Winter Moon, Fire Aversion Festival.

For three days, no open fire could be lit, and the whole Hou Mansion was busy, the cooks were busy preparing cold food, and the maids were busy helping the masters dry their thick clothes and bedding.

There is no homework today, and Lu Shaoqing and Tie Rugui are rarely idle.

In the back garden, Lu Shaoqing crossed Erlang's legs and played against Fang Heda.

Although he didn't look down on the chief staff of the Hou Mansion, he kept calling him a "traitor" behind his back.

However, only Fang Heda can compare his chess skills with Lu Shaoqing in the Hou Mansion.

Tie Rugui was watching the chess on the sidelines, still holding the book "Liu Mian's Four Voices Test" in his hand, and he didn't know if the young marquis Lu still remembered that he wanted to ask Fang Sing to teach them the study of rhyme.

Lu Shaoqing carelessly dropped a son on the cold jade chessboard, was shivered by the cold wind, and complained:

"I don't know who arranged such a strange festival, and it is divided into winter and summer, the summer is fine, and there is no fire in the winter, so people must not be frozen."

Fang Heda smiled:

"Young master, the Fire Aversion Festival has a history of more than 1,000 years in the north and south of the continent, and as for who arranged it, the ancient books have long been scattered, and it is really difficult to examine. However, from the ode of the Hokuriku shaman, it is said that if a flame is lit during the Fire Aversion Festival, it will attract the envy of the ancient demonic beasts, which is an extremely ominous thing......

Lu Shaoqing "cut" and said with disdain:

"Some people also believe this kind of nonsense, and they are also demonic beasts, hum, stupid!"

"Young master, you can't say that, legends always have some sustenance."

Lu Shaoqing turned his head, rolled his eyes towards the sky, and didn't argue with Fang Heda, but instead said to Tie Rugui:

"You Hokuriku also have this breaking festival?"

Tie Rugui was stunned for a moment, and fell into thought.

Every year in winter and summer, Jin Ge would take him to the banks of the Aba River outside Guyang City at night when there was no bonfire.

Bonfires and torches always make the dark night darker, and the starry sky reflected in the river is like day, and everything in the grassland at night is very clear.

The two brothers sat in the miscanthus and did not speak, but watched the river flow quietly.

It was a rare moment of inner peace in his memory of his brother Jingo.

More often, Jin Ge rode a fire-stepping horse and Tie Le's fire-stepping iron horse to line up and run on the grassland, practicing the formation that Tie Rugui couldn't understand over and over again.

The breeze blew across the river, blowing the half-human-high miscanthus grass and bending it over, and the iron was like home, and at that time it was still the little prince Amok, so he lay down on the miscanthus and fell asleep.

This is all his impression of the Hokuriku Fire Disgust Festival, except for the sparkling Aba River, only the quiet and resolute face of his brother Tiele Jingo.

"Home, home......"

A few shouts pulled Tie Rugui back to reality, only to see Lu Shaoqing looking at him in surprise.

"What's wrong with you? I can't keep my soul. ”

Tie Rugui came to his senses and said:

"No, no, our Hokuriku Fire Aversion Festival is the same as that of Nanlu, and we don't light open fires, just like Mr. Fang said, the old shaman also told us the legend of avoiding temperature."

Lu Shaoqing waved his hand and said:

"Who cares if it's warm or cold, the way you looked just now, did you think of a Hokuriku girl who accompanied you to the Fire Aversion Festival?"

Girl? ……

Tie Rugui suddenly remembered the ten horses and silver flowers, the Yi girl wielding the colorful horse whip, and couldn't help but blush on her face for a while.

Lu Shaoqing seemed to have discovered something terrible, and stood up laughing:

"It's like home, it's like home, I'm talking about the central thing! Master, I'm a veteran of Fengyue, you can't see this little bit of thought? ”

As he spoke, he pulled Tie Rugui aside and whispered:

"Rugui, you still have to stay here for three years, it's really unreasonable not to let you see the demeanor of the Nanlu girl, this matter is on me!"

Tie Rugui opened his mouth wide in surprise, and just wanted to say something, but Lu Shaoqing turned around in a dashing manner, leaving him a "You just wait!" Looks.

I saw him with a straight face, and said to Fang Heda:

"Mr. Fang, as usual, my father should go to see my aunt after the Fire Festival."

Fang Heda nodded and replied:

"Yes, I plan to leave tomorrow, and I'm almost at the end of the year when I get to Yandu."

Lu Shaoqing couldn't help but show a snicker on his face, and then asked seriously:

"Well, Mr. Fang is also going with you?"

"Yes."

Lu Shaoqing almost couldn't help laughing, tried to restrain himself, and finally said:

"Please Mr. Fang tell my father, the Hou Mansion, this young master will take care of it properly, please rest assured."

There are no tigers in the mountains, and it seems that the monkey is going to be the king......

Early the next morning, in front of the Hou Mansion.

Jiang tied a fur coat for Lu Dingguo and told him to go and see Jiang Taishen, the father-in-law of Yandu.

Lu Dingguo responded with two sentences, and then turned his face to look at Lu Shaoqing on the side.

On the third day of the Fire Aversion Festival, the young marquis originally had to curl up in the quilt where the maid warmed the bed until noon, and refused to get out of bed.

Today, I somehow changed my sex, and I appeared in the crowd of people who were seeing off the Hou Mansion in full clothes early in the morning.

Lu Dingguo patted his son on the shoulder and said:

"Go to Yandu for my father, I may not be able to come back until Chinese New Year's Eve, take care of your second mother."

Lu Shaoqing nodded solemnly, and the look of being determined to live up to the trust made the Jiang family standing beside Lu Dingguo a little unaccustomed, and persuaded:

"Master Hou, the concubine is not sick or painful, she doesn't need special care, Shaoqing is busy with schoolwork, so he doesn't bother."

Lu Dingguo nodded, and said:

"There is also the prince of Tiele, Fang Bai and the others are not here these days, and the sacrifice of the He clan ancestral hall in Danxian County is also presided over by Master He, you have to accompany the prince to cultivate his body and strengthen his physique......"

In the latter words, Lu Shaoqing basically went in and out of his left ear, and he didn't remember a few words, but he really remembered the words "accompanying the world".

"Don't worry, Dad, this young master will definitely accompany His Royal Highness the Prince to have a good understanding of Tang Fengyue, so that Tie Rugui, a simple Ningzhou foal, can open his mind!"

Of course, Lu Shaoqing secretly refreshed himself in his heart.

When Lu Dingguo walked away, Jiang also took the maids back to the room, and Lu Shaoqing finally showed a smile that he couldn't hold back.

He took a jade from his waist, stuffed it into the hand of the little man who was guarding the door beside him, and admonished:

"Tie Rugui and I are going out of the house tonight to run errands, these days you let go of the spirit, and keep your mouth tight for me! Young master, I don't have much private room, so I'll make up for it for you when I go back. ”

How dare the little guy take it, he knelt down in a hurry, and said again and again:

"Young Hou Ye, don't be embarrassed, Hou Ye has an order......

"Don't take Hou Ye to press me! If you're talkative! I'll transfer you to the latrine! ”

Lu Shaoqing interrupted him mercilessly.

The little guy had a bitter face, he wanted to wash the toilet and wash the toilet, it was better than being whipped after the Hou Ye knew about it, but he saw Lu Shaoqing's fierce face, and he was bluffed into speechless.

Lu Shaoqing raised his head and laughed, and walked away.

But just after walking a few steps, I heard a hearty voice behind me:

"Shaoqing's nephew!"