On the night of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Xia Yan didn't ask for a hug when she went to sleep, but carefully hid the birthday gift for Cheng Xi next to her body, and fell asleep expectantly on the bed.

The dream is sweet and sweet, but I never expected that when I opened my eyes, the silk curtains turned into fluffy ceilings, the red mandarin ducks were replaced with light yellow carp quilts, and the bed under me started to sway!

"……what happened?!"

He straightened up and sat up, seeing Cheng Xi, well-dressed, smiling at him while sitting on the couch beside him.

Xia Yan blinked and looked around, surprised: "Why am I in the carriage?!"

"Take you somewhere." Cheng Xi said.

"Where are you going?!" Xia Yan still didn't slow down.

"Go to Linjiang City to celebrate the Lantern Festival." Cheng Xi said seriously.

Xia Yan opened her mouth involuntarily, "Why, why didn't you say it in advance?!"

"Let me tell you in advance, so I won't be able to see your surprised and cute expression." Cheng Xi smiled.

Xia Yan immediately frowned and said, "Don't make fun of me!" He wanted to reach out to hit Cheng Xi, but unfortunately he was too far away to reach him, and he was too lazy to get out of bed, so he clenched his fists fiercely and bared his teeth and claws fiercely as a sign of punishment, " Don't attack suddenly next time! Scare me! It would be bad if you scare the baby too!"

"The baby is not scared." Cheng Xi got up and sat next to Xia Yan, and touched his belly hidden under the coat that looked like a little lantern, "I told it last night while you were asleep, it Knowing that I want to go out to play, I happily agreed!"

"You're talking nonsense!" Xia Yan stared at him, "How did it agree?!"

"It punched me." Cheng Xi smiled, clenched his fist and tapped Xia Yan's stomach lightly. After a while, his inside moved twice as if responding.

Xia Yan's sleepy eyes immediately lit up, and he imitated the example, but knocked several times and waited for a long time without any movement.He thought it was a coincidence, but when Cheng Xi knocked again, his stomach started to move again!

"Why is this happening?!" Xia Yan couldn't believe it.

"Because I'm its father." Cheng Xi said intentionally.

"But me too! And I gave birth to it!" Xia Yan refused to show weakness.

"There is an old saying that the scent is far away and the smell is near. It doesn't feel good when it is with you all the time, but it cherishes it very much when it greets me occasionally." Cheng Xi continued to tease him.

"I don't believe it!" Xia Yan folded his arms and snorted, turned his head away, and said angrily, "You answer carefully, or I will jump out of the car, really."

Cheng Xi naturally knew it was fake, but after seeing his wife's surprised, joyful, angry and coquettish appearance, he was very satisfied, so he accepted it as soon as it was good.

He leaned over and hugged Xia Yan, and said close to his ear, "Tell you, it's because I sent some internal energy into your belly, and the child can feel it, and will respond to it."

When Xia Yan heard this, he puffed through his nostrils and raised his eyes: "Is it great to have internal energy?" After thinking about it, he seriously criticized, "What if you release your internal energy casually and hurt the baby?"

"No, I'm in control." Cheng Xi explained, "It's just a little soft, so soft that you don't even notice it, right? It's like a toy to a child, like a kitten playing with a ball of string. But I can't find where the ball of thread is."

Xia Yan imagined the scene, thought it was very cute, and couldn't help begging: "I want to learn internal strength too!" Before Cheng Xi could answer, he suddenly realized something, and his expression became serious, "Change the subject! Talk about what you did on your own!"

"Okay, I was wrong, I made a mistake." Cheng Xi circled Xia Yan with a very sincere attitude, "But today is my birthday, so Madam is kind enough to forgive me this time?"

Xia Yan has always been soft and not hard, and suddenly lost his temper. He looked at Cheng Xi with a flat mouth, and lost his mind under the surrounding of the gentle breath and the gaze of the deep eyes. He leaned forward and quickly pecked his lips. , whispered: "Happy birthday."

Cheng Xi bowed his head and kissed the top of his hair, and said, "Thank you Madam."

In the warmth, Xia Yan raised his hand and pressed the small pocket on the inside of the jacket, realizing that the birthday gift was still there, and felt relieved.

At noon, the carriage arrived.

Linjiang City is the capital of Huzhou. Xia Yan visited with Xiaofang and the others on his way to office before, and he still has an impression that it is a big and prosperous city surrounded by running water.

It was spring at that time, and the city was full of flowers, red willows, green warblers, singing, swallows and dancing, full of vitality like a girl and a boy.It is winter now, and the scenery will not be the same as it was then, but it will never be inferior just because it is winter.

Looking around the whole city, there are all lanterns hanging on the street, floating on the water, and in the hands of passers-by, big and small, colorful, and almost none of them are the same. It's really overwhelming!

"There are too many lights! What would it look like if they were all lit!" Xia Yan exclaimed.

"Linjiang City's lantern-making skills are outstanding, so naturally we should show it off." Cheng Xi said, "For the holidays, don't worry about the elegant mood, as long as it's lively and lively."

The two of them went to the restaurant for dinner first, and after a leisurely meal, they went shopping casually to look at small things. Xia Yan fell in love with the fat carp lanterns, and Cheng Xi bought him two, which he hugged happily. Go to the tea house to rest when the soles of the feet are a little sore, listen to the book for a while and eat some fruit, and it is dusk.

The lanterns were lit one after another, and the whole city was immersed in the candlelight. The reflection on the river surface was flickering and radiant.

"I brought you here today because there is a grand event here." Cheng Xi looked at him with a smile.

"Oh? What grand event?" Xia Yan blinked.

"Shoot the moon."

Cheng Xi led Xia Yan to a garden in the east of the city. During the festive decorations, the crowds were crowded and it was very lively.

Across the crowd, a small table was set up at the main entrance of the garden, and a person in charge was sitting there.Cheng Xi handed in ten coins and received a red kit with a number.

Xia Yan asked curiously: "What does this mean? Is it the fee to enter the garden? It's only ten coins, which is quite cheap."

"Answer the ten lantern riddles in the kit correctly within a stick of incense, and you can enter the park with ten pennies. If you can't answer," the manager said with a smile, "then it will cost more, but even if you spend more money, you can enter the park." , you can only enter the garden to watch the scenery, and you cannot shoot the moon."

"What exactly is Shooting the Moon?" Xia Yan was even more curious.

"Haha, since you don't know, young master, let's wait patiently. It will be more interesting to see it with your own eyes later." The steward said humanely.

Xia Yan pursed his lips, looked around, and found that many people were holding kits and frowning. A few steps later, there was a person wearing the same clothes as the steward, who presumably was timing and supervising the answering.

"Is the question difficult?" Xia Yan asked.

"Anyway, it's not easy." The steward stroked his beard proudly, "The heart of Lin Jiangcheng's lake shoots into the moon, and there have never been more than five people in the past."

"Oh?" Xia Yan was about to chat again when suddenly his wrist tightened.Cheng Xi held him with one hand, took the pen on the steward's desk with the other, dipped it in the ink, and began to write on the empty red paper placed beside him.

Xia Yan was shocked, "You guessed it?!"

Cheng Xi nodded, and the ten answers came out one by one.

"Didn't you say the question was difficult?!" Xia Yan opened his mouth wide, knowing that Cheng Xi was amazing, but this is too amazing!No one around seems to have figured it out!

The person in charge took out a booklet, opened a page according to their numbers, squinted his eyes and compared them one by one, and after a while raised his eyes and praised: "That's all right, my son is talented! These ten answers are new puzzles, and they are also mysteries." New clues, after you two enter the park, you can find a way to pass this second level, and you can become candidates for shooting the moon."

Xia Yan:! ! !

There is actually a chain trick!

Entering the garden, you can see scattered pavilions, stone bridges and flowing water, and evergreen vegetation intertwined and verdant, which looks beautiful in the night lights and shadows, not like the world.

Xia Yan became interested, took Cheng Xi's hand and asked, "What should I do next?"

Cheng Xi unfolded the red paper with the answers to the lantern riddles written on it, Xia Yan probed it, and saw ten characters: Feng, Feng, Li, Qian, Xie, You, Go, Lai, Xing, and Yan.

"What does this mean?" Xia Yan asked.

"I don't know for now, but since the answer is in the garden, you might as well take a walk first."

After shopping around, the two found a secluded wooden corridor to rest. Xia Yan was sitting with a carp lantern in his arms, looking at the ripples of the lake, his feet dangling back and forth unconsciously, and asked, "How is it? Did you think about it?"

Cheng Xi shook his head with a smile, and sighed: "This round is limited to half an hour, if you don't think about it, you can't shoot the moon."

"If you can't, then you can't." Xia Yan didn't mind.

"But I've thought about it for a long time."

Cheng Xi said seriously: "From the first time I knew about the Linjiang City Lantern Festival Moon Shooting Festival at the age of 16, I made a plan to come here."

"Come to display your talent?" Xia Yan asked with blinking eyes.

Cheng Xi raised his hand to touch the top of Xia Yan's head, and said, "Come shoot the moon for my beloved."

Xia Yan was stunned, under this situation, Cheng Xi's body was covered with a layer of light and shadow, making him look very hazy, and the inherent gentleness doubled, making his heart beat fast, and he blushed again and shyly.

He lowered his head and repeatedly touched the carp lantern to cover up, but the warmth of the carp lantern not only failed to calm him, but made him throb even more.

"I can't think of an answer, won't you give me some encouragement?" Cheng Xi looked at Xia Yan pointedly.

"How to encourage?" Xia Yan was at a loss.

Cheng Xi smiled and said, "Although the lantern is cute, can you hug it less and hug me more?"

Xia Yan took a breath, and his face turned even redder.

With a flat mouth, he slowly put the lantern by his feet, and even more slowly approached Cheng Xi to hug him, and said in a low voice, "I don't just hug the lantern because it's cute."

"Huh?" Cheng Xi didn't understand.

"Fool." Satisfied to finally be able to call Cheng Xi that way, Xia Yan raised her head and touched his face, saying, "Because you gave me that lantern!"

Cheng Xi's expression froze slightly, and then he hugged Xia Yan tightly with emotion.

Xia Yan shrank back immediately, and said seriously: "Be gentle, be careful not to press the baby."

"Yeah." Cheng Xi relaxed obediently, but his tone was somewhat aggrieved, "It's just Yan'er, in order to protect it, I haven't touched you seriously for a long time."

"Oh, don't talk about this outside!" Xia Yan shrank into Cheng Xi's arms, squeezed his palm in embarrassment, and looked greedily at the scenery in the garden.

Suddenly, hugging his body for a while.

Xia Yan looked up in doubt, and saw Cheng Xi's expression was cautious and focused, and then stretched out, showing a very confident smile.

"I thought about it."

Xia Yan:? ? ?

Cheng Xi got up, turned around, held Xia Yan's hand in the beautiful brilliance of the moonlit night lights, and said confidently: "Go, I will shoot the moon for you."

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