Don’t urge the jade leaking silver pot, and the iron gate and gold lock are opened clearly.

Who can sit idle when you see the moon? Where can you hear the lights and not look at it?

——"Six Poems on the Night of the Yuan Dynasty·One" Cui Ye (Tang Dynasty)

The third day after arriving in Chang'an, it happened to be the annual Shangyuan Festival. The city of Chang'an is very lively.

Xian Yu Zhongtong, the governor of Jiannan, was also in Chang'an at this time. He was busy congratulating the emperor and paying homage to important officials in the past few days. Xian Yu Zhongtong was the head of the Xianyu clan in Chang'an. This festival changed the tradition of banqueting at the Bashu Hall in the past, but held a banquet at his own home. On the evening of the year, the mansion was opened to host the Shu court officials and famous scholars in Beijing. Elders such as Zhang Fen and Taoist Qingchi were also invited.

Before the banquet, Zhang Fen gathered all the young men from Bashu together and gave some advice:

"Today is the Spring Festival. Everyone goes to Beijing from all over the world, so how can they not stroll around the lanterns? But I want to emphasize a few points. Chang'an seems to be peaceful and peaceful, but in fact it is undercurrents and crises are everywhere. Especially during the Spring Festival, dragons and snakes are mixed, and many children are lost every year. It is not uncommon to force the women and bully men and women. Everyone must be wary of themselves, and they should be careful, join in the fun, and meddle in other people's business."

Yichan whispered: "Chang'an is the capital. At the foot of the emperor, there are still people who dare to bully men and women, but they are indifferent to the king's laws?"

When Zhang Fen heard Yi Chan's words, he smiled contemptuously: "The kingly law is all about restraining our common people. What is power? It is power that is above the kingly law! It is at the feet of the emperor that the royal family, nobles, high-ranking families, and powerful people are everywhere, and the power is even more prominent.

If you want to go out to see the lanterns, you must go together with more than five people. If there is a mistake, you can take care of each other."

Taoist Principal Qingchi waited for the elders to repeatedly reminded his disciples before driving to the banquet.

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After the elders left, the young men were very happy and finished their supper early, and went to hang out on the lanterns in groups of three or five.

Bai Fu, Yichan and his fellow disciple Li Xinkai, Yue Tianhua, and Sichuan Gang Wang Huyi were in a group tonight and went to visit the lanterns.

Bai Fu went back to the house and changed into a new clothes made by Yi Chan for himself, a green satin cotton jacket, a six-sided and strong hat, found a hero scarf to tie it on his forehead, looked at the bronze mirror, and the clothes were well-tailored, and the whole person was tall and heroic, with a majestic weapon.

After waiting for about a cup of tea downstairs, when Bai Fu heard the movement, he looked up and Yi Chan Yingying walked down the stairs. She was wearing a pink hibiscus silk shirt, a crabapple-colored dance skirt under her, a yellow apricot-colored silk phoenix belt on her waist, and a long suede boots on her feet. Yi Chan was already tall, and now the red clouds came out of the mountains, making her skin look like snow. Yi Chan smiled sweetly, like a lotus flower blooming, making Bai Fu crazy.

...

When the five people went out, it was dark. Every household was hanging lights and decorated with flowers and silver flowers. The whole city of Chang'an was like daytime. People in the three streets and six cities were like tides. People walking around the lights helped the elderly and young, one after another, and it was very lively. There were all kinds of lights all over the street, including four-lurk, octagonal, fairy, and beautiful zodiac lanterns, and the eight immortals crossing the sea. They were even more vivid and vivid, making everyone dazzled.

A local old man beside him enthusiastically introduced: "This is the first time you guys come back to Chang'an to watch the lanterns? These lanterns are not unusual, they pay attention to visiting the lanterns. There are three places in the entire Chang'an City. One is the Aoshan lantern in front of Chunming Gate and Caishan Hall, the other is the lantern of a hundred beasts in front of the Yue Palace. The third is the lantern of a hundred birds in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion."

Yue Tianhua said: "I heard the name of a hundred birds paying phoenix lanterns for a long time, why don't we go to the Prime Minister's Mansion?"

Everyone had no objection, and they were watching the lanterns while laughing. I saw young couples dressed in their clothes all the way, leaning on each other, snuggling with each other. Yichan pulled the white sleeves and secretly said, "Senior Brother, look, they are all going to lanterns one by one. It's so boring to have others following you."

Bai Fu thought about it, and finally got together with Junior Sister Yang. If you can't be alone, it would be a shame to let this beautiful night of flowers and moon. Moreover, after spending most of the time, except for the crowded people, there were pickpockets, I didn't feel that there was anything insecure. I'm afraid Zhang Fen and the others were worried.

The two blinked their eyes and looked at each other and smiled. They deliberately slowed down and landed behind everyone. When they arrived at the cross street, everyone continued to travel west, while the two followed the trend and turned north, walking less than a hundred meters to a large square.

The square was very lively, and there were various juggling teams in the center of the square. Some performed sword-swalking, some stacked arhats, some held torches, some blew fire with wine, some danced lions, and some competed for hegemony.

The most spectacular one is the dragon dance. A fire dragon of more than 20 feet is churning up and down with dozens of people dancing. The huge dragon head decorated by colorful lights twists the dragon horns and chases the dragon balls in front of it, appearing vividly, flying in the clouds and majestic. From time to time, the dragon head suddenly jumps into the crowd and rushes into the place where children gather, scaring the children to scream.

The most amazing thing is the Hu man's trick of the sky rope. I saw a Hu man who had been wrapped in cloth on his head for several turns. With a whistle, a rope rose vertically from the basket, like a living thing. When the rope was lifted up to several feet, the Hu man started to climb the rope with barefoots. When he rose to mid-air, he performed various flip movements on the rope.

Bai Yang and the others watched it with relish, and Yi Chan asked curiously, "Senior Brother, what's going on with this trick? It's so magical!"

Bai Fu shrugged and smiled, "I really don't know. Could it be that he also has spiritual objects like python beads?"

The Hu man was swinging on the rope, and suddenly he made a mistake and fell down. Amid everyone's screams, the Hu man whistled, and the rope suddenly fell down and shrank into a rope net. The Hu man bounced on the net, turned over and fell steadily to the ground. Behind his left hand, waved his right hand, bowed half his body, and gave everyone a deep gift. Thunderous applause burst out from the venue. The onlookers exclaimed, and did not hesitate to throw copper coins and broken silver into the Hu man's piggy bank.

After watching the juggling, I will watch the New Year’s goods. There are shops around the square, including those who make noodles, those who blow candy, and those who sell all kinds of goods from all over the world.

When passing by a fortune telling stall, the fortune teller stood up and shouted to Bai Yang and the others: "Two boys, please stay. As far as I say, don't stay here, go home quickly. If you continue to surf the lights, you will have a great disaster tonight."

Yichan asked, "Sir, how did you see it?"

The fortune teller said, "You two people have black seals in the seal hall, which is a very bad appearance. Listen to me, go back quickly!"

Bai Fu smiled, but did not refute, and pulled Yichan to turn elsewhere.

The fortune teller looked at the backs of the two and shook his head secretly.

Does he think Jing is so effective? Otherwise, he saw that Bai Fu is extremely handsome and heroic, and he is also pretty and tall, and thought to himself: Tonight, there are all ghosts and monsters in the lantern market. I don’t know how many unfair things will happen. If you care about it, you can’t even get your life inside. So he pretended to ask Jing to guide Bai Fu and the other two.

Yichan walked into a row of stalls selling rouge and water powder and ropa embroidery. Here, the most fashionable styles in Chang'an were selling, and I couldn't help but feel happy and squeezed in. The stalls were surrounded by women, and women gathered together, so it was naturally inconvenient to get too close. Bai Fu was walking around nearby, looking around.

It doesn't matter if you look at it. You accidentally saw two women holding a child, walking along the wall, rushing along. One of the boys cried, and the woman holding him pretended to be angry and raised her hand to slap. The boy was so scared that he quickly fell silent and shivered. Another older girl pretended to faint and leaned her head on the woman's shoulder. When she found Bai Fu looking at her, she quickly blinked and opened her mouth silently.

Bai Fu was stunned and then woke up. The girl opened her mouth and said, "Save me!"
Chapter completed!