It was a midsummer night, with cloudless sky and the fresh crescent moon covering the entire imperial capital with a bright and hazy glory. Compared with the lively scene in the city before the door closed in the past, the streets of Chang'an today are much quieter. At the same time, every small courtyard of thousands of households in Chang'an has a table, with fruits and wine on them. During this period, the women dress up cleverly, holding golden needles, and celebrate their most important festival of the year - the Qiqiao Festival.

As one of the five most important commemorative festivals in folk customs, the Tang people always talk about the Qiqiao Festival on July 7th, which is even more grand. Even if there is no girl, the family will enjoy the opportunity to enjoy the moon and spend the festival together.

"The moon is like a training in Chang'an City, and every family is holding needles and threads this night." With this rare festival, the Zhuangyuan Mansion, which has become a bit dull in recent months, has also become much more lively because of Tang Li's dismissal from office.

"Ali, let's go here," Li Tengjiao's voice came clearly under the faint moonlight, and Tang Li was placed on her arm, and Zheng Lianqing and others were accompanying each other. Without exception, they were holding a small nanmu box wrapped in brocade.

Tang Li, who was pulled out by Li Tengjiao in the study, walked slowly, and then turned right after entering the courtyard, walked through the moonlit Xingzi Lake, and walked straight into the lakeside Yingyue Pavilion. However, he saw a wide nanmu table in the middle of the pavilion, with a long table of green smoke rising from the incense burner, and under the three-legged cauldron, the wine and dried fruits were ready in time.

Tang Li also said that Li Tengjiao and others were afraid that he would be frustrated, so they prepared to take such a scene and called him out to watch the moon spread. He smiled and said, "Incense and wine, watching the moon by the lake, is indeed a summer night fun, but it's a pity tonight is a crescent moon."

Tang Li's sigh caused everyone to chuckle. Zheng Lianqing, who arranged all this with his own hands, led Tang Li to sit down and said with a smile: "Today, crossing the magpie bridge between the clouds should not be as veins or as far away. The family is competing to open the makeup mirror and pass through the needle under the moon to worship the sky. Husband, today is the Chinese Valuable Festival, but it should be the crescent moon."

"Qiqiao Festival!" Tang Li was stunned when he heard this, then looked at the crescent moon in the sky again, and then smiled in his own eyes.

Tang Li's smile caused the chuckling of the girls just now to make the atmosphere in the pavilion lively. After Zheng Lianqing called everyone down, she continued to explain to Tang Li with a smile: "Altar of the star Guan Liang, Vega star of the star of the fruits and melons. So this beggar must be worshipped with fruits and melons under the beams. But this season is very hot and most of them are unwilling to celebrate the festival in the house. The rich and noble families have pavilions in the pavilion, and most of them are under the grape trellis. Begging for good luck is of great importance, but more importantly, the whole family reunion is just for a festive meaning."

After Enn Young's words, he nodded and agreed to the women. Li Tengjiao gently shook Tang Li's arms and said, "Ali, it's fine to be dismissed from office, but what's the point! As long as our whole family is together, it's no better than being a lord."

Li Tengjiao's words were so blunt, but Tang Li felt warm in his heart when he heard this. At this time, he certainly knew that celebrating the Qiqiao Festival tonight was just an excuse, and the women around him who were worried about him were using this excuse to try to relax their mood for him.

In fact, Tang Li's mood was not bad these days, but although others were in the mansion, they were much busier than before. In addition, the huge rocks of the Anshi Rebellion were pressed down, so his face naturally became a little tighter. This made Li Tengjiao and others think that he was depressed because of dismissal, so they took advantage of the excuse of begging for him to relieve his boredom.

"Don't worry, I'm fine!" Holding Li Tengjiao's soft little hand, Tang Li passed Zheng Lianqing and the grasshopper one by one with warm eyes, and then saw him with a warm smile and said, "I won't talk about those disappointments tonight, and I will be happy and happy."

Seeing Tang Li happy, the four girls also had a look of flowers. Under the faint moonlight, the four beautiful women smiled gracefully, which was a rare beauty.

"Come on, I will pour wine with my cup. My ladies are begging for the tricks, so I can see how this coincidence is. "I smiled and picked up the wine cup on the table. Tang Li poured wine for the four people in the bottle, and said with a smile. Although he had been in the Tang Dynasty for several years, he had never seen such a scene. At this time, he was in a good mood and half was curious and said loudly.

Who knew that Tang Li's words attracted the four girls to smile again. Li Tengjiao, who was leaning against Tang Li, giggled and said, "Ali, how can you, a man, listen to me? I can't ask you to avoid it for a while. What if my sisters and the four of us promised the Weaver Girl? "

After hearing what she said, Tang Li understood that this so-called wish should be no different from making a wish in front of the gods in the future. However, he was not inconvenient to break the rules because of this kind of folk custom. So he drank a bottle with the four of them and smiled out of the pavilion.

He climbed down the stairs and threw himself on the crescent moon. The waves in front of him were rippling. The laughter of Li Tengjiao and others came clearly amid the slight chirping of summer insects. This scene only calmed Tang Li completely. At this moment, the worries of the Anshi Rebellion were gone, and there was only a faint flow of peace and joy in his heart. For Tang Li, this was the life he longed for the most in his heart. However, the battle of Lingzhou that he had experienced not long ago also made him understand that in order to maintain this kind of life for a long time, he had to make many efforts.

The water reflects the moonlight, and the quiet Xingzi Lake is as smooth as a mirror. Tang Li walked along the lakeside towards the flowers in front. It was not until two incense sticks that Li Tengjiao came along the way.

"Ali, the sisters have finished their promises." Li Tengjiao walked on the grass by the lake like a strong deer, shouting softly as he walked, but no one answered her shout.

"Ali, where are you?" He walked around the flowers. As soon as Li Tengjiao finished his slight voice, he suddenly felt his waist tightening. As soon as he exclaimed, her red lips as beautiful as cardamom were tightly blocked.

"Jiao'er, what wish did you make?" After a long kiss, Tang Li asked with a smile, and gently tied a beautiful rose on Li Tengjiao's temples with his left hand.

Lying lazily in Tang Li's arms, Li Tengjiao reached out to touch the flowers on his temples, and asked in a coquettish tone like a boudoir with deep affection in his eyes, "Ali, do you think I'm beautiful?"

Half a moon shines brightly and the beautiful flowers reflect her beautiful face. At this moment, Li Tengjiao under the moonlight is really gorgeous. Listening to this familiar question, Tang Li suddenly remembered the scene in the small building of the Prime Minister's Mansion on his wedding day. At that time, Li Tengjiao, wearing a five-gutter crown, also asked the same question. Now this year, Li Tengjiao, who is infected with the charm of a woman, has become more and more beautiful, but the affection between the two has not weakened at all. While looking at the beauty in her arms carefully, Tang Li leaned down again.

"Um... sisters are still waiting for us." After a long time, Li Tengjiao pushed Tang Li to stand up from his arms. After blushing, he smiled sweetly at Tang Li, and then he held his arm as usual and walked towards the pavilion.

"Ali. There are two taboos when praying to the Weaver Girl on the Chinese Valentine's Day. The first is 'Only praying for one, not both'. The second is 'I can say it for three years', so I can't tell you. "Where is this, Li Tengjiao, who held Tang Li's arm, smiled wisely and said: "But usually unmarried women pray to the Weaver Girl, hoping to get along with the knitting girl, so as to marry a kind man with affection."

"Oh! Then the Weaver Girl in the Heaven is actually a good match for you and me!" He stretched out his hand to straighten the rose on Li Tengjiao's temples, and Tang Li whispered: "The beautiful girl worships the moon and cares about her lover! It seems that God's will is like this. Since God cherishes you and I have met you and I that day, we must cherish you and I."

After listening to him quietly, Li Tengjiao, who raised his head in the moonlight, looked at Tang Li in a daze and said, "Ali, you said so well, it's great to know you."

"Sister Tengjiao, have you already told your wish to your husband!" When Zheng Lianqing's voice came clearly, Tang Li and the other two, who were immersed in tenderness and love, realized that they had walked under the Yaoyue Pavilion without realizing it. The small window was drunk and ink-shaped, Wenxin Pavilion.

Li Tengjiao, who was rejoicing in his heart, did not respond when he heard this, but only showed a silly smile on his face. There was an unconcealed joy flowing in this heartless smile.

He climbed up the stairs until he walked in front of the three of them. Tang Li had already taken out a gorgeous rose from behind his back, and smiled and put his hair on Zheng Lianqing's hair.

Zheng Lianqing, who has always been dignified and polite in front of others, was not careful that his husband would be like this. He was happy and shy in his heart. While bowing his head and allowing Tang Li to make a move, she, who was still making fun of Li Tengjiao just now, just whispered: "Husband..."

"A flower is given to the beauty, Qing'er should be like this." While speaking, Tang Li had leaned over to Zheng Lianqing's forehead and kissed her gently.

Seeing that Tang Li favored Li Tengjiao and Zheng Lianqing so much, although the face of the grasshopper standing there did not change much, he was really envious. However, when Tang Li really walked up to her, the top scholar's God of Wealth, who had been practicing for a long time, stepped forward to escape.

Unfortunately, as soon as she moved, she was grabbed tightly. After watching Tang Li Yi's hairpin, Li Tengjiao reached out to point at the red lips of the grasshopper and said, "A Li, this is the only one."

"I came on a bamboo horse and walked around the bed to make green plums and grasshoppers, thank you." She was still kissing her smooth forehead, but the grasshopper seemed to be crazy at this time. She was still twisting and struggling, but she couldn't move at this moment.

Guan Guan did not move or hide. On the gorgeous rose hairpin, when Tang Li kissed and slid over Guan Guan's face, he said softly in her ear: "This feeling is the most suitable." Only this sentence immediately made Guan Guan, who pretended to be calm, blush.

After wearing a flower hairpin, the four girls sat around Tang Li to enjoy the moon. While drinking and chatting, Li Tengjiao and others played the game of the Chinese Valentine's Day - Dou Qiao.

There was no red candle in the pavilion, and the faint moonlight was extremely hazy. It was with this moonlight that the four women held red threads in their hands, and each had three extremely thin embroidery needles on the table in front of them. The one who first passed the red thread through the three embroidery needles was the winner.

As Tang Li made a call, the four women immediately began to thread the needle quickly. In such a weak moonlight, the test of red thread through the thin embroidered needle nose was the skillful eyes and hand. It was not surprising that the grasshopper had the first place. After all, she had done too much such things in the past, but it was beyond Tang Li's expectations that Guan Guan could rank second among the four. However, when he gently held Guan Guan's hand and touched the thick calluses between his knuckles, Tang Li really knew how much Guan Guan had paid for her old knot.

The third one was naturally Zheng Lianqing, and Li Tengjiao, who finished the finale, spent at least one stick of incense to barely pass the third embroidery needle through the red thread after the three women were all completed.

This was originally a game on the Chinese Valentine's Day, and it didn't matter if you won or lose. There was constant laughter during this period, and the atmosphere in the entire Yaoyue Pavilion was full of fun.

After collecting the embroidery needle, the four women carefully placed the brocade box under the incense burner on the table, and each of them was hidden. They took the box to see it at dawn. The denser the spider webs mean that the more coincidental it would be on the Qixi Festival night.

When lovers gather together, even the old things that have happened every year can inspire endless fun. After the spider box is put in and the five of them drink together, they heard Li Tengjiao leaning against Tang Li sigh: "It's so happy tonight. How great would it be if life could be like this every day!"

Perhaps the atmosphere in the Yingyue Pavilion tonight was so good. Guan Guan, who was drunk, changed his cautious words and actions a few days ago. Then Li Tengjiao said quietly: "People often pity the cattle and weaver girl, but they didn't know that although they only met in a year, they can last for thousands of years forever, and are much happier than the world." In this way, Guan Guan, who is used to singing poetry, whispered a poem: "The magpie's bridge is double-fan open, and the fruit core comes every year. Don't think that meeting each other in the sky is better than going back in the world."

The poem chanted by Guan Guan gave a faint melancholy in the originally harmonious atmosphere of the Yingyue Pavilion. Seeing a layer of idle sorrow floating between Li Tengjiao and others' eyebrows, Tang Li, who was moved, smiled and said, "Because life is short, we should cherish the people in front of us. In the sky, we are willing to be a bird with wings, and in the hope of being a branch. With such deep affection, even if "going to the world will not go back"?

"In the sky, I wish to be a pair of birds, and in the sky, I wish to be a branch! That's great!" As the murmuring, Li Tengjiao, who was as longing as Zheng Lianqing and the other three, had slowly poured into Tang Li's arms.

The night breeze is blowing, the summer insects are roaring, and the feeling flows in the moon pavilion, and there is an indescribable peace and peace. It was not until a long time later that this peace was broken by a slight sound of footsteps.

"Young Master, Fan Yang's troops have begun to be mobilized on a large scale. Lord Xue, General Li and others are waiting in Xinlan Pavilion." Although he forced himself to lower his voice, there was still uncontrollable trembling in the voice of Tang Qi who came with the moon.

"What should come is coming after all!" Tang Li stood up with a hot heart, slowly swept over the four girls, and then followed Tang Qi out of the back garden without hesitation...


Chapter completed!