My filial piety has deteriorated, so I have no choice but to be a rebellious disciple

She regretted that she didn't learn sign language well at that time, and she couldn't remember the meaning of this gesture for a while.

But Ye Yiyun was not in a hurry, just smiled and looked dotingly at the disciple in front of him.

The dazed look of Xiao Yan holding her head in deep thought made her relax a lot.

That's right, how could such a stupid apprentice see any clues?

She reached out and patted Xiao Yan's shoulder lightly, then pointed to the black clouds in the sky that half covered the full moon.

Xiao Yan tentatively asked: "Yue?"

Ye Yiyun shook her head lightly, first stretched out her index finger, pointing straight ahead, then moved her five fingers together with the fingertips down, and moved along the edge of the little finger of the other hand stretched out flat, meaning "in front".

"Front? Front..."

Xiao Yan frowned and looked at the full moon in the night sky, half-hidden by her pipa.

"Is it Yun? Is it Sister Yun?"

Ye Yiyun nodded with a smile, and touched Xiaoyan's head affectionately.

Seeing Xiaoyan's strange eyes, she remembered that the girl in front of her was not her apprentice, but the girl she met for the first time.

Ye Yiyun quickly retracted her hand, nervously drawing an "excuse me" gesture towards her.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Yan blushed and did not show any discomfort.

There was a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, and the two shallow dimples on her delicate face made her even more lovely.

"Sister Yun is really gentle, just like my master."

Only then did Ye Yiyun heave a sigh of relief, but fortunately her apprentice seemed a little not very smart.

She waved her hands again, drawing in front of her: what kind of person is your master?

Xiaoyan frowned and judged the meaning of Ye Yiyun's sign language, then immediately pursed her lips and said outrageously:

"Master? My master is bad!"

Ye Yiyun's eyes, as gentle as water, froze suddenly, and the smile on the corner of her mouth also froze.

She said in sign language: Why do you say that?

Xiao Yan didn't notice the subtle changes in Sister Yun beside her at all, and while walking forward, she waved her powder fist, as if her master had committed some unspeakable crime.

"My master is very strict. He used to check my homework every day, and asked me to recite the books! If I didn't recite it, he would hit my palm with a bamboo ruler! How violent!"

Ye Yiyun forced a smile on her face and looked at Xiao Yan who was talking nonstop in front of her, feeling as if the black hair on her forehead was beating non-stop.

Chapter 1: The Sensible Smoker

Ye Yiyun herself doesn't even remember the last time she hit her palm with a bamboo ruler.

I just remember that she followed Ling Xiaodong over the wall and ran out to play that day, and didn't come back until evening.

When she returned to the Taoist temple, her blue Taoist robe was covered with mottled mud spots, and the cuffs and knees of the fabric were cut by thorn bushes in the mountains, and she didn't read any of the scriptures she was supposed to memorize.

Annoyed, Ye Yiyun directly took out the emerald bamboo ruler that she used to use when she was a senior sister from the drawer, and the little girl who beat her had red and swollen palms, crying loudly against the white wall.

But how long ago was that?

Remember to type or not, right?

The corners of Ye Yiyun's mouth twitched slightly, trying to put on a friendly expression.

She said in sign language to Xiaoyan: "Why is your master so cruel? Then you must hate her, right?"

"Hate it? That's okay..."

Unexpectedly, Xiao Yan shook her head and denied it: "Although the master is really fierce sometimes, it is only when I do something wrong that I will be punished."

As she spoke, she looked up at the white full moon in the sky, and there seemed to be flashes of reminiscence in her eyes.

"The master said that if you do something wrong, you will be punished. If she didn't urge me every day, I probably didn't even learn the most basic "Sanguanjing" and "Beidoujing". The gap is even greater.”

As soon as she mentioned her master, Xiaoyan's chatterbox seemed to be opened, and she didn't look shy at all before.

"Now that I think about it, I was really ignorant. The master is actually very hard on weekdays. As the master, she has to manage the trivial matters of the whole temple every day, ranging from the expenses and income of the warehouse to the minor illness of a senior sister. She has to worry about everything, so I don't give her peace of mind..."

Ye Yiyun put her hands on her waist dignifiedly, and moved lightly with lotus steps.

She lowered her head, and a strand of disobedient black hair fell from her temples, but she didn't pull it back behind her ears, she just listened quietly like this.

"I don't have a mother. Like some other senior sisters, I was picked up by the master from outside, but I don't think it's a big deal not to have a mother. Although the master never said it, I think she is my mother."

"Master has devoted everything to everyone in Qingfeng Temple and me, so how can I hate her?"

After finishing speaking, she scratched her head, and looked at Ye Yiyun beside her with some apology.

"I'm sorry, Sister Yun, I accidentally said that I was fascinated. You didn't say anything to me just now, did you?"

Ye Yiyun did not respond.

She raised her head, blinked her eyes, and tried her best to hold back the tears that kept swirling in her red eyes.

The warm touch in her heart was beyond words, and at the same time, the feeling of guilt like a huge wave made her speechless when facing her disciple.

Ye Yiyun couldn't help reaching out and touching Xiaoyan's head again, but Xiaoyan didn't move away, the familiar warm feeling on the top of her head made her narrow her eyes comfortably.

She turned to Xiaoyan and said in sign language: You are a good boy, your master must be very happy to have a disciple like you.

Xiaoyan grinned shyly, and looked up at the back of "Ling Xiaodong" not far in front of her, her eyes full of yearning.

"No way~ If I can be half like brother Xiaodong, I will be content."

Ye Yiyun patted her shoulder reassuringly.

She hesitated for a moment, and asked in sign language: What if your master did something sorry for you?

"Excuse me about my business?"

Xiao Yan stretched out a slender white finger, and touched her moist cherry lips, her eyes habitually looked up at the sky.

"How can the master do something wrong to me? It's not bad for me to do something wrong to the master!"

Ye Yiyun anxiously drew strokes in the air: What if?what will you do?

"What if..."

Xiao Yan turned her head down and pondered for a while, then raised her head and said jokingly:

"Master said, if you do something wrong, you will be punished. If she also does something wrong, then punish her!"

Hearing what Xiao Yan said, Ye Yiyun's eyes became a little gloomy.

I don't know what kind of punishment I will face for such a crime?

I'm afraid it's best to sever the master-student relationship with yourself, right?

While she was still complaining about herself, Li Pengjiao, who was walking in front, suddenly turned and pointed to the front.

"This is it! The busiest street in Pengcheng tonight."

The road ahead is extremely spacious, wide enough for two carriages to drive side by side.

The lanterns hanging outside the luxury shops on both sides are not lanterns, but transparent crystal palace lanterns. The brightness is several times brighter than other places, and it can be said that it is not much different from the daytime.

Even such a spacious avenue looks a bit crowded.

Among them, the flow of people is like weaving, and there are many peddlers and pawns. The cries of merchant Yalang stand out from the noisy and complicated voices of people, shouting hard for their own goods.

"Hiss~ there are so many people?"

Looking at the dense crowd in front of him, Ling Xiaodong couldn't help but gasped. He cast a questioning look at Li Pengjiao beside him.

right here?

Li Pengjiao smiled and nodded, and quietly sent a message to him:

"After entering, walk through two intersections, turn right again, and turn left at the end."

Facing Ling Xiaodong's suspicious gaze, Li Pengjiao pushed his back again, signaling him to just move forward.

"You little enemy, when did I lie to you, sister?"

Ling Xiaodong had no choice but to hold Aunt Yun's hand, and a circle of invisible spiritual power wrapped around the four of them, using it to push away the crowded crowd.

Xiaoyan also embraced Li Pengjiao's arm, she felt the spiritual power surrounding her, and thought it was the love and protection of brother Xiaodong beside her, a faint smile could not help but hang on the corner of her mouth.

But the fact is that Ling Xiaodong did nothing wrong.

"Oh, are you still capable of caring about women?"

Li Pengjiao teased Ling Xiaodong secretly, causing the latter to roll his eyes at her.

The four of them walked on the street for a while, and found that the crowded crowd suddenly became thinner.

It turned out that what they entered just now was the entrance of the pedestrian street. Once inside, the roads extending in all directions immediately dispersed the crowd.

According to Li Pengjiao's instructions, Ling Xiaodong brought a group of people to the place she mentioned earlier.

I saw a bunch of people gathered there again, and they all surrounded a high platform.

There are men and women among them, and the number of women is a bit more. Most of them are holding hands. They look like they are all lovers. There are ordinary one man and one woman, and there are also one man and multiple women.

Due to years of conscription and corvée, polygamy is the norm advocated by the government in Dazhou, where there is a shortage of men, so everyone is accustomed to it.

A plaque was hung on the high platform, with three big characters written on it - Qilingfang.

A young servant stood on the stage, shouting at the top of his voice:

"Let's take a look! Let's take a look! Guess the crossword puzzle and get a golden phoenix hairpin! It's absolutely real gold!"

Chapter 161 Guessing Lantern Riddles

Ling Xiaodong looked up, only to find several long ropes strung back and forth between the cornices of the shops on both sides of the street.

The octagonal lanterns of various colors are connected in series like ripe fruits in autumn. If you look closely, you can see the riddles of the anagrams written on the paper outer layer of the lanterns.

Such as "Looking at the lone star in the south, the eyebrows and the moon rising", "Going and coming in the wind, the geese are slanting in front of the peak".

He glanced at it roughly, and for a moment really wondered about the mystery.

After some observation, Ling Xiaodong somewhat understood what they were doing.

Whenever the lovers below guess the riddle of a lantern, they can ask the boy to take the long pole to hook the lantern and hand it over to the couple.

And every couple who got the lantern would look inwards at the top of the lantern in a hurry, and then stretched out their hands to explore for a while.

A few people can find a long chip made of bamboo from the lantern, with the word "copper" engraved on it.

They happily raised the bamboo chips in their hands to the boy, and they were able to go on stage to exchange for a copper hairpin that was not very valuable, but it was considered well-made.

Although there was nothing in most of the lamps, this did not affect their joy at all. The lovers still walked away sweetly holding hands while holding the octagonal lanterns.

Ling Xiaodong squeezed Ye Yiyun's delicate hands, and turned to look at the simple and elegant mahogany hairpin stuck between her satin-like black hair.

No wonder I always felt that there was something missing in Aunt Yun.

This ordinary wooden hairpin is really not suitable for Aunt Yun who is wearing a golden red skirt at this time, with a graceful and luxurious demeanor.

He tentatively asked, "Shall we try it too?"

Ye Yiyun didn't refuse, but looked preoccupied.

She kept looking down at the ground, her crystal clear eyes flickered slightly under the mask, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

Li Pengjiao took the lead and led Xiao Yan to point to the lantern above her head that no one could guess for a long time.

"Shrimps playing in the water on all sides of the mountain stream should be the word 'thinking'!"

The boy saw Li Pengjiao in the crowd, his eyes lit up suddenly.

He thought to himself: But finally I am looking forward to you.

Generally speaking, even if a shop wants to attract some popularity during festivals and make a name for itself, at most they will give away some worthless things. Who would give real money to give away golden hairpins?

Qilingfang's unexpected move was also due to Li Pengjiao's previous visit.

She paid Qi Lingfang enough gold ingots to put ten hairpins on it, and asked them to perform a play together, saying that it was to bring some surprises to her friend's wife.