In the blink of an eye, it is the ninth day of the ninth month of September, and the ninth festival is heavy.

We tossed and turned for half a month on the way back to Xianyu, and at this moment we have entered Hanzhou, the border of Xianyu.

Due to the fatigue of the boat and car, Yin Linxi specially ordered the entourage to stop here to rest and recuperate, and then continue to travel the next day.

Compared with the anxiety I was when I came, my mood is much calmer now.

If you say why...

Perhaps it is precisely because the heat of this hot autumn has begun to slowly fade that people can't help but feel comfortable.

Or maybe... It's that too many things have happened in the past six months, and the death of my father and grandson has made a certain part of my heart completely numb.

Now, I just want to fulfill my father's instructions as soon as possible...

Be sure to find the imperial grandmother and Yinglin as soon as possible.

I've thought about it, since it was Aunt Yingtong and the second emperor's uncle King Haining who escorted them to escape when the country was broken, then...

With nowhere to go, could they have gone to Xianyu to find me?

I wasn't sure, but I vaguely felt that it was possible, so when the carriage was walking on the way, I was like an arrow.

As for Jin Ya's matter, Yin Linxi and I also reached an agreement.

I know that Yin Linxi has scruples about Jin Ya at this time, although he swore to me in person that it would never be possible to marry her, but I understand the truth of not looking at the face of the monk and looking at the face of the Buddha, although Jin Ya is scheming, but Jin Damang's face still has to give a few points, so now is not the time to turn his face with her.

So, later, when she took the initiative to pester Yin Linxi to dangle in front of me, I just turned a blind eye.

Even if I feel a little uncomfortable, even if I still hate Jin Ya as always, as long as she doesn't do anything out of the ordinary, I can completely ignore her as a group.

Of course, before she could do so, she had to learn to be smarter, otherwise...

"What are you thinking?" Someone suddenly spoke up, interrupting my thoughts.

Then suddenly a pair of arms reached out from behind me, gently encircling me into the crook of my arm.

"Yin Linxi?"

I tentatively spoke, and only a nasal voice behind me answered, "Hmm! ”

I was slightly stunned, then raised my lips and smiled.

I only felt that the deep and shallow breath fell on my neck socket and tickled, so I gently took the hands away and looked back at Yin Linxi behind me.

"Why did you come in without a sound? What about the two girls of Jingyun and Jingyu? ”

A smile welled up between his picturesque eyebrows, "Why, with my identity, do I have to go through them to get in?" ”

looked at his chin slightly raised, and his expression was slightly teasing, and he was suddenly speechless.

He walked to the window with a blank look.

And now we will travel to the Xianyu border, and the bustling night scene of Hanzhou is under our noses.

The autumn night breeze was slightly cool, mixed with the nameless fragrance hitting my face, infinitely pleasant.

My fingers slowly stroked a string of bright red dogwoods on the windowsill, and I couldn't help but remember the scene of last year's heavy nine festivals

At that time, the father, the prince, and the elder brother were still there, and the grandsons were all in Zheng Guo, and they were still high-ranking princes.

But now

A trace of bitterness gradually overflowed in my heart.

At this time, my dogwood was suddenly picked up.

Then, in my stunned gaze, he tied it in tassels of multicolored feathers and tied it around my waist.

"What is this?" I looked down for some reason, looking at the tassels of feathers fluttering gently around my waist in the wind.

Yin Linxi didn't speak, just looked at me and chuckled, like a beautiful face under the ink-stained silk.

After a long time, he looked at the window and said, "Let's go." ”

"Where are you going?"

"Today is the Ninth Festival."

"Huh?"

I tilted my head and looked at him suspiciously.

But Yin Linxi only took my hand and walked towards the door.

As I passed by the inn's corridor, I happened to see Jin Ya coming out of the room with a cane.

So when the four eyes met, I raised a mischievous smug smile, until I saw her biting her lip, and the light in her eyes faded a little, and then followed Yin Linxi out of the inn gate.

At this moment, in the bustling street market in Hanzhou, people are noisily rushing in the same direction for some reason.

Yin Linxi and I were also crowded by the noisy crowd, and we couldn't help but move slowly.

What earth-shattering events happened?

The more confused I became, and when I asked Yin Linxi what happened, he just smiled and didn't answer me, just just go with the flow.

As for what he meant by this, I don't quite understand.

I only know that the crowd is heading towards a fire.

I couldn't help but feel my curiosity, so I asked a middle-aged woman next to me, "Auntie, what are you doing?" ”

The middle-aged woman tilted her head slightly, looked at me as if she was looking at something strange, and said, "Girl, you're not from Hanzhou, are you?" ”

"Uhh

The middle-aged woman had a "so it is" expression, "This is the most solemn prayer ceremony in Hanzhou!" ”

"Prayer ritual?" I raised my eyebrows and looked at Yin Linxi.

Unexpectedly, the guy was smiling, as if he knew everything, but he just wouldn't tell me.

Seeing that I was puzzled, the middle-aged woman said again, "Girl, do you know that today is the Ninth Festival, right?" ”

"That's nature."

"Our Hanzhou, there has been a custom since ancient times, everyone will send a blessed general chosen by God on the day of the Chongjiu Festival, as the representative of the psychic beast Jiguang, to go up the bonfire ladder to pray for the blessing of the gods, so that the people will be able to live and work in peace and contentment, and make the country and the people safe!"

"Haji Light?" What kind of mythical beast is that? How come I haven't heard of it?

I'm confused.

The middle-aged woman began to look at me in disbelief, as if she was silently saying, how could you not even know about the Jiguang Divine Beast?

Yin Linxi took the opportunity to look at the middle-aged woman, with a humble smile on her face, "I'm sorry, Neiko doesn't have much culture, and she doesn't know a basket of big characters on weekdays, which really makes this lady laugh." ”

"You!" Actually say I'm uneducated? Still fighting big characters and not knowing a basket?

I crossed my hands on my hips angrily and glared back at him.

When I turned my head again, I saw a middle-aged woman looking at me with envy, "It turns out that the beautiful gentleman over there is actually the girl's husband!" ”

Pimp?

The corners of my eyebrows moved slightly when I heard this for the first time, and I didn't know how to react for a while.

Yin Linxi interjected again, "Exactly, when I first arrived in Hanzhou with Neiko, I don't want to make a joke here, please bear with me." ”

The middle-aged woman was extremely useful, and said with a smile, "The beautiful gentleman is serious, but the concubine has never seen a more handsome person than a gentleman since before, you and the girl stand together and are very matched, it is too late for others to envy it, how can the concubine make fun of the girl?" ”

I listened speechlessly to the conversation between the two of them, and then looked at Yin Linxi, who looked like a fake and serious face.

Only then did I see my "Lang Jun" looking at me with a smile, and earnestly taught, "According to legend, Jiguang is a very rare beast in Fenglin Continent in the ten continents of the sea, so the folk also have the saying of auspicious light and feathers, and because they are all more than 3,000 years old is the auspicious beast, the people have said that the shape of the beast is the body of a horse, the body is white with a striped mane like fire, and some people have seen it can step on the water, can wear it in the fire, and is the messenger of the gods." ”

"Walking on water, you can wear it in the fire" reminds me of a strange book called "Chronicles of Mountains and Seas" that I read in Zhongli's Palace, and I remember that there is a paragraph in which such a strange beast is mentioned, but the appearance of the book is like a white fox with horns on its back, so it is different from what Yin Linxi said.

After hearing this, the middle-aged woman nodded again and again, looked at him with admiration in her eyes and said, "What the gentleman said is right, that's it." ”

"Ha" I looked at the middle-aged woman speechlessly again.

Then I raised my eyelids and looked ahead, only to realize that we had arrived at our destination before we knew it.

I stared blankly at the blazing fire in front of me.

Stunned, he even grabbed Yin Linxi's sleeve with his fingers unconsciously, "I just heard that someone is going to walk up here, right?" ”

"What? Scared? Yin Linxi's peachy lips rippled with a charming arc.

His large hand covered my fingers with a slight force, and his long, narrow eyes were full of tenderness.

I was stunned for a moment, then let go of him and smiled far-fetchedly, "Joke, what am I afraid of?" Besides, how could I be so unlucky to be chosen? ”

With that, my eyes wandered from the long ladder in front of me, which was lit by flames from top to bottom along the way, and its flames soared into the sky, illuminating most of the land of Hanzhou.

If people walk up the stairs and there are flames on both sides, the consequences can be imagined.

I swallowed hard.

At this moment, the middle-aged woman squeezed to my side again and smiled, "Girl, don't look at this posture is scary, in fact, it's just like that when people go up, besides, the blessing will have the blessing of God!" ”

"Hehe" I looked at her sparkling eyes, and pulled the corners of her mouth very perfunctorily.

Say what God blesses, it's just like that, these people are really crazy, people must go up in the end, but they don't go up the ladder, but go to heaven!

"Yin Linxi, I'm sleepy, shall we go back?"

I leaned over a little and looked at him with the corners of his clothes twisted.

Yin Linxi deliberately looked behind the crowd, "Are you sure?" I don't care, but you're going to squeeze through these people in your size."

The corner of my eyebrow twitched slightly, what did he mean by that?

Are you turning around and saying I'm fat?

"If you don't go back, you won't go back!" I whirred and turned my head.

But I didn't think about it, and this turn of head almost scared me out.

Just because a man in front of me wearing a black ghost mask breathed fire at me?

The oncoming fire frightened me back a few steps, almost colliding with the crowd behind me.

Fortunately, Yin Linxi was by my side and picked me up in time.

"What the hell is that?" I blurted out this sentence and immediately pressed the thumping heart.

After hearing this, the middle-aged woman next to her immediately snorted twice, and said bitterly, "Girl, you can't defile the high priest!" ”

"High priest?"

"Yes, it's the oracle messenger, the annual prayer ceremony is presided over by the high priest, and everyone regards him as the oracle messenger, how can you say that he is a ghost?"

I looked at the black ghost mask dancing in the firelight, and muttered quietly, "It can breathe fire and pretend to be a ghost, isn't it a ghost?" ”

Yin Linxi helped me up, scratched the tip of my nose and smiled, "That person just has wine in his mouth, don't be afraid." ”

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