The Legend of Shushan Xuanjian

Chapter 525
People look for him thousands of Baidu.Looking back suddenly, the man was there, where the lights were dim.

——"Sapphire Case·Yuanxi" Xin Qiji
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After New Year's Eve, the Lantern Festival is coming in a blink of an eye.

Today's New Year's Eve is more lively than in previous years. In addition to the decorations and festoons in every household, the royal family of Li and Tang also held a lantern show with great fanfare.

In order to respond to Suzong's opening of the altar to sacrifice to heaven, Princess Qingluan made an agreement with several princesses and princesses in private to place lanterns outside the palace city to raise donations for her father and emperor, which will be used for military expenses against the rebellion.

Emperor Suzong was overjoyed when he heard that, and ordered the royal family, princes and princesses, princes and princesses to hold a lantern competition.

Set the rules of the competition, whoever raises the most military expenditures will be today's oiran, and there will be a big reward.The rest of the rankings will all be rewarded.

The Anlushan Rebellion caused Li and Tang royal families to be displaced and humiliated.The whole royal family also wanted to take advantage of this festive season to feel proud and sweep away the bad luck.

As soon as His Majesty's decree came out, the royal family was even more motivated, and everyone was gearing up, hoping to win the championship in one fell swoop on Yuan Xi night.

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Princess Qingluan and the maids started preparations a month ago, and from time to time, they would ask Bai Fu to help with the design sketches.

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In the evening, every household wears red and green, hangs lanterns and festoons, and the entire Chang'an City is colorful with flowers, trees, silver flowers, and flowers that never sleep.

People in Chang'an walked out of their homes one after another to help the old and the young.The neighborhoods are crowded with people, shoulder to shoulder, very lively.

But careful lantern visitors will find that although the lanterns are still colorful and colorful, compared with before the Anlu Mountain rebellion, the quantity and quality of the lanterns are much worse than before.

In the past, there were three lanterns on the Lantern Festival that attracted tourists the most: one was the Aoshan Lantern in Caishan Hall in front of Chunming Gate, and the other was a lantern in front of the Palace of the King of Yue.The third is a lantern of a hundred birds facing the phoenix in front of the prime minister's mansion.

These extravagant lanterns are gone this year, and more are plain paper lanterns.Compared with previous years, the only thing that remains unchanged is the enthusiasm of the people to watch the lanterns and the emotion of the survivors.

A local old man sighed to his family: "Don't complain, it's good to have lights to see. Two years ago, Chang'an fell, and the rebels burned, killed and looted. I don't know what lanterns are for a long time. I can still see Yuan Dynasty in my lifetime. Evening lanterns, that's enough."

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Groups of young and beautiful ladies came out to visit the lanterns in groups, wearing a little makeup, wearing new clothes, and smiling.Although there is no precious jewelry worn in previous years, but a bouquet made of silk is stuck on the corner of the hair, which has a special style.

Princess Qingluan also dressed up meticulously. After finishing her makeup, she suddenly remembered something and found a Luanfeng hairpin carved from jadeite from the box, and gently inserted it on her hair.

The maid smiled and said, "Your Highness, this is the hairpin you had when you were young. It has long been outdated. Why do you still wear it?"

Princess Qingluan smiled and said nothing, "What do you know? It was because I was wearing this hairpin that I met him."

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Princess Qingluan and her party walked to the royal family's lantern display, and all the princes and princesses had arrived, cheering for their own lanterns.

Standing on the top of the palace city and looking down, the people below the city tower are crowded with people, eagerly looking forward to it, and full of enthusiasm.

The palace lanterns of the royal family are well-deserved of their reputation, such as the four-lens Weng drum silk lanterns, octagonal cornice carving lanterns, Chang'e flying to the moon and colorful cloud lanterns, the lanterns of the Three Immortals of Fu Lu Shou, the lanterns of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, and the lanterns of the twelve zodiac signs. Everyone was dazzled.

Only nine bells were tolled, and the eunuch announced that the Lantern Contest was about to begin, and the common people went to the fundraising office one after another, donating the money and silk they had saved to their favorite lanterns.

An hour later, His Royal Highness raised the largest number of donations, far exceeding other princes and princesses.Prince Li Chu was both happy and worried, worrying too much.

Dugu Xiaozhong saw the prince's worry, and said to Li Chu: "Your Highness, I will go say hello to other noble families and ask them to donate more to other princes and princesses."

Li Chu nodded with a smile, and said in his heart: "As expected of being the granddaughter of the Dugu family, Lan Xinhui is kind and resourceful. How can this kind of vision and network resources be comparable to that of a folk woman like Shen Zhenzhu.

Therefore, the status should still be given to the daughter of a famous family, a beautiful young lady, as a concubine, just to adjust and soothe the mood, it can't be taken seriously. "

Before the words were finished, dozens of carriages were slowly approaching and stopped under Princess Qingluan's lantern.

Walking down from the carriage, hundreds of graceful dancers covered their faces with light veils, only showing their eyes, playing the pipa and dancing cheerfully.

At the same time, the curtain of the carriage was opened, and there were also hundreds of beautiful luthiers in the carriage. For a while, guzheng and pipa were playing in unison, drums were singing together, singing and dancing, and the cheerful and enthusiastic atmosphere attracted the lantern-watching crowd from the surrounding streets to Qingluan Under the lantern of the princess.

After the song was over, the two luthiers got out of the carriage, gave a deep salute to Princess Qingluan on the tower, and said: "Mr. Prosperity, eternal youth, prosperity and well-being!"

These two are the pipa masters Mu Yunyi and Cao Huashang of Yunshangfang.Princess Qingluan hurriedly waved warmly at Mu Yunyi with a smile on her face.

After all, Mu and Cao led the dancers and luthiers to donate thousands of pieces of precious silk, Shu brocade and Su embroidery to Princess Qingluan.

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Princess Qingluan was overjoyed, and hurriedly returned the gift to express her gratitude.He thought to himself: "Brother Fu arranged it meticulously and didn't tell me. Could there be any surprises?"

As soon as this thought came out, hundreds of strong men with broad arms and round waists, each carrying a large gold box on their backs, walked to Princess Qingluan's lantern with a humming sound.

Walking to the donation site, with an order, the brawny men opened the gilded wooden box, and it turned out to be a box full of gold, shining golden and dazzling.

The eyes of the surrounding audience stared straight, and the venue was instantly silent.

Jia Chang, the head of the Beihai Gang, stepped out of the crowd, bowed deeply to Princess Qingluan on the tower, and said, "Jia Chang, the leader of the Beihai Gang, and his disciples wish His Royal Highness a prosperous New Year's Eve, eternal youth, good health and prosperity!"

Before everyone could come back to their senses, a group of hunters, shirtless and wearing tiger skins, walked into the square, stopped the crowd watching the lanterns with ropes, and vacated an open space in the square.

After hearing a rhinoceros horn, hundreds of apes, black bears, ligers and tigers poured into the square.The group of beasts were ferocious and ferocious, and kept roaring in low voices, but the formation was neat and well tamed.

Led by dozens of Persian animal trainers, this group of majestic and majestic kings of the forest performed all kinds of wonderful programs, such as drilling fire hoops and tightrope walking... The crowd applauded and cheered.The sound of applause came one after another.

Princess Qingluan smiled brightly, and said in her heart: "When I was captured by the demon, I didn't see it as a juggling performance by the Persian Troupe on the New Year's Eve. I told him once, but I didn't expect him to remember it all the time..."

Nine elephants neighed in unison and walked into the center of the field, walking heavily, making the ground tremble slightly.The leader is a white elephant, twice the size of the other eight elephants.

The eight elephants knelt down facing Princess Qingluan on the tower.The leading white elephant went straight to the bottom of the tower, stretched out his long trunk, and put it on the tower.There is a golden ape on the back of the white elephant, holding a bamboo basket of huge peaches, jumping out from the white elephant, with the strength of the elephant's trunk, jumping up the tower, offering the basket of peaches to Qingluan Princess.

Princess Qingluan accepted the bamboo basket with a happy smile. As soon as she got the fairy peaches, she heard a blare, fireworks rose all around, and countless firecrackers shot up into the sky, making the sound of birds chirping like a meteor shower across the sky.

The meteor cannon flew to the highest point, exploded with a bang, and gorgeous fireworks bloomed, transforming into various patterns such as 'rich peony', 'a hundred birds facing the phoenix', 'dragon soaring and tiger leaping' and so on. square……

For a moment, the night sky was illuminated, the sky was full of flowers and rain, the glow of brocade was shining, and the colorful fireworks illuminated everyone's faces, making everyone's eye sockets moist and tears of happiness flowed out.

A young mother held up her swaddling baby vigorously, held the baby's little hand, waved to the fireworks in the sky, cried and laughed, and choked up, saying: "Brother Tieniu, don't worry, I will take our baby away." Pull the big one. At that time, I will also let him join the army to defend his family and the country!"

At the foot of the wall, a skinny old charcoal seller with a wrinkled face looked up at the sky, clasped his hands together, and muttered to himself: "His mother, Qiao'er, I wish you all the best over there. It won't be long. I will go to reunite with you, and then our family will be together again."

Everyone is praying, praying that the relatives who died in the war will be well in heaven, and praying that the world will be peaceful and healthy as soon as possible.

There was a loud thunderous noise like "Boom", and a huge firework exploded in the sky, and when it scattered, it turned out to be a word "Gong".

Dozens of fireworks bloomed one after the other, grouped together are the words "Wish Princess Qingluan stays young forever, Your Majesty has a long life, and the Tang Dynasty is prosperous and the people are safe".These characters have different colors, hang high in the air, and disperse after a long time.

I don't know who took the lead. Thousands of people knelt down and shouted: "May your majesty live forever, may my Tang Dynasty be rich and prosperous, the country will be prosperous and the people will be safe, and the country will last forever..."

　Dongfeng night puts flowers and trees.It blows down and the stars are like rain.BMW engraved cars on the road.The phoenix flute sounded, the jade pot turned light, and the fish and dragon danced overnight.

　　Moer snow willow golden strands.The smile was filled with fragrance.People look for him thousands of Baidu.Suddenly looking back, the person was there, dimly lit.

　　——"Sapphire Case·Yuanxi" Xin Qiji
　　
　
(End of this chapter)