In 463 AD, the seventh year of the Southern Song Dynasty, the fifteenth day of the first month - Shangyuan Festival.

The lights are shadowing, the people on the road are bustling, some linger in front of the lanterns, a few people whisper, and some people stop in front of the small stalls on the side of the road, choosing all kinds of small accessories.

On the banks of the river, several women, accompanied by young men, put river lanterns together.

On the contrary, it seems that the woman standing at the mouth of the other river bank is the most abrupt, and the others are either in groups of three or five or in pairs, and she stands alone at the mouth of the riverbank, looking at the people on the street from time to time.

She was dressed in a peony cloud brocade skirt with a white brocade cloak on the outside, and the hairpin on the weeping cloud bun shook slightly as she turned her head, and her face loomed behind the veil like green smoke, and she could only clearly see the shining eyes.

There was some anxiety in her eyebrows, and she paced uneasily.

There are fewer and fewer people who come to put river lanterns around, and everyone rushes to see the lantern festival.

At this time, a figure came running from afar, and the woman stood on tiptoe to look, and it was really her maidservant Xiangnu.

Xiangnu ran over panting, stood beside her and gasped for breath, and did not slow down for a long time.

Seeing her hands empty, she knew that this must not have been done.

"Princess. Xiangnu finally gasped, she lowered her head and glanced up at the woman in front of her, she didn't dare to shout too loudly, after all, they had sneaked out.

"Didn't buy it?" The woman in front of her looked at her dissatisfied.

Xiangnu nodded, "I've run all over the place, and all the vendors have said that the river lanterns are in demand today, and they were all sold out half an hour ago." Like a child who had done something wrong, she rubbed her hands involuntarily and lowered her voice, "None of them are gone." ”

"The huge Jiankang City, there are so many vendors today, you tell me that there is no light, Anu, who are you bluffing!" Liu Chupei bent down to pick up the stones under his feet and threw them fiercely into the river.

Seeing that her princess was displeased, Xiangnu pulled her sleeve and said weakly: "Princess, why don't we go back to the palace, let the artists in the palace make the lamp, and the palace can also put it." ”

"Back to the palace? I finally sneaked out today, and I didn't accomplish anything, so I just went back?" she simply raised her skirt and sat on the bank of the river, her chin dragging her hands and looking at the crowd of people who came and went laughing.

She picked up the stones at her feet and threw them into the river one by one, and the sound of stones falling into the water was drowned out in the laughter of everyone.

"It doesn't matter if there is no one to accompany you, and you can't put a river lantern if you want to. She looked at the women passing by on the road all smiling like flowers, and her heart was a little angry, "You are only allowed to be happy, hum." ”

The sound of stones falling into the water was remembered in the river.

Xiangnu had no choice but to stand silently and watch her sulk and not dare to step forward.

Suddenly, there were footsteps from behind, and you don't need to look to know which pair of concubines must be coming here to put river lanterns.

"Don't put it, it's forbidden to put river lanterns here. She threw another stone. muttered in her heart, she can't put it down, and others don't want to put it here.

But the people behind didn't say anything, and kept standing behind her.

She turned her head suspiciously, only to see two men standing behind her.

The man standing in front was dressed in soft silk with red sandalwood vine patterns, and his waist was tied with white jade, but the light was dim, and she sat on the shore, and she couldn't see what he looked like at all.

The man behind him looked like his little servant.

"Is it the rules you set, girl?" I saw that the man chuckled, and there was no malice.

She was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to answer him.

"You have been depressed here for a long time, but you have not bought a river lantern? I have two lamps here, so I will give them to you. The man gestured to the servant, who stepped forward and handed the two river lamps to the incense slave.

Xiangnu was a little at a loss, didn't know whether to accept it or not, and glanced at Liu Chupei.

Looking at the two river lanterns in the hands of the little guy, it must be fake to say that she is not moved, but it is not good to accept a strange man's things like this, she thought about it and asked the man in front of her: "Just give it to me like this, does it really matter?"

"I'm afraid that the people I'm waiting for won't come today, it's just two lights on the left and right, so the girl doesn't have to worry about not going. ”

Liu Chupei stood up, brushed the dust on the hem of his clothes, raised his eyes to look at him, and then saw his face clearly.

The long eyebrows are like willows, the face is like the moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the sideburns are like a knife, and the body is cold and arrogant but full of grandeur.

Liu Chupei's breath tightened, and he remembered a sentence that Sister A often said:

There is this gentleman, such as gold and tin, such as Gui and Bi.

She was slightly stunned, except for her brother-in-law He Ji and her uncle Chu Yuan, she really had never seen such a good-looking person, and they all said that her brother-in-law and uncle were beautiful men in Jiankang City, but at this time she felt that he in front of her was not inferior to the two of them.

But why didn't she know that there was such a person in Jiankang City?

She came back to her senses, and saw that he had been looking at her, and her face suddenly became hot, and she had just stared at him, and she must have been discovered by him.

She touched her face, touched the veil on her face, and then remembered that he couldn't see her at all, and then she was relieved.

"That'...... Thank you so much, Childe. She bowed her head shyly and let Shannu take the lantern.

She glanced at the man in front of her and took one from the hand of the champ.

Xiangnu took out the fire fold from her sleeve and handed it to her, she lit the river lantern, held it in her hand and smiled softly, she really got what she wanted, and she looked forward to leaving the palace for so long, and finally let her put the river lantern.

She crouched down, placed the lantern on the surface of the river, and gently plucked the water with her hand, leading the lantern to float forward.

She closed her eyes, folded her hands, and made a wish in her heart.

Seeing Liu Chupei stand up, Xiangnu handed over the other lamp in his hand.

She took the river lamp, held it in her arms, and looked at him, she was a little reluctant to keep it, she wanted to keep it.

"I'll put this lamp in a while. She was afraid that he would know what she was thinking, so she hurriedly made an excuse.

The man in front of him smiled lightly and did not speak.

"Thank you today, it's not too early, I should go back early. The two of them were standing on the shore, she was so confused that she didn't know what to say, the atmosphere was a little awkward, and she just wanted to flee as soon as possible.

"Okay, girl, be careful on the road. He smiled and turned sideways to let Liu Chupei pass.

Liu Chupei thanked him in a low voice and left quickly.

Seeing her step in a panic and gradually disappear into the crowd, he put away his smile and his eyes darkened.

"Childe. The little guy next to him whispered to him.

"It's time for us to go, too. He walked in the opposite direction to Liu Chupei.

The mouth of the river fell silent at once, as if nothing had ever happened there, but there one man had disturbed the other's heart.

At this time, how did Liu Chupei know that there were not so many coincidences in the world, and all the coincidences were just one person's long-term planning......