Modern people generally do not have holidays when celebrating the Lantern Festival. Although the Lantern Festival is an important traditional festival of the Chinese nation, considering that the total number of days on national statutory holidays should not be increased, and the Lantern Festival is relatively close to the Spring Festival, and the influence of the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is closer to the National Day, is relatively small, so the Lantern Festival is not considered a statutory holiday now.

Even in some places, units will only give a day off during the Lantern Festival. Only primary and secondary school students whose Lantern Festival is included in the winter vacation can have a good Lantern Festival.

However, in the Song Dynasty, holidays were necessary every Lantern Festival. Not only were the holidays, but the holidays were not short, and it took seven days.

Pang Yuanying of the Song Dynasty once recorded in "Wenchang Miscellaneous Records": "The year of vacation is 76 days, the New Year's Day, the Cold Food Festival, and the Winter Solstice are each seven days, the Heavenly Festival, and the Shangyuan Festival is the same."

Simply put, in the Song Dynasty, the imperial court stipulated a total of 76 days of holidays in a year, including the Spring Festival, the Cold Food Festival, the Winter Solstice, the Emperor's birthday (Tianqing Festival) and the Lantern Festival (Shangyuan Festival).

Of course, not everyone in the Song Dynasty would take holidays according to this regulation. In addition to the officials who had to be on duty, higher education institutions such as the Imperial Academy and the Martial Arts also had a short holiday during the Lantern Festival. Of course, generally speaking, if it was a private school, then the Spring Festival may be held together with the Lantern Festival.

The day when Gao Qiu came to the Northern Song Dynasty was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the fourth year of Yuanyou, the Shangyuan Festival.

On this day, Su Shi returned to Bianliang from another place. Because he was in a hurry to see the lanterns that had not been seen for several years, Su Shi took his third son Su Guo and quietly avoided the care of his wife at home, and left a lot of things that needed to be sorted and ran out to see the lanterns. It was just a coincidence that before Su Shi could get some fun, he encountered a high ball that fell into the water. Therefore, he didn't care about watching the lanterns and hurriedly took the high ball back home.

The wife Wang Runzhi, who was at home, was already full of anger, but when she saw her husband holding a child, she ran back home without any worries about getting angry and hurriedly asked someone to prepare the hot soup.

There are many things at home, but the problem is that Su Shi was demoted continuously. Although there are many items in the home, there are only some clothes besides books. Therefore, Wang Runzhi took his family to clean up one day yesterday. Today, Gao Qiu can get out of bed and move, and he looks very energetic, so Su Shi was thinking about going out to watch the lamp again.

I don’t know how much pleasing Su Shi said to his wife, but Gao Qiu was a little impatient when he was waiting outside the door. He had already become a child, but Gao Qiu was obviously a wild child from this life who didn’t know where he came from. Naturally, his body was not very good. After standing for ten minutes, his calves couldn’t stand it anymore.

He sat on the steps behind him, Gao Qiu half leaned against the steps behind him, looked at Su Guo with a slanted eye, reached out to pat the steps beside him, and said proudly: "You are not tired of standing like this! Don't be polite to me, come and sit!"

"Ha! If your father comes out and sees you, he will have to beat you up!"

Looking at Gao Qiu's inappropriate rogue appearance, Su Guo chuckled, but soon calmed down his smile and scared Gao Qiu with a stern face.

"Take it! Just hit it! Can you beat me to death?"

He rolled his eyes and Gao Qiu was too lazy to discuss with Su Guo. Su Shi was still a literati no matter how hard he tried.

"Hmph! I can't beat you to death, but I can open your butt! Daddy is a person who has been on the ground, and his hands are quite powerful!"

Su Guo pretended to look at Gao Qiudi's butt, as if he had foreseen Gao Qiu's pitiful appearance.

"You... don't scare me! I... I'm not afraid!"

I don’t know if my mentality is getting younger as my body shrinks. When I heard that “the butt is opened and the flower is blooming”, Gao Qiu became nervous.

Just as Gao Qiu was restless and was about to stand up, a squeak suddenly came from the other side of the room, and the door opened. Then Su Shi retreated backwards from the room, with a flattering smile on his face, but there was a clear weight in his sleeves, not as light as it was at the beginning, and it swayed randomly when the wind blew.

"Hey!" Su Shi was still laughing with her. Gao Qiu could no longer help but shouted Su over, "Sir, did you fear me so much before?"

"Yeah...yes!"

Su Guo thought about it carefully, then nodded heavily, giving a positive answer.

"This is really interesting, I have to write it down afterwards!"

Hearing such a secret message, Gao Qiu's eyes lit up immediately and he muttered in a low voice.

At the other end of the door, Su Shi, who had already left the door three or four steps, stood up at this time, walked towards the high ball with a wrong step, and whispered as he walked: "It's a big deal! This is a loss and you can't argue with others. You can compare to go out and talk nonsense to me!"

"Yes, yes! Daddy is just a loss! It's just a loss!"

Faced with his father's rebuttal, Su Guo echoed, but he rolled his eyes as if he was a Gao Qiu. Obviously, he disagreed with his father's defense.

"Hmph! It's good to know!" I glanced at Su Guo, as if I didn't see Su Guo disagreed. Su Shi turned his head and looked at the high ball that was still sitting on the steps. He took two steps and reached out to pick up the high ball. "The ground is so cold, how can I sit directly on the steps? Su Guo! What do you think of him?"

"Dad, I said I couldn't sit, but he didn't listen to me!"

Su Guo tried to roll his eyes again, very dissatisfied with his father's extremely partial attitude.

However, Su Shi seemed to have not seen it, and he hit the floating soil on his body on his own, "He doesn't listen? If he doesn't listen, you can ignore it? He is still so young, he may not understand it if you say it! You kid!"

"whispering sound!"

Su Guo rolled his eyes again, as if he had fallen in love with this action that could fully express his inner feelings.

"That...I'm fine!"

Feeling Su Shi's care like a kind father, Gao Qiu felt that he was uncomfortable. He pushed Su Shi, who was trying hard to get close to him, and then slid down Su Shi's long gown to the ground.

"Well! It's fine! It's fine!" Maybe he noticed that his behavior was inappropriate, Su Shi smiled awkwardly, then raised his left hand, revealing the bulging purse in his hand, "Look! I've got a lot of money!"

"Hey? Can you buy something delicious?"

After all, I am still a teenager. When I contact the holidays and money, I naturally think of snacks.

"No, your mother asked me to buy some rice back..."

When it comes to the purpose of these rice, Su Shi, who was already full of ambition, became dejected.

"Just buy rice! You can always buy some food left for so much money, right? Let's go!"

I couldn't wait to see the grand scene of the Northern Song Dynasty Lantern Festival. I leaned against Su Shi's knees, tried hard to pull Su Shi's trouser legs, and urged them repeatedly.

"Silver? Where did the money come from? There is only a consistent amount of money here!"

Thinking about it, I had been begging for a long time before I got my usual money from my wife. Even if I was as elegant as Su Shi, I could only sigh.

"Once upon death? How much is that rice price?"

Looking at Su Shi's expression of disappointment as Su Guo, Gao Qiu felt that he seemed to think of the situation too optimistic.

"The price of rice...is six hundred cents? It was this price a few years ago..."

Su Shi, who has been exiled for many years and has not been in Bianliang for a long time, is a little uncertain about life.

"Okay, I'll buy rice first. If you want to eat, it's good to go out for a walk."

Faced with the reality of having no money, Gaoqiu was not unreasonable. In short, the snacks in the Northern Song Dynasty could not be as delicious as those Coke, potato chips, etc. thousands of years later. I said I wanted to eat them, but in fact, I just wanted to see them more.

Shaking his head, Gaoqiu was whispering in his mouth while walking towards the yard gate.

"Ha! Look at him, he is like a little adult!"

Looking at Gao Qiu's shaking back, Su Shi seemed to have found something fun, and smiled and greeted Su Guo to look at him.

"I understand! You have said it several times from this morning until now, Daddy!" Impatiently pulled out my ears that seemed to be calloused. Su Guo raised his leg and followed Gao Qiu's hand, grabbed Gao Qiu's little hand, "Slow down!"

“Oh~~~!”

After a long voice, Gao Qiu could only express his dissatisfaction with Su Guo.

But it is obvious that Su Guo didn't care about what Gao Qiu was thinking in his heart. On the other side of Su Guo, Su Shi was pulling Su Guo's hand and leading the team forward with a proud look on his face.

This team of people from high to low, from large to small, from old to young attracted a lot of attention as soon as they went out. Although there are many people in the family who have three generations living together or even four generations living together, there are still not many people who have children like this "family".

Gao Qiu suddenly felt a little ashamed when he was stared at him. He was weak and could not break free from Su Guo's palm, but was tighter by the other party.

Fortunately, I didn’t walk far and arrived at the street market, and the lanterns on the street illuminated the darkness.

There are a wide range of colorful lanterns, some are held in their hands by children, and some are hung on their heads, which is really gorgeous. Even the lanterns held by children, Gao Ba has seen paper lanterns, gauze lanterns and glass lanterns. Although there are few glass lanterns, Gao Ba from later generations doesn't care about it. However, there is a kind of lantern that is hollowed out with blue bricks, which makes Gao Ba's eyes pop out.

I knew that the Song Dynasty was very wealthy and there were many skilled craftsmen, but I used blue bricks to make lanterns, so what would I be idle!
Chapter completed!