No longer torturing himself and Shangguan Lihua with each other, Xuanyuan Yuchen said, "I know...... How could our cave room be in such a hurry on the night of the candle night....." After speaking, no matter how shy Shangguan Lihua was, he laughed, then picked up Shangguan Lihua again and walked towards the ice cellar.

The words are divided into two ends, on the side of the Peony Pavilion, everyone is still playing, but they will change the shooting game to a similar game ---- pitching pot.

Pitching pots are traditional Chinese etiquette and feasting games that continued from the pre-Qin period to the end of the Qing Dynasty in ancient China. At first, it was because the courtyard was not wide enough to accommodate the hoof; Or maybe it's because of the large number of guests, it's not enough to prepare a bow coupling; Or some guests really don't know how to shoot arrows, so they use pitching pots instead of bending bows, to entertain guests, and learn etiquette. Song Lu Dalin said in "The Biography of Rites": "Throw the pot, shoot it carefully." Yan drink has shot to Lebin, and to learn and talk about art. ”

Pitching is both a ritual and a game. "The Book of Rites" and "The Book of Great Dai Li" are all specifically described in the "Pitching Pot" chapter. When the pot throwing ceremony is held, the guests and the host take turns to throw the arrows into the pot, each person has four arrows, the one who wins the most wins, and the loser drinks as a punishment. "The Twelfth Year of Zhao Gong" contains: "The Marquis of Jin feasted with the Marquis of Qi, and the Bank of China Mu Zixiang threw pots." Pot throwing was also held during the banquet of the princes of the two countries, which shows that pot throwing has become a formal etiquette in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Pitching pots originated from shooting salutes, and Zheng annotated the cloud of "The Book of Rites": "Pitching pots, shooting finely." and Sima Guang's "Pitching Pot Xinge" cloud: "It must start between the swallows and drinks, seek to be happy, or be sick and unable to shoot, and raise the utensils between the banquets to send the festival." It can be seen from this that the pitching of pots is an expedient measure that cannot be held due to the constraints of venue factors or personal factors. Therefore, there are many similarities between the pitching pot and the shooting ceremony in the rituals, such as both use the priest as the host of the ceremony, and both use the "raccoon head" as the festival, etc. As a kind of etiquette, the pitching pot not only inherits the etiquette of the shooting ceremony, but also inherits the etiquette of the shooting ceremony and self-cultivation, just as the Qing Xu Shikai "Throwing the pot ceremony" cloud: "The pitching pot is the change of the shooting ceremony."

For the gift of throwing the pot, the end of the arrow needs to be thrown into the pot to be counted; It is necessary to cast arrows in turn, and even the first to invest will not be scored; The winner of the shot punishes the unwinner for drinking.

At this time, the five princes Xuanyuan Yulin and Xuanyuan Xu and others were playing like this at this time.

Hong Siyan thought that it was almost time for everyone to have fun, so she opened her mouth and proposed to everyone: "We have been having fun here for a long time, and the few young ladies of the Shangguan family should rest enough, why don't we go to find them, and then everyone will go to Princess An's place together?" ”

Xuanyuan Yulin also felt that something was not quite right at this time, to say that at the beginning, he and everyone generally thought that Shangguan Lihua was just a little overwhelmed, and he could just take a break. But now that Shangguan Lihua and his party have been gone for nearly an hour, will something happen, the fifth prince Xuanyuan Yulin has a faint feeling of uneasiness in his heart. If the third brother knows that he is at the table, and Shangguan Lihua can have an accident, he may be able to peel off a layer of skin on his body.

At this time, when he heard Hong Siyan's proposal, he thought that the crown prince Xuanyuan Yuling was also in Shangguan Lihua, and soon after they left the table, he said that he had left for a while, and then contacted Shangguan Lihua for so long and had not returned to the table, so he couldn't help but link them together.

With such a connection, the fifth prince Xuanyuan Yulin felt that his whole person would not be good, and when he came in, Xuanyuan Yuling was in a hurry to win over the courtiers, and the identity of the above official Lihua and the forces represented behind her would be favored by the crown prince Xuanyuan Yuling, and then look for an opportunity to start.

Once I have this idea in my heart, I think that if it is really as I think, Shangguan Lihua can still have an accident in his hands, not to mention that Xuanyuan Yuchen will let himself shed a layer of skin, but he will not have the face to see people. The fifth prince Xuanyuan Yulin patted his head, and then said kindly: "The time for the crown prince and brother to leave the table is not short, if we all go to find the three young ladies of the Shangguan family, and the crown prince and brother can't find us when they come back, isn't it just me?" After speaking, the fifth prince Xuanyuan Yulin said to Xuanyuan Xu: "Otherwise, I will take Miss Wen to find the three young ladies of the Shangguan family, Cousin Xu, you stay here with the others and wait for the crown prince and brother to come back, and then we will meet together at the banquet of Uncle An."

After speaking, he didn't wait for everyone to have opinions, so he planned to get up and leave. Hong Siyan had an idea, and knew that she couldn't stop the proposal of the Fifth Prince, Xuanyuan Yulin, so she said: "The Fifth Prince's proposal is very good, so that you can find someone on both sides. ”

Hong Siyan first affirmed Xuanyuan Yulin's proposal, and then changed her words and said, "It's better for Siyan and Miss Wen to go with the five princes to find Miss Lihua, Sister Qi and Sister Jiahua." Looking at Miss Lihua's appearance, I think I must be drunk, I went with Miss Wen, if I found the three of them, it would be inconvenient for the five princes and a man, I went with Miss Wen, so I could take care of each other. With that, he got up. This is reasonable, and even if the Fifth Prince Xuanyuan Yulin wants to stop it, he can't stop it, and Hong Siyan has already gotten up and walked up at this time in order not to give the Fifth Prince Xuanyuan Yulin a chance to refuse him.

In this way, if the Fifth Prince Xuanyuan Yulin said anything to stop Hong Siyan and prevent him from following him, maybe even if nothing happened to Shangguan Lihua, others would suspect that something had happened.

The fifth prince Xuanyuan Yulin could only nod helplessly and agreed. At this time, even if Xuanyuan Yulin is the prince, he can't put an end to everyone's speculation, so it is better to let Hong Siyan go with him generously. The fifth prince, Xuanyuan Yulin, could only secretly pray in his heart that Shangguan Lihua would never have an accident. Of course, Xuanyuan Yulin still had that cynical look on his face, and it really looked like he was thinking about finding Shangguan Lihua and Shangguan Qihua and other sisters because he listened to Hong Siyan's proposal.

Wen Yaqin listened to the arrangement of the fifth prince Xuanyuan Yulin, and a touch of uneasiness suddenly rose in her heart. What the fifth prince Xuanyuan Yulin thought of, she also thought of. Although Wen Yaqin is also a real lady of the family like Shangguan Lihua, but the Marquis of Wu'an Mansion can be regarded as thinking about her upbringing, because it is the only daughter of the Wen family after Shangguan Lihua's mother Wen Qingrong, and her daughter's family has not been left behind since she was a child, and her father and second uncle have never avoided their children, but sometimes talk to them about this. Compared with the education and protection of children by other officials, I have to say that the education of the children of the Wu'an Bohou Mansion is indeed enlightened.