Zao'er, Jing'er, Dou'er and Xiaocao had already followed Guo'er to Guo'er's house. The little sisters were very excited about going to the lantern festival at night and chatted non-stop, which made Guo'er uneasy. My mind has calmed down a lot in the past few days.

At dusk, Mrs. Bao and the others started preparing Yuanxiao for everyone to eat. At this time, no one over there had come over yet. I guess Bai Qiaoer also bought Yuanxiao and they should have eaten it there. Mrs. Bao and the other women I won't wait for them.

After eating the Lantern Festival, several little girls crowded in the Guoer room, checking their clothes again and combing their hair.

They were all dressed up very well when they came today. They were wearing and bringing new things they bought years ago. They come to see this lantern festival once a year, so of course they have to dress up well.

Guo'er was wearing the goose-yellow Shu brocade jacket made in Jinxiufang years ago, and she just had to put a cape on top.

She reached out and touched the silver hairpin given to her by Shen Mo, and the two small bells hanging on it immediately made a light and sweet collision sound.

Zao'er and the others heard the sound and looked over, their eyes widening involuntarily.

"Sister Guoer, this hairpin is so beautiful, and the little bell on it still rings."

Xiaocao raised her little face and said in an envious voice.

Ji'er also looked at Guo'er's head and praised, "It's really beautiful. It's even more shiny than the hair we wear."

Guoer: "Really? Hahaha."

This silver hairpin does not look very expensive, but the workmanship is very exquisite, and the small bells on it are also rare.

Guoer has accumulated a lot of jewelry in her dressing box, including many expensive headdresses, some of which she bought when she went shopping, and some were given by Aunt Mu and others during business dealings. Occasionally, she brought out one or two fresh jewelry, and everyone also bought them. Get used to it.

So I've been wearing this silver hairpin all day, and Mrs. Bao didn't even ask a question. It's just that the little girls Zao'er were curious about it.

After praising them for a while, the little girls looked away and checked their clothes in the mirror again, feeling relieved.

Their family is now engaged in the business of silk flower ornaments, and they have high, medium and low grades. Fruits are always generous, and they often pick out a few for them, so each of them has a lot of them in their hands. As for jewelry, they just admired Guoer's fresh silver hairpin for a while and stopped asking.

Finally, I heard the sound of a carriage outside the door. It was the Yao Tiezhu brothers and their children coming over.

When everyone arrived, everyone discussed how to go out for a walk. After all, there were so many people and it was not convenient to go shopping on the street.

Yao Sanzhu waved his hand and said simply: "Let's go out together. If we break up when we get to the street, let's go shopping separately."

After saying that, he smiled at Yao Sizhu and Bai Qiaoer: "I mean the fourth brother and the fourth brother and sister, you two are the only ones who don't have to take care of the children. How about I give you my son to take care of?"

Hearing this sentence, everyone laughed. Mrs. Bao couldn't help but stepped forward and pinched him and said: "What nonsense are you talking about? I don't want to take my son with me. Are you on a date with someone or something like that?"

Yao Sanzhu looked at his wife carelessly and said, "Isn't this an appointment with you?"

Everyone was even more delighted.

When everyone had laughed enough, Yao Erzhu said: "That's it, let's go to the street together and take care of the children. It doesn't matter if we get separated. Remember to come back here when you are done shopping, and then go back to the roast duck shop together. Go to sleep."

After discussing, everyone went out and walked down the street.

Zao'er also wanted to go shopping with Guo'er, so she quietly took Guo'er's hand and said:

"How about you join us later? Call Auntie and Xiaocao, and we'll be together."

Guo'er had something on her mind, so she looked at the sisters and nodded casually. That's good, there might be more people around to cover her.

Laiyang County holds lantern festivals for four consecutive days every year from the twelfth to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The most lively one is the fifteenth day. The main streets in the city are filled with all kinds of lanterns, as well as county government organizations.

Large lanterns made by skilled craftsmen are dotted on the busiest streets. The lanterns are lit all night long, attracting an endless stream of people.

Rows of high and low lanterns have been lit up on the street, and there are many stalls selling various small commodities and food on both sides. Most of them sell lanterns. There are also riddles posted on the lanterns of many stalls for people to guess.

, if you guess correctly, you may get a lantern for free.

It is possible to win for nothing, because even if you guess most of the riddles on the lantern, you still have to pay half of the money to take away the lantern. However, most of these riddles are easy to guess, and the lantern itself

The price is not expensive either.

There are only a few particularly beautiful lanterns with crossword puzzles posted on them, and they are all difficult to guess. However, if you guess these crossword puzzles correctly, you can take the lantern away without paying.

The whole family soon arrived at the lively and crowded place, and started walking around. Now one person stopped to look at something strange, and then another family saw something good. In short, half an hour passed, and they didn't even walk down a street.

go out.

There was nothing I could do. The more people there were when I was shopping, the slower I went. After a while, Guoer felt that her legs were so sore that she couldn't walk anymore.

Looking up, Yao Sanzhu and Bao Shi were in front, leading Wu Lin further and further away.

Fortunately, she told Mrs. Bao before that she would go shopping with her aunt. Looking at the people around her now, only her aunt, Zao'er, Jian'er and Xiaocao were left. The others had already disappeared.

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The place they were shopping now was called Qiao Zikou, and walking a little further they reached Xishi Street. As they got closer and closer to that street, Guoer's heartbeat quickened rapidly, and she moved forward in a daze.

She didn't even hear Zao'er calling her from the side.

"Guo'er, what are you looking at?"

Zao'er looked along Guo'er's gaze strangely. There were only people in the distance.

Guo'er woke up and said, "No, I'm just thinking about which way we should turn when we get to the front."

Maisui said with a smile: "Your mother told me just now, turn left ahead and you will find Xishi Street. That street is the busiest, so we will turn left to Xishi Street."

Guoer:...Okay.

Finally moving to the West Market Street, Guoer braced herself and looked around, staring at the densely packed stalls on the street.

Colorful rabbit lanterns, the stall owner is a middle-aged man with a gauze hanging around his neck...

Guo'er didn't care to admire the lanterns that were lit around her. She stared at the stalls on both sides and searched one by one, repeating what she said silently in her mind.

Zao'er saw Guo'er just walking forward and couldn't help but pull her and said: "Guo'er, please walk slower, aunt and the others are looking at something."

When Guo'er came back to her senses, she saw Maisui, Jia'er and Xiaocao, huddled in front of a small stall, lowering their heads and picking up small gadgets on the stall.

"Let's go and have a look too."

Zao'er said enthusiastically, pulling Guo'er and squeezing over.

After a while, the aunt and sister-in-law had a small lantern in their hands, and Xiaocao and Jian'er each bought a candy doll and licked it as they went.

Xiaocao was eating the candy and the man suddenly said happily: "Look at that little rabbit lantern. It's colorful. It's so beautiful."

Along the way, there were rabbit lanterns on many stalls, most of them were white and few other colors, so Xiaocao could not help but happily walked over there when she saw the colorful rabbit lanterns.

Guo'er was so excited that she rushed forward with everyone else.

Taking a closer look, the colorful rabbit lanterns were sold by an old man in his 50s or 60s with a few young guys. Looking at the old man's neck, he saw a very eye-catching brown fur collar, which seemed to be loose.

Tone. Not from this place!

After admiring it for a while, a few people slowly walked forward.

After walking about a few dozen meters, a series of colorful rabbit lanterns were hung high on the stalls in front. Guoer opened his eyes and looked forward. There were several stalls here. Which one was it?

"Lanterns are on sale at a cheap price. We have rabbit lanterns, goldfish lanterns, pagoda lanterns, and lotus lanterns. Every one is sold and one is less. We also give you a gauze scarf when you sell a lantern. Come and take a look."

From one of the stalls, a man's loud and rough voice sounded.

Guo'er followed the sound and saw a middle-aged man with a dark and fat appearance standing behind a stall full of lanterns and shouting loudly.

There were several gauze scarves of different colors on his arms, red, yellow, blue, and even a white gauze scarf around his neck, floating long on the man's chest, setting off his

His dark face looked a little funny.

Guo'er took a deep breath, squeezed forward and looked at the lanterns hanging on the rope attentively. From time to time, she turned her little head and commented on which lantern was more beautiful to the sisters around her. The silver bell on her head followed her movements.

Jumping and turning happily.

The fat middle-aged stall owner looked at the girls and said with a smile: "I'll take it down for you if you like it. If you buy a lantern, you'll get a gauze scarf as a gift. It's a good deal."

Xiaocao looked at it for a long time, pointed at one of the light yellow rabbit lanterns and shouted: "Mom, I like this lantern."

Maisui looked at her daughter tenderly, patted the flower ball lantern in her hand and said, "You have already bought one, do you want to buy another one?"

Xiaocao looked back at Maisui. The two of them looked at each other and smiled. Maisui said, "Then I'll buy it."

"Okay."

The fat stall owner quickly took off the light yellow rabbit lantern and handed it to Xiaocao. Then he looked at Guoer and said, "Little girl, how about you come too? Look, this lotus lantern is so beautiful."

, let me take it off and show it to you?”

As he spoke, the stall owner reached out to untie the lotus lamp above his head and handed it to Guo'er with both hands.

Maisui also said to Guoer: "If you like it, buy it. Auntie will give one to each of you."

Guo'er took the lantern, held it in front of her eyes, looked around, shook her head and said:

"I don't like this lantern, uncle, give it back to you."

After saying that, he held the top of the lantern with one hand and the bottom of the lantern with the other hand and handed it to the stall owner.

The stall owner happily took the lantern and said nonchalantly, "It doesn't matter. You can look at whatever you like and I'll untie it for you."

No one saw that Guo'er was holding the little hand at the bottom of the lantern, and the wax pill had fallen steadily into the stall owner's hand.

Maisui: "If you don't like this one, then just pick another one."

After that, he helped Zaoer and Heer pick a few. Guoer took a step back and pretended to think seriously about which one to choose.

The sisters-in-law and others spent a long time choosing, and finally only Xiaocao bought a light yellow rabbit lantern, and the stall owner generously gave it a gauze scarf.

Maisui was a little embarrassed, so she casually picked out a few small wooden bows and arrows from the stall, saying that she was going back to give them to the three Lin toys. After the others finished shopping, they continued shopping.

After wandering for an unknown amount of time, several of them felt that their backs were sore that they couldn't walk any longer. As expected, they looked back and saw that they had left Xishi Street and came to another street.
Chapter completed!