Chapter 40: Fifteen Lantern Festival
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"Big brother, do you think that this time the little emperor will pull out our affairs when he goes to Jiangnan. At this time, Dingbei Hou did not have the grief of losing his beloved son at all, but there was a deep worry between his eyebrows.
In the secret room of the Prime Minister's Mansion, several people sat together, analyzing the development of the situation for this Jiangnan parade.
"Well, this matter......" Yang Xiang sat there rubbing his long beard and squinted slightly.
"I think this needs to be carefully planned, and you need to be prepared, and you have to inform those people to prepare early, and it is better not to let him find out about the horse's feet. Prime Minister Yang Cheng on the seat said with a dark expression.
Lu Nancheng and the others here stopped at a small town in the evening, and when they got off the boat, they were shocked by the lively scene, all the people were wearing bright new clothes, the street was strung with colorful lanterns, and the street was set up by vendors selling this, and the crowd of people who came and went were bustling with laughter, exclamations, and conversations, and it was very lively.
This is a little more lively than the lantern festival in the capital, with a strong local cultural atmosphere, attracting the attention of many tourists, let people inquire only to know that this is the local people's unique way to celebrate the flower god festival.
Different from other places in the evening, people hang "flower lanterns" on the branches of flowers and trees, and the lights and red flowers and green branches reflect each other; there are even young men and women strolling among the flowers, admiring the flowers and talking about love; many of them are literati and ink writers who touch the scenery and recite poems and paintings...... Of course, for florists or flower lovers from all over the world, this is a good time to show off their skills.
It's just that this tea tree town has a unique legend about the god of flowers, although the basic customs of this flower god festival are no different from other towns in the south of the Yangtze River, it is more of a love story.
The two of them have heard a lot of these folk anecdotes along the way, and now they are also quite interested in preparing to listen to them, so they got off the boat, and learned from the local men and women to buy masks and put them on, and they walked hand in hand.
Coincidentally, the performance on the high platform over there was very vivid, attracting the attention of many outsiders, and the local people were no stranger, it turned out that this was the unique program of the annual Tea Tree Town Flower God Festival, and the high platform over there was a performance of the legend of the year, and Shen Yuan and Lu Nancheng were no exception standing there to watch.
It turns out that this tea tree town is as its name suggests, it is a local tea production holy land, of course, the local camellia is also very famous, many florists will carefully cultivate different varieties on the day of the Flower God Festival, and the person who wins the first prize will get a bonus of 5,000 taels of silver allocated by the local chamber of commerce.
Not to mention the rich bonus, that is, the first title is extremely important to a gardener, and the cultivated good camellia may be selected to be sent to the capital, and it may be bought at a high price by a wealthy family, so such an opportunity is extremely rare.
But he said that there was a young scholar that year, who was happy and happy to eat and wear, but his mother was somehow seriously ill and bedridden, so the scholar took everything that could be sold at home to see the old mother, but the old mother's illness was menacing, and the medicinal materials needed were expensive, which made the scholar who only relied on selling calligraphy and paintings for a living on weekdays so worried that he was running around to borrow money.
Many of his relatives and friends, who had heard of his mother's illness, shook their heads and refused to lend any more money to the scholar, who went home in despair, crouched in the corner and cried.
At this time, there was an intermittent message outside the wall about the upcoming camellia selection contest at the Spring Flower Festival, which made the scholar shake his body after listening to it, and seemed to find a glimmer of hope, he had heard the older generation say that the most beautiful camellia could not be cultivated by human hands, but was born in the mountains and forests that were difficult to find.
So, the scholar entrusted the old mother to the neighbor, and packed his bags and went on the road, although there is little snow in the south, but the weather in February has not warmed up, and the scholar is a person who has not been out much, and the hardships along the way can be imagined.
Seeing this, the first fold of the performance is over, and everyone who needs to be present will experience the various lanterns of the Flower God Festival back and forth and then come back to continue watching.
Lu Nancheng nodded secretly in his heart for the way the town solicited guests, if the play was finished in one go, it was estimated that the guests on the stalls over there would be attracted to it, but the money for the reward for acting was not fixed, and many people left after watching it.
But in this way, if you drive the crowd to the lively stalls, turn around a few times and come back to continue looking, the tourists will turn their eyes to the stalls as they wander around, so that everyone can sell some things, and it seems that the mayor of this tea tree town is also shrewd.
So the two of them followed the flow of people, slowly strolling, during which many people turned their eyes over, although the man and the woman could not see the faces of the two of them through the masks, but looking at the figure and the nobility of the gestures, even if you don't look at their appearance, you can imagine the elegance of the two.
Shen Yuan was a little surprised that Emperor Zhaohua liked some lively places, but although she had participated in this lantern festival before, she mostly accompanied her mother to sell handmade jewelry made by her mother in the market, even if she had a playful heart, she would still be firmly guarded by her side.
And Lu Nancheng is particularly concerned about these customs that are different from the capital, through these customs and rumors can see some different things, no wonder the ancestors set the rules for the emperor to visit every five years, this is not through a trip, only a small tea tree town reveals so much knowledge.
It is a simple flower god festival on February 15, which will drive everyone's business through the mayor's arrangement, and through the folk rumored performances, it can also make some related items sell faster, and I think that tomorrow's camellia competition will get a lot of people's attention.
Soon, this second scene opened, this time it was about the scholar who worked hard to finally find a dense forest, where he saw a group of beautiful women dancing, every movement and dance step, the surroundings seemed to increase a little vitality, and soon the scholar was discovered.
The scholar asked what he wanted, and the women ignored him and left, only a woman in a pale pink shirt flashed with big eyes, thinking that this scholar was really funny, so hard to think that it was just a camellia, and he had the idea of playing with him for a while, so he gave him a camellia, but the requirement was that she needed to participate in the contest together, and the scholar thought that this was a camellia cultivated by others, and there was nothing wrong with participating in the contest together.
However, this girl is really eccentric, and she is always inexplicably ridiculed along the way, but the scholar does not stop in a hurry to return home.
Hearing this, Shen Yuan could already roughly guess the story behind, probably nothing more than that the woman was a camellia fairy and finally fell in love with a scholar, as for whether the two were together or not together in the end, she didn't care too much, because this kind of story made her current identity sound like a joke.
Not to mention that Lu Nancheng still has warmth and mercy in his heart, let's just say that as an emperor, he will always be the emperor of the world, and now as long as he can occupy a place in his heart, why listen to these anecdotes about the love affair of men and women to increase the unwillingness in his heart.
Lu Nancheng saw that Shen Yuan beside him was gradually a little impatient to listen, so he stopped listening, he thought that this kind of story would be more popular with women, and his concubine was a little different.
The two of them left the high platform in this tacit understanding, and looked at some other places, and then slowly walked towards the cabin, Shen Yuan's mood was not as excited as before, just looking at those men and women would increase the sadness in her heart, making her a little uncomfortable.
"Yuan'er, what's wrong today?" Lu Nancheng stood on the deck, stretched out his hand to encircle the woman who was about to leave, and leaned over with his head bowed.
Shen Yuan made an excuse to shirk, "Master...... I just thought of my deceased mother, so" Speaking of this, Shen Yuan's voice stopped abruptly, because she suddenly realized that she was recorded in the name of the main house at that time, and everyone didn't know her identity.
"Mother, I remember that Mrs. Shen is still alive, why did Yuan'er say this......" Lu Nancheng keenly noticed the difference, and was slightly unhappy that the person in his arms had things that he didn't know and couldn't master, his eyes were sharp in vain, and he looked straight at her, hoping to get an explanation.
Shen Yuan felt the sharp gaze, and smiled bitterly in her heart, although this Lu Nancheng has her place in her heart now, but she has not completely believed her.
However, this kind of thing is partly considered a bully, so she revealed her life experience and inventory, and changed those who ran outside with her mother to be sent to the old house in Jiangnan to recuperate, and even pretended to be a weak willow to help the wind, and her eyes were red as if she would cry in the next moment.
This kind of answer made Lu Nancheng a little satisfied, the left and right are just people from the Shen family, as for whether it is from the main room or not, what does it matter, but this Shen Yuan seems to have a lot of things that he does not know, and he was eager to support a person who could block Shu He in front of him, but he failed to check her properly.
Now it seems that it may be necessary to investigate.
The parade troops had already traveled nearly half the way, and everywhere they went, the majesty of the emperor was displayed.
Yang Ze was guarding the entire team every day with twelve points of caution, but fortunately, he didn't see anyone sneak attack along the way, which made him feel relieved.
Yunxi Palace.
At this time, Wen Lianyi was taking the daily study of the princes, and this imperial parade took into account that several princes were not very old, so they all stayed in the palace, and even Lu De was entrusted to Chang Shunyi to take care of them.
It's just that she takes care of the child, and she has to deal with the provocations of Concubine Xian from time to time, which makes her a little headache, and now that the emperor and queen are not in this palace, this Murong Lu's provocation three times and twice is probably just to watch her helpless and block her, but there is nothing to be done, but the harem is a lot quieter.
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