"Have you finished running out of river lanterns?" Su Shuang ran over, complaining slightly, "Don't wait for me." ”

"Giggles, which one told you to buy a river lantern so slowly?"

Looking at the bright light floating with the waves above the water, Jiang Lili's face was a little heavy, with a hint of hope.

Song Xiao had no interest in releasing the river lantern at all, and found an excuse to eat and drink with a group of fox friends and dogs, and Wei Chijing did not stay for long, and said early that he was ill and returned to the house, and now there are only Su Shuang, Yanzi, Song Dabao and Li Zi with Jiang Lili.

Maybe it was a long time to pick, and at this time, a group of swallows ran over quickly with river lanterns in their hands, and chirped back and forth, "Shuang'er, come on, I have a pen here!"

"Can you hurry up! I'm going to guess the lantern riddle later!"

The crowd began to get busy, and the river lanterns carrying the wishes of young boys and girls bloomed like sparks on the calm waters, sailing away.

Su Su looked at the Xinghuo River and unconsciously smiled on his face, stretched out his elbow and turned Jiang Lili's arm, and asked in a low voice, "Hey, Jiang Dog, what is the wish you wrote?"

Jiang Lili didn't say a word, and replied coldly after a while: "What's your business?"

"Stingy!Don't even ask!" Su Su snorted, turned her head to look at Chen Wenhao again, and motioned for Chen Wenhao to tell her what Jiang Lili asked him to write on the river lantern.

Jiang Lili naturally knew Su Su's thoughts, and glanced at Chen Wenhao slightly, "If you tell her, you will wait for death here alone!"

Chen Wenhao smiled and shook his head at Su Su, his expression helpless.

Jiang Lili suddenly turned his head and asked Su Su, "What wish did you write on the river lantern?"

Su Su swaggered, "I won't tell you!"

"Forget it. “

"Eh, why don't you have any curiosity at all?" Su Su was a little anxious, and hurriedly grabbed Jiang Lili's arm, "I tell you my wish, and you tell me if your wish will come true?"

Jiang Lili sneered, "Do you think I don't know your wishes? It's nothing more than being able to eat, sleep, and eat, and be able to lie in bed and wait for death all day long!"

"What's the matter!" Su Su pouted, "It's not so superficial." ”

At the end, Su Su glanced at Jiang Lili again, interested, "It's still that truth, if I tell you my wishes, you will tell me your wishes?"

"Tell me about it. ”

Su Su smiled and looked up at the sky, "I just hope that one day Lao Zhang can come back, and then buy me a big mansion, I will live in the house and steal the wine that Lao Zhang hid all day long and throw it away!"

The smile is not so happy.

As Chen Wenhao said, people's wishes are often things that they cannot get now, or even in the future. At least for Su Su now, Zhang Jiuling is gone, where is he? When will he come back? Su Su doesn't want to live in this Nanyang Mansion anymore, although there are people to serve, eat and drink, but she doesn't like it so much.

After the smile on her face was accepted, Su Su tilted her head and looked at Jiang Lili, "What about you, what is your wish?"

Jiang Lili grinned, "I won't tell you!"

Su Su was annoyed, "Didn't we all say it? I told you, you told me! Why don't you have any credit at all?"

"I didn't promise you, you said it yourself. Jiang Lili turned around and walked towards the bustling street.

Su Su hurriedly followed Jiang Lili, "Eh, why are you unreasonable? Do you understand by default? Isn't it a tacit acquiescence that you didn't agree?"

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A group of young girls chirped in front of a row of lanterns, each of which had five or seven quatrains written on it, which was a lantern riddle. The simpler the lantern, the simpler the riddle on it, for example, the first lantern is written "the clouds break through the moon to break the shadow of the flower", as long as there is a little bit of literary skills people know that the riddle of this riddle is a "can" word, and the lantern next to it is written "what to fear in the cold of Sanjiu", and the riddle is Lamei.

In addition to these neat lantern riddles, there are often some jokes, such as a lantern that reads, "The daughter-in-law is a good person, play an idiom." And the mystery is "self-deprecation is boring". Some of those who saw the answer to the mystery only smiled dumbly and did not say much. It can also be regarded as a fun time for pedestrians who rack their brains to relax.

After being deceived by Jiang Lili, Su Su has been sullen, and she has no interest in the enchanting lanterns on the street, and has been babbling some words that she may not understand.

Jiang Lili tilted his head and glanced at Su Su, who was full of resentment, "Don't you want to guess the lantern riddle? ”

Su Su raised his head and glanced at Jiang Lili fiercely, and scolded the liar.

Jiang Lili said: "If you don't guess, I'll go back, what's the fun of staying here all the time?"

"If you want to go, you can go! I'm stopping you?"

Jiang Lili smiled, walked to a stall next to him and asked for a cup of tea, sitting in front of these stalls and looking at the pedestrians coming and going, a little dazed.

After a long time, most of the tea in the cup was gone, Jiang Lili turned his head and said to Chen Wenhao, who was standing next to him: "If you want to guess the lantern riddle, you can just go and see it yourself, you don't have to always stay next to me, are you still worried that I will run away?"

"Naturally, I don't have this kind of thought," Chen Wenhao bowed slightly, "It's just that I haven't been very interested in this riddle all the time." ”

Jiang Lili stopped talking, and after glancing at the crowd with a slight tilt of his head, his brows furrowed, and there was already no shadow of Su Su in his field of vision.

Secretly scolded, where did this girl run again, Jiang Lili stood up, and was about to look for it when suddenly an old man who looked like a fortune teller came in front of him, "Childe, do you want to guess the lantern riddle? If you guess it, I'll give you ten pennies, if you don't guess, you just need to give me one penny!"

The old man was holding a colorful lantern in his hand, and the lantern read, "This word is extraordinary, only four strokes, no horizontal, no straight, no hook, the emperor wants to get up when he sees it, and the saint wants to give a salute when he sees it." It must be a riddle.

Jiang Lili looked at this old man with a familiar face, and after thinking for a while, he asked, "You are the fortune teller in Luoyang City?"

It's no wonder that Jiang Lili can remember this person, there are a total of three fortune tellers he met, the old master in Zhangjiazhai in Fulong Mountain, Cheng Ru who disguised himself as a fortune teller to beg for money, and the only thing left was the fortune teller in Luoyang.

The fortune teller sighed in surprise, and stared at Jiang Lili carefully for a long time, "I didn't expect to really meet an acquaintance." Come on, come on, since it's an acquaintance, it's easy to do things, guess the lantern riddle, for the sake of you being an acquaintance, if you can't guess, give me two cents!"

Jiang Lili didn't pay attention to the old man's thoughts, pouted and was about to leave, "Get out, I don't have time to pay attention to you!"

But the fortune teller stopped Jiang Lili, crying and shouting and tugging on Jiang Lili's sleeve, "Brother Gongzi, you can guess one! The old man has not eaten for more than ten days, so you should take pity on me, can this old man succeed?"

Jiang Lili's face was full of annoyance, and when he was about to slap the fortune teller, Su Shuang suddenly walked over with Yanzi and a few people, "Those lantern riddles are too simple, so boring!"

"That's it. Song Dabao shouted: "It's not interesting at all, I haven't even started to guess you've already guessed it!"

Yanzi laughed, "Dabao, you are stupid! Look at other people's plums." ”

"Where can I compare to her?" Song Dabao made a bitter face, "She reads and writes all day long, where am I interested in these things?"

"Doesn't that mean you're stupid?"

A group of little girls came over with a playful smile, Su Shuang looked at the fortune teller, and asked Jiang Lili suspiciously: "Big brother, who is this person?"

The fortune teller's face was full of joy, and he hurriedly held the lantern in front of Su Shuang and the others, "Miss, do you want to guess the lantern riddle? If you guess correctly, I will give you ten yuan, and if you don't guess, you only need to give me five yuan?"

didn't care about the money in the fortune teller's mouth at all, Su Shuang's eyes lit up when he looked at the lantern, and he hurriedly read the words written on it carefully, and his brows furrowed.

Yanzi, Song Dabao and Li Zi were also stumped by this riddle, and they didn't have a clue for a while.

Seeing that these little girls were attracted by this lantern riddle, Jiang Lili didn't bother to follow the fortune teller to do more calculations, and made a detour to leave, but he didn't expect this fortune teller to block Jiang Lili again, looking at Jiang Lili and sneering, the meaning is self-evident.

Jiang Lili is really angry, "You don't block Lao Tzu's way, and you don't look at what kind of shabby appearance you are born in, and don't add bad luck to me! If you don't leave, be careful that Lao Tzu whips you!"

The fortune teller's face was full of tears, and when he opened his mouth and was about to speak, a voice suddenly came from the side, "Old man, you mean that as long as you guess correctly, you will give ten cents, right?"

The old man was overjoyed, and hurriedly turned around following the voice, "That's right, yes, do you want to guess?"

Out of a nearby tea shop came a man dressed in white, handsome and slender.

"It's a 'father' word!" the man laughed.

The few people who were racking their brains to think about this mystery suddenly realized when they heard this mystery, and their faces were full of surprise, and they looked up at the man with a smile on his face, thinking who this was?

The fortune teller's face became bitter after being surprised, like an eggplant that had suffered from frost.

The man walked up and held out his hand to the fortune teller.

The fortune teller reluctantly took out ten cents from his bosom and put it in the man's hand, and was about to leave in disgrace, when the man suddenly said, "Wait a minute." “

"What else is the matter with Childe?" the fortune teller was a little cautious.

"Come on, come, I'll give you a puzzle, you guessed that I will give you a hundred taels of silver, can you guess that you can give me a tael of silver?" the man smiled.

The fortune teller was taken aback again, this boy is really a big handicraft! And secretly thought that he had been mixed all his life, and he couldn't even guess a lantern riddle, right? Although he was still a little apprehensive in his heart, he really couldn't resist the temptation of a hundred taels of silver, so he replied yes!

The man muttered slightly for a moment, "Lean on Petty in your spare time, and rise up to order thousands of troops." The turbidity of the world is free and free, and he dares to bear the sky. Guess what. “

The fortune teller frowned, and after a long time, he looked up and asked, "Can Childe give me a range?"

"Range?" the man glanced down at the fortune teller who was bowing, "hit someone." ”

The fortune teller thought about it for a long time but still couldn't come up with the answer, and when he looked back at the little girls from before, he found that they were also looking down and thinking, and sighed, "That's it, I can't guess this puzzle." “

He took out a piece of silver from his bosom and put it in the man's hand, and the fortune teller ran away with the lantern on his shoulder.

The man weighed the amount of silver in his hand, his face full of satisfaction. He turned his head and shouted at the fortune teller's back, "Don't you want to know the answer to the riddle?

The fortune teller replied, "Even if it's a loss." If you really know the mystery, you are afraid that you will blame yourself for being so stupid, and you will be even more annoyed when the time comes!"

The man nodded, and replied that it made sense.

At this time, Li Zi suddenly raised his head and asked, "Dare to ask Childe, what is the answer to this puzzle?"

The man looked at Li Zi for a long time with great interest, "I really want to know?"

Plum nodded.

The man asked, "Lean on Petty in your spare time, and rise up and order a thousand troops." The turbidity of the world is free and free, and he dares to bear the sky. Think about it, who in the world can be so chic?"

"Shouldn't it be a living up to the Qing?" Li Zi said.

The meaning in the man's eyes was inexplicable, "No, I just dare to be responsible." “

After a moment of silence, Li Zi said, "I still can't guess." ”

"Look at your stupid brain!" the man laughed, "A big living person standing in front of you can't even guess, this mystery is this son!"

The corners of Jiang Lili's mouth twitched.

At this time, a maid stumbled out of the tea shop, holding a big white cat with a large body in her hand, "Childe!"

The man took the white cat from the maid's hand and held it in his arms, lowered his head and smoothed the white cat's hair, looked up at Jiang Lili and smiled, and said, "Long time no see." ”

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Walking by the river alone, Su Su looked at the stars in the Huangshui River and became angry for no reason, kicking a broken river lamp on the bank while muttering in his mouth, "Dead river dog, stinky river dog, so stingy, why don't you kill yourself to death?"

Always felt that he had suffered a great loss, Su Su walked alone along the river, and saw a river lantern hit the bridge pier and stayed in the distance, squinted his eyes and took a closer look, and found that the river lantern was not the one he bought for Jiang Lili?

I thought about it in my heart and hurriedly ran over.

The river lantern was only about ten paces from the shore, and there was a waterfront platform on the bank, which must have been a small step that people living here could build for water and laundry. I looked left and right and saw that there were few pedestrians around, and because this place was leaning against the bridge pier, there were no lanterns hanging colors, only the faint light from the lights on the bridge, even if there were pedestrians passing by, it was difficult to notice this side. So he knelt on the steps, stretched his waist and tried to bring the river lantern, but found that it was still half a hand's distance away from the river lantern.

I couldn't help but be secretly angry why I was not born high, so I stood up and looked left and right, and saw a clothes-pounding stick and pestle beside me, picked it up and knelt down on the steps, and used the pestle to carefully pull the river lamp to this side.

The river lantern had reached the distance that his arm could reach, Su Su was overjoyed, and was about to pick up the river lantern with his hand, but accidentally the stick and pestle in his hand fell into the water.

The pestle rippled on the surface of the water, and the river lantern was about to flow downstream on the waves.

Su Su was in a hurry, and he couldn't take care of it too much in an instant, so he hurriedly stretched out his hand to pick up the river lantern, but his body was unstable and he wanted to see if he fell into the river.

At this time, the weather in Cheng'an is very cold, and it must be even colder in Huangshui.

Su Su screamed in fright, and when her body was about to fall into the water, she suddenly felt someone behind her grab her and pull her back.

Su Su had palpitations, and he didn't look at the man's face, so he just thanked him and remembered the river lantern, and quickly turned around to take a look, and sure enough, the river lantern had already gone away along the water.

I couldn't help but feel annoyed again, thinking that I was just a little bit away from knowing what Jiang Lili wrote on the river lantern.

At this time, the man behind him smiled and said, "Little girl, what are you doing here alone? ”

Su Su remembered the person who grabbed her, and hurriedly turned around and thanked him again, and looked up to see the spring breeze smile on the person's face and was stunned.

The man was wearing a cyan robe, without many ornaments on his body, just combing a bun on his head and inserting a jade hairpin, and his whole body was extremely clean.

"It's you. The man, "I remember that we seem to have met, in Pingsha?" and before Su Su answered, the man asked again, "Are you putting river lanterns?"

Su Su blushed and snorted.

The man smiled again, "It's just that you don't have to look for such a dark corner in the future, don't worry, even if you put it openly, no one will peek at the secret you wrote on the river lantern." Besides, there are few pedestrians here, and if you accidentally fall into the water, you will have to suffer. ”

Su Su blushed again and snorted.

The man looked up at the fluttering river lamp, "Red, do you like red?"

Su Su was wearing a red cotton jacket and a pair of light red boots on her feet, "Well, the red is beautiful and bright." ”

"It's very bright and conspicuous. The man made a joke, "If it weren't for you standing out in this red dress, I'm afraid I wouldn't have seen you when I passed through here." ”

Su Su didn't know how to answer.

Maybe he saw Su Su's crampedness, and the man didn't say much, just said that it was very good-looking, and the river lantern was also good-looking.

Su Su nodded.

The man also nodded at Su Su, and without further advice, he turned to leave.

Looking at the man's back, Su Su was silent for a moment, and suddenly shouted, "You... What's your name?"

The figure paused, then turned around and smiled, smiling very cleanly, as clean as a clear June sky, cloudless.

"Yao Qing River, the Qing River of Qingshui River. “