Since the winter solstice, the cold year is approaching, the days are getting longer, and the yang energy between heaven and earth begins to grow stronger, representing the beginning of the next cycle, which is regarded as an auspicious day. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Therefore, every winter solstice, the Changmen Street in the west of the city will hold the annual winter solstice festival, drumming and blowing sheng, ghost face parade street, worship the gods to the sky, is a well-known folk event in the city.

At that time, the streets were crowded with people and the lights were bright. If this were normal times, Cheng Jinzhi would have already plunged into the crowd with high spirits, pleasing to the eye, and never tired of it. But at this moment, looking at the bustling flow of people and the gorgeous and prosperous street scene in front of me, I lost the meaning of having fun in my heart, but felt a little uneasy and apprehensive.

First, she was worried about Gu Hanqing's safety in Dali Temple, and second, she couldn't help but feel guilty for coming up with such a bad idea of instigating others to catch her brother.

Therefore, out of this slightly hypocritical guilt, and out of concern about whether the plan could be implemented smoothly, Cheng Jinzhi had already stepped out of the palace before the day market was over, and wandered aimlessly around the street again and again.

Now, it's finally nightfall.

The one who is willing to help together this time is Yuyin Villa, one of the nine major gangs on the rivers and lakes.

Yuyin Villa behaves strangely and does not follow common sense, and its comments on the rivers and lakes have always been divided. Some people praise it as a famous and decent family that hoes the strong and help the weak, and some people scold it behind their backs for being a crooked sect that is secretly fiddling with the left and right ways of the side, but because it has been friendly with the Gu family for generations, and Gao Heng personally came forward to negotiate this time, its owner Nanxiang agreed to help without saying a word, and selected a group of people to ambush all over Changmen Street, waiting for the opportunity to move.

And as far as Cheng Jinzhi knows, fortunately, Gao Heng came to the door today, otherwise, according to the owner Nanxiang, they are really a last resort, and they are ready to go to Dali Temple to rob the prison and save people.

So based on this alone, Cheng Jinzhi immediately voted for the official statement that Yuyin Villa is a famous and decent family.

Compared with the huge momentum and risking their lives to rob the prison, now it is just a gesture like catching a small child, which is definitely a trivial matter for those of them who are armed with martial arts.

When the moon is in the sky, the street is full of people, many people are wearing ghost masks and wandering around the street, all kinds of absurdity, strange and distorted faces pass in front of them, so that Cheng Jinzhi is dazzled, and he can't help but sigh in his heart.

Everyone in this world, the longer they live, the thicker the mask on their face becomes, until finally it is rigidly embedded in their face, and it can never be removed from the original face.

There are very few people who can trek through mountains and rivers with a pure heart and be far away from the red dust.

This made her think of Cheng Yan noncommittally, and thought of his hidden hypocritical face.

But in fact, including herself, she has been in Cheng Mansion all these years, suffering from wind and swords, frost and knives, and then experiencing life and death several times, and she is no longer the Cheng Jinzhi who does not know the height of the sky and the earth and allows people to eat meat.

She sighed with emotion when she thought about it, and raised her head but didn't see Cheng Xuan's figure for a long time.

At this moment, she suddenly felt a chuckle in her heart.

"Oh no, if that fat boy is also wearing a mask, let alone someone from Yuyin Villa, even I may not be able to recognize it!"

Thinking of this, she hurriedly pushed aside the crowd to find Cheng Xuan's traces. After all, I have watched Cheng Yu grow up, and I have some understanding of his words and deeds, not to mention that compared to his peers, Cheng Yu's body is obviously fatter, if she stands in front of Cheng Jinzhi like this, she can still recognize it to some extent.

There were many children playing in the crowd, including many children wearing masks and holding candy, Cheng Jinzhi's eyes swept over them one by one, and in the end, she denied them all. As she walked, she stopped at a stall selling masks.

"This girl, do you want to buy a mask?"

The owner of the mask is a plainly dressed and kind old man. Cheng Jinzhi looked at these colorful and fancy masks placed on the wooden frame, and couldn't help but be curious, and reached out to pick out a green fox mask with a red face and green eyes and held it in his hand.

"Also, it's too blatant for me to walk around the street like this, wouldn't it be asking for trouble if I run into the Cheng family? ”

However, looking at the delicately painted mask in her hand, it suddenly reminded her of a winter solstice night many years ago.

At that time, Cheng Jinzhi, who had finished a long day's work, hid alone in her small and simple room, taking out the pen and paint used by her biological mother to teach her to read and write by the dim light and the bright moonlight outside the window, and carefully drawing the mask.

She vividly remembered that the mask she had drawn at that time was very similar to the one she was holding in her hand now.

It's a pity that just when it was about to be completed, it was discovered by the Cheng family sisters who like to cause trouble, and in the end, they were not only reprimanded by Qiuhua for being lazy, but even the mask was trampled to pieces in front of her.

"Old man, I want this. ”

Cheng Jinzhi took a deep breath and shook off the troubled memories of the past, and just wanted to turn around with his mask after paying, but his back was suddenly bumped by someone.

"Sister, I want to buy masks, I want to sell masks!"

Listening to this familiar voice, her back stiffened, and she quickly clasped the mask in her hand to her face, revealing a surprised expression.

"No, that's too much of a coincidence......"

There is no doubt that this naughty and honest voice is coming from her younger brother Cheng Yu.

"You're like this every year, you can't take it in your hands when you buy this and that. ”

And this squeamish and contrived voice, as soon as she heard it, she knew that it was her second sister Cheng Sujin.

"The mask is worn on the face, what do you do with it in your hand, you buy it for me!"

Cheng Jinzhi glanced slightly sideways through the two holes dug in the mask, and saw that behind Cheng Sujin, in addition to her personal maid Lan Xin, there were also four guards dressed as domestic servants.

"Little friend, this is for you to play. ”

The old man who bought the mask smiled and handed a cold firework to Cheng Yu, Cheng Yu looked at the fireworks bomb in his hand with interest, stretched out his hand and pulled the silk underneath, with a soft "bang", a silver spark shining with starlight instantly bloomed in the night sky.

"There are so many people here, do they have a chance to do it?"

In this weaving flow of people, it was difficult to identify which people were ambushed around Yuyin Villa. Cheng Jinzhi looked up at the white light that was gradually falling overhead, and when she came back to her senses, Cheng Yu had already put on a mask, and under Cheng Xiuning's disgusted gaze, she was swaggering and preparing to swagger through the market.

And at this moment, the crowd suddenly boiled, and I saw two warlocks who were performing all the way, performing the stunts of blowing fire and throwing fire sticks along the street, and the crowd of onlookers emerged in waves, and soon turned the surrounding area into a human wall.

Cheng Yu was curious as a child, so he naturally stopped and watched. Cheng Jinzhi saw that there was no movement around, and he expected that the people of Yuyin Villa would not be stupid enough to arrest people in such a situation, so he relaxed his vigilance and became a crowd of onlookers.

However, it didn't take long for her to turn her head to look at Cheng Yu and Cheng Xiuning again, only to find that the two who were clapping beside her just now had suddenly disappeared quietly.