The custom of the Jinling Thousand Lantern Festival refers to a thousand lamps in the sky and a thousand lamps on the ground. The sky lamp is the Kong Ming lamp, and the ground lamp is the lotus lamp, which complement each other and contrast with each other. There was no curfew in Jinling City that night, and no household was allowed to turn off the lights early, which would not please the winner.

At this time, it is the time of spring and summer, and it is the season when most plants and trees grow wildly. The custom of the Thousand Lantern Festival has been passed down for hundreds of years, which is to pray to the heavens for good weather to ensure that there will be no flooding and drought in the following summer and a good harvest in autumn.

But in the final analysis, these are just to express the people's good wishes for life, so the Taoist chief walked among them, feeling extremely boring, but Yun was noisy and shouting, carefully holding a lotus lantern in his hand, for fear that it would fall to the ground and go out. In fact, the lamp is not very beautifully made, with a small candle glued to the center, which shines in the middle of the river at night, like a star falling in the sky. But as soon as the Thousand Lanterns Festival passes, these lights will pile up with the water, blocking the river, and the government has to send people to fish for it, which is really a bit of a bad scenery.

People who put the lanterns generally go to two places, one is Weilong Mountain next to Jinling City, and the other is Taoyedu, which is named because it looks like a peach leaf. The side of this peach leaf ferry has long been crowded with people, and there are all kinds of painting boats for visitors to pay for to ride, which is very lively.

Walking in the middle of the crowd with people like Rong He and Dao Chang is very annoying to those girls. It's a pity that Rong He doesn't look like a serious person, and the Taoist chief lowered his head and stared at the clouds casually, I don't know how many peach blossoms he missed. Yun casually looked left and right and saw that only he was holding a lotus lantern in his hand, so he asked, "Master, don't you put the lantern on?"

"Mortals put lamps to ask the gods to pray, our gods—" Rong He was halfway through his words, and the Taoist stabbed him at the right time, pulled him to the vendor next to him, and began to pretend to pick up the lamp.

The peddler's business was so good today that he was smiling from ear to ear. When he saw someone coming, he said earnestly: "This lamp is of very good quality, and it won't sink if you float in the water for a day!"

The Taoist felt that he would not be the "girl", so Ronghe's gender was mistaken again. But he didn't seem to be annoyed, so he took a random one with a rather bright eye, turned his head and asked the peddler, "Is this good?"

"Good-looking, good-looking......" replied the peddler, but he didn't even look at the lamp, but stared at Rong You's face, as if he was stunned. The Taoist forced a smile and put a few pennies on his table, and poked Rong He with his elbow: "Let's go." ”

"Eh, what are you doing stabbing people, I hate it to death!" Rong He deliberately shouted, not forgetting to turn back one step at a time, and looked at the vendor reluctantly, as if his soul was about to be snatched away. It wasn't until he walked out of his sight that he returned to his original normal look, and sneered: "I can't even tell whether I'm a man or a woman, and he doesn't even want to do this business." ”

The air around him was suddenly terrifyingly low, but suddenly Yun Shu's voice sounded - "You look good!" Yun said casually: "Brother Rong is so good-looking, everyone likes you!"

It took him a moment to realize that she was praising him.

No one ever said that he was good-looking, and he still spoke so sincerely. He knew that he was not badly born, but this was a completely different feeling from others boasting about it. Most of the people in Qingqiu are born beautiful, and Rong He is one of the best beauties that has almost been rare in recent years, but the people in the clan have never liked Rong He, Tu Shanling only said that he "has a face that is neither male nor female", which sounds like a derogatory term anyway.

He never thought that he would be praised by a child, and involuntarily said, "Thank you." ”

After a while, he said, "Thank you." Then he laughed, his eyes crooked into a slit.

The Taoist chief said jealously: "Apprentice, why have you never said that you are good looking at your teacher?"

Yun casually "um" for a long time, and finally replied as if he was forced to be a prostitute: "Master is really good-looking." ”

Momoba Ferry has long been overcrowded, but such a lively scene is not boring because it is a festival. The sound of laughter was bustling between the vocals, accompanied by the shouting of the oars and the sound of the oars slapping the water from far and near. Yun casually squatted by the river, gently put the lotus lantern into the water, and folded his hands, not knowing what he was praying in his heart. Rong He had never done these things, so he did the same, and he also closed his eyes and began to make a wish, only the Taoist chief stared at the lotus lamp in his hand and sighed softly.

The lotus lantern gently rippled with the water waves and merged into the river of lights. A little bit of fire is reflected in the eyes of visitors, looking up, the big Kong Ming lanterns on Weilong Mountain in the distance are like a little stars slowly rising in the night sky, which is not inferior to the full moon.

The Taoist chief didn't make any wishes, he took advantage of the fact that Yun casually and Rong He had his eyes closed, and slowly pressed the lotus lamp into the water, and as soon as the flame of the candle touched the water, it was extinguished with a "snort". He looked down at his own vague reflection in the water, and gently stretched out a finger to scratch it until it was shattered.

"Do you hear," he said softly to Rong You, "their wishes." ”

An immortal like the Taoist who owns the Taoist temple and his followers can hear the wishes of mortals. The prayers of the thousands and hundreds of people around him all entered his mind densely, but he didn't choose to listen to Rong and Heyun casually.

He suddenly had a sense of confusion.

Rong He laughed lowly: "Who will fulfill the wish of the immortals?

"Hongjun Ancestor," after the Dao Leader finished speaking, he also felt amused, and continued: "Probably mortals think that immortals are not troubled. But these lights—no one will pay attention to them, nothing will change. There are very few gods appearing, and if their wishes are fulfilled, then the gods will not be needed. ”

"I've made a promise," Yun casually suddenly opened his eyes: "The wish is not allowed to be spoken, otherwise it will not work!"

"Can you resist it?" asked the Taoist slyly. These words seemed to poke her, and Yun Casual's face turned red all of a sudden, and she muttered, "Yes, I can." ”

"And what did you promise?"

"I hope—" She blurted out her words, slamming her mouth shut in the laughter of the Taoist and Rong He.

"You're bullying me!" she shouted, "I'm not on good terms with you!"