Chapter 18: Lantern Festival
However, there are few small porcelain tiles I bought before, should I recycle them?
Otherwise, if they were to take the jars and fill them themselves, Su Xiyan began to think nonsense again.
I heard the old lady at the top say: "In a few days, there will be the Lantern Festival, this is the first Lantern Festival in the capital, you few little ones go shopping, go to see the world." ”
Lantern festival?
Su Xiyan is now thinking about whether the Lantern Festival can go out of the house and buy a few more small porcelain bottles.
Su Manning and Su Yingxue both thought of last year's Lantern Festival.
With the move, Su Yingxue was ungrounded.
It's just another year of Lantern Festival, I wonder if I will meet him this year?
After that, the three of them went back to their yards with their own thoughts.
Su Xiyan asked Xiaoyu:
"What are you going to do at the Lantern Festival?"
Xiao Yu looked at her with a lonely expression, girl, and replied:
"The Lantern Festival is a national festival. It has been passed down for many, many years, and it seems to have been set by the founding emperor. On this day, there is no curfew, and the government will prepare beautiful lanterns to hang on the streets. From early morning until late at night. On the street, the tavern is bustling, and there is everything to do! Ordinary people will take their children to walk around the streets and guess lantern riddles. Some wealthy people will go to restaurants to eat and listen to plays. Some noble ladies would rent a painting boat and write poems and paintings on it. Well... That's about all I know. ”
Su Xi listened to it, thinking that this should be similar to the National Day, but the National Day is seven days, and there is only one day here.
Three days later, the lanterns will be held.
On this day, except for the sixth young master Su An, he was too young to leave the house casually.
The other five people went out of Su Mansion together after breakfast.
Today's streets in the capital are full of people, so horse-drawn carriages are restricted, and only the carriages of the royal family can run.
Big brother Su Ming arranged this day's itinerary for everyone:
Let's go to the temple fair first and buy some small items that you like. Then I went to the restaurant to eat and listen to music. Rent a boat until the evening and go to the lake to enjoy the night lantern display.
Everyone thought that this arrangement was very good, and they followed the temple fair on foot without objection.
Each person only brought one subordinate with him, so there is no need to worry about the security of the capital today, and there are officers and soldiers patrolling and standing guard in every street and alley.
It's rare that Su Manning and Su Yingxue didn't quarrel, and the third brother Su Zhe is also very interesting, and from time to time he says some interesting things to make the big guy happy.
When he arrived at the temple fair, Su Xiyan really saw the prosperity of this era, with all kinds of shops on both sides of the street, selling everything, and it was very lively.
Everyone agreed on the time and place of the meeting, and then they scattered to buy their favorite objects.
The old lady meaningfully gave each person twenty taels of silver, which was already a lot for Su Xiyan.
I didn't have anything to buy, so I wanted to buy some small porcelain bottles, boxes and the like.
So she spent all the twenty taels, bought all kinds of bottles and cans, and gave Su Fu a waist card, so that the store could send it back to Su Fu directly, which was very convenient.
It was almost noon, and everyone gathered to go to a restaurant that was not particularly famous, and the good restaurants had already been booked, but the hall of today's restaurant was also crowded with people listening to the play.
They were in the private room on the second floor, eating, drinking, listening to plays, talking and laughing, and night came.
When the sky was slightly yellow, the officers and soldiers of the government lit lanterns.
There is also an officer and soldier standing every ten meters, in order to prevent the candles from running out or catching fire.
When it was dark, a group of ten people, including the entourage, who had eaten dinner, came to a river bank and hired a painting boat.
The boat can accommodate just a dozen people, and it is exquisitely decorated, and there are good paper and pen easels prepared inside for guests to entertain in the boat.
The painting boat drove slowly on the lake, and at this time there were more than a dozen painting boats on the lake, each of which was scattered, and laughter came from all directions, so it was not lively.
Inside the painting boat hired by the Su family.
Su Ming held the paper as if he was writing some kind of poem, and Su Zhe was throwing flattering eyes and whistling on the painting boat everywhere, he was not bad-looking, and some young ladies and girls blushed with shame.
Su Yingxue sat beside the easel, holding a brush in her hand, and glanced at the painting boat outside, intentionally or unintentionally.
Su Manning, who was sitting behind her, looked at her sister with disdain, and said in her heart, "This capital is so big, does she still want to meet Wu Gongzi again?" Cut! It's funny. ”
Su Xiyan knelt on the chair on the side and played in the water.
With the body facing outward, the two hands pass through the back of the wooden chair around it, the fingers lightly touch the surface of the lake, the wind blows slowly, and the various colorful lanterns on the shore reflect the layers of ripples through the surface of the lake...
She looked up comfortably, and not far in front of her was a three-story restaurant... The lights shimmered, and the occasional sound of the piano could be heard from within.
At this time, she saw a person standing in front of the cloister of a private room on the third floor.
I couldn't see her face clearly, and at this time, the man seemed to be looking at her too.........
Su Xiyan suddenly shuddered, and she seemed to have to turn around and sit down, I don't know if it was blown by the wind, she felt that her hands and feet were a little cold at the moment, and she didn't dare to turn her head anymore, staring at her brothers and sisters in a panic.
And the man standing on three floors.
It's Gu Qianye!
He leisurely stretched out his slender fingers and pointed to the painting boat where Su Xiyan was, and he didn't know who he was talking to:
"Go and bring her."
After speaking, two black shadows flashed! Disappear into thin air...
In the painting boat where everyone in the Su Mansion is... A group of people were still frolicking.
Suddenly, two black figures appeared on the bow of the ship.
The laughter stopped for a moment, and everyone's smiles froze on their faces.
In this era, there are not many people who can do this kind of light work, and the man in black who suddenly broke into the picturesque boat in front of him is obviously not ordinary!
I only heard one of the men in black bow his hand and say without any emotion: "Our master invited the girl over for tea."
After speaking, everyone looked at Su Xiyan in unison, because the man in black was facing her.
Su Xiyan will be stunned, master? Men in Black? What was this, when did she know these people, how did she not know.
Seeing that she didn't react, the man in black gave up his hand again, then took out a piece of cloth, rolled it on Su Xiyan's wrist, and said, "Offended."
Just see the "whoosh"! disappeared in front of everyone with Su Xiyan.
The other man in black who was still in the bow of the boat made a gesture of invitation, and said without emotion: "Master, please go to the private room on the first floor of the Yuman Building to drink tea." ”
Yumanlou is the three-story restaurant in front of you, which is the most expensive and famous restaurant in Beijing. Ordinary people can't even get a seat in the lobby.
The rest of the people in the Su Mansion did not look very good at this time, especially the eldest brother Su Ming, he had heard from the people in the academy that the royal family or some hundred-year-old families would cultivate some secret guards, all of whom had been cultivated with a lot of money since childhood, so which noble person was the master in the mouth of these secret guards?
Everyone was a little stunned, but Xiaoyu was very calm, from the time Su Xiyan was arrested until now, she didn't show a trace of panic.
They were not directly grabbed and "flew" away like Su Xiyan. Instead, he slowly sailed to the shore and was invited to the Imperial Tower.
On the other side, Su Xiyan was taken to the Yuman Building in this way, and instead of going directly to the corridor outside the third floor, he was taken to the aisle inside by the man in black.
Until her feet hit the ground, Su Xiyan felt a little top-heavy, this was the first time she had seen the ancient light skills, and she was so frightened that she even forgot to scream.
At this moment, she was standing in front of the door of a private room, and the voices of several people could be faintly heard inside, as well as the sound of the piano......