Chapter Ninety-Eight: Attending the Meeting
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The golden black falls, the jade rabbit rises eastward, and the carnival of the Mid-Autumn Festival has begun!
"Young master, young master, the moon is out, hurry up and make a wish!" Seeing the moon come out, Bao'er pulled Zhang Xuan's arm and shouted, then folded her hands and closed her eyes to make a wish.
This is also the custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival, put the fruit incense case in the courtyard, make a wish to the moon, the man is willing to step into the Toad Palace early, climb the fairy laurel, and the woman is willing to look like Chang'e, round as the moon!
Looking at the pious little girl, Zhang Xuan smiled slightly, and also made a wish, but it had nothing to do with Toad Palace Xiangui, he just hoped that the family would be safe and sound, as for the rest, he would fight for it himself!
Then there is the eating of moon cakes, there is a special moon cake on the round desk, the size of a plate, under the skillful hands of the Li family, it is divided into evenly divided into five equal parts, and the family each takes a portion and eats it, implying family reunion.
Inside is egg yolk meat floss filling, which is very suitable for Zhang Xuan's appetite.
"Young master, young master, it's time to put the sky lantern!" Zhang Xuan just sat down, and was pulled up by the little girl again, Zhang Xuan had no choice but to follow with the three elders with a confession.
And they are not to blame, at their age, watching their children happy is their greatest happiness.
The sky lantern was made by Zhang Xuan and Bao'er the day before yesterday, first three sheets of tissue paper were pasted into a cylinder, then a circle was woven into a circle with bamboo strips to make a base, and then two thin wires were crossed vertically, and a circular wooden board with grooves was glued to the intersection point, on which candles could be placed.
There are a total of six sky lanterns, exactly one for each person, and the last one is a family reunion, which is an ancient version of a family portrait.
There are not only blessing poems written by Zhang Xuan, but also Chang'e, Jade Rabbit, Guishu, and Toad Palace, but whether it is in the past life or this life, Zhang Xuan has no research on the art of Danqing, so the patterns on it are all sketches drawn by Zhang Xuan with homemade charcoal, and the lifelike appearance shocked the family at that time.
And among them, Chang'e's appearance, Zhang Xuan directly painted it according to the appearance of the little girl, no wonder she has such an extraordinary enthusiasm for putting sky lanterns.
Releasing the sky lantern is also a small technical job, and ordinary people really can't put it up without mastering the skills, so Zhang Xuan controlled the sky lantern by himself, and handed over the simple and rewarding task of ignition to the little girl. After a while, the lamp was filled with heat, and the cylinder made of tissue paper was blown and swollen, and Zhang Xuan let go of his hand.
"Oh! oh! Fly!" Looking at the sky lantern flying higher and higher, the little girl's face was flushed with excitement, clapping her little hands and jumping and screaming.
In this situation, Zhang Xuan smiled.
"Young master, young master, come again!" the little girl was interested, and took another sky lantern and pulled Zhang Xuan to urge.
As Zhang Xuan's sky lanterns flew into the sky one by one, other people couldn't bear it, and there were more and more sky lanterns floating in the sky, accounting for a full number. The lights of the ten thousand homes illuminated the sky red, wanting to compete with the bright moon.
"Okay, Xuan'er, it's not early, it's time for you to go!" After putting off the sky lantern, Li came over and handed Zhang Xuan a gilded invitation.
Zhang Xuan took it with a wry smile, he almost forgot about it, but he didn't expect his mother to keep it in mind.
"Then, mother, stepmother and uncle Zhong, the child will go, you can rest early, don't wait for me!" Since he must go, Zhang Xuan was not hypocritical, and took the invitation and instructed.
Such poetry meetings are usually very late, and Zhang Xuan doesn't want his family to wait for him all the time.
"Well, Xuan'er, be careful on the road!"
Looking at the young master who was about to leave, Bao'er, who was about to leave, had a bitter face on her face, but after her eyes rolled, she showed a smile again.
I saw the little girl trotting back to the room, and then came back with a beautiful lotus lantern and took Zhang Xuan's hand and said coquettishly: "Young master, Bao'er wants to go to the river to put lanterns, let's go together?" After speaking, he looked at Zhang Xuan with a pair of expectant eyes.
Hearing the little girl's words, the whole family looked at each other and smiled, the little girl's idea was obvious, now there is not much time before the poetry meeting starts, and when the lanterns are over, can Zhang Xuan let the little girl come back alone?
However, it is also very common to bring one or two maids or scholars at the poetry meeting, so everyone does not break it, not only Zhang Xuan nodded and agreed, but Li also repeatedly told Zhang Xuan to take care of the little girl.
After getting the answer, the little girl jumped up happily, then pulled Zhang Xuan, and couldn't wait to walk out of the door: "Young master, let's go, I can't catch up later!" While talking, he thought in his heart: "When I come back and tell Ying'er, I will definitely envy them!"
Unknowingly, he has already exposed his intentions in one sentence!
Tonight's moon is extraordinarily round, extraordinarily large, and very close. It's as if you can take a few steps further!
The white and flawless moonlight sprinkled down like a large searchlight, covering the whole land, falling to the ground and turning into hoarfrost, reflecting the green leaves and dead grass swaying in the breeze!
From the backyard to the front yard, there is no need for lights, and ordinary people can clearly see ten meters away.
When you come outside, the atmosphere of the festival is suddenly rich, the streets and alleys are full of lanterns, stalls, juggling, pot throwing, rings, lantern festivals, sugar people, chaos, pastries, all kinds of food and play.
Vendors try their best to add various Mid-Autumn Festival elements to their stalls to attract customers. There are people with toad heads, some dressed up as osmanthus trees, and the most are rabbit people, that is, those who sell chaos and Yangchun noodles are the food stall owners, and they also specially invited people to turn themselves into rabbit heads, and then bring a pair of rabbit ears, walking and jumping, and playing is so unhappy!
The shops on both sides are even worse, and the stingy ones are also Caimen Huanlou, with paper lanterns of Chang'e and rabbit people. Generously, he even hired some beautiful women directly from the land of fireworks to dress up as bunny girls to welcome guests.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the yellow flower girls who are usually raised in the boudoir have also been released, attracting bees and butterflies from all walks of life to smell the fragrance, handsome men and beauties, adding a beautiful color to the street market where most of them are usually couples.
The crowd stretched from the street to the end, the hanging red lanterns, the shouts of the Tang people and the chaos stalls, the applause of the juggling circles, the exclamations and pity of the pitchers and rings, the laughter of the girls, and the men's desire to speak again and again. It constitutes a beautiful Mid-Autumn Festival market map, and the breeze sends the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, which makes Zhang Xuan a little drunk!
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