From the archives to the front hall, Wei Xingzhen walked all the way, with the wind under his feet.

When he was about to reach the reception room, he suddenly slowed down again.

Wei Xingzhen straightened her clothes, raised her feet again, reached out and gently brushed the dust off her shoes, and then stepped into the door with a normal expression.

Feng Yishu had been waiting for a long time with an unhappy face, and when he saw Wei Xingzhen, he sneered, "Lord Wei is busy enough." ”

Wei Xingzhen quickly glanced at Feng Yishu.

He was empty-handed, and there was no letterhead on the table nearby—it was evident that he had either hidden it somewhere, or had come here with the intention of having fun.

"It's been a busy day." Wei Xingzhen sat down in front of the main seat, "Wulang came to me today, what's the matter?" ”

Feng Yishu put down the cup in his hand and stood up slowly, "Oh, I'm fine...... Can't you come to see Lord Wei and look at my brother-in-law in a high position? ”

Wei Xingzhen felt the green tendons on her forehead jump slightly.

He looked at Feng Wulang quietly and was speechless for a while.

Feng Yishu raised his eyebrows lightly, "Eh, it's really ha-if it weren't for my sister's entrustment, the ghost would have come to your place to see you!" ”

Wei Xingzhen reached out and gently rubbed her temples, "What about the letter that Ah Yan asked you to send?" ”

Feng Yishu took out the envelope from his arms and put it on the table at hand, Wei Xingzhen stood up and reached out to get it—but Gorou's index finger was tightly pressed against the letter, without the slightest intention of letting go.

"How?"

"Lord Wei just took the letter away, how can I explain it to my sister when I go back?" Feng Wulang said coldly, "You can't write me a receipt or something, tell me about the letter you took from me, the sealed envelope when you took the letter, and so on?" ”

Wei Xingzhen snorted, "Whether the seal of the envelope is intact or not, I have to see if it is intact?" ”

Feng Wulang withdrew his hand at this time.

Wei Xingzhen took the letter, and two fingers gently swept the letter - it was indeed intact.

He turned around and went to the nearby table to get a pen and paper, and quickly wrote on the paper, "Ah Yan's letter has been delivered by Gorou himself, the seal is intact, don't read it".

Then he took out the seal letter from his bosom and knocked a stamp on the lower right corner of the paper.

"That's pretty much it."

Feng Yishu accepted the receipt and ran out without looking back, as if he felt embarrassed to stay here with Wei Xingzhen for a while.

Wei Xingzhen watched Feng Yishu step out of the courtyard door, and then immediately turned his head and walked to the window of the room and opened the envelope alone.

Feng Yan's familiar handwriting came into view:

"Xingzhen, I haven't seen you for a long time since Dai Zongshan said goodbye."

"During this period, it is probably difficult to explain the many changes in three words, and in the past few days, I have also been worried, at a loss, and I don't know what to do."

These lines had already seen Wei Xingzhen frown, and he couldn't wait to fly to the Feng family's courtyard immediately to ask Ah Yan what was wrong.

Why are you worried?

Why the confusion?

"After thinking about it, I want to see you again. I heard Gorou say that on the third day of the ninth lunar month, there is a lantern festival by Luoshui, and I don't know if Xingzhen can take the time to go together."

"All trivial matters, let's talk about it when we meet."

Lantern festival?

Wei Xingzhen felt a little confused, and then looked down at Feng Yan's signature:

"Sincerely"

"Feng Yan Jingqi"

Wei Xingzhen read this short letter six or seven times again and again, until the scribe appeared at the door again, "My lord, will you still read those materials later?" Do you want to put it away first, and then when you're free—"

The scribe's voice stopped abruptly, and he saw Wei Xingzhen standing alone in front of the window with a look of amazement that he had never seen before, obviously not listening to what he was saying.

"Your Excellency?"

Wei Xingzhen came back to her senses, "Hmm." ”

"The materials—"

"I'll go later, you can step back first." Wei Xingzhen said in a low voice.

After the scribe left, he slowly sat down in a nearby chair.

Looking at Ah Yan's letter again, his eyes fell on the beginning of the letter.

This time, she didn't write "Lord Wei".

……

At night, Feng Yan and Xiao Qi took a walk in the promenade of the house to eat, and the lantern festival was approaching, and several colorful lanterns were hung in the courtyard of the Feng family, and each one was hung with a sealed note - on it was the riddle of the lantern.

Legend has it that many years ago, Sheng Yuanjun, the founding emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, confronted the former Chu for more than a month before attacking Chang'an.

The king of the former Chu knew that his time was short, and he was determined to die for his country, and left a dead city in the Great Zhou, and the day before the grain bottomed out, he ordered the guards of the inner court to poison the well in the city at night.

When one of the guards learned of this, he felt that the opportunity to attack the city had come, so he quietly climbed up to the east of the city at night and placed a paper lamp in the sky.

The paper lamp fell into Emperor Sheng Yuan's barracks, and the soldiers found two sentences written on it.

One is that the sunrise disappears and no one is seen, and the other is that the world participates in business;

Everyone didn't understand what this meant, so they took this strange paper lamp to find Emperor Sheng Yuan, and after the emperor saw it, he immediately ordered to lead a group of fire monks to take the lead, attack the south of the city at night, and destroy the withered and decayed overnight, almost without a single soldier, and broke through Chang'an.

Everyone asked why, Emperor Sheng Yuan said, these are two riddles, the last sentence "smoke" disappeared, and there was no one left, only "fire"; The participants in the next sentence are all stars in the sky, and people separate the ginseng and Shang stars, which is also a "fire" word.

Among the five elements, the south belongs to fire, so the meaning of the anagram on the lamp is the meaning of "fire attacking the south of the city".

"Liar! Is war really such a child's play? ”

Xiao Qi exclaimed.

"Don't talk about anything else, take 10,000 steps back, what if the paper lamp was not put by Emperor Sheng Yuan's people at all, but a trap set by the people of Qianchu...... He also ran to the south of the city with the monks of the fire family? ”

Feng Yan smiled, "I really don't know, in short, this is the origin of the Lantern Festival on the third day of September." Emperor Sheng Yuan besieged the city for several months, and finally attacked Chang'an at the dawn of the third day of the ninth month. ”

"Oh," Xiao Qi made a disgusted expression, "This is too mysterious...... No wonder I want to look at the lanterns and guess the lantern riddles, I thought there were some good mythical stories. ”

"These paintings on the lamp are all myths, why don't you let Gorou tell you about them then?"

"Is Sister going with us?"

Feng Yan smiled and shook her head.

The sisters were talking, and two people came in front of them.

Feng Yan looked up and saw that one of them was the long-term entourage of his father, and the other was an acquaintance he hadn't seen for a long time.

"To what?" Feng Yan looked at the visitor with some surprise, and couldn't help but look behind him immediately - she wasn't ready yet!

When he saw Feng Yan, he smiled, "Don't worry, madam!" My family didn't come tonight, I came alone. ”

Feng Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

"What are you going to do?" She asked softly.

"Madame, may you take a step to speak?"

Feng Yan and Qu Zhi walked aside, and turned their backs to Xiao Qi and Feng Yuandao's long entourage, took out a cardboard shell as a cover fold from his arms, and handed it over.

"I'm here to send a play to my wife!"

"Plays?"

"The adults said that on the third day of the new year, there was a new play in the Warm Smoke Pavilion, and the lanterns in the Shendu would look good only after the end of the year, so before that, it was better to go to the Qingtang to listen to the play together - didn't Mrs. want to go to the Warm Smoke Pavilion to see it before?"