Eat in Song Dynasty

Chapter 72 Undercurrent
The east wind blows flowers and thousands of trees at night, and blows them down. The stars are like rain, and the roads are filled with the fragrance of BMW carved cars.
The Lantern Festival is a day for the people of Tokyo to go out and watch the lanterns. At night, the city is decorated with lanterns and festoons, and the shops on both sides of the road hang various lanterns early to attract passers-by.

People carrying lanterns on the street rubbed shoulders, rushing to Yujie Street to watch the glazed lantern mountain light up. At the moment when the carriage had just left Ningshoufang for a short distance, it was too congested to move forward.

This kind of situation is obviously commonplace for everyone in the Hou Mansion, and they abandoned their cars one after another in a calm manner and walked on foot.

However, high-ranking families are different from ordinary people. In order not to be crowded by others and to show their demeanor, the female family members will have special servants wrap around them with long circles of silk or cloth before leaving to isolate people outside. Kailai, also known as "Jinbuzhang."

When the common people saw this situation, they knew that it was a wealthy family traveling. In order to avoid unnecessary troubles, they would basically stay away automatically, so as not to cause any trouble, and they would not be able to explain clearly at that time, nor would they be able to pay for it.

Wen Shu was lucky enough to experience it this time, following Lu Xingwan in the middle of the line.

The height of the "Jinbu Barrier" is only waist-high, so it does not hinder the sight of people in the circle, and you can have a panoramic view of the bustle and prosperity along the way.

"In the first month, the first month is the first day, the fifteenth day of the first month is full of lanterns, the lanterns are yellow, the lanterns are red, and the snow is playing the lanterns for a good year." The children along the street clapped their hands and sang nursery rhymes.

On both sides of the street, there are actors and actresses performing arts in a specific area designated by the government. In short, not only the Royal Street is bustling and noisy, but everywhere along the road is full of scenery and bustle.

The group walked for about two quarters of an hour. When the wives and girls were sore and weak, they finally arrived at the lantern viewing seats downstairs in Xuande.

These seats are specially set up by the palace for officials and their family members above the third rank. As for those below the third rank, they can only book boxes in nearby restaurants by themselves.

According to his official position, Lu Yuancheng was not able to sit in the lantern seats, but Weiyuan Hou's mansion belonged to the nobles, so he was able to enter the lantern seats as the son of the Hou's mansion.

The masters sat in line, but the maids didn't have this treatment. Each master could only serve with one servant, so when Nanny Chen accompanied Lu Xingwan to the table, the butler let them play by themselves. Just get back here before three shifts.

Yinhong and the others invited to go to the front to buy light bulbs and plugs to meet the occasion. Wen Shu wanted to find her father, so she said that she didn't want to leave, she just wanted to wait here for the lights to light up.

Luliu and the others didn't force it, and after asking her if she needed one, they happily left.

Wen Shu stood there for a while, thinking about whether to go to the tea stand that he used to frequent, when he saw Lu Xi squeezed over from nowhere, pulled her aside and said, "My lord, let me come over and ask , Miss, do you want to go home now? If you want to go back, I happen to be on the way, so I can give you a lift."

Wen Shu was a little astonished, "Didn't I stay in the mansion, my lord? Why did you let me go back?" As he spoke, he looked at the lantern seats, but found that at some point, there was no one in Lu Yuancheng's place.

"It's not really going back. I have to come back before the third watch. There are still two hours before the third watch. If the lady wants to go back to Xiaocha Lane, you can follow me to the front of the car." When he spoke, his face was a little eager , it seems that there is something urgent to do.

Wen Shu thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "No need, today is the Lantern Festival, my father may also come out to watch the lanterns, I will miss it when I go home now, let's stay here and keep busy, Guanshi has something to do Bar."

Lu Xi didn't say anything else, nodded and left. The young master told him to rush to the north of the city at [-]:[-], time was running out.

After he left, Wen Shu went alone to a teahouse on the right side of Yujie Street. Of course, it was impossible to go in. Firstly, she didn't have the money, and secondly, the current teahouse must not be vacant.

The reason why she went there was because her father would take her to rest at the small tea stand in front of the teahouse when she was tired from watching the lanterns in previous years.

If there is no accident, Dad should also settle there this year. It is better for her to wait in advance than to search in a sea of ​​people.

The tea stall was not far away. When she went there, there were not many people in front of the stall. The stall owner was an old couple in their early fifties. Seeing her coming, they greeted her familiarly, and then asked her why her father didn't come.

Wen Shu then said that she had made an appointment with her father to meet here, and her father would come in a while. The stall owner smiled and asked her if she would like to order a pot of tea or hot soup first.

After thinking about it, she asked the stall owner to serve a piece of wood dust soup, and while sipping it, she kept an eye on the passing crowd to see if her father was among them.

But a quarter of an hour passed, and seeing that it was the time when the lamp mountain was turned on, the people who had crowded here to watch the performers also flocked to the lamp shed in front of Xuande Gate, and she couldn't find her father in the crowd.

what happened?

This tea stall is the only way to go to Xuandemen. Her father is going to go to the front to watch the lanterns. He will definitely leave here. Is it because she has bad eyesight that she missed it?

Or did her father not come at all, or came early and she didn't notice?

While she was thinking about it, there was a sudden burst of cheers behind her. She turned her head and saw the "Glass Lantern Mountain" under the Xuande Gate shining brightly in an instant, and the various characters on it seemed to come alive. Slowly dance.

Her mind was drawn, she drank the last sip of soup in the soup bowl, turned her head to the stall owner and said: "Mother-in-law, I'm going to watch the lanterns first, if my father comes, please give him a message , Just say that I will come back in half an hour and let him wait for me."

"Go, go, I'll bring it for you." The old woman agreed cheerfully.

Different from the hustle and bustle in the south of the city, the north of the city at this time seemed a little lonely because the people flocked to the south of the city.

Lu Yuancheng led Lu Xi and a group of other courtyard guards, guarding the gates in the north of the city, watching all the people passing by, especially those who were going out of the city.

Three days later, at the court meeting on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, the Ministry of War will report a news that shocked the government and the public. The defense map of Huizhou was stolen last night. This case involves the battle against Xia half a month later. The officials were shocked after hearing this Anger, Dali Feng and the Ministry of Punishment will investigate strictly.

It took half a month for the case to be solved, but the defense plan was sent out on Lantern Festival and it was too late to recover. Xia got the news in advance and resorted to a plan instead, which caused many soldiers on the border to be lost.

After reliving his life, he naturally wants to stop this matter, but today is the Lantern Festival, and the imperial court will be on holiday from the fourteenth to the sixteenth day of the first lunar month. Except for the submerged fire team, which must be on standby all the time, other departments, up to the two governments During the consultation, all the government offices in Kaifeng were on holiday.

The Ministry of War was no exception. He couldn't ask the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Punishment to come forward to arrest him, so he could only intercept him secretly first, and then find a reasonable excuse to get over him.

So in recent days, he has sent people to keep an eye on Xu Bin, the head of the Ministry of War who is in charge of important documents, to see if any Taoist priests have come and gone in his mansion recently.

Sure enough, before nightfall, someone came to report that Xu's mansion had recruited two Taoist priests into the mansion, so he hurried over with his men.

　Do you feel bored in these two chapters?

　　There is no way, the necessary foreshadowing for the transitional chapters, just wait until the heroine and Lu Xingwan leave.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)