Chapter 257: When I see him, I run
The next day was the Jade Festival, as a national festival, the entire Yujing City was boiling, and early in the morning Xue Wu was woken up by children singing nursery rhymes on the street.
After breakfast, she blended into the lively crowd and enjoyed the festive joy with the people of the city.
The Jade Festival comes from an ancient legend. A long time ago, Yujing City was not called Yujing City, but Stone City, which was surrounded by mountains and could not grow food crops, and people's lives were very difficult.
One day, a young man went hunting in the woods, and he hunted a fox covered in fiery red, and the fox was very human, and he begged the boy to let him go.
The young man couldn't bear it and let the fire fox go. And the fire fox was also a grateful retribution, and after being released, he brought a stone and motioned to the young man to break the stone.
The boy did so, and found that there was a kind of jade that was crystal green and crystal hidden in the inconspicuous stone, which was extremely beautiful.
The jade is the jade.
The young man sold the jadeite, got a lot of money, built a house and married a wife, and his life got better and better.
At the same time, the boy did not forget the villagers, and took them to look for the kind of stone containing jade in the mountains, and later, the jade of Stone Town became more and more famous, so it was renamed Emerald City.
Later, because there was an emperor with the word "Fei" in his name, in order to avoid the venerable, the word "Fei" in the Emerald City could no longer be used, so the city was renamed Yujing City.
But by now, the emperor with the word "Fei" in his name has long since died, so many people have called the name "Emerald City".
In order to commemorate the young man who made the life of the people in the city better, people initiated the festival "Jade Festival".
A jade temple was also built in the city to worship the jade ancestor, that is, the boy.
On the day of the jade festival, people will go to the temple to offer incense and worship, praying that the ancestor of the jade can bless himself to be able to bloom a good quality jadeite and sell it to make a fortune.
In addition, there are also some activities organized by the people, such as the jade float parade.
Xue Wu followed the flow of people to the jade view on a stick of incense, the jade ancestor in the view, is carved from a whole piece of jadeite, brilliant, lifelike.
At his feet, there was also a fire fox, carved from a whole piece of blood, and the eyes were inlaid with imperial green, which was green and blue in the sun, as if it was about to drip water, and it was very vivid.
The best part is that no matter which way you look at it, those fox eyes are facing you.
I have to admire the craftsmanship of the master carver.
Such a jade carving is not an ordinary value, and no one will really steal it?
A child next to him obviously had the same question as her, "Mother, what if someone steals the Jade Ancestor?" β
"Bah, bah, the ancestor is not strange, the child's words are unscrupulous." The child's mother quickly knelt down and kowtowed a few times to the jade carving, and pulled the child along.
After kowtowing, he explained to his child: "Fool, who dares to steal it, the ancestor can watch from above, whoever dares to come to fight his idea, in the end it will be unlucky." β
Xue Wu glanced at the jade carving again, I don't know if it was her illusion, I always felt that the fire fox seemed to wink at her at that moment.
Coming out of the view, Xue Wu bought some gadgets as souvenirs.
In the distance, she heard the crowd shouting, "The float is coming!" The float is coming! β
Xue Wan turned her head to look, at first she thought it was really a car decorated with flowers, but when she really saw the float, she realized that she was too naΓ―ve, and her recognition of the pride of Yujing City was too low!
The float was carved from jadeite, and the flowers on it were so delicate and realistic, that she couldn't believe it if she hadn't smelled the slightest fragrance of flowers.
On the float sat a beautiful maiden, holding a basket also carved from jade, and she reached out and grabbed something in the basket and threw it into the crowd.
Crackling, those things fell to the ground, and Xue Wu found that they were jade jade beads the size of marbles!
Xue Wan: "......"
This jade capital city is really too proud! After the festival, I actually sprinkled jadeite everywhere, so where is jadeite, it is clearly money!
The crowd scrambled to bend down to pick it up.
Although Xue Wu already owns a whole jadeite mine, who would have too much jadeite? And those who are sent to the front do not pick up in vain.
She also joined the ranks of picking up jadeite.
Compared to others, she has a huge advantage, that is, she can use the magic of the Divine Arts, so that the jade will fall into her own hands.
Xue Wu picked up more than a dozen at a time, although the quality of these jadeites is very average, but this kind of fun of picking up jadeites is very rare, and she has a lot of fun.
Hey, there's another one there! And it's actually an ice species! It's almost the same as real glass beads.
Xue Wu was afraid that this jade bead would be discovered, so she hurriedly performed the Imperial Technique, but the jade bead flew halfway and was actually cut off!
A slender hand as jade suddenly stretched out and pinched the jade bead, Xue Wu looked at it, and her heart jumped.
Masked man, how could he be here?!
She turned and left, but there were so many people around her that she grabbed her wrist before she could take two steps.
"Why did Miss Zhao run away when she saw me? Am I that terrible? Despite the noise of people around her, the masked man's voice came to her ears clearly.
This person even knows her surname "Zhao", and it seems that her whereabouts in the past few days have probably been found out by him.
Xue Wu took a deep breath, "I didn't run." β
"Okay, I didn't run." The masked man didn't argue with her about it, but followed her words.
Xue Wu suddenly felt tired.
"Huo Kang, you can call me Ah Kang." The masked man said suddenly.
Akang? Xue Wu suddenly looked at him.
Immediately felt impossible, her Akang lost his memory, and now he is only equivalent to a child of four or five years old, how can he appear here? Moreover, Ah Kang is different from this Huo Kang in terms of body shape, voice and appearance.
Besides, if he can report his name so bluntly, maybe "Huo Kang" is just a pseudonym.
"Can Huo Gongzi let me go?"
She was a man in the eyes of outsiders, and the two men were holding hands on the street, and there were already many people around them who threw strange glances at them.
Broken sleeves have been around since ancient times, but few people will put this matter on the surface, so the action of the two is eye-catching enough.
Although Huo Kang was reluctant, he still let go in the end.
Next, wherever Xue Wu went, Huo Kang followed.
Xue Wu was so angry with him that she lost her temper.
"Is Huo Gongzi so idle?" Isn't he secretly busy rebelling? How can there be idle time to follow her all the time?