Bring your son to chase after your wife, please go home

Chapter 104 Kongming Lantern

"You little eunuch, how dare you move the heart?" Baili Changge snickered at him.

"Everyone has the love of beauty!" Wei Yu said helplessly, "The marriage of such a beauty must be a sensational event, and it will be so lively at that time, Jin, you can accompany her Go, I have been an eunuch in the palace for so many years, this is the first time I am so far away from the palace..."

Again!
Baili Changge supported his forehead, and said in a long voice: "Okay - I will accompany you, if you can't eat grapes by then, don't talk about your teeth being sour."

"Not sour, not sour." As soon as Wei Yu heard her agree, he immediately stood up with a smile, and came over to beat her back courteously.

After noon, the two came to yesterday's altar.

The scene has been completely set up. The base made of turquoise is surrounded by a red carpet, the fuel for the torch has been placed in the bronze tripod, and the fence is surrounded by servants with short knives.

In the fence, the entire terrain is concave, gradually extending in the form of stone steps.

There was a seat directly under the altar, on the high-quality agarwood chairs covered with snow-white sable fur, Li Zheng and Ye Hen, the governors of Chuzhou, were sitting in front of them, and there were some officials that Baili Changge didn't know beside them.

The stone steps inside the fence are naturally the seats for the audience. There is no doubt that the richer the better the seat.

At this time, Baili Changge was standing outside the fence with Wei Yu.

Baili Changge glanced at Li Zheng, thinking that this person is really good at finding ways to make money, and his pockets must have already exploded. No wonder the old emperor ignored the flood in Chuzhou.

Although the weather in Chuzhou is high and cold, but because of the mysterious activities such as the sacred fire, it attracts an endless stream of businessmen every year. Moreover, the cattle and sheep raised on the high mountains of Chuzhou are extremely precious. Over time, the road leading to Chuzhou has truly become a commercial road. .

Under such affluent conditions, when encountering floods, he frequently reported the disaster to the court and asked for support, but he did not take any action.

Baili Changge finally understood why King An did not allocate funds to Ye Hen for so long.

She would never believe that Daliang, a country as big as this, couldn't even afford 1 taels of silver.The only possibility is that the fact that Li Zheng pocketed the money he earned from lighting the torch has reached the ears of the old emperor.

Taking a closer look, the purpose of Ye Hen's trip may not be to repair the dam, but to use this as an excuse to rectify Li Zheng's behavior of pretending to be a ghost and deceiving the world.

If this is the case, then Ye Hen transferred the silver at the household department, it should be calculated early in the morning, the money is just a formality, and it will not really be shipped to Chuzhou.

Having figured this out, Baili Changge suddenly raised his head, looked at the moon-white figure sitting upright under the altar, and felt admiration in his heart.

This person's mind is simply too delicate.

1 taels of silver was used as a cover to attract people who secretly wanted to deal with him, and then used this as an excuse to raise funds in Chuzhou, and by the way, Li Zheng was killed.Such a strategy of killing three birds with one stone, he had already planned it from the beginning.

"Little medical officer, what are you doing standing here?" Shen Qianbi, who was in charge of the patrol, came over with a saber in her hand, and saw Baili Changge in the crowd at a glance.

"Of course I'm waiting to turn on the sacred fire and release the Kongming lanterns." Baili Changge raised his eyebrows, "Didn't you still mutter about it a few days ago?"

"I'm a poor man just like you." Shen Qianbi curled her lips into a cold smile, "This Kongming lantern is too expensive, I can't afford it."

"You can also make one yourself and put it in the sky." Baili Changge smiled indifferently.

"It seems useless to light it myself." The corners of Shen Qianbi's eyes were even more sarcasm, she pointed at Wei Yu behind her, and said: "I think this kid likes the Kongming lanterns lit by the holy fire very much!"

"Hey hey, Captain Shen really knows how to joke." Wei Yu smiled stiffly, "I'm poorer than you guys. If I light a Kongming lantern for 100 taels of silver, I might as well go to the Hall of Hell and wait for you to burn it for me."

"Go boldly, kid." Shen Qianbi patted him on the shoulder, "Sister will definitely burn you a bunch of beauties, so that you can see if you can eat them, tsk tsk, that scene is really cool just thinking about it."

"..." Wei Yu was poked at the sore spot by her, and he didn't answer any more, just pouted and tilted to one side.

When the banquet started, Li Zheng stood on the altar and gave a long speech, then handed the torch to Ye Hen, signaling him to go up to the altar to light the fire.

After Ye Hen took it, he walked slowly up the red carpet on the turquoise, and went straight to the bronze tripod. He threw the torch into it, and a huge flame burst out from the bronze tripod, its light could reflect the sky.

The merchants who had been waiting at the seats were very excited, and they all ran down to bid, expressing that they wanted to get the first fire.

"Are they crazy?" Wei Yu couldn't help frowning when he heard that someone raised the price to 1000 taels just to get the first fire to set off a Kongming lantern.

"I don't think they are crazy, but they seem to be hypnotized." Baili Changge looked at the merchants rushing forward to throw money at the altar, and tightly pursed their lips.

Ye Hen was always sitting in the VIP seat, under the flickering light of the fire, his expression was not very clear.

"Hypnosis?" Wei Yu shouted with his eyes wide open in disbelief.

Immediately attracted the attention of the people next to him.

"Everyone, go on, everybody go on." Baili Changge smiled and explained: "My brother is a little bit crazy."

"Hey, Ajin, how do you know they've been hypnotized?" The two of them ran a long way from the altar before Wei Yu stopped and asked Baili Changge out of breath.

"Let me ask you, what is the use of this Kongming lantern?" Baili Changge calmed down and asked him after taking a breath.

"According to... it is said that if you light the Kongming lantern with the fire in the altar, your wish will come true."

"It is said?" Baili Changge sneered, "Then do you know what wishes those merchants wrote, and how many of them have their wishes come true?"

"This..." Wei Yu was at a loss for words for a while, and said again: "Whatever he is, anyway, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, and it doesn't hinder us."

"If that's the case, that's fine." Baili Changge sighed slightly.

"What do you mean?" Wei Yu asked again, but Baili Changge didn't answer again, she just watched from afar, and cast her eyes on Ye Hen who was at the VIP seat under the altar.

After the bidding was over, those elders took the Kongming lanterns in order and stood on the altar, lit them one by one and flew into the air, staring intently at the Kongming lanterns floating farther and farther away, with the light of desire shining in their eyes.

Ye Hen pulled Dudu down the stage, as if he knew the location of Baili Changge early in the morning, and found her without any difficulty, and asked Wei Yu to take out the two Kongming lanterns he made last night, and handed one to her, "Take Write down your wish!"

(End of this chapter)