Master is not married yet

Chapter 10 The Lantern Festival
When I saw Master in the morning, he was lying on his side on the porch behind his house, holding a folding fan with Tai Chi painted on it, and fanning it slowly.The smoke in the incense burner is as misty as the morning clouds with his fluttering of the fan again and again. Beside the burner are the glutinous rice balls made by the senior brother and a porcelain bowl of ice. Judging from the color of the jam on the ice, it should be the same. From the master's outstanding hands.

I swallowed, tugged at the hem of my skirt, and walked forward, "Master, about that letter,"

"What is Yingying's plan for this lantern festival?"

The Lantern Festival Master mentioned refers to the grand celebration held in Chang'an City every February from the Flower Festival to the Lantern Festival.

The Flower Dynasty Festival, also known as the Flower God Festival, is said to be the birthday of Baihua. It was originally a day when the royal family, noble families and officials from all walks of life held banquets in the suburbs or in their mansions. It has nothing to do with ordinary people. In the year of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty gradually prospered, singing and dancing prospered, the scene of the prosperous age can be seen everywhere, and the people know how to enjoy themselves more and more, so they combined the Lantern Festival to decorate the streets with sky lanterns, animal head lanterns, revolving lanterns, etc. in the spring when the flowers are in full bloom. All kinds of operas and songs and dances from foreign lands were performed in turn, and the Chang'an Lantern Festival lasted for more than ten days. There were colorful flowers everywhere, flickering lights, and it was very lively.

He asked so suddenly, completely beyond my expectation.

"I haven't thought about what to do. It's rare to have a night market. If I can, of course I want to go to the Baixi Opera, and eat some flower cakes and guess lantern riddles." I thought for a while, thinking of Bailianhua, "Where is Master?" ? Are you going to Cui’s house to participate in the Flower Appreciation Conference on the Flower Festival?”

"Oh? How did you know that Mrs. Cui sent an invitation?" He narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Oh, that, the second senior brother mentioned it to me a little bit, a little bit," I curled my fingers, sweating coldly.

——I can’t tell the master that I even went to the scene to inspect it.

"Oh, what about Yujing?" He shook his fan, "Well~ Boling is too far away, so I won't go."

I stood there, speechless.

"Unless you want to take a look, I can think about it." The corner of the master's mouth was slightly curved, and he smiled slightly, "but I'm afraid Yingying is not interested in drinking."

I was shocked, thinking of the sentence written by Master yesterday, "Yingying hasn't tried it, so how do I know if I can do it as a teacher", and I couldn't help but blush.

"It's like this, Master, I haven't finished writing yesterday's letter. I want to say that I don't think it's okay to pretend to be someone else about Master's marriage, because only we understand Master's temperament, and we disciples must handle it personally. "I said it sternly, but I didn't know what nonsense I was talking about.

"Then I really need you, Yingying." The master had a smile in his eyes, but the smile didn't reach his eyes. "However, I don't like that little girl from the Cui family."

"Master has seen her?"

He sighed, "I've seen it, it's very boring, like a bowl of plain water, extremely boring."

Now I somewhat understand where the third senior brother got his sharp mouth.

"No, master, I think you can give her a chance. Cui Jinxuan's silly and sweet appearance should be pretending. Although I have thought about whether she will-cough, maybe she is a good match for master by accident," I almost said "Will I be played to death by you?" said bluntly, Amitabha.

"Huh?" Master slowly got up, gently folded the folding fan and put it aside, and looked at me, "Yingying, how did you know that I was talking about Cui Jinxuan? How did you know that she was stupid? Mentioning this name, did not say what she looks like."

The ice cubes melted in the porcelain bowl with a crisp sound.

— Damn, I was induced to interrogate.Now that I think about it carefully, from the beginning of the Lantern Festival to the current topic of Cui Jinxuan, Master seems to be deliberately leading me to blow myself up on the spot.

My face is getting hotter and hotter, and I feel like I'm getting ripe.

He raised the paper fan to cover the corners of his mouth, his eyes were slightly bent, and an unstoppable laugh burst out of his mouth, "Hahahaha, it seems that you really care about my marriage."

"It's not just me, the brothers are also very concerned."

"We've been together for so many years, what are the three of them thinking about as a teacher?" The master rubbed his brows, "Oh, it's true that Boling is too far away, and the teacher is too lazy to move, but if the little girl from the Cui family is in the Lantern Festival When we come to Chang'an, maybe we can see her once or twice, and then we will know whether what Yingying said is true or not."

Then he lay back on his side again, held his fan against his upper and lower jaws and said, "It's just that if the teacher thinks it's not worthy, Yingying will be responsible."

When I heard that he was willing to meet Bai Lianhua, I was so excited that I jumped up and down, completely oblivious to what he said behind, "Disciple Yingying now, immediately, immediately arrange it! Master Bao is satisfied!"

"Oh," he said with a smile in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth kept rising.

When I came out of the master's room, I happened to run into the third senior brother who was walking towards his own room with a pile of books.

"Third Senior Brother! Third Senior Brother!" I ran up to Third Senior Brother and yelled.

"What's the matter, so excited?" The third senior brother smiled slightly, "Looking at you like this, it seems that you suddenly have a happy pulse at the age of 80."

"What's the matter with your strange description?" I shook my head, "No! Come to live! Master said that as long as Bai Lianhua comes to Chang'an to participate in the Lantern Festival during the Huachao Lantern Festival, he is willing to meet her."

The scrolls were scattered on the ground. I looked closely and found that they were all the same calligraphy works, probably fakes carefully crafted by the third senior brother.

"Tudou, you didn't lie to me—," the third senior brother couldn't believe it.

"That's true," I said.

The two of us ran to the chicken coop one after the other, and saw the big brother clucking and talking to a few hens, as if complaining about the different shapes and sizes of the eggs laid today, so that the chickens can improve.

"Senior Brother! Senior Brother!" "Senior Brother Luo! Senior Brother Luo!"

"Heck no, what's the matter, you two, so excited," the elder brother got up, "It seems like you saw a group of salamanders dancing."

I glanced at the senior brother and the third senior brother, they are worthy of being from the same school, which describes a match and a wonderful work.

"No, Master said, as long as the white lotus I mentioned last time comes to Chang'an during the Lantern Festival, he will go down the mountain to spend time with her," I said.

The elder brother opened his mouth wide, covering his face in disbelief, "No way—you didn't lie to me, really?"

I nodded to the third senior brother.

The three of us ran back and forth to the stream outside the sect. The second senior brother was sitting on a rock with his feet crossed, fishing with something like a grass in his mouth.

"Second Senior Brother! Second Senior Brother!" "Senior Brother Bai! Senior Brother Bai!" "My dearest Jingjing!"

The second senior brother looked at us with contempt, especially for the senior senior brother, his face was as if he saw an animal, "Why, the three big and small people are startled, are you a fucking child?"

"Tudou said, Master has a sweetheart, that's what, Bai Lanhua! She said that Master is going to marry her in Chang'an City!"

"Eldest brother, it's the white lotus, and I didn't say that."

"That's right, Senior Brother Luo's brain is about the size of a chicken, so he can't remember such a few words. Tudou obviously means that Master Bawang is going to give birth to 26 babies with Bai Luobo."

"Third Senior Brother, you are more extreme than Eldest Senior Brother."

The second senior brother raised his eyelids, with an expression of why the hell don't these people die, and put the grass to the corner of his mouth, "Potato, you say."

"Master's original words are that he thinks that Boling is too far away, and he is too lazy to go to the flower viewing conference, but if Cui Jinxuan comes to the city during the Chang'an Lantern Festival, he can go down the mountain to meet her," I continued, "Second Senior Brother She is the person who is most likely to see her, so I want to ask if you can give her the forged letter of the third senior brother and invite her to come to Chang'an for a gathering."

The second senior brother looked at us with a blank expression on his face.

"It can't be done," he said.

The three of us looked at each other in blank dismay, and the second senior brother also pursed his lips tightly. For a while, only the gurgling sound of the brook flowed.

"Ah Jing, you shouldn't," the eldest brother broke the silence first, with a serious face, "Falling in love with Master? That's why you don't want to—"

The senior brother had only spoken halfway, when the second senior brother jumped up from the rock and slapped the fishing rod on his head.

"What the hell are you pretending to be! I'm going to enter the palace tomorrow to perform songs and dances to cheer up the Huachao banquet, and I can't leave the palace until the end of the Lantern Festival banquet. I won't see that pretentious woman at all, so I can't do it." Here! Fuck your mother's love, what kind of love——"

As he spoke, he kept hitting the elder brother's head with a fishing rod, like hitting a wooden fish.

The third senior brother took advantage of the beating of the senior senior brother, and quietly pulled half of my arm, motioning for me to walk aside with him.

There was a distance of eighteen fists between us, he minded a little, but he just curled his lips slightly, and said to me, "It's okay, although Senior Brother Bai is useless, I think of a way."

(End of this chapter)