Chapter Seventy-Two: The Lotus Mound
The group of people in the past were slowly blown away like the wind.
Xunfeng Imperial Sword flew over the sky of the North Sea with Feng Sleepless, Qingbai beat his horse away, and was running towards the distance of the ice cliff, Gen Kun turned into a unicorn and ambushed Feng Qingfang, chasing behind the twisted note.
Nine parts. Celestials.
Xia Feng Ruyan held a kite and ran upside down to Yingli who was standing in Tianhe and looking up into the distance: "Second uncle, let's fly a kite together." ”
Xia Yingli turned around and squatted down, stroking a little face like smoke: "Okay." ”
The wind in Tianhe is neither big nor small, just suitable for the take-off of kites.
"Have you ever flown a kite in Kyushu?"
Ruyan looked down at Yingli and said, "When I was in Baishui Village, every year in March, the other children in the clan would play with kites, but Little Daddy and Aunt Nan never allowed me to go out. ”
The kite flew up slowly in the wind of the Nine Heavenly Rivers, Yingli looked at Ah Yan and showed an innocent smile, and laughed with him, this may be the most real laugh in his life! Yingli looked at the kite flying in the sky and said to himself: " When I was a child, we often came to this Tianhe to fly kites, every time my father blamed us for coming home late, your father would accompany me to kneel in Ziwei Palace to be punished together, because of this, the queen mother often quarreled with my father, and after the guards of the heavenly soldiers fell asleep, Duize would secretly take delicious food to us, we drank wine all night in the Ziwei Palace of my father's council, and when I opened my eyes at dawn, I saw the eldest brother holding the hands of the fifth brother and walked in, and they were holding the white fungus lotus seed soup that the mother had boiled for us......"
Ruyan threw silk threads, looked up at the kite above the Nine Heavens, and said, "Second Uncle, what about Fourth Uncle, where did he go? I have never heard my father say anything about the Heavenly Clan." ”
Yingli twisted the silk thread of the kite, and the kite that took off the string crossed the Tianhe, flew farther and farther, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Yingli took Ruyan's hand: "Go, Ah Yan, I'll take you to a place." ”
The two of them crossed a stone arch bridge, the fragrance of lotus wafted from the pond in the distance, and the dream-eating tapir lay on its stomach in the somewhat yellowish bushes under the railing, daydreaming.
The lotus leaves of the lotus pond covered half of the hall building on the shore, the water ducks swam in the aquatic grass, turned over and disappeared, Yingli led Ruyan through a hall building, and stepped on dozens of stone steps, only to see a tomb appear in front of him. Strange to say, the dragonflies here do not fly to the lotus flowers in the pond, but they fly all over the tomb.
"I brought him to see you," Ying Li said lightly, "Ah Yan, kneel." ”
"Oh. Xia Feng hesitated for a long time, but still knelt in front of the tomb full of dragonflies.
Huo Shen Yingli waved his hand and turned into a jar of wine, opened the cap of the bottle and sprinkled it wantonly on the ground: "This pot of lotus wine is still our wedding day, you brought it back from Baishui, and now there is only this one mouthful, and I will sacrifice it to you today." ”
Although Ruyan had many doubts, after all, this was the first time he knelt down to worship the dead, and seeing Yingli's sad face, he had to lower his head and shut up without speaking.
Yingli threw the wine jar in front of the grave: "It's been five hundred years, and the lotus canopy in this lotus pond is so beautiful every year...... You are not mistaken by the man, he takes good care of your children. ”
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Ying Li said for a long time in front of Ji Xia's grave before leaving with Ruyan, and after having dinner in the Vermilion Bird Palace, Ying Li ordered someone to send Xia Feng Ruyan back to the Pearl Palace.
Pearl Palace, the dormitory of the thirteen sisters.
Ever since Ying Li brought Ruyan to the Heavenly Palace, he had handed over his nephew to the only princess of the Heavenly Court to take care of.
After the Great War of the Baishui Slaughter Clan, why Ying Li had to marry a Jurchen saint who regarded him as an enemy into the Heavenly Clan, whether it was the Immortal Dao Realm or the Demon Clan, there were many questions. And there are only three reasons for this, one is that Ying Li refuses to double cultivate with women, so naturally he can't have children, and he likes children; second, the Baishui Jurchen clan is the most beautiful aristocratic family in the entire Jiubu Kyushu, only when combined with the Baishui woman, the child born must be so beautiful that it will blow up the sky; third, because of his own rebellion, the heavenly clan is left with only one sick and soft persimmon still in his own hands, and one day, when the cut Xiu has a child with other women, Ying Li will bring the doll to his palace to adopt. This is also the reason why Ying Li did not kill him after seeing Ruyan, but gradually liked this child.
In the Pearl Palace, the princess has arranged for Xian'e to prepare a fragrant couch quilt for Xiao Ayan.
The one who made the bed was Dong'er, the clan girl brought back to the Heavenly Palace by the Thirteenth Sister when she got married from Bai Shui, she was just a low-ranking commoner who had not yet been revealed, but now she has become the inner court maid of the Princess of Heavenly Court, so she does not have to cover her face according to Bai Shui's etiquette.
Dong'er saw Ruyan enter the house, and hurriedly greeted him with a smile and patted the dust on his body: "Where did the little boy go, why did he come back so late?" The princess was still talking just now, saying that if she didn't see you coming, she would send me to the Vermilion Bird Palace to beg for help. ”
Ruyan said weakly: "Second Uncle will not leave me in his palace for the night." ”
The two immortals put a bucket of hot water and towels in the house and withdrew.
The thirteenth sister took off her clothes like smoke and lifted him into a basin of hot water like a turnip. Ruyan half-closed her eyes and said helplessly: "Aunt Thirteen, I don't want to take a bath." ”
The thirteenth sister picked up a towel and wiped her back like smoke: "You haven't taken a bath for three days, and if you don't wash it, weeds will grow on your body." ”
"Little boy, little boy. Dong'er held Ruyan's arm and said with a smile: "He is asleep, he must be tired of playing." ”
There was a knock at the door.
"Winter ......"
"Yes. ”
Thirteen put on his underwear like smoke and settled him on the bed. Feng Dong'er walked to the door and took a note from the crack in the door, but he didn't see who the messenger was.
"What does the letter say?"
Feng Dong'er was puzzled for a while: "There are no words on this letter?"
The thirteenth sister took the letterhead and said, "Bring the pomegranate wine that the fifth sister gave me." ”
I saw Thirteen drip a few drops of alcohol on the letterhead, and a line of purple handwriting immediately blurred on the paper: "People have arrived in the Mobei Wasteland." ”
Feng Dong'er shouted: "Wow, it's amazing......! What the hell is going on? ”
This is a secret letter written by a plant introduced from outside the realm of Kyushu, the fruit of this plant is buried in the soil when it is ripe, and it can be treasured for several years without rotting, I got it from the quicksand country when I was in exile, and now I have planted one in the garden of the Pearl Palace.
"Then why is it that the letters written with it cannot be read, but must be dipped in alcohol before they can be seen?"
The thirteenth sister burned the secret letter and explained: "It takes a lot of effort to write such a secret letter. The first thing to do is to grind the pulp out of the fruit to produce white starch. Then use these syrups with water to write, and when they are air-dried, the handwriting will naturally disappear. When the recipient receives the letter, just like we have just done, can get a glimpse of the content of the letter, so that even if the letter leaks, the person who takes the letter will not get a glimpse of the heavens. ”
Feng Dong'er nodded and said, "Oh, I see." So what do we do now. ”
"You continue to stay in the palace, take care of Ah Yan, and leave the rest to me. ”
After that, the thirteenth sister walked out of the Pearl Palace.