Chapter 102: Shangyuan Festival
On the street, everyone in the Hou Mansion looked at it while walking, it was also beautiful here, and it was interesting there, how could there be such fun in the Hou Mansion, every day was to stay in a small courtyard, it was boring. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Cui Xiyun clamored for the lantern, and also pointed out to the jade rabbit lantern, this jade rabbit lantern is only one on the whole street, it is the treasure of the store's town store, it is exquisite, vivid, the jade rabbit lantern is hung on the store's signboard, the riddle is written on the lamp "There are many strange things, the paper is wrapped in fire", the store's signboard is written, and the guess will be sent, but the Hou Mansion everyone guessed and guessed, and no one guessed. Today, the little marquis and the second master did not come, and the adult male only had the guards in the house, led by the iron head, and the iron head couldn't guess it, and the only one who had ever read the book was Cui Jinzhen, who was only five years old this year, but he couldn't guess it by scratching his ears and cheeks.
Seeing that no one could guess it, the young lady asked Mama Ye to tell the store how much it was, she bought it, but the store was dead, and she couldn't get along with the money, so she stiffened her neck and said, this jade rabbit lamp is not for sale, and other lamps can be bought with silver if you can't guess it, so this can't work.
Shi Huiyun had no choice but to turn her head and say to Cui Xiyun: "Yun'er, people don't sell it, let's change it to something else." ”
But Cui Xiyun took a fancy to the jade rabbit lantern, crying and asking for that one, he didn't move his feet wherever he stood, he had to get the lamp in his hand before leaving, Shi Huiyun was so troubled by her that she couldn't help it, so she turned around and said to the store in person: "Shopkeeper, give you a hundred taels, give me the lamp." ”
The shop that sells the lamp still shook his head: "This lady, it's not that the small one doesn't give you, but this is the rule of the ancestors, our family only does one jade rabbit lamp every year, and it is given to the destined person on the day of the Shangyuan Festival, if you guess the lantern riddle is a destined person, the small one will be given away for free immediately, if you can't guess it, give 10,000 taels of silver and the small one will not be sold." ”
Shi Huiyun frowned when she heard this: "It's really unreasonable, you are a lamp seller, you dare to talk to Mrs. Ben like this, Tietou, go teach me a lesson, you guys, go and take down the jade rabbit lamp for me." After she finished instructing Tietou, she pointed to several Hou Mansion guards behind Tietou and said.
The iron head glanced at the young lady in embarrassment, and then looked at the many ordinary people who had surrounded him, pointing at him, he was a person who practiced martial arts, naturally deaf and clear-sighted, and could hear many people saying that they were bullying and oppressing the people. The iron head's eyes were melancholy, and he was wailing in his heart, "Little Hou Ye, I really can't do it!" But if I don't carry out the order, I will soon become the dog slave and eagle claw that Qianfu refers to, how terrifying! The iron head slowed down as much as he could, everything was in slow motion, rubbing reluctantly, although he heard the young lady's command in his ears, but he did not answer the door in his mouth.
Naturally, several other guards also heard the young lady's order, and they all looked at their boss Tietou, and when they saw that the leader did not agree, they did not dare to make a move.
Shi Huiyun saw that there were a lot of people around him, but his subordinates didn't listen to his command, and many people were already covering their mouths and snickering, and even laughed out loud directly, blurting out mocking words. She blushed all of a sudden, and scolded the iron head and the guards: "Why don't you go and take down that rude person to Mrs. Ben, if you don't listen to the order, Mrs. Ben will let the little marquis abolish you." ”
Seeing that the young lady was angry, Tietou didn't dare to rub it any longer, and was about to wave his hand to beckon the guards of the Hou Mansion to carry out the order, when suddenly, a child's voice came: "There are many strange things, and there is a fire in the paper." Uncle shopkeeper, isn't this the Jade Rabbit lantern itself? ”
When everyone heard the sound, they saw a little girl wearing pink embroidered brocade patterns was being held by a middle-aged man with a one-eyed dragon, holding an imitation pink octagonal palace lamp in her hand, the palace lamp in her hand was very small, only a little bigger than the overlapping of two tea bowls, it can be described as small and exquisite, she herself was also very small, a delicate look, combed a double flat bun, a few strands of hair hanging down from the bun to attach to her ears, and looked at the store with a pair of bright big eyes.
Seeing that it was a little girl who was less than five years old, the shopkeeper was embarrassed for a while, and said: "This young lady, you are wrong about this riddle, but it is not the jade rabbit lantern itself." ”
The little girl tilted her head and looked at the shopkeeper and said, "Uncle shopkeeper, is this jade rabbit lantern a lantern?" ”
The shopkeeper frowned and said, "Of course it's over!" "The heart said, there are really a lot of troublemakers today, and I can't help but secretly raise my eyes to look at the master who is sitting in front of the window and watching the show in the Taibai Lou restaurant by the river.
The little girl in pink smiled: "Uncle shopkeeper, this jade rabbit lantern is a lantern, and the riddle of your riddle "There are many strange things, and there is fire in the paper" is the lantern, so why is it not the jade rabbit lantern itself?" ”
The shopkeeper was suddenly asked, and froze in place, and the people around him applauded and said: "The little girl is so literate, the shopkeeper, even if others guessed it, you should present this lantern with both hands, how can you pretend to be stupid." ”
On the side, a thing suddenly fell from the Taibai Building, and it fell to the ground with a "pop", and everyone looked at it, but it turned out to be a jade bone fan, which was lying on the ground at the gate of the Taibai Building, and a fan made of white jade was shattered. On the second floor, a person near the window took a selfie with a pair of palms crackling, with a very happy look on his face, and said in his mouth: "Okay!" ”
But it turned out to be a rich boy boy, eleven or twelve years old, and he didn't feel distressed when he saw a priceless jade bone fan shattered, but his face was full of smiles. In front of the door of the Taibai Building, I saw a young man in Tsing Yi rushing out of the building, carefully picking up the broken fan bones and fan surfaces and carefully holding them in his hands and entering the Taibai Building.
The shopkeeper downstairs saw that the master on the second floor said yes, and dared to say that it was not good, so he quickly took down the jade rabbit lantern and walked forward, and gave it to the little girl with both hands, only to see the little girl smile, revealing a pair of cute dimples on her face, and lifted the octagonal lantern in her hand to show the store, and pointed to Cui Xiyun who was still in tears next to Shi Huiyun and said: "Uncle shopkeeper, look, I already have a lantern, thank you for your kindness, I see that the young lady loves this jade rabbit lantern so much, so I bother you to give it to her for me!" ”
The shopkeeper who sold the lanterns was stunned for a moment, looked at the location of the window on the second floor of the Taibai Building, and then did as the little girl said.
In this way, Cui Xiyun got the jade rabbit lantern as she wished, and finally burst into laughter, and when everyone looked at the little girl again, they found that she had been carried away by the one-eyed man, and the man walked very fast, and the backs of the two disappeared after a while.
Seeing that the lively crowd slowly dispersed, what happened, Shi Huiyun also lost the mood to look at the lanterns, and said that she was going back, and several aunts had to go back, only the three aunts of the old marquis and the third and fourth ladies said that they would go shopping for a while, so Shi Huiyun ordered two guards to follow, and he took Qian Yuning and a few people to go back.
Qian Yuning looked at the location where the little girl disappeared again, she suddenly felt that the little girl was so kind just now, why? Moreover, seeing that she is so familiar, like someone who has known her for a long time, but they obviously haven't seen it, and she doesn't know the one-eyed dragon man holding the little girl, but why is there such a strange feeling?
On the other side, in the private room of Taibai Building, the shopkeeper was kneeling in front of a young man, and said with a bitter face: "Lord Shizi, don't send me to sell lamps next time, I meet strange people every year, I am competing for a little girl who is less than five years old today, and I will go back to the house to make my brothers laugh." ”
The young man, that is, the person who was on the second floor of the Taibai Building by the window just now, the loser who fell the jade bone fan because he applauded the little girl was his, and it turned out that he was Murong Zhao, the prince of the Chengwang Mansion. I saw him look at the palace guard dressed as a shopkeeper and leaned forward and backwards with a smile, looking heartless, and then he was really annoyed by the guard, so he said: "Wang Da, don't worry, after returning home, if anyone dares to laugh at you, I will let him pick a month's worth of dung, and then ask him to set up a stall selling lanterns for you on the Shangyuan Festival next year." After saying that, I couldn't help but laugh again. Wang Da knelt on the ground and watched the little master's joy! I shed tears of remorse in my heart, I knew that I would go to the battlefield with my brothers, I thought it was a beautiful difference to stay by the side of the prince of the palace, but I didn't expect that now he is sent out to sell lanterns every year, he has become the laughing stock of the entire palace, everyone sees him covering his mouth and stealing fun, he is on the verge of collapse. Wang Da lamented in his heart, "Lord Shizi, can you be reliable, the prince of other people's families is busy learning to fight, fighting in the palace, and trying every means to become a master, but you are here to do your best to get out." ”
Murong Zhao couldn't help laughing, looked at Wang Da's melancholy eyes and said, "Wang Da, now I have an important task entrusted to you, you can go and find out for me who that little girl belongs to just now." ”
Wang Da stared at the prince with wide eyes in disbelief, only to see this young master nodding carelessly, he really wanted to faint. Wang Da looked helplessly at the few guards behind the prince, only to see that they all couldn't help but laugh and looked up at the ceiling one by one, and the Adam's apple moved, but they didn't look at him. Wang Da thought to himself, don't think he doesn't know, wait a minute, as soon as he looks away, they will definitely look at him, if he waits for him to leave, they will definitely get together to talk and laugh at themselves, they are all a group of guys who have no righteousness, Wang Da just wants to look up to the sky and sigh, why am I so miserable!