As early as the seventh day of the first month, the county town has been set up high mountain shed, the lamp mountain is colorful, the gold and blue shoot each other, the splendid intermingle, the north is all colored knots, the fairy stories are also painted on it, or the people who sell medicine and hexagrams in the market are so on. There has long been a lantern market that sells lanterns and various items.

It was the first time that Wang saw the real version of the Lantern Festival, which was much more magnificent than the so-called Lantern Festival Lantern Festival in Ditan Park in his previous life.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, Di Qing allowed a few of them to go to the lantern exhibition together, and everyone prepared separately. After gathering and setting off, I saw that Rou'er and Yuexia were already dressed neatly. The two girls are all in the same body, Rou'er wears pearls and emeralds, and is dressed in pale pink robes, which are more playful after being carefully dressed; The jade plum under the moon, the white hosta of snow willow, and the white robe with sable cicada sleeves look even more vivid and beautiful in the moonlight. The two men carried Bodhi leaf-shaped lanterns and followed the king to the left and right. Behind him are He Libo and Lu Shenyan.

A wife and a concubine, so young and beautiful, and know the way of a woman, although they have not passed the door, but the king is proud of the blessings of Qi people in the future. It is a man who is not a young man. The two of them were even more eager to see the handsome young man next to the king, which attracted passers-by to look sideways.

A few people walked in the bazaar, and saw a cart loaded with flower plates, with moths and red lights inserted on it, and they were noisily selling on the street, and the car was loaded with lactose balls, rare fruits from the north and south, soap cakes, Chengsha dumplings and other foods. It's okay that the moon and the others arrived, but the king was dazzled.

Then look at the street hook fence tiles hanging lights. The law of the brothel did not allow prostitutes to participate in night tours, so the prostitutes dressed up in fancy clothes sat on the porch, laughing with the merry children, and using bamboo poles to make lanterns, which looked like flying stars from a distance.

The streets are crowded with people, and artists and artists compete to perform on the streets, including acrobatics, rap, dance, acrobatics, music, martial arts performances, etc. Speaking of lanterns, the king can't see it, dragon boats, phoenixes, stories of the tower, all kinds of lanterns, as well as sheepskin lamps, shadow lights. There are also lamps made of silk, on which poems are written, and hidden words. Wang Fang thought to himself, this lantern riddle turned out to have existed in the Song Dynasty.

Everyone took pleasure in guessing the lantern riddle, to see who guessed the line to a place first, and saw a silk lantern written: "Han is like Hu Erhu like Han, the makeover is always general, only on the bank of the Fenchuan River" The riddle is to guess one person. Seeing this, the moon reached out and tore off the lantern and threw it on the ground. A few steps further, I saw the same light again. Wang Pan suddenly felt that this matter was not good, so he put He Libo and Rou'er together, Lu Shenyan and the next team of the moon, respectively looked for this lamp, and told the moon to calm down. A few people almost split up, and sure enough, as the king deduced, this lamp was not one or two, but dozens.

Wang next planned to let Yuexia go back first, but Yuexia refused, seeing that Yuexia was also angry, Wang next looked at the surrounding crowds, if he went back to send soldiers to the palace at this time, the impact would be even worse. Let them escort them back first. But these lanterns were originally made by the people, some of them were signed, and some of them were not. Some people asked and said they didn't know the owner of the lamp.

Yuexia was going to burn these lanterns, Lu Shenyan said: "This lantern is not one or two, how to burn it, besides, there are so many people." And they all looked at the king. The king looked around, and there happened to be a small open space not far away, which was originally used by the artist to come out and rap, and he asked the storyteller to borrow land. The artist was full of joy and took two taels of silver, and lent the vacant land and the storytelling to the king.

Wang ordered Yuexia and Lu Shenyan to be in a group, and He Libo and Rou'er in a group to take off the lanterns and take them to this open space. At this time, the people who were curious also came, and the king took out silver taels and 30 yuan a piece to receive such lanterns.

Don't underestimate the 30 yuan, the people eat about 1.5 liters of grain a day, and the non-staple food that is eaten with it is about 40% of the grain. These foods were made into two meals, breakfast and dinner, and the Song people did not eat lunch, and generally ate a little snack at noon. It costs about 20 yuan to buy 1.5 litres of grain and the required non-staple food.

In less than a while, all the lanterns found in the lantern festival were collected here. There was a hill in the clearing. The king said to the crowd, "May I ask who you know about this riddle?" ”

The people looked at each other, but no one was willing to answer, and the king knew that they didn't dare to say, after all, Di Qing was the prefect. Then he said: "Don't worry, if you know, just say, there is another 100 silver rewards." Hearing him say this, someone shouted, "It's Lord Di Qingdi." ”

The king smiled and ordered Lu Shenyan to reward him, except for the moon, the rest of the people didn't know what the king was selling.

But the king said: "This lantern riddle is indeed talking about Lord Di Qingdi" The people were in an uproar. This is obviously scolding Di Qing, some people believe it, some people don't believe it and say: "This son, Master Di is a hero." Others said: "It's not that we haven't seen it, but I heard that Di Qing has the intention of rebelling." ”

The king said to the crowd, "Listen to my story!" ”

Everyone saw that this boy was born heroically and sassy, and he had just received the silver taels, and saw that his move was strange, in the past, it cost money to listen to books, but today he also got silver, so they simply listened to what the king had to say.

Wang Fang knew that this lamp was someone creating public opinion, and even thought that Di Qing had a doctor's advice at this time, if he knew that his condition was not good at this time. After settling down, his mind was churning Di Qing's heroic century, and when he saw him, he said:

"Today I also want to tell a story, in the first year of Song Renzong Baoyuan (1038), Li Yuanhao, the leader of the Dangxiang clan, proclaimed himself emperor in the northwest and established Western Xia. At this time, there was a commander of Yanzhou

Born in a peasant family, he practiced martial arts since he was a child, and was good at horseback riding and archery. Brave and good at fighting, many times as a vanguard, leading the soldiers to seize the pass, he every battle with a cloak scattered, wearing a copper mask, a horse in the lead, invincible, in 4 years, participated in 25 battles, 8 arrows in the body, but never afraid.

During these four years, he led 25 battles in Dali, Thanh Hoa, Yulin, Hunzhou Chuan, Nan'an, Anyuan and other places. More than 2,300 tents were collected from the Western Xia tribes, and more than 5,780 people were captured. ”

Saying this, he heard an exclamation from the crowd.

Wang Bi continued: "This person was instructed by Fan Zhongyan Fan to give him "Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period", and said to him: "I will not know the past and the present, and I will be brave. He was even more angry and read, and learned the art of war of generals since the Qin and Han dynasties.

In the fourth year of Emperor You, Nong Zhigao, the leader of the ethnic minorities in Guangxi, raised troops against the Song Dynasty, proclaimed himself Emperor Renhui, recruited troops, attacked the city, and fought until Guangdong. We sent troops to recruit several times, but all of them lost our troops and returned defeated. At this time, after only serving as the deputy privy councillor for less than three months, he volunteered to go to the table.

Shengshang was very happy, appointed him as the envoy of Xuanhui South Court, Xuanfu Jinghu South and North Road, controlled the thieves in Guangnan, and personally set up a banquet for him in the Vertical Arch Palace. ”

At that time, the Song army suffered defeats, the morale of the army was shaken, and some generals attacked without authorization, and returned with heavy casualties. The general we are going to talk about, he drastically rectified military discipline, executed those who did not obey orders, and greatly boosted the military prestige, and then ordered the troops to stay still, and transferred and gathered a large amount of grain and grass from all over the country. When Nong Zhigao's army saw it, they thought that the Song army would not attack in the near future and relaxed their vigilance. However, he took advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness, suddenly divided the army into three armies, first, middle and rear, and personally took the lead in a rapid attack, captured Kunlun Pass in one fell swoop, occupied favorable terrain, and then ordered a part of the army to attack from the front. He took charge of the battle flag and led the cavalry, divided into left and right wings, detoured behind them, attacked front and rear, and won the battle. ”

The crowd applauded.

When the king saw that his speech was almost complete, he said, "Do you know who I am talking about?" ”

The people said, "I am Lord Di Qing. The king smiled and just wanted to speak.

Suddenly, a person flashed out of the crowd and said, "There is merit in connivance, but there can be no rebellion." ”

The king looked at this man, about thirty years old, with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, and when he talked to him, his eyes were looking directly at the moon and Rou'er. Yuexia said angrily: "Why do you say that my father is against me? ”

The man said: "Everyone knows that Di Qing Daxiangguo Temple wears yellow clothes. ”

The king motioned to the moon not to speak, and he was rude to the people. "Guys, look at me. What color is the dress under the moon today?"

The people said, "White? "Yellow"

Originally, the king was wearing a white robe, but it happened that the moonlight and the surrounding lanterns were red, reflecting the clothes, and everyone looked at the lights for a long time, so naturally their eyes were a little flowery.

The king said: "Everyone is so close to me, they don't know what color I wear, how can Lord Nadi see clearly when he is on the steps of the Great Xiangguo Temple." Besides, at that time, the adults were standing among the people, just like I was at this time. There were no soldiers around. Is this called wearing yellow clothes and rebelling? If it counts as a call. ,,,So what about me at this time? ”

He laughed and said, and everyone laughed and said, "Yes." It seems that Master Di was really wronged. ”

The king continued: "Everyone knows that the emperor once gave Lord Di to wash the tattoos on his face. But the lord said: "The saint does not care about the background of the minister, I will leave the tattoo to let the people know that as long as they bravely kill the enemy and be loyal to the country, they will have a bright future if they make more military achievements." ”

After speaking, he asked everyone with encouragement: "Do you think what Master Di said is right?" ”

The people shouted, "Your Excellency is right! ”

The king shouted again: "Everyone shout with me, as long as you are loyal to the country, you will have a bright future!" ”

The atmosphere of the crowd was driven by him, and they also shouted together. "As long as you are loyal to the country, you can have a bright future!" Wang Fang laughed secretly in his heart, those speeches and incitement in his previous life were really effective,

And he said, "There are such loyal ministers, and there are others who make such lamps." What do you think? ”

Someone in the crowd shouted, "Burn it!" Then there was a cry to burn the lantern.

The king smiled: "As long as you are loyal to the country, you can have a bright future!" If you agree with General Di Qing's words, you can burn it. ”

The crowd had already been motivated, and it would be impassioned to say that. So three or five people came and lit lanterns to form a fire in the open field. The people took money and listened to stories, and were inspired. When he looked back for the king, he was long gone. It turned out that he had already taken advantage of the chaos to leave.

The king left and returned to the house, and several people laughed all the way. The man who did not pay attention to the sharp-beaked monkey's gills had already sent someone to follow him. When the king returned home, he did not inform Di Qing of the matter. After a long time, I forgot about it.

But how could Di Qing not know, while being grateful to the king, he was already angry in his heart, and when the king left Chenzhou, someone came to think of proposing marriage under the moon.