Volume 1 The Rain of Jianyi Chapter 70 The Heron Song Festival (3)

"Didn't you notice that Brother Ding Yi was not among these officials?" Ah Xiao squinted slightly, looking at this team of officers and soldiers, this habit was learned from the old Taoist, whenever the old Taoist thought carefully, his eyes would squint slightly, and he looked into the distance.

"Indeed, I didn't see Brother Ding Yi, did he go to investigate the case?" Su Jie's eyes rolled up and patted his thigh, "I know, Brother Ding Yi's master is Uncle Xiong Xu, and he didn't come!

Ah Xiao nodded.

The cheers around rang out again, and I saw that the candles were shipped at a high cost, and they were lit in rows by the officials as if they didn't need money, and the galloping fireworks burned on this full moon night, but the smoke was not much, and I think it was because of the high price of the candles.

When the county magistrate was tidying up his clothes in the building, the officials brought in small bamboo tubes tied up one by one, and a gray lead was left outside the bamboo tube.

"What is this?" asked someone in the crowd.

"This is the famous Qian Ji fireworks in Yi'an County, no, you don't even know this?

"Of course you haven't seen it. ”

Someone in the crowd enthusiastically explained: "These fireworks are made of bamboo on the outside, but they are made by everyone from Yi'an County, the bamboo has long been roasted, and the inside is stuffed with sulfur charcoal, and there are some shiny metal powders, which are different from the fireworks of you countrymen!"

Xiong Yi waved his hand and motioned for the officials to start lighting the bamboo tubes, and several officials began to disperse the surrounding crowd, causing a wave of dissatisfaction in the crowd, and everyone wanted to see the so-called fireworks in the city closer.

The officials scolded, and the crowd finally let go of a big circle, and after placing the bamboo tubes, the two officials held a red candle and began to light the lead.

"Whew!"

"Cover your ears!" The soldier at the head shouted.

The sound of the fuse burning, though not loud, attracted the attention of everyone present.

"Ah Xiao, cover your ears!" Su Jie shouted.

"Got it!"

Ah Xiao covered his ears very decisively, earlier, Su Jie had bought this kind of fireworks transported from the county, and the sound was one order of magnitude louder than the ones sold in Jianyi City, when the two of them also ran to the barren fields outside the city, and used the fireworks to rush at the vole hole, and as a result, the vole hole was directly overturned with the land, and a few cattle grazing in the field were scared away.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

At the moment when the bamboo tube that was tied up in a bundle burned out, the crowd also lowered their voices and looked intently at the bamboo tube, and after two or three snaps of their fingers, the bamboo tube emitted the most powerful roar heard by the residents around Jianyi City!

The huge sound of cannons made the residents who came over couldn't help but retreat, and some of the young ones were even frightened, and then they saw colorful flames flying out of the mouth of the bamboo tube, there were ordinary yellow flames, there were rare cyan, and there were purples that had never been seen before, and in an instant, the sky was lit up by various flames, and at this moment, the entire Jianyi town could see the wonders on the dock!

The fireball rushed from the dock to the sky, and the new fireball below followed, and before the fireball in front of it rose to the highest point, the fireball below had already roared and caught up, and the fireballs of various colors finally reached the highest point where they could fly, and this height was already twice as high as ordinary fireworks! During this period, the red core body of the fireball began to slowly become dim and gradually cool down.

The residents of Jianyi City and its vicinity all looked at the sky at this moment: "Why did these fireworks dim? Could it be that these bamboo tubes are not exploding?

If that's the case, it's really a bit of a disappointment for the thunder and the rain.

When the fireball was about to cool down, it gradually showed signs of falling due to gravity, and at this moment, the scorching flames erupted from the core of the fireball again, and the core that was gradually extinguishing was instantly cracked by the extreme high temperature!

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang ......"

The fireballs flying in the air began to explode one after another, exploding countless brilliant and beautiful flame flowers! The flowers were scattered in the air, and then gradually extinguished, and all kinds of flame flowers drifted away, falling like immortals descending into the world, and finally formed a four-color flame flower in the air!

There was silence in the crowd at first, and then I don't know who shouted: "Good!"

"Good, good!"

The crowd cheered loudly, cheering for the aftermath of the fireworks show, and the applause exploded like thunder in the void, like a shocking wave beating a wave, and the applause became more and more enthusiastic, and lasted straight for ten fingers!

The applause comes and goes as fast as it goes.

After the fireworks display, the soldiers began to distribute melons and fruits.

"Ah Xiao, what do you think of this performance?" Su Jie was also infected by the emotions on the field, and asked with a loud laugh while biting the watermelon.

Ah Xiao looked back slightly, but his eyes continued to look at the crowd: "It's pretty good, but I'm afraid it will cost a lot of money?"

Su Jie saw that he was still looking around, looking perfunctory about himself, and pretended to be angry: "You guy, you are so perfunctory to me, you must be looking for Fanyan, right?"

"I'm looking at someone else!"

"Obviously!" Su Jie was angry, took advantage of his unpreparedness, raised Ah Xiao's hand, and shouted loudly: "My name is Ah Xiao, I live in Tuochuan Street, and I am here to find my daughter-in-law Fanyan today!"

Su Jie raised Ah Xiao's hand for a short time, and it had already retracted before many people could react, which caused countless pairs of eyes to start looking at this side in an instant.

The sound of rustling began to sound in the crowd, and if you listened carefully, it seemed that a young woman was saying to someone else: "Whose child is this, why is this so shameless, to say such a thing loudly in this place." ”

"Who knows, but looking at the appearance of the two of them, they should be the noble sons of the old men in the city, tsk, you see that the thin skin and tender flesh are whiter than my woman's family!"

"Hehe, I think that child is so beautiful, I have never seen such a beautiful child, not even a girl at this age...... No wonder it's from the city, the children are all different......"

"This guy can make Ah Xiao miserable. Xiao Xiao sat on Fuxi Street and laughed softly. There are also a few suitors next to him who are helping to serve tea and water - although the girl in Pinxiangge is in the skin and meat business, there is also a distinction between selling her body and selling her art.

Obviously, this Xiao Xiao girl is the kind of level that does not sell her body, if there is a girl who sells her body, the street elders will not agree, if this kind of woman comes, it will defile the golden body of the ancestors, and now in recent years, she has appeared on behalf of that Aunt Qin at various festivals, in the eyes of many men, this girl in green has a tendency to master the entire Pinxiang Pavilion.

Ah Xiao was embarrassed, pulled Su Jie's sleeve, and said viciously: "It's all a good thing you did!"

Su Jie shrugged his shoulders and said that it had nothing to do.

The crowd became more and more noisy, and it seemed that they had forgotten that this was the scene of the festival.

Xiong Yi frowned, beckoned, and motioned to a few of his subordinates to move the ancestral statues.

Those officials immediately moved from afar to the statues of the three and other tall gods in the ancestral hall, as well as some small first-class gods, and even some tablets, among which there was a military attachΓ©, a civil official, and an elegant appearance, which did not seem to have any official position.

"Today is the day of the heron's song, according to the ancestors' teachings, in this place today to worship the ancestors, to pay tribute to the heroic spirits, to the ancestors to bless my Jianyi City, this year's part of the wind and rain are smooth, the grain is harvested. ”

"Tribute!" Xiong also waved his hand.

"No!" Many soldiers distributed melons and fruits in front of various statues and tablets, lit incense candles and purple incense, and bowed.

"Bye!" Xiong Yi shouted, the county order at this time lost his usual lazy appearance, and the momentum of a superior person spread from him!

All the people on the dock began to slowly kneel towards the statues of the gods, no one was noisy, the scene was surprisingly quiet, and everyone moved in surprisingly unison.

"Bye-bye!"

Then the crowd bowed down again.

"Three bows!"

......

"Get up, salute!"

Then Xiong Yi took the three purple incense sticks in the hands of the soldiers, walked to the statues of the gods, knelt down and said: "Jianyi City County Ling Xiong Yi, Jianyi City Rong Town, here to perform the county order duties, sacrifice to the ancestors, I hope the ancestors will bless my Jianyi City." ”

"Hey, Ah Xiao, what's so special here?" Su Jie naturally knelt down with Ah Xiao just now, and just asked secretly at the moment.

"I don't really understand either. Ah Xiao shook his head, teenagers of this age didn't care about these things, and like Su Jie, he had only heard about them at most.

"I'll tell you, two rookies!" A small figure slowly moved over.

Su Jie saw that it was Xu Lai, Xu Lai was also dressed in clean white clothes at the moment, like many teenagers in Jianyi City, his hair was scattered, and his two eyes were not big, like an old fox squinting.

Su Jie said: "Then you say, I'll see what flowers you can name." ”

Xu Lai said proudly: "The statue on the far left is a hundred years ago in the martial arts science tanhua, in the Huainan City martial arts test got the third, entered the Huainan City military government, became a general!

"The second, the far one on the right is the Confucian scholar hundreds of years ago, it is said that he entered the imperial capital, the purple-clothed Guanglu doctor, and the master of Confucianism and Taoism, hehe, it's not beautiful!"

"See, they're all dressed in black, that's the dark official uniform that they can only wear at that status!"

"Cut, I see you're talking nonsense, the one in the middle, but the white clothes, where did the black clothes come from?" Su Jie said disdainfully.

"That, it's not a Confucian and Taoist immortal, it's not a martial arts general, it's said that he entered the Daoling Sect and became an elder, hehe, Daoling Sect, do you two earth buns know?"

Xu Lai opened his mouth and took a bite of the melon and fruit on Su Jie and A Xiao's case, and said vaguely: "That's the place of the kendo immortals...... Cover... There are several holy places in the world, and this Daoling Sect is one of them, and the Daoling Sect advocates white, do you know ......"

"Anyway, I read it from the book, believe it or not. Xu Lai patted the juice on his hands, touched Su Jie's body, and ran away.

Su Jie came back to his senses, and when he took a closer look, the melons and fruits in front of him had already been swept away by Xu Lai.

"You Xu Cai!" Su Jie scolded loudly.