Wang Zhijing

With the top of the child's hair, he smiled and said: "His name is Xiaohu? He is five years old? I have lived in the imperial capital for several years, and I know this custom of praying for blessings every fifth day." He looked up at the woman, "If sister-in-law is willing , we can send blessings to Xiaohu."

"Yes, of course!" The young woman was overjoyed and looked at her husband with a smile on her face. "It's really a blessing for us and my wife to have two people like this send blessings to our children!"

Qi Xuan smiled, and didn't say anything more, took out a belonging from his bosom, and put it in Xiaohu's hand.

"I don't have anything long on my body, so this close-fitting jade can be used as a token."

The couple were grateful, and hurriedly took a red string and put it around their baby's neck.

Qi Xuan turned around and said to Su Yun, "Go and kiss that child on the forehead."

"what?"

Su Yun was taken aback.

"Go." Qi Xuan stretched out his hand to give him a hand, and said in a low voice, "This is the emperor's order, complete it quickly."

The threatening tone sounded even more joking at this moment.

Su Yun didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and guessed that this was probably part of the etiquette of sending blessings?I had no choice but to do as he wanted, and stepped forward to kiss the child lightly on the forehead.

"Is this a custom in the imperial capital? Why did you kiss that child?" Su Yun couldn't help asking after the couple left with gratitude.

"What?" Qi Xuan glanced at him, as if in a great mood, "Is there something that Mr. Su doesn't know?"

Su Yun smiled wryly: "Your Majesty is just joking. There are thousands of things that I don't know. The folk customs in the northern region are always very different from those in the southern border, but there is no way to know everything. Please enlighten me, Your Majesty."

Qi Xuan shook his head and smiled slightly: "I won't tell you."

Su Yun was taken aback again.

This tone, this demeanor... can't help but make my heart beat like a drum.

247 time-honored brand

After walking a few steps, they were stopped again, and it turned out to be another couple with their children "seeking blessings".

Qi Xuan was very good-tempered today, so he untied his jade hairpin and gave it to them, and asked Su Yun to kiss the child's forehead.

Su Yun became more and more puzzled, and when he was about to ask, Qi Xuan grabbed his hand and hurried away.

"Let's go!" His voice was urgent with a smile, "Someone is coming again. I didn't expect these people to follow suit so much. I don't have anything else around me, so I can't untie my belt and give it to them."

"Do you have to send something?" Su Yun asked hurriedly, "I have some personal belongings on Wei Chen's body, Your Majesty can use them."

Of course not.

Qi Xuan didn't speak, the smile deepened on his lips.

The custom of sending blessings is only found in the Lantern Market during the Double Lantern Festival every year.When the children of the imperial capital grow up to five years old, they will "seek blessings". That is to find the most outstanding couple in the temple fair of the Lantern Festival and pray for their blessings.

The father in this pair will give his precious things to his children for collection, implying a bright future.And the mother will kiss on the forehead of the child, implying that the blessing will last forever.

In the Northern Territory, males don't think differently, so the scope of seeking blessings is not limited to male and female couples, same-sex couples, as long as they are recognized as outstanding and superior to others, they can easily be regarded as objects of blessing.

Su Yun didn't know this, he was dragged to a trot all the way, and finally stopped at the entrance of a big shop with a long queue.

"It should be here." Qi Xuan said with a slight frown, avoiding the flow of people rushing towards the store door.

Su Yun saw the end of the crowd from afar, and the gold signboard hung on the lintel of the store, "Is this the time-honored brand of Yikouxiang?"

"Not bad." Qi Xuan nodded.

The line waiting to buy cakes stretches from the door of the store to the bridge, a long line that seems to have no end in sight.Su Yun couldn't help but also frowned: "There are a lot of people."

Qidu also has a very popular time-honored brand, but this kind of grand event is really unprecedented.

"It's probably nearing the release time. In the past, many people started queuing early in the morning."

Su Yun looked at the long dragon and couldn't help hesitating: "How long will this wait?"

"Less talk is less than half an hour."

Having said that, Qi Xuan clearly had no intention of leaving, looked around, pointed to a place on the river bank, and said, "You go to line up, I'll wait for you over there."

Su Yun was stunned for a moment, and the words he wanted to persuade turned into one word: "Okay."

For some reason, he couldn't refuse what he said today, and followed his wishes, doing things that he never thought of.

Qi Xuan raised his eyes and smiled at him, then turned and walked towards the willow tree on the bank.

There was a big umbrella under the tree, and an old man was selling big bowls of herbal tea.

This street was originally a busy place in the capital, and it was even more crowded tonight, only the tea shop was dimly lit and there were few tea customers.

That's normal, who would drink herbal tea in winter?

The old tea seller didn't stand up to greet the guests. He still sat with his legs crossed under the bare willow tree, smoking dry cigarettes and watching the tourists with lanterns on the river, looking quite contented.

Qi Xuan found a place with a backlight and sat down, turned around and saw Su Yun was still standing there, and didn't turn around until he sat down and went to line up.

After a while, shouts came from the store door, and the shortbread came out of the oven, and a burst of sweet, soft and crispy cake aroma was blown to people's noses by the night wind.The long queue was crowded with people, and those who had waited for a long time were a little excited.Although impatient, but orderly.The line moved forward slowly, and the shop guy quickly took cakes for the guests and bandaged them.

"Are you on a good date?"

Qi Xuan looked away, and the old tea seller sat down on the long bench at the next table at some point, smiling at him with a pipe in his mouth and his old eyes.

His eyes turned coldly from the old man's face, and turned to the figure not far away.

If one day, he is not his king, he is not his minister, and they have not had so many things happened before.

Well, how good should it be?

"No." Qi Xuan replied.

What if in the world?

Today, at this moment, is just an accident on a special day.

Qi Xuan turned his gaze away, not wanting to look any further.

"Why not?" The old man chuckled, "Look at his appearance, he doesn't seem to have a sweet tooth. Let you sit and wait so comfortably, he squeezed into the crowd and queued up to buy cakes by himself. , isn’t it something only good friends do, young man, are you blind when you are an old man?”

Qi Xuan looked at the lights on the river bank, and said after a while: "I forced him to do that."

"Yo!" The old man slapped his thigh, "Can't you see that your man is still so afraid of guilt?"

Buying herbal tea in winter, this old man is a madman, he has no sense of finding people to be happy, he is famous from far and near, he has long since lost his business.It's so easy to have a guest today, and I don't want to let it go.He originally wanted to get up in front of the guests and have a good chat, but for some reason, he saw that although the young man was weak and slender, his whole body was cold to the bone, and he didn't dare to bully him, so he tried his best to speak presumptuously.

He saw that Qi Xuan was not upset, but he was looking away, let alone answering, treating him like air, itching in his heart, and couldn't hold back, he said: "I said, little son, it's no wonder you are always so cold Your man is so afraid of you. But since he is willing to listen to you, it also means that he still has you in his heart, so you don't have to be so discouraged..."

248 Crazy Words

There was noise in the ears, the old man was full of crazy words, he couldn't bear it long ago according to his temperament, and this place was cramped, and it was definitely not a place where he could usually sit, but he managed to bear it one by one.

Qi Xuan's eyes lowered slightly, and the corners of his lips drew a slight arc, and he laughed at himself.This birthday was really special.

The old man babbled for a while, but he couldn't get a response, so he gave up feeling bored.But he is an out-and-out lunatic. He stared at Qi Xuan for a while, then turned his head to look at the back of the young man in the crowd, and then turned back to look at Qi Xuan, smoking a dry cigarette, looking silly and happy to himself. stop.

"Yo yo! You can't do this!"

The old man who had been quiet for a long time suddenly yelled again, and walked out while yelling, "It will be broken if you take it like this! You only buy two yuan per person for a bite of incense, because it's not easy to hold. You hold it in a bag like this." , it’s not all broken, is it!”

Su Yun was walking towards the shore with the shortbread in his hands, and suddenly someone ran out and yelled at him, quite surprised.The old man didn't care about the other party's guarded look, and he didn't hold Su Yun with his hand as an outsider, "Hurry up, put it down, if you keep holding it like this, it will be over."

The cakes were put down on the tea table and spread out, and sure enough, many of them had been broken into fine pieces.

"Look, look," the old man lamented loudly, "I'm right. Those goddamn unscrupulous shop assistants probably bullied you because they saw you as a foreigner, and they didn't tell them that they could only take two cakes at a time. Too much would be bad."

Su Yun stared at the bag full of crumbs in a daze, never expecting that this mouthful of incense could be so soft that it would shatter when touched.The store clerk asked him which flavor he wanted to buy, only then did he realize that there were so many choices, but he didn't know which flavor Qi Xun wanted, so he bought two of each flavor, but he didn't expect such a result.

Qi Xuan walked over and took a look at the table, Su Yun was rather embarrassed: "This is not edible, I'll go buy it again."

He turned around but was pulled back by someone.

"No need." Qi Xuan said, "I used to like to eat broken pieces."

As he said that, he stretched out his hand and twirled half of the cake crumbs, put it in his palm, lowered his head and smelled it, "Osmanthus flavor?"

Su Yun was embarrassed: "Yes. I don't know... what do you like to eat, so I bought some."

The corners of Qi Xuan's lips curled up slightly, and instead of looking at him, he put his mouth into his palm to eat the crumbs.

The mouth is full of fragrance, all of which are sweet, the fragrance penetrates into the body, and the heart is sweetened.

Looking up after eating, the man's astonished eyes have not left his cheeks, as if he never thought that he could eat such a thing.

"What?" He glanced across at him.

Su Yun came back to his senses, suddenly couldn't help laughing, and raised his sleeves without thinking, "It's all stuck to his chin." He flicked lightly, and wiped away the crumbs from the young man's lips.

"The young couple really love each other!" The crazy old man clapped his hands and said with a smile, "I really envy my old man."