Chapter 37: Shangyuan Lantern Festival (1)
Han Huang's escape did not cause much turmoil, and a few months later, another rebel general entrenched in Shouchun, Zu Yue, also fled because of the betrayal of his generals, and finally Zu Yue reluctantly surrendered with his cronies to the sworn rival commander Shi Le, who was killed by Shi Le many years later.
On the side of the imperial court, Yin Hao, who suffered a defeat, was not punished, but was only reprimanded by Yu Liang for a few words, and most of the meritorious soldiers of the imperial court were rewarded, although Hua'an also made a lot of contributions, but these were all recorded on the master Han Qian.
Han Qian was named the Jizhou Assassin because of his merits, everyone knows that Jizhou is far north of the Yellow River, and it is completely controlled by Shile's Zhao State, and the Jizhou Assassin History is just a foolish position, but Han Qian happily accepted it, in his heart, Jizhou will always be the territory of the Great Jin, and it will be recovered sooner or later.
On the surface, Hua'an seems to have gained nothing, and all the rewards have nothing to do with him, but the deeds of Hua'an's capture of the rebel general have spread in the capital, and the storyteller of the teahouse has added fuel and vinegar to blow Hua'an's deeds more and more mysterious, what is the natural divine power, Wuqu Xing descends to earth, and the more he blows, the more outrageous it becomes.
The little hero Hua'an has become the focus of everyone's discussion on the streets and alleys, and the Situ Mansion naturally looks at Hua'an, since Situ Wang Dao, no one treats Hua'an as a subordinate anymore, and the guests seem to be more in line with Hua'an's treatment at this time.
The rebellion of Su Jun and Zu Yue has brought great trauma to this country in the south of the Yangtze River, and now that the rebellion has been put down, the ministers of the imperial court have decided to celebrate it well, so as to make up for the wounds in the hearts of the people, and at the same time relieve the depression in their hearts these days.
It happened that the Chinese New Year was about to be celebrated at this time, and the ministers of the imperial court decided to hold a grand lantern festival inside and outside the palace in the capital during the Shangyuan Festival, and the curfew would be lifted in the capital, and the people of the whole capital, regardless of whether they were high or low, could enjoy the wonderful lanterns at night.
The lantern viewing place in the palace is located in the Hualin Garden, and the lantern festival outside the palace is held in the most lively South Market, in order to be able to hold this grand event, the palace and the outside are in full swing to purchase the required items.
In addition to the officials in charge, the shops, restaurants, and brothels along the street are also preparing all kinds of lanterns, candles and other items, of course, they are also doing this to attract more business on the day of the lantern festival.
For a time, the price of various decorations in the capital skyrocketed, an inconspicuous lantern can only be sold for ten wen at ordinary times, and at this time it can be sold out for hundreds of wen, and the pheasant feathers hunted by the hunters from the mountains can be sold for fifty wen.
Such a big business opportunity, how could Hua An miss it, in addition to practicing and chopping wood every day, most of the time is hunting in the mountains, and he specializes in hunting all kinds of birds with bright feathers.
At the end of the day, you can hunt at least a dozen, each bird can pluck a few or even a dozen bright feathers, and the feathers of a dozen birds can be sold for at least two or three yuan, one hanging a thousand yuan, that is, two or three thousand yuan.
This is only a day's income, and in a few days, Hua'an has earned tens of thousands of dollars, because there is too much money to carry, Hua'an has to exchange most of the copper coins for easy-to-carry silver taels.
More than ten days later, Hua'an, who was gathering more and more silver, suddenly became wealthy, and from time to time he bought some delicacies unique to the market to treat himself, and of course he would not forget to bring some back, and secretly gave them to a group of little girls in the backyard of Situ Mansion, so as to make them happy.
If you are in a good mood, you will even buy more and give some to the family in the front yard, and gradually the people in the house will become closer to Hua'an, and even the usually taciturn family will take the initiative to greet Hua'an when they see it, and they will be the first to think of Hua'an if they have any good things.
After the New Year, half a month later ushered in the Shangyuan Festival, on this day, the capital is full of lights, all the items required for the lantern festival at dusk are ready, at the invitation of the uncle Yu Liang of the dynasty, the officials of the five grades or more in the capital are rushing to the Hualin Garden of the imperial palace.
Among them, there are also many ministers' wives, of course, they were also invited by the Empress Dowager Yu, as the Wang Dao of the Dynasty Situ naturally could not go, he and his wife Cao Shu took two sedan chairs to the palace.
The people of the capital finished dinner early, and were walking towards Nanshi, where the lantern festival is located, with their families, at this time everyone's faces were filled with happy smiles, and the happiest of them were naturally children, who jumped and frolicked around the adults.
Impatient adults, from time to time, will reach out and gently teach disobedient children, but this can't stop the child's naughty nature.
The aristocratic children of the capital boast of their talents, and they heard that there will be lantern riddles to guess this time, so they will naturally not miss such a good opportunity to swagger.
The outside is very lively, but the inside of Situ's mansion is deserted, and most of the people who have finished their work have gone to see the lantern festival, because the lord and the lady are not there, and even the guards are divided into two groups to take turns to watch the lantern festival, which makes the house even more deserted.
Hua An, who had just finished dinner, had nothing to do and was about to sneak away to see the Lantern Festival, but he thought about it, what was the point of going to the Lantern Festival alone! Why don't you take Miss and Garlic with you.
"Hua'an, come here." When Hua'an lost his mind, Wang Ling's familiar voice came from his ears.
Hua An followed the direction from which the voice came and looked at it, Wang Ling and Chu Lianzi were hiding in the bamboo forest next to them and beckoning to him.
"In the middle of the night, what are these two little girls doing hiding in the bamboo forest?" Hua An hesitated for a moment and walked towards the bamboo forest where they were hiding.
"Miss, sister garlic, what are you doing hiding in the bamboo forest in the middle of the night?" Hua An asked in a suppressed voice.
Wang Ling pointed to the direction of the back door, pouted with a pink mouth, and complained: "I heard the maids say that there is a lantern festival in the market tonight, and it just so happens that my father and mother are not in the house, so I want to take the garlic to see it twice, but the lady who guards the door said that she won't let us go out, and people really want to go and see it!" Didn't you say you were going to take me out to play? It's been months, you lied to me. ”
After Wang Ling finished speaking, his eyes were a little red, and there were some tears in his eyes, and that pitiful look made Hua An feel very distressed.
"Brother Hua'an, I also want to go see the Lantern Festival." Chu Garlic opened a pair of big black eyes and said in a milky voice.
Looking at the pitiful and cute two little girls in front of him, Hua An made up his mind that he must take them to see the wonderful lantern festival today no matter what, and he originally had such a plan.
"Miss, don't be sad, I'll take you to the Lantern Festival now, okay." Hua An said with a smile.
"Hmm," Wang Ling replied with a pout, apparently still in a sad situation.
In order to make Wang Ling happy, Hua An boldly flicked Wang Ling's fleshy face and quipped: "Miss, laugh at one!" ”
Wang Ling's little face was touched by Hua An like this, and his cheeks unconsciously swelled up, and then he frowned and looked at Hua An, his eyes were full of faint anger.
The handsome girl looks comfortable, even when she is angry, she is full of a different charm, which makes people feel like a spring breeze and a swaying heart.
Hua An touched his slippery fingers, looked at the angry Wang Ling, and sighed in his heart: "If you can marry such a beautiful girl in the future and hold it in your arms every day, what an intoxicating thing!" ”
Chu Garlic on the side looked at Hua'an, then at Wang Ling, suddenly frowned, and said in a milky voice: "Brother Hua'an, Sister Wang, what are you doing!" Aren't you going to see the big lanterns? ”
"This goes, this goes." Hua An was dreaming, and suddenly Chu Garlic was intended, and his expression looked a little embarrassed.
"Miss, garlic, you hide here first, and then I will go and trick the doorkeeper away, and you will run out secretly, remember, don't go far, wait for me outside."
"Got it." Wang Ling and Chu Garlic spoke in unison.
Hua An turned and walked towards the back door, shaking his head and frowning as he walked, pretending to be distressed.
"Yo, it's Hua'an! What are the half-grown children frowning for! I guess I'm going to see the Lantern Festival! Go for it! If it's late, you won't be able to see it. When Aunt Zhou saw Hua An coming over, she hurriedly smiled and said hello.
This Aunt Zhou is only in her forties, but she has already hugged her grandson, and his little grandson, who is only three years old, has not eaten less candy bought by Hua'an these days, so Aunt Zhou is extremely friendly to Hua'an.
Hua An touched his head, laughed dryly, and said, "Are you planning to go?" But the young lady suddenly said that he was in a bad mood, and he was sitting by the pool and crying? Hua'an couldn't persuade him. ”
When Aunt Zhou heard this, she was shocked in her heart, and said: "By the pool, will the young lady not think about it, hurry up, Hua'an, you take the eldest lady to have a look, but there must be no accidents." ”
"Okay, Auntie, come with me," Hua An said and walked towards the courtyard with Aunt Zhou.
Aunt Zhou walked for a while, and suddenly heard the sound of running behind her, then turned around and looked at the back door, and happened to see two weak figures running out of the back door.
"Miss, how did I see the portrait of Miss who ran out just now." Aunt Zhou was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat.
Hua An nodded, pretending to be remorseful: "It's indeed Miss, it's all because I was careless and fell for Miss's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain." ”
"How can this be, Hua'an, you help the eldest lady watch the door for a while, the eldest lady has to hurry up and chase the young lady back" Aunt Zhou suddenly panicked, and raised her feet to chase Wang Ling.
Hua An hurriedly grabbed her and persuaded: "Auntie, you have bad legs, let's wait here!" Huaan will help you chase the young lady back. ”
"Okay, you go and chase it, I'll go and sue the other people, let them chase Miss together."
Hua An was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "No, no, the eldest lady is responsible for guarding the back door tonight, if you let others know that the young lady ran out of the back door and complain in the ear of the old lady, the eldest lady will be in trouble." ”
Aunt Zhou heard a sigh in her heart, then grabbed Hua An's hand, and said excitedly: "Hua An, Aunt loves you the most, you must get Miss back, Aunt is counting on you now." ”
When Hua An heard this, his heart was sour, and he immediately promised: "Aunt Zhou, it's okay, Hua An will definitely bring the young lady back intact." After he finished speaking, he raised his leg and ran out of the house.
After running about five hundred steps along the direction of Wuyi Lane to Nanshi, he still didn't see Wang Ling and the others, Hua An was suddenly anxious, he obviously saw Wang Ling running in this direction, why did he chase for so long and didn't catch up, could there be any accident.