In the early morning of Laba, Gu Hai, Suzi and Xia Huairuo got up early in the morning, and after eating the Laba porridge that Suzi's mother had boiled early in the morning, the group went out happily.

Because there is a custom in Kunlun to sprinkle red beans to drive away ghosts, so every year on this day, there will be floats parade in Qingningfang. The people on the float spread red beans all the way to the surrounding passers-by, and one of these red beans was a lucky thing that was prayed for by the four elders together, and the person who got this red bean can choose to keep it, or wait until the end of the parade to go to the highest point of Qingning Fang to look at the cloud tower and exchange it for other items.

When the three of them came to Qingningfang, the float parade had not yet started, and they got up too early, and there were not even a few people on the street. Xia Huairuo then took the two junior brothers into a teahouse, don't look at the few people outside, this teahouse is very lively, people are sitting under the stage, and the stage is the previous storyteller. Because it was too far away, Gu Hai couldn't hear it very clearly, but just in case, he dragged her upstairs before Xia Huairuo noticed the people on the stage, and pretended to be dissatisfied and complained as he walked: "Senior sister, I'm hungry again, let's go up and order something to eat." ”

When Xia Huairuo heard this, he only thought that he was really hungry, so he didn't ask anything and followed Gu Hai up, but Su Zi felt that he was a little abnormal, so he took a few steps slowly, glanced at the middle of the stage, and then listened attentively, and sure enough, the storyteller still told the story of the day he went down the mountain. Su Zi immediately understood what Gu Hai meant, so he hurriedly followed and said loudly beside Xia Huairuo: "Yes, yes, senior sister, I'm hungry too, let's go faster." ”

As soon as he went upstairs, Gu Hai saw the Bai family sisters and brothers and Qin Shuangye, and he secretly said in his heart that he was afraid that he would forget to look at the yellow calendar when he went out today. Since the previous battle in Taiji Square, Xia Huairuo completely regarded Qin Shuangye as air, she was stunned at first when she saw the three of them, but she was afraid that what she thought in her heart was the same as Gu Su and the others, and then she walked to the other party's table again, and honestly made a gesture, and said with some reluctance: "I have seen senior sister and senior brother." ”

Gu Hai and Su Zi followed behind Xia Huairuo, and then the three of them found another table a little farther away and sat down, Xu Xia Huairuo really didn't want to see Qin Shuangye, so she chose a position with her back to her back and muttered in a low voice: "Bad luck!".

However, this gave Gu Hai a chance to observe the other party, and he first set his eyes on Bai Zhi's body. Sure enough, since the thing in the swamp lake was sealed, her complexion has improved a lot, although it is still a little bleak compared to the first time they met, and she is no longer as bloodless as before, but in the end, part of the soul that was devoured has not returned, so Gu Hai always feels that she seems to really lack a little aura, and it always seems that something is wrong.

Bai Qian sat with his back to the three of them, so Gu Hai couldn't see his expression, but his clothes attracted Gu Hai's attention. Today's Bai Qi looks completely different from the usual appearance in Kunlun, a water-blue robe with a wool cloak is so casually put on the shoulder, most of the green silk is tied up by the hair crown that is worth a lot at a glance, and the bottom is carved with extremely pure jade A circle of gardenias symbolizing the Bai family, which is echoing the hairpin on Bai Zhi's head.

Qin Shuangye sat on Bai Zhi's right hand, and because she often turned to Bai Zhi, Gu Hai could always see the three-petaled golden flower under the corner of her right eye. He still remembered the strange and beautiful appearance of that day on the shore of the swamp lake, when a mist-like purple and black thing overflowed from under the flowers. It wasn't until he took Qin Shuangye as an example when he listened to Mr. Lecturing that he realized that some people's birthmarks are born with Dao cracks, and there is nothing abnormal on weekdays, and when you need it, it is the exit of power, and if you use it properly, you will be invincible, if you use it too much, your cultivation and soul will be exhausted, and the purple and black thing is the living soul controlled by Qin Shuangye's cultivation.

Gu Hai vaguely remembered that Mr. seemed to have said that the soul of this kind of person was extremely fragile, and if he didn't pay attention to it, his soul would be taken away from the birthmark by others due to the influence of the outside world. The soul transfer technique recorded in the book is also the most commonly used as a container for this kind of person, because the birthmark as a passage can only enter and exit, so once the soul is completely out of the body, there is no cure except the soul return incense.

As the sun rose, there were more and more people in the teahouse, Gu Hai looked out the window, and the workers at the end of the road seemed to have begun to build floats. At this time, Bai Qi, who had been sitting with his back to Gu Hai, also turned his head and glanced downstairs, his face similar to Bai Zhi was full of sadness, but it also looked very good. Thinking of this, Gu Hai suddenly wondered what he should be called when he was a child, it would not be Xiao Baiqi, he was amused by his own thoughts, and turned his head and whispered to Su Zi, so the two of them snickered together.

Xu felt that it was not good to talk about people like this, so Su Zi only laughed a few times and poured himself a glass of water to forcibly suppress his laughter. He then knocked on the table and motioned for Gu Hai and Xia Huairuo to look downstairs, and the people who came were Ye Wanchi and Fang Yinuo. Different from when he was in Kunlun, Ye Wanchi wore a Ye's shirt today, the black brocade was embroidered with exquisite ginkgo, a brown and yellow shawl was put on her shoulders, and a delicate hairpin was rarely worn on her hair, and a ginkgo leaf-style hair comb was inserted in the center as if to echo the clothes, and the black jade and dark gold tassels on her waist swayed gently with her footsteps, which was indeed the grace and luxury that only the sect family would have.

"Chi Chi!" Xia Huairuo poked his head out of the window and shouted downstairs, not only Ye Wanchi, but even other passers-by looked at the small window. Gu Hai and Su Zi saw this meeting, and before they could greet their senior brothers and sisters, they hurriedly retracted their heads.

Xia Huairuo didn't care much, she got up happily and ran downstairs, without even having time to say goodbye to Bai Zhi and the others. Seeing this, Gu Hai and Su Zi hurriedly saluted the three of them, and then hurriedly followed, but a second before going downstairs, they vaguely heard Qin Shuangye coldly and vulgarly, and they didn't know whether they were talking about Xia Huairuo or Gu Su and the others.

When he went downstairs, Gu Hai found that today's Ye Wanchi was indeed dressed in full style, and even half a small and moist pearl was pasted between his eyebrows. Seeing this, he and Su Zi couldn't help but look forward to it, even Ye Wanchi, who was usually low-key, was dressed like this, so how enviable the Jiang brothers and sisters who were the heads of the four great families should be.

The group was laughing and walking in Qingning Fang, and Gu Hai repeatedly asked a few times what was the difference between that unique red bean and others, until he was sure that he would not be unrecognizable if he got it, and then he turned his attention to other places with confidence.

Different from the bright lights in the previous night, although the lanterns at this time were simply hung on the side of the road, because there were no candles and it was daytime, so it gave birth to a bit of deserted delicacy. Gu Hai took a closer look, the lantern in front of him was made of colored glass as the four walls, a small opening for candles was vacated above, and a circle of red tassels fell below, and a wooden board painting was carved on the thin wooden board with extremely exquisite craftsmanship on each side.

Gu Hai had heard Su Zi say that if the lanterns during festivals were decorated with figure paintings, then most likely they were people from the four great families, he took a closer look, and finally found the names of the two teenagers on the portrait among the plum trees painted on the wooden panel, Jiang Xingyin and Jiang Xingsong.