Taichen Palace Zhongyu Pavilion

Emperor Jing and Xie Xun were talking, and Lu Shen was cooking tea and watching chess on the side, sometimes filling the tea cup of Emperor Jing and Xie Xiang with tea.

Emperor Jing pinched the chess pieces and asked casually: "I heard that today outside the Yuanwu Gate, He Yuanlang made a move?" ”

Xie Xiang nodded and replied: "Well, you can't defeat King Jin's retinue deputy general Luo Kedi in three moves." A thousand cavalrymen rested in the barracks outside the city, and the king of Jin only brought a hundred guards into the city, and now lives in the annex of Honglu Temple. ”

Emperor Jing: "The person you chose is good, with him by Yu'er's side, I can rest assured." ”

Xie Xiang shook his head: "Your Majesty, this person is still enveloped by Young Master Ye." ”

Emperor Jing said with a smile: "This Ye Luohe was not recommended by you to enter the court, and it can be regarded as your eyesight." ”

At this time, Lu Shen's godson Lu Guanxi came in with a painting scroll, walked to Lu Shen's side, handed the painting scroll to Lu Shen and said a few words in his ear, Lu Shen waved his hand, and Lu Guanxi slowly retreated.

Emperor Jing opened his mouth and asked, "Lu Shen, what's the matter?" ”

Lu Shen smiled and sent the scroll over: "Your Majesty, it is a new painting made by the princess, and today I asked the Internal Affairs Bureau to frame it, and let people send it to Your Majesty." ”

Emperor Jing said as he uncovered the rope: "This kid, when I asked for peace tonight, I didn't bring it myself, but I sent someone to send it." ”

Emperor Jing opened it, only to see a picture of a cold plum, under the plum tree stood an extremely gorgeous woman and a handsome young man, aren't they Yonghui and Xiao Siyu.

Emperor Jing slowly finished reading the painting and read out the inscription again.

"Hanmei is proud of the snow to be rewarded, who will plant you in ten years, no one thinks about the cold for a long time, and I don't feel that my tears are cold!"

Emperor Jing couldn't help but sigh after reading the painting and the inscription, rolled up the painting again, and handed it to Lu Shen

"Lu Shen, hang it in my study, it's hard to see you again, it's hard to say goodbye, it's hard to say goodbye, I'm not a good father!"

Lu Shen didn't answer, took the painting scroll to the study, and Xie Xiang on the side persuaded: "Your Majesty, the love is deep, but there is nowhere to say, the princess's painting is a hope to send longing, Your Majesty should not be sad." ”

Emperor Jing left a son: "Three days later, let King Jin go to the palace." ”

……

November 15th, unitary time

The nine-storey fire tower set up on the square in front of Tianyuan Palace was lit, the fire illuminated the entire West Lake, dyed the lake red, the street market on both sides of the West Lake surrounded by hundreds of thousands of lanterns set off the whole West Lake colorful, on the market, all the wine shops, shops are open to hang lights, the street has set up a roadside street shed, stretching for several miles, you can't see the end at a glance, all kinds of jugglers on the street, performing arts and martial arts are all showing their skills, inside and outside are surrounded by two or three layers of people watching.

Tuoba Hong is wearing a gold silk embroidered brocade mink fur today, a white one, wearing a purple and gold crown, looking like a son of a family, because Tuoba Hong is close to nine feet tall, it is much taller than the average Southern Dynasty man, plus Xianbei blood, so the facial features are handsome, three-dimensional, brown eyes, slender eyebrows, high nose bridge, small but clear lips, plus a good-looking face, it really looks like a beautiful young man with exotic style.

Although Li Cunxiao and Luo Kedi on the side are also dressed in blue and black brocade fox furs, they are dressed well, but compared with Tuoba Hong, one is slightly old-fashioned, and the other is five big and three thick with a beard, so they are far less personable than Tuoba Hong.

Walking past the three of them, both men and women couldn't help but look back at Tuoba Hong, and there were always some young women wearing young women's clothes and wearing masks on their heads, who came over and sprinkled the millet in their hands on Tuoba Hong, and then stood in front of them, Tuoba Hong looked dazed, and the other party only sighed and walked away in disappointment.

Luo Kedi on the side couldn't help but snicker.

Tuoba Hong pushed and asked, "Third brother, what are you laughing at, what the hell is going on?" ”

Luo Kedi smiled: "Big brother, this is these little girls have taken a fancy to you, this is the custom of the Shehuo Festival, young men and women wear stall masks, as long as the mask has a lotus pattern, it proves that it is a single man and woman, if the man or woman with a single mask is interested in each other, you can grab a handful of millet, sprinkle it on each other, if the other party wants to meet, you can uncover the mask and see, if the two parties are interested, you can hand over the token prepared in advance to each other, and then the man can go to the woman's house to ask for marriage, and after the woman's parents agree, it can become a good match." ”

Tuoba Hong smiled: "There is such a thing, but I don't have a mask." ”

Li Cunxiao on the side smiled and said: "Big brother, you are good-looking!" ”

Tuoba Hong touched his face and felt a little helpless.

Luo Kedi was a little annoyed and said: "Second brother, we have to go with the eldest brother, it is estimated that we will not want to get a Southern Dynasty woman to fall in love with tonight." ”

Li Cunxiao smiled: "I don't care, it's just that you seem to be in a hurry." ”

Tuoba Hong thought for a while and said: "Second brother, third brother, why don't the three of us go separately, and each of us will experience the style of this Jiandu, if you are favored by a woman, you also like it, the eldest brother will arrange to come to the door to propose marriage, and marry a beautiful woman from the Southern Dynasty for you to go back." ”

Luo Kedi was moved when he heard this: "The eldest brother's proposal is good, and the younger brother will leave first." ”

Li Cunxiao on the side was a little worried: "Big brother." ”

Tuoba Hong said with a smile: "Second brother, don't worry, this is Jiandu, no one dares to be here, make a move on me at this time, besides, there are few people in this world who can kill me." Take a good look today, after all, we may not be able to return to Jiandu again in the future, as a rare experience. ”

With that, Tuoba Hong took a step and walked into the crowd.

Li Cunxiao shouted in the back: "Big brother! ”

Tuoba Hong waved his hand back: "Let's go separately, there is no curfew tonight." ”

Roque's enemy moved quickly, and soon bought a stall mask and put it on his face.

"Second brother! I'll go first! ”

Li Cunxiao turned around and was startled: "Third brother, how eager are you?" ”

Luo Kedi: "Second brother, I have been in the army for ten years and have never started a family, you are not in a hurry!" Let's go! ”

Luo Kedi walked into the crowd with brisk steps, and chanted as he walked: "There are beautiful women in the south, and the city and the country are falling, I am here!" ”

Li Cunxiao shook his head and browsed to the stall that did not buy masks, but sold jewelry on the side of the road alone: "All the other woods, wait for me, I will come back to marry you." ”

He put his hand on a beautiful beaded headdress, and couldn't help but smile to himself, and talk to himself.

"This, you must look good with it."

……

Tuoba Hong wandered around the market alone, but there were more onlookers, which was overwhelming.

"It seems that I still have to follow the local customs, and I should buy a mask today."

Tuoba Hong is thinking like this, there is a social opera garden not far away, the singing in it attracts him to the past, a play is being staged on the stage, a man in a dragon robe on the stage, holding a stall mask in his hand, affectionate and sad, although Tuoba Hong can't understand the lyrics, but the song of grievances, people can't help but feel pity when they listen to it.

"This son, do you know what kind of play is being played on this stage?"

A vendor selling masks at the entrance of the Social Drama Garden stepped forward and asked.

Tuoba Hong shook his head: "I don't know, but it looks like it's about the previous dynasty, it should be a fictional story of the emperor and the people's daughter." ”

The peddler smiled and said: "Childe's words are wrong, this stage is not a fictional story, but the real love story of the former Emperor Renzong, which happens to be closely related to the construction of the capital city and the West Lake, this play is called Youlong Dream!" ”

Tuoba Hong smiled: "It turned out to be the story of Emperor Renzong, I remember that it seems to be recorded in "Jinghua Dream Record", I always thought it was a fictional story." ”

The peddler actually began to tell the story slowly, and the twists and turns of the story were bizarre and vivid.

This dragon dream is not a legend, it is about Emperor Renzong of Great Xia, who was only sixteen years old when he ascended the throne, and he traveled to health, which is now the founding of the capital; I happened to meet the Shehuo Festival, and I was quite interested in this local customs, so I bought a single stall mask to bring on; Swimming to the Eight Views of the West Lake, I met a woman with a mask and a graceful figure, Renzong was quite fond of it, and splashed millet on the woman in the past; The woman actually intended to meet each other, and the two unmasked each other and fell in love at first sight in the Yixin Pavilion.

The woman left a note and left, Renzong sent a personal jade pendant as a token, who knew that it rained heavily that night, Renzong returned to the palace to find that the text and ink had been blurred, the beauty was lost, Renzong used all the people to find out the news, but found nothing.

Renzong had no choice but to return to Luojing, still thinking about it, thinking of the beautiful woman every day, ordering people to build another pavilion next to the heart pavilion, the royal pen book is one meaning two words, engrave a letter on the stone tablet, and agree to wait for the beauty in this pavilion two years later.

In fact, the woman that Renzong met by chance that day, Qia was the daughter of the healthy assassin Shi Liu Xu, Liu Jingmeng, His Majesty's sixteenth draft girl, this woman was among the candidates to be selected, only before setting off to Luojing, I had a feeling, and I met Renzong in the Yixin Pavilion during the Shehuo Festival, and left a note for my favorite, waiting for three days to see my favorite person come to the door, Liu Jingmeng was disheartened, and had no choice but to go to Luojing.

After Renzong returned to Beijing, he was depressed and unhappy, and he didn't care about the draft girl, and even avoided the selected show girl, so he didn't know that this Liu Jingmeng had been selected into the harem, and the two were in the Weiyang Palace together, but they were close to the end of the world.

Two years later, Renzong toured the south again, wanted to meet a beautiful woman in the Yiyi Pavilion, countless women gathered here that day, all looking forward to a step and ascending the dragon face, but unfortunately many figures, none of them were the beauties of that day, Renzong returned sadly, and demolished the stone tablet of Yiyi Pavilion.

Renzong is twenty years old, and he needs to be elected, at this time, Liu Jingmeng has been in the palace for more than three years, and he can only faintly hide his thoughts in his heart for that young man; On November 15, Renzong decided to imitate the Shehuo Festival in the Weiyang Palace, and ordered all the selected show girls and palace maids in the palace to wear masks to wander around the market, imitating the street market scene, and to shuttle through it with masks.

There is a pavilion on the side of the Tianchi in the Imperial Garden, named Fanting, quite quiet, many daughters who enter the palace are lingering in the lantern festival on both sides of the Tianchi that night, only Liu Jingmeng is in the Fanting Pavilion looking at the lake and in a daze, holding the jade pendant given by the young man in his hand, secretly weeping.

That night, Renzong saw the scene and was sad, he did not unmask any woman all night, walked to the side of the Fanting alone, and saw a woman singing and dancing on the Fanting, his body was the same as the woman who missed him day and night in his mind, the singing was poignant, the dancing was moving, Renzong stepped forward, sprinkled the woman's body with millet, Liu Jingmeng and Renzong took off their masks at the same time, and the two who missed each other for a while were already in tears.

Shu Ri, Renzong Feng Liu Jingmeng as the queen, the two love for a lifetime, Renzong once again erected a monument and single-minded pavilion, he personally wrote "Dragon Dream".

The peddler was like a storyteller, so subdued and frustrated, and after telling the story of this dragon dream in a twist and turn, there was a circle of listeners around, and when the story was finished, they cheered in unison.

"Good!" "Good!"

"Well said!"

The hawker was happy for a moment, and hugged his fists in return salute.

At this moment, the social drama "Dragon Dream" on the stage has reached the end, and Renzong held Liu Jingmeng and sang the Dragon Dream Fu written by Renzong.

Dream back to Xizi

The moon is cold in the middle of the night

Farewell in the heart pavilion

It's been years

Seek and seek

This spring is better than last year

I can't find it when I come to my hometown again

A glimpse of the Nightmare's absence

The cutting is also messy and boring for no reason

But teach the imperial pond to turn the heavenly river into the west water

but also old clothes

Can you find the deceased

.......

The actors who played Renzong and Liu Jingmeng sang movingly, and everyone couldn't help but look at the stage.

Tuoba Hong smiled and took out five taels of silver from his bosom and handed it to the vendor: "The little brother's story is good, this silver is rewarded to you." ”

The hawker didn't make a tael of silver for setting up a stall at night, and saw that this noble son suddenly rewarded five taels of silver, and hurriedly gave his hand to gratitude: "Thank you Gongzi, Gongzi is a princely family at a glance, I wish Gongzi and Gonghou all generations, wealth and glory, and I also wish Gongzi can find a good fate today." ”

Tuoba Hong nodded and smiled: "I am about to take a step to leave." ”

The peddler hurriedly took off a stall mask with a lotus flower on his forehead and handed it to Tuoba Hong, and then took a picture book from the side and handed it to Tuoba Hong: "Childe, you should be single, you might as well bring this mask today, if you meet your favorite woman, you can take off the mask, it is also a good fate, this picture book is actually the story that the villain just told, you rewarded the villain with five taels of silver, this picture book will give you a souvenir." ”

Tuoba Hong smiled and nodded: "Thank you." ”

Tuoba Hong put away the painting book, looked at the mask again, and smiled and put the mask on his face, it was normal for him to kill people with a hundred ghost masks on the Futu Iron Horse before, but this time he wore a mask to find marriage, which always made him feel that some fate made people, but it was also excellent to follow the local customs.

Tuoba Hong put on a mask, fluttered his sleeves and flew away, looking at the figure as if an immortal had come to the world, the peddler looked at Tuoba Hong who was far away and muttered: "I'm afraid this son is not an ordinary person, is it going to stage a scene of a dragon dream." ”