Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 312 Nursery Rhymes
Luoyang, Golden House.

The sky outside the window was completely dark, and the candlelight reflected on the paper window, leaving a dancing shadow.Liu Rengui raised his neck in pain and poured the medicinal juice into his mouth. The bitter taste deepened the wrinkles on his face, just like a dry wheat field.

"Feng Tangyi is old, Li Guang is hard to seal!" Liu Rengui put down the medicine cup, turned his eyes to the bronze mirror beside the bed, the man in the mirror was old and tired, he showed a wry smile, fate was as pretty as a woman, it seemed within reach Suddenly, it flew away and landed beside the young man.Wang Wenzuo is indeed more suitable than himself to meet the Holy Majesty. He has experienced the charm of this young man. When you sit opposite him and talk freely, you can't help falling in love with this young man: knowledgeable, alert, and polite. , decisive, and he is already a dying old man.

"Liu Gong, why are you up again, lie down quickly, or the doctor will blame me again if he finds out!"

The mother-in-law opened the door and came in. She took the medicine cup away carefully, and blamingly helped Liu Rengui lie back on the bed, and folded the corner of the quilt for him: "Mr. Liu, it's cold outside. You must not catch cold at your age." Already!"

"I know!" Liu Rengui sighed, "Do you think I'm old?"

"That's right!" The mother-in-law said with a smile, "I heard from the doctor that you are over 60, how many years older than me, Aye!"

"Aye? Where is he now?" Liu Rengui asked.

"My aye? He!" The woman laughed: "He passed away three years ago! The small tree on the grave is as thick as the mouth of a bowl!"

"That's right!" Liu Rengui sighed, "If I had a middle-aged lifespan, the tree on the grave would probably be as thick as a child's arms. What else would I be dissatisfied with?"

"Mr. Liu, don't say that!" The woman smiled while adding charcoal to the brazier next to her, "I, Aye, am a farmer. I live in the wind and rain. It's not bad if I can live more than 50 years. You It’s a court dignitary, don’t say sixty, it’s not surprising that 78 is ten!”

"Really?" Liu Rengui was amused by the woman's words: "Then make a match for me and see how long I can live!"

"Then I'll give it a try, don't blame me if I'm wrong!" The woman stood up and clapped her hands happily, looking at Liu Rengui's appearance, and was about to speak.There was a nursery rhyme from outside: "The strong man in white is nine feet tall, holding a golden knife in his hand and rising to the east."

"It's so noisy outside, why don't you go and see what's going on?"

"Hey!" The woman responded, opened the window and looked out, then turned her head and said, "It's a monk in black robes, followed by a group of children, who sing jingles!"

"Help me up and let me see!" Liu Ren said.

"How can this be done? You haven't recovered from the cold? It's so windy outside!" Before the woman finished speaking, Liu Rengui yelled angrily, "I can't die, come and help me!"

The woman had no choice but to take a blanket and put it on Liu Rengui, and then helped Liu Rengui to the window. When the cold wind came back, he couldn't help shivering. He saw a black-clothed monk at the end of the street outside the courtyard, followed by seven The eight children were singing and dancing, they were singing the nursery rhyme just now, and they disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"The strong man in white is nine feet tall, holding a golden knife in his hand and rising to the east." Liu Rengui muttered to himself, with a hint of hostility on his face.

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Chang'an, Shangyuan Festival.

For the people of Chang'an at that time, how could any city in the world compare to Chang'an? (Luoyang people have objections on this point), which festival is comparable to Chang'an's Shangyuan Festival?Absolutely nothing. Exhausting your imagination, gathering words such as prosperity, splendor, excitement, and splendor in one place that you have seen and heard all your life, it is impossible to describe Chang'an in Lantern Festival.

In the early morning of that day, all the gates of Chang’an Guocheng were opened——Qixia Gate, Anhua Gate, Jinguang Gate, Kaiyuan Gate, Yanping Gate, Chunming Gate, Tonghua Gate, Yanxing Gate, Jingyao Gate, Gwanghwa Gate , Fanglin Gate, especially the Mingde Gate in the south, this gate is exactly on the central axis of Chang'an City, there are five gates, and entering the city is the 150-meter-wide Zhuque Street, which runs from north to south and leads directly to the entrance of the imperial city. Suzaku Gate and Chengtian Gate of Miyagi, entering the city from Mingde Gate, anyone with good eyesight can see the imperial city rising on the horizon.The people pouring in from various city gates, wearing all kinds of gorgeous clothes, looked at everything around them with great interest. At this time, the majestic and majestic imperial capital became a hospitable and hospitable hostess, inviting everyone with open arms. guest.

For the high society in Chang'an City, the Shangyuan Festival in the first year of Linde is a particularly special day. The Tang Dynasty in the past year has been full of happy events. Needless to say, Baekje on the east line, Zuowuwei on the north line General Zheng Rentai pacified Tiele's rebellion and established the Hanhai Protectorate in the hometown of Huihe. Its jurisdiction is about present-day Mongolia and the upper reaches of the Yenisei River in Russia and the surrounding areas of Lake Baikal. Jiankun, who has red hair and green eyes, lives in Lake Baikal. Even tribes such as the Yenisei River.Only the situation on the western front was worrisome. Tubo, a rising power, defeated Tuyuhun. Khan Hebo of Tuyuhun and Princess Honghua led thousands of tents and fled to Liangzhou (now Wuwei, Gansu), and asked Tang to move to the mainland.The buffer zone between Tang and Tubo no longer exists, and the century-old war between the two major powers in East Asia is imminent.

But for the nobles in Chang'an, all of the above is not as important as a polo match in the imperial city. In this polo match, the successor of the empire will have his first chance to make his debut and enter the political arena.

The venue of the polo match is located in the north of the Royal Garden, only one mile away from the Xuanwu Gate. There are stone terrace stands around the stadium, which are 180 steps long and [-] steps wide.The entire stadium is almost oval, its east end is almost semicircular, but the west end is cut in a straight line, and there are houses for storing polo equipment and raising horses on the north and south sides.

"Sanlang! Did you notice that the sons and daughters are very excited today?" Jin Ren asked with a smile, pointing at the East Palace knights who were warming up on the polo field.

"It seems to be!" Wang Wenzuo replied in a not-so-sure tone: "It's not surprising. It's a rare opportunity to show your skills in front of His Majesty the Son of Heaven!"

"The holy car hasn't arrived yet!" Jin Ren asked, pointing to the stands on all sides: "Sanlang, you are too slow in some aspects, don't you realize that today's stands are extraordinarily beautiful?"

"Gorgeous?"

As Jin Renwen said, hundreds of curtains have been set up on the stands, and tassel pendants made of gold, silver, pearls and jade are hung from the four corners of the curtains. Que Xianle.From time to time, noble ladies with gorgeous costumes come in and out, looking like fairies from a distance.

　Thanks to the leader of the book friend Long Zhan Yuye, I will add a new chapter today.Sorry, I've been too busy these days, so I didn't see it yesterday.

　　
　
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