Chapter 24: The twenty fourth

This day is the Lantern Festival.
As the sky darkened, a large series of lanterns lit up on Longmen Street in the capital. The crowd was bustling, cheerful, and lively.
"Look, isn't that turtle lamp floating beautiful?" Lu Xiao pointed to the front not far away with interest.
"Well, beautiful." Qiu Yutong was absent-minded.
He arbitrarily landed on the skies, and secretly calculated that the three brothers lived in the roller blind alley, not far from Longmen Street, and turned over three lanes in front, but Lu Xiao followed him all the way, really Can't shake off.
The two strolled randomly on Longmen Street. Unconsciously, the sky was getting darker and more and more tourists were coming. The lanterns lit up all the time were all-encompassing, including rabbit lights, tiger lights, crane lights, goldfish lights ... One after another, large pieces hung on the street and overhead, a piece of splendor.
In addition, there are more elaborate birthday stars holding peach lanterns, Zhong Kui ghost catching lanterns, Chang'e flying to the moon lanterns, Zhang Guo's old riding donkey lanterns ... The most bizarre is the horse-riding lanterns, the paper-cut generals in the lamps riding horses Chase back and forth, lifelike and extremely interesting.
The streets are full of bustling pedestrians, men and women with fragrant dresses, and those who beat drums on gongs, those on stilts who sell pastries, and those who are busy.
"Rabbit lamp, turtle lamp, one penny, three penny!"
"Buy cakes! The glutinous rice cake just baked! It's fragrant and sweet!"
"Candied gourds! Sweet and sour ice gourds!"
"Oh, girl, you give it up, you're blocking me from looking at the lantern!"
"Go for a walk, we bought a candied gourd, go over there!"
It was "Thousands of doors unlocked and ten thousands of lights illuminated, and Beijing was moved to the middle of the first month. Three hundred insiders danced with sleeves, and there was a voice in the sky."
Qiu Yutong was very sighed in his heart. This year ’s Lantern Festival seems to be a lot more lively than it was five years ago. The city is full of lights and a flourishing scene.
Lu Xiao's hard work in the past five years has not been in vain.
Thinking of this, Qiu Yutong couldn't help but glance at the young people around him. Lu Xiao was looking at a lantern in the distance, and the dark phoenix eyes reflected thousands of lights, exactly the same as five years ago.
Thinking of the Lantern Festival five years ago, Qiu Yutong couldn't help but laugh.
At that time, the old emperor was on a whim and took advantage of the Lantern Festival to reopen the sutra in Daning Palace and found the most famous Confucian lecturer in the world. This was a good opportunity for the princes to show themselves, but Lu Xiao heard that Qiu Yutong would go to Longmen Street to see the Lantern Festival.
Qiu Yutong really couldn't bear him, so he had to cut a paper puppet, and let the paper puppet replace Lu Xiao to listen to the sutra.
At that time, Lu Xiao was only 18 years old. Although he was more calm and mature than his peers, he was still a teenager with a weak crown. He pulled Qiu Yutong and walked under a large bright lantern, almost unable to conceal his excitement.
"Master, look at that lamp, does it look like Chang'e?"
"Master, you see, this lamp will move. Is it a treasure of the realm?"
Qiu Yutong was dragged around for a while, and suddenly Lu Xiao took a slight pause at the foot of the lantern stand.
Qiu Yutong wondered: "What's wrong?"
Lu Xiao pointed to the notice posted on the booth: "It reads, as long as you guess the riddle on the lantern,