The Double Ninth Festival, in the later generations of the 12th year of China, seems to have become optional, and is not valued by young people, but some from the West, such as Christmas, Valentine's Day, Halloween, these nondescript festivals, are sought after.

In the Ming Dynasty, the status of the Double Ninth Festival is no less than that of the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate and worship Qu Yuan, and the Double Ninth Festival is to worship the Emperor and ancestors, so all over China, on the day of the Double Ninth Festival, there are ritual activities of worshipping gods and ancestors.

Hua 12 is the first time to experience the atmosphere of the traditional festival, three days in advance, the folk began to put up lanterns, ready for the festival, Zhang Hairui came to him to discuss, to resume the Chongyang Festival Confucius Temple Fair, and Qinhuai Lantern Festival and other folk activities.

This point is not only the will of Zhang Hairui and other officials, but also the will of the people of Jinling, Shinong, industry and commerce and other strata.

Hua Twelve remembered that when he visited the Jinling Palace two days ago, he heard Wang Xuetong, the chief eunuch, say that the Qinhuai Painting Boat was going to be reopened, and thought that if there was another Qinhuai Lantern Festival, it would definitely be lively, so he agreed to it.

Since the Double Ninth Festival is so valued in Daming, let the people be lively and lively, and rush the bloody atmosphere in Jiangnan in this short time.

Originally, Hua Twelve just wanted to see others celebrate the festival, but he regretted it that day, because Ding Baiying directly pulled him into the atmosphere of the festival.

Early in the morning of Chongyang, as soon as the sky was bright, Ding Baiying pulled Hua Twelve up from the bed, and had to go to Yuhuatai to climb the height according to local customs.

Hua Twelve is now successful in cultivating the Daomen Tuna Technique, and has practiced the internal strength of the Quanzhen School, and the requirements for sleep are not so high, as long as he sleeps for two hours a day, he can maintain a day's mental state.

But he first paid the public ration last night, and then practiced for half a night, and just lay down and wanted to sleep for two hours, before falling asleep, he was pulled out to climb the rain flower platform.

Hua Twelve regretted it a little, this early in the morning, the sun hadn't come out yet, wouldn't it be nice for him to sleep, but his wife insisted on going, so if he couldn't do it, he would go.

took his wife Ding Baiying on a trip, Lu Jianxing, Zheng Zhangban and more than a dozen factory guards accompanied him, everyone changed into civilian clothes, and the group pretended to be tourists who got up early and climbed the heights, and went straight to Yuhuatai.

Originally, Hua Twelve thought that not many people would get up early to climb the heights, but when he saw this, he knew that he was wrong, along the way, helping the old and the young, there were people everywhere who wanted to climb the heights.

When he came back from Yuhuatai, Hua Twelve thought that he could go back to sleep, but Ding Baiying happily pulled him to the Confucius Temple to visit the temple fair.

Hua Twelve felt that his head was big for a while, what was there to visit at the temple fair this year, the big girl and the little daughter-in-law, all dressed tightly, which was like the later generations, the streets were full of low-cut girls and big white legs.

Ding Baiying pulled him to stroll around excitedly, to see that everything was fresh, Hua Twelve bought two pieces of festival food Chongyang cake at a roadside stall, and gave a piece to his wife.

Back in the Inner Garrison Mansion, Hua Twelve finally slept for a while, and when he woke up, Ding Baiying sat beside him angrily, still holding a few red posts in his hands.

Hua Twelve sat up, pinched Ding Baiying's round face with his hand, and said with a smile:

"Whose post, look like you've been wronged as if you've been wronged!"

"I'm just wronged, No, this is a post for you, you just say you don't want to go!"

This girl used to walk in a cold and arrogant style, but since she was nourished by love, she has resumed the nature of a girl of this age, and as long as she is with Hua Twelve, she is becoming more and more like a little woman.

Ding Baiying put the red posts in front of him, and Hua Twelve took them curiously and took a look, all of them invited him to the banquet to participate in the event.

The first one is the Chongyang Poetry Club of the Drunken Immortal Building, and Hua Twelve directly threw it aside.

What will he do when the poem is going to be? At his level of limerick poetry, even if he writes poetry, he can copy poetry, but he has no intention of copying poetry to become famous, so he simply can't go.

The rest of the posts are a bit interesting, and Hua Twelve finally knows why Ding Baiying looks like a wronged little daughter-in-law.

It is the matter that Wang Xuetong, the chief eunuch said, tonight, the painting boat on the Qinhuai River was reopened, and these are the invitations sent by some relatively large painting boats, among which there are many invitations that Oiran combed today.

What do you mean by please?

Of course, I'm going to comb the girl's up.

"Do you want to go?"

Ding Baiying's big eyes looked at Hua Twelve without blinking.

"I don't want to!"

Hua Twelve had a strong desire to survive, and directly threw the post aside, Ding Baiying suddenly turned her anger into joy, and walked behind him to help pinch her shoulders:

"That's it, fireworks and willow lanes are not places for serious people to go, and besides, you have two younger sisters, me, Miaotong and Miaoxuan, isn't that enough?"

Hua Twelve Zheng felt that Ding Baiying's pressing force was moderate, and he was relaxed and comfortable there, so he said casually without thinking too much: "Is it enough?" ”

'Choking'

Behind him, the sound of a long knife coming out of its sheath came.

Hua Twelve seemed to hear the famous sentence of 'Da Lang should take medicine', and instantly came back to his senses and cut the railroad categorically:

"Enough must be enough!"

"What about these posts?"

Ding Baiying's words were full of temptation and coldness.

Hua Twelve said unswervingly: "It's all torn!" ”

"Okay!"

The chill is like melting snow in the six suns, and it dissipates in an instant.

Ding Baiying's long knife was returned to the sheath, and after a few brushes, he tore up all the posts, and then continued to rub and press his father-in-law's heart, with a happy expression, not to mention how happy he was.

What is a good wife, that is, you can't make mistakes when you stop your husband.

In fact, Ding Baiying knows that if she talks about her ability, she is afraid that she is not her own opponent, Hua Twelve is soft, this is spoiling her, so she is naturally happy and happy.

Hua Twelve didn't fool Ding Baiying, he was really not interested, many people may not believe it, after all, ten miles of Qin Huai, six dynasties and wind and moon, which crossing man does not yearn for it.

When he first heard Wang Xuetong say, Hua Twelve also wanted to see it, but what he wanted to see was not an egret girl, but the famous Qin Huai Bayan.

But come back and think about it, in the information he remembers, among the eight Yan, Ma Xianglan has passed away, and the other seven are all bean sprouts that have not grown, and the later world's first beauty Chen Yuanyuan seems to be just four or five years old this year.

So what's the?

simply faded the idea of going to Qinhuai at night.

But Hua Twelve thought very well, but someone was calculating him, how could he not be there, Ding Baiying had just torn up the post here, and half an hour later, Wang Xuetong's post was sent over.

Invite Hua 12 and Zhang Hairui and many important officials of Jinling City to enjoy the lanterns on the Qinhuai River at night, and to drink for a long time, the location is set at the 'Yanbo Boat'.

Drinking Dadan is just to have a good night, Hua Twelve didn't expect this old eunuch to play quite crazy.

Hua Twelve reluctantly showed the post to Ding Baiying, who snorted coldly:

"Last time I saw that eunuch was not a good thing, he must often go to that kind of fireworks and willow lane, dip flowers and grass, sleep flowers and willows, even if he learns badly, he has to pull my father-in-law"

Hua Twelve's head is black, sister, you are brainless and black, how can a eunuch mess with flowers and grass, sleep flowers and willows, does he have that ability?

It was a little eunuch who sent the post, and the person was still waiting outside to reply.

Hua Twelve thought for a while and said, "Let people talk back, since Master Zhang is also gone, let's be lively together!" ”

"Humph!"

Ding Baiying turned to the side a little unhappily.

Hua Twelve said with a smile: "Take you with me!" ”

"Really?"

The woman instantly turned into a smiling face, which made Hua Twelve sigh, the talent of the little woman does not learn to change her face, and she is talented.

In the evening, the time for Wang Xuetong's banquet was approaching, and Hua Twelve took Ding Baiying and five hundred factory guards and went straight to Qinhuai for ten miles.

Now there are too many people in Jiangnan who want him to die, and it is really not safe to bring more people, Hua Twelve himself is okay to say, Ding Baiying's safety must be guaranteed.

Qinhuai painting boat, also called the lamp boat, hang the lanterns of various colors more, the boat travels on the river at night, everywhere you go, the houses on both sides are dyed with the color of the lanterns, you can see from a distance like the stars falling from the sky, the water and the sky are connected.

Yu Huai, a literati of the Qing Dynasty, once said: "The prosperity of the Qinhuai lightship is unparalleled in the world." This shows the pomp and circumstance of the time.

When night fell, the sluice gate of Dongshui Pass was opened, and the painted boat lightboats in the Jinshui River, one after another, slowly sailed into the Qinhuai River.

At this time, there are crowds of people on both sides of the river, lighting lanterns, competing to put them into the river, thousands of lanterns flowing downstream, extremely magnificent, and the crowd also cheered.

Wang Xuetong's 'Yanbo Boat' is moored on the bank of the Qinhuai River, the boat is three stories high, there are hundreds of lights of various colors hanging, there are small supervisors and guards waiting to welcome guests in front of the boat, and when they see the sedan chair of Hua Twelve, they greet them from afar.

After Hua Twelve and Ding Baiying got off the sedan chair, they stepped on the sampan hand in hand and boarded the painting boat, Wang Xuetong was already waiting on the boat, and after a lot of polite words, he was invited to sit on the third floor.

The third floor is the open-air field, the crystal lamps on both sides are hung high, and the third floor is as bright as day, Zhang Hairui and many other officials are waiting here, and when they see Hua 12 boarding the ship, they all get up and salute.

It turned out that he and Ding Baiying were the last of the people invited to wait for the ship.

After Hua Twelve boarded the ship, the guards he brought with him also boarded the ship, but where did the more than 500 guards fit the ship, which made it easy for the people below to have disputes.

Wang Xuetong explained the situation, spread his hands, and showed embarrassment: "Master Hou, look at this matter!" ”

Hua Twelve glanced at Wang Xuetong with a smile, and simply left Zheng Zhangban and a few apprentices of Lu Jianxing and Ding Baiying to serve on the boat, and the other guards waited on the shore.

After Lu Jianxing and Zheng Zhangban got on the boat, they first inspected the people on the boat, and then checked the tableware, wine utensils, and wine used in the banquet one by one with the means of the factory guard, and then stood aside with confidence.

No one else said anything about this, after all, everyone knows what Hua Twelve's situation is now, and how many people want his life.

After everyone sat down, the Yanbo Boat slowly started and sailed into the river, and Wang Xuetong on the boat also recruited the bustard to arrange singing, dancing, singing, and various programs.

When the sound of silk and bamboo sounded, Wang Xuetong clapped his hands again and called a group of girls, and each adult arranged a waiter next to him, but there was no one next to Hua Twelve, which made Ding Baiying a little satisfied.

But the next moment, I heard Wang Xuetong laugh and say:

"Ladies and gentlemen, today is not only the Double Ninth Festival, but also the first Oiran in Qinhuai, the day when the Egret girl combs up, our family will borrow flowers to offer Buddha, and let the Egret girl dance a song for Hou Ye, okay?"

These officials on the ship, although they are the Qing officials left over from the crackdown, are also scholars, and the scholars do not reject the wind and snow, but many of them think that it is an elegant thing in the world, and they are immediately better when they hear it.

At this time, after listening to Wang Xuetong, they didn't know what it meant to borrow flowers to offer Buddha, that is, they wrapped up the night of the egret girl and gave it to Xipinghou.

Ding Baiying's face was like frost, Hua Twelve was under the table, and pinched her hand, so that there was no seizure.

After a while, a beauty who seemed to be of mixed race was called up, dressed in gauze clothes, with white and tender feet, dancing in the sound of silk and bamboo, like Chang'e in the moon, beautiful and incomprehensible.

This egret girl deserves to be known as the first beauty in Qin Huai, she is gorgeous and beautiful, not to mention Ding Baiying, it is Hua Twelve's three wives in this world, and Zhou Miaotong, who is the best, is difficult to compare.

If anyone can compare, it is the one in the palace, the queen Zhang Yan who stands out among the five thousand beauties.

Among the officials, even Zhang Hairui saw some color and soul, dizzy, and was fascinated by the smile of the egret girl.

Ding Baiying looked at her man angrily, and saw that Hua Twelve was not like those LSPs, but her expression was indifferent, so she breathed a sigh of relief, but she found that her man's eyes were playful and that bad feeling.

This feeling was exactly the same when the two didn't get together, and Hua Twelve's expression was exactly the same on her several occasions.

She turned her head to look at the Egret girl, and suddenly understood something, there was something wrong with this woman.

When the Egret girl finished dancing, Wang Xuetong hurriedly pointed to the vacant seat on the other side of Hua Twelve and said:

"Don't go to serve the Hou Ye to drink!"

When the egret girl heard this, she hurriedly walked over, picked up the wine jug and filled it for Hua Twelve, Ding Baiying snorted at this, and turned her head to the side, out of sight and out of mind.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, everyone talked about the current situation in the Ming Dynasty, from Liaodong to Jiangnan, they all talked about it lightly, and then they began to talk about some things, and there were more laughter.

It was nearly midnight, the riverside lanterns gradually dispersed, only painting boats remained, moored in the river, Zhang Hairui was old, and said:

"Father-in-law, the old man is not strong enough to drink, so let's stop here today."

Han Zanzhou, the eunuch guarding the town, also wants to go back.

To Hua Twelve's surprise, Wang Xuetong actually ordered the boatman to dock the painting boat and let the adults return home.

When the painting boat docked at the place where the boat had been boarded before, Hua Twelve and Ding Baiying were just about to get up, when their hands were suddenly grabbed by the Egret girl, and with a stunning and beautiful face, they said shyly and timidly:

"Master Hou, stay today"

Hua Twelve looked at each other with a smile: "It's okay to stay, but do I call you Miss Egret or Miss Drizzle?" ”

Bai Lu and Wang Xuetong, who had been observing this side, were stunned at the same time, and the latter shouted: "Do it!" ”

As he spoke, he took out a bamboo tube from his arms, and as soon as he pulled the lead, a firework instantly shot into the air and exploded, and the next moment, there were countless shouts of killing all around.

The egret already had a soft sword in his hand, stabbing at Hua Twelve's throat with a sound of breaking through the sky.

At the same time, far away in the imperial palace in the northern capital, dozens of eunuchs and guards, armed with weapons, rushed towards the direction of the Qianqing Palace.

Thanks: 08a, righteousness is limited and awe-inspiring, old. Book. The reward of the insect brothers, thank you for the support of the brothers who have a pack of spicy strips for 200 yuan, thank you to the brothers who voted for the monthly ticket and the recommended vote, and thank you to the brothers who read and read the collection, thank you.

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