Hidden behind a sweetgum hedge, Zhangxiu stretched out her index finger and hissed at her lips, signaling Ahsan and Ali to keep quiet.

Through the gap in the maple wood, looking from a distance, I saw Ah Lan Niang sitting in the bamboo hedge, and the splendid embroidery under her feet obviously felt that the stranger was approaching, and she raised her head and barked.

Zhangxiu shush, Jinxiu recognized him and ignored him.

Zhangxiu patted her chest, every time she went up the mountain, she had to take care of a dog and a bird, she was tired enough.

At this moment, a black shadow suddenly descended from the sky, quacking, and pecked at the three Zhangxiu who were hiding behind the maple hedge.

Zhangxiu hurriedly stretched out his hand to cover his face and shouted: "Alas, we know each other, it's us!" Ahon Ah Lan, stop your strange bird! It's insane, every time! ”

Ahsan and Ali fled in a hurry, shouting: "Everyone is an acquaintance, say you won't peck us!" ”

Jinxiu saw Zhangxiu and the others yelling there, and couldn't help but rush up and bark at them.

The three of them had to dodge Jinxiu's attack, and they had to avoid Jiufeng's mouth peck, they looked embarrassed, and those colorful gifts were thrown to the ground.

Zhangxiu hurriedly went to pick up the gifts on the ground: "Oh my God, this is the sandalwood comb that I brought back from Nanshu, it is a birthday gift for Alan, you - you two cheap slaves actually fell to the ground for me, I have to let you kneel for an hour after I return home!" ”

He held a small but delicate rosewood comb in both hands, and in the middle of the wooden handle was inlaid with a purple ruby the size of a grain of rice, which sparkled.

"And this clothes, oh my God, you two slaves have soiled me-" Zhangxiu picked up a red Shu embroidered crane shirt from the ground, as if her heart ached.

"It's not me, it's the strange bird!" Frightened, Ali crawled to Changxiu to help pick up something.

"I told you to be careful, you have to come up quietly, it's not that you don't know their dogs and birds, they're all fine!" Ah Shan's face turned pale with fright, and he looked at Zhangxiu's face while picking up things on the ground.

From the side of the white stone temple, there was a delicate shout of Yufeng Blue: "Jiufeng, Jinxiu, stop!" They all told them that they were friends and couldn't be hurt. ”

With this shout, the strange bird that was screaming circled, gathered its wings and fell deep into the branches of a sweetgum tree. The strange bird had grown to a height of five feet, with beautiful tail feathers, and an astonishing speed and height.

The puppy Jinxiu seemed to have only remembered at this time that the person was a familiar person, and his voice became lower and lower, and finally obediently ran back to Gezhi Yilu's feet with his tail between his legs.

A slim and beautiful girl appeared in front of the three of them with a smile on her face.

Twelve-year-old Yu Feng has a blue face and red lips, a petite and delicate figure, with thick natural black curly hair, the top of the hair is gently curled into a bow with a purple headband, and a sandalwood stride decorated with the feathers of a fiery phoenix bird.

Although Ah Lan, who was born as a lowly slave, wears plain cloth clothes, he is like a forest fairy, peerless and independent.

Zhangxiu raised her head, her face was already in a mess, but when she saw Ah Lan, she was stunned and couldn't say a word.

Ah Lan violet eyes looked at Zhangxiu with a smile: "Are you coming to see me?" ”

Zhangxiu was speechless.

Ali touched him: "Miss Alan's coming-of-age sacrifice, we-"

Zhangxiu came to her senses, hurriedly picked up the things on the ground, held them and handed them to Ah Lan, and smiled awkwardly: "We, we want to come to participate in Ah Lan's coming-of-age sacrifice ceremony." These gifts are all dirty, and I will make up for them another day. ”

Ah Lan smiled, stretched out his hand to take Zhangxiu's pile of colorful gifts, and turned around to ask the invisible brother in the house: "Brother Hong, what is the best gift I want to give to Zhangxiu Gongzi?" ”

What gift does she have? Over the years, Zhangxiu has never seen her have a daughter's things.

The purple hairband on her head was picked by her brother Ah Hong this spring and brought it back to the grandmother on Chawu Street, and the fiery phoenix bird feather sandalwood swayed in small steps, and it looked very old, maybe it was left by her mother.

"Do you have any gifts to give back?" Ali muttered.

Zhangxiu hurriedly waved his hand: "No, no." These are things that are not usually used at home, and they are not valuable. ”

Ali pointed to the gift in Ah Lan's hand: "No, son, that red Shu embroidered crane coat was brought back from Nanshu by you, and it costs five gold shields in Nanshu." ”

Ah Shan also pulled out the sandalwood purple ruby comb from Ah Lan's hand: "And this, the gem in the middle doesn't look big, but it was given to Master Maran by Jing Nanguo, and it is worth a hundred gold shields." ”

Ah Lan was startled, and hurriedly sent a bunch of things in his hand to Zhangxiu: "I only have one silver quill, and Brother Hong only hugged it this spring." I can't use something so expensive. ”

Zhangxiu held a flower gift, and turned around angrily and glared at the two cheap slaves: "Have you seen it clearly?" Do you see clearly, is this what you are talking about? Is it?! Didn't I just think it was Ah Lan's birthday, so I brought the things I didn't use at home, really! ”

Ahsan and Ali blinked.

Ali was busy pretending to have a stomachache: "Alas, what did I eat this morning, my stomach hurts, my head hurts, I remember it wrong." ”

Ah Shan hurriedly smiled at Ah Lan: "Isn't this our mistake?" It's all not used by the child, and it's worthless. You have to take it, if you don't take the son, you will beat us when you go home. ”

Zhangxiu hurriedly stuffed the gift back into Ah Lan's arms: "No one uses these things at home." I'm going up the mountain, so I'll pay for lunch at noon. ”

Ah Lan hesitated to accept the colorful gift.

Ah Hong walked out of the house, stood next to him and smiled: "Master Zhangxiu, if you don't give a gift, we will also give you lunch." ”

Seventeen-year-old Ah Hong is now an adult, his delicate face and his pale blonde hair look more handsome, and he has a pair of purple eyes like Ah Lan, deep and bright, but his pupils are purple, close to crape myrtle.

Whenever she saw his pale blonde hair, Zhangxiu would always have a strange thought: "If he was born in the Great Hui Palace, who said that he was not a prince?" ”

It is said that the heirs to the throne of the Great Hui Dynasty, with the exception of the 12th Emperor Haoxing the Great, all had golden hair, like a roaring golden lion.

The emperors of the Great Hui Dynasty were all blonde and white-skinned, tall and handsome, with the brave blood of the heroic Chiyan Emperor flowing in their bodies, and their mothers were from the great Xuanyuan clan.

When Zhangxiu's gaze fell on Ah Hong's hair, he felt that Ge Zhiyi's green face sitting in front of the White Stone Temple was cold, like cold water that formed ice bars in the mist, soaking his teeth.

When he turned around, he saw another smiling face.

He knew that Ah Lan's mother had been a living dead since she was born, and she couldn't speak or move, but he always had a strange feeling that as long as he went up the mountain, there would always be a beam of cold eyes behind him peeking at him.

Yu Fengguang knelt in front of the white stone temple, knocking with the white stone with both hands, and the hard white stone made a crackling sound.

When the girls of the Gezhi tribe reach the age of twelve, their mothers lead them before the patriarch or king to receive adult blessings.

However, the last king and the last patriarch of the Gezhi tribe, Gezhi Yilu, lost his ability to speak and act, and became the living dead. At this time, as Yu Fengguang, instead of his wife, he held a coming-of-age blessing ceremony for his daughter according to the tradition of the Gezhi tribe.

"The Great God of Fertility, Isamna, the Great Emperor of the Red Flame, we most devoutly ask you to accept the dedication of your people, Yufeng Blue!"

Yu Fengguang continued to knock on the white stone in his hand, and the white stone made a sonorous and powerful crisp sound, echoing in the misty Kanggaram Mountain dense forest, like a long-term flood sound, transmitted to the weak grass, the tall maple wood and the blue clouds that went with the wind.

From this day on, Yu Fenglan is no longer a little girl who laughs at will, the god of the sky and the earth, the god of mountains and trees, the god of fertility and growth, all can testify: she, as a Gezhi woman, can marry and give birth.

The ancient ancestors of the Gezhi people came from the westernmost mountain tamarin of Shenzhou, this ancient clan has worshiped white stone since the Stone Age, and was the first to charge into battle with well-made white stone knives, white stone axes, and slingshots, becoming brave mountain tamarins.

The Gezhi tribe, like the Yufeng tribe, are multi-god worshippers and are free people with free beliefs.

The Gezhi people are inseparable from Baishi. Every family would build white stone temples of different sizes on the side of the house, and pick up hard white stones from the washed clean riverbed, and worship them on the tower on the roof, on the shrine in the house, and by the fire pit in the house, and worship every moon and festival.

Outside the house, in the forest, they will also worship Shiraishi on the hill outside the village and in the sacred forest, as well as at every intersection they pass.

Stones in different positions to represent different deities. For example, the white stone on the roof and the mountain represents the god Chiyan the Great, the white stone next to the fire pond represents the fire god Gewana, and the white stone in the field represents the green seedling land god.

And the greatest god of fertility and growth, Isamna, is enshrined in the middle of the White Stone Temple, where there are gods of heaven, earth, trees, fire and ancestors.

"The great god of fertility, Isamna, please give her the blessings of reproduction and progeny, please give her all the blessings of the great Gezhi and Yufeng clans, let her hold the warmest flame of Gewana in her hands, and go forward forever to restore the past glory of the Gezhi and Yufeng clans!"

After Yu Fengguang finished saying the greeting, he palmed his hands to the sky, then lay on the ground, his head was facing Yu Fenglan, and murmured: "Young monarch of the Gezhi clan, the Yufeng clan is guilty of you, let you be born in the land of no light, grow up in the room of light, and cannot bring you the flame of glory!" ”

Ah Lan, who was kneeling opposite Yu Fengguang, was shocked: "Dad, why do you say that, I'm your daughter?!" ”

Yu Fenghong also looked at his father in surprise, he was also the heir of the two clans, and he was the eldest son. Why did Dad say these things to his sister?

Malan Zhangxiu turned his head, looking embarrassed, he regretted a little that he shouldn't have come to Ah Lan so early, he shouldn't have seen Yu Feng Guang hold a coming-of-age sacrifice ceremony for his daughter.

The worship of the seven gods of the Yufeng tribe and the Shiraishi worship of the Gezhi tribe were banned as early as 822 when the two tribes rebelled. If the Tianwei Army of Snow Blue City now knew that Yu Fengguang was making a big sacrifice here, he would be convicted of treason.

And Yu Fengguang knew that he was the Nanshu Malan clan, and he still made a big sacrifice in front of him, why?