Half a month, Liu Xu spent half a month in a leisurely play.

This is probably his last day of easy enjoyment, because after the Shangyuan Festival, he will go to the state government to be a clerk, and I am afraid that there will be no such leisurely days in the future.

Time always passes, and in a blink of an eye, the Shangyuan Festival has arrived!

Shangyuan Festival, that is, the Lantern Festival in later generations, is another carnival festival for the people of the Great Song Dynasty. Just like the Mid-Autumn Festival, the streets and alleys of Qingzhou City have been lively since the beginning of the day. Dragon and lion dances, stilt performers, and jugglers all flock to those bustling streets. Of course, like the Mid-Autumn Festival, the evening is the carnival and lively ** of the Shangyuan Festival.

On the night of the Shangyuan Festival, when Liu Xu and Xu Jiner walked to the streets, the streets and alleys had already become a sea of joy. The lights and candles are burning, the gongs and drums are sounding, the firecrackers are ringing in unison, the lights are endless, and there is a festive everywhere, none of which shows that the Shangyuan Festival is one of the most carnival and happiest festivals in Qingzhou.

A full moon hung high in the air, Xu Jin'er pulled Liu Xu to walk excitedly on Haidai Street, going to the grocery stall to pick up a few gadgets, buying a few snacks to taste, and going to see juggling. Seeing Xu Jin'er happy like a little girl, Liu Xu couldn't help but be happy, and accompanied him here and there with joy, but he also found a lot of fun!

The lantern festival on Haidai Street during the Shangyuan Festival is very lively, crowded with people who come to watch. All kinds of lanterns, some are placed on the street, some are hung on the ropes that are pulled, not only the rich people want to make lanterns, but even the government yamen also wants to make lanterns and enjoy with the people.

On Haidai Street, the color building, the color shop continues, the lamp fang, the lamp tower, the light gallery, the lamp shed are connected for several miles, whether the people or all kinds of shops, or the homes of the dignitaries, all are full of lights. There are also lantern riddles on many lanterns, the elegance and vulgarity are different, many literati and scholars stand under the lamp and shake their heads to taste, Haidai Street is brightly lit, lively and extraordinary.

There is an endless stream of tricksters and snacks on the streets. Shangyuan Festival, the whole Qingzhou city is very lively, the scholars and girls all travel at night, these three days can all put down their bodies, enjoy the joy, many of the rare to see those wealthy daughters are also accompanied by the maids and slaves to watch the lights on the street, so that the whole Qingzhou city is jammed with cars and horses, and the crowd is surging.

If it is usually so crowded, it is inevitable that some people with anxious surnames will not be able to help but scold, but now that it is a festival, what they want is this lively energy, but no one feels impatient. Everyone is taking a figure-of-eight step, looking around, pointing and laughing, if the light wheel, lamp tree, and lamp tower in front of the door of a family are new, and the style is exquisite, it attracts many people to watch.

Liu Xu and Xu Jin'er were also attracted by the gorgeous lanterns and also came to a row of lanterns. Under the lanterns, there are already many people watching lantern riddles. From time to time, cheers were heard, and it was the people who had guessed the lantern riddle that received the delicate lantern.

Xu Jin'er couldn't help but be interested, and immediately urged Liu Xu to guess a few, she also wanted a lantern. In Xu Jin'er's opinion, his husband is the first talent in Qingzhou, and it is easy to guess a few little lantern riddles!

Liu Xu only smiled bitterly, fortunately, he had seen a lot of lantern riddles in his later life, and he was looking for the lantern riddles he could guess among the many lanterns hanging at the moment!

Liu Xu even looked at a lot, but he couldn't guess it, so he looked for it along the colorful lanterns hanging in a row.

Fortunately, among the last few in this row, Liu Xu found that there was one he would. I saw that the riddle written on the lantern was: It rained in the east and in the west; The riddle is: the sentence "A Fang Palace". Liu Xu had seen this lantern riddle in later generations, and immediately pointed to the owner of the row of lanterns and said: "The riddle of this lantern is" and the climate is uneven"?

The owner of the lantern said with a smile: "Exactly, this lantern belongs to the child!" As he spoke, he used a pole to pick up the lantern lantern that Liu Xu had guessed correctly and handed it to Xu Jin'er who was standing next to Liu Xu.

Xu Jin'er happily stepped forward to take it.

Seeing that the lanterns were in hand, Liu Xu and Xu Jin'er were about to go to another place to shop, when they suddenly heard someone: "Look at the son's different face, the life of wealth and nobility, can you make a portrait of the son." ”

Liu Xu looked at the place where the voice came from, and saw a middle-aged literati sitting there under a tall willow tree full of colorful lanterns, beckoning people to paint portraits. There was also a banner next to him that read: Ibu face, probably also doubles as a fortune-telling business. In this era, there were no cameras, so there were still many people looking for someone to paint a portrait of themselves. However, the middle-aged literati's business did not seem to be very good, because there was no one in front of the stall.

Liu Xu took a few steps forward and asked, "How much does it cost to make a painting?" Liu Xu took a closer look at the middle-aged literati, his eyebrows were thoughtful, his eyes were resolute, and he looked like a bit of an elegant and uninhibited demeanor.

"Five pieces of money are enough, and only paintings are made for those who are destined."

"Five-run money!" Liu Xu was a little surprised, you must know that ordinary people can't use so much money for two or three months! No wonder no one is willing to ask him to paint, and the price is too high! Liu Xu was not interested in painting a portrait of himself, so he asked the price and felt that it was ridiculously expensive, although Wuguan money is not a big deal for Liu Xu now, but there is no need for him to waste it here, so he turned around and wanted to leave with Xu Jin'er.

"Does Childe know that he is a heavenly machine?" Seeing that Liu Xu wanted to leave, the middle-aged literati suddenly said a strange word.

Liu Xu couldn't help but be stunned, turned his head and asked, "What is Tianji?" ”

"Don't divulge it! But you can count a hexagram for your son below! ”

Liu Xu couldn't help but be speechless, doesn't this mean that he didn't say it, he said in his heart: Nima, you are a magic stick, if you want to fool money, you can say it clearly, what kind of wit is playing, and you don't want to make me money!

However, Liu Xu thought about the word heavenly machine, and suddenly felt a shock in his heart, could it be that this person really has some physiognomy and can see that he has traveled through? At the moment, Liu Xu couldn't help but feel a little strange in his heart, could he really have such a wonderful physiognomy and see through that he had come through time? But Liu Xu thought about it, and said in his heart: Maybe there is really a powerful physiognomy, that time when he saw Zhang Zhen, didn't he say that he was taking away his life? It seems that he has come through time. However, Zhang Zhen is Chen Jun's master, and it should be true that he is very good at physiognomy, but does this down-and-out literati also have a good physiognomy?

Liu Xu looked at the middle-aged literati and saw that he couldn't see anything, so he asked, "How much is a hexagram?" ”

"Five times enough money!"

Nima, it's five times again, you can't change the number, just recognize the five runs, right? Although Liu Xu is not bad for money, he is not willing to waste it on more boring fortune telling, which is more boring than a portrait. Besides, Liu Xu saw that the middle-aged literati didn't look like he had any clever physiognomy, so he wanted to turn around and leave immediately.

At this time, I saw Xu Jin'er looking at the painting made by the middle-aged literati, and her eyes were full of heat. Liu Xu suddenly thought that girls love beauty, and Xu Jiner must want to paint one. So Liu Xu said to the middle-aged scribe: "This fortune telling is exempt, and I don't want to do any portraits as a big man, but since it is fate, why don't you bother Your Excellency to paint a portrait of this girl?" ”。

"Okay, then invite the girl to come and sit here."

Xu Jin'er glanced at Liu Xu happily, and went to the chair to do it properly!

Then I saw the middle-aged literati, splashing ink, the pen walked the dragon and snake, and in less than a quarter of an hour, Xu Jin'er's portrait became vivid on the paper, and he painted it really fast.

Liu Xu took a look, Xu Jin'er in the painting has a good shape and temperament, a pair of beautiful eyes are even more brilliant, and there are thousands of tenderness in the sass, which is quite expressive. This middle-aged scribe's painting skills are extraordinary!

After Xu Jin'er read it, she was also happy, carefully dried the ink, and then carefully rolled it up and put it away.

At that moment, Liu Xu had paid the money, and Xu Jin'er was just about to leave, when the middle-aged scribe spoke up again: "Looking at the face of Gongzi, he must not be a mortal, and he may be extremely rich in the future, and his future is limitless!" Since Childe doesn't want to count a hexagram, but you and I are finally destined, I see that Childe is also a scholar, so I will give Childe a clumsy work in the next! As he spoke, he handed a pair of scrolls to Liu Xu.

Liu Xu said in his heart: What kind of fate do we have, if you didn't call me, I wouldn't have paid attention to you at all. However, when others give themselves things, Liu Xu doesn't want to excuse himself, don't give things for nothing, don't want them in vain. At that moment, Liu Xu took the scroll, unfolded it and took a look, and saw that it was a landscape painting with extraordinary brushwork, so he immediately thanked the middle-aged literati, and said goodbye to the middle-aged scribe and Xu Jin'er to continue shopping.

Looking at Liu Xu in the distance, the middle-aged literati suddenly showed a meaningful smile.

Liu Xu and Xu Jin'er had enough shopping on Haidai Street, so they turned to the street on the bank of the Nanyang River and walked along the bank of the Nanyang River to Yangxi Lake.

The joyful day of the Shangyuan Festival is also indispensable for the programs of literati and scholars, and the annual Yangxi Poetry Club will also be held on the evening of the Shangyuan Festival.

Yangxi Lake is located on the west side of Nanyang City, connected with the Nanyang River, with beautiful scenery! The lakeside is a place where wealthy families in Qingzhou gather.

Of course, the scenery of Yangxi Lake during the Shangyuan Festival is not too beautiful, after all, it is winter when all trees wither, there is no vitality, and no matter how beautiful the place is, it can't see the beauty. But there is a wonderful thing about Yangxi Lake, that is, no matter how cold the day is, Yangxi Lake will not freeze, because many springs at the bottom of Yangxi Lake are hot springs. The poetry meeting of the literati is indispensable for the song and dance performances of the famous and elegant memory, the Nanyang River sometimes freezes, and the cruise boat is difficult to drive, and Yangxi Lake does not freeze all year round, so there is no such concern, so the annual Shangyuan poetry meeting will be held on the shore of Yangxi Lake.

There are several gardens on the shore of Yangxi Lake, among which the Cui family's Runyuan is the most famous. The poetry club said, the restaurant on the shore of Yangxi Lake, is full of literati who chant poetry, and many gardens also have poetry clubs where literati gather, but the most powerful talents and the most powerful literati naturally gather at the poetry meeting in Runyuan. At the poetry meeting on the day of the Shangyuan Festival, the literati were all proud to receive an invitation from the Cui family to participate in the poetry meeting.

Liu Xu naturally also received an invitation from the Cui family. Not to mention the relationship between Liu Xu and Cui Ye, he is only the name of Liu Xu's first genius in Qingzhou, and he is indispensable for such an important poetry club.

The bustle on the bank of the Nanyang River is not worse than Haidai Street, where Liu Xu and Xu Jiner walk through the lively crowd.

Liu Xu really has no interest in the poetry club, he can't do it himself, and he is not good at plagiarism, because Liu Xu now has a headache when he hears the lyrics. However, Cui Ye told himself to go, and it was difficult for him to refuse. Liu Xu planned to go to Runyuan's poetry meeting to meet Cui Ye, so he hurriedly flashed people.

Suddenly, there was a burst of cheers from the crowd, it turned out that it was more than half of the hour, and it was time to set off fireworks!

There was a loud "bang", and a brilliant firework exploded in the sky, and the fireworks began to be set off. The exploded fireworks were like a beautiful lotus flower spreading its petals in the air. Immediately after that, the fireworks flew into the sky again, and the sound of loud firecrackers and the brilliant fireworks flew in the sky. All kinds of colorful fireworks decorate the sky into a flower, and the night sky suddenly becomes dazzling. All kinds of fireworks are like thousands of purples and thousands of reds, full of flowers, full of stars, and a hundred flowers are blooming...... Coupled with the background of the sky, it seems that the fireworks are like fairies in the sky, what a magnificent scene!

Xu Jin'er looked at the beautiful scene in the sky and couldn't help but be intoxicated.

Liu Xu sighed, it turned out that the gunpowder technology in this period had been so developed that it could create such gorgeous and colorful fireworks. Liu Xu remembered knowing that it seemed that the firearms used in war had just appeared at this time, and they were still quite backward, and he couldn't help but think that maybe he could use what he had learned in later generations to improve the firearms and make them sharper. If a batch of powerful firearms is built, equipped with an elite firearms unit, Liu Xu can't help but think a little too much

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