dragon pen

In a blink of an eye, the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming.

Early in the morning, the street outside the inn was bustling with activity.

Different from the past, before the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, the capital encountered two catastrophes in a row, which almost turned into a catastrophe, and because of various coincidences, they all escaped the catastrophe.In addition, people in other places were covered in cold sweat when they heard about these deeds, and they put down their affairs and went back to their hometowns, looking forward to being united in this full moon festival... Therefore, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival is more lively than usual In the early morning, the streets are crowded with people everywhere, people rushing to buy ingredients in the morning, vegetable vendors carrying burdens, steamed buns, clay figurines, and the most popular among children who are surrounded by lanterns— —

Everyone has a smile on their face, and everyone is beaming.

Naturally, there is also a Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet in the palace.

So early in the morning, as soon as it was dawn, Lord Rui Louhen drove a carriage to greet his father, queen, and queen who were driving into the palace. When the gorgeous carriage rolled past the inn, the young man who lived on the second floor was breathing hot air. Steaming red bean paste buns, lying sleepily on the side of the railing and looking down at the old man who made the lanterns downstairs and tied a carp lantern——

The people in the curtain of the carriage seemed to have a heart-to-heart connection, and when the curtain was lifted, the handsome and young face was revealed. When the eyes met each other unexpectedly, the prince raised his head and smiled, waving hello to the dull-faced young man by the window of the inn. Mouth and say: In the evening, see you there or be square.

"..."

The young man just watched the carriage drive away with the bun in his mouth, until the full bean paste overflowed and scalded the roots of his teeth, then he came back to his senses, spit out the bun and caught it with his hands, "ah!" He stretched his neck and looked at the direction the carriage was leaving——

Was it the prince who greeted him just now?

Mother, the prince has greeted him!

He has a bun in his mouth.

Holding a bun!

Not only did he not respond, he was holding a bun like a fool!

Holding a hot bean paste bun, Zhang Ziyao couldn't laugh or cry, the feeling of being hungry in the morning was completely frightened away.Looking back, he saw that in the picture scroll quietly hanging on the wall, the tall man sitting on the top of the tree was turning his back to him without knowing it, throwing a round and big bag of bean paste between his hands. Tossing it back and forth as if wanting to speed up the heat dissipation, he seemed to feel Zhang Ziyao's gaze at this moment, he opened his mouth and caught the bun in mid-air, turned his head and glanced at Zhang Ziyao, and said indifferently: "Cough, cough (what are you looking at?) )?"

"My lord passed downstairs just now." Zhang Ziyao pointed to the inn, "He told me that we will see you in the evening."

Zhu Jiuyin rolled her eyes to show that it was none of my business, took a bite of the steamed stuffed bun and swallowed it, then said clearly: "Seeing that you are full of youth, you are very excited... It's just to say hello, why are you happy?"

"That's the prince."

"A mere lord of one dynasty, change tomorrow, don't say he is nothing, even today, he is nothing more than a reckless... I am the ancestor of the twelve witches." Zhu Jiuyin's face was full of "You really don't know what to do" squinting off-screen Young man, "Emperors Yan and Huang both respected me three points, why didn't I expect you to say: You are Lord Zhu Jiuyin!"

"That's different!"

"Why is it different?"

"He's not in the picture."

"..." Zhu Jiuyin gnawed the buns in two or three bites, clapped his hands and said, "Little white-eyed wolf, snobbish... How many times have I told you that Louhen has bad intentions for you, you must keep a safe distance from him, and the result is What? I was busy eating a steamed stuffed bun and didn’t see it all at once, your soul is about to be taken away by someone? Hey, young, immature and dull, when I was your age—”

"When you were my age, you were still a loach." Zhang Ziyao came to the picture scroll with a smile, and rolled up the scroll while teasing, "The prince has a high position and authority, and is young and promising. He is friendly, the people in Beijing have a very good opinion of him, why do you not like him?"

"How can you be pleasing to a hooligan who specializes in deceiving ignorant children?...Why are you writing this book? You don't like to hear a few words? Bold! Presumptuous! Trickster! Put it down!"

"The banquet in the palace is over in the evening, and the lord ordered me to take the invitation letter and wait at the pier early. I have to take a shower and change clothes now...don't look at it."

"It's just your two taels of meat, and you still find your eyes hot." The tail that was pressing on the edge of the scroll to prevent it from being pulled away, and a disdainful snort came from the gap in the scroll that was rolled up smoothly, " This gentleman is rare."

Zhang Ziyao just laughed and didn't refute. The young man's black eyes were shining, and his expectations for the evening were written in them—this was the first time he spent such an important festival away from home. In previous years, the Mid-Autumn Festival at home was always after the dinner party. , the three brothers stood beside the unfurled scrolls and drew some pictures for the occasion with their pens. An epiphyllum, in an instant the epiphyllum bloomed in the picture scroll, everyone in the family admired it, and his father was so proud that his tail almost went up to the sky.

But now... Zhang Ziyao buried half of his face in hot water and blew bubbles. I heard that after he left home, Zhang Ziyi continued to be in a daze, and Zhang Zixiao did not leave the ancestral hall no matter how much his father prayed to God. Even if Zhang Ziyao knew that the matter of "Huguang Jingcui" was settled by Zhang Ziyao, he just showed his face and said that he knew it, and never said a word of "thank you".

The whole person has no energy, like a walking dead.

"Hmm." Zhang Ziyao blew away the petals that floated in front of his eyes, and muttered vaguely in an emotionless voice, "This year is good, I don't need to paint."

……

After Zhang Ziyao finished washing, had a hasty lunch, and picked his hair and changed his clothes again, it was sunset and dusk in the blink of an eye, and the willows were on the moon.

The black sky is full of stars, the bright moon is in the sky, and the streets are quiet again in the afternoon. Unlike the daytime, there are no merchants walking and selling, and the doors of every household are hung with strings and colorful lights, colorful and in different shapes. The colorful lanterns are lit up and swaying gently with the breeze... Under the colored lanterns, there are puzzle colored papers with official seals printed on them. There are questions about astronomy, geography and folklore guessing words on them, just waiting for someone who is destined to guess the puzzles to reveal them. Next, send it to the designated place to redeem rewards.

The family banquet in the palace ends with the lighting of fireworks.

Zhang Ziyao is still a young boy after all, it's too early to see, and he doesn't want to watch the bustle outside the house and wait in the room. He rolled up the scroll and hung it on his waist, and then went downstairs to wander around-the crowds were bustling with each other. Official children and poor people have all lifted the ban tonight. Many teenagers the same size as Zhang Ziyao came to the street like birds released from their cages, looking left and right, chirping in groups... It's just Zhang Ziyao But it seems that I don't envy these peers with partners, just walk around on my own, stop when I see a stall I am interested in, and buy something occasionally, as if I am not affected by the surroundings at all.

Where the young man passed by, there was only a faint, unusually light and pleasant scent of ink left behind.

It wasn't until he started to guess lantern riddles on a whim that this low-key and handsome boy really started to attract the attention of the people around him——

"Mid-autumn night with the breeze blowing on your face? To use an idiom, eh, the bright moon and the breeze?"

Solve the lantern riddle.

"Chang'e going down to earth? Name a flower? Of course it's rose."

Uncover the lantern riddle X2.

"Long, type an idiom - turn a deaf ear, Chi Chi."

"Presumptuous, what is the intention of the questioner?"

"Shh, don't talk."

Uncover the lantern riddle X3.

"Be impartial and impartial, chiseling a wall can steal a ray of light—who?"

"Fazheng, Kongming."

"Yeah, Jiujiu, you..."

"Little illiterate, I am ashamed to say that I am a scholar."

"..."

Uncover the lantern riddle X4.

"The fifteenth moon shines on the beach, ah, I see, it's a piece of loose sand."

Uncover the lantern riddle X5.

"Confucius in this life."

"I will be a teacher later."

Uncover the lantern riddle X6.

"Left cabinet minister."

"grid."

Uncover the lantern riddle X7.

"A thousand-year-old tree feller, looking at lovesickness-hit a mythical figure?"

"Wu Gang is a big man who cuts trees in front of the E'e gate of my house. Hmph, what kind of mythical character is this question? It should be a common saying: toad, toad, wants to eat swan meat."

"..."

Uncover the lantern riddle X8.

After half an hour.

In the sideways eyes of everyone, one hand held a thick stack of guessed lantern riddle paper that was almost uncontrollable, and kept repeating [Stand in front of the lantern riddle paper - look up and read the question - talk to yourself - uncover the lantern riddle Paper] The young man who never stopped moving finally came to the pier slowly. At this time, there were not five or six but three or four wealthy daughters who were watching from a distance behind him. I got closer to another lantern riddle...

As the breeze came, the goldfish-shaped lantern swayed slightly, casting a small shadow on the tip of the boy's pretty nose——

"Think of it as day, sleep as night, blow as winter, breathe as summer, do not drink, do not eat, do not rest, rest as wind; body length thousands of miles, in the east of Wulong, it is a thing, human face, snake body, red , at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain."

"..."

"..."

"What does silence mean? Do you dare to say that you don't know how to try this question?"

dare not.

I'm really afraid that you will go to the house to expose the roof tiles and sloppy.

Zhang Ziyao stretched out his hand silently, and was about to unravel the last puzzle, when suddenly he stretched out an arm from behind him and took the first to take off the lamp paper. Dissatisfied with this, he turned around and took a closer look, only to find that the person behind him was much taller than him, dressed in a splendid dress and a brocade robe. In a pair of smiling eyes, the black eyes reflected the colorful light from the lanterns, the stars were overflowing, and the water waves were clear and clean.

"I saw you talking to yourself from a distance." Lou Hen laughed, "Guessing lantern riddles is so much fun, what an interesting kid."

The young prince raised his head inadvertently as he spoke, and his eyes seemed to pass behind the young man in front of him—then the daughters who had been following the young man from a distance all blushed slightly, and scattered around like frightened birds.

"My lord?" He didn't know anything about what happened behind him. At this time, Zhang Ziyao just calmed down after being slightly stunned at the beginning, closed his mouth, turned his head to look at the peaceful sky behind him, and then turned his head. Looking at the person standing in front of him, "Why... hey? Isn't it—"

"I watch the fireworks every year, every festival, and I've been bored with watching them for a long time, so I took advantage of my brothers' flattering and bragging, and found an excuse to sneak out... Originally, I wanted to go to the inn I went to pick you up, but it was all in vain—thinking if you left early, I took photos along the way, and I found you."

"My lord was joking. There are so many people on the street. If you didn't meet them by chance, you wouldn't be able to find them if you fell into the crowd like this—"

"I've mispoken."

"Ok?"

"Just look for the place with the most people. As long as you pay attention to their focus, you will be found easily." Lou Hen said, seemingly false, but the smile on his lips remained unchanged, making it impossible to tell whether what he said was true. .

But Zhang Ziyao only thought he was joking, scratched his head embarrassingly and muttered, "My lord, don't make fun of grass people", at the same time raised his hand and let it flow gently across the picture scroll hanging on his waist—it just so happened that the wind blew Come on, it did a good job of covering up the slight trembling of the picture scroll on his waist just now.

—Probably caused by a dragon gagging loudly or rolling its eyes or something inside.

With Louhen here, although it is impossible to enjoy the Mid-Autumn Festival and let yourself go, it is a lot more convenient to board the royal flower boat to do business... Louhen's guards forcefully put them on the crowded street A passage wide for one person was opened. Under the eyes of passers-by who were envious or jealous, Zhang Ziyao followed behind Lou Hen's buttocks, pretending to be a tiger. He also saw the surprise on the faces of some ordinary guests in the inn who always liked to laugh at him behind his back. Mingming said: Isn't this guy a trash who was kicked out by the lord? What's the matter?

Zhang Ziyao felt quite refreshed.

I was even a little lucky to meet the building mark halfway——

Well, when it was said that Lou Hen came to him specially, he naturally didn't believe a word of it.

After having a good time, Zhang Ziyao just lowered his head and followed the building mark with confidence. The two of them arrived at the pier in a short while. It is for invited guests to board the boat, so it is naturally not as honorable as the prince and princess, so to board the boat, you must first take a small boat to the lake before boarding the boat.

Zhang Ziyao is a child born inland. He has never even been in the water a few times since he was a child, not to mention taking a boat. He was a little wobbly when he got on the boat. He saw the building mark standing firmly on the boat in front of him, so he naturally stretched out his hand. Wanting to come to help, who knew that he hadn't touched the young man's shoulder, and suddenly felt something cold and slippery hit the back of his hand hard!

Lou Hen frowned slightly and retracted his hand, but Zhang Ziyao said "ah", as if he was frightened by something.In the darkness, he quickly kicked a stone by his feet and fell into the lake with a soft "plop".

"My lord?" In the darkness, Zhang Ziyao asked innocently, "Are you okay?"

Lou Hen touched the slightly wet back of his hand, raised his eyes and glanced at the boy who clumsily climbed into the boat: "That was just now..."

"A small fish." Zhang Ziyao said, "Maybe it was frightened, flew up, and fell into the water again."

Behind him, the waves spread—something like that.

"Are you okay?" Zhang Ziyao asked again, his voice sounded a little tense.

"It's okay." Lou Hen smiled, took out a handkerchief and wiped the back of his hands, "It's just a bit fishy and sticky, and I don't feel very refreshed."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Zhang Ziyao reach out quickly to hold the picture scroll hanging on his waist, as if he was afraid that something in the picture scroll would burst——at this moment, the young man paused slightly as if he noticed the sweeping gaze of the building trace He let go of his hand and smiled apologetically: "Fish is always fishy, ​​maybe fish still think the smell of mortals is not very pleasant?"

Lou Hen seemed to be pleased by his strange logic, laughed a few times, threw the handkerchief casually, and sat down firmly in the boat.Zhang Ziyao didn't get invited and didn't dare to sit casually, he stood by the side of the boat like a log.

At this time, Lou Hen, whose face was half hidden in the shadow, restrained his smile, propped his face with one hand, and in the gently rocking boat, he looked majestically at the boy not far away—the boy's hairband fluttered when the breeze blew, The gilt dragon pen hanging on his waist had a cold metallic luster under the moonlight... He tilted his head slightly, his attention was completely attracted by the huge and gorgeous cruise ship in the center of the lake, and the candles were lit inside the boat. Dim yellow light leaked from the window, and the whole ship seemed to be shrouded in a layer of faint light. The light reflected in the young man's eyes, giving a ray of light to the bottomless pupils.

Under Lou Hen's gaze, the young man bent down, untied the dragon pen from his waist, and the tip of the pen glides across the water beside the boat, splashing little drops of water!

In an instant, the water droplets flying in the water did not fall back to the surface of the water. They turned into fireflies like stars and scattered on the surface of the lake. The young man waved the gilt pen lightly in his hand, and the light spots scattered in all directions. It seemed that there were thousands of fireflies floating on the surface of the lake, and their reflections in the water waves were beautiful.

People's amazement came from the shore.

Lou Hen lazily applauded: "Good skill."

Zhang Ziyao smiled back.

At the same time, when everyone was not paying attention, a few fireflies, under the cover of thousands of companions, quietly flew into each compartment from the open window of the cruise ship.