Time flies and it is the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th.
Tian Mingwu thought that Tian An was going to get married in a month, and they might not be able to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival together in the future, so he put aside all his work on this day and stayed at home to celebrate the festival with his children.
Thinking that Zhao Yiming would be lonely spending the holiday alone in the Duke's Mansion, Tian An had asked Zhuifeng to bring a letter to him long ago, asking him to come over.
Zhao Yiming hadn't seen Tian An for more than ten days since he spent the night with Tian An while drunk on the third day of junior high school. As soon as he received the letter, he naturally came early.
During the day, Tian Mingwu played pot-throwing with the children, competed in archery, and sparred with Zhao Yiming. It was not until dinner time that he took the children and Tian An's apprentices to have a reunion dinner with the whole family.
The streets are very busy today. It is rare for Tian Mingwu to stay at home with his children to celebrate the holidays. After dinner, he took them out to play.
He has always been frugal, but when he saw everyone carrying various lanterns on the street, he spent a huge amount of money to buy one for each person.
When the stall owner saw their group of more than ten people, he immediately smiled.
A lantern costs fifteen cents, and if each person buys one, that would be about two hundred cents.
There are sixteen of them in total. If Tian Mingwu and Zhao Yiming are not wanted, then there will be fourteen people left.
After the stall owner happily selected lanterns for each person, he looked at Tian Mingwu with a pious face and said, "This gentleman has fourteen lanterns, a total of two hundred and ten coins."
Tian Mingwu looked at the lanterns, his hand on his wallet, and turned to the stall owner and said, "We're buying so many, can you give us a discount?"
The stall owner was dumbfounded. Judging from their clothes, they must be well-off! Why were they even haggling over the price with him?
Subconsciously, he said, "Sir, this is a small business. We just want to make a little profit from the labor. We don't bargain."
Tian Mingwu turned around and looked at the stalls selling lanterns all over the street and said, "Then I won't make things difficult for you. Let's go somewhere else!"
Seeing Tian An, Yuhong and the others putting down their lanterns to respond to Tian Mingwu, the stall owner suddenly became anxious. This was a big business!
"No, no, no, can't I be cheaper?"
Tian Mingwu raised an eyebrow and looked at him. "How much cheaper?"
The stall owner tried to test him: "How about just rounding off the amount and giving me two hundred coins?"
Tian Mingwu paid the money and left without hesitation. He just missed the feeling of bargaining with An Wan when they bought things in Jinning County. He didn't really want to lower the price to a certain level.
Tian An walked beside Zhao Yiming holding a rabbit lantern. Zhao Yiming's gentle gaze fell on her face from time to time, as if he could never look enough.
Tian Mingwu turned his head away awkwardly upon seeing this. Now that the matter was done and the two were about to get married, even if he was reluctant to let his daughter go, what could he do? He couldn't really stop them from getting married!
While they were thinking, the group came to a stall selling riddles.
Xiaokang confidently pulled Yaoyao forward and said, "Let's go guess lantern riddles! I'll definitely win the stall owner's most beautiful doll and give it to you."
Tian An looked at the stall owner's prize table and saw at a glance the latest Mid-Autumn Festival doll that their shop had just launched.
Seeing that Xiaokang had already dragged Yaoyao into the lantern riddles, Zhao Yiming also became interested. He lowered his head and asked Tian An, "Is there anything you like? I'll help you win it back."
Tian An went to look at the stall owner's prize stand again. Wow! Velvet flower hairpins, hand cream, lipstick, dolls, all the things she sold in her shop.
Zhao Yiming followed her gaze and noticed the problem. He said awkwardly, "You have all these things in your store, so..."
Before she could utter the word "forget it," Tian An pointed at a velvet hairpin with a peony tassel and asked, "Do you think that orange-pink peony tassel hairpin looks good on me?"
Zhao Yiming said without thinking: "It looks good."
Then he pulled her into the hanging lanterns to guess riddles.
The stall owner's sign said that guessing riddles costs ten cents each time, and you can only guess a maximum of twenty riddles at a time. You can get prizes corresponding to the number of riddles you guess correctly.
But if the number of correct riddles you guess does not meet the minimum requirement for the prize, then you will get nothing.
The minimum requirement is five riddles, and the prize is a lipstick. The prize for ten questions is hand cream. To win a velvet flower hairpin, you have to guess fifteen riddles correctly. The doll that Xiaokang likes is the most expensive, so you have to guess all twenty questions correctly.
Zhao Yiming didn't even look at the riddles. He just pulled out fifteen pieces of colored paper with riddles written on them from under the lantern and was about to take Tian An to find the stall owner to redeem the prizes.
Tian An raised his brows and looked at him, "Don't you want to take two more tickets? If you make a mistake and come back to get them later, you will be embarrassed!"
Zhao Yiming turned around to look at her, his eyes full of confidence, "Don't worry! With this third place winner's ability, guessing a lantern riddle shouldn't be a problem."
As soon as he came to the stall owner, he pointed at the hairpin that Tian An had just taken a fancy to and asked the stall owner to take it first.
At this time, there were no less than seven or eight people standing in front of the stall owner writing the answers to the riddles. Everyone saw that he wanted the stall owner to take the prize before they even guessed the answer. He thought it was too arrogant.
They all stopped guessing the riddles and turned to look at him.
The stall owner was not annoyed when he saw this. He cooperated with Zhao Yiming with a smile, handed him the velvet flower hairpin that he pointed at, and praised it casually.
"Sir, you have a really good eye. The lady's outfit today is a perfect match for this hairpin! Sir, you must do your best to win it back for her later!"
Then he started to stir up the atmosphere loudly to the street, "This velvet hairpin that this gentleman has taken a fancy to must answer fifteen lantern riddles.
Whether he can take this hairpin away and win the favor of the beautiful woman, let us wait and see..."
As soon as the stall owner shouted a few words, a lot of people gathered in front of the stall, cheering and applauding for Zhao Yiming.
Seeing this, Zhao Yiming didn't say anything more and directly handed the riddle in his hand to him.
The stall owner took the riddles, took out the top one written on red paper, and said loudly to the crowd watching: "No seeds are planted in spring, no flowers bloom in four seasons, it tastes good when eaten, and there is no residue when chewed.
Guess what's in the kitchen."
After saying that, he looked at Zhao Yiming and said, "Sir, please tell me your answer."
Zhao Yiming lowered his head and looked at Tian An, then raised his head and said confidently, "The answer is salt, right or wrong?"
The spectators below also looked at the stall owner, "Is what this gentleman said right? Tell me now!"
The stall owner raised his hand and pressed it, signaling everyone to listen. After the crowd quieted down, he bowed to Zhao Yiming and said, "Congratulations, young master, you got the first question right."
"good!!!"
"Come on, next question."
The onlookers cheered and asked the stall owner to continue reading the questions.
The stall owner put down the red paper and took out a yellow one from the stack of colored papers in his hand. After opening it, he read: "A bucket of gold, a bucket of silver, it can be opened but cannot be closed.
Guess a food.
Sir, please…"
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