Chapter 247
The Zhongyuan Festival in this small town is very interesting. Those who come to participate will wear masks to the street to set up lights that night. After that, if you meet someone you like, you can exchange masks with the other party. According to custom, one person takes the initiative to walk to the person you like, knock on his own mask and then knock on the other party. If the other party also has some meaning, he will take off the mask. If the other party does not agree, he can turn around and leave.
According to legend, if the mask exchange is successful, you have to stay with this person until you are old, otherwise you will be cursed by ghosts and gods. For example, in order to show the terror of ghosts and gods, the masks on everyone's face on the festival are very scary ghost faces. If someone can actively express his feelings, it can be seen that the other party is sincere.
When this activity was spread somehow, more people came to participate in it. Generally, more men would knock on women's masks. Some men knocked on the other side and then showed that the other side showed their true face and found that they were not as he expected. They would immediately escape and escap and escap into the crowd. Even if the woman wanted to find it, she would not be able to find it. However, this would not change her mind and would not be cursed by ghosts and gods, which made the woman who took the initiative to take off her mask but was abandoned very upset.
Huanhuan thought it was quite fun and wanted to knock on a few more girls' masks at night. Lele thought he could not do such a tasteless thing, so she thought about following his elder brother to watch it. It might be more fun to see his excitement than to knock on it himself. He knew that Yuan Tai would definitely not knock it, so he pulled him into the group and made a plan to perfectly follow Huanhuan to watch him tease others.
Zhuhua Peace King became a kiss and could also change masks. After changing, he had to hold hands to others to see them so that others would not knock them. Xixi also thought this was fun and eager to pick the mask. Tuantuan Yuanyuan didn't like it. Yuanyuan simply didn't want to crowd in the crowd. Tuantuan thought this activity was a bit hasty, but Zhuhua still encouraged them to walk on the street with masks for a while to experience it. If there was a special event and didn't participate, Zhuhua always felt very regretful.
They live in the best restaurant in the city and also booked a private room with street view inside. If they are tired of playing outside, they can come back to the private room to watch.
Every family was very happy when they got the mask at first, but at night, there were only dim lights left on the street. People wearing terrible masks walked on the street, and some even had their clothes with masks, making them bloody and scary. Locals were used to it, and people often dressed like this during festivals.
This is what is called "One Life". Zhuhua thought to herself, she didn't think any girl was so brave and dared to take off her mask to a person wearing blood.
Seeing this scene, every family was so scared that they hugged behind Zhuhua and refused to walk out of the restaurant. Even if Zhuhua said she wanted to hold him, he refused to go, and she would still hug her neck and let her not go. Zhuhua had no choice but to exchange masks with Ping Wang at the door of the store, and then went back. As soon as they returned, Tuan Duan Yuanyuan refused to go, and Zhuhua didn't force her. She felt that the light was a little dark, and no one noticed anything.
Xixi was not scared away because of this. Zhuhua saw that she had squeezed into the crowd without waiting for her to explain a few more words, and she felt helpless. She could only hope that the master lent to her by Wu Wei Gong could keep up with her.
The street was dim, and although the masks on everyone's faces were terrible, many of them were similar. To be honest, few people could have the courage to stare at the mask all the time at night. Xixi originally wanted to find Huanhuan and the others, but after looking around, no one was recognized. When she was looking around, several people came up to knock on her mask, and she turned around and left immediately.
After searching for a while, she felt bored. I think she wouldn't take off the mask before seeing the opposite person. When she heard this, she felt that this activity was a bit unfair. Why was the person who was knocked took off the mask first? Shouldn't the person who was knocked reveal the mask first to show sincerity? And why are women always knocked... She frowned slightly, looked around the crowd, found a tall figure and went up to knock on his mask.
After knocking on Xixi, she found that the clothes on his body looked inconspicuous, but the material was of high quality, so she felt a little regretful. The man was also stunned, and finally looked at her bright eyes and took off the mask. Xixi looked at her and found that the man was born with a good look, with thick phoenix eyes and a painting, and a heroic spirit on his body. Xixi was stunned for a moment, and immediately came to his senses, lowered his head and thought for a moment, raised his eyes and smiled sly on the man's gaze, turned around and ran away.
The man obviously didn't expect her to run away. After a moment, he raised the corner of his mouth helplessly and put the mask on his eye-catching facial features.
Xixi trotted all the way through the crowd, with a satisfied smile on her lips. When she stopped, she looked up and saw that she had arrived near the restaurant they had booked. Just as she was about to step forward, someone suddenly pulled her and dragged her into the alley next to her. There were many people and everyone dressed very much. Xixi thought at first that her brother wanted to scare her, or the young master just now caught up with her, but after entering the alley, she found that a burly man was pulling her.
She knew that things were not good, but she secretly sneered in her heart that the little thief must have underestimated her, thinking that she could subdue her by relying on her own height, so that she was not so weak. Thinking of this in her heart, she was still a little scared. Just as she was about to resist, she suddenly felt a pain in her arm and gradually lost consciousness.
When she woke up again, she was lying on the bed. She woke up immediately and felt relieved when she saw that Zhuhua was guarding the side.
"Auntie." Xixi called her.
Zhuhua was sitting by the bed reading a book with her family, but she didn't notice that she was awake for a while. After hearing the sound, she raised her head and saw that she was about to get up and quickly helped her. Xixi felt dizzy and couldn't use any strength on her body.
"Someone stabbed you with a poisonous needle that had been applied. Although you are awake now, the effect of the medicine will not fade for a while." As she said that, she asked Chunyang to pour out the warm medicine beside her and feed Xixi.
"If you take this medicine, you will sleep for a while, and your head will not hurt so much tomorrow." Zhuhua coaxed.
Xixi nodded, cursing the bad guy in her heart, and then she fell asleep again when she asked who it was. In the next room, King Ping was accompanying Lele, who was also drowsy. Lele was drinking medicine and complaining in her heart. Such teenagers, the bad guy just wanted to kidnap him. Could it be that he looked like a woman?
In fact, this group of thieves also heard that there was an interesting Zhongyuan Festival here, so they wanted to take the opportunity to capture some men and women who were left alone. Men and women who looked pretty are as good as they were. As for their origins, when they took off their hands, someone else would deal with them. The joy of being alone at the beginning was actually targeted by them, and Lele followed Huanhuan all the way, so everyone took advantage of the moment when he and Yuan Tai were rushed away by the crowd. Fortunately, they were all following people, and Yuan Tai and Huanhuan were not far away, and immediately surrounded the thieves who were also difficult to escape.
King Ping captured two thieves and asked Xiao Lin to take famous posts to send them to the local county magistrate. When the county magistrate saw that this matter was extraordinary, he immediately sent people to close the city gate overnight and sent additional personnel to patrol the streets. However, even if the city gate was closed, he could still cross mountains or leave by water. When things started during the day, he found that the thieves had captured several girls and young men and fled.
The county magistrate knew that there was a distinguished guest, so he had to take this case seriously. Besides, the tourists attracted by the Zhongyuan Festival can make a fortune in the town. How could he let go of these evil people who influenced tourists?
King Ping didn't care about how the county magistrate investigated. The next day, he saw that the two children were getting better, and Zhuhua and he breathed a sigh of relief. After seeing the two of them being carried back, he was also frightened. He had already left Zhuhua to play with his brother and sister, but now he turned back to his original clingy appearance.
When Xixi woke up in the morning, her head still hurt a little, and she felt even more angry. When she heard that the bad guy had escaped, she shaking off the bed and said she wanted to catch them all.
"Just calm down. Even if you go, they will only be taken away by them." Zhuhua stopped her helplessly and pressed her onto the bed.
"Auntie, please lend me a few guards and ask me to catch them back."
"Oh, look at what you can do. You know that your skills are not as good as others, and you still want to rely on others to bring reinforcements? If you really want to catch bad people, do you have the ability to practice your skills in advance? You won't see you doing this when you practice."
Xixi moved her lips and hid in the quilt with grievance. She has been lazy in practice recently, but she learned this from Yuanyuan. Yuanyuan is lazy every day, and her skills in her hands are not bad.
At this moment, Yuanyuan was pulling every family that was about to see Zhuhua and came to Xixi's house. Seeing Xixi woke up, Yuanyuan walked to the bed and looked at her, then stretched out her fingers to draw circles in front of Xixi's eyes.
Xixi felt dizzy when she glanced at her, so she immediately closed her eyes and opened her hand, "What are you doing?"
"I saw my eldest cousin just doing it in front of my second cousin, and my second cousin didn't dare to open his eyes."
"Second brother?" Xixi opened her eyes in surprise and found that her round fingers were stretched in front of her again. She quickly closed her eyes and asked, "Lle was also stabbed?"
"Yes, I almost got caught."
"They also caught men?"
"Of course I've arrested. Didn't you say you wanted to raise a man to see the boat? Do you think the men above were all voluntarily boarding the boat?"
"Colale is so big, I am so big, and I can escape even if I get on the boat."
"You haven't even dared to open your eyes to see Yuanyuan after you drink the medicine. How could you know that the bad guy doesn't have more powerful medicines in your hands, which makes you unable to remember who you are after taking them, and you don't even know how to master martial arts."
"This medicine is not good." Every family next to him shouted immediately.
"Yes, this kind of harmful thing is not good." Zhuhua said and picked him up.
Xixi didn't hear it, and shouted several times with annoyed voice covering her head with her quilt.
"Okay, you should keep it well, otherwise you won't be able to look at Yuanyuan's fingers tomorrow."
"Yuanyuan little brat." Xixi cursed under the quilt, and unexpectedly she would be teased by her little cousin.
After hearing this, Yuanyuan patted her quilt and said seriously: "Cousin, lie down obediently, and there are fewer places in the future. If you don't have martial arts skills, you will rush in front of you alone. If you don't catch others, who will you catch?"
As she said that, she took a step back while Xixi lifted up the quilt and looked at Xixi with satisfaction as she sat up suddenly because of dizziness and could not move anymore.
"You kid, what are you talking nonsense?" Zhuhua gently patted Yuanyuan, let Chunyang lie down with Xixi, and held back her smile and said, "You lie down well, I think you have to take medicine."
She lay down powerlessly, so angry that she wanted to cry. In fact, she should be content. Yuanyuan just made a little trouble for her. Unlike Huanhuan next door, she didn't care about her physical and mental injuries at all, and she deliberately asked to make a call to anger him.
Lele really wanted to cry without tears. He deeply realized how heavy the brotherhood was.
The two of them were able to get out of bed and walk around for two days. Zhuhua saw that the poison was very domineering, and there was no good doctor in the town to help detoxify, so she could only stay for a few more days to make sure they had recovered and then left. During this period, the county magistrate would come to tell King Ping every day. Finally, after half a month, he cooperated with the surrounding counties to arrest several of the main culprits of this group.
"That's great, I'm going to see which bastard attacked me!" Xixi, who was rejuvenated, stood up when she heard the news.
"The person who attacked you and Lele was caught at the beginning. I'm afraid that half of his life would be tortured by the torture. You can go and see what's in the prison if you want to go and check it out.
"I've been to the prison for a long time." Xixi said indifferently. When she was in Liangzhou, she went to the prison with Huanhuan because of curiosity. It was a bit dilapidated and there were some dirty people in the prison, so there was nothing scary.
Even though she thought so, she went to the local prison once. After she came back, she said to Zhuhua: "Why is the prison here so smelly? The prison guards are very harsh and they didn't see the person who was locked up without any injuries."
Zhuhua glanced at her and did not answer her words. Xixi felt it was boring, so she went to discuss the matter with Huanhuan with Lele. The three of them got together for a long time, but after chatting, Xixi thought of Zhuhua's eyes just now, as if she was looking at the silly girl who came from. She came out this time and had some trouble, and almost had something to do, but she was not that little girl who was unaware of. Whether in Liangzhou or Chang'an, she dared to say that she had more knowledge than many ladies who were raised in the deep boudoir. It was obviously like this, but now she began to feel that she was not as good as she thought.
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If there is such an event, will you dare to participate? Why do I feel even more scary than Halloween?
Chapter completed!