Bring your son to chase after your wife, please go home

Chapter 98 The First Life Contract (1)
Although Chuzhou is cold, it doesn't seem to affect the flow of foreign tourists at all. In the past few days, people from other places have been pouring in, and those people seem to be heading in one direction.

Baili Changge was puzzled, and asked the uncle selling candied haws: "What are these people here for?"

The uncle smiled kindly and said, "Your brother is a foreigner, right?"

Baili Changge nodded.

The uncle said again: "Then you don't know. In order to welcome King Jin who came to supervise the repair of the dam, the governor decided to open the sacred fire tomorrow."

"Is there anything special?" Baili Changge continued to ask.

"This is a long story." The uncle pretended to be mysterious: "Why don't you buy me a bunch of candied haws, and I will tell you in detail."

Baili Changge touched his pocket, took out a copper coin that Dudu gave him, and said embarrassingly, "I only have this."

The uncle frowned, then sighed: "Forget it, since you are a foreigner, I won't make things difficult for you. Let me tell you this, the holy fire is a very mysterious and sacred banquet in our Chuzhou. Just like the Imperial Court’s imperial examinations, the torch is held every three years, and it was held only last year, and this year it is an exception to welcome the King of Jin, and of course people from all over the world have come here!”

"Then what's the point of lighting the torch?" Baili Changge raised his eyebrows.

The uncle pointed to the highest snow-covered mountain in the distance, "Did you see that mountain is Qinglian Mountain? The snow melted into a torrent, but Qinglian Mountain was safe and sound. Do you know why?"

"Why?" Baili Changge blinked.

"Because the altar where the sacred fire is opened is set up there." The uncle said proudly: "The governor said that Qinglian Mountain has the protection of the gods, so it is safe until now."

"So these people came to Chuzhou just to see the sacred fire?" Baili Changge asked again.

"No." The uncle shook his head, "Light the Kongming lantern with the holy fire, and the wish you wrote will come true."

"Is there such a god?" Seeing the pride and pride on the uncle's face, Baili Changge cooperatively presented a pair of star eyes.

"I don't know." The uncle continued to shake his head, and said with some regret: "But it's too expensive to put that Kongming lantern, and ordinary people can't afford this price at all."

"Do you still want to pay?"

"That's natural." The uncle said: "One hundred taels of silver can be placed. Although I take my wife and children to watch the holy fire every three years, the Kongming Lantern is absolutely unbearable."

"Oh..." Baili Changge nodded, with a look of sudden realization, no wonder the people who came here in recent days were all rich people in fine clothes.

"Little medical officer, I can't see that you can still play tricks with such an uncle!" In front of the gate of the palace, Shen Qianbi looked at her with a strange expression, and that look was even more novel than when Yuan Guanghao heard her reveal the secret.

Glancing at her sideways, Baili Changge said: "Captain Shen has a very advanced idea."

Shen Qianbi turned her head away in embarrassment, and asked her again, "Then what were you talking about just now?"

"The uncle told me that the governor of Chuzhou will open the sacred fire to welcome the King of Jin tomorrow night." Baili Changge looked at the Qinglian Mountain, which stood quietly and towered into the clouds, and said, "It should be at the foot of Qinglian Mountain."

"So we have a chance to see the legendary Manchu sacred flame?" Shen Qianbi looked at her without any joyful expression on her face.

"That's about you rich people, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with me." Baili Changge shrugged, expressing that he was poor.

(End of this chapter)