That premonition was fleeting, Su Mo returned to his normal appearance as if nothing had happened, placed Zhou Mingrui on the sofa in the living room, mentioned that he went back to get his curious lamp, and turned his head into the room again.

Because everything was too natural, Zhou Mingrui's expression was a little trance-like, and he even wondered if it was his own delusion before.

He struggled for a moment, looking at Su Mo's attitude, as if he didn't want to discuss this matter in depth.

"I'll ask again later." Making this decision, Zhou Mingrui let out a sigh, "However, the lantern ......"

He was worthy of the name and knew a little bit of everything, so after Su Mo replied, "Didn't you say it yourself?" It's to light the lamp", and I already reacted.

When ridiculing Su Mo, who was steady and self-disciplined in his impression, would even stay up late, Zhou Mingruihua used a common saying "Only state officials are allowed to set fires, and people are not allowed to light lamps", and this sentence itself is allusion.

Legend has it that during the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a state whose name was Tian Deng, who was tyrannical and arrogant, because his name was "Deng", and the people in the state were not allowed to say any word with the same sound as the word "Deng" when talking.

After that, the annual Lantern Festival is coming, according to the past practice, the state city should be set off for three days of fireworks, three days of lanterns to celebrate, but also need to post notices in advance, so that the people come to watch the lanterns at that time.

However, this time, the official who wrote the notice in the yamen was in a dilemma, if he directly used "light the lamp" would offend the Taishou, but he could not write it like this, and the meaning could not be understood, and in the end he could only change the word "lamp" to the word "fire", so the notice became "Honshu set fire for three days as usual".

After this unusual notice was posted, the common people were shocked and noisy, and some guests from other places were even more confused, and they really thought that the government would take advantage of the Lantern Festival to set fire in the city for three days, so they packed their luggage and fought to leave the place of right and wrong.

The local people were already very dissatisfied with the tyranny and unreasonableness of Tian Deng's dictatorship on weekdays, and this time when they saw the notice posted by the government, they were even more angry, and said angrily: "Only the state officials are allowed to set fires, and the people are not allowed to light lamps, what kind of world is this!" ”

Although this proverb has been passed down to future generations and has been extended to more meanings, the allusion to its birth is related to the custom of lighting lanterns during the Lantern Festival.

And today happens to be the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, and two days later will be the Lantern Festival in 2016.

Zhou Mingrui's thoughts turned quickly, and in just a few seconds, Su Mo had already walked out of the bedroom with two lanterns.

"This is it."

Su Mo put the lantern in his hand on the coffee table in the living room and placed it in front of Zhou Mingrui.

Zhou Mingrui carefully observed the two orange-yellow lanterns.

The outer skin is paper, the skeleton is bamboo, and inside is a red candle that has not yet been lit.

In addition, the shape of these two lanterns is not the usual round lantern, but closer to the square Kong Ming lantern.

"Huh......"

Zhou Mingrui suddenly noticed that something was wrong, and reached out and touched the junction at the top of one of the lanterns.

The guess in his heart was vaguely confirmed, and he looked up and asked, "Is this the lantern you tied yourself?" ”

Su Mo admitted reservedly: "Yes. ”

I didn't expect Su Mo's handiwork to be good.

It's a level that can be taken out and set up a stall. ’

Zhou Mingrui was speechless for a while, and thoughts were flooding in his mind.

'Do you make lanterns yourself to show your sincerity?'

'Lantern lanterns are used to pray for blessings......

Is there something you want to fulfill? ’

"However, next Monday is the Lantern Festival," Zhou Mingrui looked puzzled, "Today is only Saturday, why stay up late two days in advance to tie up lanterns?" ”

"Haven't you heard an old folk saying?"

Su Mo bypassed Zhou Mingrui and sat down on the other side of the sofa.

He whispered: "Thirteen and fourteen gods look at the lights, fifteen or sixteen people look at the lights, and seventeen or eighteen ghosts look at the lights." ”

Zhou Mingrui's eyes widened in surprise, and his face showed curiosity: "Is there anything to say about this sentence?" ”

Su Mo replied leisurely:

"On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the lantern is lit to celebrate the Lantern Festival.

"From thirteen to eighteen, the first day is called the test lamp, the fourteenth is called the magic lamp, and the fifteenth is the human lamp.

"The eighteenth day of the last day, the light of this day is also called the ghost lamp."

"Ghost Lantern ......"

There is that "festive" side lying "Zhuyu in front", and now Zhou Mingrui can't hear this, and subconsciously rises a trace of vigilance.

"Sounds like," he pondered the words, "it seems to have something to do with Halloween?" ”

"No, it's not at all." Su Mo shook his head and said, "Zhongyuan is the local official's forgiveness of sins, so the underworld opened the ghost gate, so that the ghosts who have not yet entered the reincarnation will travel and return to the yang world to temporarily reunite with their relatives; And Shangyuan is blessed by heavenly officials, so on the eighteenth day...... In fact, only two ghost lamps can be lit. ”

Zhou Mingrui asked, "Which two?" ”

Su Mo's eyes deepened a little, and he replied, "One is the soul lamp, and the other is the soul lamp." ”

Without waiting for Zhou Mingrui to urge, he explained to himself:

"The Soul Lamp, as the name suggests, can summon the souls that remain in the world.

"But as one of the only two ghost lamps that Shangyuan can ignite, not all cats and dogs can use the spirit lamp.

"The caller must have some connection with the spirit being called, and the closer the relationship, the greater the probability of success.

"As for the Soul Lamp—"

He was silent for a while before he continued: "The Soul Attracting Lantern is a special ghost lamp, and there are two main ways to use it......

"Pick up the souls stranded in the world and go to the underworld to be reincarnated?" Zhou Mingrui put forward a conjecture.

"Well, that's the biggest use of the Soul Lamp." "But there is another situation, which can be seen as a reverse summoning of the same principle as the conjuring lamp." At this time, the function of the soul lamp is to guide the soul of the target to the place where the person it is most obsessed with is. ”

Zhou Mingrui, who heard it for the first time, was surprised: "Is it really that magical?" ”

Su Mo smiled slightly and stared at him: "You believe it?" ”

Zhou Mingrui: ?

He questioned his soul: "So why are you talking so eloquent......?" ”

"Oh." Su Mo understated, "It's probably because I read a lot of idle books." ”

Zhou Mingrui was choked by this reason.

There are many slots, but there are no mouths.

=。 =

"Okay, let's stop talking." Su Mo looked at his appearance and laughed rarely, "It's afternoon now, but we haven't eaten lunch yet." ”

"Are you making lunch now?" Zhou Mingrui saw Su Mo get up from the sofa and walked straight to the kitchen opposite the living room, he also stood up, and said after him, "I can help......

Before stepping into the kitchen, he was stopped by Su Mo's outstretched hand.

"You've been here since then, but now, you're a guest for the first time." Su Mo's expression was serious, "As a guest, just wait to be entertained, how can there be any reason to let the guests help?" ”

Then Su Mo manually helped Zhou Mingrui turn around, just like Zhou Mingrui did in the grilled fish restaurant, and pushed him in the direction of the master bedroom.

"Go and tidy up your room, take the luggage that should be taken, put it away, don't delay it until the night."

Zhou Mingrui stood still and obediently went back to the room to pack his luggage.

He became serious, so to speak, and soon arranged the empty room except for the furniture.

Feeling that it was almost done, Zhou Mingrui first went to the bathroom next door to use the toilet, and came to the kitchen door after washing his hands.

Through the glass sliding door, he noticed a pot in front of Su Mo that was cooking, and subconsciously recalled the recipes he had seen.

Zhou Mingrui couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, and the soul of complaining in his heart was burning: "Are you still thinking about your clear soup and noodles with green vegetables?" ”

"Obviously, I added an egg." Su Mo corrected, "I bought everything, I can't waste food, right?" ”

As he spoke, he took out a small porcelain bowl from another electric steamer that was being kept warm, took another spoon, then turned around and walked towards Zhou Mingrui, opened the glass door of the kitchen, and handed him the porcelain bowl with the spoon.

"Little rice balls, pad your stomach first."

After receiving the feed before the meal, Zhou Mingrui looked down.

This is a bowl of warm osmanthus wine stuffed with small balls, the delicate white glutinous rice balls look unusually soft and glutinous, the golden dried osmanthus flowers are dotted in between, and the air is filled with the sweet aroma of wine and osmanthus flowers complementing each other.

As a genuine dessert control...... Zhou Mingrui silently pressed his paw and nodded like.

He returned to the couch in the living room with the bowl.

The lanterns that had been placed on the coffee table had been put away, and in front of his previous seat, there was a disposable cup full of water.

Zhou Mingrui squinted happily, finished enjoying the bowl of osmanthus wine-stuffed dumplings, and picked up the paper cup on the coffee table to drink saliva.

As soon as the water in the cup was in his mouth, his expression became subtle.

'Not plain water? How weird does this smell......

'And it always feels a little familiar......

Zhou Mingrui continued to take two sips of water, trying to find the source of familiarity in his mind.

He quickly found the answer.

This is a glass of wolfberry water, the kind that Su Mo's blue fat man thermos cup soaks every day.

Zhou Mingrui used to be very curious when he saw Su Mo drinking it every day, so he asked for two wolfberries and soaked them himself.

Then he was dissuaded by the strange smell.

Zhou Mingrui held his chin with one hand and fell into deep thought at the wolfberry water in the other hand.

'Even the daily drinking water at home is this thing, Su Mo, how much do you love wolfberry soaked water!

Is it possible that I also want to start the health life of 'soaking wolfberries in a thermos cup' in advance?

'Don't! Don't do this kind of thing! ’

He complained silently in his heart, silently drank the cup of wolfberry water, and showed a relieved expression after putting the cup back on the coffee table.

Zhou Mingrui looked up at the kitchen, Su Mo was still busy inside, and he had to continue to pass the time.

Is it to play with your phone for a while? Still is......

At this time, Zhou Mingrui noticed another thing on the coffee table.

An old book on canvas.

The white cover of the book has turned yellow and gray, and the cover directly above it is printed with three dark red bold slash double arrows, and nothing else.

Zhou Mingrui recalled a little, and was surprised to find that the book had been placed here since he entered the door.

But he didn't pay much attention to it...... Like the book itself, silent and unremarkable.

Zhou Mingrui once again diverged his thinking, he had seen Su Mo read this book.

In the twilight of that day, when he awoke from his slumber......

Thinking of this, Zhou Mingrui was inadvertently aroused with a trace of curiosity.

There should be no taboo about this book being placed here so generously, right?

Well, at a glance, he just took a look, secretly flipped it open to take a look......

Five seconds later.

"This book? You can see it if you want, there's no need to run over and ask. ”

Su Mo in the kitchen turned around and raised his eyebrows at Zhou Mingrui, who was holding a book at the door, and said.

Then he added: "But you shouldn't understand." ”

On the other side, Zhou Mingrui, who had just turned the first page, closed the book decisively after browsing for a second.

Yes, he admits that he really can't read this dazzling pile of strange foreign characters......

"What's this?" He asked, confused.

Su Mo cast a glance at Zhou Mingrui and casually reported a familiar title to modern people:

"How Steel is Made."