When Ouyang Xiangxiang grew up, she hadn't played hide and seek for a long time, so she looked excited and eager to try.

Qingzhu smiled bitterly, gave Ouyang Xiangxiang an encouraging smile, and then nodded.

"Come on, come on, hide and seek, I'll come first, declare in advance, don't hide in your own house!!" Ouyang Xiangxiang laughed, dancing and chasing those children.

Ouyang Xiangxiang and Zhao Xiaolei ran away, while Qingzhu shook his head with a smile.

At this time, two acquaintances came to Qingzhu's face, or one was an acquaintance, and the other was a familiar ghost, they were Uncle Xu, who used to open a commissary at the entrance of the village, and his wife, Mr. Lin Rui.

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, two laymen are good ?!!," Qingzhu said with a smile.

"Dao Chief, our husband and wife are very good now, thank you for everything you have done for us......" Lin Rui bowed to Qingzhu very respectfully, her face full of gratitude.

Uncle Xu did the same, bowed deeply to Qingzhu, and didn't know what to say, perhaps, words couldn't express his gratitude anymore.

Qingzhu didn't refuse, smiled a little, and then said to Lin Rui: "Today is your festival, have a good time, Xu Jushi, burn more incense and candles, it will also be good for her......"

Uncle Xu nodded in thanks and left with his wife.

At this time, Qingzhu came to the side of the stream at the entrance of the village with a folded paper boat and candles, and said lightly: "Immeasurable Tianzun, the Midyear Festival has begun, let Poor Dao do a ritual!!

Coming to the small bridge by the stream, Qingzhu quietly took out the Dharma suit from the gem space, lit two candles, and some incense candles.

In the past, when the old Taoist was here, this was a routine Zhongyuan ritual every year, and it was a custom in the village since ancient times.

In the past, it was presided over by the old Taoist, but now that the old Taoist is gone, the task of the Zhongyuan Festival will naturally fall on Qingzhu.

After setting up the simple dojo, the sky gradually darkened, and the lights of thousands of homes were lit up.

After nightfall, the crowd, especially the children, are full of excitement, and it is even more exciting for them to be able to play wildly outside with their friends at night.

More and more villagers came to the side of the stream, put out some tributes, picked up the small paper boat prepared by Qingzhu, put a small candle, lit the candle, and put the boat into the river, which is the river lantern.

People are doing this and talking about it at the same time.

"Today is the host of the little Taoist priest of Qingzhu, you say, is it reliable???!!!"

"Yes, yes, I feel that the old Taoist is still more powerful back then......"

In the face of the nagging of the villagers, Qingzhu turned a deaf ear, just looked at the river, and took out his mobile phone to look at the hour.

"Well, it's a little bit ......," Qingzhu muttered.

In fact, Qingzhu does not wait for a specific hour, but for the villagers who have not yet come.

This is a festival for the whole village, only once a year, and in general, most people will be there.

At this time, Old Man Yu, who had suffered a fire in his house before, walked towards Qingzhu with a big bag in his hand.

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, Yu layman, your body is restored

How's it going?!!" Qingzhu asked.

"Qingzhu, I haven't had time to thank you yet," Old Man Yu nodded gratefully and said, "If it weren't for you, I'm afraid our family would not have been spared, my body is nothing, mainly my daughter-in-law is a little seriously injured, but now it's much better, I really want to thank you!!"

Old man Yu took out a cardboard box from the bag, and said a little embarrassed: "This is some sesame candy made by me, Qingzhu, if you don't dislike it, take it......"

"Sesame candy ......" Qingzhu looked at the sesame candy in the box with some surprise, when he was a child, he loved to eat this kind of small snack the most.

"Don't dislike it, don't dislike it, I like to eat it the most, when I was a child, I looked forward to eating sesame candy once a year, thank you Yu Jushi......"

Qingzhu smiled and took the sesame candy, weighed it with his hand, it was estimated that it weighed five or six catties, and this big bag of sesame candy was estimated to be able to eat for several days.

Sesame candy is fried with black sesame seeds or white sesame seeds, put into syrup, stirred evenly, cooled and cut into small pieces, it tastes fragrant and crispy, and it is not easy to spoil when the weather is cold, and it is a traditional snack in the mountain village.

Seeing Qingzhu take the sesame candy, the old man Yu was flattered and said: "No thanks, these cheap things are just a little bit of my care, worthless, Qingzhu, if you like to eat, I will often make some for you and send them to the mountain......"

Sometimes, money can't measure everything, and in Qingzhu's opinion, these sesame candies are more precious than a bag of money, because this is a piece of the old man's heart.

As he spoke, Qingzhu took out a piece of sesame candy from the bag and put it in his mouth, chewing it.

The sesame candy made by the old man is a must, the more you chew, the more fragrant it becomes, and it is even more slippery and sweet when you put it in your mouth.

It's a strange and familiar taste, and it's exactly the same as when I ate it in my childhood.

Looking at the satisfied smile on Qingzhu's face, Old Man Yu was also very happy, he knew that what Qingzhu said just now was not just polite, but really liked to eat the sesame candy he made.

"Qingzhu, I won't bother you to do things, after a while, when my daughter-in-law is well, our family will go to the mountain to burn incense and make a wish......," said the old man Yu.

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, welcome !! at any time" Qingzhu smiled slightly.

Old man Yu walked to the stream, found a place, and set up worship supplies, which were for his wife.

Qingzhu was eating sesame candy while looking at Ouyang Xiangxiang who was playing hide and seek with the children, and laughed unconsciously.

Qingzhu, who was watching from the sidelines, found that although Ouyang Xiangxiang was the oldest among those children, she was by no means the smartest one, she would always hide in some particularly obvious places, these children could always catch her at the first time, and then the places where the children hid were very tricky, and the depressed eldest lady of the Ouyang family always lost.

Seeing that the villagers had all gathered, Qingzhu loudly announced that the time had come, and the whole village had already walked to their own positions and stood up, and even Ouyang Xiangxiang, who was dizzy, was pulled by the bear children to the edge of the stream.

"Big sister, we will put the river lanterns together in a while, that scene is guaranteed to surprise you!!" The children shouted happily.

Seeing that the whole village was already in place, Qingzhu put down the sesame candy in his hand and straightened his body

's robe, picked up the dust, took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and recited the wonderful scripture of crossing people in his mouth.

The villagers listened to Qingzhu's beautiful chanting sound, and unconsciously closed their eyes and immersed themselves in it......

As soon as Qingzhu's words fell, everyone subconsciously opened their eyes, and then lit the small candle on the paper boat and put it into the stream.

Thousands of lights, a little starlight, and river lamps flow down the stream, conveying the villagers' thoughts of their ancestors.

Each river lantern is very small, but when they are gathered, the scene is so spectacular, even people like Ouyang Xiangxiang who have seen the big scene are stunned.

"Really...... It's so beautiful!!" Ouyang Xiangxiang couldn't help but say it.

Standing next to Ouyang Xiangxiang, an old lady with a cane looked at the small paper boat she released, and said with a faint smile: "It is rumored that on this day, this small paper boat can guide the way home for the dead relatives, and I don't know if my wife can see it, sixty years ago, I first came to this creek to see the river lanterns, and that was our first meeting......"

"Perhaps...... Should...... Can you see it......" Ouyang Xiangxiang smiled at the old lady, not knowing how to answer.

Just when Ouyang Xiangxiang thought so, Qingzhu also took out the small paper boat he had prepared for the old master and Taoist, lit the incense candle, and put the paper boat into the water, and the paper boat turned into a river lantern and went away with the stream......

An hour later, the Zhongyuan memorial event was over, Qingzhu said hello to the villagers, and then returned to the Taoist temple alone, Ouyang Xiangxiang seemed to be addicted to playing, and continued to play hide and seek with those children.

After returning to the Qingsong Temple, Qingzhu stood on a high place and looked down, but saw a little starlight in the stream, which was as beautiful as the Milky Way.

"Zhongyuan Zhi, the ghost door is opened, make a dojo for the underworld, ignite the lonely soul to return home, today the host opened the altar, accumulated a lot of merits, I hope the host will continue to work hard!!" After the system encouraged a sentence, it was silent.

Qingzhu sorted out the ritual set he had used just now, put it in the gem space and kept it, and then took out the sesame candy made by the old man Yu himself, and gave it to the black bear, the hen, the big radish ginseng, the golden silkworm Gu, by the way, and the little squirrel.

A few friends ate happily, and when everyone finished eating the sugar, Ouyang Xiangxiang also returned to the Taoist temple, with a happy smile on her face, and she looked unsatisfied.

"Hehe, it seems that Miss Ouyang and those children have a lot of fun playing hide and seek???" Qingzhu said with a strange smile.

Ouyang Xiangxiang nodded heavily, and said with a happy smile: "At first, I just played hide and seek, I didn't think it was fun, because I always lost, and then I started to play eagle catching chickens, although I was always an eagle, but I was still very happy......"

"What?!Eagle!Where is the eagle ?!!???!!!" The hen on the side raised her head nervously, and looked around vigilantly.

"Well, there's no eagle, it's just a game, don't be so nervous!!" Qingzhu said to the hen a little helplessly.

"Giggle, don't make a fuss, sleep......" The hen flapped her wings and began to shrink into a ball again.

Ouyang Xiangxiang didn't think it was strange that Qingzhu liked to talk to animals, she had lived in the mountains for so long and had long turned a blind eye.