Su Chen was delighted to see her take the lamp, and said softly: “Where are you going, young lady? I’ll take you there.”
Gu Fei hesitated.
Her reason told her that she should separate from Su Chen and go their separate ways.
Because they were not originally on the same path.
But with such moonlight, such lights, such a night, and such a jade-like gentleman, she couldn’t help but have a little greed.
If people live too rationally, wouldn’t this life be less fun?
She was only 24 years old when she died in her previous life, and she died before she had time to have a boyfriend.
Just leave a beautiful memory for herself, and when she is gray-haired, she can savor this moment in the sunset.
She nodded and smiled: “I plan to go to the Jinshui River. I always hear people say that the pleasure boats on the river are beautiful, but I have never seen them.”
Su Chen smiled, as clear as the bright moon in the sky.
The two walked forward side by side.
Lian’er followed them silently.
Zhang Ze and Chen Hu walked behind Lian’er.
Not far away, there was a tea house in front of them, with many lanterns hanging. Under the lanterns were pieces of red paper, and many people stood there looking up.
Gu Fei also stopped and looked at the red paper. It turned out to be a lantern riddle.
She looked up at the words on it. The riddle was “The Man in the Mirror”, and a line of small words next to it said guess a word.
What word was it?
Gu Fei couldn’t think of it for a while and frowned and thought hard.
Su Chen next to him was stunned. He didn’t know that Gu Fei could read!
In his impression, peasant girls were illiterate.
Knowing a few simple words was nothing, but guessing riddles was a kind of word game played by literati, which can only mean that she knows more than just a few words!
Gu Fei couldn’t think of it, and asked Su Chen for help: “I can’t guess it, what word do you think it is?”
Su Chen couldn’t think of it for a while, mainly because his mind was not on the riddle.
He looked at Gu Fei with shining eyes, wondering what kind of surprise she could give him.
Gu Fei’s eyes suddenly lit up and clapped her hands: “I know!”
Su Chen smiled and said: “What word is it?”
Gu Fei said with a little pride: “It’s a word of entry!”
She saw Su Chen staring at her blankly, as if he didn’t understand, so she stretched out her hand to gesture the word of entry, “Think about it, the left and right are reversed when looking in the mirror, isn’t it a word of entry?”
This is a brain teaser!
Su Chen only felt that the little hand was swaying in front of her eyes, and the fingertips were as sharp and thin as spring onions. It was hard to imagine that such a hand could hold a knife.
Gu Fei saw that he seemed to be in a trance, and waved her hand in front of his eyes for a few times: “Young Master Su, haven’t you figured it out yet?”
Su Chen came back to his senses, nodded, and smiled gently: “I figured it out, but I didn’t expect Miss Xiao Fei to be so smart.”
Gu Fei’s heart was full of joy, and she was in a good mood after being praised.
Su Chen suddenly looked up at another lantern riddle: “I’ll guess one too.”
Gu Fei also looked up at the riddle: “An arrow pierced the heart” Guess a word.
This was too simple, Gu Fei guessed it after a little thought, Su Chen and her looked at each other, both with smiles in their eyes, knowing that the other must have guessed it.
Gu Fei’s eyes curved: “Let’s say it together.”
The two said in unison and laughed together.
An uncle next to them kindly reminded: “If you guess the riddle, you can take off the red paper and go inside to find the shopkeeper to get the prize.”
Gu Fei and Su Chen waved their hands at the same time: “No need.”
The two couldn’t help but smile at each other again.
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