Chapter 69: The Night of the Lantern (1)

For a whole afternoon, Luoluo was telling stories to several serious "classmates", watching Wan Yunjun and a few friends listen very seriously, the little girl was also very happy, although she talked for a long time, but she didn't feel tired at all, until Zhao Yuan prompted that she was going to go to the town to participate in the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, Luoluo didn't stop.

"Sister Luoluo, why don't you continue to tell us on the road later, I want to know how the old dragon king is." Wan Changyan said.

"Yes, Luoluo, take a car with the second uncle on the road, and continue to talk to the second uncle." Wan Yunjun glared at his son and said to Luoluo with a smile.

"Okay, second brother, Luoluo has been talking for a long time, and I'm tired, so I'll take a break on the road for a while." Zhao Yuan interrupted.

"Yes, Luoluo, you take a break, don't talk about it on the road, atom, you take a ride with me on the road, and I have questions for you." Wan Yunjun said seriously.

"What's the question, second brother, you can ask it now." Zhao Yuan knew that Wan Yunjun wanted to tell him the next story, and said jokingly.

"I really have a question for you, my carriage is big and comfortable to sit in." Wan Yunjun said with a serious expression.

"Okay, since you have a question for me, second brother, then I'll take a carriage with you and answer your question." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"Dad, I want to ride in a carriage with you too." Chang Song rolled his eyes and said.

"Your Uncle Atom told me about business, what are you doing here?" Wan Yunjun scolded.

"I'm going to ride in a car with you, too." The boss Changyan also reacted.

"Okay, second brother, let them come up, otherwise I will only answer your 'question', and besides, there are more of us, and it won't be enough to sit if we don't squeeze it." Zhao Yuan said with an accent accent.

"Alright, come up." Wan Yunjun glared at Zhao Yuan and said to the two boys.

The two carriages brought by Wan Yunjun were much larger than the donkey carts that Zhao Yuan bought, and finally Zhao Yuan, Wan Yunjun and the five little guys all sat in a carriage, two carriages, plus Zhao Yuan's own donkey cart, with Wan Yunjun's father and son, Tao Pu's family, and Zhao Yuan's family, driven by Qian Hu's four entourages, with a large number of lanterns tied together, drove the carriage and donkey cart towards the market.

"Let's talk about it." As soon as the carriage started, Wan Yunjun said to Zhao Yuan in the carriage.

"Ask, second brother, don't you have a question to ask?" Zhao Yuan said jokingly.

"Uncle Atom, tell us the following story." Chang Song pleaded.

"The children want to hear it, you can watch it." Wan Yunjun said with a smile.

"Okay, I won't tease you, Luoluo, where did you tell them?"

"Speaking of the old dragon king's violation of the heavenly rules, he will be beheaded." Luoluo said with big eyes.

"Okay, I'll tell you the next story, Luoluo told you, the Dragon King of Jinghe in order to make Yuan Shoucheng's prediction fail, privately modified the time and amount of rain, this is terrible, when it rains, how much rain falls, that is a fixed number, the old Dragon King is so modified, but it is a big crime to violate the rules of heaven............" Zhao Yuan told the story of Journey to the West vividly, although there was a group of little guys sitting in the carriage, but it seemed relatively quiet.

After a while, Qian Hu, who was driving the car, knocked on the carriage door and said that he had arrived at the market.

"Atom, why do you live so close to the bazaar, how good it was to live in Zhaojiazhuang before." Zhao Yuan stopped when he heard Qian Hu talk about the place, Wan Yunjun obviously didn't hear enough, and said complainingly.

"Uncle Atom, were there really so many magical fairies and monsters in the previous dynasty? Why not now? Changyan asked.

"Brother Changyan, this is just a story, the stories are all made up by people, not necessarily true." Luoluo said on the side.

"Yes, Changyan, this is just a story, not a real thing, we listen to the story in the hope that we can learn some truth from it, or be able to feel happy." Zhao Yuan patted Changyan's forehead and said with a smile.

"Alright, get out of the car and look at the lanterns in this gray plain town." Wan Yunjun said thoughtfully.

From getting along with Zhao Yuan this afternoon, Wan Yunjun felt that there seemed to be some problems with the way he educated his children, every time the two boys made a mistake, he always scolded him, unlike Zhao Yuan and Luoluo who got along like this, he would always slowly guide Luoluo to understand some truths.

When I got out of the car, the streets of the market were already full of various lanterns, but it was not completely dark, and most of the candles in the lanterns were not lit.

"The dragon lantern dance team hasn't come yet, let's go to Funing Tower to sit for a while." Wan Yunjun knew from Zhaoyuan what activities would be held during the Shangyuan Festival here in Gray Plains Town, and it was obvious that it hadn't started yet.

"You don't have to go to Funing Building, just here at the end of the street, I bought a small yard, you can go there to rest, park the carriage there, and then go shopping, there should be a lot of snacks on the street, we didn't have dinner, just go to the street to eat something." Zhao Yuan proposed.

"I've been buying a house on the street, and you've changed a lot during this time, and you know how to buy a house on the street." Wan Yunjun said with a smile.

"People have to pursue a little bit, second brother, isn't it normal for me to buy a house?"

"Yes, it's a nice little yard." Walking into the small courtyard that Zhao Yuan bought, the Lin family had already moved away before the Chinese New Year, and Zhao Yuan had not had time to decorate it.

Driving the carriage and donkey cart into the small courtyard, Zhao Yuan brought fodder, tied a few horses and white heads to the yard to graze, then locked the door, put candles in the lanterns he brought, and prepared to go to the street first, eat something and then come back to get it.

When I came to the street, there were already many pedestrians in new clothes walking around the street, and some vendors selling snacks and small things had already begun to sell them.

"Mung bean flour, mung bean flour just out of the pot!"

"Sugar Yuan, sell Sugar Yuan!"

"Roast mutton, buy roast mutton and eat it!"

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The vendors were selling the snacks on their stalls, and Zhao Yuan and his entourage of adults and children stopped and stopped, and they would stop to buy a little and taste it if they were interested.

"The dragon dance lantern is coming, this year is much more lively than last year." Pedestrians on the street chatted loudly.

"I hope to have a good year in the coming year, let's make a wish to the dragon god."

"Go together, go together."

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A dragon lantern dance came, kicking off the prelude to the Shangyuan Festival Lantern Festival, and the lanterns placed on the street and carried by pedestrians were slowly lit, and the light of the lanterns dispelled the darkness on the street.

"Uncle, uncle, let's go back and bring the lantern and light it." Luoluo urged.

"If I knew it would start so soon, it would be better to bring all the lanterns." Wan Yunjun said.

"It's a little early, but this dragon lantern is particular, maybe this year's auspicious time is relatively early." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"Come on, let's hang out, Qian Hu, you guys go back and get some lanterns, atom, give them the key." Wan Yunjun instructed Qian Hu and the other four entourages.