On this day, there are not a few people who come to Baohui Temple to worship, some of the big families have set up a dojo in the temple, crowded next to each other, crowded, and people who have not seen the work and lost do not know.

There are too many people, and most of the people who come today are the families in the Lindu City, everyone knows each other, and it is inevitable to stop and politely say two words when they meet, and they stop and go, until the worship trip is over, and the sky is dark clouds.

There are also temple fairs that stretch into the city under Baohui Temple, and the lanterns of the Jingmyung River are also one of the indispensable activities of the Obon Festival. Jiang Wu was going to accompany Anhou back, and Jiang Changyan came back from Xishan Academy easily, and he was trying to join in the fun.

Jiang Wu had no choice but to entrust the younger son to the eldest son, and advised: "There are many people in the temple fair, you are the elder brother, but you must protect your younger brother and sister, don't bump into it." ”

Today, Jiang Changyuan heard his mother say this no less than three times, and his ears were almost calloused: "I know my mother, my father is still waiting, go back quickly." ”

knew that he was impatient, but Jiang Wu still had to say what he should say, as if something would definitely happen if he didn't say it. "Xi'er, you have to follow my brother, and I'll go home when I've had enough, ah."

Jiang Changxi naturally should, Jiang Changchang rolled his eyes: "Mother, are you a sister who is three years old this year or your son, and I am three years old this year." Let's go back, let's go over there, sister. Jiang Changchang pulled one by one, and no longer cared about the Jiang Wu family. Anyway, someone is happy to take care of her.

"Sister, sister, here." Passing through the crowd, Jiang Changyan, who had left his elders, was like a wild horse on the loose, jumping out happily.

Jiang Changchang and Jiang Changxi followed behind, and when they took a step slower, they were separated by the bustling crowd, and they always felt that they would not be able to find anyone if they missed their eyes.

"Ah Yan, you go slowly." Jiang Changxi instructed him, and called his scholar to follow closely, don't really get separated. "Ah Yan looks very happy."

"Not really." Jiang Changchang protected his sister from letting pedestrians collide with her, and said: "Xishan Academy is very dogmatic and old-fashioned, and my father still wants to send Ah Yan there to live and suffer." ”

"But how did I hear that the gentlemen of Xishan Academy are all knowledgeable and highly respected by students all over the world."

“…… Did those old pedantry in Xishan Academy do you any good? You're talking to them. Jiang Changyuan's face was hurt: "Sister, I am your own brother, you have to distinguish between inside and outside, and share the same enemy with me!" ”

Jiang Changxi knew that Jiang Changchang had also been to Xishan Academy to study, and it seemed that he was later invited to leave the academy because of his fight with the Six Princes, which had a bad impact. But it didn't take long for the six princes, who were also asked to leave, to swagger again in Xishan Academy.

Because of this incident, Jiang Changchang has always felt that Xishan Academy is unfair, and he also has a lot of complaints about those gentlemen who teach.

Knowing that he was awkward, Jiang Changxi had no choice but to comfort him and said, "I am naturally on the same front as my brother. But brother, don't forget, Ah Yanke is still studying in Xishan Academy. Even if there are any complaints, for the sake of Ah Yan, you should endure it. ”

Jiang Changchang snorted twice, and he didn't know whether he heard it or not.

The two followed the flow of people to the place where Jiang Changyan stood, which was a stall selling lanterns.

The custom of putting lanterns to pray for blessings has a long history, and the shape of the lanterns is slightly different due to different customs and habits in different places. The most widely spread is the lotus lantern.

It may be because he fell into the water when he was young, and the elders in the family have always looked at Jiang Changyan very strictly, and it is forbidden to go to the lake and river. The activity of putting lanterns is just an adult buying lanterns for him to light for himself, and letting the scholars put them into the river on their behalf.

But even so, every festival when lights can be put on, Jiang Changyan is still very happy.

Is it a child, or a fun age.

bought a lamp for each brother and sister, and Jiang Changchang took them to Jingming River.

"Sister, doesn't my brother put the lights?" Jiang Changyan held his brother in one hand and his sister in the other, and looked back from time to time to look at the lotus lantern that was carefully held in his hand by the scholar.

Jiang Changchang slapped him on the head unceremoniously: "Jiang Changyan, look at the road!" ”

"Woo......" Jiang Changyan hugged his head and miserably drilled into his sister's arms to accuse his brother of atrocities.

"Brother!" Jiang Changxi was distressed to keep Jiang Changyan, and looked at his brother angrily and helplessly.

Jiang Changchang can say that he is fierce to Jiang Chang, but he can't be fierce to his sister, and he cut it to express his disdain for his younger brother's behavior of suing after being struck, and stopped and said, "It's here." ”

The lights on both sides of the Jingming River are bright, and the vast river surface is floating with large and small lotus lanterns, just like the stars that break into the Tianhe, and the bright lights are no less than the stars of the nine heavens.

Jiang Changyan ran away with the lotus lantern, the scholar chased after him with difficulty, Jiang Changyan saw that his sister didn't follow, and looked back: "Sister? ”

"I'll take a look at Sister Qin, I'll go with her to put the lights on later." Jiang Changxi looked ahead, Jiang Changyan had already run away: "Brother, go chase Ah Yan." ”

Jiang Changchang naturally also saw Qin Mo waving at them on the bank of the river, and reluctantly said: "Then you be careful, don't run around after putting the lights on, wait for me and Ah Yan." ”

Jiang Changxi obediently agreed. She is too well-behaved, and it is difficult for Jiang to think about it in the long run. On the contrary, Jiang Changyan said that children with big hearts are the ones who should be carefully guarded.

"Sister Changxi." Qin Mo saw that Jiang Yuan was gone, so he stepped forward and pulled her aside. There are weeping willows, some lights are not full, and some people are not crowded.

Qin Mo glanced at the street above, but didn't see a familiar person: "It's strange, why hasn't the second brother come yet, and he is dying slowly." ”

"Maybe there's something delaying." Jiang Changxi raised the lotus lantern in his hand at her, "Let's go put the lotus lantern." ”

"No, I'll have to find it." Qin Mo ran away with her lotus lantern, and said in pieces as she ran: "How can you let the girl wait, the second brother is too unsonate." ”

Jiang Changxi couldn't shout at Qin Mo, so he had no choice but to give up: "Let's go over there and sit and wait." "Fortunately, Qingrong is still with her, otherwise she would not dare to stay here longer if she is alone.

The place Jiang Changxi said was a few pieces of gravel next to the willow tree, all of which were just the size for a person to sit on, and several pieces were piled up together haphazardly.

Qingrong took a look, and after brushing away the little dust, it was okay to take a break for a while.

When it was almost a cup of tea, Jiang Changxi waited for Qin Shixiao, but he didn't see Qin Mo.

"Where's Sister Qin?"

"Huh?" Qin Shixiao didn't know why: "Didn't she come to look for you first?" Qin Shixiao explained that he met a colleague when he left Baohui Temple, and was pulled to chat a few words, Qin Mo came here to find her first in order to avoid it.

"I just met Sister Qin, but Sister Qin waited for you for a long time, so I went back to look for you."

After hearing this, Qin Shixiao said helplessly: "That's probably missing." ”

It's also possible. After all, there is more than one way down the mountain from Baohui Temple.

Jiang Changxi saw that it was not early, although there were people coming and going because of the temple fair, but there should not be many people staying in Baohui Temple at this time, Qin Mo did not meet Qin Shixiao on the road, and he would definitely run to Baohui Temple.

She is a girl's house, which is somewhat dangerous.

"Then let's go back down the road to her."

"Why don't you go and put the lanterns first?" Qin Shixiao looked at the lotus lantern in her hand.

"There's no rush to come back and put it back." Jiang Changxi shook his head and said, by the way, let Qingrong go and tell Jiang Changchang, so as not to worry if Jiang Changchang can't find her when he comes back.

But where did Qingrong dare to let Jiang Changxi alone, Qin Shixiao asked his entourage to find Jiang Changxi, and he took Jiang Changxi's master and servant back along the road to find Qin Mo.

The reason why I will walk along the main road is because the night is getting deeper, and the path down from Baohui Temple is pitch black and there are no fingers, which is more dangerous and terrifying, and the lanterns on both sides of the road are hung high, and the voices of people are still boiling. The two guessed that Qin Mo would not find Qin Shixiao and was ready to go down the mountain, and most of them would choose this path.

In fact, they did meet some people who returned late on this road, and there were a few children of the family that Qin Shixiao knew, and they also said that they met Qin Mo and went to Baohui Temple.

Qin Shixiao took Jiang Changxi all the way up the mountain, the temple fair was lit up on both sides of the mountain road, and the bright candle flame shrunk the shadows of the two into a ball under their feet, and the evening breeze swept away a lot of the heat in the daytime.

"This summer seems to be a little hotter than usual." Feet on the stone path that stretched up the mountain, so quiet that only the sound of the wind passing through the treetops remained.

Qin Shixiao has been busy with official business since he returned to the capital, either staying in the government or staying in the study, with a basin of ice next to him, but he doesn't feel too hot. Today, I came out to worship my ancestors, going back and forth up and down the mountain, but I felt the heat wave coming to my face.

"Maybe it's because it hasn't rained all the time." After late spring, Lindu has not seen rain for more than a month.

"There is no rain in Lindu, but the south of the Yangtze River is flooded with rain." Qin Shixiao remembered that the Ministry of Industry had recently been ordered to reinforce the embankments on both sides of the Hengjiang River, and that a number of people had to be transferred down, and the list of proposed ones was long, which made him have a headache.

Jiangnan has always been wetter and rainier than the north, and it is the rainy season, so this conversation is just a casual conversation, and it does not attract much attention from the two.

At this time, it was not yet the hour when Baohui Temple was locked, the vermilion gate was opened, and the people who deliberately avoided the crowd who came to worship were about to leave, Jiang Changxi paid attention to the meeting, and did not see Qin Mo's figure.

"Have you already gone down the mountain?"

"Let's look around, if we can't find it, we'll go down the mountain." Qin Shixiao glanced at the Baohui Pagoda hidden in the darkness on the heavenly steps.

Well, his sister wouldn't be stupid enough to go there looking for him.

Thinking about this possibility, Qin Shixiao took the two girls to the other side to find it.

After looking around, there was no one to see, and there was no trace in Baohui Temple.

"Looks like it's been missed again." Qin Shixiao sighed faintly. "Shall we go down the mountain first?"

What else can you do? Qin Mo couldn't be found. Jiang Changxi had no choice but to follow Qin Shixiao down the mountain.

"I'm sorry, second brother, I want you to accompany me on this trip."

"It's my sister. If you want to accompany, it should be you who accompany me on this trip. Should I tell you I'm sorry too? Qin Shixiao joked.