New Year, temple fair

On the first day of the new year, I was woken up by the sound of firecrackers, got up and freshened up, and when I was in my hometown for the New Year, I would go to the village in the morning to go door to door to pay New Year's greetings, so nostalgic! I'm afraid that I can only remember it in the future, Xiaolan knocked on the door outside and asked, "Sister, are you up?" , I opened the door to let Xiaolan come in, Xiaolan came in and saluted and said: "Xiaolan has given my sister a New Year's greeting", I pulled her up and joked: "It's okay to greet the New Year, but I don't have a red envelope for you!" , said and took out a sachet to her and said, "This can be regarded as a fill!" Xiaolan happily took it and said in her arms: "Thank you, sister, I have finished the dumplings, I will bring them to my sister", and went out as she spoke.

I'm a person who can't sit still, and I don't go out much because I don't have much to do in the suburbs when I'm in the other courtyard, but this is the capital! After eating, it was still early, I was bored in the yard and circled, thinking that it must be very lively outside for the Chinese New Year, so I thought about calling Xiaolan to go out for a walk, Xiaolan has not come out I heard someone knocking on the door, who will it be at this time?

stepped forward and opened the door and saw that Rong Ruo was standing outside the door with Qingtong, so I hurriedly let them in and asked, "Why are you here at this time?" , Rong Ruo said: "After going out to worship the New Year, I will come to see you by the way", Qingtong interjected behind him: "Young master, you are also called Shunlu!" From north to south, half of Beijing City is almost smooth", I burst out laughing, Rong Ruo blushed and scolded Qingtong embarrassedly: "It's more and more unruly", hearing Rong Ruo say this, Qingtong stuck out his tongue and hurriedly hid behind, Rong Ruo looked at me and said, "Have you had breakfast?" I called Xiaolan down to pour tea and replied, "I've used it, I'm about to go out!" It's a coincidence that you're here", Rong Ruo said: "You are not familiar with the capital, so let me accompany you!" I said happily: "That's great, I'm worried about going out and not being able to find a lively place!" Then I saluted Rong Ruo and said, "The little girl has given a New Year's greeting to Nalan Gongzi", and stretched out her hand and smiled: "Hurry up and give a red envelope!" , Rong Ruo slapped my hand and smiled: "There is no red envelope", and said that he untied a string of beads from his waist and handed it to me: "This is for you, it should all be a red envelope!" I took it and looked at it in my hand, I didn't understand these and didn't know what the gem was, I just felt that it was very valuable and hurriedly returned it to Rong Ruo: "I'm playing with you", Rong Ruo put it on my hand and said: "Since it's yours", Xiaolan brought tea to Rong Ruo and said: "No need, let's go!" "Wait, let me change my clothes and go again", I was busy, a few days ago when I went shopping, I bought men's clothes for the convenience of going out, and I hurriedly took out and changed my hair into braids and wore a hat to the front yard, Rong Ruo saw me flute, Xiaolan looked at me and smiled: "The girl really looks like the son of which family when she wears men's clothes!" Really handsome", I asked, "Really?" Like a man? Rong Ruo laughed in a low voice: "Let's go!"

When I went out, I saw a carriage parked at the door, a little guy stood in front of the car, saw us come out, put a small stool, and under the carriage, I took the lead in getting into the carriage and said to Xiaolan: "Xiaolan, come up!" Xiaolan said: "Sister, hurry up and go with the young master!" Xiaolan will stay and watch the house! Seeing that she insisted on not going, I was no longer reluctant, and then Rong Ruo also got into the car, Qingtong closed the car door and sat outside to drive, the carriage ran slowly, the carriage drove on the street, I adjusted the curtain to look out, the shops on both sides were closed, and there were not too many pedestrians on the road, I put down the curtain and said disappointedly: "Why is it not lively at all, it is far from what I imagined", Rong Ruo smiled and said: "You won't say that for a while, but, why don't you see Xiao Mama and Bihe", I replied: "I was about to say it to you!" I'll let them go back for the New Year", Rong Ruo said, "It's okay, but can you?" , I smiled and said, "Isn't there still Xiaolan?" I asked, "Where are we going?" , Rong Ruo smiled and said: "I'll take you to the most lively place in the capital."

After sitting in the car for more than 20 minutes, the carriage slowly stopped, and Qingtong opened the door and said, "Young master, get off from here!" I can't go any further", Rong Ruo got out of the car and stretched out his hand to help me down, the little guy went to park, Rong Ruo turned to Qingtong and said: "I will give you a day off today, have a good time!" However, it's not too late to go back," in the end it's still a child, Qingtong happily said to Rong Ruo: "I know, thank you, young master, sister, then I'll play" After speaking, he ran away in a hurry, and Rong Ruo said to me again: "Let's go!" It's not far away." There are already a lot of people here, and from time to time there are firecrackers, I followed Rong Ruo for another five or six minutes, looking at the crowds of people on a street in front of me from a distance, feeling that this person is here, Rong Ruo said: "There are many people who follow me, so as not to get separated for a while", I nodded and said: "This is the temple fair, right?" There are so many people".

When I really walked to this street, I found that this person is really not ordinary, whether men and women, young and old, adults and children are all happy, as well as selling rock sugar gourds, melon seeds and peanuts, children playing, blowing candy, household department stores, and selling jewelry and hand ornaments, rouge gouache and all kinds of porcelain, and all kinds of I can't name it, there is really everything, along the road, there are many folk artists performing, there are performing acrobatics, practicing martial arts and monkey shows are full of people, I saw a lot of women holding incense in their hands and asked Rong Ruodao, "Where is the temple near here?" , Rong Ruo said: "The City God Temple is in front, what's wrong", I said: "It's nothing, I just saw a lot of people holding incense, so I asked", Rong Ruo smiled: "Do you want to go and see?" , I said: "It's good to go and see", I walked forward with Rong Ruo, but there were too many people squeezed for a long time before I walked far, and almost squeezed us apart, Rong Ruo held my hand, and I was squeezed together immediately by people holding people around me, and finally walked to the outside of the City God Temple, Rong Ruo let go of me, I thought that since I came, I would put on an incense! He walked to the temple incense stall, and after buying incense, he pulled Rong Ruo in together.

On the incense out of the preparation to go back, the dragon dance and the lion dance just came to perform in front of the temple, suddenly the temple was crowded with people, we couldn't get out for a while, just watch it and then go!

The masters of the dragon dance are familiar and graceful, the dragon dance is vivid, the lion has two people dancing small lions, there are also three people and four big lions, all kinds of difficult actions lead people to shout "good", there seems to be stilts and dancing flower boats behind, just a little far away I am looking into the distance, only to hear someone shouting not far behind him: "Someone is dead!" Kill someone, come on! "There were a lot of people at the temple fair, this is back to good, and there are more chaotic people who squeeze over to see, and there are also people who are afraid of hiding in the distance, so they are crowded, if it weren't for Rong Ruo to pull me, I and Rong Ruo came to the front with the crowd, only to see an unkempt person lying on the ground and didn't know whether it was dead or alive, a young man next to him didn't know how to be good, and kept saying: "I didn't mean it, I didn't mean it", Rong Ruo and I were about to step forward and walk out of the crowd. Squatted down and checked the person lying on the ground and said: "It doesn't matter, he's just hungry, just eat something, I said, young man, don't hang it, come, take him to the side", the young man saw that no one was killed, and he was relieved, and he helped to carry the people to the edge of the temple fair, and the lively people were also dispersed, and Rong Ruo and I were not interested in shopping, so we also followed them out of the temple fair.

Seeing that there were wontons selling on the side of the road, I asked for a bowl, and asked the boss to bring some hot soup to the man, Rong Ruo also followed after paying, and the person who was lying on the ground just now was still squatting on the ground, I handed him the hot soup and said, "Let him drink some hot first!" , The man looked at me and said, "It's still thoughtful to the child", said and fed the man to drink some, this gentleman is in his thirties, white and clean is very Sven, I saw that the man coughed twice and woke up, the young man bought some buns and came back, and he was very happy to see that the person woke up and was busy taking the hot soup to feed the man, the doctor got up from the ground and said: "He woke up, it's fine, I still have something to go first,", the young man hurriedly stood up and said: "Wait, sir, the student hasn't thanked Mr. yet!" The gentleman said, "It's just a gesture," and he bowed his hand to us and left.

Rong Ruo and I were waiting for the little guy to come in a carriage, so I talked to the young man, it turned out that his name Cai Zhiyuan was to come to Beijing to catch the exam, because he was afraid of delays on the road and went on the road early before the New Year, and he arrived in the capital before the New Year, and it was not interesting to come outside, I heard that the temple fair in the capital was lively and wanted to come and see, and he was strolling around and dragging a person from behind him to drag his clothes, he thought it was a thief and did not look at the person and punched him, and he was knocked unconscious, the person was also hungry and ruthless, a bowl of wontons and six buns all entered the stomach between our words, I was busy saying: "Is it enough?" It's not enough for us to buy it again," the man said: "Thank you, it's enough, let everyone laugh", we listened to him and felt that he should also be a person who knew etiquette, Rong Ruo stepped forward and asked: "Listening to Mr. Speak, you know that there is some knowledge, how did you end up here?" "Don't hide it from you, the scholar who went to Beijing to catch the exam spent all the time, sold calligraphy and painting all the way to the capital, the business was not good these days, there was no food or accommodation, I thought that there were many people at the temple fair, so I wanted to try it", said and looked at the young man named Cai Zhiyuan and said: "This benevolent brother fell out of time before the stall, I picked it up and wanted to return it to him, there were many people at the temple fair, I finally squeezed behind him and grabbed him, who knew that he was knocked unconscious." As he spoke, he took out a piece of jade pendant and handed it over, and after making trouble for a long time, it turned out to be a misunderstanding, Cai Zhiyuan took the jade pendant and hurriedly apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm too reckless, my name is Cai Zhiyuan, I don't know what to call Brother Ren?" The man replied: "Under the surname Zhou Mingchang character Pei Gong"

When I heard this, I was taken aback and hurriedly looked at him carefully, medium-sized, long-looking, generally thin and long-faced, the eyes are not too big but they are very energetic and nothing special, but although the dress looks neat and tidy, is this Zhou Peigong who is the top of the name? Rong Ruo saw me looking Zhou Peigong up and down like this, so he asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" I saw the little guy coming to the driveway: "It's nothing, the carriage is coming, we should go too". Rong Ruo bowed his hand to the two of them and said: "In Xia Nalan Xingde, this is Leng Qingqiu, we will leave first, and I wish the two gold list titles." Zhou Pei said fairly: "Cheng Gongzi Jiyan, thank you for saving the two sons, please go slowly", I also got into the carriage with Rong Ruo after he didn't arch his hand, and the little guy drove the carriage slowly in the direction of my house.