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Chapter 2 Floating Lights

The three brothers and sisters went down the mountain, and soon came to the small town at the foot of the mountain: Qinchuan.Although Qinchuan is only a small town, the streets are bustling with people on weekdays, let alone tonight, the streets are bustling with lights, and vendors selling lanterns can be seen everywhere on both sides of the street. In Qinchuan, the Lantern Festival is still a very important festival.

"There are too many people on this street, don't get lost in a while, why don't we rent a boat by the river and take a boat ride, how about that?" Shao Gong suggested.Bai Zihua always liked a pure temperament, so he naturally agreed to it, although Ding Yin felt a little regretful, but in order to be with Shaogong, he did not object.

So the three of them rented a boat by the river, Ding Yin took advantage of the time when the two of them were chatting with the owner of the boat, he ran to the side of the merchant, picked out three lanterns, carefully held them in his arms, walked up to Shao Gong, and was overjoyed Looking at him intently, "Senior brother, let's row the boat to the middle of the river and put up lanterns later, shall we?"

"Why put it in the middle of the river?" Bai Zihua asked.

"There are too many people here. If we put them here, we won't be able to tell which lantern is ours after a while." Ding Yin replied without thinking.

Bai Zihua said, "The lamp is for praying, so why care about where the lamp is placed?"

Ding Yin was still about to argue, so he heard Shao Gong say, "Okay, brother is right, the important thing is the wish, not the lamp." After speaking, he pushed Ding Yin's back with his hand, with a bit of blame in his tone , "We've been waiting for you for a long time, and we're going to get on the boat now."

Ding Yin got on the boat without saying a word, and sat on the bow with a lantern in his hand. The boss of the boat saw someone coming, and when he looked back, Ouyang Shaogong and Bai Zihua also walked over.Ouyang Shaogong cupped his hands to the boat boss, "Boater, we are all here, let's set sail." The boat boss agreed, quickly untied the ropes that tied the boat, and slowly rowed the boat away from the river bank.

Watching Ouyang Shaogong and Bai Zihua enter the cabin together, Ding Yin felt as if something was pressed on his chest, he was stuffy, he lowered his head and didn't speak.

On the other side, Ouyang Shaogong and Bai Zihua entered the cabin, but they sat in front of the table, set up the chessboard, and started to play chess.

"Aren't you going to take a look, Junior Brother?" Bai Zihua fell down, but still couldn't help asking.

"It's okay." Ouyang Shaogong didn't raise his head, and made a move on the chessboard. Bai Zihua had some doubts, but thinking that Ding Yin had always been closer to Shaogong than to him, since Shaogong said so, it should be Nothing happened, so I ignored it and started to focus on playing chess.

I don't know how long it has passed, the chessboard is already black and white, and it is impossible to tell who is better.Bai Zihua looked at the chess board, thought for a long time, and finally dropped a piece on the left side, and the black piece immediately gained the upper hand. Ouyang Shaogong held the white piece in his hand, rubbed it between his fingers for a moment, put down the piece and said, "I lost, senior brother's chess skills are really good!" It's getting stronger." There was no displeasure on his face, and Bai Zihua's face was also indifferent, "It's because you have distracting thoughts."

Ouyang Shaogong smiled and said nothing.After the two packed up the chess pieces together, Ouyang Shaogong pulled Bai Zihua out of the cabin. At this time, the boat was going to the middle of the river, and the current was gentle, which was just right for lighting.Hearing the sound of footsteps, Ding Yin raised his head and saw that it was Shao Gong who came, he was happy in his heart, and was about to speak, but Shao Gong spoke first, "Little brother, is your anger gone?" "I'm not angry." Ding Yin Looking at Shao Gong, he said seriously, "I will never be angry with you."

Hearing what he said, Shaogong felt much more at ease, turned around and took a pen and inkstone from the cabin, put it on the bow, seeing Ding Yin still holding the lantern in his arms, he said helplessly, "Little brother is still going to hold this lantern How long?" Ding Yin slowly placed the lanterns on the boat, and Shaogong noticed that the colors of the three lanterns were different, and...

"I guess, this white one belongs to senior brother, and that blue one belongs to you." Shaogong pointed to the two lanterns on the ground and said, then picked up a yellow lantern and said, "And this one is mine."

"Brother is really smart!" Ding Yin was very happy, but Ouyang Shaogong was silent.There are three brothers, Bai Zihua is dressed in white clothes, Ouyang Shaogong is gentle and elegant in apricot yellow wide-sleeved gown, and Ding Yin is neat and tidy in a blue dress.It just matched the color of the three lanterns.

"Let's put up the lanterns." Ouyang Shaogong picked up the pen, dipped it in the ink, and handed it to Bai Zihua, "Brother, come first."

Bai Zihua took the pen, picked up the white lantern, and wrote the words "Ouyang Shaogong" on a paper petal. Ouyang Shaogong looked at him in surprise, but before he could react, he saw him again. Write another name on the petal next to it: "Ding Yin".

"Brother?" Ouyang Shaogong was rarely distracted.

"What's wrong?" Bai Zihua asked, looking a little puzzled.

"Why did senior brother write like this?" Ouyang Shaogong asked.

"You are my juniors. I hope you are all safe, so I wrote it." Bai Zihua looked at the complicated look on Ouyang Shaogong's face and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Generally speaking, only one name can be written on the blessing lanterns to show that you can't be greedy. If you have to write two, you should put another lantern." Ouyang Shaogong explained, feeling a little delicate.

Bai Zihua didn't know much about these things, he just saw people praying with lanterns, and he didn't notice the names written on them.He frowned and said, "Since I wrote it, then..."

Ouyang Shaogong took the lantern from Bai Zihua's hand and put it aside. "It's okay, if senior brother wants to, buy two new lanterns when you go back and write again. If you put it down like this, you can't pray for blessings, and what you write later will not count."

Bai Zihua nodded, and handed the pen to Ouyang Shaogong. Ouyang Shaogong smiled, walked to the edge of the boat with the lantern, squatted down, wrote his name with the pen, and then lit the lantern and put it into the water.When Ding Yin ran over, the lantern had already drifted a certain distance along the current, and it was hard to see whose name was written on it.

"Who did Shaogong write about?" Ding Yin asked, but Shaogong just smiled and tapped his forehead with the pen, "It's your turn."

Ding Yin rubbed his head, took the pen, took it aside, and neatly wrote on the lantern: "Ouyang Shaogong" in big characters, lit the flower core, and carefully pushed the lantern into the water.

Ouyang Shao looked at his actions respectfully, shook his head with a smile, and said, "The lanterns are over, should I go in now, or stay here?" Ding Yin thought for a while and replied, "It's fine if I stay outside, here very beautiful."

Ouyang Shaogong took a look at Ding Yin, followed his gaze to look at both sides of the river, there are all kinds of floating lights on the river, and thousands of lights on the bank, it is also a very unique scenery.Ouyang Shaogong thought for a while, then said, "That's fine." He and Bai Zihua didn't like to be as lively as Ding Yin, and when they came to see the lantern, they just saw that the younger brother was in a low mood recently, and wanted to make Ding Yin happy.So the two returned to the cabin and continued to play chess, while Ding Yin sat on the bow for a while, got up and walked to the stern, and said to the old ship, "Turn the boat around, we are going back."

The boss of the boat agreed, turned the boat around, and rowed in the direction where he came just now.Because it was traveling along the water, the speed of the boat was much faster than before. Ding Yin searched the river surface, and soon saw a yellow lantern floating in front of him.He asked the boat boss to row over, picked up the lantern, and looked carefully, but it was a completely strange handwriting, a completely strange name, but...

"Boatman, why are there two names written on this lantern?" He was puzzled, didn't Shao Gong say that two names could not be written?The boatman said with a smile, "This lantern, if you write one name, it is a blessing lantern, and if you write two names, it is a marriage lantern."

He froze for a moment, put the lantern back into the water, and asked the boat boss to row to another yellow lantern. He picked up seven or eight lanterns in a row, but he didn't see the familiar handwriting.Thanks to the superb steering skills of the captain of the ship, despite Ding Yin's tossing around, Bai Zihua and Ouyang Shaogong didn't realize it.

Seeing that Ding Yin seemed to want to continue fishing, the boat boss couldn't stand it, and persuaded, "Forget it, young man, since the lantern has been put down, even if I made a wish, it's useless to fish it up. And now this On the river, there are eight hundred yellow lanterns, can you catch them all one by one?" Hearing this, Ding Yin returned to the bow with a sad expression, and saw the white lantern on the board that was placed aside. He held the lantern in his hand and looked at the two names written on it, and suddenly laughed, feeling inexplicably happy in his heart.

Ding Yin held the lantern in his hands, lit it, stretched out his hand, and put it on the river.One side of the lantern touched the surface of the water, and the name on the lantern was facing him. Looking at the writing on the lantern, he suddenly woke up.What is he doing!This is a marriage lamp, he has always respected his senior brother, when did he have such an idea, if his senior brother knew about it, how would he treat himself?

Ding Yin was startled, and was about to withdraw his hand, but at this moment a bright Yellow River lantern floated over and bumped into the white lantern.His hand was only loosely held, now that the white lantern was bumped, it slipped from his fingers and went down the river.In a moment of panic, he stretched out his hand to grab it, but only caught the lantern that bumped into it.

Ding Yin squatted on the spot, a little at a loss, like a child who accidentally made a mistake.He looked at the lantern in his hand in a daze, and suddenly it was as if a basin of snow water was poured on his head, freezing his whole body stiff.

A very ordinary yellow lantern with two unusual names: Bai Zihua Ouyang Shaogong.

A very familiar color, a very familiar character, a very familiar name, but he stared at it for a long time as if he didn't recognize it.It turned out that his senior brother had the same idea as him.

Suddenly, the boat shook violently, Ding Yin lost his footing and fell into the water.In the chaos, he seemed to see something swimming towards him, but his head was still in a mess, unable to react, he felt that his eyes had gone dark, and his consciousness had already been separated, and he was unconscious.

The author has something to say: ——Honkai Small Theater 5——

Ding Yin: Senior brother is really smart!

Shao Gong: ...Don't make this too obvious please, and why would someone buy lanterns according to the color of the clothes? The younger brother's idea is really different.

——Honkai Small Theater 6——

Bai Zihua (picking up the lantern): Now that it’s written, let’s let it go, don’t waste it.

Shaogong: ...you want to put the lights of my marriage with others in front of me, have you considered my feelings, don't write scribbles if you don't understand!My heart is full, I really want to pull my sleeves away, what should I do?

——Honkai Small Theater 7——

Shao Gong (sneaking aside to write): I don’t want to show it to my brother

Ding Yin (sneaking aside to write): Don’t show it to Shao Gong

Bai Zihua: ...Why do you feel that I was tricked?