"General, there's a performance over there, let's go see!" Xun Yunge heard the sound of a guqin ahead and pulled Jin Xiaoran forward, while Jin Jinzhi followed her mother and father.
Hearing the music and singing, the crowd moved in the direction of the song, and soon gathered around the performer.
The three squeezed into a corner, where they saw a woman in white sitting on the bridge, playing the guqin and singing softly. The woman was graceful and beautiful, and her singing was melodious, causing the audience to hold their breath.
Eight-sided palace lanterns with hanging ribbons, tied with red silk, sway in the wind as they hang from the bridge's railings.
"That sounds really nice."
After the song ended, applause erupted from the crowd. As soon as the applause subsided, a sudden burst of gongs and drums came from behind. It turned out that the lion dance troupe had arrived. The crowd, which had been gathered together, made way to watch the lion dance.
"The float is coming! Make way!"
On the other side, there were performances such as stilt walking, Zhong Kui dancing, and floats, making it a lively scene.
"It's time to walk away illness and touch the door nail! Everyone, hurry up and line up!"
Then, Jin Jinzhi saw the crowd start lining up to walk towards Anqing Gate, beginning the activity of "walking away from illness and touching the door nails". It turned out that there were many door nails on Anqing Gate, and it was said that walking around on them could cure all kinds of illnesses. Married women who were infertile would touch the city gate nails to wish for "adding a son" and hope to give birth to a child in the coming year.
The Lantern Festival in Beijing is truly diverse and elaborate.
In northern Xinjiang, the Lantern Festival is simply about eating a bowl of glutinous rice balls.
...
As the program and performances progressed, the crowd went from initial enthusiasm and loud cheers to later listlessness and hoarseness, clearly having exhausted their energy.
Xun Yunge was also a little tired, so she took Jin Xiaoran's arm and walked towards the carriage. The three of them got into the carriage and prepared to return to the palace to rest.
Inside the sedan chair, Xun Yunge noticed the small yellow tiger lantern in Jin Jinzhi's hand and asked him with a smile, "Is this for your sister?"
Jin Zhuangzhuang is still young, and it was windy and crowded outside, so they didn't bring him out with them.
Jin Jinzhi paused for a moment upon hearing her mother's question, then felt a pang of regret. "Oh dear, I forgot to bring it for Zhuangzhuang!"
"Uh, it's for the girl." Jin Jinzhi replied vaguely. When he first saw the little tiger lantern, he thought it looked a lot like the girl, with a tiger-like head and a cute appearance.
Fewer and fewer pedestrians were on the road, and the street vendors gradually packed up and went home to reunite with their families.
The carriage swayed and rattled as it passed through several streets and alleys before turning onto the palace road. An hour later, it arrived at the palace.
After bidding farewell to her father and mother, Jin Jinzhi carried a small lantern and headed towards Fushuang Palace.
The palace was filled with joy today, with bright red ribbons tied to the eaves and bright red lanterns hanging from the pillars in front of the gate.
...
Inside the Fu Shuang Palace, Yun Duoduo finished counting her money with her bottom sticking out, then wiggled her little body and climbed back onto the bed. She was very satisfied with the amount of her current assets.
Financial freedom is nothing more than this!
She sat on the bed, rummaged through Jin Zhuangzhuang's clothes, and looked at the rash on her body. She felt that it was almost healed, and that she should recover after finishing this dose of medicine.
Modern medicine is so much better; it works quickly and is easy to take.
If we were to find herbs and boil them into a medicinal broth to force-feed Zhuangzhuang, who knows when this illness would be cured.
Yun Duoduo, who was carefully examining a patient, was completely unaware that a slender figure in black was approaching her step by step from behind.
Just as Yun Duoduo turned to get the medicine from under her pillow, the man in black shoved a sack over her head.
"Hmm!"
In an instant, everything went black before Yun Duoduo's eyes, and her two little hands frantically grabbed at the man in black.
"Waaaaah!" she screamed at the top of her lungs, but after only a few shouts, she felt dizzy and couldn't breathe.
Oh, what kind of karma is this? I felt the same way when I was in a fire last time.
Ignoring Yun Duoduo's struggles, the man in black gripped the mouth of the sack tightly, attempting to suffocate her.
Jin Zhuangzhuang stared intently at the man in black with his small eyes. Sensing the unfavorable situation, he opened his mouth to cry.
When the man in black saw another baby lying on the bed open its mouth to cry, he slapped the baby, knocking it unconscious.
Are all the guards at the entrance to the sleeping quarters dead?
Someone please save her!
Yun Duoduo silently cried for help in her heart.
...
Moonlight spilled into Fu Shuang Palace, bathing it in a silvery glow.
Jin Jinzhi entered Fushuang Palace with a smile in his eyes, carrying a lantern. As soon as he entered, he felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the palace. He quickly ran to the bedchamber and saw that all the guards at the door were lying on the ground unconscious.
Oh no! The little princess is in danger!
Jin Jinzhi's heart jumped; the little princess and his sister were inside!
"Who goes there?!" Jin Jinzhi saw a figure moving around in the bedroom of the Fu Shuang Palace.
He kicked the door open and burst inside.
When the man in black saw someone enter, he hurriedly dropped the sack and the cloud he was carrying and fled through the window.
"Catch the assassin!" Jin Jin shouted, throwing the lantern in her hand to the ground and running in to rip off the sack covering Yun Duoduo's head.
The darkness disappeared, and the air returned. Yun Duoduo felt as if her lungs were about to explode.
She nestled in Jin Jinzhi's arms, panting heavily; she had almost suffocated from the sack!
Waaah, she's so pitiful, always experiencing this feeling of being on the verge of death...
The imperial harem truly lives up to its name; they have so many ways to harm people!
Babies often unintentionally cover their heads with pillows or blankets, and if they are unable to roll over or are not flexible enough, they can suffocate.
It seems this person had this plan in mind: to suffocate her in a sack and then fabricate a story that the nannies failed to take proper care of her, causing the little princess to suffocate.
[Sigh, it's all her fault. When her head was covered by the sack, she was oxygen-deprived and couldn't hear that bad guy's thoughts at all.]
[I wonder who wanted to harm her.]
She just couldn't understand it. She had neither an insurance beneficiary nor an heir, so why were there always people so eager to see her die sooner?
There are always treacherous subjects trying to harm me!
Jin Jinzhi stared blankly at Yun Duoduo's expression, wondering what she was thinking, but she felt that Yun Duoduo had been greatly frightened.
He held Yun Duoduo in his arms, gently patted her back, and touched the back of her head to comfort her and tell her not to be afraid.
She whimpered and cried for a while, and Jin Jinzhi held her tightly without letting go.
She looked up at Jin Jinzhi with teary eyes, and Jin Jinzhi wiped the tears from her cheeks.
[This girl, usually so clever, looks so pitiful today, with tears streaming down her face.]
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