Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 239

Before the Lantern Festival, Mrs. Xu went home to see Xu Qingchuan.

The Lantern Festival was the time he and Gu Yin would go out together, which couldn’t be done anymore.

“Son, otherwise you read at home, and I will come back to accompany you after finishing the work.”

Xu Qingchuan smiled lightly and said, “I’m not a three-year-old child, you don’t have to be like this.”

Mrs. Xu carefully observed his expression, and seeing that he really did not look depressed, she exhaled and said, “I thought too much. You take care of yourself, I’ll go to work.”

After Mrs. Xu went to work for the day, Xu Qingchuan picked up the unfinished book again.

Perhaps the atmosphere of the festival was too strong, the outside was too lively, Xu Qingchuan couldn’t read the content of the book for the first time.

He simply put the book down and left the room.

The lanterns were hung outside, and there were parents with children and young couples traveling together.

Xu Qingchuan was alone. He walked slowly to the big tree that he went to in the Lantern Festival the previous year.

There were several young men and women standing under the big tree, and there was a girl with a familiar face. When she saw him, she smiled at the young man beside her and said, “Last year, this young man won the king lamp, this year he is here again, it seems that you can’t win.”

The teenager refused to admit defeat, “I didn’t play last year, how do you know I can’t win this year?”

After he finished speaking, he raised his chin toward Xu Qingchuan, as if he wanted to compete with him.

Xu Qingchuan explained with a smile, “I’m not participating this year, I’m just here to see the lantern festival.”

When the young man was about to express himself in front of his sweetheart, he was overjoyed, he quickly pretended not to care and said, “That’s a pity.”

Then he turned his head and urged, “Let’s go, didn’t you want to see me win the lamp king?”

They chatted and laughed, and left in a blink of an eye.

Xu Qingchuan stood for a while under the lantern tree, bored, and just walked slowly along the long street like the previous year.

Before walking far, Xu Qingchuan saw a familiar slender figure.

At the same time, there was another extremely tall young figure beside her.

The head of the woman only reached the shoulder of the man, and the environment was noisy, and it was difficult for them to communicate with each other.

But the man’s eyes kept falling on her, and every time he saw her lips move, he naturally lowered his body to listen to her.

Xu Qingchuan followed them unconsciously.

Gu Yin read lantern riddles, “Marriage is just right next to each other, what is this?”

Her delicate brows furrowed, and the young man beside her also frowned, and the two pondered together.

After a long while, the two stared at each other, waiting for each other to answer.

Unfortunately, although one of them had studied in a private school for a few years, he returned the books he had read to his master after many years of marching and fighting, and he had no talent for reading, let alone such elegant things as anagrams and lantern riddles.

Not to mention Gu Yin, she was dizzy when she read too many traditional Chinese characters, making her guess riddles would kill her.

So the two people who looked smart and clever, just looked at each other for a long time.

After a long while, Gu Yin couldn’t help laughing and said, “Forget it, let’s go. We should have brought Wu’an.”

Wu Qingyi also laughed along with her and asked, “Is that lamp king for sale?”

“Hey! Why are you asking?” Gu Yin stretched out her index finger to her lips, made a silent gesture, beckoned to him, and made Wu Qingyi bow his head, then she explained in a low voice, “On the first day of the Lantern Festival last year, I just heard people say that the lamp king is very good-looking, and I was thinking of buying it and hanging it on our ‘Food of Heaven’. But when I asked later, I got to know that the lamp king was not open to the public. Selling it, and buying it with money was breaking the tradition… I almost got scolded.”

Sure enough, just after she explained what she said, the person next to them who heard them say they wanted to buy it looked at them with dissatisfaction.

“Let’s go,” Gu Yin tugged at Wu Qingyi’s sleeve, walked out for a while, and laughed in unison.

Xu Qingchuan frowned silently, then he turned and walked back home.