Quick Travel: From Beginner to Master

The branches that had been silent all winter in front of the window sprouted green buds again, and little bits of green spread day by day, gradually becoming more leafy and greener.

The season of bees and butterflies is gone, and the summer of cicadas is here in an instant.

When the end of summer was still lingering in the world, people of this era held a grand Qiqiao Festival Lantern Festival for it.

Ling Liang has been here for a year, and the original owner has also grown from 16 to 17 years old.

Qiqiao Festival, also known as Qixi Festival.

Engaged men and women of the Da'an Dynasty can boldly hold hands and travel together on this day. Young men and women who are still young and unmarried can freely enjoy the beautiful scenery of the lantern festival and participate in various activities of the lantern festival.

Mrs. Cui gave the unmarried servants in the mansion a holiday and gave them a reward of silver, asking them to go to the lantern festival and buy some of their favorite things.

The annual event was not to be missed. Madam Cui urged her son, who was obsessed with martial arts, to go quickly. Then she and Master Cui went to Zhuangzi in the middle of the capital to spend the festival with the old lady.

Ling Liang took off his bunting, which was convenient for martial arts training, put on his regular clothes, and went to the Lantern Festival with Mo Qi Shuqing.

Lotus lanterns, boat lanterns, rabbit lanterns... various lanterns were hung in front of the stalls, the vendors shouted enthusiastically, and the fireworks lit up half of the sky.

Young men and women walked in pairs on the street with happy smiles on their faces.

There were also people wearing strange masks, adding a mysterious atmosphere to this lively lantern festival.

There were crowds of people, and the laughter of adults and children spread far away. It was like a night of fireworks and fireworks...

"Judges, please listen to me: I have a face but no mouth, I have feet but no hands. I listen to people speak and drink with them. What is this thing? If you guess it, I will give the lantern in my hand to this judge! "

A street vendor in his early twenties turned his lantern around with excitement so that people around him could see his ingenious craftsmanship.

It was a lantern in the shape of an octagonal Linglong Pavilion. It could be seen that a lot of thought had been put into it, and it was no different from the real Linglong Pavilion in scale.

Mo Qi came close to Ling Liang and said, "Master, after looking at this lantern for so long, this lantern is the most beautiful at the lantern festival. Should we take it..."

"table!"

Suddenly, a young man wearing a white mask squeezed Mo Qi away and shouted hurriedly: "The answer to the mystery is the table, right?"

"You guessed it, you guessed it, it's the table," the vendor happily handed the lantern to the boy. He quickly glanced at the man's clothes, bowed to him, and said one auspicious word after another, "Little The young master is extremely intelligent, and even small riddles cannot trouble you at all. When I look at you, you are like a Wenqu star descending to earth..."

The young man raised his chin proudly, "I like to hear what you said, young master. How much does your Octagonal Linglong Pavilion cost? I didn't want you to give it away, so I bought it at the original price!"

The vendor held out two fingers and was about to speak when the young man suddenly realized, "Twenty taels of silver?"

The vendor was stunned, and the young man shook his head and said to himself: "It's not expensive, it's not expensive. In my opinion, your lantern is more than this price."

He turned to the people following him and said, "Pay the money. What's the pestle doing there? It's just a wooden stake!"

The servant reluctantly stepped forward and said, "Which lantern of yours is worth 20 taels? Is it inlaid with gold or silver?"

"No, the little one didn't say it would cost 20 taels. Your young master didn't set the price himself." The vendor recovered from the shock and said a little speechlessly.

When the servant thought about it, it was true. He glanced at the silly young master of his landlord's house and said awkwardly: "Twenty taels will definitely not work. In this case, I will give you two taels of silver."

He took out two taels of broken silver and handed it to the vendor. The vendor couldn't help but take it and quickly picked out a few cute trinkets and gave them to them for free.

If the servant really paid 20 taels for the lantern, the vendors would not dare to ask for it. Two taels was just right. They were lucky enough to earn this amount in a day of business.

At twenty, you attract people's attention. There are many people at the lantern festival, so you can't guarantee what will happen to you on the way home.

However, the vendor originally wanted to ask for two hundred coins.

The young man led his servants out of the busy circle. When he passed by Ling Liang, he provocatively put his hands on both sides of his mask and made a face at him.

Mo Qi helplessly raised his forehead, "How could Master Tang be so boring?"

"He has been like this since he was a child, and he has always been at odds with our young master." Shu Qing said unhappily.

Ling Liang silently watched the two people wandering around in a nearby stall. People were coming and going around him, and he suddenly felt like things were different.

The young master Cui Zijian is the cousin of the original owner, two years younger than the original owner.

The original owner's father, Xueshi Cui, succeeded to the throne and became the head of the family of Cui's generation. His half-brothers and half-brothers separated when they grew up and went out to build a mansion and live alone.

Cui Zijian's father is the biological brother of Cui Xueshi's mother. The previous generation of mistresses only gave birth to two brothers, so Cui Xueshi is particularly tolerant of this younger brother and supports him in every way. The two brothers have a good relationship.

Cui Zijian has a lively temper and likes to fool around, but he is not a person who does not know how to behave.

He has never done anything heinous, and he is even popular among beggars and those who sell their bodies to bury their fathers because of their generosity and compassion.

Such a person, on the eve of taking office, was shocked to hear the bad news that his whole family was executed. Before he could react, he was already taken to the execution ground.

His servant Jinxi, because he was not the servant who signed the deed of betrayal and escaped unharmed, collected the body of the young master, erected a monument, and has been guarding the lonely grave ever since.

Ling Liang quickly recovered his thoughts. The stall set up in front of him had been emptied of goods. The vendor packed up his things and left in a hurry while pushing the wooden cart.

"Boss, you won't sell it anymore?" someone asked after him.

"I won't sell it anymore, I won't sell it anymore. I've made enough tonight. Let's close the stall and go have a drink."

It is true that he has earned enough, but it is false to go drinking. The street vendor does not like drinking, and he is anxious to go home and share this joy with his wife.

A lantern is sold for two taels of silver. This kind of good thing does not happen every day.

The surrounding crowd slowly dispersed, and Ling Liang continued to move forward with them.

Cui Zijian angrily pushed the lantern he had just received into Jin Xi's arms, "Why don't you come to me, cousin?"

"My young master, you are wearing a mask. The young master may not even recognize you." Jin Xi said lazily.

He was really convinced, his young master had such a weird temper.

Ever since he was five or six years old, he has liked to follow the eldest young master around, but he is as tough-tongued as a dead duck.

If you admire someone, just say so. While boasting about being the eldest son, you can secretly collect other people's calligraphy and paintings. If you are so contradictory, you won't be afraid of getting sick one day.

Jin Xi complained and hurriedly caught up with the young master.

That's right, his young master, in the spirit of "if the mountain is not mine, I will go to the mountain", jumped up and down to catch up with the eldest young master in front of him.