The Lantern Festival is approaching, and Qin Hanzhen has been busy tinkering with new lanterns recently.

She has now seen a lot of lanterns and lantern styles, and Zhao Mo also found a craftsman with very good craftsmanship to come back and raise it. With his help, as long as she can think of the lantern style, and what she can do in reality, he will basically do it. When encountering particularly troublesome ideas, he can also solve them by fiddling with them for a day and a half. Therefore, Qin Hanzhen worked with Zhao Mo this year to make more than a dozen beautiful and fresh lights. showed it to grandfather Qin Bai and grandmother Niu, and they all praised it one after another.

This year's Lantern Festival, Qinzhuang will also hold a small-scale lantern festival as usual, only for the people in the village to have fun. However, this is a drama that must be there every year, and there are many people who think that the lantern festival in the village is too small and not lively enough, and those who go to Jinling City to catch the lantern festival will go to other villages and towns. Ten miles and eight townships, but in all densely populated villages and towns, which one does not hold a lantern festival? Some localities even specially invite opera troupes to sing for three days and three nights. Nearby villagers walked or rowed boats to listen, and savvy vendors took the opportunity to paddle small sampans and shuttle back and forth on the water to sell snacks and various knick-knacks.

Qin Hanzhen has followed his family or the elders of the clan to see this kind of excitement several times since the beginning of the month. Although the stage in the township may not be as gorgeous as that on Qinzhuang, it is also interesting. Last year, she was worried about the safety of the prince with her grandfather and Zhao Mo, although the New Year was also lively, but she didn't settle down to enjoy it. This year is different, she doesn't have to worry about anything, but she can have as many days as she wants.

Now her grandparents are by her side, her cousin Wu Shaoying went to Qinzhuang to accompany the teacher for the New Year, her cousin and good friend Zhao Mo is with her every day, and her little cousin Brother Qian is also with her. In addition to thinking about her father Qin Ping, who was far away in Guangzhou, and mourning her mother Guan Rongniang, who had just been buried in the ancestral grave of the Qin family, Qin Hanzhen felt that this year was the happiest year she had ever lived.

After the beginning of spring, the canal thawed, and Qin Bai planned to go back to the capital. The wedding date of the second uncle Qin An has been set, but it is not in May, but in June. This was revised according to the date of his training in the Datong Army, mentioned in Qin An's letter. Although Datong in June is already hot, Qin Bai and Niu's husband and wife may not feel comfortable on the road, but their son is in the army and cannot be absent from the training of the guard, which is also a helpless thing.

However, an extra month is also a good thing for Qin Bai and the Niu family. They don't have to rush too much on their way back to Beijing. Qin Bai once promised the Niu clan that when he returned to Beijing along the canal, he would play all the places that he had not played well when he went south. Now that he has more time, he can keep his promise.

It's just that the thought of returning to the capital soon, Qin Hanzhen's mood was low. She has been in Jiangnan for more than a year, and she feels that life here is much freer than in the capital. She is in Qinzhuang, and she only needs to bring a maid ring, and she can walk around in the village at will, and there are no taboos at all. If she wants to go to the city to go to the house of Confucius Temple, she can also go to the house of Huaiqing Bridge to see Zhao Mo. Occasionally, it is not difficult to follow the elders to Huang Jincheng's command to make a visit to the back of the Yamen. Even, as long as there are elders in the clan with her, she can also take a boat with her brothers and sisters to the nearby towns to watch social dramas. Qin Bai and Wu Shaoying both took her out, and they didn't bring many entourages, so they went directly to the teahouse in the city or town to drink tea and listen to books, and their lives were leisurely.

In contrast, she basically couldn't get out of the gate of the Hou Mansion in the capital. Take a walk around the garden and enjoy it. Although she will move after returning to Beijing, it is just from one big house to another. Maybe she doesn't have to be as restrained in her own house as she is in the Chengenhou Mansion, but it is impossible to move as freely as she did in Jiangnan. And after moving, it was not as convenient for her to see her cousins as before, and she felt a little depressed when she thought about it.

Originally, Zhao Mo was with her, but her cousin Wu Shaoying repeatedly told her that now that she has grown up and is no longer a little girl, when she gets along with a teenager with a foreign surname, she still has to pay attention to avoiding it and don't let people gossip...... Alas, without this little friend who was very satisfied with her, Qin Hanzhen could imagine how dull and boring her life would be in the future.

Therefore, while she is still in Jiangnan and does not have to be trapped in a house and difficult to go out, cherish the time to play with her friends!

Qin Hanzhen carried a crane lantern that he had just finished, and happily went to talk to Zhao Mo.

When she arrived at Zhao Mo's yard, she called as soon as she entered the door: "Cousin Zhao, come and see." The idea of the crane lamp I told you a while ago has now been made by Uncle Yu!" she walked into the door excitedly, just in time to see Zhao Mo quickly put away a letter and put it in the small drawer on the side of the bookcase, as if it was very confidential. Qin Hanzhen couldn't help blinking.

Zhao Mo didn't seem to notice, got up with a smile and walked over: "Really? Can you really do what your cousin said? The wings and crane legs are all moving?"

Qin Hanzhen smiled: "It's really done! I don't believe it, cousin will see it for himself!" She showed him the characteristics of the crane lantern.

Zhao Mo stared at the lamp and took a closer look, and found that the lamp was tied into the shape of a crane, the style was not exquisite, and it could only be said that there was a little bit of a crane, but I don't know how the old craftsman Uncle Yu did it, the two wings of the crane would slowly wave up and down when Qin Hanzhen was walking around with the lamp, and the two thin legs were slowly retracted.

Zhao Mo hurriedly approached the lamp, looked more carefully, and found that the two wings of the crane, the bamboo shelf inside were all movable, and the mechanism was connected to the thin pole of the lantern, as long as Qin Hanzhen carried the lamp, gently plucked the knot tied to the thin pole, and the crane lantern would swing its wings and retract its thin legs, and it was really "flying".

Zhao Mo couldn't help but praise: "Cousin is so ingenious, Uncle Yu is good at craftsmanship! I never knew that the crane lantern can really fly, and I have never seen anyone else make such a lamp before." ”

Qin Hanzhen said with a smile: "I just mentioned it casually, I originally wanted to make a rabbit lamp that can shake its ears, and it can be regarded as a suitable occasion to carry it on the street when the fifteenth moon is full." But Uncle Yu said that rabbits are too common, and birds will be fresher, so I thought it would be better to make a pair of 'flying' crane lanterns. In fact, just think about it, it may not be possible, but I didn't expect Uncle Yu to make it all!"

Zhao Mo said with a smile: "Uncle Yu's craftsmanship is good, but he has never had his cousin's whimsy, no matter how good his craftsmanship is, he can't come up with new tricks." Cousin doesn't have to be too modest. ”

Qin Hanzhen grinned, and gave Zhao Mo the lamp and plugged it on top of Duobaoge: "Cousin likes this lamp so much, then I'll give it to you." During the Lantern Festival tomorrow, my cousin will take it to see the lanterns to see if he can compare the lights of other people's houses?"

Zhao Mo asked her, "What about my cousin?" Time is so tight, can Uncle Yu make another pair of crane lanterns before tomorrow night?"

Qin Hanzhen smiled and said: "It's okay, it's okay, this lamp is a little troublesome when it was designed in the early stage, as long as you know how to do it, Uncle Yu can complete it in half a day." I told him before I came over and asked him to make a second lamp. It may be difficult to make two lamps a day, but don't you have one more here? Tomorrow I will go to the Lantern Festival with you with a 'crane', it will be very interesting. ”

Zhao Mo's ears were slightly red, and he said with a smile: "Okay, I also think this is quite interesting, so it's decided!"

Qin Hanzhen smiled and nodded vigorously, and after sending the lamp, she had nothing to do, so she pulled Zhao Mo to sit down and chat again.

In front of Zhao Mo, she became more and more accustomed to saying what she had to say, and there was no need to hide it, so when she saw Zhao Mo reading the letter, she opened her mouth bluntly: "Cousin was reading the letter just now, right? Who wrote it to you? ”

Zhao Mo paused and smiled: "It's a letter from the capital." ”

Qin Hanzhen raised his eyebrows: "It was Cousin Zhao's father who wrote a letter? What did he say again? And asked you to send him the silver you earned in Jiangnan?"

Zhao Mo suddenly snorted, and then held back and said, "No, it was sent by someone from my small village." They walked so fast that two of them were so tired that they died. ”

Huh? Why is this? The New Year is almost over, you can't be in a hurry to give New Year's gifts, right? If there is really an important matter, it shouldn't be Zhao Mo's private property Xiao Zhuangzi who came up.

Qin Hanzhen hurriedly asked, "But what happened to your family, is anyone sick?" Considering that the Wang family colluded with the military attaché and went under the banner of Zhao Shuo, it would not be good if it affected Zhao Shuo's head. Could it be that Zhao Shuo fell ill because of this?

Zhao Mo said lightly: "There is nothing special at home, Mrs. is pregnant, the child born by Lan Xue was sick, and now there is no major problem, I heard that the cause is a little unclear, it may have something to do with Mrs." The eldest man of the Wang family came to talk to his father, and the matter was over. ”

Qin Hanzhen couldn't help but sigh: "It seems quite miserable to be your father's son." He has made you unable to return home and has to avoid Jiangnan, but he doesn't necessarily attach much importance to his beloved concubine, otherwise the child is sick for no apparent reason, how can he not have the intention of finding out the bottom of the matter? His heart is quite big, such a young child, staying in the back house all day long, can be calculated, and your father is not afraid that one day he will end up in the same fate?"

Zhao Mo tugged at the corners of his mouth: "Naturally, it's because the Wang family will bring him greater benefits." He has always been a person who is unprofitable and can't afford to be early, and no matter how much he loves the child, he can't stop his green cloud road. ”

Qin Hanzhen pursed his lips and asked again: "Hasn't there been an accident to the Wang family yet? How is the illness of the second master Wang? How long can it last? If he dies, will he intercede for the Wang family before he dies?"

Zhao Mo said: "The letter didn't mention this. Maybe in a few days, there will be a letter to explain. ”

Qin Hanzhen was surprised: "There is no mention of the Wang family in this letter? Then why is your face so ugly? Is there something else?"

Zhao Mo shook his head, his mood was very complicated: "The letter didn't mention anything else about the Wang family, but it only said that Master Wang and his father had a secret discussion for a long time, and then they set the charter." Father he seems to ...... no longer expects to become the emperor's heir, but plans to pick a son and prepare to succeed the East Palace. ”

And the candidate for this son excluded him Zhao Mo from the beginning. However, Zhao Shuo seems to have agreed to Master Wang again, and wanted the son of the little Wang family to be his heir to the title. Where is he going to put his eldest son?