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In the following days, the atmosphere in the capital slowly became calm and comfortable. The annual holiday of the Great Zhou Dynasty lasted until after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and in the following days, no more murders occurred in the city. There were no major incidents in the court. The people were
Forgetful, they quickly forgot about the serial murders after the New Year, and quickly lost their fear.
This is actually very normal. Except for their own lives, ordinary people are forgetful and numb to anything else that has nothing to do with them, even matters of life and death. After all, it is others who die, not themselves. The life and death of others
Happiness is just something to talk about and has no essential connection with oneself. After the New Year, how to live or live better in the next year is what they should focus on. Before that, they seize the time to enjoy the joy of the last New Year.
Happy. From then on, they will have to run around like mules and horses to make a living.
Maybe it’s because Guo Chong has been in a good mood recently and his condition is getting better. Maybe he wants to have a new atmosphere and good luck in the New Year. In the past, Guo Chong didn’t pay much attention to the Lantern Festival. Fires caused by the Lantern Festival lanterns in the city every year
There have been hundreds of incidents, and Guo Chong was very annoyed every time, thinking that the Lantern Festival was a festival that was looking for trouble. But this year, Guo Chong made a decision to have fun with the people.
The decree states that the emperor, the empress, the queen mother and the concubines of the harem will make lanterns with their own hands this year and display them in the square inside the Zhuque Gate. They will also invite the old masters from the Hanlin Academy and the talented people from the Hanlin Academy and Taixue to come up with lantern riddles. Every household should follow suit.
To this end, a public gathering of lanterns and riddles will be held. Those with beautiful lanterns and exquisite lantern riddles will receive generous rewards after passing the competition.
After the decree was issued, every household became busy. There were still two or three days before the Lantern Festival, and all the people, officials, and government departments regarded this matter as a top priority. Because it was said that the emperor would bring the queen that night
Parading the streets with the concubines and admiring the lanterns. This was the only thing that happened in the more than 100 years since the founding of the Zhou Dynasty.
After experiencing the panic and fright of the past year, the entire Zhou Dynasty urgently needs a new way to welcome the new year, a way to hope for peace and success in the coming year. The emperor, the queen and the ladies are enjoying themselves with the people. This is undoubtedly
Something that everyone finds novel and worth participating in.
Everyone in the Lin family also actively participated in it. Lin Jue knew that in recent times, due to the deaths of Mr. Fang and Master Yan and his series of revenge actions, everyone was actually very depressed and worried. Although the revenge actions will not end
, but that is not all of life. Life must continue, and the atmosphere in the home must restore peace, otherwise the long-term depressed atmosphere will make everyone overwhelmed.
What Lin Jue hopes most is that the people around him live freely and happily, and does not want them to be unhappy. Besides, the situation has changed a bit. The reason why the previous revenge was a bit crazy was because the death of Mr. Fang and Yan Zhengshen angered Lin Jue
, it was also because Lin Jue believed that he had no place in the court, so he ignored it. But now that the seeds he had planted had sprouted, Guo Chong's attitude was extremely subtle, and the wishful thinking of Lu Zhongtian, Guo Xu and others did not succeed.
.And he is about to be promoted to the position of Third Chief Envoy. Guo Chong seems to be interested in supporting himself. Then some of his crazy actions that have no back-up plan can be slowed down.
If revenge can be accomplished on the grounds of a crown, it is better than risking assassination. Moreover, with the strength of Lu Zhongtian and Yang Jun, they want to use secret
It is easier to defeat them by killing them than by using politics and struggle. As for Wu Chunlai's dog, we might as well keep him alive and wait for the opportunity to deal with him.
Of course, Lin Jue also hoped to alleviate the pain of the Fang family and his daughter by watching lanterns. After Fang Dunru passed away, Mrs. Fang and Fang Huanqiu were filled with grief and couldn't help themselves. Especially after Mrs. Fang returned to Yulin Lane two years ago.
, after bringing back some things that Mr. Fang used during his lifetime, as well as the clothes, shoes and socks he wore, the mother and daughter of the Fang family shed tears after seeing the things and thinking about him.
To be honest, Lin Jue was very sad when he saw those things. Fang Dunru really lived a life like an ascetic. The clothes he wore on weekdays were quite neat, but after looking at those underwear, Lin Jue realized that Mr.
Extremely. Those clothes and socks are rarely new. They have been worn for many years, and some are already thin and transparent. Some have patches on them and have been patched many times. It is hard to imagine that these were the daily clothes of important officials of the Zhou Dynasty.
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Although the salaries of officials in the Zhou Dynasty are not very generous, as an official, it is not difficult for a family to have good food and clothing with a little effort. When the officialdom of the Zhou Dynasty was so extravagant, Fang Dunru
He still maintains his true character and is never greedy for money. Although he handles more than tens of millions of dollars, he is still so poor. This makes Lin Jue feel that those guys who falsely accuse Mr. Fang of embezzling money are disgusting.
Ji. Lin Jue went on a killing spree against them later this year, largely because of this sentiment.
Lin Jue asked for two things as souvenirs. One was an inkstone that Mr. Fang had used for many years. The inkstone was not expensive at all. It was just a natural ocher in the shape of an inkstone. It was one that Mr. Fang found on the back hill of Songshan Academy.
The stone was thought to be an inkstone, and it was used for nearly twenty years. This inkstone replaced the precious inkstone on the desk in Lin Jue's study, and became Lin Jue's study utensil for polishing ink and writing in the future.
Another item was Mr. Fang's white-washed tunic, with patches on the shoulders and cuffs. The whole garment was almost translucent. Of course, Lin Jue did not wear it, but unfolded it and framed it.
It was hung like a banner on the main wall of the study room. Lin Jue would not live a poor life like Fang Dunru. That was not the life Lin Jue wanted to live. But Lin Jue wanted to remember Mr. Fang’s character.
and belief, remember his attitude towards life of neither taking pleasure in things nor feeling sad about oneself, remembering his firm belief in his ideals. Remind yourself of what you promised Fang Dunru, and you will fulfill his legacy.
These things made Mrs. Fang and Fang Huanqiu immersed in endless longing and sorrow. In the past half month, Lin Jue visited many times, but every time he went to comfort them, but when he came back, he was
He was depressed and couldn't extricate himself. Sitting in the small courtyard, facing the mother and daughter who were crying silently, Lin Jue really couldn't say anything like condolences and resignation. The most important person in their lives was gone, and their
The sky has fallen, how can we advise them to refrain from mourning? Their sadness is a matter of course and a matter of course.
But Lin Jue couldn't let them be immersed in sadness forever, so this Shangyuan Lantern Festival was an opportunity. Lin Jue hoped to involve Mrs. Fang and Huan Qiu to relieve their sadness. The gorgeous lanterns might make them
Feel better and slowly get rid of the control of sadness.
Mrs. Fang and Fang Huanqiu were not willing to participate in this matter, but the little princess, Xie Yingying, Bai Bing and others went to invite her in person, saying that without Sister Huanqiu, no one would be involved.
I have an idea. Although the Lin family is not a wealthy family in the capital, it is still a prestigious family. If the lanterns are not as good as those of other families, it will also lose the husband's face. After all, the husband is about to become an important minister of the Third Secretary.
Mrs. Fang and Fang Huanqiu couldn't resist them, so they agreed to participate. In fact, they themselves knew that they couldn't be immersed in that kind of negative emotions forever. So, everyone in the Fang family held a meeting to actively collect proposals, and finally Lin Jue
Under the instructions of Mrs. Fang and Fang Huanqiu, the idea of the Nine Lotus Lantern proposed by Mrs. Fang and Fang Huanqiu was unanimously approved by everyone. To put it bluntly, this Nine Lotus Lantern is a huge lotus lantern, with nine huge petals in the middle as the main body, and the auxiliary lotus lantern.
Ye Beilei. In Fang Huanqiu's design diagram, it is a fresh and elegant picture, quite poetic.
Fang Huanqiu did not explain why she chose to make the Nine Lotus Lantern. But Lin Jue knew in her heart that it was a piece of grief that she placed in it. On the lampshade, Huanqiu had to write "out of mud but not stained" "clear ripples but not evil" etc.
A few sentences, those are all from "The Love of Lotus" written by Lin Jue when he was a disciple. Others thought that these poems were written because the lantern came from the Lin family, so it needed the Lin family's master's poems to match the scene, but Lin Jue knew that at the time, he
As I said before, Ailian said it was written for Fang Dunru, and he originally compared Fang Dunru to a gentleman of flowers. Fang Huanqiu's intention can be imagined.
However, Lin Jue did not say anything. He allowed Fang Huanqiu to use his selfishness here. As long as Fang Huanqiu could get over the grief of losing his father, he would do anything.
With the full cooperation of everyone in the Lin family, on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, when the more than ten feet tall and beautiful Nine Lotus Lanterns lit up on the ground of the Lin family's front house, Fang Huanqiu held the hands of Lin Jue and Mrs. Fang,
She smiled with tears in her eyes. It was her first smile after Fang Dunru's death. Lin Jue knew that she had come out.
Starting from the morning of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the entire capital became extremely lively. After breakfast, the soldiers and horses in front of the palace began to clear both sides of the imperial street leading to Ouchi from the inner square of Zhuque Gate. Groups of cavalry galloped.
On Imperial Street, checkpoints and horse-blocking fortifications have begun to be set up at every corner of the streets and alleys on both sides. This also proves the fact that the emperor and empress will personally enjoy the lantern parade tonight.
The length from the Zhuque Gate to the Daqing Gate of the Dauchi Imperial Palace is about ten miles. The entire imperial street is divided into areas for the display of lanterns. As the main display place for the lanterns, the square inside the Suzaku Gate is naturally a popular place for the royal family to display lanterns.
The lanterns of high-ranking officials and yamen are displayed on the site. The lanterns of the rest of the houses of officials and common people are displayed along the long street in sections according to their status. The hierarchical status is also vividly displayed even in this lantern parade.
Since this time, the lanterns completed by each house have been transported to the square inside the Zhuque Gate and the Royal Street for installation, debugging, polishing and correction. In case something goes wrong at night, it will be too late. Various carriages and horses are loaded and carried on the shoulders.
The portable lanterns were delivered to the site for installation. Many of the lanterns were extremely large and luxurious. Although they were only in carriage cages, they already knew how huge the scale was.
The installation of the Lin family's lanterns started in the afternoon. Lin Jue took Lin Hu and a stick of escort servants to dismantle the Nine Lotus Lanterns and load them into two carts, covered them with cloth and took them to Zhuquemen Nei Street. Lin Jue
Although the official position is not high, the position assigned to the Lin family is excellent. It is located next to the royal lantern exhibition area. Next to it is the lantern exhibition area of Yang Jun, Lu Zhongtian and others. This is obviously assigned according to the official rank of the three ministers.
