I want to be a faint king [Rebirth]

The wind in the winter night is still a bit biting, but it can't dispel the lively atmosphere of the Lantern Festival. Men and women in the capital go out in costumes, guess lantern riddles, win lanterns, and the long streets of the capital are illuminated by red lights, making it lively and noisy.

"It turns out that the Lantern Festival is so lively." Yuan Yin was guarded by Zhan Feng and Xiao Rong from left to right, looking left and right to see the lanterns full of joy.

The lanterns with all kinds of facial makeup come alive under the light of candlelight, and there are also lanterns of the twelve zodiac signs, each of which is so lifelike that Yuan Yin is so dazzled to see that he almost bought all the lanterns in front of the lantern stall.

Xiao Rong stood by Yuan Yin's side, carefully looked at his boyish innocent smile, picked up a rabbit lamp and played with it in his hand, and handed it to Yuan Yin.Yuan Yin looked at him in surprise: "What are you doing?"

"For you." Xiao Rong kissed her lips.

Yuan Yin looked straight at Xiao Rong's eyes that were as calm as water as usual, and said lightly: "I am not a rabbit."

"Like you." Xiao Rong spoke again.

Yuan Yin's heart sank, and he snorted coldly. The traitor said so blatantly that he was like a rabbit, so he felt that he was so easy to handle and could not be slaughtered by others. It seemed that he forgot a sentence, which made the rabbit bite people when it was anxious.

"You're wrong, this one looks like me." Yuan Yin retorted immediately, picked up the dragon lantern at hand and placed it in front of Xiao Rong, raising his eyebrows proudly.

Xiao Rong looked at Yuan Yin's appearance, nodded slightly and put down the rabbit lamp, then said: "If you like it, take it, and you should go to the painting boat, don't keep them waiting."

After Xiao Rong mentioned it, Yuan Yin seemed to remember that tonight's Shangyuan Lantern Festival would follow Xiao Rong on a boat to meet Mr. Ding'an, so he didn't care about the lantern, so he put down the lantern and took Xiao Rong's sleeve, and then Walked towards the ferry where the boat was docked.

Xiao Rong followed Yuan Yin's pace, looked thoughtfully at Yuan Yin's hand holding his sleeve, and immediately took Yuan Yin's palm, holding it tightly, and said: "Slow down, the boat is still waiting for you." Won't drive away."

"With you, the censor, who hasn't boarded the boat, they don't dare to leave." Yuan Yin said, Xiao Rong was about to agree, but he heard Yuan Yin say again: "Mr. Can't see him anymore."

Xiao Rong paused, Yuan Yin took a step but didn't want the person behind him to move, so he was pulled back by the force at the moment, he looked back at Xiao Rong dissatisfied and said: "What are you doing? Let's go."

Looking at Yuan Yin's ignorant and innocent eyes, Xiao Rong nodded and exhaled slowly, before saying, "Go slowly."

Yuan Yin looked at Xiao Rong for a long while, couldn't help but smile, cough lightly, and then slowed down, letting Xiao Rong walk beside him, as if he forgot that the hand holding Xiao Rong's sleeve just now was being held by someone Hold it in your palm.

In front of the ferry, a gorgeous painting boat was parked, and in front of the ferry, the servant of the rich family respectfully greeted the young talents invited by the head of the family. Seeing Xiao Rong coming, the steward quickly saluted respectfully: "So Master Xiao has arrived, this is..."

The butler looked at the unfamiliar young man beside Xiao Rong, and couldn't help but his face was full of doubts, Xiao Rong hurriedly said: "My distant relative has just arrived in the capital, so I brought him along."

"Oh, so, since you are a distant relative of Lord Xiao, you must be a talented man with a lot of knowledge, young master, please." The housekeeper said kindly, and then welcomed Xiao Rong and Yuan Yin to board the boat, but Xiaoluzi and Zhanfeng stopped Down.

"My lord..." Xiao Luzi yelled worriedly, Yuan Yin immediately turned around, looked at the butler suspiciously and said:

"They are my servants, why can't they be allowed on board."

"This is the Patriarch's rule. Those who can be invited by the Patriarch are all prominent figures in the capital, but servants are not allowed on board." The butler introduced with a smile.

Yuan Yin wanted to say something more, but Xiao Rong looked at him, nodded and said: "Excuse me."

"Master Xiao, you must protect my young master." Xiao Luzi shouted worriedly.

Xiao Rong nodded slightly, and took Yuan Yin together to step onto the boat, but he never let go of his hands, until entering the boat, some young talents in the capital stood up and saluted Xiao Rong with fists:

"I didn't expect Zhao Yuanwai to invite the number one talented person here. He thought that Mr. Xiao was busy with court affairs, so he didn't care about such a lantern festival at all."

Xiao Rong looked at the young man who was talking, he was wearing a blue gown without any decorations, and he was joking with Xiao Rong with a slight smile on his face.

"My cousin has just arrived in the capital, no matter how busy the court affairs are, I have to accompany him." Xiao Rong took Yuan Yin to the side and sat down, and poured him a cup of tea with his own hands, feeling the coolness coming from the palm of his hand , Yuan Yin was a little stunned.

Could it be that he was holding hands all the time?

The young man looked at the young man next to Xiao Rong, suddenly smiled and said: "It seems that we have been blessed by this young man when we met Mr. Xiao, but I don't know what to call this young man?"

When asked about Yuan Yin, Yuan Yin got up quickly, greeted some young talents present and said: "My... Wei Yin."

"It turned out to be Mr. Wei, but I have known Mr. Xiao for a long time, and I didn't know that he has such a handsome distant relative. I'm going to Su Wenfang, so be polite." Su Wenfang returned the salute to Yuan Yin, and then sat down.

"This Su Wenfang, Mr. Su, is the grandson of Master Su Yuzhou, a Hanlin scholar." Xiao Rong leaned against Yuan Yin, whispering in his ear.

It was originally a magnetic voice, but now he lowered his voice and whispered in Yuan Yin's ear, Yuan Yin subconsciously touched the pinna, feeling a little itchy.

"Brother Xiao, what are you whispering to your cousin? Are you imparting knowledge so that he can win this year's Lantern King?" That Su Wenfang couldn't help laughing.

"No, I'm asking my cousin, who is Mr. Ding'an, everyone here?" Yuan Yin hurriedly got up and asked, "I've heard Mr. Ding'an's name for a long time, but I haven't been able to see the real face, thinking about going to the Lantern Festival today." , presumably Mr. An is also in it, so come here rashly."

Yuan Yin said sincerely and respectfully, but all the young talents present were puzzled, and all their eyes turned to Xiao Rong behind him. Yuan Yin was very curious, and quickly turned to look at Xiao Rong.

Xiao Rong accepted everyone's gaze calmly, raised his head to look at Yuan Yin and said without changing his expression: "Just now the butler said that the boat is full of prominent figures in the capital, people like Mr. Ding'an who have no prominent family background are not included in this list. .”

Everyone looked at Xiao Rong with puzzled expressions, but then they looked at Xiao Rong's cousin's expression again, and suddenly realized that they all sat down to discuss who would get the Lantern King tonight, and didn't care about what Yuan Yin said. I mentioned Mr. Ding'an.

"Mr. Ding'an is not among them, so what am I going to do?" Yuan Yin sat beside Xiao Rong dejectedly, ignoring Xiao Rong's gradually sinking expression. He raised his head slightly, but met Su Wenfang's face Vice gloating smile.

"Now that the boat has sailed to the middle of the river, since it can't get off, it's better to stay. These talented scholars are no worse than Mr. Ding'an." Xiao Rong took the teacup and blew away the tea leaves floating on the surface. Take a sip.

Yuan Yin hurriedly turned over and looked out the window. The painting boat had indeed left the ferry and was driving in the center. The lanterns on both sides of the river were reflected in the water, scattered by the swaying ripples of the painting boat. The sparkling lights were very charming.

Looking at the next ferry from a distance, boys and girls on both sides of the strait put lanterns with poems and lantern riddles into the river one after another, just waiting for those who are interested to get them, solve the lantern riddles, and make friends.

Looking at the scene outside, Su Wenfang, who had just picked up the teacup, suddenly suggested: "Everyone, I have a proposal. In the past, we always told the riddles for everyone to guess. This year, we might as well change our tricks, like the river lantern, and put our own riddles Write it on paper, put it in a brocade box, take it out at will, and read out the riddle in public. Those who guess the riddle will be fined with three glasses of wine, and those who can’t guess the answer will be fined with three glasses of wine, how about that?”

Everyone echoed, but Xiao Rong, who was sitting by the side, said at this moment: "That's not good."

"Why not?" Su Wenfang asked.

"My cousin is still a child, so he is not allowed to drink alcohol." Xiao Rong glanced sideways at Yuan Yin, then looked at Su Wenfang and said.

Su Wenfang smiled and said, "Since I'm a cousin, then your cousin can drink on his behalf."

As soon as Su Wenfang said this, all the princes present agreed, Yuan Yin looked at Xiao Rong, and said slowly: "A man, I don't need you to replace me."

"I'm your teacher." Xiao Rong looked sideways at Yuan Yin, staring at Yuan Yin until his heartbeat became disordered and he couldn't make sense of it, so he closed his eyes: "So, let me take the place."

"Okay! Brother Xiao is happy!" Su Wenfang said with a smile.

Afterwards, the housekeeper who served on the painting boat went to find pens, ink, paper and inkstones and brocade boxes, and put the written riddles into the brocade box from the first one until the last one was finished.

After writing the riddles, the maids serving in the boat also came with wine jugs and stood beside each gifted scholar, waiting for an order to pour wine for the talented scholars.

The butler took out a piece of riddle noodles from the brocade box, and knocked on the wine glass with chopsticks. The crisp sound was particularly pleasant, attracting everyone's attention.The housekeeper spread out the paper, and read: "The first one is Su Wenfang, Mr. Su's enigma: the words are not green to the green hills, the two of them made it clear on the ground, the three of them rode a bull without horns, and one of them was among the grass and trees."

The housekeeper who listened read out the enigma, everyone present frowned slightly thinking, only Su Wenfang peeled the orange contentedly, and put it in his mouth.

Looking at Xiao Rong's relaxed appearance, Yuan Yin couldn't help being curious: "Xiao Qing, don't you guess?"

"What's there to guess, I know the answer." Xiao Rong took a sip from the teacup, but what he said attracted everyone's attention.

Su Wenfang said: "Oh? Brother Xiao actually knew?"

"It's just that, please sit down and serve tea, four words, right?" Xiao Rong raised his eyes to meet Su Wenfang's gaze and slightly raised his eyebrows.

Everyone cast their gazes at the butler again, the butler quickly glanced at the enigma, and said with a smile: "Master Xiao is really smart, it's these four words, Mr. Su, please."

Seeing the pride in Xiao Rong's eyes, Su Wenfang poured the three glasses of wine that the servant girl put in front of him, and drank them all in one gulp, then said: "Housekeeper, continue."

The housekeeper watched Su Wenfang drink all the wine, took out a piece of paper from the brocade box, looked at it for a long time, and said: "The next thing is Mr. Jiang's mystery: the moon is half at the foot of Yiyun, and the remaining flowers are falling in front of the horse's hoof .”