I dress up as a poor noblewoman, and I bring my whole family home with my literary talent.

Chapter 98 Temple Fair
Lu Jing nodded and breathed a sigh of relief. "I have nothing to do tonight. If you want to go to the temple fair, go ahead."

"Master is not going? Miss Song lives in the west of the city. She will probably go to the temple fair..." Jiying said.

Lu Jing glanced at him, as if saying "meddling" with his eyes.

The full moon in the night sky is blocked by clouds

In the quiet and dark courtyard, Lu Jing changed into clean clothes and rushed to the temple fair in the west of the city alone.

……

The fireworks and children's shouts along the way did not make Song Lingyi feel fulfilled. It seemed that all the bustle by the Nan River had nothing to do with her.

"Mom, I want to eat this"

On the street, a three-year-old girl pointed at a candied haws with one hand and shook his big hand with the other hand, acting coquettishly.

"If you eat too much sugar, your teeth will rot."

The woman was talking about the dangers while taking out money, "Boss, give me one."

The woman took the candied haws from the vendor and leaned over to talk to the little girl, "Ruoruo, just eat two today and eat the rest tomorrow, okay?"

The little girl happily agreed, but she knew in her heart that her mother would not scold her even if she accidentally finished it all.

Song Lingyi looked at the mother and daughter silently. Perhaps it was because she had a weak family bond. No matter in her past life or this life, she had never received such maternal love.

I followed the crowd in a daze and walked to a crowded place.

The riverside was brightly lit and children were running and playing.

There are bamboo poles standing along the river bank, with rows of hemp ropes tied between the poles. Each hemp rope is tied with a wooden sign with all kinds of good wishes written on it.

It is said that after the temple fair is over, the water god will come to collect wishes, and all sincere wishes will be fulfilled.

Song Lingyi thought that the Water God was really bored, but she still went to buy a sign obediently. One wish only cost ten cents, and she couldn't help but sigh that the Water God was really cheap labor.

The wish made under the marriage tree of "May everything go smoothly and all wishes be fulfilled" probably cannot be controlled by the tree god, so it is better to cast a wider net and let the water god take care of it.

Song Lingyi held the sign and turned to look behind her. From south to north, the wishing boards hanging on the ground had turned into a wishing wall, with no end in sight.

She had no choice but to wander along the river bank like a ghost, reading the wishing cards one by one and looking for a suitable empty spot to hang the sign.

These wishes are different from those on the marriage tree. They are all pleasing to the eye, such as "I hope my parents live as long as the Southern Mountains", "I hope to be together with my sister Qiu for the rest of my life", "I hope to make a fortune next year" and so on.

The wish wall has two sides, the front and the back. Song Lingyi's side is close to the river and is crowded, but the other side is very quiet.

One bamboo pole was connected to another, and there was no gap to go around. She just kept walking south. The further she walked, the fewer people there were. The wishing cards on the rope could no longer be hung up, and from time to time there would be gaps for a few wishing cards.

Just when Song Lingyi was about to hang up her own sign, she suddenly noticed that there was someone looking at the sign on the opposite side of the wishing wall.

The man was a head and a half taller than her, and his sword-like eyebrows were just visible through the gap in the wishing sign. Song Lingyi was absent-minded, and even though she noticed that he looked familiar, she didn't think much about it, and was busy hanging the sign.

Until the man opposite came closer with a pair of black eyes, clearly appearing in front of Song Lingyi

Song Lingyi was so frightened that she almost died on the spot!
She recognized that it was Lu Jing.

Yesterday he wore a ghost mask and looked at her in the rain. His black eyes were deeply engraved in her memory.

Suochun Tower is in the south of the city, so how could Lu Jing appear at the temple fair in the west of the city?

And from the beginning until now, Lu Jing has been silently accompanying her across the wishing wall.

"!"

Thinking of this, Song Lingyi suddenly woke up again. Didn't Lu Jing see her distraught look just now? Song Lingyi's ears felt a little hot. Fortunately, her sign had been hung up at this time. A group of children holding candied haws passed by, and Song Lingyi took the opportunity to move a few steps away, no longer looking at the wishing wall, pretending not to see Lu Jing.

Of course, she was still watching from the corner of her eye. The gap in this wishing wall was enough for her to piece together a complete Lu Jing——

He was dressed in purple and looked handsome. He was walking south at the same speed as her, separated by a wishing wall.

Soon, Song Lingyi realized that if she went a little further south, she would reach the end of the wishing wall.

Song Lingyi stopped and planned how to cleverly pretend to be attracted by the fireworks, so that she could turn around and walk to the bridge to the west and refuse to meet Lu Jing.

However, just as she had this thought, she heard Lu Jing say through the Wishing Wall: "It's a rare opportunity for me to meet Miss Song today. Why don't you say hello to her directly?"

Song Lingyi glanced in Lu Jing's direction and found that Lu Jing had already pulled down the wishing rope with one hand, revealing the upper half of his handsome face.

The pair of smiling peach blossom eyes had locked onto Song Lingyi, and the hidden emotion in those eyes seemed to be saying, "If you dare to run away, you'll die."

"..."

At the end, Lu Jing meets Song Lingyi

Song Lingyi smiled sweetly and congratulated him, "Today is the first day of the new year. I wish Boss Lu a happy and joyful year."

Lu Jing smiled sincerely, "You said such nice words of congratulations, should I give you New Year's money?"

Song Lingyi spread her hands towards him, her eyes shining like stars, "It would be disrespectful to refuse!"

Lu Jing took off the pouch from his waist and put it in her hand.

It was so heavy that Song Lingyi was shocked.

As expected of the boss of Suochunlou, he is generous in giving out New Year's money

I visited my parents for the New Year this morning, and I only used the lucky money I received to buy a lantern.

"Then I wish Miss Song a smooth and worry-free year ahead, and all her wishes will come true."

"..." Song Lingyi's smile froze for a moment, and her heart skipped a beat.

Everything goes smoothly and everything goes as planned.

This was what she wrote to the Marriage Tree and the Water God. Lu Jing actually said the same blessing.

The two walked side by side towards the South Bridge. Song Lingyi asked, "Why did Boss Lu come to the temple fair in the west of the city today?"

"I heard that it's very lively here, so I came to take a look." Lu Jing's mouth curved slightly, and his tone was leisurely and casual.

Song Lingyi observed him sideways and always felt that Lu Jing's personality was different when he wore a mask or not. When he wore a mask, he seemed to keep people at a distance and have the power of life and death; when he didn't wear a mask, he seemed calm and unrestrained.

"I thought Boss Lu was busy with his career and didn't care about worldly matters." Song Lingyi joked.

The two had walked to the center of South Bridge and stood on the bridge, watching the thousands of ships passing by under the bridge and the bright lights on both sides of the river.

Song Lingyi held onto the stone railing, her smile as bright as a summer flower, "It's so lively tonight...but it lacks some atmosphere."

"Lack of atmosphere?"

Song Lingyi nodded and said, "It would be nice if there was a fireworks show." The last time she watched a fireworks show was at the birthday party for the mother of the former Minister of Rites.

Lu Jing remained silent and took note of it quietly in his mind.

The two stood side by side on the bridge for a long time. Song Lingyi's eyes inadvertently swept across the jewelry shop on the shore, and she suddenly remembered that Zhao Xiaoniang and Fourth Sister were in that shop. Her father and mother might be there somewhere. What if they saw the two of them standing together and misunderstood them?