Chapter 80. Lantern Festival
Hearing him say this, I pursed my lips and said disapprehantly: "I've been hiding in this library for five days, and I've just touched the fish for a while!" Otherwise, wouldn't it be to suffocate me if I kept looking for it? ”
"Won't you go out for a walk? I've restricted your freedom? Shen Fengyue squinted at me and said.
"Get out? And then you're being followed by your ice-faced men? Then I might as well stay here and see some anecdotes! As I spoke, I reached for the book. I didn't want him to hide, but he didn't let me succeed.
"Shen Fengyue, you let me finish reading that paragraph! I don't see the end of the story, and I feel bad. ”
"It's not a good ending, so don't watch it." Shen Fengyue's voice was a little cold.
"It's okay, it's okay, I'm not afraid of bad endings, you let me finish it!"
But she didn't want Shen Fengyue to throw away the book casually, and the book flew to the top of a bookshelf next to it, and was impartially sandwiched in the neatly stacked books. The corners of my mouth twitched. "Forget it, if you don't read it, you won't read it, anyway, I've been reading books for the past few days, and my eyes hurt when I see it. Now that you know the ending, why don't you tell me about it? ”
"No." There was no room for a turn in his tone.
I was dissatisfied. "Cut, if you don't talk about it, I'll go find Shen to tell me, and he has some humanity among your subordinates."
"He doesn't know, and it's useless for you to ask."
I'm a little confused. "He doesn't know? Isn't this the anecdote of your departure from the north? ”
"Strange things?" Shen Fengyue snorted coldly. "Do you think I have such idle books in this library?"
"Isn't it an anecdote? What is that? "I was more and more confused.
"Waste History."
"Waste history?" What is that?
"It was recorded by a historian, but it was not included in the annals of history." He explained briefly.
I'm dumbfounded. Of course, I know that the history of all dynasties was more or less written at the behest of the rulers. When history is recorded by historians, it will first be presented to the emperor for review, and if it records people or things that should not be known to the world, it will naturally be returned and deleted. It's just that I didn't expect that these histories, which were deleted from the annals, would be preserved.
Thinking of this, my head suddenly boomed. Then I'...... Didn't I see the inside story that the Northern Imperial Family didn't want to be known?! It's a good thing what I just watched wasn't important, otherwise wouldn't I have died a miserable death!?
"Don't be afraid......" Shen Fengyue seemed to see that my face was not good, and said quietly: "The part you just watched is the past more than 20 years ago, and it is not a secret. But ......" he took two steps forward. "If you dare to read some irrelevant books again, be careful to know something you shouldn't know, and get into trouble." His voice was very low, but I could tell that he was probably trying to scare me, so I reassured.
"I said Shen Gongzi, if you don't want others to see something, you will be troubled and hidden. Wouldn't it be bad luck if one of your subordinates came in to clean up and accidentally saw it? ”
"Since the building was built, except for the Yan royal guards, you are the only one who has come in. The royal guard is Deadpool, I don't need to worry, as for you......" He stared at me tightly, no more.
"I ...... I'm not going to go around talking nonsense, and like you said, I don't see any secrets, do I? Although I said this, a cold sweat was already faintly breaking out on my back.
Nima! Shen Fengyue is not looking for anyone, why do you want to ask me to help him do this. It's a good thing that he entered his confidential library, and since then he has been targeted!?
Shen Fengyue habitually knocked on my head. "You don't dare, my son will believe you for the time being. Let's go! ”
I'm a little confused. "Where are you going?"
"Go to the City of Lights." He took two steps and turned back to look at me. "Today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, is it possible that you are stupid to read books?"
It turns out that the Lantern Festival is here so soon?! So he came to take me out to watch the lanterns?
After being stuffy in the building for so many days, I couldn't help but get excited when I thought of this, so I hurriedly followed.
This time, Shen Fengyue took me out from the main gate of the mansion. I thought that his house was built so extravagantly, and the main entrance should be very magnificent. But I don't want to, but the main entrance is very inconspicuous, there is not even a plaque, and there is no lantern hanging, and those who don't know think it's a vacant idle house. Unexpectedly, this Shen Fengyue knew that there was a hidden edge.
The lamp market mentioned by Shen Fengyue is actually a part of the East Market, bounded by the center point of the main road of the East City, and the south of this point is where the Lamp Market is located.
Due to the Shangyuan Festival, the lamp market is crowded, so the government has sent special personnel to maintain order and not allow cars and horses to enter the lamp market.
Because the Shen Mansion is close to the East Market, although we didn't go out early, it happened to be in time for the Lantern Festival to open.
The lantern festival is a lantern show and consists of a convoy of large lanterns strapped to it. Before the lantern festival begins, horse-drawn carriages carrying lanterns will line up from the east center point to the north in a certain order of entry.
Shen Fengyue pulled my arm and stood with me on the side of the road. Horse-drawn carriages with lanterns of various colors passed in front of us. The lanterns are exquisite, cleverly conceived, and each with its own theme. In addition to the lanterns, there are often dancers and musicians who dance and sing tactfully......
Although the modern Lantern Festival also has similar activities, how can it compare to the ancient lantern show in front of you? I was so stupid that I didn't say a word for a while.
The carriage passed in front of us, and about a dozen cars passed by, and I gradually got rid of this almost obsessive state and looked up to Shen Fengyue. found that he was also very serious, but there was a trace of confusion in his eyes when he looked at the lantern, as if the lantern in front of him aroused his infinite thoughts.
I nudged him, and he came back to his senses and looked down at me. "What's wrong?" His eyes were as soft as water.
I smiled. "I'm just going to ask you what's wrong. Could it be that our dignified Shen Gongzi has not seen the Shangyuan Lantern Festival? ”
"No, it's just that I haven't seen the lantern festival in this Shengjing City for a long time." His words were full of sighs, even a hint of desolation.
My heart jumped, and I asked tentatively, "Shen Gongzi...... Ben is a native of Shengjing? ”
"Not bad." He replied so softly that his voice was almost drowned out by the boiling voices.
My heart suddenly softened: it turned out that Shen Fengyue was from Shengjing, so he should have been forced to leave his hometown and go north when Feng broke the country ten years ago, right?
Seeing that his eyes were a little gloomy, I changed the subject sharply: "Shall we move forward?" There are too many people here. ”
"Hmm." He answered, tugging at my sleeve and walking in the direction of the convoy.
Whenever he walked into a crowded place, he would block a small space for me with his arm, but he didn't touch me. Seeing him like this, I suddenly remembered the Zhaoyuan Festival a month ago, and that person also blocked the crowd for me in this way, but he was not sincere......
Thinking of this, I suddenly shook my head, how could I think of him!?
After walking for about two quarters of an hour, we came to a crossroads. Because after the intersection, the main road in Dongshi has narrowed a lot, so the lantern convoy has turned right one after another, which is the end of the performance.
Shen Fengyue and I crossed the intersection and continued to walk along the road of Fang Cai. There is no lantern show on this side of the road, so it is obviously not so crowded. In addition to various shops on both sides of the road, there are also street stalls. There are lanterns, snacks, and accessories.
One of the lantern stalls caught my eye, and I pulled Shen Fengyue forward. The stall owner was a short middle-aged man, and when he saw us coming, he immediately said enthusiastically: "Son, girl, do you want to guess the lantern riddle?" ”
Shen Fengyue looked indifferent, but I was very interested. "How do you guess this lantern riddle?" I asked.
"It's simple." The middle-aged man picked up a monkey lantern casually, pulled out a paper scroll on it and said, "Did the girl see it?" This is the mystery. If the girl guesses the riddle on the lantern correctly, the lantern will be given to the girl. ”
"What if I'm wrong?" I asked.
"If you guess wrong, the girl will pay ten cents." The boss replied.
Interesting!
I picked up a lantern, and the surface of the lantern was painted with plum blossoms, and it looked quite elegant. The boss had great insight and hurriedly pulled out the mystery to help me unfold. I whispered: "There are fish in the East China Sea, without a head and a tail, and removing the backbone is the answer to the mystery." "I'm a little dismissive." It's too easy, right!? ”
"Oh? Did the girl guess? The man seemed a little surprised.
"This lantern riddle is typed." As I spoke, I picked up the brush on the stall, bent down and drew on the ground with the end of the pen, and did not forget to explain: "'There are fish in the East China Sea', so it was the word 'fish' at the beginning." I wrote the word "fish" on the ground with the barrel of my pen, and then read the next sentence of the riddle: "No head and no tail." So I crossed out the corner prefix at the top of the fish character and the four dots at the bottom. Remove the spine. As he spoke, he erased the vertical in the remaining word "Tian". "It's for the mystery." I straightened up and put the pen back on the table. "So the riddle is 'day', the 'day' of 'day', right?"
When the man heard this, his expression was a little unnatural, but he still laughed dryly twice, and reluctantly said, "The girl is really smart." Reluctantly, he handed the plum blossom lantern into my hand.
I vaguely guessed why the man reacted the way he did: his stall was mostly for ordinary people. Only half of the people are literate, so he dared to do such a business, but he didn't expect to meet us. That's it, I'm just trying to be fresh, so don't delay people doing business. Just wanted to leave, but heard Shen Fengyue sneer: "It's just clever." ”
His sentence actually aroused my desire to win, so he said provocatively: "Then Shen Gongzi dares to compete with me?" ”
When Shen Fengyue heard this, there was a flash of brilliance in her eyes, as if she didn't expect me to mention it. "Just you?" He pretended to glance at me. "How do you want to compare?"