Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 319 Parade

Yuan Qing bowed and said, "Brother Shen, please take care. Please apologize to my classmates on my behalf."

Shen Jing returned the greeting and went to find Shen Yonghui and the others. After they walked a long way away, he suddenly realized that something was wrong. Yuan Qing was also a stranger to girls like Song Ying. Since a girl's reputation is more important than anything else, it wouldn't be a good idea for him to follow her, right?

But at this point, he had already promised his classmates to go on a boat trip, so he couldn't say no.

On the other side, after seeing Shen Jing off, Luo Yanxing quickly asked Song Ying: "Who is that? Why does he look so familiar to you?"

"His name is Shen Jing, a classmate of Yuan Qing."

Luo Yanxing stared. Was this what she wanted to ask? This man was standing next to Yuan Qing before. How could they not know that he was Yuan Qing's classmate?

Song Yuan didn't quite understand and said, "Sister, didn't you just say to listen to what I say? Sister Yanxing wants to ask about the identity of that young master, right?"

Luo Yanxing nodded and muttered, "Even Xiaocaiyuanzi understood it."

"He didn't tell me his identity," Song Ying frowned and looked at Yuan Qing, "I think he is from Prefect Shen's family. I think Xiaolu told me about it after the last fire."

"Fire? What fire?" The attention of Song Yuan and others was immediately attracted.

Luo Yanxing remembered what Song Ying had said before, that the affairs of the Shen Mansion should not be casually discussed, especially those related to the concubine, so he immediately changed the subject: "Prefect Shen? Could it be the one I met at the Education Department Office that time? This Shen Jing doesn't look much like his father?"

Yuan Qing recalled the Madam Shen whom he had met at the chrysanthemum viewing banquet at the Shen residence, and said, "Shen Jing looks more like Madam Shen."

Song Ying didn't want everyone to ask about the fire anymore, so he immediately said, "Okay, let's go shopping first. If we go any later, it might not be lively anymore."

As she was talking, she heard the vague sound of a gong and said in surprise, "I seem to hear the sound of gongs and drums."

"It's not just an illusion. I heard it, too. It's over there!" Luo Yanxing said as he ran over there. "Hurry, hurry, hurry, let's go over there!"

The sound of gongs and drums naturally means there will be fun to watch!

Everyone put aside their curiosity and ran towards the direction where the gongs and drums came from.

Soon, a group of people wearing festive red clothes appeared. Leading them was a dragon dancer, and behind them was something that looked like a sedan chair. However, it was not carried by people. Instead, there was a person inside the sedan chair. It seemed that the person was sitting in the sedan chair, but in fact, he had a rope around his body and was carrying the sedan chair.

Behind the 'palanquin', there were several people wearing things that looked like river clam shells. They opened and closed the shells as they walked, just like river clams opening and closing. Behind them were other people wearing costumes of shrimp soldiers and crab generals, then there were lion dancers, and at the end was a team carrying all kinds of beautiful lanterns.

Many people followed and watched, it was very lively.

When Song Ying and others saw it, they were overjoyed and ran over to look at it curiously. They hadn't seen these dragon and lion dance teams for many years and thought they no longer existed in Qingshui County. It turned out that they had been moved to the night of the Lantern Festival.

They screamed and followed the team.

Suddenly, a person holding a lantern at the back of the team saw the Wanyan Luohua lantern in Song Ying's hand and said in surprise: "Hey, little girl, your lantern is really unique!"

Song Ying was very happy. Before she could answer, Song Yuan, who was being led by her, said proudly, "Of course not. This is the lantern that belongs to Boss Zhang of Jinyi Pavilion. No one has guessed the answer to the riddle for several years. My sister won it!"

"It's the Su Lantern!" the man exclaimed, and then said kindly: "Little girl, how about you bring your lantern to our team, parade with us, and show your lantern to the people of the city?"

"Of course!" Song Ying nodded and pulled Song Yuan towards the team.

The man stepped back to make room for them. Although the lantern in Song Yuan's hand was not very special, he did not stop it. Although the lanterns in this parade should be as unique as possible, ordinary lanterns were not rejected.

Song Tian has always been very active in this kind of excitement. Seeing the opportunity to participate, he immediately became very excited and said sweetly: "Uncle, I want to join you too!"

He pointed at Song Ying and Song Yuan and said, "Those are my sister and brother. We are one family."

The uncle took a look and found that the lanterns in their hands were all OK, not particularly simple. He also heard that they were from the same family and had called the sister and brother away. He couldn't just leave him behind, so he said, "Okay, you come too."

The others hurriedly expressed their desire to join, and the man frowned slightly before agreeing: "Okay, you two form a group and insert yourself into our team, and remember not to crowd together.

Everyone agreed happily and each pulled one person to squeeze into the middle of the team. Song Ying silently counted their number in her mind and found that someone was alone. She turned around and saw that the person alone was indeed her senior brother Lin Wenxuan.

How could this be possible? She shouted, "Brother, come to our side."

The people of Song and Yuan dynasties were small and could easily squeeze in among them.

"No need, it will be the same if I follow you outside." Lin Wenxuan waved his hand. He was not that shameless.

"Brother, come on, we are all inside, it would be bad for you to be outside alone."

Lin Wenxuan wanted to refuse, but Yuan Qing beside him pulled him back and said, "Brother Lin, let's join us. This kind of thing is just for fun."

With his pull, Lin Wenxuan was already in the team. Since he also wanted to join in the fun, he walked to Song Yuan's side.

As the team moved forward, many of the onlookers pointed at the lantern in Song Ying's hand and exclaimed in amazement.

"Eh? I've never seen this lantern before. It's really beautiful!"

"Yeah, it feels completely different from other lights..."

Listening to the people's exclamations, the uncle who invited Song Ying to join the team felt that his decision was correct. Look, their lantern team attracted no less attention than the lion and dragon dances before them!

"Everyone's lanterns are obviously almost different, why do you only praise my sister's?" Song Yuan expressed his incomprehension. Although his sister's lantern was more beautiful, at least their lanterns were unique in this team.

The uncle smiled and said, "You don't understand this. As the saying goes, laymen see the excitement while experts see the details. In your opinion, every shape of the lanterns here is different, but in the eyes of experts, they are all the same.

Your sister's lantern is unique because it is made in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and the manufacturing techniques are completely different from those in Jinchuan."

"Different techniques? Are there different techniques for making lanterns?" Song Ying couldn't help but become curious.

The uncle nodded, "Of course. I just heard that your lantern is called Wanyan Luo. It is said to be a very classic lantern in Suzhou and Hangzhou. A great poet in the previous dynasty even wrote a poem praising it, "The stacking of jade threads is like the work of ghosts, and the cutting of the ten thousand eyes is exhausting human labor."