Chapter 1, please pink. ()

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The school was even more surprised when he heard Qi Younian say he wanted Houyi.

"My little master wants Houyi?" The divine bow Houyi came from the previous generation of arrow making masters, He Yong's father He Yao. It was passed on to the little master by the old master. The little master was outside and did not bring Houyi with him.

Houyi came out and the world was in chaos.

If the little master wants Houyi, doesn’t that mean...

Qi Younian was surprised when she saw the school, so she didn't give much explanation.

"I said everything I should say in the letter. You only send the letter and bring Houyi to me... When the new bow is made, you bring it to me together." Qi Younian ordered.

"Yes." The school agreed immediately, carefully collected the letter and withdrew it.

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Ji Xiaotang sat on the kang with Shen, and inadvertently turned his head and looked out the window. As the weather became hot day by day, all courtyards of Mu Mansion had changed the screen windows.

In Shen’s room, he changed to light green screen windows. From this way, the yard outside the window is green, as if it was a jasper in a window.

A bird cage hung outside the window, and the birds' calls were crisp and gentle.

Ji Xiaotang was wearing only a homely pink shirt and skirt, holding scissors and colored paper in her hands. They were cutting large pieces of colored paper into squares of the same size and folding them up.

Agile swallows or colorful gourds fell down under the hands of their grandparents and grandchildren.

The weather is getting hotter and the north geese return south, which is near the Dragon Boat Festival. In this world, the custom of Ren'an Mansion is that every household wants to fold swallows and gourds to welcome the swallows back.

As for the gourd, it is naturally a medicinal gourd, which is for the Dragon Boat Festival.

Shen is skillful and good at these things. Ji Xiaotang learned from Mrs. Ji since childhood and is passed down from Shen.

The grandparents and grandchildren were talking intimately while origami.

"Since your mother got married, I have been the only one who gave up these things. Your aunt is good at everything, but she is very clumsy and she is not patient to do these things. She is filial and willing to accompany me, but I see her uncomfortable appearance, so I should forget it." Shen couldn't help laughing as she said.

Mu Wanjie ran in from outside at this time.

"Grandmother and sister Xiaotang, why don't you call me?" Mu Wanjie came into the house and said, then asked the little girl to take off her shoes and climb onto the kang and sit on.

Seeing that Mu Wanjie was sweating all over his forehead, Ji Xiaotang hurriedly took out a sweat towel to wipe it for him.

"What did Xiaojie do?" Ji Xiaotang asked.

"Follow your father to hold the stone lock." Mu Wanjie replied, "I want to pull a stone bow too."

"Have ambition." Ji Xiaotang touched Mu Wanjie's head.

Although Mu Wanjie is usually very spoiled, in terms of martial arts practice, Mu Hong, Mu Jiaying and Zhang will not spoil him.

Mu Wanjie also has a lot of homework to do every day.

"Why can Xiaojie break swallows and gourds?" Ji Xiaotang asked when he saw Mu Wanjie take a swallow just now.

Mu Wanjie just laughed.

"What will he do? He just wants to make trouble with him." Shen said with a smile.

"No." Mu Wanjie refused to accept it, "I have helped my grandmother and sister Xiaotang."

What Mu Wanjie said about help was to open the swallows that Shen and Ji Xiaotang had folded, and blow up the gourds they had folded.

The folded swallows and gourds also need to be added with colorful pendants and stick them to the beams and other places. The warm wind blows into the house, and rows of swallows and gourds sway in the wind, which is very beautiful.

Soon, Mu Hong, Mu Jiaying, Mu Jiahao, Zhang and Master Ji San also came.

It turned out that today the Mu family and son were all at home to rest, and these people just went to the small school to practice kung fu.

Mu Hong was very happy when he entered the house and saw the swallows and gourds in the room.

Mu Hong discussed with Shen about the festival. The Dragon Boat Festival will take some days, and before that.

"Xiaotang is here, and she doesn't have a good time to go around. Her uncle is also at home every day, either studying or practicing martial arts with you." Shen said softly, "It's just the Dragon Boat Festival. Look, you guys are free on one day. Let's go to the city's outer snail girl temple. I also want to burn incense and restore it."

When Mu Hong heard Shen say this, there is no one who refuses to agree.

"It's good. I think it's the day after tomorrow," Mu Hong thought for a while, and then said, "It just so happened that there was nothing in the ward office in the past two days, so we just took a day off... and, I happened to call Ayou together. It was him who had a rest that day."

Mu Hong talked about this plan to Ji Xiaotang and Master Ji San, and the two of them were also happy.

"I heard from my second sister-in-law that it is very famous in the prefecture." Master Ji San said.

"When your second sister-in-law was a child, I often took her there." Shen said. When talking about Mrs. Ji, the better Shen was, she asked Ji Xiaotang if she had heard Mrs. Ji's second talk.

"I told me that there are allusions in this snail girl temple." Ji Xiaotang said.

"There is an allusion." Shen nodded, and slowly spoke to Ji Xiaotang about the allusion of the Snail Girl Temple.

The location of the Luonu Temple is a mountain outside Ren'an City, and the name of the mountain is called Luonu Mountain. "≤, but there was no such mountain outside Ren'an City. According to legend, this mountain was the youngest daughter of the Emperor of Heaven who cherished Ren'an, and the people worked hard to transform it down to earth. Because it looked like a conch, it was named Luonu Mountain.

Ren'an's land was originally barren and the climate was harsh, but since the founding of this Luonu Mountain, Ren'an began to have good weather and the land became fertile.

People say that this is a blessing brought by the little fairy.

In order to commemorate this little fairy, Ren An donated money to build a snail girl temple on the mountain, which was received incense from all over the world.

"Your mother also made a wish at the Snail Girl Temple. If you go, you should bow to your mother." Shen said to Ji Xiaotang.

Ji Xiaotang naturally nodded in agreement.

On the second day of the fifth month, the Mu family left the city and came to the Ruo Nu Temple.

Mu Hong and his son, Master Ji San, and Qi Younian were riding horses. Ji Xiaotang and Mu Wanjie followed Shen to a carriage, and Zhang took three other carriages with the maids and wives. The servants rode horses and walked down and followed them all the way, and they arrived at the foot of the snail girl mountain in a mighty manner.

Luonu Mountain is not high. From the foot of the mountain, there is an artificial stone street to the front of the Luonu Temple. To show your piety, those who come to the temple to incense are walking up the mountain.

Shen was a very pious person. Therefore, everyone got off the horse and got off the car at the foot of the mountain. Zhang pulled Mu Wanjie, Ji Xiaotang supported Shen, Mu Hong and others and followed him. Everyone walked up the stone steps and came to the front of the snail girl temple.

The abbot of the temple had long received the news and brought the monks to greet him at the entrance of the temple.

Shen took Ji Xiaotang to the main hall first. The hall was offering a statue of a goddess wearing colorful clothes and dignified eyebrows, which was the legendary snail daughter of the Emperor of Heaven.

Mrs. Shen then chanted incense and worshipped in front of the statue, and then Mrs. Zhang.

As for Mu Hong and others, they only talked with the abbot on the side and did not kneel down in front of the statue. It turned out that most of the people who came to worship in this snail girl temple were female relatives, and most of the men came with them.

When Ji Xiaotang was about to worship, Shen specifically told her to worship twice. Once for Mrs. Ji Er.

"Your mother has only got your brother for so many years. I heard you have experienced some difficulties. You kowtow one more time for your mother, and the snail girl bless your mother and your brother." Shen said.

Ji Xiaotang naturally agreed.

After worshiping for Mrs. Ji Er, Shen asked Ji Xiaotang to worship again by herself.

"But what you want, you only sincerely and secretly say that you will know for the Snail Girl. Only then can the Snail Girl bless you with all your wishes." Shen said this, with a deep meaning in his kind expression.

"My elder sister married my brother-in-law and I have been worshipping the snail girl temple before." Zhang said to Ji Xiaotang with a smile. She lowered her voice, but her voice was still quite large.

A few people from Mu Hong looked at them one after another.

Ji Xiaotang glanced across the corner of his eyes, and only felt that Qi Younian's eyes were particularly fierce.

After worshiping in the main hall, the abbot accompanied him to rejoice around the temple, and then went to the quiet room to have tea again.

"I have a junior brother coming from the south, and I have seen and heard a lot along the way. Call out to relieve the boredom of all the donors." After a dish of tea, the abbot said.

Mu Hong nodded.

The abbot beat the little shaman out, and in a while, he brought a thin monk in.

Everyone greeted each other and asked questions, and the monk sat on the seat.

This monk is very talkative, and he knows what he sees in the south. Perhaps because he saw Mu Hong and others dressed up as officers, the monk talked about what he saw in Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

"...It's a blessing that General Qi from Fujian is capable, and the Japanese pirates have actually stopped a lot in the past two years."

Speaking of Japanese pirates, Mu Hong and others were very interested and asked many questions from the monks.

Most of the Japanese pirates attacked the coasts of Fujian and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and plundered them nearby. Although Ren'an was close to the sea, there were very few Japanese pirates. This was probably because Ren'an was not as rich as Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the capital was close to the capital, and the sea access was not accessible.

Although Ren An did not have Japanese pirates, Mu Hong and his son and Qi Younian all fought with Japanese pirates.

When the Japanese pirates were rampant in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, they had the habit of mobilizing troops from Ren'an and other local garrisons to reinforce. Many of their military achievements were caused by the Japanese pirates.

Speaking of the Japanese pirates, this is indeed the truth. However, the monk's tone was filled with worry.

"From the south and heading north, passing through several coastal areas, although there have not been any Japanese pirates invading, there are some Japanese ronin." The monk said.

"This year, the coastal defense in the south will not be given the Japanese pirates to take advantage of. Even though those ronin people are hateful, they should not be able to cause any storms." Mu Hong said.

Ji Xiaotang was drinking tea, and when he heard the Japanese pirates and ronin, he was a little confused.

She suddenly remembered something.

Ren'an's status has never been disturbed by Japanese pirates, which means that Mu Hong and others are familiar with Japanese pirates. As for the people, there are still many people who do not know what Japanese pirates are.

However, in the sixth year of Long'an, Japanese pirates attacked Ren An.

It was precisely because of the tight defense in the south that the Japanese pirates had no opportunity to take advantage of that, so they took the risk and hid the north along the coast, used the identity of a ronin as a cover, and plundered several wealthy towns along the coast of Ren'an.

Qingyuan County was not disturbed, so it was not until the monk mentioned the ronin and the Japanese pirates that Ji Xiaotang suddenly remembered this incident.
To be continued...