Congratulations, worship, feast, in a blink of an eye is the fifth day of the first month, this day is not the beginning, Zhang Yuan went to the hall to invite Qin Minping to go to Shichahai to visit the eunuch Zhong Benhua, Qin Liangyu because he is a female official, too eye-catching, the local officials made friends with the ministers for fear of provoking criticism, so they did not go together, and their son Ma Xianglin followed.

A few days earlier, it has been spring, the weather has begun to warm up, the sunshine after the ice and snow is bright, the chessboard Tianjie square outside the Daming Gate, the hundred opera acrobatics are very lively, the rod, somersault, drill circle, stacking case, lion dance, dragon lantern dance, tricks, people are dizzying——

Ma Xianglin looked at the dancing flying fork and was fascinated, the man of the dancing fork was shirtless in the cold weather, the two steel forks were bright, the fork head was wrapped with strips of cloth, soaked in oil and ignited, the two steel forks were two fires, flying and rolling in the arms, legs, shoulders and back of the performing man, the arm vibrate, the fire fork flew up in mid-air, rotating rapidly, like a hot wheel, and caught it steadily-

"Let's go, this one won't look good at night."

Qin Minping threw a few copper coins into the field and pulled his nephew Ma Xianglin out of the dance fork field.

Zhang Yuan brought Wang Dazhui and Xue Tong out today, Xue Tong is thirteen years old in the New Year, Ma Xianglin is fourteen years old in the New Year, the age difference between the two is only one year, but the height difference is a foot apart, looking at the disparity in physique, but the friendship is good, Xue Tong said: "Young Master Ma, let's go to Zhengyangmen to watch the puppet show in the evening, it's more fun, I went to see it with Brother Xiaowu and Baima yesterday." ”

Ma Xianglin said: "My mother won't let me come out at night. ”

Xue Tong winked at Ma Xianglin and pouted, signaling Ma Xianglin to beg Zhang Yuan, and Ma Xianglin said, "Uncle Jiezi, you said a few years ago that you would take me to see the trick—"

Qin Minping was about to stare and scold, Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "Okay, let's have dinner at Gonggong Zhong's later, and then go all the way to Zhengyangmen, and then go back, how about it?" ”

Ma Xianglin was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly, this tall and tall Tujia boy was simple and childish.

A few people came to Eunuch Zhong's outer house in Houhai, and Eunuch Zhong was already waiting. Congratulations to each other on the New Year, they will start the banquet and drink, Qin Minping came once in the New Year, that time Eunuch Zhong was not there, this time I met in person to thank Eunuch Zhong for his kindness in helping back then, Eunuch Zhong smiled and waved his hand: "How dare the miscellaneous family take credit, this is all Zhang Xiu's enthusiasm, and the miscellaneous family is just a small favor." ”

Ma Xianglin looked at Eunuch Zhong curiously. He also nodded and said, "It's really similar." ”

Eunuch Zhong smiled and asked, "What did Ma Gongzi say?" ”

Ma Xianglin said: "The wood carving Bodhisattva by the West Lake is carved very much like my father-in-law. ”

Qin Minping hurriedly explained. But it turned out that they entered Beijing this time, and deliberately detoured to Hangzhou to worship the ancestral hall of Eunuch Zhong. The incense of the ancestral hall is quite prosperous, and it is said that it will help the cultural movement and bless the imperial examination.

Eunuch Zhong listened happily: "You have a heart, thank you very much." ”

Speaking of Zhang Yuan's beating of Fang Ge's old son. Eunuch Zhong said: "That Fang Shihong has resigned from the post of Shang Bao Sicheng, and the old Fang Ge is very faceless." ”

Zhang Yuan asked: "Does my father-in-law also think that I acted a little recklessly?" ”

Eunuch Zhong smiled: "If it was someone else, it would definitely be in trouble, but Zhang Xiuzuo has never been a reckless and unscrupulous person, Fang Ge Lao can only suffer dumb losses like Hu Zongxian back then, and his son was beaten in vain, haha." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Fang Ge always hates me to the bone. ”

Eunuch Zhong said: "No matter how much I hate you secretly, on the surface, Elder Fang Ge still has to smile with you to show his prime minister's measure." And generally speaking, Fang Ge will not deliberately embarrass you when he is old. ”

Eunuch Zhong still saw it very clearly, Zhang Yuan said: "That's the mouth honey heart sword, I have to be more cautious in the future, don't have a handle in the hands of the old Fang Ge." ”

Eunuch Zhong knew that Zhang Yuan, like him, had bet the treasure on the crown prince and the eldest grandson, and said with a smile: "Why be afraid, Zhang Xiu is rising like the sun." Fang Ge Lao is already in the waning mountains, come, the miscellaneous family respects Zhang Xiu for a cup. ”

This wine was drunk until three o'clock in the unitary hour, when the sky darkened, Zhang Yuan and Qin Minping got up and said goodbye. Zhang Yuan said that he would take Ma Xianglin to watch the trick, and Eunuch Zhong would no longer stay guests. When he was sent out of the gate, he took Zhang Yuan's hand and whispered: "Zhang Xiu, the eighth day of the first month is the birthday of Wuyanluo, and my brother is going to go to the Dongyue Temple outside Chaoyang Gate to make incense and pray for his mother, saying that by the way, I want to meet Mr. Zhang - I wonder if you have time that day?" ”

Zhang Yuan thought that he might be going to North Korea in February, and he would not see the emperor's eldest grandson Zhu Youxiao for a long time, and his relationship with the little carpenter would be in constant contact, so he nodded and said, "Then I will go to Dongyue Temple early in the morning to wait." ”

Eunuch Zhong smiled and said: "Don't be so early, my brother said that you can play more when you go out in the afternoon, and Zhang Xiushu can rush to Dongyue Temple at the beginning of the day." ”

After resigning from the eunuch Zhong, Zhang Yuan's master and servant and Qin Minping and Ma Xianglin's uncle and nephew walked slowly along the east side of the imperial city, the New Year's curfew was lifted, the night market was bustling, the traffic was busy, Doujiu flopped, danced sticks and kicked football, sang and commented, no matter day or night, Ma Xianglin had never seen such a grand scene, and he was dazzled by it-

From Daming Gate to Zhengyang Gate, several miles of long streets, scholars and girls fall into the city, the lanterns of the shops on both sides are high, the gongs and drums of the show are noisy, Zhang Yuan accompanied Qin Minping, Ma Xianglin watched the puppet show, watched the flower bed, saw the performance of the next door play in an inn on the edge of the Zhengyang Gate, Zhang Yuan knew that the next door play was ventriloquism, Lin Sihuan and Pu Songling respectively wrote the famous article of "Ventriloquism", it was very exciting, several people entered the hall of the store to watch the play, the performance of ventriloquism was a seventeen or eight-year-old boy, named Wang Jing, sitting behind the screen, The battle of the water is deduced from behind this narrow screen, the wind is roaring, the grass and trees are all soldiers, the wounded are howling, the horses are neighing, and the sound of the battle between the two armies is imitated vividly, so magical that Zhang Yuan wants to go behind the screen to see if there is a TV or tape recorder hidden-

After the performance, the young Wang Jing came out to thank the guests, a boy with a hair tray, Zhang Yuan rewarded five coins of silver, Wang Jing stared at Zhang Yuan, and bowed down with a smile to thank him.

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Early in the morning of the eighth day of the first month, Zhang Yuan accompanied Ran and Xiaohong to the Daci Yanfu Palace to pray to the emperor of the three officials, and dined in the brother-in-law's house at noon, and saw that it was the end of noon, so he took Wang Da Hammer and Wuling, and drove by Uncle Yao, went out of Chaoyang Gate to Dongyue Temple, there was a pine forest in front of the temple, bypassing the pine forest, only to see the scholars and girls who came to pay tribute were bustling, and the money furnace was smoky and burning, and the fire could not be extinguished, so it can be seen that the incense was prosperous.

Zhang Yuan got out of the car and looked around, the emperor's grandson Zhu Youxiao should not have arrived, saw that there were three stone tablets in front of the hall, so he paced in front of the stele to watch, one of the temple steles was written by Zhao Mengfu, there was nothing to do, just read it word by word, and copy it in his heart, his calligraphy was weak, to strengthen it, a piece of inscription has not been read, Wuling suddenly ran over and said: "Young master, I just saw a red-faced man go to the palace, could it be a Jurchen spy?" ”

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "You are really a soldier, how can you be so coincidental, there are many people who have drunk too much wine and red faces on this New Year's Festival, how can they be Jurchen spies." ”

——According to Zhen Zidan, a hundred households in Jinyiwei, they traced that the red-faced scholar had lived in the Lu Hotel on Qipan Street, and on the day he caught Ang Aba, the red-faced scholar and his entourage checked out and left, and the treacherous plan to frame the Korean envoys has been revealed, where will they stay in the capital, they should have fled far away, so Zhang Yuan doesn't believe that he will meet the red-faced Emperor Taiji in this Dongyue Temple, there is no reason.

When Wu Ling heard the young master say this, he also laughed and said, "I watched that person walk all the way, but my eyes were looking at those pilgrims, as if he was looking for someone. ”

At this time, three carriages stopped at the edge of the pine forest, and when Wuling saw it, he said, "Young Master, Gonggong Zhong has arrived, and I see Gonggong Xiaogao." ”

Zhang Yuan didn't say to Wuling that the emperor's eldest grandson would come, and it would be better to let people know as little as possible about the emperor's eldest grandson's departure from the palace.

Zhu Youxiao's green shirt and green hat, more simple than ordinary rich sons, accompanied by eight chamberlains, the chamberlains also changed into servant clothes, the nurse Ke Yinyue and another palace lady also changed their palace costumes, pretending to be a folk woman, Ke Yinyue is tall, although it is an ordinary folk woman's skirt and long jacket, no fat powder, but still beautiful, when he got off the carriage, Ke Yinyue put on a hat, and a thin white gauze was draped, covering his face-

Zhang Yuan bowed to Zhu Youxiao with his eyebrows raised, Zhu Youxiao returned the salute, looked left and right, and said in a low voice with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, the Year of the Snake is auspicious." ”

Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "Your Highness is auspicious." He nodded to Ke Yinyue, Zhong Benhua, Han Benyong, Wei Chao, Wei Jinzhong and others, and then went to the main hall with all the attendants around the emperor's eldest grandson Zhu Youxiao.

There are not as many pilgrims in the afternoon as in the morning, but the worship table in front of the seat of the Emperor Dongyue is not empty, and there is an endless stream of scholars and women kneeling and praying, Wei Jinzhong and a few other servants are separated from the idle people, so that the emperor's eldest grandson can calmly enter the incense and pray, Ke Yinyue helps light the incense on the side, and the pope's eldest grandson says prayer words-

Then some people waiting for incense shouted: "This temple is opened by your family, why don't you let us go over and burn incense." ”

Zhang Yuan arched his hand and explained: "A little child, his mother is weak and sick, and he came to pray for his mother's birthday, filial piety is rare, please wait a while, and it will be better soon." ”

The shouting pilgrim saw that Zhang Yuan had an elegant appearance and gentle speech, so he was not impatient, and after waiting for a while, Wei Jinzhong and the others dodged away, Zhang Yuan saw that Zhu Youxiao had already taken Ke Yinyue's hand to the two halls to see the seventy-two divisions of hell, hurriedly followed, and said to Ke Yinyue: "Don't go to see the seventy-two divisions of hell, it's too eerie and terrifying——"

Zhu Youxiao hurriedly said: "Mr. Zhang, I'm not afraid, I want to see it." ”

Ke Yinyue chuckled: "Brother is bold, I came to see it the year before last, that is, the time I met Mr. Zhang at the dock." ”

Zhang Yuan said "um", so he had to follow Zhu Youxiao to see those "Palm Sect Signing Division", "Palm Life and Death Division", "Palm Life and Death Hook Deduction Division", all kinds of statues are strange and ghostly, Buddhist art pays attention to horror and compassion, and the seventy-two divisions of hell are all terrifying-

Seventy-two Divisions looked at about half of it, and Zhu Youxiao suddenly whispered to Ke Yinyue, who smiled "sneering" and said in a low voice: "You really have a lot of things." He took Zhu Youxiao's hand and went out from the small door on the left.

Zhong Benhua, Wei Jinzhong and other internal officials hurriedly followed, and Zhang Yuan, Wang Dazhui, and Wuling fell behind.

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