The next day was the Jade Festival. As a national festival, the entire Yujing City was in an uproar. Early in the morning, Xue Huan was awakened by children singing nursery rhymes on the street.

After breakfast, she mingled with the bustling crowd and enjoyed the festive joy with the people in the city.

The Jade Festival originates from an ancient legend. Long ago, Yujing City was not called Yujing City, but Stone City. Surrounded by mountains, it was impossible to grow crops, and people's lives were very difficult.

One day, a young man went to the forest to hunt and caught a fiery red fox. The fox was very human-like and imitated human behavior to bow to the young man, begging him to let it go.

The boy couldn't bear it, so he let the fox go. The fox, who was also grateful, brought a stone to the boy and asked him to break it.

The boy did as he was told, and found that the inconspicuous stone actually contained a kind of emerald green and crystal jade, which was extremely beautiful.

That jade is jadeite.

The young man sold the jade and got a lot of money. He built a house and got married, and his life became better and better.

At the same time, the boy did not forget his fellow villagers and took them to the mountains to look for stones containing jade. Later, the jade in Stone City became more and more famous, so it was renamed Jade City.

Later, because there was a character "Fei" in the name of one of the emperors, in order to avoid the taboo of the respected emperor, the character "Fei" in the Jade City could no longer be used, so the city was renamed Yujing City.

However, by now, the emperor whose name contained the character "Fei" has long passed away, so many people have started to call it "Emerald City".

In order to commemorate the young man who made life better for the people in the city, people launched the "Jade Festival".

A Jade Temple was also built in the city to worship the Jade Ancestor, who was also the young man.

On the day of the Jade Festival, people will go to the temple to burn incense and worship, praying to the Jade Ancestor to bless them with the ability to mine high-quality jade and make a fortune by selling it.

In addition, there are some activities organized spontaneously by the public, such as the jade float parade.

Xue Huan followed the crowd to the Jade Temple and lit a stick of incense. The statue of the Jade Ancestor in the temple was carved from a whole piece of jade. It was radiant and lifelike.

At his feet, there was a fire fox squatting. The fire fox was carved from a whole piece of blood jade, and its eyes were inlaid with imperial green. In the sunlight, the green was blue, as if it was about to drip water, and it was very vivid.

The best part is, no matter which direction you look from, those fox eyes are facing you.

One cannot help but admire the carving master's incredible craftsmanship.

Such a jade carving is extremely valuable. Is it true that no one will come to steal it?

A child nearby obviously had the same question as her, "Mom, what if someone steals the Jade Ancestor?"

"Pooh, pooh, pooh, please don't blame me, ancestor. Children should speak without restraint." The child's mother quickly knelt down and kowtowed several times to the jade carving, and also pulled the child with her.

After he finished bowing, he explained to his child, "Silly boy, whoever dares to steal here, the ancestor is watching from above. Anyone who dares to steal from him will end up in big trouble."

Xue Huan looked at the jade carving again. She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she felt that the fire fox seemed to wink at her at that moment.

After leaving the temple, Xue Huan bought some small items as souvenirs.

In the distance, she heard the crowd shouting, "The floats are coming! The floats are coming!"

Xue Huan turned her head to look. At first, she thought it was really a car decorated with flowers. When she really saw the flower car, she realized that she was too naive and had too little understanding of the grandeur of Yujing City!

The entire float was actually carved from jade, and the flowers on it were the same, delicate and lifelike. If she hadn't smelled any fragrance, she would have found it hard to believe.

On the float sat a beautiful girl holding a basket which was also carved from jade. She reached into the basket, grabbed something and threw it to the crowd.

With a crackling sound, those things fell to the ground, and Xue Huan discovered that they were actually jade beads the size of marbles!

Xue Huan: “…”

This Yujing City is so extravagant! They're throwing jade everywhere during a festival. That's not jade at all, it's clearly money!

Everyone bent down to pick it up.

Although Xue Huan already owned an entire jade mine, who could have too much jade? And if it was presented to him, he would definitely pick it up.

She also joined the ranks of picking up jade.

Compared with others, she has a huge advantage, that is, she can use the art of controlling objects to make the jade fall into her hands.

Xue Huan picked up more than a dozen jades at one time. Although the quality of these jades was very ordinary, the pleasure of picking up jades was very rare, and she had a lot of fun.

Hey, there's another one! And it's actually icy! Almost like a real glass bead.

Xue Huan was afraid that the jade bead would be discovered, so she quickly used her object control skills. However, the jade bead was intercepted by someone when it was halfway through its flight!

A slender jade-like hand suddenly reached out and pinched the jade bead. Xue Huan looked at it and her heart skipped a beat.

Masked man, why is he here?!

She turned and tried to leave, but there were so many people around her that she was grabbed by the wrist before she took two steps.

"Why did Miss Zhao run away when she saw me? Am I so scary?" Although there was a lot of noise around, the masked man's voice still reached her ears clearly.

This person even knew her last name, "Zhao". It seemed that he had already found out her whereabouts in the past few days.

Xue Huan took a deep breath and said, "I didn't run away."

"Okay, I didn't run away." The masked man did not argue with her about this issue, but instead agreed with her.

Xue Huan suddenly felt tired.

"Huo Kang, you can call me A Kang." The masked man suddenly said.

Akang? Xue Huan looked at him suddenly.

Then she thought it was impossible. Her Akang had lost his memory and was now only the equivalent of a four or five-year-old child. How could he be here? Moreover, Akang's figure, voice, and appearance were completely different from this Huo Kang.

Besides, since he could give his name so frankly, maybe "Huo Kang" was just a pseudonym.

"Mr. Huo, can you let me go?"

In the eyes of outsiders, she was a man. When two men were walking hand in hand on the street, many people around them cast strange looks at them.

The practice of homosexuality has existed since ancient times, but few people would bring this matter to light, so the actions of the two people are already eye-catching enough.

Although Huo Kang was reluctant, he finally let go.

From then on, Huo Kang followed Xue Huan wherever she went.

Xue Huan was so annoyed by his constant following that she lost her temper.

"Is Master Huo so free?" Wasn't he secretly busy with his rebellion? How could he have the time to follow her around?