"Sister, look, step on stilts." Ming'er shouted excitedly.

We followed her finger and saw a team of stilt-walking performers coming towards us. It is rare to see such a large-scale traditional performance in modern times, and I became happy and pulled Bao Yuan Chao into the crowd.

Bao Yuan was afraid that I would be squeezed by the crowd, so he protected me in his arms all the way, but I didn't want him to protect me so much, and blamed him for blocking my gaze and seeing nothing.

When Bao Yuan heard this, he looked helpless, and finally had to follow me and let me squeeze left and right to see the excitement.

The performers on the street are all walking with long logs tied to their feet, or dancing swords, or jumping, as if walking on the ground, and wearing masks on their faces, with Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Xiangu and so on as their faces. The group sang while walking, lively and festive.

This is followed by a lion dance performance, leading the lion to lead the way with a hydrangea, and the lion dance falls, jumps, climbs, worships, and the sound of gongs and drums.

Suddenly, two little lions danced together, and I saw that the little lions were dancing so cutely that I blindly squeezed forward to see.

"Meng Lang~! You see~! "When I happily turned around to call Bao Yuan to take a look, I found that the flow of people had already separated the two of us, far apart.

Right now, I'm caught in the unfamiliar crowd, and I can't help but walk forward with the flow of people, left and right. Bao Yuan's anxious call echoed clearly in his ears at first, but it was not long before he was drowned in the boiling crowd.

For a while, I had no idea, I looked around in a panic, and my heart gradually became anxious.

If it used to be normal for you to go shopping by yourself, but now you often live in the deep palace for many years, and when you go out, there are people who follow you in front of the saddle and behind the horse, and suddenly you become alone again, and inexplicable fear hits like a tide.

I walked through the crowd in trepidation, and from time to time a young man came to talk to me. I just lowered my head and silently avoided it quickly, Guanyin Bodhisattva, who had been recited thousands of times in my heart, just wanted to find Baoyuan quickly, if he didn't see me, he would be in a hurry!

All the way to the front of the temple, I didn't see Bao Yuan and Ming'er, not even Xiao Liang or Xie Xingben, I didn't feel even more annoyed, and when I was looking around, I suddenly heard a shout.

"Pour the sugar cake, pour the sugar cake." Not far away, an old man was shouting in front of a stall not far away.

My eyes lit up, and the unhappiness in my heart disappeared in an instant.

Being able to eat a sugar cake is one of the reasons why I liked to go to the market with my grandmother when I was a child, and now I see this small sugar cake stall in this light market, and my heart is more familiar and cordial.

The old man pouring the sugar cake was concentrating on the marble slab, drawing all kinds of animals on the syrup in the copper spoon. On the wooden plates on the left and right, dragons, phoenixes, rabbits, birds, butterflies and other patterns are drawn in the grids, and the children who have paid are reaching out to turn the bamboo arrows in the middle.

From time to time, the crowd heard the voices of children disappointed or excited, thinking that someone had switched to their favorite sugar cake, and someone would inevitably return disappointed.

Back then, every time I turned the bamboo arrow, I always hoped to get the biggest dragon candy, and if I couldn't, I would pester my grandmother to let me spin it again. If you get dragon candy or phoenix candy, it's just a matter of nibbling on it while playing.

When I saw him again today, I found that this sugar cake was an excellent work of art, so I stood silently and watched the old man make candy.

After a while, the children who had gathered around the stall dispersed, and the old man looked up and smiled at me, "If the girl likes it, she can also turn one." ”

I touched my body and said with a smile: "I don't have a copper on my body today~!" "I can't help but feel a little lost in my heart, and I knew that I should ask Baoyuan for silver and two companions.

"Hehe, if the little lady likes it, uncle, I'll buy this stall for you." A big fat face suddenly appeared in front of the stall.

A face full of flesh, a lustful face, and a thief's eyebrows and mouse eyes that looked at me down.

I frowned in disgust and took a few steps back, distancing myself from him.

The fat man was not very tall, and when he saw me retreating, he burped his stomach and came over again, and behind him I saw three obscene looking families.

It's really unlucky, but now it's a scoundrel.

I was in a panic, and I leaned back with my sleeves covered my nose, anxiously thinking of a way to get out.

"Little lady, don't be afraid, uncle, I am the most pitiful person." That fat dead man dared to reach out and pull me.

I was embarrassed and indignant, flashed the "groping pig hand", sideways picked up the small stool on the side of the stall and smashed it on his head, just as the fat man groaned, covered his head and squatted, I looked at the gap, lifted my skirt and ran away, and secretly did not change into men's clothes.

Before he could take a few steps, he heard behind him, the fat man pulled his neck and shouted: "Why are you still stunned, chase me." ”

The fat man's three family members chased after me from behind, and I ran and found the way out, and saw that the fencing place next to me was pressed by a lot of people, and I didn't want to think too much and got in.

When I squeezed into the crowd, I felt that my whole body was unstable, and I couldn't hold my feet for a while, and I actually collided with the black-clothed fencer.

"Ouch, it's a person or a wall." I rubbed my sore head, but out of the corner of my eye, I saw that the three family members behind me had pushed through the crowd and rushed in.

In a hurry, he pulled his legs to run, but unfortunately hit the copper wall again.

When he turned around, the fat man and his family had already forced up, and this time it was troublesome!

The road ahead was blocked by the man in black, and the surrounding area was surrounded by people watching the excitement...... In a hurry, I simply put on a whole skirt and shouted coldly: "At the feet of the Son of Heaven, do you dare to bully women and children so blatantly? ”

"Yo, it's still a little pepper." The fat man leaned up with a big bag on his forehead and salivated his face.

"You ......" Before I could say anything, I only felt a force pulling me back, and the man in black behind me flashed in front of me, blocking me and slamming the "fat pig" with a palm.

The "fat pig" fell to the ground and screamed, and the three family members saw that their master was beaten, and rushed up in a swarm, but they were beaten by the man in black two or three times.

The "fat pig" got up from the ground, his nose and mouth were bleeding, and he shouted unconvinced: "Good boy, dare to break ground on Tai Sui's head, and don't ask the uncle who I am." ”

The man in black ignored it, only turned his head and said coldly to me: "The girl is reasonable to deal with such a bully, what is reasonable, just use violence to counter violence." With that, he kicked the "fat pig" out of the way again.

The three family members copied the guy and surrounded him again, the man in black drew his sword in his hand, struck left and right, and before I could see clearly, I heard a cooing sound, and the three of them were once again embarrassed and fell to the ground.

I saw him calmly and slowly walk to the "fat pig", pointed his sword at his chest and said, "Go, apologize to that girl~!" The crowd of onlookers also made a commotion at the moment.

"You...... Do you know that my father is ......" The "fat pig" was still stiff-mouthed, and the man in black was about to give him some more color to see, but he heard the crowd shouting. It was as if a group of soldiers had come up.

"Let's go." Before I could come to my senses, I was pulled by the man in black and ran all the way.

I felt that the hand held on my wrist was extremely strong, and I couldn't help but run forward. He led me through the crowd until he turned into an alley and stopped.

Rushing all the way, my heart beat so hard that I stopped suddenly, I was a little dizzy in front of me, I finally stood firm against the wall, only to hear the man in black whisper: "Are you okay?" ”

I breathed a sigh of relief, calmed down, lowered my eyebrows and blessed him, and said, "Thank you Gongzi for coming to the rescue." Looking up at him, he was facing the Yasha mask, and his heart was horrified.

"Scared?" At this moment, the mask obscured his expression, but faintly saw the sharp eyes under the mask, and the voice of the voice in his ears also felt a little familiar, my heart was shocked, this look seemed familiar, I was afraid that I had seen it somewhere.

The man's cold sneer sounded in his ears: "No wonder those scoundrels. Isn't the girl's dress a butterfly? Your man didn't take a good look at you, so he let you go out and wander around. ”

When I heard this, my heart sank suddenly, this person is so abrupt! When they met in Pingshui, they actually said such unimportant words!

Could it be, could it be him? My heart tightened for no apparent reason, and I reached out to unmask him.

"Ah~!" I exclaimed, and he grabbed my wrist and dragged me into his arms, saying in a half-grinning voice, "It's better not to be so curious." ”

I struggled, wanting to hit him, but my hand was clasped by him, and I couldn't move, I hated to say: "Let go of me, you know my identity." ”

"Really? You're just a weak woman I just saved, what else can you be? ”

"Despicable~!" I opened my mouth and bit him on the shoulder.

"Hiss", just as he let go of his shoulder, I raised my hand and took off his mask.

Sure enough, it's him, Zhang Jizhao!

In the darkness, he looked at me with a smirk, one hand on the spot where I had been bitten.

I was so frightened by his eyes that I turned around to leave, but he stopped me in my way.

"Get out of the way!"

"Don't let it!"

"Get out of the way!" I screamed, raised my hand and struck him in the face, and with a snap, it hit him in the face, and I was stunned.

"It's better for women not to be too fierce." He didn't care, but leaned in front of me, grinning on his lips.

"You, shameless!" I raised my hand to hit again, but this time I was held by him, and in a hurry, I leaned over the back of his hand and bit it hard, and my mouth was immediately filled with the sweet smell of blood.

He didn't let go.

"You let go of me, let go of ......" In the face of such a strange person, my last defense had collapsed, and tears burst out of my eyes.

"Don't cry...... You, don't cry! Zhang Jizhao held me up and whispered in my ear.

I shook off his hand, wiped away my tears, and said hatefully, "You scoundrel, you are worse than the scoundrel of Fang Cai...... I should really be glad for Begonia, she made the right choice back then. "I was angry and sarcastic.

There was no more smile in his eyes, and I saw the man's unpredictable expression after being wounded. He dragged me close with one hand, like an angry lion, and trapped me between his arms.

At this moment, I was both weak and regretful, I really shouldn't have poked his scar at this moment to annoy him.

His face was so close to mine, his eyes full of complicated expressions lit up in the darkness, and I stubbornly stared back at him, stalemate, only to hear my own rapid and chaotic heartbeat.

"That's how you repay you for saving your life?" The look on his face relaxed, and he took a few steps back, closing the distance between him and me.

"For the sake of you saving your little sister, I won't bother with you this time." Zhang Jizhao muttered to himself, and then came up to me again, and said, "However, you still owe me twice...... I'll get it back. ”

It was as if someone had immobilized me, and I listened stiffly to him whispering in my ear, the breath that belonged to another man that was different from Bao Yuan floating in my nose, and I could even feel his lips touch the hair in my ear.

"Yours have been found." He finally finished speaking, gave me another meaningful look, and turned and disappeared into the alley.

"Rui'er~"

"Sister~"

Bao Yuan and Ming'er's anxious calls came from the entrance of the alley, and I leaned against the wall to call him.

"Rui'er~" Bao Yuan ran towards me sweating profusely, took me in his arms, and said hurriedly: "Where did you go just now?" Someone is dead! Are you alright, nothing happened, right? ”

"Sister ~ sister." Ming'er choked up behind her and said, "I can't find you just now, but the emperor is in a hurry, it's just a matter of going back to the palace to transfer Yu Linwei to look for you." ”

"I'm fine, you see I'm not good." I don't want them to worry too much, so I take it easy.

"Really?" Bao Yuanyou didn't believe it, looked at me and said, "Why are you crying?" Is someone bullying you? ”

"No, no." I tried my best to hide the look on my face, and said, "I can't find you just now, and I'm in a hurry, so I ......"

"Rui'er, I'm glad you're okay." Bao Yuanfu hugged me tightly again and advised: "If you get lost next time, you must wait for me in the same place, don't make me find it hard like this time." ”

"Yes!" I nodded heavily at him and raised my hand to reassure him.

Bao Yuan finally showed a reassuring smile on his face, and I also smiled and begged him, "Meng Lang, buy me a sugar cake." ”

Seeing him look at me dotingly and shaking his head and chuckling, my heart gradually settled down.

After eating the sugar cake, the group finally returned to the palace safely.

After changing clothes, it was almost midnight, and the palace was lit up for three days, and it was still bright everywhere at the moment.

Bao Yuan suddenly stretched out his hand to cover my eyes, and smiled in his ear: "Today, there is one last gift for Rui'er." ”

I walked forward with him in the dark, sometimes bending left and sometimes turning right, I don't know how long I walked, and suddenly my eyes lit up, and the colorful lights and candles of the trees were swaying in the moonlight.

Liang Shouzhen shouted beside him: "One, two, three, put ~!" ”

All kinds of fireworks rose into the air, illuminating the Chongguang Hall and illuminating the entire palace.

Bao Yuan hugged me behind him and whispered softly, "Rui'er, happy birthday!"

I happily snuggled tightly in his arms, looking at the fireworks set off for me, I only felt that even if I died at this moment, I was happy!