Chapter 85: Lantern Festival
At night, the streets of the imperial capital have been lit up, looking at the lights on the streets, the neon is bright, like a dragon, Xiao Tian can't help but have a comparison in his heart, this, than the previous life of Shanghai Nanjing Road is more prosperous!
Restaurants, cinemas, clothing stores, inns, gambling houses and other establishments of business are still in operation on both sides of the street.
On the road, the boy and brother in brocade costumes, hugged each other, and some noble ladies and noble ladies wore beautiful costumes, chatting and laughing with each other and strolling on the street, just seeing Xiao Tian and Long Lingxi walking together, they gave a surprised look, and consciously made a way.
Long Lingxi and Xiao Tian walked on Shangri-La Avenue, and the two of them kept talking about the strange things they grew up with.
"Lingxi, aren't you going to take me to see the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival?" Xiao Tian rolled his eyes, looked at the shops around him, and looked disappointed, "Isn't it just a commercial street?
Seeing Xiao Tian's lazy demeanor, a nameless fire came out in Long Lingxi's heart, "Hmph, my aunt and grandmother took you to see the night scene, you still pick and choose, do you know, those who want to accompany me shopping in the capital can line up from here to the country of wind." ”
"Tu Baozi, my aunt and grandmother will let you see it, the night view of the imperial capital!" Long Lingxi smiled at the corner of his mouth, and a bright light flashed in his eyes, "Of course it's not this, the most beautiful night view of the imperial capital is in Pujiang River!
"Pujiang River Lantern Festival, it won't be a few small lanterns, just a few people get together to chant poems against each other, if that's the case, it's too boring!" Xiao Tian shook his head, unimpressed.
"How many flowers are waiting for the lights?"
Long Lingxi cocked his head and explained to himself, "You soil bun, let me tell you, the lantern festival of the Pujiang River has a great origin, legend, thousands of years ago, a water demon appeared in the Pujiang River, causing floods in the capital, causing floods, and later, the national teacher took action, and the water demon fought for three days and three nights. ”
"Later, the water demon was subdued, or was it suppressed?" Xiao Tian took over, wiped his mouth, and said disapprerovingly, "According to the plot, generally speaking, this is the ending. ”
Long Lingxi raised his head, glanced at him, and said angrily, "You think this is a story, this is history, and it really happened." ”
"Then in the end, what happened?" Xiao Tian asked.
"In the end, the water demon and the national teacher tied and made a contract, the water demon can no longer cause floods, and the empire must hold a lantern festival on the bank of the Pujiang River every year to commemorate the water demon? Long Lingxi said to himself.
"That's interesting, so let's take a look. After speaking, he pulled Long Lingxi forward.
Long Lingxi's face flushed, his body shook, and a tingling feeling came to his heart, and he was still being pulled forward, angry and shy in his heart, "He, he actually held my hand, in public, so embarrassing? No, I like to hold girls' hands so much, this disciple must have also led other girls, hum!"
The two of them, following the crowd, finally walked to the gathering place of the Lantern Festival.
This Pujiang River long pavilion is built according to the river, about touch dozens of miles, the bright moon is in the sky, the surface of the river is sparkling, the boat is like a shuttle, the corners of the boat are hung with lanterns, the scenery is very charming, inside and outside the long pavilion, the crowd of people, look at it, at least about tens of thousands of people gather here, all of them are full of energy, the momentum is extraordinary, and they feel good about themselves.
Outside the long pavilion, the sound of hawking, noise, and chattering is endless.
Lantern Festival, naturally indispensable to guess the word puzzle, this dozens of miles long Pujiang River, sprinkled with joy, at least hundreds of thousands of anagrams, written on red paper, hanging on the red rope, waiting for people to crack.
"So many people?" Xiao Tian couldn't help but sigh at the prosperity of the imperial capital.
"How is it?earth buns, isn't it beautiful?" Long Lingxi held his head high and walked in and said proudly.
"Awesome, awesome!" Xiao Tian clapped his hands and admired it from the bottom of his heart!"By the way, Lingxi, what are you going to do with this?
"Of course not, there are three rounds of competition in the Lantern Festival, the first round of word puzzles, the second round of guessing the correct words, and the third round of chanting poems, how about it?
"However, there is no color head, which is not interesting in comparison. Xiao Tian smacked his lips and shook his head.
As soon as this sentence was said, it immediately ushered in the contemptuous eyes of a group of people around.
"Cut, I think it's because you don't have literary talent, don't you dare to be embarrassed, right? If you're a man, you'll participate!" Long Lingxi puffed out his mouth, remembering that he was in the small courtyard, being teased by Xiao Tian, and was annoyed and ashamed, and planned to use this lamp to make Xiao Tian embarrassed and angry.
"Agitation method, haha, okay, I'll eat your agitation method today. Xiao Tian looked around, turned the fan in his hand, and looked at Long Lingxi with a smile, "It's okay if you want me to participate, I won, you have to promise me a condition!"
"What conditions?" Long Lingxi's heart suddenly became vigilant.
"If I win the first place, you can kiss me!" Xiao Tian didn't think much about it, and subconsciously blurted out.
"Are you dreaming? Long Lingxi's face instantly turned red, and his face was ashamed and annoyed. This rascal, even making this request?
The surrounding spectators looked at Xiao Tian with the eyes of a beast, full of envy, jealousy and hatred.
"If you don't agree, I don't want to use my brains. Xiao Tian opened the folding fan, fanned the wind, and continued to look at the night scene.
Long Lingxi stood in place, frowning, gritting his teeth, thinking for a moment, his brows stretched randomly, and looked at Xiao Tian, "I promise you." ”
In fact, in her heart, Xiao Tian was just a dirt bun who had been reading for a few years, and she never thought that he would be able to win, so she hurriedly agreed to let him make a fool of himself in order to relieve herself.
"Okay! That's what you said!" Xiao Tian smiled confidently and walked to the main venue with Long Lingxi.
The main venue is a two-meter-high stage, on which the nine lotus treasure lanterns are lit, and the sea of lights is splendid. A thick carpet is laid on the stage, and a group of judges are checking the anagrams sent by others, and there is a reward for answering correctly.
The first lantern festival usually starts at the end of the day, that is, at seven or eight o'clock, and the owner usually comes up with a few anagrams with a high degree of difficulty, unlike these small anagrams underground.
Looking at the time, there was still a while, Xiao Tianzheng pondered whether to guess a few word puzzles to solve the music, turned his head, a familiar figure came into view, slightly surprised in his heart, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and slowly walked over.
"Three thousand two hundred and sixty-nine word puzzles, January 7, what is it?" a pot-bellied little Taoist priest frowned, thinking.
This little Taoist priest is the god operator, Zhuge Shilang, in order to solve the problem of food and accommodation, came to the Lantern Festival to see if he could guess a few anagrams and get some rewards.