In the spring of Jintai, now all kinds of flowers have begun to prepare to bud, especially the pink peach blossoms, which have dressed the whole Jintai as pretty as a girl who has not yet come out of the pavilion.

The temperature has already warmed up, and all kinds of birds have flown back from the south, standing on the branches every morning and "chirping", as if the whole spring is slowly awakened by these birds from the winter.

The leaves are green and tender, the mild temperature does not carry the scorching heat of summer, and every gust of wind is soft, with a faint fragrance of peach blossoms.

Butterflies of various colors began to spread their wings from the deep cocoon, flutter their wings and fly, and swim among the peach blossoms, among every handsome man and beauty in Jintai.

The Spring Festival has passed, but the love and joy in the New Year's Eve have not diminished at all, and people at this time have begun to welcome the arrival of the Lantern Festival.

Three days before and after the Lantern Festival, the entire Jintai will be in accordance with the convention, like the capital, the curfew system will be lifted on these three days, and the entire Jintai City will be decorated with all kinds of lanterns as if it were daytime.

The lanterns in Jintai are different from other places in that Jintai is backed by Yuanbao Mountain, and the He family holds a golden mountain of these, and it will not fall behind at this time.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, the people will build a lantern stand on the largest square in Jintai, which is decorated with the most blooming flowers every year, with the lanterns step by step, which is even more beautiful.

Especially on the day of the Lantern Festival, a hundred girls who were not out of the pavilion from Jintai broke off the most beautiful flower branches from the peach forest and pinned them to the exquisite lanterns in the early morning.

And these lanterns, these seven or eight years are from the He family, said that it is different from the lanterns in ordinary places, because the skeleton of these lanterns is sunken wood, after being soaked in tung oil, the fragrance itself will be emitted little by little, and the fragrance is far away.

The paste on this lantern is also the ice silkworm cloth woven by the embroidery girl in advance, which is cool to the touch and extremely thin, and it is a necessary fabric for rich daughters and dignitaries in summer. Used to make lanterns, the light transmittance is better than that of ordinary clear paper.

Because of this lantern, almost the entire Jintai people are very excited, especially the ten talented literati will participate, because the lantern style every year is selected from this, and the reward for this person will be according to the lantern drawings contributed, made into a gold hollow lantern, although it is only the size of a palm.

But in addition to being exchangeable for money, the lantern has the great benefit of being a status symbol.

Among the thousands of lantern styles, pick the most beautiful one, which will be the lantern girl of the Lantern Festival, from the temple outside the city on the day of the Lantern Festival to pray for blessings, holding the most beautiful lantern in her hand, step by step to the lantern stand built, and release the Kong Ming lantern with good wishes at night.

At this time, Jintai, although it has not yet reached the Lantern Festival, the lanterns and drawings placed on the street are already all over the street, because there are inevitably people who are unwilling to use their brains and hands, but they are more willing to go to the street to hang around, and will always pick one or two excellent lanterns or drawings.

At this time, He Miaoxing, dressed in a light cyan skirt and shirt, with distant mountain eyebrows like meteors, and light red lips made her pale face, even more powerless.

A few lines of tear stains on his cheeks have not dried yet, so new tear stains have been added, and the makeup powder on his face is also not a flower, fortunately, He Miaoxing's original foundation is good, even if he spends makeup, if he doesn't look closely, he can't see it.

Her eyes, in particular, were puffy like two walnuts, ink-like eyes, tightly surrounded by red blood.

After crying for two days and one night, she stood in the courtyard, looking at the lanterns sent by the sons of each family with smiling faces, hanging on the lantern shelves one by one, watching them leave happily, and the resentment and anger in her heart became more and more angry

Strong.

He Miaoxing slowly walked between the more than ten lantern racks, a pair of slender jade hands that had been washed by tears I don't know how many times, gently brushed each lantern.

The footsteps stopped suddenly, and his eyes fell in front of a round lantern, looking at a man and a woman painted on it smiling and putting Kong Ming lanterns openly.

With a slight smile on her lips, she took the lantern off and stared at it intently for a long time.

"Miss, can you choose this lantern as a golden lantern this year?" The subordinates on the side followed behind He Miaoxing and bowed their heads and replied.

He Miaoxing had a sad wry smile on the corner of his mouth, a tear slipped down the corner of his mouth, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Bring me a brazier, I'm going to burn it!" ”

The subordinate was suddenly stunned, looked up at He Miaoxing, and couldn't help muttering in his heart, for fear that something would happen to this eldest lady, but seeing He Miaoxing's murderous eyes, he had to quickly bow his head and trot all the way to get the brazier.

He Miaoxing took this lantern, cried for a while and laughed for a while and walked to the lantern shelf, and couldn't help but think of last year's Lantern Festival, she prayed as a lantern girl, and the lantern in her hand was still made by Yin Yunqi himself, and accompanied her step by step to the temple to pray for blessings, and accompanied her step by step to the lantern stand.

I still remember that night, in the black starry sky, a beautiful flower bloomed, shining with the light that illuminated the night sky, with the sound of firecrackers, the glowing flowers pierced the night sky one by one, and finally disappeared into the starry sky.

This is the happiest Lantern Festival He Miaoxing has ever had, because the fireworks all night were given to her by Yin Yunqi, and she originally thought that this year's Lantern Festival would also be accompanied by Yin Yunqi.

But she never imagined that she would kill a Cheng bite gold halfway! If there was no Xiao Chuyun, how could her Yunqi brother snub her and humiliate her so much!

Nowadays, there is no one in the entire Jintai except for the He family who does not have a smile on his face, and the entire Jintai is happy and happy, but who has noticed and cared about the sadness of the He Mansion?

Everyone knows the laughing stock of He Miaoxing in Hefu, and everyone is rumored to be a person that Yin Yunqi doesn't want, and even a second son who is a concubine can't look down on the girl of the He family who dislikes her.

The lanterns sent one by one, the people who came to deliver the lanterns, all had extremely bright smiles on their faces, and perhaps in the joy of all people, this little bit of sadness was also negligible, or even non-existent.

He Miaoxing looked at the brazier brought by his subordinates, held the lantern with tears in his eyes, half cried and half laughed, and said with some self-deprecation: "Brother Yunqi, if you don't want to marry me, why do you want to hire me?" Since you were hired, why did you push me to others? You made me the envy of everyone in Jintai, and you also became the laughing stock of everyone after tea and dinner overnight! ”

As soon as the words fell, she threw the lantern into the brazier in a rage, and she turned around and tore off the lantern on the clamp, and threw it all at the fire under a cry of anger.

"Ahh Hehehehe......" He Miaoxing laughed angrily, watching the lantern burn little by little, with a strong hatred, while throwing the lantern into the fire, he said: "Brother Yunqi, am I only worthy of marrying your cousin Yin Chenxing?" An ugly monster who can't help but be weak! Is he worthy? Scold...... It's dirty to lift my shoes! ”

"Xing'er, you are a beautiful lady, how can you say such a good thing?" He Miaoxing's father, He Yao, walked out of the main hall and looked at her with some displeasure and said.

Guan Yueqing stood beside He Yao, seeing He Miaoxing so sad, her heart was also pinched, and when she heard He Yao's words, she was even more angry and said, "What? Xing'er said something wrong? Half of his face is dark and swarthy, who knows what evil he created in his last life, just his yin and yang face, it is more terrifying than Yaksha in the middle of the night, just him?

Dare to covet my star! ”

After a pause, he stepped forward and took He Miaoxing's hand, pointed at He Yao angrily and said, "He Yin Yunqi humiliated my daughter so much, you are Xing'er's biological father!" In the face of such humiliation from the Yin family, but you only know that you say your daughter at home, do you still have a little blood! ”

He Miaoxing brushed away his mother Guan Yueqing's hand at this time, still throwing the lantern while saying with hatred: "Dad, mother, where is my brother?" When will he come back from Gusu? ”

Guan Yueqing looked at her with some unease, gently supported He Miaoxing's shoulder, looked at this daughter with anxiety in her heart, and couldn't help but burst into tears in her eyes, paused and said, "Your brother came back before the Lantern Festival!" Xing'er, what are you going to do? Don't scare your mother! ”

"Mother, I won't do stupid things, you don't have to send someone to watch me!"

"That'...... Then you ask your brother, just ask, right? ”

Guan Yueqing looked at her daughter with some worry, she was afraid that He Miaoxing would do stupid things when she was sad in the past few days, even if she wanted to find the Yin family to make peace, it was also her and He Yao's parents.

He Miaoxing raised his hand to wipe away the tears on his cheeks, took a deep breath, smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, and pretended to be idle and looked at the second elder and said, "Dad, mother, I miss my brother!" My brother has been away from home for the past few years, and Xing'er still thinks that my brother will bring the jackdaw spring snow to me! ”

Guan Yueqing suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and finally let go of her hanging heart, glanced at the burned lantern, touched He Miaoxing's cheek, and said slowly: "Xing'er, this lantern is not allowed to burn anymore, although it is useless to keep it, but it is always bad if it is passed out." His hand brushed her sideburns, and then said: "If you want to burn, my mother will prepare others for you, and we will burn them together!" ”

Seeing this, He Yao also brushed his sleeves and left, seeing his daughter like this, is the discomfort in his heart less than that of Guan Yueqing, a mother?

Maybe...... Only he knows that his anger and heartache are no less than their mothers, but he is the head of the family, carrying the entire He family on his shoulders, he can't fall, let alone vent like them.

Guan Yueqing said a few more words to He Miaoxing, and then entered the main hall again, stepping on He Yao's steps. As a mother, she doesn't allow others to bully her daughter like this, and she doesn't want to see her daughter cry.

He Miaoxing saw the second elder walking away, beckoned his hand to see the next person, his face was extremely cold, his eyes were full of murderous aura, and he said coldly: "What you said is true?" Will Xiao Chuyun return to Jintai in the near future to keep filial piety for those people for three years? ”

The subordinate on the side bowed his head and replied: "The news sent by the flying pigeon is that Old Madam Yin doesn't like her very much, and she also ordered that Gongzi Yin and Miss Xiao should not see each other for three years!" ”

He Miaoxing couldn't help but smile with satisfaction at the corner of his mouth after hearing this, looked up at the dazzling sun in the sky, and said expressionlessly: "Prepare a carriage for me, I want to go out for a walk, prepare enough silver tickets for me, Miss Ben should be happy!" ”

He Miaoxing went back to the room to change his clothes and re-groomed his powder, but his eyes were puffy and not good-looking, so he simply took the plain hat prepared for sneaking out of the wardrobe.

Everything was ready to stop, and he stood at the door of the He Mansion with his hat covered, holding a stack of silver tickets wrapped in cloth in his hand, looking at the distance and whispering: "Xiao Chuyun, if it weren't for you, Brother Yunqi and I would be a match made in heaven!" Didn't you say you had nothing to do with him? ”

After a pause, he said again: "Xiao Chuyun, you wait!" Three years later, let's play slowly! ”