On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, early in the morning, Lin Ke and Yu Yaofang came together to send Li Tian a bunch of lanterns and a few masks, Lin Ke commanded Qingzhi and others to hang the lanterns all over the yard, talking and laughing and having lunch, the two said goodbye to Li Tian, and ran out to watch the lights and play hand in hand, which is the most exciting and free day and night of the year for the little ladies in the capital.

Lin Ke and Yu Yaofang walked until their feet were soft, found a teahouse, and did not sit in, occupied a table placed under the teahouse corridor, asked for dim sum soup, and called a female envoy to sit on the side and order tea.

Lin Ke's smile suddenly fixed on his face, jumped up all of a sudden, pulled Yu Yaofang up and said, "Quick, I see that hateful bad guy!" Yu Yaofang was pulled by her and staggered a few steps, and the servant mother-in-law hurriedly paid for the tea, took the mask and carried the lantern, and Hulala ran out after her.

"Which bad guy? If you don't hurry up and stay away, what are you going to do? Yu Yaofang finally stabilized her footing, pulled Lin Ke back and said urgently, Lin Ke looked straight ahead and said with his teeth wrong: "It's the bad guy of the Leng family, the bad thing who dares to retreat from Sister Tian's family!"

"Huh? Which one? Which one is the Leng family? Mrs. Cold? That's an elder, don't mess around!" Yu Yaofang hurriedly persuaded.

"No, it's ...... Leng Mingsong, that bastard! Hmph, I also pulled a little lady, and the two of them are almost one person, what a shame! No shame! Well, it's his sister. Lin Ke pulled Yu Yaofang to the few people who had been with him, and pressed Leng Mingsong's three words into a low gritted teeth and kept scolding, Yu Yaofang was angry and laughed: "How do you know him, don't recognize the wrong person, alas, Tian'er...... She said it all, don't mention it again, you're going to do you a disservice again. ”

"He came to my house, I peeked through the screen, it's him, it's okay, he doesn't know who we are, how can he get angry? It would be nice if Sister Tian was here, she has the most ideas, right! I'm going to step on his feet, stomp on him, and break the bones of his feet! Cripple his leg! You wait. Lin Ke excitedly shook off Yu Yaofang's hand and was about to rush forward, but Yu Yaofang pulled her back and shouted, "That's it...... Still don't recognize it?!Where's your mask? Lanterns!"

"Yes, yes, give me the mask, and the lantern!" Lin Ke hurriedly turned her head to look for her mask and lantern, the girl's mother-in-law hurriedly handed it over, Lin Ke put on the mask, carried the lantern, and rushed over to Leng Songming, who was dazzled by his sister in front of him.

Leng Mingsong and his sister Leng Nuan are the first time to go to the capital, where have they seen such a lively, they feel very novel everywhere, they just feel that their eyes are not enough, Lin Ke rushed straight through the spurs, his eyes were staring at the pair of snow-white shoes on Leng Mingsong's feet, the indigo silk shoes with ridges in the middle, and stepped on them fiercely.

She rushed fast, her eyes were only staring at the shoes, and she didn't care about anything else, the lantern in her hand poked straight at the lantern that Leng Mingsong was lifting, and the two lanterns that hit it burned up at once, Lin Ke shook his hands and screamed in fright, and threw the lantern out of the distance at once, and as soon as his feet staggered, the person was about to fall back, Leng Mingsong reacted very quickly, he didn't dare to grab Lin Ke's hand and arm, and reached out to grab Lin Ke's cloak, and Lin Ke was pulled back by him in the cloak.

Leng Mingsong's two little guys were also fast, and the two lanterns were burned to only a few pitch-black bamboo branches, Lin Ke was ashamed, annoyed and angry, his face was red, his eyes were full of tears of grievance, and he tore off the mask in annoyance, and held the mask with both hands and knocked it Leng Mingsong's body.

Yu Yaofang's anxious eyes were red, she rushed over and pulled Lin Ke and ran to the side, Leng Ming looked straight at the direction where the two disappeared, until she couldn't see it, then she blinked, turned her head to look at the burnt lantern, looked down at her hands, moved her slender fingers, raised her hand and slowly stroked the place where Lin Ke had knocked, and then looked in the direction where the two disappeared.

"Brother, are you alright?" Leng Nuan saw that his brother stood stunned for a long time, so he hurriedly stepped forward and pulled him and asked, Leng Mingsong came back to his senses all of a sudden, and he was a little at a loss, and waved his hand again and again: "No, it's okay, let's go, it's lively over there, go over there." Leng Nuan pointed to the front and said, "Go over there first and then buy a lantern, this noble girl in the capital is really ...... It's amazing. ”

"I can't blame her, a little lady, stepping on a strange man's foot, can she not be in a hurry? I almost fell again, I must have been frightened, and I can't blame her. Leng Mingsong and his sister went to the front to buy lanterns, and at the same time gently defended Lin Ke, Leng Nuan thought about it and smiled: "That's right, if I bump into someone like this, I will be frightened, that little lady is really good-looking." ”

"Oh? Is it? I didn't pay attention, I didn't notice what she looked like. Leng Mingsong's tone was extremely affirmative, but his expression was not very natural, he looked at him strangely, so close, he didn't pay attention to what the parents were like?

Three horses rushed in the narrow alley behind the garden of the Yongguo Mansion, a small servant in front and behind, and a noble child in the middle, wearing a large cluster of moths on his head, trembling and shining, the pink and blue shiny satin squirrel in the cloak swinging behind his back at will, with a gold wrap around his waist, and wearing Wu silk socks and embroidered silk shoes on his feet. Zongma entered the alley, turned his head left and right, and asked, "Right here?" Right? ”

"Don't worry, that's right, right here, the little one has come to see it several times during the day, and there is a corner gate in many places before that, and inside the corner gate is the courtyard of the five ladies of the Li family!" The little guy in front of him replied attentively and flatteringly.

"Well, let's go!"

The three horses galloped to the corner gate, the pink and blue young man got off the horse, straightened his head and the moth, pulled the cloak, dusted off the placket, raised his arm, lifted the sleeve slightly in a grand manner, took the gold-painted box handed over by the little servant, and said: "Call the door, just say that Ding Qiye came to visit Li Wuniang." ”

In the courtyard, Yue Niang jumped down from the tree next to the corner gate, clapped her hands, looked at Li Tian, who was wearing a cloak, holding a stove, and standing under the tree with a cold face, and said, "It's the prodigal son of the Lai Guo Gong Ding family, what should I do?" According to me, kill it. With a bit of excitement and yearning on her face, Yue Niang raised her arm and made a stabbing motion.

"I remember that there was a military patrol shop at the mouth of the alley? How long does it take to get over there? Li Tian asked in a clear voice.

"Yes, today is the Shangyuan Festival, Ma Bujun, the three yamen in front of the palace and the yamen of the Beijing Mansion are all waiting for it, there are cavalry captains guarding it, come over quickly, dozens of breaths are almost." Yue Niang replied, and Li Tian gave an 'um' order: "This is a dead end, set fire to them!"

Yue Niang's eyebrows were raised so much that she almost flew: "You want to burn them?" ”

"Look at their creation, you go to the opposite side of the alley and set fire, and then take some fireworks and throw them together, Yinhua looks through the crack in the door, and the fire shouts to put out the fire." Li Tian commanded with a gloomy expression, Yue Niang jumped to the pantry next to her in two excited steps, picked up a dozen or so fine firewood, quickly wrapped a thick layer of flintch, and thickly stained with lamp oil, and then picked a dozen small fireworks of drill monkeys and hugged them, lightly under her feet, and quietly ran to the opposite side of the alley.

Ding Qi's little servant just knocked on the door twice, Yue Niang's side had already lit firewood, and even the drill monkey beckoned Ding Qi to go down, and in the courtyard, Yinhua and the others shouted at the top of their voices, "It's on fire!" Fight the fire! Help!'"

Ding Qi and the little servant were frightened by the sudden burst of firelight, the sharp and piercing whistling sound of the drill monkey and the sound of fire fighting, the three horses were even more frightened, but reacted faster than the owner, neighed in horror, jumped and jumped to break free from the small house, one horse went deep into the alley, and two horses put their hooves out of the alley and rushed violently.

The horse infantry army on duty in the military patrol shop at the mouth of the alley and the officials of the Beijing government rushed out when they heard the sound, and the cavalry captain who rushed in front was facing two startled horses, and the two collided, and for a while the narrow alley mouth was blocked solidly, and the van army pushing the waterwheel behind simply stopped the car, pressed the small water dragon, and sprayed the cold well water into the fire first, and the horse infantry army and the official had some people to subdue the startled horses, and most of the people squeezed through the gaps, carrying large and small buckets to splash water into the alley, and the small alley splashed directly with a torrential rain, and the fire was extinguished in the blink of an eye. also dripped, and the soup dripping with Ding Qi and the two little servants was carried out by several officials with twisted feet and heads to the ground.

Yue Niang stood on the tree, looking at Ding Qi, who was dripping with water all over her body, and Ding Qi and the two little guys, who were frightened and speechless, were locked away by Ma Bujun and the servants as arsonists, and fell down from the tree to Li Tian with a muffled laugh.

Li Tian had already avoided under the hall, Yue Niang jumped to stand under the hall in a few steps, patted the placket of her clothes with flaws, looked at Li Tian and said, "It's just a fright, what can it do?" ”

"If you just want to test a thing or two, this scare is enough, if not...... Let's talk about it later, my grandmother said that you can't be punished without teaching. Li Tian turned around and went back, and replied to Yue Niang's words, Yue Niang raised her eyebrows disapplausively, she has always been a critic but not a teacher.

Before the lanterns of the Shangyuan Festival were confiscated, the second wife Xu sent her mother-in-law to break into the Qingtong Courtyard and asked Li Tian to borrow five hundred taels of silver.

“…… Our wife said, the silver is not together for a while, the silver here is also moldy, first take five hundred taels of envoys, our wife and the second master are the elders of the five women, and they should also be filial piety to one or two......"

Yingluo only listened to it in disbelief, firstly, this is not something she should talk about, secondly, she didn't know what to say, so she had to turn her head to look at Li Tian who was sitting at the table and writing concentratingly, the mother-in-law saw that Li Tian was just writing calmly, as if she didn't hear her words, she couldn't help but say it again, Li Tian still ignored her, and slowly copied the Heart Sutra, then put down the pen, took the handkerchief handed by Yuye and cleaned her hands, looked at her mother-in-law and said: "I don't have ready-made silver here, some silver is stored in the eldest lady, you are going to take it with me, Or wait until I tell the eldest lady to send it to you? ”

The mother-in-law looked at Li Tian blankly, her mind couldn't turn around, and when she saw Li Tian getting up and putting on a cloak, she hurriedly shouted with her hands: "I'll go with the fifth lady to get the silver, and our wife is waiting to use it now." ”