The good old man Su Ye told Sheng Xuanyuan about the Lantern Festival.
"I can guarantee that there will be no better opportunity than this!" Su Ye patted his chest and vowed: "You must take advantage of this lantern festival to express your feelings! It's not in vain for me to bring you two together. So many times!”
Sheng Xuanyuan pursed his lips and nodded: "Yes, thank you, I will do it."
Su Ye waved his hand to signal him not to be so polite, and then said: "I heard some masters chatting and said that the elders calculated that the land of Infernal Affairs, Mingfu, would appear roughly during the Lantern Festival. That's fun. A place!" He said, with excitement in his brows: "But Lu Xiyan seems to be afraid of ghosts? That's just right! Brother Yan and I will go to that ghost place to play, and you two will stay in the human world. Go shopping and look at the lanterns, so you don’t scare the little devils there!”
Sheng Xuanyuan responded: "Okay."
*
The two-person martial arts competition was almost a battle between Sheng Xuanyuan and Yan Tingshen. Although they formed a random team and there were many powerful people who joined forces, there were not many teams as strong as these two, so they suffered a lot. The participating disciples secretly scolded each other.
Everyone is the best of each race, and they are not willing to suffer a disastrous defeat on the stage, and they are not willing to express their friendship in private to form a team to score points, to the point that no matter which group they are drawn against, they will blame themselves for being unlucky.
Su Ye was happy to make friends. No matter who asked him to form a team, he would be happy to accompany him as long as he was free. As a result, everyone's impression of him was just the rumored young master Su who was "ignorant of etiquette and flirting with women." Big change.
Qiong also played many games with Lu Li and Yang Xiaosi, and was forced to stop until he fell out of the top twenty after continuing to play.
On the last day of the competition, Yue Huan's eyes lit up when he saw Sheng Xuanyuan, and he chased him to fight for ten thousand gold. We played a total of eight games from morning to night, and lost happily.
Su Ye bought several jars of wine that night and invited a group of well-connected disciples from various ethnic groups to watch the snow and taste the wine. The drunks were all drunk, and so was the snow. I think that when I was young and frivolous, I was free-spirited and ambitious. Tonight I watched the snow and drank wine, and tomorrow I held a sword and braved the nine states.
Here, the martial arts competition comes to an end.
*
The winter solstice has passed.
The snow continued to fall day by day, and the whole Yize was covered with a thick layer of velvet coats. Qiong was lying on the bed, listening to the wind outside the window, and flipping through the article that the master asked to write down in her hand. Because she was thinking about something on her mind, After memorizing it a few times, I forget it and have to read it all over again.
"Concentrate! Concentrate!" She patted her face, boosted her morale, and started to memorize it again. She felt her fingers were cold while turning the pages of the book, so she put on a blanket and added charcoal to the stove. The dark red light of the charcoal fire reflected on the furnace wall. , she was filled with uncontrollable joy.
The lantern festival that Sheng Xuanyuan talked about last time was tonight.
Qiong Yi looked at the books piled on the wall and thought: I can't feel at ease anyway, so I might as well stop carrying them. She sat in front of the dressing table, a small bronze mirror that was propped up reflected herself, and she took a closer look.
The person in the mirror had a face as big as a palm, with round eyes, fair and soft. She touched her face and said softly: "If I were more beautiful and stood next to Sheng Kyung, I wouldn't look so ordinary. Come on..."
Opening the small wooden box on the dressing table, it was almost empty. There were only two hairbands of different colors, a pair of hairpins, a pair of green beaded earrings, a small box of face cream and hair balm, and no gouache or rouge. , even the wooden comb is old and white. "Wear a hairpin." She smoothed the fluffy curly hair behind her, picked up the wooden comb and began to take care of herself.
After braiding her hair, Qiong Yi shook her head, looked back and forth, nodded with satisfaction, smiled to herself, and got up to go out.
Yesterday, Su Ye jokingly told her that she could bring some strange things with her on her trip tonight. She was a little disappointed. It turned out that Sheng Xuanyuan didn't just invite her to visit the lantern festival alone. She asked why, but Su Ye stopped talking. After she asked several times, he replied that after the lantern festival, people can trade goods at the market. Barter, exchange something good.
Qiong also didn’t have any rare gadgets or magic weapons. Apart from her sword and string song, the only thing that was worthy of mention was a small copper coin she picked up when she was young and was polished so smooth that it could reflect light. , water patterns can be seen through its reflective surface. Putting the copper coin in her pocket, she went out.
The snow outside had stopped, and she was killing time. First she went to Wa Village to help Grandma Wang do some farm work, and then she accompanied Wei Xinxin and told some stories to some neighborhood children. She didn't sway until the sky got dark. Arrive at the appointed place leisurely.
Sheng Xuanyuan seemed to have arrived a long time ago. He was wearing a dark bamboo-moon robe with white feathers on his shoulders. He was wearing a common ink-bottomed gold-patterned robe, with a Chengying Sword on his waist. Seeing Qiong coming, he looked at her and said, "You're here."
"Sheng Kyung." Qiong Yi narrowed his eyes and smiled. He took out a hand stove from his arms: "Here, take it." Qiong Yi was slightly surprised and took the small and exquisite copper hand stove.
"It's cold, my hands are freezing," he said.
Qiong Yi smiled and nodded repeatedly, "If you get cold, I will return it to you."
"No, it was originally prepared for you." Sheng Xuanyuan turned his head as he said this.
The sound of hurried steps on the snow was heard not far away, and Su Ye and Yan Tingshen came one after another: "Hey, are you here so early?" Su Ye's eyes fell on the hand stove in Qiong Yi's arms: "Ah! Sheng Sheng Xuan Yuan specially prepared it for you? It’s so sweet…”
Sheng Xuanyuan didn't want to be ridiculed by him, so he interrupted him: "You are carrying too much, right?"
"When I go shopping in Mingfu Street, of course I need to bring more..."
Qiong Yi cut off Su Ye's words: "Which street are you shopping on?"
If she heard it right, 'Mingfu Street' is also the 'ghost market' as the folk saying goes. The folk ghost market mostly refers to the mystery of transaction place and time, but Mingfu Street is a place without boundaries, a real place. The ghost place.
"We're not going." Sheng Xuanyuan looked at her and said, "Qiong Yi, we're not going."
"Yes, you won't go. Besides, it won't be a problem even if you go." Su Ye felt guilty as he said, "If there are people there, they must not all be ghosts."
Yan Tingshen slapped him from behind: "Stop talking."
"Lu Xiyan, aren't you angry anymore?" Su Ye looked at her and asked.
Of course, Qiong was a little annoyed. She had been looking forward to tonight's lantern show since this morning, but before setting off, she said she was going to Mingfu Street, the place she was most afraid of, full of ghosts.
"Nonsense!" She stamped her foot, rolled her eyes at Su Ye, and snorted, "Next time, either hide this from me completely, or tell me earlier so that I can be on guard... I won't be angry anymore! "After that, he turned around and walked faster towards the town.
Sheng Xuanyuan looked at Su Ye speechlessly and lowered his voice: "Didn't you agree not to tell me?"
Su Ye frowned and asked in a low voice, "Didn't you start it?"
Sheng Xuanyuan's eyes darkened.
"Forget it, everyone is gone." Yan Tingshen chuckled and said, "Let's go."
Su Ye took a few steps to catch up with Qiong Yi: "Are you really not angry anymore?" Qiong Yi said nothing, and he said: "Hey, Lu Xiyan, why are you ignoring me? You're not still angry, are you? Lu Xiyan ! Hey!" He changed his words and called her according to Sheng Xuanyuan's call: "Qiong Yi! Qiong Yi Qiong Yi Qiong Yi!"
Qiong Yi was annoyed by the noise and stopped and said, "Master Su, please don't call me that, and don't make fun of me. Can you just say a few words to make me quiet?"
Su Ye made a sound, thinking that the woman was lying when she said she wasn't angry. He patted Sheng Xuanyuan and whispered, "Go and coax her, I can't handle it."
Sheng Xuanyuan rolled her eyes at him, pursed her lips, walked quickly, and soon walked to her side and walked side by side.
"You don't need to comfort me. Why am I getting angry when you said we won't go?" She kicked the snow step by step, and the fluffy white salt spread out and disappeared into the green shadow of the snow: "We are all here to play together, I don't want to make a fuss." It makes everyone unhappy.”
Sheng Xuanyuan responded.
There are always fewer shops open in the market at night, except for certain special days, such as lantern festivals.
After walking across the wooden bridge, you can vaguely see the lights. The lit lotus-shaped lanterns float slowly in the river. When you look up to see the moon, there are floating lanterns flowing into the stars. The falling snow was dyed orange, and it looked warmer. There were children playing not far away. Although the flow of people did not block the road, it was still a lot of people coming and going. There are more street stalls and hawkers than in the daytime. There is a lantern tied in front of each stall, with different shapes and different patterns painted on it, including flowers, birds, animals, and water, moon, mountains and rivers. Looking carefully, one or two familiar school classmates passed by from time to time in the crowd. Most of them had heard about the lively lantern festival and came here to play.
"The Lantern Festival is a tradition in Yichuan." Su Ye said enthusiastically behind him, "It is held every year in various places in Yichuan. The time is different in each place, but it is almost always around 29 days."
"The original lantern festival originated in ancient times. The ancestors of the Su family hosted a snow praying ceremony to pray for snow in the severe winter to ensure a worry-free harvest in the coming year. Later, it gradually evolved into the folk. Because every snow praying ceremony requires lighting lanterns to illuminate the way, gradually The custom of bright lanterns has been left behind, and the current Lantern Festival has emerged.”
"There are three types of lanterns. The most common ones are hanging lanterns, and there are also floating lanterns and floating lanterns. Floating lanterns are lanterns that can be lifted into the air. The amount sold by ordinary stalls is limited. The floating lanterns are the ones we saw on the bridge when we came here just now. Here we are - the lanterns in the middle of the river."
Su Ye smiled and said: "How about it, do you want to buy a lantern?"
Yan Ting listened with great interest, "Okay, I'll just pick a hanging lamp with a nice surface. What about you?"
Qiong Yi turned around and said, "I want to go see the lanterns." She caught a glimpse of a cart selling lanterns in front of her and waved, "Come and have a look."
"What kind of lamp do you want, girl?" The stall owner is an elderly woman, speaking slowly and leisurely.
"Grandma, are there any swimming lanterns?" Qiong Yi asked with a smile. The old woman pointed to the neatly arranged lotus lanterns and said, "Here, they are all here. In our Qingfeng Town, the swimming lanterns only have this type of lantern."
Seeing Qiong Yi pick up the swimming lantern and carefully select it, she said, "Don't worry, girl, I have been making lanterns for decades, and the quality has always been good. It will not sink when it flows into the sea." After saying that, she looked at Sheng Xuanyuan. , "Master, do you want to buy a lamp?"
"I'll also get a swimming lantern." Sheng Xuanyuan said.
Qiong Yi carefully selected two solid lotus lanterns and paid the bill. Yan Tingshen chose a fish lantern from a wide variety of hanging lanterns: "Grandma, I want one." He took out his wallet and asked Su Ye, "Won't you get one too?"
Su Ye laughed: "I'm not a child anymore, and I still buy lanterns." Seeing the strange expressions of the three people, he added: "Except for children who can buy them, the locals basically make them themselves."
"You!" Yan Ting scolded him with a deep smile.
"The lanterns on the stalls are originally prepared for you outsiders. It's not a good idea to buy them for fun, right grandma?" Su Ye crossed his arms and smiled at the stall owner.
The old woman chuckled: "Having said that, aren't young people of your age still children?"
Su Ye was noncommittal, tilting his head and waving to Sheng Xuanyuan and the others, "Thank you, mother-in-law. Let's go put out the lights!"
"The author has something to say:
This article is based on an imaginary background, so the origin of the lantern is purely fabricated qwq, just enjoy it~
In reality, lanterns originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and spread among the people in the Song Dynasty. They were originally used for royal sacrifices on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and required lighting for lighting. Later, they evolved into lighting lanterns during the Lantern Festival and became a custom.
There are many types of lanterns in traditional folk crafts, each with its own characteristics and style. They are very beautiful. If you are interested, you can search for pictures www~"
