In the afternoon, the husband and wife have their own socializing and cannot spend the holiday together. But in the evening, Li Siye decided to take time out to accompany the lady and Mei'er to go shopping and watch the lanterns.

The candle-lighting lantern festival in Shule City is only carried out on a main street, the front and back are not more than two miles long, and the cost of making the lantern is jointly funded by the Shule Tang Army and the Shule local state government, and the largest lamp is a Buddha statue made of poplar branches as a skeleton and made of yellow paper. There were more than 300 candles burning inside, and the Buddha sat peacefully on the lotus platform, illuminated by the light of the candles, which made it look lifelike.

Twelve Niang was wearing a rose-colored skirt, an emerald green undergarment on her upper body, and a silk curtain on her shoulders. The guards of the town guard followed behind them in cloth armor, and the people of Shule avoided many of them.

Li Siye is in the ruling class, so naturally he will not be pretentious enough to discard this convenience. When you go to the streets at night in Shule City, the safety of your wife and sister must of course be guaranteed, even if you are not there, you can avoid some small troubles.

It's like there are always a few floating ruffians on the street, taking advantage of the crowd to steal property, rubbing oil and molesting women from good families. But once they approached the range of the noble lady and saw that there were Tang Army guards following, they didn't even dare to speak loudly, so they could only sneak over quietly from the other side.

"Sister-in-law, come and see."

Li Mei'er took Twelve Niang's hand and stopped a merchant, selected the copper hairpin and step shake in the goods, inserted them in his sideburns, and turned around and asked Li Siye: "Brother, do you look good-looking." ”

Li Siye was looking at the Buddha lantern hanging on the tree, and when he heard Mei'er turn around and ask him, he only glanced at it and said perfunctorily: "Well, it's very beautiful." ”

"I hate it, you don't look good at all!" Li Mei'er muttered dissatisfiedly, suddenly came up with a ghost idea, laughed evilly, chose a step from the merchant's stall, and inserted it on the head of Twelve Niang.

"Brother, do you think this step looks good on my sister-in-law's head?"

Twelve Niang's eyes were bright, and she looked up at him with a smile, Li Siye still dared to be lazy at this time, and looked at it a few more times before replying: "Well, it's beautiful." ”

Li Mei'er turned around with satisfaction and asked the merchant, "How much?" ”

"Two hundred and thirty dollars."

Li Siye walked over, shook the copper coin out of his sleeve, and handed a string to the merchant.

The streetlights are soon coming to an end, and even if there are still in front of them, they are just kitschat hung on the doors of some merchants, and it is no longer worth visiting. Li Mei'er suddenly felt interested, and said that this lantern festival was far worse than the Chang'an Shangyuan Lantern Festival. The night of the Chang'an Lantern Festival is vertical and horizontal 16 streets, the lanterns are 30 miles, the lights are put on for three days, the fire trees and silver flowers are put on for three days, and the lights and stars do not stop all day long, so it is called lively.

"Brother, when will we go back to Chang'an, I miss Xinchangfang."

Li Siye put his hand on her shoulder and smiled: "Yes, I will take you back to Chang'an to see the Yuan Lantern Festival in the future." ”

The lights were already dim at the end of the street, so they had to turn around and go back, dissipating their excitement back to the town envoy's mansion. Fortunately, the house is brightly lit, and lanterns are hung on both sides of the eaves of almost every room, and in the lantern in front of the main hall is the most flame-resistant red candle, which can burn until tomorrow morning.

Li Siye was secretly distressed, this candle was two pieces of money, and it burned over one night, and the four taels of silver were burned out.

He wanted to talk to Li Mei'er and Twelve Niang under the lamp, but he was usually very busy, and he couldn't take care of understanding their thoughts, but now he was empty.

As soon as they entered the door, they saw Wu Niangzi and Chen Niangzi leading a bunch of maids to welcome Zigu and worship the silkworm god, and they also went in, and Li Siye could only sit on the steps by himself and drink and watch.

This Zigu is said to have been the concubine of a large family, and was tortured by his wife's jealousy, and died next to the toilet on the 15th day of the first month, and the emperor took pity on her and named her the toilet god. Wu Niangzi and others burned incense to greet her next to the toilet, and also used the copper hairpin on the fork of the basket to carry out divination. Li Siye guessed that the reason why they were so keen on Yingzigu's activities might be because they were relatively close to each other and had feelings of sympathy for each other.

It is easy to understand the silkworm god, a few mulberry trees were planted in the house, and the lady saw that the mulberry leaves fell in vain in late autumn, and felt a pity, so she had the idea of raising silkworms and weaving cloth. They have obtained the consent of the Twelve Niang, as long as they do not miss the work in the house, it is nothing to do some private work, so they worship the silkworm god in advance to ensure that the silkworm raising will be smooth next year.

As the night got drunk, Li Siye drank a few glasses, and then felt sleepy, so he simply went into the house to sleep in advance. He slept until he was dazed, and felt someone lift the quilt and lie down, and got up and removed the gauze tent from the couch. Li Siye gave way to the side, but she pillowed her long waterfall hair on his chest and tickled his nostrils with the tips of her hair. Li Siye opened his eyes and woke up, grabbed her shoulders with both hands and turned over.

Babbling.

"I'll go up there, you're too heavy."

……

At the end of January, the Tang army in Shule City began to train intensively, and Li Siye personally inspected the internal affairs and removed the excess items carried by the soldiers.

He led his horse and stood at the gate of the city, stopped a soldier at random to inspect it, and raised his hand to put his whip against the bulging mass on the horse's back: "What is this?" ”

The soldier crossed his hands and said, "General Qiyu, this is sheep felt." ”

"I mean inside the felt."

"There's nothing in the felt."

"You open it for me."

The soldier's face changed violently, and after hesitating for a moment, he untied the hemp rope, spread the sheep felt on the ground and opened it, and inside was a mandarin duck pillow embroidered with a red brocade and a black cloth in the middle.

"Pillows?" Zhao Chongyu stabbed beside him: "It's a very comfortable day, there is even a pillow, can't the quiver be used as a pillow!" You must know that five or six catties of a pillow is equivalent to occupying five or six catties of dry food! Dry food can replenish your energy and save your life! Pillows do! ”

Deputy Zhao made these roars silence the soldiers, and the expression on the soldier's face was very entangled, and finally he couldn't help but say: "The pillow can't save my life, but it can calm my heart." ”

Zhao Chongjun raised his thick beard and approached his face, and asked in a low voice, "What is it?" What kind of heart does Ann have? ”

The soldier couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted in a loud voice: "The pillow can calm my heart!" ”

"Deputy Military Envoy Zhao." A soldier who was on the same team as him relieved the siege next to him and said: "This is the pillow given by the lady she likes, and the father-in-law thinks that he was born poor, so he came to Qixi to fight as a soldier, this is his thoughts." ”

Li Siye was impressed when he heard this, and asked, "What is your name and what position do you hold now?" ”

"General Qiyu, a certain name is Zhang Shenglu, and now the Shule Army Jumping Battalion serves as a crossbowman and a flag leader."

The flag head is the backbone of a team, second only to the team leader, the team vice, this life road is only the flag head now, when can I get the official body and hold the beauty?

He glanced at the pillow, and said solemnly: "The march is not allowed to carry more than one pound of personal belongings, but you can pour out the chaff in the pillow and leave the pillow scalp as a souvenir, maybe as a bag of dry food." ”

This Zhang Shenglu gratefully crossed his hands: "General Xie's subordinates are merciful." ”

The two generals then checked the personal belongings of the rest of the soldiers, in addition to Zhang Shenglu, four more people were found to be carrying private belongings, one of them had four books hidden in his package, Li Siye walked over and picked up the books, and became interested in this person, people who love to learn are rare animals at any time.

"What's your name?"

"Rutu."

Li Siye opened the book and read two pages, his face changed, no wonder there was no name on the book cover, and it was all pictures of the spring palace interacted with men and women.

He closed the book and sighed, "Take them all down." ”

The four of them were locked up in a dark room, and they were uneasy, not knowing how Li Zhen's envoy would punish them. One person squatted on the ground and muttered in a low voice: "I heard that Li Zhenenvoy made a torture nest, called Four Can'ts, and the people locked in it can collapse in a week, should we suffer like this?" ”

"How so? We didn't bring a little more stuff, as for that? ”

"It's hard to say, it's been a month since the internal affairs regulations came out, and you still don't take it seriously, and you won't be punished heavily, can you remember?"

"Shut up!" A strong man scolded: "I think you are the most angry, what is not good, you have to bring a woman to profane clothes, Hezi, it is enough for you to bring one fucking, but you bring seven or eight strips of various colors!" We're all in the way of you! ”

"You can do it! What's the matter with a cast-iron statue, can this thing bless you? Is it your family's dead ghost ancestor or the wild god in the mountains? ”

"Say it again!"

"I said what can you do! That iron lump is the ancestor of your family's dead ghosts? ”

"!"

The two of them tossed and tore together, and the rest of the people hurriedly stepped forward to pull the rack, and suddenly the door of the dark room opened, and the dazzling sunlight penetrated in. A junior colonel in the army walked in in iron armor, threw his four clothes in front of them, and said in a cold voice, "Change these clothes and follow me." ”

The four of them stopped pulling and tearing, walked to the clothes and looked down, and it turned out to be four robes.