The Flower and Fruit Festival is the favorite festival of young men and women in Sun City. I guess it's similar to the modern Valentine's Day.
Whether it is a shop or a house, colored lanterns are hung up in the evening.
Houses with good conditions have their roofs covered with flowers.
Yun Zhou detailed the festival activities and suggested that we go to Huagu Lake to watch the flower boat competition first.
It is inconvenient to hold competitions at sea. There is an artificial lake in Sun City, which is quite large.
The lake is calm and perfect for competitions.
Participants will decorate their boats with flowers and line up to row around the lake.
The spectators on the shore hold two fruits in their hands, and they throw the fruits on whichever boat they like.
Whichever boat has the most fruit in the end is the winner.
This is the first time I have seen flower arranging by boat. You must see this excitement.
We went out early, and when we arrived at Huagu Lake, there was no place near the front.
The trees on the shore were full of people. Yun Zhou and I were afraid of causing unnecessary trouble, so we wore fruit masks bought from a small stall on our faces.
His is pineapple, mine is durian.
The fruit we hold in our hands is the same as the mask.
The flower boat competition must be held at dawn. After dark, with lights on, it is not so clear.
It was the first time I saw a beautifully decorated boat, but it was a bit novel.
What's even more novel is that one of the ships contains a lot of gun/powder/barrels.
Yunzhou had just become the clan leader, and he attached great importance to the security work during this festival. He had already arranged for two teams of people, both overt and covert, to watch everywhere, lest anyone take advantage of the chaos and cause trouble.
This flower boat is indeed convenient for hiding dangerous items, and the rich floral fragrance masks other smells.
Today, a large number of flowers need to be used in the city, and the inspection of flowers brought in from outside the city is not so strict.
If you unpack the flowers in the morning, they will wither in the evening.
A certain distance must be maintained between the flower boats, but the spectators on the shore are very close to the boats.
Once the flower boat explodes, many onlookers will be injured.
I quietly let out my breath, passed through the crowd, climbed over the fence on the shore, and boarded the flower boat.
The competition has certain requirements for the size and length of the hull, and the maximum length cannot exceed two stories.
The ship carrying dangerous goods is made of white flowers forming a white cloud. The ship's hull seems to be wrapped in clouds. The red flowers in the cloud form a rising sun. The shape of the flower stand is like the rising sun. If it explodes, the rising sun will really shine. .
My air wire penetrated into the cabin and controlled the people inside.
The flower boat still followed the team around the lake, but the person controlling it became me.
The people inside were unconscious and fell to the ground. I used air wire to hold the boat forward.
There are too many people watching the game. It is not appropriate to make this matter public at this time. It is difficult to control the crowd if it becomes chaotic. It would be terrible if a stampede occurs.
When the Rising Sun Flower Boat arrived at the area where we were standing, Yun Zhou jumped onto the treetops and threw a durian onto the boat.
He used his inner strength, and the durian shot out like a cannonball, smashing a hole in the side of the ship.
The hull of the boat was filled with water and slowly sank. The organizer discovered the abnormality and immediately sent a boat to tow the flower boat to the shore.
There is an area on the shore, which is a 'safe passage'. It is separated and no spectators can pass through.
The Rising Sun Flower Boat was towed to the safe passage, but the boat was still sinking. Because there were "heavy objects" on the boat, the boat was sinking very quickly.
People on the tugboat entered Huazhou's cabin and rescued the unconscious man.
They had no time to take care of the barrels in the cabin, and the barrels sank to the bottom of the lake with the ship.
Yunzhou used a secret code to contact the people in charge of security work and asked them to take the people on the boat back to the Yamen for interrogation.
This happened without any fanfare, everything was done in secret, and the people watching on the shore did not notice anything unusual.
I just assumed that the flower boat had an accident and missed the competition.
At the same time, some people yelled at the wicked guy who threw the durian.
Because I was wearing a durian mask, people around me kept looking at me.
The game was no longer in sight, so Yunzhou and I withdrew from the crowd of spectators.
He took me to the snack street and asked if there was any progress during the interrogation, someone would report back.
This little incident didn't stop us from continuing shopping.
Enjoy delicious food, watch lanterns, and have a fireworks show in the evening.
The advantage of knowing Qinggong is that you don’t have to crowd in the crowd to watch the fireworks.
The two of us jumped to the roof of the big restaurant, ate the snacks we had brought back, and watched the fireworks show.
The dark night was illuminated by fireworks, and the sea of colorful flowers on the roof disappeared and appeared in the firelight.
Tonight seems peaceful and peaceful, with laughter everywhere, but in fact there is a hidden danger.
There are many people who blow up ships, poison people, rob banks, and act like monsters.
The yamen's prison was almost full. The fireworks show ended at midnight, and the festival officially ended.
Others went home to rest, while Yunzhou and I went to the Yamen.
Those who take advantage of the festive atmosphere to cause havoc and create chaos use weapons that ordinary people cannot obtain.
Someone has already confessed that he was ordered by others.
Whether this is true or not, I won’t know until I go to the scene to identify it.
Yunzhou's brothers and sisters are all gone.
The rest don't have the ability to hire so many people and create chaos at the same time.
The people who were arrested are very interesting. They are not the same employer, and their confessions are varied and contradictory.
I went to interrogate them one by one. I didn’t need to torture them, I just sat down and chatted.
After the conversation, they just said they knew it, not what they knew, and then asked them to go back to their cells to rest.
He didn't hit or scold him, he just asked questions, but it made them feel uneasy.
If someone has a bad attitude, ask me what I know.
"I know who your employer is." My expression was calm. I didn't mean to deceive them, nor did I pretend to be sophisticated. I looked at them calmly.
The treasure hunters who guarded the cities along the coast left one after another. Lu Youkang did not get the treasure, and the promises he made to his supporters could not be fulfilled. Many people left him.
The rivers and lakes are both sentimental and ruthless.
A penny stumped the heroes. The Lu family's real estate was destroyed and divided, and the money in the bank was missing.
The largest bank in Yuancheng was looted by Fui Yutian Palace in that catastrophe.
The Lu family was supposed to be a skinny camel bigger than a horse, but it couldn't stand up to the wall and fell. Everyone pushed it, and some people took advantage of it to rob it.
Lu Youkang wants to get back what he lost, but his status as Master Lu is useless. He must rely on his power.
If the Wulin Alliance can be rebuilt, those people will spit out the money they swallowed.
Not only were outsiders occupying the family property, there were also many relatives of the Lu family. This time Lu Youkang had a profound understanding of the harshness of the world and the warmth of human relationships.
Seeing that there is no hope for the Wulin Alliance to reorganize, the enemies of the Lu family surfaced one by one. Most of them were scum in the world and had been dealt with by the Wulin Alliance.
They had been secretly watching Lu Youkang and seeing many of his supporters leaving, they felt that the time had come for revenge.
He was drunk in the tavern for three days and was almost chopped into pieces. The secret guard I sent to protect him rescued him.
In his twenty years of life, he has suffered huge setbacks, and I am not sure whether he can survive.
We can only take Bai Mudan and the child out of the island. Sun City is already under our control, and the family of three is safe here.
(End of chapter)
