The night market is not at all prosperous in the daytime, and the lanterns are lit up under the eaves or between the two houses, making the whole night market look brilliant and intoxicating.

"Mother, I have never seen such a prosperous scene, there is no one except for Lexu at night, I didn't expect that I could come out to play at night!"

Yun Ji looked like an old grandmother entering the city, looking east and west.

He found that Shangjing's steamed buns were more expensive than their Lexu's, which only sold for two copper coins, and there was plenty of pork stuffing in them. The buns in Shangjing cost three copper coins, and they are half smaller than Lexu.

Moreover, in the carriage during the day, it took 200 copper coins for the mother to negotiate, and he saved more than one or two silver after saving for five years, and he could only take the carriage a few times!

Yun Ji wanted to take back what he said before he said that he would find an inn to live in if he lost it, no wonder his mother laughed at him in the end, he didn't know the price of Shangjing at all. For more than one or two silver, he can only live in a low-class room for a few nights, and he has to eat in addition to that.

Sure enough, the ginger is still old and spicy.

When answering questions in the future, be sure to think about it before you talk about it.

"There's so much you don't know." Li Qing bought two strings of sugar gourds, and Yun He took one of them to eat. "Woo, the sugar gourd is still delicious at home, and the sugar gourd here doesn't have the taste of home." Li Qing said vaguely while eating.

Yun Ji glanced at Li Qing, took the sugar gourd and sighed softly. Just now he was still thinking about ginger or old spicy, so can't his mother cooperate?

Hold it down?

"Xiaobai, if you want to eat or play, tell your mother, your mother will do the east, and everything will be reimbursed." Li Qing stretched out his hand, and the bamboo stick in his hand fell into the garbage basket on the side of the road.

Shangjing has reached public transportation - rent a horse-drawn carriage; Someone sweeps the street, takes out the garbage, and removes the feces...... In short, this is a civilized city in the sense of a word.

Although this is not the Song Dynasty in memory, it is no less developed than it.

"I want to put lanterns." Yun Ji pointed to the colorful lanterns not far away to Li Qingdao. He didn't want anything, he just wanted to put down two river lanterns, one for his father and one for Brother Liyue.

"Okay." Li Qing responded.

The two walked to the lantern stall, and saw an old woman sitting behind the stall, who was carefully cutting paper.

Yun Ji walked up and asked, "Mother-in-law, how do you sell this river lantern?" The old woman was fascinated by the lamp, and the sound of Yun Ji did not alarm her at all. So Yun Ji raised his voice and asked, "Old woman, what is the price of your lantern?" ”

"Ahh The old woman looked up in response, but the movements in her hands did not stop. I saw that the folds on her face looked sallow and dull under the light, and her expression looked a little stiff.

Li Qing stepped forward and stood next to Yunji, to be honest, this mother-in-law looked quite infiltrating.

"Three coins and one lamp, no bargaining." After the old woman finished speaking, she immediately lowered her head and continued to make the lamp in her hand, and did not look at the two of them again. It seems that the unformed river lantern in her hand is the whole world, and the others are outside the world, and Li Qing and Yun Ji are heretics who suddenly broke into her world today.

Just as Li Qing was about to pay for the river lantern, a man and a woman walked over hand in hand, the man was well-dressed, and the woman had meticulous hair.

I saw that the man took out three copper coins and carefully put them into a basket hanging on the stall, and then the woman took a lamp, and the two hugged each other and left slowly, without saying a word the whole time.

Seeing this, Li Qing also followed the example of the two people, threw the coins into the basket, and then chose a river lantern with Yun and the others, and followed the man and the woman towards the river.

"Mother, this mother-in-law who sells lamps is so strange, I see a lot of people selling river lanterns are shouting constantly, and some use anagrams to attract people to buy river lanterns, but this old woman doesn't say a word, and even ignores the guests."

"Maybe there is a story behind her, we don't know, and we don't have to be curious, Xiaobai, let's go put the river lantern." At a glance, he knew that Yun Ji was "sick" with curiosity, how could Li Qing let him spend his time here.

"Okay." Compared to the old woman's business, Yun Ji still felt that what he wanted to do was more important.

Lighting the fire is very simple, there is a special place to light lanterns by the river, Li Qing lit two river lanterns and let Yun Ji put them down with his own hands.

Yun Ji stood on the shore, his hands folded, and made his wish.

After a while, Yun Ji said, "Okay." He put his hands down and turned around.

Li Qing touched Yun Ji's head, stroked it with satisfaction, and said with half-squinted eyes: "Let's go back." ”

"Didn't my mother ask me what I had promised?" Yun Ji quietly smoothed out some messy hair on his head.

"Hehe, our Xiaobai's little wishes, I don't need to know about it as a mother, Xiaobai is also a person with his own little secrets, just keep it by yourself." Li Qing said calmly.

The two walked on the way back to the post station, Li Qing glanced back at Huaishui, only to see the faint lights of the stars, gradually moving away.

No one knows the final outcome of these river lanterns, some of them were wet and sank to the bottom of the river, turning into a puddle of silt, and some reached the so-called end point, and the end was still silt.

But what about people's wishes? But forever silent in the bottom of my heart. Put down a lantern to pay tribute to the dead who have passed away, and miss their relatives and friends far away...... It's the emotion of being human.

The next day, Yun Ji slept for the first time, and he would not go anywhere today. After Li cleaned and rinsed, He Yunji had breakfast and began to prepare the things that Yunji would use tomorrow.

Yun Ji was in the Ministry of Rites for the first time, and he would meet the official family if he didn't want to, so he couldn't lose his courtesy.

"The gift of officialdom, the master has already handed it over to me, don't worry, it's no problem." Yun Ji was reading with a book, and he saw that Li Qing was constantly busy, feeling tired for her.

As everyone knows, Li cleared his nervousness and found it mostly fun. The first time I came into contact with the ancient upper class, I was inevitably a little excited.

When the clouds and dust settle, she will throw out everything she can get out, and then be an idle woman, reading and practicing calligraphy every day, raising a cat and playing the piano...... When you think about it, it feels beautiful.

"Okay, the clothes to be worn tomorrow, the accessories to be worn, and the little tweet on the head are all ready, Xiaobai has to stabilize tomorrow."

"Got it, got it."

At noon, Su Xuning visited.

"I thought you would arrive at the end of October, but I didn't expect that this is only the middle of October, and you have already arrived, and you are still used to it here, if you need anything, just say it, the post officer will do his best to complete it for you."

Su Xuning and Li Qing sat on opposite sides of the desk, Li Qing said: "It's good here, there is no discomfort, Li Qing thanks Master Su for taking time out of his busy schedule to care about me and Yun Ji." ”