Chapter 7 7

You said your birthday is today, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival. "My mother suddenly wanted to give birth to me while watching the lanterns." You said. "Is your mother irritated by the ugly lantern?" I asked. "That's not true." You curled your lips, "My mother said that the lanterns were so beautiful that year, so I couldn't wait to stick my head out to see them." You laughed, your eyes sparkled like lanterns. It turns out that the lanterns in the year you were born were very beautiful, so your eyes are very beautiful.

"Do you want to see the lanterns?" "I think so. But where should I go?" "There are lantern festivals in both Taipei and Kaohsiung." "Forget it. I heard that the lantern festival is very crowded." You sigh and close your eyes. That's good too, because the lanterns in Taipei and Kaohsiung are only bright when you close your eyes. The lanterns are shining in the distance, and there are thousands of heads in the lantern festival. Let the lanterns continue to shine, and let people flood into the lantern festival. They will never know... Your eyes are the most beautiful lanterns in Taiwan.

"now you." "Ok?" "Introduce yourself." "Hello." I collected myself and tried to keep my voice steady, "My name is Cai Xuping." "anything else?" "What else?" "If I am beauty No. 6, then you should say that you are the handsome guy who catches beauty No. 6's hydrangea." "I have a sense of shame, and I dare not say that I am a handsome guy." She simply smiled and didn't say any polite words, she should agree with my sense of shame. "I said that I am the No. 6 beauty, do I have no sense of shame?"

"It's not the same at all." I shook my hand violently, "You are indeed a beautiful woman, and you have been verified by voting. It is an objective fact, and even you cannot deny it." "You really think so?" "certainly." "Then why didn't you vote for me?" "Ah?" I was shocked, "How do you know?" "I occasionally have inexplicable premonitions, which are usually accurate." "Really?" "Well," she said, "I can't summon this ability, but it will appear inexplicably."

"Appeared out of nowhere?" "Inexplicable and inexplicably are twin brothers. When they are together, you can say that inexplicably appeared." She said, "This is inexplicably appearing." "This……" "My words are inexplicable, aren't they?" I hesitated, but decided to nod. "It's really windy today." She turned her head to look at the trees shaking desperately on the street. "Yeah." I also turned my head to look at the splashes of water on the street, "It's also raining heavily." "Hmm." She simply responded.

"Oh." I replied too. "Did we come here to discuss the wind and rain through all kinds of hardships?" She smiled. "Excuse me." I pushed and held the door with my left hand, and then dodged out of the way, "Please." She said thank you, put the umbrella in the umbrella bucket at the door, and walked into the store. I followed and walked in, withdrew my left hand, and shut the door out of the wind and rain. The store is full of thick goose yellow light. Compared with the dimness outside, this place is another world. She also held the same coupon as mine, and we gave the coupon to the waitress at the same time.

"Welcome." The waitress showed a very mysterious smile, "I thought you wouldn't come." She led us to the table by the window in the innermost corner. The lavender tablecloth was embroidered with white florals, and there was a dark green vase with a pink rose on it. "Wow, this flower is real." I sat down and touched the rose petals with my hands. She laughed out of nowhere, and I felt that I might have done something stupid or said something stupid, and my ears felt hot. The waitress put on the table what looked like a small spherical fish tank, the surface of which was colored glass.

The colorful jar is half full of water, and a few red petals are floating on the surface of the water. A small blue candle with a transparent plastic casing floats on the water and sails slowly in the tank. The faint yellow light of the fire pierced through the stained glass and fell on her face. I looked at the light and shadow on her face like rippling water, and suddenly felt incredible: How could I not vote for her? "Sorry," I said, "I didn't vote for you, please don't mind." "I don't mind," she said, "just disappointed." "I'm really sorry. I'm blind."

"Just kidding, please don't take this kind of thing to heart." She smiled, "At the beginning, the president of the department asked me to participate in the election, but I couldn't refuse, so I had to pick a random photo to participate in the election, but I didn't expect to be selected." "This kind of talk is not suitable for you." "Yeah?" She was surprised, "Why?" "People will think that you must think you are beautiful, and it is impossible not to be selected as one of the top ten beauties, so you will randomly pick a photo to participate in the election."

"I don't think so." "But most people think that beautiful women are proud, so they will measure your words and deeds on the premise that you must be proud." "What if I've always been humble and low-key?" "Under the premise that beautiful women must be proud, modesty and low-key will be interpreted as affectation." "Your thoughts?" "Are you proud?" "No," she said, "I'm just a little girl lost in the world." "Then you just took a photo and dealt with it just because you couldn't refuse the president of the department."

"That's it." She smiled. The waitress puts two orange aperitifs on the table, smiles and walks away. "I never imagined that as a beauty, I would be in such a miserable situation." She lowered her head and sniffed the pre-dinner wine, "What should I do? My life is still very long, do I have to endure such misunderstandings all the time?" "Are you kidding me?" "Yes." She smiled, "Can beauties make jokes?" "Okay." I also smiled. "So what should we drink to?" She raised her glass. "World peace." I raised my glass too. "That's what Miss World contestants usually say." "Then world peace." We clinked glasses with each other, and after a clang, we all laughed.