Wang family small peasant girl

Chapter 44

Along the way, there are dragon lanterns, flower blue lanterns, dragon and phoenix lanterns, angular lanterns, tree ground lanterns, festival lanterns, etc. They are made in different shapes, such as square, hexagonal, octagonal, flower basket, double fish, gourd, collar, etc. Most of these lamps are made of thin strips, pasted with various colored papers or gauze. The handwork is very exquisite, and some of them are painted with exquisite patterns on the surface, such as dragon and phoenix presenting auspiciousness, magpies climbing branches, Chang'e flying to the moon, and celestial maidens scattering. Flowers, Zhong Kui catching ghosts, etc., are mostly animals, flowers and birds, characters and some myths and legends, all of which carry auspicious and festive meanings.

What's more rare is that there are many kinds of traps mixed in. The revolving lantern is considered simple. There are bees, butterflies or birds that can flap their wings, crabs that can dance their pincers, tigers and unicorns that shake their heads and tails, and golden boys and girls who raise their hands to bow to each other. , and the three stars of Fu Lu Shou nodding with a grin on his lips, even though Zhang Yun has seen modern high-tech lanterns, he is still impressed by the craftsmanship of folk craftsmen.

With Changjuan by her side, even in the busy city, you can still hear her chirping and chattering, and excitedly drag Zhang Yun and Xiaocui to drill around. Go to the stalls on the third floor, drill in and have a look, almost all of them are stalls for guessing lantern riddles.

Most of the lantern shops for guessing lantern riddles are crowded, and literati and students all want to show off their talents. They have already made the beauties smile, and attracted the attention of some traveling Xiaojiabiyu and rural pretty children. Maybe they can get it today. Which girl's appreciation has made a beautiful marriage. At such an important moment, can you not work hard? In this way, more and more people will gather around to watch the excitement and follow the lantern riddles.

Zhang Yun just looked at the lights, and she kept the lantern riddles at a respectful distance. They were all ancient sentences, how could she guess them out? Understand, let alone guess the answer.

Chang Juan is not very interested in these lantern riddles, but she is keen to join in the fun, where there are too many people, she will go to where there are many people, and run very fast, and in the end she leads a group of boys behind, running around endlessly .

During their wanderings, Zhang Yun fell in love with a glazed lantern with a painting of Dunhuang Flying Apsaras. It was very dazzling. There are quite a few girls who like this lantern. , Zhang Yun gave up without even thinking about it, and the others just looked at it casually. After all, they are a group of rural children who can't even read a few big characters.

The big guy stayed by the stall for a while, and said he was going to leave. Everyone turned around and squeezed out from the surrounding crowd. After they got out, they found out that Chang Man hadn't come out yet, so he just stayed under the lamp and guessed. After waiting for a long time, my forehead was sweating from anxiety, everyone squeezed in again, pulled him several times, but couldn't get him out, so we could only wait for him.

But Chang Man wanted to break his head, but couldn't think of the answer. He really couldn't figure it out, so he wanted to buy it, but when he asked about the price, it was so expensive that it made people stagger. Zhang Yun felt that he was suspected of killing a pig, and immediately yelled Said: "If you buy a lamp at this price, it is better to buy rice noodles. Rice noodles can fill your stomach, but this lamp is hard and can't be eaten. What are you buying it for?" Zhang Yun said, the rest of the people nodded their heads, They all advised Chang Man not to be stupid, so Chang Man gave up and squeezed out of the stall with everyone.

After wandering around the lantern market for a long time, they didn’t understand the lantern riddles, and they had seen enough lanterns to see, but their eyes were full, but their stomachs were hungry, especially Zhang Yun, Zhang Zhang, and Zhang Xing, who were all busy doing it. For business, I only ate Yuanxiao in a day, how can I not be hungry by now.

"Are you hungry?" Zhang Zhang, who was walking behind, came up to his sister's ear and asked, Zhang Yun immediately turned his face, nodded to him, touched his flat belly and said, "I was so hungry that I was growling." gone."

"It just so happens that I'm a little hungry too, so let's go eat something." Chang Juan who was beside her heard the voices of the two brothers and sisters, and laughed and shouted. The rest of the people were also tired from shopping, so Chang Juan mentioned this , they all nodded in agreement, and a group of people walked to the place where the food stalls gathered.

Although every family eats Lantern Festival this day, the Chang family, Zhang Yun and the others have all eaten Lantern Festival, but after a quick look, everyone decided to celebrate the festival and eat Lantern Festival again. There are many stalls in the Lantern Festival, and there are many people eating. Looking at it, I really can't stand the temptation.

After everyone made up their minds, they found a stall that was big enough for a group of them among the many Lantern Festival stalls. After sitting down, everyone ordered a bowl of Lantern Festival. There are also some copper coins in his arms, which were given to him by Zhou Shi when Chang Juan took them away just now, to buy food for them.

Everyone else ordered Lantern Festival. Zhang Yun thought that he had already eaten at noon, so why not try some new food, so he asked the stall owner if he had other dishes. Looking at the simple and honest stall owner with his round face, he smiled and said: " Girl, in addition to Yuanxiao, there are also wine glutinous rice balls, would you like a bowl?"

"Then let's have Jiuniangzi." Zhang Yun ordered a bowl right away. Although this is not a new thing, she has seen it a lot and has never eaten it. Unexpectedly, she went to ancient times to try it for the first time. It's amazing to think about it.

"Hey, we have sweet-scented osmanthus wine stuffed meatballs, medlar wine stuffed meatballs, and egg flower wine stuffed meatballs, which one do you want, girl?" The stall owner asked loudly again.

"I want a bowl of sweet-scented osmanthus rice balls." Zhang Yun responded again, and the stall owner hurriedly said: "Hey, guests, sit down slowly, that's good." Immediately he turned his head and called: "Old lady, quickly serve these customers." The official brings the Lantern Festival to go."

The stall owner moved really fast. The Lantern Festival was served bowl by bowl, with sesame filling, red bean filling, date paste filling, sweet-scented osmanthus filling, peanut filling, glutinous rice was white and soft, and the Lantern Festival filling was thin and smelled faintly of wine. The smell made the big guys even more hungry, and they started to eat before everyone had finished.

After a while, hot and fragrant Lantern Festivals were placed in front of everyone, only Zhang Yun’s wine glutinous rice balls did not come, because this had to be made fresh, unlike Lantern Festival, there was a big pot with a lot of Lantern Festival rolling in it, as long as As soon as the guests sat down, they could spoon them into bowls and serve them up. This would be good, but the most hungry ones had nothing to eat. Zhang Yun could only watch them eat, his stomach growling even more happily.

"Yun'er, I'll give you this bowl first." Seeing that she hadn't come yet, Zhang Zhang pushed the bowl in front of him. Zhang Yun thought, if he was hungry, his elder brother would naturally be hungry too, so he just picked it up. Stretching, pushing it back, he hurriedly said: "Brother, if I want to eat Lantern Festival, I won't order the wine glutinous rice balls. You should keep this bowl for yourself."

Zhang Zhang thought about it, so he didn't give in anymore, took the bowl, lowered his head, and started to eat. Everyone else ate with relish, but Chang Man kept paying attention to Zhang Yun who was opposite, seeing that her hand was hanging down Under the table, he must be clutching his stomach, stretched out his foot, and carefully kicked Chang Juan beside Zhang Yun.

Chang Juan was kicked, raised her head impatiently, and was about to shout who kicked her, when she saw Chang Man on the opposite side winking at her, and kept turning towards Zhang Yun, she, a ghost, immediately understood , couldn't help but stared at Chang Man, expressing dissatisfaction with him for always instigating himself, but he still complied with his wishes, got up and asked the stall for an empty bowl and spoon, sat down again, and started from his own In the bowl, a few Yuanxiao came out and handed to Zhang Yun.

"Hey, you said you were hungry just now, so take these to pad your stomach first." Chang Juan put the bowl in front of Zhang Yun and said.

"Forget it, you eat by yourself, my bowl will be ready soon." Since the eldest brother pushed back, Zhang Yun simply pushed Chang Juan.

Chang Juan has always been straightforward and doesn't like moji, so she immediately said: "You are welcome, you can eat it first, besides, I also want to eat wine glutinous rice balls, when they are served, you can share some with me, so that I can taste it too taste."

Having said that, Zhang Yun stopped giving way, took it with a smile, and ate it with a spoon. Guessing that there are so many customers buying Yuanxiao, Zhang Yun had to wait for a long time for this bowl of rice balls to be served. , the stall owner hurriedly said a few times sorry, Zhang Yun just smiled indifferently, and didn't care about it.

After the rice balls were served, Zhang Yun spooned some of them to Chang Juan while they were hot. Almost everyone else had already eaten them, and there were only two of them left. Zhang Yun felt ashamed to keep these people waiting, so he just wanted to eat them. Hurry up, but the glutinous rice balls just out of the pot are hot again, she is eager to eat, her mouth almost burns, causing her to vomit on the ground beside her.

"Yun'er, how are you?" Zhang Cheng hurriedly asked when he saw it. Zhang Yun's mouth was still burning right now, so he stretched out his hand and shook it, indicating that he was fine.

Chang Man on the opposite side frowned, and really wanted to say a few words of concern, but he couldn't stand out too much when there were so many people sitting, so he could only say to Chang Juan, "Xiaojuan, take your time, we are not in a hurry It's okay later, don't burn it, don't choke on it." When Chang Man said this, the others nodded in agreement.

Taking advantage of everyone's inattention, Chang Juan rolled her eyes slightly, Chang Man didn't expose him, but just smiled and said: "Brother Man Zi, I understand, I haven't seen you being so caring about me on weekdays, are you in a good mood today?" , treat me so well." It's one thing not to expose it, but you can't help but take the opportunity to tease and ridicule.

When Chang Man was told by her, his ears burned a little bit, and he was afraid of arousing the suspicion of others, so he replied: "You are my sister, when will I treat you badly, don't just talk, I'll talk to you later." It's getting cold inside."

Seeing his embarrassment, Chang Juan stopped talking and started to eat with her head down. Zhang Yun beside her stopped for a while, feeling that her mouth was fine, not too hot, but a little numb , I continued to eat the wine glutinous rice balls, this time I didn’t dare to be greedy again, I ate it while blowing the cold, and after the bowl was all eaten, my stomach was full.

After eating, everyone paid their own money and left the stall. Just in time, they saw a dragon lantern coming towards them in the distance. The long dragon lantern was held by many people. The dragon head was huge and majestic, and the golden dragon body was also very domineering. , the dragon lantern hovers and writhes in the hands of the dragon dancer, vividly.When the dragon lantern passed by, many people gathered to watch it, and there were also many people who gave rewards, and even more people followed the dragon lantern, forming a long line of followers, which was very spectacular.

After the dragon lantern dance, the lion dance team followed. The lions shook their heads, swayed their tails, jumping and rolling, very lively and lively. Coupled with the beating of gongs and drums, it immediately gave people a very festive feeling.

Chang Juan originally wanted to follow the lively dragon dance team, but was held back by others. At this moment, Chang Zhu said, "I forgot what your mother and my mother said, we have to go to Tongbao Bridge." , you have to run with the dragon dance team, when can you turn around, don't go, let's go to Tongbao Bridge."

The others also meant the same thing, and everyone agreed that Chang Juan was no match for the crowd, so she had to give up this idea and follow everyone to the direction of Tongbao Bridge.

Crossing the bridge is the oldest custom of the Lantern Festival, and everyone will follow it. Therefore, there are a lot of people coming and going on the Tongbao Bridge, and the whole bridge is very crowded. A group of people slowly walk across the Tongbao Bridge with the crowd. There is also a market at the other end, although it is not as lively as this side, everyone also strolled around for a while, and seeing that the time was almost there, they all headed towards Zhang's stall.

When they arrived at the stall, the adults of the Chang family and the Zhang family were all waiting. After seeing their daughters and sons back, they set off for the ferry and boarded a boat back to Tuntian Village. The lively Lantern Festival night came to an end. .

(End of this chapter)