The Cultivation of Rebirth

As time goes by day by day, the Lantern Festival is coming soon

The Lantern Festival used to be one of the most lively festivals of the year in City B. It was silent for a long time in the past few years due to some reasons. In recent years, with the changes in the social environment, it has slowly become lively again.

Many streets hung up lanterns and festoons in advance, as if celebrating something important.

Gu Zhai also dressed up in advance.

In addition to the newly purchased ordinary gauze lanterns and small colored lanterns of various shapes, Mr. Gu also opened the storeroom and took out some of his collection of palace lanterns and revolving lanterns. Several of them were antique lanterns handed down from his family.

The palace lanterns collected by the Gu family are complete in variety, including square, hexagonal and octagonal ones. The frames are all made of precious wood, and the carvings are very exquisite.In addition to the common painted gauze glass, some of the screens are made of precious colored glaze and jade.

Li Rui couldn't move his eyes away.

It's not that Li Rui has never been to a lantern festival before, but it's rare to see such an exquisite palace lantern.

And the revolving lanterns were much more beautiful than the ones he had seen before. The little people on horses painted on them were so vivid.

Li Rui has learned about the principle of revolving lanterns, and admires the inventions and creations of the ancients.

Seeing that Li Rui liked his collection so much, Mr. Gu felt quite proud.He dared to say that among the large circle of people around here, the lamps belonging to their Gu family are the most beautiful.

Elder Gu awkwardly asked Gu Huaidong and Li Rui to pick up two lamps and take them back to their room to play.

Li Rui heard it, and looked at the old man in disbelief.Did Mr. Deng Gu, who is so beautiful, really let him choose?

Mr. Gu blew his beard and asked, "Why are you looking at me? Choose it yourself. I told you that I only asked you to pick one for the sake of the Xia family. After the Lantern Festival, you have to return it." .”

"Thank you, Grandpa!" Li Ruicai thanked him excitedly, regardless of what Old Master Gu said later.

Because he was too excited, Li Rui's voice was a little louder, and Mr. Gu was almost startled by his voice.

In the end, Li Rui and Gu Huaidong each picked a revolving lantern and a palace lantern and went back to the room.

Turn off the lights at night, and turn on two lamps. The soft but slightly dim light shines on the room, adding a bit of secretive ambiguity.

The revolving lantern slowly turned, and the figures on the lantern kept changing, making the room even quieter.

Gu Huaidong and Li Rui looked at each other.

For some reason, Li Rui felt that his face was getting hotter.

Li Rui first looked away, tilted his head slightly, the small half of his cheek was hidden in the shadow, and then involuntarily slid his gaze, glanced at Gu Huaidong, and then hurriedly looked away.

Gu Huaidong's throat rolled, and he reminded himself repeatedly to restrain himself, it was not yet time.

Gu Huaidong took a step forward, held Li Rui's cheeks in his arms, traced his lips from between Li Rui's brows, kissed Li Rui's lips all the way, and then moved to the corner of Li Rui's mouth, where the lips stayed for a long time .

Li Rui couldn't help stretching out his hands to wrap around Gu Huaidong's neck, tightening his arms little by little.

Under the light, the shadows of the two people blurred the boundaries and connected together.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, Li Rui went to the kitchen to watch when he heard that the kitchen would be making Lantern Festival.Of course Gu Huaidong followed suit.

Li Rui made glutinous rice balls himself, but he hasn't seen how the Yuanxiao is "shaked".

Many people think that glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao are the same thing, but they are not.

Tangyuan is rice noodles kneaded to make skin fillings, and Yuanxiao is to put the fillings in a large pot of rice noodles and shake to roll the fillings on the outside.Every time the filling is rolled on a layer of skin, it must be wet in clean water before continuing to roll the next time, otherwise the skin of the Lantern Festival will easily fall apart.

Therefore, "shaking" the Lantern Festival to make it look good is not only a technical task, but also a time-consuming and labor-intensive task.

Seeing Li Rui's eagerness to try, Gu Huaidong directly asked the kitchen to distribute a portion of ingredients to himself and Li Rui.

Others in the kitchen saw the two little masters making Lantern Festival in a serious manner, they couldn't help looking at each other, and then smiled.

Gu Huaidong and Li Rui are both very good at imitating, and together, they produced many finished products.

Seeing that the finished product looks good, Gu Huaidong simply asked Li Rui to cook the Lantern Festival together.

The cooked Lantern Festival was divided into several small bowls and filled with two plates.

Gu Huaidong then took Li Rui and served the Lantern Festival they made together to please the elders.

In the afternoon, Gu Huaidong and Li Rui went shopping together.

It is said that shopping is actually going to the Lantern Festival in advance.

However, those light groups usually don't turn on the lights until it is almost dark at five or six o'clock in the evening. When they go in the afternoon, they can only see the unlit lights.

But the unlit lights are nice too.There are also some very special lamps. Li Rui saw lamps made of cow horns.

Li Rui walked all the way, and saw that many shops were covered with lights.

Gu Huaidong explained to him that this is an old habit in City B, the more famous the old shop is, the more it will hang various lights at the door.Earlier than the special period of previous years, some old shops even hung hundreds of lights.Compared with before, the situation now is very frugal and low-key.

In the evening, the dinner that Gu Zhai prepared was dumplings stuffed with dried vegetables.Fresh vegetables are made into dried vegetables. When making dumplings, the dried vegetables are boiled in delicious broth to make fillings, which has a special flavor.Anyway, Gu Huaidong has never seen it in other places he has been to.

It was also the first time for Li Rui to taste this staple food, but he was not used to the taste of this dumpling.

Gu Huaidong saw that Li Rui was reluctant to eat, so he simply took Li Rui's bowl and ate the leftover dumplings, and asked the kitchen to bring Li Rui another bowl of Yuanxiao.

After dark, Peng Zhenlin's new gang went to Gu's house to find Gu Huaidong and Li Rui to hang out.

After the lights that I have seen during the day are lit at night, it is another gorgeous scenery.

Gu Huaidong took Li Rui's hand and fell behind the crowd, walking slowly and watching.

Today is a sunny day, and the moon in the sky is big and round at night.

Gu Huaidong turned sideways and asked Li Rui: "Do you think our name is Liushaotou on the Moon, after dusk?"

Li Rui glanced at Gu Huaidong, then shook his head: "That's not true. You only remember this line from this poem, right?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Huaidong smiled and said, "How do you know?"

Li Rui hummed, and said to him with a smile: "The last two lines of this poem are not good omens, and you will definitely not like them after you know."

Gu Huaidong patted his mouth when he heard the words: "My fault." He didn't ask what the next two lines were.

Li Rui clasped Gu Huaidong's hand and shook it, comforting him: "If you want to recite something, you can recite the song Yuan Xi we learned in middle school."

"Which song?" Gu Huaidong actually knew which song Li Rui was talking about, but he still asked deliberately.

Li Rui curled the corner of his mouth, and didn't mind Gu Huaidong knowingly asking: "Of course it's the song "I'm looking for him thousands of Baidu".",

Li Rui felt that this poem was indeed appropriate to the occasion.Didn't Gu Huaidong suddenly appear in his flustered life with a warm glow?

Gu Huaidong made a sudden realization: "So it's this song."

Gu Huaidong stopped and asked Li Rui to stand still.

Li Rui followed suit suspiciously, and asked, "What are you doing?"

Gu Huaidong took two steps forward with his back to Li Rui, turned around, and said to Li Rui, "Deduce the poem you just mentioned."

"Suddenly looking back..." Gu Huaidong beckoned to Li Rui, beckoning Li Rui to come forward, and when Li Rui approached, he hugged Li Rui, and continued to say, "My love is in the dimly lit place."

A group of hurt friends in front noticed that the two had fallen, and they were looking back, and happened to see this scene.

Those who were close also heard Gu Huaidong's vague words in the wind, and couldn't help shaking the goosebumps all over his body.

After visiting the street lamps, a group of people went to the square to look at the ice lamps.

This is really something new that Li Rui has never seen before.

Li Rui looked at all kinds of exquisite ice sculptures on the square, colorful lights and ice shadows, and felt dizzy.

In his previous life, Gu Huaidong had seen the grander ice lantern exhibition in later generations, and he was not interested in the small troubles in front of him, so he just took pictures of Li Rui with his camera.

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