Chapter 185: Scheming (Asking for Everything)
In Datang, the fifth day of every month can be called the Dragon Boat Festival. However, with the Dragon Boat Festival as the festival, the most recorded is still the fifth day of the fifth month of May. The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Duanyang Festival, the Duanwu Festival, and the Heavy Five Festival.
Like the "Shangsi Festival" on the third day of the first month of March, and the "Qiqiao Festival" on the seventh day of the seventh month of July, the Dragon Boat Festival can also be regarded as one of the daughter's festivals of the Tang Dynasty, because the weather is neither hot nor cold at this time, it is suitable for girls to travel together, and there are all kinds of colorful programs to watch, and there are a lot of various foods.
Of course, in every festival suitable for travel, it is indispensable for all kinds of men and women to be together, or to find a reason to make a bunch, so this Dragon Boat Festival is also a good day for dating or blind date in disguise, and it is not too outrageous to say that it is one of the ancient Valentine's Day.
Since this is everyone's customary date day, how can Lin Sen not make good use of this opportunity to meet his sister Cheng Huaiyu.
After setting a meeting place with Cheng Huaiyu, Lin Sen took a good look at himself, brought a gift for his sister, a delicate wooden box, rode a takin with oily and slippery hair that was also combed, and went to the Furong Garden.
Today's colorful flags fluttering on the side of the Qujiang pool, the flow of people is like weaving, all kinds of men and women rubbing shoulders, and the Yaxing of the tour is still not reduced.
On the one hand, there is the moving spring color of Qujiang Pond, on the other hand, there are all kinds of snacks, or the performance of a hundred operas, as the only large-scale garden open to the public in Chang'an, in such a major festival, Furong Garden will naturally gather a large number of Chang'an citizens, and the entire Chang'an City is half empty for this.
After all, there were too few entertainment activities in ancient times, and in such a good day, all the citizens who could move couldn't wait to come here today.
In addition to enjoying the spring scenery, you can also see all kinds of beautiful women and handsome guys dressed up in flowers, which is not worth the trip.
What's more, the Dragon Boat Festival is an official festival of the Tang Dynasty, and the imperial court will hold a large-scale banquet according to the custom, and there will be a large number of rewards on the side of this Qujiang Pond, and many artists from the Jiaofang Division will be arranged to perform large-scale performances, which will naturally attract the scholars and girls of the whole city to follow.
Just like what is said in "Tang Jiayan": "The banquet of Qujiang, the market is listed, and Chang'an is almost half empty", it can be imagined that its grand occasion is unprecedented, and it can be regarded as one of the cases of economic development driven by eating and drinking with public funds.
Don't be surprised, because in the Tang Dynasty it was legal to eat and drink at public expense, and the imperial court had regulations that administrative institutions at the state and county levels could hold official banquets on a regular basis, and the chief and his staff would meet together, and the expenses would be paid by the government, which was called public banquets or official banquets. The most bizarre thing is that such a banquet is also allowed to recruit prostitutes, and the expenses are also paid by the public.
To catch up with the grand festival, according to the rules, all government agencies must hold publicly-funded banquets, which can be regarded as a way to enjoy with the people, and the Dragon Boat Festival is naturally not exempt from vulgarity. Moreover, as the first major garden activity after Li Shimin came to power, the scale of this year's event is even larger.
Lin Sen finally found a place nearby, and after depositing his mount, the takin, he carefully took the gift he had carefully prepared for Cheng Huaiyu and walked towards the agreed place.
He came relatively early, and of course he had to take a look at the beauties along the way, and take a look at all kinds of tricks. Most of the young women who traveled this time removed the curtain used to cover their faces, and proudly showed their faces, in case they saw which handsome guy they looked at.
On the other side, Cheng Huaiyu couldn't hold back his lovesickness for Lin Sen, so he called a group of little sisters early and rushed towards Qujiangchi.
Compared with ordinary residents of Chang'an, these nobles still have a relatively relaxed space, the location of the view is better, and of course it will be closer to the stage of the performance, which is a VIP area.
Cheng Huaiyu is as refreshing and generous as ever, without powder, compared with the past, there is more colored silk that must be tied on the Dragon Boat Festival, and the whole is still so neat.
And her little sisters are different, they are busy comparing their best makeup and most beautiful clothes one by one, and they want to show the most beautiful side to everyone.
If there is really a noble child who can make their hearts move, if they lose their ugliness, they will not regret dying. They are not like Cheng Huaiyu, who are already famous, and they are all Yunying's unmarried body.
Of course, it's not the same as Cheng Huaiyu, who hasn't cared about these all the time, they also have some other careful thoughts, the more they are in such a place of competition, the more they can't lose to those rivals, if they let those bewitching sluts gain the upper hand in front of them, I'm afraid that the good mood of the day will be ruined.
Therefore, even though Cheng Huaiyu urged them again and again, these little sisters still dressed up for a long time, until they felt that they could go out to meet people with confidence.
Lin Sen just knew that on such an important day, the girls would definitely not go out so quickly, so he had the leisure and elegance to wander all the way over, and by the way, he also found a lot of his own farmers here.
It seems that the farmers who sell snacks have already made a name for themselves, even in this extremely competitive Qujiang Pond, their stalls are the busiest, and Lin Sen just nodded to them and left, which can't affect their business, it's not easy to find such a lucrative day.
Under Cheng Huaiyu's urging, even though her girlfriends kept teasing her for being in a hurry to meet her lover, they still arrived at the viewing platform where the nobles gathered one step ahead of Lin Sen, enjoying the scenery and chatting at the same time.
is similar to Cheng Huaiyu and their side, most of these noble ladies are in groups of three or five, and they are chattering so lively.
However, where there are women, there are rivers and lakes, on the one hand, women often hold together, and on the other hand, they are used to finding some enemies for themselves.
Cheng Huaiyu and the others were chatting happily, and a group of girls over there leaned over with bad intentions.
Compared with Cheng Huaiyu and their group, most of them are girls from Wuxun's family, and the group of people who came over not only have more exquisite makeup and more exquisite clothes, but the key is the noble temperament in their bones, which seems to be more like the noble daughters of the high-ranking lords than Cheng Huaiyu and them, because these are all girls from several major families, and two of them should be regarded as Cheng Huaiyu's cousins.
It's just that when these two cousins faced Cheng Huaiyu, their performance was particularly bad, although they looked very enthusiastic and their faces were full of smiles, but the words were really more vicious than the other.
"Congratulations on finding Ruyi Langjun, or was married by His Majesty, but I don't know which son of a high family Lin Sen is? Why haven't we heard of a Lin family in Zhongnan Mountain? One of the sisters of the Cui family asked with concern.
"Yes, we were all worried that you would not be able to find your mother-in-law's family, but I didn't expect Your Majesty to give you a marriage, I am really happy for you, I don't know where your lover is? Let's take a look. Another sister of the Cui family is also not far behind, as if Cheng Huaiyu is not wanted.
"Oh, who is this who has fox odor on him?" Another girl from a family next to her, who said this was also vicious, and her eyes kept glancing at Cheng Huaiyu, which clearly implied that it was the smell on her body.
Cheng Huaiyu likes to exercise on weekdays, and relatively speaking, the metabolism on her body is naturally faster, and she may sweat more than other girls.
But before going out, she also took a good shower and changed clothes, after all, she wanted to see her sweetheart, even if she walked a little sweaty, but it would be too much to say that it smelled of foxes.