Chapter 9: The Lantern Festival Meets

"Xiao'er, look over there, is there someone putting Kong Ming lanterns?"

Hearing the sound, there were indeed a few people by the river facing the street who were holding torches and preparing to light the core, Xiao Huang retracted his gaze and turned to the side, and said with a slight smile: "Well, my mother looks good." ”

The first time I saw the calm and dignified third princess on weekdays showing such a lively side, her emotions couldn't help but be infected a little.

It's just that...... Xiao Huang turned his head and glanced at the people who were following them, and shook his head helplessly, just looking for an excuse to slip away.

Originally, it was a group of four people who went out, but as soon as they entered the market, the third princess and her mother took care of her, and they had already "lost" the general's father to the back of their minds.

Thinking that their previous acquaintance was at such a lantern festival, Xiao Huang was very interested in not wanting to be a "separation board" between the two anymore, otherwise with her and Xiaoxiang, the two oil bottles, how could they have the opportunity to relive the sweet memories of the past?

With this in mind, she immediately pulled the person who was still interested in acting as a narrator to the side of the vacant street.

said softly: "Mother, it's the first time Xiaoxiang has come to Kyoto's Lantern Festival, and I want to take her to other places to play."

"No, that's too dangerous." Jimo Liyun, who came over slowly, had a serious face when he heard the words.

Even Hua Ying echoed and said: "Yes, Xiao Er won't dislike her father, that mother will be very sad." ”

"Why—mother! It's hard to come back once, don't you want to relive the old dreams with your father? Xiao Huang said and winked at her.

Seeing this, Lian Huaying was stunned, and there was a look of surprise in her stunned eyes.

But the person who focused on making up the reason didn't find out, she was thinking about how to convince the general and his wife, but basically even what Hua Ying agreed to, even Mo Liyun would not object.

“…… What's more, there are so many people in the bazaar, what can happen? You don't have to worry, we'll go back by ourselves after a while, and besides, Xiaoxiang will follow me. ”

Hearing her name, Xiao Xiang hurriedly swore and promised: "Well, I will protect Miss!" ”

"But ......"

"There's nothing to do, let's go, it's a beautiful day, my father and mother can't waste it." Xiao Huang said witty words with a strange expression, and he was still a little jerky after listening carefully.

Hearing this, Lian Huaying was angry and funny, "What kind of thoughts do you have in this child, you don't know for your mother?" Isn't that the monkey character out again, it's hard for you to stay at home obediently for the past few days, and now you can't stay idle......"

The people who nagged for a while finally compromised after saying advice such as "go home early, don't run too far".

Seeing Xiao Huang's figure disappearing into the crowd, even the little unease that Hua Ying always had in her heart was finally gone, "Sure enough, it's still my Xiao'er, what...... Nothing has changed. ”

After leaving the general's wife, Xiao Huang's smile sank in an instant, and the rubbing on the streets and the boiling sky in the bazaars were overwhelming...... It all made her extremely irritable in her heart.

She was so quiet that she was close to autism - that was the longest-lasting characteristic of her previous life, no matter how she tried to imitate what they called "Xiao'er", she still couldn't adapt to it after all......

"Childe, what is that uncle doing? Is it eaten? Xiao Xiang excitedly pointed to a stall on the side of the street.

Because of the convenience of going out, Xiao Huang wore a man's dress, a high-necked flowing dress with crescent white embroidered bamboo satin, covering his beautiful neck, and his long hair was simply tied up with a milky white belt.

From a distance, he looks like a handsome boy, and even when the general and his wife first saw it, they couldn't help but exclaim, "Xiao Er is going out to fascinate the women of the whole street in Kyoto."

Hearing the sound, she looked along the place where Xiao Xiang pointed, and saw a vendor holding a spoonful of refined syrup and pouring it on a layer of oiled paper, "That should be a sugar painting, you can eat it." ”

Don't you have these snacks in the borderlands? Or is the type different from Kyoto? However, for Xiao Xiang, there seems to be nothing that is not fresh...... Thinking like this, Xiao Huang was also relieved.

Then she added: "Xiaoxiang, you can go wherever you want, don't worry about me." ”

"That's not good, I have to follow Childe...... Hey, Childe wait for me. ”

Before Xiao Xiang finished speaking, she saw her young lady walking towards a relatively deserted vendor.

"Boss, how do you sell this mask?"

From afar, Xiao Huang took a fancy to a red fox mask, and felt inexplicably fond of it, so he walked to the stall and took off the fox mask and prepared to buy it.

However, after asking about the price, she didn't hear the hawker's response, and she couldn't help but wonder - is this not for sale?

Turning his attention from the mask to the vendor, only to see him staring at him with a stupid expression, Xiao Huang was so puzzled that he had to scream a few more times.

"Good, beautiful, uh...... No, it's not, the guest officer is really handsome. The peddler came to his senses, but he didn't hear what the customer in front of him was asking.

"How many silver taels is this mask?" Xiao Huang asked again, but there was obvious impatience in his tone.

"Huh?! Oh, don't want money, give it to the guest officer. ”

Seeing that the hawker was still a little stupid, she casually put down a few coins of silver and turned to leave, and the hawker's shouts kept coming from behind her: "Guest officer, this is not so much silver, hey...... Sir? ”

Xiao Huang looked at the red fox mask in his hand as he walked, thinking about the unusual reaction of the peddler just now, and couldn't help but guess that he might have some hidden dangers such as mental illness.

But she didn't notice how attractive her appearance and the indifferent temperament revealed in her bones were.

Although she deliberately darkened the complexion on her face with makeup powder before going out, so that she would not look too fair, her delicate facial features could not change much in such a short period of time.

After walking half the street, Xiao Huang suddenly found that there seemed to be less usual chirping around him, and when he raised his eyes, in front of a vendor with snacks, Xiao Xiang was holding pine cake and roasted chestnuts in one hand, and was taking a few strings of rock sugar gourds from a vendor with the other hand......

Thinking that it was difficult for them to come out for a walk, Xiaoxiang's "overeating" was understandable, so she went with her.

Looking up at the Kong Ming lantern in the distance, slowly rising into the sky, it faintly looks like stars hanging high in the sky, embellishing this night incomparably gorgeous.

Xiao Huang suddenly became interested, casually clasped the red fox mask on his face, and slowly paced towards the place where Kong Ming's lantern rose.

After getting closer, she realized that there were still large and small lotus lanterns floating in the river, and many people on the bank were clasping their hands in front of them at the moment when the river lanterns entered the water, closing their eyes and praying for something.

And the people on the other side of the river wrote their wishes on the lampshade one after another, and let out a cheer at the moment when the Kong Ming lantern was raised......

Everyone has their own prayers that need to be busy, and no one has noticed for a long time, the figure standing quietly by the river, admiring the stories of others, isolating himself, every grass and tree, one happy and one angry, and his own sadness and joy.

It happened that the people who passed by the riverside trail saw this scene inadvertently, and they subconsciously stopped.

I don't know how long I stood by the river, but for the first time the cold wind of the night blew - it was time to go home.

Just as Xiao Huang was about to leave, an old man carrying a lotus river lantern came over and said kindly: "Childe, buy a river lantern, tonight's lotus lantern will make Childe happy."

The latter paused, and then returned with a detached smile, "But I don't want anything." ”

Oh, mortals enter the world, there are blessings, there are disasters, even if it is a pure heart and few desires of the master of the Tao, there will be the idea of feathering into immortals.

How could anyone ask for nothing? It's just that I don't believe that a small river lantern can make me "ask for it".

The footsteps that were supposed to go to the theater on the side of the trail unconsciously shifted the route......

At the fork in the road of the market, Xiao Huang hesitated for a while, and finally chose a quieter street next to it, she thought that as long as she took the route parallel to the market street, she could also walk back to the General's Mansion.

What's more, this is not far from the General's Mansion, a relatively quiet environment, which is obviously what she loves more.

But after walking for a while, she felt that something was wrong, there seemed to be a bloody breath in the air, how could it be strange to Xiao Huang, who had been in contact with corpses for a long time?

Before you know it, you have come to the place where the smell of blood comes from, and you will see dead people all over the ground, and the rich smell of rust fills the air, so oppressive that people can't breathe.

However, Xiao Huang didn't feel any discomfort except for a moment of surprise, she walked up to several corpses, squatted down and examined them carefully.

"Number: thirty-four; Exterior Status: Black, masked; Gender: Male; Cause of death: Excessive blood loss and fatal wounds on each body...... The man was pierced in the left chest with a sharp object, his heart was likely damaged, and he died no more than three quarters of an hour. ”

"No, it's no more than a quarter of an hour!" Fingertips touched the arm of one of the corpses, and she corrected herself.

"The preliminary judgment is that it is an overwhelming situation of killing on the one hand."

Subconsciously, Xiao Huang said everything he thought in his heart, and after finishing speaking, he asked by the way: "Have you written it down?"

She didn't hear the assistant answer, she turned her head to look at her side only to find that it was empty next to her, Xiao Huang couldn't help but laugh dumbly - just now she thought that she was in the new era, helping the professor participate in the homicide investigation.

"How about writing it down? What if you don't write it down? A deep voice came from behind abruptly, which really startled Xiao Huang.

Although she is not afraid of the dead, in this dark environment, when she is sure that there is no living person, such a mysterious voice suddenly appears, it will scare people to death, right?!

It's not the dead who can talk, it's the living? Xiao Huang calmed down and stood up unhurriedly, and the moment she turned around, there was immediately a long sword glowing with cold light on her neck.

It's really a disaster, it turns out that walking at night is really going to bump into a "ghost", she thought about the countermeasures to get out, but her face didn't show a trace of expression, but she forgot that she still had a red fox mask on her face, even if there was any expression, others couldn't see it.

"It's not good to write it down, and it's not good if you don't write it down." After thinking for a while, Xiao Huang answered the question just now.

As for the sword around her neck, I'm sorry, she ignored it very directly.