The fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year is the Lantern Festival. The origin of this festival is difficult to find, but Buddhism flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and lighting up Lantern Festival lanterns became a legal matter, and the Wen Dynasty also roughly inherited it.
On this day, people all over the country enjoy lantern viewing, eating Lantern Festivals, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off lanterns. In many places, there are even lion and dragon dances, stilt walking and other celebration activities.
On this day, Jinling City was very colorful. Colored lanterns were hung everywhere. There were already many pedestrians on the streets. Colored lanterns were hung at the door of many houses. There were small fires burning with pitch pine wood on the ground. The flames shot high.
There is also the official on the street who is beating the gong and walking through the streets shouting to prevent fire.
Song Mu also put on a new robe today, dressed himself neatly, and went out to watch the lantern festival with Tao Fengming.
When they walked outside with Sun Qinghe and his family, the Sun family members couldn't help but exclaimed when they saw Song Mu who was dressed up. At that moment, there was that person who was surrounding Song Mu and looking at him carefully. , said with a smile.
"I don't know if a handsome young man like Jie Yuan will take advantage of that little girl in the future."
Song Mu grinned and walked out of Sun's house with everyone.
Today, the curfew has been lifted in all the buildings in Jinling City, but there are also many soldiers dispatched in the city, and there are officials everywhere to prevent fire and congestion.
Occasionally passing through some streets, you can still see some soldiers and officers pushing water dragons hurriedly past, each of them looking anxious.
When Song Mu and others walked to the street outside, an ocean-like noise reached their ears.
The bustling scene fills your eyes!
Lanterns of various colors are hung high, people are everywhere, the streets are noisy, and the grand scene of the world is coming to you!
Eating Lantern Festival, setting off lanterns, and guessing lantern riddles, there were laughter and surprises everywhere, and people's faces were filled with smiles.
Tao Fengming, who was standing next to Song Mu, saw this scene and his expression was touched for a moment.
Song Mu turned his head and saw something flashing in Tao Fengming's eyes, and he murmured at this moment.
"In the past, I was one of them."
When Song Mu heard this, he pursed his lips slightly at the moment. Such prosperity in the world would only make Tao Fengming think of the loneliness in the past and today, adding a bit of pain to his heart.
Song Mu was about to speak, but Sun Qinghe next to him stepped forward, grabbed his old friend's shoulders, and said with a smile.
"What are you mumbling about? Let's go. Instead of watching the lanterns like women, let's go have a drink. Some old friends are waiting."
Saying this, Sun Qinghe turned to look at Song Mu and said with a smile.
"Nephew Song, do you want to go with me?"
Song Mu quickly shook his head and handed over his hands. Several of his master's old friends were gathering together, so there was no need for him to join in the fun.
Sun Qinghe nodded immediately, agreed with Song Mu where to meet him, and then pulled Tao Fengming away.
Song Mu was suddenly the only one left around. At this moment, Song Mu let out a long sigh of relief, with a bit of calmness on his face. He looked at the street full of lanterns and many food stalls, and took a look. With a few taels of silver in his pocket, he went into the bustling streets.
"That's right, it's noodles. This young man guessed it right again!"
In front of a lantern riddle guessing stall, the stall owner was handing a box of Dragon Beard Cake to Song Mu with an indescribable pained smile. Song Mu held many things in his hands. He reached out to take it, twisted a ball and put it in his mouth, and then There was still a bit of unfinished expression on his face.
There are also some lantern riddles on the lanterns of this stall, and Song Mu is still a little eager to try them.
When the stall owner saw it, his face suddenly turned bitter, and he said helplessly to Song Muman.
"Sir, I am a small businessman."
Song Mu grinned, nodded with a smile, and immediately carried the things to the side, when a voice suddenly came from behind. ,
"Shangyuan Ankang, Brother Song, why are you here?"
Song Mu immediately turned around, only to see Gu Zhizhi striding towards him, followed by several people dressed as students who also came forward.
"Shang Yuan Ankang, I met Song Jieyuan."
Several students greeted Song Mu respectfully. The stall owner who was arranging the stall was stunned when he heard this. He looked at Song Mu with a friendly face and murmured.
"Song Jieyuan? Jieyuan?"
Song Mu was talking to a few people at the moment, and Gu Zhizhi smiled and said to Song Mu.
"I didn't expect that Jieyuan, who is usually stern and unsmiling, would act like this?"
The other party looked at the several items of food in Song Mu's arms and the bulging things in his robe, and he couldn't help laughing. However, Song Mu smiled and handed the several items of food to several students respectively.
Several people quickly thanked them, and Song Mu said with a smile.
"To be honest, I only saw such a grand scene in Jinling. I study hard on weekdays. Finally, my master is not around today, so I am a little more indulgent."
Everyone laughed when they saw Song Mu being so free and easy, but the stall owner stepped forward and bowed his hands respectfully towards Song Mu.
"It turns out it's Lord Jieyuan. I'm so young that I can't see Mount Tai. Lord Jieyuan, can you still guess lantern riddles?"
Song Mu said with a smile and cupped his hands.
"No, old man, if I keep guessing like this, I won't be able to eat anything in my stomach."
With that said, Song Mu said to the people next to him.
"This old man's riddle is very good, very interesting."
Several people nodded immediately, and Gu Zhizhi said with a smile.
"If Jie Yuan wants to guess lantern riddles, you can go ahead. In the square in the city, there is a long line of lantern riddles at the gate of the mansion today. It's a lot of fun."
Song Mu immediately raised his eyebrows, nodded repeatedly, and walked aside with a few people surrounding him.
The stall owner looked at Song Mu leaving and suddenly looked sad, but the next moment he was full of energy, and then suddenly shouted to the people around him.
"Come and guess the lantern riddles. Good lantern riddles. Even Song Jieyuan said they are interesting lantern riddles!"
Song Mu immediately followed a few people to the square outside Nafu School. It was also crowded tonight. There were many stalls in the square, and there were all kinds of shouts.
In front of the gate of Fu Xue, many students have set up a row of shelves with various colored lanterns hanging on them. There are a lot of red papers with riddles written on them. As long as someone answers the question, they will win. There are corresponding rewards.
It's just different from the food and small items at other stalls. Most of the prizes here are paper, ink, pens, inkstones, books, articles, etc., but it still attracted many people to participate.
Song Mu naturally came forward with great interest, and then walked to a stall and looked at the lantern riddles in front of him.
"A pair of bright moons, intact."
"Under the mountain where it is, it's torn apart."
Many people are thinking about simple word guessing at the moment.
Song Mu raised his eyebrows, but the student setting up the stall said with a smile.
"No one has figured out the answer to this mystery today. You can give it a try, sir."
As he said this, he was suddenly startled, looked at Song Mu carefully, and immediately became happy.
"Is it Song Jieyuan?"
After saying this, some people looked over, and Song Mu quickly handed over his hand, saying that he was here to celebrate the festival, so don't be too surprised.
After being comforted for a while, although there were still many people gathered around Song Mu, they were all watching Song Mu's movements.
Song Mu immediately took out a pen and wrote out the answer to the riddle.
"Beng, yes, this is Beng."
Song Mu wrote it immediately, and the other party presented the gift with a smile on his face. Song Mu took it with a smile and continued to look down.
Song Mu was not very restrained at this moment, and he also handed over to everyone who came. Seeing Song Mu's enthusiasm, everyone followed behind him, applauding and cheering from time to time.
It wasn't until several officials explained to everyone that Song Mu felt a little relieved.
At this moment, Song Mu saw another answer to a riddle in front of a stall and started writing it.
"April is about to end and the beginning of May is coming. Scratch the window paper and re-paste it."
"My husband has been in Beijing for three years, but he hasn't sent any letters at all."
This is a lantern riddle poem, but these four sentences are all riddles. Song Mu wrote that the last two sentences were Angelica sinensis and Angelica dahurica, but for the first two, Song Mu really had no names of Chinese medicines in his mind.
The stall owner was also full of confidence. Song Mu was thinking about it when a voice slowly sounded next to him.
"The answer to the first two should be Pinellia ternata and Fangfeng, right?"
Song Mu turned around and saw a familiar face.
Gu Qingqing was holding a piece of candy wrapped in a silk handkerchief in one hand and looking at Song Mu with a smile on her face.
