The waists of those dancing old men were twisting like crazy, making others laugh.
The children clapped their hands and laughed: "Playing with Mr. Bao."
"Stupid Mr. Bao."
"Ugly Mr. Bao."
Many children and adults followed Mr. Bao and twisted their waists, laughing and laughing.
When the commotion started, Zhang Yue saw that this was the first time he saw Seventeenth Mother standing in front of him dressed as his daughter.
But...but, Zhang Yuexin said, it was obviously you who invited me here, why are you asking me to be here?
Isn't this kidding me?
Why did Zhang Jun meet here by chance? How should I answer?
Zhang Yue pretended to meet her by chance and said, "I was going to Xuandemen to look at the lanterns, but unexpectedly I met the lady here. Please forgive me for the rudeness."
"Oh, Zhang Jun happened to be here." Seventeenth Mother's eyes dimmed and she hid her smile.
"No!"
Zhang Yue denied it anxiously. Even though he usually pretended to be aloof in front of the girl, he was still very worried that the girl would be angry.
Zhang Yue coughed slightly and took a step closer, boldly glanced at Seventeenth Mother's pretty face and said, "Let me tell you a joke!"
Seventeenth Mother nodded.
Zhang Yue racked his brains and made up a joke and said: "In ancient times, there was a scholar who fell in love with a girl. One day he finally mustered up the courage to ask the girl, girl, do you like me?"
"The girl said she didn't like it."
"The scholar was heartbroken and turned around to leave."
"At this time, the girl stopped the scholar and asked: 'Why did you leave now without asking me if I would like to marry you?'"
"The scholar was overjoyed and asked: 'Then will you marry me?'"
"Don't marry."
The Seventeenth Mother smiled grimly and couldn't help but raise her sleeves to cover her mouth.
Zhang Yue looked at Shiqi Niang's cheerful smile and couldn't help but remember that during the blind date, he often found jokes on the Internet, and then tried his best to tell jokes to the girl every time they met.
However, girls always think that his jokes are not funny or he bluntly says that he has low emotional intelligence.
Sometimes it's not that your jokes aren't funny, but that she doesn't want to laugh. Sometimes your joke isn't that funny, but the other person wants to laugh.
Sometimes you search and search, and try to pursue her a hundred times, but you can't win that girl's heart. But sometimes if you don't look for it, there is someone waiting for you right within your reach.
Some girls don’t have to work hard to chase her because they are willing for you to chase her.
boom!
The dazzling fireworks rose and bloomed at Xuande Gate. Seventeenth Mother took the opportunity to look away at the fireworks.
Another firework rose, illuminating the beautiful face of Seventeenth Mother.
"Let's go shopping at Xuandemen!"
"Okay! But I need to return here before Hai hour."
Zhang Yue glanced at Mingyue, who was gradually moving westward, and thought, he must hurry up.
Immediately Zhang Yue and Qi Niang walked side by side to Xuandemen, with two maids following behind her.
Zhang Yue thought that this was the Song Dynasty. Although it was peaceful and prosperous, it was not a peaceful world.
There are records in Song Dynasty records that during the Lantern Festival, a clan girl wanted to go to watch the lanterns, and the in-laws sent a sedan to pick her up. On the night of the Lantern Festival, a sedan picked up the girl, and soon another sedan came. This was the in-laws' sedan. Only then did both parties realize that they had been kidnapped. It was not until many years later that this clan woman was found.
Zhang Yue himself was protecting his sister, but with his maid by his side, it seemed that he couldn't hold her hand anymore, and he felt a little regretful in his heart.
At this moment, the Dengshan Mountain is illuminated by gold and jade, and the splendid scenery intersects with each other. The north side of the Dengshan Mountain facing Xuandemen is decorated with colorful knots and fairy tales.
The two walked slowly and saw the dazzling lanterns and the sound of music. The golden strands in Seventeen Niang's hair shone under the lights, adding a bit of nobility. If it weren't for the roar of people around him, Zhang Yueshi couldn't believe that he was in the Song Dynasty at this moment, walking with his beautiful lady in Bianjing to watch the lanterns.
"Zhang Jun, look!"
Zhang Yue saw Manjusri and Samantabhadra standing on the left and right of Caishan, riding on lions and white elephants. Each hand points out five water lines.
It turns out that there were craftsmen who used windlass to twist water and send it to the highest point of Dengshan Mountain. Then use wooden cabinets to store water. Then I put it down from time to time, and it became a scene of a waterfall in front of me with lights in the water and water in the lights.
On the left and right, people tied the straw into the shape of a dragon, covered the cage with a green curtain, and then placed tens of thousands of lamps and candles on the grass. Looking at it, it looked like two dragons flying away vaguely in the green curtain.
Seventeen Niang was full of joy when watching the lanterns, and she was as excited as a little girl. Zhang Yue was also very happy. I was also looking at the girl. No, I was looking at the lights.
"Let's go there and have a look." Seventeenth Mother smiled and tugged on Zhang Yue's sleeve.
"good."
Zhang Yue secretly guessed what this action meant. Does the girl like me?
Zhang Yue and Qi Niang walked to the Royal Street Corridor and saw various miraculous powers. Singing and dancing. The scales are tangent. The music was noisy and resounded for more than ten miles.
There are balls and cuju, walking on ropes and poles, eating cold food while standing on one's head, making iron swords, spitting out five-color water, spinning clay balls, making pots, cooking prescriptions, playing drums and flutes, and there are also monkeys performing a hundred plays and fish jumping. The sword gate summons bees and butterflies and chases ants.
The rest sell medicine, divination, riddles written in sand, and so on. New eyes and ears every day.
During this period, guessing lantern riddles is indispensable.
The two came to a stall and saw someone using silk lamps to cut out poems and write poems, sometimes with sarcastic expressions, and also painted figures, cryptic words and Beijing jokes.
The Seventeenth Mother picked up the silk lantern and read: "There are eleven people in a family. Isn't this a lucky word?"
"It's a joy to behold, this is not a nephew."
"Flowers falling all over the ground are not surprising, character? Xie An!"
Seventeenth Mother answered three lantern riddles, then turned around and smiled at Zhang Yue: "I'll give you a lantern riddle to test you. When you draw it, it's round, when you write it, it's square; winter time is short, summer time is long."
Zhang Yue didn't answer for a moment, and Shi Qi Niang asked with a smile: "Is it you?"
Zhang Yue said: "I'm not troubled. I was just wondering where I had seen this word puzzle before. Got it!"
Zhang Yue then walked over to pick out one of the many silk lanterns and said with a smile: "Look at this riddle: 'There is a fish in the East China Sea, with no head, no tail, and no backbone.' Do you know the answer to this riddle?"
The Seventeenth Mother took a deep look at Zhang Yue and nodded.
The maid on the side smiled and said: "Don't these two lantern riddles both say the word "日"? Mr. Lang is really awesome."
The stall owner smiled and said: "This husband and wife are really amazing. Not only can they match the anagrams, but they can also solve the anagrams. I have a few anagrams here. If you can guess the anagrams, I will give you this sheep's horn lantern."
Although Zhang Yue's ram's horn lantern is not a real ram's horn palace lantern, it is still very delicately made. From this valuable gift, it can be seen that the following lantern riddle should be difficult.
"That's fine."
Zhang Yue and Qi Niang looked at each other and smiled.
The stall owner laughed secretly when he saw someone really dared to challenge his lantern riddles, overestimating his abilities.
The stall owner in front of him said: "Listen up, madam, sir. There are four brothers, two are older, one stands on the ground and three sit down. There are one or two people in the family, no matter how bad the year is, they will survive."
Zhang Yue said without hesitation: "This is the word thrift."
The stall owner smiled and called him, "You are a great husband. Below you are a high-ranking official who often follows Cuo Cuo. He is full of elegant articles. Sometimes he wears red makeup and loves to look at the wind before the moon and under the moon. Hit something."
Zhang Yue thought for a moment, and Seventeenth Mother said: "This is a seal."
"Young lady is so talented, let me ask you another question: 'Seven on the left, seven on the right, pour out across the mountain'."
Seventeen Niang glanced at Zhang Yue, but when she saw that he asked her to answer, she whispered softly: "Left seven and right seven are the characters for women, so the answer to this riddle is the character for women."
The stall owner smiled slightly and said: "The four mouths are all square, and the cross is in the center. You are not allowed to make a word for Tian, and you are not allowed to be a merchant for utensils. What word do you make?"
"It's a picture word."
The stall owner smiled and said: "What an amazing lady, there is another one that is the most difficult. If you can guess this lantern, I will give it to you."
The stall owner paused and said, "This is neither a word riddle nor a physical riddle. Please listen carefully."
"The cold is piled on top of each other, and the heat is scattered in all directions. Four brothers went to the county, and three went to the prefecture. In the village, they stay in the village, and in the market, they stay in the market."
Zhang Yue thought to himself that this mystery was not easy to guess.
Seventeen Niang thought for a moment and then said: "Yes, the answer to the riddle is 'the point in the word'."
"Why?" the stall owner asked in surprise.
Seventeen Niang said: "There are many cold ones, which means two points of the word "cold", while heat is scattered in all directions, which means four points of the word "heat". Four people went to the county, which means four points of the word "county". There is one point of the word "village", that is, in the village, in the city. A dot at the beginning of the word means it is at the top of the market, hence the saying 'a dot in the word'."
The stall owner couldn't help but be fascinated by her and said with a smile: "What a smart lady, I can solve all these rare lantern riddles for you, I admire you. I give you this ram's horn lantern, little man, tut tut."
The stall owner's tsk-tsk sound was an implicit message to Zhang Yue, you are such a young man...
Zhang Yue didn't know what the stall owner meant. Looking at Qi Niang, he suddenly felt that something was not real at this moment.
The seventeenth mother took the ram's horn lantern in her hand, her face full of joy. After looking at it for a while, she handed the lantern to Zhang Yue and said in a slightly domineering tone: "This is a gift for you, so don't be polite to me!"
Zhang Yue's smile suddenly froze on his face, and he couldn't laugh or cry. The two maids also wanted to laugh but didn't dare.
Zhang Yue had no choice but to hold the ram's horn lantern with both hands and take it.
The two walked around for a while, and Zhang Yue saw someone spinning around.
The so-called swirling Luo is a bamboo frame placed on top of a green umbrella, with small lantern cages decorated with plum red and gold threads. They are set up in front and behind the frame, and then the seller beats the drum for nine shots. Turn away in groups.
What does this swirling Luo sell for?
Jiao?.
Not only children love to eat this food, but also it is the favorite of people in the Song Dynasty during the Lantern Festival. People passing by would buy one and eat while shopping.
Zhang Yue said to Qi Niang, "I want to buy some charcoal? Are you here to eat?"
Seventeen Niang hesitated and said, "I've never eaten on the street."
Zhang Yue thought to himself that women in this era are so pitiful that they can't even eat on the street. I like to make skewers at roadside stalls the most.
Zhang Yue looked around and said, "What are you afraid of? No acquaintance will see you anyway."
The Seventeenth Mother laughed when she heard this, and then nodded.
Zhang Yue, holding a sheep's horn lantern in his hand, came to the spinning man and bought several jiao lanterns.
The so-called Jiao? is actually sugar and oil fruit, or more precisely, 'fried glutinous rice balls'.
?Usually with stuffing inside.
The maids behind Shi Qiniang were also worried. Both maids smiled and knelt down and said, "Thank you, sir."
Seventeen Niang ate one and wrapped the rest in a kerchief. She ordered the maid to accept it and then handed the kerchief to Zhang Yue to wipe away the grease from his mouth.
He also ordered the maid to take out a bamboo tube to clean their hands.
Zhang Yue sighed deeply that the girl was so considerate.
Seventeenth Mother raised her head and glanced at the sky, only to see the bright moon gradually sinking in the west.
But the imperial street is still lively. At this time, Wuling is still young, singing songs all over the road, with thousands of people and thousands of doors, and the music is not played well. The elegant meeting is quiet and joyful, but the shade is a pity. The scenery is so noisy and it is late at night.
