Qin Xiu [comprehensive martial arts + sword three]

Hua Ruling was very pleasantly surprised when someone said that Long Wan had come.

Every now and then, he would send someone to Long's house to find out if Long Wan had returned. The person he sent last time did not bring back any good news. Hua Ruling thought that this time he would go back to Jiangnan, and he might not see her this year. Unexpectedly How could Hua Ruling not be happy that she finally came back and came to look for her without saying anything.

Don't worry about the unfinished account books in hand, Hua Ruling rushed to the main hall to meet people in three steps and two steps.

When he was almost at the place, he slowed down, tidied up his slightly messy clothes, and then stepped across the threshold.

"Wan'er."

Long Wan was sitting on a chair drinking tea, and there was a food box on the coffee table beside her. Seeing Hua Ruling, she got up to greet her, and handed the food box over: "Today is the Laba Festival, and we have made Laba porridge at home. I brought some, the weather is cold now, this Laba porridge might be cold after traveling all the way, you can eat it after heating up the kitchen."

Hua Ruling was not short of this food, but the care and visit from his sweetheart made him feel very happy, so he hurriedly took the food box and ordered the maid to send it to the kitchen.

"When did Wan'er come back? How are you doing on Blackwood Cliff? Did you encounter any trouble?"

A series of questions were all about his concern. Seeing her figure reflected in those bright and focused eyes, Long Wan softened her brows and eyes, and answered his question: "I've only been back for a day. Everything is fine and there is no trouble."

Hua Ruling asked her what she had seen and heard along the way, and Long Wan answered them one by one. The two of them chatted harmoniously, feeling like they were meeting friends.

"I heard that you are going back to Yangzhou, has the date been fixed?" Long Wan stopped chatting and asked.

Hua Ruling nodded: "It's settled, I'll leave the day after tomorrow."

"Is everything packed?"

"It's all packed up."

He opened his mouth, but he didn't say that he invited Long Wan to go to Yangzhou to celebrate the New Year with him.

Long Wan confirmed the time he was going to leave, sat down for a while, then got up to leave.

Hua Ruling sent her away, turned around and ate the hot Laba porridge, her mouth was full of sweetness.

A day later, Long Wan went to see Lin Shiyin again, and now Lin Shiyin no longer needs to rest in bed.She was still in the early stages of pregnancy, but she didn't show her pregnancy, but she was a bit rounder, and at a young age, she already had some maternal instincts.

"This child is quite obedient, and he didn't bother me. I eat or sleep all day long, but I'm fat. Sister, let's see if she's ugly?" There is no woman who doesn't care about her appearance. Lin Shiyin is really worried about her future. will get fatter.

"It's not ugly, you were too thin before, and you don't look too fat now, it would be nice to have some more flesh." Long Wan patted the back of her hand and said, although these words were comforting, they were also true.

Lin Shiyin smiled when she heard this, and looked at Long Wan's face that looked like a fairy, and changed her mind: "Don't talk about me, sister, how are you and Playboy?"

"Us? What can we do?" Long Wan naturally knew what she was asking, but pretended not to know.

Lin Shiyin looked at her, covered her mouth and chuckled, and said jokingly: "When Xiaotao came here yesterday, she said that you went to deliver the Laba porridge to Playboy in person. You used to come to see me first when you came back, but now you go first. After seeing Playboy, my sister still said that she has no intentions for him?"

Lin Shiyin felt that Hua Ruling was a good friend of Li Xunhuan's, with excellent personality, appearance and family background, so she couldn't be more suitable for Long Wan.

Long Wan froze for a moment, then quietly said: "Probably because of a little liking." Maybe a little more, but it's far from what you like.

"Since there is, why not give each other a chance?" Lin Shiyin persuaded sincerely, "If you miss a hero like Playboy, where can sister find another one? Since your heart is moved, why not give it a try?"

Long Wan remained silent, but Lin Shiyin's words kept echoing in her heart.

try...?

When Hua Ruling left, Long Wan went to see him off, standing on the pier and looking at the distant ship, the cold wind whizzed past, but the young man on the bow did not return to the warm cabin, but stood in the winter In the cold wind, the people on the pier looked at each other from a distance until they couldn't see each other.

The following days became colder and colder, the sky began to snow, and the earth was covered in pure white, wrapped in silver.

On such a day, even if Long Wan is not afraid of the cold and doesn't want to go out, staying in the house every day to keep warm is the most correct choice.

As the New Year's Day approaches, people's emotions are also high. Even the cold winter can't stop them from celebrating the New Year's joy. As the owner of Zhuangzi, Long Wan received many New Year's gifts from tenants in the days before the New Year's Day. The worthless things are all their thoughts, in order to thank the "landlord" who allowed them to live a good year.

Although the things were not worth much, they had a lot of affection, and they reciprocated. Long Wan bought a few pigs from a nearby village and asked the butcher to slaughter them. She kept one for Aunt Xu to lead someone to make bacon sausages, and the rest was given to pigs. The tenants on the Zhuangzi, another family gave a piece of coarse cloth and a small barrel of oil as gifts in return.

For the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, Long Wan rejected Lin Shiyin's invitation, and ate with the servants at home. Although Lin Shiyin had good intentions, she was not someone from the Li family. Yes, even though she was the only owner of the Long family, there were quite a few servants, men and women each opened a table, no matter their status, they sat together and ate a lively meal, which felt somewhat festive.

But when they were full of wine and food, everyone went to the yard to set off fireworks and firecrackers. Looking at the cycads and silver flowers that exploded in the sky that day, Long Wan still felt a little dazed.

Looking around, there was no one who could make her feel sincere.

I have always been alone, and I may not understand what loneliness is, but if I taste the feeling of being accompanied and become a person, then loneliness will follow me everywhere.

After the first day of the new year, every family needed to visit relatives, so Long Wan simply gave the servants a few days off, and how to allocate them was up to them, just one point, the house couldn't be left alone to guard the door.

In this capital, the only people Long Wan knew were Changsheng Escort Bureau and Li's Mansion, but during the Chinese New Year, the two houses were busy with visitors, so they had no time to greet her, and she didn't want to bother her too much. , said a few words and left.

Throughout the New Year, it seems that there is nothing to do, and it is boring.

"Girl, it will be the Lantern Festival in a few days, and there will be a lantern festival in the capital at that time, do you want to go and see it?" Xiaotao asked her beamingly, wearing a newly made floral jacket, her eyes lit up. It is the expectation of the Lantern Festival.

"Lantern Festival?" Long Wan repeated, and then muttered to herself: "Is there also a lantern festival in Yangzhou?"

Xiao Tao didn't hear clearly: "What?"

"It's nothing, I just thought of something suddenly. I want to go out for a long time. You can go and see the Lantern Festival by yourself."

"Traveling away? At this time?" Xiaotao asked in surprise, "It's Chinese New Year now, what's so important that you have to go out on such a day?"

"Don't worry about that."

Abandoning the confused maid, Long Wan left home again when the Shangyuan Festival approached.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Shangyuan Festival.

Shangyuan Festival is also known as the Lantern Festival. On this day, the streets and alleys are decorated with lanterns, people enjoy lanterns, guess lantern riddles, and eat Lantern Festival. This will push the celebrations that have continued since New Year’s Eve to another climax and become a custom that has been passed down from generation to generation.

And on this night, many unmarried young men and women will bring lanterns to the lantern festival to find their good marriage.

Hua Ruling didn't want to come at first, and these days made him miss Long Wan who was far away in the capital, wishing he could grow a pair of wings and go back to find her. Seeing lovers in pairs at the lantern festival would only make him More and more lovesick.

But when friends who haven't seen each other for a long time invited, Hua Ruling couldn't do without going.

When they arrived at the entrance of the Lantern Festival, everyone held a lantern in their hands.

The friend who suggested buying a lantern said with a smile: "It will be a kind of fate if I can meet someone who is carrying the same lantern as me at the lantern festival."

Another person rolled his eyes and said, "There are only a few types of lanterns. There are so many people on a street, and two out of ten are the same. How can it be considered fate."

"Then buy those that look unique, it won't be so easy to come across the same one?"

The price of unique lanterns is generally higher than that of ordinary lanterns, but they don't lack that little money, so they pick one they like.

Hua Ruling picked out a very ordinary lantern, which wasn't even considered a lantern. The small lantern made of silk paste was dyed a warm bright yellow by the candles inside. It looked no different from the lanterns people used for lighting at night.

In fact, this lantern is indeed intended to be kept by the owner for himself to illuminate the little daughter at home, so he made it smaller than ordinary lighting lanterns.

"Why did you choose this?" My friend wondered.

Hua Ruling smiled and said nothing, who made this lantern very similar to the lantern he had seen Long Wan mention.

This group of people are all well-known talents in Yangzhou city. Walking together at the same time, I don't know how many people's eyes they attracted.But they, who had already gotten used to it, still talked and laughed happily, with a calm demeanor.

"Brother Hua, what's the matter today? Such silence is not like your style." One person was surprised to see Hua Ruling not saying a word for a long time, Hua Ruling is the most troublesome on weekdays.

Another friend who heard some news joked: "I'm afraid it's because I miss the beautiful woman in my heart, that's why I'm so lost."

As soon as he said this, he immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"Oh? Brother Yang, do you know something? Tell me quickly."

"I also heard from my mother. She said that the last time Brother Hua came home, he brought a girl with him. Mrs. Hua even said that her son finally has someone he likes."

"Is that so? Then why didn't Brother Hua accompany that girl to watch the lanterns this time?"

"I heard that the girl lives in the capital, so she didn't come to Yangzhou with her this time."

"That's why Brother Hua is so depressed?"

The conversation of the friends was still going on, but Hua Ruling couldn't listen to a word.

He stared straight ahead.

In the dim light, the veiled girl also looked towards him, holding a lantern very similar to the one in his hand.