The prince was about to marry a concubine, and the princess was going to marry, which made Xijing fall into a kind of excitement, and made Xijing City show a sick prosperity. Needless to say, the big families have spent their money like water, and the small families have also done everything they can to fill the façade, so that the Great Liao Kingdom that is going to the end of the world will exude the most luster after that...

'The moon shadow of the six street lights is scaly, stepping all over the long bridge to touch the lock frequency, sending Jin Wu to relax the night ban, and the nine gates still let people steal! 'The most lively time of the Khitan New Year is not Chinese New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, but the Lantern Festival. Influenced by the Han culture, they also have this section, but their minds are not on appreciating the lanterns, but on 'stealing', this poem is about this Khitan custom!

The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth days of the first lunar month are the days of the Khitan for stealing, and everyone can steal from each other at will, such as wives and daughters, treasures, clothes, saddle horses, and chariots, and cups, plates, brooms, shovels, pickaxes, etc., which may be stolen by people.

And most of the losers also adopt a quite tolerant attitude, because you steal mine, I steal yours, and stealing is just a way to have fun during the Lantern Festival. Therefore, the owner is only on strict guard to prevent theft, and does not catch the thief, and only tries to retrieve the lost property after the theft.

According to expert research, this custom still exists in modern times, and there is no way to know it elsewhere, and there is still a custom of 'stealing' things when marrying in the hometown of Woxin (the border area of the Song and Liao periods). After the man has finished eating and drinking at the woman's house, he will take away the dishes and teacups that hold the things when he leaves, and the woman's family will redeem them with things such as cigarettes and alcohol, which may be the remnants of the 'stealing'. Even the 'stealing vegetables' game, which was once all the rage on the Internet, has been classified by experts as this ancient custom after research...

On the thirteenth day of the first month, when I arrived in Xijing City, I fell into a carnival. There are groups of people who go to other people's homes to steal objects while the host welcomes guests, and there are also three or two people who cooperate with each other to climb over the wall and enter the house. It's more like lone rangers breaking into the homes of rich and noble people. On the street, you can often see thieves fleeing with things in their arms, and behind them are the owners who are laughing and scolding after chasing, but they often only symbolically chase to the corner of the street and turn home, and the soldiers patrolling the street will also stop at this time to see the excitement, and do not come forward!

And the Fengtai in the northwest of the city seems to have nothing to do with the joy at this time, even the thieves who have repeatedly succeeded here will avoid it from afar, not wanting to be clingy to the New Year.

"Don't look at Xiao Patrol, let's play a game of chess!" On the dressing room of Empress Dowager Xiao, Yu Liyan said to Zhao Xin, who had been standing in front of the window for a long time.

"Princess. I'm not in the mood! Zhao Xin retracted his gaze, turned around and shook his head and said.

"Don't be so polite, we will be a family in the future, but how should we be commensurate?" Yu Liyan said with a smile, the beauty in front of her will become the princess of her fifth brother Yeluding, and she will also become the wife of her third brother Xiao Chongde, and after the wedding, you can't call each other your sister-in-law!

"Alas, the princess is still in the mood to laugh at the moment, are you really willing to marry my third brother?" Zhao Xin looked at the smiling princess and sighed.

"Then I'll call you sister, why don't I deserve your third brother. Or do you not like to be with me? Yu Liyan smiled and said.

"It's a great honor for the princess to marry our family, but don't you think it's very aggrieved to marry like this?" Zhao Xin said angrily.

"What can I do if I am unwilling, what can I do if I am wronged, I am just a chess piece in their hands now!" Yu Liyan's face darkened. Throw the chess pieces in your hand into the chessboard and make a crisp sound.

"We can go, get out of here!" Zhao Xin said.

"Go, how to go. Where did you go? Yu Liyan said with a wry smile, "It was said to prevent someone from stealing here." In fact, it was to prevent us from escaping, and the courtyard was full of soldiers. There are also archers lurking upstairs, and even a bird can't fly out of this phoenix platform! ”

Zhao Xin was silent, yes, where can he go? Defect to the prince, where do you still have the face to go back! But if you want to let yourself marry a Yeluding, you won't agree to die, not to mention how he is now, I think I also saw his 'style' back then, and I was beaten by the prince, not to mention, and I squeezed it like a grandson, and I still had a strong face and a strong nonsense!

"Accept your fate, who let us be born as daughters, we can't crisscross the battlefield and drink the blood of the enemy chieftain!" Yu Liyan took out the short knife he carried with him, looked at it under the lamp, and said.

"What are you going to do, princess, you can't give up hope until the last moment!" Zhao Xin was startled, and grabbed Yu Liyan's wrist and said.

"My sister stopped me from doing anything, I can't decide how to live, but I can decide how to die!" Yu Liyan said with a miserable smile.

"Have you forgotten that there is also Zhao Ergongzi, he won't sit back and watch them mess around!" Zhao Xin snatched the knife in Yu Liyan's hand and said.

"We're going to get married in a few days, but where is he, and does he care if we live or die?" Speaking of Zhao Er, Yu Liyan suddenly became excited, and shouted almost madly.

"Yes, he'll come!" Zhao Xin hugged Yu Liyan in his arms and comforted her and said, but this was more like saying it to himself...

It soon got dark, and the moon seemed to be difficult to face the pair of miserable people in the dressing room behind the thick clouds, and lanterns were lit everywhere in Fengtai, swaying with the wind to add some brightness to this world. Suddenly, with a burst of explosion, dozens of fire dragons rushed into the air with a whistling sound, and exploded with a bang, and the pitch-black sky was immediately full of gorgeous flowers!

"Sister, look, it's so beautiful!" Yu Liyan shouted excitedly as he looked at the fireworks in the sky, forgetting his troubles for the time being.

"yes, it's beautiful!" Zhao Xin looked at the sky and said, he was as excited as she was when he saw the fireworks for the first time in the mansion.

As excited as they were, there were also the Khitan soldiers guarding Fengtai, the fireworks slowly drifted away, and the sky turned into darkness again, when they retracted their gaze, they suddenly found that they didn't know when a man in black appeared next to them, and before he could speak, he felt a pain in the back of his head and knew who was gone.

"Who?" Zhao Xin in front of the window suddenly saw a black shadow flying down from the upstairs and crashing into the window, she took two steps back, protected the princess behind her and asked sharply. The intruder didn't answer, rubbing his body with a knife and pounced on the door that went straight to her, Zhao Xin pushed the princess away with a wrong step, and smashed his elbow into his lower abdomen.

The man seemed to know that Zhao Xin would make such a move, he turned around, Zhao Xin smashed into the air, his heart was not good, but it was a pity that the move was old, he felt that the vest was hit hard, and he fell forward, and the man stepped and backhanded her up, and jumped out of the window with his shoulder! (To be continued.) )