After Noya got up, she put away the red bed towel, had a simple breakfast, and took a hot bath according to Bailijiu's words, feeling too sleepy and sore, and lay back on the bed to rest.

When it was close to noon, Baili Jiu sent someone to the mansion to send a message, saying that the three princes invited the three of them to participate in the Lotus Lantern Festival in the evening tonight, and sent someone to pick them up after the sun set.

There are old customs in the capital, and the lanterns placed on the three nights of the Lantern Festival represent completely different meanings: the fourteenth is called the people's lanterns, praying for the prosperity of the people and the safety of the population; Fifteen called the magic lamp, pray for good wind and rain, and abundant grains; Sixteen is called the ghost lamp, praying for the deceased to be born as soon as possible and reincarnated as a human.

Today is the sixteenth day of the first month, the last festival of the first month, and the end of the year means that the year is over. The General's Mansion pays more attention to the lanterns on this day, and it is inevitable to turn the lanterns to pay tribute to the generals who are shrouded in horse leather on the battlefield. Take the unused basins, put them with cotton seeds stirred with lamp oil, put them on the ground in a pile with sticks or shovels, light them with fire, and circle around the general's mansion. but wherever there is water, it will be sacrificed.

Turning the lantern in the General's Mansion is an extremely serious matter, and the Lotus Lantern Festival proposed by the Three Princes' Mansion is the opposite. Folk have the saying of "stepping on the lotus flower on the west sky", originally on the 16th day, the people in the city put the lotus boat on the moat, watching the river flow away, if the river lamp is extinguished halfway, it means that the mourning relatives have been reincarnated.

But along the way, young men and women in the city have adopted the lotus lantern as a romantic way to pray for it. Write your long-cherished wish on a papier-mâché lotus lantern and place it in the river, if it is not extinguished, float away along the water, and the lotus lantern carrying your wish will fly to the Buddha's face, and your wish will be fulfilled.

The news of being invited to participate in the Lotus Lantern Festival was personally sent to Yinian Hall by Qin Darling. She stopped by to pick up her medicine.

The scars on Qin Bao'er's face were already healed, and the blood scabs fell off, revealing different shades of skin. Because her skin is not fair, and wherever there are scars, they are pink and red, and her whole face looks like the kind of people who have vitiligo, which makes people get goosebumps. But it's much better than it used to be.

Because of Noah's ointment, she had to bow her head, not daring to sneer at her like before, and often lost her smile, holding back her anger in her heart, so that smile looked a little like half crying and half laughing.

Listening to Dusk Si, Qin Darling once mysteriously summoned her to the Jinnian Pavilion, personally stuffed her with a hundred taels of silver, and asked her to make a plaster for Xinnuoya, but she directly refused.

Today, she actually put down her body in person and came to get medicine. Noah lay on the bed in the room, feeling rare.

Qin Bao'er took the medicine and didn't leave, but walked straight towards Lin Nuoya's room. It was the first time she had entered Noah's room without having to kick the door and smile on her face.

"Aunt Lin really didn't go to see the lanterns yesterday?" Qin Darling got straight to the point.

Noah shook her head: "I was too tired to walk on the street, and my body couldn't bear it, so I came back again." ”

"Oh, it's a shame you didn't go, you don't know how lively it was yesterday."

Lin Nuoya held the book in her hand, her eyelids didn't tease, and she didn't lift her buttocks.

Qin Bao'er was bored, and didn't care at all: "Yesterday, at the Qushui Liuyu Poetry Meeting, An Ruoxi was out of the limelight, surrounded by a group of men, and clapped his hands, his eyebrows and eyes flew wildly. ”

Noah gave a soft "um", which counted as giving her face.

"The most pitiful is still the second prince." Qin Bao'er sighed softly, looking at the little blush that Noya couldn't hide in her neck, and clenched her teeth.

Noah's hand holding the book trembled slightly.

"He had been depressed yesterday, and no one paid any attention to it, and I heard that a man carried the wine jar to the top of the mountain outside the city, and blew the cold wind all night. He was drunk with the moon, and he played the flute low and complaining, like weeping and complaining, full of desolation. I don't know, who is so ruthless that he is willing to hurt such an infatuated man? ”

Noah's hand holding the book curled up unconsciously, clutching the book tightly, still silent and not speaking.

"The imperial doctor in the palace has made several trips to the second prince's mansion today."

Noah forced himself to be calm and said "oh" casually.

"Lin Nuoya, could it be that your heart is really made of stone?" Qin Darling finally couldn't help but ask her: "Don't you want to ask how the second prince is doing now?" ”

Lin Nuoya finally lifted her eyelids: "The second prince is not in good health, what are you doing so excited?" ”

A sentence choked Qin Darling.

"The second prince became like this because of you, are you so at ease?"

Noya sighed and put down the book in her hand: "Noya is now a married woman, and I ask Mrs. Qin to keep some morality, and don't incite demagoguery." The second prince is worried about the country and the people, and the wind is bright, why is it so unbearable in your heart? Do you have to be involved in the love of men and women? Did he tell you that he was sick because I hurt him? ”

Qin Bao'er originally heard that Bailijiu had secretly invited the second prince and Nuoya alive in the fisherman's house, and fought in front of many diners, so she had dirty thoughts and deliberately fanned the flames, but Fan Nuoya had a little misdemeanor, so she could take the opportunity to sow discord and make Bailijiu angry. As for the second prince's thoughts, he is also guessing wildly, where is the evidence?

She smiled wryly: "The second prince is so good to you, and people with a discerning eye know it in their eyes, I'm afraid it's just your own authorities, right?" ”

Nuoya's face instantly turned cold: "Women are three from four virtues, Derong is good, this is like a shrew in the market, and it is better for Mrs. Qin to check the rumors." Otherwise, if you look at the origin, no one will look good. ”

Qin Bao'er, as a dignified lady, was reprimanded by a concubine with a straight face, and she was indignant in her heart, but when she said it, she provoked the incident by herself, and she didn't take up the word "reason", so she couldn't have a seizure, so she turned around and left with a hum.

For Qin Darling's words, Nuoya was quite unimpressed, although she also had a little ambiguous conjecture in her heart, but the dragon with the dragon, the phoenix with the phoenix, the dragon and the phoenix among people like the second prince, the eyes are above the top, what kind of woman Nuoya likes I don't know, but it will not be a troublemaker like herself who was born in a green building, vulgar, and irritable like thunder, not to mention, it is still someone else's concubine, the meat in someone else's mouth.

She calmed down, no longer thinking nonsense, only thinking about the lotus lantern by the river today, she must have the opportunity to face the three princesses, if there is a good time to be alone, what should she say to her?

After dinner, the old lady also went out of the house to "walk a hundred steps", and when the three of them were ready, they took the carriage together, listened to the guidance of the people, and went straight out of the city.

This section of water is in the downstream section, the current is not turbulent, gentle and soft, and it is the best place to put river lights. The third prince ordered someone to build a lantern stand in advance, which can stand in the middle of the river, and the lotus lantern released will not be easily stranded, and it can prevent the swinger brother holding a hooked bamboo pole from fishing for the lotus lantern and peeping into the secret.

Qin Bao'er and An Ruoxi both carried the lotus lanterns they made by themselves in their hands, which were exquisite and gorgeous, and only Nuoya was empty-handed.

When the third princess saw it, she covered her lips and smiled: "Mrs. Lin is really a worry-free person, borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, and not having a lotus lamp." ”

Nuoya raised her eyes to see that there were many lotus lanterns piled up in the open space by the river, all kinds of them, colorful, and she said: "The third princess has prepared so many lamps, aren't you afraid that the Buddha will not be busy?" I'm also a little greedy. ”

The third princess glanced at her: "Isn't it for someone like you who is waiting for a ready-made person?" ”

Noah shrugged indifferently: "Since you are ready, I will prepare it myself, why not do you do more?" ”

The third princess turned around and shouted to the side: "Xiao Jiu, your Mrs. Lin's mouth is too powerful, do you care?" ”

Several people all looked over, two canopy brocade fences were temporarily built in the open space by the river, blocking the cold wind on three sides, and the prince and several people were guarding the tandoor cooking wine inside, and the smell of ginger shredded wafted over the wind.

As soon as the third sister-in-law said a word, the third brother hurriedly ordered someone to build a lampstand, and dragged a few of us to drink in the wasteland. She's just borrowing a lotus lantern from you, so stingy, and she's suing me? ”

The third princess herself took the lead and laughed: "I've seen a short guard, but I've never seen someone like you." Today, I am a lot of things for myself, and if I do good deeds, I will be buried by others. ”

A few people laughed and went over and sat in the brocade enclosure, but there was no princess, only two jade-faced and red-liped women, who were introduced as the side concubines of the prince's mansion.

"The crown princess went to the palace to accompany the queen for the festival today, and I don't know if I can come to the party." The third princess explained, and then introduced several people to each other.

The two women didn't hold a shelf like the crown princess, they stood up and everyone got to know each other, sitting around and gossiping, and wine was also boiling on the central tandoor, and the wine was filled with plums.

Baili Jiu came in with a cup: "The taste of ginger is too strong, the third sister-in-law will enjoy a cup of plum wine to drink." ”

The third princess is also a grudge, and took the opportunity to quip: "I've been boiling for a long time, and I don't see you gluttonous, why don't you get used to drinking the Huadiao wine boiled with ginger as soon as your sisters come?" ”

Bailijiu glanced at Nuoya, and it was as hot as the soju in his throat: "Third sister-in-law, hurry up and throw your lamps into the river, let's go home." I'm okay when I go home and hug me, take a look here, and find an excuse to beg for wine, I will be counted down by you, aggrieved or not? ”

The three of them lowered their heads in embarrassment, and someone chuckled in the brocade enclosure next to them.

"Look at your appearance," the third princess glanced at Bailijiu: "It's better for me to go out with my two sisters, you and your three ladies stay here and love each other, we have a strong eye." ”

Bailijiu shook his head: "That's it, you have all been kind and loving in the past, and some people are alone, aren't they sad." ”

It is self-evident who some of the people Bailijiu is talking about.