Tantai Shi gave a cold laugh and mocked: "Does His Highness the Crown Prince like this? A coward who only shrinks behind you when faced with the kindness of others?"
Xie Linyu only thought that he was defending her, and smiled and glared at Tantai, "Don't say that! It's normal for a little girl to be embarrassed."
"But you can't." Tantai stroked her face with deep black eyes.
Xie Linyu blushed, "What are you doing?"
Tantai Shi had never been like this before... Such Meng Lang!
The official who had been ignored for a long time coughed, suppressed the excitement of watching gossip, and said as calmly as possible: "Since you two have the same number of bamboo sticks, you two go to the lighthouse together to pick up lanterns. Is that okay with you?"
"No." Tantai said in a cold voice, "If we pick the same lantern, who should we give it to?"
Tantai Zhi lowered his eyes and asked Lingchan, "What do you think?"
Lingchan whispered: "I also want to be number one..."
Tantai Shi and Xie Linyu on the other side heard her voice.
Xie Linyu: "Brother Prince, do you want this sister to go up and choose the lamp first?"
After getting a positive answer, she turned to discuss with Tantai Zhi, "How about we let the prince brother go first? I don't care about legends or anything like that."
Tantai Shi suddenly said: "My lantern is also up there."
He looked at Xie Linyu, and there was something in his words, "Do you know that my mother-in-law chose a wife for me? You think our relationship is very stable, but in fact it is in danger and may be destroyed by external forces at any time... Try the lantern Isn’t the legend of Festival bad?”
Xie Linyu stared at him strangely, "Didn't you never believe in these ghosts and gods before?"
"Wait a minute!" She clenched her teeth little by little, "You made a lamp but didn't tell me?"
"What's the point of saying that?" Tantai said coldly, "Isn't that fraud?"
Xie Linyu suppressed the embarrassment in his heart and turned to look at Lingchan and the two of them, "How about we have a competition?"
She looked at Lingchan's slender figure and thoughtfully said, "I can let you come up with the questions."
"Who says I don't want to?" Tantai Shi sneered. She crossed Lin Jingshu and approached Lingchan, but the prince reached out and blocked her without leaving any trace. "My lamp is also up there."
He stared directly at Lingchan and said softly: "You have to choose carefully. If you choose the wrong one, you will have to pay the price."
Lingchan stood behind Tantai Zhi. Her eyes crossed His Highness the Crown Prince's shoulder. When she looked at Tantai, she seemed to be begging for mercy and declaring war. "I will choose carefully."
Tantai Zhi's hand held Ling Chan's palm through his sleeve. They separated at the touch, but the warmth lingered for a long time.
The officials guided her up the stairs to the top of the lantern tower. The flowers of the capital were all under her feet. The bustling crowd attending the lantern festival raised their heads and stared curiously at the bright lanterns of the tower and the first person to reach the top this year. , the girl with fluttering clothes on the top of the tower.
The tower owner stood next to her and introduced this year's lantern king to her with a little embarrassment, "The lanterns collected this year are generally of high quality, and there are many beautiful lanterns, so the lantern king is not a good judge..."
"These two lanterns are comparable in appearance and craftsmanship. Our master was embarrassed when we judged the lantern king, so we decided to hand over this right to this year's first place, you. He pointed to the two lanterns in front and said, "Which one you choose will be this year's Lantern King."
The two lanterns in front of me, one is particularly gorgeous and beautiful, with smooth and beautiful octagonal cornices. On the paper, there are pictures of ladies carefully drawn. The same girl is in the painting. Sometimes she is lying on the wall with a bright smile, sometimes she is standing. Under the trees, flying flowers bloomed.
The other lantern is particularly flamboyant, with strong and bold colors, contrasting black and red, and inlaid with goose-yellow colored glaze, giving this beautiful lantern a touch of tactful elegance.
Lingchan only glanced at it and knew who the two lanterns belonged to.
She looked past the lanterns and towards the owners of the two lanterns.
Tantai Zhi stood tall with his hands behind his back, looking at Ling Chan on the top of the tower with a bright smile. His eyes were full of determination and confidence, and he believed that his beloved girl could choose his lantern.
Tantai stood with his arms folded in front of his chest and his thick black eyebrows furrowed. Xie Linyu beside him was chattering to him with enthusiasm and satisfaction. He kept replying with a cold look on his face, full of impatience.
Lingchan smiled. Under the spotlight, she stretched out her hand and picked up an ordinary rabbit in the lighthouse with a bamboo pole.
The people below booed.
This rabbit is quite cute, but the craft materials are far inferior to those of the two lamp kings. Is this little girl blind?
Even the tower master on one side was about to speak but then stopped.
Only one person covered his mouth in surprise.
Among the crowd, Lin Jingshu excitedly shook the arm of the person next to her and exclaimed in a suppressed voice: "That's my lamp! My lamp was chosen!"
She was too far away and couldn't see the face of the girl on the top of the tower, but Lin Jingshu was sure that this was Lingchan!
Lingchan chose her little rabbit!
Lingchan pretended not to see the strange expression of the tower owner. She held the lamp and Shi Shiran went downstairs.
The three people downstairs had different expressions, but only Xie Linyu asked, "Why did you choose this?"
"Because I like it." Lingchan smiled sweetly, "I think this rabbit is so cute!"
Her cheeks were flushed, and she looked at Tantai Zhi expectantly, "This rabbit and the mask on my face look like... did I choose the right one?"
Tantai Zhi suppressed the disappointment in his heart, adjusted the expression on his face, smiled and nodded, "As long as you like it."
——It’s his fault that he didn’t think about what Ling Chan liked when he was making lanterns, and he teased her with rabbits every day. It’s not surprising that she misunderstood... He should have thought more carefully when making lanterns.
Xie Linyu went up to choose a lantern, while Tantai Shi stared at the two of them with a strange look on his face, and suddenly clasped his hands and laughed, "Hahahahahahaha I underestimated you!"
Lingchan was so frightened by the sudden laughter that she shrank her shoulders and grabbed Tantai Zhi's arm.
Xie Linyu came down quickly carrying a lantern. Of course she made the right choice. She was carrying the black and red lantern from Tantai.
Tantai smiled wildly, like a triumphant winner, "Your Highness, I never thought that the lantern you had made for half a month would be outshone by this small, simple rabbit lantern."
He took Xie Linyu and left.
Ling Chan tightened the handle in her hand uneasily and whispered: "Did I make the wrong choice? I'm sorry..."
"It doesn't matter. I didn't think about your preferences clearly in advance. I don't blame you." Tantai Zhi touched her head and said gently: "It's getting late. Can I take you home?"
Lingchan looked up at him with a sweet smile, "Yeah!"
…
When the moon reached its peak, the crowd dispersed. In the bright lighthouse, all kinds of beautiful lanterns were picked away, and only some mediocre-looking lanterns were left at the bottom of the tower, unnoticed.
A slender hand picked up a lantern.
This is an extremely ordinary lantern. The bamboo joints are bent into a ball shape, and the surface is covered with white paper. The maker has randomly added a few strokes of rouge color.
This is a lantern that no one wants.
But this hand gently and preciously rubbed this little bit of red, and his voice sounded softly, "A-chan..."
