Chapter 269: The Lantern Festival Meeting
Tuantuan was unwilling to say bad things about others behind others. Yu Boyan knew her temperament and what she was going to say.
Don’t worry, my cousin is on the battlefield now and has not yet been attentive to take care of his family. When he has this idea, he can arrange his family at any time.
I hope. Tuantuan replied lightly.
Seeing that she was not in high spirits, Yu Boyan thought about it and said: In a few days, it will be Lantern Festival. Should I go out to enjoy the lanterns together this year? There is no need to go to crowds in places with a lot of people. Just take a look at it on Taibai Building. I heard that there is a poetry festival in the building this year.
Tuantuan has never liked to go to crowded places, but she only looked at the lively streets upstairs, and she still liked it, so she agreed immediately.
Of course, the two of them would not go alone in such a gathering. There were people coming and going in Taibai Building, and he had many friends. He knew that he would come to say hello, and even if he was just two, he could not get along alone. He then made an appointment with Qin Dalang and his wife Xu Dalang and his fiancée, as well as Lele and his many confidants, and so on whom he was familiar with Tuantuan. If it were his other friends, he would not be willing to let them see Tuantuan.
Xu Dalang, the little tiger, was engaged in marriage last fall, and was the second daughter of Xu Mu's colleague Zhou Jingshi. In terms of family background, Xu Mu naturally could not compare with this colleague who was a three-generation official in the family, but his Yue family was not bad. He was always at the Censorate and had a bright future, so others were naturally willing to marry him. Besides, Xu Dalang had passed the exam, and even if he did not take the exam last year, it would be difficult to further the future. Such a promising and peaceful family could not be selected in Chang'an City. After discussing, Zhou Jingshi and his wife asked someone to hand over the conversation. After the children on both sides arranged for a meeting, they had a good impression. Xu Mu asked Mr. Meng to help as a matchmaker and arranged the marriage.
Xu Dalang Lele and Princess Wanhua in the palace are all nineteen this year. Lele and Princess Wanhua are still looking for a marriage. Lele is a few months older than Xu Dalang, and his marriage has not yet been seen. Sun originally thought that there were many girls who sent Lele purses and letters in the past, and the marriage of this child should not be difficult to handle. Who knew that Lele was very picky and was a swaying person who was easy to sway. Until now, there was no family that wanted to marry very much.
As for Princess Wanhua’s marriage, the emperor already had a clear idea and just wanted to find an appropriate time to tell it out.
On the Lantern Festival, when I left the house, Zhuhua and his wife were left in the mansion. The huge Prince Ping Mansion seemed a little deserted. In the past, they had to go to the palace to have dinner with the late emperor, but they really hadn't visited the lantern festival well. However, compared to the lantern festival at night, Zhuhua was obviously more interested in the sale of shops in the daytime. After walking along the lively streets several times during the day, she didn't have the energy to visit the lantern festival at night.
King Ping knew that she was like this, so he did not advise her to go out and join in the fun. It was rare that Tuantuan was not here this year. He took advantage of Zhuhua's daytime shopping and made a lotus lantern for Zhuhua at home and prepared a surprise for her.
In the evening, the two finished their supper early and asked the servants who were not on duty in the mansion to go out for a while. After dinner, the two walked alone in the garden. King Ping walked in front of her with a lamp, without letting a servant follow her.
Zhuhua saw that the lamp that the Pingwang today looked like the windproof glass lamp in the mansion, but the most valuable one sold on the street, so she asked: This light is novel, where did you get it?
Just like Zhu'er likes it, I made it myself. He said that he handed the lamp to Zhuhua.
Zhuhua held it with one hand, slapped it carefully, and praised it: You are willing, it looks better than what you sell outside. If you can't unload your home in the future, you can support me by making lanterns.
King Ping knew that holding a lantern in the winter would freeze his hands, so he reached out and held her hand holding the lantern, and smiled and said: If that time comes, I still hope that Zhu'er can support me. Zhu'er has always made money, so I must remember to give Hui'er a bowl of rice.
It's easy to say, as long as you always have such a face as a crown jade, I will keep you. Zhuhua joked.
The two looked at each other and smiled, and in a blink of an eye, they arrived at Tingyuxuan, which was built in the garden. Zhuhua saw the lights in Tingyuxuan from a distance. They thought that there was a servant who was lazy and playing here, so they didn't want to come over. When they got closer, they didn't hear any sound inside. She glanced at King Ping and walked inward.
The servant must have forgotten to turn off the light inside, and was too careless. What should I do if the water was gone? Zhuhua complained that she saw that the light inside was not very bright and worried that it had already caught fire.
After entering the bead flowers, they found that there were many fists-sized glass lamps hanging on the rockery trees inside, illuminating the garden like daytime. The bead flowers glanced at King Ping, and knew it, and leaned silently on his shoulder. It was hard to ask him how much it cost.
Not a newlywed couple, what are you doing?
I want you to be happy. Ping Wang said.
Zhuhua paused and looked up at the man who had been married to her for many years and kissed him on his chin.
I've always been very happy.
That's good.
One day, the children will leave them, and they will have to spend many festivals together, but that is not bad. As long as they are with each other, the days will be sweet.
On the other hand, Yu Boyan and Tuantuan and others were lively in Taibai Building. The shopkeeper in the building asked everyone to write poems with Lantern Festival as the title. After the poem was completed, the servant was sent to the ring downstairs. If he met a good person, Rongqing, who was sitting on the ring, would play the piano and sing the newly written poem for everyone to appreciate it. Rongqing is no longer famous as before, but she is still beautiful. It was a big price to invite her to the shopkeeper in Taibai Building.
When Tuantuan first knew it was her, she was a little embarrassed. After all, Rongqing was once the concubine of King Ping, but she immediately threw away the matter. Today, most of the young men and women came to Taibailou. Not much of Rongqing's old story has been known.
Qin Dalang's wife Feng's belly has been eight months old. She should have been recuperating at home, but she is not from Chang'an, so she wants to see how lively the Lantern Festival Lanterns in Chang'an are. Qin Dalang herself is a playful person and will not restrain her wife. Even if Mama Rong stopped them a few times, after they repeatedly promised that they would only stay in the building and would not go to the street to squeeze in, she still convinced Mama Rong.
In order to avoid being squeezed, the two came to Taibailou in the afternoon. Seeing that there were more and more people on the street, and they also slowly arrived in the house. Tuantuan had contacted Feng several times, and the relationship between them was not bad. At this moment, she was very worried about her belly. She didn't understand why her eldest cousin was so heartless. What if Feng suddenly had a baby while eating?
What made her worry more than Feng's family was her second cousin Qin Erlang, that is, Lele. He came to have dinner today to bring three ladies. Seeing that these three were all interested in Qin Erlang, they fought for a small matter, Tuantuan couldn't help but worry about whether they would fight at all disagreements. In comparison, the Xu family's cousin is much more reliable. Her expectant cousin Zhou is a gentleman, and she also has something to talk to Tuantuan.
When they started the meal, the street was already very lively. Tuantuan looked at it from a distance and was not very interested. Qin Dalang accompanied Feng and looked by the window for a long time.
Halfway through the meal, they all wrote poems and passed them downstairs. Rongqing picked Yu Boyan, Xu Dalang and Lele's singing. Qin Dalang saw that he didn't choose his own, so he said a few words were boring.
Why is it boring? I think it's very fair. Xu Dalang joked.
Qin Dalang glared at him and threw a peanut over, which made everyone laugh again. Qin Dalang was not annoyed, but told Tuantuan: Why didn’t my cousin write one? Let others know your name.
I don’t have a name for myself, and I’m afraid that I will really choose it, which will make my cousin even less face. After Tuantuan said that, she covered her mouth and smiled secretly.
Qin Dalang sighed and said: I used to see my sister as an honest person, but I didn’t expect that she would be the same as my aunt and second cousin.
It's different. If my little cousin was here now, she would have cheated away the valuable things on you. Qin Erlang smiled.
Erlang was talking about Princess Yuzhen? Why didn’t she come today? The girl in green who came with Qin Erlang asked curiously.
She was in poor health and went to the countryside to recuperate. Qin Erlang replied.
The Prince Ping's Mansion only said that Yuanyuan went to the countryside to recuperate, but did not say that she went out to study medicine, so that others would not know about it and discuss it.
The people in the room were talking lively, and suddenly there was a group of people coming over outside. The one who was drunk was the young man who was already drunk. Yu Boyan recognized him at a glance as the young man from Duke Qing's mansion. With his talent, he was loved by Duke Qing, and has done a lot of bullying and kind things over the years. He also had a group of friends around him. When he heard that Princess Yuqing was upstairs today, he instigated Mr. Zhang to come and take a look.
When they entered the house, they bowed their hands to the people in the house, and then looked around in the house. In addition to Tuantuan, there were other women in the house. They looked at them casually, and they felt a little angry.
It was her, she was Princess Yuqing. A young man pointed at Tuantuan and shouted.
Yu Boyan looked unwilling and blocked their unrestrained gazes in front of Tuantuan.
The surname Yu, what are you blocking? I know that it is your wife who has not passed away, so let us take a few glances! There will be no less meat. Mr. Zhang shouted drunk.
Seeing that he was unreasonable, Yu Boyan wanted to refute a few words, but now he was drunk. He didn't want to argue with a drunk, so he just asked someone to invite him out first. However, his friends and servants around him refused to go out just like this. For a moment, there were more and more people watching the fun, and there were many people who took advantage of the alcohol to make a fuss. They wanted to leave first, but Feng was probably not able to squeeze these people out with his belly.
Chapter completed!