Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1861, Fun Lantern Festival

"Clang~clang~"

"Chenguang Stationery has a number of special puzzles to celebrate the Lantern Festival. As long as children under the age of ten can participate, those who guess the puzzles can draw any one from brushes, pencils, ink, inkstones, and notebooks as prizes."

Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin watched with great interest. At this moment, a stationery store was beating gongs and drums. The owner of the store said to the crowd with a smile on his face. At the same time, there was also a store waiter who was posting red leaflets to attract everyone to come. participate.

And with the shouting of the shopkeeper beating gongs and drums, a lot of children were attracted to flock to it, and a long queue began to play the game of guessing puzzles.

Some children thought hard, but still couldn't figure it out, and cried out in anger. Some children happily chose their favorite prizes after guessing correctly, and the parents on the side were also happy from ear to ear.

"not bad."

Emperor Hongzhi watched with a smile.

"Right, right, right~"

"There are several pairs in the store, and anyone who can match one of them will get 100 cash off for all consumption in the store!"

"Anagram guessing, anagram guessing, only for children under ten years old, anyone who can guess one can get 2 candies in this shop!"

"In order to celebrate the Lantern Festival, Xingye Restaurant has specially released several pairs of Shanglian. Anyone who can match one of them can come to the restaurant to enjoy a pot of high-quality tea and wine for free."

",,,,,,"

The streets and alleys of Penglai City, as long as there are shops, are holding various activities to celebrate this Lantern Festival. It is really rare that the merchants are willing to spend part of their money to participate in this event. .

"Mr. Zhu, Mr. Liu~"

"This is an ordinary area of ​​Penglai City, and the events are held in ordinary places. The most lively places are the Qinglou Chuguan Street and Shanghang Street on the side of Penglai Bay."

"This time of the year is the busiest time. Brothel Chuguan Street, big and small, will hold oiran conferences, offering rewards to solicit poems, songs, and the like."

"Here in Shanghang Street, large and small commercial firms will pay a lot of money to collect pairs and poems. Last year, we had a great talent here and got thousands of taels of silver just for playing pairs and poems."

Tian Erniu smiled and talked to Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin about the busiest area in Penglai City.

Now in this area, children are playing, and the prizes are all ordinary things, which are for children. For adults and talented people, everyone goes to Qinglou Chuguan Street and Shanghang Street. I went to play.

There are the most people and the most lively.

Of course, Tian Erniu knew that the two masters in front of him had real talents and learning. Liu Jin didn't say anything. He was born as the number one scholar, so it's trivial to play with these things. Don't think that Emperor Hongzhi doesn't know these things because he is an emperor. He has been taught by famous teachers since he was a child, whether it is calligraphy, poetry, poetry, astronomy and geography, Four Books and Five Classics, etc., they are all quite good.

"Yeah, let's go, let's have a look."

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he immediately became interested.

Under the leadership of Tian Erniu, everyone also came to Penglai Bay. Qinglou Chuguan Street and Shanghang Street are very close to each other, and they are two adjacent streets.

At this moment, the place is already crowded with people. There are so many people that the spacious road here is full. People walk in groups of three or four.

Not only are there men, but there are also many women, and many of them are ladies and ladies from rich families who are hard to see at ordinary times.

On the one hand, they came out to play and join in the fun, and on the other hand, they also wanted to see if they could meet their favorite talents.

Since ancient times, a gifted man is matched with a beautiful woman. In this lively festival, it is the easiest for gifted men and beautiful men to get to know each other, and it is also a very rare opportunity to get to know each other.

One by one, dressed up in fancy clothes, inviting three or five friends, followed by a few servant girls, this is definitely the standard for a lady from a big family and a lady from a wealthy family.

As for the gifted scholars and literati who came to the Lantern Festival, all of them were well-dressed, handsome young men, wearing long gowns, holding painting fans, and being with friends.

"It's really lively here, there are too many people here."

Looking at the lively neighborhood in front of him, Liu Jin also said with a smile.

"Haha, it's really lively."

Emperor Hongzhi also nodded happily. When he got here, the children disappeared, and all the people who came were adults, at least all young people over the age of sixteen or seventeen.

"Clang~clang~"

"This court has prepared a few pairs. As long as you can match the last one, you can go in and drink tea for free. If you can write a good poem and song, this court is willing to pay a lot of money to buy it!"

Just came here and didn't walk a few steps when I heard the sound of gongs and drums, and everyone looked over quickly.
Impressively saw the three big characters of "Yihongyuan", you can tell the place just by hearing the name, usually it is suffocating in vulgarity, but today it is re-decorated, hanging some calligraphy left by the talented scholars in the past, Poetry and the like are for people to appreciate, and even the girls inside are dressed in more serious clothes, and they look like ladies from everyone, if it weren’t for the affectionate eyes that kept firing at passers-by, I really wouldn’t dare Believe it.

"Liu Jin, are you interested in going to have fun? Don't worry about me."

Emperor Hongzhi looked at it and immediately teased Liu Jin beside him.

Since ancient times, talented scholars and beauties, many romantic and elegant things have happened in the brothel Chuguan. I don’t like this, but I can’t delay Liu Jin. After all, I have been with you for a few months, so I should go for entertainment. Pastime.

"I'm not interested in this vulgar fan."

Liu Jin smiled and shook his head. How could Liu Jin like this kind of place? What are you kidding? place.

"Yes, yes, this kind of place is naturally not acceptable. The best place here is Xiaoxiang. The oiran conference is held at this time of year every year. The oirans there are proficient in everything from piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and they are all perfect. Only talents recognized by the oiran can enjoy the first night, and for others, no matter how much money they pay, it will be useless."

Tian Erniu didn't think too many things to watch, so he quickly followed up.

"Haha, right, let's go, let's go and see the excitement."

Emperor Hongzhi immediately laughed, took Liu Jin and asked Tian Erniu to lead the way to Xiaoxiangguan.

Liu Jin is speechless, is it really good to go to that kind of place?

If people found out about this, he would not be scolded to death, and if he took the emperor to the brothel Chu Pavilion, would his reputation still be lost?

Don't look at the fact that Emperor Hongzhi is interested in going for a walk now, but everyone will only blame the minister Liu Jin.

"Your Majesty, let's forget about that kind of place. Let's see if there is any place to hold a poetry meeting nearby. It's more suitable for us to go and see."

Liu Jin also said hastily.

"Yes, yes, there are quite a few."

"Xiaoxiangguan's oiran conference is actually a poetry conference. There are requirements for getting started. At least you must match the pair or guess the anagrams."

"In addition, the government of Penglai City will also hold the Penglai Poetry Fair at this time. The venue is next to the Penglai Square. It is also very lively there, with many talented scholars, beauties, celebrities and elegant scholars participating."

Tian Erniu also said hastily.

"Then go to Penglai Square to participate in the Penglai Poetry Fair. A place like Xiaoxiangguan is really not suitable."

When Emperor Hongzhi heard it, he thought about it and said.

"Yeah, yeah, I also feel very inappropriate."

Liu Jin wiped the sweat from his forehead, nodded quickly.

"Okay, let's go to the Penglai Poetry Festival."

Tian Erniu also hurriedly led the way, anyway, they were all very close to each other, and there were people all around, very lively.

Under the leadership of Tian Erniu, everyone soon came to Penglai Square held by Penglai Poetry Club. The whole square was also very lively, but it was divided into two parts.

One is the inner circle area and the other is the outer circle area.

The inner circle area is relatively small, and there are not too many people inside. If you want to go in, there are requirements. You must match the pair or come up with a good poem.

The pairs here are naturally not so easy to match up, and the difficulty is very high.

As for the outer circle, there are no requirements. Anyone can participate, and anyone can come here to play. Of course, everyone comes here mainly to see the talented people in the inner circle. I'm here to see if I can meet my favorite talent.

And the talents are basically concentrated here at the entrance of the inner circle. Many people are thinking hard and want to pass the assessment to enter the inner circle.

Because only the inner circle is the most shining place, if you can't even enter the inner circle, you will naturally not be regarded as a talented person, and it will be difficult to get into the eyes of the ladies and daughters around you.

And here in the inner circle, there are good wine and good food. Everyone has a long table with good wine and good food. After eating, there are people next to you to add more.

There are only 36 tables in the inner circle of such tables, which means that only the first 36 talents who have passed the examination are eligible to sit on them.

Of course, this assessment is obviously not easy. When Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin arrived, there were only a dozen people sitting in the inner circle, drinking and reciting poems. From time to time, some good poems came out, and someone immediately transcribed them and showed them to them. People around, and some people read it aloud, so that everyone can appreciate it.

The surrounding daughters, ladies and ladies of famous families and so on all naturally had their eyes shining, staring at these talents, and at the same time ordering their maids and followers to inquire about some news and so on. The whole scene can be said to be very It is lively, but overall it is relatively quiet, and the core is here in the inner circle.

PS: Do you think this is a fun festival?
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