Li Ran was a little hesitant and embarrassed.

Wang Ji was a little clear, and said with a low smile: "General Xie? ”

"Then you go, the third prince also asked me to wait for him to watch the lights together, and Ah Pei and I will wait here for a while."

Without waiting for Li Ran to speak, Wang Ji looked at Cao Siniang and the others, and laughed loudly: "Come here!" Then he lowered his voice, as if he only said the words "General Xie" with his mouth, and then pointed back.

Mrs. Cao Si and Mrs. Yang were suddenly full of surprise.

Xie Pei clenched the handkerchief in her hand a little nervously, she couldn't say why, she was very frightened of this lobby brother.

"You follow the princess down, maybe you can take a good look." Wang Ji took two steps over and said with a low smile with a few little ladies.

Xie Pei suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Wang Ji, hesitated a little, took a step forward, and pulled Wang Ji, "I want to wait here for a while, and he came here to find me." ”

"The third prince and I also made an appointment to wait for him here, so the two of us have to wait." Wang Ji answered with a smile.

Li Ran saw that Wang Ji had a few words, so he arranged everyone, thanked Wang Ji slightly, put on a cloak, and watched Cao Siniang and others put on their cloaks and went down the steps of the lantern shed.

Cao Siniang rushed to the front, followed Li Ran, and went down the steps of the lantern shed.

A few steps away from the steps of the lantern shed, Xie Ze wore a tooth-white robe, a silver-faced silver fox cloak with a white silk face outside, and with his hands behind his back, he smiled when he saw Li Ran coming down from the steps.

Xie Ze took a step forward, looked at Cao Siniang and the others who were coming down closely behind Li Ran, stretched out his hand to pull Li Ran, and pulled her back two steps.

"I asked them to come and look at the lights." Li Ran introduced with a smile, "This is Cao Sanlang's fourth sister and third sister, and this is the eldest lady and second lady of the Luguo Mansion." ”

Xie Ze followed Li Ran's introduction, with a slight smile, and nodded slightly at the four of them.

Li Ran looked at the mother-in-law of the Cao family and the Lu Guogong Mansion surrounding her, smiled at Cao Siniang and the others, turned her head to look at Xie Ze and smiled: "Let's go." ”

Xie Ze raised his hand and put it on Xie Ze's shoulder, and the two of them walked out more than ten steps and blended into the flow of people, before Cao Siniang let out a long breath.

"The princess is really blessed." Cao Sanniang also let out a long breath, she was nervous just now as if she hadn't been breathing.

"General Xie is very good-looking today!" Yang Erniang stood on tiptoe, stretched her neck, and tried to take another look.

"Once I said the same thing, my father said, it's not that the princess is really blessed, it's that the prince is really blessed." Mrs. Yang took Cao Sanniang's words and said with a smile.

"That's what my wife said!" Cao Siniang screamed happily.

"Let's go and see the lights, maybe we can meet the prince and the princess again!" Yang Erniang jumped twice on the spot and shouted happily and excitedly.

"Well, let's go, I heard that several tiles are going to fight in the ring this year, and they will win or lose on the lamp, where do we look first?" Cao Siniang asked with a smile.

"You can go from anywhere, anyway, we just said it, let's see it all!" Yang Erniang waved her arm happily.

A few people were talking and laughing, and surrounded by the girls and women, squeezed forward from under the lantern shed into the flow of people.

Coming out of the shadows behind the lantern shed and stepping into the crowd, Xie Ze took the mask handed by Shi Nan and buckled it to his face.

Li Ran stood still and looked at the serious and cold mask on Xie Ze's face in surprise that he didn't know what image it was.

"This is also the custom of the Shangyuan Festival." Xie Ze met Li Ran's gaze, pointed to the mask on his face, and then signaled to meet them, as if he was looking at their two masks.

"Anything else? I would like to wear one too. Li Ran looked at Shi Nan.

"Yes." Shi Nan smiled in response, took a mask that looked similar to Xie Ze's face, and handed it to Li Ran.

Xie Ze took the mask before Li Ran, straightened it out, and put it on her.

Li Ran straightened her mask, looked left and right, couldn't help laughing, laughed and thought again, she was laughing or crying now, others couldn't see it, and laughed again.

Xie Ze looked down at Li Ran, Li Ran glanced at him, she could only see his focused gaze looking at her, thinking that he was like this when he saw her, Li Ran couldn't stop laughing again, reached over, and stuffed it into Xie Ze's hand.

Xie Ze held Li Ran's hand, and walked not far away, almost everyone in front of Li Ran and Xie Ze looked at Xie Ze, some forgot to walk, and some even missed and turned around to follow.

Li Ran wore a mask to herself, looking at most of them looking at Xie Ze, occasionally a few looking at her, and those men and women who turned around and followed from behind, and suddenly remembered the sentence: Beauty is in the bones, not in the skin.

"Xiao Langjun, take off the mask!"

Behind the crowd, there was a sudden shout, which immediately caused a response:

"Yes, yes, yes! Xiao Langjun take off the mask! ”

"Take off the mask!"

……

"I can't watch it, let's go!" Li Ran pushed Xie Ze.

Shi Nan reacted very quickly, signaled to the small guys, squeezed through the crowd, turned into a small alley, and then turned a corner, and entered a quiet black alley.

"Hey! Let's go back to the lantern shed and look at the lights," Li Ran took off the mask, and then reached out to take Xie Ze's mask, laughing non-stop.

"You didn't see it last year?" Xie Ze took the mask from Li Ran's hand, handed it to Shi Nan, looked at Li Ran and asked.

Li Ran nodded.

The experience of looking at the lights last year was a catastrophe, but after the catastrophe, she met him.

"Let's go to Taiping Xingguo Temple to have a look? The lanterns of Taiping Xingguo Temple are the most skilled ones selected by each lantern workshop, and they are sent over, Wang Erlang and they write poems and essays there, and by the way, they evaluate the lanterns. ”

Xie Ze suggested.

"Good! The lantern workshop that is ranked first, is it worth a hundred times? ”

Li Ran said with a smile.

"Yes." Xie Ze also laughed, "A very glorious thing. This way. ”

Li Ran and Xie Ze walked side by side along the quiet and dark alleys, talking, and went to Taiping Xingguo Temple.

"Haven't you ever seen a light like you just did?"

Li Ran thought about the situation just now and laughed again.

"I saw it once, Kaiping six years, that year, from the beginning of the month, the capital was surprisingly lively.

On the day of the New Year's Day, Jinmingchi was overcrowded, that year the fairy bridge had just been renovated, everyone wanted to go up and take a walk, and there were six or seven in a day when the camel rainbow was squeezed down. ”

After a pause, Xie Ze laughed.

"At that time, the money was not collected when entering the Jinming Pond, and on that day, the emperor stood on the Lingxing Gate, looked at the tourists who flocked to him, and regretted one after another, the five big money, should not be collected.

At that time, the court was very poor.

When it came to the Shangyuan Festival, the prince had to go to see the lights, so I accompanied him. ”

Xie Ze's words paused, and Li Ran shook Xie Ze's hand, "And then?" Do you see the lights? Are you wearing a mask? ”

"At that time, I was young and I didn't think about things. The prince and I came out of Donghua Gate, just after Gaotou Street, we couldn't walk, it was really a mess that day, and we finally escaped back to Donghua Gate. ”

Xie Ze frowned slightly.

"There are no lights on the section from Donghua Gate to Gaotou Street."

Li Ran came in and out from Donghua Gate a few times, thinking about coming out of Donghua Gate to the line of Xincaomen.

He and the crown prince were forced to flee back as soon as they saw the light.

"Well, I've seen the lights since then, and I've seen them every year. On the Xuande Gate, on the city wall, various watchtowers. Xie Ze smiled.

"When we are all old, we will wander along the street, walk slowly, look slowly."

Li Ran turned his head to look at Xie Ze, and felt that his words were too optimistic, even if he was seventy or eighty, he couldn't look at the lights.

"Good! When our hair is gray, we look at it with crutches. Xie Ze stopped, bent down and kissed Li Ran on the forehead.

The two of them talked and laughed in a low voice, walked through the quiet alleys, and before they knew it, they entered the back corner gate of Taiping Xingguo Temple.

"Don't be alarmed."

Before entering the corner door, Xie Ze gave an order, Shi Nan agreed, signaled to go down, everyone quietly scattered around, Shi Nan and Xi Qing and a few other henchmen followed, passed through a squatter room, passed a door, and arrived at the back of the Medicine King Palace.

The Medicine King Hall was forward, brightly lit, but very quiet.

Behind the Medicine King Palace, there is a large garden with excellent scenery, and in the middle of the garden, there are large and small relics pagodas scattered and erected.

At this time, in the middle of the garden, there are all kinds of lanterns hanging everywhere, illuminating the garden as bright as day.

More than lanterns, there are groups of long-gown scholars, watching the scenery and watching the lights, laughing and commenting.

Xie Ze held Li Ran's hand, and led her to pick a remote place with few people, and zigzag and tactfully entered the middle of the garden.

A very large pavilion in the middle is surrounded by a reed shed, under the reed shed there is a long case, on which there are all kinds of food, and then inside, there are large long cases, each long case is surrounded by people, or writing something, most of them, are watching others write.

In the pavilion, there was a circle of armchairs, and in one of the armchairs sat Old Lady Xie, patting the armrests of the chair and laughing.

Li Ran looked at Xie Ze, Xie Ze shook her hand and pulled her into the pavilion.

The little guy standing around the pavilion saw Xie Ze and Li Ran, and hurriedly rushed over to signal Wang Fang.

Wang Xing stood up with a sigh of relief, greeted Xie Ze and Li Ran, who had already gone up the steps, and greeted him in surprise: "Lord Wang! Princess. ”

Xie Ze snorted, looked at the old lady Xie who was pressing the armrest of the chair with one hand, his upper body was straight, but he didn't stand up, and bowed his hands.

Li Ran bent his knees and saluted, "Old lady." ”

"Feel free to do whatever you want, don't pay attention to me, bad old man!"

Old Lady Xie relaxed his upper body, laughed and waved his hand.

Wang Fu stared at Xie Ze, who was saluting Old Lady Xie, and spit it out in one breath, only to feel that his eyes were hot, and he hurriedly blinked a few times, and hurriedly smiled:

"The old lady is still childlike, but it's not bad at all. Lord, princess, please sit here and make two bowls of banzhang. ”

"No need, you are free, Ah Ran and I are here to see the lights."

Xie Ze greeted the old lady Xie, explained to Wang Fang, stretched out his hand to put his hand on Li Ran's shoulder, and turned around and walked out.

"I just discussed a few old exam questions from the previous dynasty, which are a little delicate, the prince and the princess are optimistic about the lamp, come and listen to them in a while?"

Wang Fang took two steps forward and accompanied Xie Ze down the steps, talking in a low voice, while looking back, in the pavilion behind the three of them, scholars were pouring in from the other three sides.