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"Heaven has its season, earth has its energy, materials have their beauty, and workmanship has its ingenuity. Only when these four are combined can one achieve excellence. Even if the materials are beautiful and the workmanship is ingenious, if they are not good, then they are out of season and have not received the energy of the earth..."
Bang--
Zhao Mingyan, who was pondering over this classic line from Kaogong Ji, suddenly fell asleep on the table, leaving Xiaozhu, who was eating preserved fruit next to him, in amazement.
"Miss, if you are tired of watching, go to bed and rest for a while."
She quickly stuffed the preserved fruit in her hand into her mouth, stood up, helped Zhao Mingyan to the bed.
Zhao Mingyan was in a daze and didn't know how she ended up lying on the bed. She only remembered that as soon as she lay down, she lost consciousness and fell into a deep sleep.
She was so tired.
As Tan Linshuang expected, different fields are like different worlds. To her, these two books were like heavenly books, even more confusing than when she was studying "Su Nu Miao Lun".
But after reading for four or five days in a row, she gradually understood and seemed to have realized something.
At the moment, she was stuck on the sentence she had just muttered. It was not that she didn't understand it, but this sentence gave her some clues, as if she had found a thread in a tangled mess.
However, before he could grab the thread, he fell asleep.
She was very unwilling!
Soon after falling asleep, she began to dream, a jumble of dreams. They included scenes of her childhood watching her father make lanterns, of releasing Kongming lanterns with her childhood friends, and of the mandarin ducks dancing with each other on her wedding night with Tan Linshuang... The mandarin ducks danced with each other in the green pond, just as they were living together, they flew away separately...
She flew, transformed from a mandarin duck into a phoenix, soaring in the night sky.
Every time it flaps its wings, it scatters colorful light, illuminating the night.
"It's so beautiful..." she couldn't help but murmur.
Xiaozhu, who was guarding the bed, asked curiously, "What did you dream about? Wasn't it something delicious?"
Zhao Mingyan slept from day to night and missed dinner again.
Fan Wenlan became more and more suspicious that she was suffering from morning sickness and planned to ask a doctor to check her out, but was hurriedly stopped by Tan Linshuang.
"Grandma, I've checked her pulse and she hasn't entered the womb yet."
Tan Mozhu raised his eyebrows, "Lin'er can also take pulses?"
Tan Linshuang said calmly, "Long-term illness makes one a doctor."
"What happened to Yan'er? Is she really sick?" Fan Wenlan frowned.
The baby isn’t conceived yet, so you can’t get sick!
Tan Linshuang lied without blinking, "The autumn exam is coming up, and she's been watching me review my lessons, so she's a little tired."
"Tsk...Yan'er is hoping her husband will become successful!" Tan Mozhu winked at Fan Wenlan.
Fan Wenlan's face suddenly brightened, "Lin'er, you are so lucky to have such a virtuous wife!"
"I have such a virtuous wife thanks to your wisdom in recognizing her talent, grandmother." Tan Linshuang smiled and bowed.
After dinner, Tan Linshuang hurried back to the North Courtyard, but did not find Zhao Mingyan in the bedroom.
Then he went to the east kitchen, but still couldn't find her or Xiaozhu.
"Master, there is a candle on in your study. Maybe the young mistress went there." Ayun speculated.
"Why is she going to my study? Isn't she always in the bedroom reading?"
With doubts in his mind, Tan Linshuang rushed to the study. As soon as he pushed the door open, he saw Zhao Mingyan drawing on his desk. When he looked closer, it looked like a phoenix.
"Are you sketching a lantern?"
Zhao Mingyan nodded and said without looking up, "I'd like to borrow your study for a few days. Will it affect your studies?"
"No." Tan Linshuang said.
Ayun, who was standing by, thought to herself: The young master has never stayed in the study to review his books. He is either writing letters or scribbling words that he cannot understand.
"Do you need my help?" Tan Linshuang asked again.
Zhao Mingyan paused. "Bamboo, preferably bamboo strips, lots of them."
Tan Linshuang understood that she was planning to make lanterns, large ones at that.
"Are you out of customs?" He asked with a smile, holding up his hands.
Zhao Mingyan did not answer and continued to draw with the pen in his hand.
Tan Linshuang discovered that she had painted a colorful phoenix, and the blank spaces on its feathers looked like flickering flames.
He had never seen a phoenix lantern before.
"How come its wings move?"
Two days later, Tan Linshuang was amazed to see that the phoenix lantern, which was half the size of an adult, actually flapped its wings the moment the candle was lit.
"How did you do that?"
He walked around the lantern and soon discovered that the phoenix's wings and body were connected by a large impeller. As the candle flame inside the body burned, the impeller rotated, driving the wings to flap. As the phoenix spread its wings, the blank part on it was illuminated by the flames, like twinkling stars, almost identical to the sketch drawn by Zhao Mingyan.
“This is still a revolving lantern!”
While being amazed, he also discovered the secret of this lamp.
“That’s right!”
Zhao Mingyan walked over to him with her hands behind her back. "There's a line in Kaogongji: 'Gold is melted to make blades, earth is solidified to make tools, carts are made to travel on land, boats are made to travel on water.' In other words, fire is candlelight, which is the energy. The zoetrope relies on fire to generate energy, keeping the candles and horses constantly lit."
"Now that you put it that way, the zoetrope is actually a kind of mechanical lamp?" Tan Linshuang drew inferences from one instance.
Zhao Mingyan smiled and nodded, "It turns out the instrument light I want is right before my eyes."
"The things that replace the hands are tools."
Tan Linshuang agreed, and then asked, "The candle flame will never go out, and the phoenix will never stop spreading its wings."
"Yes!" Zhao Mingyan nodded.
"Then let's put it in the house tonight." Tan Linshuang suggested.
It was the dead of night and everything was quiet except for the candlelight in Zhao Mingyan and Tan Linshuang's bedrooms.
The flickering flames illuminated the phoenix's outstretched wings on the wall, while the colorful lanterns also emitted a dazzling array of colors.
"The phoenix is flying, its feathers fluttering."
Tan Linshuang lay on her side on the bed, propping up her head and thinking, "I can't see the real phoenix, but I am lucky to see this one right in front of me, which is also a blessing."
"My lady, I believe that Mingyuezhai will surely gain the favor of the royal family with this lantern offering."
He looked at Zhao Mingyan who was doing the same thing as him and spoke from the heart.
At this moment, Zhao Mingyan was outlined by soft light, and her whole body was hazy and beautiful, reflecting the phoenix lantern opposite her from afar, one with its wings spread, and the other about to spread its wings.
There are indeed thousands of kinds of beauty in women, and Zhao Mingyan's beauty at this moment is like the phoenix lantern in front of her, which can shine in the dark and soar high in adversity, and is both soft and strong.
"My wife..."
Tan Linshuang's heart skipped a beat, and she reached out to hug Zhao Mingyan's waist. "The phoenix spreads its wings endlessly, so why don't we follow the example of the Danshan auspicious phoenix and soar into the sky?"
His hand slowly untied Zhao Mingyan's belt and gently reached in.
It had been a long time since he had touched her so gently. Zhao Mingyan closed her eyes, curled her toes, and let him gently touch, rub, and pick her.
After taking off all her clothes, Tan Linshuang got out of bed, turned Zhao Mingyan, whose face was flushed, over to lie on her back, put a pillow under her waist, and leaned over to hug her waist tightly.
Zhao Mingyan raised his legs and, in the light of the fire, felt the long-lost rushing left and right.
After nine shallow and eight deep strokes, she gasped slightly, her lubricant boiling out, and she slowly opened her eyes.
"Husband."
"My wife?"
Tan Linshuang looked at her with emotional eyes lowered.
Zhao Mingyan turned away and asked shyly, "Why are you so gentle tonight?"
"oh?"
Tan Linshuang raised her eyebrows slightly, "Are you used to doing things for your husband?"
Zhao Mingyan's face turned even redder. "You can be as fast as lightning, but you can't be a hungry tiger devouring a sheep."
"Yes, sir!"
Tan Linshuang smiled, put his arm around her waist and turned her over.
Zhao Mingyan only felt that his body was lifted up by an invisible force, and when it fell, he was already in a kneeling position.
Immediately afterwards, Tan Linshuang went straight into her vagina, five shallow and six deep, over a hundred times.
Zhao Mingyan's sobbing moan spread along with the creaking of the bed and the spreading of the phoenix's wings, and reached the ears of Xiaozhu in the side room.
"Hmm...it certainly doesn't sound like she's crying. What did the uncle do to the young lady to make her make sounds that sounded like sobbing, yet also like shouting for joy?"
I didn't notice the nights growing longer in early autumn, I only knew that the sex life next door was getting more frequent.
Xiaozhu discovered that since Zhao Mingyan came out of confinement, the young couple had been sleeping on the quilt almost every night and lighting the phoenix lantern.
"How come the appearance of an extra lantern caused them to fight at the foot of the bed and make peace at the head?" She couldn't understand.
"But it doesn't matter. As long as the young lady is happy, that's all."
After a change of thought, she suddenly realized, "Maybe soon I will welcome a little master."
When autumn arrives, not only is the autumn examination approaching, but the palace's lantern selection is also imminent.
Facing the warm autumn breeze, Zhao Mingyan took a small candle to bid farewell to Zhao Guangyao who was going to the capital to participate in the lantern selection, and then immediately went to send Tan Linshuang to Xuzhou Prefecture to participate in the autumn examination.
Standing in front of Tan Linshuang's carriage, after Fan Wenlan and Tan Mozhu had said goodbye to him, Zhao Mingyan stepped forward, looked at him with a smile, and clasped his fists in blessing: "When the great roc soars with the wind, it will soar to ninety thousand miles!"
"Well said!" Tan Mozhu laughed and applauded.
"Thank you, my lady."
Tan Linshuang clasped her fists in return, then put her arm around her waist. "Madam, why don't you take me out of the city?"
"Yo yo!" Tan Mozhu winked at the two of them mischievously.
Fan Wenlan said with a smile, "Go ahead, Yan'er. When the time comes, hire a carriage and come back."
"Oh well."
Zhao Mingyan got into the carriage with the help of Tan Linshuang, looking a little shy.
After sitting down opposite him, Zhao Mingyan smiled at his high-spirited appearance and couldn't help but joked, "If my husband becomes an official, won't I have to follow you and become an official's wife?"
"Madam, do you want to be an official's wife?" Tan Linshuang looked at her with a smile.
Zhao Mingyan tilted her head and thought for a moment, "Can I still make lanterns after becoming an official's wife?"
Tan Linshuang laughed dumbly, "Don't worry, my lady. No one will stop you from making lanterns. You are the most powerful lantern lady in our Xuzhou Prefecture."
The warriors were silent and brave. In addition to their carriage, there were many other carriages leaving Yongnian Town and heading straight for Xuzhou Prefecture.
Seeing that the road ahead was about to be congested, Zhao Mingyan said, "Let's pull over here."
"No rush." Tan Linshuang said.
Then, under Zhao Mingyan's suspicion, Ayun, who was driving, suddenly turned the direction and drove into a small road.
Xiaozhu immediately shouted, "This road doesn't lead to the provincial capital!"
"But it leads to other places." Ayun said mysteriously.
Dadada——
A government horse came riding in the dust. As soon as it arrived at the gate of the Tan residence, the official dismounted and banged on the door.
"Open the door!"
The doorman immediately opened the door. When he saw the newcomer, he was startled at first, then he bowed and saluted, "Greetings, sir. What can I do for you, sir?"
The officer was panting, as if in a hurry. "Is Mr. Tan... Mr. Tan at home?"
The doorman bowed his head and said, "The Second Master is not here, but the old lady is here."
"Mrs. Tan?"
The officer frowned, then shook his head, "She can't... Quick! Go find your Second Master and have him come to the county government office immediately."
"Excuse me, sir, what happened?" The doorman was a little nervous.
The officer's face darkened. "Someone found a carriage that had fallen off a cliff at the foot of Longguan Mountain. Upon investigation, it was confirmed to be the carriage from your Tan Mansion."
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