Chapter 145: Everyone is like a rolling lamp, Zheng Yan suddenly returns home

Guan Minghui took the bamboo lantern from Xu Nian's hand and observed it carefully, and found that no matter how it rolled, the candle inside would not fall over.

"Sister Xu, you have such a clever idea. I wonder how you came up with it."

"Sister Guan, please stop embarrassing me. I didn't come up with this idea. It's clearly the wisdom of our ancestors."

Luo Xihe and Niuniu also ran over and asked excitedly: "Nian'er, is the lamp ready?"

Guan Minghui knelt down and said with a smile, "It seems that Princess needs to be patient and wait."

"Sister Guan is right, but it's almost done. Xi and you can stick this paper on the outside circle of bamboo."

Luo Xi and Le Dian Dian reached out to take it, and together with Niu Niu, they pasted the paper on according to Xu Nian's method.

"Nian'er, why don't you put up red paper? This white paper is too ugly."

Xu Nian kept moving his hands while saying, "Of course it is for your convenience to paint on it. You can think about what you want to paint on the roller now."

Luo Xihe's eyes lit up when he heard this. He said he wanted to draw a lady, then a tiger. Niuniu wanted to draw a little white rabbit on it, but she couldn't draw.

Xu Nian looked at the lost little girl and comforted her: "You can ask Xi and sister to help you draw."

Luo Xihe sat upright on the chair, fiddling with papers in his hands, but his expression showed "beg me quickly, beg me quickly".

Niuniu flew over, hugged Luo Xihe's arm and said sweetly: "Sister Xihe, you are amazing. Not only are you beautiful, but you can also draw. Niuniu really wants Sister Xihe's paintings."

Luo Xihe cleared her throat and said slowly: "If you want me to draw for you, it's not impossible. Then you can praise Sister Xihe as the most beautiful fairy."

Ye Qingwei stepped back slightly and said with a sweet smile: "Sister Xihe is... the second most beautiful fairy, haha..."

Luo Xi's originally arrogant expression froze, and he stood up and chased after her, "Ye Qingwei, wait and see how I deal with you today."

Guan Minghui handed the processed bamboo strips to Xu Nian and said with a smile: "Since Niuniu was born, the laughter in this mansion has never stopped. Even Xi and the princess have become more childish."

"Don't worry, sister. Maybe next year there will be another baby imported into the mansion."

Guan Minghui realized what Xu Nian meant, blushed, and spat, "Sister Xu is becoming more and more indecent in her words now."

Xu Nian quickly protested, "Sister Guan, please don't wrongly accuse me. I have always said...something not very serious, hehe..."

“…”

While chatting and laughing, they quickly made several rolling lanterns, and everyone painted their favorite patterns on the lanterns.

There was a greedy little white rabbit painted on Niu Niu's rolling lantern, which was of course drawn by Luo Xihe. The one Luo Xihe drew for herself was very different in style, a picture of a lady riding a tiger. Guan Minghui drew a horse on her own lantern.

Several people simultaneously looked at the rolling lantern in Xu Nian's hand. Xu Nian raised it up confidently, but was met with a chorus of disappointed voices.

All I saw was a blank white paper on the lamp, with nothing on it.

"Nian'er, I thought you could draw something new on it. I was just very curious."

Xu Nian just smiled and said nothing, because she wanted to give the lantern to someone on New Year's Day.

In the blink of an eye, New Year's Day arrived. The Border Guard's Mansion became even more lively, with red lanterns hung everywhere in the mansion, and even the servants' faces were filled with joy.

Although Guan Minghui was merciless when sentencing people, she was also generous when rewarding her servants. Now everyone was summoned to the main courtyard to receive red envelopes.

Zhilan stood on the steps and read out the names of the people below aloud. Everyone who received the red envelope would happily say a few auspicious words.

"Next are Minglan Courtyard and Yazhu Courtyard."

Four old women and twelve maids stood out and bowed slightly.

Zhilan smiled and said, "Madam has seen your performance during this period. These red envelopes are given to you by Madam. As for these..."

I saw the pink-dressed maid on the other side of Zhilan holding some cloth and a wooden box in her hands.

"The things here are gifts from the princess and Miss Xu. You must serve them wholeheartedly in the future."

"yes"

Several people happily took the cloth and the wooden box, which made the others envious. At first, they also tried their best to serve the princess, but failed because of their own rules. As for Miss Xu's Yazhuyuan, they did not expect that the mysterious lady would be so generous.

After Zhilan took care of the reward matters in the mansion, she took people to distribute copper coins outside the mansion.

At this time, the outside of the mansion was already full of people, including women with children and ragged beggars. For safety reasons, Zhilan asked the servant to disperse a little.

Before the two baskets of copper coins were half scattered, Zhilan heard the sound of horse hooves. She looked up and saw a group of soldiers. However, she felt that the leader looked very familiar.

When they got closer, Zhilan turned around and ran back to the house, shouting before she even entered the main courtyard.

"Miss, Miss, my aunt is back."

Guan Minghui, who was packing the New Year gifts, was stunned. When she realized that the aunt Zhilan was talking about was her husband, she hurried out.

"Miss…"

"Okay, why are you in such a hurry? He's coming back."

Zhilan blinked innocently, then curled the corners of her mouth as she looked at the young lady who was walking hurriedly, and then she also ran towards the gate of the mansion.

Before Zheng Yan even reached the gate of his house, he saw a lively scene. Many people even said a few auspicious words to him when they saw him.

While he was greeting the common people, he saw a group of people walking out of the mansion, and the one leading them was probably his wife.

Zheng Yan, who used to be quite eloquent, suddenly didn't know what to say. He was really not familiar with his wife and he felt very guilty towards her.

Guan Minghui was speechless looking at the person standing at the door of her house like a wooden stick, but she still smiled and said softly, "Why didn't you let me know in advance when my husband returned home, so that I could bring people to greet him."

“Don’t bother… hehe… hehe…” Zheng Yan clasped his hands together and rubbed them together.

Guan Minghui choked, thinking that she was being too polite to this wooden man, "Then... Master, please come into the mansion."

Zheng Yan looked at the man without a smile and didn't know what he had done wrong for a moment, so he had to hurry into the mansion. However, he didn't know that his figure caused everyone to lower their heads and hold back their laughter.

Guan Minghui couldn't help but curl her lips when she saw the person in front of her who was already fighting with her hands and feet tied together. However, for the sake of her husband, she still trotted over and grabbed the other person's sleeve.

But Zheng Yan obviously misunderstood her intention. He just glanced at the people around him and held her hand with his backhand.

Guan Minghui blushed at this sudden change, but she still let Zheng Yan lead her back to the main courtyard without breaking away from his hand.