Chapter 1046

Shangyuan Festival on the 15th of the first lunar month is a very important day for ancient people, and its significance is no less than the new year's Eve, because it is the first festival of the new year and must be celebrated ceremoniously.

Usually, on this day, every prefecture and city will hold Shangyuan Lantern Festival. It's necessary to put up colorful lights and stalls on the most prosperous and hot streets. It's not finished until midnight until it's just dark. There will be all kinds of lantern riddles at the Lantern Festival. If you guess correctly, you can take away the lantern with that lantern riddle, which is regarded as a reward.

In addition, there are all kinds of delicious, fun, juggling, lion dance and so on. In a word, Shangyuan Festival is a very important festival. Anyone who is not too poor to eat will take a walk in the street on Shangyuan day, catch up and buy a few things. Only in this way can it be regarded as the beginning of a new year.

But this year's Shangyuan Festival is unlikely to be too busy for the people in Shangdu city. Although the Empress Dowager had already sent the spirit out of Beijing to the imperial mausoleum for burial on the 13th of the first month, after all, two funerals in a row in the first month were all royal funerals, especially the one of the empress dowager, which was regarded as a national funeral, so even if the people were allowed to celebrate Shangyuan Festival, they did not dare to be too busy and extravagant.

So people carefully organized the Lantern Festival, low-key and low-key to find a small street, symbolically hung some lanterns, but there is no lantern riddle under the lamp, anyway, no one to guess.

Those stalls that used to be held at the lantern fair and temple fair didn't come either. What they thought was that during the national funeral, the emperor asked him to hold the Lantern Festival of Shangyuan, that is, to be polite and polite, for fear of affecting the mood of the people. But when the people can't really know what's good or what's bad, do they take it seriously? You said that two big men died in succession in the palace. It's not good that the common people are playing and singing outside in a few days.

People hold such an idea, so this Lantern Festival is just a situation. It means hanging some lights. In fact, there is no one to stroll around. Even when the lights are hanging out, there is no one to watch. There is a candle burning in it, waiting to blow it off.

This kind of situation was naturally spread into the palace, and the emperor Tianhe was really helpless after hearing it. But he can't help it. He can't tell the people that you're going to have a carnival. I want to have a carnival when the Empress Dowager dies. I wish she died!

This can't be said, so the Shangyuan Lantern Festival can only be settled like this.

It also looks prosperous, but actually it's not like that. In addition to the upper capital, there is also the boat on which baihecan sits.

There was also a lantern festival on board, but it was not held by the boatman, but by the Yuanyuan member's wife.

A day ago, the boat had a stop. During that stop, graceful lady got off the boat with the money returned to her by the boatman, and many other people got off the boat just for a short distance. Of course, some people who got on the boat on the way added.

Mrs. Yuanwai also sent people off the boat to the town to buy things and prepare for the Lantern Festival.

On the 15th day of the first lunar month, Mrs. yuan Wai Hung many colored lights on the ship, at the door of every cabin and in the public area, and there were lantern riddles under each lantern. It is said that Mrs. yuan Wai wrote them by herself. Anyone who can guess correctly can take away the Lantern. In addition, there will be an extra plate of dim sum for the first time.

People are very happy at first. After all, it's boring to take a boat for a long time. We are willing to participate if we can have some fun.

But I didn't expect that the lantern riddle given by Mrs. Yuanwai was so difficult that the people on the boat didn't have much knowledge. As a result, no one guessed correctly and no lantern was picked up. It was very embarrassing.

Of course, Jun Mulin and Bai henran can guess, but they didn't take part in it. They won't be such an outstanding bird. What's more, after they docked at the dock yesterday, many people came up. They didn't want to attract too much attention.

The servant girl who came out to report the situation to Mrs. Yuanwai. She felt embarrassed and embarrassed, so she took away the lantern riddle and gave the lantern to the guests in each cabin. On the other hand, the colored lights outside the public area are given to the children on board to play. In addition, she also told the boatman that the dinner tonight was her treat and asked the boatman to give food to every cabin.

People were happy, and many people bowed their hands to the innermost cabin to show their gratitude.

Some people also sent food to baihecan's room. They were two bowls of noodles with meat in the soup. She was very grateful and said thank you to the servant girl of Yuanwai's wife. The servant girl was Zhu Yun, the big servant girl who had given her snacks before. When she saw Bai hecan saying thank you, she laughed. Then she said to her in a good temper, "I'm sorry that I've been involved with my wife last time. We didn't expect that the one next door was unreasonable, not only didn't eat snacks, but also asked his wife to return your share. It's really helpless to meet this kind of person when you go out. Fortunately, she has already got off the boat, so don't worry about it. If you have something to do, you can still go to our cabin. "

White crane dye thanks again for a while, until Zhu Yun's servant girl and Ping Zi, who came to deliver noodles, come out of the room. Then he sits back on the bed and stares at the two bowls of noodles in front of him.Murmur listened to the news at the door. After a while, she came back and said, "there are noodles on the other side. It's from Pingzi. The maid just stood at the door and didn't follow in. At this moment, all the rooms have been delivered, and all the people on board are eating in their own rooms. It's quiet. " After that, seeing that Bai hecan had been staring at the two bowls of noodles, he couldn't help getting nervous, "what's the matter, madam? Is there something wrong with the noodles? " Then I would like to check the noodles.

White crane dye but put his hand, "don't look, noodles no problem, while hot eat it!" "She took the initiative to pick up chopsticks," said, we have not eaten a hot meal for many days, this is really not the ordinary people can stand the poor

Murmur was relieved and sat down in front of baihelian. "Yes, I want to eat meat, too." That's what I said, but I still gave Bai hecan the pieces of meat in my bowl. "Madam, eat more. After this bowl of noodles, I can't tell how long it will take to eat such food next time! But speaking of it, the lady is really willing. Although the boat is not big, there are many people who live in it. Everyone delivers a bowl of meat noodles, which costs a lot. "

White crane dye laugh at her: "just said greedy meat, but also the meat clip to me." She took it back again. She not only took it back, but also picked two more pieces from her bowl for Mo Yu. "I didn't like meat very much, so I'm not greedy. You'd better eat it! The person that our family loves to eat meat most is Zhen Zhen, gain and loss didn't let her follow, otherwise is this all the way to eat she can't stand

Mo Yu blushes and doesn't give in to Bai He any more. She knows that her young lady doesn't really like meat. Instead, she likes desserts. It's a pity that there are no desserts on board, only the desserts sent by the lady.

"I'll have more snacks then." She is no longer polite, a piece of meat into her mouth, "really fragrant."

White crane dye also ate up, but the heart has been thinking, until both of them finished eating, she asked: "before hanging in our door that lantern riddle, you see the content?"

Murmur shook his head, "no look. This time, I pretended that I didn't know the characters. Since I couldn't read, how could I go to see the lantern riddle? "

White crane dye then think of, go out to the silent language person set is indeed an illiterate servant girl. Because she is poor, it's good to invite a servant girl. How can she invite a literate servant girl.

"Why did you ask, miss? Is there a problem with the lantern riddle? " Silent language carefully recalled, but still can not remember the riddle content.

Bai hecan shook his head. "I don't know if there's any problem. I didn't look at it. I just thought that the lady was not full. Why did she spend her money on other people's happiness several times? It's just the first time to send snacks. Rich people are willing to be friendly when they go out. Anyway, a few dishes of snacks are not worth a few dollars. But this time the cost can be big! The things on board are already expensive. The price of this bowl of noodles should be three times that of the outside. What's the lady doing with the high price? "

"Madame means that the lady of the councillor wants to pass on information to the outside world by sending things over and over again?" Silent or puzzled, "what message is she going to deliver? To whom? Shall we She began to be nervous. If the non councillors' wives all saw that they had problems, how could those who followed them all the way not see them?

"Don't be nervous. It's just my guess. Maybe that lady just has a lot of money and likes to be lively. That's why she did it." That's what she said, but she still picked up the bowl of noodles and looked left and right. In the end, she didn't see anything.

After dinner, there was no place to move. Bai hecan was lying at the window and looking out. In winter, ice free river water is not common in the north, and it is even less common to go to the northwest. Therefore, when it comes to winter, there are a lot of boats on the river, because the waterway is easier than the land, so people usually choose to go out by boat.

Since graceful lady got off the ship, no other dangerous people were found on the ship, but she still couldn't relax her vigilance. Just like the lady, she still doubts the lady's original intention. I hope it's money and willfulness, but if there's another plan, she also hopes it's not her.

In a word, we only hope that this road is smooth and steady, so that she can get to LAN city smoothly. They have to change clothes and horses from LAN city to sneak into Gebu! Nine princes up to now have no news, she is very worried, there are four princes far away in Gebu, let her worry more.

There is news at the door. She looks back and sees that Luoxiu is supporting Jun murin. When he opened the door, Jun murin said, "lady, I've come to see you. I've also brought you some snacks from the lady of Yuanwai. You can keep them for tomorrow morning."

This sounds very normal to outsiders. When the prime minister loves his wife, he is reluctant to eat snacks and keep them for her.

But in baihecan's opinion, this person is the weasel to the chicken... No, the weasel to her new year, no good intentions