There are precedents in the history of the Red Chamber

Ji Mudan laughed, "The shop is not far from my house, so I don't need you to give it to me. Besides, I'm older than you, so if I want to give it to you, I should give it to you."

"Brother Mu, you are a medical student and don't pay attention to physical fitness, but I have already exercised after traveling so many places. Besides, my father sent me a team of guards. Today, there are four people following me, so I am safe and sound. Just after the disaster in Guangyuan, it is not safe to walk alone at night.” In Shi Zhongzhu’s view, a 15-year-old junior high school student would not be at ease if his parents did not come to pick him up when he came home at night. It's home.

"Well, listen to you, a villain, but very old-fashioned." Ji Mudan didn't shirk it, it was indeed dangerous to go back alone at night.

"Brother Mu, don't think I'm younger than you, but I'm mature." Shi Zhongzhu "tell the truth".

"Okay, okay, you are mature, let's go."

Shi Zhongzhu and Ji Mudan left the back hall, and the four tall guards who were waiting in the front hall followed up and escorted them out.

"These four masters are soldiers?" Ji Mudan looked back and asked in a low voice.The four guards were five steps away from them, Shi Zhongzhu wanted to say that you don't have to keep your voice so low, their hearing is different from ordinary people, they can hear everything at such a small distance.

"That's right, the four masters have gone through battles and survived a hundred deaths. They are very capable and are very popular with my father. This time, they are too worried about me, so they asked the four masters to protect me."

"Your father loves you very much." Ji Mudan sighed.

"Yes, I am 5 years younger than my elder brother, and 10 years older than my younger siblings. I have been the youngest son in the family for a long time. My master loves my youngest son." Shi Zhongzhu told her about the family situation.

"You still know Yao'er, I thought it was a unique name for us people in Sichuan." Ji Mudan laughed.

"People in Beijing love to be called Geer. I have always been called Zhugeer and Zhugeer. It seems that all sons in Sichuan can be called Yaoer, not just the younger son?" Shi Zhongzhu asked.

"That's right, it's just the parents' pet name, but the world's strict father and mother, and the youngest son is called by the mother." Ji Mudan looked at Shi Zhongzhu enviously, "Mr. Shi Hou is really kind to you."

"Haha, I guess Dad can't find another name. Calling him by his full name is too formal, and calling him Xiaobao is too intimate. He has no choice but to call him Brother Zhu."

"Little Treasure? You have a nickname?"

"No, that's my nickname for my son."

"You are married, no, I heard that you are not married." Shi Zhongzhu, as a world-renowned talent, his marital status is also the focus of gossip in the world. How could he not make a fuss about his marriage and son?

"I'm only a few years old, how could it be. But I've thought about it a long time ago. If I have a son, the nickname will be 'Baby' and 'Heart'. 'Xiaobao' and 'Xiaobei' are also fine."

"It's too early to plan, you won't be a strict father anymore." Ji Mudan didn't object to his attitude that was so different from the people of the time, but felt more tender.

"Brother Mu, you don't know. I have been dissatisfied with my father's ability to name my father for a long time. My family has a pair of twins who are 10 years younger than me. They were born. I thought about it for a long time before I thought of 'Xiaolong' and 'Xiaofeng'. Nicknames couldn’t be more appropriate, but in the end, Dad insisted on naming them 'Shi Shumei' and 'Shi Jilan' according to his seniority, and his nicknames are Mei Geer and Sister Lan, which is vulgar!"

Ji Mudan ignored Shi Zhongzhu's complaints, and agreed with Shi Houye very much, "Shi Houye's name is elegant and meaningful."

"You mean that I chose a bad name?" Shi Zhongzhu couldn't believe it. The world's aesthetics are all distorted. What's wrong with such a vulgar name...

"It's not that it's bad, it's just that it's not formal." Ji Mudan reassured.

"I took a nickname, what do you want to do formally?"

Along the way, the two talked and laughed and soon arrived at Jifu.

"Brother Mu, you go back."

"Okay, you should also pay attention to safety on the road."

"Well." Shi Zhongzhu said goodbye and walked back. Just two steps away, Ji Mudan stopped him and asked, "Brother Zhu, in order to celebrate the smooth end of the epidemic, the county government decided to hold a big lantern festival, extending all the way from Zhengyang Street When you get to the Mumen River, you have to go see it."

"When will it be done?"

"Five days later."

"Okay, I'm still planning to say goodbye in three days. Since there is a lantern festival, I'll wait until I see the lantern festival." Shi Zhongzhu happily adjusted his itinerary.

"Are you leaving?" Ji Mudan asked.

"Yeah, Brother Mu, there is always a banquet in the world. You don't have to be reluctant to let me go. I will write to you. When I return to the capital after my study tour, you can also come to the capital to find me. Isn't Shiweng going to the capital to take a job?" An imperial physician?" Shi Zhongzhu agreed with her to see her in the capital.

"That's it, Brother Zhu, you have a great future, so naturally you can't stay in this small place of Guangyuan for too long, but it's unlikely that I will go to the capital."

What's wrong?It feels so strange, why do you feel that Brother Mu's words are a little sad, sad?Shi Zhongzhu got goosebumps, thinking about the "ancient people" who were really not good at expressing feelings, thinking about Tang Taizong calling his son "My Son Kiss", damn it, the relationship between father and son is closer than a lover, there are too many pitfalls, both I don't know where I started to vomit, it seems that the ancients were like this, and it's terribly disgusting to get close to.

"Brother Mu, let's make an appointment to watch the lanterns together in five days. I'll come to Jifu to find you." Shi Zhongzhu quickly made the agreement, and went back to the inn with the four guards.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, the lights in Guangyuan are brilliant, and the long-suppressed enthusiasm and love for life of Guangyuan people are all dripping.

In such a lively mirror image, Shi Zhongzhu gave Nanshan a vacation and let him play by himself. The twelve guards only left Master Dong and captain Guo Li with them.

As soon as the three of them left the inn, they were startled by the parade people. In order to commemorate those who died in the epidemic, everyone at the lantern festival basically had a red lantern in their hands. The red was eye-catching. "Street lamp", please go home and have a look at the deceased again, fulfill your wish, be free from worries, and be reborn in bliss.

When Shi Zhongzhu brought the two masters to Jifu, Ji Mudan was already waiting at the door. Seeing Shi Zhongzhu finally came, Ji Mudan waved at the door.

"Brother Mu, I've been waiting for a long time. There are too many people on the street." Shi Zhongzhu trotted over and said a little out of breath.

"It's okay, I just came out too." Ji Mudan said in high spirits, "Let's go."

"Won't Shi Weng go out to watch the lanterns?"

"Grandpa was invited to Denghu by the new magistrate's master magistrate. It stands to reason that he should invite you as well."

"I'm impatient with a bunch of people making false claims. I'm more comfortable seeing it for myself. Don't talk about it. Let's go. You don't need a servant."

"No, there are two masters together."

The two talked a few words and then swam side by side.Turn left from Jifu, which is the busiest Zhengyang Street, where the Lantern Festival started.The broad street is now crowded with tourists who come to watch the lanterns, and the shops on both sides set up high platforms to narrow the road even more.The lanterns are very interesting. The lanterns in the grain shop are rice and wheat, and the lanterns in the oil shop are painted oil lamps. Shi Zhongzhu saw a lantern in the shape of a pepper tree and asked Ji Mudan, "Brother Mu, look, the pepper tree Um, what shop is that?"

"You know Yao'er, but you don't know the pepper tree?" Ji Mudan joked.

"Oh, I really don't know, maybe it's for food." Shi Zhongzhu guessed that Sichuan cuisine is spicy and spicy. There is no chili at this time, and the spiciness is mostly ginger. This pepper is the source of numbness.

"Did you really dare to guess!" Ji Mudan laughed out loud, "What kind of food are you eating? That's a spice shop."

"Ah, spice sellers, shouldn't spices be hung with colored lights like flowers and plants? Osmanthus, plum blossom, lily..."

"The spices in our Sichuan are not the spices you usually smell, they are spices for cooking, such as spicy star anise, cinnamon, fennel, peppercorns, cloves are called five spices, like spicy pepper, pepper, cardamom, dried Ginger, Tsaoguo, Galangal, Sichuan cuisine is famous for its spicy taste, but there is also a blind taste called 'weird taste', no wonder it's not fragrant, no wonder you don't like it."

"Yeah, when I was eating, I was also very surprised. When I first came here, I was sick with a disease, and the food was mainly bland. At that time, I thought the food was very nasty. Good guy, until now, all the dishes recommended by the innkeeper to me are delicious. It's spicy and spicy, and I often have to drink water while eating it, and I'm not used to it."

"Forget that you came to Shuzhong, you are not used to eating, or you should move to my house, the cook at home is easy to serve." Ji Mudan suggested that Shi Zhongzhu is only 14 years old now, and it is very distressing to leave home when he is young. .

"No need, Brother Mu, I kept it fresh for the first two days, but now I've ordered the inn cook, so he won't put any spices. Besides, I'm leaving in two days, so don't bother."

"Where are you planning to go next?"

"Let's see, I'm not sure. I want to go to Chengdu first, and I want to go to Yazhou first. I heard that there is a kind of fish there. It tastes delicious. The soup is milky white. The bone on the back is like a sword. The sword left behind by the weather, the poet praised it "Yuzhi C is especially beautiful", I really want to try it." Shi Zhongzhu definitely lives up to the genetic attributes of the foodie people, and when it comes to delicious food, his mouth is watering .

"I really envy you. You have traveled around and learned a lot."

"Don't praise me, I'm nothing. By the way, Brother Mu, if you want, you can also go on a study tour. At the beginning, I will look around Guangyuan. I will return in a day or two, and then I will go slowly. Far away." Shi Zhongzhu suggested, "If you don't mind, you can go with me. When the time comes, if you want to come back, I can ask a master to escort you back. Do you agree?"

The more Shi Zhongzhu talked, the more he felt that this was feasible. In his opinion, Ji Mudan was a representative of having money and leisure, and it would be better to take the opportunity to go out for a walk.

"Well, take a good look at the lights, what are you talking about. Look at the rooster on the left, guess what shop it is?"

Seeing that she didn't answer, Shi Zhongzhu thought that he didn't want to go on a trip, and didn't bring up the topic of his leaving to spoil the fun. He followed her topic and answered, "Are you selling chicken or fighting cock?"

"No, it's a naughty shop. Their family's most famous is the chicken feather shuttlecock. Guangyuan's boudoir daughter, most of the naughty chicken feather shuttlecocks when she was a child belong to their family."

"Hey, Brother Mu, do you know everything about your daughter's family~" Shi Zhongzhu squinted his eyes in a lewd manner, conveying "you understand~"

Ji Mudan blushed, "What a mess, I was also told by the patient who came to see the doctor."

"Okay, okay, did I say anything, you are a local, isn't it a matter of course to know the local shops?" Shi Zhongzhu couldn't make too much fun of the conservative ancients.

A group of four moved slowly with the flow of people until they reached the edge of the Mumen River, where many people were setting off lanterns.

"Brother Mu, let's put up lanterns to pray." Shi Zhongzhu still had a little romantic thought.

"Well, let's go buy it." Ji Mudan agreed.

"Master Dong, Master Guo, you should go and light the lamps too." Shi Zhongzhu said to the two masters who had been following behind him.

"Second young master, we two elders, don't play this, you can let it go." Guo Li didn't speak, but Master Dong naturally spoke as a martial arts instructor.

"Master Dong, you have to do as the Romans do. Look, the one over there, the one in Tsing Yi, who said old men can't put lamps on?"

"Second young master, there are a lot of people, safety comes first."

Shi Zhongzhu thought for a while, and since the Lantern Festival was on the list of the place where the protagonist's accident happened, he still listened to Master Dong, so he said, "Well, Brother Mu and I will put the lantern under the big willow tree in front of you. You and Master Guo can buy it." Put the lights there too, it should be fine together.”

Master Dong also thought it was feasible, so the four of them went to buy lanterns together. Shi Zhongzhu picked out a peony lantern, Ji Mudan picked out a lotus lantern, Master Dong picked out a tiger, etc., and Master Guo picked out a goshawk and so on. The choice of the martial arts master is really in line with the professional setting.

The four of them came to the willow tree to release the lamp. Shi Zhongzhu squatted down, put the lamp in the river, and made a wish with his palms together: May his family be safe and peaceful, and wish his journey a smooth journey.After making a wish, I just want to reach out and push the lamp away...

Pfft... He was pushed into the water suddenly, and Ji Mudan beside him was also pushed into the water. Shi Zhongzhu broke free and turned around, and found that it was Master Guo who was pressing on him. A dagger was stuck on the right shoulder of Master Guo. .

Ah ah ah! !

"Killer!" "There is a strong man!" "Help!"