Dinon

The imperial capital of the Zhao Kingdom has always been a prosperous place, but it is rare to see such a scene where the King Wu can’t help but be at night like today, because the current little emperor has been on the throne for five years, and since he took the throne, the weather has been favorable and the crops have been plentiful. The whole day celebrates together, and the emperor does not set a curfew. Candles are lit all over the streets like daytime for the common people to have fun. The street is already noisy and lively, and there are a few firecrackers from time to time, mixed with the intermittent cries of the old man selling wontons, which makes people feel very interesting.

Disgusted by the sweltering heat in the palace, Yuan Shuyi tugged at his collar, took a full pot of wine, and casually took a sip into his mouth, while a pair of long and narrow red phoenix eyes scanned the surroundings half-closed, looking at those The ministers who were toasting to each other were even more depressed.So he seized the opportunity, and when Liang Xuyu was dealing with that treacherous fox Tuobahong and couldn't take care of her, he sneaked out from the white jade pillar behind the palace.

It was the first time for her to come to the palace, and she didn't know the way, and she was too lazy to let the maid lead the way, so she just took a random road according to her temperament. It was her luck that she accidentally entered the palace. A small pavilion for people to rest surrounded by all kinds of colorful flowers.

This pavilion is different from the ones in their clan. It is surrounded by fragrant and bright flowers, and the pavilion is also a typical red lacquer column, glazed yellow tiles, which can reflect the identity of the royal family everywhere.

"The things in the palace are too expensive." Yuan Shuyi slowly leaned over and leaned on the railing of the pavilion, pouring wine casually, and murmured to the flowers under the night, "Even the wine is soft. The waxy ones have no taste at all, not as good as burning knives on the prairie. They are actually some fancy but useless things.”

At this time, the newly-rising moon, the newlyweds, generally have shyly hid behind the treetops. The moon is not an authentic disc. It was bitten by a dog a few times and it seemed to be missing a few pieces. The moonlight was also very thin and bleak. When it shines on people, it leaves a bleak color.It was still winter, and it was difficult to see the stars hanging in the sky in such severe cold weather, but Yuan Shuyi didn't care, she leaned her head on the vermilion pillars of the pavilion, stared at the sky with her head up, and occasionally sipped After taking a sip or two of wine, he stared at the half of the sky smudged by the clear moonlight without blinking, and said in doubt, "The stars are drunk today, aren't they coming? But I'm not drunk, why are they drunk?" How strange." While muttering, she took another sip, "Fortunately, I'm smart, and I stole a lot of wine from the brewery, otherwise, if the housekeeper Xu Yu saw it, she would make me dizzy again But speaking of it, these days I always feel dizzy, my head is muddy, and my hands and feet have no strength, am I sick?" Talking to herself, she felt her pulse and put her wrist I was taken aback, and the lingering drunkenness was also a little frightened, "I'm not good at academics? How could this be, I always feel..."

I always feel that her pulse has stopped, and there is no temperature on her body, it is icy cold.

"I...dead?" At a loss, Yuan Shuyi touched her face again, "But if I die, how can Xu Yu, who has been with me these days, explain it? Could it be that we are all dead?" As she talked, she felt ridiculous, "How is it possible, it must be that I am not good at medicine." Thinking about it, she relaxed, and mocked herself, "Fortunately, I am not a doctor, otherwise I would have a bad conscience if I treated someone to death. Said, it's time to make Xu Yu laugh for a few days. But...Mother, you really understand me." Yuan Shuyi raised a pot of wine, and poured a glass from the air against the tulle-like moon. The wine poured out and smiled charmingly, "Mom, you really know me, do you know my temperament, so you don't teach me divination? Otherwise, I will definitely go out to cheat. Hey, what happened to the moon?" I don't know if it is Illusion, Yuan Shuyi saw someone smiling at her on the moon, and nodded to her, saying "It's good to know." But in the blink of an eye, it was that hazy moon again.

"Am I really drunk? Well, I'll squint for a while." Rubbing her eyes, she said to herself, Yuan Shuyi leaned against the railing with the flagon in her hand and fell asleep, not forgetting to drink the last drop before going to bed Wine, as if afraid that someone would snatch it from her.

A red plum tree was planted next to the pavilion. I don’t know where it was produced. Its intertwined roots grew to a height of more than one foot. Although it seemed a bit cold among the precious flowers in the garden, it seemed to have grown up in this cold first month. After touching the protagonist, the petals fell one after another in a breeze, spraying Yuan Shuyi who was sitting on the railing of the pavilion all over her body, and many of them were stained on her black hair. Even so, such a gentle movement is It's hard to startle people.

The east wind blows down flowers and thousands of trees, and even more blows down, the stars fall in rain, and the flutes and flutes go away.

"Sister, don't sleep here, you'll catch a cold. Sister, wake up, sister..." These words came from my ears one after another, and there were a few times of poking her shoulder during the period. Everyone will be angry.When someone poked her shoulder for the first time, Yuan Shuyi's head was filled with blue smoke and he became angry.Reluctantly, she half-opened her eyes and yelled angrily, "I didn't see my aunt sleeping, who dares to disturb me!"

Her answer was a soft apology, "Yes... I'm sorry."

Hearing this voice, Yuan Shuyi subconsciously felt that the owner of this voice was easy to bully. Sure enough, when she slowly opened her eyes and raised her head to look over, she saw a "boy" who was wearing a corset and was blushing. Like a red persimmon hanging high in autumn, he held something like a flute tightly in his hand and looked at her apologetically.

Yuan Shuyi narrowed his blue eyes.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to disturb you." Tuo Bachen rubbed his red ears uncomfortably, apologized to Yuan Shuyi in a correct manner, and apologized.It was the first time for her to see a beautiful person other than her Aunt Huang and Sister Xuyu, so it was inevitable that she would take a second look at her in a moment of novelty.Originally, she couldn't come back to her senses for a while, her mouth was open enough to stuff a pigeon's egg, she stood there like a rare bird for fear of being frightened away, not daring to move, her hand was still tightly clutching the book that her father gave her on her fifteenth birthday. Yu Xiao, but when she saw this beautiful sister seemed to have fallen asleep in this pavilion, she felt a drum in her heart: It just snowed a few days ago, and the pavilion was still very wet. If you fell asleep in this vent, it would be easy. I have a cold.

Thinking about it, she unconsciously wanted to wake her up. In this case, her reaction was as if she had done this countless times.

Inexplicably familiar.

"Sister, have we met somewhere?" Tuo Bachen asked curiously, tilting his head.

"Well, I've seen it before." Yuan Shuyi narrowed her blue eyes, looked at her with a half-smile, and said, "When a single lady from a rich family goes out for an outing, she will always meet one or two glib, uneducated and uneducated meng langzi , and then the usual teasing—"

"I'm not saying I've seen this before, no, no, I'm not from Meng Lang, nor, I...I..." Blushing, Tuo Bachen quickly waved his hands to explain, but the more he explained, the more unclear he became, and he choked. His face was flushed, so he had to lower his head and whisper, "I came here because my sister was afraid of catching a cold. This railing is wet, and it's easy to get sick if you sleep on it."

"Since you ask such a question..." Yuan Shuyi had a flash of inspiration, and a thought came to his mind, but the thing was as fast as lightning, and it slipped past as soon as it had some signs, making people wonder if it was real.Yuan Shuyi sighed, looked at Tuoba Chen's immature face, and was puzzled, "Did we...really meet?"

"I didn't strike up a conversation, and I don't know how to flirt..." Tuo Bachen continued to explain.

"If you're like this, you won't believe me when you say you molested people." Yuan Shuyi calmed down and scolded herself for being stupid. If she had ever met this little girl in front of her, she should remember it. After all, this child is really It's so recognizable.Yuan Shuyi shook his head, picked up the last jug of wine he had stolen, uncorked the bottle, saw Tuo Bachen standing stupidly beside him, threw the jug at her, and asked, "Do you want a drink?"

"Father said that children can't drink alcohol." Tuo Bachen quickly waved his hands, shaking his head like a rattle, and refused repeatedly.Looking at Yuan Shuyi worriedly, he persuaded in a low voice, "Sister, don't drink too much. I heard from the imperial doctor that this is poison, and you will get sick if you drink it. Father likes to drink this, so he coughs."

"You don't understand, wine is a good thing..." Yuan Shuyi said, taking a sip. Ever since she discussed with Liang Xuyu last time about what she has and what she doesn't have, she has been very blocked, and she likes to take it when she has something to do. Putting on a bottle of wine, wandering around on the grassland with deer and crane birds, seeing the wine is like seeing her father who has gone to hell——

"What did you say?!" Yuan Shuyi took a sip of wine, and asked Tuobachen who was still standing dumbfounded in disbelief, "What did you just say? Father?!"

"That's right." Tuo Bachen thought she had listened to his words, touched his head in embarrassment, and really worried, "Father just likes to drink, so it's not good for your health, sister, don't... "

"Your name is Tuo Bachen?" Yuan Shuyi interrupted her rambling, frowning and asked.

"Yes, sister recognizes me?" Tuo Bachen's originally black eyes lit up when she heard the beautiful sister in front of her say her name without hearing her self-introduction, and she said excitedly, " I just said that I think my sister is very familiar, so has my sister really met me?"

"You are Tuobachen? Impossible, impossible, how could you be Tuobachen!" Looking at the little girl in front of him wearing a fish-patterned dragon suit and a purple jade gilt crown, Yuan Shuyi felt like he was about to burst from a headache. Same.How could the person in front of me be Tuobachen, Tuobachen... Tuobachen shouldn't be... shouldn't be...

How is it?Yuan Shuyi touched her head, which was aching like needles, and was also confused for a moment.

That's right, I feel that the person in front of me is not Tuo Bachen, so what about Tuo Bachen?

"However...Since my sister can enter here, she should recognize me." As if thinking of something, Tuoba Chen Moyu's eyes lit up, and he looked at Yuan Shuyi happily and said.

"Huh?" The headache was still severe, Yuan Shuyi suppressed the discomfort and looked at her suspiciously.

"My name is Tuoba Chen." Tuoba Chen put his hand holding the jade flute behind his back, pretending to be in deep thought, and continued, "Tuoba is the surname of the country. My surname is Tuoba. My sister didn't think of anything." ?"

"You are... step-uncle's..." Yuan Shuyi looked at her carefully before hesitating uncertainly.

"Yeah." Tuo Bachen nodded like a rattle, and a look of joy appeared on his glazed, porcelain-white face.

"Then you are the little emperor who has been on the throne for five years?" Yuan Shuyi glanced at her, feeling strange, "Let's not say your age is different, just say your gender—" Yuan Shuyi said slowly Walking forward, her glamorous face stopped in front of Tuobachen's blushing and immature face, she stretched out her bare hands and slowly untied her collar, and when Tuobachen was about to get into the crack of the ground in embarrassment and anger, she A moment ago, he touched her elegant and slender neck back and forth, and said meaningfully, "Although Xu Yu mentioned it to me, I have never seen a man with such a smooth and delicate neck."

I don't know if it's from shame or anger, Tuo Bachen's whole body turned pink, she hastily stepped back a few steps, and only stopped when she was a foot away from Yuan Shuyi, facing Yuan Shuyi with a blushing face. Shu Yi asked, "Sister, do you recognize Sister Xuyu?"

Withdrawing the hand that was still in the air, Yuan Shuyi crossed her arms, frowning and looking at Tuobachen who was far away from her.

This kid is also quite smart and knows how to change the subject. Well, it's some kind of royal secret, and I'm not very interested in it, so let it go.It's just - since the child came, her head hurts badly, and she just thought it was a coincidence, but now that she is far away, her head really doesn't hurt anymore, so what's going on?

Although he was puzzled, Yuan Shuyi still answered her question with a charming wink as usual, "Of course, Xu Yu and I played together since childhood, do you think I recognize her?"

"Then you are Sister Xuyu's younger sister, Chen'er's Sister Shuyi?" Tuoba Chen returned to his curious look, and was as cute as a little rabbit.

"Who says I belong to her younger sister!" Yuan Shuyi said furiously.The most annoying thing in her life was that she was born a quarter of an hour later than Liang Xuyu. Because of this, Liang Xuyu didn't know how many times she teased and bullied her.

"But Sister Xuyu told me..." Tuo Bachen blinked in confusion, and seeing Yuan Shuyi's appearance made his heart clear.She smiled sweetly at Yuan Shuyi, and said, "But my sister must be Chen'er's sister, so Chen'er will call her sister Yuan.

"..."

Yuan Shuyi didn't speak, she felt that the seemingly intimate name of "Sister Yuan" was actually...a truly intimate title, as if someone had called her before, but she couldn't tell who called her.I always feel... I always feel... that I should be a very weak child like the shy little girl in front of me, but no matter how I think about it, I can't think of the specific appearance of that person.

"Sister doesn't say anything, it's tacit consent." Seeing her looking at him thoughtfully, Tuobachen hurriedly said, seeing the wine in Yuan Shuyi's hand again, she asked in puzzlement, "It's very lively in the palace today, why did my sister come out to drink alone?"

"You know that I'm drinking? Didn't you come out too?" Yuan Shuyi withdrew her teasing hand, folded her arms, raised her eyebrows and asked her.

"I knew it." Tuoba Chen smiled at her, with a slight flattery, "I'll take my sister out to play, okay? Otherwise, my sister will easily get sick if she drinks alone here." Tuoba Chenyi Right words said.

"You want to relieve my boredom?" Yuan Shuyi picked her long and narrow Danfeng eyes, stared into her eyes and smiled.

"That's right." Tuo Bachen didn't dare to look her in the eyes, and replied in a low voice.

"Do you really want to relieve my boredom?" Yuan Shuyi was still smiling.

"Yes... yes." Tuo Bachen was too frightened to speak.

"Hmm - relieve my boredom." Yuan Shuyi looked at her with a half-smile, this child was raised so well in the palace, didn't he know that he couldn't stutter when he told a lie?Intentionally wanting to tease her, Yuan Shuyi deliberately didn't speak, just stared at her eyes, nodded and agreed amidst Tuobachen's increasingly restless and blushing face, "Alright." Although he occasionally bullied the little girl The feeling is very good, but the moonlight is so good today, if you don't go out for a stroll, you really live up to the great spring.

So, let the little girl's dream of going out for a stroll come true.Look at her eyes, wet, she is really a child.

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As the first festival of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, Shangyuan was originally a day worth celebrating, and it happened that the only son of the Supreme Emperor, the current emperor, had been enthroned for five years.

The lush trees from the inner city to the outer city were hung with white gauze lanterns, and torches were lit high on the city towers. The people in the city thought it was not lively enough, and everyone hung a lantern at their door. A few lamps made of straw paper.And the moat that flows around the city is even more lively. Many young men and women of marriageable age took the river lanterns they bought or made by themselves. I wrote a few love poems written by myself in lower case, hoping that someone who is destined can pick them up.For a while, the lights in the river were brightly lit, and the dancing candlelight was illuminated by the watermark, making it brighter and brighter.Under this candlelight, the whole of Kyoto is like daytime, winding all the way, making up for the regret that the stars cannot appear tonight.The outer city is surrounded by small stalls. There are a few bamboo stools next to a small cart, and they hang up the things they sell. The smell can make people move their index fingers, and sit on the stall to eat to their heart's content.

Not to mention the crispy fried noodle, which is wrapped in flour and deep-fried in a frying pan, is the must-have item of Shiwu - glutinous rice balls, which also make people salivate.

There are also some weird gadgets for sale, such as dough figures and sugar figures.And the most sensational and most anticipated event is probably Zhaoguo's annual "Sacrifice to Heaven" meeting.

Different from the royal family's solemn and solemn sacrifice to heaven, this "sacrifice to heaven meeting" was spontaneously carried out by the people of Zhaoguo. It started with a few people wearing monster masks, and then a few middle-aged men danced and lit a fire made of straw. The fire dragon, followed by many children ringing bells and carrying lanterns, hundreds of people danced along the way, it can be said that the scene is very spectacular.

"Didn't it say that the lamps were turned on on the thirteenth, the lamps were tested on the fifteenth, and the lamps were released on the sixteenth?" Yuan Shuyi took Tuobachen, who was excitedly wearing a green-faced fang mask, to buy lanterns everywhere, but was told that they were all sold out. Then he asked a kind-looking stall owner suspiciously.

"The girl is not from Zhao Kingdom, right?" The stall owner smiled kindly at Yuan Shuyi when he heard about it, and pointed to the many sky lanterns flying in the sky, "Our Supreme Emperor changed the day of putting the lanterns a long time ago in order to celebrate with the whole world. Now, it’s the eighth day of the eighth day when the lantern is lit, and the thirteenth day when the lantern is tested. By the fifteenth day, this lantern has already been sold out. If the girl really wants it, I can give you this…” The stall owner said, carrying He took out a transparent lantern from his luggage, "This is made by our own cow's feet, commonly known as "Mingwa". If so, I have two more here, it's cheaper for girls, how about it?"

"I want, I want!" Yuan Shuyi hadn't made a statement yet, Tuo Bachen lifted the mask on her face, snatched it and hugged it in her arms, as if she was afraid that someone would snatch it from her, her eyes were still dripping Turning around, like a frightened bunny.Seeing her hopeless appearance, Yuan Shuyi could only smile helplessly, took out a silver ingot from her bosom, and said to the stall owner, "I want this."

"Hey, good." The stall owner took the money, and when he gave Yuan Shuyi the change, he handed out two river lanterns from his bag, and smiled at Yuan Shuyi, "Girl, I'm really sorry, I just forgot Yes, I still have two river lanterns here, since the girl bought my Mingwa, I will give these two river lanterns to the girl for free."

"You know how to do business." Yuan Shuyi gritted her teeth and looked at him. It was the first time she was tricked since she was a child.

"Hahaha, seeing how the girl is dressed like this, she must not be short of these taels of silver, but for me, this is enough money to support my family." The stall owner said with a smile, "Girl should not care about the few taels with me. Yinzi, it's better to keep an eye on the young master beside you."

Being reminded by him like this, Yuan Shuyi hurriedly looked to the side, but there was no figure of Tuo Bachen!

"Where is she?!"

"Look at that young man just now, it must be his first visit to the night market, and it's Shangyuan again. Miss, you bought him a lamp just now. He must have gone to the moat to release river lanterns to pray to be with the girl forever." The stall owner smiled and guessed.

"Come back and tear your mouth apart!" Yuan Shuyi left behind a sentence and ran to chase after him. That little rabbit of Tuobachen ran really fast!

"With such an unreasonable personality, I don't know who he looks like." The stall owner looked at Yuan Shuyi's back and shook his head.

Arriving at the moat, there was already a circle of people there, Yuan Shuyi looked at the densely packed people, and the veins on his forehead twitched. "Why do we have to come to the river, can't we just find a place and put this lamp?" She asked Tuobachen who was excitedly lighting the river lamp candles over there in confusion.

"My sister doesn't understand, so it will work. Because the river has spirits." Tuo Bachen said while lighting a candle.

After hearing this, Yuan Shuyi was taken aback, she always felt that someone had said this to her before.

"Even so, what are you doing running so fast?! Are you afraid of falling?!" Yuan Shuyi was annoyed, and asked with suppressed anger.

"It's okay." Tuo Bachen smiled sweetly at her indifferently, and said, "I'm not crippled, how could I just run around and fall down?"

I'm not a lame... lame... fell...

Yuan Shuyi's head, which didn't hurt at first, hurt badly when she heard these words. She remembered...remembered...it seemed that there was a person...as if...a crutch...was thrown...

"Sister, what's the matter with you? Let's release the river lantern with Chen'er." Tuoba Chen beside him asked strangely.

"Okay..." Agreeing, Yuan Shuyi shook his head, and picked up a river lantern that Tuo Bachen had lit.

After finally finding a place with few people, Tuobachen dragged Yuan Shuyi, and the two of them held a lotus lantern made of white gauze in their hands, and loosened in Tuobachen's shout of "one, two, three". He dropped the river lantern in his hand.

Seeing it gradually drift away with the flowing water.

"...What wish did you make?" Yuan Shuyi couldn't help but turned her head and asked.

"I won't tell my sister." Tuo Bachen smiled mischievously at her, turned around and swayed Yuan Shuyi's sleeve from side to side, looking at her with bright eyes, "Sister Yuan, I'm hungry, Let's go eat glutinous rice balls."

"You really are..." Yuan Shuyi had no choice but to rely on her, and the two of them struggled to find a glutinous rice ball stall among the crowd walking back and forth.

"Tangyuan, delicious glutinous rice balls, big and filling glutinous rice balls, girl, would you like a bowl of glutinous rice balls?"

Attracted by the familiar voice, Yuan Shuyi turned her head in disbelief, and sure enough, she saw the stall owner who had just sold the river lamp to them again.

"Aren't you a river lamp seller?!" Yuan Shuyi looked at the unattractive, smiling stall owner in a red gown standing in front of him, expressionless, and asked.

"Hey, girl, you are ignorant, right?" The stall owner shook the towel on his body and said seriously, "This is called a side job."

"What about the one just now? Is it the main business?" Yuan Shuyi narrowed his eyes and asked with a smile.

"Miss is so understanding!" The stall owner gave Yuan Shuyi a thumbs up and praised.

"You!" Yuan Shuyi was furious, grabbed his skirt, gritted his teeth and smiled at her, "Then I'll let you see now, what is my main business!"

"Sister Yuan!"

"girl--"

"What? What else is there to say?" Yuan Shuyi glanced at Tuoba Chen, who was cautiously at the side, and then turned his attention to the stall owner, "I have a last word, hurry up! I'm very busy."

"I just asked the girl if she wants to eat glutinous rice balls?" The stall owner still looked at her with a smile and asked after being treated like this, "I just heard that the stomach of the young man next to the girl is already beating."

Hearing what he said, Yuan Shuyi looked to the side, sure enough, Tuobachen was blushing and clutching his stomach, and his porcelain-white face was also faintly tinged with blue.

Under such circumstances, being treated like this by others and being able to stay calm in the face of danger, either means that this person is too broad-minded or that this person possesses special skills.

Yuan Shuyi glanced expressionlessly at the stall owner who was still smiling at her, and silently let go. "Two bowls of glutinous rice balls."

"Hey, okay. Girl, what kind of glutinous rice balls do you want?" The stall owner opened the pot and asked solemnly.

"You can make whatever you have here, is there even a question?!" Yuan Shuyi pressed her twitching eyebrows and asked back.

"Hey, girl, here I have sesame glutinous rice balls, lard glutinous rice balls, jujube paste glutinous rice balls, sweet-scented osmanthus glutinous rice balls, lotus flower glutinous rice balls, and anger-suppressing glutinous rice balls for self-cultivation..." The stall owner continued to explain with a smile, "Which one do you want?" kind?"

"Oh, excuse me for my ignorance, what are those glutinous rice balls for suppressing anger?" Yuan Shuyi asked expressionlessly.

"Oh, looking at you dressed like this, girl, I thought you could read. Why, don't you know the literal meaning?" The stall owner was surprised, but Yuan Shuyi didn't see any surprise in his eyes. , but ridiculed more!

"You!" Yuan Shuyi shook his body angrily, slapped the bamboo and wood table with his bare hands, pointed at the stall owner and was speechless.He's like this, not to scold him for looking good, but in fact...worse? !

"How about me?" The stall owner asked with a smile.

"Uncle stall owner, I apologize on behalf of my sister." Tuoba Chenhu bowed to the stall owner in front of Yuan Shuyi, "Sister, she didn't mean to offend you, please forgive me."

"Tuoba Chen!" Yuan Shuyi suppressed his voice, "Why do you decide for me? Besides, what's wrong with me?"

Tuo Bachen ignored her and still saluted her straight.

"You are a good boy." The stall owner smiled and sighed, and looked at Tuo Bachen with a little more kindness in his eyes, "Even though this is just your shadow, although there is a bit of your temperament in him, it is not you after all. Even so, you still impress me, your mother taught you really well."

After hearing these words, Yuan Shuyi didn't care to get angry, but just widened her eyes, and the deep blue in her pupils appeared bit by bit, and there was still a little water in her eyes, she covered her mouth with one hand , pointing with one hand at the unremarkable stall owner, trembling his voice: "You are...you are..."