"Then we'll see at the river lantern fair!"

He Guizhen stomped his feet, pulled up Wang Rong, and turned around and left with a few teenagers.

This woman dared to make a bet with the jade pot, and it was impossible to say that it was impossible to say that there was no instruction from his uncle Wang Daoyuan, the Lord of the Nine True Views.

This kind of thing can only be bet on by children, otherwise there is really no reason.

The He family and the Zhang family and the Wang family are all in-laws, He Deng's mother, Mrs. Zhang, is the aunt of Zhang Shoujing of the Zhenzhen Palace, and the Zhang family is not small in Hengshan.

Taoism refers to the teacher who teaches himself as "degree teacher", and the ancestor is called "nationality teacher"; Taishi Zu is called "Jing Shi", which is the so-called Three Masters.

He Deng is the only son of Mrs. Zhang, He Qiong's mother is a princess, Mrs. Zhang loves the house and Wu very much about this granddaughter, the He family's power in the Hengshan area is intertwined, and the Wang family does not dare to come at all.

The Midyear Festival is also known as the Ghost Festival, and legend has it that after sunset, a hundred ghosts walk at night.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a custom of putting river lanterns on the Midyear Festival, and some people mistakenly thought that it was from Buddhism, but it was actually a misunderstanding.

The river lantern originated from the Duke of Zhou, about 1,000 BC, and is also described in the Book of Songs, when Shakyamuni had not yet been born.

Naturally, this competition is not a competition for the river lantern, but a trial after the river lantern meeting, which is officially opened by the ringing of the "two bells".

The two bells were built by the Xuanzong Dynasty and given to the Zhenzhen Palace and the Nine Truths Temple respectively.

Later generations only left the big bell of the Nine True Temple, and there are inscriptions of the Xuanzong Dynasty on it.

After the two bells are ringed, a stone door will be opened, and the trialist can enter the Zhuling Cave under the waterfall through the secret passage, and the "inner hole" of the Zhuling Cave below will also open!

The trialist reaches the forbidden land of the Hengshan faction through the inner hole, lures and captures the beast with a special medicinal bait, and domesticates it, which is the beast control technique.

Taoist priests have long since begun to domesticate beasts as an adjunct to the practice of the Taoist.

This will also arouse the awe of the people.

There are many legends of the royal beast in the folk, and the first person in the world is Mr. Rover Xuanyuan Ji!

Every year, the children of the two views have to compete to see who can catch a stronger beast, which also implies the meaning of competition, and occasionally bets will happen.

The general gambling competition is to see who has the greater harvest, which is somewhat similar to hunting, but the royal beast is actually outwitted through drugs and traps, so girls can also participate.

He Gui really dared to take the initiative to provoke a gambling game, and the stakes were so big, her uncle Wang Daoyuan had been planning for a long time......

He Qiong and the three of them sat back at the table again, and at this time the dishes had already come up, three bowls of bean curd porridge, a bowl of chicken, a plate of winter amaranth, plus the pancakes they bought earlier, very rich.

Winter amaranth was called winter wheat in later generations, and it has nothing to do with okra, although it has the word "winter" in its name, it is a plant that likes to be warm.

"Aoi in the green garden, waiting for the sunrise with dew." It is said that winter sunflower, the ancient text of the sunflower generally refers to this dish, in the Tang Dynasty was called the lord of the hundred dishes.

Cao Shouzhen saw that He Qiong was unhappy, so he learned several of the best bird and beast calls, which finally made her smile.

The little squirrel saw that it was okay and that there was a tempting fragrance on the table, so he cautiously ran back and jumped back on He Qiong's lap.

He Qiong chatted with Guo Hong and them while feeding her little pets.

But the girl had something on her mind, and she had no intention of playing after eating, so the three of them returned directly to the Zhenzhen Palace.

He Qiong immediately went to her father, and it could be seen that she was still a little nervous.

Guo Hong followed Cao Shouzhen back to his residence, Lu Chaoyang was already waiting in the house, complaining that he didn't take him with him, and when he learned about this bet, he called to accompany He Qiong to make bait.

Cao Shouzhen smiled: "Where do you need to worry about it, forget who Arjun's father is?" ”

"Isn't her father Uncle He?"

"Do you know what Uncle He's name is? What do you do best? ”

Lu Chaoyang scratched the back of his head and said, "I really don't know this, when we meet, I call him Lianshi, and the teacher always calls Senior Brother He, and no one said it in front of me!" ”

"Then listen well, Uncle He's real name is He Deng, the Deng of Chen Deng of the Three Kingdoms, the word Bosheng, and the number Qing Lingzi."

This kind of thing is not strange, I don't know that the names of the neighbor's elders have abound since ancient times, and even after a thousand years, there is nothing unusual.

Cao Shouzhen paused and said: "I heard the master say that Uncle He is known as a double unique, one is to make river lanterns, and the other is to make bait, at the beginning, he was the first in the river lantern festival for several consecutive years, and later went to Wangwushan in the north to learn the Tao, and made a Qiong lantern to win the princess's heart, so he was named He Qiong with a junior sister." ”

He was very concerned about He Qiong's affairs, and he had already inquired about the other party's situation.

Lu Chaoyang looked naïve, but he was not really stupid, and quickly nodded to indicate that he remembered.

In the afternoon, He Qiong came to find the newly recognized junior brother, her face was very good, Cao Shouzhen asked, and she replied that there was no problem with the medicine bait.

The little girl is on the rise, just wanting to listen to her sister a few more times and tease the new junior brother, so she will not delay the play if she gets her father's assurance.

The production of veterinary drugs is very complicated, and it is a test of the depth of pharmacological mastery, not only to attract fierce beasts, but also to stun them for easy capture.

The rule of the two-view competition is to see the strength of the captured beast, so as to evaluate the level of the production of the beast medicine, if it does not attract the beast, or if the beast is out of control and cannot be captured, it is regarded as a complete failure.

These must be done alone, after all, the Taoist priest will go out in the future, if his imperial beast dies or is lost, he can go into the mountain to capture and replenish.

Most of the Taoist families on this side of the Zhenzhen Palace are Taoist families, and they have learned to make medicinal bait since they were young, which is much better than that of Xi'an.

Guo Hong'an followed his senior sister to play around, he didn't know anything about the beast medicine bait, and now the power of thunder and lightning in his body was exhausted, and he couldn't discharge it, and his heart had been a little weak, and he didn't feel that he had become dependent on Xuanbi.

Twelve-year-olds don't know moderation, it's right to run out of electricity, and it's not normal if they can save money.

Guo Hong is still wearing a hat this time, covering his face and only revealing two eyes, and no one has recognized him yet.

Jiuxian Town is not big, and there are actually very few fun places.

There are several pools nearby, the most famous of which is the White Turtle Spring, which is said to have been named after the white turtle that flowed out of the cliff during the reign of Jeongen (785-805).

He Qiong took Guo Hong to play in the White Turtle Spring, which was next to the Nine Truths Temple.

"In front of me is the Nine Truths Temple, and I used to play with that big rock a lot."

Guo Hong looked at He Qiong's fingers, and saw that there was indeed a giant several meters long and wide in front of the door of Jiuzhenguan, and he didn't pay attention to it when he passed by last time.

The Nine Truths View looks very ordinary from the outside, mostly bungalows, compared to the high-rise buildings of the Zhenzhen Palace, the pomp is much worse, and it is relatively dilapidated.

He Qiong took Guo Hong into the temple, where many Taoists were visiting the Sanqing.

Guo Hong saw that some of the houses inside were very dilapidated and could not be used at all, which was slightly strange.