The man saw that the little girl in front of him was just staring at his face and did not answer, thinking that she was frightened, so he slowed down his tone for three points and said, "Don't be afraid, we are not bad people." My friend just got drunk and talked nonsense and didn't have bad intentions. The tone is very gentle and amiable, but it makes people feel like they are coaxing children.

Chunying came to her senses and smiled, "It's okay, I'm fine, you go take care of your friends." ”

A hint of surprise flashed across the man's face, and just then he heard his friend shouting at himself in the building, mixed with the gibberish of the drunk, so he had to bow his hand again and hurried back to the building.

Chun Ying didn't realize that what she said and her tone didn't match her current age, so she quickly caught up with the team when it was just an insignificant episode, and faintly heard the voice of the man discussing with his friend to send his drunk friend home behind him.

Lu Yougui was looking around with Xiaohu in his arms, and when he saw his daughter running over, he hurriedly said, "Where did you run just now?" It's worrying! ”

Chunying smiled: "There are too many people, and they are scattered for a while." Didn't I catch up? ”

Lu Yougui looked at his daughter carefully, and when he saw that she was fine, he motioned for her to come with him: "Let's go, everyone is waiting for you." ”

The group walked for less than half an hour before they came to the light market. Chunying observed all the way and judged that this "capital" should be Beijing, not only the climate is similar, but even the streets have many similarities, but the differences are not small. Thinking that this may be Beijing hundreds of years ago, she doesn't feel strange, and she can wear it to a more familiar place, and she can feel a little more at ease.

Just along the way, I have seen a lot of lanterns, but they are all pedestrians or roadside residents scattered hanging out, a light market, but completely different, really fire trees and silver flowers, colorful and bright. Chunying only felt that her eyes were full of light, red, yellow, green, blue, and countless patterns, which made people dizzy.

Most of the lanterns here are made of fine strips, pasted with various colors of paper or tulle, the handiwork is very delicate, some of the surface is also painted with fine patterns, and what is even more rare is that there are many kinds of mechanisms mixed in. The marquee is pretty simple, with butterflies or birds flapping their wings, crabs dancing with claws, tigers and unicorns shaking their heads and tails, golden boys and girls with their hands raised, and Fu Lu Shou Sanxing who grinning and nodding...... Chunying has also seen a lot of Lantern Festival lanterns that integrate the latest technology in modern times, but she still can't take her eyes off it.

At first, she was amazed, wondering how the ancients could do this, until she realized that the mechanisms were actually simple manual manipulation.

In addition to lanterns, there are other things in the light market. There are hawkers who set up stalls to sell all kinds of festival items, some occupy the land to dance knives and guns, or juggle and breathe fire, and some people use small carts to push big iron pots out to sell hot Lantern Festival. Crossing the rock sugar gourd, which is the first essential food for women, there are also hawkers who carry it and squeeze in the crowd to sell it loudly. Chunying was not attracted by these snacks, she just watched the excitement, but a few children of all ages who came with her couldn't help but gather around the vendors, staring at the food, no matter how their parents and elders shouted, they refused to move half a step. Later, the adults reluctantly spent dozens of dollars to buy a few strings of rock sugar gourds before dragging them away.

Chunying's quiet and well-behaved made the adults admire, and they praised and praised in front of the Lu family and their husbands, among which the Lu family's sister-in-law Ziyu praised the most. Mother Lu humbly belittled her daughter a few words, occasionally glanced at other noisy children, turned around and bought a rock sugar gourd and stuffed it for her daughter: "Eat, be careful not to stain your clothes." ”

Chunying looked at the red fruit in her hand, a little speechless, looked left and right, took a bite, sweet and sour, but it was too sticky, and the flesh was a little astringent. Turning her head and seeing the two brothers Ma Xiaodong and Ma Xiaoxi in the same courtyard staring at her, with a look of longing, she bit off the first fruit, and threw the thing to the Ma brothers, watching them happily divide it.

A warm big hand covered her head, and Chunying looked up and saw that it was her father Lu Yougui. The latter smiled and touched her head, and heard her son babbling in the other direction, and it turned out that he saw a beautiful lamp and hurriedly hugged him and squeezed over.

Everyone was looking at the lights and watching the excitement, talking and laughing very happily, Chunying stood in place, for some reason, a little lonely.

She remembered last year's Lantern Festival, she took her parents to the Cultural Park to watch the lanterns, and there was a fireworks show at that time, and the scene was even more lively than now. She bought a lantern to carry at that time, and ate a lot of snacks, such as Xinjiang lamb skewers, Tianjin steamed buns, Saqima, and ginger crispy chops...... I remember that my mother also bought a bunch of rock sugar gourds at that time, saying that she wanted to relive her childhood memories, but she only ate one and stuffed it to her, because the sugar was too hard and sweet, and the fruit was too sour. But when I think about it today, I think that skewer is much better than today's skewer......

Today is the day when the family reunites and eats the Lantern Festival, and in modern parents, I don't know what happened......

"It's an ice lantern! There's an ice lantern over there! The loud shouts of the people around her pulled Chun Ying's thoughts back, and she felt a little cold in the corners of her eyes, and when she reached out and touched it, it was actually wet. The tears shed at this moment of laughter and laughter were so conspicuous that she quickly wiped them with her sleeves, pretending to be curious, blending into several companions of similar age, and marching in the direction of the street corner.

It wasn't until the large ice sculpture palace lamp that flashed white light appeared in front of her eyes that she really understood what she had just heard. The Ming Dynasty actually had ice lanterns?! She vaguely remembered that in a novel she had read that traveled through the Qing Dynasty, it was mentioned that the heroine made ice lanterns, which set off a trend. Hey? Could it be that the book was written incorrectly?

Next to her happened to be the young man who had been here a long time ago, and now he was saying triumphantly: "The weather has been warmer these days, and there are fewer ice lanterns, so there will be a few more tricks in the past few days!" This palace lamp can only be regarded as a subordinate, and the **** has seen it with his own eyes, there is an ice beauty, but I am afraid that it is not worse than the beauty portrait in the jade pavilion built by Emperor Taizong back then! ”

Someone next to him snorted at him: "Nonsense again!" The things in the palace, how can they be compared with those of the little people?! ”

"I'm not talking nonsense!" The young man said unconvinced, "The eldest young master also knows that the craftsman who carved this ice beauty is the descendant of the apprentice of Master Wei, who was personally given the 'No. 1 Divine Craftsman in the World' by Emperor Taizong back then!" This craft is passed down by yourself! ”

Hearing him say this, the man was silent, and a child next to him asked the young man: "Brother Xiaowu, I heard that Emperor Taizong's beauty pavilion is like a fairy, is it true?" ”

Chunying was a little curious, who is this Emperor Taizong? Let's talk about the year name and temple number or something.

It's a pity that Brother Xiao Wu couldn't hear her inner words, so he just smiled: "Are you true that you are the beauties in the Jade Pavilion?" Fools, those are all ice beauties! That's why it melts in the spring. Others say that those beauties are fairies and have gone back to the sky, but the eldest young master said that they are ice sculptures, and the carvings are the twelve harem maidens sealed by Emperor Taizong, so outsiders can't see them. Master Wei's craftsmanship is amazing, and even a strand of hair is carved clearly! ”

The child asked again, "Why did Emperor Taizong use ice sculptures?" As soon as the sun came out, it all melted. If it were to be replaced by me, I would definitely use white jade, so that I could stay for a long time. My mother has a white jade hairpin, which is said to have been handed down from my grandfather's family, and it is one or two hundred years old! Didn't stumble at all. ”

Brother Wu glanced left and right, and slapped the child: "Don't say a few words, this kind of thing can also be said?" ”

The boy ducked back: "You haven't answered me yet, why?" ”

Brother Xiao Wu squeaked twice, pulled down his face and said, "How do I know why?" Emperor Taizong's thoughts, can we know?! Do you still want to look at the lights?! ”

The other children were bluffed by him, so they honestly went to look at the other lights. Chunying wanted to ask who Emperor Taizong was, but she was not familiar with Xiao Wu, and hesitated for a while before she was about to speak, but she heard him shout: "There are lantern riddles there!" Hula beckoned back a large group of children, and rushed forward, so that she had to follow.

They went to a large lantern stall, and the owner of the stall used bamboo poles to tie up a large shed, and hung hundreds of lanterns, almost no duplicate ones. There is a riddle on every lamp, and whoever guesses the answer to the riddle will give him the lamp for free, but if he doesn't guess it, and wants the lamp, he has to pay ten times the price to buy it. Because his lanterns are more delicate and beautiful than others, countless people crowd here, intending to earn one or two to go back.

Xiao Wu took a large group of children, and naturally walked around happily. He is the little guy of the eldest young master in the house, and he knows a few words on weekdays, and at the moment he has the heart to show off, so he reads out the riddles on the lamp one by one, where can the children guess, but they just guess, but they envy and admire Xiao Wu's talent, and he is more and more proud, but someone asked him which one he guessed, and he pulled the words away.

Chunying didn't follow them, there were a lot of people here, and there were her parents and children not far away, so she wasn't afraid. She looked at a carp lamp quietly, and thought it was very similar to the one she bought at the Cultural Park last year, and she remembered that her mother's name seemed to be "Red Carp" now, which was not as good as ...... Get this lamp back, right?

Do what you think. She looked at the riddle on the lamp with great interest, and the riddle was very simple, with only one word: "flower". Many people couldn't guess it, and when they saw that other lamps were more delicate, they turned their eyes away. Chunying vaguely remembered that it seemed to be mentioned in "Dream of Red Mansions" that the word "flower" is "grass" when disassembled, referring to the word "firefly" of fireflies.

Thinking of this, she was overjoyed, and was about to speak to the stall owner, but she heard a voice behind her: "Give me that carp lamp, I guessed, it's the word for firefly." ”

Chunying was greatly frustrated, and looked back to see who had guessed it, but saw two familiar mustaches. The two took a photo, and they were both stunned.

The mustache obviously recognized her, smiled slightly, nodded, stretched out his hand to take the lamp from the stall owner, and was about to turn away, when he suddenly paused, turned around, and asked, "Little girl, did you just want to guess the riddle on this lamp?" What do you guess? ”

Chunying flattened her mouth and said, "I guess it's the same as you, it's also a firefly character." ”

The mustache smiled: "I don't believe this, how could you guess it?" ”

Chunying said unconvinced: "Why can't I guess it?" Aren't fireflies grassy?! ”

The mustache was stunned and looked at Chunying thoughtfully.

(Note: "Rotting grass is fireflies.") These are the words of the "Book of Rites, Month, and Season". ）