Mother Liu hurriedly said: "Girl, we can't inquire about the nobles in the palace!" ”

Zhang Yuqing pursed her lips and smiled, pulled Liu's mother's arm and said, "Mom picked up what she could tell me, I first came to the capital, my eyes were black, and I didn't know anything!" ”

Mother Liu has been in contact with Zhang Yuqing a few times, and she likes this beautiful girl very much, and said: "Our capital originally had a lantern festival, and the god of flowers will go down to earth today, and the people hang lamps to pray to the god of flowers." This year, it is said that the crown princess occasionally suffered from a cold and was sick for a few days. The emperor and the crown prince have always been kind, and someone proposed to hang a lamp to pray for the crown princess! ”

Zhang Yuqing nodded, "So that's the case." ”

The whole city has to hang lamps to pray for blessings, and it is estimated that the princess is not lightly ill.

Mother Liu touched Zhang Yuqing's green silk like black silk, and said with a smile: "Girl, dress up well tomorrow, everyone with a head and face in the capital will come out to hang the lamp, the girl is so handsome, don't worry about finding a good mother-in-law!" ”

"Thank you mom for your advice." Zhang Yuqing sent Liu's mother away with a smile.

At dusk the next day, after dinner, Zhang Yuqing arrived at the gate of Zhang's mansion.

Mrs. Zhang was directing her subordinates to help Zhang Yuying and Zhang Yushu get into the ox cart, and saw Zhang Yuqing standing in the afterglow of the sunset, like a flower blooming in the wind, and suddenly felt depressed.

"You sit in the car at the back." Mrs. Zhang commanded.

Zhang Yuqing saluted and went to the last car.

The ox cart soon walked to the Suzaku Street in the capital, and the streets were already lined with all kinds of lanterns, and the streets were bustling with people watching the excitement, rubbing shoulders.

Zhang Yuqing opened the curtain of the car and looked out intently.

Thinking of what he saw and heard along the way with Lu Wei into Beijing, it was not enough to talk about starvation, but also to be displaced, and the day was not safe, Zhang Yuqing sighed imperceptibly, in addition to the few acres of prosperous land in the capital, there are still a few places where the people can live and work in peace and contentment.

When the ox cart stops, night falls, and the lights come on, and all kinds of exquisite lanterns illuminate the whole capital as bright as day.

Many people outside are discussing, "This year is the biggest and most beautiful lantern in Zheng Guogong's Mansion!" ”

"The lamp in Taiwei Song's house is also good, it has seven floors, and three or four people are high!"

When Zhang Yuqing came down, he was also shocked by this magnificent scene for a while.

The most central part of the street is reserved for the bureaucracy in the capital, and the place where the Zhang family hangs the lamps is already quite backward, and the flow of people is much sparser.

But Mrs. Zhang is still honored, and the voice of the commanding subordinates to hang the lamp is a little louder than before.

There are many officials in the capital, large and small, and only those who have won the emperor's favor have the qualifications to hang lamps to pray for the crown princess. The Zhang family can hang the lamp by no means because of Zhang Zuozhen, who is the seventh grade, I am afraid it is still for the sake of the late Mrs. Zhang.

Walking all the way from the most lively place here, Zhang Yuqing had a good idea of what the status of the Zhang family was in the capital.

Now the Zhang family can still rely on the shade of their ancestors to come up and squeeze it, but if the third generation of the Zhang family is not angry, the Zhang family will be reduced to the bottom.

Mrs. Zhang instructed the servants to carefully hang up a lotus headlamp, and the layers of petals unfolded, revealing the yellow unkempt inside, on which the old lady wrote a blessing for the crown princess.

When the little servants lit the lamp, Mrs. Zhang held her youngest son in her arms, and three children stood in front of her, smiling as she watched the candles light up one by one, as if the scenery and luck of the Zhang family could be pulled back to the Zhang family with the light of these candles.

Today is a good day, the old lady is very kind, and even Aunt Yuan, who is not allowed to go out on weekdays, also came out and hugged Zhang Yushu intimately.

Lu Wei hung up his own lamp, and heard that the Zhang family was also hanging the lamp, so out of courtesy, he came to meet Mrs. Zhang. Walking to the place where Zhang's house hung the lamp, Lu Wei saw Zhang Yuqing at first glance.

The lanterns on the street are bright and exquisite, and the beauties under the lights are like flowers.

Don't look at it, Lu Wei immediately don't look around, and the secret Dao Zhang family came out to hang the lamp and took her with her, it can be seen that she recognized her as the Zhang family, this woman has been adrift for half her life, and now she finally has a home, and it is not in vain that he took the trouble to bring people into the capital.

"Brother-in-law!" Zhang Yuqian saw Lu Wei first and shouted with a smile.

Zhang Yuying blushed, glanced at Lu Wei, covered her face with a fan, and lowered her head shyly.

Lu Wei is magnificent, has a long body, and his handsome appearance stands out in the crowd.

"I've seen my aunt." Lu Wei bowed.

Mrs. Zhang smiled very kindly and kindly, "No courtesy, no courtesy!" It's all a family, what's polite! ”

Zhang Yuqing took a step back and turned her head to look elsewhere.

That day, she didn't even dare to mention Lu Wei's name, she only said that the son who sent her back to Beijing, Mrs. Zhang was like a cat with her tail stepped on, and she almost didn't come up to scratch her, for fear that she would be ashamed to rob Zhang Yuying's man.

At this time, it is better for her to avoid suspicion.

Handsome guys are good-looking, but they are always someone else's.

Mrs. Zhang looked at her son-in-law more and more pleasing to the eyes, her mouth never closed, Lu Wei's family background was one of the best in the capital, the son of the county lord, the royal relatives of the eight classics, and most importantly, he himself was outstanding among this group of gentlemen, and he was already the top son-in-law that the Zhang family could reach.

Looking at Lu Wei, Mrs. Zhang suddenly remembered Zhang Yuqing, and when Zhang Yuqian and Zhang Yucheng were pestering Lu Wei to speak, she walked up to Zhang Yuqing who was hiding in the corner, and said with a look of grace: "There's nothing for you here, you can walk around here." ”

Zhang Yuqing thanked him and walked out.

In such a grand festival as the Lantern Festival, there are young men and women holding hands, boldly walking on the street, looking at each other and smiling shyly from time to time, and there are also a family of old and young collectives who come out to see the lanterns, talking and laughing, and having fun.

Zhang Yuqing looked at a little girl with a double bun sitting on her father's shoulder with a smile, wearing a pair of tiger head shoes on her feet, holding a rattle tightly in her little hands, and a family of three walked in front of her hand in hand.

When she first crossed over, she was also held on her shoulder by Zhang Zuo Caritas like a treasure, and there was also An Shi gently smiling and hugging her, and they walked through this flow of people together.

There were once few good times, like a mirror, and in the end, only a few residual memories remained, that is, to say it, at most it can only arouse sympathy and sighs.

She thought that coming to this world was a new beginning, but she didn't expect that this new beginning would go through the destruction of her family, displacement, and death, and finally she had a home, but she had nothing for a while, and God seemed to take away all the things she got one by one.

Zhang Yuqing lowered her head, two tears fell on the stone slab of the street, she took a deep breath, and spit it out again, only to stop the sadness and anger rolling in her heart.

After the place where the dignitaries hang the lamps and put the lanterns, it is the place where the ordinary people hang the lamps, there are many stalls selling lamps on the roadside, and the workmanship is naturally not as exquisite as the lamps that the officials and nobles of the capital take to pray for the princess, but they are ordinary red paper lanterns.

Zhang Yuqing received a tael of silver from Zhang Fu, and took out dozens of copper plates to buy a lantern.

Over there, after Lu Wei visited Zhang's house, he said goodbye and left.

He went to visit a great Confucian this morning with a carefully prepared article, but he was criticized by the great Confucian for being incomplete, and ruthlessly said that he was too skilled in making articles.

Lu Wei has been excellent since he was a child, but he didn't expect to be so criticized, so he held his breath in his heart and asked Fang Mo Fang Qin to go away and walk around the street alone.

Unexpectedly, he saw Zhang Yuqing again in the dimly lit place.

Zhang Yuqing borrowed the stall owner's pen and carried the pen to inscribe on the lantern.

From his direction, he could only see Zhang Yuqing's calm and beautiful face, and then saw her pen like a swimming dragon, holding the pen strongly, remembering that at the lamp hanging in Zhang's house just now, Zhang Yuqian complained to him that Zhang Yuqing was illiterate, vulgar and rude, not at all like the Zhang family.

"She confessed to herself, she was illiterate!" Zhang Yucheng testified.

Lu Wei frowned, just lied to him, how could he go home after all the calculations, and even lied to his own flesh and blood relatives?

Today's apprenticeship was not smooth, and he met this liar twice in a row, Lu Wei was really in a bad mood, and was about to turn around and leave, but saw Zhang Yuqing put down the pen, a pair of beautiful eyes full of tears, reflecting the flickering candle flame, very sad and pitiful.

remembered that when he first met the Zhang family, each child of the Zhang family had their own mother in their arms, and she was the only one standing in an inconspicuous place, alone, lonely and desolate.

It's just a poor woman, Lu Wei said in his heart.

After the ink dried, Zhang Yuqing asked the boss to hang up the lamp.

"It costs money to hang a lamp!" The boss said.

Zhang Yuqing pointed to the most conspicuous place in the middle of the street and said, "How much does it cost to hang there?" ”

"That place is expensive! At least ten taels of silver! The boss looked at Zhang Yuqing and saw that she didn't look like a rich person, and said perfunctorily.

The passer-by next to him persuaded: "Girl, let's just find a place to hang lamps, so that the god of flowers can hear our prayers, and we can't go to the most conspicuous place to join in the fun!" ”

Zhang Yuqing gave the rest of the copper plates to the boss and said, "I only have this money, where do you think it can be hung?" ”

The boss shook the coarse cloth money bag, the copper plate inside tinkled and pouted: "You still want to hang the lamp with this money?" ”

Zhang Yuqing smiled good-naturedly and said, "Boss, you can do it well, do me a favor!" ”

Lu Wei looked at Zhang Yuqing, who was smiling like a flower, and remembered that the two met for the first time, Zhang Yuqing was also embarrassed and humiliated, and he must have felt uncomfortable, but he still had a smile on his face.

The boss helplessly picked up the bamboo pole and said, "Cheng Cheng Cheng!" I'll be a good guy and find you a place to hang up! With that, he walked to the corner with the lamp and hung it on the rope.

Her lanterns were hidden behind a dense mass of lanterns, barely discernible at first glance. Zhang Yuqing sighed, took one last look, and turned to leave.

Lu Wei walked under the lantern, found Zhang Yuqing's lantern, and looked up to see two lines of beautiful and unique words written on the lantern: Sanxiang decays and sideburns meet the autumn color, and the heart is bright to the moon.

Although it does not match today's festive atmosphere, the poem is indeed a good sentence.

"This lamp is in a different place." Lu Wei took out a silver ingot from his arms, bounced it to the boss, and pointed to the most conspicuous position and said.