"Look, the god of flowers is here!"

Several people in the crowd shouted excitedly, and everyone looked towards the street. Zhang Qining is no exception.

Look left and right, come out after a long time.

In the noisy crowd, Zhang Qining first heard the ethereal crushing sound of clanging, which was the sound of metal flakes colliding, falling like broken stars.

The red gauze curtain fluttered in the wind of the ten-person sedan chair slowly, the eaves of the sedan chair flew upward, hung with golden bells, as if it was a corner of the pavilion carefully built by the craftsmen of the heavenly palace.

The priests carrying the sedan chair are all dressed in white and black hats, and the hats are thin at the top and thick at the bottom, looking extremely tall, and all of them wear long-faced masks with smiling faces.

The clothes of the priest are all silver threads on a white background, bright red color, and black gauze hats, which are very fine from a distance, and the green clouds and pines and cypresses on it are even more lifelike when you look closely. The costume of the flower god can be seen from this, and I don't know what kind of complicated luxury it should be.

There was a slender figure sitting in the red gauze tent, and she slowly reached out to open the curtain, revealing a tiny slit.

Although he didn't see the face, Zhang Qining felt that the person was laughing. The woman who can choose the god of flowers must be the best in a group of people in terms of appearance.

There is something wrapped around the sedan body, and it is vaguely unreal. Zhang Qining slowly squinted nervously, and saw that it seemed to be a pale green, smoke-like thing. What is that?

"Zhan Sui Yu, that-"

"Silence and slowly look away. Don't be found out by him. ”

When the voice fell in her ears, she couldn't help but be shocked, Zhan Suiyu frowned slightly and looked at her with a complicated expression. In this regard, Zhang Qining is the same.

She looked at that again, then turned to him and said, "That's what you mean?" ”

Zhan Suiyu: "Hmm. ”

Zhang Qining couldn't help but be curious, "They can't see it?" She glanced at the people on both sides, but they didn't notice it at all.

Zhan Suiyu: "It seems so. ”

"Is that demonic?"

"Not sure."

Zhang Qining returned to normalcy and looked at him for a long time. "How could there be that at the Flower God Festival? Do you want to follow along? ”

Zhan Suiyu looked at it and said, "That thing is surrounded by clear energy, it doesn't look like a demon." "But even if that's the case, you can't let it go, what if something happens? Zhan Sui Yu lowered his eyes, as if he was considering.

She patted Zhan Sui Yu on the shoulder, and was about to say something, when a man's high-pitched chanting voice came from in front of her, interrupting what she was about to say.

The two priests at the front sang: "The auspicious day is good, and Mu will enjoy the emperor." Fu Chang sword Xi Yuer, loud and loud. Yao Xi Yu Yao, Xi Qiongfang. Hui cuisine steamed orchid, lay cinnamon wine and pepper pulp. Raise the drum and slow down the song. Chen Zhu advocated it. The spirit is full of beautiful clothes, and the room is full of flowers. The five tones are complicated, and Jun Xinxi is happy. ”

Immediately after that, the waiter wearing red, yellow and green colorful clothes stepped forward, shaking a rattle with ribbons in his hand, singing and dancing around the sedan chair, and after the dance, he retreated and came up with the third wave of flowers and fresh dried fruits.

Zhang Qining watched the procession move forward, and couldn't help but wonder: "It's the Eastern Emperor Taiyi in "Chu Ci Nine Songs". ”

Zhan Sui Yu said with his hand: "Yes." What's wrong? ”

Zhang Qining continued: "Isn't Donghuang Taiyi a man? Why is there a woman sitting in the sedan chair? Is it still called the Flower God Festival? Is this... Not quite suitable? ”

"Originally, it wasn't called the Flower God Festival, and it didn't even have a name. Later, because the girls like to pick flowers and offer flowers during the pilgrimage, and because it is spring, they have a relationship with the god of flowers and call this name. ”

Zhang Qining nodded. I see, it turned out to please girls.

Zhan Suiyu continued: "As for why the goddess offered flowers instead of the man—"

He stopped to look at Zhang Qining, raised his eyebrows and asked, "If you are the Eastern Emperor Taiyi, would you prefer to see whether it is a man or a woman who sends flowers to you?" ”

Needless to ask, of course it's a woman!

Although she knew that this reason was that Zhan Suiyu was talking nonsense, she smiled and didn't break it. She turned her face away, and the fairies began to sprinkle flowers, sugar, and candied fruit on the crowd. She didn't know that there was still this step, and she was caught off guard by the sprinkling of flowers and candied fruit in the face.

"Puff, puff. What's the situation? Zhang Qining spit out the petals that had been attached to his lips, and rubbed them twice with disgust.

"Haha, you're in luck. Someone squeezed their head and couldn't get a handful, and you were easily smashed so much. Zhan Suiyu saw that she was smashed in the face, and stood aside and gloated.

Luck? This is obviously that she is starting to be unlucky again, those things don't look big, why does it hurt so much when you smash it?

Zhang Qining shook his head and shook everything off, stretched out his hand and patted it, and there was still a small pale pink flower in his hair that had not been shaken off.

She turned her head and asked Zhan Suiyu, "Is this okay?" ”

Zhan Suiyu had been looking at her, and suddenly saw her looking at her with a pair of dark and translucent eyes. "Here." He raised his hand to Zhang Qining's ear and took the flower from her head. He held it in his hand, spun it around, and handed it to her.

"Oh, take it. It is said that the things on the Flower God Season have bloomed, and if you get it, you will get good luck. ”

"Good luck? Really? Zhang Qining took it and looked at it again and again, and found that no matter how you look at it, it is a very ordinary flower, nothing special.

Zhan Suiyu stretched out her hand and looked at her with a smile. "Just take it as a good prize, keep it."

"yes, okay."

Zhan Suiyu looked at her and was very impressed by her well-behaved appearance. "What did you just want to say?"

Zhang Qining was stunned, thought about it carefully, and raised his head: "I forgot." ”

After the procession, the chosen god of flowers will spend the night at the temple on the mountain, and the rest of the people will go down the mountain to catch the excitement of the afternoon, and the second climax of the flower god festival begins.

"Forget it. The yamen of the temple has arranged for someone to keep vigil nearby, and I will go there later. The stall will be set up for three consecutive days, so you should go back early today. ”

Is this driving people away?

"Hawthorn tea, hawthorn tea."

A merchant was selling, and Zhan Sui Yu saw that Zhang Qining had been watching. He asked, "Want to try it?" ”

Zhang Qining was stunned at first. Didn't Zhan Suiyu not let others touch the money in his pocket, and he would take the initiative to treat him.

If you don't speak, you're thinking. Zhan Suiyu chuckled and said, "Don't walk around, wait for me here." ”

Zhang Qining nodded. After a while, Zhan Suiyu held a bowl folded from wide leaves, which contained hawthorn tea, and walked towards her steadily with a bowl in one hand, with a bright smile in his eyes.

"Let's go."

Zhang Qining stood still, and Zhan Suiyu couldn't help but turn around to look at her. "What's wrong again?"

Her gaze cooled and she took a step back. "Who are you?" Zhang Qining looked at him with a hawthorn tea, the temperature in his eyes dropped and dropped, and his body was also on guard.

The other party couldn't help but be stunned, turned around completely, and put his hands behind his back. "Zhan Sui Yu" had a strange expression on his handsome face, but there was a little more interest in his eyes.

"Are you stupid, you don't even know me for a while?"

Zhang Qining glanced at him lightly and didn't say more. He lowered his head and took a sip of the sweet and sour hawthorn tea. Taking advantage of the other party's unpreparedness, the whole cup was thrown at him. The other party flashed unexpectedly, and when he looked at it again, Zhang Qining had already squeezed into the crowd.

The corners of his mouth hooked up a smile, and he said, "Can you run away?" ”

Zhang Qining was glad that he didn't wear Shi Niang's two troublesome clothes, otherwise he wouldn't know how he would have died. She sat down with her skirt on her back, her chest heaving and panting, before she recovered. The voice behind her was pasted like a talisman, which made the back of her neck cold.

"Girl, why don't you run away?"

The thing rolled up with a burst of black demonic energy, and Zhan Suiyu's appearance slowly faded. He glanced at Zhang Qining lightly, the corners of his mouth were symbolically hooked, and he turned into a jade-faced young man wearing a black robe, holding the dust with a wave of his hand, and a crimson cinnabar mole embedded between his eyebrows.

glanced at Zhang Qining, and said curiously, "How did you recognize that I wasn't from him?" The corners of the man's mouth curled, and he approached her step by step. The whole bowl of hawthorn tea is directly buckled down in the face, so I am sure that I am not Zhan Sui Yu? ”

Behind Zhang Qining is the river that runs through the entire Suzhou City, she has no way to retreat, and what is standing in front of her at this moment is a monster. She calmed down, smiled, and said, "Everyone feels different, and I happen to be more sensitive to this. ”

"I see." Long Xinze took a closer look at Zhang Qining's appearance, his brows stretched, a trace of understanding flashed in his heart, and he smiled. "Little girl, you're not an ordinary person. If you do, come with me. ”

Zhang Qining only felt that there was a gust of wind from his cheeks back, and when he came back to his senses, he saw the black-robed demon Dao flashing in front of him from a few steps away, grabbing his arm, and the black whirlwind wrapped the two of them from below at the same time.

"Zhang Qining!"

The real Zhan Sui Yu ran in the direction of her side from the scattered crowd, and the people around him were attracted to him, but they never noticed the situation on their side. Zhang Qining's heart jumped, silently, without traces, and no one noticed.

"The children who were lost before were all lost by you—"

Long Xinze held Zhang Qining in one hand, glanced at her with low eyes when he heard the sound, and didn't say anything, but there was a smug smile on the corner of his mouth. Soon, her vision was completely obscured by a black whirlwind.

She and Long Xinze instantly moved to the back mountain of Suzhou, and she settled down first. The other party is a demon, she is a human, but she can't fight hard.

Zhang Qining was clasped by him with a small rope and pulled forward. She looked at Long Xinze from behind, and the person walking in front let her look nakedly like this, walking briskly, holding the dust and humming a rather lyrical, not like the minor tune of the Lichao style.

"Are those kids still alive?" Zhang Qining quickly asked the most critical question.

Long Xinze hummed a small tune and turned his head to look at her, chuckling. "You're all in my hands, and you're still in the mood to care about others?"

"It's okay, I'm pretty good at reading people's faces. At least for now, you don't want to kill me. ”

It's not easy to kill her? But Long Xinze's leisurely appearance was more like he wanted to take her somewhere. Could it be that those children are there too? Thinking of this, she suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

Long Xinze's gaze kept staring at Zhang Qining's expression unpredictably, and he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he saw that she was relieved.

"Chirp."

A chickadee perched on top of his head, standing on his hair and looking left and right as if it was a good nesting plot. Long Xinze stretched out his hand and slapped it directly, the stupid bird who dared to pull out the tiger's whiskers, Zhang Qining was afraid that it had become a bird meat pie.

"Don't!"

"Huh." Long Xinze glanced at her and laughed amusedly. Tighten your hands into fists, take them off your head, and spread your five fingers in front of Zhang Qining.

"Chirp." The fluffy stupid fat bird screamed, shook his head and touched his fluff with his wings, tilted his head to look at Zhang Qining and then at Long Xinze in confusion. In the end, he boldly stepped on his hands twice with his paws, "Chirp? ”

Silly birds have silly blessings. Zhang Qining turned his back on his face.

Long Xinze looked at the bold little in his hand, and then looked at Zhang Qining's reaction before and after. She thought he was going to shoot this little thing to death? Is there any mistake, this will make him bleed, so he doesn't do such a tasteless thing.

Grabbing the wings of one side of the and letting it hang in the air, Long Xinze looked at it and pursed his lips and raised a big smile, and let go without saying a word. The bird fell in a straight line, but fortunately came back to its senses before it fell to the ground, flapped its wings and ticked, and quickly moved away from Long Xinze, who looked like a nervous disorder.

Zhang Qining looked at him with a complicated expression, while Long Xinze just shook the dust twice to make sure that no bird feathers stuck to him.

Suddenly, he thought of something again, pinched his fingers and calculated, and frowned, "Hey? "Yes. stepped straight in front of Zhang Qining, grabbed her wrist, pinched her arm twice, and finally asked unwillingly, "How old are you?" ”

"Sixteen." Zhang Qining was puzzled and replied along with his words.

"Sixteen?" He immediately let go of her hand and dusted it a few times with a grumbling blow, removing even the rope that was clasping her hand. Leaving her alone, she walked in the other direction. Before leaving, he was still muttering: "Mistaken, mistaken, busy in vain!" It would be nice to be two years younger. ”

"What do you mean?"

Zhang Qining was puzzled, but as soon as she caught up with her, the two steps disappeared like a puff of smoke.

Two years younger? That's fourteen years old, the age at which the lost children were lost, and it seems that he really got those children. But what's the use of those children he wants?

She looked around, and the mountains behind her were empty, and there were only old trees and newly sprouted wildflowers and grasses in the forest.

She touched her arm, thinking that spring is coming, those snakes, rats, mountain bears, wild boars and so on have all started to come out to move, why don't you go down the mountain first?