Chapter 133: The Romans
The two brothers, Li Hong and Li Xian, were sitting on the tower of Anfumen City, holding the binoculars given by Brother Yu in their hands and looking at the lively Anfumen Street downstairs. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The eunuchs and palace maids around him stared curiously and enviously at the two highnesses, saying that they could see telescopes thousands of miles away.
When the two brothers moved their binoculars to look at the lantern tower built by Brother Yu, ten blonde and blue-eyed bearded girls danced hotly in their eyes.
Rao is two brothers have received a good royal education, and they have read many beautiful women of all colors, and their temperament and qualitative nature are not owned by ordinary people, and they do not squint when they see this.
Hu Nu's skin is better than snow, and the deep hook reveals a huge chest, and the small waist twisting on the steel pipe makes the two brothers blush, and their hearts are hot.
"It turns out that this is what Brother Yu said about pole dancing, it's really beautiful!"
When the pole dance of the Hu Nu on the stage was full of enthusiasm, a group of musicians sat on the ox cart and played and sang the band swaggered through the market from the west of the street in turn, everyone was dressed in splendid costumes, and even the oxen pulling the cart were dressed in tiger skins or pretended to be rhinoceros and elephants, which really attracted the attention of many people in the audience.
These are folk bands near Chang'an, and they will come to show off their talents every year during the Shangyuan Festival, and compete with each other to see who is more awesome. It is equivalent to using the Yuan Festival to promote yourself, and there may be big customers coming to you to invite you to perform in the coming year.
The stage of the lantern tower in the Yanwang Mansion was so overwhelming that there were too many audiences around. Acrobats and opera performers who perform in other areas have also moved here. Running dry boats, walking ropes, wrestling sumo, and fighting cocks by lanterns......
Seeing that the surrounding situation is getting worse, the tourists around the stage are three layers inside and three layers outside, and the hot male eyes are staring at the bewitching posture of the beating little girls.
Li Yu sighed: "There are many roamers under the moon, and there are people in front of the lamp." The joy is endless, and the singing and dancing are bright. ”
A good poem did not attract praise, but Xin'er covered her mouth and snickered, Yang Shiyan, Li Cailing and other women rolled their eyes and sneered: "Prodigal! ”
The Shangyuan Festival is the Lantern Festival of later generations, but the Tang Dynasty did not have the custom of eating glutinous rice balls, and there was no Lantern Festival to hang riddles on the lanterns and guess the lantern riddles together, which was not until the Song Dynasty.
But this year's Shangyuan Festival has eaten rice balls and guessed lantern riddles!
After all the little ladies on the stage danced, everyone stood on the edge of the stage with a lantern in hand.
Devonie smiled at the hormonal junks in the audience and said, "Our Yanwang Mansion launched the lantern riddle guessing activity during the Shangyuan Festival, which one of the sisters can guess the riddles on the lanterns held by the sisters on the stage, and there are big gifts......
"Did you guess that I could be the lady's guest in the curtain?"
Someone in the audience immediately quipped, although vulgar, it attracted the attention of a large number of **.
Devine naughtily winked at the audience and said, "Among the gifts, there is a free invitation to invite Orchid to accompany the wine for free, don't miss it!" ”
"What a!"
Li Cailing, who was sitting at a roadside food stall not far from the Denglou, snorted, turned his head and glared at Li Yu, who was sitting next to him, and said in his heart: Brother Yu's junior grade is really not serious, and there are so many prodigal bearded girls in the house.
Stalls are not allowed on the streets of Chang'an, but the Shangyuan Festival is an exception. It's a pity that the people of Chang'an are busy celebrating the Yuan Festival. The ladies were busy dancing with the various lantern wheels and the courtesans under the lantern tower, and the ladies were dizzying to admire all kinds of beauties, but there were not many people who made money by setting up stalls on the street.
Li Yu saw this great business opportunity, how could he miss it. What's more, my group is tired and hungry, and there is no place to find a snack on the street to rest.
The shopkeepers of the Xinxiang Hall sent their men to set up dozens of food stalls on the street with light wheels, light towers, and lamp trees in Chang'an, where there was a large flow of people in Chang'an, and dozens of food stalls were set up on the street, and the modern rice balls that were boiled and white and round were sold, as well as the fried powder fruit with delicious yellow and crispy noodles.
Li Yu will take everyone to sit at the food stall on the side of the street not far from his lamp tower, eating fragrant meat-filled rice balls.
Tangyuan is not a new food for Xin'er and other people in Yanwang's mansion, but for Zhang Zhuo and Xiao Jinxuan, it is the first time for them to eat such delicious rice balls, white, round, smooth and tender, and they can't wait to become the king of big stomachs, eating and drinking without any image. Next to him was the sound of groups swallowing saliva one after another.
Not only here, now the Xinxiang Hall in the streets of Chang'an set up dozens of stalls to be overcrowded, many tourists in front of the food stalls lined up in anticipation. But the guys couldn't be busy, so they sent people back to the Xinxiang Hall to report to the shopkeeper, and quickly sent more people to transport the ingredients.
Tiberius and his friend Titus have been in Datang for four years, and they have never been tired of living in this world's largest metropolis for several years, and they sincerely praise this luxurious and magnificent Oriental giant city. He wore beautiful clothes, tied up his hair crown, and learned the etiquette and customs of the East.
When Titus saw him, he said, "You are not a holy Roman except for a face!"
Tiberius scoffed at this.
The glory of the Holy Roman Empire has long since ceased to exist, and it has been crushed in the face of Arab attacks, losing all the southern provinces such as Syria and Egypt, and has been repeatedly commanded by the enemy to the capital city of Constantinople. If it weren't for the mysterious Greek fire, the empire would have been destroyed by the barbarians.
The Shangyuan Festival was the most important festival in the Tang Dynasty, and Tiberius ran to the church and dragged his only fellow villager in Chang'an, Titus, out of the church and into the streets.
"It's His Royal Highness King Yan." After wandering around the street for a few hours, Tiberius, who was hungry, saw the food stall of the Xinxiang Palace, and beckoned Titus to pass, but at a glance saw that his proprietor, Li Yu, the king of Yan, was sitting in the stall with great interest and eating fragrant unknown food.
Titus's eyes lit up, it was a rare opportunity to meet King Yan tonight. Could it be that God, knowing the voice of your servant in the city, has given me this opportunity to extradite this young prince to become a member of God's people?
Tiberius ran over to meet Li Yu, and Titus followed closely, with a little excitement in his heart, constantly cheering himself up, and he must see the opportunity to preach the teachings of the Lord to the King of Yan.
When the guards saw that it was Tiberius, they did not stop him.
"I'll see you."
"Old men, come and sit here!" Li Yu greeted with a smile and winked at Tibilius.
Tiberius instantly understood the meaning of King Yan, swallowed His Royal Highness King Yan, who was about to shout, and changed it to: "Li Yang Jun is here, fortunately I will be lucky!" ”
Li Yu saw Father Titus following Tiberius, and saw his slightly nervous and excited expression, and knew that he was ready to preach to him again. He motioned to the guard beside him, and pulled the reluctant Titus outside the stall and sat on a small chair.
Tiberius didn't take Titus, knowing what he was thinking when he saw Queen Yan. With his life experience in the Tang Dynasty for several years, it is difficult for even ordinary people living at the bottom of society to extradite the main believers, let alone a high-ranking prince like King Yan.
Therefore, Tiberius was never optimistic about Titus's intention to preach in the Tang Kingdom.
You don't see, the Great Qin Monastery of the Nestorian (Nestorians) of the heretics expelled by the Holy See in Yiningfang has been established for decades.
But there is no Genesis, the Virgin in the arms, the Last Judgment, ...... in their churches The various murals that mark Christianity, on the contrary, carry two large clothes wearing yellow round-necked robes, wearing a hood, a jade belt, black boots on their feet, blowing beards and staring at the eyes that do not look like the big men of the Romans - the two immortal emperors of the Tang Dynasty.
But to this point, there are few believers, and they are still the Hu people from the Western Regions.
Titus built a so-called church to spread the teachings of orthodox Christianity next to the Daqin Temple, exposing the panic of the Daqin Temple, a heretic who was expelled by the Holy See to the Far East, for misinterpreting the teachings of Christianity.
Single-mindedly thinking of baptizing high-ranking dignitaries and ordinary people such as princes like Li Yu into faithful believers in God. Then the heretics, the Nestorians, these false Christians, were expelled again.
But in the past three years, it has developed several Hu merchants in the Western Regions and more than a dozen orchids with unfortunate lives. Without his generosity, Titus would have had to beg for food on the streets.