Chapter 78

The day before the Shangyuan Festival, Huai'an pestered his father to make lanterns.

Shen Yu was also rarely interested, so that people found the bamboo strips, hemp silk and fine cotton paper left over from the kite from the warehouse, and set up a yard, and the people had to jump on one leg when they went in and out.

Because of the fear of bamboo thorns piercing their hands, only Shen Yu and Huaiming were tying up the skeleton.

Huai'an found that in addition to reading, he was also quite talented in many aspects, such as pasting lanterns. Compared to his father and eldest brother, he is fast and straight.

He arranged it very properly: he gave a tiger head lantern to Sister Peng, and two lotus lanterns to Huaiwei Huaiying.

Finally, he raised two big red carp lanterns: "Give it to the eldest brother and Brother Huaiyuan, the carp leaps over the dragon gate, and the title of the gold list!" ”

Remembering the immovable nature of the eight winds, it is rare to show a smile.

Huai'an kicked his nose in the face: "Big brother, if I don't become a little pavilion elder, I still want to make a new ......."

"Don't you think about it." Huai Ming knew that he couldn't spit out any good words.

Huai'an still wants to struggle a little more, what a good livelihood it is to paste lanterns! Red and white ceremonies are used, and the market demand is great! Business expansion, maybe you can make a street, from life to death one-stop service, the arrangement is clear......

Before the words came out, he was taught by the eldest brother: learning and excellence are good, everything is inferior, only reading is high!

Huai'an was dizzy like a mantra, and he had to respond with a good attitude: "Yes, yes, yes, yes, what the eldest brother said is very right!" ”

Otherwise, don't even want your ears today.

Finally, when he finished reading, he sighed, and then lifted a rabbit lantern and asked his father to help him draw his facial features.

"This ...... Just give it to the son. He said.

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During the Shangyuan Festival, Xu Tinglan really invited a female gentleman from Jiangnan to play the words. In addition to the eldest Huaiming, who stayed with his grandmother, the children were all driven to the front yard to play.

The mother-in-law brought a few female gentlemen in, holding the strings and pipa, all of them were beautiful and peugeot, and their mouths were sweet and beautiful when they spoke, coaxing the old lady to close their mouths, and scolding their son with duplicity: "Your daughter-in-law is naughty and nonsense, and you don't stop it?" ”

Shen Yu just smiled: "The family has been deserted for three years, and the son and daughter-in-law want to be lively, so the mother will follow this time." ”

The son and daughter-in-law changed their tricks to make themselves happy, and the old lady was naturally happy, and immediately asked the female gentlemen: "What are the good words lately?" ”

The girls reported the names of the words one by one, and sang them one by one, all of which were the words of talented and beautiful women.

Nowadays, the popular words, the bullet word also belongs to a branch of the word, deeply loved by the southerners, the old lady Chen grew up in the south of the Yangtze River since childhood, and naturally has a lot of unaccustomed to coming to the capital, at first glance when she hears the "southern word", she feels very cordial.

The youngest of them was only twelve or thirteen years old, with a goose egg face, a slightly graceful figure, articulate voice, and a clear guttural voice.

The old lady liked it the most, so she called her to her side and asked, "What's your name?" ”

The girl bowed lightly and replied, "Back to the old lady, the villain's name is Lan Xinyue." ”

"The independent small bridge is full of wind, and the Hirabayashi Crescent people are back." The old lady smiled, "Good name." ”

Lan Xinyue sang a new song, a passage in "Drunken Moon Edge": "It was not a mandarin duck faction, and it was regarded as lovesickness." Bai Sibai discusses white discussion, and the heart is there? Soul is in? Wearing a shirt and a double skirt. ”

The little girl's voice has not yet grown, bright and bright, and it is still thin, but it is only matched with the content of the words, which has a different taste. The old lady each rewarded a golden melon seed, and also appreciated a bag of plum candy with cleaning powder and plum candy for the orchid crescent.

……

Sister Peng slept well and was full of energy. When it was about to get dark, he ran into the yard and shook his father's hand and shouted, "Look at the lights, look at the lights!" ”

She is wearing a silver-red jacket, her hair is coiled into a bun, wrapped in colored threads, red coral beads are pendantd, her lips are red and her teeth are white, and the jade snow is lovely.

She wants to be coquettish, who can bear it?

The old lady immediately smiled and said, "Today is a good day to go out and play, you don't have to accompany me, wear thicker, and go out to have fun." ”

Ji's body was weak, and he didn't want to move much at the turn of winter and spring, so he said that he was accompanying the old lady, and only told Huaiyuan to take care of his sisters.

Shen Yu and his wife dragged their six children and took a carriage to visit the lamp market.

Chang'an Avenue, which used to be wide, is now full of bustling cars and pedestrians, and horse-drawn carriages move slowly. Simply got off the bus early, and the children carried lanterns, ate snacks, and walked to Donghua Gate on foot.

Sister Peng doesn't have to go herself, her mount ...... Phew, she was held by her father all the way, holding a rock sugar orange and nibbling hard.

Every time she nibbled on an orange, Shen Yu had to break a bamboo skewer to prevent her from poking herself.

At the beginning of the lanterns, the sheng song is deaf.

There is no curfew in the Imperial City tonight, and you can party all night long. Vendors along the street display a dazzling array of goods, and the shops on both sides of the street have set up dazzling and brilliant lampstands, and the whole street becomes a brightly lit Milky Way. From time to time, there are acrobatic performances, dragon and lion dances, stilt boats, so lively.

Guess the lantern riddle to win the fireworks. Shen Yu flew his pen on the fireworks shop, filling in more than a dozen riddles in a row.

There is no way, he has many children, and if he picks two things, he has to take away a big box.

The owner of the fireworks shop almost lost his breath, Xu Tinglan threw down a dime of broken silver, and then he came back to life and thanked the kind wife repeatedly.

The children had a bumper harvest, excitedly holding a bunch of fireworks stacked on Li Huan's arm and continuing to walk forward.

"Mingham." Someone called him after himself.

Shen Yu turned around, and it turned out to be Xie Yankai's family.

Xie Yankai has three sons and one daughter, all of whom are knowledgeable and generous, and the two families greet each other and walk along the bustling flow of people.

"Uncle Xie!" Huai'an tugged at Xie Yankai's sleeve: "Thank you for helping me mention "Ba". ”

Xie Yan laughed and said, "It's a trivial matter. ”

Huai'an said: "It's a small thing for you, but for Huai'an, it's a big help!" ”

Xie Yankai didn't know that he was going to open a bookstore, but said: "You kid can really toss, and you are growing greenhouse vegetables, and now you have a book coming out, what are you going to do next?" ”

Without waiting for Huai'an to answer, Xie Yun said in surprise: "It turns out that the melons and fruits I ate a few days ago were planted by Brother Huai'an?" ”

Huai'an nodded triumphantly. I saw Xie Yun wearing an amber jacket, the color was like boiled burnt yellow syrup.

Look at her empty-handed, without saying a word, she gave her the rabbit lamp in her hand, and once again forgot about Rong He's classmates outside the clouds.

Xie Yun took it generously, and took out a fat clay doll from his sleeve as a gift.

Huai'an liked it very much, and carefully tucked it into his sleeve.

Xie Yan happily responded to Shen Yu's words, his eyes wandered back and forth on the two villains, and he didn't hear what Shen Yu was saying in the end.

The two children are of the same age, and they seem to have more to talk about, Huai'an wants to go to the front to see the empty bamboo first, but he is afraid that there will be too many people, so he will not be able to squeeze in.

Xie Yun said: "I want to go with Brother Huai'an!" ”

Xie Yan couldn't resist his daughter's coquettishness, and watched his daughter being abducted.

Xu Tinglan ordered Li Huan to follow them closely, and repeatedly instructed: "Don't run away!" ”

The two ran away, taking the lead not far away, taking a position in front of the artist holding the empty bamboo.

A horse-drawn carriage drove slowly through the crowd, and pedestrians avoided both sides of the road, complaining about who had to travel in the carriage at this time.

Huai An just wanted to pull Xie Yun to hide on the side of the road, but saw a child less than two years old pounce on the middle of the road, and he was about to be trampled by a horse's hooves.

Huai'an took a quick step forward and dragged the little baby to the side of the road, the little doll fell, and at the same time brought down Huai'an, and the two fell together.

The coachman tugged on the reins, and the horse lifted its front hooves and rushed forward two more paces by inertia before stopping.

Li Huan and Xie Yun ran over and picked up Huai'an and the little doll who was crying incessantly.

The coachman was arrogant, pointing at them with a horsewhip and shouting: "How can you look at the children! ”

"How did you drive the car?!" Although Huai'an is small, his momentum is not weak at all.

The coachman was stunned, pointed to the little doll that was crying and asked Li Huan: "This is your child?" ”

Li Huan flatly denied it.

Huai'an looked around, and he was also suspicious in his heart, what about the adults in this child's family?

The crowd of onlookers gathered more and more, and Shen Xie and his family arrived, each pulling their children to ask if they were injured. Fortunately, Huai'an only scratched a little skin in his palm.

At this time, a young woman ran over from the crowd, picked up the child, and said to the coachman, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's my child, I didn't look at it and ran to the middle of the road." ”

While praising Huai'an's bravery, passers-by blamed the woman and the coachman.

A middle-aged man walked on the carriage, and Shen Yu raised his eyes to see that it was Cao Bin, the prefect of Shuntian Mansion.

If Huai'an was a little slower, the little child would be rolled under the horseshoe wheel, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

Cao Zhifu was dressed in civilian clothes and did not reveal his identity, and asked with concern whether the child was injured.

"No, no, just frightened." The woman hurried.

Seeing that the child was crying pitifully, Governor Cao took out a small ingot of silver from his purse and handed it to the woman: "Let the child buy some delicious food." ”

The woman took the money, thanked her, and hurried away with the child.

He didn't say a word of "thanks" to Huai'an during the whole process.

Huai'an is not a person who wants to repay her kindness, but she just thinks she is flustered and doesn't know what she is anxious about.

The people praised Cao Bin for his kindness and kindness, but Cao Bin said to the onlookers: "Let's disperse, don't crowd them all together." ”

Everyone felt inexplicable, why did this person care if others were squeezed or not?

Xie Yun tugged at Huai'an's sleeve and said strangely: "Do you think that aunt is not like a child's mother." ”

Huai'an, who was enjoying the praise, froze with a smile.

That's right! Their father and mother hurried over and asked if they were injured. The woman picked up the crying child but didn't even look at it, knowing that the child's reaction after being trampled on by the horse's hooves was not as great as the reaction of the nobleman who saw the brocade clothes.

The owner of the car got out of the car to inquire about the situation, and she opened her mouth and said that the child was not injured, how did she know?

Huai'an took out a dime of silver from his small purse, pretended to pick it up from the ground, and shouted at the woman's back: "Auntie, auntie, your money has fallen!" ”

Kind passers-by also helped shout: "Hey, the money is gone." ”

As if she hadn't heard, the woman quickened her steps.

People were talking, "Why is this man like this?" ”

"Could it be that he is a deaf ......"

"I could hear her just now."

Cao Zhifu saw a hint of clues, and ordered two entourages to follow, not to startle the snake.