Lantai decided to take Yu'er to see the lanterns. When he told her this decision, he heard her "yes" in a slight way, and her face was full of happiness.

Humph, the girl clearly wants to go!

The four of them followed the crowd to the bustling riverside. This wide and peaceful river had a nice name, called Pearl River.

Although it is winter, the relatively warm temperature of the Red Mansion Kingdom is not enough to freeze the river.

The colorful swaying lanterns shine on people's eyes, either floating on the water or placed on a raft.

The strings and pipes are boiling in this night, and the lanterns are just a long distance away.

Palace lanterns, God of Wealth lamps, moving lanterns, lotus lanterns, goldfish lanterns, arch bridge lanterns, and hydrangea lanterns, dragon and phoenix lanterns...

Some are crystal clear, some are colorful, but none of them have beautiful shapes and exquisite decorations. The flowing light is reflected on the water, just like countless colorful stars falling into the mortal world.

Xiao Aobai's eyes were full of surprises. It was the first time in his life that he had seen such a magnificent lantern landscape. He praised it repeatedly, and used a lot of adjectives and adverbs and metaphors, but Yu'er didn't have any sound at all.

Lantai looked down and Yu'er opened her mouth slightly and looked unbounced. She was filled with joy and shock. She didn't care about talking! She opened her eyes today. She had never seen such a romantic scene in her dream.

Chunci glanced at their expressions. As a princess of a country, he was very proud. What was even more proud was that he had made contributions to the current peace of the country.

Everyone was watching the lantern for a while, Xiao Aobai pointed to the river and said, "There are still many ships, and almost every ship is full of people. Aren't these people walking in the painting?"

Chunci introduced: "There is another traditional feature of the Spring Festival in our Honglou Kingdom, which is to roam among the lanterns and eat river food. It is specially designed to use fishing houses to salvage fish and shrimps deep in the river water, which is more delicious than fish and shrimps in spring and summer. If you drink a pot of wine, it is so refreshing. How about it, let's find a boat to sit?"

"Okay, okay, why not go together!"

Xiao Aobai raised his hands and feet to agree. For him, who has to have a happy life, he has a beloved woman and the best buddy around him. It is simply perfect. It is not too late to think about his career after the next few days.

Yu'er hesitated and looked up. He clearly saw that the young man who had lost a lot of true energy could not hide his tiredness and had yawned several times, so he insisted on going back, but the reason was that he only ate vegetarian food and could not eat fish and shrimp.

"Sister, don't be so selfish, okay?" Chunci said with a smile, but his words were still aggressive. "You are vegetarian, your brother won't eat it. I have seen your brother eat wild boar meat with his own mouthfuls, and it smells fragrant. Besides, he is tired, so he can use drunk shrimp to replenish it. You don't understand the fun of men."

I was speechless and didn't know how to answer the conversation for a while.

Lan Tai immediately held Yu'er's shoulder: "Who said she was selfish? My sister is the most sincere, kindest and selfless girl in the world."

Chunci's face immediately turned into pork liver paste color, and I really want to ask me.

In order to alleviate the embarrassing situation, Xiao Aobai had to help Chunci talk and advocated taking a boat together. Anyway, he vaguely felt that as long as Lantai was there, Chunci would be particularly good to him.

He had no experience and didn't think deeply, but he just felt that everyone was busy together, and he didn't know what happened just now.

Besides, Chunci is right. The young master is as strong as an audacious person. He has never seen him tired before. He also wants to have a pot with his good friend.

Lantai thought that the streams in the mountains were different from such big rivers. Yu'er had never enjoyed the fun of rafting on the river, nor did she enjoy rafting in the sea of ​​lanterns like bright stars, and she had never even herself.

Anyway, I'm not tired when I take a boat, so it's okay to wander around for a while. The most important thing is that he knows that Yu'er must want to go.

Lantai: "I don't know the truth anymore, I can leave as soon as I say."

The four people called a boat waiting for the passengers. There was a small red mud stove on the boat. There was a pot on the stove and the wine was burnt next to it. The fragrant aroma had already overflowed.

The boatman carried the boat somewhere in the water and asked them to wait. It turned out that there was no live food on the boat, and the river food here was eaten immediately, so it must be delicious.

The boatman picked up a small net, put the end of the rod in a slightly larger wooden groove, and connected another section of the rod.

Just by connecting one by one, you can get a very long net with a rod that can reach deeper into the water to catch fish.

Soon after, the lively fish, shrimps and clams were put into the pot, and the fresh fragrance was overflowing, and the seasonings were picked up with chopsticks.

Yu'er was quite fresh in the first place, but when she saw those little lives struggling to death, she could no longer laugh and don't turn her face.

Fortunately, the boatman also prepared a wealth of vegetarian side dishes, and there is always one suitable for her.

In order to conceal her dissatisfaction, Yuer asked casually: "Why is this river called Pearl River?"

Xiao Aobai peeled a drunk shrimp and put it in his mouth slowly: "Good question, I want to know too."

Of course, this is not a problem for the princess of the Red Mansion: "That's because this river is rich in pearls. But these pearls do not come from river clams. Where do you guess the pearls come from?"

Everyone talked about it. Some said that someone threw it in, and some said that it fell from the sky in the rain. Chunci shook his head repeatedly: "These pearls all come from the belly of the fish."

It turns out that there is a unique fish living in this river, called Ruzhu (pi second tone).

The upper body is a bird and the lower body is a fish. The fourteen cervical vertebrae are flexibly curved. A circle of tiny blue velvets around the eye sockets are used to filter impurities in the water, and their vision is excellent. The back with huge scales is raised, and the fine feathers overlap each other in a fan shape.

Gravel often accumulates in their stomachs to grind food to help digestion. If a wound is accidentally worn out, pearls will be secreted from that location to wrap it up to help heal.

Slowly, the pearls grew round and large, and finally fell out of the body and were excreted.

Over time, many pearls were piled up at the bottom of the river, and they were often salvaged out together when fishing, so it was called Pearl River.

"It's so romantic!" Xiao Aobai said in support, "If any buddy goes down the river to catch fish and gives a pearl from a girlfriend, he will definitely be very happy!"

Chunci glanced at him and meant, why don’t you go down and try your luck?

Xiao Aobai shrank his neck: "It's a pity that I'm not very good at water, so I can hold my breath for no more than three seconds."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a plop and fell into the water alone.

The water surface was as bright as daylight, and everyone was lying on the bow of the boat to watch, and some were taking off their clothes to save people.

The man was sitting on the bow of the boat, and a woman shouted loudly: "I don't want any pearls, come back quickly, how cool the water is!"

It turned out that Cao Cao came, and a romantic buddy jumped into the river to touch the pearls for her girlfriend.

Chunci looked at Xiao Aobai again, and his eyes were clearly saying, "Look at others."

In fact, as a noble princess, she has seen Ye Mingzhu, who has a big fist. She would not have missed the pearls in the river. She just wanted to prove that Xiao Aobai is not as affectionate as a mountain to him.

Xiao Ao Bai couldn't hold on to the face and didn't want to lose face in front of the woman he liked. He stood up and started taking off his clothes when he was hot.

"Sit down!" Holantai whispered, "Don't you know how much you are?"

Xiao Aobai sat down again without saying a word.

Chunci's eyes showed dissatisfaction: "Xiao Aobai, haven't you mentioned to me that your young master is very good at water? If you don't go, let him go down and show his skills. Touch a few big and round pearls for his sister who is as beautiful as a flower."

"I don't want it, I don't want it."

Yu'er was afraid that the young master would catch a cold when he jumped into the cold water, so he refused. No matter how beautiful the jewelry was, it was not as important as the young master's health.

At this time, a scream came from somewhere, and a shrill sound broke through the night sky and pierced almost everyone's eardrums!

Then I heard other people shouting: "Blood! So much blood!"

With the light of the lanterns, everyone saw that the river surface was indeed filled with a shocking bright red. Could it be that the brother who went down to touch the pearl encountered some danger? But he could not shed so much blood alone, right?

At this moment, the originally calm river surface was rolling, and the boat was so shaking that it could not sit still, just like some huge fish under the water that made the whole river uneasy!

Many boats capsized, and some people fell into the water. Those who were lucky were soon rescued on other boats, or swam to the shore by themselves, and some fell and disappeared.

It was originally a peaceful and happy festival, but for a moment, crying and shouting became hell on earth!

Chunci was not good at water. When the boat was shaking violently, she grabbed the hull tightly and her face was pale.

Xiao Aobai, who was half-sexy in water, also grabbed the hull while protecting her from falling.

Both Holantai and Yuer are proficient in water, so they are quite calm.

Suddenly, something jumped out of the water and then sank into the water. The crowd screamed in horror!

The thing is as big as a whale, with red body, and the feathers and scales seamlessly connected.

Four eagles have their heads to observe four different directions, with sharp teeth in their mouths, six pangolin legs and three goldfish tails, and their tails bloom in the water like flowers!

What kind of monster is this? Many old people at the scene have never seen it in their entire lives. Not to mention seeing it, they have never heard of it.

However, Yu'er remembered something.

In the noise, she told Lantai that this monster looked like a strange fish from the wilderness period, called the rosy (you second tone) fish (not the kind of iron plate roasted), with three tails, six feet and four heads and red hair.

But the problem is that the elliptical fish is not that big, and its head should look like a pigeon rather than an eagle. Could this be a mutant breed?

The red on the river just now was hard to figure out whether it was blood or this red monster, but at this moment I really saw some people's remaining limbs rolling in the waves, with crying and crying for help all over the place.

The boat they were riding on was no longer seen. I don’t know if it fell into the water when it was shaken violently, or if it dived on its own and escaped.

Lantai looked at the current position of the ship and was washed very close to the shore. He suggested diving and swimming ashore.

Chunci cried: "But I don't know how to behave!"

Lantai calmly arranged: "Spring is on my back, I'll take care of Xiao Aobai."

At this time, Xiao Aobai didn't care about his superiors, Chunci didn't care about his joy, and climbed onto the back of Lantai in a mess.
Chapter completed!