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The ten-mile-long street is lit up with bright lights.
In Beizhou, Youdu Kingdom, the streets of the imperial city are decorated with colorful lanterns.
There was a constant stream of people walking around, all laughing and talking.
The festive atmosphere is everywhere.
The festivals in Cangyun Realm are very different from those before, but there are also similarities.
Take the First Festival as an example. Although the origins are different, the way of celebration is somewhat similar to the Xiaoxiao Festival - for example, the long streets of the imperial city are hung with lanterns, and there are activities such as guessing lantern riddles.
On the river beside the street, boats hung with lanterns slowly floated by, and the sound of talented scholars and beautiful women reciting poems and composing essays could be heard across the river.
Chen Huaian was dressed in black and wore a silver mask, posing as a bodyguard.
His temperament was so transcendent that only the mask could conceal it a little.
Otherwise, it will be useless even if you change to an ordinary or even ugly face.
Like a firefly in the dark night, even if ordinary people cannot detect it, the monks around him will still explore his identity intentionally or unintentionally.
In front, Li Qingran and Liu Cui'e were holding hands. Li Qingran wore a veil to cover her face, revealing only a pair of bright eyes. Although Liu Cui'e was equally beautiful, she was not a monk after all, so there was no need to deliberately hide her beauty.
With him as a guard, no one dared to do anything to the two girls.
Li Qingran and Liu Cui'e, a couple walking on the long street, looked like a young lady and a maid going out for a walk.
But compared to those real daughters, they were much more beautiful, which attracted the attention of the young men waiting around.
"Hiss, whose daughter is this? She's so pretty!"
"Brother Wang, can you tell what someone looks like just by looking at their eyes?"
"What do you know? The girls are all so pretty, how can the young lady be any worse?"
"Brother Wang is absolutely right. I want to know the specific information of these two girls within three minutes!"
A group of young masters were talking to each other, and the news spread from one person to ten, and then to a hundred, and gradually a group of people formed and followed Li Qingran and Liu Cui'e from a distance.
What is going on?
Are you a fan?
Chen Huaian's mouth twitched slightly, but he did not intervene.
Everyone has a love for beauty, and appreciating beauty is everyone's right.
He wouldn't gouge out the eyeballs of all the male disciples of the Moon Shadow Sect, right?
The same applies to these young masters.
As long as they don't do anything out of line.
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"Come, come, come! Take a look, take a look!
Guess the lantern riddles and win a token of love!"
The sound of gongs and loud shouts echoed throughout the long street.
Naturally, it also attracted the attention of the two girls.
"Zuixianlou?"
Li Qingran was dressed in red, holding Liu Cui'e's hand with her left hand, holding a string of candied haws in her left hand, and looking at the signboard of the restaurant with her big eyes, the colorful lights in the building were reflected in her eyes.
There was a huge crowd of people in front of Zuixian Tower, making it more lively than anywhere else.
A high platform was set up in front of the building, with hundreds of exquisite lanterns hung on it, and under each lantern was a colorful silk riddle.
The shopkeeper's voice was loud and clear, drowning out the surrounding noise:
"Zuixianlou's first grand event, guess lantern riddles and win first prize!
A pair of pure gold locks with dragon and phoenix in the shape of auspicious dragons, given to the destined one!
Don’t miss it if you pass by! ”
The pair of golden lockets with auspicious patterns of dragon and phoenix were hung under the restaurant's signboard.
The lock body was glittering under the colorful lights, and the patterns of intertwined dragons and phoenixes were exquisite. Although it was not as good as the ornaments in the world of immortal cultivation, it was a token of love.
That moment had extraordinary significance.
Li Qingran's attention was immediately attracted, and he could feel the light in her eyes even through the veil.
If I could get this golden lock and give it to my master...
Her pretty face flushed slightly, she suppressed the throbbing in her heart, gently tugged at Liu Cui'e's sleeve, and pointed at Jinsuo: "Cui'e, look at that, it's so beautiful."
"It is indeed beautiful, Miss. Do you want to try it?" Liu Cui'e seemed to know what Li Qingran was thinking and said with a smile: "Give one of the gold locks to the young master. He will definitely be very happy."
"Huh~╯^╰놖늀Don't you want to keep it for yourself?"
Li Qingran snorted and pulled Liu Cui'e to the front of the riddle.
However, one, two, three...
The riddles on the colorful silks—"the waning moon casts its shadows in pairs" and "the phoenix flies over the Phoenix Terrace"—were like incomprehensible books to them.
Li Qingran frowned slightly, thinking hard; Liu Cui'e was so anxious that she scratched her ears and cheeks, muttering to herself, but still could not figure it out.
One is the daughter of a general, and the other is a little girl from a hunter's family who can only read and write. It is a bit too embarrassing to let them participate in such an activity with a high cultural level.
"Oh, Miss, this is too difficult!" Liu Cui'e grumbled in frustration, "Is this 'waning moon' missing the moon character? What is 'slanting shadows forming pairs'?"
Li Qingran also shook his head helplessly.
I thought it would be simpler...
Let her dance with a sword, she can do it.
It would be fatal for her to guess these flowery things.
Chen Huaian smiled secretly when he saw the two girls looking distressed.
He is a science student and is almost half illiterate.
But he has an electronic girlfriend system.
The answers to the riddles appeared automatically as soon as he took a look at them.
"Master, what are you laughing at?"
Li Qingran noticed Chen Huaian laughing secretly, puffed up his cheeks, and said sullenly: "Master knew that my disciple wanted the pair of gold locks, but he didn't help? How bad!"
Chen Huaian laughed dumbly, "Okay, okay! I will help you now."
He pretended to consider, gently waving his folding fan, and his lips moved slightly under the silver mask.
"'The waning moon' is the character '껦', 'shadows become pairs' is the character 'shuang', together they form the character '宏'. As for 'Phoenix wandering on the Phoenix Terrace', the Phoenix Terrace is in Jinling, so the character '游' is removed, leaving only '金凌'."
"Uh... I don't understand." Liu Cui'e covered her head and shook her head repeatedly.
She turned her head to look at Li Qingran, but saw Li Qingran looking at Chen Huaian with bright eyes, as if he understood something.
As expected, Miss is different.
Just listen and you will immediately understand what the young master means.
Just as she was thinking this, she heard Li Qingran mumbling softly.
"Master... so handsome..."
Liu Cui'e: "..."
Okay, it turns out that I didn’t understand.
But I'm just obsessed with her.
Chen Huaian continued, his eyes sweeping over each riddle, his voice steady: "'Boundless fallen leaves rustle down' - a commonly used word? 'Door'.
"Eat the oxtail in one go" - the word for "tell".
'When drawn, it is round; when written, it is square; when written, it is short; when written, it is long' - the character '日'..."
He hardly thought about it, and every time he scanned a puzzle, the answer came out.
Clear and accurate, without any lag!
The surrounding noise seemed to become the background, leaving only his steady voice.
Li Qingran and Liu Cui'e followed him, hopping and skipping, like two little followers. They only had to take down the riddle he pointed out and hand it to the waiter, as relaxed as if they were taking a walk in their own garden.
On the other side, a young man in gorgeous clothes, waving a gold-painted folding fan, surrounded by a group of beautiful girls, was also guessing riddles with great success.
The beautiful concubines around him cheered sweetly.
"Mr. Chen is so amazing!"
"My lord, you are really quick-witted!"
"Ahhh, you are so great~ I am going to be fascinated by you~"
All kinds of decadent music are heard everywhere.
Chen Huaian led Li Qingran and Liu Cui'e to guess the riddles on the left. The young man, who was also wearing a mask, guessed the riddles on the right surrounded by a group of beautiful concubines.
The two groups gradually approached each other.
Finally they noticed each other.
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