91|Thousand Lanterns View of the Everlasting Night

Xie Ren never thought that someone would actually hand him a glass of wine.

Blame him for reacting too quickly, taking it without thinking, and then froze after taking it. However, when he looked at the person who handed him the wine, the other person also froze – it was actually Ming Yi.

Originally, the wine glass was passed to Shi Qingxuan’s hand, and Shi Qingxuan deliberately passed it to Ming Yi for the sake of fun. And Mingyi bored to drink and eat, do not even look at the hands of messy pass, pass before reacting to what happened, is also speechless. At the same time, the thunder also ended abruptly, leaving only two people look at each other.

Although the one who received the wine cup was Xie Ren, the eyes of the crowd were directed towards Feng Xin and Mu Qing. It is not difficult to understand why, Xie Ren has been unknown for more than eight hundred years, eight hundred years ago, naturally there are a lot of his beautiful story of the book, but to this day has long been lost, and there will be no one in today’s day specially set up a stage for him to perform. Therefore, if we have to find a play with the character of “Prince Xianle” in it, then it would only be a play with Fengxin or Muyi as the main character.

Because, when the folk theater is making up stories for these two magi, occasionally Xie Ren will be used, usually to let him be a companion, running a dragon set, and even more in order to make the play more exciting, Xie Ren is directly changed into a treacherous role, arranging some such as bullying the Mu love of the lonely and helpless or the sword to take away the wind of the letter of the love of the paragraph and so on. If this kind of drama was really staged in the Mid-Autumn Festival Banquet, no matter whether the protagonists of the story were happy or not, the rest of the spectators would be happy anyway. Xie Ren held the small jade cup, a magistrate has already urged open: “Prince, come on, come on, dry it!”

There were a few more people urging, and Feng Xin said from a distance, “His Highness the Crown Prince can’t drink.”

Everyone said, “It’s just a cup! It doesn’t matter.”

Jun Wu had been supporting his forehead with one hand, not saying a word, when he rose slightly, seemingly about to speak. Shi Qingxuan also asked on the side: “Can you do it? If you can’t, forget it, I’ll help you out with a hundred thousand merits to pull the curtain.”

“……” Xie Ren is afraid that he really impulsive 100,000 merits on the spill out, even if again bold is not such a bold law, and no matter what the drama he has seen, nothing to say, busy, “No, no, a cup should be No need, one cup should be fine.” After saying that, they will drink the wine.

Qiong brew into the throat, sliding through the place first cool and then hot, Xie Ren a little dizzy, but brewing for a moment to suppress this dizzy energy. The curtains on all four sides of the small building were slowly pulled up, and the crowd shifted their gaze, ready to concentrate on the theater.

A look will be strange, only to see that the stage is actually standing two people. A person in white, face like powder, full of dust, back a bucket hat, must be Xie Ren undoubtedly; the other person in red, black hair like paint, handsome and dynamic, looking at the God, a long snake coiled in the hand, was “Xie Ren” snatched, the person in red immediately will be the snake split hand snatched away, holding “Xie Ren” hand will not let go. The man in red immediately snatched the snake and shook it away, holding onto “Xie Ren’s” hand and not letting go of it. That demeanor, it really seems like his heart has been severely poked a knife.

This play dumbfounded all the magi who were waiting to see a good show, and of course, Xie Ren himself was also dumbfounded. At this time, Jun Wu, who was at the top of the banquet table, laughed and said, “What kind of book is this? Why does it look like I’ve never seen it before?”

Ling Wen immediately called for someone to check it out and said, “The play seems to be called The Strange Travels of the Half Moon Kingdom, it’s a new one so I haven’t seen it before, and tonight is the first time it’s been staged on earth.”

Shi Qingxuan said to Xie Ren, “It’s the one from the last batch of merchants from the Half Moon Kingdom who went back and found someone to write it, right? Save the merit, no need to pull the curtain.”

Xie Ren was noncommittal. The only people who can know about the Half Moon Kingdom can be that group of merchants, he remembered that there was a teenager named Tiansheng in the caravan who did say that he wanted to thank him or offer him or something like that, could it be that Tiansheng paid for someone to write this play? However, he did not tell Tiansheng his name, a small teenager may not have the ability to do this.

On the other side of the stage, although the magi didn’t see the imagined play, the play in front of them was certainly more exciting. After all, if the rumors were true, then this red-robed man playing the role could be Flower City!

There are quite a lot of plays on earth about blood and rain. However, often are what “red ghost fire burning thirty-three temples burned the heavenly realm did not dare to put a fart” “blood rain scouting flower positive hand backhand one hand hanging beat Wen Wu God” this kind of heavenly realm people see the silent tears of the play, I do not know this book will be written into what kind of? Anyway, the protagonist is Xie Ren, for this one, we always have a sense of alienation, and did not classify him into the scope of the heavenly realm “their own people”, so there is no harm to look at it. Moreover, the stage is exquisite, the production is excellent, and the actors and actresses are very well dressed, so it’s simply a masterpiece with a conscience. So, there is no alternative but to shout out in the bottom of his heart, while watching and commenting:

“Really? Made that up, right, where would Flower Town talk to someone like that!”

“Nonsense, just nonsense!”

“What has this play made of Flower City? Wake up! It’s not a romance book, how dare you make it up!”

After all, it was a play written especially for him, and Xie Ren watched it carefully. Frankly speaking, the play was good. The costumes were good, and so was the play, except that, as the person being played, he had one small comment: the two protagonists seemed to be a little too close.

The one who played himself, his hands are very good, but every time he opens his mouth and shouts “Sanlang”, although the tone is not how ups and downs and lingering, but Xie Ren feels that than just “wind master lady” shouting “master of the water division” “Langjun”, “husband” is more unsettling. “Langjun”, “husband” is more unsettling. Moreover, the small action also seems to be too much point, hook hands, embrace shoulders, hug people, always feel, where not quite right.

However, when he thought about it, he shouted Flower City, indeed he shouted so, and these actions did seem to have been done, and at that time he felt that there was nothing wrong with it, and now he looked at it, and as a matter of course he should feel that there was nothing wrong with it as well. And then look at the other magi, although the mouth cursed nonsense, but still watch with great interest, can not stop staring, feverishly, also had to shut up. Watching, suddenly, Shi Wudu said: “What are those two boys behind?”

When they heard the word “boy”, both Feng Xin and Mu Qing stiffened imperceptibly.

Spirit Man said, “Those aren’t two little boys. It should be two small military officials from the Central Heavenly Court. In the beginning, there had been conscripted from the Nanyang Palace and the Xuanzhen Palace to go to the Crown Prince’s rescue.”

The Nanyang Hall and the Xuanzhen Hall would actually have someone to save Xie Ren’s ass, this was really a strange story, it sounded as if Pei Ming had righteously politely rejected the stunning beauty that had thrown herself at him, it was generally incredible, all of the magi looked over in unison. Ling Wen added, “They went voluntarily.”

Xie Ren smiled and said, “I forgot to ask, are Nanfeng and Fuyao doing well? Why haven’t we seen them come out to play today?”

Wind Letter said, “South Wind …… is at ……”

Mu Qi said faintly, “Fu Yao is in solitary confinement.”

Feng Xin immediately said, “Nan Feng is also in confinement.”

Xie Ren let out an “oh” and said, “Both are closed? Too bad.”

The play was a wonderful ending. Although it was unanimously considered to be the intentionality of ignorant believers, but because the intentionality of the flower city is really very enjoyable, actually also won a full applause. However, Pei Su was exiled because of the Half Moon Pass, and after everyone had had their fill of it, they couldn’t help but share some of their attention with Pei Ming. Shi Wudu said, “General Pei, how is your little Pei now?”

Pei Ming poured himself a drink and shook his head, “What else can be done? Didn’t put his heart on what he should be on, I can’t control him anymore.”

Over here, Shi Qingxuan couldn’t listen anymore, hehehe, “So, in General Pei’s eyes, what is the thing that should be on the top of the list? Your little Pei’s future is the future, other little girl’s is not?”

His tone was bad, and Shi Wudu swept his gaze over, saying, “Qingxuan is not allowed to be rude!”

As soon as he rebuked him, Shi Qingxuan snapped and lowered his head. Seeing this, Pei Ming laughed, “Senior Shui, this younger brother of yours is so powerful, it’s only you who can control him. It’s fine for him to mess with me now, but in case he messes with someone he shouldn’t in the future, he won’t be able to look at your face like I am.”

Shi Wudu displayed his fan and continued to lecture his younger brother, saying: ”Did you hear General Pei’s words? Also, how many times have I told you not to keep turning into this look and walking around outside, what a shame. I don’t care how you like to look, you must use your true colors when you go out!”

Although Shi Qingxuan was incomparably in love with the female phase and was very unconvinced, he still did not dare to contradict his brother. Xie Ren thought to himself, “When Wind Master said that he wasn’t afraid of his brother, it might not be all that.” Who knew, Shi Wudu finally said, “What if we meet someone like General Pei who has high magical power and bad intentions!”

Spirit Man scoffed, and Pei Ming nearly sprayed another mouthful of wine, saying, “Senior Water Brother! If you keep this up, we won’t be able to talk.”

After a round of eating, the final section of the lantern fight was finally celebrated amidst the mingling.

In the immortal capital, all the candles and bright lights are extinguished, except for the moonlight, a gloomy. The lake and feast, waving away the smoke and fog of the lake, through the clear flow of the lake, you can see the dark as an abyss of the earth below.

Fighting lanterns, fighting is the Mid-Autumn Festival day, a Shinto priest’s largest and most famous that palace enshrines the number of praying for blessings long bright lamps. A blessing lamp is hard to find and will not be extinguished for a long time. The order of the lamps is from the least to the most, and when it is the turn of a certain Shinto priest, the lamps enshrined by his followers will float up to the heavenly realm from below, illuminating the long, dark night in a beautiful and incomparable way.

This year, the Divine Martial Hall was nine hundred and sixty-one long-light lanterns, numbering nearly a thousand, unprecedented, and all of the Divine Magi felt that next year, they would definitely break the thousand number, however, this was not the point. If the first is always the first, then the first loses its significance, so everyone has already automatically eliminated the Divine Martial Hall in this part of the lantern fight.

What was laughable was that once the lantern fight started, the first in line was actually the Rain Master. When Xie Ren saw a small lantern slowly and crookedly rising into the sky, and then heard “Rain Master Hall, one!” When he heard the words “Rain Master Hall, one lantern!”, he practically suspected that he was actually drunk and not yet sober, and that there would not be only one in any case. To make sure he wasn’t drunk, he asked Shi Qingxuan, “Is it correct?”

Shi Qingxuan said, “Nope. It’s really just one. It’s just this one, or the cow in the Rain Master’s family provided it for themselves in order to support a scene.”

This kind of behavior is really kind. Xie Ren thought about it, the Rain Master manages the rain, so he is also the god in charge of agriculture, and guessed, “Could it be that because the Rain Master’s followers are many farmers, that’s why they don’t have the luxury of making offerings?”

Shi Qingxuan, however, said, “Your Highness, what misconception do you have about farmers, many of them are very rich, okay? In fact, it’s because Lord Rain Master said that it’s better to have money for lamp offerings than to farm, so the believers never offer anything but fresh fruits and vegetables.”

Hearing this, Xie Ren was truly envious, thinking, “There is such a beautiful thing.”

However, Shi Qingxuan added, “Later, Lord Rainmaker also said not to waste it, so usually the offerings are left for two days before the believers take them back and eat them themselves.”

“……”

In the front, there were sparsely, are some small magi, long bright lamps from a few to dozens of ranges, everyone has little interest. However, the later it got, the brighter the light became each time the lamp was raised, and everyone became more and more focused. If it wasn’t for the specialized magi announcing the curtains, one could tell the number at a glance, and it was impossible to count the number of lamps that flew up together in a dense array. Xie Ren didn’t know anything about it, so he didn’t comment on it, concentrating on enjoying the beauty of the bright lights illuminating the dark night, and listening to other people’s analysis of the current situation of the lantern fight. Although he felt that there wasn’t much to analyze about this kind of thing. About two incense sticks later, the grand finale finally arrived. The Mid-Autumn Banquet Lantern Competition began with the final ten ace fight.

The last of the ten armor, Xie Ren heard the announcing magus shout, “Qi Ying Hall, four hundred and twenty-one lamps!”

Quan Yizhen has long left the field, other magi after hearing this number of tsk tsk sound will not be hidden. This Western Martial God is still young, but the momentum is extremely fierce, and he has the same seniority of the magi, there are 200 long bright lights is already considered a lot, but he is doubled more, ascension years than his slightly longer Lang Qianqiu long bright lights than him slightly less, can be said to be very good. But Xie Ren thought, really this young man in the Heavenly Court is not well liked, because in addition to himself and Shi Qingxuan, almost nothing for this outstanding truly marveled.

Next, the Earth Master Hall, four hundred and forty-four lamps. Ming Yi did not show anything other than drinking two more mouthfuls of soup, but Shi Qingxuan was even more excited than he was, saying “low low low” in a loud voice. Since everyone was not very familiar with the Earth Master, they constitutionally clapped their hands as if they were congratulating him. Next came Shi Qingxuan’s own turn, Wind Master Hall, five hundred and twenty-three lamps.

Whether a person was popular or not, it was really easy to tell. After reporting the number of long-lighting lanterns in the Wind Master Hall, before Shi Qingxuan could say anything, the sound of applause in the banquet hall suddenly grew louder, with “congratulations, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations,” and “well deserved” everywhere. Shi Qingxuan was very pleased, got up and arched his hands everywhere, and yelled to Shi Wudu: “Brother, I’m eighth this year!”

He looked like he had been complimented by his teacher and was looking for his parents to ask for a reward, Xie Ren couldn’t help but look at him, but Shi Wudu reprimanded, “But it’s only the eighth, what’s there to be happy about!”

His words were actually very arrogant. In the entire Heavenly Court, who are the idle ones? Five hundred long-lighting lamps, ranked eighth, were said to be “nothing more than that” in his mouth, so wouldn’t the Divine Officers behind the eighth place be even worse than “nothing more than that”? He was not unaware of the inappropriateness of this statement, but he just had to say it, because he was not afraid. Shi Qingxuan’s face collapsed, and Shi Wudu shook his fan and reluctantly said, “However, there are more lights than last year, and there must be more next year.”

Upon hearing this, Shi Qingxuan laughed long and hard again. The entire banquet, surprisingly, only Ming Yi face indifference buried head to eat, do not give him applause, so Shi Qingxuan patted him twice, to find him to ask for congratulations. Ming Yi didn’t want to pay attention to him at all and continued to concentrate on eating, Shi Qingxuan was furious and demanded that he must applaud himself, Xie Ren was listening to him and was about to burst into laughter, not to mention.

Next, the Temple of the Spirit Man, five hundred and thirty-six lamps.

In the gods of literature, Ling Wen is considered to be the winner, however, there are not many gods of literature to support the scene, on the contrary, it is mainly the gods of martial arts are very facetious. Xie Ren congratulated him from afar, this end heard Shi Wudu and Pei Ming told him to set up a banquet and invite guests, that end also heard some magistrates muttered, Ling Wen has many followers only because of the male face, Ling Wen sees that today’s martial arts gods are very powerful and then all efforts to flatter the martial arts gods and ignore the gods of literature, Ling Wen is the most enthusiastic magistrate to invite guests to the court of the heavens, Ling Wen is said to invite guests to invite prostitutes, and then shook his head, and he has only one thought in his heart: it’s really not easy for the female magistrate to be a magistrate.

Next, were the Nanyang Hall and the Xuanzhen Hall, with five hundred and seventy-two lamps, and five hundred and seventy-three lamps respectively. Mu Qi’s brows stretched, Feng Xin was neither happy nor angry, and didn’t seem to care. Xie Ren wondered in his heart, how could the numbers happen to be so close? This is also too much of a coincidence, right? Asked Shi Qingxuan in a low voice to know, the original two two people because of the similar origin, territory, strength, coupled with each other’s relationship is not good, both sides of the believers to hold their breath to win, swearing that the other side of the palace to provide how many lamps, they must provide one more. Do not ask for the first, only to be higher than the other side. Do your best to go out and win every year. This year, at the last minute, Xuanzhen Hall finally squeezed out one more lamp, winning over the Nanyang Hall, now as if a victory, is celebrating it. After listening to Xie Ren couldn’t help but think: “Outside for more each other a lamp to fight for blood, this group of people are not home for the festival? Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival.”

Next, the Hall of Bright Lights, five hundred and eighty lamps.

This number, was quite substantial. However, Pei Ming did not look happy, because, compared to last year, the bright light hall’s long light this year, was actually reduced. The incident with Vice God Pei Su was considered a blow, and this year, there were nearly a hundred fewer lamps, and if it wasn’t for Pei Ming’s thick foundation and stabilization, he would have been afraid that there would have been even more less. Neither Shi Wudu nor Ling Wen congratulated him, they just patted him on the shoulder.

Up to this point, Xie Ren realized that the number of long bright lamps of these several Magi was very dense, dozens and dozens of them, as if they couldn’t close the gap. That is to say, everyone was actually half a catty, and none of them were truly absolute winners. Just as he thought this, he heard the announcing Magus say, “Water Master Hall, seven hundred and eighteen lamps!”

At the banquet, there was a commotion and exclamations rose in all directions.

All the magi reacted and started to congratulate each other. Shifu Wudu was just sitting, not getting up, and his expression was not arrogant, just a matter of course. I’m afraid that this is the closest that the second Divine Magus and the Divine Martial Palace’s Long Bright Lights have been in hundreds of years. Xie Ren’s first ascension was so far away that a blessing lamp at that time was much more difficult to find than one today, so naturally we can’t generalize. However, the so-called “people die for wealth, birds die for food”, people for the love of wealth, is never diminishing, worthy of the God of Wealth!

Shi Qingxuan was more excited than if he had lit up seven hundred lamps himself, vigorously clapping his hands and saying repeatedly to Xie Ren, “My brother! It’s my brother!”

Xie Ren laughed, “I know, it’s your brother!”

In the whole banquet, Ming Yi was still the only one who was eating with great effort in an out-of-place manner. In fact, Xie Ren thinks that he is the only one who treats the “banquet” as a banquet and takes it seriously, and comes here to eat, as if he has been undercover for many years in the ghost city and has not been able to eat enough food tonight, remembering that those snacks sold in the street stalls in the ghost city, Xie Ren also understands it very well, and he cannot help but think to himself, would Flower City usually pace around the streets of the ghost city leisurely? She can’t help but think, would Flower City normally pace the streets of the Ghost Market?

The most exciting mystery has been revealed, tonight, all the magi have watched enough theater, talked enough, and are satisfied, so they are ready to get up and leave the table one after another. Who knows, Shifu Wudu suddenly frowned, his fan withdrew and said, “Wait.”

Other people say slow down, probably not so strong deterrent. But Shi Wudu this person, really like his nickname “water across the sky”, as if born to give orders habitually, the moment he opened his mouth, people can not help but listen to, we all sat back, asked: “ten armor has been out, water master what else?”

Xie Ren thought to himself, “Is it hard to scatter merit as well?”

Shi Wudu shook his fan and said, “The Ten Armors are out?”

The crowd did not know what he meant by asking this sentence rhetorically, but Shi Qingxuan was shocked and said, ”……Not right. No, no, no, no. The Ten Armors didn’t come out! –Counting the Divine Martial Hall, the ones that were just reported out are only nine!”

The magi were all startled at once and said, “Only nine came out?”

“Really, I counted, there are really only nine!”

“There’s actually a person in front of Lord Sailor???”

“What? Who else could it be? I don’t remember, huh?”

It was at this moment that a burst of light as bright as day suddenly erupted in the middle of the dark night.

That light is a lamp.

Like millions of swimming fish crossing the river and sea, countless bright lights slowly rise up.

They shine and glitter in the darkness of the night, like floating souls and magnificent dreams, magnificent in the extreme, illuminating the darkness of the earth. This kind of spectacle is beyond words, only the frozen breath and broken words remain.

Xie Ren stared blankly at the bright lights that filled the sky, as if suffocating, unable to hear anything, drifting off for a while. Only after this while did he realize that something was wrong.

Above the banquet table, the gazes of all the Magi were cast over. It turned out that the announcing Magus shivered his hand and pointed at him.

Xie Ren was confused and said, “What happened to ……?”

No one answered, Xie Ren pointed at himself again and said, “…… me?”

On the side, Shi Qingxuan patted his shoulder and said, “…… Right. You.”

“……”

Still confused, Xie Ren said, “I what? What’s wrong with me?”

That Annunciation Magus swallowed hard and finally spoke again.

Thus, an unbelievable trembling voice was heard by all the hundred magi present.

“Thousand Lanterns View, Prince’s Palace, three …… three ……

“Three thousand lamps!”