The Shangyuan Festival in the third year of Xuanren is gradually coming, from the afternoon of the fourteenth day of the first month, the streets of Jincheng County began to install lanterns, set up stands, every household made dinner early, just looking forward to the dark, so they locked the door, and took their wives and children to the street to see the lights.

Different from Chang'an, there is no tall square wall on both sides of Wuquan Street, all are dense trees and mansions covering a vast area, the south of the street is a place of dense commerce, the low-end restaurant and teahouse naturally can not face the central axis of the street, both sides of the street are big shops and wide shops, according to the consistent rules, the lanterns on Wuquan Street on the Shangyuan Festival every year have to come out of the houses facing the street, therefore, the annual display of lanterns is the time when the famous families and the Hanmen Shu people share the joy.

At this time, the houses on both sides of Wuquan Street are busy installing lanterns, and the front of Zhang Huan's Mansion is also full of lanterns, a cheerful scene, Zhang Huan's Mansion is located at the end of Wuquan Street, the central axis of the city, and today it will be the starting point of the Lantern Festival.

On the steps, Pei Ying commanded the family to install the lanterns with great interest, the nursing mother followed behind her with the child, the lanterns installed in front of Zhang Huan's house today are a three-zhang high colorful phoenix singing sky, the colorful phoenix is looking up to the sky and singing, flapping its wings and flying high, there are countless small lights around, constituting a starry spot, as if the phoenix is soaring in the bright starry sky.

This is Pei Ying specially sent someone to Chang'an to ask a famous craftsman to make, not only lifelike, but also magnificent, only to set off the background of the lamp to use more than 300 lights, even the construction work is Chang'an lampsmith's two apprentices to complete.

As soon as Caifeng's appearance was completed, it attracted many curious people to watch, pointing and pointing, and everyone's expressions looked very surprised.

"Madam, this year must be our Caifeng Mingtian who won the championship." The old housekeeper couldn't bear the pride in his heart, and smiled at Pei Ying: "Last year's championship was the Hundred Flowers Lantern Tower in Xinfu, and I went to see it this year, the lanterns in Xinfu have not changed, it is still a Hundred Flowers Lantern Tower, but there are a few more beauty lamps in it, so it was renamed Baimei Stepping Spring, which is far worse than ours!" Far from it! ”

At this time, a craftsman who set up a lamp next to him proudly said, "Of course! My master is the first lampsmith in Chang'an, and he has been wearing a lamp for more than 50 years, and Yang Guifei's favorite crystal palace lamp was made by my master. How could anyone in the tiny Jincheng County compare to him. ”

Pei Ying just smiled and said nothing, compared with a year ago, her body is much plumper, her skin is more delicate, and her appearance is more beautiful.

After giving birth to a child, Pei Ying's temperament has gradually changed, the former image of a delicate and lovely girl has disappeared, she has become mature and tolerant, she rarely punishes her subordinates, and she never forgets all kinds of rewards for her subordinates during the New Year's holidays, and will double it, but this does not mean that she is easy to speak, on the contrary, once she makes a decision, she will never allow anyone to object, a few days ago, a subordinate took advantage of Cui Ning's things to move from Chang'an, stole a pair of gold bracelets, and was denounced, she did not hesitate to order to cut off the thief's arm, sent to the government for punishment.

This incident shook the whole house, and everyone was respectful and afraid of Mrs., and from that day on, the bad habits of some people in the house drinking and gambling, stealing chickens and touching dogs also disappeared.

In addition to being in the house, Pei Ying was also deeply loved by the soldiers in the army, and when Zhang Huan returned to Beijing to report on his work in the New Year, Pei Ying prepared a large amount of rice and meat, and personally led people to send it to hundreds of military families one by one, and specially invited many gentlemen to enter the barracks to write letters to the soldiers and send people to their homes.

It was these thoughtful considerations in the details that deeply moved the soldiers, and everyone in the army called her 'Madame', and the reason why Zhang Huan got countless loyal soldiers was inseparable from her efforts behind the scenes.

Pei Ying saw that there were more and more people who came to watch the lanterns, and the crowd was full of voices, she was worried that the child would be frightened, so she asked the nurse to carry the child into the house first, she was about to follow up, and suddenly remembered something, so she said to the big housekeeper: "A few days ago, there was a letter from Hexi, saying that General He Lou was going to marry a wife on the 20th, and my lord and I prepared a generous gift, and tomorrow you send a few competent people to send it, don't delay." ”

"Madam, don't worry, I will let Liu Wulang handle this matter, and I will definitely not make a mistake."

Pei Ying nodded, turned around and went into the house, as soon as she walked to the middle gate, she saw that the housekeeper in charge of the inner house was sending a doctor out, this is the doctor who came to see Cui Ning, Cui Ning fell ill on the way back with Zhang Huan, and she should have been on bed rest immediately, but she was afraid of mistaking Zhang Huan's matter, so she beat her spirits, put on heavy makeup to cover up her condition, and said that she was much better, but after coming back, she fell seriously ill and has not recovered until now.

Pei Ying has always been very ambivalent about Cui Ning's marriage to Zhang Huan, they used to be very close friends, and they spent a year together in Wuwei County, Pei Ying already knew very well that Cui Ning would inevitably enter her life.

In her heart, Pei Ying can tolerate Zhang Huan taking a hundred concubines, and she doesn't want him to marry Cui Ning alone, she knows that Zhang Huan has an unforgettable feeling for Cui Ning, and his love for her even exceeds herself, which she has always been obsessed with, but she doesn't dare to object, or even dare to do anything behind, she knows very well that Zhang Huan is a very smart and stubborn person, once he knows that he lost Cui Ning because of his own reasons, then he will never spare himself.

But more importantly, Pei Ying gave birth to Zhang Huan's first son, she is the main room, then this son is the eldest son, and the mother is expensive by her son, so her heart is a lot more settled.

So when she couldn't refuse Cui Ning to share her husband, Pei Ying adopted an extremely cooperative attitude, and she did her best to take care of Cui Ning, so that Zhang Huan was both grateful and guilty to her in private, and respected her and loved her more.

At this time, the doctor had already seen Pei Ying, and hurriedly turned to the path to leave the house, but Pei Ying stopped him, "Doctor Sun, please wait a minute." ”

When the doctor saw that his wife called him, he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "See Madame." ”

"How is my second mother's illness?" Pei Ying asked him casually.

"Back to Mrs., the second lady suffered from the wind cold during the menstrual period, and she was tired all the way, she must have rested for a few days after taking the medicine in Fengxiang, but she did not rest, which made the illness doubly heavy, and now if she does not recuperate well, the light will take root in the disease, and the heavy will 。。。。。"

Speaking of this, the doctor was a little afraid to continue, but Pei Ying was a little anxious, and hurriedly asked him: "What about the heavy matter, you say!" ”

"If it drags on for a few months, it will be lost." The doctor sighed helplessly, but he immediately comforted her: "But as long as you take care of it, the second lady should be able to recover in a year and a half." ”

Pei Ying was silent, and only said to the doctor after a while: "My family is busy with official business, and I basically worry about everything at home, you have to inform me of the changes in the second lady's condition at any time, and don't worry about the expensive medicine, use the best, you know?" ”

"Please rest assured, Madame, I will do my best to heal."

Pei Ying smiled, and said to the housekeeper, "You then send two hundred yuan to Doctor Sun." ”

Doctor Sun thanked him and took his leave, Pei Ying sighed, and said to the nurse, "You take your son to sleep!" I'll go see Erniang. ”

After that, she walked quickly to the east courtyard, compared with the governor's mansion of Wuwei County, the mansion of Jincheng County is obviously much larger, it is not only a single residence, the festival makes the line in another place, and the house is more than twice as much, it is the house of the original Longyou Jiedu to make Ge Shuhan, after Ge Shuhan surrendered An Lushan and died, his family gradually declined, from the tenth year of Qingzhi, this house was vacant, this time Zhang Huan entered Jincheng County, it was renovated, as his private residence.

The house covers an area of more than 300 acres, only the back house is divided into three courtyards, Pei Ying has been living in the west courtyard, Cui Ning came back this time, and the east courtyard was packed up for her to live in, and there was an empty south courtyard.

Pei Ying walked through a corridor, and from time to time there were maids saluting her along the way, and when she walked to the door, she waved her hand to Mingyue and Mingzhu, signaling them not to make a sound, and she quietly walked into the room, only to see Cui Ning had gotten up from the bed, she was wearing a snow-white dress, and she was kneeling in front of the table and was busy with something, and she didn't notice her arrival.

Pei Ying walked behind her lightly, only to see that she was pasting a swallow lantern, which was basically completed, and was carefully drawing the swallow's eyes with a pen, although it was not as ingenious as a famous craftsman, but it was also lifelike.

Pei Ying was stunned, then shook her head with a smile and said, "How many days did you learn to make lanterns, why don't I know?" ”

Cui Ning found Pei Ying behind her, she added swallow feathers, and said with a smile: "This is what my nurse taught me, I haven't done it for many years, I forgot it, and I slowly recalled it in the past two days, so I stole a lantern and came back to redo it." ”

Speaking of this, Cui Ning glanced at her, pursed his lips and smiled: "Should you also cut off my hand and send it to the government for punishment!" ”

"You damn girl, you're making fun of me!" Pei Ying gently knocked on her head, then sat down and watched her make lanterns with great interest.

Cui Ning drew the shape, carefully put a short candle in it, fixed it in the middle, tied it with a rope, and picked the other end on a thin wooden stick, she stood up, took a few steps triumphantly with the lantern, and said with a smile: "It's done, Pei girl, what do you think?" ”

Pei Ying heard her call herself Pei Yatou, she suddenly remembered the situation when she was a girl, that is, they were intimate, they all called each other girls, Pei Ying's heart was full of warmth, she smiled slightly: "I remember, once when we went to see the lantern on the night of Shangyuan, you broke my lantern and said that you would compensate me for a new one, but I haven't seen you compensate me so far, where is it?" ”

"If you want my lantern, just say it, and turn over the old account." Cui Ning glanced at her, "This lantern was originally meant to be given to your son to play with, try it, and the nature will come out." ”

"Oh! I didn't know my son could handle such a heavy dick. Pei Ying also smiled and joked to her: "If I don't say it, I'm afraid this lantern will be left for someone!" Show your ingenuity, huh! Ning'er, when we go to beg for food in the future, you will make lanterns and I will sell them, and our husband and wife will open a lantern shop. ”

"You damn girl, watch me screw your mouth!" Cui Ning put the lantern on the table, and ran to chase Pei Ying, Pei Ying ran to the yard with a smile, Mingyue and Mingzhu saw that the housemother was about to run out, and hurriedly stopped her, "Mastermother, your body can't withstand the cold." ”

Pei Ying then remembered that Cui Ning was sick, so she hurriedly patted her forehead and walked in quickly, "I almost forgot, you have to recuperate." ”

At this time, Cui Ning ran a few steps, her head was indeed dizzy, she hurriedly sat down, and when the dizziness slowly disappeared, Pei Ying helped her lie down, covered her with a quilt, and smiled half-jokingly and half-seriously: "You must not have anything happen, otherwise I will not be able to explain if I come back from illness." ”

Cui Ning suddenly remembered Ailang, and I don't know if he can rush back today? After hesitating for a moment, Cui Ning finally couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Can he rush back today?" ”

Pei Ying shook her head, "In the afternoon, a personal soldier came back to deliver a letter, he said that there was a civil strife among the party members, and he was going to deal with it in a hurry, and it is estimated that he has now arrived in Yinchuan County." ”

She saw that Cui Ning's eyes were a little gloomy, and hurriedly smiled and comforted her: "I specially made a colorful phoenix lantern in Chang'an this year, and I want to win the lantern, you rest for a while, I'll go to see my son, and when it's dark, I'll take you to see the lanterns in our house." ”

As she spoke, she tucked the corner of the quilt for Cui Ning, turned around and went out, she just walked to the door, Cui Ning suddenly stopped her, "Pei girl!" ”

Pei Ying stopped, turned around and smiled: "What's the matter, Cui girl!" ”

Cui Ning pointed to the lantern on the table, "That's for you, and you are not allowed to go through the old accounts in the future." ”

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"Pick up the Han suspicious star falling, according to the building like the moon hanging", this year's Shangyuan night moonlight is exceptionally bright, the sky has just been wiped black, a round of white jade plate like the bright moon will hang on the branches, but with the thick night, the moonlight is dimmed, the lantern tide of the first month fifteenth Shangyuan Festival once again ignited the enthusiasm of the Tang people for a long time, a round of full moon, the lights around the Tang Dynasty are bright, and the heads are clustered.

The Shangyuan lantern festival of Jincheng County is generally grand and in previous years, all kinds of lanterns on Wuquan Street are more than four miles long, the lanterns of various shapes are one after another, attracting a burst of laughter and applause, there are more large lanterns such as wheel lights, building lights, tree lamps and so on attract a large number of lantern visitors to stop, today the people of Jincheng County are almost mobilized in the whole city, every household goes out to watch the lanterns, and Wuquan Street is crowded with people.

I saw the pavilions and pavilions, wrapped in silver, the streets and alleys of the city, the silver scattered jade, the trees near and far hung in a row, like a piece of jade umbrella, when the ice wheel rose and Guihua was full, I saw the place where the people on the street gathered, and set up the lamp stand of a thousand postures, it was really exquisite, there were no surprises, the silver candle planet was brilliant, and it shone like the day.

Not only watching the lanterns, today is the Tang Valentine's Day, Longyou has always been rough and rough, emotional freedom, unrestrained, countless young men and women in love in this night swear to the mountain alliance, fate for a hundred years, is the noble pavilion daughter who does not go downstairs on weekdays, but also make an exception to watch the lights on the street and walk the bridge, join in the fun. attracted the merry young man, like an ant attached, and gave birth to a lot of romantic stories over the years.

When the time is changed, the tide of lights is in full swing, the street is full of men and women playing with lights, flowers are red and willow green, ordinary people and ladies, bustling; Vendors and traders, shouting noisy, or set up stalls along the street, or carrying camel burdens to sell, all kinds of hawkers have a burden of yuanzi, candy pinching, clay man, sugar cake seller, artist, cockfighter, cricket fighting and so on.

According to the rules of Jincheng County, the annual lantern festival to elect the lantern kui, last year was the Xinyun Jingfu Baihua Lantern Tower won the championship, the year before was the assassin of the history of the Zhong Kui ghost hunting championship, and this year, the most eye-catching is the festival in front of the palace 'Caifeng Mingtian', only to see hundreds of jade streamers, purple colorful lanterns, a huge colorful phoenix as if in the starry wings flying, attracting the lantern watchers to marvel, but the amazement is not that its body is tall, nor is it realistic shape, But Caifeng's body is constantly changing brilliant colors, no one knows what the reason is, and later a mouthy Zhang family told the people watching the lantern that the key is that there is an eight-sided crystal lamp inside, painted with various colors, installed on the turntable, so it will continue to change colors.

His specious explanation made the lantern even more mysterious, as if it had made a living advertisement for the lamp, and people told each other, attracting more and more people to flock to watch the lantern.

But no matter how crowded it was, the people watching the lanterns could not go up the steps, hundreds of soldiers firmly protected the steps, only to see a wide sedan chair parked on the steps, which had been stopped for almost an hour, and more than a dozen soldiers were guarding on both sides, and this sedan chair was like a moving room.

The two maids and Pei Ying in the sedan chair were almost asleep, Cui Ning's face was sickly red, she was half-leaning in the sedan chair, looking at the full moon in the sky through the gauze curtain, she was thinking about the scenes of acquaintance, acquaintance and love with Zhang Huan, unconsciously, she seemed to be crazy.

There is not a single cloud in the sky, a full moon sails in this endless sea, lonely scattering the clear light of a place, whether it is in the lively and prosperous Longyou, or in the empty and cold river, all people are bathed in the same round of bright moon illumination.

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