Chapter 38: Cutting Candles and Talking 2
The more Zhou Nan listened, the more familiar he felt, is this still the Song Dynasty? Isn't this the Song Dynasty version of the New Year's Seven Days of Happiness? asked Lao Zheng Tou again: "It's been lively these days, so it's over, right?" Old Zheng Tou shook his head and said, "Morning." The most important thing for the people of the Southern Dynasties to celebrate the New Year is the Shangyuan Festival, and on the day of the Shangyuan Festival, it is even more lively than the New Year's Day. On that day, the first thing to eat was to eat the diet that suited the situation, and the people of the Southern Dynasty used glutinous rice to grind flour to make balls, and used sugar to make soup, and cooked together......"
Zhou Nan is already full of black lines: No, there are all the rice balls? What kind of strange dynasty is this Song Dynasty? The food, use, play, and housing were all the best at that time, but the only thing that lacked the fist to protect himself was no wonder that he was always robbed.
"On the royal street, with tens of thousands of lanterns into a mountain of lights, all kinds of lanterns and fireworks, reflecting each other, golden and blue each other, splendid. There are also girls singing and dancing in the city of Tokyo, tourists are gathered under the corridors on both sides of the royal street, competing to watch, there are all kinds of juggling, singing and dancing, a street can not see the end of the past, to the day of the Shangyuan Festival, it can really be said that there are thousands of empty alleys. "In the streets and alleys, the lights and candles of the tea shops are burning, the gongs and drums are sounding, the firecrackers are ringing, and the lights are endless. Don't you hear the words of Wenzhong in the Southern Dynasty: The willow tops on the moon, people are about after dusk? At that time, handsome men and women all walked out of the house, a full moon in the sky, the Chinese lanterns on the ground were playing, the colorful sheds and jade trees, everyone went to see the lanterns, only one person quietly walked to the shadows, waiting for the lover to ......" At this time, Gao Yun came in with a tray and put the dishes on the table, Lao Zhengtou also stopped the topic of "not suitable for children", Zhou Nan only saw the bad and tender pheasant, the marinated boar meat with flowing oil, the stewed delicious clear soup mutton, and a few mixed dried vegetables, as well as a bowl of mountain mushroom soup, put it in the middle, Immediately, the attention of the three people shifted to the table.
When Gao Yuanyuan was ready, he got up and went to cover the door of the house, and added some charcoal to the charcoal basin, so that the charcoal fire was turned on, and the house was suddenly warm. Gao Yun lit two more candles on the long table and inserted them on the candlestick, and the room was much brighter. Lao Zheng Tou asked Gao Yuan and Gao Yun to sit again, and the four of them sat down together. And each of them set his cups and spoons before him. Lao Zheng Tou lives alone, and now he sees three young people around him, and he is also open-minded, so he took the wine jar on the table and pulled out the wooden cork at the mouth of the altar. Zhou Nan saw that what Old Zheng Tou was holding in his hand was only a red wine altar with his daughter in two pounds, so he said dissatisfiedly: "Chinese New Year's Eve welcomes the new year, Old Zheng Toute is not happy, this small altar is not enough for the tall brother to drink alone." ”
Lao Zheng said with a smile: "Don't worry, pour a bowl per person, and the tall lady will also pour it, and drink it after listening to the old man." ”
The three of them poured a bowl each. Zhou Nan looked at the yellowish wine in the bowl and smelled a strong medicinal smell, Zhou Nan woke up and said: "The spring breeze sends warmth into Tu Su, isn't this Tu Su wine?" ”
Lao Zheng nodded and said, "Exactly." The wine of the old man is not an ordinary Tusu grass soaked in wine, but according to the Tang Dynasty medicine king Sun Simiao, with eight flavors of herbs, namely rhubarb, Shu pepper, bellflower, cinnamon heart, parsnip, atractylodes, knotweed, aconitum and so on, also known as eight gods. It is the most able to drive away plague and prevent diseases. The aconitum is a poisonous thing, and even if it is concocted, it should not be drunk too much. Therefore, only one altar is sufficient. ”
Gao Yuan nodded suddenly: "Even if there is aconite, just drink less." Old Zheng Tou, let's have a drink together and wish the coming year together. As he spoke, he was about to drink, but Lao Zheng stopped him and said, "You can't drink together." Gao Yuan said: "Why can't you drink together?" Lao Zheng Tou said: "Drinking this wine is different from other wine, the ancients said: those who drink this wine have a long life, and the elderly have little life, and they drink it last; Young people should cherish the age and press the year, so the young drink is the first to drink. The younger you are, the first you drink. The Tang people have a poem: Who is the last person to hold the cup tomorrow? That's the allusion. ”
After Lao Zheng Tou finished speaking, he waited for Gao Yuan, Gao Yun, and Zhou Nan to decide on the size. There is no need to distinguish between Gao Yuan and Gao Yun, only Zhou Nan and Gao Yun have not been carefully arranged, Zhou Nan's appearance and body shape have not changed after Zhou Nan crossed, but the skin is firm and smooth, just like ten years younger, so Zhou Nan only said that Gao Yuan was twenty-one years old, and Gao Yuan was twenty-three years old, so Gao Yuan was older on weekdays. I just don't know Gao Yun. Gao Yun's face suddenly turned slightly red, and said: "Da Lang is twenty-one years old this year, that is, the youngest in the slave family, forgive the slave family for being rude." After speaking, Gao Yun picked up the wine bowl in front of him and took a sip first; Then Zhou Nan, afraid of the heavy smell of medicine, tried to drink a sip, the spicy and slightly spicy feeling, Gao Yuan didn't talk much, picked up the bowl and drank half a bowl, and said: "But I can't get used to it." In the end, Lao Zheng Tou took a sip of it. The four of them took food and tea and drank wine, and Lao Zheng Tou continued the exciting topic just now, and said: "On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the Shangyuan Festival, in front of the palace Dauchi, facing the direction of Xuande Tower, it is the most lively place, and even the officials of the Southern Dynasty will come out to watch the lanterns. Tourists pass along the street, and on both sides of the street are all kinds of thaumaturgical abilities and singing and dancing, which are crowded one after another, and there is noisy music, which can be heard more than ten miles away. All kinds of games and fun, such as kicking, stepping on the rope on the pole, iron sword, medicine puppet and other juggling, and there are acrobatics, Ji Qin, Xiao Guan, Five Dynasties History, Wan Di and other historical performances; There are also monkeys in a hundred plays, fish jumping knife doors, calling bees and butterflies, chasing ants and other juggling, the rest sell medicine, sell hexagrams, sand book riddles, all kinds of strange and strange. The light mountain is colorful, and it is even more golden and blue, and the splendid is brilliant. The lanterns on the north side are painted fairy stories, the left and right sides are tied with ribbons to form Manjushri, Fuxian Buddha statues, there are also the shape of the dragon playing in the water with grass, the outside of the dragon body is wrapped with green cloth, and the lamps and candles are tied on the green cloth for thousands of lamps, looking at it from afar, it is like the real dragon descending into the world. On the Xuande floor of the main gate of the palace city, with colored silk knotted on the railing, on both sides are the inner guards, standing on the left and right sides, the guards are all dressed in brocade robes, the head is full of flowers, the bones are flowered, thousands of people are watching under the terrace, the crowd is jubilant, those prostitutes and people often attract a burst of cheers downstairs. Enjoying with the people, nothing more than this, it seems that the Southern Dynasty is splendid and prosperous, and Wanduan is beautiful. Not to mention these five Zhailing, Yizhou and Zhuozhou, even if they are Youzhou City, how can they get a share of the Southern Dynasty? ”
Lao Zheng Tou said that he was excited and fascinated, and he was infinitely emotional, which also caused Gao Yun's heart to shake for a while. The bells and whistles of the Gao Yuan team are not very expected, and Zhou Nan has experienced two lives, and the modern prosperity of time and space before traveling through time and space cannot be compared to even ten Tokyo cities, so it is not very surprising.
Zhou Nan only asked the question he was interested in, and said, "That explosion is sold everywhere?" Lao Zheng Tou chewed the mutton in his mouth and said vaguely: "Naturally, there are everywhere, but it is useless, just enough to hear a sound, and there will be crumbs left." ”
Zhou Nan drank wine and asked slowly: "Then there is a war in this Liao country?" ”
Lao Zheng Tou was just about to answer, only to hear a "bang" outside, Lao Zheng Tou pouted and said: "This is the explosion, it is a single explosion, only one sound." ”