Chapter 5 Lantern riddles

If I remember correctly, there are only three times a year in H City, namely: Lantern Festival, Tanabata Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival. This makes me, who loves to eat and play, how can I let go of this time.

After dinner, I went back to my room, ready to change my clothes and dress up briefly.

"Mom, did you buy me new clothes?" I asked, looking at the clothes in the closet.

"yes, I don't think your clothes fit anymore. I went to the mall at noon today and bought some for you, and I don't know if you like it or not. ”

"Of course I like it, my mother's eye has always been the best. I hugged my mother and smiled happily.

"By the way, tonight, my baby girl is going to play with her boyfriend? You have to dress up better, but remember to come back early, girls can't spend the night outside. ”

"No, no, Mom, listen to me, that person is not my boyfriend. ”

"Really, but I saw upstairs that you two had been going out together for the past few nights, talking and laughing......"

"Not really, I swear he's just a good friend of mine. "I looked serious.

"Well, actually, I think this kid looks pretty good, tall and handsome......"

After I made a helpless expression of "don't say it, it's really not", my mother finally stopped, briefly said a few more words, and turned back to the living room to continue her business.

When I changed my clothes, combed my hair briefly, and was ready to go out, I heard a "squeak" sound, yes, oh, how did I forget the potato chips.

I took out a huge courier from under my desk and gently sliced it with a knife, revealing a simple white rat cage in front of me.

"Come on, good. "I picked up the chips and stuffed them into the cage.

It struggled desperately on its legs.

"No, I'm going to eat something delicious. Creak. ”

"No, there are too many people there, I didn't pay attention to any of them, what should you do if you run away? Also, tonight will be very lively, there are all kinds of people, in case you are captured by other spiritual practitioners, I can't save you. ”

I locked the cage door, tore open a bag of nutty snacks, and dumped them all into the cage.

This way, you can go out and play with peace of mind without worrying about the rat getting into trouble at home.

I'm so smart.

Lung Cheong Street.

By the time we arrived, the whole street was overcrowded. The streets are lined with lanterns of all kinds, and the vendors are shouting and selling to their heart's content.

I pulled Xing Lin to stop in front of a pastry stall, skillfully ordered a few kinds of dim sum, and the shopkeeper wrapped them in oily paper and handed them to me.

I opened it carefully, took out a piece and handed it to Xing Lin.

"It's peach cake, try it. ”

"Well, it's delicious. ”

Under the soft glutinous rice skin, wrapped in peach sauce, it is very delicious.

We continued walking, eating, drinking, and merrymaking, and when we reached the central square, a stall selling lanterns caught my eye.

For twenty dollars, you can buy a lantern, and the store provides pens and paints, which you can play with as you like. You can choose to take the painted lantern with you, or you can choose to write a lantern riddle and hang it here, if someone guesses the riddle, you can take it away. Those who choose the latter can participate in guessing lantern riddles and take away other people's lanterns.

I bought one and wrote a passage of the "Painstaking Heart Sutra" on it with a brush, but it was in a special script that only we spiritual cultivators could understand, and ordinary people looked like ghost drawings.

"Girl, what's your mystery?"

"No, if someone takes a fancy to it, give it to him directly. ”

Xing Lin teased me on the side: "Don't guess this kind of thing, who can look at your ghost drawings?"

"What if you have someone who knows the goods? ”

I'm starting to pick other people's lanterns.

Among the lanterns, there is one that stands out, and others are guessing the answer to its mystery.

It shows a pair of men and women dressed in ancient clothes, looking at the stars in the sky.

On the other side of the lantern, there are four more verses.

"The morning light disturbs the dreams and dreams, and the mist of the heart suddenly opened yesterday. Jun Li Chunjiang flowers and moonlit nights, and the night looks at the new morning. ”

The shopkeeper said that the answer to this mystery is in the poem.

Guess everything, and soon, someone said "Dawn". The shopkeeper said it was close.

I also have an answer in mind.

"Xichen?"

"Almost, but dare to ask the girl, which xi, which chen?"

And the words?

But since I asked, it must not be on the surface.

A name popped through my mind.

Xi is the "曦" in the title, and Chen is the "Chen" of the stars. ”

"That's right, congratulations. "The shopkeeper took it down and gave it to me.

I was holding this lantern, and Xing Lin and I had questions at the same time.

Xichen is the name of my previous life, and the only people who know it are the people in Hede Academy, but they don't know that it is me, and they don't know that I will participate in the Lantern Festival.

"The woman painted on the lantern looks a little like you. ”

I looked down and took a closer look, "No, Da Linzi, people have one nose and two eyes, where is it like." To put it that way, I think the man in this painting looks like you. ”

We continued towards the central plaza to get ready for the fireworks display.

"Chenchen, I have something to say to you. ”

"What did you say?"

"I ......"

Before he could finish his words, he heard a loud bang, and fireworks burst into the sky.

My attention was diverted and I looked up at the sky.

At the end of the fireworks show, I wanted to continue to ask Xing Lin what he wanted to say, but I was pushed by someone else, and then I was constantly pushed forward by the crowd.

With the lantern in my arms, I turned and tried to walk backwards, but I bumped into someone.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, can you give me a moment, I'm going to find my friend. ”

But the man did not move.

I looked up at him, with a pair of glasses perched on the high bridge of his nose, and he was extremely good-looking, but the indifference on his face was repulsive.

"This is your lantern?"

Why didn't this man get out of the way and ask me about the lantern in my arms?

I ignored him, holding the lantern and preparing to leave him.

He grabbed my arm, "Let's go, there are too many people, and it's easy to get hurt when you squeeze around." ”

"Oh, good. So I stopped in front of him, and he didn't move, he kept looking at me, and the atmosphere was a little awkward. I kept turning my head to look around, trying to ignore him. Everyone was in a hurry to move forward, as if for the stage performance ahead.

"Have we met somewhere?" he was the first to break the awkward situation.

I began to respond to his gaze, and the person in front of me did give me a sense of familiarity, had I seen it somewhere?

It's so familiar, and it feels like I've seen it not so long ago.

I haven't seen many people since I came back.

I remembered that it was that day, the first day Xing Lin and I came back, and he was the one who saved me. I didn't come out after he wore glasses!