362 Competing for Beauty

New Year's Day, festival, time gradually to the fifteenth Lantern Festival, hanging lanterns everywhere in the city, all kinds of styles have, but it is a battle for beauty, but it is also ever-changing.

There was no lantern hanging in front of the Situ Mansion, only two large ice blocks more than one person high, which were carved into the shape of lions, and I don't know how to dye it in color, it looked lifelike as if it was real, and there was a hollow candle in the middle, but it was more eye-catching than other people's lanterns.

There are also more than a dozen Xiaoice lanterns more than one foot high, also carved into the shape of various small animals, lit candles inside, and riddles are pasted on the outside like ordinary lanterns for people to guess, and if you guess, you can take this lamp, which also attracts many people to watch.

In previous years, Situ Mansion only symbolically hung out a few lanterns, but this year it is also a new one, and these ice lanterns are still a fresh trick, to do ice carving is naturally a good hand at carving, each lantern carved out is lifelike.

There is also a string of ice lanterns hanging in the courtyard, but there is no hanging out of the door, and you can still see the colorful light refracted by the ice cubes from the outside

The dinner was eaten in Situ's mansion, the family gathered together, and after the dinner, Puyu came out to play with his bun-shaped ice lantern, and even Situ Sheng was pulled out by Puyu to play. "Grandpa, let's go, take a walk after dinner, and live to ninety-nine."

Situ Sheng looked fondly at the little guy who was holding his own hand and said M. in his own hand, and his little hand was soft and warm in his palm, so he naturally nodded and agreed. The baby trembled and held the ice lamp specially made smaller, and the little meat paw took his mother's hand and walked out with small steps, "Brother... Wait..."

Situ Jue also carried an ice lantern, carved a golden eagle, and walked a few steps quickly to follow the front.

Situ Zhong hung an ice lantern under the eaves with a smile, and said with a smile: "It's the first time I saw the old man go out to see the ice lantern, why don't the young master and uncle go?" ”

Situ Jin snorted coldly, but the corners of his mouth smiled and walked out, Tang Baiyu nodded at Uncle Zhong before walking out.

When I arrived at the door, the ice lantern had been surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, just because it was not long ago, the ice lantern was basically still there. Tang Anqing was afraid that the two children would be bumped, so he pulled the two small ones to the periphery. Naturally, he helped Situ Sheng down, bent his eyebrows, "Dad, come here." ”

Obviously felt that Situ Sheng's body was stiff for a moment, but the next moment he couldn't hide the smile in his eyes, stretched out his very neatly trimmed hand and touched Tang Anqing's head, and walked down with Tang Anqing.

Situ Jue followed from behind and helped Situ Sheng's other side, "Godfather, it's very lively outside our house this year!" Last year, there weren't many people around the Lantern Festival, but this ice lantern looks very good. ”

The baby was holding the hem of his brother's clothes at this time, his little face was tight, his lips were pursed together, and when Tang Anqing came down, he immediately abandoned his brother's clothes and walked over to hold his mother's hand, "Mother, there are many people..."

Tang Xiaoyu leaned over and pinched the child's cheeks, "Na Erbao, people came to guess the riddle and said, let's go and see if we want to take a look, little uncle?" ”

Situ Jue lifted the ice lamp in his hand, looked back at Situ Jin and Tang Baiyu who came out of the door, and hurriedly beckoned the two of them over, and then squeezed inside to watch people guess riddles.

The riddles posted by the ice lamp are vulgar and elegant, Tang Anqing looked at a few outside, and then covered her face very convulsively, she will only have a few, and the other riddles involved are also elegant and elegant, she doesn't understand them at all.

In the end, there was only a tiger-shaped ice lantern left, and the riddle was guessed, it was a five or six-year-old child, and Situ Sheng, who was only standing in the shadows, came out of the shadows at some point, strolled to the side, and saluted the old man, "Why are you here?" ”

The old man smiled and pointed to the little boy who was cheering with the tiger ice lantern, "I came out to play with my grandson, but I didn't expect Aiqing's family to have such interesting things." ”

"It's just a kid's stuff that the kid has tinkered with, and it's kind of eye-catching." Situ Sheng said lightly, and did not debunk the identity of the old man, looked at the lion carving on the side, and turned his eyes to Tang Anqing's side and showed a little smile.

"I heard that the eldest girl of Aiqing's family has been recovered?" The old man smiled and asked, "Can the Qing family be regarded as guarding the clouds and seeing the moon?" ”

Situ Sheng didn't reply, Puyu ran over, grandpa and grandpa screamed softly, but he saw that a stranger was there, and tilted his head, "Grandpa, who is the old man?" ”

Grandpa? Could it be that I'm old? The old man stroked his half-white beard and looked at Situ Sheng on the side, although Situ Sheng was over the age of not confused, but he was well maintained and looked like he was standing, he was only a few years older than him, and he was already called the old man

Situ Sheng glanced at the old man next to him, took Puyu's hand and walked inside, "That's a friend of my grandfather, Yu'er just called him Grandpa Huang." ”

"The Emperor... Grandfather, grandson got this ice lantern, it's very powerful, right" The little boy who got the last tiger-shaped ice lantern ran over happily, and the slave behind him held the tiger-shaped ice lantern.

I was originally happily running over and saw Situ Sheng standing next to the old man, instinctively stopped and saluted Situ Sheng with some embarrassment, and called out respectfully: "Taifu." ”

Situ Sheng replied abnormally, "Hmm." Puyu poked her little head out from behind Situ Sheng, blinking her eyes and looking at the little boy standing respectfully, "Hey, hello, I'm Tang Puyu, what's your name?" ”

The little boy hadn't seen Puyu before, but now he saw a beautiful child poking his head out from behind the always serious Taifu, and he looked so good, better than his sister. Suddenly, he didn't feel the whole thing, and waved his hand: "Hello, my name is Chang Xu." ”

Seeing the ice lantern that Puyu was carrying, he asked in surprise, "Is there still this kind of ice lantern that can be lifted?" ”

"Hehe, I made it myself, it's beautiful." Puyu blinked her eyes, spun around the little boy and returned to the ice lamp in her hand, "Do you want it?" ”

The little boy's eyes widened in surprise, and his voice was joyful, "Is that okay?" ”

"Of course not," Tang Xiaoye paused, "But pinch it, my grandfather's house still has some lamps like this, I can let you choose one." He raised his little face, and looked like he was about to thank me.

Situ Sheng touched the child's head lovingly, "Come into the house." ”

Situ Jin stood aside, resting his arm on Situ Jue's shoulder, looked at Puyu's side, and picked the corner of his mouth: "Why are they here?" ”

Situ Jue followed the direction Situ Jin said to see, he had never seen the old man, "Who is it?" ”

Situ Jin raised his finger up and patted Situ Jue's shoulder, "That, forget it, let's go back to the house." ”

Situ Jue instantly understood that since no one was willing to reveal their identities, they would not expose it, and gave the ice lamp in his hand to others A child who didn't get the ice lantern, and turned around and went back to the house in the child's happy thanks.

There are rows of ice lanterns on both sides of the road between the gate and the instrument gate, but these are half a person high, and they are not suitable for giving away. Tang Xiaoyu proudly held his Xiaoice lamp and introduced it on the side: "These are all my family's, and they look good when they are put out." Like this small lamp in Yu'er's hand on the other side, Yu'er can lead you to pick one you like, how about it? ”

The little boy nodded, said to his grandfather, and followed Tang Xiaoyu to play on the east hand-copying verandah, and there were more than a dozen Xiaoice lamps of various animals on the fence of the verandah, and the little boy's eyes widened, "Are you all doing all this?" ”

Tang Xiaoyu choked for a moment and paused, "Of course not, you don't want to think that I can't do so many pinching?" But this is a method that my mother came up with, ah, you hurry up and pick one, I still have to find my mother and my father and brother. ”

"You still have a brother, huh? I don't have a younger brother, but I have a younger sister," Chang Xu asked curiously, and there were no children of the same age playing with him when he was at home, although there was a younger sister, but it was not fun for the younger sister to be young. And all around are slaves and slaves, not allowed to do this, not allowed to do that, today can pester grandfather out to play, but he grinds hard for several days, grandfather agrees. And children love each other more than here, you have a brother, then I have a sister, although my sister is not fun at all

"What's so good about my sister, my brother is smart, he calls me brother in a soft and milky voice, and he will give me all his gold ingots so that I can keep them for him. And my brother is so good-looking, just a little bit worse than me. Your sister? Tang Xiaoyu climbed on the sidebar with the Xiaoice lamp, shook her little short legs, and said happily with squinted eyes.

"Hey, how is that? My sister can't speak yet, and she's ugly and wrinkled. Chang Xu lowered his head a little embarrassed, and he was not so interested in even choosing an ice lantern. The servant on the side was about to go up and reprimand, but was stopped by another thin old man with gray hair in a blue robe, and took a few steps back to the other place, looking at the two children.

"Ah, did your sister just give birth to pinch?" Getting the other party's affirmative answer, Tang Xiaoyu pouted, "You are so stupid, my mother said that children are wrinkled and ugly when they are born, but they will be fine in a few days." But my brother is not, I heard my aunt and grandmother say that my brother was born good-looking, white and fat, slippery, better than the little boy under the Bodhisattva seat, although it is a little worse than me, do you want to choose? Once you've chosen, I'll have someone put a rope on you, so you can hold it in your hand like I do. ”

The little boy just looked at the ice lamp to choose, Tang Xiaoye pouted, how difficult is it for people to start?