint fairy stories, or people who sell medicine and hexagrams in the market", this kind of shed is called "mountain shed".

Since the beginning of the year, there are various artists performing various entertainment programs in the two corridors of Bianjing Royal Street every day: magic, acrobatics, rap, singing and dancing, acrobatics, juju, monkey play, guessing lantern riddles, "kit kat is a hundred ends, and the eyes and ears are new every day". And as the Shangyuan Festival approaches, people put up two statues of Manjushri Bodhisattva and Puxian Bodhisattva formed by colorful colors on the left and right of the mountain shed in Yujie, straddle the lion and the white elephant, and spew out five streams of water from the Bodhisattva's fingers - it can be said that it is an artificial fountain device in ancient times.

From the mountain shed to the Xuande Gate of the imperial city, there is a large square, and the government forms a large circle with thorns on the square, which is more than 100 zhang long, and is called "thorn basin". A music shed was built in the thorn basin, where the artists of the workshop played music and operas. Visitors stand outside the thorns and watch.

On the fourteenth day of the first month, the Zeng Ye brothers came with Yan Juhou and invited Fang Zhongyong to watch the lanterns, but Fang Zhongyong refused on the grounds that "reading is important".

Joke! Who wants to go to see the lights with your gang of rough old men, of course, it is necessary to wait for the fifteenth Lantern Festival to go with Sister Keiko to be worthy of this beautiful day.

On the fifteenth, Yan Shu accompanied the emperor to watch the lantern again, and Yan Rongyue, with the acquiescence of the Wang family, went to the royal street in front of Xuande Gate as promised. When Fang Zhongyong arrived, it was already "the willow tops on the moon, and people were about to be after dusk".

No way, no one thought that there would be traffic jams in ancient times?

In fact, if you think about it, you should be able to understand that even if only a small half of the more than one million people in Bianliang come out, a sentence of "shoulder to shoulder" is not enough to describe. Plugging and squeezing all the way, and even taking out the speed of a 100-meter race, Fang Zhongyong arrived at Yujie before dark.

Yan Rongyue saw that Fang Zhongyong was running out of breath, and said distressed and funny: "What are you doing running so fast?" It doesn't hurt to be late. Look at you, there's sweat on your forehead. As he spoke, he took out the silk scarf and wiped it for Ailang.

Fang Zhongyong enjoyed his lover's comfort with peace of mind, and said with a smile: "It's okay, I'm in good health." Isn't this afraid that you will be in a hurry? ”

I heard Jin Wuwei shouting: "The Holy Lord is coming, the auspicious time has come, light the lamp!" ”

But I saw that the mountain shed was lit up with thousands of lights, shining with gold and blue, and splendid. There is also a graceful singer standing on it, with fluttering dresses and waving in the wind, like a fairy. The strange thing is that the mountain shed is also set up with an artificial waterfall - the water is wrenched up to the top of the mountain shed with a wheel, and it is installed in a huge wooden cabinet, and then the water outlet of the wooden cabinet is opened regularly, so that the water flows down to form a spectacular waterfall, which is very beautiful under the light.

On the two battlements of Xuande Gate, where Zhao Zhen and a group of important ministers are located, a lamp ball is also hung on each, about a square circumference, and the internal combustion is like a giant candle in the rafters.

In fact, if you only rely on the lanterns of the imperial court, there is absolutely no such grand scene. At that time, various markets, guilds and even official eunuchs and wealthy families all competed to make lanterns, in order to bring forth the new and attract attention.

History, "Zhufang Lane, Ma Xing, Zhuxiang Medicine Shop, Tea Shop Wine Shop, Lamps and Candles Each Comes Out of Novelty", and the varieties also have "Lantern Ball, Lantern Lance, Silk Lantern, Sun and Moon Lamp, Poetry Silk Lamp, Mirror Lamp, Word Lamp, Horse Riding Lamp, Phoenix Lamp, Water Lantern, Glass Lamp, Shadow Lamp", there are many lamps, which makes people dizzy.

There are also some business-minded hawkers who make small lanterns that can be carried by hand, and if they can guess a riddle, they will give them a lantern, otherwise they will have to pay 30 yuan. There is a big lady, and the little jasper and the lover guess it. If you win, you often don't take it in vain, and you often pay more. Even if you don't win, it's just a joke, and no one will take it seriously.

Fang Zhongyong felt that he had some talent, so he pulled Yan Rongyue through the crowd, looking for the lantern riddle to guess. But everywhere he went, the crowd dispersed.

Fang Zhongyong was very puzzled, was his Wang Ba's spirit so powerful, or was the quality of the people of the Great Song Dynasty so high?

When he looked back, he saw more than a dozen big men holding whistle sticks around him. This proper rhythm of bullies on the streets! How else do you talk to Keiko Qingqing me?

Fang Zhongyong vaguely remembered that it was the head of the Yan Mansion who took the lead, and asked, "Don't you always follow Lord Yan, what are you doing with the two of us?" ”

The head of the courtyard arched his hand and said: "The master is accompanying the driver at the Xuande Gate, and I heard that Fang Gongzi and Miss Fang are visiting the Lantern Festival, so I specially ordered me to come to guard." ”

Fang Zhongyong smiled and said: "This peaceful and prosperous world, Lang Lang Qiankun, where do you need to guard?" ”

The nurse replied, "Childe doesn't know. In this Bianliang City, there are many people from the three religions and nine streams. There are even those who are prodigal sons and thieves who take the opportunity to pick quarrels and provoke trouble. If it collides with Childe and Miss, Yaxing, who stirs up the two, is not beautiful. ”

Fang Zhongyong said "I'm tired", but he complained in his heart: Lord Yan is afraid that it is not for you to protect us, but to prevent me, a disciple, from abducting his daughter! It's stingy!