The news of the Lantern Festival was told to Sheng Xuan by the good old man Su Ye.

"I can vouch for a better opportunity!" Su Ye patted his chest and swore solemnly: "You kid must take advantage of this lantern festival to convey your heart!" It's not in vain that I've matched you two so many times! ”

Sheng Xuan pursed his lips and nodded: "Well, thank you, I will." ”

Su Ye waved his hand, signaling him not to be so polite, and said, "I heard a few masters chatting about it, the elder calculated that the Infernal Land's 'Infernal Float' will probably appear during the Lantern Festival, and that is a fun place!" As he spoke, there was excitement between his eyebrows: "However, Lu Xiyan seems to be afraid of ghosts?" That's just right! Brother Yan and I went into that ghost place to play, and you two stayed in the world, shopping, looking at the lanterns, and saved the little ghosts there from being scared by you! ”

Sheng Xuan complained and responded: "Okay." ”

*

The two-person martial arts competition is almost the slaughter list of Sheng Xuanren and Yan Tingshen, although it is a random team, and there are many strong alliances, but there are really few groups with strong strength like these two, so they have been secretly counted by many participating disciples.

Everyone is the best of all races, unwilling to lose miserably on the stage, and even more unwilling to show favor in private to team up to score points, so that no matter which group of draws against them, they will feel sorry for themselves.

Su Ye is happy to make friends, no matter which one asks him to form a team, as long as he is free, he is willing to accompany him, which makes the impression of him just the disciples of Su Xiaogongzi who "don't know the etiquette and mess with the grass" in the rumors have changed greatly.

Qiong also accompanied Lu Li and Yang Xiaosi to play many games, and was forced to stop until they fell out of the top 20 when they continued to fight.

On the last day of the event, Yue Huan's eyes lit up when he saw Sheng Xuan's resentment, and chased him to fight the 10,000-gold battle. I played a full eight games from morning to night, and I lost with a lot of addiction.

Su Ye bought several jars of wine that night, and called a group of children of various ethnic groups who had a good relationship to watch the snow and taste the wine, and there were many drunk, and so did the snow. I want to be young and frivolous, free and easy, and I want to see the snow and wine tonight, and the Ming Dynasty will hold a sword in Kyushu.

At this point, the martial arts competition came to an end.

*

The winter solstice has passed.

The snow went down day after day, and the whole Yize was covered with a thick velvet jacket, and Qiong also lay on the collapse, listening to the wind outside the window, and flipping through the articles that the master asked to write down.

"Concentrate! Engrossed! She patted her face, boosted her morale, and picked it up again, and when she turned the pages and felt that her fingers were cold, she put on a blanket and poured charcoal into the stove, and the dark red light of the charcoal fire reflected on the wall of the stove, and she was full of uncontrollable joy.

The last time Sheng Xuan complained about the lantern festival was tonight.

Qiong also looked at the scrolls piled on the collapse, and said in her heart: Anyway, I can't settle down, so don't memorize it. She sat down in front of the dressing table, and a small bronze mirror propped up reflected herself, and she looked closely.

The person in the mirror slapped a big face, round eyes, white and soft, she touched her face, and said lightly: "If I were a little more beautiful and stood with Sheng Jun, I wouldn't look so ordinary......"

Open the small wooden box on the makeup table, it is almost empty, only two different color hair bands and a pair of hairpins, a pair of green pendant earrings, a small box of face balm and hair balm, no gouache rouge, even the wooden comb is old and white. "Let's wear hairpins." She brushed her fluffy curls behind her, picked up the comb and began to care for herself.

After braiding her hair, Joan also shook her head, looked back and forth, nodded with satisfaction, smiled at herself, and got up to go out.

Yesterday, Su Ye jokingly told her that she could bring some strange things with her when she traveled tonight. She was a little disappointed, it turned out that Sheng Xuan didn't just ask herself to visit the Lantern Festival alone, she asked why, Su Ye stopped talking again, she asked a few times, and he replied that after the Lantern Festival, you can barter and exchange some good things in the bazaar.

Joan didn't have any strange things or magic weapons, except for the sword string song, the only thing that could be counted was that in the box where she put her miscellaneous items, there was a small copper coin that she picked up when she was a child, which was so polished that it was so smooth that it could reflect the light, and the water ripples could be seen through its reflective surface. Putting the coin in her pocket, she went out the door.

The snow outside the house had stopped, and she passed the time slowly, first going to Wa Village to help Granny Wang do some farm work, and then accompanying Wei Xinxin to tell stories to a few children in the neighborhood, until it was dark before she came to the agreed place.

Sheng Xuan's resentment seemed to have come a long time ago, he was wearing a bamboo moon deep silk robe, with a white feather shoulder, wearing a gold-patterned robe with a black background that is common on weekdays, and a Chengying sword pinned to his waist. Seeing Qiong Yi coming, he looked at him: "You are here." ”

"Sheng Xuan." Joan also narrowed her eyes and smiled. He took out a hand stove from his bosom: "Come, take it." Joan was also slightly surprised, and brought the small but delicate copper hand stove.

"It's cold, and your hands are frozen." He said.

Qiong Yi smiled and nodded, "If you're cold, I'll pay you back." ”

"No, it was originally for you." Sheng Xuan turned his head away when he complained.

Not far away, there was the sound of hurriedly stepping on the snow, and Su Ye and Yan Tingshen came one after the other: "Yo, are you here so early?" Su Ye's gaze fell on the hand stove in Qiong Yi's arms: "Ah! Sheng Xuan's grievances specially prepared for you? Really sticky ......"

Sheng Xuan didn't want to be ridiculed by him, so he interrupted him: "You have too many things on your back, right?" ”

"To go to the 'Stygian Street', of course I have to bring a little more ......"

Qiong also cut off Su Ye's words: "What street are you shopping?" ”

If she heard correctly, 'Shadow Street', that is, the folk saying 'ghost market', the folk ghost market mostly refers to the mystery of trading place and time, but Shadow Street is an infernal place, a real ghost place.

"We're not going." Sheng Xuan looked at her resentfully, and said, "Qiong Yi, let's not go." ”

"Yes, if you don't go, besides, even if you go, it's fine." Su Ye said with a weak heart, "There are people in there, and they must not be all ghosts." ”

Yan Tingshen smashed him behind him: "Don't talk about it." ”

"Lu Xiyan, you won't be angry, will you?" Su Ye looked at her and asked.

Of course, Joan was a little annoyed, and she had been looking forward to tonight's lantern festival since this morning, but before she set off, she said that she was going to Hades Street, which was still the place she feared the most, full of ghosts.

"Nonsense!" She stomped her foot, glanced at Su Ye, and snorted, "Next time, either you will completely hide this kind of thing from me, or tell me earlier to make me a little guarded...... I'm not angry anymore! With that, he turned and quickened his steps towards the town.

Sheng Xuanyan looked at Su Ye speechlessly, and lowered his voice: "Didn't you say yes?" ”

Su Ye frowned, and asked in a suppressed voice: "Didn't you start it?" ”

Sheng Xuan's eyes darkened.

"Forget it, everyone is far away." Yan Tingshen chuckled and said, "Let's go." ”

Su Ye caught up with Qiong Yi in three or two steps: "You're really not angry, are you?" Qiong didn't speak, he said again: "Hey, Lu Xiyan, why don't you ignore me?" You can't still be angry, right? Lu Xiyan! Feed! He changed his words and called her according to Sheng Xuan's resentful name: "Qiong Yi! Joan Yi Joan Yi Qiong Ye! ”

Qiong was also annoyed by the noise, stopped and said, "Young Master Su, don't call me like that, and don't make fun of me, will it be okay to say a few words to let me be quiet?" ”

Su Ye sighed, thinking that what the woman said was really a lie if she wasn't angry, she patted Sheng Xuan and whispered, "Go and coax her, I can't handle it." ”

Sheng Xuan glanced at him resentfully, pursed his lips, and walked quickly to her side, and walked side by side with her after a while.

"Don't comfort me, you said why would I lose my temper if we didn't go." She kicked the snow step by step, and the fluffy white salt sprinkled out for a while, submerging into the snow-blue shadow: "Let's play together, I don't want to make everyone unhappy." ”

Sheng Xuan replied with a grin.

At night, there are always fewer shops open in the market, except for some special days, such as the Lantern Festival.

After walking across the wooden bridge, there are faint lights, and the lit lotus-shaped lanterns float slowly in the river, and when you look up to see the moon, there are floating lights flowing into the galaxy. The snow turned orange, and it warmed up, and there were children playing not far away, and the flow of people did not block the road, but it was also a place where people came and went. There are more street vendors than in the daytime, and there is a lantern tied in front of each stall, with different shapes and different patterns painted on it, including flowers, birds, animals, and water, moon, mountains and rivers. Looking carefully, one or two familiar classmates from the school passed by from time to time in the crowd, and most of them also heard that the lantern festival was lively and came here to play.

"The lantern festival is a tradition in Yichuan." Behind him, Su Ye spoke with great interest, "It will be held once a year in various parts of Yichuan, and the time is different in each place, but it is almost around twenty-nine days. ”

"The original lantern festival originated from the ancient times, the ancestors of the Su family presided over the snow ceremony, praying for snow in the harsh winter to ensure that the harvest in the coming year is worry-free, and then gradually evolved into the people. Because every snow prayer ceremony has to light the lantern to clear the road, gradually the custom of lighting the lantern was left behind, and the current lantern festival was born. ”

"There are three kinds of lanterns, the most common is the hanging lantern, as well as the floating lantern and the swimming lantern. The floating lantern is a lantern that can rise into the air, and the amount sold by ordinary stalls is limited, and the lantern is the lantern we saw on the bridge when we just came - the lantern in the middle of the river. ”

Su Ye smiled and said, "What's the matter, do you want to buy a lantern?" ”

Yan Tingshen listened with great interest, "Okay, I'll just pick a hanging lamp with a beautiful lamp surface." What about you? ”

Joan also turned around and said, "I want to go and see the lantern." She caught a glimpse of a small cart selling lanterns in front of her and beckoned, "Come and have a look." ”

"What kind of lamp do you want?" The stall owner is an old woman of high and low age, and she speaks slowly and leisurely.

"Grandma, is there a lantern?" Qiong also asked with a smile, and the old woman pointed to the neatly arranged lotus lanterns and said, "Well, it's all here, in our Qingfeng Town, there is only one type of lantern." ”

Seeing that Qiong Yi picked up the lantern and carefully selected, she said, "Girl, don't worry, the old body has been knitting the lamp for decades, and the quality has always been acceptable, and it will not sink when it flows into the sea along the water." After speaking, he looked at Sheng Xuan, "Childe wants to buy a lamp?" ”

"I'll get a lantern too." Sheng Xuan complained.

Joan also carefully selected two solid lotus lanterns and paid the bill. Yan Tingshen chose a fish lamp from a wide variety of hanging lights: "Grandma, I want one." He took out his purse and asked Su Ye, "Won't you take one too?" ”

Su Ye laughed: "I'm not a child anymore, and I still buy lanterns." Seeing the strange expressions of the three people, he said: "Except for children who can buy it, the locals basically make it themselves." ”

"You!" Yan Tingshen laughed and scolded him.

"The lanterns on the vendors were originally for you outsiders, so wouldn't it be good to buy them for fun, right?" Su Ye clasped his hands around his chest and smiled at the stall owner.

The old woman smiled: "Having said that, isn't a young man of your age still a child? ”

Su Ye was noncommittal, turned his head and beckoned to Sheng Xuan, "Thank you, mother-in-law, let's go, let's put the lights on!" ”

"The author has something to say:

This article is an overhead background, so the origin of the lantern is purely fabricated qwq, everyone just have a good time~

In reality, the lantern originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and spread throughout the folk in the Song Dynasty.

There are many kinds of lanterns in traditional folk crafts, each with its own characteristics and style, very beautiful, everyone is interested in searching for pictures Oh ww~"