All the way to the south, passing through more than a dozen villages, towns and villages, large and small, on a drizzly afternoon, the team finally arrived at the destination of this southward journey - Mumi City, the capital of southern Xinjiang.

It is also the capital of the first district, and compared with Fengtu City, the capital of Saibei, Mumicheng almost completely presents two extremes.

The style of the Wind Slaughter City is fierce and grandiose, with bold lines and simple and spacious.

The style of Mumicheng is gorgeous and gorgeous, and the green landscape is inlaid with colorful and intense colors, as if the fireworks in the world are packed into the fairyland of the world, which are two contradictory forms, blending together but without violating the harmony and harmony.

Obviously, there are often wars on the border of southern Xinjiang, but this nearby Mumi City is grand and peaceful.

The team drove the carriage up to the widest street in Mumicheng, different from the serious and neat bluestone paving in Kyoto, the streets here are all made of colorful irregular stones, smoothed out the surface and mixed together, the whole street looks like a carpet, very distinctly reflects the humanistic style of this region in southern Xinjiang.

Even though it is the capital of the first district, the residential buildings of Mumicheng are still mainly bamboo houses, but they are stronger and taller than those in Nanweng Town.

Because it was already half of the afternoon at this time, the Yan family sisters and brothers decided to go to the foreign house tomorrow to hand over the door post, Wu Ting was not in a hurry to report to the army, there were still seven or eight days before the stipulated deadline for registration, he planned to take a turn in the city first, and have an in-depth understanding of the local customs, after all, in the next few years or even years, he will take root and grow here.

The Lunan team walked along the street, looking at the signboards hanging on the bamboo huts on the street one by one, planning to find a good inn to settle down in first, but they found several in succession, all of which were already full, Wu Yue couldn't help but wonder: "Why is there so much population in this Mumi City? There are so many people who have overflowed from their homes and run to live in the inn!"

Wu Ting asked a passer-by to inquire, "I'm afraid that there are no vacant rooms in all the inns these days," came back and said to everyone, "It is said that in the past few days, celebrations have been held everywhere in the city, and many people from surrounding towns have gathered in Mumi City, and it will take at least seven days to stop the excitement, so we probably have to find a homestay to borrow." ”

"Queqiao Festival?" Wu Yue pinched his fingers and counted, "It's not even Qixi Festival." ”

Young Master Yan Jiu answered slowly: "The Queqiao Festival in the southern Xinjiang region is not the same festival as the Qixi Festival in the Central Plains, and the Queqiao Festival is earlier than the Qixi Festival, the reason is ...... The Queqiao Festival was originally a local blind date, young men and women gather in the Mumi City every year during the festival to see each other and set a marriage. Descendants of the big event, the Queqiao Festival is second only to the New Year's major festival in this place, and in July in southern Xinjiang is rainy, there are 278 days in 30 days are rainy and continuous, if the blind date is placed in July, every day in the rain outside the blind date, it is very easy to get sick and even lose his life, it is to trace back to more than ten generations ago, the ancestors of the southern Xinjiang people will be the Queqiao Festival more advanced than the Qixi Festival, put it in June. ”

"I see," Wu Yue felt rare, "The customs here are really interesting, let the young people go out on blind dates by themselves, or in groups, won't they feel embarrassed?"

"The customs that have been handed down for hundreds of years have long been accustomed to it," Wu Ting said with a smile, "Besides, the people in southern Xinjiang are already open, which is very different from the young ladies in Beijing who are bound by the rules of etiquette and religion. ”

Yan Qi secretly praised Wu Ting for his foresight, but he still underestimated the power of feudal society, a few hundred years is not enough, how can it be a thousand years, at that time, when it comes to Qixi Festival, the hotel will be full......

Everyone had to look for houses to stay in, and Wu Ting speculated that the houses along the street were already full, so he simply avoided the bustling area and looked for it in the middle of nowhere.

When the rain stopped, everyone found a house near the lake, surrounded by beautiful trees and flowers, a fresh and comfortable, wonderful thing is that this two-storey bamboo building also set up a terrace hanging on the lake, and a few tea tables were set up on the terrace, which can be used to enjoy the cool scenery.

The owner of the house is a warm middle-aged couple, three or four and a half big babies under the knees, it is said that this building is also a new house that has not been changed for a long time, the couple wants to open this house into an inn, and they plan to officially open in these days, because the location is more partial, very few people know here, so there are no guests to come to the door, and the South Brigade is the first wave of guests ushered in by the inn.

Everyone happily moved in, just after freshening up, Wu Yue couldn't stay idle, and pulled Yan Qi to go to the street, Yan Qi carried a Cui Xiaosi with him, Yuan Chang wanted to be with his girlfriend, plus Wu Ting also wanted to go to the street to familiarize himself with the local customs, and finally the eight of them went out together.

As Yan Qi said, the local specialty products of Mumi City are more complete and sophisticated, Wu Yue was directly dazzled, and caught up with the rain to stop, and the people who came to the city from other places for the festival all poured into the street from the inn, that is called a shoulder to shoulder, pick goods, bargain, laugh, noisy, chase bear children, knock over the stalls, Yuan Chang and several of their men have been completely collapsed by the noise, watching Yan Qi and Wu Yue still energetically shuttling through the sea of people and goods, they couldn't help but glance at each other, and saw the deep fear that could not be hidden in their eyes.

"Cui Si Cui Si, come and help me choose, which of these necklaces is good-looking?" Wu Yue pulled Cui Xi as a staff officer, "I plan to wear this to participate when Xiao Lotus gets married, how about this ruby moon flower?"

Cui Xi looked down at the stall with a smile and a long finger, and picked up a necklace with a rose gold pendant with his long fingers: "I prefer this one." ”

Wu Yue came over to take a look, and saw that the chain pendant was a cat inlaid with silver gems, which looked gorgeous and cute, Wu Yue immediately liked this one, and said straightly: "Cui Si, you are really good at picking things!Is it because I am as cute as a cat?"

"If this is a tiger, it will be more suitable for you," Cui Xi smiled, "However, since you are going to a wedding, Dai Hu is inevitably more angry, it is better to wear a cat." ”

“…… Are you implying that I'm like a tigress?" Wu Yue was hit in the face, "I think Xiao Qicai is more like a tiger!"

"Xiao Qi is like an eagle," Cui Xi smiled and lowered his head to look for it at the stall, "but there are very few ornaments for girls with the image of an eagle, and now Xiao Qi is more mellow than before, so," said he picked out a headdress from a pile of brilliant jewelry, "The swan is also very suitable for her." ”

Wu Yue looked over with his hand and saw that the swan's head and neck and body outline were carved with white crystal, inlaid with small broken diamonds, hollowed out in the middle of the body, and inlaid with two pieces of sea-like blue blue crystal as wings, very plain color, but it was clear and bright.

Seeing that Cui Xi was going to pay for this swan headdress without talking about the price, Wu Yue hurriedly stopped him, rolled up his sleeves and began to cut the price with the stall owner - although people are also from wealthy families, women, what they enjoy when shopping is the process of picking goods and bargaining.

Another woman, Comrade Yan Qi, was not far from the front with her own hum, and the second general was also picking out jewelry: "Is this rose good-looking or the moon flower good-looking?"

"Don't they all look the same?" the straight man Yuan Chang scratched his head vigorously.

"Xiao Chen, let's ignore him, what do you say, which one is good-looking?" Yan Qi abandoned her boyfriend and turned to bully honest people.

“…… Roses are beautiful. The honest man pointed to the moon season flower road.

Yan Qi: "......"

"There are thousands of things to say on this stall, you have to pick when to go, Yan Xiaopang!" The straight man was on the verge of going violent, "Do you want me to buy you all this stall?"

"It's so simple and rude," Yan Qi sighed, "I like it." ”

Xiao Chen: "......"

Seeing that her ATM was about to take out the silver ticket from her arms, Yan Qi had to reach out to stop it: "Don't spend my money indiscriminately." ”

Yuan Chang was happy when he heard this, of course his money was hers, even he was hers! He touched Yan Qi's face with a smile: "Okay, then you can continue to pick! Don't be tired, are you thirsty? I'm going to buy you something to drink?"

Xiao Chen, who was stuffed with a mouthful of dog food: No wonder Wu Yue refused to go shopping with them......

Seeing Yuan Chang squeeze into the crowd in the distance to buy pulp drinks, Wuzhi, who watched all this, secretly admired his own Seventh Miss, and in one sentence, this person changed from a state of being worse than dead to a state of being willing to accompany him, and Miss Seven will be a quasi-husband in the future!

"Cousin, I think this hairpin is good, buy it back and prepare it?" Yan Qi continued to bully honest people.

"Ready?" the honest man still doesn't understand.

"In the future, if you have a sweetheart, give it to her to make her happy. Yan Qi has a long-term vision.

"......," Xiao Chen lowered his eyelids, "No need." ”

"What about this one?" Yan Qi picked up the other one and showed it to him.

…… Doesn't it mean that you don't have to change it......

"It's exhausting to buy things with you straight men. "This thing is still sighing, who is tired to death?!

For a while, Yuan Chang squeezed back from the crowd, bought a syrup drink in a bamboo tube, and also bought a big pu fan, and was particularly filial to fan his girlfriend next to him.

"What did you buy?" asked as he waited.

"I finally asked Brother Chen to help me pick a hairpin. Yan Qi showed him what Xiao Chen had picked, and saw that it was a flying swallow hairpin made of silver, which had no characteristics, and it belonged to the jewelry pile that could not be found.

"Very good. Yuan Zhinan expressed his appreciation for Xiao Zhinan's aesthetics.

"Since you two are so picky, then let's continue!" Yan Qi waved his hand ambitiously.

Straight guys: It seems to be in her trap......

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the women to finally get tired of the men who dragged their feet, except for Cui Xi, everyone else was demoted to bag bearers, Yan Qi and Wu Yue took Cui Xi to pick in front, and the ones in the back were only the attendants.

"I bought a lot," Wu Yue showed Yan Qi her loot while shopping, "I haven't bought enough of our family's big bunch of them, I don't think an afternoon is far from enough, tomorrow when you recognize your relatives, let's continue shopping!"

"Cheng, we have few families, but it's easy to send away," Yan Qidao, "I have almost bought enough jewelry to give away, only the makeup gift for the little lotus root needs to be picked carefully, and there are also the guys from the comprehensive martial arts team, who forced me to buy them a flower girl to go back before coming, although the flower girl can't buy it, but I always have to buy some special products and send them back." ”

Wu Yue laughed: "If you can't buy a flower girl, you can buy flower clothes worn by a flower girl, I just saw several stalls selling local ethnic costumes, which are very beautiful, I want to buy a dress to wear!"

"Hey, hey, a girl from a foreign country! You're right!" a lady's voice came in, it was the proprietress of the clothes stall next to her, "The so-called local customs, of course you have to wear our clothes here when you come to us, otherwise these days after the Queqiao Festival, you wear the costumes of the Central Plains and stand in the crowd, so many out of place! Since you come to our southern Xinjiang to play, of course, you have to blend in from head to toe in order to have a decent play, girls, don't you say?" Come on, look at me here, all of them are the favorite styles of today's southern Xinjiang girls, come and pick and choose, the two girls have white complexions, and they look the best in our southern Xinjiang clothes!"

The proprietress has been doing business for many years, and her eloquence is very good, and she didn't say a few words to fool Wu Yue, and pulled Yan Qi to pick up the stall for a long time, and finally bought the most expensive, I heard that it is also the most beautiful, and the most popular style this summer.

The men had no memory of where they had shopped, what they bought, and how they had survived, and their minds were blank as they were directed by two women to run from east to west, from south to north, and finally when they saw the unopened inn where they were staying in the distance, the men were so excited that they hugged their heads and cried.

"Why are there so many people nearby?" Wu Yue looked at the originally quiet residence, but saw countless men and women gathered from nowhere, laughing and making noise in groups by the lake, in the forest, or on the terrace on the lake.

After entering the bamboo building, Wu Yue first went to ask the proprietress the reason, and the proprietress smiled: "I will 'build a bridge' by the lake for a while, and several guests may wish to follow the excitement and fun together!"

"Building a bridge" is to open a show and open a party, and there will be such a scene at any time and everywhere during the Queqiao Festival.

"Okay, okay, let's just open our eyes!" Wu Yue was happy, and pulled Yan Qi, "After a while, let's change into the local clothes we just bought, and have fun with the crowd!"

Yan Qi thought to himself, you are a good scar, forget the pain, in case you are forced to sing again, see how you are done. But I only dared to think about it, and I didn't dare to say it, for fear that Wu Yue would be embarrassed again.

When the sunset was in the sky, the bridge building meeting had already entered the countdown to the beginning, and the Lunan team had a leisurely dinner, took a bath, and the men went downstairs first, sat on the terrace on the lake, drank tea and enjoyed the coolness, and watched the show.

Yan Qiwu Yuewo studied how to wear local clothes in the room, and after studying for a long time, he didn't come up with a reason, so he had to ask the proprietress to help, and the proprietress pulled two or three girls from the crowd to go upstairs together to help the guests from other towns dress up.

Yan Qi and Wu Yue were pulled into a room separately, and people started to clean up after pressing them, and it took a lot of effort just to insert ornaments on their heads, no wonder they had to pull a few more people to do it together.

Wu Yue looked at his own gold and silver in the mirror, and couldn't help laughing for a long time, full of novelty and excitement, and after changing his shirt, he was a little awkward - because it was a short-sleeved shirt, showing two white arms, which made Wu Yue very restless.

Then he changed into the knee-length skirt, Wu Yue immediately coaxed - this is not good, this is definitely not good, it is too ugly, too awkward, too embarrassing, usually when I take a shower, I don't feel anything when I look at my arms and legs, but I put on my clothes and show this feeling, it is no different from being stripped naked and standing in front of people......! It's terrible! The fifth brother will beat her to death—no, no, no, even if the fifth brother doesn't kill her, she wants to go directly to the lake and cut herself.

After all, he was educated in the Central Plains since he was a child, no matter how lively Wu Yue was, he couldn't jump down so many steps at once, and he was about to take off his clothes and change back into his clothes with a red face, and was persuaded by the local girls who helped dress up for a long time, and finally Wu Yue only agreed to wear a local top, and he had to wear his own long skirt.

Later, when he went out, Wu Yue made a mistake again, took his coat and put it on the outside of his body, looking a little nondescript, and after going to the terrace, he was mercilessly ridiculed by Yuan Chang: "Wu Sixteen, are you a platter?" was so angry that Wu Yue tore off a big silver chain around his neck and wanted to kill him alive, so that Yan Qi would enter the ranks of widows before he got married.

Her fifth brother couldn't bear to hurt her, and said with a smile: "Just have fun." Then everyone looked at the door of the bamboo building together, waiting for Yan Qi to bring everyone a more spicy-eyed picture.

Wu Yue pondered that Yan Laoqi's goods might come out directly in a full set of his own clothes, not even jewelry, just to wait to see her Wu Yue's jokes - that guy is the worst, he can really do this kind of thing, hum!

As a result, the goods don't know what to rub on it, and they don't see it for a long time, and those who participate in the bridge building meeting have slowly gathered here, and the huge bonfire is also lit between the bamboo building and the lake, and the firelight reflects the lake, forming the most beautiful stage lighting effect, and the people who bring their own musical instruments carry bamboo chairs and bamboo stools are also in place, baskets of fruits, altars of wine, and piles of barbecue are all put up, and young men and women wearing gorgeous local costumes are gathered around the bamboo building. Laugh and laugh around the campfires and terraces, just waiting for the auspicious time to open the ceremony.

The members of the Lunan squad were leisurely and leisurely at a table in twos and threes, chatting and drinking while watching the excitement, when they suddenly heard a thin silver bell ringing from the door of the bamboo building, and they couldn't help but turn their eyes to look at the sound transmission.

Then everyone saw Yan Qi. 166 Reading Network