I stayed in this ancient courtyard for two days, that is, because he came on the road, so he waited.

As soon as Sijun came, he kept talking to me. He said that he had never been out of the house so far, and he came with Uncle You Ran to travel the rivers and lakes and gain more experience.

Also, I once promised Li Amaranth to accompany her to raise Sijun well, so that he can become a talent, be able to write and martial arts.

It's just that so many years have passed, because I went early, I didn't have the opportunity to accompany him, and now that Amaranth is gone, I should take on the responsibility of taking care of Sijun.

Although this body is only one or two years older than Sijun at this time, my body is already half old.

There is a magnolia tree in the courtyard of the ancient courtyard, and the petals of the flower fall from the tree in the breeze. The white flowers are very beautiful, and although they are not as white as the pear blossoms, they are even more beautiful.

As Sijun was talking to me, the petals fell on my hair, and he may have seen that he was about to reach out and take it off, but his hand froze at the moment when he was about to take it.

Xiao Jingqi was one step ahead of him, and he had already taken the petals off my hair.

Sijun withdrew his hand at this time, smiled faintly at me, looked at Xiao Jingqi, and said, "I heard Uncle You Ran say that Bai Gongzi's true identity is actually Xiao Jingqi of Xichang of Qi State, isn't it?" ”

"Uh-huh" Xiao Jingqi responded to him, there was no need to hide it anymore.

At that time, when he went to Yinshan Palace with Tuoba Hong, Xiao Jingqi never revealed his true identity along the way, and he always used the name Bai Rui.

Although I remembered myself later, after coming out of the Yinshan Palace, I saw Sijun again, and I didn't say Xiao Jingqi's identity.

This time they are together, even if You Ran doesn't say it, Xiao Jingqi himself may also tell Sijun. If you hide your identity, Sijun will also be suspicious.

But Sijun didn't wonder if I was Concubine Rong or his Aunt Yihua, he believed that I was Yihua that day, and now he also believes that I am Yihua, not Concubine Rong.

Maybe he thinks I'm better than the concubine in the palace.

"When did Master Hou have such a good relationship with Sijun's aunt, you have known each other for many years?" As soon as Sijun asked about such abrupt words, I smiled.

"Well, it's been some years, long before you knew her." Xiao Jingqi said unequivocally, "I knew you before you were born." ”

"Long time does not mean pro, Yi Ju is Sijun's aunt and Sijun's mother's sister."

"That's not necessarily, she's your aunt, but she's my wife."

I looked at these two people, why are they talking about kinship here today, I'm really funny. also glared at Xiao Jingqi, I am not married to him, why do I need to say to people that I am his wife.

"Aunt Huan, are you married? How did she become his wife? Sijun looked incredulous.

"Nope." I replied with a faint smile, I really didn't bother to pay attention to these two people.

When I looked sideways, I saw Nangong Ni walking in from the courtyard gate, her eyes were red and swollen, and it seemed that she had hid to the side and cried.

When I looked at her, she just gave us a cold look and walked towards her room without saying a word.

There is a custom in Suiyang, every year on April 26, people from all over the world will gather in the Jiulong Mountain Range to hold the Shennong Festival.

Emperor Shennong, the ancestor of China, planted grains, tasted herbs, cured people's diseases, and developed trade on this ancient soil, creating an agricultural civilization and making important contributions to the survival, reproduction and development of the Chinese nation.

So far, on April 26 every year, people from all over China will come to the Shennong Temple of Lieshan from all sides to worship in order to remember the Shennong Emperor. On this day, the people in Suiyang City, regardless of the northern soil and the southern soil, gathered together.

On this day, the people of the Northern and Southern Dynasties were also very harmonious, in the same place, regardless of the country, regardless of ancestral hometown, just to worship the Shennong Emperor who was feared in people's hearts.

On this day, both the Southern and Northern Dynasties will send imperial troops to maintain order and protect their own people on this day.

Because Suiyang is the boundary between the North and the South, both countries are stationed in Suizhou to guard the border guards. The Shennong Festival is approaching, and Suiyang City has begun to come and go one after another a few days earlier.

The inns, inns, and wine shops in Suiyang City are full of guests.

Sijun talked to me about how when he came to Suiyang, he saw many people coming to Suiyang. That's when I woke up.

I even think that Xiao Jingqi brought me to Suiyang, maybe it has something to do with the Shennong Festival. He was not accidental, he should have been deliberate.

I suddenly remembered his words, that half of the jade unicorn might be in Jiulong Mountain.

Thinking about it this way, I think that the day of Shennong Festival must be related to my jade unicorn.

He sat at the stone table in the courtyard under the moon, and tried his Longyuan sword very seriously and quietly.

The indifferent humor of Bai Ri and Sijun is completely gone, but has returned to its usual coldness.

Tomorrow is Shennong Day, it seems that he can't sleep, and he has something on his mind.

Night shrouded the land, and only a full moon hung high in the dark night sky!

I approached him, and he knew it was me, and he looked up at me and smiled, "Still not sleeping?" His cold face warmed up.

I looked at him and said seriously, "Tomorrow's Lieshan Shennong Festival is a time that you have been preparing for a long time?" ”

"Well, for you, I'm very careful." He chuckled, leaned close to me, and said with a playful expression.

"Does it really have something to do with that half of the jade unicorn?" I asked, deepening my doubts. What he said was half true and half false, and he could not be trusted, nor could he not be disbelieved.

I stared at him, and he looked at me, and I looked at each other, so close that it was almost as if I could only put a finger between my noses.

"I did everything for you, and I didn't tell you in advance, because I was afraid that you would be too worried and nervous."

I looked at the pair of eyes in front of me, cold and domineering, but they seemed to be different from what I saw before, and at this time there was a little gentleness.

Because the distance was too close, I quickly dodged my gaze, and although I slept in the same bed last night, it was always so warm and intimate, and I was still very shy.

Seeing my shy look, he stepped back, still smiling like that.

I was silent for a moment, then looked at him again, wondering, "Do you know whose hand the jade unicorn is?" ”

He regained his appearance this time and slowly replied to me, "I have already investigated, the other half of the jade unicorn changed hands several times many years ago, and then it should have flowed into the hands of a stone carver Qu Yan, but the stone carver was suddenly wiped out a few years ago, and the half of the jade unicorn was nowhere to be found, and at that time, the stone carver Qu Yan was repairing the Shennong Temple, at that time, the Shennong Temple needed to be renovated, and Quyan was also in the artificial renovation of the renovation, I think the jade unicorn may be in the Shennong Temple, it should be that Quyan has already taken precautions and is hiding somewhere." ”

He said with an incomprehensible smile on his lips.

But I was once again full of doubts about the man in front of me, it turned out that he had known that there was another jade unicorn earlier, and he had been secretly visiting.

Is he really for me, because the jade unicorn is mine, so he wants to help me get back complete?

Then, when Master Cui gave me the jade unicorn, he knew that there was another piece, and he still heard it from Master Qingyuan.

It seems that he has been looking for the Jade Qilin all these years, not only looking for the half of the piece that the Empress Dowager Feng took from me, but also looking for the lost half.

That night, I didn't ask any more questions, and I didn't ask him about the doubts in my heart, maybe I really thought he was really for me.

Because I also wanted to find the other half of the jade unicorn, and after learning from Shitai that there was still half of it, I also always wanted to see it, and wanted to know what miracle the two jade unicorns would have when they were combined.

In my heart, the jade unicorn is not simple, and I always feel that there is something I haven't figured out yet.

It has mysterious powers that I don't understand at this time.

The next morning, when I went out, Xiao Jingqi's subordinates in the courtyard were already waiting. When You Ran came out, she brought my piano with me.

Xiao Jingqi came out of the other room with an indifferent expression.

You Ran saluted me and called me, "Door master." ”

Seeing that they were all ready to go out, it seemed that Xiao Jingqi had already told them where he would go today.

You Ran came from Qingfeng Gate with the Qixuanqin, and he must have known that this trip would have a heavy responsibility, and it was more likely that I would use the Qixuanqin, so he brought it with him and prepared it for me.

If you need to use the Qixuanqin, something will definitely happen, and it may be that I need to use the Qixuanqin to make a move, which will inevitably hurt the innocent.

It is undeniable that there must be many people on the Shennong Festival, if the Qixuanqin is used, it will inevitably hurt the people, is it really necessary?

It seems that the trip to Shennong Festival is not simple, and it may be dangerous.

"Who from the Wei State will come here?" I looked at Xiao Jingqi and asked him with a frown.

If I asked, he must have understood that I saw the danger on the Shennong Festival. Maybe it's just us who can't get out of the turmoil, so we need to use the Qixuanqin.

Xiao Jingqi had already approached me, his face was not shocked, and he replied to me lightly, "King Dongyang." ”

And so it was.

It must not be simple for the king of Dongyang to go south to Luoyang, Luoyang is just the name of his southward trip, in fact, he wants to supervise the army in Suiyang on the day of Shennong's Day.

Although Suiyang is the border between the two countries, the south of the Huai River belongs to the Qi State, and Lieshan belongs more to the Northern Wei Dynasty. If there was turmoil in Lieshan, the Northern Wei army still had the upper hand.

"I'll go too." Sijun came from the other side, he only looked at me, "Shennong Festival is rare for Sijun to meet this day, how can you not go." ”

Before I went to sleep last night, I went to Sijun's room and told him that I would go out today and let him stay in this courtyard.

He hadn't agreed last night, and now he had a pleading look in his eyes.

"Listen to your aunt." Xiao Jingqi said to him like a child.

Sijun glanced at Xiao Jingqi and looked at me again, "Aunt Jun treats Sijun as a child?" Sijun is not small, and on that occasion, Sijun will be peaceful. ”

I frowned.

Sijun looked at me with interest: "The Shennong Festival must be spectacular, Sijun has never seen it, and Aunt Wei promised me." ”

I still couldn't twist him, nodded in agreement, and Sijun pursed his lips and smiled softly at me.

I glanced at Nangong Ni, she didn't speak, she stood on the side, and I walked towards her.

"If you're not feeling well, don't go today." I'm serious, not joking.

"Ni is Hou Ye's subordinate, Hou Ye will go wherever Ni goes."

She didn't look at me when she replied to my words, but at Xiao Jingqi.

Xiao Jingqi was silent.

Looks like I'm overthinking.

Coming out of the ancient courtyard, we headed directly towards Lieshan. On the road to the Burning Mountain, people of all kinds rushed forward.

The Lieshan Road has become a sea of people, and there are even people of other ethnic groups from other countries in the Western Regions.

This Shennong Festival is really extraordinary.

We and others were interspersed in the crowd, and in order not to attract attention, we dressed very ordinary, like ordinary people.

Except for me and Xiao Jingqi wearing hats, they all dressed up casually.

There was a white gauze hanging from the edge of the hat, and I looked through the white veil at the temple of Emperor Shennong that was getting closer and closer.

As they approached the temple, the Wei troops on both sides of the mountain road were already standing guard in rows.

These troops should just be guarding the Shennong Emperor Temple, for fear that today's chaos will cause disputes.

In front of the Shennong Emperor Temple, a large bronze statue stands in front of the temple, and the people who walk in front of us are all on the incense and bow to the ground.

In order to prevent us from disrespecting us, we also knelt on the ground and bowed, and knelt with the people in the crowd.