Chapter 38: The Festival of Beggars

When Lime woke up, the sun was moving westward, and it was nearly dusk.

There was a faint aroma in the room, and the lime took a few deep breaths, and suddenly felt relaxed.

The medicinal effect of the incense in the last night was so strong that if it weren't for the awakening incense that burned day and night in the room, I am afraid it would be a few days before she could wake up.

"Girl, you're awake." The waiter waiting on the side saw that Lime woke up, and hurriedly stepped forward to serve, "Shen Gongzi has instructed that after the girl wakes up, she will bathe and change clothes for the girl and go downstairs to eat." Girl, the hot water is ready, and the servant is waiting for you to bathe. ”

"Thank you." Lime thanked him and stood up and said to the waiter, "I'm not used to being served, so go and wait outside the door." ”

"Yes, the maid is just outside the door, and if the girl needs it, just shout." The waiter blessed himself and withdrew from the door.

Lime came to the dresser and was about to loosen her hair, but found that the crescent moon hidden in her hair was missing, and then she remembered that after stabbing the man in black last night, she had a splitting headache, and the crescent moon was gone.

Lime searched the entire room and found no trace of the crescent moon, thinking that the crescent moon must have fallen into the hands of Qiu Chulin or Shen Jiangli at this moment.

After the lime bath, he called the waiter to make up, and the waiter's hands were very dexterous, so that Lime couldn't help but admire, "Your hands are very dexterous, but there are more ornaments, you remove the tassel, I look at the burden." By the way, did you see the hairpin I always carry? ”

"Yes." The waiter took off the tassel and replaced it with a simple step, "Shen Gongzi has instructed that if the girl is missing something, she can go and ask him for it." ”

"Okay." Lime replied lightly, her heart already rippling.

The crescent moon is the sword of the former wolf door master, it is the weapon that ranks third in the weapon spectrum, everyone is called the god soldier, after the decline of the blue wolf, the crescent moon once became the center of the rivers and lakes people fighting for each other.

Since the lime got the crescent moon, it has been hidden in the hair, rarely showing it, for fear of attracting competition and causing trouble. And today, trouble is finally coming to the door.

"Beauty, how do you feel? Can you still be dizzy? Shen Jiangli was warmly welcomed, beckoned to the waiter, and motioned for the food to be served.

"Childe." Lime saluted Qiu Chulin first, and then turned around and smiled at Shen Jiangli, "Everything is fine, thank you Shen Gongzi for your concern." However, Lime still needs to remind Shen Gongzi that Lime has a name, please Shen Gongzi no longer be called a beauty. ”

"And what shall I call you?" Shen Jiang said matter-of-factly, "Ning'er, Miss Zhuo, or the master of the door?" ”

"Shen Gongzi is cautious!" Lime interrupted in a cold voice, "The crescent moon is just a self-defense weapon given to me by my family teacher, and it has nothing to do with what Shen Gongzi pointed out, and I ask Shen Gongzi to return it to me." ”

"Don't worry, beauty, I'm just curious." Shen Jiangli smiled, took out the crescent moon from his sleeve, and played with it in his hand, "Back then, the blue wolf gate master could dominate the world with this crescent, and the blue wolf could also be said to be extremely honorable. Although the blue wolf has been defeated for a long time, there is still a sixteen-character short poem circulating in the world, 'The crescent moon chooses the master, the blue wolf changes heads, millions of disciples, don't dare to disobey.' 'This short poem, I don't know if you have heard of it? ”

"Yes. But the wolf has been destroyed, and there are no more disciples, and this sentence has long become empty talk. Lime said, "Shen Gongzi, a gift from the family teacher, dare not leave, Lime begs Shen Gongzi to return it." ”

"Jiang Li, the crescent moon is a gift from the predecessors of the ghost doctor in the Yuan Valley, don't be too joking." Qiu Chulin spoke at the right time.

"That's natural, the ghost doctor's predecessors are hidden masters, and our juniors shouldn't joke." Shen Jiangli said, pushing the crescent moon in front of the lime, his eyes were clear and harmless, but it made people feel an indescribable weirdness.

"Thank you, Master Shen." Shen Jiangli returned the crescent moon so easily, which surprised Lime, who picked up the crescent moon, stroked it in his hand, and then reinserted it into his hair.

"I have heard that the crescent moon chooses the master, which is beyond the control of ordinary people, and Miss Zhuo can use the crescent moon, so she must be the lord of the crescent moon. I am an ordinary man, I have never seen such a divine soldier, I wonder if Miss Zhuo can appreciate her face and let me see the true face of the divine soldier? Shen Jiangli said this very politely, so that Lime couldn't get used to it for a while.

"Lime has been obsessed with medical skills since he was a child, but Yu Wuxue is lax, and he has only learned a few tricks to defend himself. What Shen Gongzi said, the crescent moon chose me as the master, which really surprised me. Last night, I was in a hurry, so I had to use the crescent moon to stab the man, and I didn't expect that the crescent moon would be out of the sheath, but today I can't do anything. Lime hung her head, ashamed.

Shen Jiangli's background is complicated and his intentions are unclear, and Qiu Chulin has a lot to do with him. Once the crescent moon strikes and the two of them fight, she will not be an opponent anyway, so she can't take any chances.

"That's a pity!" Shen Jiangli said with hatred.

"It's a pity not to be able to see the demeanor of the gods, but if you miss the delicacy of this table again, won't it add another regret." Qiu Chulin, who had been watching the two of them arguing, finally spoke and ended the conversation between the two, "Today is the Begging Festival, and the streets will be lively at night, so let's go out for a walk after eating." ”

The begging festival is approaching the death of Xiao Guogong, and the people of Tongcheng did not celebrate the begging festival last year in order to commemorate the Guogong, so this year's begging festival is particularly lively.

Outside the Yuqiong Pavilion, fireworks are all over the sky, and people who come here to watch the fireworks have already crowded the streets.

Leave the Yuqiong Pavilion from the side door, face the Pan Tower, set up a high platform in front of the Pan Tower, hundreds of spider boxes of the same size are stacked on the high platform, and there are special guards.

This is one of the customs of the begging festival, the spider should be coincidental, the contestants each catch the spider in the small box, hand over to the Pan Lou, until the dawn of the open, depending on the spider web is dense to cut off the number of coincidences, the winner can get the good fortune given by the Pan Lou.

"Lemon, take it." Qiu Chulin said, handing the clay figure in his hand to the lime.

"Clay puppets?" Lime looked at the clay puppet and cute, so she took it and played with it in her hand, "Childe bought it for me?" ”

"I saw other women with one or two in their hands, but you didn't." Qiu Chulin replied honestly.

Qiu Chulin's answer was plain, but it inexplicably made Lime trance, compared to them, what she lacked was more than a clay puppet.

Qiu Chulin didn't understand the complexity of the flash in her eyes, and he didn't know why she was suddenly sad, he could only silently keep all this in his heart, and in the future, he would understand her thoroughly little by little.

Lime held the clay puppet and covered the bitterness from the corners of her mouth with a smile, "Thank you, Childe." ”

"River lanterns! Sell river lanterns! The old man shouted while making the river lantern, "Put the river lantern, the river god blesses, and all wishes come true!" ”

"Old man, are you a river lamp spirit?" Shen Jiangli came to the old man's shop, picked up a river lantern casually, and teased, "Can you really make your wishes come true?" ”

"Sincerity is spirituality." The old man didn't say much, just replied with a smile.

Qiu Chulin chased after lime and saw Shen Jiangli holding the river lamp and looking at it, "Do you want to put one?" Well...... Just think of it as accompanying me. ”

"Okay." Lime Road.

After preparing the river lantern, the three of them searched for a sparsely populated riverbank, and Shen Jiangli used his body to block the breeze blowing from the river, and carefully lit the river lantern.

"Fortune is prosperous." Seeing Shen Jiangli's words written on the river lantern, Qiu Chulin couldn't help but laugh and said, "Shen Gongzi is worthy of being a businessman. ”

"Hmm." Shen Jiangli nodded proudly, and while watching his river lantern cut through thorns, he didn't forget to look back at the words Qiu Chulin mentioned on the river lantern.

"Mountains have trees, trees have branches"

"I don't know." Lime said the second half of the sentence, and his eyes were clear, "It turns out that Childe already has a sweetheart." ”

"Hmm." Qiu Chulin looked at her unfluctuating eyes, and couldn't help but feel a little lost in his heart, "It's just that she hasn't known my mind yet." ”

"Peace." Shen Jiangli looked at the words that Lime mentioned on the river lantern, and was very puzzled, "Beauty, who are you asking for peace for?" ”

Lime was silent for a moment and said softly, "Father, Master, Brother, all the people I care about. ”

In the early morning of the second day, Qiu Chulin had just dressed when Shen Jiangli broke into his room in a rage.

"Do you have eyebrows?" Qiu Chulin saw that Shen Jiangli was rarely interested, and he also had an answer in his heart.

"Lost it." Shen Jiangli slammed the door shut, his tone was excited, and he looked very excited, "If you can dump my people, you must be well-trained and first-class." Do you know whether Hongxia Yike has the ability and financial resources? ”

"As far as I know, he can't." Qiu Chulin was not as interested as him, and there was a little worry between his eyebrows.

"Heavy money?" Shen Jiangli said.

"It's not impossible, but it doesn't make sense." Qiu Chulin said, "With Hongxia Yike's temperament, if such a master can be hired, he will definitely use it against me, not Ning'er." Taking a step back, he was not sure about killing me, so he kidnapped Ling'er as bait and set me up a killing game. But what does he mean by ordering that he should not hurt Ling'er for half a point? He is not a man of pity. ”

"It's not him, is it Fang Jinyue?" Shen Jiangli was still talking with great interest, but as soon as the words fell, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and his smile instantly froze on his face.

"Now Fang Jinyue is already the Ninth Five-Year Honor, and I am an envoy of a neighboring country, even if he is an enemy on the battlefield, he has no reason to kill me." Qiu Chulin fell into deep thought, and did not find Shen Jiangli's abnormality, "What's more, if he wants to take away the lime, there are many opportunities, and there is no need to use this kind of indiscriminate means." ”

"Recently, there has been no new force rising in the rivers and lakes, although there is no shortage of such masters in the other killer alliances, but there are very few who dare to take over my Shen family's business, no matter who he is, if he breaks the rules of my Shen family, he will have to pay the price. I'll check this matter, you just have to go on the road, I will personally protect the lime, you can rest assured. Shen Jiangli lost Fang Cai's high interest and became very serious.

"Did you think of something?" Qiu Chulin was surprised by Shen Jiangli's sudden change of attitude.

"Phoenix blood sandalwood." Shen Jiangli frowned slightly and said, "Zhuo Qinglime can make the crescent moon recognize the master, and it is very likely that there is phoenix blood sandalwood in the body." ”

Shen Jiangli's words made Qiu Chulin stunned suddenly, all kinds of past things appeared in front of his eyes, and a guess quickly formed in his mind, waiting for him to verify it.

He came back to his senses and pulled his thoughts back to the matter, "If that group of people came for the phoenix blood sandalwood, then everything can be explained." ”

"Wait until I find out, if that's the case, it's going to be very tricky." Shen Jiang left the road.

"Hmm." Qiu Chulin said, "Tomorrow, I will go to the Guogong Mansion with Ning'er to worship the Guogong, and four days later, I will leave for Suyan City, and Ning'er will ask you." ”

"This time is different from the past, there is another person behind the scenes who is worried about her, the distance of the valley is far away, and I am afraid that there will be branches on the way, so it is better to leave her in Yuqiong Pavilion. Tomorrow, I will send someone to disperse the wind, and I will say that the head of the Shen family is here, so it will save a lot of trouble. Shen Jiang left the road.

Qiu Chulin pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "That's fine, as long as she is safe, I can have no worries." ”