Chapter Forty-Eight: The Masquerade
The real climax of the Qingfeng Conference was the last show, the game "Bumper Kiss". In the words of later generations, it was actually a masquerade.
The participants must be unmarried men and women over the age of fifteen, each dressed in a game costume, wearing a mask made of sheepskin, and dancing to the music as they search for the target you are looking for. With three bells, you will pull your chosen target and run out of the field. Enter the surrounding jungle.
The results of this are that the two people who choose each other are both men, and the two people who choose each other are women, and these two choices are unsuccessful, and then go back to the arena and continue dancing, waiting for the next bell, and choosing again. And if it happens to be a man and a woman, if the two of them don't call, they will return to the arena and continue to dance, waiting for the next bell. If a man and a woman are both people who like each other, they will join hands.
This is actually a group search for a partner, but a little more mysterious and a little more romantic. If you find someone you like each other, you can get married one day.
Someone told Fan Li the rules of the game in detail, and Fan Li smiled, thinking it was quite funny. Which day the king returns to the country and really enters the stage of restoration, in order to rapidly increase the population, this game can be promoted throughout the country, and it can be played several times a year, that is, several marriage climaxes are pushed up in the country every year.
Fan Li is thinking nonsense, the music sounded, or ding ding dong, ping pong, the melody is not very beautiful, but the sense of rhythm is very strong, just suitable for casual dancing, people who participate in the bumper game have walked into the field, with the music, dancing.
Shi Qiao's thigh was bitten by a wolf, and Fan Lisheng took him out, put him on a rope bed, and lay down to watch. He told Fan Li that Bumper Kiss is a very old game, and no one remembers how many years this game has continued in the village.
Fan Li watched with great interest the masked boys and girls dancing in the audience. Wait for those three bells to ring.
Suddenly, someone came up and said, "My lord, when our village chief was leaving, he specially instructed the adults to participate in the bumper game, and he said that this was a gift from Ramie Village to the adults." ”
That is, if he was lucky, he met a girl.
It's exciting, isn't it? But he smiled and declined. He said to Shi Qiao: "Uncle, Fan Li is a married person, although his wife and son committed suicide when the Wu army was besieging Huiji Mountain, I am now single, but now there are many important things to do." So I can't get married in Ramie Village and get married. So, I won't join in the fun. ”
Shi Qiao said: "My lord, go and have fun, you are our most honored guest, you just met a girl, and no one will ask you to slip down and get married." ”
Fan Li said: "When I meet a girl, I can't give someone an explanation, and I hurt the girl's heart in vain." ”
Shi Qiao said: "The girls in Lai Luo Village know that they are not worthy of you and will not pester you. But if you participate, it will make the prom more exciting,"
There were also a few people next to him to persuade Fan Li to be a young man after all, and he looked a little eager to try.
Someone immediately brought him a loose dance costume and a mask, and quickly helped him put them on. It turned out that this was all prepared for a long time.
Fan Li joined the ranks of dance.
The rhythm of the music has picked up: ding-ding-dong, ping-pong. The boys and girls on the field knew that Fan Li had joined their game, and they immediately became crazy, and the scene pushed to a climax.
The girls naturally wanted to meet Fan Li. As soon as Fan Li appeared in the village, the women were defeated by his handsomeness. Now they have the possibility of intimate contact with Fan Li, how can they not be crazy about it, although they can't be Fan Li's women, but they will be alone with Fan Li for a while, and they will also leave unforgettable memories for a lifetime.
Fan Li knew that in the Spring and Autumn Period in which he lived, in this remote Yue country, known as the land of barbarism, there were not so many taboos between men and women. So, there won't be much of a serious consequence.
For a long time, he followed the king of Yue into Wu, and fought wits and courage with the king of Wu, and was physically and mentally exhausted. It's okay to relax.
But how lucky was he to meet a pretty girl?
Everyone is wearing dance clothes and masks, and they are not allowed to speak, so it is impossible to judge which one is male and which one is female, and the only thing that can distinguish between men and women is to hold hands, but the probability of judging men and women based on hand contact alone is not high.
Ding Ding Dong Dong, Ping Pong!
But Fan Li didn't know that he had long been targeted by a girl. This girl is Shih Tzu. Xi Shi's father, Shi Qiao, served as a thousand commanders in the Vietnamese army, and he was the person in the village who had seen the world and had the highest official position, and the village chief would discuss with him if he had something.
When the village chief and Shi Qiao discussed this matter, they happened to be heard by Xi Shi. So she kept staring at Fan Li's side in the field. When Fan Li, with the help of everyone, put on a dance costume and a mask, and entered the field, she was immediately locked by her.
"Oooo Three bells rang and chaos erupted in the room, with everyone looking for a dancer and pulling them away.
Fan Li felt that his hand was being clutched, and the hand led him and ran towards the jungle outside the field. Is this man a man or a woman? Fan Li thought that this thing was so funny.
The dancers took their companions' hands and ran into the forest. I immediately can't wait to take off my mask and see who I come across. Then there were all sorts of cries and laughter in the jungle: two men, two women, one man and one woman, who liked or didn't like.
The hand that was holding Fan Li did not let go, and pulled Fan Li to run all the way, running out of about a mile, in an open area in the forest, the hand finally let go.
By this time, they had moved far away from the village, and the surrounding mountains and forests were silent, and the sound of tinkling music in the village could be heard faintly.
Fan Li heard that the person who was pulling him gasped slightly, and then Fan Li smelled a faint fragrance emanating from the person, and his heart moved: It's a girl!
What a stroke of luck!
Fan Li smiled lightly and said, "Don't take off your mask yet, don't speak, let me guess if you are a man or a woman."
Fan Li picked up one of the other party's hands and put it in the palm of his hand and stroked it slowly. The hand is not big, the skin is delicate, the fingers are slender, the back of the hand is fleshy, the palm is slightly damp, and the feel is particularly good.
Fan Li said softly in her ear: "Baby, take off, take off the mask, I guessed it, you are a good girl!" ”