Chapter 45: The Festival of Fire
The carriage drove into the territory of Agni City, and more than a hundred waiting witch disciples appeared. Lihong followed them into the palace and sent Ding Ruoyu back to the camp of the dead.
In the camp, the teenagers who were practicing saw her come back, discussed a few words with each other and continued to practice. These days, all Ding Ruoyu thinks about is the sword moves of Lou Xuejiao, so he goes to meditate and practice witchcraft alone.
At noon, Chen Lan called for dinner, took her to a resting place, and asked her how she was recovering.
Ding Ruoyu's body is still dry and thin, but his skin is a lot whiter and tenderer, obviously he has been recuperating well this month. Opposite the two, Feiqiong and Cunxin came and told her that Sleepless had been elected to the witch cult and became the saint of the witch cult.
"What is a saint?" Ding Ruoyu said curiously.
Chen Lan thought for a while and said, "It is equivalent to the daughter or sister of the previous Witch Emperor, and maybe she can take over the Witch Sect in the future." ”
"I see." Ding Ruoyu nodded.
"Also," Chen Lan secretly squinted at Yu Feiqiong, approached her and stared at her reaction, "That lord has agreed to be the Witch Emperor." ”
Ding Ruoyu smiled slightly: "No matter how the sky changes, we still have to do our own work." ”
Chen Lan couldn't see anything from her demeanor at all, so she had to give up, squeamishly picked out the garlic in the bowl, and threw it into Yu Feiqiong's bowl one by one.
Yu Feiqiong wanted to have a seizure, but seeing that Ding Ruoyu didn't react, the appearance of ignoring him made him feel as uncomfortable as if he had been cut by a knife, so he didn't say a word.
The afternoon practice was taken to find it.
"I have some questions about witchcraft that I want to ask you." He pulled Ding Ruoyu aside and said with some embarrassment.
"Witchcraft?" Ding Ruoyu was stunned.
"Fire-based." Cunxin scratched his head, his face flushed slightly.
The two of them sent out their thoughts, you attacked back and forth, and the flames burst out, attracting the eyes of the Obsidian Hall dead soldiers who had done some good things.
"Don't be in a daze, your opponent is me!" Yu Feiqiong pointed a sword at Chen Lan's throat, almost rubbing her slender neck with blood, startling her to take several steps back.
"What a temper!" Chen Lan clutched her throat, her chest heaved and heaved, and she said angrily.
"Bang!" The huge explosion once again attracted everyone's attention, and it turned out that Cun Xin didn't control his mental power well, and the small fireball exploded, blackening half of his body.
"Condense the qi first, then send it out, control it and don't let the qi disperse so quickly." Ding Ruoyu said helplessly.
"Is that so?" Cunxin tried again, crackling, and the people who were close to him were also burned into black charcoal by the fireworks.
As soon as Ding Ruoyu saw him make a move, he knew that he was going to have a moth again, so he swam up the wall early, half-squatting on the edge of the wall lamp, and watched him blow up all around.
"It's still scattered." She jumped down and held a flame in her palm and demonstrated, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid of being hurt by fire, take it as part of your arm......"
Yu Feiqiong looked at them and went to the other corner of the hall with Chen Lan.
"Jealous again?" Chen Lan's sweet laughter sounded so harsh to him.
"Why did you hang yourself from one of her trees? Knowing that she has no intention of you, she is a great teacher...... No, now it's the Witch Emperor's people, so you can't look at the other people around you? She pointed her fingers and played with the sharp dagger, and Ren Hanmang intertwined between her fingers.
"Others?" Yu Feiqiong sneered, "You? ”
"Why can't it be me?" Chen Lan squinted and asked with a smile, two small pear vortices at the corners of her mouth, and her smile was as sweet as honey.
"I can't feel your sincerity, I just feel disgusting." Yu Feiqiong had an extra ruthlessness on her body, forcing her to take a small step back.
Chen Lan shook his head with a smile, stepped forward boldly, gently put his hand on his heart that was beating a little fast, and said softly: "I admit that I like you entirely because you are interested in Qiao'er." I can't figure out why, but ...... Anyone who likes her, I want it. ”
"Are you crazy?" Yu Feiqiong pushed her away.
"Including you, including the Great Master...... I'm going to make you all like me in the end. Chen Lan staggered two steps, but her smile became sweeter.
"You're really crazy, I'll never like you!" Yu Feiqiong cut the railway.
"That's okay, I'll let her leave you on her own initiative, so that none of you can get her!" Chen Lan's smile showed a little more yin and evil that could not be hidden.
She turned her face slightly, and a pair of eyes slipped back and forth on Ding Ruoyu and Cun Xin a few times.
A few days later, the festival was held as scheduled. Just in time for the new emperor to ascend the throne and grant amnesty to the world, he also released the dead soldiers of the Obsidian Hall and the Red Lotus Hall to put on the cloak of the low-level disciples of the witch sect and went to the heavenly tower to watch the ceremony.
A ring of braziers was placed on the high platform, wizards danced around the flames and drums, crowds of people watched the ceremony on both sides of the road and in the surrounding restaurants, and a long procession of costumed aristocratic women marched through the streets, attracting people to throw the most delicate flower petals at them.
The bell rings and the ceremony officially begins.
With the sound of music, five sorcerers wearing the masks of the god of fire fell down from the tower like a god descending into the world, they were dressed in white like snow, their black hair was scattered, stepping on the flickering flames in the brazier below, and dancing the unrestrained Hu Ren dance.
Ding Ruoyu stood by the railing and saw it clearly. These people are all wind wizards, and when they landed, they stepped on the wind shield, and now they have added wind barrier protection, and ordinary fire can't get close to them at all.
The people of Yanguo, who did not know what was going on, cheered one after another, and sang the fire sacrifice to the tune played by the musician, pushing the atmosphere in the city to a climax.
On both sides of the high platform, another group of dancing girls in the palace walked up to the stage with light steps, wearing more than a dozen tinkling silver bracelets on their exposed slender arms, wearing bloomers on their lower bodies and wearing various colored ribbons on their shoulders, dancing a gorgeous and enthusiastic Hu Xuan dance.
On the top floor of the Heavenly Tower, a vermilion door opened, and two young men walked out side by side. There were bursts of exclamations in the crowd, and Ding Ruoyu pricked up his ears to listen, it turned out that the emperor and the witch emperor came out together.
She looked up at the dazzling clouds, and within a few moments, the tower was full of guards and wizards guarding her. The two of them were both dressed in luxurious black robes, but Yan Xi's neckline was woven with gold silk, but the one on Lihong's body was as red as a flame, and the wide cuffs fluttered in the wind, setting off the outstanding temperament of the two.
Yan Ci was full of majesty, looked down expressionlessly, and occasionally turned his face to say something to Lihong. He hadn't been standing upstairs for long before he turned around and entered the door, never to be seen again.
The bazaar is getting more and more lively. Chen Lan took Ding Ruoyu to wander around, and finally stopped in front of a shop selling ice water.
Yu Feiqiong sat there, saw them coming hand in hand, pointed to the table and said, "Are you thirsty?" I bought it for you. ”
There were a few small pieces of ice floating in the cool water, with vanilla leaves floating on them, and a small Lantern Festival was added to the bowl, and the two little girls quickly sat down and tasted it.
On this kind of semi-lukewarm day, tasting some ice has a different taste.
After resting for a while, the three of them went to burn incense and worship together, and tried to make their own incense.
There was the sound of gongs and drums behind them, and they rushed over to watch the performance, but they were dispersed by the flow of people. Ding Ruoyu stood on tiptoe and looked around, and suddenly someone grabbed his hand and ran to another place.
Dressed in white and wearing the mask of the god of fire, he was the wizard who danced on the stage earlier. Ding Ruoyu couldn't break free, and silently ran forward with him against the flow of people, and in a blink of an eye, he couldn't hear the sound of gongs and drums.
The man led her to a willow tree and reached out to lift the mask.
"How could you ......" Ding Ruoyu looked at Lihong's dress, leaned against the trunk of the tree and breathed slowly.
"It's so boring up there that it sneaks out." Li Hong took a hairpin and hurriedly coiled the loose hair into a simple bun.
"What if they look for you?" Ding Ruoyu saw that his bun was not a women's bun that he had brought casually in the past, but a normal man's bun, and he had doubts in his heart.
"There is an emperor on top." Li Hong laughed irresponsibly.
He took Ding Ruoyu to a river bank and watched his lover on the bank put up the river lantern.
That hand didn't seem to be as cold as usual. Ding Ruoyu looked up at him, his dark eyes were cold and unruly, but they were not different from his usual unpredictability, and he couldn't help but fall into contemplation again.
From a very young age, she possessed a strange ability that seemed to be able to read through everyone's hearts. Over the years, as she has practiced every detail, intentionally or unintentionally, she has become more and more accurate in detecting people's hearts.
The doubts in her heart are telling her that the people around her must have important secrets hidden from her. Li Hong felt her gaze, looked at her with a smile and said, "What did you find again?" ”
It's the feeling of déjà vu again, and she's herself in the dark.
Ding Ruoyu asked blankly, "What?" ”
"I remember, a long, long time ago, you liked to stare at me like this, trying to see me through." Li Hong looked at the crowd again, looking at the crowd in twos and threes, looking at a distance, as if looking at another world that no longer belonged to them, "What secret do I have?" Don't you remember everything about me better than I remember? ”
Ding Ruoyu grabbed his hand. Although she couldn't understand what he was saying, there was a sudden inexplicable pain in her heart, so painful that she was about to curl up her body.
Lihong leaned over and hugged her, let her lean into his arms, and sighed softly.
Suddenly, there was chaos in the crowd of people who put the river lanterns, Ding Ruoyu was still immersed in inexplicable emotions, so Li Hong picked her up horizontally and rushed to the shade of the trees on the side.
A few white feathers burst through the air and nailed to the trunks of the surrounding trees, and he regretted that he had run out alone without any preparation, and that he had put her in danger.
In the woods, another dark figure was quietly waiting for him to approach.
Ding Ruoyu came back to his senses and struggled to get off the ground, but he was held in his arms.
She turned her head to look at the pitch-black figure in front of her, shrouded in a long cloak, half of his face as handsome as a god and the other half as festering as a ghost......
With a whoosh, without warning, a sharp arrow grazed the tip of her nose and sank into Lihong's heart.