Luo Li walked out of the restaurant with him one after the other, looked around, and didn't see the carriage of the palace.

Qi Muxiao turned his head to her and said, "This king didn't let them wait, you can go back with this king today." ”

Luo Li suddenly thought of Qi Muxiao coming and telling her that she had something to talk about, and she couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in her heart.

Qi Muxiao saw her tangled appearance and quipped: "What's the matter? Today's Midyear Festival, aren't you doing too many bad things, and you're afraid of walking at night?"

"Hmph, I'm Luo Li, sitting upright, I'm not afraid to walk at night......! The prince is a little strange today, this one at the dinner table today, is it sung to them?"

Qi Muxiao sneered, "If you want to call it famous, just call it, I saw that your name was quite smooth before." He paused and continued, "Huh, you said about picking up vegetables?"

"Yes, so many eyes are staring at it today, you and I are like this, and the prince is not afraid of gossiping with me in the future?"

Qi Muxiao walked in front and sneered, "Heh, that's better than rumoring that this king is a broken sleeve, right? ”

Luo Li saw that he was talking nonsense seriously, and said angrily: "The prince is taking revenge on me?

"Okay, how you perform in the competition, is it up to me? Today's event is just that this king knows that Feng Xuehua intends to embarrass you. ”

"But in this way, even if the hall master knows, the painter below-"

"You have also seen today's events, in this calligraphy and painting courtyard, hum, there is a miasma of black smoke. What if they think that you are the king's man? The king wants to see who else dares to touch you. ”

Luo Li couldn't see the look on his face when he spoke, and when he heard the last sentence, his mind seemed to freeze.

Why does this sound awkward, but I don't think there's anything wrong?

Qi Muxiao's legs were long and fast, and at the moment when Luo Li was thinking, the two fell out of a long distance, and she ran a few steps to keep up.

The two walked out of the somewhat deserted alley, passing by Luoshui, at this time the crape myrtle flowers on the bank of the Luoshui River are blooming, with the cold moonlight and the red lanterns by the river, the red light is mottled, the summer breeze is swaying, and the flowers are falling. Luo Li walked to the water's edge and took a closer look, it turned out that these bright lights were oil paper lotus lamps.

Not far upstream, someone is putting lotus lanterns into the water under the crape myrtle tree, and there are people burning paper money next to them.

Luo Li turned around and asked, "What are they doing, Lord Wang?"

Qi Muxiao stood there dumbfounded, staring at the woman looking back under the crape myrtle tree, the hoodie was sprinkled with silver and red lights, and the lights behind her were dim and floating.

For a long time, Luo Li looked at Qi Muxiao in disbelief, she couldn't believe that Qi Muxiao had just asked her, "What are the wedding customs in your northern border?"

Luo Li shouted three times in his heart, "Strange, strange, strange!".

Qi Muxiao said: "It was Cen Sen who fell in love with a girl from the north, he was afraid that the marriage customs were different and something would go wrong, and he thought that you were the only one from the north around, so he asked me to ask." ”

Luo Li swallowed the twelve-point horror in his heart back into his stomach, and said with a smile: "What should I be...... The marriage customs in our northern border? The prince asked the wrong person, I don't know, my father and aunt are all casual people, and their love token is an inkstone. A-Niang told me that she and Daddy met in the calligraphy and painting workshop, Daddy helped people write books at that time, A-Niang was the eldest daughter of the calligraphy and painting workshop, where to help in the workshop, she helped Daddy to polish the ink and form a relationship. Although Daddy is a literati, he has never been an overly particular person. ”

"Then there are six ceremonies for marriage customs in the north, right?"

Luo Li didn't understand, and asked, "What are the six rites?"

"Nacai, ask for names, Najib, Najib, ask for appointments, and welcome in person. Qi Muxiao sighed secretly, the six rites are basically also, doesn't this Guiyuan Villa even teach this?

In fact, this matter can't be blamed on the Su family ancestor of Guiyuan Villa, if you want to blame Luo Li for being stubborn, she ran away as soon as she arrived at the etiquette class, making this etiquette class seventy-seven, eighty-eight, not to mention these worldly wedding and funeral customs, she didn't care even more.

Luo Li stretched out his hand and flicked the crape myrtle petals on his body, and said, "Worldly etiquette sounds very troublesome, or the monk is simple, just make a concentric seal." ”

Qi Muxiao's eyes moved, and he said with a smile: "Pei Huan said, women pay the most attention to these, why are you so maverick?"

But by fate, if the two are really happy and know each other, this kind of red tape is just for others to see. ”

Qi Muxiao nodded and said to her, "Let's go, let's go there." He pointed not far away, Luo Li followed him through the bustling crowd, Qi Muxiao looked at the crowd of people who put water lanterns by the river, and introduced as he walked: "This is the custom of Wangzhou, according to legend, on the day of the Midyear Festival, the ghost door is wide open, and Luoshui will flow into the Netherworld Yellow Spring, so the people of Wangzhou will put the water lanterns into Luoshui, hoping to bring their words to the deceased." ”

Qi Muxiao took her to a small stall, where a young man was selling lotus lanterns and paper money.

Qi Muxiao handed him a few silver leaves from his money bag and said, "A lotus lamp." ”

Luo Li hurriedly said, "I want three." ”

The man took four lamps, and Lori took them. He saw that one of the people here was clear-eyed and handsome, and his identity was bound to be noble, so he asked, "Do the two sons need to be flint?"

Luo Li waved her hand to signal no, she took the lotus lantern to find a place with few people, quietly took out a fire talisman from the brocade bag, and lit the lotus lantern in turn.

Qi Muxiao was not surprised to see that she would use these carving insect skills, he stepped forward to take one, knelt on one knee at the water's edge, silently recited something in his mouth, and reverently put the lotus lantern into the water, he pushed a lotus lantern with his true qi and pushed it into the depths of the water.

Luo Li silently thought about Daddy, Auntie, and little brother in his heart, and also put the water lanterns into the river.

- Daddy, Auntie, Little Brother...... Li Er is doing well now, Li Er went to the calligraphy and painting academy you said back then, and sat in the position of the hall master. Daddy, you always say that your family has been in business for generations, but no one has entered the office, and now Li'er has also fulfilled your wishes.

Zhongyuan burns the lamp lotus, and burns incense to think about the old year.

The ghost returned, and the old man was in tears.

Luo Li leaned on the crape myrtle tree, silently watching the lotus lantern go away, merging into the sea of lights and becoming a point of light.

Maybe after looking at it for a long time, her eyes were a little sore, she wiped her face twice with her sleeve, and said embarrassedly: "This petal is so annoying, it seems to have lost her eyes." ”

She felt a strong head, turned sideways, and saw Qi Muxiao pinching the crape myrtle flower on her gauze hat, and there was a tenderness in her calm eyes.

Luo Li lost his mind.

"Now it's time to tell you why I want you to enter the calligraphy and painting academy as the hall master. Qi Muxiao looked at the sea of lights in the distance, and said calmly: "This lotus lamp is sacrificed to my mother, I haven't seen her, and I haven't even seen a portrait." You are from the north, have you heard of it-the beauty of the world is better than the north, and the beauty of the north is better than Xiyin?"

"Xi Yin, that Lan Ji Xi Yin, there is Lan Ji Xi Yin in the north, born like a water lily, beautiful as a fairy, confused by Phoenix City, lost in the north. "This person is a legendary woman in their northern border, she heard some legends of this woman when she traveled with her father in her early years, could this person be Qi Muxiao's mother?

Qi Muxiao nodded, affirming what she was thinking, and he said slowly: "She is my mother concubine who died early...... The mother concubine is stunning, and she was famous in Kyushu when she was young, but since the mother concubine entered the palace, there is very little information about the mother concubine, and I have always been curious about why. After I came back, I went to the Rite House to check the annals of the year recorded by the female history, and there were very few historians about the things of the mother concubine during her lifetime, and only wrote that the mother concubine died in the twentieth month of the sixteenth year of Tianyuan. ”

"If a woman like Lan Ji Xiyin marries into the palace, she should be favored by Emperor Qi, and the historian's record will definitely not be less...... Isn't it because your mother is not favored?" Although Luo Li thought it was unlikely, there was only one possibility to make sense.