Chapter 18: Premeditated Encounters (Part II)
In the early morning of the Lantern Festival, Mo Xuelian and Lin Hongwan got up very early because they were too excited.
After the two arrived at the courtyard of the central hall, the female gentleman taught dance today, and the two of them were doing movements with the female gentleman, while looking forward to the time passing quickly.
Once people look forward to something in their hearts, they will feel that time flies very slowly, and the two of them have been suffering for almost a day, but they are looking forward to the end, so they want to hurry back to their yard to finish dinner and go to the Lantern Festival.
After Mo Xuelian and Lin Hongwan had dinner, they each took a few pieces of clothes in the room that they wore in men's clothes and quietly slipped to the warehouse.
After the two entered the warehouse, they put on the clothes they brought three layers and three layers outside, and finally, put on the men's clothes they bought.
Then, like yesterday, the two of them took two steps to put the thick cushion of the shoe, and tested it to feel comfortable to wear, and then it was good.
In the end, the worst hair, the two helped each other comb a simple men's hair bundle and put on a mask, which was completely done, and then the two quietly left the Lin Mansion.
As soon as the two of them left the Lin Mansion, they saw Sun Yueling, who was already waiting nearby wearing a lion mask and wearing men's clothes, Sun Yueling was waiting there and was a little impatient, and when they saw the two of them coming out, they immediately ran forward.
"Why did you two come out, I've been waiting for a while. ”
Lin Hongwan immediately smiled flatteringly, "This dress is too troublesome to wear, and it is a bit of a delay." ”
Sun Yueling looked at the two of them carefully, and then burst out laughing, Mo Xuelian and Lin Hongwan were also looking at Sun Yueling at the same time, and the two of them also laughed in unison.
They all think each other is funny, which simply subverts each other's image in their minds.
And the two servants who were staring at Mo Xuelian around the Lin Mansion had to stay here at night because today was a special day.
At this time, they saw the picture of three girls wearing men's clothes and big masks, holding hands and walking side by side, and the two servants no longer obeyed the call, and looked at each other and stood in the wind in the same place.
The three girls had walked a hundred meters, and then they reacted and followed.
At this time, the street of Hongqing City has been very lively and noisy, the lanterns are lit up, like a sea of lights, the trees and the beams of the house are hung everywhere, connected into a piece, gorgeous and colorful, dazzling.
I saw groups of pedestrians talking about how beautiful the lanterns just passed by, which ones were not good-looking, which ones should not be designed like this, and the unreasonable design affected the beauty, etc., people came and went, and there were almost no free space for people to walk next to each other.
The vendors on the street have already set up stalls one by one on both sides of the street, shouting and fiddling with their goods in their hands, and some hawkers have also hung up a number of lanterns, engaging in games of prize guessing and guessing lantern riddles.
At this time, Mo Xuelian and the three of them were watching the lanterns on the street while squeezing into the crowd to watch the small merchants and vendors shouting and selling gadgets, and then they came to a stall where they guessed lantern riddles.
The three of them were going to play the game when they saw it interesting, and the vendor told them to guess 10 copper coins once, and guess six times in a row to win the grand prize.
So, after hearing this, Lin Hongwan first pulled the red note on the lantern and opened it, only to see that it read, "The body is white and fat, often hidden in the mud, covered in honeycomb, and can be tasted raw and cooked." (A kind of eating)
"You two help me figure out what this is, too?" She asked in a pretending male voice, Sun Yueling held her chin in her hand and shook her head without thinking of it.
"This is a lotus root. Mo Xuelian didn't have to think about it, and pretended to be a male voice to say the answer.
"Why didn't I remember. Lin Hongwan and Sun Yueling immediately realized after hearing this.
"I didn't guess right," the vendor said with a smile.
Lin Hongwan glanced at the peddler and continued to pull down a red note, which read: "One point and one horizontal, one to Nanyang, there is a person in Nanyang, only one inch long, guess a word." “
Lin Hongwan's face was extremely ugly when she saw it, this time she didn't know the answer, she looked at Sun Yueling pitifully again, and Sun Yueling also looked at her with a bitter face and shook her head.
"It's a house word. Mo Xuelian shook her head helplessly when she looked at the two of them.
"It's so simple, I just didn't think about it. Lin Hongwan sighed.
She didn't give up and asked Sun Yueling to help pull a note, which read, "Seven people have eight eyes, ten people also have eight eyes, Westerners also have eight eyes, and my mother also has eight eyes, guess four words." ”
Sun Yueling did preemptively say the answer this time, "It's genuine." ”
"This boy guessed correctly, and if you guess five more, you can get this pair of excellent jade rulers. The vendor sneered as he pointed to the reward item.
After hearing this, Lin Hongwan excitedly asked Sun Yueling to continue to guess, Sun Yueling didn't want to ruin the fun, so she pulled down a red note, which read, "There are seven families, farming and planting one acre, they can't eat enough, and they also have a dog, guess a word." “
Sun Yueling directly said the answer again this time, "It's a beast word." “
"Childe guessed correctly again, and there are still four more to get the reward. The peddler laughed again.
"Sister Yueling, if you try again, you can guess correctly. Mo Xuelian was also a little excited.
Sun Yueling also nodded happily, so he pulled down another note, which read, "A wooden stick, hang a square box, a ladder, put it in the center, guess a word." ”
This time, Sun Yueling didn't think of an answer right away, at this time, she was thinking about it.
The two servants who followed the three of them stayed for a long time when they saw them guessing lantern riddles.
"You go and tell the young master where they are, I'll continue to keep an eye on them here. One of the servants whispered to the other, and the servant nodded and left the place, heading in the direction of the Qiu Mansion.
On the other side of Qiu's mansion, Qiu Yu changed into the same men's clothes as Mo Xuelian and the three of them in the evening, and he hid the wolf head mask in his clothes, not wanting others to see it.
Then, he sat in the main hall while reading a book while waiting for Han Bo and Chen Hongsheng, and about half an hour later, Han Bo and Chen Hongsheng came to Qiu's mansion.
As soon as the two entered the main hall, Han Bo saw that he was wearing very ordinary people's clothes, "Yo, why are you kid wearing such plain clothes, I almost can't recognize it." ”
"When you go to the Lantern Festival, aren't they all ordinary people, wear ordinary points and melt into it. Qiu Yu was a little mysterious.
Chen Hongsheng pursed his lips after hearing this, "I can't see it, you are quite catered to the public." ”
"I've always been. Qiu Yu said with a smile, and spread his hands, and the two were speechless after hearing this.
"Let's go, it's time for us to go see the lanterns. Qiu Yu said with a strange smile.
After hearing this, the two responded to each other, and then the three of them left the Qiu Mansion together.
A few minutes after they left the Qiu Mansion, Qiu Yu's personal servant Xiangzi led the family out of the Qiu Mansion and scattered to follow them not far behind, because there were many people on the street, so no one noticed the group of family members.
Qiu Yu and the others had been walking for about ten minutes after leaving Qiu's mansion, when he saw one of the servants staring at Mo Xuelian walking towards them.
After Qiu Yu saw him, he slowed down his pace a little, and let Han Bo and Chen Hongsheng, who were walking with a smile, walk first.
Then, the servant quietly walked up to Qiu Yu and whispered a few words in his ear, and then quickly left.
A deep light appeared in Qiu Yu's eyes, and he quickened his pace and walked side by side with Han Bo and Chen Hongsheng, neither of whom had noticed what Qiu Yu was talking to the servant just now.
Qiu Yu and the three of them watched the lanterns while watching the things from the vendors, and when they were about to reach the area where they guessed the lantern riddles, he looked at Han Bo and Chen Hongsheng.
"I'm going to take a look at the place I just passed by, you two are here now, and I'll be back later. The two nodded in agreement.
So, Qiu Yu turned around and walked backwards, and when he just walked about ten steps, he saw him wave, and then, Xiangzi took his family to swarm towards the riddle guessing area.
At this time, Mo Xuelian and the three of them had just finished guessing the riddles, and Sun Yueling didn't guess all of them correctly, because those riddles would always let you get riddles that basically no one would guess.
Then, the reward was gone, Mo Xuelian and the three of them really wouldn't have thought of such a thing, and the hawker was very happy to make money.
Lin Hongwan was very disappointed, and when the three of them just turned around and left the booth where they guessed the lantern riddles, they came to a fork in the road.
I saw Xiangzi and his family hugging up, and in addition to the surrounding people, the three of them were passively separated dozens of meters away, and for a while, because there were too many people, they couldn't find each other.
Mo Xuelian didn't know which direction the two of them were squeezed to, so she could only guess one direction and run there to find it.
At this time, Qiu Yu, who had been staring at the movement here, smiled playfully with a successful conspiracy, with a glint in his eyes, and then he put the wolf head mask on his face from his clothes and ran in the direction of Mo Xuelian.
Mo Xuelian ran and searched for about ten minutes, but she didn't find anyone, so she thought that she might be looking in the wrong direction, so she planned to return to the fork in the road and try to look in another direction.
As soon as Mo Xuelian turned around, she saw "Lin Hongwan" trotting with a wolf head mask not far ahead, Qiu Yu pretended not to see Mo Xuelian's appearance and trotted around looking for someone.
When Mo Xuelian saw him, she immediately ran over, grabbed the arm of "Lin Hongwan" and ran in the direction of fewer people.
Since she was running in front and didn't look at "Lin Hongwan" behind her, she muttered as she ran: "Hongwan, let's go to a place with fewer people first, it's a bit dangerous to have so many people here, let's find a place to stay first, and then go to Sister Yueling when there are fewer people." ”
"Lin Hongwan" didn't speak, Mo Xuelian felt that he was running with him, so she thought that "Lin Hongwan" was acquiescing, and the two ran like this.
"Let's wait here for a while, and then go to Sister Yueling. When Mo Xuelian ran to a more remote place, while she was talking, Mo Xuelian turned to look at "Lin Hongwan".
It doesn't matter if you look at it, after reading it, I was stunned on the spot, and my eyes looked straight at Qiu Yu for a long time without reacting.