Chapter 36 Chapter 36 Mid-Autumn Festival

Not to mention the long-term chaos and unrest at the border, which made many conscripts become bones outside the Great Wall, and how many women died of their souls; the yearly coins paid to the country of Yan each year are a heavy burden on the people.So this time, the sudden death of King Yan in the north made the people all over the world unceremoniously gloat. This year's Mid-Autumn Festival is more joyous and festive than ever. As soon as Long Baiyue was free in the afternoon, she ran to Zimian's mansion non-stop, and urged Zimian to go to the night market with her at night.Zi Mian hesitated and didn't want to go, but his disciples and Long Baiyue fought side by side, and finally compromised.

When the lights were on and the full moon had just lit up, the night markets in the capital were already buzzing with people.Long Baiyue also invited Bao'er and Yu'er to meet outside the Zifu, but somehow He Lingyun got the news, so he also came together to accompany them. He Lingyun said that he had booked a room for them to watch the moon in Fengle Building, and the six of them could go there first to drink new wine and eat crabs.This idea is thoughtful - Fengle Building is close to the night market, they can go downstairs to visit the night market at any time after eating, and if they are tired, they can go back to the restaurant to rest.

The restaurants in the capital will redecorate their facades on the Mid-Autumn Festival, and all the colorful silks tied on the gate towers will be replaced with new ones, reflecting colorful brilliance under the moonlight.The three- to four-storey restaurant was full of customers, plus the prostitutes doing business and the waiters jumping up and down, the wooden floor boards creaked.The noise went from the crowded night market downstairs to the highest floor of the restaurant, resounding through the sky, making the moon in the sky lose its sense of tranquility, and it was so white that it was noisy and dazzling.

Zi Mian felt a little dizzy as soon as he sat in the private room. In previous years, he spent the Mid-Autumn Festival on the boat, and went out to play with the window dust open. He sat on the deck alone, with melons, fruits, medicine and wine accompanied by a clear moon. He was very comfortable— ——What I am most afraid of to learn is such a chaotic downtown. Of course, Long Baiyue was very skillful, excitedly pouring wine and vegetables for everyone, tearing down chicken and picking crabs, and only managed to grab the pipa from the singing girl outside to play for everyone.Including the fox demon Bao'er who competed with Ming Chuangchen for chicken legs, half of the table was occupied by six women, which made He Lingyun feel excited after a long absence. Her pair of handsome eyes were full of passion, which scared the newcomer Yu'er timidly. Go straight to hide behind Bao'er.

After eating and drinking, it is natural to go downstairs to the night market.Bao'er ran away quickly, Ming Chuangchen hurriedly followed behind her, Yu'er weighed left and right, out of child's nature and fear of He Lingyun, she also chased them out. Long Baiyue proposed to go downstairs to play too, but Zi Mian hesitated and nodded in agreement.Of course He Lingyun traveled with them - Long Baiyue resented why he quit drinking, otherwise he would definitely get drunk, so as not to get in the way. As soon as they left the restaurant, they were almost scattered by the crowd. At first, Long Baiyue only walked beside Zi Mian, but she stumbled a few times, and she had to walk between Zi Mian and He Lingyun to escape the crowd.

The people on the street were only interested in the bustle, they were dazzled, but not many people recognized Zi Mian who had changed her clothes.He didn't wear a Taoist robe, but a white silk shirt, with a palm-wide "two bats wearing bamboo" trim embroidered with sky blue and water green silk threads on the sleeves, which was eye-catching but not eye-catching, like Ling Yun, he looked like an official. son. "Why did you change your clothes?" Long Baiyue had never seen Zi Mian wearing ordinary clothes before, and she had been curious to ask since she left the Zi Mansion today, and finally spoke at this time.

"Ling Yun prepared it for me. He said that in the future, he would not dress like a Taoist when he went out on the street. It would be too eye-catching." Zi Mian explained with a smile. Long Baiyue was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and couldn't help nodding her head: "It's really a careful thought, so that the prime minister won't find out?" He Lingyun sneered, and walked forward with his head held high: "How could it be possible not to be noticed, the eyes are all staring at me. It's just that I changed into normal clothes and squeezed into crowded places, and it is still possible to get rid of the followers."

"Then the old fox still doesn't seem to be planning to give up." Long Baiyue complained a little angry. She has seen the prime minister's ability to block the sky long ago.When Zi Mian was recovering from his wounds in Longhu Mountain, Master Zixuan appeared to the imperial court as the Heavenly Master of the Han Dynasty, saying that his apprentice Zi Mian became sick from overwork due to curing the plague, so he brought him back to Longhu Mountain to take care of him.Long Baiyue was quite aggrieved at the time, but Master Zixuan said that as long as Zimian stays in the court for a day, he should not be openly hostile to the prime minister—even Zimian agreed with Master's approach of calming down others.

Sure enough, when he returned to the capital, he knew that the people who witnessed Zi Mian's victimization had been silenced, and the public opinion had been suppressed. People in the world only knew that Zi Mian had devoted himself to the people, but they didn't know that the prime minister was vicious. However, Long Baiyue believes that the reason why the emperor allocated a new ship to Zimian is at least because he has seen the clues of Zimian's "sickness from overwork", and it is very interesting to feed back another kind of public opinion from the people to the emperor. It may be the New Deal faction who is against the prime minister.But the emperor didn't do much in this matter. From this, it can be easily seen which faction he relies more on at present-the prime minister has a huge power and many party members, and he is united with the queen and prince. How can his power be fledgling? Can the New Deal faction be easily shaken?

The act of presenting the new ship can only be said to be a kind of appeasement to the wronged Zi Mian. If it is said to be a warning to hit the prime minister's party, it is the New Deal faction that really shakes it—not to mention killing the imperial court. The ordering officer failed, even if Zi Mian was really killed, the prime minister would probably be able to make things right, if he wanted to bring down the prime minister, he would have to find another way. "Hey, hey, don't think about it anymore!" Long Baiyue shook her head with a gloomy expression.During the festival, I think about what is wrong, but I just think about those things that are difficult for me.She'd better focus on Zi Mian, Long Baiyue's heart was pounding - Zi Mian looked so good dressed like this, it caused her to swallow her saliva all the way till now.

The night market is full of all kinds of miscellaneous goods, mainly snacks, jewelry, cosmetics, needlework.Juggling and quyi gathered in Goulan Wasi, and there was a sea of ​​people, Zimian and the others were intimidated and couldn't squeeze in.The children in the village ran around in the market, slipped past Long Baiyue's legs, and wrinkled her skirt. "Oh, these boys." Long Baiyue straightened her skirt and watched more than a dozen children running towards a corner of the downtown area. At this moment, a clanging gong and drum suddenly sounded amidst the sound of silk and bamboo orchestras all over the ground, attracting Zi Mian's attention. "Hey——little sister has a lot of troubles, she was forced to marry by a noble gentry, and she was exiled in a foreign country..." A clear and sweet singing sounded, and the libretto was telling a story. He Lingyun looked up and saw dozens of children surrounded by a bright yellow light, so he laughed: "They are singing shadow puppetry." "Hey, it's very nice to sing, go and have a look." Long Baiyue laughed, since Goulan Wasi couldn't squeeze in, it's impossible to snatch the child. A group of them went to see the excitement, and when they got closer, they realized that the beauty of this shadow play was different from other ones.Behind the curtain, instead of sketching some simple landscapes with a brush like in ordinary shadow puppetry, the scenery is also cut out of donkey skin; it is clear that there is only one person behind the scenes manipulating it, but every tree in the scene is moving with the wind. Swinging, even the running water between the mountains and rocks is gurgling and flowing. This shadow puppetry sang a story of a heroine. The first episode of escape from marriage has been sung, and now the second episode is being sung: "When I arrived in Pingyang County, I was really bullied by dogs. Alas, my Mohist skills can't be underestimated by you. Officer Dog, look at the sword!" The heroine on the curtain is dressed in red and green, and armor carved with hollow patterns, so beautiful and majestic!She wielded the sword with both hands, and with the clanging of gongs, she beat the enemy to pieces in two or three strokes.The children watching the play in the audience waved their fists and applauded. The third fold: "My Mohist family is mighty and invincible in the world, who can deceive me? Oh, how did I expect the villain to play tricks..." A hideous Taoist priest appeared on the stage, accompanied by a delicate beauty.The narration starts: "The government invited the demons to plot evil and kill the heroes..." The Yaodao sang to the beauty beside her: "Go to her first, and deceive her to trust me, then I will take the opportunity to strike..." The gong rubbed against each other lightly twice, making a strange and uneasy hum, and the children in the audience all clenched their fists nervously at this moment. The beauty left the Taoist priest and fell to the side of the mountain moaning. The heroine came on the stage: "Oh my sister, why are you falling here?" "Woooooo... I was chased by the wicked, and I almost died here. Sister, save me." "Oh my sister, go up the mountain with my sister..." The more Long Baiyue watched this play, the more she felt that something was wrong, and she couldn't help turning her head to look at Zi Mian beside her. At this moment, Zi Mian also lowered her head and looked at her helplessly, and exchanged a dumbfounding look with each other tacitly. The fourth fold: the beauty secretly steals the magic weapon from the heroine while she is asleep, and joins the Taoist priest.The Taoist priest took the treasure and gave a grinning grin, and returned to the government to report.At this time, a general with green face and fangs appeared on the stage and sang: "No matter how heroic you are, if you don't have a magic weapon in your hand, watch me kill you without leaving any pieces..." The heroine hurriedly took up the challenge, but she was retreating steadily... The children in the audience cheered desperately for the heroine: "Hit the bad guys, hit the bad guys quickly, you must win!" He Lingyun looked at the commotion on and off the stage, and his eyebrows became more and more furrowed. The heroine resisted bravely, and finally survived the desperation and defeated the general: "Yeah, although I won the battle, I lost the army and lost the general. It is not suitable to stay here for a long time, lest the dog officer kill the general again. I will go—" The heroine rides the clouds and the fog, and flies away on a crane.The children cheered and threw the copper coins in their hands behind the curtain.At this time, a smiling face appeared from behind the curtain, shouting to the children: "Who is the most powerful in the world?" "Mo family!" The children answered loudly in a ignorant manner. Gongshu Lingbao raised his eyes with a smile, and saw Zi Mian and the other three staring at her.She froze for a moment, turned her head and ran away with an "oops".He Lingyun immediately flew to catch up, and shouted angrily: "The witch! Let's see where you are going this time!" He rushed into the crowd, leaving Zi Mian and Long Baiyue far behind. The mid-autumn night market was crowded with people, Gongshu Lingbao hadn't even taken two steps when he felt his collar tighten and his body was already being grabbed by someone. "Aiya," she protected her neck, looked up and saw He Lingyun's poisonous eyes, and said with a sneer, "Haha, I didn't expect you to survive." "Thanks to you..." He Lingyun gritted his teeth with a livid face, "You did such a good show, the one with the green face and fangs is me, right?" Dare to uglify him like this, the hand that grabbed Gongshu Lingbao's collar tightened again, and directly lifted her three inches off the ground.Gongshu Lingbao's neck was strangled by his clothes, he couldn't breathe, coughing and struggling desperately. At this time, a group of children ran up and beat and kicked around He Lingyun: "Brother is a bad guy! Bad guys bully people..." He Lingyun didn't move at all, and only focused on punishing Gongshu Lingbao, and viciously raised her small face in front of him: "You are a criminal of the imperial court, how dare you run to the feet of the emperor and confuse the public with black and white demons..." Gongshu Lingbao almost passed out when her feet were off the ground. She pulled the clothes that were stuck around her neck with her hands, and her flushed face was full of tears: "You bully..." "Who can bully you—" He Lingyun stared at her before he finished speaking, and finally felt the eyes of reproaches from around him. He finally put Gongshu Lingbao down, and looked at a group of children crying around him in a daze, while the surrounding people looked at him with half fear and half disgust. "It's really a bad day to rob people's girls in the street..." "Look at the official family's clothes, I hate these dudes who bully others..." "I know him. He is the son of He Zheng's servant family. I didn't expect..." When He Lingyun heard someone mention his family background, he hurriedly argued: "You guys misunderstood, this woman is a bandit, and the imperial court committed..." The eyes of the people around could not be more clear: If you want to rob, just rob, and make up such nonsense, who will believe it? He Lingyun tilted his head to look at the Gongshu Lingbao held in his palm, petite and exquisite, with big innocent eyes flickering - if he hadn't been killed by her, he wouldn't have believed it. "Damn—" He Lingyun gritted his teeth, and let go of her helplessly. After being freed, Gongshu Lingbao breathed a sigh of relief and rubbed his neck: "I'm a prisoner of the imperial court? Why didn't I know? I didn't see any arrest warrants along the way!" Nonsense, the bandit who was caught at the beginning couldn't tell her origin, and the county government couldn't provide her household registration information, so I was anxious to claim the reward, so I simply crossed her name off the list of bandits for the sake of a good record ——"One person escaped" became "all captured". The memorial is beautiful, but now it suffers from being dumb. "Get lost, don't let me see you again." He Lingyun left Gongshu Lingbao in frustration, and turned back to look for Zi Mian. "Ah, no way!" Gongshu Lingbao almost forgot about the important matter, hurried up a few steps and grabbed his arm. "What are you doing!" He Lingyun raised his arms to throw her away, his face was livid, "I'm going to let you go!" "I said, if you can survive, I will allow you to join my family!" Gongshu Lingbao muttered happily, "From now on, you will be the Gongshu He family." She stared at He Lingyun, but He Lingyun didn't respond at all, he narrowed his eyes slightly, turned around and left. "Hey, why are you leaving? Why don't you talk." Gongshu Lingbao chased after him. Why should he talk to a lunatic, He Lingyun thought, still striding forward.Gongshu Lingbao couldn't keep up with his pace, and was almost thrown off by him: "Hey, don't renege on your debt, you will be responsible for seeing all of my body!" It was only after she said this that He Lingyun remembered that she had seen her soft, white and tender happy together.This thought made him stop, and he no longer regarded Lingbao as a lunatic, but he still shook off her little hand that was entangled: "I just looked at your back, there is nothing to be responsible for." "No way, you have seen the front, the front!" Gongshu Lingbao gestured in front of him, not allowing him to renege on his debt. He Lingyun was taken aback for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, he squinted coldly: "That's also the back." There is no difference between the front and the back!With a wave of his hand, he shook her off, and Gongshu Lingbao screamed in anger. At this time, there was a sudden scream in the distance, and the crowd suddenly became chaotic. What was contained in the noise was no longer festive joy, but fear and panic.The gazes of He Lingyun and Gongshu Lingbao were attracted to them, they stopped arguing, and just looked at the crowds in the distance inexplicably. Suddenly, He Lingyun came to his senses, and his eyes were filled with murderous aura.He gritted his teeth and cursed, "Damn it, how could I let him be alone!"