Chapter 10. Hajj ceremony

Jue Sheng stayed in the ancient yin water of the Obsidian River for too long, and was entangled and sucked by water ghosts, and most of the pure yang qi in his soul had gone, and he fell into a deep coma for a while. Luo Xuan spread out the portable bedding he brought from the Xiayuan Cliff Cave, picked out the white copper mask and put it on, and took advantage of the night to carry Juesheng to find a place in the lower port of the imperial capital. After settling down, Luo Xuan used immortal cultivation to create some currency, and went to Zhongbu to buy some toiletries and clothes and came back. Because Juesheng was an acquaintance, in case a mask was not enough, he also put an extra cloak on his head, and mysteriously returned to the inn.

When I woke up from a dream, I would call Mei Niang for a while, and Xiaofeng for a while, and I didn't stop all night. Luo Xuan helped him push two meridians with pure yang immortal cultivation, drove away the cold, and wiped his sweat and changed his clothes for him. In the early morning, Juesheng finally woke up, and when he saw Luo Xuan guarding the table, a carp suddenly stood up and exclaimed, "Am I dead?

Luo Xuan was silent, and Juesheng recalled it at this time, and suddenly said: "Oh! I remember, I was already a soul when I crossed the river... So, you rescued me from the river?" Hurriedly struggled to get up and leaned on the couch, bowed down to Luo Xuan, and bowed to Luo Xuan: "Lao Qu is the abbot of Shaolin Temple, and his law name is Juesheng, thank you Xianxia for coming forward to save me!

"The work of the hand, what a lot of worry, the abbot has just recovered from the catastrophe, and I have paid enough money to rest here for two more days. There are still important tasks in the future, so I will leave. ”

Luo Xuan carefully changed the tone of voice with Xianxiu, and was about to get up, but was stopped by Juesheng: "Slow! If the old man's memory is true, at the beginning of last night's landing, it seems that I heard you call the name of the old man, you... But is there an old man in the Yang world?"

Luo Xuan was taken aback, and said: "Impossible! I met with Master Pingshui yesterday, and I said goodbye." He got up and squeaked the door to leave, but when he heard that he was already calling, "Brother Luo." ”

Luo Xuan turned around in shock: "What did you say?"

Jue Sheng said in a low voice: "I can't be mistaken, I remember that the voice you called me by my name at the beginning was completely different from now. ”

Luo Xuan closed the door, put down the burden in his hand, and slowly approached: "The master is drowsy, and he must have been disturbed by the memory of the yang world to hear it wrong, and he is not surnamed Luo." With that, he took off his cloak and removed his mask.

Jue Sheng faced a strange man he had never met, so he sighed and said humbly: "In this way, it is indeed the old man who remembered it wrongly! Dare to ask Xianxia, can you clearly indicate the name of the high surname, and wait for the old man to find a wife and daughter in the future, so that he can remember this grace with them!"

The sentence "wife and daughter" made Nie Xiaofeng's name flash in Luo Xuan's mind, and he moved and simply said: "My surname is Long." ”

Jue Sheng hurriedly hugged and thanked again: "Long Daxia! I can't hide it, Lao Gao's wife and daughter are in this imperial capital right now, I will go to find their residence tomorrow, just hoping to see her two again, but... The old man is currently wanted by the underworld, and it may be difficult to act alone in the imperial capital, can Long Daxia save people to the end, and accompany the old man to my wife's and daughter's residence tomorrow?"

When Juesheng said this, he sighed sadly: "I just hope to see them again, but this thousand-year-old wish in my heart is good." ”

Luo Xuan was taken aback and asked, "What is a thousand-year-old wish?"

Jue Sheng said: "Long Shaoxia doesn't know, the old man entered the underworld a long time ago, and has been looking for a wife and a daughter in my yang world in the lower plains, but I don't know when the lower plains were sealed, those underworld pawns insisted on tying me to the auxiliary spirit ship when they saw me, and dragged me to the Touyang Cave to be reincarnated and reborn, I was unwilling, I managed to escape from the guards, and hid at the bottom of the three frontiers of the underworld for a thousand years. Some time ago, the seal of Shimohara was suddenly destroyed by the Heavenly Stone, and I escaped, and I inquired all the way, only to know that my wife and daughter had both transferred to the Imperial Capital of Shangyuan, and my daughter is still an official in the Underworld. I think that when I was in the world, because of my neglect of them, the mother and daughter passed away one after another, and now I only want to see them again, and say sorry to them, and I will have enough wishes in this life! Where to go in the future, but according to their wishes, if they want me to go, I will leave, if they want me to stay, I will stay. ”

Luo Xuan didn't expect that Juesheng was also blocked at the bottom of the Three Frontiers like himself, more than a thousand years, and then looked at his scarny body, knowing that he had suffered less than himself in the past thousand years, and he came to the imperial capital to find Xiaofeng and relieve the spell for her, and immediately bowed his head: "Okay." ”

Leaving Juesheng's guest room, Luo Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, and went to the downstairs guest desk to ask for a side room to rest.

Thanks to him, he had a flash of inspiration and used the painting technique to transform his body into the face of the nameless man he saw in the iceberg a few days ago. This person has been sealed in the iceberg of Shimohara for many years, and people and ghosts do not notice, and the five elements do not invade, so the possibility of hitting the street here is eliminated. Although he didn't know the origin of this person, this was the best person he thought of in a hurry at that time, just because the rest of the life in the underworld might hit his face sooner or later.

The next day, the sky was cloudless, the wind was harmonious, Luo Xuan and Juesheng walked side by side all the way, from the lower port of Guangshi in the imperial capital to the outer periphery of the upper port of the imperial capital, the outer part of the imperial city.

The Imperial City covers an area of 100,000 hectares, with 9,000 palaces, which is the palace of the gods of the underworld and the place of the dynasty. Each palace in the city has its own form, and the seats are towering into the clouds. The whole city, every brick, every tile is selected between the nine realms of the purity of the ten seas white jade finely chiseled, the sun shines, the whole Stygian Imperial City will emit ivory-like bright and dazzling white light, blanching brighter than the sky and the moon, like a hidden in the sky, the vast jade capital in the clouds and clouds, so the god emperor Xin Tianquan Yumo personally inscribed - the city of the underworld.

The imperial capital residences of the left and right auxiliary ministers, the military dignitaries, the immortal marshal Yue Fei, the military governor Wu Qi, and the Emperor Xuanyuan were all located on the periphery of the Imperial City, and were scattered in the east, west, south, and north directions. Among them, the left and right two prime minister's mansions, the Zhanxian Palace, and the Military Governor's Garden, the four important ministers' mansions, are divided into the east, south, west, and north corners of the Imperial City.

The layout of these palaces was for the purpose of facilitating important military and political affairs such as sudden summonings and marches between the emperor and the ministers, and for the convenience of mutual care between the Imperial City and the four important mansions.

It is reported that Emperor Kuang Yitian has given the newly conferred left minister of the Underworld Dynasty Nie Xiaofeng the prime minister's mansion in the imperial capital - Lan Kui Palace. Before the time of last night, Zuo Xiang's mother and daughter and Yiying's entourage had all stayed in the Lankui Palace, and Yue Fei, the Ten Immortal Venerables, had also returned to the War Immortal Palace in the imperial capital.

The Immortal Emperor is different from any underworld outside the Upper Plains, this place can be called the paradise of the underworld, the extreme realm of the spiritual realm, the sun is sprinkled all day long, and new flowers and grass bloom all year round. The people here are simple, the people are all broad-hearted and fat, young and beautiful, just because everyone can live and work here in peace and contentment, and enjoy peace, so the people in the imperial capital even the growth of the years is much slower than that of people outside the imperial capital.

Luo Xuan relied on Chi Yan's memories before his death, and along the way, he actually recognized many people in the imperial capital who were almost swallowed by the Heavenly Sword in the battle of Chi Yan, and now twenty years have passed, and the appearance of these people is not much different from that year, that is, the few children in the imperial capital who I saw by chance at the beginning have only grown up by four or five years in the past 20 years.

As soon as the time arrives today, it is the usual pilgrimage ceremony in the imperial capital, which is a military ceremony for each new left and right minister of the Hades Dynasty to accept the collective pilgrimage of the people of the imperial capital outside the palace on their own mansions. And today, it is the day when Nie Xiaofeng, the left minister of the dark day, first accepted the pilgrimage of all people in the Lankui Palace.

In that room, Luo Xuan and Juesheng mixed in with the black pressure of the people early in the morning, waiting for the new phase to arrive outside the Lankui Palace, but in this room, Nie Xiaofeng was pacing restlessly in the Huanfang Hall of the Lankui apse. On the tall red bottle coral jade skeleton in the court, there is a splendid left phase court dress, and on the 10,000-year-old ginkgo table, there is a complementary crown inlaid with the night pearl of the Red Sea.

"Xiaofeng, what's wrong with you? Why don't you change into court clothes and go out to accept the audience of all the people?" Nie Meiniang heard Fan Qing'er's tip, and hurriedly ran all the way into the Huanfang Hall.

"Mother, they know what I have done in the world, and the people I have killed, they all know! Cao Jun also once said that he would not allow me to take charge of the military order, because he was afraid that the people would not obey, but now that I am their left minister, how can they obey? If I go out, they will all turn against me, they will settle accounts with me in the world, and they will seek revenge on me, what should I do?" Nie Xiaofeng's white jade-like hands were twisted in front of him, neither stretched nor shrunk.

Nie Meiniang couldn't speak for a while, she also knew that Nie Xiaofeng had fought her way out of the Central Plains martial arts forces that had monopolized the world at that time in the decades since she established the Underworld, and she had indeed done a lot of things that had been poured into Eryu and her hands were stained with blood, during which she took revenge on the Central Plains martial arts and even caused thousands of innocent people to die. Now many of these people are in Shangyuan, even if the number of people who can stay in the imperial capital will not be many because of the grandeur of the underworld, but Nie Xiaofeng's various behaviors in the world have already been passed on to ten, ten to hundred, and have become a well-known topic with her being appointed as the left minister of the underworld.

The people are concerned about what their parents have done, whether they will "change it if there is one, and encourage it if there is none", and in the past few days, Nie Xiaofeng has been worried about this morning's Hajj. Nie Meiniang knew that she was confused and embarrassed, and just about to step forward to soothe a few words, Yue Fei, the Ten Immortal Venerable, had already strode into the Huanfang Hall.

"General!" Nie Meiniang was happy, Yue Fei pulled Nie Xiaofeng, "Let's go!" turned around and dragged her out of the hall, "General!" Nie Xiaofeng's feet were sticky, and Nie Meiniang hurriedly picked up the crown of the left prime minister on the table and chased after her: "General, the crown! Xiaofeng's crown。。。。。。 ”

"Xiaofeng came from the people, now from the people, today is the Hajj, this left prime minister crown does not wear it!" Yue Fei said generously, he looked down at Nie Xiaofeng beside him, Nie Xiaofeng also looked up at him, his eyes were stunned, confused.

"Don't be afraid, I've got you covered. After you go out, bow your head, smile, and be worshiped by all the people, and after three prostrations, you can give it up, and then walk along the long wind platform outside the temple for a week, and then you can enter the temple. ”

Yue Fei took Nie Xiaofeng's arm and whispered in her ear, Nie Xiaofeng said "um", the two magnificent palace doors were slowly released, the sky was wide open in front of him, the voices of people outside the Lankui Hall were boiling, firecrackers were like thunder, the red carpet was spread on the ground, and the colorful propaganda was all over the sky.

Nie Xiaofeng slowly walked out of the hall, stepped on the long wind platform in a plain skirt, and the black and oppressive heads of thousands of miles under the stage were silent for a while.

Many people only knew that Emperor Ming Cao had promoted a Zuo Xiang, but they never thought that the newly promoted Zuo Xiang was actually a woman, and she was such a beautiful woman with a clear face, no powder, and no face to the sky.

Nie Xiaofeng looked at His Highness from afar, and the eyes in the crowd were surprised, confused, and disdainful, and as she expected, there was also a little hatred that made her heart tremble. The feeling of uneasiness in the Lankui Hall just now arose spontaneously from the soles of her feet, Nie Xiaofeng twisted her hands slightly, and her palms began to sweat, but fortunately, her small movements were blocked by the tall stone corridor on the Changfeng Platform.

The audience exchanged heads and ears, and there were many discussions, and finally broke the previous silence, but there was no situation where all the people knelt down and met in unison, Yue Fei hurriedly glanced at both sides of the hall, and the commander immediately began to chant:

"Fengtian carrier, the Emperor of the Underworld said, the people's daughter Nie Xiaofeng is talented, has repeatedly performed miraculous feats, first defeated the wild emperor, and then descended to the Buddha, mercy and grace according to the ancients, can be used by heaven, and now he is selected as the 5,317th Dynasty Zuo Auxiliary Prime Minister of the Underworld, and the Imperial Lankui Palace, and the people will meet on the Changfeng Terrace!"

The noisy sound of gongs and drums sounded in all directions at the same time, and after a period of noise, the commander began to sing: "All the people get ready - kneel!"

The black head of the oppressive person, you look at me, I look at you, layer by layer, one after another, began to kneel, the scene is not very neat.

"See you here!"

The people who had already knelt down bent down and kowtowed to the long wind platform for the first time.

"Second Visit!"

And some of the people fell to their knees.

"See you three times!"

The people who were pressed by the black pressure leaned over and got up again, until the third pilgrimage, the number of people kneeling did not increase significantly, and Nie Meiniang, who was hiding in the hall to watch, was very disappointed, and even took a few steps to catch up with the Changfeng platform. Jue Sheng in the distance saw her appear, and whispered: "Mei Niang!" The next second hurriedly snatched the cloak from Luo Xuan's hand and put it on his bare head.

"Long Daxia, the one who was met on Changfeng Terrace was my daughter, and the woman behind her was my wife. Jue Sheng said to Luo Xuan through the black veil, and there was a lot of joy in his tone.

"Now is not the time to recognize each other, it's better to wait until the night is quiet before making plans. Luo Xuan said.

Jue Sheng nodded again and again: "I think so too! I can see that my daughter is very hesitant, it is not easy for her to get to this day, I don't want any accidents to affect her Hajj today, but... The enthusiasm of the people does not seem to be high, Dragon Hero, but is there any way to get more people to participate in the Hajj?"

Luo Xuan also felt the same way, today's Hajj ceremony is very important to Nie Xiaofeng's future career in the Underworld, and the impact must be sufficient. He looked around and saw a bald man wrapped in a sweat towel on the corner of the street outside the crowd picking sugar cakes in front of a bakery with a little girl of twelve or thirteen years old. Luo Xuan had a flash of inspiration and immediately recognized that this father and daughter were the father and daughter of the people he had seen in Chi Yan's dying memories and were rescued by Nie Xiaofeng from the huge earth fissure in the Imperial Capital of the Underworld Twenty years ago.

Twenty years have passed, but the little girl living in the imperial capital has grown up to be only three or four years old at most, and it is thanks to this that he can recognize it at a glance. Luo Xuan had an idea at the moment, and turned around and instructed Juesheng: "Master, please stay here, I will come when I go." Then he turned and withdrew from the crowd of worshippers, and walked towards the father and daughter on the corner.

He picked up the immortal cultivator, snapped his fingers in the air, and a lively little pink pig suddenly appeared at the feet of the little girl, drilling around her skirt, the girl looked down and screamed in surprise, the little pig turned around and ran, and stopped at the alley for a while. The girl was busy yelling at her father to catch her, and the bald man had to entrust the girl to the owner of the cake shop and chase the pig by himself.

Luo Xuan secretly twisted the trick, turned into the appearance of the bald man, smiled and walked towards the girl with a pink piggy, the little girl saw that her father had caught the pig, she was elated, Luo Xuan stuffed the piglet in her arms, bought a few more candies, thanked the owner of the pastry shop, and then walked back to the bustling crowd with the girl in her arms.

Luo Xuanyun started to cultivate, and unconsciously walked through the crowd all the way, straight to the foot of the Changfeng platform, he hugged the little girl high on his shoulder, and coaxed her: "Doll, look, that beautiful sister on the stage saved you before, do you remember?"

The little girl bit a string of transparent stained glass candy and immediately shouted in surprise: "Sister Fairy! It's the fairy sister who saved me that day! Sister Fairy is on stage, Daddy look! It's really that fairy sister!"

Luo Xuanxiang was surprised, raised his head to take a high look, and followed the girl and shouted: "It's really her! Fairy girl! Twenty years ago, the wild god Chiyan came to invade the imperial capital, and our family of three was caught in the ground by the Heavenly Sealing Sword, and it was you who jumped into the center of the earth to save us! Fairy girl, no, no, it's Lord Zuo Xiang! With you, we ordinary people can live with peace of mind!"

When all the people heard this, they all looked at the Changfeng Terrace, and a few sharp-eyed people carefully identified Nie Xiaofeng's eyebrows, and they should also reconcile at the moment: "That's right! It's really her! Everyone, she is the female fairy who pulled out the Heavenly Sword twenty years ago! She saved the underworld!"

"Lord Zuo Xiang, regenerate parents!" Luo Xuan put the little girl on the ground, and bowed to the Changfeng Platform with her five bodies on the ground, and the people of the underworld were also infected, and they knelt down one after another: "Lord Zuo Xiang! It was Lord Zuo Xiang who saved the Underworld!

The people in front of the hall hula lala knelt down, and the heads of the people on the ground suddenly spread out in all directions like a mountain of mountains, and the commanders on the high platforms on both sides saw the momentum and hurriedly re-chanted the order:

"See you here!"

"Second Visit!"

"See you three times!"

This time, the people of the imperial capital under Changfeng Terrace all knelt down and kowtowed, and the heads of the black pressure rose one after another, and no one did not pay homage and kowtow. Many people who had just heard the news came from all over the imperial capital to pay their respects, and the crowd of people who met them stretched from the front of the Lankui Hall to the end of the distant imperial capital. One spread ten, ten passed hundreds, hundreds passed thousands, thousands passed thousands, when the new left prime minister Nie Xiaofeng, the news of the blue-shirted fairy who pulled out the Chiyan Emperor's Heavenly Sword and saved the entire Sanyuan of the underworld in 20 years, spread throughout the entire underworld in a blink of an eye, and for a time the Sanyuan was a sensation, the people's hearts were greatly boosted, and the trend of the whole people visiting the shrine rolled in.

His Royal Highness's scene was lively and unprecedented, Nie Xiaofeng was stunned when he saw it on the Changfeng Terrace, Nie Meiniang cried with joy, Yue Fei was also greatly moved by such a stirring of public feelings, he stepped forward and held Nie Xiaofeng's hand and said:

"Xiaofeng, you see! beautiful flowers come from the seeds of kindness, your affirmation today is the accumulation of the good fruits you have paid in the past, everyone is not a step into an immortal, you will do better and better, I believe in you!"

Nie Xiaofeng looked at the pilgrimage field where the pennant was flying and crowded with people under the stage, and the warm affirmation of the people brought her an unprecedented shock, which was different from the kind of self-respecting and unstoppable when she was the lord of the Underworld and the number of thousands of heroes, nor would she rather bear the people of the world and not teach the people of the world to bear my recklessness, not to mention the unscrupulous joy after finally reaching the goal, but a kind of heartfelt sunshine that slowly woke up from a sleeping corner in the bottom of her heart, which is a combination of dedication, goodwill, Compassion and sacrifice, guilt and emotion that has been long late.

"Feng'er, who is the Holy Sect's Pope?" Nie Xiaofeng suddenly heard the question that her father-in-law, Nie Xingxie, had asked her when she was alive.

"The work covers the ages. She muttered to herself.

"How?"

Nie Xiaofeng raised his head to the sky and replied gently: "Grandson, I want everyone in the world to have food and books, so that everyone can live and work in peace and contentment, and die a good life!"

Nie Xingxie laughed and hugged her: "My grandson is not a thing in the pool!"

Nie Xiaofeng propped up the jade gan of the long wind platform with both arms, lowered his head, and a tear fell into the sea of people, falling between Luo Xuan's eyebrows and eyes under the stage.

Luo Xuan looked up at her face with closed eyes and weeping tears, the tide of love in her heart was surging, and she couldn't calm down for a long time, and the hundred peach blossom nails in her chest were faintly turbulent again.