Chapter 417: I've Been Looking for You for a Long Time

On both sides of the street, half of the shops are closed, and the stalls that stretch from the street to the end of the street are full of food and play, but the most are the strange lanterns.

People walked and stopped, and from time to time the sound of firecrackers could be heard in the alleys on the side, men and women were dressed in their most beautiful clothes, and a few groups of children were playfully chasing and playing in the crowd, and some were singing out of tune songs—

"On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the lanterns are different, *** carrying a big cat, my brother loves to see the big dragon......"

A group of nobles from the palace stopped at the roadside stalls to pick out those lanterns, followed by the relics, looked sideways at a few children jumping by, and suddenly remembered the scene of the family hanging lanterns in front of the door during the Shangyuan Festival in the past, and a trace of sadness floated on their faces, but after looking up at the night sky with a bright moon and a few stars, they pulled the corners of their lips.

Even if their family is not in the same place, the two places are separated or separated forever, but the good memories of the past are always imprinted in her heart, she wants to make herself better day by day, and when remembering the past, she must not forget to always look forward.

"Xi'er, have you made your choice?" Li Ke handed a gourd-style lantern to his unmarried concubine Xu Yinglan, and asked Changsun Xi, who was comparing the two lanterns back and forth.

"Uh-that's it." Changsun Xi picked a four-corner Fulou lantern, signaled to Li Ke, and then turned to Li Tai with a smile:

"Look, it doesn't look like a shrunken wind pavilion."

Hearing this, several people invariably looked back at the lantern, and sure enough, everyone who had been to the Literature Museum had a deep impression of Li Tai's attic, which did not allow outsiders to enter casually.

"Ah, it's true, then I'll pick another one." Li Ke's side concubine Xu Yinglan is a lively personality, so she lost the lantern in her hand and went to choose the lantern of Fulou again, Li Ke accompanied her on the side, and Li Chengqian looked at the crowd left and right, squinting her evil eyes, not knowing what she was looking for.

And the other two women, Li Chengqian's side concubine Liu Xuerang, picked up the Oriental Pearl, who looked at Changsun Xi and Li Tai, and smiled a little reluctantly, and walked to the next stall.

"Sister, don't be upset, I heard our Royal Highness say that the third lady has always been close to King Wei, even her brothers and sisters can't compare."

Dongfang Mingzhu listened to Liu Xuerang's whisper, tugged at the hanging tassel on his belt, and replied softly: "I know, but it's inconvenient in the palace, it's rare to have the opportunity to come out with him, but it's far away, sister, you help me take a look, is the prince not very kind to see me, otherwise why don't you talk to me all the way." ”

Liu Xue rang covered her mouth and smiled, pulled her sleeves, and motioned her to look behind, but saw that Changsun Xi was like a little bird around Li Tai holding a lantern and talking, but he looked at the lantern in front of him with his own care.

"Don't say it's you, you can see that he has talked to the third lady for a long time. Hehe, Lord Wei, this is the way your temperament is, you should take care of it, sister, I am from here, I will tell you some clear words, and when you get married, it will be different. You, you should learn from Miss Three, he's a stuffy gourd, you just come over, reach out and don't hit the smiling person, can he still scold you? ”

The bright lights were shining, Dongfang Mingzhu's eyes flickered, nodded at her, and sure enough, like Changsun Xi, he spotted the vacancy on Li Tai's right hand, leaned over, and picked up the lantern on the stall, muttering some interesting things in his mouth.

"Fourth brother, look at the fish painted on this lantern, turn the lantern rope, it seems to be able to swim."

When she was out of the house, of course it was inconvenient for Her Royal Highness to call her Highness, and she narrowed the distance as soon as she called it, but the eldest grandson Xi on the other side heard it, but she pouted her moist little mouth a little awkwardly, and lifted the other lantern without interfering, and said:

"Fourth brother, look at this ......"

Yi Yu stood behind them, originally, watching Li Tai surrounded by two flower-like girls, it was a little uncomfortable, but listening to them take a bite of the "fourth brother" was like a child grabbing candy to eat, he couldn't help but bow his head and laugh.

However, Li Tai didn't spend long with the two of them, picked out the things, put a piece of silver at the stall, turned around and handed it to the jade, and continued to walk forward.

Because he was stared at by Changsun Xi and Dongfang Mingzhu, Yi Yu didn't dare to look at the lantern in his hand, but just glanced at it quietly, first funny, and then a hint of sweetness.

The round belly lantern is not big or small, light yellow, silk, except for a laurel tree, only a fist-sized rabbit is embroidered with silk thread, but this rabbit is different from the rabbit next to it, holding a medicine bowl in his arms and a medicine pestle in one hand - it is a rabbit pounding medicine in the moon palace.

Just said that this lantern was not specially selected for her, and she didn't believe it.

The eldest grandson and Dongfang saw that Li Tai handed the lantern to the little girl, and they did not have any suspicions, and curiously glanced at the lantern in the hand of the widow, and handed her the fish lamp and Fulou in their hands at the same time.

"Be careful, don't break it."

Yi Yu looked at the three lanterns in his hand speechlessly, shook his head secretly, and was about to raise his heels, but he heard a sudden clanging gong in the distance, and with a few loud shouts, the crowd suddenly became crowded, crowded, and the person in front of him disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Bell"

Yi Yu stood on tiptoe and couldn't see what was happening in front of him, but the people on the side were also looking curiously, listening to the letter from the front, it seemed that there was a restaurant in front of him that had opened a lantern riddle banquet, and the guests who guessed the most all night not only sent a table of water and wine, but also went to the store for free food and drink all year round.

It is not uncommon to guess lantern riddles, but it is still rare for such a big color head, but Yu Yu has no time to join in the excitement at this time, and Li Tai's figure is gone, which makes her anxious.

"Let a let, thank you, borrow" although she has recently grown a little longer, but in the crowd is still a small ding, with the flow of people to squeeze forward, but also to protect the three lanterns in the hand, it is really not easy, one carelessly, was next to the anxious pedestrian squeezed suddenly, the lantern in the hand was touched off two, if not from behind stretched out a pair of hands to hold her shoulders dangerously, once fell on the ground, may be stepped on by the crowd as a mat.

"Be careful."

"Thank you."

Yi Yu fortunately glanced at the intact rabbit lantern in his hand, turned his head and thanked him gratefully, but he saw the person behind him clearly in the bright lights, and there was a trace of surprise in his eyes, and he almost called "Mr. Du" out.

There was a lot of noise around, and Du Ruojin only roughly heard the little guy in front of her who almost fell to thank her, shook her head, let go of her, who had already stood firmly, and walked towards the side of the road.

Yi Yu looked at his back, and always felt that something was wrong, and he was squeezed two feet away from him, only to suddenly realize that his face was missing the smile that had been hanging.

But what's the trouble lately?

Thinking so, she retreated to the side of the road, climbed onto the high platform used to arrange flowers outside the door of a shop, and condescendingly searched for Li Tai's figure, so that she easily saw the man who stood out from the crowd, dressed in light blue, just across the street three or five feet away from herself, she wanted to call him, and just didn't know how to call it, she saw Li Tai who was on the side of her half turned around, revealing the pink-shirted girl who was carefully protecting in her arms.

Blocked on all sides, the crowd was squeezing in when they were empty, he stood there, one arm wrapped around Changsun Xi's shoulder, encircled her in his arms, let the surrounding prevarication, but the figure only shook slightly, he lowered his head, I don't know what to say to her, but it looked like he was comforting the frightened girl in his arms.

Yiyu choked in her throat, as if she had swallowed a peach beard, and glanced coldly at the two people who were "kissing me and me" across the street, and were about to jump down the steps, but her wrist was grabbed from the side, and she looked down to see Du Ruojin standing at the bottom of the steps, looking at her suspiciously and half happily.

"Xiaoyu?"

Yi Yuzhen didn't know how he recognized it, so he lowered his voice and said, "You recognized the wrong person." ”

Hearing this, the suspicion on Du Ruojin's face suddenly disappeared, and she grabbed her wrist tighter, "Xiaoyu, don't pretend, I know it's you." Saying that he was not born sensitive to sound, the vague "thank you" that echoed was a little familiar, and he almost missed her.

"Mr. Du, Mr. Du."

Seeing her admit, Du Ruojin first breathed a sigh of relief, then stretched out her other hand and said, "Come, come down first, I've been looking for you for a long time, let's find a place to talk, I have something important to tell you, it's about your eldest brother..."

This relic jade was recognized by Du Ruojin, who met by chance, but Li Tai had gradually been worn out by Changsun Xi, and asked again and again:

"Did you really see people?"

"I saw it, when he was just washed away, I seemed to see him go over there..."After being asked three times in a row, although Changsun Xi wondered why Li Tai cared so much about the whereabouts of a little guy, he noticed that he was a little displeased, so he rubbed for a long time, and still pointed in a direction.

Li Tai followed her fingers, just a glance, a cold color brewed in his eyes, across the street, under a row of yellow bamboo chandeliers, standing on the flower platform with a small gray cloth, was supported by a man in the audience with his arm, and then the two disappeared into the alley together.

"It's you again..."

"Huh? Fourth brother, what did you say? Changsun Xi heard his unknown whisper, raised his head and asked puzzledly, but he bent his arm and pushed him away from his side with a slight flick, and before she could grab his sleeve again, a few dodges, and disappeared into the colorful crowd in front of him.

"Four... Fourth brother" Changsun Xi stomped his feet and hurriedly shouted in the direction where he disappeared, but before it could spread, it disappeared into the surrounding commotion.

(More to come later)

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Chapter 417: I've Been Looking for You for a Long Time