On the night of the Lantern Festival, the lights on Luomei Mountain were bright.

The plum blossom trees all over the mountains are hung with colorful lanterns, the pink plum blossoms reflect the warm candle flame more conspicuously, countless people in festive costumes in Mobei City have dinner, they carry colorful lanterns along the mountain road and meander up, like a colorful river going upstream, to the intersection of Meiyuan Square.

Plum Garden Square is brilliantly lit, Ambilight, a huge lamp tree is erected in the center, the form is towering ancient wood, up to 20 zhang, only one point lower than the main hall, the lamp tree is divided into nine branches to extend, there are thousands of lanterns on it, reflect each other into brilliance, as if a fire was burned in the starry sky, the night sky is a fiery red, like the sunset.

There is a river flowing next to the square, many people fold lotus lanterns by hand, light candles and put lamps, make wishes and pray for blessings, not long after, hundreds of lotus lanterns go down the river, the water surface is a glow flickering, like a galaxy poured into it, drifting with the waves.

Tonight, there are no less than 10,000 people gathered in Meiyuan Square, guessing lantern riddles, setting off fireworks and firecrackers to celebrate the festival.

Lin Tianwan and Mr. and Mrs. Chen lingered in the sea of lights, watching everywhere, smiling like flowers.

Beside her, there was Zhang Wencheng in a red robe and a folding fan.

The Lantern Festival has always been a holy place for young men and women to date, and Zhang Wencheng naturally would not let go of such a great opportunity to appear by Lin Tianwan's side early.

In order not to worry Lin Tianwan, Lin Tianyang did not tell Zhang Wencheng what he had done, because in Lin Tianwan's heart, Zhang Wencheng was still an elegant son.

"Tianwan, this is the first time you and I have enjoyed the lanterns together, and it is really a memorable moment. Zhang Wencheng looked sincere.

Lin Tianwan smiled when she heard this, and said: "In the past, I was busy with my livelihood, and I could only refuse the good intentions of my son for many years. ”

In the past ten years, Zhang Wencheng must come to invite every Lantern Festival, just to take on the important task of supporting the Lin family and cultivating Lin Tianyang, Lin Tianwan even gave up his beloved piano, and naturally had no intention of appreciating the lanterns, so he never agreed to his invitation.

Seeing her mention Lin Tianyang, the corners of Zhang Wencheng's mouth twitched unnaturally, and he smiled reluctantly: "Tianyang is really a blockbuster this time, and he actually won the first place in the copying assessment in one fell swoop, I am really happy for you." ”

"Thank you Gongzi for your kindness, but although Tianyang has grown, it has become a little nonsense recently, and the 20,000 taels of bets placed in Gongzi's gambling house this time please don't mind Gongzi," Lin Tianwan frowned, quite apologetic: "If Tianyang can really be lucky enough to become one of the ten masters of Meiyuan, I will definitely let him return the silver money he won to Gongzi." ”

"It's okay, Tianyang's move is also to reduce your burden, how can I mind?" Zhang Wencheng's words were decent, but he sneered in his heart: "With my Zhang family's full obstruction, can he still become one of the ten masters of Meiyuan?"

The moontop treetops were as complete as a plate, and nine salutes roared in the square, and all the people immediately retreated to both sides to give way to the wide avenue in the middle.

The lanterns of the candidates who have entered the list are about to enter.

In front of the main hall, there were three sets of black wood high cases, and the three elders of Meiyuan sat on them and announced the official start of the second assessment.

There were guards guarding the entrance, shouting in unison: "Candidates enter with lanterns, the first place, the North Wind Painting Gallery!"

With the calls one after another, the art gallery where the candidates were on the list entered the hall one after another, and the colorful lanterns appeared in front of everyone's eyes like flowing water.

Most of the lanterns in the gallery are regular, the shape is ordinary, only on the lantern skin carefully painted different paintings, although pleasing to the eye, but lack a bit of spirituality, but there are also many gallery lanterns with peculiar shapes, obviously from the hands of skilled craftsmen, as soon as they appear to win the applause of the house.

Almost all of these lanterns were made by the lantern-making craftsmen invited by Zhang Wencheng.

Among the various lanterns, there are luxurious mahogany palace lamps, elegant and quiet bamboo basket lanterns, colorful layered hexagonal lanterns, and many special lanterns that imply blessing and health, and there are more than one year after year, with a wide variety and dizzying.

These special lanterns are extremely eye-catching, and every time a special lantern walks in front of them, it will attract the strongest cheers from the people on both sides, and the cheers are not stopped.

One of the special lanterns of a child holding a gold ingot, sitting firmly on the koi, has attracted the attention of countless people, many children have been unable to hold back the excitement in their hearts, and dragged their parents to this lantern.

"Hmph, what kind of lanterns can you make to compare with these masters I invited for that group of waste in the Qingjiang Art Museum?" Zhang Wencheng looked at the people who were constantly cheering and cheering, and was very satisfied with their reactions, and began to shake the folding fan in his hand very proudly.

However, when Ye Qiu's lantern entered, he couldn't help but be startled, and the folding fan that had not been shaken a few times stopped abruptly.

Ye Qiu's lantern is a white round lamp, except for the capitalization accident, it looks no different from ordinary lanterns, as for the exquisite paintings painted on it, Zhang Wencheng has no heart to appreciate it, and his face is dark.

"This Ye Qiu, who doesn't know how to lift, actually didn't use the lamp-making master and high-quality materials I invited, it's stupid!" Zhang Wencheng gritted his teeth angrily, among the many candidates, Ye Qiu was the strongest, so he also put the biggest capital on Ye Qiu, but he didn't expect Ye Qiu to abandon it all.

Ye Qiu didn't notice his secretly vicious gaze, and calmly walked to his place with his classmates pushing the lantern.

After him, the entrance was the Qingjiang Art Museum.

"No. 50, Qingjiang Art Museum!"

Because Lin Tianyang was the first place in the first assessment, Qingjiang Art Gallery was listed as the finale.

The guard's call sounded, and the group of Qingjiang Art Museum appeared at the door, pushing a lantern and walking slowly, the lantern was covered with a huge black cloth, making it difficult to see the appearance.

There was a commotion in the crowd and there were quite a few complaints.

"What does Qingjiang Art Gallery mean, do you still want to sell Guanzi at this time?"

"Are you afraid that the lanterns you make are too ugly?"

"Don't come to the second assessment if you're afraid of making a fool of yourself!"

The complaints along the way penetrated into the second middle school of the people in the Qingjiang Art Museum, and they suddenly became nervous, and carefully pushed the lanterns forward, not daring to look at the people on both sides.

When he saw the special lanterns before, he knew that the lanterns he made would never be brilliant in appearance, so he had an idea, first covered the original appearance of the lanterns, and attracted the attention of the people with the meaning of holding the pipa and half-covering his face, and used his curiosity to drive them to come to find out and gather popularity.

As long as you attract people and light the lanterns he made, you will definitely be able to make the people throw the bamboo cards in their hands and win in one fell swoop!

The location of the Qingjiang Art Gallery was at the front of the candidate team, Lin Tianyang looked sideways, and when he found the huge ordinary lantern made by Ye Qiu beside him, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

"He didn't use anything Zhang Wencheng gave, it seems that he wants to fight me fairly!" The two looked at each other, and Lin Tianyang saw the openness in his eyes, and bowed his head very solemnly.

This opponent, even if it was a student of the hateful Cao Ruohai, made him really admire.

"Pretend to be a ghost, see what you can make!" Zhang Wencheng in the distance saw through his intentions and disdained it, he took such painstaking measures, naturally he wanted to make Lin Tianyang's 40,000 taels of blood useless, if it weren't for the fear of the three elders of Meiyuan, he would want to buy all the people in the audience.

After the lantern was entered, the gong was noisy, a salute flew into the sky, the crowd began to surge, the people walked towards the most favorite lantern in their hearts, most people's goal was the children's lantern holding the gold ingot, many people have directly given the bamboo card in their hands, Zhang Wencheng shook his head for a while, and he was overjoyed.

However, the black cloth raised by Lin Tian still attracted many people who couldn't help but be curious, as well as Lin Tianwan and Chen Lao and his wife, and Zhang Wencheng was also among them.

He also wanted to see what kind of lanterns could be made from this group of wastes in the Qingjiang Art Museum.

There were more and more onlookers, and the louder the complaint, Lin Tianyang saw that the time was ripe, and said loudly: "Everyone, please keep your eyes open and look at it!"

He pulled hard, and the black cloth that shrouded the lantern immediately fell, and everyone in the audience poked their heads forward with great interest.

I saw that on the flat cart, there is a black wood and white silk round lantern, the lantern is about half a person high connected to the base, the shape is ordinary, the lantern silk cloth is painted with a galloping horse, a sumptuous dining table, two lingering and flying butterflies, and a koi fish jumping out of the water, the painting skills are exquisite, lifelike.

However, there was an immediate burst of boos in the crowd of onlookers, who were full of anticipation, but in front of them was such an ordinary lantern, although the painting was beautiful, but compared with those special lanterns, it was more than a step worse.

Lin Tianwan and the others looked at everyone's reaction with some concern, but Zhang Wencheng sneered, seeing that the lanterns in Qingjiang Art Gallery were so ordinary, he felt that his previous big trouble was a little unfounded.

There was a commotion in the crowd, and many people were already disappointed and ready to leave.

"Hmph, even this kind of lantern dares to be taken out to show ugliness, the people of Qingjiang Art Gallery are really shameless!" Cao Ruohai on the side snorted coldly, looked at Ye Qiu with a calm face, and said dissatisfiedly: "Ye Qiu, you are too ignorant, if you don't insist on refusing to use the things sent by Zhang Gongzi, will our Xuanmo Art Gallery be embarrassed with them?"

Ye Qiu's expression was calm, and he said: "With the help of the power outside the art gallery, we are invincible!"

Cao Ruohai snorted coldly and didn't speak again, his face was very ugly.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the next moment is the time to witness the miracle!" Lin Tianyang saw that the people were about to leave, and shouted loudly again,

The people who were about to leave stopped and looked at each other.

"That's all for your lantern, what's the miracle?"

"You kid can't be playing tricks, are you?"

"If you dare to deceive anyone, we'll smash your lantern!" said a child.

Lin Tianyang looked at the fierce appearance on his face and smiled dumbly, and he didn't talk nonsense, it had been brewing for so long, it was time to present the main event!

He took a tinder and blew it and put it into the lantern to light the candle.

The candle flame flickered, the picture of the lantern skin became bright and warm, the vivid picture had a few more traces of fireworks, which made people feel more cordial, and there were a few more humanoid projections on the lantern, there were old and young, which meant the joy of family.

However, just a few more projections are still not enough to meet the expectations of the onlookers, and many people are very dissatisfied, and there is a burst of complaints.

Lin Tianyang didn't speak, just smiled and looked at everyone.

Seeing the lantern lit, the originally nervous Qingjiang Art Gallery also relaxed, they were very confident that as long as this lantern changed, they would be able to retain everyone's hearts!

The candle flame dances and time passes slowly.

"What is this, isn't it still like this after watching it for a long time?" a citizen complained loudly, which immediately caused a burst of resonance.

"Look!" the boy who had been about to smash the lantern was so engrossed that he suddenly screamed excitedly, "This lantern will move!"

"Will it move?" The onlookers didn't know why, they didn't know what the lantern meant, and they all looked at the lantern curiously.

Under the gaze of everyone, the lantern slowly rotated, which immediately attracted an exclamation, and many children clapped their hands and applauded, especially excited.

With the rotation of the lantern, the exclamations around became more and more intense, only to see the paintings on the lantern and the projection overlapping alternately, the projection in the lamp is obviously carefully designed to be placed in a good position, the child projection first sat on the galloping horse, and then jumped on the back of the flying koi, and then appeared under the two butterflies that fluttered their wings, as if running to catch butterflies, each scene, the projection of the adult is dancing on the side, as if cheering for the children, and finally all the projections appear at the rich dining table, family reunion.

The lanterns kept spinning, the onlookers lingered, those vivid pictures fell into their eyes, it was brighter than the lights of the mountain, and the cheers were stronger than a while, so that everyone couldn't help but gather in front of Lin Tianyang's lanterns.

Countless bamboo plaques were scattered under the lanterns like snowflakes, and soon they were piled up into a small mountain!

"How...... Will this happen?" Zhang Wencheng also saw the spinning lantern, his face was like blood, Lin Tianyang's lantern was ingenious, and it actually compared all the lantern craftsmen he invited!

His heartbeat suddenly accelerated, his whole body was hot, and the folding fan in his hand fanned violently: "How the hell did this happen, why could he make such a lantern!"

Not only him, but also the people in the other art galleries saw that hundreds of people were flocking towards the location of the Qingjiang Art Gallery, and they were also full of loss and no fighting spirit.

There are more and more people watching, causing a huge commotion, the people in the rear can not squeeze in front, can only shout careful, and strive to throw the bamboo cards in their hands, countless bamboo cards are flying in the air, compared with other lanterns, it seems to be extremely clean in front of other lanterns.

The first place in the second assessment seems to have appeared!

Lin Tianyang's movement was too big, and even the three elders of the plum garden above the main hall couldn't help but look in Lin Tianyang's direction.

"It's amazing, it's a novelty. Mo Qinghai smiled and nodded.

Mo Qingzhu praised: "The Plum Garden Painting Club has been going on for thirty years, and this son can be in the top ten." ”

"It's not just the top ten. Mo Qingmei was concise and to the point, and she made a conclusion at the moment.

"Three seniors, there is a problem with the lanterns of Qingjiang Art Gallery!"

A discordant sound pierced the lantern, and the riot gradually subsided.

Cao Ruohai glared at everyone in the Qingjiang Art Gallery viciously, and hugged his fists at the three elders of the Plum Garden in front of the main hall and said: "Three seniors, the lanterns of the Qingjiang Art Gallery must have used the heavenly runes to be able to be windless and automatic, they violated the rules and should be disqualified from the second assessment!"