The eldest grandson of the Red Chamber

Mingxu sat down, stretched out his hand to add water, and prepared to grind the ink.He has never had the habit of letting people grind ink. When he is thinking, he wants to do something with his hand, and grinding ink is often done. Later, if he is not in a hurry to write and draw, he will not let people grind.

Mingxu was about to make a move, when he saw a slender hand stretched out from the side, pinching half of the ink stick.Looking up, Daiyu was calm and natural, as if she was used to it.Ming Xu smiled and said nothing, picked up a pen and started to conceive.

Ming Xu moved very quickly, but the reality did not allow him to sketch slowly.Fortunately, I still have some basic skills, and a few strokes can teach people to see the outline of the scene.Although Daiyu was standing next to him, Ming Xu didn't look at him anymore, he just concentrated on his hands, but in fact he didn't need to look at him, the picture of white snow and yellow plums at the moment of reunion has already been imprinted in his mind.

The young man in Tsing Yi is concentrating on the painting, and the beautiful girl beside her is drooping her head and rubbing ink. The two of them did not talk during the period, but they had a harmonious atmosphere.The craftsman who made the lamp didn't read any books, and he couldn't speak any good poems. He just felt that there was no one more talented and beautiful than these two.

The lights have come on, and the number of people on the street is gradually increasing.The two of Minglin's looks and temperament are really outstanding, and they are painting on the street, gradually attracting many people to watch.

Not wanting Daiyu to be seen as a joke, Ming Xu sped up his movements and quickly finished with a few strokes. "How?" Ming Xu picked up the drawing paper and dried it quickly, and asked Daiyu as he spread the drawn beauty picture in front of Daiyu.

With red bricks and yellow tiles as the lining, a slim girl stands among the white snow, with black eyebrows from distant mountains, icy muscles and jade bones.The beauty frowned slightly and looked forward, her soft and charming eyes seemed to be piercing through the paper, and one glance made people shake their minds.

"Wonderful freehand brushwork is naturally excellent." Daiyu blinked her eyes after finishing speaking, "Isn't it unfair for you to let me judge? Is it speculative?" The painting is her, and she can still call it ugly .

"Of course I want you to judge. What does it matter to me if others say good or bad?" Ming Xu said with a smile, "As for fairness, wouldn't it be the most fair to see people in the painting?"

Daiyu tasted this sentence carefully, and she really felt that there was some truth in it.Seeing that he was not complacent, he said with a smile: "I say you are good because you are expressive, and your skills are not as good as the fourth sister in the family."

Mingxu knew her temper, so he wasn't annoyed, and said with a smile, "The drawing is a bit sloppy, and that's not what I'm best at. I'll draw better ones for you in the future."

Mingxu got up and handed the painting to the lamp maker, "Be careful, I won't be able to draw another one if it's damaged, and I'll let the beautiful woman wait for nothing."

"Don't worry about this young man, it won't be broken. I'll make you a solid one, and it will work again next year." The middle-aged man spoke very pleasantly.There is no way, this young couple has attracted a lot of customers as soon as they stop here.

Mingxu turned around and stood side by side with Daiyu, and noticed that other boys and girls were also looking in this direction. Obviously, some young people were eager to try, wanting to imitate Mingxu and show their skills to win the hearts of beautiful women.Of course, there are also those who are not good at this. The man who was urged by his wife to draw the picture with his own hands looked embarrassed, unwilling to step forward, and glanced at Ming Xu with a resentful look.

Mingxu was unmoved, feeling helpless in his heart, and accidentally brought up a new way to play.

The craftsman who makes a living is very dexterous, and he finished it in a short time. With so many people looking at it, he used ingenuity to make it. It is really exquisite, and it looks more detailed than those on the shelf.

Mingxu took the lamp and handed it to Daiyu, asking Chang'an to pay, Chang'an didn't forget to give some extra, as a thank you for his pen and ink.After buying a lantern, Mingxu took Daiyu to continue walking.

A few people walked very slowly, the street was bustling with everything to eat, watch, and play.After walking more than a hundred steps, Chang An had a lot in hand, including candied haws, doughnuts, and fried chestnuts.

Most of the girls, Zijuan and Xueyan, were eating. Daiyu held a piece of candied haws that Mingxu stuffed for her, and didn't give it to her mouth. Although she didn't mind eating on the street, she didn't know how to cook it either. It's such an unsightly thing to eat in the street.In fact, if Ming Xu hadn't said that she was also a child, she wouldn't even answer.

"Sister, look at this mask, doesn't it match this pig lantern?" The two stopped at a place where they were doing tricks, Ming Xu gestured with a mask on his face, and sent the pig lantern in his hand forward.

"It's a good match, and I'm also destined to be with Brother Ming." Daiyu teased Ming Xu's childish behavior.

Mingxu took the candied haws from Daiyu's hand very naturally, and said with a smile: "I looked at the juggler and waited for my sister to ask me why, so that I could be smart in front of you. These are not of much interest, so I have no choice but to change one for you myself."

"What kind of tricks are you doing?" Daiyu laughed and explained, "It's not that I don't have much interest in these things. I met them when I was young, and my father told me about it. Now that I know the reason, naturally there is nothing to see. It's gone." Speaking of Lin Hai, Daiyu's eyes inevitably dimmed, the scene of her childhood was still in her mind, but her father had been gone for three years.

Mingxu naturally noticed her depression, so she didn't mention it anymore, and pointed to the table in front of her with a smile: "It's mine, isn't it? My sister is a fairy from the sky, and she should be playing with elegant things."

"Nonsense" Daiyu said angrily, looking in the direction he pointed, it was the stage she saw when she came here, different from the sparseness in the evening, there were already many people standing in front of the stage at this time, and there were still cheers from time to time sound came.

"Looks like they're guessing lantern riddles, my sister has poems and books in her belly, I should go play some games, maybe I'll win a leader." Mingxu knew that Daiyu was very good at poetry, so he was never afraid of these small games.

Daiyu did have some interest. In the past, every time she went to Shangyuan, Jia’s mansion would guess lantern riddles to suit the occasion, but only a few people participated in the game, and the questions were simple. After a little thought, the answer would be solved. If there were too many times, it would not be interesting. .Since someone set up a ring this time, the gameplay should be different from the past.

Several people came to the front of the stage and stood at the outermost edge of the crowd, it was difficult to hear what the people on the stage were saying, so Ming Xu sent Chang'an to inquire.Only then did I realize that it was a table set up by the Fuyuan Restaurant next door. The shopkeeper of the restaurant specially invited someone to make a hundred lantern riddles for the common people to guess the riddles for free.

After listening to the rules, Mingxu knew that it was a marketing method of the restaurant. Although he was very speechless about this lottery, the festival was a lively event, and the focus was on participation, so he didn't care about it.

According to the store's rules, ten lantern riddles are released every two quarters of an hour.Ming Xu counted the time and knew that he would not be able to see today's leader, so he had to go to midnight, and he promised Jia Mu that he would send his sister back in Hai Hai.

Simply for fun, Mingxu took Daiyu to the side.The people were all waiting for new riddles, but the lantern riddles released earlier on the stage further away were rarely seen, only a few people were there thinking hard.

"Worship the heavens and the earth during the day, and doze off behind the door at night." Mingxu randomly chose a lantern and read the riddles written on it, and couldn't help laughing out loud. Sure enough, most of the questions were aimed at the common people. some.

"Sister, guess this?" Mingxu pointed at the lantern and smiled at Daiyu.The little girl probably didn't expect this style.

"Hoe." Daiyu blurted out without thinking. When Ming Xu laughed just now, she glanced at it, which was very easy.

"Sister is really amazing, she can even guess farm tools." Ming Xu was really surprised.When I was reading Red Chamber before, I felt that Ms. Lin's poems were deeper and more atmospheric than others, not just romantic rhetoric without fireworks.And now this feeling is more intuitive when facing real people.

"You're underestimating people, why can't I know? Speaking of this hoe, I have one in my house." Daiyu said with a little complacency, she tilted her head to look at Mingxu, unconsciously acting cute.

"I'm narrow-minded, my lord sister is generous, forgive me." Ming Xu smiled and cupped his hands to Dai Yu, ordering Chang An to record the answer on the paper prepared by the restaurant, and hand it over later.

Mingxu and Daiyu continued to admire the lanterns and guess the riddles, and then they guessed the announced lantern riddles over and over again, some of them got it right, and some of them were too weird or because they were dialect homophonic.Excited, while talking about leaving, I saw a few words written in a handsome font on the back of the last lantern, which was also a mystery, "I don't know where to get Qiushuang in the mirror. Name someone."

"This must have been written on purpose by a man who was dissatisfied with the vulgarity and elegance of the shopkeeper of the restaurant." Ming Xu smiled and commented: "He has a free and easy temper."

"Brother Ming guessed it?" Daiyu teased with a smile.

"I didn't expect who it was." Ming Xu spread his hands, but he really couldn't guess the name.

"Of course you can't guess it. There are allusions here. If I didn't know this person's handwriting, I wouldn't be able to guess it." Daiyu explained to him: "This is written by a cousin of my uncle's family. , the maid next to him is called Hua Xiren. Brother Ming understands?"

"It's a coincidence that your cousin also passed by here." Mingxu led Daiyu to go out, "This Brother Jia is a man of love, if he is an ordinary person, he would not be able to guess it."

"He has always been like this, but he has become crazy from time to time. This is also similar to Brother Ming, but it is different." Daiyu said such a sentence after deliberation.One teaches people to worry and worry, and the other teaches people to feel at ease.

"It turns out that I am an idiot in my sister's eyes. My sister might as well talk to me so that I can change." Mingxu and Daiyu chatted casually, but they didn't really care about this statement. Sister Lin probably meant that he was a child at heart. ?

Daiyu was talking to Mingxu, but she didn't notice that he led her to the lake.Compared with the arena for guessing lantern riddles, it is much quieter here. Half a street away, the noise is separated from the other side of the world.Standing on the shore and looking into the lake, there are dots of stars floating in the night are river lanterns made by lovers to make wishes.

"I saw that they wrote their wishes on the river lanterns and put them into the lake. There should be no river, so I had to use the lake to make up for it." Mingxu looked at Daiyu, "Sister, do you want to put a lantern?"

"Didn't brother Ming bring me here just to let me light the lamp?" Daiyu raised her eyebrows and asked back.

After being harassed, Ming Xu had nothing to say. He felt that Sister Lin was a straight girl of steel. Although he deliberately chose this street for the river lantern project, it would be meaningless to say it.Mingxu took the lead and walked towards the place where the lights were placed, but Daiyu behind him smiled, full of aura.

Mingxu took a river lantern, and asked Daiyu with a pen, "What does my sister want to write?"

"Brother Ming is the master." Daiyu shook her head, she couldn't think of what she wanted, she seemed to be very satisfied now, and hoped that this sense of security could last a little longer.

Mingxu thought for a while, and wrote "Mingxu, Lin Daiyu." Putting the river lantern in Daiyu's hand, he said with a smile: "It's not very symmetrical, sister let it go."

Daiyu was taken aback by Mingxu's blatant blatantness, and felt that it was against the rules, but seeing Mingxu's face as a matter of course, she was speechless.In the end, he squatted down along with him and put the river lantern into the river, watching it drift away.

After finishing this, the sky was extremely dark, and both of them knew that the night was almost over, so they didn't move any more, watching the river lanterns all over the lake, dimly glowing.

"Looking at these river lanterns, I think of a story I heard." Ming Xu said, "There used to be a pair of close friends who came out to enjoy lanterns during the Lantern Festival. One of them was blind, and the other counted the lanterns one by one. Let him listen to the river lamp."

"It's touching when you listen to it, and it's hard to find a confidant in the world." Daiyu seemed to feel it.

Mingxu didn't want Daiyu to be overwhelmed by this injury, so he hurriedly said: "Sister, you have to listen to the follow-up."

Seeing that his expression was different, Daiyu said, "What happened afterwards?"

"Then the blind young man asked his friend how many river lanterns there are in the river? The friend said to let him guess, and tell him if he guesses right."

Daiyu laughed when she heard this, and as expected, Mingxu's next sentence was "The blind young master said, 'I guessed it right, why bother to tell me.'"