In the third chapter, the escape enchantment is blocked, and the masked people meet unexpectedly
Qingqiu is the richest of the four kingdoms on earth, and like the other three countries of the Spring Language Country, the Summer Yang Country, and the Winter Snow Country, there is only one season here throughout the year - autumn.
Autumn was originally a harvest season, with a pleasant climate, hard-working kings, and hard-working and kind people, all of which brought a steady stream of abundant products to the Qingqiu Kingdom.
There is so much gold here that dexterous craftsmen decorate the palace with gold leaf, gold leaves, gold flowers, golden birds, and golden dragons, making the Qing and Autumn Kingdom shine.
Such a rich country is bound to be coveted by other countries. For thousands of years, the kings of the Qingqiu Kingdom have consolidated the national system by marrying the princesses of the other three countries, but in the life of Qiu Lie, he fell in love with a woman from his own country, and tried his best to override the public opinion, and accepted her as the queen and took charge of the harem.
Fortunately, when the old queen mother was alive, she relied on her status as the eldest princess of the Spring Language Country and maintained close contact with the Spring Language Country at all times, so that other forces did not dare to act rashly. After the death of the Queen Mother, the national teacher used his own blood to draw the ground as a prison and set up an enchantment for the entire Qingqiu Kingdom, the people inside could not get out, and the people outside could not enter, which virtually ensured the peace of the country for a while.
At this moment, the afterglow of the setting sun gently sprinkled in a large ginkgo forest in the palace of the Qingqiu Kingdom, it was impossible to tell whether the light soaked the leaves or the leaves were dyed yellow, and the beautiful time condensed into the flickering light on the tips of the leaves, turning into a gentle song with the wings of the swallow from one tree to another, and in an instant rippled in the entire ginkgo forest.
Qiu Wuyan ran all the way out of the queen's bedroom, in fact, she was already used to her father Qiu Lie's attitude, in addition to not allowing her to leave the palace, from childhood to adulthood, she was like a baby who was always held in the palm of her hand, and she could deeply feel the meticulous care of her father and mother.
The queen mother once told her about the world outside the palace, and she had searched through almost every book in the treasury, and the Baise flowers in the never-withering fresh garden of the Spring Language Country recorded in the books, the cold and beautiful hexagonal snowflakes floating in the sky of the Winter Snow Country, and even the bare arms and thighs of the men and women of the Xia Yang Kingdom, all made her yearn for it.
But whenever she proposed to go out of the Qingqiu Kingdom and experience all this for herself, the Queen Mother always used the evil earth spirits, the ruthless Sea Clan, and the Heaven Clan who saw everything to scare her, trying to destroy her courage to walk out of Qingqiu. But Empress Jinlan didn't expect that this aroused Qiu Wuyan's greater curiosity, so that when she was seven years old, she secretly ran out of the palace with great expectations, but was finally blocked by a ruthless barrier at the palace gate.
"One day, I will leave here to explore that mysterious world, and when I am eighteen years old, no one will try to stop me!" Qiu Wuyan stood under the tallest ginkgo tree and muttered to the swallow standing in the palm of her hand. Then he fell straight backwards, lay down on the carpet of naturally thick leaves, grabbed two handfuls of fallen leaves and threw them into the air.
In the midst of the fluttering leaves, a masked face suddenly flashed.
"Could it be that I'm dreaming?!" Qiu Wuyan closed her eyes again in disbelief, and opened them again in a panic, and the figure stood motionless in front of her, real and kind.
"Grandpa Fairy, why are you here?!" Qiu Wuyan stood up from the ground with a carp.
"I said I'd give you a birthday present every year, so how can I break my promise?" the old man smiled and looked at the slim Qiu Wuyan, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.
Looking at the old man's silver hair floating outside the mask, Qiu Wuyan's memory drifted back to when she was 7 years old......
On that day, in order to celebrate his birthday, the whole country was bustling. Her father personally performed her favorite shadow puppet show for her, and the queen mother began to embroider her birthday dress three months ago, but all this could not arouse the joy in her heart.
Qiu Wuyan eagerly awaited the coming of the night, for this day she had secretly prepared for a long time, a bone knife, a gold ingot, and the cloak she had to hold every day when she slept, she had struggled to take it with her, and when she found that abandoning it made her heart so uneasy, she finally stuffed it into the gold silk bag that the queen mother had sewn for her with her own hands. I've checked it just now, and those things are lying there safely, waiting to take them with me to explore the unknown world.
For now, he can sneak out after his father and mother go to bed drunk. The guards of the palace naturally don't have to worry, because she accidentally found a small hole, which was originally used to drain the water on the ground during the rainy season, but she didn't expect that her small body could be accommodated just now, she would not have to alarm the guards, and she unknowingly crawled out of the small drainage hole out of Qingqiu Kingdom and started her mysterious journey.
Qiu Wuyan excitedly imagined the journey she was about to embark on, looking forward to everything she was going to see with her own eyes, and almost trembled with excitement. Then she thought of her father and mother, when they woke up and found that their precious daughter had gone away, would they feel a little sad, thinking of this, a trace of guilt flashed in her little heart, but soon this guilt was annihilated in the incomparable excitement.
7-year-old Qiu Wuyan carefully took off the seven-color birthday dress that her mother carefully sewed for her according to the established plan, folded it carefully and put it on the head of the bed, and then put on a set of black practice clothes drawn from under the pillow (Queen Jinlan once thought that this color was too old-fashioned and not suitable for children to wear, and it was Qiu Wuyan's stubborn stalking that won this set of clothes), and then climbed under the bed and took out the gold silk bag, stuffed the pillow into the bed, and then cautiously walked out of the door.
When she got into the little hole with joy and climbed out with great difficulty, she realized that things were far from being as simple as she imagined.
Qiu Wuyan saw countless doors in front of her, she tried to open one door after another, but after each door opened, more doors appeared, and she walked around inside, but she could not get out. In great panic, she finally found the original hole, and in desperation, she had to crawl back along the hole.
Huge disappointment devoured Qiu Wuyan's tiny heart like a meat-eating worm, and she ran into the lush ginkgo forest of the Royal Palace like a wounded fawn.
Unexpectedly, under the tallest ginkgo tree, she actually crashed into a warm embrace.