White Snake Demonstration Walk

Chapter 7 The Lantern Festival
The new year is approaching, and Qiao Chenan is not as leisurely as in the past. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, he sacrifices to the stove for peace;

Of course, the advantage of having a scholar at home is that it avoids the trouble of buying Spring Festival couplets. Qiao Chenan stood in the middle of his small courtyard, with Spring Festival couplet stickers already prepared on the table in front of him. :
Fu Lu Shou three stars together,
Heaven, earth and people are in harmony with each other in spring.

It is full of the family's endless expectations for a happy life in the coming year.

After posting the Spring Festival couplets, Qiao Chen'an nailed the peach charms depicting Shen Tu and Yu Lei to the door. The two gods stared wide open with anger, and they were fiercely clad, but I don't know if they are really as legendary. It can suppress evil and exorcise ghosts, but no matter what, it is a kind of good expectation in people's hearts!
During this period, many people came to ask for Spring Festival couplets. Although Daxia's literary style is very prosperous, there are only a few scholars in this era, and most of them are still illiterate. At this time, scholars like Qiao Chen'an become The sweet pastry.

Just writing Spring Festival couplets for these people, Qiao Chen'an earned seven or eight taels of silver in the past ten days.

Today is the last day of the old year, which is commonly known as New Year's Eve. After eating dumplings made by his mother at noon, he stayed at home to spend the boring afternoon, and cultivated immortality by the way. The only entertainment a world of scarcity can enjoy!
The whole afternoon passed suddenly, and night fell quietly. When Qiao Chenan woke up from meditation, the sky was completely dark. After eating the New Year's Eve dinner made by his mother and listening to the continuous sound of firecrackers on the street, the children With the sound of laughter, a sense of peace suddenly rose in his heart.

This is the life of ordinary people, ordinary, but very warm.

Maybe it was because of the exhaustion these past few days that he fell into a deep sleep unconsciously.

When I woke up again, it was already the noon of the next day, so the fourth New Year in this world was spent in such an ordinary way.

After the New Year, it will soon be the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first month, which is also one of the most lively festivals of the year.

After eating dinner, Qiao Chenan walked slowly to the largest street in the city, only to find that the street was already full of people. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was crowded with people. The most lively Lantern Festival of the year had begun!

There are lit lanterns everywhere on the street, looking from a distance, the lights are brightly lit, and the arcs of light flow, for a moment, Qiao Chenan feels as if he has returned to the original world.

The cries of various vendors come and go, mixed with the laughter of pedestrians and the noisy laughter of children, all of which are drawn together and intertwined into a gorgeous movement called "Nian".

"Chen'an, Chen'an..."

Suddenly hearing someone calling his name on the street, Qiao Chenan turned his head only to realize that Xu Xian had appeared from nowhere, looking at him with a smile on his face, and said, "I said why are you not at home, so you have already arrived At the Lantern Festival!"

"You went to find me?"

Qiao Chen'an wondered, the relationship between the two is good, but Xu Xian is clingy but clingy, following him around like a follower all day long, if this guy hadn't made it clear that he likes women, he almost thought that classmate Xu had something The addiction to broken sleeves!
"Otherwise? Otherwise, how would I know that you are not at home. "

Xu Xian was obviously very interested in the annual Lantern Festival, and excitedly dragged Qiao Chen'an to the street, shaking his head from side to side, as if afraid of missing something good.

Qiao Chen'an felt speechless for a while, and didn't understand why the person next to him was so interested. He didn't have much interest in this so-called lantern festival. , Let’s just treat it as a walk after dinner!
The street is full of lanterns of various colors, emitting colorful light through the lampshade, which really has the meaning of blooming flowers. The two of them walked along the street and enjoyed the scenery along the street.

"Guess the riddle, guess the riddle, and the winner will get a lantern!"

From afar, I saw a large group of men and women surrounded by the roadside, and there were bursts of laughter from time to time. It turned out that the master of the lantern riddle was selling lanterns.

The two were attracted by guessing lantern riddles, so they couldn't help leaning towards them. When they got closer, they realized that Li Quan and the others were also in the crowd, talking together. , you are here too!"

Others also stepped forward to say hello.

"It's okay to be idle, come out for a walk!"

Qiao Chenan nodded, glanced at the lanterns hanging on the entire wall, and said, "Are you guessing lantern riddles?"

Li Quandao: "Brother Qiao might as well make a few guesses. If you can guess it, it's good. If you can't guess it, it's okay. You should relax!"

Qiao Chen'an smiled and shook his head, "Forget it, you guys can play."

Ever since he practiced the Dao method taught by the old man, his whole body seems to have been enlightened, and his memory is much stronger than before. It can be said that he has a photographic memory. remember.

He had just glanced at it briefly and found that he had read all the content on the lantern riddles before, so it would be no difficulty if he really wanted to guess it, and it would not be an exaggeration to call it cheating.But for Li Quan and others, these lantern riddles are not so simple.

After all, the stall owner relies on this to make a living. If you let you guess it casually, wouldn't you have to pay for it?
"Let me guess one!"

Xu Xian on the side was eager to try it, and took out six Wen coins from his pocket and handed it to the stall owner, but he was stumped by the first question.

"At the foot of the moon and half Yiyun, the remaining flowers fell in front of the horse's hoof. How do you guess?" Xu Xian scratched his hair in embarrassment, frowned and whispered, looking back at Li Quan and the others as if asking for help.

"The bright moon is half-closed, and the remaining flowers fall together?"

"Difficult, difficult!"

A group of people frowned. If it comes to rote memorization, reciting poems and composing Fu, they are good at reading, but they are not very good at guessing lantern riddles.

Seeing the group of people being stumped, the stall owner had a good time, grinned and said, "How many gentlemen can guess it?" But he said in his heart, if it's so easy for you to figure it out, then I'll just close the stall and leave. .

"Don't rush, you can't see that we are guessing!" Li Quan's face was slightly cold, as if he felt a little embarrassed.

"Hey, hello!"

Qiao Chenan, who was watching everyone guessing lantern riddles, suddenly felt his sleeves being pulled twice, as if someone was calling him, but when he lowered his head, he found a young man in Chinese clothes with red lips and white teeth pulling his sleeves. When I saw him, I immediately grinned.

"you are?"

"You forgot, I am Huangfuxuan!"

Huangfuxuan wrinkled his little nose, blinked his eyes lightly twice, and added: "It's that little beggar you saved!"

"It's you!"

It was only then that Qiao Chen'an noticed the characteristic foxy eyes of the young man in front of him, and looked up and down at Huangfu Xuan with a face of surprise. If the other party hadn't taken the initiative to reveal his identity, it would be very difficult for him to link him with the little beggar back then. Thinking of the two meeting each other after more than a month.

He suddenly smelled a somewhat familiar fragrance from the end of his nose, and couldn't help but let out a little gasp, only to find that the woman from that day was also there, still dressed in white, standing behind Huangfuxuan.

The eyes of the two met, and Qiao Chenan nodded slightly.

Huangfuxuan raised his small face, his small eyes swept around the faces of the two of them, a mischievous smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth, he covered his stomach and screamed strangely, "Sister Jiaona, my stomach hurts, I can't hold it back Stay here, let's go first!"

As he said that, he ran away, the pain on his face disappeared immediately, he seemed to think of something again, and turned back while running: "Sister, you are waiting for me here, don't leave, if you come back, I will find you What can you do if you don't..."

The figure has disappeared into the night.

Qiao Chenan frowned slightly, thinking that your stomachache is really sudden enough, just leave your sister here alone...

Jiao Na is more speechless than him, no wonder that little fellow Huangfu Xuan has been dragging her to this way since before, it turned out that it was premeditated, deliberately created a "coincidence" and sold her as a sister just like that ...

But with her benefactor in front of her, she couldn't just leave without saying a word. A pair of beautiful eyes looked at Qiao Chen'an, and said generously: "Little girl, Jiaona, the last time I hurriedly said goodbye, you haven't asked your son's name yet?"

There is not much shyness of the daughter's family.

Qiao Chenan hurriedly returned the salute, cupped his hands and said, "So it's Miss Jiaona, I'm Qiao Chenan."

Jiao Na looked at the man in front of her. Although she was dressed in a green shirt and dressed as a scholar, she definitely did not have the weak and weak temperament of an ordinary scholar. When talking to her, she was not restrained, and she had a gentleman's magnanimity. , The style of independence from the world.

Qiao Chen'an's eyes are clear, with absolute confidence, like a river of stars, like morning dew, born with an inexplicable appeal, it will shake your heart before dating, and you don't dare to underestimate her.

It's just that she didn't know why, but she vaguely saw some loneliness from the depths of Qiao Chenan's pupils, and she didn't know if it was her illusion.

Suddenly remembering what that person said, I couldn't help feeling a little heavy in my heart, and couldn't help but look carefully at Qiao Chen'an.

Ordinary people don't see it, but she can clearly see that the latter's Tianxin contains a group of extremely rich power of the soul, the light is as bright as a small sun, almost dozens of times that of ordinary people, and it is possible to condense the Yin God at any time Come.

This shows that the man in front of him is also a cultivator, but he doesn't know where his master came from. Judging from the appearance of his spirit, there is concentration in the scattered, it is obvious that he is about to break through.

But Qiao Chen'an is unlikely to be the destined person in that population. In the face of such a catastrophe, judging from his current strength, he is still far behind.

Li Quan and the others over there were all focused on the lantern riddles, and didn't notice the movement here. They were still thinking about the answer to the lantern riddles, but suddenly they heard someone from the other side of the crowd shout: "It's not easy. The answer to the riddle is the word 'bear'!"

The voice of the voice was very obvious in the night, and it immediately attracted everyone's attention.

I saw a group of seven or eight people walking side by side, one of them was the leader, each wearing a beautiful purple dress, with a white jade ring on his waist, at first glance, he looked like a child of a rich family, and in fact, it was exactly the same, the person who came was this The richest man in Qiantang County, the son of Lin Dafu, Lin Fei.

A few years ago, Lin Dafu was still a poor man, but he didn't know how to quickly accumulate this family business in a short period of time, but he had some tricks to think about it.

Lin Fei came to the crowd, walked towards Qiao Chen'an seemingly casually, and said: "The bright moon is half a moon, and the two remaining flowers are a dagger."

He paused for a moment, took a step forward, and said again: "If you want to come to the foot of the cloud, I don't need to explain it before the horse's hoof! Together it is the word 'bear'!"

Seeing Lin Fei guessing the crossword puzzle so easily, Li Quan and the others at the side all looked a little unhappy, and finally they just said, "So it's Brother Lin."

Then there is nothing else to say.

Mr. Wu is not the only teacher in Qiantang City. Lin Fei and the others are students from another private school. There are usually secret rivalries between the private schools, so the relationship between everyone is not very good, let alone Lin Fei. Fei's family is rich and powerful, and they don't dare to offend them too much. Almost every "confrontation" ends in complete defeat.

But tonight, Lin Fei's target was not on Li Quan and the others at all. He faced Qiao Chen'an and said with a smile, "Who am I to tell you? It turns out that he is the famous talented Qiao. Brother Qiao is guessing lantern riddles?"

Although he said respectful words, there was absolutely no kindness in his tone.

After saying that, he suddenly seemed to have discovered something, turned his head to look at Jiao Na beside him, a look of astonishment flashed across his face, and said with a smile: "Under Lin Fei, do you take the liberty to ask the girl's name?"

This is his goal tonight!
(End of this chapter)