Since Xiaobai left, the atmosphere at home has been in a state of low pressure. Needless to say, Wen Anze and Wen Anhao are both listless. But even the youngest daughter looks wilted. Looking at the children like this, Wen Qing'an and Wen, who are fathers and mothers, are in a hurry.

Thankfully, fifteen is just around the corner. So the couple decided to take their children to the town to watch the lanterns on the evening of the fifteenth night of this year.

Because the lantern festival is held at night, it is not safe for the family to walk back from the town at night after watching the lanterns, so in previous years, the couple would not bring their children there. But this year, in order to make the children happy, they decided to spend one night in town after watching the lanterns and then go home the next day.

Children are always children, and the brothers were extremely excited when they got the news. Although I still think about Xiaobai, I am now counting the days and looking forward to the arrival of the fifteenth day of the first month.

With the expectation of the Wen brothers, the fifteenth day is still delayed.

Early in the morning, Father Wen and Wen Niang were still sleeping under the covers, and the door of the house was opened. Wen Anze and Wen Anhao hurriedly came to their father's bedside, thinking that Wen's father and mother would wake up, but they didn't see any reaction after standing still for a long time.

Seeing that his father and mother didn't open his eyes, Wen Anhao couldn't hold back anymore. Take off your shoes, climb into bed and press on Daddy Wen, who is sleeping on the outside. As soon as he lay down, a burst of laughter came from Father Wen's chest and the direction of Mother Wen.

Wen Anhao looked up at Father Wen who was smiling with a smile on his face, and then looked sideways at his mother, and pouted dissatisfiedly: "Daddy, you pretend to be asleep and deceive us" In order to retaliate, Wen Anhao also deliberately pressed Wen Qing'an's chest.

Being pressed by Wen Anhao's chubby body like this, Wen Qingan, who was laughing, only felt that his chest sank, and the laughter that he originally blurted out instantly turned into a cough.

Wen stretched out his hand from the quilt, pulled the younger son between the two, and then beckoned to the eldest son beside the bed: "It's just now, it's useless for you to get up so early, hurry up and lie down in the quilt for a while" After speaking, he helped Wen Anhao take off his coat, and then lifted his quilt to let him in.

Wen Anze, who was standing next to the bed, heard his mother's persuasion, and also took off his coat and shoes and got into Wen Qing'an's quilt.

Although the family of four was lying in bed, no one was sleepy. The four of them just look at me, I look at you, and I don't know who made the voice first. At the end, the whole room was filled with the laughter of the whole family, making the whole room full of happiness.

Although the Wen family woke up early on this day, it was not until after lunch that Wen's father and Wen Niang took the three brothers and sisters to the village.

By the time they arrived, there had been a number of people gathered at the head of the village. They also saw Lin Shi, Lin Zixiang, and Lin Ziqi in the crowd.

As soon as they saw Wen's, Lin immediately came to them, took Wen's hand and asked with a smile, "Why did you go to the town to watch the lantern festival this year?" How do you come back at night? ”

Wen motioned for his two sons to play with the Lin brothers, and then turned his head and replied to Lin: "Isn't it because Xiaobai is gone, the children are a little sad, so I took them out to relax." As for the evening, my family and I decided to find an inn in the town today, and let them have fun today. ”

Because her father-in-law is the village head, he is also responsible for the affairs of the troupe this time, so she also heard about the relationship between the Wen brothers and a child in the troupe. But what she didn't expect was that in just a day or two, the relationship of several children was so good.

Because of Aunt Lin's illness, the Lin family has rarely come out recently. Seeing Lin with two children today, he couldn't help but feel a little strange, so he asked: "Sister-in-law is going to take the children to the town to see the lanterns today?" ”

Seeing Wen's question, Lin knew that she asked because of her old lady, so she didn't beat around the bush and said directly with joy: "Our old lady is much better these days. No, Zhilu said that we didn't go out much during the New Year, so today I insisted on taking my two children to see the lantern festival, and let us live in the town at the relative's house at night without coming back. The old lady said that there is a child's father to take care of at home, so let's play with peace of mind"

Wen Qing'an Wen heard that the Lin family's eldest lady was getting better, and hurriedly said hello to the Lin family. The people spoke to each other a great time, and then they saw an ox cart coming slowly from the south, and it took a while to hear in front of them.

This ox cart is specially planted for people from the village to go to the town, and Chen Laohan, who drives the ox cart, relies on this ox cart to earn some extra money when the farm is slack.

Everyone gave the old man a few pennies each, and they all got into the car. The cart is not big, and most of the children and women on it are still on it, and men like Wen Qing'an walk next to the ox cart, and occasionally get on the cart to rest when they are tired.

After walking for about an hour, a group of people came to the town. Everyone agreed with Chen Laohan on a time to go back, and everyone dispersed.

Because they were going to a relative's house, the Lin family didn't go with the Wen family, but when they were about to separate, the two families agreed on the time and place to meet, so that everyone could go to the lantern festival together in the evening.

Because the family decided to stay in the town tonight, they hurried to find the inn after they separated. The main reason is that I am afraid of the lantern festival, and there are too many people to book a room.

Even as they did, as soon as they came to the town they ran to find an inn, the whole family went to three or four houses in a row, and finally found a medium room in a small inn a few streets away from the main road.

After the problem with the guest room was solved, it gradually became dark.

Wen Dad Wen Niang was afraid that the Lin family and they had already arrived, so as soon as they finished the affairs of the room, they took the two brothers to the bridge.

When the night fell, the streets began to be filled with more people. While they were waiting for the Lin family, many people also came to the bridge, probably planning to wait for a while to go out and release the river lanterns.

While waiting, Wen Anhao saw someone buying river lanterns from a stall, so he pulled Daddy Wen's sleeve and pointed at the vendor, and begged: "Dad, let's buy a few too, and we will pray for blessings later."

Without waiting for Father Wen to speak, Wen took out a few copper coins from his money bag and handed them to Wen Anhao and said, "Okay, we can't do nothing for nothing." Oh, this is money, and I'll give you Aunt Lin and them one each."

Wen Anze and Wen Anhao got the money, ran to the stall on the side with a smile, and picked up the lantern. After a while, the two of them carried seven small river lanterns and hurried back.

Wen Anze distributed the lamp, although he also bought it for Wen An'an, but the lamp was indeed in Wen's hands. It is estimated that she is afraid that she is too young and ignorant and accidentally burns herself, so she is not at ease to hand over the lamp to her, which makes Wen Anan resentful for a long time.

After distributing the lamps, Wen Anze picked up the charcoal pen borrowed from the vendor, wrote his wishes on the lamp, and handed the pen to his father and mother after writing.

Because the lanterns will not start until the gongs and drums of the town's lantern festival are beaten. So now everyone is just carrying lanterns and gathering on the bank of the river, laughing or making trouble, so that the originally quiet embankment is gradually lively.

When the lantern festival was about to start, the Lin family took the Lin brothers to the river. When Wen saw that Lin was coming, he immediately handed over the lamp they bought, and urged: "Sister-in-law, child, child, come on, the lantern festival will start immediately, hurry up and write your wishes on the lamp, and pray for blessings for a while."

Lin looked at the lantern handed over by Wen Qing'an, and said embarrassedly, "It's just that we are late, how can we let you break the bank, how much money, I will give it to you" said and took the money out of his pocket.

Because most of the people have finished writing now, Wen Qing'an borrowed charcoal from the peddler's hand, and when he saw that Lin wanted to give money, he immediately stuffed the charcoal pen into Lin's hand, and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law is still polite to us, just a few copper plates, it's not worth it."

Lin looked at the sky, knowing that he was about to miss the hour if he continued to be polite like this, so he had to put away the money bag first, and said with a smile while taking the charcoal: "Okay, just listen to you, I won't give this money." However, I'll buy some dumplings for the children to eat later, and you can't let me."

Wen listened to Lin's words, slapped his face, and said proudly: "Then I'll thank my sister-in-law for An Ze and their brothers first." Well, this time and again, it's not our family that earned it, and it's really worth buying this lantern today."

When Lin heard Wen say this, he stretched out his hand and slapped her, scolding with a smile: "People who are all mothers are still so unserious, and they are not afraid that children will laugh at you."

Wen Anhao heard Lin say this, raised his head and said loudly to Lin: "I won't laugh at my mother, right, brother" and then turned his head to ask Wen Anze, seeing that his brother also nodded, he was even more embarrassed.

Lin looked at Wen Anhao like this, covered his mouth and praised with a smile: "Yo, this son really loves his mother, my aunt just said a word and began to protect your mother" This sentence made Wen Anhao and Wen Anze's little faces red. After Lin and a few people laughed for a while, they began to write blessings on the lamp.

Not long after the Lin family and the Lin brothers finished writing, they faintly heard the sound of gongs and drums beating from far and near.

After a while, the sound of the gong came to the side of the embankment, and the sound of the gong was accompanied by the deep shouts of the men

"Knock knock, the lantern festival has begun, the lantern festival has begun, knock knock"

As soon as the sound fell, the crowd gathered on the beach walked to the river and lowered a lamp full of wishes and prayers into the river.

The original black crawler-like river surface was instantly dotted with starry light, as if inlaid with stars in the night, and the beauty was dazzling.

The dappled candlelight carries people's wishes for the future and sails to that distant and unknown time and space.