The floating lanterns fly into the distance, like stars lighting up the night.

Lu Yu looked up until the vendor buying and selling lamps beside her stopped her.

"Girl, like floating lights? Do you want to take one with you? The boss wrapped in a sheepskin jacket smiled and said, "We have any style, you can choose slowly!" ”

Lu Yu came back to her senses and was about to refuse, when a voice suddenly spoke before her: "Okay." ”

Lu Yu turned around, and there was a familiar figure in front of him.

Pei Yunyi?

This person is wearing a crimson pair of eagle-patterned brocade robes today, his posture is more and more loose, his appearance is extraordinary, not as sharp as when he wears a public uniform, and he is more like those noble sons who go out on a night tour, the color is moving.

Lu Yu took a step back and said, "Master Pei? ”

There were all kinds of floating lamps on the stall, Pei Yunyao picked one up casually, and said jokingly: "I didn't expect Dr. Lu to come to watch the lanterns, I thought you weren't interested in these." ”

"Occasionally, it's not as good as Master Pei's usual leisure." Lu Yu replied lukewarmly.

Seeing that Pei Yunyi's clothes were extraordinary, the lamp seller smiled more and more enthusiastically, and even changed his address to Lu Yu: "Miss, tonight's Lantern Festival, let's have a good time." Three arrows, if you hit the one—" He pointed to the other side: "I'll give you a lantern!" ”

Lu Yu looked in the direction he was pointing.

This stall was originally set up a small color shed in the market, and all kinds of lanterns were hung up and down outside the shed, and on the wall of the color shed, there was a black character on a red background, which was a round and huge "Fu" character written. In her hand, there was a pitch-black and shiny horn bow, and the arrow feathers were decorated with large red ribbons, and at a glance, she was beaming.

"A good omen!"

The boss looked at Pei Yunyi again: "Miss likes lights, this boy has extraordinary archery skills at a glance, help Miss win one!" ”

Pei Yunyao raised his eyebrows before taking the longbow in the other party's hand, and Lu Yu took the longbow in his hand away.

"I'll do it myself." She said.

Pei Yun was stunned.

Because of their excellent appearance, they just stayed here, which has attracted the attention of many people. I thought that Pei Yunyi would help Lu Yu shoot arrows to win the light, but I didn't expect Lu Yu to take the bow and arrow and want to use it himself. For a while, many people stopped to watch and watch the landing action.

Lu Yu raised his bow and arrows.

The horn bow was heavy and large, and the thin woman picked it up with a strange disobedience, which made one worry whether her slender arm would be crushed by the bow.

The movement of holding the bow looked a little difficult, and the gesture of holding the arrow was not very skilled, Pei Yunyi looked at it for a moment, and stepped forward to hold her arm: "Don't shake it." ”

Lu Yu was stunned for a moment.

There was a clear breath coming from the top of his head, and he kept his distance extremely well, his movements were not light or heavy, and he only supported her from behind, adjusting the posture of holding the arrow for her.

Lu Yu looked up and could see the other party's beautiful chin, and his arm stretched out from behind her and wrapped it around her shoulder, like a limping embrace.

Still too intimate.

Lu Yu frowned slightly, and his hand holding the bow and arrow loosened.

"Whoosh-"

The arrow from the string galloped away, hitting the edge of the word "Fu" diagonally, and the ribbon fell to the side.

The lamentation of the crowd sounded on all sides: "Oops, I didn't shoot!" ”

"Still can't do it."

Pei Yunyao's eyes moved, and he looked at Lu Yu in some surprise.

Lu Yu looked at the crooked arrow, and a trace of disappointment flashed in his eyes.

Didn't hit.

Speaking of which, it's not the first time she's drawn a bow.

Back then, on Luomei Peak, Yun Niang needed a corpse to make medicine, and Lu Yu had to go to the mass grave from time to time. Once, I saw a corpse that had been killed by a wolf, probably a hunter trapped in the snow in the mountains, his body had been eaten, and there were traps scattered around him, and a cracked bow and arrow.

Lu Yu buried the corpse, took the bow and arrow back and re-wound it with the thread, thinking that she could use the bow and arrow to hunt some foxes and rabbits and save them as dry food, but she didn't hit once—the animals in the mountains ran too fast, and her archery skills were not yet proficient.

But every once in a while, I practiced with a bow and arrow, and I also practiced some hands. It's just that the bow and arrow were broken after a few years, and no matter how much line was used, it didn't help, so Lu Yu put the bow and arrow away, and later when Yun Niang was buried, they were buried on Luomei Peak together.

After a few years, I drew the bow again, and I was born in the end.

There were men around who were watching the excitement and coaxed: "Little lady, don't waste the arrows in vain, quickly let the bow and arrows out, and let your lover win a light for you!" ”

"That's it!"

Pei Yunyi's expression paused slightly, and he glanced at the coaxing person coldly.

Lu Yu didn't care, and raised his hand to pick up the second arrow.

This time she was much more proficient in holding the bow than the first time, and it looked less jerky. Pei Yunyi took a step back slightly, and didn't hold her arm as he did to point, Lu Yu stared at the word "Fu" in the distance, and let go again.

"Whoosh-"

The arrows flew out.

"Just a little bit!" The crowd of onlookers slapped their thighs, and they were so annoyed that they seemed to have missed themselves, "It's all close to the word, it's a pity!" ”

Lu Yu's face was as usual.

The lamp seller smiled and picked up the third arrow and handed it to Lu Yu: "Miss, don't be discouraged, it doesn't matter, we still have one, this time we have to shoot accurately!" ”

Pei Yunyi leaned against the pillar with his chest crossed, and watched with a smile as Lu Yu put this last arrow on the longbow.

The surroundings gradually fell silent, and the crowd around them couldn't help but hold their breath.

At first, when I saw that this woman was thin and weak, I thought that she couldn't even pick up a bow and arrow, but who knew that shooting twice in a row was unexpected.

Lu Yu set up a bow and arrow, and the word "Fu" hanging in the shed in front of him was red and beaming, and there was a vague liveliness in the colorful lights around.

She stared intently at the bustle, and drew her bow sharply—

The arrows decorated with red tassels resemble red magpies with their tails extended, and they rush to the finish line with joy.

Hit the heart accurately!

The surrounding crowd suddenly erupted in applause!

Even the boss of the lamp seller was impressed by this seemingly delicate young girl: "The girl is good at archery!" ”

Lu Yu put down the bow and arrow in his hand, Pei Yunyi walked to her side, looked at her sideways, and said, "The strength is really great, how do you practice?" ”

The horn bow was not lightweight, and it took some strength for an ordinary man to pull the bow. There are many people who are watching the excitement just now, and there are many people cheering at this moment, and it is precisely because Lu Yu looks too weak that no one will believe that she can pull it.

But she just pulled.

"Murder and burial of corpses." Lu Yu replied seriously.

Pei Yunyi: "......"

He glanced at Lu Yu, didn't care about her nonsense, and only asked, "Shoot three times, you will be able to do it before?" ”

To say what kind of infantry shooting genius Lu Yu is, he will see it, it is indeed a little too reluctant.

Lu Yu turned his head to look at him and smiled slightly: "I didn't say I wouldn't." ”

“……”

He was rarely choked.

For some reason, seeing Pei Yunyi's deflated appearance, Lu Yun's mood inexplicably improved.

If you want to say that this person is above the top, he despises others, and thinks that she can't pull the bow, so he wants to be a teacher and take the initiative to "guide". But you must know that although she is not a sharpshooter who wears through Yang in a hundred steps, she is still reluctant to shoot arrows with an ordinary bow, after all, the word Fu is on the wall, unlike the prey in the mountains that can run and jump.

Hunting dead animals is much easier than living animals.

"Miss shot the word Fu, let's pick a lamp!" The voice of the vendor beside her interrupted Lu Yu's thoughts, and she raised her eyes to look ahead.

The small stall is full of all kinds of lanterns, such as gauze silk, dragon and phoenix, peony flower, and white rabbit...... It's very dazzling at night. It's dazzling to see.

Lu Yu's gaze fell on one place, and then he took the bamboo pole in the stall owner's hand and picked it up among the lamps hanging above.

The stall owner smiled when he saw it: "Miss has a good eye, there is only such a butterfly lamp left, just to bring it home for you!" ”

The butterfly lamp hanging high in the shape of a pink butterfly is covered with a layer of tulle and painted with gold dust on the gauze, which is particularly eye-catching.

The bamboo pole in Lu Yu's hand lightly crossed the butterfly's wings, but he picked up the lamp next to him.

The peddler was stunned.

Pei Yunyi raised his eyebrows slightly.

After a while, the stall owner looked at Lu Yu hesitantly: "Miss, did you pick the wrong one?" ”

Lu Yu took off the toad lamp hooked at the front of the bamboo pole and held it in his hand, and said, "That's right, I like toads." ”

The toad lantern in her hand is yellow and green, because it is too realistic and huge, even the folds on the toad skin are delicate, and it really doesn't look like a beauty.

The partial beauty didn't care, and it seemed that the "ugly toad" in the hand was particularly satisfied.

The peddler looked at Lu Yu indescribably, and held back for a long time before he said: "Miss has a unique vision, which is really different from ordinary people." ”

Lu Yu carried the lamp, nodded to the stall owner, and was about to leave. The stall owner stretched out his hand to block Lu Yu's way, and said, "Miss, you haven't paid yet!" ”

Lu Yu was stunned, frowned and asked, "Didn't you say that if you hit the word Fu, you will send a lamp?" ”

"Yes! This lamp doesn't cost money, but archery costs money! The stall owner gestured to the shed.

Lu Yu looked in the direction he was pointing.

On the big red quiver where the arrows were placed in the lantern shed, there was indeed a line of small characters, not much bigger than ants, written in pale pink colored ink: "One arrow and thirty words——"

Lu Yu was speechless for a while.

The writing is so subtle that the ghost can see it clearly.

There seemed to be a chuckle from the side, and Lu Yu turned his head sideways, and saw Pei Yunyi turning his face away, his shoulders swaying slightly.

Is it a joke that she was fooled?

Lu Yu was sullen.

When she went out, the money was all on Yinzheng, and she didn't plan to buy anything herself, who knew that she would be here to make a mistake.

The paper-paste ugly toad in his hand suddenly became more than a thousand catties, and in the face of the hawker's still enthusiastic and earnest appearance, Lu Yu froze for a moment, and shoved the lantern into the hand of the person opposite: "I don't want it." ”

"Huh?"

The peddler was about to speak, but he stretched out another hand and put down a piece of broken silver on the wooden table of the lamp shed, Pei Yunyao smiled and said, "Give it to me." ”

This silver is far more than the price of a lamp, the vendor suddenly smiled and squinted, and handed the toad lamp to Pei Yunyao: "Okay! Miss Childe took the lamp and lit the lamp of our house, and the coming year will be auspicious and lucky! ”

Lu Yu: "......"

After receiving the cashier, the stall owner turned around and greeted other guests, Lu Yu stood in front of the lantern shed and walked neither to stay, staring at the toad lamp in Pei Yunyao's hand, but he felt that it was really undesirable to stay in front of the lantern shed for a moment tonight.

Pei Yunyi looked at her ugly face, a little funny: "Doctor Lu is very smart, why is he always deceived in this kind of thing?" ”

Last time at the Luyuan pawnshop on Qinghe Street, it was also the same, a flower hairpin with poor color was easily knocked on a bamboo pole.

Lu Yu only felt that the person in front of him was extremely dazzling, and threw down a sentence: "It's Shengjing people who are too good at doing business." ”

Turn around and go.

It is clear that a good lamp does not need money, but who knows that archery will ask for money, and writing the words so small is clearly a deception. Sure enough, as the old saying goes, greedy for small and cheap suffer big losses, Shengjing people do business, one is more cunning than the other.

There was a chuckle behind her, and Pei Yunyao caught up with her in a few steps and stuffed the toad lamp into her hand.

Lu Yu frowned: "What do you do for me with the lamp that the palace marshal paid for silver?" ”

"The spring test is imminent, and I don't dare to ask for the sign of winning the Toad Palace." He said leisurely.

Pass muster? Spring exam?

Lu Yu's heart moved.

The toad lamp does have the beauty of "toad palace laurel", Pei Yunyao thought that he picked the toad lamp because of the upcoming spring test, and Lu Yu did not correct his misunderstanding.

The toad lamp in his hand glowed faintly green in the night, Lu Yu was silent, and said: "Wait until I see the silver kite, I will return the lantern money to the palace marshal." ”

"You don't need to see outside, count me as a spring test gift for you in advance."

Gift?

Pei Yunyi's tone was so natural that Lu Yu couldn't help but raise his eyes to look at him.

The street market was like daylight, and there were lights everywhere, Pei Yunyi walked forward unhurriedly with the flow of people, as if the words just now were just casually spoken, and he didn't take it to heart.

But Lu Yu couldn't help but think deeply.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the two of them met in the medical hall under the fireworks, and Pei Yunyao knew the purpose of her coming to Beijing. Maybe it's a moment of compassion, or maybe he has another purpose. But there is one thing that Lu Yu knows very well that he is dealing with the Taishi Mansion, or even a person of higher status.

Pei Yunyao may pity her, but he will never help in this matter.

So why is he?

Because pitiful?

The little useless sympathy that a person in a high position gives is like the occasional stop of a poor stray cat or dog on the side of the road. People will give food to stray cats and dogs, but they don't care what stray cats are thinking. Therefore, this stop is not comforting, but only disgusting with this unequal and condescending gift.

"Master Pei." She said suddenly.

"How?"

"In the future, let's pay more attention to your behavior, you are always like this, it will make me misunderstood."

He was a little inexplicable: "What is the misunderstanding?" ”

"I misunderstood that the adults wanted to help me."

Pei Yunyi was stunned.

He stopped, lowered his eyes, and met Lu Yu's calm gaze.

The words are suggestive, soft, and even somewhat flattering.

However, her eyes were full of ridicule.

It seems to deliberately puncture the illusion of happiness, so that each other has to face the hypocrisy of the other side and the distance between each other.

The lanterns on the two streets cast colorful lights and shadows from the ground above. He stood in the light of the flowers, a genius and a brilliant high-ranking son, and she stood in the shadows, a lowly person who made her heart and sword and halberd.

Light and shadow, clouds and mud, nobles and commoners.

He was the one who wanted to go higher, and she was bent on dragging the higher ones down and stepping into the mud.

People who go against the grain are never all the way, and they are destined to be friends.

The wind blew from the riverbank, bringing up the cold of the night. Perhaps they stayed here a little longer, attracting the attention of the surrounding vendors.

A few little girls in red shirts and skirts with double mustaches pushed a bamboo shelf out of the flow of people, and a small lantern with plum red and gold was hung in front and back of the bamboo shelf, and several little girls shouted while beating drums: "Bodhi leaves, bees, snow willows, golden moths-"

Lu Yu came back to his senses.

This is a traveling car that sells women's headdresses.

These headdresses are often sold in the Shengjing Lantern Market, such as white silk plum blossoms, butterflies cut from black gold paper, snow willows made of paper, and Bodhi leaves. Whether it is a noble or an ordinary person, in such a prosperous day, women must always dress up delicately and beautifully.

The little girl in red pushed the cart to Lu Yu's side, looked up at her and said with a smile: "Sister, buy a moth!" ”

Those black gold paper cut moths trembling and inserted on the bamboo shelves full of flowers, among the branches and leaves of the golden flowers, purple and gorgeous, particularly eye-catching.

Lu Yu shook his head and refused.

The little girl was a little disappointed and pushed the bamboo frame and left.

Pei Yunyi glanced down at the person beside him.

Lu Yu carried the lantern and silently walked past the clusters of flowers and continued to walk forward. Maybe it's today's light, her hair bun is combed more delicately than usual, those tiny braids hang down along the long hair to the shoulders, velvet and white flowers are embellished in it, lining the woman's complexion as crystal like jade, and the toad lamp in her hand emits a blue and dark light, like the girls in those ancient temple murals.

Beautiful but lonely.

Pei Yunyi's gaze stayed on the snow-white velvet flowers on the top of her hair for a moment, and suddenly spoke: "It's the New Year, it's unlucky to wear white." ”

Avoided the conversation just now.

Lu Yu looked at him strangely, not understanding why he suddenly said this.

Pei Yunyao said lightly: "I thought you would wear that pair of golden butterflies." ”

She was stunned.

It was for this.

The pair of golden butterflies were still lying in the box in the drawer of the medical hall, and Lu Xi hadn't even opened them once since Chinese New Year's Eve. She didn't have the heart to comb her hair and dress up, not to mention that this was given by Pei Yunyi.

Lu Yu bowed: "Thank you for your kindness, but the gold jewelry is not suitable for me, and I will let people return the things to the palace marshal later." ”

Some things can't be collected, and there is no lunch in the world that doesn't require silver, and this truth has been taught to her by the vendor who sold toad lanterns.

"No," he said, turning his face, "there is no reason to take back the gifts that were given. ”

Lu Yu was very persistent: "I'm not used to receiving gifts," paused, and added: "It's like debt." ”

"Then be in debt." The young man smiled, "I am your creditor." ”

Lu Yu choked.

This person seemed to be completely unaware of her deliberate detachment and defense, casual and friendly as always, and from the eyes of others, he might think that the commander of the palace was too good-tempered.

Lu Yu thought for a while and decided to give up. Anyway, every once in a while, Pei Yunshu's people will come to the door to get the medicine for the treasure bead. They are sisters and brothers, and Pei Yunshu doesn't accept it, so it is the same if they are directly sent to Pei Yunshu.

Borrowing debts to do business, selling land to pay off debts. Shengjing people are so good at doing business, it's better not to owe favors.

Especially Pei Yunyi.

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