Finally, on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, the prince was going to the Temple of Heaven to worship under the protection of a group of guards, and Jiao Nu and I naturally had to follow. Coming out of the palace, the streets are lined with stalls of all kinds; Selling all kinds of snacks and all kinds of sachets, longevity wisps, etc.; There are also some items for people to play with. Regardless of men, women, and children, they all wear masks, and several of us are no exception, the prince wears a mask of Xuanyi, I wear the mask of Zhu Bajie, and Jiaonu wears the mask of the Jade Rabbit.

I have been imprisoned in the Yan Palace for a long time, and as soon as I leave the palace, I am also very happy. Along the way, the prince ordered people to buy us a lot of delicious food, including sugar gourds, sugar people, dragon whisker cakes, etc. We also bought a pair of longevity threads to wear on our arms for safety. When you come to the downtown area, many people are playing the game of shooting flour balls, that is, using arrows to shoot the yellow rice horn millet soaked in wormwood, if you shoot, you can eat it, and it means auspiciousness; Jiaonu and I also played a few times with the ball ball, and it was so much fun! We walked all the way from the palace, eating and playing all the way, excited, and soon came to the Temple of Heaven.

There is a huge Ai Man hanging at the main entrance of the Temple of Heaven, and a huge stage is set up in front of the door. Above the Temple of Heaven hang all kinds of strangely shaped lanterns, illuminating the Temple of Heaven as if it were daytime. People slowly gathered to the Temple of Heaven from all directions, and the crowds were surging and rubbing shoulders one after another. When the auspicious time came, countless fireworks rose in the sky in the distance, brilliant and brilliant, lighting up the entire sky! There were exclamations from the crowd, and everyone looked intently at the sky, and some children clapped their hands and shouted, "It's so beautiful!" ”

As soon as the fireworks burned out, dozens of dancers wearing Zhong Kui's costumes and wearing Zhong Kui's mask and sword flew down from the Temple of Heaven. I saw them descending from the sky, their movements were neat and uniform, and they landed like dragonflies touching water. As soon as they landed, the curtain behind them was removed, revealing a huge group of drums, sometimes like thunder, sometimes like raindrops, sometimes slowly, sometimes urgently; And the dancers wearing Zhong Kui's costumes danced in this drum, dancing Zhong Kui, although dancing with swords, but the dancers are both rigid and soft, both have the evil spirit when the sword strikes, and the patience before the front is charged, which can be described as free. The dancers at the head move as naturally as flowing water, and the dance becomes one and merges into one. As the drum beat gradually changed from slow to urgent, reaching **, the dancers danced the soft sword in their hands more quickly, although the beat was fast, but the dancers' movements were more neat. The drums stopped suddenly, and all the dancers threw down their swords and fell to the ground. At this time, a huge statue of Zhong Kui descended from the sky above the Temple of Heaven, and the crowd erupted in exclamations, which was truly breathtaking! People bowed down to Zhong Kui's portrait and prayed to get rid of the devil and evil and stay away from the plague.

"Sky lantern!" Someone shouted, and I looked up. I saw that the dancer who was lying on the ground just now, as if by magic, released a lot of sky lanterns. And those dancers also took off their masks one after another, and the dancers led by them were actually indulgent! Under the sky lanterns, he stood on the stage in white clothes, his long hair fluttering, like a god, dazzling, and people couldn't help but be attracted by it. Some people applauded, it turned out that Murong Xue and her subordinates were applauding the dancers in the audience, and the crowd in the audience also remembered the thunderous applause.

After the people knelt down to worship Zhong Kui, they also lit the sky lanterns to pray for blessings. I wrote on the sky lantern: May man last these words, and I let them fly with a reverent heart. At this moment, I saw a man wearing a werewolf mask standing in the crowd across from me. But because I was wearing a mask, he didn't see me. I remembered the paper kite I received in the East Palace that day, which read: Dragon Boat Festival, wolf-faced human body, under the Kong Ming lamp, see you or leave! Yes, he didn't lie to me, he really came. Under Kong Ming's lamp, he is like a white dress, like a god, which makes people unable to take their eyes off. Unconsciously, I took off my mask and looked at him with affection. At that moment, he saw me, too. He ran over as fast as he could, with a radiant light, and he took my hand and whispered in my ear, "Put on your mask, I'll take you flying." ”

He pulled me through the crowd so quickly that I heard the sound of guards chasing after me, but because of the crowd and the fact that we were wearing masks, we were able to shake off those who were chasing us in a few moments! We ran farther and farther, like birds out of the cage, flapping our wings vigorously, hoping that we could keep running, away from this cold Yan Palace, and return to our hometown.

We ran tirelessly until we felt that there was no danger for a while, and we stopped. The two of us sat on the ground and laughed, like two children, and we finally broke free and gained a temporary freedom, for which we lost our lives.

After laughing, I looked around. It was a river, and there was a boat parked by the river, and the two of us ran to the boat happily. Paddled the boat to the middle of the lake, and when it was settled, he took me into his arms as if he were going to rub me into his body.

He said, "I miss you so much." ”

"Me too."

I looked up at him aggrievedly, I stroked his face with both hands, he was so good-looking, this is the person I have been thinking about for a long time! Like a treasure, he took my cheek and kissed it deeply. This kiss passed for a long, long time, and I didn't want to separate....... Suddenly, I thought of what had happened before, so I pushed him away angrily, and pretended to be angry and asked, "Didn't you say that I should be self-respecting?" Do I have to do it for myself? ”

"If I don't say that, do you think the princess will let you go? She is cruel by nature and can do anything, and in order to save your life at that time, I can only say that! He explained

"Let's run! Qing'er! Wherever you go, as long as you can leave this ghost palace! He continued.

"Escape?"

"Yes! In order to control me, Murong Xue threatened me with you, at first, she only said that she wanted me to accompany her in this Yan Palace for a few months, and obey her, so that she could not hurt you! But then, she forced me to be a colt! ”

"So it's the princess's idea that the queen locked me up in Qixia Palace?"

"This mother and daughter have the same style, they are both vicious and ruthless. Murong Xue forced me to be a concubine, and I didn't agree, so she forced me to die, and then I heard the prince say that you were caught by the queen and taken to the palace. I guess it was the queen who felt sorry for her daughter, so she arrested you to Qixia Palace, so as to threaten me and let me take the initiative to commit it! In order to rescue you, I pretended to agree to marry Murong Xue, but the condition is that you must live! And I promised her that she would break off with you from now on, and they had nothing to do with each other, so what happened in Qixia Palace that day happened! ”

"I see!"

"Qing'er, let's escape! I don't want to do anything about the colt! This Yan Palace made you almost die several times, every time I saw you in danger, but I couldn't be by your side, I couldn't protect you, do you know how painful I am? When Chen Zong said this, he burst into tears.

"Say no more! I'm so stupid that I keep misunderstanding you! I blamed myself. We can go back to Jin from Yan to Jin, and we are penniless, how can we go back? ”

"Look! What is it! Chen Zong took out a stack of silver tickets from his arms, "This is the silver ticket I secretly hidden, these should be enough!" "It turns out that Chen Zong has been preparing for this escape for a long time!

"We can't go south, everyone guessed that we would go back to the Jin Kingdom, and they would definitely chase south. Let's run north, I have studied the terrain of this Yan country, from here to the north is a deep mountain, let's go to the mountains to hide for a while! Wait to avoid this gust of limelight and go south! ”

"Good!"

"After crossing the river, it was a village, and we went to buy two horses from the local people. During the day we took the official road, pretending to go south, and at night, we took the path to the north. ”

"Okay, everything is up to you." I snuggled up to my side, and I felt more grounded than I had ever been.