Chen Yuyao's gift is a "nothing to do".

The texture is delicate, contains fine light, the texture of the cloud floc is short and dense, even if the rain does not understand jade, it also knows that it is a jade brand with excellent quality.

Most of all, she loves its simple and elegant look.

In addition to the top skin color, there is no ornament - no ornament, the homonym is "nothing".

Peace and safety is the best wish.

Chen Yuyao said, "Nothing is something." Nothing means everything. You wear it and all your wishes come true. ”

"Really?" Rushing rain fiddled with the jade plaque hanging on his chest, and suddenly thought of the rosewood gourd he gave out seven years ago.

"Cast it with a peach, and repay it with Qiong Yao. Bandit retribution, always think it is good. "The words are still in my ears, and today is the time to echo.

She asked Chen Yuyao, "What about the gourd I gave you?" After the reunion, she never saw her.

Chen Yuyao was slightly stunned, and asked instead of answering: "Speaking of which, I want to ask you, where did you get that sandalwood gourd?" ”

"Someone else gave it to me." Torrential rain said.

"Someone else?" Chen Yuyao couldn't help but ask, "Who is this other person?" ”

"I don't know either." Rushing rain said, "It seems that when I was eight years old, you lived in junior high school, it was Friday, and you hadn't come back from school yet, so I went to play by the North Guanyin Bridge alone, and suddenly I heard a boy scream, 'Centipede! ’

Then he cried! Because he was stung by a centipede on the instep of his foot, he thought he was going to die......" Speaking of this, Rushing Rain still smiled as he recalled the scene, "Then I went over and helped him squeeze out the poisonous blood, and told him, 'There is no stinger in the wound, don't worry, wash it with soap and you'll be fine.'" ’”

Chen Yuyao listened to her narration quietly and did not interrupt her, vaguely guessing the follow-up in his heart.

Seeing that he still looked like he could not move an inch, I asked him to stand there and wait for me, and I picked dandelions and mashed them and dressed them. As I was leaving, he grabbed me, thanked me, and gave me the gourd. ”

At that time, Torrential Rain was obsessed with "Gourd Baby", so he naturally liked it very much. Later, when Chen Yuyao was about to leave Jinxi Town, he gave it to him as a token of love.

Chen Yuyao had mixed feelings in his heart. No wonder, so familiar. Perhaps, the one that Torrential Rain gave him is that one. But he didn't show it, but said, "How did you think of helping that little boy?" ”

Rushing Rain was not very happy when he heard this, "Although I am not a warm-hearted person, I can't die without help, right?" In fact, the real reason, she was embarrassed to say.

Because she stood on the bridge and looked at it, she thought that the boy was very good-looking. Although it is not as amazing as Chen Yuyao's appearance that year, it is undoubtedly the same clear and bright show. So she went over and gave her a helping hand.

"What about the gourd?" She asked.

"I ...... I accidentally lost it. Chen Yuyao replied.

Hearing this, Rushing Rain had a loss on his face that could not be concealed. The chapters of the years that echoed each other have become headless fragments.

The start of school was in early March, so Torrential Rain was able to stay in S City for the Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival that the people of Lao S City attach great importance to. Since the Southern Song Dynasty, S City has a tradition of "testing lights on the 13th and setting lights on the 18th". Moreover, "eating" is also a topic that cannot be bypassed, and the old S people have a saying called "the light ball and the light cake".

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, you should hang lanterns at the door of your house, and eat the uneaten balls at home on the first day of the new year; And on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, all the families have to take down the lanterns, called "falling lights", and they have to eat up the cakes made at home, if they can't finish eating, then they have to wait until February when the second dragon raises their heads to eat.

Chen Yuyao doesn't like to eat balls - the balls here are made with glutinous rice flour, whether it's big balls fried until golden brown or small balls stuffed with wine, he doesn't like them. So on the first day of the new year, the torrential rain only made vegetarian stuffed radish balls and spring rolls.

Because Chen Yuyao believes in Buddhism, he is a vegetarian on the fifteenth day of the first month. Rushing rain likes to eat osmanthus wine, so I thought I would eat it alone, so I went to buy some of it. Chen Yuyao bought her a rabbit lamp, and Rushing Yu was pleasantly surprised, thinking that he was treating himself as a child's pet. When she saw that the lantern contained a light bulb, she rejoiced, "This year, rabbit meat will not be eaten again." ”

It's not for nothing that S City is called the "City of Crafts". It may be related to the fact that the people of S City like to "come out on top" in everything they do, and in ancient times, the number of champions ranked first in the country, and many handicrafts were also shown.

The local lantern craft in the Song Dynasty has been famous, the court Yuan Xi lantern, with the Su real estate horse lantern is the most brilliant.

The exterior is like a pavilion with a double layer of dark flowers on the lamp wall, and once the candles are lit, the stories of the characters on them are played out in a loop, which is fascinating. But when I was a child, my favorite was the rabbit lamp that could be dragged all over the ground.

One year, my grandfather bought one for her, and my grandmother cut two round paper cutouts with the word "gold" on them and helped her stick them on both sides of the rabbit's body.

As a result, before she could show it to Chen Yuyao, the candle of the rabbit lamp fell and burned all at once. Rushing rain hurriedly took his grandfather's enamel teapot from the house and splashed it at once, tossing a few times before the fire was extinguished, but the rabbit meat was also eaten up by the tongue of fire.

Just when she was crying breathlessly, and her grandparents took turns to comfort her to no avail, Chen Yuyao appeared, holding a Kong Ming lantern in her hand to take her to put it, "Xiaoyu, go!" ”

"My rabbit lights are gone." Torrential Rain sobbed.

"Come with me to put the Kong Ming lantern first, as for the rabbit lantern ......," Chen Yuyao said, "the little rabbit will come to you tomorrow." ”

Rushing Rain's eyes widened in horror, "What are you looking for me for?" "She's afraid she's coming to seek revenge.

"Just say sorry to it then." Chen Yuyao said, "You will see you again next year." ”

"Okay." Torrential rain agreed.

As a result, I woke up the next day with a bunny lying next to my pillow. Alive.

She was startled at first, then overjoyed. She knew that it was Chen Yuyao who gave it to her.

Torrential rain gave the rabbit a name called "Feather". In strict accordance with the feeding method that Chen Yuyao told her, in less than three months, the "feathers" grew to 8 catties. Chen Yuyao also smiled at this matter and said to Situ Que, who came to the house as a guest, "This is a 'feather', it is clearly as heavy as Mount Tai." ”

But the "feather" suddenly one night, it was gone. Torrential rain searched for a long time but couldn't find it, until it was dark, and she moved a small bench to sit in front of the door, hoping that it would get tired of playing and come home on its own. After several days, when Torrential Rain found a stiffened "feather" in a ditch behind her house, she covered her mouth in horror, but still cried.

The torrential rain scooped it up with a net and buried it in the back of the house. Chen Yuyao also helped her make a wooden sign to make a tablet, which reads "Tomb of Feathers". Later, Chen Yuyao gave her another thrush, but she died after not long. Since then, Torrential has vowed not to have any more pets.

It turns out that she is really not suitable for pets. "Little Niangyu" also entered the kingdom of heaven, although Chen Yuyao said that it was because of a serious illness, but Rushing Rain always felt that there was a special physique of her "pet ke" here.

The thousand-year-old king is an eighty-thousand-year-old turtle. Today's turtles are taken care of by Chen Yuyao most of the time, and they live as quiet as air, but they have untied the "heart knot" of the torrential rain a lot.

Now S City has begun to carry out environmental control, and no longer advocates the use of fireworks, and Kong Ming lanterns are also banned. And the Lantern Festival is not visible at any time when you go out, and today it is concentrated in Xumen.

Torrential Rain didn't particularly want to see the excitement, she said, "It doesn't taste like it was a child, and it will definitely be 'snarking' by then." ”

In the local dialect, "squeezing" is "rolling", and about the lamp market of S City, there has been a saying since ancient times that "Nanhao Caizi Beihao Lantern, and the city gate cave rolls people".

But Chen Yuyao insisted on accompanying her to visit the lamp market to "walk the three bridges", saying that this was the last festival she spent at home before school started.

In S City, the Lantern Festival has the custom of "walking on the three bridges", which is intended to pray for blessings and avoid disasters.

The "three bridges" do not refer to just the three bridges. For example, in Shantang Ancient Street, you can walk the "Deliberation Bridge", "Wangshan Bridge" and "Embroidery Bridge".

They want to go to Xumen, where they want to watch the lanterns, and the "three bridges" they want to walk are Wannian Bridge, Laiyuan Bridge and Jiqing Bridge.

The city of S has a dense network of rivers, and every bridge also has a story. Even in Jinxi Town, there are many moving stories about the bridge.

Jinxi Town is most famous for "Gulian Bridge". In the Wubao Lake under the "Ancient Lotus Bridge" is buried the concubine of Song Xiaozong, surnamed Chen, so the water mound is called "Chen Concubine Water Mound". Zhao Yan (shè, who was the crown prince at the time

Accompanied his father Song Gaozong to recruit in person, the soldiers arrived here, the enemy's arrows flew to the decisive battle, Concubine Chen used her body to block a fatal arrow for her husband, and after the war, Zhao Yan escorted Concubine Chen all the way to Jinxi to recuperate.

After all, there are examples of the two emperors of "Jingkang" who did not return after the imperial expedition, and soon, Zhao Yan returned to the dynasty with his father, Emperor Gaozong. After this battle, Gaozong was physically and mentally exhausted, unable to govern the government, and decided to let the dragon court go. Just when Zhao Yan was about to ascend to the Ninth Five-Year Plan, the bad news of Concubine Chen's death came from Jinxi, which was thousands of miles away.

Song Xiaozong was very sad and built a water mound for Concubine Chen. The mound was built in the shallow waters of Lake Wubao, and the terrain was very low, but for hundreds of years, no matter how big the flood, the mound always protruded more than a foot above the water, as if it were suspended. Some people say that if Concubine Chen's water mound has roots, it has no roots.

Speaking of roots, why does the water mound never sink? Speaking of rootlessness, why would Mizuzuka never float away?

Concubine Chen's water mound has become a mystery through the ages.

Because of Concubine Chen, there is also a scenic spot in Jinxi as "Lotus Pond Zen Temple". At that time, Song Xiaozong ordered to set up a monk to build a temple and chant for Concubine Chen. Later, he ordered the monks to dig a pond on the east side of the temple to plant lotus, and it was called "Lotus Temple" at first.

When I was very young, I heard the story of Concubine Chen, and I couldn't forget it for a long time. The point she was entangled with at that time was, why didn't Zhao Yan give Concubine Chen the title after she ascended the throne? At that time, I felt that being a queen was worthy of Concubine Chen's sacrifice in a foreign land.

After Chen Yuyao came, he heard her talk about this careful thinking, and immediately taught her a poem by Wen Zhengming to hang Concubine Chen-

"Who sees the underwater grave of the golden jade, and the beauty is closed with empty fragrance and jade. The king's love follows the flowing water, and he wins Hanxi and is still surnamed Chen. ”

"It's good that Song Xiaozong can do this." Chen Yuyao said, "If Concubine Chen dies a little longer before he ascends the throne, I'm afraid that there won't even be a Lotus Pond Zen Temple." ”

As Torrential Rain grew older, he gradually understood the meaning of his words.

Moreover, she no longer feels how honored it is to be a queen.

Concubine Chen can bury her bones in this feng shui treasure, and always occupy a special position in the heart of her husband Xiaozong, which is better than those concubines in the old dead palace who are "love for love" due to "color decay".

Afraid that before the rain arrived at the "Three Bridges", someone would have his shoes rolled off, so he wore a pair of zippered Martin boots, and also told Chen Yuyao to wear a pair of shoes that did not need to be tied with laces.

But Chen Yuyao's casual shoes other than leather shoes did not meet this rule, and the rain had to stop. Both of them wore black down jackets and black masks, so cool that they had no friends. The rain was because his nose was afraid of cold, and Chen Yuyao was to cooperate with her.

"Do you think it's like a celebrity travel?" Chen Yuyao asked her.

Rushing Rain smiled, and then said, "You are better looking than a star." ”

Who said men don't like to listen to sweet talk. In fact, everyone likes to listen to nice words, and men are no exception. Especially when Rushing Rain said this, his tone was sincere and natural, he had always disliked him above the seven feelings, and he couldn't help but smile.

The gate was really crowded, shoulder to shoulder. Rushing rain turned his head and said to Chen Yuyao, "I finally know why Xiangling in "Dream of Red Mansions" was separated from the maid at home during the Lantern Festival when she was a child. This kind of rolling method, if you are not careful, will come to the same place. ”

Chen Yuyao changed the way he held hands with her, his fingers were interlocked, the lights of Yan Shan were reflected in his eyes, and his voice told her gently and firmly: "If you hold on like this, you won't be separated!" ”

The corners of Rushing Rain's mouth were filled with a melty smile, "Hmm! ”

The two of them watched the lanterns while starting from the Wannian Bridge and began to walk the "safe road".

"Look!" Rushing rain pointed to the place where the gongs and drums were beating and bustling, and surprise burst out in his eyes.

Chen Yuyao looked in the direction she pointed, and the dragon lantern, which was more than ten meters long, rotated and flew with the cooperation of more than ten people with the pearl thrown by one person, and the changes were endless.

"This dragon lantern is long enough, I heard that last year's lady lamp in Mudu was very high!" Rushing Rain said excitedly.

"I wanted to take you to see it at the time, but I thought that you still have three months to take the college entrance examination, so forget it. Shih Tzu lanterns, about three meters high. Chen Yuyao took off his mask, and as soon as he spoke, he let out a white breath.

"Wow." Rushing rain made a sound of admiration, and when she looked down and saw Chen Yuyao's shoelaces scattered, she said, "You hold me, I'll help you tie your shoelaces." ”

Hearing this, Chen Yuyao looked down at his feet and grabbed the torrential rain: "Don't move, I'll come by myself!" ”

As he spoke, he was about to bend down, when Rushing Rain saw a snow-white dagger stabbing straight at him. She didn't even think about it, so she crossed over and blocked in front of Chen Yuyao, the moment the dagger stabbed into her abdomen, her heart jumped violently, and then she felt a slight coolness, followed by a bubbling hot stream. She didn't dare to look down, knowing that it was blood gushing out.

"Light rain!" Chen Yuyao's soul was scattered, and he immediately looked up to see who did it, but only to see a back figure quickly burrowing into the crowd.

Torrential rain still didn't dare to bow her head, and began to feel sharp pain, and more people saw the dagger stuck in her stomach and let out one scream after another.

"Shut up! Shut up! Chen Yuyao roared, "Don't scare her! Saying that, he looked at the torrential rain in his arms, "Xiaoyu, don't be afraid." I'll take you to the hospital......"

Rushing Rain's face turned pale and smiled weakly, "It's good, you're okay." The last time she watched her grandparents die at the hands of demons, this time she was finally quick to protect the people she cared about. There was chaos in his mind, and for a moment, he thought of Concubine Chen, who was shot by the arrow to protect Zhao Yan. Today's situation is somewhat similar—

"I don't need you to help me get some mounds...... You know, now that people are dead, they have to be cremated. Chen Yuyao didn't expect that Rushing Rain would still have the heart to laugh at this time. He tried to stop it, but she endured the pain and continued, "If I'm going to die." If you want to learn from Song Xiaozong, you must slowly forget me. ”

Chen Yuyao's heart is like a knife.

After saying this, Torrential Rain's eyes darkened, and he completely fainted.

"Light rain!"