The Youyuan Festival is very different from the Fengming Festival.

The Fengming Festival is a ceremony for the whole clan to celebrate the joy of the year's harvest. The Youyuan Festival is a festival to worship ancestors and pray for the mourning of the dead.

Legend has it that the world in which people live is not the only world, and there is another world on the other side of the distant starry sky, called the Netherworld.

According to the customs of the Youhe tribe, when a person dies, his soul will be taken to the netherworld and start another life in the form of a ghost, until he joins the cycle of reincarnation and lives again in the world.

The Netherworld has been drifting in the void, and legend has it that at this time of year, it is the time to pass through this world and get closest to each other. At one time, some people claimed to have felt that the deceased loved ones had returned, and over time, it was called the ghost door wide open and the ghost festival of Youyuan.

Xiao Nan used to only hear his mother occasionally mention it, but now he is familiar with many classics in the Inheritance Palace, many of which record secret legends, and his understanding of the Youyuan Festival is more profound.

In contrast, the origin of the Youyuan Festival is similar to the Netherworld in the previous life, and every July 15 is the Ghost Festival, also known as the Midyear Festival.

When Xiao Nan finished his morning exercise, he saw his mother walking out with two river lanterns. The river lantern is made of fragrant wood as the base, cut the bamboo as the frame, and cut the yarn into flowers, which is very delicate and beautiful.

"Mother, Anan wants to put a river lantern!" Xiao Nan touched left and right, and wanted both. He seriously experienced this natural childish heart.

"That's not going to work, the lanterns are left at night. Lan Xi touched his little head and smiled gently: "Anan, come into the house to eat!"

"Mother, Anan heard that the Youyuan Festival is a sacrifice to the ancestors. Who do we worship, the old Taoist priest in the painting?" Xiao Nan took a bite of the silver tea cake and pouted to the painting Nunu in the main hall.

"Hugh is rude!" Lan Xi hurriedly hit him on the head with chopsticks, "That's the ancestor of your Xiao family, naturally it's going to be sacrificed!"

"Then what's his name?" Xiao Nan tilted his head, thinking seriously. On the other hand, figuring out the origin of the Xiao family may be helpful in finding Xiao wine.

"Uh...... My mother doesn't know, your father didn't say it. Lan Xi was stunned by the question, "However, you just need to know that he is your ancestor!"

"Mother, what about your ancestors?" Xiao Nan pursed his lips, not very interested in the unknown Xiao ancestor.

"Mother's ancestors...... Naturally, it is the same as the river tribe, if you say that the real ancestor should be the Gu Immortal of the river tribe. Lan Xi didn't seem to think about this question, looked into the distance through the door, pondered for a moment, and then smiled leisurely.

Gu Immortal, naturally, is the founding ancestor of the Youhe tribe. However, legend has it that he did not die as an immortal, but turned into an immortal and ascended, shattering the void and leaving.

"Excuse me, is Lan Xi at home?" At this time, a lazy and enchanting voice came from outside the courtyard.

"Who is it?" Xiao Nan ran to the door vigilantly, only to see a scantily clad young woman standing outside the bamboo courtyard and looking out.

Dressed in a black dress, with slender legs and a slender waist, the key parts are rounded and half-exposed, bewitching and seductive.

Xiao Nan only felt that the tip of his nose was congested, I'm afraid this is the "big" compared to Ye Tingcheng's "small"!

"It's a peony, come in!" Lan Xi saw the person coming and stretched out his hand to greet him.

Hearing the name of "peony", Xiao Nan remembered that this was the widow of the king who lived on the south side of the Nanli tribe. Strange to say, this woman was married twice in a row, and both of them were killed until she became a widow and did not marry again.

Widow Wang entered the bamboo courtyard, and when she saw Xiao Nan in front of the door, she couldn't help but stretch out her slender jade hand and pinch his little face, and smiled charmingly.

When she leaned down and bowed her head, she revealed the fullness of white flowers. The half-wrapped skirt collar was squeezed open, as if it couldn't wrap the two of them at any time.

"Oh, mother, I'm going to drink saliva!" Xiao Nan hurriedly covered his nose, feeling that his throat was dry, and he couldn't wait to grow up all of a sudden and explore this world of flowers!

"Hehe-Lanxi, your little Langjun is so cute!" Widow Wang looked at his panicked appearance and laughed wildly. The roundness also rises and falls, which is extremely attractive.

"Wang Peony, don't make a bad idea!" Lan Xi felt ill-intentioned when she saw her charming appearance, and immediately snorted coldly, "This is the silver tea cake you ordered, take it quickly!"

"That slave family is really thankful! Lanxi, if you have time, you can take Xiao Langjun to the slave family's house to sit. The widow took the package disapprerovingly, and did not forget to laugh before leaving, and then twisted her waist and left.

"Mother, is she from the Wang family?" Xiao Nan looked at her back with a solemn face, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Well, her surname is Wang, but my mother has never heard of her having anything to do with Wang. Lan Xi should have never considered this problem, and was slightly stunned, "Maybe she is a branch of the Wang clan that is not taken seriously." ”

Xiao Nan nodded lightly and continued to eat. But he faintly felt that in addition to temptation, there was also a dangerous aura in the widow's body.

At night, the sky rises and the moon is on the stars.

Lan Xi led Xiao Nan on the bank of the Guixu River behind the bamboo courtyard and put down the two river lanterns. The faint candle flame flickered in the darkness and drifted down with the waves.

"Mother, I saw ancient records in the inheritance hall, and the legend is that the Guixu River flows through the four universes and connects the ten thousand worlds. Xiao Nan put his little hand into the river water and felt the cool breath, "Do you say that the river lantern will really flow to the netherworld?"

"Maybe. Lan Xi's eyes were sad, and he looked into the distance against the wind, "I don't know Xiao Jiu...... Are you still alive?"

If alive, why not come back?

If not alive...... Will the Netherworld watch us?

"Mother, let's go back. Xiao Nan held her hand tightly and gave her more warmth. He didn't want his mother to be immersed in the cracks of longing and sadness and exhaust his life.

He suddenly remembered the white jade coffin under the Ronggu Star Palace and Meng Yao's words-

"With the Star Palace as the top, the Banyan Valley as the base, the maze and the ghost eye grass are guarded, the inner coffin is suspended, the white jade is the yin, the outer coffin eats the spirit, and the brass is the yang. When yin and yang are combined, it is the time to reverse the situation and mediate creation......"

Perhaps, there is no reversal of yin and yang in this world, and the technique of resurrection and resurrection. It's just that the most important thing now is to live.

Later, Xiao Nan finished feeding Xiaobai, teasing Xiao Wanxiao a few times, and then changed into bamboo stilts and black robes, quietly sneaked out of the bamboo courtyard, and went to the black market.

There are three purposes for this visit.

First, his own alchemy level has reached the apprenticeship perfection, and he has obtained the Danfang in the inheritance hall, it is time to purchase elixir to impact the level of a first-grade alchemist.

If you wait for yourself to show the level of perfection of your apprenticeship step by step, and let Uncle Seven Immortals teach you, I'm afraid it will take a long time.

The second is that he has been studying the "Essence of the Formation" for about a month, and he has gained a little, and he urgently needs to purchase a batch of materials for the formation to practice.

Others learn the formation like reading a book from heaven, but it is much simpler for themselves. The knowledge of physics, astronomy, and mathematics in his previous life helped me a lot.

The third is to ask Monkey Si'er about some outside news. Today's inability to recognize the widow Wang is a wake-up call for me. For the first time, he realized that his message was too closed!

The asymmetry of information can easily put the two of them in a dangerous situation without knowing it.