Li Ran was a little hesitant and embarrassed.

Wang was a little clear and smiled softly: "General Thank you?"

"Then go, the third young master also asked me to wait for him to watch the lights together. A Pei and I will wait here for a while."

Without waiting for Li Ran to speak, Wang Shi looked at Cao Si Niangzi and others and laughed and said, "Come here quickly!" Then he lowered his voice, as if he only spoke the words "General Xie" in his mouth, and pointed to the back.

Madam Cao Si and Madam Yang were immediately filled with surprise.

Xie Pei tightened the handkerchief nervously. He couldn't tell why, she was very frightened by this cousin.

"You may be able to take a good look with the princess." The king took two steps and said with a low smile with the young ladies.

Xie Pei immediately breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Wang Jing, hesitated a little, and took a step forward and pulled Wang Jing, "I want to wait for Sanlang here, and agreed that he would come here to find me."

"The third young master and I also made an appointment to wait for him here, so we both have to wait a moment." Wang Jian laughed.

After seeing Wang Yin for a few words, Li Ran arranged the people and nodded slightly to Wang Yin and put on a cloak. He watched Cao Si Niangzi and others wear cloaks and go down the steps of the lantern shed.

Mrs. Cao Si rushed forward, followed Li Ran closely, and went down the steps of the lantern shed.

A few steps away from the lantern shed, Xie Ze was wearing a long gown with white teeth and a silver fox cloak with white teeth and plain silk face. He held his hands behind his back and saw Li Ran coming down the steps and smiled.

Xie Ze took a step forward, looked at Cao Si Niangzi and others who were following Li Ran, and reached out to pull Li Ran, pulled her back two steps.

"I'll invite them to come and see the lamp." Li Ran smiled and introduced, "This is Cao Sanlang's fourth sister and third sister, and this is the eldest and second wife of the Duke of Lu's mansion."

Following Li Ran's introduction, Xie Ze nodded slightly to the four of them with a smile.

Li Ran looked at the mothers from the Cao family and Duke Lu's mansion surrounded him, smiled at the Si Niang Cao and others, turned to look at Xie Ze and said, "Let's go."

Xie Ze raised his hand and held it on Xie Ze's shoulder. The two of them walked for about ten steps and merged into the crowd. Only then did the Sima Cao exhaled.

"The princess is so lucky." Lady Cao San also breathed a sigh of relief. She was so nervous that she seemed to have never breathed.

"General Xie is very beautiful today!" Mrs. Yang Er stood on tiptoe, stretched her neck, and tried hard to take a look.

"Once I said that, my father said, it's not that the princess is really blessed, but that the prince is really blessed." Mrs. Yang took the words of Mrs. Cao San and said with a smile.

"My grandmother said so!" Mrs. Cao Si shouted happily.

"Let's go and watch the lights too. Maybe as you look, you will meet the prince and the princess again!" Yang Er's wife jumped on the spot and shouted happily and excitedly.

"Yeah, let's go. I heard that several tile companies are going to compete in the arena this year, and they are comparing with the winner and losers on the lights. Where can we look at it first?" Cao Si Niang asked with a smile.

"It's okay from anywhere. We've agreed just now that we'll see it all!" Mrs. Yang waved her arm happily.

Several people were talking and laughing, surrounded by the girls and women, and squeezed forward from under the lantern shed into the crowd.

Come out from the shadow behind the lamp shed and step into the crowd. Xie Ze takes the mask handed over by Shinan and buckles it on his face.

Li Ran stopped and looked at the serious and cold mask on Xie Ze's face in surprise.

"This is also a custom of the Lantern Festival." Xie Ze faced Li Ran's gaze, pointed to the mask on his face, and then signaled to come to him, as if he was looking at their two masks.

"Is there any more? I want to wear one too." Li Ran looked at Shinan.

"Yes." Shi Nan responded with a smile, took a mask that looked similar to Xie Ze's face and handed it to Li Ran.

Xie Ze took the mask before Li Ran, took it and put it on her.

Li Ran took care of her mask, looked around and couldn't help laughing. When she smiled, she thought that she was laughing or crying now, and no one else could see it, so she started laughing again.

Xie Ze looked down at Li Ran. Li Ran looked at him. She could only see him looking at her, with a focused look. Thinking that he saw her the same way, Li Ran laughed again, reached out and stuffed it into Xie Ze's hand.

Xie Ze held Li Ran's hand and walked far away. Almost everyone who came to Li Ran and Xie Ze looked at Xie Ze. Some of them had forgotten to walk, and even missed them and turned around to follow.

Li Ran was proud of wearing a mask and looked at Xie Ze. Occasionally, a few of them looked at her, as well as the men and women who turned around and followed from behind, suddenly remembered the sentence: Beauty is in the bones but not in the skin.

"Little Langjun, take your mask!"

A shout suddenly came from behind the crowd, which immediately caused a response:

"Yes, yes! Take your mask!"

"Get down the mask!"

...

"I can't watch it anymore, let's go!" Li Ran pushed Xie Ze.

Shinan reacted very quickly and signaled the servants to squeeze out the crowd, turn into an alley, turn a corner, and enter a quiet black alley.

"Hey! Let's go back to the lamp shed to watch the lights," Li Ran took off her mask, then reached out to take off Xie Ze's mask, and kept laughing.

"You didn't see it last year?" Xie Ze took the mask from Li Ran, handed it to Shinan, and asked as he looked at Li Ran.

Li Ran nodded.

The experience of watching the lights last year was a disaster, but after the disaster, she met him.

"Let's go to Taiping Xingguo Temple to see it? The lanterns in Taiping Xingguo Temple are the ones with the most skilled craftsmanship in each lantern workshop. They sent them there. Wang Erlang and others wrote poetry and essays and commented on the lanterns."

Xie Ze suggested.

"Okay! Is the lantern workshop that has the best rating, a hundred times the value?"

Li Ran smiled.

"Yes." Xie Ze also smiled, "It's a very glorious thing. Go here."

Li Ran and Xie Ze side by side, talking along the quiet and dark alleys, heading towards Taiping Xingguo Temple.

"Have you never seen the lights like you did just now?"

Li Ran thought about the situation just now and started laughing again.

"I have seen it once. In the sixth year of Kaiping, the capital was surprisingly lively since the twelfth lunar month.

On the day of New Year's Day, Jinming Lake was crowded. That year, the Immortal Bridge had just been renovated. Everyone wanted to go up and walk, but they were squeezed out of the camel rainbow. There were six or seven in a day."

After a pause, Xie Ze smiled.

"At that time, I didn't charge money when I entered Jinmingchi. That day, the emperor stood on Lingxing Gate and looked at the tourists rushing in, regretting one after another. Those five big money shouldn't be charged.

The court was very poor at that time.

On the Lantern Festival, the prince insisted on going to see the lights, so I accompanied him."

Xie Ze's words stopped, and Li Ran shook Xie Ze's hand, "And what? Did you see the light? Are you wearing a mask?"

"At that time, I was young and worried. The prince and I came out of Donghua Gate. We just passed Gaotou Street and couldn't walk anymore. That day was in chaos. We finally escaped back to Donghua Gate."

Xie Ze frowned slightly.

"There are no lights on the section from Donghuamen to Gaotou Street."

Li Ran came in and out of Donghua Gate several times, thinking about coming out of Donghua Gate to the line where Xincao Gate was.

He and the prince were forced to escape back as soon as they saw the lamp.

"Well, I have also seen the lights since then, and I have watched them every year. On Xuande Gate, on the city wall, and on the various towers." Xie Ze said with a smile.

"When we are old, we will stroll along the street, walk slowly, and watch slowly."

Li Ran turned to look at Xie Ze, and felt that his words were too optimistic. Even if he was seventy or eighty, he would still look good and couldn't watch the lights.

"Okay! When our hair turns white, we go and see with crutches." Xie Ze stopped and bent down and kissed Li Ran on his forehead.

The two of them were talking and laughing, walking through quiet alleys, and before they knew it, they entered the back corner gate of Taiping Xingguo Temple.

"No need to be alarmed."

Before entering the corner gate, Xie Ze gave an order. Shinan agreed and signaled to go on. Everyone quietly scattered around. Shinan and Xiqing and several other confidant servants followed him through a dormitory, passed a door, and arrived behind the Medicine King Hall.

The Medicine King Hall is brightly lit, but very quiet.

Behind the Medicine King Hall is a large garden with excellent scenery. In the middle of the garden, there are relic towers of large and small.

At this moment, there were lanterns of various colors hanging everywhere in the middle of the garden, making the garden bright as daylight.

More than lanterns are groups of long-dressed scholars, watching the scenery and joking and judging.

Xie Ze held Li Ran's hand and took her to carry a remote place with few people, and walked into the middle of the garden in a twists and turns.

There is a very large pavilion in the middle with reed sheds around. There are long cases under the reed sheds, and there are various foods on the cases. Inside, there are large and long cases. Each case is surrounded by people, or people are writing something with a pen, most of which are watching others write.

In the pavilion, there was a circle of armchairs. In one of the armchairs was Mr. Xie, who was patting the armrests of the chair, laughing.

Li Ran looked at Xie Ze, and Xie Ze shook her hand and pulled her into the pavilion.

The servant standing around the pavilion saw Xie Ze and Li Ran, and rushed over to signal Wang Jing.

Wang Yun stood up and greeted Xie Ze and Li Ran who had already climbed the steps, and bowed in surprise: "Prince! Princess."

Xie Ze nodded, looked at Old Master Xie, who pressed one hand on the armrest of the chair, straightened his upper body but did not stand up, and bowed.

Li Ran bent her knees and gave a blessing, "Old Master."

"You guys do whatever you want, don't pay attention to me, a bad old man!"

Old Master Xie relaxed his upper body and waved his hand with a smile.

Wang Yan stared at Xie Ze who bowed to Mr. Xie, and vomited out in one breath, feeling his eyes hot, and hurriedly blinked a few times, and said with a hurried smile:

"The old man is still in a childlike heart, but it's not bad at all. Prince, Princess, please sit here and make two bowls of class chapters."

"No need, you can do whatever you want. A Ran and I are here to see the lamp."

When Xie Ze Chong saw the greeting, he explained to Wang Yan, reached out to Li Ran's shoulder, turned around and walked out.

"I just discussed a few old test questions in the previous dynasty, which are a bit subtle. The prince and the princess look at the lamp and come over to listen later?"
Chapter completed!