Chapter 43: The Ice Lantern Festival (2)

Whenever the snow falls in the imperial capital, there is always an ice lantern festival.

The original practice is to pour water into a bucket to freeze it into a cylindrical ice mound, and then pour out the unfrozen water in the center of the ice mound to form a hollow "lampshade", and then put light sources, such as candles and oil lamps, into the lampshade.

In this way, an ice lamp and done.

One of the advantages of this ice lamp is that it is less susceptible to cold winds.

Later, the skilled craftsmen found that the ice lantern was not only convenient to illuminate in winter, but also the shape of the shape was extremely beautiful, and they combined the ice lantern with the ice carving technology, and the shape of the ice lantern increased.

It can carve mountains, rivers, pavilions, garden jade screens, and even lifelike animals and plants.

In a land of ice and snow, the gifts of nature and the skillful hands of human beings combine to create a magnificent scene of ice lanterns.

The people in the imperial city naturally loved to see it, so it gradually evolved into a festival.

With the arrival of the Ice Lantern Festival, some shops that make lamps have recently made some small and exquisite ice lanterns for sale.

Zhao Chaoxi received an ice lantern that Zhao's father bought in a roadside shop when he returned home.

The appearance of this ice lantern is a cute rabbit, with a round body, and two erected ears that seem to be moving.

Zhao Qingwei walked out of the study, breathed, and happened to see Zhao Chaoxi lying on the stone table carved frozen ice mound.

It can be seen from the table full of crushed ice slags and the ice mounds that were thrown aside after failed carvings that Zhao Chaoxi has been tossing for a long time.

The young man in the dark clothes standing beside her was holding a piece of paper with a rabbit on his face with a helpless expression.

"You must have drawn something wrong." Zhao Chaoxi looked at the ice lump in his hand that was carved and polished out of it at all, and tried to shake the pot.

Li Fu unceremoniously poured cold water.

"The slave's picture is wrong, Miss, you also have the ice lantern rabbit that Xiangye bought in the shop outside...... Even if you draw a scoop according to the gourd, you will never ......"

Zhao Chaoxi immediately shouted, "Stop!" ”

She muttered melancholy and with a little indignation, "You don't know how difficult this thing is, this is not copying homework, it's one thing to look at, and it's another thing to do it." Okay, since you said that you can draw a scoop according to the gourd, then you can go up. ”

It's really hard.

Zhao Chaoxi pushed aside the ice mounds that had failed to carve in his hand, and counted the other failed ice mounds.

"One, two, three...... Heptad. ”

"Tsk."

Although Li Fu's tone was cold, the chuckle on the corner of his mouth never fell.

Apparently having fun.

He bent down, approached Zhao Chaoxi, and took the carving knife she was holding in her hand, "It's not wrong for Miss to carve it, it's just that there are a few wrong carvings." ”

Zhao Chaoxi looked at his operation with a serious face, and sighed in his heart, Li Fu actually knew everything, painting skills, ice sculptures.

Li Fu saw what she was thinking, and the hand carved with ice couldn't help but be stunned.

"Huh?" Zhao Chaoxi asked, "What's wrong?" ”

She is wearing a fiery red jacket today, with a circle of white velvet around her neck, two dumplings tied on the top of her hair, and her cheeks are red in pink due to the weather, which is very cute.

"Bunny." Li Fu said softly.

The young man's fingers are beautiful, fair and slender, and the bones are distinct.

I saw that he sometimes sharpened with a knife, sometimes carved and sharpened, sometimes held a ruler carefully, and after a while, a hollow rabbit-shaped ice cover gradually became a shape.

"Wow, that's amazing." Zhao Chaoxi exclaimed, the process of holding the finished product and seeing the finished product being carved out is different after all.

After Li reproduced it, he picked up the red beans on the table and put them in Zhao Chaoxi's palm, "Come, you put the finishing touch." ”

On the crystal clear ice sculpture, two round red beans are inlaid between the eye sockets of the ice rabbit.

Zhao Chaoxi picked up the ice rabbit and stood up happily, just thinking about showing it to Zhao's father, when he raised his eyes, he saw Zhao's father standing under the eaves, looking at himself with gentle eyes.

Today's snow is already a lot smaller, and it is fine, Zhao Chaoxi's fingers holding the ice lamp moved slightly, and his heart also moved.

Suddenly, a feeling hit the tip of her heart, today is so beautiful, she doesn't want the Ice Lantern Festival to come tomorrow.

Li Fu, who was standing behind her, rubbed his fingertips.

I thought to myself, is it because I don't want to hurt him?

The corners of his lips twitched slightly, and a small smile was pulled.

That would make it impossible for some people to go to the Ice Lantern Festival.

Some people can't come, and the little rabbit can't bear to be there alone.

The young man's dark pupils were like a pool of calm water, but under this calm, the turbulent waves brewed.

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"Yeon-hee, this dress suits you perfectly."

Xuanyuan Che leaned back on the chair in a daze, but when he saw Li Yanxi standing in front of him in the goose yellow jacket skirt, he seemed to come to life, hurriedly straightened up, and took her hand.

Xuanyuan Che looked at her sparkling eyes stupidly, and couldn't help touching the corners of her eyes.

The woman in her memory, dressed in a goose yellow dress and a pair of pink glass eyes, stood in the wind and snow.

That scene coincided with the scene in front of him in his eyes, Xuanyuan Che muttered, and his steps approached Li Yanxi.

Lee Yeon-hee was at his mercy, and the masculine aura between youth and maturity came to her face, which made her subconsciously take a step back.

Seeing this, Xuanyuan Che seemed to be stimulated, and clenched Li Yanxi's arms like a madman, and the next moment, he hugged the person into his arms.

"Don't run away, please, don't go."

He shuddered at every word, as if he was terrified that Lee Yeon-hee would leave him.

Lee Yeon-hee's breath faltered, and she was hugged by him, and a trace of disgust crossed her eyes, but it quickly disappeared.

She gently hugged Xuanyuan Che back and whispered softly in his ear, "How could I go, Lord Wang." You saved my life, and no one would leave you, but I wouldn't. ”

"Good Ayan, my good Ayan...... Promise not to leave, you must keep your word. ”

The candlelight in the house was flickering, the two embraced each other, the cold wind was howling outside, and one stood in front of the window, looking at each other coldly.

The window paper outlined the slender figure of the girl and the clear and sturdy figure of Xuanyuan, and the conversation between the two came out through the window.

"Two idiots."

Li Fu commented.

"Since it's so hard to give up, let's hold it for another day and a night."

said that it was too late and that it was too fast, Li Fushou quickly pushed open the window, and almost at the same time, two silver needles sandwiched between his fingers swept towards the two people who were holding him.

Before Xuanyuan Che and Li Yanxi could react, they only heard the sound of the window opening, and they hugged each other and fell to the ground.

The means were very disgraceful, but Li Fu clapped his hands with satisfaction.

No matter what the process and means are, as long as the goal is achieved, it is a good way.

The silver needles were smeared with enough sleep pills for them to sleep for two days and one night, just enough to make them miss the ice lantern festival that was coming tomorrow.

In fact, the Ice Lantern Festival is only for one day, but Li Fu is afraid that Li Yanxi will wake up in the middle of the night and run over to give birth to some moth, so he simply let them sleep for one more day.

Li Fu thoughtfully pulled the futon on the bed and covered the two of them firmly.

Then he jumped out of the window.

Back at the Prime Minister's Mansion, Li Fu took a basin of water and carefully scrubbed the two fingers he had just taken the futon.

Knowing that Zhao Chaoxi was going to punish him for kneeling on the ice at the Ice Lantern Festival, his mood was excited.

He could almost foresee that tomorrow night, he pretended to faint, and the little rabbit waited left and right and waited for the so-called "heroine", so he could only step forward and warm him with his own arms.

Suddenly, thinking of one of Zhao Chaoxi's thoughts, Li Fu's smile became more and more bright.

This really makes him feel like a spring.