"You just know how to play. You are so energetic when you go to school. Do you need to be beaten?"
Yue Guanchao's words made Yue Erpao crumble for a moment. He walked into the guest room and said with a grin: "You are still talking about me? You, you have been beaten by your husband. Our old Yue family is not good at studying."
This made Yue Guanchao chew his teeth and tease him casually: "Then what kind of material are you? You can't study well. You feel tired when I ask you to cut down trees. You know how to attract cats and dogs all day long. I think you are a hedgehog. If it’s less, it would be better to eat more.” 33
"Tch, you didn't eat less either."
"You two, stop bickering here. If you want to go out, just go out and play. Peacock and I also want to go out for a walk."
"Okay!" When Yue Guanchao saw that Song Siyuan was about to go out, he stood up from the bed. His inconsistent and oblivious face made Yue Erpao keep tutting his lips.
"Yue Guanchao, you are a bastard. I asked you for a long time but you didn't go. I didn't even call you, so you left on your own."
Several people walked out of Liquan Guild Hall and walked along the trade road to the vicinity of Daci Temple. During the Tang Dynasty, this place was named Dashengci Temple by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Later, it experienced many wars and was rebuilt in the previous dynasty. Later, due to the opening of Yuxi, it was added It is adjacent to two rivers and has become the most prosperous place.
When they arrived, the flower street lanterns were lit outside Daci Temple. The neon street lights stretched for dozens of miles. Various religions and nine schools were taking advantage of the lantern festival to shuttle back and forth. Everywhere was crowded with people who came to watch the lantern festival. Among the crowded crowd, there were Many jugglers stood on stilts and swaggered across the street above the crowd.
They were wearing colorful clothes, fluttering silk ribbons, and mysterious and strange masks of ghosts and gods. They beat gongs and drums and shook their gongs and waist bells. Then, lanterns in the shape of dragons and phoenixes were held up in the air. Amidst the clanging of bells, water sprayed out from the air. Countless colorful mist, the dragon and phoenix seem to be alive, stretching freely in the colorful mist.
Nuo gods, Nuo women, water gods, mountain gods, moon gods, sun gods, plague gods, medical immortals, stone ghosts, water ghosts... In the long queue of Nuo sacrifices, various images of mountain spirits, wild monsters, gods and immortals passed by. The crowd is weird and magical!
"Let's go, there's a gift from God Nuo ahead!"
As soon as they heard that they were collecting money in front of them, the pace of the people watching the street lights obviously accelerated. Yue Guanchao and the others were looking for the Nuo God Cult, so they immediately followed these people to the crossroads near Daci Temple.
This place has long been surrounded by people. In order to maintain order, the Nuo God Cult members formed a circular fence around the place and pulled a yellow bag to keep out the people watching the excitement.
Yue Guanchao was relatively tall, and he used his height to carefully observe the Nuo God cultists. They were all dressed in the same Jianghu style. They were all different in height, short, fat, and thin. They were wearing cinnabar-red trousers and jackets, which were buttoned at the waist and tightened with a white belt. Pants, the top of the head is completely covered by a scarf, and dark patterns can be seen gradually emerging.
Looking at the faces, most of them were farmers with dark skin. Some of them had protruding cheeks and straight muscles. At first glance, they were Lian Jiazi, probably thugs hiding in the congregation.
At this moment, in the circle surrounded by yellow cloth, there were three Nuo god wizards wearing crimson cloaks full of patterns and ghost masks. They picked up torches and pretended to make strange noises in the open space, saying something about the blessings of the Nuo god. There are no taboos and so on, a handful of gold coins are thrown out, and raging flames are sprayed out with a puff.
The tongue of fire kept licking people's faces, scaring the people around them to scream and take several steps back.
"Come on, let's go to the teahouse to watch it. It's just that the venue has been cleared in advance, and it's still far from the start of the show."
Luo Gaoxuan led them around the people watching the excitement, walked into the corner teahouse, went up to the second floor and ordered some tea and snacks, sat by the window and looked around!
Seeing Yue Erpao eating cakes, Yue Guanchao thought about teasing him: "Hey, don't eat anything outside, lest you get poisoned inside."
"Eat, eat, there's no poison in this."
After listening to Lan Ruling's words, Yue Erpao picked up the sweet-scented osmanthus cake and jujube cake, bit it into his mouth, took a sip of tea, and after filling his stomach, he said curiously: "Strange, I can see it more clearly here, why can't I see it more clearly?" Is someone coming?”
Luo Gaoxuan ate the pastries and explained: "Didn't the people just say that there is a Nuo god sect here to give money, and most of the people who can come to join in the fun are poor. People in such an exquisite teahouse in a busy city are afraid of flowers. As for the money, if you can’t get the money and still give away the tea money, that would be disgusting.”
"But this teahouse won't be empty. The Nuo God Sect has followers in all three sects and nine schools. When a certain leader of the Nuo God Sect comes, there may be some young master, noble lady, etc. who will throw money directly at the window so that they can borrow money. With the blessings of Nuo God Religion, pray for yourself and your family."
"Generally speaking, except for the Nuo God Cult, there are many noble people nearby who come to spread money. If you are lucky, you can get a lot of money in one night, otherwise the people will not be happy to see this. Only when you can pick up money can you be so popular. .”
While they were talking, someone had already entered the teahouse. As expected, what Luo Gaoxuan said was absolutely correct:
The southwest has been prosperous since ancient times, and people are at ease and idle. Even after several wars, the prosperity here has not been eradicated. Instead, Shu has become the last refuge in troubled times because it has its own country and is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Tibetans in the west and Tibetans in the east Han Chinese, Yunnan, Guizhou and Hunan border people in the south, cultures and ethnic groups from all over the world mix and mingle here. It is the first-class wealthy and prosperous place in the southwest, with countless wealthy people.
No matter how poor the poor are, it does not prevent these gentlemen and ladies from wearing gold and silver and living comfortably.
Therefore, the fashion here is also the most diverse. Most of the nobles wear long robes, mandarins and jackets, straight dresses, and more fashionable windbreakers. The ladies wear gold and silver, silk and satin, and the luxurious Sichuan brocade cheongsam with high waist and slits. , and add a luxurious fur, pearl necklace, emerald earrings, silver ring, and gold bracelet to make it look graceful and luxurious.
Behind them, most of them were followed by servants holding money boxes. Some of them were even holding Jingba, and the white hair slipped out of their fingers along the nails, which was extremely precious.
In just one cup of tea, the teahouse was already fully occupied. Everyone was cracking melon seeds, eating pastries, and waiting for the gold gift from the Nuo God to begin!
"Hey, it's coming, it's coming."
This call attracted everyone. They all opened the window and leaned against the window to pick up their glasses.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, and silver bells ring frequently, like wind chimes and jade trees breaking into rhymes. The petals are scattered in the distance, and the sound of 筚篥, konghou, and pipa rattles, playing a soul-stirring and charming music.
This kind of music is completely different from Han music, and is closer to the Hu music from the Western Regions. It is even mixed with percussion instruments of ethnic minorities. It sounds extremely weird, making people's scalp numb and heart and liver trembling.
Amid the playing of drums, harps and shengs, a group of people carrying a dome-curtained sedan slowly walked in from a distance.
Some people died, but not completely...
