kingnovel Chapter 167 Colorful Lantern Festival and Happy Food in Commercial Street (3)
Chapter 167 Colorful Lantern Festival and Happy Food in Commercial Street (3)
Yunbai had a happy time when she was very young. She still had a mother at that time. Every year during festivals, her mother would take her to her grandmother's house to play. During the Dragon Boat Festival and the Lantern Festival, the small city where her grandmother lived would hold a lantern festival. Her mother would buy her cute little rabbit lanterns and take her to stroll in the sea of lanterns that was several streets long.
Sometimes, her grandmother would make lanterns with her. Although they were not as pretty as the ones sold, she enjoyed it. This was also a beautiful memory buried deep in Yun Bai's heart, accompanying her through many difficult years. Therefore, Yun Bai's love for lanterns was not just a simple love, but a deep attachment and affection.
Now, she finally has the chance to relive the beautiful memories of her childhood with her relatives - although they have no blood relationship with her, they are closer and more worthy of being called "relatives" than those she once had blood relations with. Yun Bai is of course excited and happy.
"Xiaohua, be gentle with your hands. That's a golden bamboo, and you've deformed it!" Zhao Hongshan reminded Xiaohua while carefully coloring his lantern. Xiaohua, on the other hand, was using all her facial features to exert force, but she had to use her ten fingers to handle it gently. Seeing that the others were all looking at her with a smile, Xiaohua said with some embarrassment:
"Oh, why don't you let me do some manual labor? This kind of delicate work is not suitable for me! I feel like my fingers are going to cramp!"
"You, little girl, can't use brute force, you have to use cleverness. You have to know that everything is possible. Making lanterns is the same as practicing martial arts!" Old Man Long saw that the lanterns were interesting, so he stopped dozing off and came to join in the fun. He is a great world god. Although it was just a simple sentence, it gave Xiaohua great inspiration. She was very talented in spiritual martial arts. After being reminded by Old Man Long, she seemed to have an epiphany and was stunned. After a moment, she suddenly looked up and stood up in surprise, shouting that she had to go out to do something urgent and come back later. Then she ran away. Yun Bai and others were already accustomed to this. They knew that Xiaohua must have come up with some new tricks and was anxious to go back to test and practice. Everyone could only smile helplessly, but they were all happy for Xiaohua in their hearts.
"Haha, it's done! Look at the little rabbit I made, is it pretty?" After a while, Yun Bai finished his work first, and showed it to Zhao Hongshan, Mu Yun and Old Man Long with a happy face.
"Very nice/lifelike." Both boys smiled and gave compliments. But Old Man Long pouted deliberately, pulled his long beard with his hands, and said in a long voice: "Oh my, Xiaobai, you call this a rabbit? I thought it was a pig! A pig with long ears! Hahahaha!"
"Hmph! What kind of aesthetics do you have? My senior and senior both said it's good-looking!" Yun Bai puffed up her cheeks to protest. Senior refers to Zhao Hongshan, and senior refers to Mu Yun. In this world, the concepts of "master" and "teacher" are not exactly the same. Only those who have truly inherited the master's teachings can be called masters, and in school, or those who have taught a move or two can be called teachers. The disciples of the master call each other brothers (sisters), while the students of the teacher call each other seniors (brothers) or seniors (sisters). As for Yun Bai, she only has one senior brother, Zhao Hongshan, and one junior sister, Xiaohua, and the rest are all "school" generations - but Mu Yun is special here, because there can be countless "Senior Li", "Senior Zhao", and "Senior Zhang", but there is only one "Senior" Mu Yun. This is the tacit understanding between her and Mu Yun. So when Mu Yun heard other people only call him "Senior", he always had an inexplicable sense of intimacy.
"I said it looks good, but I didn't say it looks like it!" Old Man Long shook his head and ate the fire lychee while arguing with Yun Bai.
"Hmph! I'm angry. Tomorrow I'll give away the fruit wine I brewed for you!" Yun Bai knew that Old Man Long loved to drink the wine she brewed. He almost always carried it with him and never let it go. So she immediately found his "weakness". Sure enough, after hearing what Yun Bai said, Old Man Long immediately surrendered and changed his words without any sense of disobedience: "I think this lamp is very beautiful and vivid. There is no better lamp than this!"
"Hehe, that's better." Yun Bai laughed happily. After lighting the rabbit wick with his spiritual power, the lantern floated lightly in the air, like a rabbit-shaped hot air balloon.
"Mine is done too. To be honest, it's not easy to make a lantern!" Next was Zhao Hongshan, who made a lantern of an earth-based spirit beast called "Knock Down the Mountain". The scientific name of this spirit beast is "Kunshan Bull". It looks like a bull, but it has a triangle on its head, wings on its back, three tails, and is three times bigger than an average bull. They look domineering but have a gentle personality. They are very popular domestic spirit beasts. Moreover, they are very strong, so they have the nickname "Knock Down the Mountain".
"Wow! It's really well done! Senior brother, I didn't expect you to have such a skillful hand!" Yun Bai came to the colorful lantern that seemed to really knock down the mountain and couldn't stop praising. The other two also said "good skills", as exquisite as his cooking skills! After hearing so many compliments, Zhao Hongshan smiled honestly and felt a little embarrassed.
The last one to finish was Mu Yun, and his work was even more amazing. From a distance, it looked like a peony, but if you looked closely, you would find that there was a vivid little rabbit in each pink flower that looked like a small purse. Whenever the flower bloomed, the little rabbit would jump out, turn around in place, and then hide back in the flower. Not only was the workmanship exquisite, but it was also very vivid and interesting, which made Yun Bai's eyes sparkle again, and she praised him for being "skillful, ingenious, and a craftsman!" Mu Yun had a gentle smile on his elegant face. While injecting a trace of spiritual power into the lantern to make it run automatically, he told Yun Bai that if she liked it, he would make it for her every year in the future. Yun Bai nodded happily, and she was not allowed to regret it, but Old Man Long and Zhao Hongshan heard something else, especially Old Man Long, who smiled slyly and kept stealing glances at Yun Bai and Mu Yun...
After working all morning, the three of them made two lanterns each. At noon, Xiaohua came back excitedly. Without waiting for Yunbai and the others to speak, she showed everyone the results of her cultivation. She stretched out her hands, and a thread of spider-like spiritual power appeared from the tips of her ten fingers. Then, she used this spiritual power to wrap around a marble table not far away, and actually uprooted the stone table that weighed at least 300 kilograms! Then, under the incredible gaze of everyone, she cut the stone table into dozens of pieces, and the cuts were extremely smooth, just like cutting with a sharp blade-like spiritual weapon!
"Wow! Little girl, you are amazing!" Old Man Long couldn't help but exclaim in admiration. This Xiaohua's comprehension and talent are really extraordinary! Yun Bai and the other two also expressed their admiration, praising Xiaohua so much that she was very happy.
Then, her performance surprised everyone even more. She picked up the tools to make lanterns again, and this time, her ten mallet-like fingers became very nimble and light. Soon, she made a lantern in the shape of a King Kong bear. Although it looked a bit like a standing short-legged porcupine, the workmanship was really amazing. This also proved that Xiaohua had really learned a lot from the hint from Old Man Long just now!
Looking at the seven lanterns of different shapes, everyone felt a sense of accomplishment. Because it was time for lunch, Yun Bai suggested going here first, and then volunteered to help Zhao Hongshan to prepare lunch. And Mu Yun naturally followed behind her to help. Xiaohua was responsible for setting up the tableware, while Old Man Long was only responsible for eating. When everyone just sat down to enjoy the delicious lunch, Yun Bai's communication talisman rang again, and after it was connected, it was the excited voice of Teacher Lu Bao: "Xiaobai, come and see! We made a lot of great lanterns!"