Chapter 157: Zhengyang Festival, Festival or Not
The festival of the Zhengyang Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of May is a very lively event in this capital.
Different from previous years, in previous years, there was no one to believe in the belief that the dragon ancestor was more or less sincere, and this year's place of worship changed to the top of the mountain, where the imperial tomb is located.
To put it simply, in the past, worshipping the dragon ancestor was to worship the sky, and from this year onwards, it may just be a simple sacrifice to the emperor.
Due to the summer, the atmosphere in the city is already hot, so even the cicadas on the trees seem to be even more intense, the kind that can be lit by a fire.
The number of rituals required for worship is extremely large, so although the people want to join in the fun, His Majesty the Emperor in the palace has a great headache, after all, after a worship, it is absolutely painstaking and laborious, and even the knee position has to wear out a few big holes.
is one of the few things that every king mentions to change color, the most important thing is that he has to maintain sincerity in the process of worship, and in this case, except for those with higher acting skills, who can really be sincere in their hearts?
Outsiders just look like that. His Majesty the Emperor took a sip of wine, and replied helplessly to the eldest prince who persuaded him not to drink alcohol during the worship period.
Although the two have different positions and have a somewhat-for-tat relationship, to the surprise of His Majesty the Emperor, this eldest prince can always separate public and private.
Even if he knows that the other party doesn't want to kill him all the time, as long as he hasn't grabbed the throne, then the courtier's duty is not ambiguous.
And in the Spirit Academy, Yang Hejiu suddenly wanted to go out for a walk.
The dean and Ju An had solemn faces, feeling that there must be a ghost in this person's heart!
Even if today is the Zhengyang Festival, Yang Hejiu has never been the kind of person who likes to join in the fun.
Besides, let's not talk about the trouble I brought back, I don't have a headache to worry about, since you came to the Spirit Academy, I haven't seen you say when you want to go out for a walk?
Therefore, after some discussion, the dean and Ju An came to the same conclusion and agreed that something was strange.
Naturally I can't think of anything just by thinking about it here, and suddenly the dean's frowning brows gradually relaxed, and he looked Ju An up and down and nodded uncontrollably as he stroked his beard.
Ju Anxin shouted that it was not good, and he was a little embarrassed and persuaded him: "I have failed to live up to the teacher's trust, and I forgive the students for being difficult to take on this great responsibility." ”
The dean sighed softly, and comforted him bitterly: "Ju'an, I have accepted you two students in my life, you have always been more stable than Xiao Jiu, and you are not so reckless, and you have been thinking about things for a long time as a teacher, and I really think that there is no one in the Spirit Academy who is more suitable than you." ”
Ju An frowned, greatly frightened, bowed his head and saluted: "The student just wants to follow the teacher's side and honor the teacher, and there is nothing else to ask for." ”
The dean waved his hand, sighed softly, and said with kindness and reluctance in his words: "As a teacher, you can still take care of yourself, so you can't always keep you by your side, you see, even Xiao Jiu wants to go out for a walk, and you, as his senior brother, can't always be in the Spirit Academy." ”
Ju An was about to say something more, when the dean suddenly slapped the table angrily, glared at his eyes and said fiercely: "Don't talk nonsense!
Ju An smiled bitterly, and still insisted: "It is really inappropriate to let students follow Xiao Jiu, and I implore the teacher to take back his life." ”
The dean clearly didn't want to listen to the words from the other party's mouth, so he blew his beard and said, "Why is it inappropriate? What's inappropriate? You're a scholar, aren't you? I'm still the dean! If you're not suitable, I'll be suitable? This is the two of us, can't you let me go if you don't go?"
Ju An looked at the other party very seriously, bowed respectfully, and said in agreement: "The student feels that the teacher is doing this for a long time. ”
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The dean licked his lips, and was dumbfounded for a while, a little embarrassed: "This... It is not appropriate for a teacher to follow a student. Why don't you go?"
Ju An reminded the other party and said: "Although Xiao Jiu is still young, he is already a great cultivator of the upper three realms, and the student's cultivation is only in the lower five realms, so letting the students go to follow will definitely be easily discovered by them, not to mention whether it is in vain, if it is to startle the snake and make Xiao Jiu vigilant, it will be even more difficult to inquire in the future." It can be seen that only the teacher's presence can successfully complete the task. ”
The dean kept blinking his eyes, how could he still use the words vigilant and startled?
Snorted coldly, flicked down his sleeves angrily, and said angrily: "It's still so verbose!"
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Originally, the two sides were just talking about things to discuss who should complete such a difficult task, but because of the dean's annoyance, it turned into a reprimand for himself, Ju An smiled bitterly twice, and did not say anything more.
The dean flicked his sleeves angrily and went out, looked up at the sky before leaving, and sighed softly: "Xiao Jiu is not small. ”
Ju An looked at the other party, although it was inappropriate to say it just now, but he didn't have the slightest meaning of inappropriateness when he did it.
His brows furrowed slightly, and he thought carefully about whether his teacher often did this kind of thing.
Outside the Sifang City, Xu Changan finally saw the city from a distance in the scorching sun above his head, exhausted and hot, completely possessed by Yan Weichu, and he didn't even want to raise his steps a little more.
Anyway, it is also a person who has traveled thousands of miles, so it really shouldn't be so embarrassing.
But Xu Changan was very aggrieved when he heard this, walking on the border without leaves under the scorching sun, the taste was definitely unpleasant.
You must know that most of the people in the city are lying in the courtyard now, with a basin of cold well water and the courtyard door is wide open to escape the heat.
Xu Changan had already taken off his shirt, his hair was all wet with sweat, he looked at the ant-sized city in front of him, and then looked up at the fireball above his head.
Touching his wet hair, the young man pinched the water bag in his hand, licked his dry lips, and calculated that he would definitely be tired and unable to get up if he walked over like this.
So for the first time, his course was shifted.
Although today is the Zhengyang Festival, he is not in a hurry to go back, what does it have to do with me? Xu Changan thought so in his heart.
He knew that there was a river not far to the south, in fact, when he passed by that river not long ago, he had flopped around in order to go down to the summer, and the cool feeling brought by the flowing river water made Xu Changan unsatisfied along the way.
If it weren't for the whiteness of his hands and feet, he would rather lie on the stones that the river had just submerged.
Walking along the sound of the river flowing, he was naturally no stranger to the river.
Looking left and right, there was no figure to the north, and there was an endless sky of loess to the south, Xu Changan was a little embarrassed and thought in his heart that no one should pass by.
On such a hot day, it's no wonder that someone is willing to come out and walk around.
With this in mind, he first pulled off his shirt and threw it on the gravel by the river, looked at his underwear rolled up high, and didn't care about anything else after twisting it.
This trip may be because I have seen more girls, or I have grown a lot, and I always feel that it is too embarrassing to swim in the river again.
You must know that before you came out, you could often see the shadows of Xu Changan and Yu Ming's bare buttocks in this Hanoi.
The Zhang family next door watched his son closely, but how could the children run crazy and watch all day long?
It is often Xu Changan who has had enough fun in the river and wants to go to a deeper place to cast two nets, but Yu Ming is often muddy water.
It is good to touch the fish when the water is muddy, this is not unreasonable.
Catch a net and go into the water to touch, and when you return home at night to boil a pot of fish soup, you can always eat enough with two catties of steamed cakes......
In the past, if you were slow to enter the water, you would be laughed at by the other party.
It's different now, there is no one around, so naturally he won't be ridiculed, Xu Changan strengthened his mind in his heart, since there is no one, what's the big deal?
With the sound of plopping, a splash splashed in the flowing river, and Xu Changan sank directly.
On the shore lay a suit of clothes, a black sword, and some other luggage.
The flowing water of the river is not as good as the stagnant water in the pool, and although the weather is hot, it is still cool and refreshing, and the contrast with the heat above is very obvious.
Xu Changan sank under the water and couldn't help but cry out with joy.
The twisting and discomfort of the previous moment have all been swept away, and even now he knows that a big beautiful woman will pass by by and he is reluctant to come up in clothes.
Except, of course, Lin Ying.
Xu Chang'an stepped on a stone at the bottom of the river and slowly showed his head.
The river is not violent in the day, and it is much milder than the hundred-foot-wide river of South Vietnam.
But it's only relatively speaking, there are deep and shallow ditches, and the same is true of the river, and the place where you stand is not deep, but if you don't know the water, if you are washed down by the river, there will still be many dangers.
Moreover, the formation of the cannibalistic sea is still fueled by the power of the North River, which has flowed for many years.
Remembering that last year, the weather seemed to be colder, and he was reluctant to split the mountains in this river, but now Xu Changan poked his head out of the river, but he could no longer find where the stone he stepped on at that time was.
Looking around, he couldn't remember whether it was upstream or downstream, and then at the black sword on the shore, the young man smiled happily.
Recalling that last year, when he was still trying to split the mountain, and today, although he is also in this river, he is already a cultivator of the mountain realm.
Although he didn't have such a shameless idea of returning home, he still had some qualifications to recall the past.
Then he went into the river, and some of the fish were frightened and fled from him, and the boy suddenly covered his stomach in the water.
Although he is flexible in the river, he is nothing compared to the fish that grow in the water.
In the past, the two teenagers were messing up in the river, and they could always bump into a few panicked fish when they grabbed with both hands, but now he is the only one, so it is naturally difficult to catch.
However, Xu Changan knows that there is a fish called osmanthus fish in this river, which usually lurks under the water during the day, and will not come out to feed until night.
The two often catch it, but every time Yu Ming is defeated, unlike Xu Chang'an catching fish in order to have a full stomach, Yu Ming is more just out of the idea of playing, which is also the main reason why the other party often wonders why he doesn't catch as much as Xu Chang'an.
And the taste of this osmanthus fish can make Xu Changan hold his breath under the water for a while just by recalling, but the best way to eat is just to stew fish soup, no matter what is put in the pot as long as it is stewed, it is a pot of deliciousness.
Otherwise, it wouldn't be cheap every time he caught osmanthus fish, Yu Ming's kid grabbed a big bowl of dumplings to eat.
Well, who made your grandfather hungry?
Xu Changan thought so in his heart, and he wanted to cheapen the stinky boy next door.