Bandits

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Just as she was talking about Li Wan's return, she excitedly ran to the study and said, "Master, there are many lanterns hanging on the street, and they say they will be lit from today until the seventh day of the lunar new year. People from all the mansions have sent out lanterns , said it is a fighting lantern, let the Shangshufu make one and give it away!"

Yue Li asked An Ran, "I've never heard of lantern fighting at the Lantern Festival in Yongcheng. Is it a custom in the capital?"

An Ran nodded and said: "In the past, it was just the Zhou family and the Qi family competing with each other with their own lanterns at the lantern festival. Later, other families also joined in when they saw something interesting, and it became the custom of each family to fight lanterns."

Yue Li also found it quite interesting and said: "Our Shangshu Mansion didn't know about this custom before, and we didn't prepare lanterns, so we don't need to send people to make lanterns. An Ran and Xiaowan each go and make one for fun. We won't argue. Win or lose, just join in the fun."

Seeing Yueli say this, Li Wan hurriedly ordered his servants to prepare bamboo strips, hemp rope, juan, paper and other things to be used, while happily pulling Anran to discuss what kind of lamp to make.

As soon as the things were delivered, Li Wan hurriedly started to work.Thinking of the experience of playing lanterns before, Yueli became interested and planned to make a lantern for fun, but the lantern seems simple, but it is quite difficult to make, the bamboo sticks in Yueli's hands are always misplaced, and Juan is also uneven.Among the three, it was Li Wan who seemed to have made lanterns in the past, and now he made them in style.

Seeing Yueli and Anran's rare clumsy appearance, Li Wan proudly said: "When we were in the village, Sister Shi specially taught us how to make lanterns."

Yueli carefully glued the lantern in his hand and asked, "The village has also held a lantern festival? Why didn't it continue to be held in the year I was here?"

Li Wanhu was a little disappointed and said: "There was only one lantern festival a few years ago. In order to make the village have a good year, the head of the family took Sister Shi and the others to lie in ambush for many days at the foot of the mountain until the evening of the [-]th I just met a caravan delivering materials for making lanterns. The head of the family thought how much he could make the children in the village happy, so he gritted his teeth and snatched the caravan. They were all injured, Sister Shi was the most serious, she was slashed on the back, but everyone had the happiest time that year."

Yueli kept silent and reached out to touch Li Wan's head. Li Wan pretended to be happy and said, "Later, Sister Shi taught us how to make lanterns regardless of her injury. I was the one who learned the fastest and best. Later, half of the lanterns in the village I made it all."

Yueli said: "Our Xiaowan is naturally the best."

Li Wan blushed in embarrassment when she heard Yueli say this.

Yueli said something to bring up this topic, and Li Wan was happy again. The three of them made a lantern while talking. What Li Wan made was a half-arm-long rabbit lantern, which was very vivid. An Ran is a square lantern made of silk of various colors. Although it is quite satisfactory, the colors match well and it is also very beautiful.But Yueli's lantern just barely formed its shape, and it was crooked and couldn't see what it was doing. Yueli picked up the lantern and shook it, but the lantern fell apart. Xiaowan almost laughed out loud, and quickly Resisting it, An Ran also showed a smile on his face, Yue Li himself smiled without embarrassment and threw the lantern on the ground, saying: "Sure enough, if three people are together, there must be my teacher. When it comes to making lanterns, both of you can do it." Master's master."

At this time, a servant came over with a beauty lamp that was about the height of a person. He greeted him with a smile and said, "My lord, the second emperor's mansion sent someone to send this lamp over and leave a message for you." The second emperor thought My lord, you don't know the custom of fighting lanterns, and you don't know how to prepare lanterns, so I sent one to the mansion today'"

Yue Li saw that the beauty lamp was made like a real person, the beauty stood with her eyes down, with one hand brushing her hair and the other pinching a handkerchief in front of her, with a shy expression on her face, as if she was talking to her sweetheart, it seemed that it took a lot of effort It took a little effort to make it, and said: "Find a place in the mansion to hang it up."

The servant responded with a smile, and stepped back holding the beauty lantern. Before she could go far, two more people came from the opposite side, one with a Phoenix lantern in his hand and the other with a marquee lantern in his hand.

After coming up to salute, the servant with the phoenix lantern said: "My lord, this is a lantern sent by the empress dowager's mansion. Let us prepare the lanterns at the mansion. It was said that it was prepared earlier, and the empress dowager ordered to let it go down." It was delivered today." Looking at it from Yue Li, this phoenix lamp is luxurious and awe-inspiring, it is indeed a lamp made by the Tainu Mansion.

Another servant followed up and said, "My lord, this lantern is a gift from the Xiping Prince's Mansion, and it is also for our mansion to be used as a fighting lamp. It's just that someone came and said, 'The King of Xiping told me that if your lord has prepared a lantern, it will Just keep it for fun, if you haven't prepared it, you can use this lamp to participate in the lantern fight'."

Yue Li smiled: "These three seem to have made an appointment."

Li Wan looked at the lamp in his hand, and then at the lamp in front of him. Seeing that the lamp in his hand was no match, he said, "Master, let's use the lamp they sent to fight the lamp." A little downcast.

Yue Li ordered his servants to say: "You also find a place in the mansion to hang these two lamps, and then come back to pick up the lamps made by the two ladies, and take these two lamps to participate in the lantern fight."

The servants retreated in response.

Li Wan pouted and said, "Master, the lantern festival made by me and An Ran has lost the face of Shang Shufu."

Yue Li smiled and said, "Go to the study and get your pen and ink."

Li Wan put the rabbit lamp in An Ran's hand with a cry, and ran to the study, and came back after a while, Yue Li took the pen and asked a lantern riddle on each of the two lamps, adding some interest to the lantern.

The inscription on Li Wan's lamp read: "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, ninety."

The inscription on An Ran's lamp read: "If you cut it off with a knife, only one piece remains."

After writing, let the servants take the lantern out of the mansion to participate in the lantern fighting.

At night, the three of Yueli tidied up and went out to watch the lantern fighting. Regardless of the lanterns hanging in front of the gates of each mansion, there were lampstands everywhere on the street, and there were two servants guarding them. He brought the most beautiful lantern in his house to participate in the competition.Beside the lampstands in various prefectures, there are also vendors selling various items, some selling lotus lamps for passers-by, some selling silk flowers, and some selling food.

Standing idle and bored, the servants of the neighboring houses also chatted with smiles on their faces, the hawkers were busy greeting passers-by, passers-by were excited to pick out all kinds of interesting things, and there were half-grown children running around playing around Yes, the street was very lively at the moment.Now the lights everywhere are lit, pedestrians are also carrying lanterns in their hands, and the whole street is brightly lit and full of flowers.

Li Wan also went to a nearby stall to buy more than a dozen silk flowers, and the three shared a few among them.

Seeing that the passers-by were holding some silk flowers in their hands, Yue Li asked, "What are these silk flowers used for?"

Li Wan pointed to the silk cloth spread in front of the lamp stand beside him and said: "Master, if you like any lamp, you can throw the silk flowers in front of the lamp stand. After the lantern festival, whoever gets the most silk flowers will get the most silk flowers." The light of the house wins!"

Yueli nodded and said, "So it's used to record wins and losses."

The three of them were not in a hurry and walked slowly to admire the lanterns everywhere, throwing a few silk flowers over if they caught their eyes, and having fun, they came to the lamp stand of Shangshu Mansion after strolling here, and the servants were busy After saluting to the three of them, Yue Li smiled and asked them not to be too polite, and a voice beside him said: "So this lamp was made by Shang Shufu." There was still sarcasm in his tone.

Yue Li turned around and saw that it was Murong Bai, she was followed by a few poor family officials, those people also bowed to Yue Li, and the servants of the nearby lamp stand also quickly bowed to Murong Bai, Yue Li shook his head, This is another collision with the Murong family.

Yue Li saw that on the lamp stand of Murong's house was a lantern made of a map of mountains and rivers. The mountains and hills, vast rivers and rivers painted on the lantern were magnificent and magnificent. Compared with the lanterns on my side, they were simple Some.

Although Li Wan didn't know that Yueli and Murong Bai had a feud, but he also heard the mockery in Murong Bai's words, and there was annoyance and shame on his face.