Change the previous text, there was a sentence in the previous chapter, Pei Min and Wang Wei were separated, now revise it, there is no separation, there is a little bit of his role, when I wrote it, I ignored it all of a sudden, sorry.

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Pei Min and his entourage returned to the place where they had previously stored their mounts and carriages, and retrieved the carriage, while Wang Wei and Zhao Yiying also came by carriage, they had a close relationship with the Confucian Temple, and directly parked the carriage in the backyard of the Confucian Temple, and the two carriages converged all the way and went straight to Qujiang.

Qujiang is the most iconic place in Datang, located in the southeast of Chang'an City, just in that one-third of an acre, there are Qujiang Pond, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Hibiscus Garden, Ci'en Temple and other scenic spots.

If you come to Chang'an and don't travel to Qujiang, you don't come to the general world.

Whenever there is a major festival in Chang'an, when you want to gather together to celebrate, Qujiang is the only place to gather.

Not only the night tour of Qujiang on the Shangyuan Festival, but also the Qujiang banquet on March 3, and the dragon boat race of the Dragon Boat Festival are all held in Qujiang.

Although there are many people in the temple fair, compared with the night tour of Qujiang, it is a heavenly difference.

Bustling, at a glance, there is a surging flow of people, which is more terrifying than the temple fair.

However, Qujiang is located in the southeast of Chang'an City, and the structural layout of Chang'an is dense in the north and sparse in the south. The vast majority of people live in the north, where the palace and government offices are located, while the southern districts are sparsely populated and the houses are not so dense.

The flow of people is more than doubled, but it doesn't seem crowded.

As always, Pei Min deposited the horses and carriages in a large family.

The name of the person, the shadow of the tree, Pei Min's identity was revealed, without any hesitation, and the other party was very happy to give it convenient.

Before entering Qujiang, Xiao Qi and Xiao Ba had already clapped their hands and shouted.

"Look, look! There, what a tall and bright house! ”

Xiao Qi sat on Pei Min's shoulder as always, and Xiao Ba was the same, sitting on Li Bai's shoulder, they saw the farthest.

At this moment, it is like day in the Qujiang River, and nearly a million lanterns are all over the Qujiang River.

It's winter, and the climate in the northwest is particularly dry and cold, but close to Qujiang, it's like entering a greenhouse.

The heat emitted by millions of lanterns even overcomes this cold climate.

The place they were referring to was not the house they saw, but the lantern tree.

A hundred years ago, there was a richest man named Zheng Fengchi in Chang'an, whose family property was innumerable, and his mansions were all over the sea, and he was in contact with the powerful. He was so rich that his ancestor Li Yuan deigned to be his friend. He also once said to Tang Gaozu that each tree on Zhongnan Mountain is hung with a silk, and the mountain trees are full, and there is still silk at home.

In order to show off his wealth, Zheng Fengchi once built a giant lantern tree made of tens of thousands of lanterns in Qujiang on the day of the Shangyuan Festival, which was six zhang high and more than one zhang wide, which made it famous in Gyeonggi.

Since then, no one has done so. But so far, the rich people of Chang'an have each used flowers and trees to fight for wealth, adding joy to the festival, forming an unwritten rule.

What Xiao Qi and Xiao Ba saw was the light tree built by Chang'an wealthy merchants.

"Let's go there!" Li Zhiying looked excited, in her later years, she was in Furong Garden, overlooking the bustle of Qujiang from afar, and now she can see it up close, where can she endure it, and she can't help urging.

"Good!" Pei Min smiled and walked in the direction of the lamp tree first.

This has not yet reached the lamp tree, there has been a noise of gongs and drums in front of the sky, in the crowd, there is a team of stilts, there are lions, dragons, Guanyin Bodhisattva, there are golden boys and girls, and there are two generals...... Almost all folklore characters are included. The best part is that they all stepped on stilts and staggered.

"Look at this first, look at this first! The light tree does not run! ”

The sudden show aroused Li Chiying's interest, and he looked at Pei Min with some expectation.

"Good, good!" Pei Min once again acted as a pioneer with Li Bai and Wang Zhongsi, hugging Pei Mu, Jiao Chen, Li Zhiying, Zhao Yiying, and Wang Wei to the front.

The Lantern Festival dragon lantern is also a major feature of the Shangyuan Festival.

The dragon lantern, also known as the "dragon dance", is a dragon dance that is ten feet long and dances by dozens of people.

One person fights the dragon with a hydrangea in front, and the rest all lift the dragon, performing the actions of "two dragons playing with pearls", "double dragons out of the water", "fire dragon taking off", "dragon making trouble" and so on, which can be described as wonderful.

Except for the little seven and eight, most of the people have seen the dragon lantern, but the situation is different, and the feeling is very different.

Even the virtuous Jiao Chen and the gradually dignified Pei Mu were also infected by the atmosphere and applauded!

In this applause, these dragon lantern dance teams are even more capable.

At this time, the crowd suddenly crowded and pushed, mixed with exclamations, and the people behind crowded forward.

Pei Min's reaction is not unpleasant!

turned around as soon as possible, steadied the horse, supported Xiao Qi on his shoulders with one hand, and hugged Li Zhiying with the other, using his body as a wall mat to block in front of Pei Mu and Jiao Chen, stabilizing their bodies.

Wang Zhongsi and Li Bai are also in danger at this critical moment.

Wang Zhongsi supported his mother Wang and Wang Wei respectively, and Li Bai blocked Zhao Yiying with his body.

This crowding came suddenly, and Wang Xiaobai and a group of guards in the back had no time to deal with it.

When something happened, the response was extremely fast.

A human wall was erected to stabilize the turbulent crowd.

Li Zhiying was pushed inexplicably, and seeing that a catastrophe was coming, Pei Min suddenly came to the rescue in time. She was hugged by Pei Min in front of her chest, touching his broad and solid chest, she was surprised and delighted, and her body was soft and almost fainted in an instant.

Pei Min was about to let go of Li Zhiying, when he suddenly felt a tugging force from his waist, and someone actually took advantage of the chaos to steal his things.

Pei Min hurriedly let go of Li Zhiying and touched his waist, the money bag was still there, but the jade pendant was gone.

Jade has a special place in the history of Chinese civilization, and the "Five Classics of General Meaning" says that jade is "warm and moist, similar to wisdom; Sharp but not harmful, similar to benevolence; or unyielding, similar to righteousness; Flaws on the inside must be seen on the outside, and there are like beliefs; It hangs like a pendant, and it is like a courtesy. Sage Confucius also said, "The beauty of jade is like the virtue of a gentleman." It is believed that jade has the virtues of a gentleman such as benevolence, wisdom, righteousness, courtesy, happiness, loyalty, faithfulness, heaven, earth, virtue, and Taoism.

For some reason, there is an old saying that "a gentleman has no reason, and jade does not go to the body".

The piece of jade that Pei Min brought was handed down by his father, and it was not a precious jade, but it was extremely meaningful.

If the purse is lost, it is lost.

Jade pendant, I can't afford to lose it.

He swept his gaze over the crowd and immediately saw a figure fleeing in the direction of the dragon dance team.

Without any hesitation, he clamped Xiao Qi on his wrist with one hand, and directly took out the Qin Huang Sword with the other hand, and shot it out at the person with the scabbard, and the Qin Huang Sword turned into a white practice, jumping straight into the back of the thief's heart, and shouted at the same time: "You protect in place, the thief can't escape!" ”

Such a series of reactions was only in an instant.

Coherent!

The thief hadn't gone far enough to knock the scabbard to the ground.

He got up and fled, his long white sword already on his shoulder.

The thief turned around suddenly, "poofed", knelt in front of Pei Min, and cried: "Spare your life, the hero spares your life, the little one, there is a seriously ill mother at home, I lost my mind for a while, I don't dare, I don't dare anymore......" He held the jade pendant in both hands, held it high, and shed tears.

Pei Min shouted without any affection: "Filial piety is by no means an excuse to be a thief or a thief!" ”

Seeing that Wuhou had already rushed to maintain law and order, Pei Min collected the sword, retrieved the jade pendant, and handed the person over to Wuhou for disposal.