Don't help me, I can sit up by myself

The emperor's words were extremely regretful, and Du Jiyan was filled with joy.

Can go out of the palace to enjoy the lanterns.

You don’t have to accompany your boss when you go out to enjoy the lanterns.

Somewhat comfortable.

The emperor added: "I'm afraid it wouldn't be interesting for you to go out alone."

"Ah, no, no, I am very good at entertaining myself. I grew up among the people. I have participated in the Lantern Festival several times. During the Lantern Festival, I put out lanterns and guessed crossword puzzles. In the city There are also people setting off fireworks, storytellers, and opera singers. It will be as lively as possible. It won’t be boring for me to take a walk around.” Du Jiyan almost drooled as he imagined the grand occasion of leaving the palace to have fun.

"I originally thought about letting Shi Jing accompany you out of the palace, but it seems that I thought too much."

"Ah." Du Jiyan hurriedly fell to the ground: "Your Majesty, it's boring for me to go out of the palace alone. Although I want the emperor to accompany me, your emperor has so many things to do and can't spare any time. Shi Jing is here to accompany me. That couldn't be better."

"She said she was not a fickle woman." The emperor sighed.

"I have decided that it is not safe for you and Shi Jing to go out on the night of Shangyuan Festival. I will send a hundred secret guards to protect you along the way."

Du Jiyan's mind was buzzing.

What is the concept of a hundred secret guards?

Chen Guo's secret guards have some real skills in flying over eaves and walking over walls. It is easy to pick up the heads from the air, and it is even easier to fight one against a hundred. I heard that it would cost Chen Guo hundreds of gold to train such a guard, and not just anyone can be a secret guard. One has to have some talent. To be divided, one must be able to endure hardships, one must be smart, and one must have a clean family background, and be able to disregard personal life anytime and anywhere.

These secret guards are usually used to protect the emperor or spy on information. They usually act alone or in a team of two. It is rare to hear that there are three people traveling together. The emperor actually wants a hundred secret guards to protect her?

God.

Your Majesty, are you kidding me?

She and Shi Jing were asked to leave the palace under the noses of a hundred secret guards, so did she and Shi Jing still have a dime of privacy at all?

I'm afraid that when the time comes, I'll be reported to the emperor in detail for my ugly appearance of stretching my neck and eating candied haws like a giraffe, and for glancing at handsome guys along the way.

At that time, those around Du Jiyan, those lurking in restaurants, climbing on trees, squatting on rooftops, and even those selling candied haws, selling ice powder, and singing opera, may all be secret guards pretending to be secret guards.

Then what fun is there for her and Shi Jing to hang out?

Is not fun.

Du Jiyan sighed.

No freedom.

The emperor had long noticed her strangeness and deliberately teased her: "Why, you have never enjoyed such high treatment? Also, the queen has not received such treatment even when she returned to the province."

"Thank you, Your Majesty. I suddenly feel a little uncomfortable and don't want to go see the lanterns."

Seeing Du Jiyan acting like a child, the emperor knew what Du Jiyan was thinking, but couldn't help teasing her: "You have to know that since I was born, there have been secret guards around me. Every move, word and deed is under the protection of the secret guard. It is protection and surveillance. You and Shi Jing are my concubines. You also said that it is dangerous outside during the Lantern Festival, and folk couples still care about each other. I sent this Hundreds of secret guards are here to protect you, Chang Du is here, you should feel honored, why are you having such a childish temper?"

"Humph."

"How many people want this kind of treatment and yet they don't have it yet. If you really don't leave the palace, there will be no next time."

Still leaving the palace.

Even if he didn't leave the palace, Shi Jing still wanted to go around the palace.

Don't kill your sisters' dreams.

"I thank the emperor for his kindness. I am willing to leave the palace. There are only a hundred secret guards for a hundred secret guards."

"These one hundred secret guards of mine are very loyal. Even if they die, they will not put you in danger. They will obey your orders anytime, anywhere. Tell me the truth. These one hundred secret guards, you How do you plan to use it?”

"I work in an electronics factory during the day and deliver food at night."

"What is an electronics factory?"

"That's right, being a servant."

"So you want my hundred well-trained secret guards to work as servants during the day and deliver food at night? Du Changzai, you are really more alive than me."

"So the emperor will send a hundred secret guards to follow us?"

"Of course, after all, there is only one living King of Hell like you in this harem. What if I lose him?"

Du Jiyan: Your Majesty, thank you very much.

Other emperors gave titles to their wives, such as good concubines, soft concubines, and noble ladies. Your Majesty, you save trouble and just call me the Living King of Hell, which sounds nice.

On the Lantern Festival, Shi Jing was extremely happy. After all, he could go out of the palace with Du Jiyan. He hibernated in the harem every day, like an old hen warming eggs. It was really boring. After leaving the palace, he seemed to have returned to the place where he had not entered. The carefree days before the palace. The sky is wider, the earth is wider, and breathing becomes easier.

In order not to alert others, both of them wore ordinary eunuch uniforms and hid their hair in hats. As long as you can go out of the palace to watch the lanterns, let alone a woman disguised as a man, you can even pretend to be a trash can on the street corner. Not picky.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival.

The entire capital was shrouded in smoke, and the air was filled with the smell of burning fireworks.

On the horizon, fireworks are rising one after another, with navy blue flowers, fiery red dragonflies and flying fish. Accompanied by explosions, the fireworks rise into the sky and explode in the dark night, as if someone took a paintbrush and painted the horizon. All kinds of colorful pictures are so bright and beautiful that they reflect the crowd brightly.

Dragon lantern dancing and flower drum dancing were indeed a night of fish and dragon dancing. The bustling capital is destined to be a sleepless night. It is when the streets are deserted. The people in the city drag their families out of the house. The children carry lanterns, and the adults hold their children, or stop at the tea stalls to get some tea. Listening to books, or looking up at the fireworks in the sky to comment, the little child riding on his father's neck dances with the windmill in his hands, the windmill whirls, and the child giggles happily: "The windmill whirring - whirring Huhu——”

Du Jiyan and Shi Jing were dressed in eunuch uniforms. After all, they were low-key and inconspicuous among the crowd.

It was a rare occasion to watch the fireworks. The two of them held hands and watched as they walked. They met a vendor selling ice powder and spent five cents to buy a bowl. There were raisins and hawthorn slices, sesame seeds and preserved fruits floating on top. Not to mention how delicious it was. Yes, just take a bite and your teeth will creak from the cold.

"Would you like to eat candied haws on a stick, please? The fresh candied haws on a stick was just prepared this afternoon." An old man held up a row of candied haws.

Who can resist the sour and sweet candied haws?

Du Jiyan brought a bunch of orange flavored ones, and Shi Jing brought a bunch of grape ones.

The two of them ate while walking, and before they knew it, they walked through two streets and arrived at the most prosperous market in the capital.

Standing on the bridge and looking down, the market is brightly lit, and the shops along the street are all hung with red lights. The red lights stretch for miles, making the bluestone streets glow red. The lanterns are rising and falling, pedestrians are walking shoulder to shoulder, and the flower boats in the moat are One ship after another, there was a lazy and intoxicating sound coming from inside. Women in twos and threes with heavy makeup stood on the bow of the boat, waving handkerchiefs, and shouted to the people on the shore: "My dear husband, come and listen to music."

Du Jiyan stood on the bridge, with the water sparkling and the crowd buzzing. This kind of down-to-earth excitement is naturally different from that in the palace.

"I heard that the emperor sent a hundred secret guards to protect us? Where are they?" Shi Jing looked left and right and took a bite of the candied haws in Du Jiyan's hand: "A hundred secret guards should be a lot of people, right? What should I do? Didn’t you see anyone? Your Majesty is not fooling us, is he?"

Du Jiyan didn't see the secret guard either.

Although she was thinking that maybe these secret guards were in the crowd, for example, she and Shi Jing could pretend to be eunuchs, and the secret guards could also pretend to be passers-by A and B on the roadside. This would be fine, and it would not affect her and Shopping in Shijing.

Sure enough, the emperor's well-trained secret guards were lurking around them, but Du Jiyan didn't notice them at all.

Suddenly three or five children of seven or eight years old ran out from the crowd, holding lanterns or fireworks in their hands, setting off fireworks and running forward with a smile.

The sudden appearance of the child was like a stream of water, washing away the crowd.

Shi Jing couldn't dodge and fell onto Du Jiyan. Du Jiyan tilted his body and almost fell off the bridge. I felt my waist loosen again, and when I touched it with my hand, it was over, the money bag was gone. Looking up, her money bag actually appeared in the hands of the child just now. Seeing that the child had only the top of his head, he shook her money bag and ran forward happily.

Suddenly there was a splashing sound under the bridge, and everyone thought someone had fallen into the water. Unexpectedly, they saw a man wearing a black flying fish suit with gold trim and an iron helmet leapt out of the water and flew directly onto the bridge to block Du Jiyan. In a moment, Du Jiyan straightened himself up and stood firmly.

A person also flew down from the roof of the teahouse. He was wearing the same flying fish suit and iron helmet, and he flew forward on the treetops. In just a few seconds, he heard the cry of a child, and then Du Jiyan's money bag unexpectedly Back in her hands.

A big departure.

It was so fast that Du Jiyan didn't even see the faces of the two people clearly.

Lurking under water and on rooftops?

In such a cold weather, the secret guards are so dedicated?

Do it so quickly?

It was so fast that people thought that none of this had ever happened. There were still crowds of pedestrians pushing Du Jiyan forward like a tide. Shi Jing even pointed to a juggler on tiptoe and showed it to Du Jiyan: "Look That person could swallow fireballs, and someone behind that person also swallowed a long sword. Ah, the last time I saw such acrobatics was when I was a teenager. Looking at it now, it's really delicious."

Shi Jing spoke in a female voice.

There was a potbellied man next to him who imitated Shi Jing and said, "Hey, it's really delicious." He smiled again and said, "Aren't these two eunuchs in the palace? They talk as if there are two ducks in their throats."

A burst of laughter broke out from the crowd.

"I'm here with you. These two father-in-laws eat a bowl of ice powder together and walk hand in hand. Ouch -" before the man could finish his words, he sat on the ground and rubbed his calves while crying: "Who He tripped me, oh, it hurts me to death——"

It goes without saying that it was the secret guard who took action.

It's better to take a bodyguard with you when you go out.

The secret guard knows the details very well.

Du Jiyan and Shi Jing cannot be allowed to suffer a loss without affecting their enjoyment.

Shi Jing likes to watch acrobatics, and the acrobatics on the Shangyuan Festival are thrilling enough.

Not counting those who swallowed fire beads, there was also a person holding a pole in his mouth, with a man standing on the pole. The man was as flexible as a monkey, and he actually made tumbling movements on the pole, which made everyone's heart go up to their throats.

There were also people who walked barefoot on the mountain of swords. The sight of the white mountain of swords sent chills down people's spines, but the man walking on it felt as if he was walking on flat ground and was unscathed.

I also saw several ribbons wrapped around a wooden stick that was several feet high and reached the ridge of the roof. Two people, a man and a woman, wearing red silk, were flying in the air. They were flying so fast that it was dizzying to watch. The woman untied the red silk tied to her body, and everyone's hearts were lifted again. Unexpectedly, she easily jumped into the man's arms, and the two of them slowly fell to the ground along with the red silk.

The crowd erupted in applause. Such a thrilling show could not be seen in the palace. After all, ladies are timid. If they are scared out of their wits, it will be a big deal.

Du Jiyan took out two taels of silver from his purse and put them on their plates, then continued walking forward.

There is a restaurant in front of it. There is a pink stage set up outside the restaurant, and several people are singing on the stage.

"I rest and lean alone high in the Mingyue Tower. The wine fills my heart with sadness, turning into tears of lovesickness..."

"Ying Zhanglang kept his promise, but who knew that brother and sister had ruined their good relationship and faced the full moon."

It is the lyrics of "The Romance of the West Chamber".

After a while "The Romance of the West Chamber" was sung, and seven or eight little monkeys popped out on the stage. There was also a monkey wearing a gold gauze hat with pom-poms on the back, wings on the back, and a feather on it. It should be Sun Wukong.

It turned out to be a play "Journey to the West".

Although the drama outside the palace is not as delicate as that inside the palace, it is more lively, interesting, flexible and natural.

Du Jiyan and Shi Jing couldn't help but look at it with amusement, and couldn't help but make comments.

"Well, this is probably going to cause trouble in the Heavenly Palace. Look, Sun Wukong has already ascended to heaven."

"Maybe he's going to be Butima Wen."

The two were talking when suddenly a head came out from between them.

There are also queue jumpers.

She still looks like a woman.

She wears her hair in a bun, a silver hairpin, and a half-new but not old skirt.

This woman was quite tall, at least two heads taller than Du Jianyan.

Among women, this height is considered the limit.

Shi Jing pressed her head down: "This civilian girl...this sister-in-law, you are blocking our light."

"Let's watch together, let's watch together." The woman turned her back to the two of them.

This voice seems a bit familiar.

The name is a bit confusing.

Just like the man just described the two of them, it was like they had a duck in their throats.

"Sister-in-law, please move to the side. If you block us, we can't see you." Shi Jingyang said.

The woman stood to the side, blocking Du Jiyan tightly.

"Sister-in-law——"

The woman moved to the side again, and now she could see clearly. She had thick eyebrows and a floral scarf, with only half of her face exposed.

and many more.

This half of the face looks a bit familiar.

Du Jiyan stood on tiptoe to get a better look, but unexpectedly the woman turned her head and started reading "Journey to the West".

The woman has the familiar scent of avocado.

Someone who smells like avocado.

Could it be?

Du Jiyan looked at the woman's profile again.

Shi Jing still felt strange: "Do you know this sister-in-law?"

"I think we know each other a little bit." Du Jiyan leaned into Shi Jing's ear and whispered: "I'm telling you, you must keep quiet, it seems that the emperor is——"

"What's Huang? Do you have a friend named Huang? Why haven't I heard about it?"