This shadow guard, you are enlightened

Zhuo Ying stayed with her in Wang Xuan's room all the time, and brought back the mask at the reminder of the meal, and helped her to the lobby for dinner.

With the support of Lu Jiarui and Wang Xuan, others quickly accepted the relationship between Xing Chenmu and Zhuo Ying. The family happily ate the reunion dinner and enjoyed the moon for a while. Lu Xiao suggested that everyone go out for a stroll. This is one of the most lively festivals in Lujia Town.

Xing Chenmu didn't go with those elders and younger siblings, instead he went back to the house first, and took Zhuo Ying out after they all went out.

The streets that seemed a bit deserted at noon are already bustling with activity. Every household has hung up lanterns, and passers-by on the street are also carrying all kinds of lanterns. Looking from a distance, these lanterns melt into the night, as beautiful as stars .

Xing Chenmu also lit the two rabbit lanterns, and each of them carried one with Zhuo Ying, walked towards the crowd, walked a few steps, seemed to think of something, then turned sideways slightly, and took Zhuo Ying's hand with his empty hand , Interlocking fingers.

"Mu'er, don't be like this." There were people coming and going on the street, the movement of the two holding hands could be seen at any time, Zhuo Ying was a little nervous and tried to withdraw her hand, but Xing Chenmu clenched it even tighter.

"No one here recognizes us, so why not let people see us?" Xing Chenmu ignored his struggle, and pulled him forward. Seeing that he was still hesitating, and his pace slowed down, he said, "Isn't this Is there a sleeve blocking it? It's not easy for people to see if you get closer to me. "

After Zhuo Ying thought about it, she felt that it was indeed the case, so she took two steps forward, and put her shoulder to shoulder with Xing Chenmu, holding hands along the way and never letting go.

Not long after the two left with the flow of people, they saw several young people standing on a small stage, waving a fire dragon together.The fire dragon is made of vine grass and banyan tree, and the burning incense is inserted on the dragon body. It is said that dancing such a fire dragon in the Mid-Autumn Festival is to avoid bad luck, eliminate disasters and bring blessings, and also pray for good weather in the future.

Neither Zhuo Ying nor Xing Chenmu had seen this before, they stopped and looked at it for a long time, until they saw that there were more and more people around, then they backed away from the stage.

When being dragged away by Xing Chenmu, Zhuo Ying had gradually gotten used to the intertwining of their fingers, and there was still some excitement in seeing new things in her heart, so she turned her head and asked, "Where are we going now?"

His eyes reflected the lights of various colors around him, which were extremely bright. At this time, with a little expectation, when he looked at Xing Chenmu, Xing Chenmu was stunned for a long time before he recovered, and whispered with a smile: "If Ah Ying looks at it like this again Me, we can't go anywhere, we can only go back to the house to rest."

"Why?" Zhuo Ying was puzzled and tilted her head slightly.

Xing Chenmu moved Zhuo Ying closer: "Because——"

"Big brother, your lantern is so beautiful, I, can I exchange mine with you?" A childish voice came from beside him, interrupting Xing Chenmu's unfinished sentence.

The two looked down, and saw a girl who was less than half the height of a person, looking eagerly at the rabbit lantern in Zhuo Ying's hand, and what she was holding was an ordinary lantern with a picture of Chang'e flying to the moon.

The girl's question seemed very polite and did not make people feel offended, Zhuo Ying squatted down, put the rabbit in her hand next to Xing Chenmu's rabbit, and tried to slow down her tone: "No, look at these two rabbits. Rabbits are a pair, separate them, how lonely they are."

The girl puffed her face, thought for a while, then looked at the two rabbits with some reluctance, and said softly with a nasal voice: "Then let them be together..."

"Xixi, don't be rude." A woman squeezed out from the crowd and walked up behind the girl, "I'm sorry, both of you, just now Xixi saw that you liked your lanterns very much. I came out to find you, did I cause you trouble?"

"It's okay, but there are many people here, the child should be careful." Zhuo Ying looked at the girl, and smiled at her again as if to comfort her.

"Yes, I'm really bothering you." The woman also seemed a little terrified, took the girl's hand, and couldn't help but turned around and asked before leaving, "But is it convenient for you two to tell me where you bought this lantern?"

"I'm really sorry, we arrived in Lujia Town yesterday, and I bought this lantern next to the wharf in Ningshui County."

The girl burst into tears as soon as she heard this, and the woman didn't expect that it wasn't bought from the Lu family town, so she had to coax her daughter to leave.

After the two left, Xing Chenmu squeezed Zhuo Ying's palm: "I thought you would promise her."

Zhuo Ying shook her head, and after a while said in a low voice, "Mu'er gave this to me."

Xing Chenmu was stunned, and quickly laughed: "Yes, I gave it to A Ying. This pair of rabbits are all given to A Ying. Let's take them back to the palace and order them together in the Mid-Autumn Festival next year."

"it is good."

After such a commotion, the two did not continue the previous topic. Xing Chenmu took Zhuo Ying to the east of the town, and after a while, he could see a river in front of him. At this time, many adults were taking their children to release the river. lamp.

The river lantern was made into the shape of a lotus flower, and a low candle was lit in the center of the lotus flower. At this time, there were many such small lights floating on the river surface, and they floated all the way downstream with the water waves, illuminating the entire water surface.

"Shall we put one in too?" Xing Chenmu asked, turning his head sideways.

Zhuo Ying glanced at the group of children looking at the river lantern, struggled for a moment, and nodded in agreement.

The two bought one from the old man who sold river lanterns by the river, Zhuo Ying carefully held it in his hands, Xing Chenmu took the red candle that the old man handed him, and lit the river lantern, the two went upstream to find someone If there are few places, put the lotus flower in the water.

Xing Chenmu asked Zhuo Ying to make a wish, Zhuo Ying somehow thought of the little girl he just met in his mind.

From time to time there was the sound of children playing in the distance, Zhuo Ying opened her eyes, and turned around to ask, "Does Mu'er like children?"

Xing Chenmu was afraid that he would think too much, so he shook his head when he heard the words: "I only like A Ying, and A Ying is enough."

"I'm not talking about this..." Zhuo Ying didn't know how to express it, and after hesitating for a while, she changed the phrase, "Suppose we adopt a child, will Mu'er like it?"

"If Ah Ying wants to adopt, then it will be my child too, and I will naturally like it. There is no rush, I really want it. When we get married, I will send someone to find it for you." Xing Chenmu guessed that Zhuo Ying liked children, and the royal family Although their lineage is small, there are many descendants in the side line, and it is not impossible to choose one to adopt under their own name.

Zhuo Ying smiled and hugged Xing Chenmu when he heard the words, he seemed to have begun to look forward to a child who looked like him and Xing Chenmu, but he didn't know if Xing Chenxiu really meant what he said that day.

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The night after autumn was already chilly, both of them were wearing thin clothes, Zhuo Ying was afraid that Xing Chenmu would catch cold, so he stood by the river for a while and then proposed to go back.

There were a lot fewer people on the road than just now, Xing Chenmu raised his hand and led Zhuo Ying back to the Lu's house, and heard the sound of arguing inside before entering.

The two looked at each other, and pushed open the courtyard door, only to see the two sons of Lu Xiao and Lu Shao in the courtyard. At this time, the younger one was thrusting his waist, and said with a look on his face: "I can guess lantern riddles better than you. More, I am better than you."

"What's the use of guessing lantern riddles, if you have the ability, come and fight!" The older one didn't show any weakness, and rolled up his sleeves as if he was about to rush forward.

"What's the use of being able to fight? No matter how hard you fight, can you beat elder brother? I heard my aunt say that elder brother was locked up in the palace because he fought too hard."

The eight-year-old child is not very literate, but he can already understand the words of adults. The two families live together, and occasionally hear some fragments from speeches.

And the child of Lu Xiao's family was even more angry when he heard this, and rushed up with his fists raised, shouting: "Big brother is not locked in the palace, big brother is going to protect the emperor's brother!"

Xing Chenmu, who was about to step forward to stop him, suddenly stopped in his footsteps, and on the other side, everyone who heard the sound and hurried out from inside was also shocked.

After Shen Jinghan regained her senses, she immediately stepped forward to pull her son, and slapped his ass hard several times: "What are you talking about! How did your parents teach you? You can't bully your brother."

"I'm not talking nonsense, it's Xiao Rui who is talking nonsense. He said that the elder brother was locked up in the palace, he was talking nonsense!" The child was still stiff-necked, his eyes were already filled with tears, but he stubbornly kept them from falling.

"Big aunt!" Shen Jinghan raised his hand and wanted to hit again, but Xing Chenmu stopped him. He stepped forward and motioned for Ying Ba Ying Jiu, who had just followed, to take the two children aside first, and looked at Lu Xiao Lu in front of him. Shao and his wife asked in a deep voice, "What's going on?"

Xing Chenmu had deliberately lowered his posture all day to get along with everyone as a junior, but now his face turned cold, and he immediately had the majesty of a superior. The two brothers Lu Xiao and Lu Shao looked at each other, and neither of them spoke. After a while, On the contrary, Shen Jinghan knelt down towards him as if she had made up her mind.

"Your Majesty, Lord Zhuo, Minnv doesn't want to be a relative of the emperor, and she doesn't expect her son to make a fortune, but as an ordinary mother, Minnv just wants to know whether her son is still alive or not."

Xing Chenmu frowned, stepped forward to help him up, his eyes fell on Lu Xiao, and asked in a slow tone: "Uncle, don't hide it, what happened to my cousin?"

At this time, Ying Ba, who was holding the child by the side, suddenly slapped his head and exclaimed: "Your Majesty, this subordinate finally remembered why Da Furen looks so familiar. It's Nineteen! Nineteen looks very similar to Da Furen."

Hearing this, before Lu Xiao and Shen Jinghan could respond, the child beside Ying Ba got excited first, raised his head and asked, "You are from the palace, do you know my elder brother?"

"It's Lu Xian, Mu'er, Lu Xian should be your cousin." Others may only know the code name of the Shadow Guard, but Zhuo Ying, as the leader of the Shadow Guard, remembers everyone's name, Lu Nai is the surname, It's not uncommon, at first he didn't think about it, but Jing Yingbayi understood everything after talking about it.

Xing Chenmu was stunned for a while, then turned his head and explained to Shen Jinghan: "Auntie, the shadow guards will be renamed with numbers after entering the palace. Nine are his colleagues in the army. Nineteen was injured a few days ago in order to save me, but there is no danger of life. Counting the days, he should have recovered by now, and my aunt can rest assured."

After finishing speaking, he turned to Lu Xiao and asked: "Uncle, would you like to tell my nephew now, why did my cousin enter the palace as a shadow guard? Now that he has entered the palace, why didn't he tell me or my mother?"

Seeing that he couldn't hide it, Lu Xiao sighed, "It's a long story..."

The author has something to say: the mid-autumn festival fire dragon dance and river lanterns (also called lotus lanterns) are customs that we have here, I don’t know if there are other places. (When I just checked, it said that the Mid-Autumn Festival fire dragon is representative of Guangzhou)

However, the dragon dance has been rare in recent years. When I was young, I could still see it in the town of my grandmother’s house. The Mid-Autumn Festival dance is a fire dragon, and the Chinese New Year dance is also made of bamboo. The outside is covered with a layer of paper. , the kind that draws dragons on paper, especially lively.

It's a long story, I'll talk about it tomorrow, hahahahaha