Chapter 328: Shangyuan Chapter Chen Sanyuan
Chapter 328: Shangyuan Chapter Chen Sanyuan
The Lantern Festival was coming up in one day, and Zhang Xueming asked Gong Shangjiao whether he would go back to Jiaogong.
Gong Shangjiao asked back, "Are you and Yuan Zheng tired of your brother?"
Gong Zishang shook his head fearlessly and said in a strange voice: "Gong Er, your brother-sister-sister-in-law doesn't want you anymore~"
The camera was zoomed in so close to the face that Gong Shangjiao’s face turned black.
Zhang Xueming gently patted Gong Zishang's arm and said, "Sister, stop teasing me. If I take it seriously, I will be sad."
Gong Yuanzheng skillfully poured tea and snacks for Gong Shangjiao: "Didn't Zhao Zhao promise you last year that she would give you a room full of red lanterns during the Lantern Festival this year, asking you, the living god of wealth, to bless her with a prosperous new year? We just want to find out where you plan to spend the festival so that we can hang up the lanterns for you."
At that time, Gong Shangjiao just thought it was a joke and forgot about it. Who knew she still remembered it.
He lowered his eyes a little embarrassedly: "Do you really want to hang it all over the room?"
Zhang Xueming said: "I made twenty-eight of them. I don't know if they are enough to fill a room."
Twenty-eight? He was heading for twenty-nine after his birthday this year.
Gong Shangjiao pretended to be dissatisfied: "There is still one missing."
Zhang Xueming glanced at him reproachfully: "Brother, I'm afraid you forgot that there is another one with Ayuan."
Living in the same palace and often gathering together, the surprise prepared by Gong Yuanzheng had already been discovered by this sharp-eyed person, but he still pretended to be confused.
Gong Yuanzheng was a little embarrassed, his ears were slightly red, but he still showed his bandaged right index finger to Gong Shangjiao, and said proudly: "I made a big dragon lantern for my brother with my own hands, and I accidentally cut my hand."
Gong Shangjiao thought of the new dragon lantern that was bent like a shrimp, and then looked at his ostentatious finger, feeling amused and angry at the same time: "You are quite proud. Doesn't it hurt?"
"Zhao Zhao applied medicine to me. It's been a night now and the pain is gone." Gong Yuanzheng said calmly, "Zhao Zhao's lamp is hung in the house. Brother can hold the lamp I made to light the way. Brother is not allowed to hide it because I think it's not pretty, otherwise I will make a fuss."
Gong Zishang said sourly: "It's only for Gong Er, not for me, the eldest sister?"
Zhang Xueming smiled and said, "Big sister and big brother Huanyu both have them. I made them."
All are happy.
Zhang Xueming’s big red lantern was finally hung in Chunyangju.
On the night of the Lantern Festival, the three people from the back mountain also came to the Zheng Palace.
The group of people had dinner and in order to prevent any accidents before the action, they decided not to go out of the palace to see the lanterns and instead planned to just walk around inside the palace.
Zhang Xueming had people buy various lanterns from several lantern vendors in Jiuchen Town in advance and held a small lantern festival outside the gate of Zheng Palace.
Gong Shangjiao allowed the servants and guards of the four palaces to take turns to come and play. The Council of Elders also agreed to let the topaz servants and ruby servants come. Everyone had fun together, and there were rewards for guessing the riddles. It was quite lively for a while.
Gong Shangjiao held a dragon lantern that looked like a bent shrimp, Gong Zishang held a lantern with a basket of flowers symbolizing wealth and good fortune, Gong Huanyu held a lantern with a golden toad making noise in the sea, the two elders and the three people from the back mountain each held a lantern, and even the former Elder Yue held a gold and silver lantern, waiting for Zhang Xueming and Gong Yuanzheng to come out.
But the two younger ones came out each holding an exquisite six-sided revolving lantern.
The outer layer of white tulle is painted with blooming and falling laurel flowers, while the inner layer is painted with two running puppies that keep turning.
The candlelight cast the shadows of the puppies under the outer layer of laurel trees, as if they were running and chasing tirelessly, always circling around the laurel trees.
Gong Zishang and the three people from the back mountain gathered around in surprise and asked all kinds of questions.
Gong Huanyu subconsciously turned her head to look at Gong Shangjiao, only to see that the corners of his eyes were slightly red, and there seemed to be a faint flash of light in his eyes, which disappeared as he blinked.
A group of people mingled among the servants and guards and guessed riddles for a while, then went to the river to release lotus lanterns to offer sacrifice to their ancestors and pray for peace.
Gong Yuanzheng looked at the river lanterns going away, listened to Gong Zishang asking Hua Gongzi what he wished for, and looked at the smiling girl beside him. He couldn't help but ask her in his heart: [What did Zhao Zhao pray for? ]
[I wish that the world will stop fighting and the people will live in peace; I wish that my family will be healthy, peaceful and happy.]
Gong Yuanzheng puffed up his cheeks: [What about me? ]
Zhang Xueming glanced at him with a smile and held his hand tightly: [Third, I wish you and I could be like swallows on the beam, and see each other year after year.]
Gong Yuanzheng was so happy that he smiled so hard that his teeth were showing. He then asked Gong Shangjiao, "Brother, what did you pray for?"
Gong Shangjiao snorted and laughed: "I hope my stupid brother and Zhao Zhao can live a peaceful life. I hope Zhao Zhao will never despise my stupid brother."
"Brother!" Gong Yuanzheng got angry and pouts, "I'm not stupid!"
"Oh, so what did my not-stupid brother pray for?"
"I just made a wish, I hope Zhaozhao and brother can have everything they want."
After returning to Zheng Palace, they ate four-happiness dumplings, drank a bowl of yam and barley porridge, and played games happily.
The young ones all went to play backgammon. The elders put aside their pride and joined Gong Shangjiao to play mahjong. They counted the cards very seriously and did not mention anything like "playing with things will ruin one's life".
It was late at night and no one wanted to go back, so they occupied all the guest rooms in Zheng Palace.
The three people in the back mountain squeezed into one room, soaked their feet comfortably, and sat cross-legged on the big bed to chat.
Mr. Xue asked Mr. Hua, who was the most well-informed person at the moment, "Why didn't Gong Ziyu and his wife come over to play today?"
Hua Gongzi had asked Gong Zishang this question privately a long time ago. He initially thought that Gong Yuanzheng did not invite Gong Ziyu and Lin Zhenzhen, but the result was: "Zhao Zhao sent a message to Yu Gong, and Gong Ziyu replied that he and his wife had to take care of their sick father and had no intention of having fun."
Even a naive person like Xue Gongzi could tell something was wrong with these words: "It sounds weird to me."
The flower boy looked around like a thief and whispered, "I heard from Jin Tong that he hated Yuan Zheng for not giving Chu Yun Zhong Lian to old Zhi Ren. On the second day of the New Year, Zhi Ren brought Zhao Zhao and Yuan Zheng to Yu Palace to pay New Year's greetings to old Zhi Ren. Not only did he give them a cold look, he also refused to let anyone in.
My father and Elder Xue privately called him to persuade him not to dwell on this issue. Not only did he not admit his mistakes, he also made a lot of unreasonable arguments, which almost made my father and Elder Xue angry. My father has already said that he will no longer care about him. Anyway, the Yu Palace is just a decoration now, and it doesn’t affect the overall situation. "
Xue Chongzi frowned and Xue Gongzi was speechless.
The next day, Xunying brought news from Zhangqiu. They acted separately with amazing efficiency and found out the details of the eleven large and medium-sized sects that were the first to surrender to Wufeng.
Among these eleven sects, seven have both open and secret bases.
Zhang Xueming marked those locations on the map, calculated the time required to reach the Wufeng strongholds in the two towns from each location, and circled seven.
The Qingfeng Sect's official base is far away in Dafu City, but its secret base is not far from the Wufeng stronghold in Shiqiao Town. It takes two days by carriage to get there, and it is even closer to the Wufeng headquarters.
Then there are Changheng Sect, Kuaijian Sect, Shuanghu Sect...
What made the old and young in the palace gate fall silent was that the mountains where the seven sects were actually stationed were all part of the Wax Mist Mountain Range. The only difference was that the palace gate was in the south, and they were distributed in the north.
"It turns out that we have more than one neighbor, Wu Feng." Gong Zishang frowned, feeling like he had eaten a fly.
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