Chapter 141: Putting Lamps to Sacrifice Purple Kites
In Daliang City on the night of the Yuan Dynasty, the streets and alleys are brightly lit, and the crowds on the streets are bustling, rubbing shoulders, and the liveliness far exceeds that of the New Year.
On such a night, almost all the people of Daliang City walked out of their homes and took to the streets to celebrate the first full moon of the year. There are a few families who help the old and the young, and there are also groups of three or five friends, and everyone's face is filled with a smile of joy from the heart.
In addition to the lanterns along the street, in the most prosperous center of Daliang City, there are also large-scale and magnificent giant lantern towers and large floats paraded along the street funded by the royal family. These large-scale illuminations that ordinary people can't afford to make, add a great country atmosphere to the night of the Shangyuan Festival, and the people in Daliang City are proud of being the people of the Jingyuan Dynasty after seeing this.
Every year, the Shangyuan Festival is the time when the royal family of the Jingyuan Dynasty invests a lot of money to show the national strength, because at this time of year, many foreign tributary envoys do not leave, but stay to witness the grand occasion of the Shangyuan Festival.
This kind of thing is indispensable in any dynasty and generation, especially in front of many foreign envoys, so as to show the demeanor of a great power.
Only by letting the surrounding states see the strong financial resources of the Jingyuan Dynasty will they understand that such a huge empire must be strong and strong, and it cannot be coveted, let alone provoked.
Shao Xi and his entourage of six people did not ride a car or a horse, but slowly moved forward with the flow of people. Such a festival along the road to watch the lanterns is naturally not in a hurry, not to mention the royal large lantern towers, floats, just the street on both sides of the people of the homemade lanterns are already full of patterns, different shapes, dizzying.
Hexagonal lanterns, zodiac lanterns, horse lanterns, palace lanterns, dragon lanterns, yarn lanterns, dice lanterns, round lanterns, lotus lanterns, gourd lanterns, etc., each lantern shows the wisdom and rich imagination of the people, and it is also a place of people's yearning for a better life.
Shao Xi remembered that the tradition of the Shangyuan Festival seemed to originate from the Han Dynasty, but he didn't know where the origin of the Shangyuan Festival came from in this world? But this is not important, the important thing is that this festival has planted the seeds of the first reunion in the spring in people's hearts, so that this first full moon night will be a successful start of the new year in people's hearts, full of people's beautiful expectations and longings.
Jinli opened a feast, Lan Yanyan in her early years.
The colors are far away, and the light is far away from the sky.
Receiving the Han suspicious star falls, the building is like the moon hanging.
Don't have a daughter laughing, come to the front of the nine branches.
As one of the four heroes of the early Tang Dynasty, Lu Zhaolin wrote a poem about the festive atmosphere of people on the night of the Shangyuan Festival and the colorful and colorful scene of the street lanterns, and also wrote about the joy in people's hearts on the occasion of this festival.
A few people stopped all the way, looked here, looked there, the vendors set up stalls on the roadside, and the vendors along the way would attract people to stop from time to time. On such a night, the lively scene on the streets is better than the day, and the whole girder is like a city that never sleeps.
Liu Ling is a girl after all, and when she sees fresh gadgets along the way, she can't help but pull Bai Jinqing to watch them together, and she will buy one or two things when she meets someone she likes, and she even chose a high-priced purple gold crown for Bai Jinqing, which made several people in the same industry envious, and they also clamored to get married as soon as possible.
Seeing several friends in front of him teasing each other, laughing and playing, Shao Xi also felt that he was extremely happy at this time.
He used to be lonely, he didn't have any friends around him, and his favorite thing to do every day was to sit alone in the sentry box, holding his mobile phone and swiping the Internet, looking for a trace of comfort in his inner world. Only Xia Junqi would occasionally run over to talk to him and joke with him, but most of the time, he was still lonely.
Looking at the colorful world in front of him, Shao Xi felt that he was lucky, and here he regained the lost family and friendship.
Although I have also experienced life and death, at least I am no longer alone to bear it, and there are always people around me who care about me to share these joys and sorrows with me.
Shao Xi was spinning these messy thoughts in his mind, but he was slapped on the shoulder. As soon as he turned around, a string of big sugar gourds slammed into his face, and behind the sugar gourds was Zheng Yuanxiu's smiling face that would never have a proper shape.
Crying and laughing, he took the string of sugar gourds, and looked at the few friends in front of him who seemed to be adults but were actually children grinning on the hawthorn on it, Shao Xi smiled from the bottom of his heart. That's great! It's good to have relatives and friends!
A few people strolled around and walked to a square in the center of Daliang City, where a huge lantern tower was erected, and several tall floats were slowly walking around the square, and the people on the floats performed a variety of wonderful programs, attracting the surrounding crowd to cheer non-stop.
There are many lantern stalls around the square, and people who want to make good wishes for the new year gather here, write their wishes on the lamps, and then light the lanterns in their hands and put them into the sky, hoping that the heavens can see their wishes, and hope that they or their relatives and friends will be in good health and all the best during the year.
This thing can touch the girl's romantic feelings the most, so naturally it also attracted Liu Ling, she pulled several people to the booth where the lantern was placed, asked everyone to write their wishes on the lantern, and then everyone put the lamp to the sky together.
Not only for the sake of freshness, but also for the sake of auspiciousness, Bai Jinqing and the others were busy choosing lanterns and writing wishes, but Shao Xi didn't believe in these things very much, and he didn't know what to write, so he stood by with his shoulders crossed and watched the few of them busy.
Liu Ling saw Shao Xi standing alone on the side, so he chose a beautiful red lantern and stuffed it into Shao Xi's hand.
"Young Master Shao, you may have a wish! Whether it is spiritual or not, it is a good wish, and I believe that your inner voice will be heard by the heavens. Even if you don't pray for yourself, at least ask for God's blessing for the people you have always cared for and those who have always cared for you, and write your wishes on it! ”
Shao Xi listened to Liu Ling's words and felt that this was indeed the case. Whether you believe it or not, you should at least tell God about this wish, maybe God is too busy to take care of him, but at least he said hello in advance, so that even if one day he really wants to change his life against the sky, God can't blame him.
With such a ridiculous idea, Shao Xi picked up the pen on the table and wrote three wishes on the three lanterns.
He only wrote four words on the wish on the first lantern - a long life and a hundred years old, and the name of the person who received the wish was Wu Jianren, whom he wrote.
Yes, his first wish is to hope that Lao Wu will live a long life.
This little old man who has been taking care of him is his closest relative in this world, Shao Xi hopes that he can live a long and healthy life, and now he is finally living a good life, I hope this old guy can enjoy a few more years of happiness.
He also only wrote four words on the wish on the second lantern - joy and health, and the name of the recipient was Suning'er.
Although this little girl has not been with Lao Wu for a long time, his well-behaved and sensible closeness to himself and Lao Wu is from the heart, and he really regards them as relatives, how can such a little girl who is regarded as his sister fall?
Shao Xi picked up the third lantern and thought about it, then picked up the pen and wrote two lines on it-
Reincarnation is a free path
Since then, there has been no choice
The name of the person who received the vow, he wrote the three words Ye Zi Kite.
Liu Ling had been watching Shao Xi inscribe on the lantern from the side, and she didn't think there was anything strange about the first two. She already knew Lao Wu and Ning'er, and when she saw Shao Xi praying for them, she also felt that it was reasonable.
When she saw the words inscribed by Shao Xi on the third lantern, she was a little curious, so she asked cautiously and softly: "The person who made a wish and prayed for blessings is a woman?" ”
Shao Xi didn't answer, just nodded lightly.
"This girl is no longer there? He must have been a ill-fated man in his lifetime, right? ”
Shao Xi looked at Liu Ling with some surprise, he couldn't imagine that this Miss Liu's mind was so delicate, and she could see Ye Ziyuan's experience from just a few words, and she really deserved to be a famous talented woman in Daliang City.
"Miss Liu really has a good heart, and I can see the deep meaning just by writing a few words, which really makes me deeply admired."
Liu Ling just smiled when she heard Shao Xi's words, and said softly: "Speaking of admiration, it should be the little girl who admires Shao Gongzi, although it is just a simple two lines of words and a name, it shows the deep affection in Gongzi's heart." The little girl only understands it with her eyes, but Childe understands it with her heart, the little girl is not a sentimental person, but today she was indeed moved by Childe's actions, and I always thought that Childe was a person with a talent that had endured the world and had an uninhibited heart, but I didn't know that Childe was also such a long-term and righteous man. ”
"Miss Liu's words are serious, in fact, she is just a layman, she can't escape the seven emotions and six desires, and she can't hide from the love of her children. If you want to blame, you can only blame yourself for not being able to do enough, and I am really ashamed to fail to protect the people around me. ”
Saying that, Shao Xi unconsciously reached out and touched the red ribbon with a bow on his wrist, which was still the same as when Ye Zikite was tied to his hand, that was the first and last time.
Bai Jinqing patted Shao Xi's shoulder and said in a comforting tone: "Brother Shao, we have also heard about you, I heard that after you defeated the warriors of the Southern Zhao Kingdom, you asked the saint to build a cemetery for that girl in Qingshan County. You have tried your best to do everything you can, you don't have to dwell on the past, I don't think Miss Ye wants to see you suffer every day because of her, she must hope that you will live well and feel more happiness in this world for her. ”
"Not bad! I want to live well and live out her happiness together. ”
As he spoke, Shao Xi released the lantern with Ye Ziyuan's name written on it in his hand into the air......