Reborn Rongruo

Cao Yin was beaten so loudly that he staggered backwards.Xuan Ye glared at him unhappily, and moved to push Chengde away.

The Lantern Riddles Contest was held in an open space at the north end of Dengshikou Street. At this time, a green bamboo platform had been set up, and exquisitely crafted lanterns of various colors were hung on both sides of the platform. Auspicious little objects, the variety is dazzling.But the most eye-catching thing among all the brilliance is the octagonal exquisite jade carving lamp on the rotating stone mill in the center of the bamboo platform.

It is said that this lantern was carefully carved by ten skilled craftsmen specially hired by Zhang, the owner of the lantern contest in Tianjin, and spent more than three months.This lamp is made of good Hetian mutton fat white jade and fixed with a silver edge. On the jade skin as thin as a bamboo slip, a whole picture of flowers blooming and riches by the famous teacher Zhang Hong is carved out. The wick is not an ordinary candle. Instead, I carefully selected nine luminous pearls to be embedded in the base, one of which was the size of an egg in the center, and eight of the size of pigeon eggs were placed on the eight walls. Breathtaking.

The reason why this lamp is placed here, according to insiders, is a poignant story.The eldest son of this family is named Zhang Lin. He came to the capital early last year to do business. He was almost killed when he encountered robbers on the way. This survived.The Orion's family has a [-]-year-old daughter who is as beautiful as a flower. She takes care of Zhang Lin every day, and it is inevitable that she will fall in love over time.One month later, when the servants of the Zhang family found Zhang Lin, Zhang Lin had already made a private life-long agreement with the Orion's daughter. Before leaving, Zhang Lin had promised that the daughter would come to marry her at the end of the year, but he returned to Tianjin and told his mother about it, but her mother disagreed. Zhang Lin was forced to take the daughter of a rich local family as the main wife, Zhang Lin vowed not to obey, and his mother finally gave in and agreed to let him take the Orion's daughter as a concubine.

Zhang Lin was imprisoned at home for nearly a year, and finally got the chance to come to the capital again in the autumn, so he hurriedly prepared rich gifts and went up the mountain to look for people, but when he arrived at the gate of Orion, he saw that the thatched hut had collapsed and the building was empty.After asking around, I heard from the villagers that Orion's family somehow got into trouble with bandits in the spring. Not only Orion was killed, even his daughter was taken to the mountain by bandits to do it. Mrs. Yazhai.

When Zhang Lin heard this, he was anxious and angry, and led his servants to rush to the important person in the cottage, but was told that Orion's daughter was killed on the day she was robbed.Zhang Lin was so angry that he spurted out a mouthful of blood one meter away, and he couldn't get sick immediately, and he started to recuperate in the capital.

This time the Zhang family will pay for the Lantern Contest, which was also set up by Zhang’s mother to pray for her son. Participants are required to form pairs. Take this octagonal exquisite jade carving lamp.

As the saying goes, demolition of a temple is better than a marriage, and Zhang's mother probably regretted it, so she took advantage of the celebration of the lanterns to accumulate some merit for her son.

Mrs. Zhang is really generous this time. Not only did he display the precious jade carving lamps of the town platform, but even the lanterns hanging on both sides of the bamboo platform are made of silk, and some of them are even pasted with very beautiful feathers. Make decorations.From this we can see how much mother Zhang dotes on her eldest son.

That's why the stage of the Lantern Contest was set up on the tenth day of the first lunar month. In the past few days, not only ordinary people flocked here, but also many celebrities and wealthy daughters from the capital, and even many arty scholars were free to join in the fun .When Chengde and the others arrived, there was already a sea of ​​people in front of the bamboo platform and they couldn't get in.

There is a small table on the east side of the bamboo platform. At the moment, an old man who looks like a butler is sitting behind the table to register the young masters and ladies who come to sign up.

Jiayi was clever, and soon asked a sister beside her to find out the rules of the competition.Hearing that you have to be in pairs to participate, the little girl rolled her eyes and pulled Hui Zhi away, fearing that her brother would snatch her away, and said to Cheng De: "Brother, to participate in this competition, you must be in pairs, me and Aunt Huizhi is going to sign up, you just wait here for us, but you are not allowed to run far away, and you are not allowed to go drinking with some green or blue young masters?"

Hearing Jiayi's serious words, Cheng De couldn't help laughing, he said yes repeatedly, and promised to watch them win the championship from the audience, and then the little girl let him go.Seeing Jiayi dragging Huizhi to run over happily, Chengde smiled dotingly, and ordered several servants to follow, secretly protecting them.

Cheng De didn't know, he just showed off his face casually, and he had already attracted the dumbfounded eyes of someone who was sneaking and hiding not far away.

Xuan Ye stared straight at Cheng De's smiling face and couldn't take his eyes off. He just felt that there was no one in the world who looked better than him when he smiled.That smile was so familiar to him. He remembered that when he was young, Rong Ruo often smiled at him with pampering and indulgence. This smile will always stay by my side, and there is that person who will smile at him like this!

But at this moment, such a smile appeared on a person named Nalan Chengde. This kind of coincidence could only make Xuan Ye more firm in his guess that this Nalan Chengde was actually Cheng Rongruo!As for how he became the son of Nalan Mingzhu now, as long as I go back to the palace at night to check the records of entering the palace on June 16st, [-]th year of Shunzhi, I believe I will have the answer soon.

Seeing Xuan Ye's uncertain expression, Cao Yin asked speculatively, "My lord, it's getting late, we should go back!"

Xuan Ye glared at Cao Yin, and poked him on the forehead, "What's the rush? Go find out what's going on with this lantern riddle contest? And how can you win that lantern?"

Cao Yin followed Xuan Ye's fingers to look over, and happened to see the jade carving lamp that was turning.In fact, he had seen this lamp a long time ago, so he naturally recognized that it was exquisitely made.But he grew up in the palace since he was a child, and he has seen a lot of good things. He really didn't expect that such a carved jade lamp would fall into the eyes of the emperor.However, Cao Yin was always obedient, since the emperor asked him to ask, he naturally didn't dare to neglect, so he rushed to inquire about it.

It's just that, after all, he is still young and obviously hasn't comprehended the real purpose of Bai Xuanye's action this time, so he was asked to find someone to inquire about, but instead of others, he went to Cheng De directly.

Seeing Cao Yin chatting with Cheng De happily, Xuan Ye gritted his teeth angrily, stomped his feet and cursed 'idiot', so he had no choice but to show his body and walk over bravely.