Chapter 38: The Crowd

Wu Yingying put on his official uniform early in the morning and rushed to the square in front of the main hall of the palace, stood in the huge team of court officials, and waited for more than an hour. Cai Yufang and Xiao Zhou Hou appeared on the steps, and thousands of Yu Lin soldiers around them shouted long live, and the voice was earth-shattering, and His Majesty the Emperor had a long life.

After the court, the palace has a big feast, the banquet in the main hall of the court is full of Wu, the bells and drums are noisy, the silk and bamboo are deafening, and all kinds of palace maids and eunuchs are like wearing flowers and butterflies or singing and dancing to cheer up or serve and deliver food. Wu Yingying held the wine glass in his hand, and saw Cai Yu from a distance surrounded by a group of officials and harem concubines from Chaohe, with a smile on his face. He searched with great effort, only to find that Huang Wen was standing in the palace maid class serving Xiao Zhouhou, and a pool of autumn water was looking at him. Seeing that Wu Yingying finally saw herself, Huang Wen suddenly smiled sweetly, like a spring flower, which only made the beauties around her instantly lose color, and then returned to the expression of stopping the water and no waves. Wu Yingying also smiled at her, raised his wine glass, and drank it all.

After New Year's Day, Wu Yingying's personal soldiers returned to the team one after another, and Fuzhong gradually gained some popularity. After Wu Yingying's hard training a few days ago, these people already had a tendency to turn into humanoid weapons, and this time they were allowed to go home to visit their relatives, so that their bodies gradually recovered some of the smell of fireworks. Wu Yingying also nodded secretly in his heart, what he wanted was a soldier with flesh and blood and faith, not a killing machine.

Jinling's Lantern Festival is coming. The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, is the carnival at this time, the whole city will put lanterns on this day, go out to go shopping in the city, the splendid scene of the city is magnificent, in addition, there are also playing the fire, stepping on stilts, guessing the lantern riddles, playing lions, dancing dragon lanterns, eating Lantern Festival and so on. Not only will the palace maids make an exception to go out of the palace to watch the lanterns on holidays, but it is said that the emperor and queen will also visit and enjoy with the people on this day.

On this day, after arranging the duty officials who patrolled the streets at night, Wu Yingying changed into a cyan Confucian dress, and his long hair could already be tied with a scribe's scarf, and the jade tree stood under the Hongqiao in the south of the palace. The brightness of the lanterns in this era is not high, but there is a hazy beauty, and viewing the lanterns is also a great time for lovers to have a private meeting. During the New Year's Day feast, Huang Wen secretly told Wu Yingying to let him watch the lanterns with her on the day of the Shangyuan Festival.

Looking at the palace maids and the seemingly young talents walking away, Wu Yingying couldn't help but feel a little nervous, the experience of waiting for a girl like this had never happened before the crossing. Just when his thoughts were fluctuating, he suddenly slapped his shoulder with a folding fan, and when he turned around, he was startled, Cai Yu and Xiao Zhouhou were looking at him with a smile, while Huang Wen stood behind them instead, winking at him.

Cai Yu teased: "Wu Qing's family is waiting for a beautiful woman?"

Seeing Huang Wen shaking his head slightly, Wu Yingying said: "Just walk around, seeing that people here are very lively, I stopped to take a look, and I didn't want to meet Your Majesty to make a trip to the White Dragon Fish Suit." ”

Cai Yu smiled and said, "You will pick a place when you arrive," leaned over and said softly: "This is the place where the palace maid and the outside world have a good private meeting, and I already knew it when I was alone in the East Palace, and I secretly came to watch." Tonight, the micro-service came out to watch the lights, and on a whim, I came to take a look, not wanting to be as lively as I saw in previous years. Although his voice was not loud, it happened to be heard clearly by Zhou Hou, Wu Yingying, and Huang Wen behind him, which really startled the two nervous people.

Wu Yingying pretended to be relaxed and said, "Is this really the case? Why didn't Your Majesty seal this place." ”

Cai Yu pulled Zhou Hou's arm and said with a smile: "How could Lone do such a big thing to ruin the scenery." It's 'the wind that blows up and wrinkles a pool of spring water', what's the matter?"

Cai Yu said again: "This time I planned not to bring my ministers with me, Wu Qing, since we met, why not travel with Lonely." ”

Wu Yingying hurriedly said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for giving me the grace of traveling together." ”

Cai Yu shook his hand and said: "Since it is a private interview with Weifu, you can call me Brother Cai, and you can't let people know my identity." ”

Wu Yingying arched his hand and said: "The minister's will." He consciously followed behind Cai Yu and Zhou Hou, walked side by side with Huang Wen, and looked at each other and smiled while the people in front of him were not paying attention.

Wu Yingying looked around left and right, although it was a micro-service trip, there were still seven or eight palace guards scattered not far away, he beckoned someone and asked him to look for Chase, let him gather his own soldiers on the left and right, and follow behind from a distance to protect, just in case.

Although Cai Yu often does the thing of going out of the palace in micro-service, he is still very excited to come out at night during the Lantern Festival, and the crowds on the street are crowding around, although there are palace guards to help, Wu Yingying still tries his best to avoid others squeezing Huang Wen. A blush flew on Huang Wen's cheeks, enjoying the protection of her sweetheart with peace of mind.

There was a lot of juggling on the street, Cai Yu and Zhou Hou were very elated, and Wu Yingying and Huang Wen enjoyed unspeakable happiness.

Suddenly, the crowd watching the lights in front began to stir, accompanied by the screams of women, something happened in front, the crowd shouted, and began to crowd this side, for a time the roadside stalls overturned countless times, and were scattered to call for relatives, many weak people were trampled to the ground and screamed, and the originally jubilant Yuan Ye suddenly became a pot of boiling porridge.

Wu Yingying and the guards tried to put Cai Yu and Zhou Hou Huang Wen in the middle, moved to the side of the street little by little, and stood in a shop to avoid the crowd. Cai Yu hurriedly asked Wu Yingying, "Wu Qing, what is going on, what happened?"

Wu Yingying arched his hand and said, "Maybe some scoundrels are making trouble in front, so that they disturb the holy car." Xiaguan will definitely quell this riot as soon as possible. ”

Cai Yu looked at the panicked running of many people in front of his eyes, his lips trembled and he couldn't speak, and he was still a little clear after the week, and asked softly: "General Wu, can you send someone to escort the saint back to the palace first." ”

Wu Yingying said: "Empress Bing, the will of the ministers is the same, but now the crowd is surging, we only have a dozen guards, in case it is not good to be dispersed by the crowd, it is better to wait for this group of people to pass, and then I will escort the saint back to the palace." ”

Zhou Hou heard that he was reasonable, so he nodded, staring at the people who were desperately fleeing outside, his eyes were very complicated.

The chaotic crowd went quickly, and after a while, the street was no longer the lively scene just now, and Wu Yingying said: "Please return to the palace." He lined up with a group of guards to escort Cai Yu in the direction of Yujie.

Before they had gone far, a group of strong men armed with knives and sticks chased after them, smashing shops everywhere along the street, and if they encountered people who had not had time to escape, they would definitely chase after them and beat them, and even face each other with knives and sticks. The man at the head had a fierce face, and when he saw seven or eight people on Wu Yingying's side surrounding the two female dependents, he smiled and quickened his pace and chased after him.