The winter snow melts, and firecrackers occasionally ring in the market. When Lantern Festival is approaching, every household posts new couplets. The children in new clothes play with their companions at their doorstep. They are scolded by their mother under the eaves and go back to the yard obediently.

During the hustle and bustle of New Year, there are lively scenes everywhere in the city, including monkey plays, juggling, riddles, restaurants, brothels, and teahouses. Many literati and elegant guests gather to chat at this season, or write lyrics according to New Year's poems.

"......The poem above is so wonderful. The description of the beauty of living in the same room with a woman is desirable. It is just a talented man and beautiful woman, and it is a fire of fire!"

"Oh, by the way, you have noticed that many more soldiers have taken to the streets recently."

"How dare you neglect the Lantern Festival?"

".....but it seems that someone wants to rebel..."

"Be careful not to mention state affairs."

Outside the noisy restaurant, festival performances, gongs and suona blows and beats, covered up the hustle and bustle of the long street. The people who stopped by the street looked at the dragon and lion dance team, and passed by with a clanging sound.

The atmosphere on the street was particularly lively. Someone came in from outside in a restaurant adjacent to Baiguanfushe Street. He walked over a few men with arms around him and went up the stairs. A beautiful music sound came from the private room not far away. The man carefully knocked on the door. Hearing the door creaking a crack, he hurriedly took out a folded letter from his arms and handed it in.

Then, the door closed quietly.

A man with no beard face held the letter, bowed and walked around the singer's music, came to the first place, and called out in a low voice.

"master."

Opposite him was a man with a thick beard and a calm temperament. He was holding a wine glass and watching the long sleeves fluttering and twisting waist. He heard the words coming, and reached out to take the letter presented, opened it and smiled at the corner of his mouth.

"The national teacher is back..."

Yang Guang drank the glass of wine and laughed. He didn't care about the fact that there was a trick in the elegant room. He held his hands and walked to the fence. He looked at the lively street outside. It was getting dark and the lights were about to hang on the streets. He always liked the excitement. Tonight, he happened to leave the palace to see it, and he also looked at Baiguanfushe Street opposite.

"I'm relieved to take action when the national teacher returns to the city. What's the situation outside?"

"Everything is right." The man without beard was a eunuch, with a hoarse and sharp voice. With a flattering smile, orchid fingers gestured.

"The black dogs in the city have caught many, even if they are national teachers, they are..."

"Um?"

The emperor standing in front of the fence frowned and looked over, realizing that the eunuch who said the wrong thing was kneeling to the ground, slapping it on his face, and the sound of the slap was a crisp sound, which scared the singer over there, and he didn't know what was going on.

Yang Guang stared at the closest servant hard, waved his wide sleeves at the craftsman over there, "Sing, dance!" He turned around, kicked the eunuch kneeling on the ground, and cursed: "Dog thing!"

The eunuch was panicked, knelt on the ground, kowtowed hard, and the emperor kicked it to the ground again, and then he heard Yang Guang say, "I dare to talk nonsense again in the future, I will cut off your head!"

The lowly words floated outside, and the night was dark. On the hustle and bustle streets, there were cavalry running. The four gates of Chang'an were closed. The soldiers transferred from the imperial city took over the defense. On the city wall, archers were facing the city. In the further away, the imperial city, horse hooves, and people stepped on the street floor tiles, and rushed to Baiguanfushe Street from all directions.

In the light of the torch, Yuwen Chengdu looked at the outline of the mansion in the distant night, grinding his teeth and felt a little sour.

He had known the reputation of the Duke of Yue for a long time. He had a great prestige in the army and was also possessed by the Taoist teachings of immortals. He originally did not believe it, but he had to be careful when he followed the national teacher to Jiangnan that time.

Fortunately, the black dogs collected by His Majesty, and the imperial guards in the imperial city have been soaked in black dog blood. As long as they are not affected by magic, Yuwen Chengdu still has confidence in his martial arts.

What's more, there are so many soldiers.

The adjacent streets around the Baiguan Mansion House, the Chang'an Prefecture Principal who had already received the order sent a yamen runner to clear the streets. The imperial guards in the imperial city were all out, and surrounded the entire streets. Just wait for the Kongming lantern that conveyed the signal to rise into the night sky and spread towards the Duke's Mansion.

"...Duke Yue, if you want to blame, you can only blame your prestige for being too high."

Yuwen Chengdu subconsciously looked back at the restaurant with the emperor, took a deep breath, turned around, and asked someone to lift his phoenix wings and slowly hang down to the ground.

......

On the side of the mansion opposite the general's vision, the side door leading to the alley outside opened slightly, and four figures flashed out from inside, and a vague whispered voice: "Tonight, the four brothers and I happened to recite poems and essays with those elegant men. We can't stay in the mansion every day."

"What my brother said is that you can also guess riddles and get some small gains, haha."

"Maybe there will be a little lady who will be moved by the heart of four Jiangnan talents who are there..."

After leaving the yard, the man who was still talking turned around and suddenly hit the scholar in front of him, covering his nose that was hurt, and shoving him.

"Brother Ma, why did you stop?"

As soon as the words fell, even the two people next to them were stunned. At the end of the streets and alleys, there were torches. Under the bright light, there were armored soldiers wearing armor and swords, with fierce eyes on them.

Gu~~

The four scholars rolled their Adam's apple, swallowed their saliva, slowly moved backwards, opened the door again and flashed in, touching the courtyard door, and gasping against the door.

"Did you see it? There are so many soldiers outside."

"Is there someone who makes trouble in Lantern Festival tonight, and Your Majesty specially sent soldiers to protect the Duke's mansion?"

When the word "Your Majesty" was mentioned, the four of them opened their eyes wide and looked at each other. They remembered that the eunuchs led the guards to visit Duke Yue not long ago. Their hearts jumped. The four scholars ran wildly into the side courtyard where they lived. The trays in their hands that they met were knocked and threw to the ground with crackling sounds.

As they screamed, the four of them returned to the yard in a mess, took the bookshelf of the past, opened the wardrobe and took out the clothes inside in one breath, rushed to the desk, picked up pens, ink, paper, ink, books, etc., stuffed them together to the bookshelf, and carried them to the back.

Four rooms, four people came out almost at the same time, nodded in harmony, and walked outside together.

"Wait..." Wang Feng suddenly spoke and called out to the other three brothers. "We are also loyal and righteous people, how can we just leave like this? At least we should tell Duke Yue about what is outside first."

"Brother, loyalty and righteousness!" The three of them were in awe of grace.

At this time, outside the Duke's mansion, the night wind blew across the street. Yuwen Chengdu stroked the horse's hair. As time came, he raised his hand: "Rise the light."

......

On the bustling street, Lu Liangsheng took Hong Lian, Qi You looked at the lion dancing by the street, with his mane flying, blinking his big copper bell with his big eyes, shaking his head and swaying under the man's operation, baring his teeth and roaring.

Soon, the scholar seemed to feel something, turned his eyes and crossed the roof, and a bright paper lantern rose into the night sky in the distance.
Chapter completed!