Not long after, Guo Caiwei also washed up and got up, and called Green Dancer Lin Hu to have breakfast with her. The golden millet porridge and various exquisite snacks were all bought by the servants from outside early in the morning. These were not ordinary snacks.
It is a very famous snack in Beijing. Kaifengfu soup dumplings have thin skin and thick soup, and are delicious. Wanglou plum blossom buns have thin noodles and fragrant fillings. They are the first breakfast store in Beijing. Grandma Wang's meat cakes are also popular.
The table is filled with dim sum from a century-old brand, including Fan Lou’s iced bean sprouts, sweet and sour bean sprouts, etc.
Lu Wu only asked casually: "How many taels of silver does this table of dim sum breakfast cost?"
Guo Caiwei smiled slightly and held out two fingers. Lu Wu nodded and said, "Two taels of silver are so expensive."
Guo Caiwei smiled and said: "Sister Lu Wu, it's twenty taels of silver. You said twenty taels of silver, you can't buy just this plate of ice and snow bean sprouts."
Lu Wu was holding a few snow-white and crisp bean sprouts and putting them into his mouth. Hearing this, he quickly put down his chopsticks and said, "It's incredible. This bite costs hundreds of coins, but I can't afford it."
Guo Caiwei pursed her lips and laughed. Lin Jue also felt that this meal was too expensive. Eating twenty taels of silver for a breakfast was what ordinary people spent for several months. It was really too luxurious.
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"Little princess, we are here, you don't have to spend so much money. Home-cooked meals are enough. We can't eat them with peace of mind when you call us like this." Lin Jue said with a smile.
Guo Caiwei smiled and said: "I didn't prepare anything special for you. This is how I eat breakfast on weekdays. Every morning, I eat half a bowl of brain flower, a soup dumpling, a Wang Po Po meat pie, and some
Half a plum-blossom bun and a few bites of crispy bean sprouts. If anything is missing, you won’t be happy, so it costs about twenty taels of silver."
Lin Jue, the master and the servant, were shocked. Lu Wu thought to himself: Rich people are really extravagant, where do they get so much money to spend? What Xiaohu thought: What he pooped out after eating so many good things is not shit.
What? What Lin Jue was thinking was: If the little princess is so good at spending money, if she marries her in the future, how will she be able to support her? I'm afraid it will be a big problem.
Guo Caiwei didn't care about the expressions of Lin Jue's master and servant. She had long been accustomed to this kind of life where she spent money without thinking about it. In her growth process, she had never worried about money. All her expenses
, reaching tens of thousands taels a month. This does not include the 5,000 taels of private money that King Liang specially gave her every month. To her, money is actually just a prop for buying things, just like water in a well.
, inexhaustible and inexhaustible.
"Let's eat quickly. After we finish eating, let's go to the temple fair. It's fun outside today. There is a temple fair at Daxiangguo Temple." Guo Caiwei urged with a smile.
"Temple fair? Why is there a temple fair today? It's not the New Year or the festival." Lin Jue said in surprise.
"Today is the Shangsi Festival, the third day of March. The Shangsi Festival in the capital is very lively, unlike Hangzhou, which has long passed. Listen, the gongs and drums are ringing outside, it should have started." Guo Caiwei laughed.
road.
Lin Jue suddenly realized that the third day of March is indeed the traditional Shangsi Festival. The Shangsi Festival is actually a very ancient festival. In ancient times, on the third day of March, men and women gathered together to have fun and socialize. It was a very romantic and wild festival.
The festival lasted until the Tang Dynasty, and this custom remained unchanged. As the saying goes, "The weather is new on the third day of March, and there are many beautiful people by the water in Chang'an." It refers to the outings during the Shangsi Festival in the Tang Dynasty. It is recorded in the Analects of Confucius:
In the late spring, the spring clothes were ready, five or six crowned men, and six or seven boys, bathed in Yi, and the wind danced with the urns, chanting and returned. That is a description of the late spring on the third day of March, when the Master and his disciples gathered to bathe in the Yishui River
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However, after the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, etiquette became increasingly strict, and the protection between men and women gradually became stricter. Bathing in the spring water in the wild, or even having wild sex was naturally strictly prohibited. However, the Shangsi Festival still had to be celebrated, so
It evolved into a grand occasion of attending temple fairs after taking a bath at home. In Hangzhou City, the Shangsi Festival is basically ignored by no one, while in Bianliang City, the large temple fair is the main program of the Shangsi Festival today.
Everyone hurriedly ate breakfast and went back to change their clothes and prepare to go out. Lin Jue actually wanted to rest in the house, but seeing that everyone was in high spirits, he refused to spoil the scenery. So he returned to a courtyard separated by a wall from the little princess.
The residence arranged by the young princess for Lin Jue's master and servant was juxtaposed with the young princess's yard, connected by a hanging flower door in the middle. In fact, it was no different from living in the same courtyard.
Soon after, everyone gathered in the front hall and changed into new clothes. Guo Caiwei was wearing a lake green dress and a goose-yellow spring dress on the upper body. Her whole figure was as delicate and beautiful as a tall flower tree in spring. Green Dance
She only wore an ordinary plain-colored skirt, but she also had red lips, bright teeth, and a sweet smile, making her extremely cute.
The two women walked out hand in hand. Lin Jue followed behind and looked at the beautiful couple, feeling extremely satisfied. These two women are both stunning in the world, and they are both their own women. Although Lin Jue has never been with anyone.
He compares his ability to conquer women, but at this moment, like any man, he inevitably feels some vanity pleasure in his heart.
The group of people left the big house and found themselves in a wide alley. Although the house was not located on the main street, the alley in front of the door was still about ten feet wide, allowing several carriages and horses to enter and exit.
There are actually only a dozen courtyards in this alley, all of which belong to wealthy families. Therefore, although the road is wide, there are not many people passing by.
Standing in the alley, I could hear sounds coming from the alley entrances on both sides. It was the sound of gongs, drums and people. But the sound was blocked by tall building walls and trees, and seemed a little faint, like background sound.
It was so buzzing and noisy that it was hard to hear it clearly. But just listening to this sound made people have great expectations. The lively Guo Caiwei had already pulled Lu Wu out and ran straight to the east alley entrance.
More than a dozen palace guards in civilian clothes who were responsible for following and protecting them hurriedly followed. Lin Jue and Lin Hu had to run after them.
The moment everyone left the alley, it seemed like an invisible barrier of sound waves rushed towards them. In just a moment, the distant gongs, drums and noises turned into a huge and complicated sound.
Filling everyone's senses.
But on the street, there were crowds of people, and the sound of people was loud. On the wide Bianhe Street, the crowd was surging towards the north like a raging river. There were young men and women, old men with their young hair, dragging their children with their daughters, and calling for friends.
There were many people doing small business among them. Some were carrying tall bamboo poles with colorful doughnuts stuck on the grass handles above the bamboo poles. Some were holding a lot of colorful ribbons in their hands, tied with small
The windmills were spinning smoothly. There were also people holding a lot of colorful kites and people carrying snack boxes on their heads. All in all, what you saw and heard was dizzying and lively.
Most of the people are wearing new spring clothes, with bright smiles on their faces, chattering. As citizens of the capital, they are obviously living a much more comfortable and happy life. Compared with the people in other places, they have more smiles on their faces.
It is a sense of confidence and pride.
Lin Jue, Guo Caiwei and their group slowly moved northward with the flow of people. Finally, after walking a few miles, a huge red building appeared in the field of vision outside the gap in the treetops in front. Suddenly,
The crowds on the street became thinner, and the crowd turned east collectively and entered a huge square. At the same time, a heat wave surged in the air, bringing various smells and sounds. And the huge red building
Finally, it completely fell into sight.
That is the Daxiangguo Temple, a magnificent temple built more than five hundred years ago during the Northern Qi Dynasty. After more than five hundred years of wind and rain, it is still bright, majestic and majestic. The mountain gate facing us has cornices like hooks and red walls like clouds.
The green tiles are as beautiful as scales. There is a bell and drum tower on both sides, which are equally tall and majestic. The ocher red walls stretch like waves on both sides, surrounding the entire temple. Through the sky above the wall, you can see
I saw the green eaves on the second floor of the Heavenly King's Palace in the temple, as well as the auspicious animals on the roof ridges and the copper bells hanging from the eaves.
There are hundreds of temples in Bianliang City, but only a dozen are famous, and the Daxiangguo Temple is undoubtedly the first among them. It is second to none in terms of scale and long history. Of course, the Daxiangguo Temple is even more impressive.
This temple is famous for its prosperous incense and profound Buddhist teachings. Almost all the famous monks in the Zhou Dynasty came from this temple.
Looking from a distance, at this moment, the huge square in front of the mountain gate is crowded with people. A huge incense burner in front of the mountain gate is filled with green smoke. The people who are offering incense are crawling like ants on the steps in front of the mountain gate, kowtow and pray.
.Some people are constantly inserting lit incense into the giant incense burner that is already full of incense. After one kowtow is completed, another devout pilgrim is immediately replaced. In the merit plates on both sides of the incense burner, the sound of copper coins being put in jingles.
, an endless stream.
In the square a little far away from the mountain gate, rows of stalls are arranged along the edge of the square. Boiling oil is boiling, and various ingredients are rolling out of the oil pan, exuding an attractive luster and fragrance. The smell of various foods is in the air.
Intertwined in the square, stimulating people's nostrils and taste buds. In addition to food stalls and trading stalls, there are various tricks and entertainment projects on the small circles in the square. What about breathing fire, changing faces, doing tricks, swallowing swords, etc.
Stone-breaking, knife-playing, gun-dancing, whip-cracking, fiber-foot walking, lion dance, dragon dance, cockfighting, monkey play, etc. There are also lantern riddles, couplets, poems, lyrics and other ingenuity of writing and writing, poets and scholars, all come and go.
Show off your talents. At this time, the three religions and nine schools are gathered together, and people of all colors are equally happy, a picture of the joy of the market in all kinds of ways in the world.
