Speaking of celebration banquets, the impression is probably that dozens of Mercedes-Benz BMWs are parked in front of the restaurant and then the entire restaurant is wrapped up...... This kind of thing has never happened in Pingnan.

Of course, it still won't happen now.

On Tuesday afternoon, the sound of firecrackers began at 5:10 p.m. in Pingnan Village, from the entrance of the village along the dirt road to the fork in the road. Thick white gunpowder smoke lingered on the village road transformed from the ridges, and the rape fields were also shrouded in confused smoke. In the clouds and mist, a colorful dragon looms faintly, shuttling through the smoky mid-air.

One, two, or three?

Between the ridges, the number of dragons swimming in the white mist was blurry and indistinguishable, as if they were attracted by a certain direction, and they were entwined with each other.

The widened village road is filled with countless tables and chairs, and the smell of food carried by the spring breeze evokes roundworms from hungry students who are ready to go home for dinner. However, they were stopped by the parents at the table before they went home. This is a once-in-a-decade feast, a banquet initiated and organized by the village committee, even if you don't want to eat by the vegetable field, you have to enjoy your face and come out to sit, not to mention that the village has not been so festive for several years.

I remember the last one or two years ago. When the Li family and the Lu family built the building, they asked for a class. At that time, there were only two buildings in the village, and standing on the top of the building, you could view the whole village, and the scene was very spectacular. Especially the pear family, because it was the first time that such a tall building was built in the village, almost the whole village took turns to go up and browse. Now that there are more people who have started the building, it is not very novel, and the ceremony of building completion is no longer as lively as before.

(Really...... It's been a long time since I've seen this pomp. The old villagers couldn't help but sigh.

In the past, they used to farm in adjacent fields, go to the same place to carry water and laundry, and greeted each other warmly every day. But I don't know when, the villagers gradually became strangers, and many people seemed to be alone.

This dinner party is the dinner party of the whole village, and everyone will gather in the open space to eat and chat.

Although it was a bit hasty, more than 90 large tables with nearly 100 sheets were still set out and placed from the entrance of the village to the Lu family. The village still invited a dragon dance team, and the dragons danced as if they had life in the smoke from the firecrackers, which were covered with colorful strips of cloth on their surfaces. This is accompanied by the sound of firecrackers, gongs, drums and trumpets.

The frog, which had finally woken up from winter, was frightened back into its hole, and the two dragons wandered among the ridges, and the loud sound of drums and gongs grew closer.

Finally, in its slow and detouring way, it came to the door of the grocery store.

Knock knock, knock knock, knock knock -

The leader wears the hood of a fat-headed doll, holding a bamboo pole, on which a large hydrangea is held high, and the "dragon ball" swings up or down, left or right, to the rhythm of the drum.

Both colored dragons are small small southern dragons, with a body of about twenty meters and a large and slender head. The so-called southern dragon is the Bulong produced in Jiangnan Province, and the dragon in the water town is naturally more traditional than other dragons. The dragon's head is made of bamboo paper, and the pattern is sewn with strips of cloth, and the dragon's body is relatively heavier than that of dragons in other regions.

The fat-headed doll in front of Ssangyong waved the dragon ball in his hand, like Nezha, who was not afraid of death, playing the sea dragon of the East China Sea. It's rare that two dragons are stupidly chasing after the dragon balls, and they can't catch up with the dragon balls in front of them no matter how they chase them. There were about a dozen dragon dancers beneath the little dragon, sweating profusely and waving the wooden poles in their hands.

The body of the southern dragon is much heavier than the dragon ball, and ordinary bamboo poles can break with a wave, and only solid wood poles can take on heavy responsibilities.

The two colored dragons continued to entangle after coming to the open space in front of the grocery store, and their dragons turned to the grocery store, nodding to the front of the pear house as if on the left and right. More than 300 villagers from the first, second and third groups of Pingnan also gathered on the ridges and village roads next to them.

"Stop!" With an order, the dancing colorful dragons stopped rolling. The speaker was the host standing on the stairs, he held a large electronic horn in his hand, and walked to the front of the store with Limu and shouted:

"Everyone's done a great job! I invite you to come today because our village has produced a world champion, which is the championship of the top competition in the United States! He is the prodigy of our village - Limu! ”

Uh-huh-

The cheers of the crowd immediately resounded through the fields.

"Limu jumped to the first year of high school, and the next year he will jump to the third year of high school, and the year after that, he will go to Tsinghua University and Peking University to ensure that there is another celebration ......!"

"The village has a unicorn like him, and he will definitely be able to walk on the road and live a prosperous life in the future......!"

“……”

Wow-...... Wow-...... Wow-......

The long speech, cheering again and again, counting the merits like a number of treasures, even the thick-skinned Riki couldn't help but feel blushing. After the host finished reading out, everyone entered the main topic - eating, and Limu was greatly relieved.

There are about 100 large round tables for the feast, and each table can seat three to five people, ranging from a lonely family to four generations in the same house. Those who are eligible to sit are all real villagers in Pingnan Village, and tenants who do not have a Pingnan hukou are not invited. Of course, the dragon dance team will be invited to stay for dinner.

The dragon body is put back in their truck by the team members, and the fat-headed doll also takes off the hood. Riki didn't expect that what was hidden in the hood was a thin face, she was a girl, and her hair was a little messy by the hood. The arm is slender but has grown biceps, and it is clear that it has not developed the pink muscles of Isa.

Everyone in the village found acquaintances and neighbors to sit down, and the dragon dance team was crowded together at a large table.

"Are you tired of dragon dance?" The protagonist of the banquet, Riki, sneaks out of the center of the banquet and runs to the tail table in front of Lu's house, where he chats with the dragon dancers.

"Don't get tired, just get used to it." The dragon dance captain who was in charge of holding up the dragon head just now replied.

"It doesn't sound like it's true."

Riki looked at the girl who played the fat-headed doll, and she was still sweating profusely, wiping her forehead and cheeks with a towel around her neck.

"How much do you get for a dance?" Riki asked again.

Probably too direct to make one suspect that he had bad intentions, the dragon dance captain didn't tell him the real number.

"Not much." That's what the captain of the dragon dance declared.

"That's a lot, hahaha-" His team members all grinned when they saw Riki's disbelief.

Listening to their laughter, Riki, who originally thought that they had earned a lot, could not judge how much the dragon dance team had earned, but it was quite happy.

I saw them talking and laughing, drinking Sprite, Coke and beer, and they were not in a hurry to eat, but just sat or leaned on the table to rest. Their blood was gathered in their limbs, their stomachs and brains were completely free of hunger, and they sat quietly waiting for the cool evening breeze to dispel their fatigue.

"I heard that you can do better than adults, and you can make money for eight of us in a month." Captain Dance eventually tells Riki the answer in this way of a math problem.

According to the conservative judgment of some newspapers, the manuscript fee of Limu should be about 200 * 44p = 8800 yuan, so one person earns eight people's money, which means that each of them has an income of about 1,000 yuan per month. After the captain finished speaking, he handed over a glass of yellow bubbling liquid and invited Limu:

"How's it going, little sir, drinking?"

The wine glass appeared in front of him, and Riki subconsciously wanted to take the beer, but he gave up considering that he was not suitable for drinking due to heart disease. The dragon dance team couldn't help but laugh when they saw his funny appearance of wanting to drink.

The dragon girl opened the captain's hand and poured a glass of Sprite for Riki, who took a sip and began to talk to them. During the conversation, he was not embarrassed, and asked the way of life of the dragon dancers. For example, "How many times a month do you have to dance a dragon to live?" The answer was that the dragon dance was not every day during the month, and occasionally the lion dance, acting, acrobatics and almost everything was done.

If the contact person really can't find a job, the dragon dance team will find a new store dragon dance on their own, and the owner will usually give some money. However, two or three hundred yuan of red envelopes will not be shared by a team, and they will not get much.

It also happens from time to time that the shopkeeper does not give a red envelope, and at this time he can only consider himself unlucky, but occasionally he will still have a conflict with the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper just drove people away during the dragon dance, so that the team would not waste their efforts in front of the door. But when he came to congratulate him after dancing profusely, the shopkeeper not only gave a red envelope, but also scolded and scolded the dragon dance team for hindering the business, which would inevitably make some team members blush.

Inevitably, there will be some fighting.