The shopkeeper said that there is another rule in the prayer festival, putting river lanterns in the upper reaches of the moat is to pray for the blessings of the living, and most of the people who put river lanterns in the downstream are mourning the dead relatives and friends. Manyue guessed that with Lu Changfeng's condition, most of them would go downstream, but she had been squatting downstream for a day, so why hadn't she seen anyone yet.

There were more and more people by the river, and the lotus lanterns swirled in the river, going away with a hazy light. Manyue stood up, took the river lamp at hand, and turned her head, but saw Lu Changfeng, who was late.

He was obviously a little surprised, "Why are you here?" ”

Manyue: "I'm waiting for you." ”

"What if I don't come?" Lu Changfeng frowned, and there was a glimmer in his eyes.

She smiled and said, "Then I'll go find you." Then he said, "Actually, if you come later, I'll go to you." "Actually, she went to the Lu Mansion once in the morning, but the housekeeper said that he went to the court, and she couldn't find anyone.

Lu Changfeng raised the corners of his mouth, his eyes were like stars, "Not in the future." ”

Seeing that he was empty-handed and didn't put the lights on with the others, Manyue asked, "Lu Changfeng, why don't you put the lights?" ”

He put his hands behind his waist, looked at the boiling river, and shook his head, "It's just a formality." Did you know that there is a legend in Shengjing that the souls of wanderers who died in vain will follow the rivers all the way back to the moat to protect their hometown? ”

The silver-white moonlight cast on his thin figure, adding a bit of gloom.

Manyue pursed her lips, took the lotus lantern to his eyes, and shook it a few times: "This is what I made myself, although it is not very beautiful." Let's go, go upstream and put the lights. ”

Lu Changfeng took the lantern, looked at it carefully, nodded and hummed, "It's really not good-looking." ”

There is a lot of excitement in the upper reaches, and some people have already set up stalls, selling snacks, river lanterns, and rouge gouache......

Manyue looked at the river lanterns on other people's stalls and compared them with her own, "I'll go sell you a new one." Lu Changfeng stopped her, "No need, this is good." ”

Manyue borrowed a pen and paper from the vendor and handed it to him: "They said, write your wish on paper, float along the river lantern, and the gods will grant your wish." ”

"Celestial, huh." He scoffed, "I don't believe that. ”

"Why?"

Ten years ago, in that dark dry well, he begged the gods over and over again, covered in scars, but when he was carried out, what awaited him was a sunny day. Thinking about it now, I still think that the weather that day was surprisingly good, and the sun was dazzling, "No, I didn't want to believe it a long time ago." ”

There are so many reasons, but they are all disheartened.

Manyue knew that most of them had poked him in the sore spot again, thought about it, and pointed to the sky, "There is also a piece of heaven there, although the people living on it are not gods, but they are also very powerful characters, you can make a wish to them." ”

Some of the big demons in Nanxu are also worshiped to eliminate disasters for others, and she added: "If you don't know who to make a wish to, make a wish to the one in Taichen Palace." What she didn't explain was that she lived in the Taichen Palace.

Lu Changfeng dipped his pen in ink, wrote a few words, carefully folded them and put them in the center of the river lamp. He lowered the lamp to the surface of the water and dialed the water in the hope that it would float away quickly.

Manyue squatted beside him: "Lu Changfeng, what wish did you make?" ”

Xi Xi Liang Breeze pulled up a few strands of hair on her forehead and swept her cheeks indiscriminately, Lu Changfeng looked at her sideways, and reached out to help her comb her messy hair. The slightly cool fingertips caressed her face, and her eyes seemed to be full of winter and spring at the banquet that day, "It doesn't work if you say it." ”

Manyue remembered Lu Changfeng's incident, and when Liu An'an woke up, he mentioned to her that Lu Changfeng wanted to see her, but he didn't expect Liu An'an to react strangely.

It turned out that she lingered in the world for a long time after her death, and she couldn't remember many things before her death, and only vaguely remembered that she was wronged. But that day, she was seen by a Taoist priest on the street, and under the battle of life and death, she remembered the things of her life bizarrely.

"General Lu, General Lu, I want to see him-" She grabbed Manyue's wrist, a little excited.

Manyue comforted her, "You, don't worry, I'll call the priest over first and discuss how to explain your current appearance." ”

The torturer held a fan in one hand, knocked it on the palm of his hand, pondered for a while and said: "It's better to say that Liu An'an's body was not dead when he was thrown into the mass grave, and it happened that I was saved." ”

"Can you fool the past?"

"Most likely, fortunately, she was sentenced to death by hanging, if she was beheaded, the body would be separated, it would be unclear." The priest looked at Liu An'an, she lowered her head, and the hand holding the handkerchief covered her neck.

Manyue asked the shopkeeper to find Lu Changfeng and An Ding.

Liu An'an sat still, standing up from time to time and looking at the door. Manyue drank a cup of herbal tea, and poured another cup without getting enough, "Lu Changfeng will come over sooner or later, don't keep walking around, dazzling ......me."

Liu Anan stood up suddenly, his eyes quickly reddened, and he choked up and asked, "Yes, is it General Lu Changfeng Lu?" As soon as Manyue swallowed a sip of tea, she choked and coughed a few times, only to see Lu Changfeng and An Ding standing at the door with strange expressions.

Presumably thought that Liu An'an was dead, but now people are standing in front of them alive.

Lu Changfeng nodded slightly, in response to her. Liu Anan knelt down with a thud, and burst into tears: "I beg the general to avenge my husband Jun Lin Xingyuan." Manyue knew that she was timid and crying, but where had she seen her posture, and she didn't know what happened to her before she died.

The torturer hurriedly stepped forward to help her up, "Let's go upstairs and talk about something." ”

The group went upstairs, but Manyue did not follow, but stayed in the hall and stared at the shopkeeper. She stood up and looked up to face the priest who had come out of the closed door.

He went downstairs and asked, "Why don't you go and listen to it?" ”

Manyue pouted: "They said things from the past, I don't know those people, and I can't understand them, so forget it." She glanced at the executioner, and it looked like she was going out again, "What about you, why are you going?" ”

"Didn't you say it before, Si Wei's business is now for me to do, it's not like I'm going to go out to work. What's the matter, Uncle Xiao is not happy? The torturer looked at her.

"Sort of." She looked dazed, and she couldn't lift her energy.

The priest sat down at the table, poured two cups of tea, and was very understanding: "Uncle Xiao has any troubles, you might as well talk to me." ”

Manyue stretched out her hand and turned the teacup filled with water, lowered her eyes to see the water surface ripple slightly, her crow-blue eyelashes covered the emotions in her eyes, and she said in a muffled voice for a long time: "I don't understand, we are all alive under the sun, is our identity so unsightly?" ”

She took out a half-burned rune paper, which she brought back when she went to find Liu An'an that day, "I don't like this either, yellow runes, witchcraft, obviously they are all creations between heaven and earth, but they forcibly distinguish between good and evil, and use these creations given by heaven and earth to slaughter each other in vain." ”

"The people I have seen, some people kill people like cutting grass, and some of the demons I have seen have fed on flower dew and have never hurt any living beings. Liu Anan was mutilated before her death, and she didn't harm anyone after becoming a ghost, but that person wanted to kill her without asking whether it was good or bad, right? ”

The punishment was very pleased, and there was a subtle feeling of the old father seeing his daughter grow up, and he sighed: "Uncle Xiao has grown up." But this is an eternal problem, people think the demon is bad, the demon thinks the person is bad, you are just standing in the position of the demon, you can't tell. ”

He patted Manyue on the shoulder, "There have been too many things happening in the past few days, Uncle Xiao might as well go out for a walk, I heard that there are a lot of new things coming out again." ”

After the punishment left, Manyue also felt bored and went out with her hands behind her back.

In the evening, it snowed, and the snowflakes fell like scraps of paper, falling lightly to the shoulders, and in a short time they melted away, making the clothes a deep and shallow water stain, as if it were raining.

The open-air vendors in the East Market set up their sheds, and the other vendors stood in front of the stalls, their hands clasped in their sleeves to keep warm. The snow on the ground was trampled solidly, forming a thin layer of frost, and the moon walked by, leaving a row of shallow footprints behind it.

She walked for a while, always feeling someone following behind her, so she stopped and looked back. Lu Changfeng was dressed in dark clothes, holding an oil-paper umbrella, walking in front of her step by step, depicting the umbrella of green bamboo leaning towards her, "It's snowing, why don't you go back?" The voice was low, tickling the tips of the ears.

Manyue was stunned, and then realized that she had not eaten yet. ”

He laughed twice: "Hungry? ”

Manyue nodded.

When they came to the noodle stall, the boss looked at her carefully for a long time and said with a smile: "Girl, it's you." ”

"You know me?" Manyue pointed at herself, she didn't know the owner of this noodle stall.

The boss lifted the lid of the pot, and the smoke was billowing out, "Of course I know, last time you came with Miss Anding, you ate a lot, and the bowls were piled up in a big stack, I was impressed, this time I will put more noodles for you." ”

He is a rectum, what he wants to say, when he saw Lu Changfeng, he realized that he shouldn't expose the girl's face in front of the man like this, and said busily: "Girl, don't mind, don't mind, it's a blessing to be able to eat." ”

She didn't feel ashamed, smiled and thanked the boss, and followed his words: "It's a blessing or a blessing." ”