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Chapter 222 I also think this fish looks a lot like me.
Anling simply stopped looking at the road and started admiring the various lanterns, going with the flow and squeezing wherever she could.
After being jostled around for more than ten minutes, Anling, who was looking around, was suddenly attracted by a small shop selling lanterns on the side of the street.
So she began to move with great difficulty toward the store, and after a lot of effort, she finally succeeded.
Although there were many people in the store, it was nothing compared to the crowd outside. The moment Anling squeezed through the crowd and entered the store, she felt that her breathing became much easier.
This lantern festival was held in an ancient town scenic area. The streets were lined with the houses of the town's residents, and the two rows closest to the street were rented out as shops to various businesses, including this lantern shop.
The lanterns in the store come in various shapes and sizes, including rare designs such as shrimp, crab, and jellyfish. However, they all have one thing in common: they are extremely exquisite. So almost every customer who enters the store will unconsciously exclaim in amazement.
Anling went there specifically for a fish lantern.
This is a koi carp, with rich and bright colors on its body, and fish scale patterns drawn with gold powder. Warm yellow light shines through the semi-transparent material of the fish lamp, covering the entire lamp with a soft halo.
She first looked at the lamp quietly, and then smiled unconsciously.
Because she remembered that Yan Yu's nickname was Xiaoyu (Little Fish), and to be honest, it was An Ling who gave him that nickname.
When she was little and her speech was still unclear, her parents taught her to call Yan Yu "Brother Xiao Yu," but she would always say "Brother Xiao Yu" instead, and no matter how they tried to correct her, she wouldn't change her pronunciation.
Yan Yu was called "Little Fish Brother" by her for a long time. Later, even Yan's parents started calling him "Little Fish" and said that the name was cute and they wondered why they hadn't thought of it sooner. So Yan Yu got this nickname.
The reason why seeing the fish lantern reminded me of this is because Anling also went to a lantern festival with her parents when she was a child.
The lantern festival wasn't this big back then, and there weren't any dedicated shops on the streets. There were only a few mobile vendors setting up small stalls by the roadside or pushing bicycles with their own goods hanging on them.
As Anling was being carried by her father, she saw a vendor selling lanterns.
A large red goldfish lantern hung on the handlebars of his bicycle, swaying prominently as he pushed the bike.
An Ling immediately asked for the fish lantern, but An Shuhai hesitated.
It wasn't that he didn't want to buy it for Anling, it was just that the fish was way too ugly.
Its body is made entirely of thick, bright red plastic. Its belly is bulging, but its tail is unusually short. It has two swollen eyes, one big and one small, and the pupils inside seem to have conspired to look at each other, making it cross-eyed. It looks ridiculous and not very smart.
It's really not easy for a lantern to be so uniquely ugly.
So An Shuhai hesitated, because he really didn't want to see this ugly guy at home every day, and even began to doubt his daughter's aesthetic sense.
He tried to discuss with Anling whether they should buy the little rabbit lamp that looked much prettier.
As a result, Anling said she wanted the goldfish because seeing it reminded her of her little fish brother, and she wanted to buy it for him.
Then An Shuhai and Pei Yuning were delighted and quickly bought it, as if they were afraid someone would snatch it up first if they were a step too late. They would feel regretful if this ugly fish didn't appear in the Yan family.
The expressions of Yan's parents upon seeing the fish were indeed quite interesting. Yan Yu, on the other hand, was pleasantly surprised to receive a gift from An Ling, who was out having fun, and said he really liked it.
When An Ling said that she thought of him as soon as she saw the fish, Yan Yu nodded seriously and said, "I also think this fish looks a lot like me."
This made the expressions on the faces of the strict father and mother even more interesting.
……
"Pfft." Recalling this past event, An Ling couldn't help but laugh out loud again.
The shop owner probably saw Anling staring at a fish lantern for a long time, even grinning foolishly, so he took the initiative to come over and ask if she needed help taking the lantern down to show it, or to let her hold it and take a look.
Anling nodded and told the shopkeeper that she wanted to buy the lamp, making up an excuse for herself in her mind.
I felt bad refusing the shop owner's offer, not because seeing this fish reminded me of Yan Yu.
After paying and picking up the fish lantern, Anling remembered something: it was too crowded outside!
Fortunately, the shop owner noticed Anling's concerns and told her that she could hold the light above her head so that she wouldn't be easily pushed around. He also said that the road would be more open after walking a little further along the street, and it wouldn't be as crowded as it was now.
An Ling nodded, listened to the shop owner's words, raised the fish lantern high above her head, and prepared to squeeze back into the crowd, but as soon as she turned her head, she saw Yan Yu's face.
"Mom!"
An Ling almost threw the fish lantern she was holding at it; she thought she was hallucinating.
What is this? Is it a hallucination caused by thinking about something at night?
An Ling blinked hard, only to find that Yan Yu was still there.
He was smiling as he spoke to her: "Xiaoling, what a coincidence! Happy Lantern Festival!"
Anling: ...
"Why are you here?"
"I had some work to do and just arrived in Beijing yesterday. I brought Xiao Xing out for a stroll while I was at it."
Yan Yu wasn't lying; he did have work-related matters to attend to. However, it wouldn't have been a problem if he hadn't come in person, but he knew that the An family would visit the Pei family every year during the Lantern Festival, so he came in person.
He learned from An Yun that they were going to visit the lantern festival today, so he dragged Yan Xing along.
Because Yan Xing can play a very important role as a tool in such situations.
"Xiao Xing saw online that the lantern festival here was very lively and insisted on coming. I couldn't persuade him otherwise, so I had no choice but to come with him," Yan Yu said, playing the role of a doting brother without batting an eye. "I didn't expect to run into you."
"Where is he?" An Ling asked.
"He's right behind me..." Yan Yu turned around, but there was no sign of his younger brother.
He had just seen An Ling at the entrance and was about to chase after her, but he was too late; An Ling had already squeezed into the crowd.
He had been using all his attention to find An Ling, but he had no idea where Yan Xing had been squeezed out of the room.
Yan Yu: ...
"There were too many people, and we got separated."
An Ling nodded without doubting, since her family had been separated from each other by the crowd anyway.
Just as she was about to walk past Yan Yu and leave the shop, several tourists who had been staring at her ever since An Ling entered finally couldn't help but speak to her.
Their eyes shone with anticipation.
"Hello, are you An Ling? We've been observing you for a long time."
I wasn't entirely sure at first, but your eyes and voice are just so much like An Ling's, and this handsome guy just called you Xiao Ling, right? You must be An Ling herself!