The champion is my son

Chapter 145

The prosperity of the night market is not the same as in the daytime. The strings of lanterns under the eaves or between two houses make the whole night market look bright and intoxicating.

"Mother, I've never seen such a bustling scene. There is no one in Le Xu at night except for the watchmen. I didn't expect to be able to come out to play at night!"

Yunji looks like an old lady entering the city, looking around.

He found that Shangjing's buns were more expensive than their Le Xu's buns. Le Xu's buns were only sold for two copper coins, and they were full of pork fillings.But Shangjing's buns cost three copper coins, and they are half smaller than Le Xu's.

And for the carriage during the day, my mother actually spent two hundred copper coins to settle the deal. He only saved one or two taels of silver after five years of saving, and he could only take the carriage a few times!

Yunji wanted to take back what he said before that he would find a hotel by himself if he lost it, no wonder his mother laughed at him in the end, he didn't even know the prices in Beijing.For his one or two taels of silver, he can only live in a lower-class room for a few nights, and he has to eat other than that.

Sure enough, ginger is still old and spicy.

In the future, you must think about answering questions before speaking.

"There are many things you don't know." Li Qing bought two bunches of candied haws, and He Yunji each took a bunch to eat. "Oh, the candied haws are delicious at home, but the candied haws here don't taste like home." Li Qing said vaguely while eating.

Yun Ji glanced at Li Qing, and sighed softly while holding the candied haws.Just now he was still thinking that ginger is still old and hot, so mother can't cooperate?
Seriously?

"Xiaobai, if you want to eat or play, you can tell mother, mother is the host, and everything will be reimbursed." Li Qing stretched out his hand, and the bamboo stick in his hand fell into the trash basket on the side of the road.

Shanghai has already developed public transportation—carriage rental; people sweep the streets, take out garbage, and remove manure... In short, this is a civilized city in a sense.

Although this is not the Song Dynasty in memory, it is no less developed than it.

"I want to put up lanterns." Yunji pointed to the colorful lanterns not far away and said to Li Qing.He didn't want anything, he just wanted to put down two river lanterns, one for his father and one for brother Liyue.

"Okay." Li Qing replied.

The two walked to the lantern stand, and saw an old woman sitting behind the stand, earnestly cutting paper.

Yunji went up and asked, "Mother-in-law, how do you sell this river lantern?" The old lady was fascinated by making the lantern, and Yunji's voice didn't disturb her at all.So Yunji raised his voice and asked again: "Old lady, what is the price of your lantern?"

"Ah." The old woman raised her head in response, but her hands kept moving.I saw that the folds of her face looked sallow and dull against the light, and her expression seemed a little stiff.

Li Qing stepped forward and stood next to Yunji. To be honest, this mother-in-law looked quite charming.

"Three coins a lamp, no bargaining." After the old woman finished speaking, she immediately lowered her head and continued to make the lamp in her hand, without looking at the two of them again.It seems that the unformed river lantern in her hand is the whole world, and the others are outside the world, while Li Qing and Yunji are heretics who suddenly broke into her world today.

Just when Li Qing was about to pay for the river lantern, a man and a woman walked over together. The man was well-dressed, and the woman's hair was meticulous. It looked like a well-bred family.

The man took out three copper coins and carefully put them into a basket hanging on the stall, then the woman took a lamp, and the two hugged each other and left slowly without saying a word.

Seeing this, Li Qing also followed the example of those two people, throwing coins into the basket, and then he and Yunji chose a river lantern, and followed the man and woman to the river.

"Mother, this granny who sells lanterns is so strange. I saw a lot of sellers of river lanterns shouting constantly, and some used anagrams to attract people to buy river lanterns, but this old lady didn't say a word. They don't even pay attention to the guests."

"Maybe there is a story behind her, we don't know, and we don't need to be curious, Xiaobai, let's go release the river lantern." One look at Yun Ji and he knew that he was "sick" from curiosity, how could Li Qing let him Take your time here.

"Okay." Yunji still felt that what he wanted to do was more important than the old woman's affairs.

It's very simple to light a fire. There is a special place for lighting lanterns by the river. Li Qing lit two river lanterns and asked Yunji to put them down by himself.

Yun Ji stood on the shore, clasped his hands together, and made his wish.

After a while, Yun Ji said, "I made a promise." He lowered his hands and turned around.

Li Qing patted Yunji's head, patted it contentedly, half-closed his eyes and said, "Let's go back."

"Didn't Mother ask me what I wished?" Yun Ji calmly smoothed the somewhat messy hair on his head.

"Hehe, as a mother, I don't need to know about Xiaobai's little wish. Xiaobai also has his own little secret, so he just needs to keep it well." Li Qing said calmly.

The two were walking back to the post station, Li Qing looked back at the Huai River, only to see the faint lights scattered in the stars, gradually drifting away.

No one knows the final outcome of these river lanterns. Some of them got wet and sank to the bottom of the river, turning into a puddle of mud, and some reached the so-called end, and the ending was still mud.

But what about people's wishes?But always silent in my heart.Putting down a lantern, paying homage to the departed souls, missing relatives and friends far away... This is the emotion of being born as a human being.

The next day, Yun Ji slept for a while longer than ever before, and today he will not go anywhere.After Li Qing washed up, he had breakfast with Yunji, and then began to prepare the things that Yunji would use tomorrow.

It was Yun Ji's first time in the Ministry of Rites, and Bao Buqi would meet the officials, so he must not lose his etiquette in everything.

"The official ceremony, the master has given it to me, don't worry, it's fine." Yun Ji was reading with a book, seeing Li Qing kept busy, he felt tired for her.

Little did he know that apart from getting rid of his nervousness, Li found it mostly fun.It is inevitable that I will be a little excited when I come into contact with the ancient upper strata for the first time.

When the clouds and dust settle, she will throw out everything she can, and then become an idle woman, reading and practicing calligraphy every day, raising a cat and playing the piano... Thinking about it, she still feels very happy.

"Okay, the clothes to wear tomorrow, the accessories to wear, and the little Jiujiu on his head are all ready, Xiaobai has to be steady tomorrow."

"I know, I know."

At noon, Su Xuning came to visit.

"I thought you would arrive at the end of October, but I didn't expect you to arrive in the middle of October. You are still used to it here. If you need anything, just say it. The station officer will do his best to help you."

Su Xuning and Li Qing sat opposite each other on both sides of the table, Li Qing said: "It's very good here, I don't feel any discomfort, Li Qing thanks Master Su for taking time out of his busy schedule to care about me and Yunji."

(End of this chapter)