Chapter 529: Chapter 529: Flower God Festival Chapter 529: Chapter 529: Flower God Festival The joyful days of frolicking in the wild ended when they sighted Ying County.
By the ti they spotted the boundaries of Ying County, it was almost noon, and the group decided to have lunch there. Thus, they did not stop further and sped toward the county town on their horses.
Around one o’clock, they finally saw the city gates.
At that mont, the entrance was brightly lit and adorned, bustling with activity.
Though they had seen grand events before, they were still astonished by this spectacle.
Ah Fu and Ah Gui went to ask around and ca back excitedly, “We really tid it well. These few days are Ying County’s Flower Goddess Festival, and we’ll get a good look at it.”
“The Flower Goddess Festival?” Bai Junjun raised an eyebrow.
mories uncontrollably surged forth.
The Flower Goddess Festival was the grandest festival in the Second Prince’s domain, primarily to commorate the Flower Goddess.
The locals would select the most beautiful and talented woman to act as the Flower Goddess, receiving flowers from the masses while she showcased her talents.
Won who had served as the Flower Goddess typically had excellent marriages and successful children.
Over ti, the reputation of the Flower Goddess Festival spread far and wide.
Initially, it was only celebrated in Ying County, but later the surrounding counties followed suit, and thanks to the Second Prince, the festival reached the palace, so the Old Capital City also started celebrating it.
And the original host along with the Pri Minister’s daughter, Wenren Pingting, beca fierce competitors for the coveted annual title of Flower Goddess.
Originally, Bai Junjun, being younger, lost to the slightly older Wenren Pingting.
But as she grew older, and with the careful planning of the Bai Yang Clan, she soon replaced Wenren Pingting and beca widely known as the World’s Number One Talent Girl, securing the title of Flower Goddess for three consecutive years.
Thus, Bai Junjun was not at all unfamiliar with the Flower Goddess Festival.
She knew the election process and all its phases by heart.
Seeing the decorations in Ying County, it must have been past the election phase, and the parade of flower offerings would likely start soon.
As expected, a soldier guarding the city, beaming with joy, said, “Exactly. The Flower Goddess has already arrived, and the parade will start tomorrow. You’ve co at just the right ti. During these days of the Flower Goddess Festival, all the citizens will receive blessing bags.”
This place, unlike the Eastern Land, didn’t have refugees coming and going. Moreover, of the three hundred thousand refugees back then, apart from the hundred thousand who went north, the rest had mostly perished.
Indeed, out of the hundred thousand who went north, only about twenty thousand survived, with fewer than ten thousand successfully returning to the Southern Lands via the North-South Bridge.
And those ten thousand were scattered throughout the Eastern Land.
In the Second Prince’s Central Plains and the Eldest Prince’s Western Region, there were hardly any refugee sightings, so the controls by the city officials were relatively lax, and they generally welcod rchant convoys.
After all, rchant convoys facilitated the local trade of goods.
Of course, this is digressing. Most importantly, these city guards also earned an extra inco.
Ah Fu and Ah Gui handed a money bag to the guards, then directed the horse carriage into the city.
The guard, already in high spirits due to the festive atmosphere, was overjoyed upon receiving the weighty money bag.
Along with the guard, Bai Junjun was in equally high spirits.
Although Dai County was prosperous, it was after all just a small county town and could not compare to a Prince’s domain.
Although Ying County was also a county, the rank was different.
Yuwen Luanfei, he was the Late Emperor’s most beloved son, and the most talented among his nine sons.
Therefore, the Late Emperor gave him the richest territory, also closest to the Old Imperial Capital.
In the past, whenever the Forr Emperor went to Witch Ancestor Mountain to pray for blessings, he would stay in Ying County.
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