The waists of those dancing masters were twisting like crazy, making others laugh.
The children clapped their hands and laughed and said, "Playing with Mr. Bao."
"Stupid old man."
"Ugly old man."
Many children and adults followed Mr. Bao, twisting their waists and laughing happily.
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 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 Xuande Gate 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 was anxious to deny it. 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 got 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 dates before, he often looked for jokes on the Internet, and then tried his best to tell jokes to the girl every time they met.
But no matter what, the girls always think that my jokes are not funny or that my emotional intelligence is low.
Sometimes it's not that your jokes aren't funny, but that she doesn't want to laugh. Sometimes your jokes aren't that funny, but the other person wants to laugh.
Sometimes you search and search, chasing her east and west, north and south, a hundred times, but you can't win that girl's heart. But sometimes you don't look, there is a person waiting for you within your reach.
Some girls don't have to put in any effort 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 seventeenth mother's beautiful face.
"Let's go shopping at Xuandemen!"
"Okay! But I need to return here before Hai hour."
Zhang Yue glanced at Mingyue, which 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 a peaceful and prosperous time, 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 know that she had been kidnapped. It was not until many years later that this clan girl 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, Dengshan Mountain is illuminated by gold and jade, and the splendid scenery intersects with each other. The side of Dengshan Mountain facing north facing Xuandemen is decorated with colorful knots and fairy tales.
The two walked slowly, seeing dazzling lanterns and the sound of music. Under the light, the golden strands in Seventeen Niang's hair swayed, adding a bit of nobility. If it weren't for the bustling voices around her, Zhang Yueshi would have
I can’t believe that I am in the Song Dynasty right now, walking with my beautiful lady in Bianjing to watch the lanterns.
"Zhang Jun, look!"
Zhang Yue saw Caishan on the left and right, Manjusri and Samantabhadra standing on lions and white elephants. Each pointed out five water lines with his hands.
It turns out that craftsmen had long used windlass to twist water and send it to the highest point of Dengshan Mountain. They then used wooden cabinets to store the water. Then they put it down from time to time, creating the scene of a waterfall in front of you, with lanterns in the water and water in the lamps.
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, with the excitement of a little girl. Zhang Yue was also very happy, I was also looking at the girl, no, I was looking at the lanterns.
"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, where they saw various miraculous powers, singing and dancing, hundreds of operas, and the sound of music resounding for more than ten miles.
There are balls and cuju, walking on ropes and poles, eating cold food while standing upside down, 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, sell divination, write riddles on sand, and so on. They are full of ingenuity. Their ears and eyes are new day by day.
During this period, guessing lantern riddles is inevitable.
The two came to a stall and saw someone using silk lamps to cut out poems, sometimes sarcastic, and painted figures, hiding their heads in cryptic language and making jokes in Beijing.
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 and said, "I'll give you a lantern riddle to test you. Drawing time is round, writing time is square; winter time is short, summer time is long."
Zhang Yue didn't answer for a moment, and Qi Niang asked with a smile: "Is it you?"
Zhang Yue said: "It's not a problem, 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 laughed 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 get the word puzzles right, but they can also solve the crossword puzzles. I have a few crossword puzzles here. If you can match them, 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 exquisite. From this valuable gift, we know that the following lantern riddles 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: "Master, sir, listen up. 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, "My husband is a great man. Here he is, 'He is always a high-ranking official. 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.'"
Zhang Yue thought for a moment, and Seventeenth Mother said: "This is a seal."
"Young ladies are so talented. Let me ask you one more 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: "'All four mouths are square, and the cross is in the center. You are not allowed to use the word "Tian", and you are not allowed to use the word "Shang". What word do you use?"
"It's a pictorial character."
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 riddle is not easy to guess.
Seventeen Niang thought for a moment and then said: "Yes, the answer to the riddle is 'a little bit of the word'."
"Why?" the stall owner asked in surprise.
Seventeen Niang said: "There are many cold, there are two dots of the word "cold", heat is scattered in all directions, there are four dots of the word "heat", four people are going to the county, there are four dots of the word "county", there is one dot of the word "village", that is, in the village, in the city
The dot at the beginning of the word means it is at the top of the market, so it is said that the word is at the top of the market."
The stall owner couldn't help but be fascinated by it and smiled: "What a smart lady, I can help you solve all these rare lantern riddles. 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 and her face was full of joy. After looking at it for a while, she handed the ram's horn lantern to Zhang Yue and said with a slightly domineering tone: "I'm giving it to you, don't be polite to me!"
Zhang Yue's smile suddenly froze on his face, and he became confused about whether to laugh or cry. The two maids also wanted to laugh but did not dare to.
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 whirling 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 sellers beat the drums nine times and move away in groups.
What does this swirling Luo sell for?
Jiao?.
Not only do children love to eat this food, but it is also the favorite of people in the Song Dynasty during the Lantern Festival. People will buy one and eat it when they pass by.
Zhang Yue said to Qi Niang: "I want to buy some charcoal? Come and eat?"
The Seventeenth Mother 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. But he most likes to have sex at a roadside stall.
Zhang Yue looked around and said, "What are you afraid of? No acquaintances will see you anyway."
The Seventeenth Mother laughed when she heard this, and then nodded.
Zhang Yue, holding a ram's horn lantern in his hand, came to the spinning man and bought several lanterns.
The so-called Jiao? is actually sugar and oil fruit, or to be more precise, it is ‘fried glutinous rice balls’.
?Usually there is stuffing inside.
The maids behind Shi Qiniang were also worried. The two maids smiled and knelt down and said, "Thank you, sir."
Seventeen Niang ate one and wrapped the rest in a kerchief. She ordered her maid to accept it and then handed the kerchief to Zhang Yue to wipe 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 really considerate.
Seventeenth Mother raised her head and glanced at the sky, only to see the bright moon gradually setting in the west.
But the Royal Street is still lively. At this time, Wuling is still young, singing songs all over the road, thousands of doors and doors, and the recital is not played well. The elegant gathering is quiet and joyful, but the shade is a pity, the scenery is so noisy, and it is late at night.
