Chapter 62: Wandering Lights

Lin Zuiliu has always felt that the border town is not as prosperous as the capital no matter what.

However, when she really walked to this prosperous and crowded ten-mile long street, she suddenly felt that she was narrow-minded.

Whether they have money or not, prosperous or simple, people's enthusiasm for the festival is the same, as long as there are people, there will be different excitement for them.

Now this long street is far less spacious than the Xuanwu Street where Liao Luan took Lin Zuiliu to the Midyear Festival.

However, both sides of the road are full of people dressed plainly, and there are some small stalls that look small along the way, all of which are full of the heritage of this era and the liveliness of the Lantern Festival.

People are singing and dancing, indulging in joy, and it is very lively.

Liao Luan walked next to Lin Zuiliu with his hands behind his back, watching her little head swaying from side to side along the way, and after a while, she stood in front of a lantern stall and couldn't walk.

"Girl, do you want to buy lanterns? As long as one of the ten copper plates, you can write by yourself. ”

Lin Zuiliu was completely immersed in this pile of lanterns, and nodded excitedly when he heard the shopkeeper ask.

"Yan Gui, do you think this little rabbit is particularly cute?" Lin Zuiliu looked at the little rabbit's lantern with blank eyes, and the rabbit head was painted vividly and cutely.

As soon as she asked, Liao Luan knew that she wanted it, and he naturally would not refuse such a small request from her, but he still said, "No, I think the one next to me is better." ”

The lantern next to it is the most common style, there is no picture on it, white flowers, it looks very thin.

Lin Zuiliu hesitated for a long time, pointed to the lantern with no tricks on it and said to Liao Luan, "This looks good." ”

Liao Luan pursed his lips undeniably, and when Lin Zuiliu had already begun to wonder whether he was blind or Liao Yangui was blind, he suddenly cleared his throat.

Then he said directly to the store, "Please give us this lantern, and please give us a pen." As he spoke, he politely handed over 10 copper plates.

Lin Zuiliu is just a Lantern Festival, it doesn't matter which lantern you want, now I heard Liao Luan say that he wanted a pen, and he looked at him with some excitement.

Liao Luan took the brush handed by the store, rolled up his sleeves and began to splash ink, and after a while, when Lin Zuiliu couldn't wait to come over to see, he just put down the pen, blew the ink twice, and then handed the lantern to Lin Zuiliu.

Lin Zuiliu took it and took a look, it was a picture of a lady.

The background of the lady's picture is a piece of merlin, because the time is pressing, the girl in front of her is not meticulously drawn, compared to the real lady's picture, clothing, jewelry are not exquisite.

However, Lin Zuiliu could still see at a glance that the lady standing in the plum forest was Lin Zuiliu herself.

It was the scene when she and Princess Zhaoyuan went to Meilin on the outskirts of Beijing to enjoy the plum blossoms.

She looked at the lantern with some surprise, and then looked at Liao Luan.

Liao Luan chuckled softly and said, "How?" Which lantern is better? ”

Naturally, Liao Luan painted it well.

Lin Zuiliu didn't let go of the lantern as if he was holding a baby, Liao Luan saw that the smile on the corner of his mouth was even bigger, and he didn't say much, nodded at the store and pulled the stupid little girl away.

As the inn said, there are many vendors on the long street who are setting up a ring to guess lantern riddles, Lin Zuiliu likes to watch the excitement, and he has never seen anyone guessing lantern riddles on the street, so he is very excited.

Pulling Liao Luan directly into the crowd layer after layer, perhaps Liao Luan's aura was compelling, and he really made Lin Zuiliu squeeze out a path and walked to the first row.

The ring is made of wood, and there is a lantern tree with branches on it, and there are all kinds of lanterns on the branches, and small cloth bags fluttering in the wind below.

Lin Zuiliu guessed, the cloth bag should be the riddle puzzle, the more middle it is, the more difficult the puzzle is, on the contrary, the riddle in the corner of the branches on both sides is simpler, but the prizes are also divided according to the degree of difficulty.

The boss in the ring was wearing a cloth dress, and at this time he looked beaming, smiled very happily and said, "Who can come to guess the lantern riddle on it, 2 copper plates at a time, and the prize is rich." ”

Most of the people below were watching the excitement, and they all cheered when they heard the boss say this, and then a middle-aged man wearing a blue shirt and holding a folding fan in his hand in winter went up.

The middle-aged man looked at a bookish anger, Lin Zuiliu guessed that he should be a Chinese Xiucai from ten miles and eight towns, and sure enough, as soon as he went up, someone called him "Zhu Xiucai".

The showman hugged his fists at the people who were lowered on the stage, and then turned his head to look at the stall owner and said, "Please advise." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the lantern on the right side of the second row.

The vendor nodded, turned to the lantern tree, took the riddle down, and turned to open the note to everyone.

"One person carries a bow and types a word."

The middle-aged Xiu only had a beard, half a length and not a short one, at this time he stretched out his hand and stroked his beard, squinted his eyes and said, "It's razed to the ground." ”

"Okay." As soon as he finished speaking, the people who were lower began to applaud, Lin Zuiliu thought about the puzzle, and one person carried a bow, and he also understood why it was Yizi.

She applauded very happily, the movements were big and exaggerated, Liao Luan stood next to her, watched her movements helplessly, and hugged her to her side without a trace.

The shopkeeper didn't lie after hearing this, and directly handed the gift that the riddle said in a low tone to Zhu Xiucai, which was a brush, and this prize was quite in line with his identity as a showman.

This person should also be here for this brush, took the brush and gave the money, turned around and got out of the ring, no longer guessing.

"Okay, the next person will come, say goodbye and give up the previous suspicions, and type."

"The word of modesty."

"The high platform reflects the moon clearly."

"The epiphany of the epiphany."

……

Several people guessed the riddles in a row, and Lin Zuiliu was very happy to see them, and many of the riddles that she hadn't figured out yet, some people in the crowd chattered.

She began to sigh at the wisdom of the ancients.

When she came back to her senses, it was a young man who came up, dressed in old cloth clothes, and looked clean and refreshing, and as soon as he came on stage, he pointed directly to the last lantern in the middle.

Everyone who looked down to see the excitement gasped, and Lin Zuiliu also looked at this unattractive young man in surprise, she was not good-looking, but her eyes were bright, full of confidence and vitality, such eyes almost ignited Lin Zuiliu.

The vendor was a little surprised when he saw that the young man had lit the lamp in the middle, but he didn't say much, he turned around and took down the lantern riddle, and began to read the question to the crowd.

Sure enough, the middle questions began to be difficult, and even the puzzles grew a lot.

“…… This time guess two idioms, 8 words. ”

As soon as he finished his puzzle, the young man began to poke his chin and think, and the people who looked down at the bustle also quieted down and began to think.

Lin Zuiliu stood under the stage, crossed his fingers and began to ponder, but there was no result for a long time, so he looked at Liao Luan, who was watching the excitement and none of my business, and said to him, "Yan Gui, what is the answer to this question?" ”

As soon as she asked this question, Liao Luan cleared her throat, and then turned her head to look at Lin Zuiliu, who was holding him beside him.

Lin Zuiliu's eyes were shining, and he looked at Liao Luan's expression with curiosity and doubt.

The roots of his ears gradually turned a little red, and his cheeks were slightly hot, and at this time there was silence all around, only the sound of gongs and drums in the distance, Liao Luan swallowed his saliva and said, "You want to know the mystery?" ”

Lin Zuiliu nodded frantically, and Liao Luan looked like a little pug raised by his aunt when he was a child.

He sighed softly, and almost at the same time as the little boy in the ring, he said, "It's a love affair, and the earth will last forever." ”

His voice was not as high as the young man's voice, and it was completely covered, but Lin Zuiliu keenly captured Liao Luan's cold and beautiful voice in this noise.

Affection is agreeable, and the earth lasts forever.

Lin Zuiliu blushed almost instantly, she looked at Liao Luan, her face was blushing, and she looked especially good under the red, green, and green lanterns.

"What kind of love is the same, the earth lasts forever?"

After she asked this question, it made Liao Luan a little puzzled, he tilted his head, and said, "The mystery, 8 words, two idioms." ”

Hearing this, Lin Zuiliu breathed a sigh of relief, but although she knew that this was the answer to the riddle, Lin Zuiliu didn't have the heart to look at the riddle at this time, she turned around, said "go" lightly, and squeezed out of the crowd again.

Liao Luan naturally knew that the little girl was embarrassed, and he was not busy pulling her, he watched silently behind him, occasionally stretched out his arm to help her block the crowd, and silently protected Lin Zuiliu.

Being teased by Liao Luan's silent teasing, Lin Zuiliu's whole person was a little embarrassed as if he had a fever, but the person seemed to have nothing to do, and he still looked calm and calm.

She looks cheeky, but in fact, she has always been a thin-skinned little girl, and she is very easy to be embarrassed, and now she only cares about moving forward, and she doesn't care about the people around her.

So when she stopped again, Liao Luan behind her was gone, and the crowd was crowded, she guessed that Liao Luan should have been scattered.

Sighing, Lin Zuiliu raised his head, and there was a small temple in front of him.

This seems to be a moon-old temple, with a big tree planted at the door, and red silk fluttering on the tree.

The girls came and went at the door, and occasionally a few students came and went, looking handsome.

I think it's all young single men and women who come here to ask for a cause, to ask for love or something......

Lin Zuiliu looked interesting in his heart, and followed the steps of the girls' family and went directly into the Yuelao Temple.