The lively scene on the twelfth day of the first lunar month in the palace, just three days later, ushered in the most lively day of the year, that is, the Shangyuan Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Shangyuan Festival is the later Lantern Festival, which is almost as old as the Spring Festival, and in history, it is also different from later, and has not yet become an accessory or decoration of the Spring Festival.

This festival was very valued in ancient times, especially among young people. And the reason why it is valued by young people is not because there are dumplings to eat on this festival, but because this festival is another form of Valentine's Day in ancient times.

In the past, there were no street lights, only during the Shangyuan Festival, the streets and alleys would be lit up, watching the lanterns, appreciating the lanterns, and guessing the lantern riddles, which was the main content of this festival.

It is also because of this that in ancient times, everyone who could never go out easily and the jasper of the small family would choose this festival to go out to enjoy the lanterns.

Especially in the Ming Dynasty, special attention was paid to the lantern festival of the Shangyuan Festival, and even the imperial palace had to hold a lantern festival.

The folk are even more so, from the eighth day of the first month to put on the lantern, until the seventeenth day of the first month to remove the lantern, which lasts for ten days, of course, the most solemn day is the fifteenth day of the first month.

Parents who don't let girls go out on weekdays will also allow them to go out shopping on this holiday.

As a result, this festival has gradually become an opportunity for young men and women to observe each other, examine each other, and even get to know each other, meet and date.

Therefore, when the Shangyuan Festival in the second year of Chongzhen arrived, the liveliness of the palace was naturally extraordinary.

Those palace officials and ordinary palace maids who have registered to apply for leaving the palace and returning home will leave the palace and return home one after another after the Shangyuan Festival. This is their last Shangyuan Festival in the palace.

And those female officials in the palace who are homeless but have reached the age of marriage and want to choose a husband and then be married out of the palace by the Son of Heaven are even more afraid and looking forward to the arrival of this festival.

As nervous as these palace maids who are willing to marry and leave the palace in the palace, there are also middle and lower-level military attaches from Jingying, Guards, Tiancewei, and Yulinwei who signed up for a blind date.

For such a thing, whether it is the Jingying, the first town of the Guards, or the leaders of Tiancewei and Yulinwei, they all attach great importance to it.

First, this is the emperor himself ordered to marry the palace maid, look at the scene of Huang Degong marrying his wife, you know how much the emperor and queen attach importance to these married palace maids, since the emperor and queen attach importance to it, of course they should also pay attention to it.

Second, this is a lifelong event for the generals and officers under his command, if you delay his lifelong event, can you still expect him to give you his life in the future?

Therefore, the whole thing has been passed out from the news, to the will, and to now, although it has been less than half a month, even Qi Yuanbi, who was arranged to be stationed at Bauhinia Pass, rushed to the capital as scheduled and waited outside the palace gate early.

There are many other people with Qi Yuanbi, according to Qi Yuanbi's estimate, I am afraid that there will be thousands of people, and it is really the legendary wolf with more meat and less meat!

However, officials like Qi Yuanbi are very few of them.

Qi Yuanbi, as Qi Jiguang's nephew, of course he will not find his wife, he came to participate in the blind date because he was widowed.

I used to marry a wife, but unfortunately my wife died early and I had no children, but now after three years, I am worthy of my wife.

It is also a serious thing to marry another stepfamily and pass on the family to the old relatives.

Because his father Qi Jin died in Liaodong very early, and his mother also died early, the head of the family is the eldest brother Qi Yuangong.

This time, after Qi Yuanbi reported his name, he deliberately made a detour to Tongzhou and asked his eldest brother Qi Yuangong's opinion, and of course Qi Yuangong agreed.

So today, Qi Yuanbi, who is a famous general, is also here.

Of course, after Qi Yuanbi came, he soon saw two tower-like pestles in front of the palace gate in the crowd of people dressed up like dogs.

Speaking of life, these two people are not as good as Huang Degong.

Huang Degong has at least one old mother in the hall, and Meng Ruhu and Hu Dawei are both lonely old brothers, and they don't even have a family.

These two people are both from outside the Saiwai people, and like the current Liaodong Marshal Man Gui, he insists that he is Han, but in fact he is not Han or two, just like Mangui, 80% or 90% are Mongolians, or there are Mongolians with Han blood in the Saibei grassland.

But no matter which ethnic group's blood is left in their veins, these two people, like Man Gui, eventually all died for the Ming Dynasty, but they have no water for the loyalty of the Ming Dynasty, and they pay more attention to loyalty and righteousness than many people who are born as Han scholars and doctors.

In addition to standing in front of the palace gate with his eyes closed and ignoring anyone, Qi Yuanbi also saw some other classmates who had been crawling together in the lecture hall.

Of course, among these people, there is also Yang Dagui, who is now also getting ahead.

This Yang Dagui was the first batch of recruits in Tongzhou to reclaim the land, and successfully became the youngest son of Yang Bajin, a homeless man who was the head of the village.

Although Yang Dagui was born as a homeless person, he followed his father Yang Bajin to live outside the pass when he was a child, and when he was a child, he went to the mountains to hunt, and he could use a big bow and heavy arrows, and he also served as an auxiliary soldier in Liaodong Town, knew the rules in the army, and followed his father and brother to wander for many years, and developed a particularly hard-working character.

Therefore, when Yang Dagui was in the training camp of the Zhuozhou New Army, he was the top of the training, and in less than two months, he became the chief of the army, and after the assessment and selection of the first town of the Guards, he successfully became the platoon commander and had the rank of general.

Now there are more than 20 people, his eldest brother Yang Dafu, under the father's Zhang Luo, finally married a sister-in-law for himself, although he is also a widow who lost his father, but after all, she is a woman with complete hands and feet, who can give birth and raise, and with a wife, she can be regarded as having a home in Guannei.

Dad repeatedly urged him to go home on a blind date, but Yang Dagui knew that the rules in the Guards were not ordinary, he had just been in the army for more than a month, and he was quite important, how could he say that he would go home on a blind date when he went home.

What he never expected was that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty would be so thoughtful, what he wanted, what he wanted to marry, His Majesty the Emperor arranged a blind date, and he went to the palace to go on a blind date!

If this hadn't been said by Lord Qian himself, no one would have been able to believe it!

In this way, Yang Dagui, who was born as a homeless person in Liaodong, also took the bus to the palace on a blind date.

When it came to the time of the time, when the palace door was locked, but at this time, the palace door rumbled open, and these lieutenant generals and colonels from the army, of course, knew that the rules were strict in the palace ban, and they could not talk nonsense, so everyone was silent, stood in line, and under the watchful eye of the Jinyi guards on duty, the fish rushed in and entered the palace.

At this time, in the noon gate, in front of the Huangji Gate, the lanterns are colorful, the lights are bright, and the lanterns of various styles are hung everywhere, and there is a festive and joyful atmosphere.

There is also a large temporary platform in front of the Imperial Gate, and it is surrounded by colorful and colorful lanterns.

More than 1,000 middle and low-level military attachés, under the guidance of the eunuchs in the palace and the guards on duty, came to the square in front of the Huangji Gate, the square of Nuoda, where more than 1,000 people stood, and it still seemed very empty.

Qi Yuanbi followed everyone to the square, and under the prompting of the eunuchs in the palace, he lined up to receive the number plate and listened to the explanation of the rules.

Each person has a number plate of this system, with their name and place of origin written on it, but not their position.

Looking at the number plate in his hand, Qi Yuanbi was secretly a little worried, although he understood that the reason for not writing the position on the license plate was to prevent the woman from being snobbish and specially selecting the high position, but looking at the tall and powerful colleagues in the army, the confidence that he felt was stable before coming suddenly dissipated.