Chapter 231: Lantern Festival
Sun Yanling was trapped more than half a month ago.
Two days after Sizhen arrived at the Pingxi Palace in Yunnan to congratulate Wu Sangui on his birthday, it happened to be the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Wu Sangui used this as an excuse to persuade Sizhen to see the Mid-Autumn Festival in Yunnan before leaving for Guangxi.
Wu Sangui's second daughter, the second county lord, volunteered to accompany Sizhen to watch the lanterns.
This second county lord is the one who was going to marry Kong Tingxun, she was the same age as Sizhen, after Kong Tingxun was captured, she married Wu Sangui's general Hu Guozhu as his wife, and already had a son and a daughter, in her opinion, Sizhen was the one who almost became her sister-in-law, so she treated Sizhen especially kindly.
By the time Sizhen and the second county lord walked to Flower Street, the Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Festival had already entered "gaochao".
There are all kinds of lamps on the light street, such as fish lanterns, tiger lanterns, lotus lanterns, etc.; The shape is divided into round lamp, square lamp and pentagonal lamp; There are a combination of single lamp, double lamp, child and mother lamp, Luohan lamp; There are also lamp mountains, lamp trees, lamp towers, bead hoards, and the materials are also diverse, including cloth lanterns, paper lamps, glass lamps, jade lights, bead lamps, sheep's horn lamps, horn lamps, wheat silk lamps, bamboo lamps......
Dressed in brocade, decorated with gold and silver, thousands of lamps are lit together, and the lights are clustered like flowers and trees on the street, and the stars are dotted, which is extremely bright.
A bright moon in the sky is in the sky, shining like day, reflecting the gorgeous lanterns on the ground, the lights and the moon are shining, and the people who see it are dazzled.
And among the thousands of lights, mixed with Shi Cheng Baiju, the juggling of the imperial view, the always quiet light street can be said to be crowded with people, and the drums are noisy.
"Are you sure the lamp tree is around here?" The lights are bright, the lights and shadows are blurred, Sizhen has the feeling that he can't find the southeast and northwest, and he is worried about getting lost, so he asks the second county lord.
Previously, the second county lord heard that there was a three-person tall lamp tree at the Lantern Festival, which was particularly beautiful, so he took Sizhen to see it, but he walked for a while, and he didn't see the lamp tree.
The second county lord seemed to be fascinated by the prosperous scene in front of him, and he forgot to put down his hand to lift the hood on his cloak, and he didn't care about answering Sizhen's question.
Although she is the county lord, she is in the four high walls of the mansion all the year round, and she goes back to the Mid-Autumn Festival to watch the lights, but when she looks at it from a distance on the high-rise building, how can she feel it so closely!
Sizhen also feels fresh, in recent years, except for when she was a child, whether it was in the capital or Guilin Mansion, she also watched the lanterns from the high-rise buildings on both sides of the lamp street, so the feeling of being in it was very different.
Seeing the real prosperous scene in front of them, Sizhen and the second county lord felt that their eyes were not enough.
Brocade clothes and hats, beautiful little ladies holding lamps, with affection, all the way with the heroic little Langjun, full of smiles, left and right to greet the guests of the stall vendors, under the lamp pull visitors to guess riddles and tell stories of the shop, the old woman who accompanies each other, the old man, the frolicking children......
There is also the woman wearing a silver fox fur fur, but half of the jade neck is exposed inside, standing under the red lantern, her eyes are like silk, and she is smiling and pulling at the noble son who has been dressed in fine clothes in the past.
All of this seems to be so fresh and interesting, and it gives the second county lord a very strong impact.
Her head was almost poking out of the purple silk barrier.
Because I am afraid that people will step on and crowd too much, and lose their dignity, but all people with heads and faces will use the purple silk step barrier or brocade step barrier to travel on this day.
The so-called step barrier is to make a long circle around the silk or cloth, and move it by the subordinates, so as to isolate the bumps of outsiders, and also prevent the disciples from taking advantage of the girls and daughters-in-law while there are many people.
Because it's just a walking barrier, it's just a person from the side, but it doesn't interfere with the light outside, and the situation inside the walking barrier can be seen by people outside from the side.
The second county lord and the fourth county lord naturally wouldn't have thought that their group of people had already been targeted.
The annual Mid-Autumn Festival of Lights is also the time when thieves and kidnappers go out the most.
The soldiers in charge of the city's defense were too busy to keep up.
At the moment when the second county lord lifted his hood to look at the light just now, the people who had been following them made one last gesture to each other.
Rob!
This group of people, bright colors, bright clothes, really dazzling, they all the way, the two women who were surrounded by the barrier are as beautiful as fairies, not to mention, the clothes they are wearing, all of them are boutiques.
The ruby from the golden phoenix's mouth that the woman who lifted her hat and looked at the lamp was worth a thousand taels of silver.
If this ticket is successful, you don't have to worry about eating and drinking for the rest of your life.
Although they also know that like the two women in the footsteps, they must be rich or noble, and they are not easy to mess with, but under the double temptation of wealth and beauty, these people still have bad intentions.
Anyway, it's not like I haven't done such a thing before, wealth and wealth are in danger, just like last year, they didn't intercept a little son of the clan, and the ransom money of the tied ticket alone is enough to eat for three or five years.
This year, if you get these two charming little ladies, you can either sell them or let them redeem them in their family, it will be a good deal.
In the midst of the noise, a canopy carriage with green silk came out of the alley next to Dengjie, and in the bustling crowd, the carriage soon stopped moving.
"Gege, there are a lot of people in front, so I can't go any further."
"Then let's come down and watch as we go."
With two conversations, two hooded women got out of the car.
Accompanying them were two thirteen or fourteen-year-old little maids, looking at the crowd on the left and right, the maids pleaded to a healthy woman who was pulling the barrier on the side of Sizhen and them: "Okay, let my family Gege walk among your obstacles, there are too many people outside, I'm afraid of colliding with Gege." ”
Naturally, the healthy woman refused.
The two maids pleaded with the healthy women with the handicap one by one, and one even raised his voice to talk to the second county lord inside, "Kind and beautiful lady, please do well, accumulate virtue, and let my family be a good one, otherwise the lights on this road will look down, and my family will be taken captive ......."
None of the healthy women who were walking in the footsteps paid any attention.
The housekeeper's grandmother even shouted: "Go away, don't look at the lights if you're not prepared, go home, you collide with the nobles, can you afford it?" ”
The second county lord heard the little maid's pleading, but his heart softened.
She touched her lower abdomen: she regarded it as a child in her womb.
"Let them in."
Sizhen stopped: "County Lord, people of unknown origin, it's better to be careful." ”
The second county lord said indifferently: "Two big girls, what kind of storm can they make?" There are so many of us. ”
Seeing that Sizhen still wanted to persuade again, she said a little unhappily: "Princess, haven't you heard that people have said that you want to accumulate more virtue?" The two of them are big girls, walking in this crowd, it doesn't take half a moment, I'm afraid they will be touched and taken captive, in case something like that happens, we will become dead and not saved, do you bear it? ”
Sizhen still said in a low voice: "County Lord, their origin is unknown, so they can't be trusted. ”
The second county lord was a little hesitant.
Although the two women didn't hear what they said, they also knew that the two had differences, and one of them, standing outside the barrier, pleaded in a dumb voice: "Kind lady, saving someone's life is better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter, for you, it's just a matter of stretching out your hand, why bother to refuse someone for thousands of miles?" Today, if we go in and avoid it, he will ask for an immortal tablet for the two ladies one day, and ask the Bodhisattva to bless you, and I will be peaceful. ”
The other said softly: "Sister, look at these two ladies, just like the most perfect and compassionate Bodhisattva, how can they not be saved when they see death!" ”
But they were not allowed to come into the barriers, and they said it so ugly.
Sizhen got goosebumps on her body when she was told by their words, and she sneered: "Look at what the two of you said, it seems that we want to harm your lives, if we don't invite you in, we are wrong." Where in the world is there such a truth? ”
And it was just these two sentences that Sizhen suddenly found that unconsciously, she and the second county lord had been separated, and only the magpie was there in front of her.
"County Lord, these people are not right."
"Xianggong, Xianggong" In the distance, she heard the surprise shout of the second county lord.
Sizhen felt her heart skip a beat.
Although nothing happened, she just vaguely felt that danger was approaching.
Out of nowhere, a few men in black jumped out, took a cloth bag and put it on her.
The magpie greeted him, and with a whirlwind sweep, the men in black flashed backwards.
"It's not good, it's kidnapping, help"
Sizhen exclaimed calmly.
She ducked to the side, and as the magpie and the man in black were fighting, she hurried through the crowd to find the second county lord.
Sizhen saw that the two thirteen or fourteen-year-old maids were going up to the carriage, and something was shining in the middle of the lamp.
Is it the pearl on the head of the second county lord?!
Sizhen hurriedly squeezed over.
When the magpie saw it, he didn't entangle with those men in black anymore and chased after them.
A man in black tripped her, and she turned around and fought with him.
Sizhen only cared about chasing the second county lord in front of her, and didn't watch out for someone next to her who took a bamboo tube and blew a puff of smoke at her.
All this happened between the lightning and flint, and the people next to him even felt that with just two blinks of an eye, the two women in Chinese clothes in the barrier were gone.
The housekeeper Mama and Lan Que came back to their senses with the healthy women and shouted: "Save people, save people, come quickly"
They didn't dare to shout out the names of the four virgins, and it was known that the princess and the county lord had been taken captive by thieves, and their reputation was over.
At the same time, Fu Honglie and Hu Guozhu, who were wearing black dark cloaks, had just come out of the tent when they saw the second county lord and the fourth zhen in the barricade across the street.
Hu Guozhu saw the second county lord and saw her raise her hand at him: "Xianggong, Xianggong"
He was about to go over, but he was squeezed by the people around him, and when he raised his eyes again, he lost the trace of the second county lord.
Hu Guozhu looked around, searching for the shadow of the second county lord.
He saw a few men carrying a woman into the carriage, who looked familiar with the large red gold cloak she was wearing.
Hu Guozhu chased after him.
What Fu Honglie saw at a glance was Sizhen.
On the left side of Sizhen, there happens to be a nine-story exquisite lighthouse, covering her whole person in light and shadow.