Fengliang Xuewei

When Volvovia was still the Lieyang civilization, people would always have a lot of festivals celebrated by the whole galaxy, which seemed inexplicable to the people of Speth.When Lieyang Civilization fled to Spersh in embarrassment, its past glory was forbidden to be mentioned, and special festivals were naturally never celebrated openly.When people are about to forget everything, the war was won unexpectedly, and everything that was abandoned at the beginning was quickly picked up by the government, and the abolished traditional festivals began to be organized with great fanfare. It is even mandatory for everyone to participate in the celebration, whether they like it or not.It seems that in this way, all the lost traditions can be recovered overnight.

In any case, the Lantern Festival, the first traditional festival of Lieyang civilization after the victory of the war, is here.In order to emphasize the importance of this festival, the sun goddess Lena took the lead and invited a group of friends who had been in the army for a long time to prepare for a serious fight.

The invitations sent by Reina included the family members of her comrades-in-arms. Originally, Wang Yan, the flower angel of Gaoling, and Morgana, the demon queen who was at odds with Lieyang civilization, were not going to come.But Ge Xiaolun went to Angel Wing himself, coaxing Yan to agree; while Qiangwei just lightly put down a sentence to Liang Bing: "I must go, whether you like it or not."

In order to coax Qiangwei, of course Liangbing must come.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, the whole of Wolfia is decorated with colorful lanterns and dazzling fireworks. The craftsmen have not made lanterns for a long time, and their craftsmanship is rusty. The street lamps still have traces of shoddy production, even blunt. It incorporates the local elements of Sperth, which seems a bit nondescript.The lamps hanging on the street were changed into different shades of red, and two blushes were squeezed out naturally or forcibly on the face.Qiangwei and her party were either wearing casual clothes or put on armor directly, they were out of place in the joyful colors, as if they were going to smash the scene.The greeters in Wolfia were taken aback for a moment, and some were not sure that this was the guest that their goddess wanted to entertain today.

Morgana in ice-cold attire and Yan in king of angels' attire looked at the stunned receptionist, snorted coldly almost at the same time, and when they found that the other party had the same reaction as themselves, they darkened at the same time and turned their heads away on purpose.Ge Xiaolun was a little embarrassed, a hint of flattery floated on his face, and he looked at his ancestor with a wry smile.And Qiangwei didn't even turn her head, she just glanced lightly at Liang Bing beside her, Liang Bing immediately returned to her normal expression, and tightly held Qiang Wei's hand.

Xin Zhao hugged Zhi Xin, and looked at the two wives with a victorious expression.

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Liu Chuang, Qi Lin and the others were much calmer, all of them kept their eyes on each other, and pushed out that the prince Yaowen represented the highest image of this group of people. "Hi, are you from Wolfia? Please take us to see Lena, we are all here." Yaowen said gently, trying to save some of Kodis' noble and serious face.

The reception staff were no idlers, they quickly returned to normal under the attack of three times N times of dog food, and politely led the soldiers to the gate of the magnificent city lord's mansion in Volvovia—then turned a corner and entered the sidewalk. Door.

Facing everyone's doubtful eyes, the receptionist smiled: "Her Majesty is waiting for you inside, I can't explain how many there are." Everyone expressed their understanding after hearing this, but they were keenly aware of the unconcealable truth in the receptionist's smile. Embarrassment and helplessness.

As expected, Reina was waiting inside.Unlike the originally imagined hall dedicated to entertaining guests in the City Lord's Mansion, Lena arranged a small living room. Although it was inevitably covered with red ornaments, it was carefully selected and arranged by the owner, which also showed Just right festive.

The members of the Xiongbing Company hadn't seen Leina after the war, and they all ran over to surround her, regardless of the family members they brought, and got together to reminisce, Rui Mengmeng asked casually: "Why is this invitation It's personal."

"How can it be?" Lena said with a bitter face, she was forcibly put on a red traditional costume, and she resolutely rejected the cumbersome golden phoenix crown that was originally arranged. "I sent the invitation to you on behalf of Wolfia. It was only because I stalked Pan Zhen that he reluctantly agreed to let me stay alone with you first."

Originally, a goddess who didn't care about anything and only used as a mascot was forced to take responsibility by her elders every day. Others also understood Reina's distress, but they couldn't help.Qilin half-jokingly said: "No, there is someone who is as hard-working as you. Yaowen is about to inherit the position of the city lord, let him communicate with you."

After the war, Qiangwei, who assumed the original position of Ducao, decided to return the right to be taken over by the military to the Cordis government. Because of his outstanding performance in the war, Yaowen had accumulated fame and prestige, and was relieved by the old city owner to gradually hand over power. .From now on, starting from Yaowen, the city lord of Cordis finally no longer exists in name only, at least he has an equal status with the military.

However, although Yaowen and Lena are under the same pressure, they are different in essence. Yaowen is still very happy to be the lord of Cordis.After all, it has always been his dream to take back the power that the city lord should have and benefit the people.

The Xiongbing Company had a lively chat over there, and because he was an outside member of the Xiongbing Company as an angel reinforcement before, he was also drawn into the circle.Yan and Liang Bing were the only ones standing aside, inevitably embarrassed.Both of them have all kinds of new and old grudges, and it is extremely unpleasant to see each other, which hinders the face of their spouse from showing it on the bright side. At this time, when they encounter this kind of scene alone together, it becomes more difficult to maintain superficial friendship. It's getting harder.

Yan felt awkward in any posture he put himself in, and when he was about to be unable to resist doing something, Liang Bing moved first.Under the almost vigilant eyes of Yan Yan, he walked aside as if nothing had happened, and played with the special accessories of Wolffia.Sensing Yan's gaze, he turned his head back and grinned at the King of Angels.

Yan didn't know why he was a little annoyed by this smile, but fortunately, the host, Lena, finally remembered to receive guests, and waved for someone to bring out the entertaining dinner.

In front of everyone is a bowl of clear soup, with some white and round things floating in it, and there are these pastries and other special foods of Wolfia on the table.Rui Mengmeng picked up one with a spoon curiously: "Sister Leina, what is this?"

"The traditional food when we celebrate the Lantern Festival," Reina gestured to invite everyone, "it's called glutinous rice balls, filled with different fillings, let's try it."

Soft and lingering taste, it will be very hot when bitten.The fillings flow to the tongue slowly, each one has a different taste, and there will be a little surprise when you eat it.Not bad for those who like sweets.Liu Chuang was already hungry, so he picked one up and put it in his mouth. The stuffing in his mouth was so hot that he gasped hard, causing everyone to laugh at him.

Liang Bing subconsciously looked at Qiangwei beside her, she tasted one carefully, and frowned imperceptibly.Knowing that she doesn't like sweets, Liang Bing suddenly wanted to tease her when she saw the expression of the person next to her. She scooped up a glutinous rice ball in the bowl with her own spoon, and just about to hand it over, she retracted her hand and carefully blew it from her mouth. Blowing, sticking out the tip of the tongue slightly, tried it and it seemed that the skin was already cold, then put the spoon under Qiangwei's eyelids: "Come on, ah—"

Qiangwei looked at her with a bit of disgust, and Liang Bing estimated that she would simply push the spoon away.Unexpectedly, after hesitating for a while, Qiangwei actually opened her mouth and grabbed the glutinous rice balls hanging in mid-air.

Liang Bing was caught off guard by receiving such good treatment, and his eyes lit up immediately.Withdrawing the spoon, he also scooped up a glutinous rice ball from the Qiangwei bowl, and ate it with a blow, with a sly look of being cheap.

Qiangwei bit the glutinous rice balls in her mouth, her expression almost distorted.Not to mention that the glutinous rice balls are still hot inside, the key is that the filling is the sesame that I hate the most.However, when she saw Liang Bing holding her used spoon in her mouth and smiling, she forcibly controlled the expression on her face again, and thought blankly: Forget it, I will forgive her this time .

So Liang Bing saw Qiangwei eating the glutinous rice balls she fed, with a face like "Although I don't like it, but I reluctantly accept it because you fed it", she picked up another one and put it in her mouth.The devil is actually not interested in sweet things. She usually has no requirements for food, basically she eats what Qiangwei eats. If I insist, she just prefers red wine.But this time she was biting the glutinous rice balls in her mouth, inexplicably feeling that the taste of this food was not bad.

Liu Chuang almost finished a bowl, and the clear soup with little water was really not to his old man's taste, so he couldn't help asking Leina, "Sister Na, do you have any wine?"

Lena looked like she just remembered: "That's right, how can everyone get together during the festival without wine? It's also my fault that I forgot." As she said that, she was about to call for the beer and liquor.At this moment, Qiangwei swallowed the sesame glutinous rice balls in her mouth with difficulty, and reminded: "Bring a few more bottles of red wine."

Liang Bing suddenly turned her head to look at Qiangwei. The deliberately warm lighting in the living room made her face a little red. She finally couldn't help it, and stretched her head over to peck Qiangwei's side face.

At the dining table, Xin Zhaoxin and the pair were crooked together, feeding each other bite by bite; Ge Xiaolun and Yan didn't seem to interact much, but Xiaolun looked at Yan's face at any time, and he could understand with a look, and immediately handed over the tissue .The other singles are out of sight and out of mind, chatting with each other about the past, revealing each other's shortcomings, mocking and reminiscing and laughing at each other.Talking and laughing, a dining table is full of happy and complete appearance.

After drinking for three rounds, people with different physiques did not feel drunk, but they drank enough and ate enough.Leina asked someone to remove the tableware, held her chin in her hands and thought for a few seconds, then stood up and said, "Before Pan Zhen comes to see me, let's sneak out and take a look around."

The person waiting at the side called her hesitantly: "Your Highness, you will announce in the hall tonight..."

"I'll talk about that when I come back, we'll go out for a while, don't tell him." Lena stood up vigorously, and took off her floor-length dress.Inside was a suit of casual clothes that had already been changed, which seemed to be planned for a long time. "Follow me." She raised her chin, fully showing her big sister's demeanor, leading a group of people, and slipped out without anyone noticing.

The servants didn't dare to disobey the goddess' orders, and they were afraid that Pan Zhen would be angry if they didn't take good care of the goddess, so they stood there in a dilemma, almost to the point of crying bitterly.

Qilin still maintained a little seriousness: "Sister Lena, is it important to announce something? Can't we come back too late?"

"Oh, Pan Zhen is going to hand over the power to manage Volvovia to me, let me take this opportunity to announce." Lena replied lightly.After being in a short silence for a while, we all know how much pressure it is to manage Volvovia, not to mention that Reina is also shouldering the task of revitalizing Lieyang civilization after the war.Everyone didn't know what to say for a while, but they suddenly thought that in the future, sister Leina might not be able to come out and play around like she is now, right?

Fortunately, the festive atmosphere on the street was particularly strong under the deliberate drive of the government, and the low pressure just dissipated quickly.The lanterns hung neatly on both sides of the street, almost blinding everyone's eyes. There was a big pot set up on the street stalls, and there were white and fat glutinous rice balls rolling in it.Most of the people came out with great interest to watch the lanterns, watch the performances arranged by the government, or just come out in a good mood to wander around.

There are stalls for guessing lantern riddles on the side of the road. If you guess correctly, you can take away a lantern.A group of people went to play happily, and Lena couldn't help laughing out loud as she watched a group of guys who didn't understand Lieyang's civilization and culture scratch their heads and couldn't figure out the answer.Enough of laughing, she wiped away her tears, and suddenly asked without thinking: "Hey, do you know what the meaning of our Lantern Festival is?"

She didn't expect this group of people to be able to answer, so she continued on her own: "A very important meaning of the Lantern Festival is reunion. On this day, no matter what, the family must gather together to celebrate, eat glutinous rice balls, and watch lanterns. So it is round, which means 'reunion round'."

Seeing that everyone looked at her seriously and wanted to continue listening, she paused and added: "I know that there are almost no family members in our group, except for the six of you," she said jokingly. Pointing to the three couples standing together, "I don't have any family members, and it's too boring to spend this Lantern Festival with a bunch of people I don't know, so I called you all over, thinking of getting together with you, too. Reunion...after all, we've always been like family."

Reina turned slightly, turning her face away from everyone's eyes.There were a few more words she didn't say.She was glad they were here, and even lessened her resistance to tonight's announcement of a shift in power.It's okay to have no family, anyway, there are so many people in Xiongbinglian, and everyone is her family.In the future, everyone will always be here. It would be great if we could get together as well as today.So good that he is not even afraid of the responsibility and pressure of a city-state that he will face in the future.

Reina turned back again: "It was my idea to restore the tradition of the original festival in Volvovia. After such a long time, many things have to be forgotten. In fact, this Lantern Festival has many flaws. Many activities are gone, such as lanterns and lantern riddles. It's not as exciting as before, even the glutinous rice balls are not as delicious as I used to. But, seeing so many people happily reuniting with family and friends, and going out together, I feel that no matter how long the previous festivals take recover."

After listening to Leina's speech, Qiangwei left the team silently, even Liang Bing didn't notice it at first.When she found out, Qiangwei had already gone far.Liang Bing hurriedly chased after him, and even took away a lantern from the stall.

Qiangwei didn't know the way, she just walked in one direction, gradually getting away from the laughter and joy in the city.Liang Bing didn't catch up to her until he was about to leave the city. Looking at the direction she was looking at, he suddenly stopped five steps away and did not move forward.

She looked in the direction of Curtis, or in other words, the direction of the tower.Liang Bing knew that the family and the reunion all made Qiangwei inevitably think of Ducao.

Qiangwei knew that Liang Bing was standing behind her, so she kept looking in the direction of Curtis, and she turned her head slowly for an unknown amount of time.Looking into her eyes, Liang Bing suddenly didn't know what to say.

"Actually, I understand that from your standpoint at the time, you were not wrong to do that. Besides, you didn't know he was inside at that time." After a while, Qiangwei spoke first, with a low voice.

Ducao is a knot in Qiangwei's heart that can never be untied, and Liang Bing knows that even though he has been with her for so long, the part of her heart still hurts from time to time.Liangbing wanted to say something, but Qiangwei interrupted her.

"I...know that you are right, but I can't forgive you." Qiangwei's words flowed into Liang Bing's ears along with a gust of wind.

Wolfowia is low-lying and has good geographical conditions. It can almost be said that it is like spring all year round.It is winter in Cordis, but the temperature here is still very pleasant.However, I don't know if it was because they happened to be standing at a windward opening, and there was a gust of wind blowing past where the two of them were standing from time to time.Liang Bing stood there for a long time, only now did he realize that his fingertips had been blown cold by the wind, especially the hand holding the lantern, only a little heat remained in the palm.

"I, maybe I will never be able to let go of Ducao... But, I love you very much," Qiangwei's ears were red when she said this, but she insisted on finishing, "I don't forgive you. You and loving you are two different things, not to say that it will affect anything... In fact, when I heard that the meaning of the Lantern Festival is reunion today, I was thinking, if, if every festival in the future, No, if I can live like this with you every day, then every day is a reunion in various senses, so I will definitely be very happy."

Between Qiangwei and Liangbing, Liangbing has always taken the initiative, teasing her, flirting with her, and occasionally Qiangwei can say a few ambiguous words, just like Chinese New Year.Without practice, now that Qiangwei suddenly said such emotionally strong words, it seemed that the love words had no skill and level, and the words were still stumbling.Not only that, but the speaking environment was still in a dark and strong wind in a different place, which greatly reduced the sense of ritual of this rare moment in a thousand years.

However, Liang Bing was so excited that he could almost explode into a firework on the spot.

The lantern in his hand fell to the ground, and the silly red was particularly conspicuous in this dark environment, barely illuminating the blurred outlines of the two people.The wind here is still quite strong, and the lanterns are light and swayed on the ground, and you can vaguely see the distance with your side eyes.In the noisy city of Volvovia, the lanterns on the street were piled up in blurred colors, unexpectedly forming some kind of wonderful echo with this little one on the ground.

There are thousands of lights behind, and the comrades-in-arms are still in full swing to experience the long-lost Lantern Festival in Wolfowia.

In front of the lonely lantern, Liang Bing stretched out his arms and held Qiangwei tightly in his arms.

The author has something to say: Lantern Festival welfare ~ I hope it can feel a little sweeter.

I wish everyone a happy Lantern Festival!We all want to reunite!