Chapter 64: Guess the lantern riddle, guess the affection
At the beginning of the lanterns, the colorful night scene is particularly charming, the bustling crowd, the lively streets, in this solemn capital, but add a bit of vitality.
"The rain hits the lights and the lights are hard to extinguish, and the wind blows the color and changes the name. If it is not from the sky, it will be set as a moon star. Nalan couldn't help but blurt out a line of poetry.
Hongli was engrossed in looking at Nalan, who knew that she actually said a sentence of Li Bai's poem, and couldn't help but be stunned, and then followed Nalan's gaze, and when she saw the characters on the lantern, she knew that it was used to guess riddles, and couldn't help but smile.
"Grass during the day, air at night. A small lantern hangs behind him. ”
Nalan was startled, turned his head to look at Hongli, and said suspiciously: "You were talking just now?" ”
Hongli raised the corners of his eyebrows and said with a smile: "What do you say? ”
Nalan was even more surprised, he didn't expect that the person in front of him was so talented that he would actually fight a mystery against a mystery.
"Can you guess?"
"Little girl, cool at night, with lanterns, shining." Nalan smiled proudly, although he admired his talent, it didn't mean that he was also stupid.
"Haha, okay, what you said is much more concise than mine."
Seeing that Nalan would actually answer him in the same way, Hongli became extremely happy in his heart, and that feeling was like he had finally found a home, such joy.
"Have you ever heard that when you draw is round, when you write, when you write, when you are short, when you are short, when you are long?"
Nalan was studious, and today happened to be a festival, so he naturally became interested in guessing riddles, and forgot about Fu Heng and Dong Sixian for a while.
"Is this a mystery in the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi?"
Nalan nodded.
"If I'm not mistaken, Wang Jipu also told such a mystery to respond to him, there is a fish in the East China Sea, without a head and a tail, and removing the backbone is the answer."
Nalan nodded and said with a smile: "Can you also think of one?" ”
Hongli glanced at the lantern, suddenly raised his arm to tear the characters off, and said, "Everything is empty." ”
Because Nalan was a little puzzled by Hongli's sudden actions, he didn't understand the aftermath for a while.
"Why?"
"The so-called empty eyes are everything, but there is nothing, if there is no one around, this character is on it, isn't it a snake to add to it."
"Isn't that a dejoratory word?"
Nalan said, Hongli chuckled, looked at Nalan and said: "Although it is derogatory, but this word can just describe the day, although the eyes are empty, but there is only one person in the heart, monopoly, it is enough, isn't it?" ”
I don't know why, Nalan looked at Hongli's clear, but dark eyes, and couldn't help but be a little afraid, is such a person really the son of a rich and noble family?
Seeing the confusion in Nalan's eyes, Hongli asked, "Still puzzled?" ”
Nalan shook his head.
"It's not."
"Okay, then I'll test you."
"The bottom of the pen is majestic, and the wind and moon in front of the building are from spring and autumn."
I thought he would be a mystery, but I didn't expect that there would be a couplet, Nalan tilted his head and thought about it, suddenly smiled, and replied: "The green mountains do not ink thousands of autumn paintings, and the flowing water has no strings and ten thousand guqins." ”
"It's really poetic."
"Praise, but compared to your words, I'm a little less domineering." Nalan said modestly.
"That's what makes it work for each other, doesn't it?"
"You've given me enough face."
Nalan suddenly felt a little uncomfortable with such an occasion, so he looked away, and when he looked, he actually saw scattered lights in the air, and his face was happy, it was Kong Ming lantern.
"Are you leaving?"
"Where are you going?" Hongli hasn't reacted yet.
"Put the lantern." Because Nalan turned back to Hongli and said, that momentary smile was fixed in Hongli's mind.
Nalan was overjoyed and didn't want to waste time to explain more, so he grabbed Hongli's sleeve with one hand and ran away.
Although Hongli was caught, he could run in front of her, but at this moment he didn't want to, for the first time, he felt that the feeling of being caught was so beautiful, just like that, just the two of them, she didn't have the tedious things that made her sad and cry, he didn't have the things to cheat, so be it, let time slow down.
"How about you go and help buy two Kong Ming lanterns, how about I wait for you here?"
The two of them had already run to the table of the Grand Canal, and the hand that grabbed Hongli's sleeve was also released, leaving only the crumpled marks between the sleeves.
Many vendors shouted, and the Kong Ming lantern was also like a star, and that scene attracted Nalan, so that she didn't want to leave, and blurted out for a while to let Hongli buy the Kong Ming lantern.
Of course, Hongli was also willing, and was about to buy it, when he suddenly remembered that he didn't have silver taels on him, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, and his speech was a little slurred.
"Lan'er, me."
"What's wrong?"
"I didn't bring any silver taels." Although he is the fourth prince, he does not often go out of the palace, and even if he goes out of the palace, he is paid by others, so he does not have the habit of bringing silver taels.
"Ah, I'm sorry, I was negligent."
Nalan thought about it, how could he let someone spend money to buy Kong Ming lanterns, but when he remembered that he didn't have any money on him, he was also a little puzzled, how could the son of a rich businessman not have money with him, doubts were doubts, but it was someone else's business, how could he ask about it.
"You wait for me here, and I'll come when I go."
It's night, the lights are not so strong, you can't see Hongli's complexion, only Hongli himself knows what his face has turned red.
"I will go with you, and I will pay you back to the future."
Nalan couldn't help but laugh when he heard Hongli say this.
"Although you are not under the master's door, you are also my senior brother, so why bother to see outside."
Hongli stopped talking, he was really embarrassed.
When Nalan bought back two Kong Ming lanterns from the vendor, he gave them to Hongli, and Hongli took them, he was still a little puzzled, if it was poetry and songs, he would naturally be fine, but he really didn't understand this thing in front of him.
"You haven't played this?" Nalan saw Hongli's doubts.
"Yes."
"I'll teach you." Although Nalan was puzzled, he still didn't ask.
"Come, unfold it, and I'll fetch you a fire, and you can write the message you want to write on the back of it." After saying that, Nalan ran to the countertop, there were many lit candles, and took one of them.
"Is it used to ignite this?"
Hongli saw her holding a candle, afraid of burning her hands, so he hurriedly took it, and pointed to the middle of the bottom of the lamp, where a piece of gold paper stained with kerosene was tied.
"Yes."
"Ah, I forgot to pick up the pen."
"No, I'll go." Hongli immediately grabbed Nalan's figure that was about to leave, and couldn't help asking, "You seem to care about this?" It's a lot of fun. ”
Nalan thought and nodded, but did not reply.
Hongli didn't ask any further questions, so he dropped a few drops of wax oil from the candle, fixed it on the ground, got up and left, and went to get the pen.
"That pen is next to the candle, you don't need silver taels, just use it up and put it back."
Nalan admonished, as if he was clattering.
Hongli didn't feel unhappy at all, and even felt a little intimate, but the silver pair seemed to be his fatal injury.
Hongli took the pen and handed one to Nalan, who took it, turned his back to Hongli, and began to write lightly on the cotton paper with the pen.
Hongli looked at the back, also picked up the pen to write, after a short time he bent down with a candle to light the fuel paper, Kong Ming lantern gradually expanded, Hongli lifted it, ran a few steps, and then, Kong Ming lantern seemed to have wings, Ran flew into the sky, Hongli looked at the lantern, can't help but be like the world, praying that his wish can be realized.
After Nalan finished writing, he looked at the row of words, and had an indescribable feeling in his heart, is such a wish a little far-fetched, turned his head to look at him, who knew that he had actually run into the distance, but there was no Kong Ming Lantern in his hand, and he had already flown away.
Looking at the candle on the ground, she picked it up and lit it, watched it gradually expand, looked at the row of words, and gradually looked particularly dazzling under the light, Nalan ran a few steps in the opposite direction, released the Kong Ming lantern in her hand, and smiled.
"What wishes did you write?"
The sudden voice startled Nalan, don't think about it, the voice is Hongli, Nalan thinks that he is his senior brother, and he can be regarded as an old man, not to mention that he met here again today, it can be regarded as fate, so he did not hide it: "I wish to have a heart." ”
I didn't expect her to be so calm, calmly let Hongli feel distressed, a one-hearted person, this is also her own wish, but who is her one-hearted person, so that she will care so much, will be so attentive.
Hongli didn't speak, he didn't know what to say, he turned his head and glanced at his Kong Ming lantern, "white heads are not separated" is a word written by himself, and her wish to be a person is so suitable, but it is completely inappropriate.
A heart sutra illuminates the moon, but the bright moon shines on the flowers.