Chapter 25: Linjiang, Watching the Lanterns, Eating Cold Night (4)
After the young man Su Jing was sent out, there was no speech in the house for a while.
People come and go outside, and when people who are familiar with each other meet, they always have to say "cool down" first. The laughter was endless, and it came into his ears through the open window, which made Lu Qiming suddenly remember that it was already the Cold Festival.
The cold night takes the meaning of "cooling off", and it is the first day of spring every year. Since the cold night, the earth has gradually warmed up, and all things have given birth to new hope. It is such a festival that represents vitality and good wishes.
Xie Yundu leaned on the chair and drank wine, admiring the graceful nuns walking by with glass lanterns outside the window, with a smile on the corner of his mouth. He suddenly asked, "Do you have a sect?"
Without waiting for Lu Qiming to answer, Xie Yundu said to himself: "Seeing that you have no common sense, you must be gone...... How about coming to our Momoyama?"
Hearing this, Lu Qiming moved his gaze from the window to him, and asked with a smile: "What's the matter, aren't you afraid of trouble?"
"Can't you see it?" Xie Yundu asked rhetorically, raising his eyebrows and smiling: "I'm just afraid that it's not troublesome enough." β
Lu Qiming looked at him, and when he saw him staring at him with blazing eyes, he could only smile and nod and said, "I know, if I really can't get along one day, I won't be polite to you." β
Xie Yundu was in a good mood, and said, "If you really enter our Peach Mountain, then I will finally not be a 'little junior brother'...... Eh, speaking of which," Xie Yundu sat up straight and said curiously, "How old are you?"
Lu Qiming's expression frozeβhe was still asked this question. He was silent for a moment and said, "What about you?"
Xie Yundu was speechless and said, "This is my problem, okay?"
The two of them stared at each other.
The little prince's milky sneer sounded next to him: "Boring." β
Lu Qiming avoided each other first, and sighed: "It's not important, right?"
"Of course it's important-" Xie Yundu slapped his thigh and said, "You shouldn't really be the kind of old guy who forcibly pretends to be a young man, right?"
Lu Qiming said very quickly: "Just take it." β
Xie Yundu stared at him even more suspiciously, slapped his thigh again and said, "It can't be just the opposite, right?"
Lu Qiming had a big headache.
Fortunately, at this time, Su Jing pushed the door in again, holding a plate of four bowls, and said briskly: "Eat cold supper!"
......
There is a special solar term food in the Cold Festival, which is called "Cold Night", commonly known as "Cool Dumplings", and it is only eaten during this time of the year. The raw material is a special kind of rice that matures during the coldest part of winter, and after the harvest comes the return of the warmth of the new year.
The cold night made from this rice needs to be served in an ice bowl, which is crystal clear and extremely gratifying. In winter, it looks cold and scary, but in the mouth it tastes the opposite - warm and soft, without any trimmings, it has a refreshing taste. After eating, the whole body is warm and warm, and even ordinary people who have not cultivated will not feel cold when they enjoy the lanterns throughout the night.
The cold night dumplings in the Divine Domain are even more aura than those in the Middle Continent. Lu Qiming brushed away the mist that gathered on the soup noodles and saw that there were still some faint fine lines on the cold night.
Su Jing noticed Lu Qiming's gaze and explained with a smile: "Some of the cool dumplings have patterns on them, indicating various wishes. Uncle Shi might as well take a look at what it is. He paused, and added with some embarrassment: "Actually, these in our tavern are quite accurate. β
Over there, Xie Yundu had already smiled and said: "This time it's good luck - a brush, a piece of silver, and a wishful - it is 'definitely wishful'!"
Su Jing whispered: "But Uncle Xiao, your mind is always different from everyone......"
Everyone laughed.
Lu Qiming also scooped one out with a spoon to look at it, but he was slightly shocked in his heart - in a trance, a huge river appeared out of thin air, rushing towards him with majestic momentum, and the shape was real - but when Lu Qiming looked at it again, it was still an ordinary cool ball, just printed with the lines of the water flow.
Su Jing probed over and said in surprise: "What a coincidence! Isn't this the one that Master carved today!"
Xie Yunduqi said: "Second Senior Brother's lazy appearance - will also do it himself?!"
Su Jing shook his head and said, "It was the master who got the understanding of Guanjiang when he was outside, and he casually took a cool dumpling and engraved it; β
Xie Yundu raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Since you are the second senior brother...... You have to guess what that means, and something will come true!"
Lu Qiming had already eaten it slowly.
......
The downstairs hall was noisy, and the atmosphere was unprecedentedly warm, and people kept hurrying out. Lu Qiming and others were in the room, and they could vaguely hear words such as "Blue Pavilion", "Bixun Girl", and "Izumo Dance".
Xie Yundu's expression suddenly wandered. He looked at Lu Qiming, who had a calm face, and then at the little prince with excited eyes, and let out a strange laugh.
Lu Qiming was furious by him, and said helplessly: "What's wrong with you?"
Xie Yundu muttered: "I also made such a bet with someone, I thought that I would never know if I won or not in this life, but I didn't expect to ...... today" He asked Lu Qiming: "You really don't have the information of 'Blue Pavilion' in your Feng Clan inheritance memory, right?"
Lu Qiming frowned and said, "I have something to say." β
Xie Yundu laughed: "It seems that it is true! You Feng Clan are really serious people...... " He turned to the little prince and winked at him, "The Dragon Clan must know everything, right?"
Everyone looked at the little prince.
The little prince cleared his throat and said proudly: "The Blue Pavilion is the place where every man wants to go!"
Lu Qiming: "......"
He glanced at the little prince, who was not even one meter tall, his eyebrows jumped, and he sighed: "I'll make trouble with you in the future, it's really too late if I don't leave." β
Before he finished speaking, he was pulled out by Xie Yundu, and Xie Yundu's relaxed and happy laughter circled in his ears: "What are you afraid of! Teleport all the way, and you will arrive in half an hour! How rare is the opportunity for the Izumo dance of the Blue Pavilion girls, how can you not watch it?"
......
However, Izumo Dance is not visible.
The situation along the way was too peculiar, causing Lu Qiming to seriously underestimate Xie Yundu's popularity in the Divine Domain, and as soon as a few people arrived at the Blue Pavilion, they were immediately greeted by all the onlookers and all the young women.
The group of well-dressed girls in the Blue Pavilion were originally preparing behind the stage, but now they all ran out with a bang, and they all called "Xie Gongzi" and "Xie Gongzi" tenderly and sweetly, and the handkerchief sachets flew in the air.
Lu Qiming looked at Xie Yundu's face and sighed.
It didn't take long for Xie Yundu to be proud, and everyone heard the Bixun girl who led the dance in the Blue Pavilion say happily: "Since Gongzi Xie is here, we won't have time to perform today, so let's disperse!"
There was a wail below, but they didn't dare to lose their temper at them - Lan Ting is a formal and very powerful female cultivator sect, not only is it not the nature of the Qinglou, but the women are convinced that women are inferior to men, and flirting with handsome men is like a common thing - but for those men, facing the beautiful girls of Lan Ting, it is really "one is willing to fight, and the other is willing to suffer".
But who can cultivate to this level really has a good temper? I only listen to the countless voices that come and go.
"Hit!"
The young men who were waiting for an empty scene, black and oppressive, rushed towards Lu Qiming and his party together.
It's chaos.
The girls of the Blue Pavilion finally gloated enough, so they rushed out of the door, swept away the crowd with three strokes and five divisions, and grabbed and suppressed Mrs. Zhai and lifted Lu Qiming, Xie Yundu and a few of them into the air, and transported them back to the Blue Pavilion leisurely.
The door slammed shut.