Steward Guo explained with a smile: "Since the establishment of Guo's Academy, every Shangyuan Festival, Guo Mansion will set up a banquet in Lanting, one to celebrate the festival, and the other to test the progress of the children in the clan. ”

This is the circle, ordinary people, when it comes to the Shangyuan Festival, they will pass on the seat, see the excitement, and enjoy the lanterns, but people with status and status will gather together to chant the wind and admire the moon, and be vassal.

Zheng Peng didn't know how big the Lanting Meeting was held by Guo Mansion, but it was certain that the participants were not ordinary people.

Zheng Peng just hesitated, and quickly shook his head and said, "Steward Guo, if you are tired of saying something, you will not go to this Lanting Society." ”

It's not bad if he is high up and looked up to by everyone, but the problem is that Zheng Peng wants to be famous or not, if he wants fame or not, if he wants to be famous, if he wants to be back, he will not have a back, and if he goes to the so-called Lanting Club, needless to say, he has the lowest status.

finally avoided the cumbersome etiquette of the New Year, Zheng Peng didn't want to go to all kinds of kneels and pretend to be his grandson.

"Not going?" Steward Guo said in surprise: "Gongzi Zheng, do you know how many people have tried their best to get an invitation to the Lanting Society?" This, this ....."

After years of development, Lanting will now become a well-known party, on the day of the banquet, I don't know how many dignitaries and nobles gathered, if you behave well, get the nobles to look at you differently, overnight fame is no longer a dream, such a good opportunity, Zheng Peng actually refused?

Zheng Peng said with some curiosity: "This invitation is very popular? ”

"I don't know if I want to grab it or not, I heard that someone is letting go, as long as he can get an invitation to the Lanting Club, he is willing to give three hundred times." Steward Guo said with some pride.

Zheng Peng's eyes lit up, and he immediately said: "Whichever one wants, a certain hundred will be transferred to him." ”

Steward Guo was stunned on the spot when he heard this, and some gloom flashed in his eyes, and then he said with a wry smile: "Zheng Gongzi, the invitation cannot be transferred." ”

Lanting will be a business card carefully created by Guo Fu, and it is also an important way for Guo Fu to attract talents and spread contacts, every person in Guo Mansion is proud of Lanting Hui, Zheng Peng not only does not give face and says no, but also says that a hundred transfers, what is the Lanting Club as a place? Steward Guo really wants to scold Zheng Pengli for wanting to purify his heart, where have all the sage books he read?

But Zheng Peng's identity is special, and Steward Guo is not good at reprimanding.

Forget it, uncles all say that talented people will have some quirks, so they can only endure it.

Zheng Peng patted Steward Guo on the shoulder and said: "Others can't transfer it, but Steward Guo is different, so let's do it, this invitation will be arranged by Steward Guo, one hundred guan is the reserve price, and the extra part of one hundred guan, you eight and I two, the two of us are divided, it is not easy for Steward Guo to run on a cold day, so it should be good to make a small amount of money and drink flower wine." ”

Steward Guo's originally barely smiling face was tense all of a sudden, the old face twitched a few times unconsciously, exhaled deeply, suppressed the impulse to go violent, and said helplessly: "Zheng Gongzi is really joking, Xiao Lao doesn't have the courage, besides, this invitation is set by Shu Weng, and I want Xiao Lao to go and hand it over to Gongzi himself, okay, now that the invitation is delivered, there are other things to be busy with, Childe, farewell." ”

This Zheng Gongzi is not only talented, but he is also extremely thick-skinned, running errands on a cold day, it's okay not to mention it, opening his mouth means that if he wants to run errands, he has to earn his own money?

It's a shame that he can say this kind of thing without changing his face, by the way, what else to say, drink flower wine?

spread the word, and the tigress in her own house didn't tear herself apart.

Steward Guo felt that his decades of cultivation were almost insufficient, and he really had to vomit blood when he talked about it.

"Young Master, where's Steward Guo?" Lu Shu came out with a plate of dim sum, looked left and right, and couldn't help asking.

Zheng Peng said casually: "Let's go, I'm really in a hurry, forget it, save a red envelope." ”

"Young master, what is the invitation for, there is a happy event?"

"There is no happy event, but there is an errand for pretending to be a grandson." Zheng Peng threw the invitation card on the table and said a little depressedly.

I don't know if I should bring a gift when I come to the door......

Tang Dynasty to the fifteenth day of the first month, July 15th, October 15th for the upper, middle and lower three yuan, to the fifteenth day of the first month, the Spring Festival of the Tang Dynasty celebrated to the climax, mainly to watch the lanterns, also called the Lantern Festival, in order to celebrate this special festival, Chang'an, which has always implemented the night ban system, also loosened the ban for three days before and after the fifteenth day of the first month, the shops can be open all night, people can carnival all night, all kinds of colorful lanterns compete for beauty, the people who watch the lanterns pour out of the city, the grand occasion is for a while.

"Chaoye Zai" recorded that "on the fifteenth and sixteenth nights of the first month of the second year of Ruizong's first year, he made a lantern wheel outside the Anfu Gate of Jingshi, which was twenty zhang high, dressed in brocade, decorated with gold and jade, and burned 50,000 lamps, clustered like flowers and trees. Thousands of palace maids, clothes Luo Qi, trolling brocade, Yao Zhu Cui, incense powder. A flower crown and a scarf are all ten thousand dollars, and the outfit is up to three hundred. More than 1,000 people in Chang'an, 10,000 years of young women, clothes, hairpins, and charms are also known as yes, singing under the lantern wheel for three days and nights, and the joy is extremely high. ”

To this day, the Japanese still yearn for the prosperous Tang Dynasty depicted in the book.

Guixiang County is not as good as Chang'an, but at the beginning of the Chinese lanterns, visitors are like weaving lanterns like the sea, in addition to the lantern appreciation activities organized by the government, the wealthy merchants also spontaneously made a lot of lanterns to hang at the door, adding joy to the Shangyuan Festival, but also attracting people to stop and enjoy, compared with the New Year, it is more lively.

Zheng Peng sat in his carriage, looking at the colorful lanterns outside, and the Tang girls dressed up in flowers, with a heartfelt smile on his lips.

As a member of the descendants of Yan and Huang, Datang is proud to have created such a highly developed and civilized country in the east of the world.

To be an official in the Tang Dynasty, you must not only have fame, but also be recommended, and it is common for you to do well in the exam as well as to be recommended well, so the Lanting where nobles gather will become a place where scholars sharpen their heads and drill into it.

If you don't have fame, you can chase fame, and if you have fame, you can also increase fame, who would think that you have more fame?

Zheng Peng is not very interested in being an official, it is better to be a comfortable prosperous man in the officialdom, and besides, people are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, and it is not good to attract jealousy, but the old man Guo is just restless, and he sent Steward Guo to deliver the invitation in person, and he was embarrassed not to go.

So, on the evening of the Shangyuan Festival, Zheng Peng still gathered up and rushed to Guo's mansion.

You respect me, I respect you, it's right to be low-key, but it's not good to make people feel proud and arrogant, Zheng Peng made up his mind, sit a little back when he sits for a while, listen more, eat more and talk less, and almost withdraw.

Guo Fu attaches so much importance to the Lanting Club, it is estimated that the food will not be bad.

"Young master, it's here." Just when Zheng Peng was thinking wildly, the voice of the housekeeper Zheng Fu came from outside the carriage.

Zheng Peng lifted the curtain to see, at a glance to see the gold lacquer plaque, in the two rows of exquisite lanterns appear dazzling, not to mention, just the lantern is enough to stand, remember the last time I went shopping, Guo Fu hanging, is a kind of octagonal glazed palace lamp, it is made of bamboo, silk, Ming ball, etc., it is also inlaid with pearls, the pattern around the palace lamp has been carefully designed, but also ask the painter to paint on the spot, or mythological stories, maybe good wishes, each lamp has its own characteristics, it can be said that the noble atmosphere is graded.

The lanterns are beautiful, and the price is not cheap, not to mention that it will cost ten times, Zheng Peng counted it, and there are thirty or fifty lanterns of this specification, that is to say, just the cost of the lanterns at the door, Guo Fu spent hundreds of dollars.

Zheng Peng couldn't help but gasp: This is the real wealthy family, like the Zheng family in Yuancheng, who let the servants make hundreds of lanterns during the New Year, spending less than ten times, and it looks very lively, but with Guo Mansion, it is simply a small thing.