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He has written words for too many women to describe their beauty, but at this moment, facing the woman in front of him, his mind is blank, and he can't think of any words to describe her beauty. He had never seen a woman like her, dressed in men's clothes, and so thrillingly beautiful without the slightest powder, and if you look closely, those smiling eyebrows and eyes, with all the innocence and beauty, just looking at it once, it is enough to make people fascinated and linger.
If he had to describe it, then she would be the Milky Way in the sky, bright and dazzling, and when she saw it, she would never forget it in this life.
The girls who traveled with him didn't have the same eyes, but when she was the son of a big family who didn't often come out to play, they dragged him to solve the riddle. And he was called by them like this, and he was relieved from the shock. He was just about to chase in the direction where the girls had left, when he caught a glimpse of the boss's resentful eyes looking at him.
The boss is a person who likes to be lively, so why not give him a lively play for the last time?
Having made up his mind, he smiled and turned around and went to the boss's stall. When the boss saw him like this, he already knew what he meant, and he didn't need to say anything, so he happily went to "declare war" with her.
Faced with the boss's invitation, she shook her head several times in succession. He watched her movements, and thought he was about to miss the opportunity to meet her, but when he looked into her eyes, he found that there was a kind of eager light in her eyes. He was amused by the contrast, and suddenly understood that her refusal was only because she was afraid that someone would find out that she had sneaked out of the house. So he did not hesitate to go to her side and personally invite her to participate in this "competition".
Knowing that her opponent was him, she instantly blushed, and agreed to his request despite the obstruction of the girls around her. Seeing her fighting, the boss immediately found someone to replace all the riddles with new ones for them to use in the competition.
Originally, when the people who came to the Lantern Festival heard about this lantern riddle competition, they all gave up admiring the lanterns and came to this temple to join in the fun. Even many vendors have closed their stalls because of this, and come to this temple to see the demeanor of these two people.
The process of the game can be described as suspenseful and climaxing. The scores of the two fluctuated, and you chased after me, and it took me half an hour to guess all the questions. He narrowly won by just one point in the crowd's applause, and went to the stall with the boss to pick the prize he had won. And although she lost the game, she didn't see half a point of loss, her pink little face was full of excitement, and she still had a sense of unfinished intention, if it weren't for the girl on the side who had been blocking it, she was afraid that she would ask the boss to change the mystery again, and compare with him again.
At the end of the game, the night deepened, and the crowd soon left the temple. The girl was worried that the old man would find out her whereabouts, and before she could say goodbye to him, she hurriedly dragged her away with the crowd. Fortunately, after he had picked out the gifts, they had not gone far, and after only a few steps, they stopped them.
The girl was worried about being punished, so she naturally didn't give him a good look. And he was not an insatiable person, he handed her the earrings he had carefully selected, and when he saw her surprised expression, he smiled and turned away without saying a word.
Ever since that day of farewell, he would always remember the way she smiled. Sometimes it's when he's painting, sometimes it's when he's drinking and having fun. He knew that Qinglou was the place where news spread the fastest, and it was too easy to find someone, so he wanted to ask people for news about her many times. It's just that every time he has the opportunity to talk to someone about this, he doesn't mean what he says, not only does he not say half a word related to her, but he laughs at his greed in his heart.
Even if he knew her identity, he already knew from the valuable outfit she wore that night that her family was wealthy, which was not comparable to ordinary people, and he was just an orphan who grew up in a green building, and it was just a fool's dream to get her favor.
Eventually, he gave up on looking for her, and at the same time, he stopped drinking heavily. He locked himself in his room, and in addition to eating and sleeping, he was writing and drawing.
His handwriting is very stylish, and his paintings are delicate and expressive, and every time he sells them in the market, he will always be sold out. In particular, the painting called "How to Fight Her" was bought at a sky-high price as soon as it appeared.
He never cared about money, as long as someone liked it, no matter how much he bid, even if it was only a copper plate, he would give him calligraphy and paintings. He never cared about the identity of the buyer, even if the other party was a Jiangyang thief who had killed countless people, and if he wanted to buy his calligraphy and paintings, he only had to pay.
But this time, he made the most of the news of the buyer, and for nothing else, he wanted to know the whereabouts of the painting.
It was one of his favorite works, and it was the first work that he spent five days carving into his pen from the person he had been thinking about in his heart. Every stroke of the painting was imbued with his admiration and attachment to her, and he hoped that the painting would be in the hands of someone who knew it, so that he could bury her in his heart completely, and never think of it again.
After many inquiries, he finally learned that the little guy who bought the painting was a subordinate of the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Households. And to his surprise, two days later, he was invited by Shangshu to serve as his young son's teacher.
He thought that Master Shangshu had seen his paintings and felt that he was still in good shape, so he asked him to do this work. But after coming to the Shangshu Mansion, he asked around, but found that no one in the mansion knew about the existence of his painting. He felt more and more strange, until one day, when he was playing the piano in the pavilion, he happened to catch a glimpse of the figure that often appeared in his dreams, and he realized that the person who bought the painting that day was actually the person he painted in the painting.
They have already engraved each other's faces in the bottom of their hearts, and when they see each other at this time, they are more like old friends who have been reunited after a long absence. It's just that none of them tacitly mentioned the night of the Lantern Festival, but only tacitly introduced each other, and then simply said goodbye. Since then he has come to enjoy playing the piano in the pavilion, and she will occasionally appear there without noticing, and if she sees him, she will always stop and talk to him.
He would tell her about the strange things she had never heard of, and he would also tell her about the lingering love that had happened to the literati and ink writers that had never been mentioned in the book, and he seemed to open up a new world for her, allowing her to go out of the lonely attic to the outside world. She yearns for the life of ordinary people more and more, and she wants to live that kind of free life with him more and more, but before she can outline this idea in her heart, the news came from the mansion that the prime minister's son was about to marry her.