Shangyuan Festival is the Lantern Festival of later generations, the first full moon night of the new year, and it can also be said to be the most lively day of the year. During the Shangyuan Festival, a grand lantern festival will be held in Chang'an City, and the curfew will be lifted for three days to facilitate the common people to enjoy the lanterns, which is called "night". In this rare three nights, from the princes and nobles, to the peddlers and pawns, everyone went out to enjoy the lanterns and catch the excitement.

The march of the Dingxiang Road army is on the 28th day of the first month, after a period of intense preparations, all the preparations before the expedition have been basically completed, Liu Yi led the assembly in the right Wuwei army camp under the leadership of Yang Yuanyan and Zhang Qianxuan, still every day to carry out training, training subjects are many, and in the two days of the Shangyuan Festival, the training is suspended, such a major festival, the soldiers should get some rest, Liu Yi and other middle and senior generals who are about to go out, You can go back home and reunite with your family. However, after the Shangyuan Festival, there is no such freedom, and it is very close to the day of the expedition, and all generals must be on standby in the barracks and must not leave without reason.

Liu Yi returned to the house on the afternoon of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and had a reunion dinner with his mother and other family members.

Zhang, who didn't know the reason, didn't doubt Liu Yi's words, and thought that he still had military affairs to deal with, and repeatedly told Liu Yi to pay attention to his body, don't be tired, and return home early after the affairs are handled.

But something unexpected happened to Liu Yi again, when he had just finished dinner and was sitting and gossiping with his mother and two brothers, people came to report that someone outside the house was looking for him.

Seeing the unusual looks of the people under the report, and said that it might be two women in men's clothes who came to visit, Liu Yi guessed who the person was, sued his mother, and hurriedly went out.

The person who came had already entered the mansion accompanied by the housekeeper Liu Nian, it was none other than Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er, who were dressed as men, and the two also walked hand in hand to the FJ Mansion, Princess Taiping looked deliberately pretending to be calm, and Shangguan Wan'er, who was holding hands by Princess Taiping with a red face, looked cramped, shy, and embarrassed, with her head down, and there was a Ping'er who was dressed in the same way behind her.

Liu Yi hurriedly greeted him, signaled the housekeeper Liu Nian to go and busy with his own affairs, and strictly ordered his subordinates not to discuss Princess Taiping's coming to the house, and then asked Princess Taiping with a proud look on her face: "Princess, didn't you say that I would pick you up from outside the palace gate?" ”

When he finished talking to Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er, at three o'clock in the Shangyuan Festival, Liu Yi would wait for them outside the palace gate and take them directly to the lamp market, but now it was just the end of the application, and there was still more than half an hour before the appointed time.

Princess Taiping smiled and looked at Shangguan Wan'er, who was very cramped on the side, and said to Liu Yi: "Yi'an, we can't stay in the palace anymore, so we came out earlier, Wan'er has been talking about asking you to come to pick us up earlier, I think no one can recognize us anyway, and Wan'er hasn't come to your mansion, so I'll pull her over to take a look!" Let's go meet my aunt first, and then you can take us to the lantern market to enjoy the lanterns!"

Before Liu Yi could agree, his mother's voice came from behind him: "San Lang, don't you invite the princess and them into the house to talk!"

Seeing that his mother had come out, Liu Yi couldn't help it, sighed, and had to lead Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er to the house.

Zhang came up and prepared to salute Princess Taiping, Princess Taiping hurriedly stepped forward to help stop her, took two steps back, and together with Shangguan Wan'er, she saluted Zhang's juniors.

"Mother, this is the female official next to the queen of heaven, and she is in a lawsuit, and she says... In the evening, the child promised to accompany them to the lantern market to enjoy the lanterns!" Facing his mother's inquiring eyes, Liu Yi explained with some embarrassment, thinking that his mother would come to question him again, and just now he lied to his mother that he had something important to deal with.

However, accompanying these two people who are not low in status and have a not simple relationship with them to see the lights is an important thing, and my mother will not blame me.

"Princess, the lawsuit is thin, the concubine doesn't know that the two of them came to the house today, they are late to greet them, and they didn't put gifts, and I ask the princess and the lawsuit Bo to forgive me!" After staring at Liu Yi with meaningful eyes for a while, Zhang turned around and looked at Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er with a smile on his face, his eyes kept looking back and forth on the faces of the two girls, and he looked at the thin-skinned Shangguan Wan'er a little embarrassed.

However, Shangguan Wan'er has been in the palace for many years, and she quickly calmed down, and in the somewhat playful gaze of Princess Taiping, she saluted the Zhang family again, blushed, and said softly: "Today, Wan'er took the liberty to visit, and asked Mrs. Liu not to blame Wan'er's abruptness and rudeness, and also ask Mrs. Don't call me a lawsuit, or call me Wan'er!"

After Shangguan Wan'er finished speaking, she glanced at Liu Yi with some pity. Just now, she refused to come to Liu's mansion, she was dragged by Princess Taiping, and when she entered the mansion, she didn't know what she was doing in the face of Liu Yi's mother and those curious subordinates in Liu's mansion.

Liu Yi also saw Shangguan Wan'er's helplessness, stepped forward and grabbed her mother's arm and said, "Mother, let's go to the house and talk!"

Although those subordinates were dismissed by the housekeeper Liu Nian, there may still be people secretly hiding to watch the excitement, there are still many people who like gossip in this era, and it is not a good thing to be seen by the subordinates Some things that should not be seen, and it will be embarrassing to spread it.

"The princess and the lawsuit Bo come into the house to talk!" Zhang said with a smile.

Princess Taiping heard some words, immediately stepped forward, went to hold Zhang's other arm, and glanced at Liu Yi very proudly, Liu Yi had to let go of his mother, glared at Princess Taiping, and walked to the house with Shangguan Wan'er behind.

Princess Taiping held Zhang's hand and said something softly, looking very affectionate, which made Shangguan Wan'er's face look very ugly, Liu Yi also saw Shangguan Wan'er's embarrassment, approached her side, comforted Shangguan Wan'er softly, and took advantage of no one to pay attention, grabbed Shangguan Wan'er's hand and pinched it twice.

A few people entered, Liu Mai and Liu Yuan, who stayed in the house, as well as Liu Yi's two sisters-in-law, saw Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er come in, and after saluting and saying a few polite words, they also immediately withdrew.

Several people sat down, Princess Taiping leaned on Zhang's side, and said some things that Zhang's loved to hear, only amusing Zhang's eyebrows and laughing, while Shangguan Wan'er looked more restrained, watching the two of them talk, unable to interject, fortunately Liu Yi was by her side.

"Wan'er, why are you..."Liu Yi asked Shangguan Wan'er softly, and gestured with his eyes to Princess Taiping, who was laughing with his mother, but his eyes were looking at him from time to time.

Shangguan Wan'er looked helpless, shook her head, and said softly: "Wan'er doesn't know why the princess has to pull me to your mansion today, San Lang, don't blame Wan'er for being so abrupt..."

Looking at Shangguan Wan'er's pitiful look, Liu Yi smiled and shook his head, "I'm very happy that you came to my house, don't worry, my mother will definitely like you..."

"San Lang, what are you talking about!" Princess Taiping looked at Liu Yi and Shangguan Wan'er talking quietly, and couldn't help but ask out loud.

Before Liu Yi could answer, the Zhang family immediately greeted Shangguan Wan'er, "Wan'er, you also come to the concubine's side, and the three of us will talk!" Zhang said, and then signaled to Liu Yi, "San Lang, you go out first, I'll have some private words with the princess and Wan'er, and you will come in later!"

"Yes, mother!" Liu Yi had no choice but to get up to answer, and when he got up, he used his body as a cover, and quietly shook Shangguan Wan'er's hand, encouraging Shangguan Wan'er, who must have been worried at this time.

Liu Yi walked out of his mother's house and took the door, but did not go far, but stayed outside the door, wanting to eavesdrop on what the three of them were talking about inside.

But Ping'er, who came with Princess Taiping, was also standing outside the door, and when she saw Liu Yi coming out, she twisted it and walked over, and asked Liu Yi in a low voice: "Young Master, is Sister Xiaoyun in the house?" ”

"Of course, you go over and see them, and we'll go out to see the lights together in a while!"

"Well, thank you young master, the slaves haven't seen Sister Xiaoyun for a long time, and I really miss it!" Ping'er said, raising her head and looking at Liu Yi boldly.

Liu Yi looked at the side, there was no one in the house on the side, presumably they were all drunk back by their eldest brother, and no one greeted him, so he had to lead Ping'er to his own courtyard.

Xiaoyun and several other maids had already changed into men's clothes and waited in the house according to Liu Yi's instructions, and when they saw Liu Yi coming over with Ping'er, they were very surprised, Liu Yi ordered Xiaoyun to say a few words, and he went over.

Back outside the mother's house, the three women were still talking in the house, Liu Yi heard the voice of Shangguan Wan'er talking to her mother, as if her mother was asking Shangguan Wan'er some private matters or something, Liu Yi was afraid that Shangguan Wan'er would be embarrassed in front of her mother and Princess Taiping, so she also knocked on the door and said loudly: "Mother, it's not early, the child will accompany the princess and Shangguan Sibo to go out to visit the lamp market, go early and come back early, and come back to talk to you!" With that, he pushed the door open and entered.

Zhang seemed to be a little unhappy with Liu Yi interrupting the conversation between her and Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er, two girls who might become their daughters-in-law in the future, but when they saw Liu Yi's eyes with special meanings, the displeasure was immediately gone.

"Okay, Yue'er, Wan'er, you guys have to be careful when you go to see the lights," Zhang looked at the two outstanding-looking girls in front of him with some pity, and then instructed Liu Yi: "San Lang, take a few more people to save anything!"

"The child got it!"

(To be continued)