Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, these days Wang Pan and He Libo get up early every day to practice, but He Libo is more cautious, and he didn't come out of the basket last time, but sometimes he is still absent-minded, Wang Fang knows that this big brother is really tempted, and Xiao Lu also arranged for someone to inquire about the Li girl.

Tong Zhong brought Tong Xiao, and when Wang saw Tong Zhong coming, he specially ordered someone to order tea in the study. Speaking of Wang Bian's trip to Jianzhou to find tea, Tong Zhong told Wang Bian about tea and Buddha's relationship.

Tea drinking became a fashion that first began in monasteries in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, Buddhism was prevalent, and the temple had a special tea hall, which was a place for monks to discuss Buddhist principles and entertain donors to drink tea and taste tea. There is a "tea drum" in the northwest corner of the Dharma hall to summon the monks to drink tea by percussion. Monks sit in meditation every day, and drink tea after burning a stick of incense. In addition, there is a "tea head", which is specially designed to boil water and boil tea, and serve tea to guests.

In the monastery, tea is used to offer the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha) and entertain pilgrims, gradually forming a strict tea drinking etiquette and a fixed tea drinking routine. The abbot of Pingsu invited the monks of the whole temple to eat tea, which was called "Pu Cha"; During the annual "Great Invitation", after the new deacon monks are decided, the abbot has a tea party.

Tea and Zen are increasingly integrated, and finally condensed into the Zen forest French that has been passed down through the ages and has been used at home and abroad. "Tea means Zen, and Zen means no tea. I don't know the taste of Zen, that is, I don't know the taste of tea. (Ze'an Zongpeng's "Tea Zen Same Taste") In the point of "enlightenment", tea and Zen have reached the same level.

During the conversation, Wang Bian also glanced at Tong Zhonggao, and this person did not just want to become a monk because of the embarrassment of life, but devoted himself to cultivating the Fa. I thought it would be nice if this boy had his father's attainments.

Wang Bei personally sent Tongzhong out, went back to the inner house and walked into the courtyard garden, just in time to see Yuexia talking to a mother-in-law, who was talking to Yuexia with a few clothes in her hand. Wang Fang thought to himself, afraid that this is what they call the mother-in-law. Look at the mother-in-law's old dragon clock, probably the weather is still relatively cold,

Passing by them, listening to the moon speak, the mother-in-law sat in the hall for a while.

Granny Ao coughed and said, "No, I'll rush back after the girl has collected these clothes." ”

When Wang saw this mother-in-law, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the end of the hero, and the twilight of the beauty. The old man was not in his brilliance, with pale hair and coarse cloth clothes, and it seemed that the king really sympathized with this mother-in-law.

Yuexia saw the king coming and beckoned: "This is the Ao mother-in-law I told you about?" Then he said to Granny Ao: "This is the prince of Mayer's house."

Wang came over and said respectfully, "Hello mother-in-law." He was respectful, but he didn't expect the mother-in-law to look at him, but the smile on his face, which was still smiling, slowly solidified, his eyes widened in surprise, and he almost couldn't get up in one breath, and the king didn't know who he had become in the eyes of his mother-in-law.

Yuexia hurriedly followed Granny Ao's back, Granny Ao slowly came to her senses, turned around and walked out silently, muttering to herself as she walked: "Isn't it?" Isn't it? Looking at her vicissitudes of life, the king was a little dazed, what is it?

Wang Bi turned his head and asked Yuexia, "Did you hear what she said?" What is not? ”

Yuexia tilted her head and thought about it, but she didn't know what Granny Ao was talking about: "Looking at her mother-in-law like that, she doesn't seem to know if Gongzi is someone she once knew?" ”

The two looked again, and when Wang saw Yuexia sneeze, he hurriedly pulled her back to the room. Walking into the hall, I saw that Lu Shenyan and his wife were busy arranging lanterns, and He Libo was also busy.

Yuexia looked at the king and said, "Time is so fast, it turns out to be a year." The tone was slightly sad. Wang Bi naturally knew that a few people were still in Chenzhou at this time last year, and there are still a few people today, but the difference is that they are already in Bianjing, and Wang Bi also has his own mansion. Looking back on this year, what a change.

Seeing that the moon was in a bad mood, the king comforted, is it okay to go out with you today? The two of them went out of Meyer's Mansion, entered the inner city, saw the lights in the city, and walked around the imperial city with the flow of people.

But seeing that the main gate of the imperial city is colored as a mountain tower shadow lantern, a terrace has been erected, and a mountain shed has been set up inside and outside the imperial city.

Outside the palace, there are three horizontal gates, each with a big card of color knots and golden books, the middle is called the capital gate, the road is said to be left and right, the door of the left and right guards, and there is a big card that says: - Xuanhe and the people are happy -

The king pointed to the colorful mountain to see under the moon, the color mountain left and right formed Manjushri Bodhisattva riding a lion, Fuxian Bodhisattva riding a white elephant of the color knot model, the Bodhisattva's arms can move, each in the hand to point out the five ways of water. The method is to use a shaft to twist the water into a water tank at the height of the lamp mountain, and release the water regularly, like a waterfall, and lead the water to the hands of the Bodhisattva, its ingenuity is really breathtaking.

There are also double dragon lamps on the left and right doors of Xuande Gate. It is tied into two dragons with grass, the dragon body is covered with a green curtain, and tens of thousands of lamps and candles are placed on the grass, and the hope is meandering like a double dragon flying away. From the lamp mountain to the Xuande gatehouse again, the horizontal street is about more than 100 zhang, surrounded by thorns, called the thorn basin, there are two long rods inside, dozens of zhang high, end with the color of the silk, the papier-mâché characters hang on the rod, the wind moves like a flying immortal. There is a music shed inside, and the musicians in front of the yamen are sent to make music, acrobatics, and to play a hundred operas in the army

Seeing that the moon's complexion had eased, and he was not as melancholy as he was just now, he said to her, "Do you want to see the emperor?" Yuexia looked at him suspiciously, pointed to the palace and said, "Do you want to take me in?" ”

Wang next to him laughed, when the moon can't see through people's hearts, sometimes the stupid girl looks very cute. He gently hooked his index finger and scratched the nose under the moon. "Silly, the emperor will come to watch the lanterns tomorrow night, and I will take you to see it when the time comes, not only you, but the whole city can see it."

"Really?" Under the moon, the inside of the eyes is bright.

"Well, in the future, every festival will look at it together." The king promised this, and the moon was already immersed in incomparable happiness.

Wang smiled and whispered, "You know what? In the future, Zhong Zhen will be the emperor. I will definitely soar, you follow me, I will make you happy to death. ”

Under the moon, suddenly "Ah! Wouldn't his father be too emperor?"

The king said, "Yes! ”

Yuexia frowned, she remembered the days when she was imprisoned by Zhao Zongshi: "Let's leave the capital, I'm afraid"

When the king saw the expression of the moon, he also thought of it, so he comforted her and said: "What are you afraid of, it will be fine with your father-in-law, and his father has only been the emperor for four years." ”

Yuexia looked at the king suspiciously: "How do you know?" ”

"Heavenly Machine!" The king made a mysterious expression. Yuexia saw that what he said was conclusive, but he still couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, Wang Pan and others came out of Meyer's Mansion early, in order to watch the singing and dancing of the Lantern Festival. Before dark, visitors have gathered under the two corridors of the royal street, thaumaturgical ability, singing and dancing hundred operas, the scales are tangential, and the music is noisy for more than ten miles. Artists rushed to perform on the streets: shot and kicked, stepped on the rope and went to the pole, Zhao Yeren ate Leng Tao, Zhang Jiuge swallowed the iron sword, and Li Waining was a puppet of the medicine method. The little athlete spits out five-colored water and spins and burns mud balls.

Great specialty, ash medicine. Bone Miscellaneous Drama. Wen Datou, Xiao Cao Jiqin, Dang Qianxiao Guan, Sun Si smelted the prescription. Wang 12 is a dramatist. Zou Qian, the fields are widely mixed. Su Shi, Meng Xuan built the ball, and Yin Chang sold the history of the five dynasties. Liu Bai, birds, insects and ants, Yang Wenxiu drum flute, and monkeys are a hundred plays, fish jump over the dragon gate, call bees and butterflies, and chase wisps of ants. The rest sell medicines, sell hexagrams, sand book riddles, kitsch, and new ears and eyes

Wang next to the hand under the moon approached the Xuande upstairs to look at the Xuande Tower, Xuande upstairs are hanging yellow and green, there is a throne in the middle, with the yellow Luo set up a color shed, the royal dragon straight (official name) holds the yellow cover, the palm fan (official name) is listed outside the Xuande Tower, Renzong is on the throne. Each of the two buildings hangs a lamp ball, about a square circumference, and burns a rafter candle inside. There is also music in the curtain, and the sound of laughter of the palace concubines is heard outside.

Downstairs with fir wood to build a terrace, the terrace with colored knots, on both sides are guarded in a row, brocade robes, hairpins give flowers, hold bones and flowers, face north. The east shed plays, the balcony performs acrobatics, and there are also inner classes standing in a row near the door. All the surnames are watching under the terrace, and the people are attracted to the mountains when they are happy.

The lights in front of him were brilliant, and the fireworks overhead bloomed, illuminating the night sky and reflecting the face of the king under the moon. Only envy the mandarin duck and not the immortal, if you have been living a beautiful life like this, how desirable.

Back to Meyer's mansion, the crowds and scattered people also came back, and they were still excited when they entered the door, talking about all kinds of things on the street, only He Libo seemed to be lucky, and the king asked next to him, why Brother He

He Libo glanced at him, and Wang Bian knew that the search for Miss Li was not smooth, and said, "Forget it, maybe someone already has a family?" ”

As he was talking, a mother-in-law came in and said two things, one was that Miss Rou'er thanked her and couldn't take care of Mrs. Wu, so she didn't go to watch the lanterns. Wang glanced at Yuexia and knew that she was kindly afraid that she would snub Rou'er, and she was even more grateful to Yuexia in her heart.

On another matter, the mother-in-law hesitated and said, Granny Ao was afraid that she would not be able to do it, so she asked someone to tell her that she wanted to see her son and the girl under the moon.

As soon as Yuexia sat down, she immediately stood up when she heard it: What was fine yesterday is not good today. The king wondered, why did this Ao mother-in-law see herself if she didn't know her. Under the moon, Lalahe: Granny Ao lives not far away, maybe I see you thinking of the old man, come with me.

Wang Bi already knew the heart of the moon, not to mention that he didn't worry about her going alone, so he hurriedly put on his cloak and left the Meyer Mansion under the moon.

Walking in the direction of Fanta, after a house, at the end of an alley, there is a small courtyard, there are a few people in the yard, all of them are neighbors who see this Ao Pony pity to help.

The two walked into the courtyard, the small courtyard was dilapidated, the door of the house was pushed out of the quacking figure, the room was quite tidy, but it was so neat that there were no household items, the entrance hall was not big, a table and a few stools. A Buddhist shrine is still burning with incense, and there is a simple kitchen on the west side, and there is a piece of dried bun on the stove. A few wilted vegetables.

There was an old bed in the east wing of the foyer, and the bed was covered with patches, and Granny Ao was lying there, her eyes closed. Under the moon, she couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and lowered her head and tears rolled in her eyes. When I walked to the head of the bed, I didn't dislike this mother-in-law, and said easily, Mother-in-law, we are here.

Granny Ao opened her eyes weakly, and said with difficulty, Thank you, girl, I have a few words to say to Wang Gongzi alone. Yuexia nodded, and beckoned the two neighbors in the room who were waiting for her mother-in-law to wait in the hall