Chapter 53: The Festival of Beggars

Time seems to freeze at this moment, all the senses are gathered on the warm touch of the lips, and there seems to be fireworks blooming in the brain, gorgeous and short-lived.

Couldn't help it, Xia Tan stretched out the tip of his tongue and licked it lightly, his body stiffened like an electric shock, and he noticed the unusual changes in his body for the first time when he was a teenager.

This action made Chilian stunned, and immediately left his lips.

Xia Tan was lost, holding the jade hairpin tightly in his hand, trying to calm down the restlessness of his body, and held his breath and went directly out of the spring.

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On the way back from the East Styx Mountain, Qianmo felt that there was a strange atmosphere spreading between Chi Lian and Xia Tan. He couldn't say exactly what the strange was, but he obviously felt that Xia Tan kept his distance from Chi Lian.

But his coldness is also a good thing for himself.

From the barren land to meet the coachman Wu Xing, and back to the jade capital, I saw that the streets were full of vendors selling lotus lanterns and red ropes.

"What day is it? How can there be so many people on the street on such a high summer day?" said Chilian, looking around, stopping a passing woman and inquiring.

"Today is the Begging Festival, don't you know, girl?"

"Do you know what is interesting about the begging festival?" or local folklore?"

"Of course there is," said the woman, "listening to the girl's accent, it should be a foreigner, right? In our annual begging festival in Yudu, there is a temple fair in the south of the city during the day, where praying for marriage is very effective, and it is there that I met my father-in-law in my family." At the end of the day, there will be a fireworks feast in the Yudu City Tower, the girl came here today, seeing that there should be two hours before the sunset, the little lady will go home first to clean up, and after a while, she will go to the river lantern, and the river lantern can just come to enjoy the fireworks. ”

"Well, then don't bother, thank you, ma'am!"

Madame nodded slightly in return and walked away.

Hearing this woman's words, Qianmo's heart was very itchy.

Temple fairs, marriages, the young man looked at Chilian with worried eyes, but it was a pity, what he liked was wood.

How could the wood see his heart?

"Otherwise, let's go and have fun after we get the customs clearance documents and get the yamen visa. ”

"Okay!" This time, Qianmo finally intercepted Xia Tan's head and replied, tilting his chin proudly and looking at him with slanted eyes.

Xia Tan gave him a wicked smile in return, obviously having an idea in his heart.

Qianmo saw the insidiousness of his 6 smiles, and suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart. But when I think of asking for marriage in the temple fair, it is very effective. The excitement in my heart squeezed out that premonition.

"Then let's go to the yamen first and sign the customs clearance documents. ”

"Chilian, why don't you go to the yamen first, I still have something to go out here. Qianmo thought that it would take some time for them to go to the yamen, if they went to the temple fair together to ask for marriage, he was a little shy in front of Chilian, and he went to the temple fair first, and when they were done here, they should come back, what a perfect idea.

"Well, there are a lot of people today, so be careful yourself. ”

"Good!"

"Then let's go!" Chilian turned to Xia Tan and said.

"Okay, Wu Xing, you go find an inn first, you don't have to follow us. ”

"Yes, Childe!"

"Alas?......" Qianmo didn't expect Xia Tan to send Wu Xing out, he thought it was the three of them together, but if Wu Xing didn't follow, the two of them wouldn't have a two-person world.

"What's wrong? Chilian thinks this little fox is getting more and more strange as she grows up?

"I didn't ...... It's nothing. "What if it's a two-person world? When she asks for marriage, Chilian will be her own sooner or later.

Alas, Qianmo, the little fox, is really simple and distressing, compared to him, Xia Tan is more like a fox.

The two men have different minds, but they are the same. Go in two directions.

When Qianmo really arrived at the temple fair, he was stunned when he came to the marriage tree that he prayed for.

At the annual temple fair, there are many people, the younger ones come to pray for marriage, and the older ones who have already started a family come to pray for a happy family.

And when Qianmo arrived at the gate of the temple fair, he thought that after waiting in line for some time and receiving red silk with Chilian's name written on it, it would be over, how smooth it all was.

But he didn't expect that there were crows and crows here, all of them were people, and they couldn't squeeze in, and most of the people who came here were women, so he didn't know where to start.

"I'd better come back later! there are too many of them,"

Qianmo muttered to himself, turned around and was about to leave, just walked to the door, the temple fair steward standing next to the door looked at the red silk that had not been tied in his hand, and said in a light tone: "If the prayer is not fulfilled and the marriage is invalid." ”

His fluttering words successfully made Qianmo just step out of the threshold and take it back stiffly.

"Haha, what, this one is pretty good. ”

The steward looked at the embarrassed expression on his face, and then at the heavily painted door, and remained silent.

Qianmo turned back to his senses in embarrassment and gritted his teeth, and a wicked smile that Xia Tan had just thrown at him flashed in his mind, it turned out that he had already known that today's temple fair was such a scene, so he didn't stop him if he wanted to come, damn it!

But regret is useless, and the path you choose will be finished crying.

On Xia Tan's side, everyone went to attend the temple fair, and there were only a few people on duty in the yamen, and they went for a while and brought back the customs clearance documents.

Leaving Beijing needs to cover customs clearance documents, but there is no need in other cities, after all, it is the capital of the Ming Kingdom, and the management is still relatively strict.

"Master, I see that it is still early, and there is still a while before it gets dark, so why don't we go buy a lantern while the sky is still bright, and we will go to the lake to put it after dinner." Out of the yamen, standing on the street, Xia Tan proposed.

"Don't you go to the temple fair to have fun? There must be many young couples in the marriage area, and we will also go to join in the fun. ”

"There are a lot of young couples, but Master, if you think about it, there must be a lot of people who go to the temple fair on the Qiqiao Festival today, and it may not be necessary if we can't squeeze in at that time. There are so many people, will there be any disciples who take advantage of the girls? For the sake of Master's safety, I think we should not go. ”

Chilian thought for a while and nodded, feeling that what he said was very reasonable

"Otherwise, let's wait for Qianmo to come back and then go together, I don't know where he went, we abandoned him like this, it's really immoral. ”

"Master, don't worry, I want to come to the dragon and phoenix among the people of Qianmo Gongzi, and on this festive season, I am in such a hurry to leave, at this moment, it is estimated that there must be a beautiful woman by my side, so we should not disturb it." ”

If Qianmo knew that Xia Tan would throw him out like this, he wouldn't know how many accounts Xia Tan would remember.

Chilian really believed Xia Tan's words, and Qianmo, who was struggling with a group of women just to put their names on them, felt a chill on her back, and always felt that someone was calculating herself.