Chapter 126 Like
Like the Chinese Valentine's Day, the annual Lantern Festival is also a day that girls look forward to. It's a rare opportunity to have fun with friends, admire the lanterns, or go on a moonlit night with your significant other.
"He should be hanging out with his sister or friends." Lin Hao asked Qi Shuo jokingly, "Where's the prince?"
"Maybe I'll go out for a walk with my second brother and the others." Qi Shuo looked at the girl's delicate profile, but didn't say the invitation.
He regrets it very much.
He regretted his timidity and never told the mute girl that he always wanted to see her.
Watch her sitting on a tree in a daze occasionally, watch her listening to people laughing in silence, watch her staring at people thoughtfully.
She seemed to have many secrets, which she kept in her heart because she couldn't speak.
When she was gone, he realized that the feeling of wanting to see her was actually love.
He was attracted by the girl next door who lived just across the wall.
There is no one more stupid than him.
Fortunately, they met again.
At the moment the sword pierced his heart, he hugged her, feeling only joy.
He was so lucky that he got his revenge and could be with his beloved girl forever.
I didn't expect there would be anything luckier.
When he opened his eyes, he saw her bright face showing from the top of the wall, and fell down in panic.
The pain and blood seemed like just a long nightmare. He and she were still living in their best years.
This time, he didn't turn a blind eye and walk away for the sake of her reputation.
He caught her.
Unfortunately, when he mustered up the courage to persuade his mother to go to the Wen family to propose marriage, he was still rejected.
He was too impatient.
Even if he has a good family background and good looks in the eyes of the world, she will not agree if she doesn't like him.
He could only let her get to know him little by little without leaving any trace, and then express his feelings when he was sure.
"What is the prince thinking?"
Qi Shuo came back to his senses, his eyes a little dazed: "I suddenly remembered last year's Lantern Festival. The Lantern Mountain Riddle guessing game attracted many people to participate, but no one got the glass lantern."
"No one guessed it?"
There is a tradition during the Lantern Festival in the capital that the government will build a nine-tiered mountain of lights, with a lantern hung at the four corners of each tier, all the way to the center of the ninth tier, where the most beautiful glass lantern will be hung.
The difficulty of the puzzle increases with the height of the lantern mountain. Participants in the guessing game only have one chance to challenge the riddles on any level. If they guess correctly, they can get the lantern.
The glass lantern on the top is a palace lantern. According to unwritten rules, only unmarried men can challenge this riddle. If they guess correctly, they must give the lantern to a woman.
It goes without saying for those with significant others, but for those without, it's also a good opportunity to subtly express your feelings. A woman will accept a lantern, symbolizing joy and good fortune, even if she doesn't intend to, and even if she later rejects the man, it won't provoke gossip.
On days like the Lantern Festival, people are much more tolerant towards young men and women who are just beginning to fall in love.
The men who can guess the most difficult riddle are all talented people. Since the tradition began, the men who give lanterns have all won beautiful women, which has added a lot of good stories to the Lantern Festival.
Lin Hao really enjoyed watching this game, but because General Lin passed away, he didn't go out to play during the Lantern Festival last year and the year before, so he didn't have the energy to pay attention to it.
"No one guessed it until the lantern festival was over." Qi Shuo talked about the interesting things that happened during the Lantern Festival last year, and he was about to go home.
"Prince, let's separate here first." Lin Hao suggested.
They are neighbors, so it's nothing if they just happen to meet each other and go home together. But if they walk together dressed in men's clothes, it makes people wonder if they are going to do something bad.
"Then Miss Lin Er, please go first."
Lin Hao nodded slightly and walked towards the general's mansion.
Qi Shuo stood there and watched the figure disappear around the corner, and began to look forward to the arrival of the Lantern Festival.
"Brother, why are you standing here?" Qi Huan came over and looked at Qi Shuo in confusion. Suddenly, he was shocked. "Brother, are you having a heart attack?"
Heart disease?
Qi Shuo's mouth twitched.
I almost forgot that he has a heart disease.
"Don't let your imagination run wild. I just saw the beautiful scenery here and stopped to take a look."
"Scenery?" Qi Huan looked around, confused. "It's just bare walls. Not much scenery."
"Where are you from?" Qi Shuo changed the subject.
Qi Huan said as he walked, "I've made an appointment with my friends to eat the mutton hotpot that big brother recommended last time."
Qi Huan was a little angry when he said this: "I had an appointment with my younger sister that day, but she went out to eat with her friends and asked me to change places."
The elder brother eats with his friends, the younger sister eats with her friends, who are these friends? Are they more important than him?
He also went to eat with his friends!
Qi Shuo smiled: "It's more lively to eat hotpot with friends."
Qi Huan thought of the scene of him and his friends enjoying a hot pot meal and nodded, "That's right. Hey, what's that in your hand, big brother?"
Qi Shuo lowered his eyes to look at the small brown jar in his hand: "It's pickled vegetables given by a friend."
Qi Huan's eyes lit up: "Is it delicious? Is it delicious?"
"Pickled garlic, do you want to eat it?"
Qi Huan lost interest when he heard this: "Pickled garlic? Forget it, it tastes good. Brother, why do you like to eat this?"
His cold, quiet, sickly older brother actually likes to eat garlic?
Qi Huan looked at his brother with inquiring eyes.
Could it be that he was influenced by a friend?
"I've always liked it." Qi Shuo said lightly.
The Lantern Festival was approaching soon, and Lin Hao received two invitations, one from the young princess Qi Qiong, and the other from Chen Yi, the eldest daughter of the Huai'an Earl's Mansion, both inviting her to play together during the Lantern Festival.
Lin Hao consulted Lin Chan: "How many posts did you receive, big sister?"
Lin Chan smiled and said, "I only received it from the princess, and it was all thanks to my sister."
Engaged couples can openly date during the Lantern Festival, so friends will know better and stop inviting them. However, the little princess is a mutual friend of Lin Hao and her sister, so of course it's not appropriate to invite only Lin Hao.
"Then let's go with the princess."
Lin Chan shook her head and refused: "I won't go. The princess and Miss Chen are both good-tempered people, why don't you invite them to go with you."
It is true that engaged men and women can date, but the King of Wei has a different status and they are not in love with each other, so naturally there is no date.
"Sister, go. You didn't go in the past two years." Lin Hao advised.
"I don't like crowds anyway. Besides, I'm marrying into the royal family, so I won't go to crowded places." Lin Chan looked at her sister and blinked. "Second sister, have fun with your friends. Next year, maybe the ones who accompany you won't be your close friends."
Lin Hao will be seventeen years old after this year, and his marriage will be almost settled.
"If you don't want to go, then don't go. And you're teasing me."
The two sisters started chatting and laughing.
To Lin Hao's surprise, Qi Qiong came to find her before she could invite Qi Qiong and Chen Yi to join them.
"Oh, I'm so sorry I can't join you for the Lantern Festival. I received word from the palace that I should go up to the Xuande Tower to enjoy the lanterns that day."
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