First, although Xiuzhen is high and ethereal, it is not completely unrelated to the mortal world, such as the protection of the Twin Cities of the Heavy Law, and the seat of the Cloud Fairy in Xichang, but if ordinary people are not at the level and are not rich, they really have nothing to do with Xiuzhen.

Second, the major cities in the Northern Regions are guarded by sect immortal sects, or it can also be said to be controlled, such as Qixia in Xichang, and Xinyue in Shenfang, but generally as small as Shuangcheng, but only the Taoist people are resident, but there is no Taoist palace to accept people, but there must be an immortal sect in the south of the country, but I don't know which one.

Third, Chongfa once said that he was too old, but now it seems that it is not an excuse, the best age for the beginning of cultivation in this world is between 13 and 15, after three years of study, and the best one will be selected to enter the blessed land to feel qi and psychic, that is, before the age of 18, a mortal can determine whether he can enter the path of the path in this life. Li Ji was already 21 years old when he crossed over, and according to this mode path, I am afraid that he has to be 24 or 5 to have a chance to enter the blessed land, and this difficulty is not ordinary.

Based on the above judgment, the opportunity given by the Pharaoh Dao is to skip the three-year study stage of the Dao Palace and go directly to the blessed land. . . Although it saved a hundred taels of gold, compared with these Taoist boys, it took three years less time to lay the foundation, and it can be said that it was lost at the starting line. . . But he couldn't refuse this opportunity, because he didn't even have the qualifications to lay the foundation now.

After figuring out the joints here, Li Ji also knew more clearly where his path was, going to Shenfang City, going to Xiaoyue Temple, whether to step into the road of immortality or fall into the mortal dust, it was a gamble.

After the knot in his heart was opened, Li Ji was still wandering around, and he found that Xichang City was getting more and more lively these days. After a little inquiry, it turned out that Zheng Guo's traditional June Lantern Festival was approaching. The Lantern Festival in Li Ji's previous life was in January and February, and there was also a Lantern Festival in this world, but it was in the middle of summer in June.

Zhengguo's June Lantern Festival is a festival with women as the main body, just like the third and eighth women's days in the previous life, but it is far more grand and grand than the third and eighth festivals. Perhaps it is the protection of the Qixia faction, which is dominated by women, for thousands of years, and in Zheng State, the status of women is very high. The June Lantern Festival is also called the Lantern Festival, which means to become an adult, and every girl who has reached the age of fifteen can set up her own lantern shed on the Lantern Festival, and look forward to the scholars and wanderers to leave poems that can be sung.

Beauty and poetry, no matter what time and space they are, are a perfect match. Zheng Guo originally had a very strong literary style, and when he got together with the June Lantern Festival, it really matched each other and was famous far and wide. In June, countless scholars from the surrounding area will come together, not only for the high level of the Wencai, but also for the romance that can be expected.

It is the dream of every girl to get a popular masterpiece at the June Lantern Festival, for this reason, in addition to their own beauty, they also try their best to make the lantern shed beautiful, but also to take out precious gifts to attract talented scholars to write poems, after all, in poetry, good works are always available but not sought. Xichang is the richest city in Zheng State, there are many nobles in the city, and the gifts are also rising year by year, attracting talents from all over the world to flock to it, and there are many scholars from other cities who have heard the wind and come, which can not only show their literary talents, but also make full use of the benefits, and maybe they will also return with beauty. Of course, such festivals are basically dominated by wealthy families, and for ordinary people, if they want to rent a lantern shed on Jiangdi Lantern Street, and then make exquisite lanterns, they can't get down without dozens of taels of silver.

Li Ji has been in Xichang for three days, and the June Lantern Festival will be held for three days in the evening of the day after tomorrow.

Time flies by, on the sixth day of the sixth month of June, the Festival of Lights officially begins, and before the sky is completely dark, a large number of people begin to pour out of the city. Outside the city, the embankment of Qingcang River, which is more than ten miles long, is shaded by green willows along the embankment, is wide and straight, and has already set up a colorful shed to meet this annual event.

Li Ji had dinner in Lao Hu Yangfang before slowly walking to the embankment, at this time it was completely dark, but under the reflection of the lanterns, the embankment was brighter than day, and the moon was also eclipsed under the countless lanterns. There were more people than he imagined, as if the whole of Xichang was crowded here, and the ten-zhang wide causeway could not contain people's enthusiasm. I thought that most of these tourists should be literati men, but there were many young girls in the crowd who didn't want to enjoy the lanterns, which opened his eyes.

More than ten miles of river embankments, one by one lantern sheds are set up in a patchwork, and it seems that the organizers are also experienced in holding them for many years. Some lantern sheds are larger, the lanterns are extravagant, some are smaller, the lanterns are not very expensive, more, but there is no lantern shed, only one by one or bright or plain, or flower or beast lantern stand, behind the stand of an excited and shy girl, rich and poor, even in this festival that the whole people enjoy, but also everywhere to show their difference. But the girls have one thing in common, they are all handsome and charming, and they don't have the courage to put flowers and lanterns here if they want to be ugly.

Walking through a lantern shed, a large group of people are surrounding, and some people are writing poems. Li Ji leaned over to take a look, the young lady here is probably a flower lover, and the dozens of lanterns in the shed are all kinds of flowers, competing for beauty. The prize is a night pearl the size of a walnut, which is worth nearly a thousand taels of silver.

Generally speaking, scholars will write poems according to the girl's hobbies, such as this one who is writing, 'The color sleeves are diligently holding the jade bell, but the face is drunk and red, dancing low willows and hugging the heart moon, and singing the flower fan shadow wind. ’

The exquisiteness of the scholar is that there is a spotlight under the case, if someone mentions the poem, the poem will be projected by the light on the large piece of deep cloth erected on the side, and the surrounding ten zhang can be seen clearly. As soon as this poem was written, the crowd of onlookers below was applauding.

To be fair, this poem is quite well written, and it is a good work for the scenery, and the poems are full of freshness. In the laughter of the onlookers and the expectant eyes of the scholars, the beautiful woman in the shed hesitated. It is only the first day of the June Festival of Lights, and the grand event has just begun, and now she is making a poem on the curtain, which is undoubtedly sure that the famous poem has a master, and who will mention poetry for her in the future? Perhaps, there will be more excellent poems waiting for her in the future? This little girl is a little greedy, and she is unwilling to give up this obviously good poem, so she is undecided.

Li Ji shook his head beside him, he has been a human being in two lives, and he has some experience in grasping people's hearts. At first glance, this girl is the first time in the world, don't you know that a bird in your hand is better than a hundred birds in the forest, poetry is this thing, pay attention to fate, if you like it, you will take it, otherwise it may not be satisfactory in the future.

The people outside the shed saw that she was reluctant to express her position, and they were even more excited, and a woman vaguely shouted, "Throw bamboo, throw bamboo... For a while, the voice became louder and louder, and the crowd was excited, and a group of onlookers shouted in unison, "Throw bamboo, throw bamboo... “

Li Ji was puzzled, grabbed the scholar beside him and asked, "Brother Tai, what does this bamboo throw mean?"

Shizi was excitedly watching a group of women crowded and shouting, and said impatiently, "When I see that you are a foreigner, I don't even know how to throw bamboo, the June Lantern Festival, there are countless poems, how can I enter the hands of the heroine in the shed? “

Li Ji was about to ask how to self-determine the poems that he didn't like, but he saw that the noble girl in the shed, probably young and tender, with a noble identity but could not be excited, irritated, stuffed the poem into a bamboo tube, raised his hand and threw it into the crowd, suddenly like boiling oil dripping water, more than a dozen young ladies around you fought for me one by one, fortunately, the woman was weak, and no one was injured, and finally a little lady in red grabbed the bamboo tube and went happily. However, none of the men on the sidelines stretched out their hands, but only cheered on the sidelines.

Li Ji Dale, it turned out that he still wondered why there were so many flowery girls in the lantern watching crowd, but they were all ordinary daughters, who couldn't afford to build a lantern shed, and wanted to have an adult poem of their own, so they came together. The noble ladies have a high vision, and the non-high-quality masterpieces do not attract the eyes, and many abandoned poems have become their prey. is like the little lady in red, who didn't spend a penny, but got a good poem. This lantern festival is completely different from what Li Ji thought in his heart, but it is becoming more and more interesting.