Chapter 77: Lantern Festival
Translator: TeamTWO
Editor: Levs
After settling the Armory Division, Ouyang Shuo went back into the study room and got offline as planned.
In reality, it was already the 15th day of the new year and the new years'’ holiday was about to co to an end. The working class had already started to work on the 8th. Starting tomorrow, schools will also start. During the holidays, Bing'er would sleep in and eat a lot, causing her face to beco fat, extrely adorable.
Yesterday, Sun Xiaoyue had called and said that she was returning to Jiaozhou today and spend the lantern festival together with them. Ouyang Shuo went to the market to buy several ingredients to cook a huge al for dinner.
At 3pm in the afternoon, Sun Xiaoyue had reached ho on ti and brought with her many of her hotown specialties. After not seeing her for a very long ti, naturally it started with a greeting. Bing'er, that little brat, was overly reliant on Sun Xiaoyue, giving her the gift that she bought at the temple fair, followed by introducing Xue'er.
When Sun Xiaoyue saw Xue'er, she was shocked. She recognised the smart pet and knew that it costs a lot. She turned around and looked at Ouyang Shuo. She didn’t expect this brother to be so good to his sister, buying such an expensive gift all of a sudden.
She realised that she couldn’t see through Ouyang Shuo. He spent the whole day playing gas and not working, and seed to be covered by a mysterious veil, causing people to be unable to see through him.
This ti when she went ho, her grandfather, who was a professor at the Chinese academy of sciences, ntioned Earth Online to her. When she told him that she knew about the ga, her grandfather actually recomnded she play the ga. She had already booked a ga cabin online and it would be shipped here tomorrow.
"Sister, why aren’t you listening to Bing'er?" Bing'er pouted and said sadly.
Sun Xiaoyue was stunned, she had zoned out and hadn’t replied to Bing'er. She said, "Ah, haha, sister thinks Xue'er is too cute, I was shocked beyond words."
"Yes, Bing'er thinks so too, she’s as cute as Bing'er."
"Sister…" The little brat jumped into Sun Xiaoyue's arms and moved around.
Ouyang Shuo, seeing both of them playing around in the living room, suddenly thought about Song Jia. Since that day, he had kept in contact with Song Jia, calling her once or twice. As for her feelings, Ouyang Shuo couldn’t say for certain. Classmates, friends, or sothing more?
After dinner, Sun Xiaoyue smiled and said, "Aiyo, tomorrow I will also start playing Earth Online, is there anything you want to advise ?"
Ouyang Shuo was surprised, "Why so sudden? Weren’t you so determined not to play?"
"Heh, who knows, all of you are so mysterious. My grandfather recomnded it."
"Your grandfather?"
"Yeah, he is the boat design specialist of the alliance, I don’t know where he got the news. He didn’t want to explain, just asked directly to play it. He also gave the money to pay for the ga cabin."
Ouyang Shuo nodded his head; it seed like the truth behind the ga had been revealed to so of the middle class. Fairly soon, the ga would welco a new batch of players. "Last ti, I told you that the ga has a lord mode and an adventure mode, which will you pick?"
Sun Xiaoyue didn’t even think about it and said," Of course adventure mode, I can’t handle the lord mode."
"If it’s the adventure mode, it is broken up into combat occupations and work occupations, do you need to introduce them to you?" As for her choice, Ouyang Shuo did not want to interfere with it.
"No need, I already went online and checked. I don’t like all the fighting and killing so I’ve decided to choose a work occupation. However, there are so many choices, I do not know which to pick."
Ouyang Shuo was shaken, but he did not show it and said calmly, "If it’s a work occupation, I think that an architect fits you and it mixes well with what you are studying now. The ga is very real and in the latter part of the ga, architects will have a large opportunity to show off their skills."
"Ya, why didn’t I think of that? Okay, I will listen to you and choose architect. Tell your ID, I will contact you when I enter the ga."
Ouyang Shuo's face changed as he did not expect her to ask this. "Cough, I don’t know how to explain this to you. Anyway, I can’t tell you my ID. If you trust then choose your starting point to be in Dali. Anyways one of us is a lord player and the other is an adventure player, so we won’t et much. When the ti cos, I will explain to you.”
It wasn’t that Ouyang Shuo didn’t trust her, but his identity was too special and he had to be careful. If she leaked it, it would get not just him, but also Bing'er into a lot of trouble.
Sun Xiaoyue pouted her lips and said unhappily," Don’t tell, then don’t tell… Why so mysterious."
Ouyang Shuo had nothing to reply and the atmosphere got a little stretched.
"Oh ya, you don’t need to worry about Bing'er. I’m not a ga maniac like you and won’t log in so early everyday." Sun Xiaoyue said before returning to her room.
Ouyang Shuo nodded and turned back to his room to log into the ga.
In the afternoon, many types of lanterns had already been hung on the streets and alleys in Shanhai town. So business-minded shopowners had started promotions, and whoever could answer the riddles could get a prize.
After dinner, Qing'er wanted to drag Ouyang Shuo to look at lanterns and guess riddles.
Ouyang Shuo knew that he didn’t have the ability to guess riddles. To not make a fool of himself, he decided to drag along Fan Zhongyan, Tian Wenjing, Yu Shu Da, Suzhe, and Zhou Haichen.
All the good riddles were gathered around the comrce street. Those easy lantern riddles, like “half an autumn and spring, Guess a word,” the answer was obviously Qin. “Half farming, half studying, choose a word.” Taking half of each word, the answer was obviously talk. Ouyang Shuo could definitely solve one or two.
Those of higher difficulty, Ouyang Shuo couldn’t solve. “The wind cos and goes, the hill in front of the peak is slanted, choose two words”, cancel the word inside the Chinese word of wind, adding “you” into it and it will beco “Feng”; in front of the peak is a mountain and it represents the word “Ren”, slanting it would beco a prefix for the word “Xian”. Hence the answer was “Feng Xian”.
"Big brother, what is the answer to this riddle?" Qing'er pointed to a riddle and asked.
Ouyang Shuo raised his head to see: Moving the mountain, planting the seeds, guess a flower na. He smacked her head and said," It’s so easy and you can’t guess it. The answer is pogranate."
Qing'er touched her head and said sadly," People just can’t guess it!" She pointed to another and asked," What about this?"
The one she pointed to was more difficult and Ouyang Shuo couldn’t guess it. He passed it on to Mr. Su Zhe who easily solved it.
When they walked past the grocery store, a lantern riddle attracted a large number of people who were discussing it but no one managed to guess it. This ti, even Fan Zhongyan, Tian Wenjing and the others joined in the fun.
Seeing Ouyang Shuo and the group of people, everyone made way.
When Ouyang Shuo looked at the lantern, he couldn’t understand it with his standard knowledge of literature. Unsurprisingly, Fan Zhongyan and Yu Shu Da looked at each other and laughed, obviously guessing the answer.
"Why don’t you two write the answers and see if it’s the sa," Ouyang Shuo said to make it more interesting.
The two of them nodded and took so scrap paper and pens and wrote down their answers, only to see they both wrote the sa answer.
Following which Yu Shu Da took the initiative to explain the riddle to everyone, causing everyone to cheer out. The prize from the grocery stall was an exquisite shadow lamp.
The two n obviously wouldn’t carry a flower lamp and walk on the streets so it landed in the hands of Qing'er. Walking past the dojo, Tian Wenjing also managed to guess one riddle.
The hardest riddle of the night was prepared by Yu Shu Da and he hung it in the square in front of the lord's manor. In the end, it was solved by Fan Zhongyan, laughing as he did so. After admiring all the lanterns and guessing all the riddles, it was already 8pm in the night and Ouyang Shuo quickly got offline.
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