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After leaving the temple gate and walking to the main street, there is a surge of people, lights and festoons, and it is very lively.

The four stood at the end of the street.Infected by the atmosphere, Yan Danqing asked: "What day is today? It's so lively."

Yu Qian looked at him, and said in disbelief: "Don't you know? Today is the Lantern Festival." After finishing speaking, he looked at Mo Jian and said, "Tell him, your family has a lot of scholars for generations, and you know more than me!"

Mo Jian took out a folding fan from nowhere, swiped it open, and dressed in green clothes, said slowly: "Shangyuan Festival is a traditional festival handed down from ancient times. Shangyuan includes the first month of the new year. The meaning of round night. In Taoism, the [-]th day of the first month is called Shangyuan, the [-]th day of July is Zhongyuan, and the [-]th day of October is Xiayuan, collectively called "three yuan."

"Three elements match three officials. Heavenly officials give blessings, local officials forgive sins, and water officials relieve misfortunes. Heavenly officials in Shangyuan are born on the fifteenth day of the first month, earth officials in Zhongyuan are born on July [-]th, and water officials in Xiayuan are born on October [-]th. , so it is called Shangyuan Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month."

Yan Danqing said: "What about the lanterns? Are there lanterns only today?"

Mo Jian said: "It is recorded in ancient books that the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the day when the heavenly officials of the Yuan Dynasty blessed us, so we have to light the lanterns. But today is not the only day, each dynasty is different, and it is three days when it is inherited to this dynasty. Fourteen The night is a magic lamp, the fifteenth night is a human lamp, and the sixteenth night is a ghost lamp."

Yuqian continued his words: "In addition to the traditional customs of going out to admire the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off flames, guessing lantern riddles, and pulling rabbit lanterns during the Shangyuan Festival, there are also many local customs. Like us in Muyuan and Tongcheng There are dragon and lion dances, walking on stilts, etc. But I like to enjoy lanterns and eat Yuanxiao the most.” Speaking of this, a sweet smell wafted from the front, and Yuqian looked up to the sky and sighed: “Ah! I want to eat Yuanxiao.”

"Douji, fresh meat, and sesame are all my favorites."

Mo Jian gave him a disgusted look and said, "Wipe off your drool quickly, you don't feel ashamed for how big you are."

Yu Qian wiped the corners of his mouth with his sleeve, and said with a smile, "Let's go eat the Lantern Festival! There should be a lot of people when the lantern parade team comes over. At that time, let alone the lantern viewing, there may not even be a place to stop."

Mo Jian agreed: "Just go to the stall in front! That's where the scent just now came from!"

Yu Qian looked over: "That mother-in-law's stall is right! I'm going to eat two big bowls." He rubbed his stomach and said aggrievedly: "That Baizhu's eyes are so scary that I didn't eat it at noon. full."

Mo Jian gave him a white look and said, "Aren't you full yet? You eat more than anyone else!"

"……"All right!He does eat a lot.

Passing through the crowd, the four of them sat down at the mother-in-law's Lantern Festival stand. Yu Qian and Mo Jian no longer argued about who ate more at noon, but whether the Lantern Festival was sweet or salty.

The two have different opinions, Mo Jian prefers sweet food, and Yu Qian prefers salty food. After several arguments, no one would give in to the other.

At this time, the mother-in-law who sells Yuanxiao came over and said with a smile, "You two, don't argue! I only sell one kind of stuffing here, sesame. If you want to eat, I will make it for you."

Yan Danqing said: "Grandma, two bowls first, don't worry about them."

Hearing this, Yu Qian and Mo Jian stopped arguing and said in unison: "I want to eat too."

The mother-in-law smiled and said: "Okay, mother-in-law, I will do it for you."

While waiting for the Lantern Festival to be served, Mo Jian talked about many festivals and traditional customs that Yan Danqing didn't know about, and he listened with great interest.

When the Lantern Festival is on the table, the lantern tour team also comes from the end of the street with all kinds of lanterns.In an instant, the entire Yuanwu Avenue was full of pedestrians who came to enjoy the lanterns.

Yu Qian exclaimed, "Fortunately, we have the foresight, otherwise it would be strange if so many people didn't get separated all of a sudden."

Mo Jian clapped his hands and sighed: "Everyone knows that the parade of lanterns from the royal capital Huijing is the most grand in the Shangyuan Festival, but they don't know that the parade of lanterns from Luoyi is not inferior to Huijing at all. Whether it is lanterns of different shapes or a lively scene , or tourists crowded shoulder to shoulder, without the shackles of the royal family's various etiquette, there is only the comfort that ordinary people enjoy."

After finishing speaking, there was a moment of silence, as if he hadn't come out of the artistic conception yet.

"Puff, cough, cough..." Yu Qian was disgusted by his appearance, and was scalded by the hot Yuanxiao inadvertently, and said while fanning the wind: "You fucking stop chewing ink, save it for the time you guess the lantern riddles." .”

Yan Danqing shook his head and smiled, looked down at the Yuanxiao in Gu Yan's bowl, and asked, "Don't you like it?"

Gu Yan lowered his eyes and said, "No."

Yan Danqing said: "Then why don't you eat?"

After a moment of silence, Gu Yan said, "It's too hot."

"..."

Yan Danqing said: "How about I freeze it for you?"

Hearing this, Yu Qian put the soup bowl in front of him and solemnly said, "I'm sorry for your trouble."

Yan Danqing looked at Mo Jian and said, "What about you? Do you want to freeze it?"

Mo Jian's expression was ferocious when he was scalded, he swallowed the Yuan Xiao with steam, waved his hands and said, "No need, I like hot food, Yuan Xiao must be hot to taste." After speaking, he looked up and saw Yan Danqing's soup The bowl was already empty, and he said in shock, "Have you finished eating? Didn't it just be served? Is your throat all right?"

Yan Danqing put his hand on the side of Yuqian's soup bowl, and said with a smile: "It's okay, I'm not afraid of being scalded."

He has been eating very fast since he was a child. It may be due to physical problems. No matter whether it is hot or cold to the touch, as soon as he eats it, he feels nothing.

When not in use, Yuqian's bowl of steaming Yuanxiao will be ready to freeze.However, after taking the bowl back and taking a bite, Yuqian yelled, "It's not fucking hot anymore, it's turned into ice, and my mouth is going to freeze off."

After finishing speaking, he put his hand on the back of Yan Danqing's hand, and couldn't hold on for three seconds, so he shrank back, put it into Mo Jian's collar and said, "Feel it, isn't it very cold?"

Mo Jian shrank his neck from the ice, and said angrily, "Get the fuck out of it quickly, why don't you stuff it in your own collar."

Who puts a cold hand in his collar?

After a while, Yuqian pulled out his muffled hand from Mo Jian's collar, and asked Yan Danqing, "Ah Nuan, is your body temperature so low that you are cold?"

Yan Danqing said: "My body temperature has always been like this, a little lower than normal, but today it seems a little abnormal."

Yuqian said: "It's really cold, it's still cold, just drink more hot soup." Turning to the stall owner's mother-in-law, she said, "Mother-in-law, please have two more bowls, it's not enough, it's too delicious."

The mother-in-law responded with a smile, and soon, two bowls of hot Lantern Festival were served on the table.

After Yuqian pushed one of the bowls to Yan Danqing, he poured the previous bowl of ice and hot bowl together, buried his head in a mouthful, nodded in satisfaction and said, "It's much better now, neither hot nor iced. ,Just right."

Remembering that Gu Yan's bowl was still not iced, Yan Danqing looked at him and said, "You..." But before he could finish speaking, he stuck his mouth shut and swallowed it back.

Gu Yan's bowl was already empty, and his forehead was sweating slightly, his cheeks were slightly pink, and his expression was no longer indifferent.

Yan Danqing turned his head and smiled, took a sip of the soup bowl contentedly, the soup was hot, he suddenly felt not so cold, and even warm.

Even though there are snowflakes in the sky now, he still feels that the snowflakes are warm at this moment.

……

He thought to himself: Is it really because of the hot soup?