At the end of the alleys that run through the streets is a scurry of waterways, which are not as wide as the main river, and which are also sporadically lit by lights. Qiong Yi squatted on the rocks by the river, holding the lotus lantern, and looked back at the eyes of the three of them falling on her, and couldn't help laughing: "I'm a little nervous when they all stare at me like this." ”

After speaking, she pinched the trick, and used magic to light the short candle in the heart of the lamp, the beating candle flame lit up a whole lotus lamp, and the petals made of paper revealed a faint soft light, she held the lamp handle in her hand, and put it lightly in the water, thinking in her heart: I hope that next month's assessment can be passed, and I hope that I can continue to come to Qingfeng to listen to the school in the coming year, I hope ...... I can spend a little longer, a little longer.

"Wished?" Sheng Xuan asked her resentfully.

"Hmm."

After Sheng Xuan lit the lantern in his hand, he put it into the river and said in his heart: Then I hope her wish can come true.

The two lanterns floated down the river one after the other, turning into two clusters of high beams.

"I'll go back and hang this lamp in the house." Yan Ting took a deep look at the lamp in his hand and said.

After putting on the lights, everyone went back to the market, and saw the two children in front of them holding candy paintings, and followed the flow of people to find the candy painters. The young man handed the peacock-shaped candy figure in his hand to the little girl who was staring at him, and asked them, "What do the guest officers want to draw?" ”

Su Ye thought for a while: "Draw me a tiger, be fierce!" ”

"Okay. What about this one? ”

Yan Ting held the goldfish lamp in his hand, "Please follow this painting." ”

"If I say, just draw a bird." Qiong also smiled at the man, Sheng Xuan said lightly, "I can do it." ”

The young sugarmaker scooped up the syrup, which was burned brightly and thickly, and his wrist was steady, and the syrup pulled out a long sticky thread where the spoon slowly poured, and solidified on the frozen slate, and after a few strokes, a lifelike tiger jumped out. He took a thin knife and slid it along the gap between the bamboo skewer and the slate, and the tiger jumped out of the slate table and became a crystal clear sugar painting in his hand.

Qiong also looked surprised and funny, and the young man smiled and handed the sugar painting to Su Ye, "Oh, take it, guest officer." After that, I drew a few more pictures one after another, and I completed them in one go. Joan, who had taken the painting of the little bird, also raised it up to take a look, and looked at it again and again, so happy that she was reluctant to swallow.

"If you don't eat again, will I help you?" Su Ye shook the sugar painting with the lost tiger's head in his hand and quipped.

"Annoying!" Joan also replied, pinching the candy and drawing her mouth, and continued to walk forward with the flow of people. Sheng Xuan didn't eat the candy painting, it was too sweet for him, and he half-handed behind Qiong Yi to prevent her from being hit by pedestrians. The lights in front are particularly bright, and when I got closer, I saw a half-zhang high wooden frame on the side of the road, and the red lacquered wooden frame was hung with strings of paper lamps, and each lamp was tied with a red paper ribbon, and there was handwriting on it.

Joan also stood in front of the lampstand, and the candles were as bright as day. She raised her hand to hold a piece of paper tape, turned around and said, "Sheng Xuan, it's a lantern riddle." ”

Sheng Xuanyan lowered his head slightly and looked behind her, Qiong also felt that he was getting closer, and his ears were the heat of his snort: "I heard that as long as you can answer the riddle, you can take away the paper lantern with the riddle tied." ”

Joan also looked at the vacant positions, and said that there were no wonder there were so many less.

"I'm afraid the rest is a little difficult." Sheng Xuan looked around and slightly hooked the corners of his lips: "Find a paper lamp you like, Qiong Yi." ”

She smiled and asked, "Just pick?" ”

"Of course."

Guessing lantern riddles is full of interest, so there are many pedestrians who stop here to solve the riddles. Qiong also guessed a few anagrams with Sheng Xuan, and measured that the riddle should be solved, so he took off the paper lamp and went to reveal the riddle, "What about Su Ye and Yan Tingshen?" Joan was also holding the paper lamp, and suddenly thought of the two who were missing.

"Over there." Sheng Xuan pointed resentfully, and the two people on the other end were standing in front of the lampstand, as if they were also guessing riddles. "There are a lot of people, don't get lost." He said, holding out his hand to her.

Joan also hurriedly took the candy painting in her mouth and met his hand, interlocking her fingers.

There was a warm and soft touch in his palm, Sheng Xuan's heart throbbed, and the short road that went parallel to her to the mystery point also became distant at this moment, and the tourists on his side were weaving, and the night was hazy, and he suddenly realized that this seemed to be a good time to convey his heart to her.

After realizing this, his breathing unconsciously became heavier, and the soft snow under his feet became a little awkward, he turned his head and opened his mouth: "Qiong Yi, I ......"

Unfortunately, at this moment, two children running around on the street bumped into them, and the words were scattered and hoarse.

It was easy to slip in the snow, and Joan was also knocked into a stumble, and the first thing she subconsciously did was not to stabilize her body, but to pull the child who was about to fall, but fortunately, Sheng Xuan's resentment reacted quickly and helped her.

The child's parents chased after him, apologized to the two of them again and again, and also pulled the child to apologize to her, Joan also waved her hand and said, "It's okay, but there are a lot of people here, and the snow is slippery, so let's keep an eye on the children." ”

The couple nodded: "Yes." "Then he took the child and walked away.

Sheng Xuanyan let go of the hand that was holding her back, looked at her and stopped talking.

Joan didn't know what he was going to say, so he moved his wrist lightly and pulled him: "What did you want to tell me just now?" ”

Seeing that Sheng Xuan's face was a little red, and her eyes were evasive, she reacted to something, and her heart suddenly beat faster.

"No, I say......," he said awkwardly, "don't run around when the festival is over." ”

Is this what you're going to say?

"Oh." Joan also lowered her head, full of disappointment, and said, "I won't run around." ”

But in his heart, he said: Sheng Jun, nerd, nerd!

Sheng Xuan bit his lip resentfully, and after being interrupted halfway, his mind was in a mess, and he couldn't spit out the words that came to his mouth as if he had lost his voice. He closed his eyes, a little remorseful: ...... Why did I just talk nonsense?

The atmosphere between the two was a little stiff, like people who had been frozen by this cold weather for a long time.

After the lantern riddle is over, it is the dance of praying for snow at the end of the lantern festival, and in the sound of music and drums, the white-clothed dancers dance on the stage, and after the dance, it really snows.

"Listening to Su Ye, after accepting the blessings of the Snow Maiden with lanterns, the lantern festival will be considered complete." Sheng Xuanyan pointed to the crowded stage not far away and said, "I carried the lamp to 'ask for blessing' to the Snow Girl, there are many people over there, you wait for me here, I will be back soon." ”

She nodded, "Yes." ”

Joan also finished eating the sugar painting, and stood in front of the lampstand with the cold hand stove, and there were only a few paper lamps left on the lampstand, half-bright and half-off. Except for the stage on one side, most of the people on the street are less, the children and the residents of the town have returned to their homes to rest, and the remaining pedestrians are mostly tourists, taking advantage of the last lights to feel the aftermath of the lantern festival.

Qiong also heard the child's sobbing cry, her voice was weak, she was a little puzzled in her heart, and thought of Sheng Xuan's complaining advice, and said that she should be fine if she didn't go far, so she followed the cry and saw a boy dressed in gorgeous clothes.

The child was wearing a thick jacket embroidered with gold thread and a bikin, and she guessed which child of a rich family it was, and asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”

The boy looked up and sniffled: "Woo...... My lanterns, my lanterns have been snatched away! He raised his hand and looked at a young man who looked a little older and was running down the street in the distance, and he was tossing a faint lantern in his hand, which seemed to be dancing.

Qiong also raised her eyebrows, she had seen a lot of snatching things between children, but this young man was obviously bullying the small, so he squatted down, handed the copper stove in his hand to the boy, wiped his tears for him, and coaxed: "Don't cry, I have a lot of beautiful lanterns, otherwise I will give those to you?" ”

The boy looked at her empty hands: "You don't, you liar!" ”

"Somewhere else, you wait here with me for a while, and you'll see it in a while."

"I don't want it! I don't want it! I just want my old lantern! The boy cried more and more, and took her hand and walked to the street: "You help me, sister, you can help me get it back......"

Qiong also made a difficulty, she had already walked far away from the place where Sheng Xuan had asked her to wait, but she was afraid that he would not be able to find herself when the lantern was brought back.

The boy in the distance kicked and played with the lantern as a juju, and made a face at the boy and Joan, pinched a snowball and smashed it: "Haha! I've got it, it's mine! Do you still want to get it back? Dream! ”

The boy cried "Wow-"

Qiong Yi's face froze: "Other people's things, go back!" ”

The young man snorted: "Old witch! Who listens to you! "Then he will run away.

Living so big, Qiong Ye has never heard others call her an "old witch", does she have anything to do with this word! I couldn't bear it anymore, and scolded: "It's really arrogant! Then he said to the boy, "Wait here." I'll get it back for you! ”

Seeing that Joan also ran away, the boy immediately stopped crying.

Joan also ran a hundred meters away, looking around left and right and no longer saw the young man, "Strange, are you hiding?" She thought to herself. There were no pedestrians on the street, the lights were dim, and looking at the dark fork in the road, Joan was also a little uneasy, swallowed a breath to stabilize her mind, and walked forward tentatively, and called out loudly: "Hey! Don't hide here! How old are you and still bullying children? Give someone else's lantern back! ”

The surroundings were quiet and there was no response.

However, a moment later came her echo.

Wrong.

How can there be an echo on the street?

No way?

Qiong Yi missed a beat in her heart, realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly turned back, but behind her was no longer the street she had just come, it had become a void of darkness, her fear increased sharply, and then she looked at the road ahead, it was a secluded path, lit with a miserable green fire in the distance, extremely weird.

I'm not going to be fooled, am I? Did the boy do it on purpose? Or is it the two of them working together...... Joan was also puzzled, clenched her fists, what kind of place is this, is it possible...... It's the "Stygian Street" that Su Ye said, right?

The road under his feet was enveloped in the black, and he couldn't see anything clearly, it was black that he couldn't see his fingers. Her heart was pounding in her chest, and her breathing was rapid.

Hades Street is an infernal place, a place of ghosts...... Joan also covered her heart and forced her composure, but the more she thought about it, the more panicked she became.

Don't panic...... No......

She stepped backwards, trying to grope her way out.

"Oops...... It's finally here......" Like a ghost voice coming from the deep valley, it sounded from the soles of her feet, and Joan also trembled in fright and jumped to her feet, "Ah! ——”