The fifth day of the fifth month of May is the Duanyang Festival, and this year's Duanyang Festival is more lively than in previous years.

Because of the death of the prince, Yanbei has been silent for a year, and even the lantern festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is a little light. However, the liveliness of the Duanyang Festival will not be affected, since ancient times, the Duanyang Festival originated from the tribe's sacrifices, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, and bathing with mugwort leaf water in order to drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters. Yanbei Wangfu also ordered that this year's dragon boat race can add a few more dragon boats to make the scene more lively.

Dragon boats need to be launched in advance, so the dragon boat races in Yunyang City will only start in the afternoon.

In the morning, Ren Yaohua sent someone to send zongzi over, including five kernels, dates, red beans, and meat dumplings that people like in the south, filled with a basket full. Li left some behind, and let Mama Zhou share the rest to share the food with the people, saying that the eldest lady sent it back.

The descendants of the Lei family who sent zongzi said that the Lei family will still have a dragon boat to be launched this year, but Ren Yaohua can't go because she is pregnant, only Lei Ting and Lei Zhen take Pan'er over.

Xiao Jinglin seems to be a little busy recently, and sent a letter to Ren Yaochi before the Duanyang Festival, saying that she is afraid that she will not be able to go to the dragon boat race with Ren Yaoqi this year, although Ren Yaoqi has some regrets, but she also guessed that Xiao Jinglin's busyness may have something to do with the affairs of the Liao people. Xiao Jinglin has been in Jiajing Pass for many years, has had many encounters with the Liao people, and knows much more about the border pass than many people.

So although this year's dragon boat race is more lively than in previous years, because of the relationship between Ren Yaohua and Xiao Jinglin, Ren Yaoqi feels a lot more boring.

In the afternoon, Ren Yaoqi and Li took a carriage to the outside of the city. This year's dragon boat race is still in the Liyang River section outside the city, Ren Yaoqi and Li Shi can see the more than 20 dragon boats on the river from the river bank when they passed, and the one of them is larger than the rest of the dragon boats, and the dragon head and dragon body are made of gold paint, which looks very magnificent and eye-catching from a distance.

When Ren Yaoqi and Li got off the carriage on the riverbank, there were many maids and ladies standing on the riverbank who didn't know which one they were. They all pointed at the dragon boat in the middle of the river.

Li Shi couldn't help but look at it a few times, and said in surprise: "This dragon boat is magnificent, compared to other boats, I don't know which one?" "It's no wonder that the Li family has this question, the dragon boat with the emblem flag of the Yanbei Wangfu is next to the golden dragon of this boat, the dragon head of the Yanbei Wangfu has been very old, although it is maintained every year, but it is a little pale compared with the golden dragon that shines in the sun.

Ren Yaoqi glanced at it and smiled: "I heard that there are also boats in the imperial court to participate in the dragon boat race this year. ”

Li nodded knowingly: "I see! ”

At this time, there happened to be a man not far away: "I don't know whose boat can win the first place this year." ”

"Do you need to ask? Naturally, it is the ship of Yanbei Wangfu! "Someone is sure to be authentic.

"It's not enough in previous years, but this year there is no ...... of the imperial court"

Li and Ren Yaoqi didn't listen. Because Mrs. Xu's maid saw them coming and greeted them.

Li took Ren Yaoqi to follow Mrs. Xu's maid to the pergola of the Xu family, although Mrs. Xu had not yet come, there were already several ladies and wives who were familiar with the Li family sitting in the pergola.

Li sat down at Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Chen's side and exchanged pleasantries with them.

After Ren Yaoqi met with them, he also chatted with Liu Menghan and Chen Zhiyi. Ren Yaoqi listened to Liu Menghan while paying attention to the situation on the Li family's side. Now Li is very accustomed to interacting with these wives, especially when facing those wives who are familiar with her, the smile on her face is also a lot happier.

The rest of the families also came one after another, and the carriages parked on the bank of the river also lined up, and the warm greetings could be heard everywhere. Drums rang out in the middle of the river. Some people ran out of the pergola to see, but only a few dragon boats were warming up, only the green dragon of Yanbei Wangfu and the golden dragon of the imperial court stopped in the middle of the river majestically, which was very much a bit of a confrontation.

Ren Yaoqi was listening to Chen Zhiyi and Liu Menghan whispering about which dragon boat could win this year. Mrs. Xu's maid from Ouyang's side came over.

"Miss Ren, Madame asked the slave maid to invite you over."

Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but look around when he heard this: "Is Mr. already here?" ”

Although Mrs. Xu sent the subordinates of the Xu family to come to the pergola to entertain tea, she and Xu Wanli had not yet arrived.

The maid pointed to the river behind her and said, "Madame is on the boat." ”

Ren Yaochi looked at the maid's hand, and there were already several private boats parked on the bank of the river. It's for the convenience of watching the events that will be waiting for a while. However, since the accident in the dragon boat race that year, the women did not dare to get on the boat, and they all sat in the pergola on the shore. So there are a lot fewer boats on the river.

Ren Yaoqi glanced at it, those ships were all very good, and Ren Yaoqi couldn't tell which one of the Xu family was.

The maid thought that Ren Yaoqi was afraid of getting on the boat, so she hurriedly said: "Miss Ren, don't worry, the boat is very stable, and we won't follow the boat." ”

Ren Yaochi smiled and bowed: "I'll go and talk to my mother." ”

Ren Yao went to say hello to the Li family, and then took the four maids of Leshan, Leshui, apples and mulberries to follow the maids of the Xu family out of the city.

For Mrs. Xu only called Ren Yaoqi to get on the boat alone, the ladies and ladies present didn't have much thought. Let's not mention that Ren Yaochi is a closed disciple of Mrs. Xu, even Ren Yaoqi's current identity will not say anything.

Ren Yaoqi followed the maid to the shore and saw the Xu family's boat, which was just a medium-sized cruise ship that could accommodate seven or eight people, and it was not conspicuous compared to other pleasure boats.

When Ren Yaoqi got on the boat, she heard the faint sound of talking and laughter on the cruise ship, although she didn't hear what the people on the boat were saying, but there was a voice that made her steps pause.

"Miss Ren?" The maid who led the way saw Ren Yaoqi suddenly stop, and couldn't help but call her.

Ren Yaochi smiled at the maid and asked softly, "There are still guests on the ship?" ”

At this time, Mama Gao, who was beside Mrs. Xu, leaned out of the cabin, and saw that Ren Yaoqi was about to get on the boat and hurriedly walked over to help her.

Ren Yaochi didn't ask again, and helped Mama Gao's hand to get on the cruise ship.

The cruise ship was very stable, almost making people feel like it was shaking backwards, but leaving the field and stepping on the cruise ship still made Ren Yaoqi's body shake.

Ren Yaoqi entered the cabin and saw Xu Wanli and Mrs. Xu sitting at a square table in the middle of the cruise ship. Sitting opposite Xu Wanli, with his back to Ren Yaoqi's direction, was a man in a green shirt, and when Ren Yaoqi entered, the man was saying in his usual lazy tone: "...... After leaving Yanbei, I plan to continue to travel north, and I am afraid that it will take at least three years and five years......"

Seeing Mrs. Xu look in the direction behind him, the man stopped talking when he realized that someone had come in, and turned to look.

Ren Yaoqi also saw the man's appearance clearly. It was a face she had been familiar with.

His appearance has not changed much for ten years, his faint eyebrows and eyes, handsome appearance makes people unable to see his age, he always has a smile on his face, and his speed of speech is very slow, just listening to the voice can make people feel like a spring breeze.

The man seemed stunned when he saw her, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Because Ren Yaoqi's eyes also stayed on him, he saw the surprise in his eyes, and couldn't help but be a little curious.

They should have met for the first time in this life, why did he have such an expression when he saw her for the first time? Is there anything else she doesn't know about the origin of the Dao?

Ren Yaochi couldn't help but think back to the first time the two met in the previous life.

When Lu Dexin took her into Beijing, when she walked to a post station in Xiangzhou, she wanted to escape at night because she was humiliated, but she was caught before she could escape from the post station. When she was taken to see Lu Dexin, she bumped into a man in the yard of the post station, she was very scared at that time, and was worried that Lu Dexin would come up with some way to practice herself after she went back later, so naturally she didn't pay attention to the appearance of a stranger, and she only later learned that the person she bumped into at that time was Pei Zhiyan.

Soon after returning to Beijing, he was transferred to Pei Zhiyan by Lu Dexin.

When she was sent to Pei's house, Pei Zhiyan just looked at her for a while, and asked people to take her down without saying anything.

She thought that she was sent to Pei Zhiyan as a concubine plaything, and she was uneasy for a few days, but since then Pei Zhiyan has not seen her again, and only asked the housekeeper to send her a maid to serve her, and the meal is only in her own small courtyard.

It wasn't until nearly a month after arriving at Pei's house that Pei Zhiyan asked people to call him over, but because the place of the meeting this time was the study, and it was daylight, she was a lot more relieved.

When she entered the study, Pei Zhiyan was leaning on the soft collapse of the study to read, and when she saw her coming in, she didn't raise her head, but just instructed her to polish the ink for him, and after she finished grinding the ink, he got up and went to the bookcase to write, and this writing was an hour.

Ren Yaoqi stood far away from him, originally she was still a little vigilant in her heart, but then she remembered her father when she saw him writing seriously, and she relaxed her guard without knowing how to do it. She took advantage of Pei Zhiyan's writing to devote herself to writing, so she quietly looked through the books on the shelf, and she didn't notice it when he finished writing and walked to her.

The first thing Pei Zhiyan said to her was: "Like to read? As she spoke, she picked up the book in her hand and glanced at it, then raised her eyebrows in surprise, "You still like calligraphy and painting?" ”

At that time, she was looking through a notebook of ancient people's appreciation of calligraphy and painting.

Ren Yaoqi saw that his voice was gentle, so he nodded, and said a little gloomily: "My father likes it very much." She also had this book in her father's study.

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I saved a chapter of manuscripts, and Ji Lu made it clear that it would be posted at half past nine in the morning, and if there was no update at about 12 o'clock in the evening, don't wait for the update~

I hope to keep at least one chapter of the manuscript all the time.,So that the update time can be predicted.,You don't have to wait until the flowers are gone.,The author doesn't have to worry about it...... 〒_〒.

(To be continued......)