[Lotus Lantern] Free Sky

In the dead of night, the conversation between mother and son clearly passed through the night wind and spread to a dark corner.The gurgling moonlight was like water, shining on his frosty face, it seemed to be even colder.But he couldn't hide the affection in his eyes.This is Yuding who followed down the mountain worried about Yang Jian.

At the same time, it was also Yang Tianyou.

Yi day, early in the morning, the sun was shining brightly, and magpies chirped on the branches.

"Morning, brother, morning, mother!" It seemed that everyone was well rested, and everyone was full of energy.

"Morning Erlang." Hou Yi came out of the house shaking his head and stretched himself.

"Dalang, Erlang, they're all up just in time, and I'm going to accompany my mother to go shopping for groceries."

"Mother," Hou Yi yawned, and said, "I bought so much yesterday that it almost piled up into a mountain. Can you finish it?"

"Brother, didn't you read it?" Yang Jian moved closer to Hou Yi and looked Yao Ji up and down, saying, "Mother buys fun, not food."

Hou Yi also teased and said: "Looking at the momentum, I guess it's time for mother to toss again today. It really hurt our brothers' tongues. It's all caused by you. If you say that mother's cooking is delicious, you will be offended. gone."

Yang Jian patted Hou Yi on the shoulder as a sign of encouragement.Then, holding Yao Ji's shoulders, she went to buy groceries.Looks like it's fun.Hou Yi shook his head helplessly, and followed him out the door.

On the street, the sound of bargaining, the yelling of vendors, the laughter of children and adults, and the whipping of donkeys and horses all blend into a beautiful and harmonious symphony in this most ordinary morning market.

"Selling vegetables, selling vegetables!"

"Steamed buns, hot and delicious big buns! Come and buy them!"

"Wonton, delicious hot wonton..."

"Candied haws, sell candied haws, candied haws!"

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"Pearl flower, a new type of bead flower, please buy one, Miss."

The two brothers, one on the left and the other on the right, walked with Yao Ji in the lively market, passing by a small jewelry stall, and stopped when they heard a woman's cries.Standing next to her was a man who presumably was her husband.Although the ornaments in the mortal world are not as exquisite as those in the sky, they are also ingenious.Yang Jian walked to the small stall and scanned it briefly. The materials were all average, some were too fancy, some were too ostentatious, and the workmanship was not very good.Yang Jian was about to take his mother away when the little girl said, "Master, I still have some good things here. I'll show you right away." She took out a cloth bag and opened it. It was a very delicate jewelry box. It can be seen that the girl usually takes care of it very carefully.Open it and see that there are a pair of pearl silver flower hairpins, a white jade phoenix hairpin, a golden phoenix Huasheng, two pearl jasper steps, and a jade comb.

"Second brother, look, these two are not bad." Yang Jian hadn't chosen yet, so Hou Yi picked up two pearls and jasper and shook them.Then, she inserted two jade steps firmly on both sides of Yao Ji's bun, and she swayed gracefully when she walked, adding a bit of agility to the already eye-catching gentle lady.

But Yang Jian immediately took a fancy to that exquisite white jade comb.It was indeed a rare piece of beautiful jade, exquisitely carved and warm to the touch.

It was rare for that girl to meet such a peerless young master and young lady, and she was dumbfounded for a moment.Yang Jian didn't care, and said, "Girl, how much is this jade comb?"

"Five~two~silver~" The small voice was twisted and twisted, which made people feel very uncomfortable.

Yang Jian was looking at the comb, listening to the strange sound, looking at the girl in a daze, and seeing more and more people gathering around, how could Yang Jian have the heart to pick something.But it has already been picked.

"Hey, hey, girl, how much money does this pearl cost?" Hou Yi asked impatiently with a loud voice.The girl felt like a thunderbolt, and she woke up for a while.

"Eight taels of silver for a silver hairpin, five taels of silver for a comb, a total of 13 taels of silver." The girl said with a smile.

"Are you sure?" Yang Jian asked.

"My lord, the price of my jewelry here is fair, and there is no deceit. You won't suffer a loss if you buy it back! Look at how beautiful your little sister wears!"! ! ! ! !Little sister? !

"Yes, yes, yes." Hou Yi said "yes" repeatedly, then put down a piece of silver, and fled the crowd with Yang Jian, who had a strange expression, and Yao Ji, who was disapproving.However, everyone was stunned.Because after they left, the silent husband beside the woman touched the back of his head and said:

"It's really weird. Why did the two elder brothers call the younger sister 'mother'? There are women in the world who use this word as their name."

"Moon cakes are cheaper, all kinds of fillings, delicious and delicious moon cakes, they are cheap."

"I said, old man, you can't sell these mooncakes anyway, so I'll just do good deeds. Why don't I let my men take them home and feed them to the dogs? It's a good deed for you, okay?"

The mother and son walked along the pedestrian-filled street facing the sun, trying their best to ignore the ardent or envious gazes from the pedestrians around them.It was rare to go shopping with my family, the three of them chatted, laughed and played, enjoying this stolen half-day leisure.In one morning, they visited cloth shops, flower shops, jewelry shops, tailor shops, and dessert bars.In the afternoon, go boating on the lake, flutter butterflies among the flowers, go to the countryside to help a blind woman sow rapeseed and harvest rice, go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables for a picnic, and help birds build nests together.At the end of the day, I was really full and happy.Enjoy the free time, breathe the free air, so good!

When it was nearly dusk, the three of them returned to the town, but they encountered such a thing.

After a while, the old man's shop was full of onlookers, and everyone was chatting in low voices.Yang Jian formed a general outline of the matter from these discussions.This old man has a daughter, who is seventeen years old, and this rich young man has a crush on her and insists on taking her by force.The old man sent his daughter to his husband's family who had already arranged a child marriage overnight to get married.So the rich young man often came to the old man's dessert shop to make trouble, which made the old man unable to do business.This year's mid-autumn festival, because the rich young man had nothing to do, he came to make trouble, and threatened that anyone who dared to buy the old man's moon cakes would be arrested by his cousin who was the prime minister in the court.As a result, the bad business of the dessert shop is even more neglected.Seeing that no one wants this mooncake after the fifteenth day, and I can't finish it after a long time, so it will be broken.The old man wanted to give some to his neighbors, but no one dared to accept it.Seeing that no one would eat the good mooncakes, the old man was in a hurry, so he also set up a stall outside the shop and started selling them like a street vendor.At this time, the rich young man brought a group of followers and came to find fault again.

"You! You!" The old man's wife was trembling with anger, but "you" couldn't say anything for a long time.

"Master Jia, please do me a favor and let our old couple go." The old man begged helplessly.

"Now that I know I'm begging, why did you go early?" Then he yelled at the back: "Don't do it yet!"

Those boys rushed up, pushed down the old woman who was blocking her, and they were about to rush into the shop.The old woman sat on the ground, stared at Kuo Shao and said bitterly: "You will be punished!"

That Kuo Shao snorted softly, and said: "Retribution? The fortune teller said that I am blessed and have a great life, and I will live a long life. Old lady, I will send you to see the Hades right now, and I want to see what retribution I can get."

"You!" The old woman was so angry that she almost fainted.

At this time, Kuo Shao's shoulder was suddenly tapped by someone, it was a fan, and in the middle of the fan was a pattern of clouds and water, lifelike, like jumping flames.Yang Jian was wearing the new dress made by Yao Ji, light yellow satin, pearl ribbon, and a purple gauze shirt, giving people an elegant and noble feeling, clean and dusty.He smiled slightly, originally it was such a disdainful smile, but when it appeared on such a flawless and handsome face, it was so beautiful to the extreme, captivating all beings.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, isolated and independent.

Combining the softness and masculinity of the world on the same face, but without conflicts and contradictions, it is so perfect that it is a bit dreamy.And Yao Ji made this dress, in terms of color matching, the beige is warm and soft, and the purple is cold and noble, this kind of match is not against Yang Jian at all, it seems that this is the color specially made for him.The former judicial god, after shedding the icy disguise, the rest is just gentle and easygoing, rich and handsome.And Yang Jian's innate noble and majestic temperament is enough to make the people present dare not say a word of disrespect.

"Dare to ask brother?"

"Passing by." The tone was still light.

"Then stand aside and don't hinder this young man from doing good deeds."

"Dare to ask, young master, have you eaten mooncakes?" The three ignored Kuo Shao's domineering arrogance, Yao Ji interjected and asked with a pleasant face.

"Eat." When he found out that a little beauty wanted to talk to him, his disdainful eyes were full of lust.

"Just now I heard that your dog also eats it?" Hou Yi took two steps forward, pretending to ask curiously, and at the same time blocked Kuo Shao's lustful eyes from looking at Yao Ji.

"Ah, is there a problem?" Kuo Shao was a little impatient.

"Isn't that dog the same as you?" Hou Yi said regretfully.

"What do you mean?" Kuo Shao thought about it for a while, and finally figured it out, "Hey, I see that you are from other places, so I don't care about you like you, and you are shameless, looking for death! Little ones , Don’t smash the store, catch them first!”

"En?" Yang Jian's eyes froze, looking forward to being a hero, his own deterrent power instantly swept the audience, looking around, no one dared to take a step forward.

"Yesterday, fifteenth, the emperor and the people had fun together. Can the emperor eat this thing? You can just humiliate yourself. If you regard this object as dog food, do you want to insult the emperor's food?" Houyi folded his arms and smiled lightly. road.

"You!" That Kuo Shao was so squeezed that he couldn't speak for a long time.At the end, came a sentence, "Who are you? Seeing that you are a stranger, do you know that this young master is—"

"The nephew of the steward of the Prime Minister's Mansion." Before Kuo Shao could finish speaking, Yang Jian lightly shook his ink fan and said with a faint smile.

As soon as Yang Jian said this, the crowd of onlookers began to chatter.

"Isn't he the prime minister's nephew?"

"This rich young man is just the nephew of a housekeeper next to the prime minister, is it true?"

"Looking at his clothes, he doesn't look like a slave no matter what. The magistrate is afraid of him. How could it be fake?"

"Cough, cough!" Originally exposed, the Kuo Shao felt a chill in his heart, but seeing that the onlookers didn't seem to believe Yang Jian's words, he cleared his throat twice, puffed up his chest and said, "That's it, of course my young master is true." Yes, little ones, don’t take it down yet!”

The gangsters seemed to have not recovered from the questioning just now, and they all looked at each other when they heard Mr. Kuo's greeting, and then walked towards Yang Jian and the others with actions before thinking.

Yang Jian's eyes were cold, and the cold air emanating from his body was as real as it was, accompanied by a suffocating sense of coercion. Those followers seemed to be frozen, and there was a heavy weight under their feet. Shoved, fell to the ground.

That Kuo Shao was also like falling into an ice cave, trembling, and said: "You, what kind of demon method did you use? I don't believe that I can't cure you." He said, picking up the big knife that his entourage dropped on the ground, and slashed at Yang Jian.But he accidentally tripped over something and fell a dog.It attracted a burst of laughter from the people watching the excitement around.Looking up, he found that he was falling in front of the opponent's feet, the man's ink fan was shaking slightly, his indifferent eyes seemed to see nothing.At the same time, a sense of substantive coercion came layer upon layer, making him almost want to run away, but it was quite laborious to even get up from the ground.

At this time, a group of people came from a distance, and they strode towards Yang Jian.But it was Taiwei Li Huanzhang and General Guo Shen.They lived in Guanjiangkou for thousands of years, and Emperor Ziwei claimed that their official positions were hereditary.Only then did the common people hide it from the past.

Kuo rarely saw someone leading a large group of people, thinking that someone wanted to flatter him and informed the county government in advance that helpers were coming. "Hurry up and arrest this kid, my young master asked the county magistrate to promote you." Kuo Shao struggled a few times and finally got up.

The visitor ignored the Kuo Shao's yelling, and came to Yang Jian to bow his hands and salute, respecting him very much, and calling him "Second Lord".The Kuo Shao didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, and said angrily: "My young master is here, where are you going to worship, do you not want your job?"

Yang Jian nodded to the two, and sent a voice transmission to Li Huanzhang and Guo Shen, "What's going on?"

Li Huanzhang said: "Second Master, this man is the brother of Ding Xiang, the reincarnation of Ding Da's son. He came here to do business with his father last year, and his father is a businessman. It's just that this son usually bullies and dominates the market, and his parents are too arrogant about him. , and don’t control them too much. Our brother just doesn’t know what to do.”

At the beginning of Fenghua Mountain, it was later learned that the father and son of the Ding family died under the rocks. Yang Jian went to the underworld to investigate.Before leaving, Yang Jian ordered the son of Xu Dingda, the king of the underworld, to have both good fortune and longevity in the next life, and to add all the remaining lifespan of the previous life to the reincarnated person, in order to compensate him for the suffering of being annihilated when he was born.

Yang Jian's eyes froze, and he said, "The combination of good fortune and longevity is also within karma."

"What does Second Master mean?"

"At three o'clock tonight, you send his soul to the eighteenth floor of hell. Just send it back before dawn."

"Yes."

During this period, it was only a few breaths of effort, Na Kuo rarely saw Li and Guo ignoring him, so he carefully looked at their attire at this time.Li Huanzhang was wearing a civil official uniform with a crane pattern tattooed on his chest.Guo Shen was dressed in velvet with piercing eyes.The two saluted Yang Jian before turning to look at him.

"I'm Li Huanzhang, the Taiwei of the court. Who are you?"

"Who am I to care about your business? Hurry up and arrest this ignorant wild boy! Otherwise... ah! ah! ah... ah!" Kuo Shaozhuang boldly pointed at Yang Jian and said.Before Kuo Shao could finish speaking, several big mouths came up, and with the last slap, Kuo Shao was slapped heavily on the ground. ——It was Guo Shen.

In the past, when this rich young man went to Erlang Temple to offer incense, he always drove away all the devout men and women who were offering incense. Guo Shen had long since disliked this rich young man, but because he was a god and could not easily interfere with mortals, he endured it all the time.Seeing that this guy actually offended Yang Jian today, he really couldn't bear it, and he didn't need to bear it anymore.

At this time, the owner of the small shop suddenly ran over and knelt down, crying, "Please, the elder, please be the master for the little people."

"Old man, don't you want to live anymore!" Kuo Shao yelled while covering his swollen face.

"It seems that my attack was too light just now, isn't it?" Guo Shen said and walked towards the rich young man, who was so frightened that the rich young man even smiled.

"Old people get up first and speak slowly when they have something to say." Li Huanzhang.

"The old man wants to sue this young master. He bullies others and forces my daughter to marry him. If he fails, he will come and smash my shop every day. My lord, the old man and his wife are going to die soon."

"You are talking nonsense! Who can testify!"

The old man looked around, but no one dared to testify.

"I'll testify." The tone was still light.

"Brat, believe it or not, this young master can kill you right now!"

"Crackling, crackling" Mou Shen ran away, punched and kicked.

"Ah, don't hit me, ah, you dare to hit me, you are dead! Ahhhhh."

"You wicked young man, you really deserve a beating. Come on, everyone who has suffered this kind of popularity, come here and help me." Li Huanzhang.

In the beginning, there were only Li Huanzhang and Guo Shen, and later even ordinary people joined the ranks of Qunou.

At this time, Yang Jian, Hou Yi and Yao Ji were drinking tea and watching a play in a tea shed not far away.And the old man selling desserts was stunned when he saw this scene.

At night, a full moon rises in the sky.The three of them were sitting in the gazebo of a turret in Yang's mansion, admiring the moon.At this moment, the door of Yang's mansion was pushed open, and someone entered without invitation.

"Second brother, why don't you call me brother when you're drinking?" While speaking, a little man followed by two adults walked up to meet the moonlight.When he got closer, he took a piece of mooncake on the table and ate it, and said vaguely while eating, "Hello, Auntie, Hello, Brother Yangjiao."

The two grown-ups followed suit, "Hello Auntie, Hello Grandpa and Second Grandpa."

Yao Ji nodded, as a return of courtesy.Said: "Since you are here, please sit down."

These three people are Nezha and Meishan's third and fifth sons whom they met during the day.Today is the sixteenth day, and everyone says that the moon is sixteen round on the fifteenth day, which is true. The bright moon is in the sky, but it is a good time to drink wine and enjoy the moon.After finishing the prayers of men and women, the third and fifth children were wandering casually on the street, but they were stopped by Nezha.It turned out that Nezha heard that Yang Jian had gone down the mountain, so he followed closely.Originally, because of the boss and the others, the two brothers wanted to pay a visit to Yang's mansion, but they didn't have that face.Secondly, I was afraid of disturbing the family reunion.Nezha was kind-hearted, so he dragged the two of them along.

Hou Yi did not forget that Nezha had hurt Yang Jian, and seeing the Meishan brothers was even more distasteful, and said in a strange way: "Don't dare to be that!"

"Sit down." Yang Jian ignored Hou Yi's attitude and said kindly.

Hearing that Yang Jian offered to sit down, the three dared to sit down firmly.

Meishan Lao Wu had never been to this place before, but he took a look around and saw that it was a small three-story building with an octagonal pavilion on the roof.Sitting in the pavilion, you can see the entire Guanjiang Estuary, and there are lights and festoons everywhere on the street. There are a bunch of fireworks here, a bunch of fireworks there, and Kongming lanterns, floating out from which small courtyard from time to time.It's very enjoyable.This is the Mid-Autumn Festival at Guanjiangkou.

The fifth child just looked down, and the third child pulled the skirt of the fifth child's clothes, motioning him to sit down quickly.At this time, Yang Jian had already poured wine for Meishan brothers and Ne Zha, and also served Hou Yi and Yao Jiman.After the fifth child sat down, he just smiled foolishly, and the third child said: "We two brothers took the liberty to visit the second master, so we didn't bother the second master. It's rare for the second brother to come back. Brother really misses you very much. Brothers Respect brother."

As he spoke, he raised the wine glass on the table and drank it down in one gulp, and the fifth child also drank it.

Yang Jian also did it together.Putting down the wine glass, he continued to serve the two, saying: "You two brothers are too polite. If you miss Yang Jian, Yang Jian will be waiting for you in Kunlun at any time. Brothers can chat with each other at any time." "By the way, why didn't you see the boss and them?" .”

"Second Master, they are here"

"They thought about it in Yunmeng Mountain. Since the truth of Second Master's grievances came to light, how could they have the face to see Second Master." Before the fifth child could finish speaking, the third child hurriedly said.

"Yes, yes, they have thought about it."

Seeing the unnatural expressions on the faces of the Mei Shan brothers when they spoke, Yang Jian knew that they must have something to hide from him, but he remained calm, picked up a glass of wine and said, "Say hello to the boss and the others for me when you get back."

The Meishan brothers raised their arms and drank together.

Yang Jian put down his wine glass and said, "How about the thousand and two hundred grass gods?"

"Second Master, don't worry, they are all in Meishan. I heard from them that when the accident happened to Second Master, the Temple of the True Monarch was closed. They are your personal soldiers, and they were all demoted to the lower realm. Back to Heaven. At the beginning, they were scattered in the mortal world, helpless, but they were loyal to the second brother, and they came to Guanjiangkou in small groups. We first arranged for them to live in Meishan, and later we heard that the second master was still alive , the second master is innocent, and within two months, all the brothers who didn't come back have come back."

"The brothers didn't need to talk, they spontaneously organized and practiced for almost two years. They clamored every day to avenge the second master!" Lao Wu interjected excitedly.

"Recently, I discovered a vision in the sky, and there was a shining stone that fell to the mortal world. Our brothers have seen this stone before. It is a large mirror with words on it. At the beginning, it was some paintings of flowers and birds. I can’t understand it. Later it became Xiaozhuan. The common people still know it.”

"Are you finished?" Hou Yi asked impatiently, "No official business is allowed at the family banquet! Get the hell out of here!"

"Brother, you are drunk."

"Auntie, Brother Yang Jiao, we are all vulgar people and don't know how to behave, so don't be as knowledgeable as us." The two brothers even apologized.

"How did things go today?"

"Brother sent Mr. Jia to the Yamen and exposed his identity, so the county magistrate dared to deal with him. It is a serious crime to deceive the government. Because he is still young, I pleaded with the county magistrate, and only sentenced him to dozens of boards. He compensated the loss of the dessert shop with 300 taels of cash. This kid was not convinced at first, but he became much more honest when he continued to beat the board. At three o'clock tonight, my brother will take him to the [-]th floor of hell. The kid can come to his senses."

"Ah, by the way, after the case was over, the old man specially made some cakes to send to his brother and the second master as a way of expressing his gratitude, but he didn't know the identity of the second master and where he lived, so he went to the yamen to find us and asked us to bring them to the second master. Come some."

After opening it, Yang Jian choked speechlessly.

——It’s moon cakes again.