The fiery red lotus gradually dispersed.

The dance stopped, the maiden jumped off the shoulders of the person who held her, and a group of dancers chatted with each other.

With her eyes wide open, Saya examines the costumes of the people on the altar to make sure that there are no burns on it—but the flames that have flooded the altar before are also real.

Yang Yu seemed to see Xiao Ye's doubts, and explained with a smile, "The one just now is our clan's special ability—you've probably heard of it too?"

"I've seen things like 'the power to manipulate fire'......"

After experiencing the previous "Motorcycle Paladin" incident, Saya thought that this was also an exaggeration, referring to the fact that most of the Fire Folk had subdued the Fire Pokémon.

"That's right. The red-haired boy curled his eyes and laughed, "We have the ability of 'fire manipulation', although we can't create flames out of thin air like Pokémon, but we can manipulate the existing flames - of course, this is also a very rare ability in our clan, and people like me can't do it at all." ”

As he spoke, Yang Yu pointed to the girl who was clustered in the center of the altar, "The person who manipulated the surrounding torches during the dance is Sister Harina. She's very capable, and everyone says she might be the next patriarch—"

In the middle of speaking, the two of them felt someone pounce on them from behind, and they almost hit their heads on the altar in unison.

Yongzhen, who also came to the central square at some point, put his arm on the shoulders of the two of them and said with a smile, "What, are you talking about fire control? ”

"Really?"

"Of course, I'll see that. ”

The brown-haired boy took two deep breaths, slowly raised his hands in front of his chest, and then opened his eyes sharply and let out a loud shout.

About twenty seconds later—or more—a small spark swayed out of the nearby torch, and before it could quite land in the palm of the boy's hand, it was blown out by a gust of wind.

"How?" said Yong Zhen proudly clasped his hands on his hips.

Sayo: "......"

Yang Yu: "......"

"It's on par with the master's superpowers. Pichu, who was still lying in Yang Yu's arms, said coolly, and Ling Xiaoye remembered the poor spoon that was only bent by 10% despite all his efforts.

The dancers finished the rehearsal and walked off the altar with laughter and laughter. Perhaps it was because the noisy Yong Zhen was too eye-catching, and a group of people immediately noticed the unfamiliar faces in the audience.

The people of the flames were always overwhelmed with enthusiasm for tourists, and the two groups of people instantly merged and chatted lively. After introducing themselves to each other, Saya was about to bow to Hauna, the girl who was standing in the C position in the dance just now, but was about to bend down when the girl stopped her.

"Oh, we don't have this here. As soon as the girl stretched out her hand to "straighten" Xiao Ye, she shook her head and laughed, and the white flowers between her sideburns also shook their petals, "Even if I'm an older person, I don't need honorifics." ”

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Ye was stunned.

She re-observed the height and face of the girl in front of her—"I thought we were about ...... age?"

The girl named Haruna seemed to be pleased, and her eyes bent with a grin.

"Sister Harina is not the age of a rookie trainer who has just set off. Yong Zhen interjected with a big grin, and there was a puzzle in his words that he didn't know why Xiao Ye was stunned, "She's twenty years old this year—can't you see it?"

Sayo: "......"

Probably because the outsiders' expressions were too skeptical, the dancers around them laughed in unison.

Xiao Ye was full of laughter, and wanted to take a few steps back to calm down, but accidentally stepped on the foot of the person next to him.

"I'm sorry, sir. She quickly apologized. The tall man who was stepped on - it was the dancer who was in charge of lifting Haruna before - but his face flushed with a strange flush, and after being stunned for a while, he laughed "hehe", and ran away with a heart in his hand.

Xiaoye: "......??"

Yongzhen suddenly hahahahaha, and I don't know if it was because of the strange reaction of the person who ran away or Xiaoye's overly confused expression, "That kid from Kazuki is absolutely happy, he just passed his tenth birthday a few days ago, and you are still the first person to treat him as an adult." ”

Saya: "............"

What's the matter with the height of your people??

I don't know what came to mind, Xiao Ye suddenly gasped and began to look at the two teenagers in front of him with a serious gaze staring at the graduation exam papers.

Yongzhen and Yang Yu stared at each other. Yang Yu tilted his head blankly, and the two dull hairs on the top of his head like tender seedlings swayed again.

"What's wrong?"

"Excuse me...... Two of you this year?"

"Poof, do you all talk like this in Guandu?" Yong Zhen suddenly broke through, "What is expensive or not, we are both twelve." ”

"Oh, that's great. ”

Sayo breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the two people she knew most well were actually twenty or thirty years old without a baby face, otherwise she really didn't know which set of honorifics to use to be rude.

Yongzhen's eyes rolled, and he seemed to understand what the visitors were struggling with, and sneered.

"I promise you'll be pleasantly surprised to meet our patriarch. ”

The brown-haired boy swore by authenticity.

The afterglow of the setting sun faded in the sky, and sparse stars began to appear in the east.

The lively Flame Folk stopped running around and began to greet each other as they returned home for dinner. Yongzhen said that he had already greeted his parents and warmly invited Xiao Ye to come to his house as a guest - Yang Yu, whose parents were far away, was also among the invitees.

The three of them walked on a slightly quieter gravel path. Yongzhen took this opportunity to tell Yang Yu the reason for inviting Xiao Ye to the Valley of Flames.

"So...... You want to snatch that bracelet back from the wind thief?" Yang Yu asked hesitantly.

"That's right, I can't stand stealing from our own people. Yongzhen was full of ambition, "How about Yang Yu, join us?"

The red-haired boy thought for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Have you discussed this matter with your uncle and aunt?"

Yongzhen: "...... Yang Yu, don't open which pot you don't mention. ”

Yang Yu: "It seems that there is?"

Yongzhen: "Ah, the weather is so nice today—"

Yang Yu seemed to want to laugh, but he still indulged Yongzhen to change the topic bluntly.

They are not on the same path as they came. Xiao Ye saw that there seemed to be people in overalls busy by the river, and the strong and heroic forces carried the logs one by one, and built new houses with great efficiency.

It was only then that Saya realized that the clan had indeed been severely affected by the earthquake not long ago.

"Thanks, uncles—" Yongzhen waved his hand at the dusty construction workers as he passed through the construction area, "Aren't you going to call it a day when it's dark?"

"No, I'm going to finish my job and go get some food. The construction worker's tone was as familiar as that of the brown-haired boy, and he didn't know if he was really acquainted with it or if he was infected with the self-cooked syndrome by the residents of Blaze Valley.

When Yong Zhen heard this, he actively recommended a few families who were planning to have a banquet today, and before leaving, he did not forget to add, "This time we want to build our house more beautifully!"

"No problem, it is guaranteed to be strong and good-looking, and there will be no cracks in the magnitude 9 earthquake. The middle-aged man gave a thumbs up, "This is the order of Master Bingjian, I will definitely do the best for you!"

Xiao Ye showed a thoughtful look. After the three of them walked out of the construction area, she turned her head sideways and asked, "Does 'Master Bingmi' refer to the 'Western Bingmi'?"

"That's right. Yongzhen replied, "Don't look at the distance between our two races, in fact, we have been friends for a long, long time - I guess it's been hundreds of years! I remember you had a particularly good friend of the Bingjian family, right?

Yang Yu was stunned for some reason, and then nodded.

"This time the earthquake has caused them to provide financial assistance, otherwise we would have to sleep in the open for a while. Yong Zhen teased.

"That's right. Xiao Ye secretly ticked the end of the guess in his heart, "But I haven't seen anyone like the Bingmi family today." It's going to be a fire festival soon, right? Will they be invited?"

Yujin only thought that Saya was curious about the second of the so-called "three nobles" of the Himi family, and replied bluntly, "In the past, they would have been invited to the fire worship festival, but I heard that no one will be invited this year, and no tourists will be entertained - I just returned to the clan today, and I didn't know what was going on." ”

Seeing his friend's gaze, Yang Yu hesitated for a moment, but still explained, "This year's Fire Worship Festival is quite special, and the patriarch has instructed us not to reveal the time. Unlike previous years, the day of the festival may be ...... Something dangerous happens. He said the specific situation, and his eyes were already full of worry when he looked at Xiao Ye, "Xiao Ye, it's better for you to leave before the Fire Worship Festival." ”

Yongzhen, who didn't know anything about it, still invited tourists as usual, and looked at the invited tourist Xiaoya, and both showed a blank expression.

Seeing that there seemed to be something inside the situation, Xiao Ye didn't continue to ask the reason. It was Yongzhen, who was surging with curiosity, who grinded Yang Yu all the way, and finally couldn't ask anything, so he had to push open the door unhappily.

"I'm back......"

"Welcome to the Valley of Fire!"

The enthusiastic voice greets you, accompanied by the aroma of the meal. A couple who seemed to have been waiting for a long time happily took the hands of the tourists and welcomed their three children into the house.

Yongzhen's parents look round and chubby, from physique to face, they are full of husband and wife, if it weren't for the fact that the wife is a brown-haired foreigner, they look more like a brother and sister. They were as friendly and hospitable as the other Flame People, and their attitude was less like they were entertaining guests, but rather like they had another "dyed son" in their own house.

Most of the furniture in the newly built houses is brand new, but there is no lack of life in the rooms due to the clutter of objects. There were two tiny turkey chickens running around on the ground, chasing each other, and one accidentally hit the sightseer's leg and turned his mosquito coil eyes in a daze.

The chubby woman covered her mouth and smiled, and without saying anything, she picked up the stunned orange hair ball and stuffed it to Xiao Ye, signaling the girl to touch it until she had a good time.

"Oh, this year the patriarch said that he would not invite people to come for sightseeing, and my husband and I still feel a little lonely. The woman smiled and rubbed her short unkempt hair, "Don't worry, it's all here, we promise to take you to have a good time!"

A certain four-character famous sentence spoken by the aborigines of this world made Xiao Ye laugh, and the originally unfamiliar distance was invisibly pulled in a lot.

Yongzhen shouted noisily that he was hungry, so the group stopped being polite and crowded into the restaurant.

In the wood-toned room, Saya sees a hollow hole dug into the wall on one side. The shrunken wood carving of the Flame Bird is placed in a dignified position, and behind it is a wooden plaque that looks a little old, on which is carved characters that Saya can't read. The walls of the cave have been carefully decorated with delicate wood objects and painted with bright lacquer, making them look like small shrines.

Walking to the table, the laughter suddenly stopped. Xiao Ye was stunned for a moment, and when he saw that the people around him all restrained their smiles, their expressions became serious and solemn.

In the next moment, four people bowed deeply at the same time towards the wood carving of the flame bird.

Like poetry, they speak in a deep voice a language that was once spoken in distant antiquity.

[Thank you, God, your blessing shines like the sun on the earth.] 】

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Small Theatre:

Visitors who have just finished a trip to the Valley of Flames: it is a great place with a long culture, beautiful scenery, simple folk customs, delicious food - it is too much to test the human eyesight. Who would have thought that the little brother I had called for several days, and even the boy who wanted to try to confess, was nearly forty years old, and the mature lady who helped me set up a hotel and told me to pay attention to safety was only nine years old...... (Holding the good guy card issued by the "little brother" and leaving two lines of tears)

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PS：

Morning, everyone, are you having a good New Year?

The vigorous (not) New Year's plus is over -

According to the agreement, it is time to release the information related to the small welfare (suitable for the CP Party) mentioned earlier. If you are interested in welfare, please move to the latest chapter of the article of the same name by Jin/Jiang, and the information has been posted in the author's √ part