Lin Jin, who was practicing calligraphy, heard the voice of the big girl Bihe in Yang Wan's room outside, and frowned slightly, but her hand did not stop, and she continued to write her words on the paper nailed to the wall.

Zihao, who was serving on the side, saw her displeasure, and hurriedly threw a look at Yan Mo and Yan in the room, asking one of them to go out and have a look.

After Yanmo went out for a while and came back, he came to Lin Jin to report: "Uncle, the second wife sent Sister Bihe over to tell you that I won't have dinner at home today, go to the restaurant that the uncle set earlier, and by the way, look at the lights, and let the uncle hurry over." ”

Lin Jin turned his head to look at the Western clock in the study, and said with a surprised expression: "It's a little early to have dinner at this time, right?" It's not dark yet, and when it's dark, the lanterns will be lit, so go out so early, and wait for a while. ”

Yan Mo hurriedly replied: "That's what the little one said too. However, Sister Bihe said that the second wife planned to take advantage of this rare opportunity to go out and go shopping by the way. ”

The female dependents of this era, the opportunity to go out is either to burn incense and worship the Buddha, or to go out as a guest, socializing, but the former goes to either a temple or a Taoist temple, and the latter is just from one house to another, in fact, there are not many opportunities to go shopping.

Originally, festivals such as the Shangsi Festival, the Lantern Festival, and the Qiqiao Festival were all opportunities for female dependents to go out to play, but with the rise of Cheng Zhu Lixue, female dependents only had the Lantern Festival as a festival that could go out blatantly, and in recent years, even the female dependents of this festival rarely came out, and women gradually had a tendency to stay at home.

Thinking of this, Lin Jin understood Yang Wan's impatience a little, and turned her head to ask Zhu Yan: "How many words have I practiced today?" ”

"Counting what you just wrote, uncle, the unfinished one, only twelve articles have been written, and there are still three articles short of the fifteen words per day stipulated by the uncle."

Lin Jin looked at the pen in his hand, thought for a while and ordered: "Zihao, you go to the East Courtyard to talk to the second wife, just say that I am practicing calligraphy at this time, and I can't separate myself, let her take my grandmother and Brother Lin to go first, and when I finish practicing calligraphy, I will arrive later." Also, Zihao, you don't have to come back after you go, just follow Lin Ge'er and serve, don't take care of him for me. ”

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After practicing the words, cleaning up, and changing clothes, Lin Jin went out. She didn't ride in a car, she didn't ride a horse, she walked in a car and walked down the street.

At this time, it was already evening, the shops on both sides of the street had already hung up the lanterns, and there were huge rich squires and merchants who made the lamp hill together, occupying a good position in the street, and when night came, these lamp hills would be lit up, and the whole Yangzhou city was lit up.

Lin Jin went to the restaurant on the street is the most prosperous street in Yangzhou City, at this time I walked over and saw that various styles of lanterns have been hung out, for Lin Jin who has seen the colorful lantern exhibition in later generations, I don't think it's much shocked, but the ink and Yan Yan behind her feel very shocked, all the way over, surprised to open my mouth wide, I can't close my mouth.

Yan Mo couldn't help but whisper and muttered: "I didn't have an errand on the fifteenth day of the first month of the year before last, and I once came out to see the lanterns, how do I think this year's Lantern Festival seems to be extraordinarily lively." In particular, the lamp mountains of those salt merchants are not only several more, but also larger than the original. ”