Chapter 419: The Tree and the Rabbit

On the Shangyuan Festival, the people traveled many streets, and the business of the serious shop was very cold, and Li Tai pulled the widowed jade dressed as a small girl out of the teahouse with two or three kittens, but it didn't attract much attention.

Although Li Tai's steps were not fast, his steps were big, and he was shorter than him, almost trotting to keep up, and faintly noticed that he was angry, and when he walked into the alley where he heard no people, she gently squeezed his palm and said softly:

"Slow down."

Although Li Tai didn't respond, his footsteps really slowed down, and Yu Yu only staggered half a shoulder with him, looked down at the road, and said:

"Don't be angry, I didn't mean to run around, we got separated, I met Brother Du, I didn't plan to recognize him at first, but he somehow recognized me and said that he had something to tell me about my eldest brother."

"Don't you want you to follow me?" Li Tai didn't look back, and his voice was faint, and he couldn't tell whether he was happy or unhappy.

He didn't say that it was okay, as soon as he said it, she got angry, remembering that she was on the road just now, and she was hit left and right and had been stepped on her feet many times, but he stood across the street and protected other girls.

“......”

Seeing that the lights at the entrance of the alley were dim a few steps ahead, but she was silent, Li Tai turned his head to look at her stiff little face, the corners of his eyebrows twitched slightly, and said:

"What are you doing here?"

"Nope." Yi Yu turned her head, thinking about the letter Lu Zhi left for her, and she didn't have the heart to entangle him. I didn't want him to suddenly reach over, and when she was caught off guard, he peeled off the film covering her face.

"Shhhh Yi Yu rubbed his itchy and numb face, puffed out his cheeks, and looked at him with a dissatisfied expression.

"What about faith?"

Stuffing the potentially valuable disguise film into his sleeve, he stretched out another hand, and Yu Yu hesitantly took out the letterhead, but he easily took it in his hand with two fingers, and before she could protest, he took her hand tightly, and pulled her a few steps into the bustling street market.

"You still have a lot of time to think about Lu Zhi, but tonight is here to enjoy the lanterns."

From the only deserted ready-to-wear shop on this street, Yu Yu has changed into a goose yellow skirt, the shopkeeper is very enthusiastic, not only gave her an extra shawl of the same color, but also helped her comb a simple double bun, although there are no beads, but the girl of this age, tied with two yellow ribbons, is also full of youth and pretty.

"What if I run into them?" Yi Yu hadn't been wearing women's clothes for a while, tugging at the hem of her skirt uncomfortably, and asked Li Tai, who was looking at her sideways.

"I can't meet it." Li Tai is very sure, how can that group of pampered people endure to live in this crowded street, rubbing shoulders with the common people, at first they are interested, and it will not take long to find a restaurant to eat and drink.

As he spoke, he naturally put his hand on her shoulder and walked her around the crowd in the street. This time the jade is different from the feeling of a group of people shopping before, for fear that they will be squeezed out of the shadow by accident, but they don't have to look at the road, just look left and right to look at the lanterns around, and they are not afraid of being squeezed away, just because there is a "tall man" Li Tai standing on the side.

The lantern that Li Tai picked out for the relic jade was squeezed out when there were many people, so the two of them picked it all the way and walked half a street, there were a lot of rabbit lanterns, but they didn't make such a fine Moon Palace medicine rabbit.

The old man of the stall owner saw that the little girl opposite was not satisfied with the selection for a long time, and then glanced at the handsome boy beside her, so he grinned at her and smiled:

"What does Miss want?,Just tell me to hear it.,I still have a few that I haven't taken out.,I was going to go to the same people to compete with the lantern later.,If there's something you like.,Then I'll sell it to you.。

Tang Feng is open, men and women are not important, today is another festive day, it is not uncommon to see men and women with close relatives in the streets, some are holding hands, some are holding arms, either husband and wife or men and women who have complained about love.

Although there are many guests who come and go, but the old man who sells lanterns does not have a pair of eyes like the two in front of him, just looking at the handsome appearance of the boy and the pair of green eyes is the only one he has seen in his life, so he is willing to take good things to meet people.

"Race lanterns?" Yu Yu looked at Li Tai in confusion.

Li Tai also glanced at the old man with some surprise, and explained to her simply: "The lantern masters in Beijing, every year in Shangyuan, they will compare lanterns at the river bridge in Dukou, and if they win, they can contract the lantern business of the sixteen Jiafang cities in Beijing. ”

The old man who set up this stall was still a master, no wonder the things in this stall were much finer than elsewhere, and the relics had always been respectful to people with craftsmanship, so he smiled at the old man and said:

"Then there is a moon lantern painted with a rabbit, and the rabbit is embroidered with embroidery thread, and the lantern cover is like the color of the moon?"

Hearing her say this, the old man frowned at first, and then bowed over to rummage through the box under the table, and after a while, he carried a lantern that was not on fire in front of the jade, so that she couldn't help but look back at Li Tai in surprise, it was really a coincidence, this lantern was exactly the same as the previous one

No, this one is more delicate, the rabbit's red eyes are still dropped with coral beads, and the snow-white body is also mixed with a lot of silver thread.

As a result, Li Tai spent ten taels of silver to buy an identical lantern for the jade, and the old man who sold the lantern lit the lantern with a candle, and when the two turned to leave, he was heard humming and muttering to himself:

"Hmph, the stinky boy stole my way to sell it again, but can the fake be compared with the real one, how many times have I said it, my own ability is called true, if it goes on like this, sooner or later I have to go back to the countryside to eat dry rice"

Fake, real... Own? It's true?

"What's wrong?" Seeing that she paused and didn't move forward, Li Tai put his hand on her shoulder again and asked.

"Ah, nothing, when is that race lantern, shall we go and see?"

Li Tai paused for an hour and said, "This is over, there should have been someone hanging a lamp at the bridge." ”

"Hmm."

The lantern race was on the head of a bridge at the east entrance of the Eastern Metropolis, and when Yi Yu and Li Tai walked there, there were indeed people hanging lanterns on the bridge early, and there were quite a few of them, so they chose a place where no one was standing under a tree.

If the strange lanterns on the bridge are one scene, then the men and women on the long river bank who are in pairs, releasing lotus lanterns or sky lanterns, is another scene.

The lotus lamp is also a wishing lamp, the sky lantern can make a wish and can also pray for blessings, every year on the three days of Shangyuan, every household in this Chang'an City, will always send young people to the bridge to put the lamp, it seems like this, a whole year can be smooth and smooth, the circle is complete.

It is said that the river under the bridge is led by the bend of the Qujiang River, the water surface is very clear, the pink red or yellow lotus lantern is only the size of a palm, the wick is only a touch of wax oil, it is placed in the water and floats away, hundreds of them together, the whole river is like a colorful lotus flower out of thin air, it is very amazing.

The sky lanterns flying in the sky are shocking, and tonight the moon and stars are scarce, and the lights are high in the sky, but they don't know where they are going.

"It seems to be a star," Yi Yu looked up at this different "starry sky", and after a while, he was a little distracted: "We used to live in the village, and every summer, when it was hot at night and we couldn't sleep, my mother would lead us to cool off in the yard, and if there were more stars in the sky, the second brother would count them." It's just that he is not as good at arithmetic as I am, and when he counts wrong, his eldest brother will make fun of him, saying that he doesn't know how to count. ”

Li Tai listened to her memories quietly, pinched her thin shoulders with her big hands, and then raised his head to look at the sky lanterns flying far away.

"There is an ice vault in the palace, and since I can remember, ice cubes will be prepared in advance every summer every year, and each palace and hall have a share. The year of the death of the mother, the father was still the prince, at that time there lived in the palace a lot of princes and grandchildren, I lived alone in the east palace side hall, occasionally will be forgotten, I am not resistant to inflammation, the day is often soaked in the well water, the days are long, unfortunately infected with fever, after the diagnosis of the doctor, the first emperor ordered to seal my Qionglin Palace, and then the first emperor fell ill, the prince and King An contended, after half a year, I was remembered, the palace ban was lifted. ”

Is it the first time to hear Li Tai mention his own affairs, or an experience in his childhood, he listened to him blankly, but he didn't know how to react for a while, whether to comfort or laugh, but he had no idea, and he was stunned for a while, before he stretched out his hand that did not carry a lantern and pulled his sleeve, pointed to the "starry sky", and said to him:

"Let's also put one, okay, isn't this a sky lantern for blessings and wishes, let's write it later, I hope this summer will be cooler, okay?"

Hearing this, his light-colored eyes flickered slightly like phosphorescence in water, and he raised his hand to pull back her hand pointing at the starry sky, and shook it hard before letting go.

"Hmm."

So they went to the riverbank, bought a medium-sized sky lantern from the lantern vendor, and borrowed pen and ink. Go to the grass on the side and leave a blessing.

"You write it." Li Tai pressed the lit sky lantern with one hand to prevent it from flying away weightlessly, and took the rabbit lantern in Yi Yu's hand with the other.

She picked up the hem of her skirt and took a brush to write a few big words on the lampshade - may this summer be cool.

After thinking about it, she felt that the five words were too simple, so she shook the brush in her hand, glanced at Li Tai, went around to the other end of the sky lantern, and where he couldn't see, she simply drew a big tree on it, and added a long-eared rabbit looking at the sky under the tree.

"It's done, it's ready to go." She stood up straight and smiled at him, motioning for him to set up the lantern.

Li Tai took a step back, let go of the palm that pressed the lampshade, and the sky lantern, which had lost its center of gravity, rose between the two of them, and their eyes chased the sky lantern that belonged to them, until it also became a little star in the night sky.

"It's not early, let's go back, I still have to go to the shop to change my clothes." Yiyu Road.

"Hmm."

The night breeze of early spring, with the quiet smell of the river in his eyes, carried her up to the riverbank, and listened to her whisper some interesting stories between his brother and sister in his childhood, but he was distracted by the tree with the rabbit on the sky lantern.

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