Today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and Kyoto is becoming more and more prosperous every year, but at this moment, it is just after noon, and the streets of the city have become crowded.

The Li family.

Xiaohuan poked his head out of the kitchen and said, "Uncle, I want to eat sesame stuffing, and the second lady also wants to eat sesame stuffing." ”

The small kitchen space is not large, Li Yi is making Lantern Festival, Ruoqing is helping on the side, Tsundere Lori is helping on the other side, and Yongning is running around inside, the place is a little crowded, and others can't come in if they want to help.

Li Yi waved his hand, indicating that he understood.

Yongning approached Li Yi's side and said sweetly: "Brother, Xinyi wants to eat sugar filling." ”

Li Yi's hands were full of glutinous rice flour, and he nodded on the tip of her nose and said, "You can only eat two sugar fillings, if you have tooth decay, it will hurt very much." ”

Yongning thought about it, looked up at him, stretched out three fingers, and said, "Is it okay to three?" ”

Looking at her pitiful appearance, Li Yi could only nod, "Three is three, no more......"

"Hmm!" Yongning nodded vigorously, worried that Li Yi would regret it, so he hurriedly ran to Shou Ning's side and watched with wide eyes.

Tsundere Lori is holding a small sieve and keeps shaking, the sieve is the Lantern Festival and glutinous rice flour, the Lantern Festival shaken out in this way is round and round, she is tired of this work.

After shaking for a while, she walked over slowly, looked at Li Yi and said, "Sir, can you wrap some bean paste filling, I will bring it to my father when I go back to the palace in the afternoon, my father likes to eat bean paste filling the most." ”

Li Yi smiled at her and said, "Sister Xiaoqing is already preparing the stuffing, let's wrap it together in a while." ”

Tsundere Lori suddenly became happy, Yongning walked up to her, looked at the small sieve in her hand, and whispered: "Sister Huang, can you let me play with this......"

……

The Lantern Festival is ready to be eaten at night, it is still early, Kyoto on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the most lively and prosperous day of the year, Yongning and Shouning are in the deep palace most of the time, and they will go back at night, so they naturally can't miss this opportunity.

After lunch, Li Yi took the two of them to the street.

Compared to the crowding at night, the daytime is better, because the main events such as lantern festivals and fireworks do not start until the evening.

On the streets, there are all kinds of snacks for sale, street juggling performances, and ...... showing all kinds of clever gadgets, and the two little girls are dizzying to watch.

Li Yi looked at the bustling crowd, the rows of shops, and the endless stream of vendors on the streets, and deeply felt how much Kyoto had changed in the past two years.

bought a sugar man representing their physiognomy for Yongning and Shouning, and casually asked the old man who sold the candy: "Uncle, how is the business today?" ”

The old man grinned and said, "Business is good, I used to sell goods for a day, but today I sold them out in half an hour!" ”

Li Yi looked at the sugar man in their hands and said with a smile: "My husband's craftsmanship is good, this sugar man is lifelike, and it is not uncommon for business to be good, I should have a good life when I want to come to the house, right?" ”

The old man shook his head and said: "The old man has been blowing sugar people all his life, and it has only been better in the past two years, if it weren't for His Majesty's compassion for us people and three tax cuts, the old man would have frozen to death and starved to death at home the winter before last......"

The guy at the tea stall on the side pursed his lips and said, "Old man Zhang, you are still selling miserably here, a candy blower, this year you built a new house for your two sons and married a new daughter-in-law, and your sugar man shop is about to open next year, what do you say you have to cry about?" ”

The old man frowned, and said dissatisfiedly: "The old man has this year because of His Majesty's benevolent government, and it is not that he has not lived a hard life, but Wang Erdonkey, you kid, have caught up with the good policy from the beginning......"

Tsundere Lori finished eating the candy man, licked her ruddy little mouth, shook Li Yi's arm, and said, "Sir, I still want to ......"

Li Yi looked at Yongning on the other side and found that she was also looking at herself.

He nodded, looked at the old man who sold sugar, and said, "This old man, two more." ”

The old man took two more sugar people, and when Li Yi was paying, he waved his hand, looked at Yongning and Shouning, and said with a smile: "The little doll is so handsome, today is a good day, these two sugar people, the old man gave them ......"

Li Yi handed the candy man to them and said, "Thank you grandfather for not being able to do so." ”

"Thank you, old man......"

"Thank you, old man......"

The two little girls said a word obediently, and the wrinkles on the old man's face stretched out, like a blooming chrysanthemum.

Li Yi held the hands of the two little girls and stood on the street, these shouts, shouts, conversations, and quarrels were in his ears, together with the pictures in his eyes, weaving the prototype of a prosperous era.

It's a pity that the people who weave it by hand can't see the birth of this prosperous world.

"It's a pity that Your Majesty's body ......"

"Alas, everyone is saying that Your Majesty is afraid that it is ......"

"Oh my God, why can't you just open your eyes and see......"

The old man and the guy were still chatting, and Tsundere Lori bit the sugar man in her mouth, lowered her head, and whispered, "Sir, let's go home." ”

Li Yi nodded, took their hands, and walked in the direction they came.

On the stall, after the old man and the guy next door finished chatting, his eyes casually flickered, looking at the extra ingot of silver on the table, and his expression was stunned.

……

When he walked into the courtyard, Tsundere Lori suddenly looked up at him and said, "Sir, when I go back to the palace in a while, you give me a good bar, and my father said that your wine is the best to drink......

"Okay."

Li Yi smiled and nodded, and suddenly the tip of his nose was slightly cold.

He raised his head and looked at the sky, and Yongning's crisp voice sounded in his ears, "Brother, it's snowing!" ”

Boom!

In one direction, a dull bell rang out.

One, two......

The voice came from the east, one after another, resounding throughout Kyoto.

Kyoto, somewhere at the entrance of the Gokan.

"Where is the bell ringing in broad daylight?" A big man muttered suspiciously, and when he saw the middle-aged man beside him, he suddenly paused, turned around and walked outside, and said suspiciously: "Fifth master, what's wrong, don't watch the show?" ”

The middle-aged man shook his head and sighed: "I'm afraid I won't be able to listen to the drama today, let's go back......"

The streets of Kyoto, the noisy streets, gradually become quiet as the bells ring.

Someone asked, "How many times did the bell ring?" ”

"Forty-five."

Forty-five, ninety-five, forty-five bells, the sound of mourning.

One of them faces east and slowly kneels.

Beside him, a second man faced east and knelt after him.

Three, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand......

Kyoto's various prefectures, officials and magnates, regardless of rank or status, walked out of the duty room, walked into the courtyard, and knelt facing the east.

At the gate of the palace, the guards guarding the city put down their weapons and slowly knelt down.

In the whole of Kyoto, at this moment, only one reverberating bell remains.

The Li family, the palace guards who were kneeling on the ground stood up, walked in front of Shou Ning and Yong Ning, and said in a hoarse voice: "Your Royal Highness Princess, it's time to go back to the palace." ”

Jinghe five years, the fifteenth day of the first month, the Lantern Festival.

In the fifth year of Jinghe, on the fifteenth day of the first month, when the first snowflake of this winter fell on the tip of Li Yi's nose, it snowed heavily in the thirteen states of Jingguo.

In the fifth year of Jinghe, on the fifteenth day of the first month, the emperor collapsed.

[PS: Believe it or not, I wrote myself to cry. 】