The New Year in the palace is not a trivial matter, the rules are complicated, the number of etiquette is even more cumbersome, one by one to carry it out, back to the palace, I just want people to pinch their feet and soak their bodies to warm up and go to the bed to lie down, and I don't have the heart to do the side, the two hugged and said something, and fell asleep while talking.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, Zhu Yijun said to Wang Ronghe, "Go and change your clothes, and I'll take you to the outside of the palace to watch the lights." ”

"The lights in the palace are also beautiful." Wang Ronghe said that he was a little lazy recently and didn't want to move, not to mention that it snowed yesterday and was very cold today.

"Go, go, it's been a long time since we've been outside to see the lights." Zhu Yijun said.

Wang Ronghe looked at him suspiciously, "When did we go outside to see the lights together?" ”

"Didn't we first meet during the Lantern Festival?" Zhu Yijun said. "It's the first time we've seen the lights together."

Wang Ronghe knew what he was thinking, so he didn't say anything, so he went to change his clothes, and then the two left the palace together.

The carriage went to Deshengfang to put it down outside the small light market, Wang Ronghe thought that Zhu Yijun didn't know and said, "There is a bigger lantern festival in the city, and Deshengfang is just a small lantern festival that everyone is lazy to go to the lantern fair." ”

"I know." Zhu Yijun said, "When I sneaked out of the palace, I also thought that there would be many people at the headlight meeting and it would be difficult to guard, and because of the proximity of Desheng Fang, I came here." ”

"No matter how lively the lantern festival is outside, in my heart, this is the best lantern festival I have ever seen." Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Ronghe and said.

"Saburo, this is empathy." Wang Ronghe said with a smile, wearing a hood, and not worrying that the old neighbors in the neighborhood would recognize her, but in fact they couldn't recognize her, and Wang Ronghe had changed a lot over the years. The Wang family has long since stopped living in Deshengfang, and Deshengfang has moved away and moved in, and the excitement is still the same.

Nowadays, the folk luxury is prevalent, when Wang Zhixi a jewel of the lantern, can sit firmly at the top, now look at it, gorgeous and rich lanterns are not a few, obviously to be the leader, but also test ingenuity and craftsmanship.

Zhu Yijun took Wang Ronghe's hand and walked under the bright lights, feeling perfect, "Which lamp do you like, I'll solve the lantern riddle for you." ”

Wang Ronghe looked at him, "Ask first, maybe the rules have changed now." ”

The two went to a stall and asked, Zhu Yijun asked the lantern keeper, what if he took a fancy to the lantern, "Is it the first time for the official to come to the Deshengfang Lamp Market?" The lampkeeper asked.

Zhu Yijun shook his head, "I came here many years ago, but I'm worried that the rules have changed after not coming for so many years." ”

"The rules have not changed, which lantern does the official fancies, solve the riddle below, the lamp will belong to the official, and the lantern money given by the official is more or less the heart, and finally will be donated to the Tzu Chi Temple to make sesame oil money, but if there are many people who fancy the same lamp, then the one with the highest price will know."

"The lantern with peach blossom branches hanging on this riddle has the conditions to answer the question, and you have to meet the conditions of a single young talent to answer the question." The lantern keeper smiled and said, "The lantern with peach blossom branches is the daughter of the family who is waiting to be married." ”

"And there are such." Zhu Yijun said strangely.

"Don't you know? The queen used to live on this street, and later the girls on this street were very easy to marry. Said the lamp keeper. The houses on this street can't be bought with money. ”

"Really?" Zhu Yijun turned back to Wang Ronghe and smiled, "But my wife also met at this lantern festival, and the feng shui of this street is really good." ”

"yes." The lamp keeper laughed. "Thanks to the queen's mother, Hongfu, the lamp market in Deshengfang is becoming more and more lively."

Wang Ronghe squeezed Zhu Yijun's hand, "Let's go look elsewhere." ”

There are also a lot of young couples who come out of the Lantern Festival to go out and get sick, crowded one by one, some people still have red ropes tied in their hands, Zhu Yijun saw it, and also said that he wanted to tie one, Wang Ronghe laughed at him, "How old are the children, why do you do this, they are all newlyweds." ”

"You don't care how old you are when you are married or a child, and you can get entangled when your feelings come." Zhu Yijun said that there was no need to go out of his way to find the red rope, he took a piece of jade pendant from his waist, and wrapped the hands of the two of them together with the matching rope of the jade pendant, "I can't go away in this life, and I will find you in the next life." ”

"I'm so domineering, Saburo wants to meet me in the next life." Wang Ronghe asked with a smile.

Zhu Yijun looked back at her, and the fire trees and silver flowers were all in her eyes, just like the first time she saw her. "I hope to meet you in the next life, and you can explain it sooner, so that we don't have to waste that time in between."

Wang Ronghe looked at him, "Although I think I'm very good, but San Lang treats me like this, I can't help but ask myself, where am I good enough to be worthy of you." ”

"And what do you think of me?" Zhu Yijun asked her.

"Of course." Wang Ronghe paused, "I can't say it for a while, it's okay to do anything." ”

"I think you're the same, anywhere." Zhu Yijun said with a smile.

The two of them just looked at each other, and a thousand words were in their eyes, just how many years of old husband and wife, no matter how intimate things were, looking at each other like this, the tacit understanding between the eyes flowed, which was still exciting.

Zhu Yijun's heart moved at will, and he wanted to bow his head to kiss Wang Ronghe, but Wang Ronghe raised his head to cooperate with him, but at the moment when his tongue was about to stick in, he suddenly felt nauseous, pushed him away, and turned his head and retched a few times.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Yijun asked with concern.

"It's fine." Wang Ronghe said, she covered her chest, "Probably the incense powder is too strong, and it smells a little disgusting." ”

"Then let's go back." Zhu Yijun said.

"Don't, it's hard to come out, I remember that there is a grandmother at the end of this market, and the osmanthus dumplings made are particularly delicious." Wang Ronghe said.

"Don't force it." Zhu Yijun asked.

Wang Ronghe shook his head, "Not reluctantly." "Suppressed the nausea in my heart for a while, strange, could it be that something was eaten today?

After passing through the crowd, I arrived at the grandmother who sold osmanthus dumplings that Wang Ronghe said, there were many people and there was no place. But I don't want Zhu Yijun to look at the black oil pot and be a little reluctant to let Wang Ronghe eat this, "Otherwise, we will still go to Rang Shang and let the cook do it." ”

"What others make is not as delicious as Grandma's." Wang Ronghe said, "Buy one, I haven't eaten it for a long time." ”

Wang Ronghe shook Zhu Yijun's hand, Zhu Yijun looked at the oil pot and sighed again, "I want two." ”

"One for ten copper plates, five for one." Grandma said without raising her head.

"Then you can only eat one." Zhu Yijun turned back to Wang Ronghe and said.

"Grandma, it's going to be crispy." Wang Ronghe said. "Osmanthus nectar is only poured on the top ball, turn around, not too much."

Grandma's long chopsticks didn't tremble, the small white glutinous rice dumplings were stirred in the sugar and oil pot, getting bigger and bigger, and finally became yellow dumplings, take out the pot and dip it in cold water, the skin became crispy and hard, skewered with bamboo sticks, and then carried a spoonful of osmanthus nectar on the top, wrapped in dried lotus leaves below, and then handed it to Zhu Yijun, but did not ask for his silver.

"It's been a long time since the big girl came." Grandma said, "It's hard for the big girl to remember Grandma's dumplings, and today Grandma invites you." ”

"Grandma has always been very stingy, why is she so generous today." Wang Ronghe poked his head out from behind Zhu Yijun and said with a smile, "Grandma doesn't always talk about the hard-earned money." ”

"No matter how hard you work, you can still afford it." Grandma said. She glanced up at Wang Ronghe and lowered her head again, "The big girl has grown, don't worry about not being beautiful." ”

Wang Ronghe only smiled, as if he was back when he was a child, seven or eight years old, sneaking out to eat grandma's osmanthus dumplings, she asked grandma to fry the dumplings a little bigger, grandma said that it is not easy to make money, she said that others said that her sister was good-looking, said that she was not good-looking, and said to her face, it was really annoying.

Grandma said, "Then you are also good-looking, but you are not growing now, and you are looking good when you are open." ”

"It's useless to say it's good-looking, when I was young, others also said it was good-looking, but I was unlucky to marry a sick and short-lived ghost, and I suffered hardships and sins all my life, and I can't get rid of it when I'm old." Grandma looked at the young Wang Ronghe and said, "The eldest girl's face is a good life at first glance, and she must have a smooth sail for the rest of her life, and her appearance is secondary." ”

"Grandma, your signboard has faded, I'll write you another one." Wang Ronghe said. "If you don't want silver."

"That's a good feeling." Grandma said, "I said that I didn't have a signboard before, and you wrote it, this piece is old, and someone has already asked me to change it, not to change it." ”

"If you change it, it's gone."

Tear off the old to faded words on the original bamboo plaque, and then cover it with a new layer of paper, and go to the lamp beach next door to ask for pen and ink, which is not a good pen, nor is it a good grind, but under the big soybean light in front of the grandmother's stall, Wang Rong and the pen, as if every time he writes, he is serious.

Grandma osmanthus dumplings.

Wang Ronghe wrote, let the grandmother re-hang up, grandma smiled and said, "Although I don't know how to read, but no one's cards are as good as mine." ”

Wang Ronghe was leaving, and Grandma fried a new osmanthus dumpling for her, "It's cold before, eat this." ”

Before leaving, Zhu Yijun secretly threw a silver ingot to Grandma, who wanted to catch up and return it to him, but soon there were guests coming and she couldn't leave.

Some regular customers noticed that Grandma had changed her signboard. "Grandma, are you finally willing to change this brand to a new one?"

"Hmm." Grandma smiled and said, "This is the last time, when this signboard is also old, Grandma will not be able to sell dumplings." ”

The night market of the Lantern Festival was very late, and Grandma's grandson came to pick up Grandma home, and Grandma stuffed this silver ingot to him, "Good life is collected, don't let your mother and eldest brother know." ”

"Where did it come from?" Sun Tzu was surprised and said that no matter how good the Lantern Festival business is, there should not be such a big income.

"A nobleman gave it." Grandma said, "You study, you have to change the lintel in the future, don't use this silver, and when you become an official, you can take it out and provide it, which can ensure that your officialdom is unimpeded." ”

The little grandson didn't know why, but he also noticed when he was pushing the cart that the plaque had been changed. "Didn't grandmother say she wouldn't change the sign?"

"The big girl came back and wrote me another one." Grandma said happily.

The little grandson sighed, and when he remembered who the eldest girl in Grandma's mouth was, he almost didn't drive the car into the ditch. "Grandmother, aren't you tired and stunned, big, how can the eldest girl of the Wang family come back and come to you to buy dumplings and write plaques?"

"Calm down, calm down, what a big deal." Grandma smiled and said, "No matter who she marries, how rich and noble she is, in my case, she is a big girl." ”