Qingchuan History

Chapter 251 Sleeping Overnight at the Hall of Turning the Lanterns ([-])
Tingxue lanterns circle the top of the eaves of the main hall of Wanlan, and there are 25 lanterns on the eaves of the four halls in the southeast, northwest, respectively, a total of [-] lanterns.A hundred years ago, Taizu Gu Yecheng established the rule that concubines should not stay in the King's Palace. One year later, Mrs. Ming entered the palace, and another year later, Tingxue Deng appeared on the top of Wanlan Palace——

Rules are still rules, but they cannot be broken.Once a concubine stays in the Wanlan Palace overnight, all the lanterns must be lit up to tell the world.

As for the empress and concubine not staying in the king's palace, the world understands to some extent, and there is basically a consensus after a hundred years; but what is the consideration for lighting the lamp to inform the world, whether it is to warn the king or the concubine, or both——

It should be a warning, not a sign of glory.But so far no one dares to determine why.

And even so, because of the grand scene of the long night that has been exaggerated over the years, because of the romantic story of Qi Taizu and Mrs. Ming who have not been seen in the official history but are widely passed down to the world——

Regardless of whether Ting Xue Deng is oppressive to the parties involved, for the people of Qi State and even the entire Qingchuan, this grand event in the palace can be called a grand event in Qingchuan.

In the years when Taizu listened to the snow lights frequently, in addition to the Qi people from various cities and counties who often came to Jidu to try their luck, the number of people from the other three countries who went to Jidu for sightseeing also increased greatly——

Listening to the snow lights, a strict rule that originated from the royal family has become a legendary landscape that cannot be met in any country, attracting competition from the current world and yearning for future generations. Le Dao sighed.

When he was about to enter the palace, people's voices started to commotion on the nine-curved corridor in the second circle of Qi Palace outside the Imperial Garden to the east of Wanlan Palace.

To be more precise, the voices of people were low and sparse, with only one or two disputes intermittently, and the real commotion was the sound of footsteps.

The footsteps were restrained, light and slightly messy, mighty and rustling.A group of ten night patrol soldiers heard the noise, followed the sound and saw about [-] or [-] palace people walking in small steps on the corridor, pushing and shoving.

Pushing is not obvious, you have to look closely to tell.At the back of the long line, at intervals of a short distance, there were still a steady stream of new palace people following up quickly, joining the line, and then quietly trying to overtake the people in front, and silently pushing and shoving again.

Such a situation is so rare that it is bizarre. It seems that something big has happened, but it doesn't look like a bad thing.A group of ten soldiers looked at each other in blank dismay, thinking that it was a quiet night, with the first snow falling, so nothing happened.

"What is this for?" Finally, when the first few palace servants got off the corridor and passed by, the leading patrolman hurriedly grabbed one of them and asked.

"Oh my lord, don't get in the way of the little one! First come, first served, I didn't even wear two of these clothes, and I managed to get to the front because I was half frozen to death!"

After the palace man finished speaking, he let go and continued to run. The leading soldier was stunned, thinking about the last sentence that was so long that people couldn't remember it, and turned to ask the other companions:

"Did you understand what he said?"

The other nine soldiers stared dryly for a while, then shook their heads in unison.

More palace people came down from the corridor, even though they were in a hurry, they still gave a standard salute to the soldiers when they passed the patrol team.

So well-behaved, several familiar faces, one of the patrol soldiers blinked, "It seems to be someone from the Lantern Palace. Look at Mian Shan."

The leader of the team took a closer look and agreed with it. He immediately became nervous and stopped another person with lightning speed: "What's going on?"

"Light the lamp, my lord! Light the lamp!"

After the man finished speaking, he ran away without a trace like everyone else in front of him.

The leader soldier breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly lit a lamp, thinking that something happened to the Lantern Hall and he was on duty without knowing it.

But saw the other nine soldiers change their faces one after another.

"What are you all doing in a daze? There is still an hour to change shifts, so cheer up!"

"My lord, light the lamp." One of the soldiers whispered.

The team leader didn't react, and his face was still dark.

"Lighting the lamps is not holding the lamps. My lord. There are dozens of people rushing to the Wanlan Hall at this hour, why don't they rush to the front and say they want to light the lamps."

The leader of the team was finally struck by lightning.

"You mean, it's time to light the lights?"

The other nine soldiers hadn't recovered from their shock, they were speechless and could only nod their heads.

half an hour.

"Then, my lord, we are now—"

"What is it? Now we are on duty, so we will continue to patrol naturally." The leader waved his hand, "All line up for me, after hearing a few gossips, you can't straighten your back, right?"

The air continued to be quiet.

"Report!"

"speak."

"My lord, this subordinate needs to go to the toilet."

The leader frowned, "Go back quickly."

"My lord, my subordinates too."

"Subordinates too!"

The team leader's face became more serious: "Drink less water before patrolling, and you must not leave your post without authorization when you are on duty. You have completely forgotten about it! Hurry up, if you don't come back for a cup of tea, half a month's monthly salary will be deducted!"

"Yes!"

Then I saw the three soldiers running towards the imperial garden.

"My lord, they are going to the toilet in the wrong direction."

The leader of the team had a serious expression on his face, and said in a cold voice: "The servants in the palace have such little eyelids. From here to the vicinity of the Wanlan Hall, it takes at least half of the incense stick time to go back and forth. If you really have to wait for the lights to come on, I'm afraid it will be a stick of incense. I can’t even come back. It seems that I don’t even want this month’s salary.”

"Well, my lord," one of the remaining soldiers said again, hesitating, wondering if it was snowing, "Is it just deducting one month's salary?"

The team leader almost lost his breath, "Why, you want to go to the toilet too?"

There was a lot of voices in the vestibule of the Wanlan Hall.

There shouldn't be a lot of noise, no one dared to make noise, just because there were too many people, it seemed too prosperous in this silent winter night.

The team of 20 people has been lined up, neat and tidy, imposing, and the obvious joy does not match the quiet atmosphere of Midnight.

The rest of the crowd drooped their heads and stood with their hands down, full of resentment and feeling that it was unfair. The first few palace people who rushed in were stunned to find that the team of 20 people had already become half——

It was the group of people who were on duty in the palace tonight.

Big luck.

The ladders have been set up, and they are erected obliquely at the northwest, northeast, southeast, and southwest corners of the main hall of Wan Lan. The 20 people were divided into four teams, five people in each team, and went to the top of the eaves from one side of the ladder.

There are 25 lamps on one eaves, and each person lights five lamps at the same time and at a uniform speed, which is enough to light up one hundred lamps listening to the snow in a few breaths.

The snow fell more slowly.All the palace people in action breathed out lightly.On the ladder, five people are equally spaced on each side, holding fire in their right hands, and are slowly climbing.Di Yan stood in the courtyard, and all the palace people stood behind him; he raised his head and looked across the snowy sky to the lampshades on the top of the main hall that were hidden in the night and whose outlines could not be seen clearly, and suddenly the sound of wind rang in his ears.

The unreal sound of the wind is mixed with the sound of snow, and maybe also mixed with some complicated and solemn, distant and real regrets.

His Majesty Taizu did not regret his chess moves.Mrs. Ming's Listening Snow Lantern.The century-old fantasy story of Da Qi's love history.

Is it such a long night as bright as day?
The Tingxue Lantern, which is rumored to be able to illuminate the entire night sky in Jidu, is so soft, bright and warm, silently and eternally reflected under the stars, moonlight, and snow at night.

The entire circle of high and solemn eaves, blue bricks, and blue tiles in the main hall of Wan Lan were all lit up.A hundred lampshades that seemed to be made of glass contained the snowy moonlight in the candlelight, and the orange-yellow and reddish flames came out from them, turning into a clean and warm translucent white.

Light, moon, snow, and starlight.Bright and warm white, cool white, translucent white, brilliant white, all the pure, pure, bright and new light in the world shines around, making the dark night sky into a vast expanse of pure, pure, bright to new.

A hundred years ago, the night stayed in the Lantern Palace, and a hundred years later, the long night will be as bright as day, and the time will flow forever, and the time will never return. Maybe it is just a cycle, and the end is the beginning.

The city of Jidu gradually lit up.The sea of ​​white light penetrated into the city from nightfall, and those who slept late were disturbed by the sudden light falling outside the window from their lucid dreams.

"This is--"

"Open the window and have a look."

Which family first opened the window and screamed, on the night of the first snow on the third day of December in the sixth year of Jinghong, so that every family opened the window one after another to see the night that was as bright as day after a hundred years. No one really cares.

At the first moment, no one even cared who caused the bright light in the sky.

The Ji of Zishi came back to life, people in their sleep woke up, and the bright yellow lights lit up one after another, and they merged with the snow falling from the sky to form an independent, unreal world.

"Grandpa, was it like this back then too? Exactly the same?" A boy about eight or nine years old looked up and asked beside hundreds of open windows.In fact, it is very close to the imagination, and it is also very similar to the scene that my grandfather told over and over again.

But he still wants to ask.I want to say that this picture alone and this momentum are still beyond all his imagination.And he finally understood why his great-grandfather would remember the scenes he saw when he was four or five years old for his whole life.

"Same. Exactly the same." The old man with gray beard and hair and a face full of dimples replied tremblingly, "95 years. Who would believe it. It's already the fourth dynasty, and the world has been different for a long time."

The old man's eyes were cloudy, and he slowly raised his head towards the vast sky.The little boy wasn't sure if what he saw was the same as himself.

"But it sounds like Xue Deng is still the same," he said. "It's still the same as it was 95 years ago. Everything is changing, and there will always be the same. Good. Good."

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