Chapter 23 Lantern Festival

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, early in the morning, Lin Ke and Yu Yaofang came together to send a bunch of lanterns and a few faces to Li Tian. Lin Ke also commanded Qingzhi and others to hang the lanterns all over the yard, talking and laughing and having lunch. The two left Li Tian and excitedly went out to watch the lights and play together. This is from the capital. Little women are the most exciting and free day and night of the year.

Lin Ke and Yu Yaofang strolled until their feet were soft. They found a teahouse and did not sit in it. They occupied a table in the porch of the teahouse, asked for dessert soup, and called a female envoy to sit on the side to order tea. The two drank sweet soup, ate seasonal snacks such as crispy soaked snails and sweet winter pears, and looked at the passing in front of them. The stream of weavers kept talking, laughing and commenting.

Lin Ke's smile suddenly fixed on her face, jumped up, pulled up Yu Yaofang and said, "Come on, I see that hateful bad guy!" Yu Yaofang was pulled by her and stag several steps. The servant quickly paid for the tea, took a mask and carried a lantern. Hulala followed and ran out.

Which bad guy? Bad guys, why don't you stay away quickly? Why are you following up? Yu Yaofang finally stabilized her pace and pulled back to Lin Ke and said urgently. Lin Ke looked straight ahead and said, "It's the bad guy of the Leng family, the bad guy who dares to retreat from his sister's marriage!"

Ah? Which one? Which one from the cold family? Mrs. Leng? That's the elder. Don't mess around!" Yu Yaofang advised urgently.

"No, it's... that bastard Leng Mingsong! Humph, I also pulled a little woman. The two of them are simply one person. What a shame! Shameless! Er, it's his sister. Lin Ke pulled Yu Yaofang, who was already with few people, and clenched her teeth and kept scolding Leng Mingsong. Yu Yaofang was angry and smiling, "How do you know him? Don't recognize the wrong person. Alas, Tian'er... She has said, don't mention this matter again. You have to help."

"He came to my house, and I peeked through the screen. It's him. It's okay. He doesn't know who we are. How can he vent his anger? If only Sister Tian were here. She has the most ideas, right! I went to step on his foot, stepped on it hard, and broke his foot bones! Step on his leg! You wait." Lin Ke excitedly shook off Yu Yaofang's hand and was about to rush forward. Yu Yaofang pulled her back and shouted, "You... still can't recognize it?! Where's your mask? Lantern!"

"Yes, give me the mask and the lantern!" Lin Ke quickly turned her head to look for her mask and lantern. The girl quickly handed it over. Lin Ke put on her mask, carried the lantern, and rushed to the front and pulled the dazzling Leng Songming who was walking around her sister.

Leng Mingsong and his sister Leng Nuan have been to the capital for the first time. They have never seen such a bustle. They felt extremely novel everywhere. They only felt that their eyes were not enough. Lin Ke rushed straight from the oblique thorns and stared at the snow-white uppers on Leng Mingsong's feet and the indigo silk shoes in the middle, and stepped on them fiercely.

She rushed quickly and only stared at the shoes. She couldn't care about anything else. The lantern in her hand poked straight to Leng Mingsong's lantern, and the two lanterns that hit burned up. Lin Ke shook her hands and shouted, and suddenly threw the lantern far away. Her feet staggered, and people were about to lean back. Leng Mingsong reacted extremely. Quickly, he didn't dare to grab Lin Ke's hands and arms. He reached out and grabbed Lin Ke's cloak on one side. Lin Ke's cloak was pulled back by him.

Leng Mingsong's two little servants stepped on their hands quickly, and only a few dark bamboo branches were left in the two lanterns. Lin Ke was ashamed, annoyed and angry. Her face was red, and her eyes were full of tears of grievances. She pulled off the mask angrily and raised her mask with both hands to force Leng Mingsong. Knock.

Yu Yaofang's anxious eyes were red. She rushed over and pulled Lin Ke and ran aside. Leng Ming looked straight at the direction of the two disappeared. Until she couldn't see, she blinked her eyes, turned her head to look at the burnt lantern, and looked down at her hands again. Her slender fingers moved, raised her hand and slowly stroked by Lin Ke. The place looked in the direction of the two disappearing.

"Brother, are you all right?" Seeing that his brother stood still for a long time, Leng Nuan hurried forward and pulled him and asked. Leng Mingsong suddenly came to his senses and waved his hand repeatedly, "No, it's okay. Let's go. It's lively over there. Go there." Leng Nuan pointed to the front and said, "Go there first and then buy a lantern. This noble girl in the capital is really... awesome."

"Can't blame her, a little lady, who stepped on a strange man's foot, can she not be in a hurry? I almost fell down again. I must be scared. I can't blame her." Leng Mingsong and his sister bought lanterns in front of him and defended Lin Ke in a gentle voice. Leng Nuan thought for a moment and smiled, "That's true. If I bump into someone like this, I will be scared. That little woman is really beautiful."

"Oh? Is that right? I didn't pay attention to what she looked like. Leng Mingsong's tone was extremely sure, but his expression was not very natural. Leng Nuan looked at him strangely. He was so close that he didn't pay attention to what his parents looked like?

Three horses rushed into the narrow alley behind the garden of the Duke of Yongguo Mansion. There was a small servant in the front and back. In the middle, a noble son wore a large cluster of moths on his head, trembling and shining brightly. The pink and blue satin gray rat cloak swinged casually behind his back, wrapped in gold around his waist, wearing Wuyao socks and embroidered silk. Shoes. The horse entered the alley, turned his head left and right and asked, "Is it here? Isn't it wrong?"

"Don't worry, that's right. It's here. I've seen it several times during the day, and then there is a corner door. In the corner door is the yard of the five women of the Li family!" The little man in front replied courteously.

"Well, let's go!"

The three horses ran outside the corner door. The pink and blue young man got off the horse, straightened his head and moths, pulled his cloak, brushed his clothes, raised his arms, lifted his sleeves up slightly, took the gold-painted box handed over by the little man, and pouted and said, "Call the door, just say that Master Ding came to visit. Li Wu's wife.

In the yard, Yue Niang jumped down from the tree next to the corner door, clapped her hands, looked at Li Tian in a cloak, holding a hand stove, and stood under the tree with a cold face and said, "It's the prodigal son of Duke Ding of Lai. What should I do? As I said, kill it." Yue Niang raised her arm and made a stabbing action with a little excitement and yearning on her face.

"I remember there was a military patrol house at the entrance of the alley? How long will it take to come from there? Li Tian asked in a clear voice.

"There is a while. Today is the Shangyuan Festival. Ma Bujun, the three government in front of the palace and the Beijing government are all in full array. There are cavalry lieutenants guarding. Come here quickly. It's almost dozens of breaths." Yue Niang replied, and Li Tian said, "This is a dead end. Burn them!"

Yue Niang raised her eyebrows so much that she almost flew: "Are you going to burn them to death?"

"It depends on their creation. You go to the opposite alley to set fire, and then take some fireworks and firecrackers and throw them down together. The silver birch looks through the crack of the door, and the fire shouts to put out the fire together." Li Tian ordered with a gloomy expression. Yue Niang jumped to the tea room next to her in two excited steps, picked up more than a dozen thin firewood, quickly wrapped in a thick layer of firewood, thickly stained with lamp oil, and then picked up more than a dozen monkey fireworks. She gently rushed to the opposite side of the alley quietly.

Ding Qi's little man had just patted the door twice. Yue Niang had already lit firewood, and even drilled the sky monkey to greet Ding Qi. In the yard, Yin Hua and others shouted at the bottom of their voices, 'Fire! Put out the fire! Help!'

Ding Qi and the shogunate were frightened by the sudden firelight, the sharp and harsh roar of the sky monkey and the sound of fire fighting the fire. The three horses were more frightened than their owners. They reacted faster than their owners and hissed in horror, jumping away from the little one of the alley, one went deep into the alley, and two of them rushed out of the alley.

The Mabu army and the Beijing government officials on duty in the patrol shop at the entrance of the alley rushed out when they heard the sound. The captain who rushed to the front was facing two frightened horses and collided twice. At one moment, they actually blocked the narrow alley entrance tightly. The van pushing the water cart behind simply stopped the car, pressed the small water dragon, and sprayed the cold well water into the fire first. Ma Bujun and the yamen were subdued and shocked by the horse, and most of them rushed through the cracks and splashed water into the alley with large and small buckets. The small alley was like a rainstorm, and the fire was extinguished in the blink of an eye. Ding Qi and the two servants were also dripping soup, and their feet were twisted by several government officials. Get it out.

Yue Niang stood on the tree and looked at Ding Qi and two servants, who were dripping with water all over their bodies and couldn't speak at all. They were locked by Ma Bujun and the government officials as arsonists, and fell down from the tree to Li Tian.

Li Tian has avoided under the hall. Yue Niang jumped to the bottom of the hall and stood still. She patted her clothes flawlessly and looked at Li Tian and said, "It's just a shock. What's the use?"

"If you just want to test one or two, this shock is enough. If not... Let's talk about it later, grandma said that you can't be killed without teaching." Li Tian turned back and answered Yue Niang's words. Yue Niang raised her eyebrows disapprovingly. She had always been killed without teaching.

Before the Lantern Festival was finished, Xu, the second wife, sent her mother-in-law to break into Qingtong Courtyard to find Li Tian to borrow 500 taels of silver.

"... Our wife said that for a while, the silver is not close to hand, and the silver here is also moldy. First, take 500 taels of envoys. Our wife and the second master are the elders of the fifth lady, and they should also honor one or two..."

Yiluo couldn't believe it. On the one hand, it was not something she should talk about. On the other hand, she didn't know what to say, so she had to turn her head and look at Li Tian, who was sitting at the table and writing attentively. When the mother-in-law saw that Li Tian was just writing, as if she hadn't heard her words, she couldn't help saying it again. Li Tian still ignored her, slow After slowly copying the heart scriptures, he put down the pen, took the handkerchief handed over by Yuye, looked at the woman and said, "I don't have any ready-made silver here. Some of the money is stored with the eldest lady. Are you going to pick it up with me, or wait for me to tell the eldest lady to send it to you?"

The woman looked at Li Tian in a daze and couldn't turn her mind. Seeing Li Tian getting up and wearing a cloak, she tied her hands and hurriedly shouted, "I'm going to get the silver with the fifth lady. Our wife is waiting to use it now."