Chapter Seventy-Six: Lantern Festival
The fire tree and silver flowers are closed, and the iron lock of the star bridge is opened.
The dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes one by one.
The wanderers are all plums, and the songs are all plums.
Jin Wu can't help the night, and the jade leak is not urging.
The ancients used a poem on the fifteenth day and night of the first lunar month to write the prosperity and liveliness of the Lantern Festival.
Jinli opened a feast, Lan Yanyan in her early years.
The colors are far away, and the light is far away from the sky.
Receiving the Han suspicious star falls, the building is like the moon hanging.
Don't have a daughter laughing, come to the front of the nine branches.
A song of fifteen nights of lantern viewing shows the colorful and gorgeous lantern festival lights.
The colorful lantern festival lights decorate the city of Hangzhou with colorful and endless colors, as if it has been connected with the vast sky.
The lights in the distance seemed to fall to the ground like a little starlight, and the lights on the pavilion were like the bright moon hanging high, and the girls were laughing and laughing everywhere.
The moonlight is like water, the lanterns are like mountains, and the fragrant cars and BMWs are bustling.
On the night of the Lantern Festival, the city of Hangzhou is crowded with people, young and old.
Xiao Ding and the others have roamed to the shore of the West Lake, and their eyes are full of bright lights.
The lights of West Lake are even more brilliant.
The painting boat is leisurely, and the fishing boat is lingering. Reflected in the lake, it is like a fairyland.
I saw that the lights on the painting boat were picturesque, some people sat alone and stroked the piano, and some people gathered friends to drink together, singing and chanting, and lingering.
Xiao Ding couldn't help but be poetic, and chanted in a loud voice: "The lights of Qiantang are three or five nights, the bright moon is like frost, and the people are picturesque." At the bottom of the tent, the sheng incense is spitting out the musk deer, and there is no dust with the horse. The lonely mountain city is old! beat the drum and blow the flute, but entered the agricultural mulberry society. The fire and cold lamps are sparse and frosty, and the snow is dim and cloudy. ”
Tang Qingqing smiled and said, "Ouch, I didn't expect you to have read the words of Dongpo monks, it's rare." ”
Xiao Ding also smiled: "I didn't expect you to have heard of Dongpo monks, it's rare." ”
Infected by the lively and noisy atmosphere of the Lantern Festival, everyone has temporarily forgotten the depression of the past few days, laughing and scolding, and forgetting to return.
Ye Rongqiu suddenly pointed to the center of the lake and exclaimed: "Look at that painting boat, it's so beautiful!" ”
Tang Qingqing and the others felt that Ye Rongqiu was making a fuss at first, he must have lived outside the customs for a long time and had never seen the world.
Everyone looked at Ye Rongqiu's fingers, and they couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.
I saw a painting boat floating slowly from the center of the lake, and the painting boat was much larger and longer than the ordinary painting boat.
The painting boat has two layers, and the stacked eaves are several heavy. Light yarn tassels, bright lights, like a moving palace, and as if just from the fairyland to Qionglou.
In the vastness of the smoke, there was a faint sound of the piano.
The painting boat was closer, and a woman was faintly seen sitting in front of the piano table from the lakeside, and the sound of the piano was faint, like crying.
Xiao Ding, someone beside them began to ask the people who were traveling with them: "Who is the daughter of this fairy-like woman?" ”
"You don't know this, it's really lonely and unheard, except for the daughter of Xiao Qiu Houye's family, who can have this pomp." Friends laughed.
"Little Qiu Houye? Could it be Qiu Fengcheng, the hereditary general of the left guard in Lin'an City? ”
"Otherwise, could it be that there is another little Qiu Houye in Lin'an?"
"I heard that although Qiu Fengcheng is a hereditary waiter, he is not confused when he is over the age but has no children under his knees, only this one daughter, like a pearl in the palm of his hand."
"What's more, it is said that this woman's name is Qiu Ruoli, she looks like a country and a city, she is eighteen years old this year, and she is a hundred officials of the Chinese military department, and the prince of Wang Sun is all intending to come to the door to raise relatives, and she does not know how many legs of matchmakers have been broken."
"Obedient, it's terrible, I don't know whose son is lucky enough to hug the beauty."
"Don't think about it, I heard that this Miss Qiu already has a sweetheart."
Everyone inevitably booed, like this kind of woman with a good life and a beautiful person, who wouldn't secretly think about it in their hearts.
Tang Qingqing looked at Xiao Ding and said jokingly: "Like this kind of beautiful woman who was born in the country and the city, do you want to see it?" ”
"I want to think so badly!" Xiao Ding said with a smile.
Tang Qingqing made a joke casually, but when she thought that Xiao Ding would really admit it, she was so angry that she stomped her feet and scolded: "You are really a shameless little villain." ”
After scolding, he was about to pinch Xiao Ding's arm, but he saw that Xiao Ding had been staring intently at the painting boat in the middle of the lake.
She was so angry that she kicked Xiao Ding's leg directly and scolded: "Why, your soul was taken away by her?" ”
Unexpectedly, Xiao Ding was not angry, and said softly: "Look at the back of the painting boat." ”
When everyone heard this, they looked at the center of the lake, only to see that behind the boat, there was a small flat boat in the distance, there was only one person on the boat, dressed in white like snow, and he was not seen paddling, but the flat boat was breaking the waves on the water, obviously he used internal force to urge the hull of the boat, so that the small flat boat seemed to be windless and automatic.
"Skinny monkey, go get a boat, let's go join in the fun......" Xiao Ding still looked at the painting boat in the middle of the lake, as if his whole heart was attracted by the sound of the piano.
Tang Qingqing was no longer angry, he understood that Xiao Ding would not be so abrupt, what must be his intention.
Of course, Sikong Jieyue also understood, so he quickly disappeared into the crowd.
Xiao Ding knew that Sikong Picking Moon would definitely be able to get a boat, and it was the peak of the Lantern Festival at this time, so if he wanted to rent a boat and buy a boat at this time, he had to queue up until midnight, but if Sikong Picking Moon shot, he wouldn't need to, and maybe he could even save rent.
Xiao Ding finally looked back at Tang Qingqing and Ye Rongqiu beside him, and whispered: "That man in white is very suspicious, maybe it will have something to do with the matter we are pursuing, I will go to the meeting with the thin monkey, you can disperse and observe in the dark to see if there is anything abnormal." ”
Zhou Ziheng didn't travel with them today, presumably because he felt that a bad old man should not disturb the young man's Yaxing.
"Shhhhh Sure enough, Sikong Jieyue also got a small boat out of nowhere, a dilapidated small fishing boat, and there was a pungent fishy smell in the cabin.
Xiao Ding jumped lightly and jumped on the boat, and he didn't have the heart to tease Sikong Jieyue at the moment: "Go." ”
The two of them slowly rowed towards the painting boat in the middle of the lake.
The white-clothed man took the flat boat from the middle of the lake is only dozens of zhang away, perhaps because he feels that the speed of the flat boat is too slow, the white-clothed man suddenly swept up in the air, his feet on the flat boat a little, the whole person is like an arrow from the string, flying towards the painting boat, when he is about to fall into the water, he raises a breath of true breath, taps the water surface with his toes, and the figure rows forward, three or five ups and downs, only three or five zhang away from the painting boat, only three or five zhang away from the painting boat, only to see his feet slam the lake, his body jumps up in the air, such as the wings of the big peng, fluttering lightly on the painting boat, standing behind the woman who strokes the qin.
The woman seemed to know who was behind her, but she didn't look back, and the jade hand pressed the strings lightly, and the sound of the piano stopped suddenly.
"You're finally here, I see you, it seems to be harder than the Weaver Girl seeing the cow......" The woman tilted her head slightly and sighed quietly.
The man in white slowly walked behind the woman, stroked the woman's shoulders with both hands, and said softly: "When I finish everything, I will come to accompany you every day." ”
The woman sighed, "You've said this many times, and you always have something to do, and you don't know when you'll really stop." ”
The man in white had a cold gaze and a cold voice: "This time I promise it will be soon!" “