The Wanshou Festival lantern market starts from outside the Donghua Gate, hangs tens of thousands of lamps along the Guanzi River, and stretches to the vicinity of the thousand-step corridor outside the noon gate.

Because the number and scale are far more than the birthday of previous years, and even overshadowed the Shangyuan Lantern Festival at the beginning of the year, it naturally attracted tourists and businessmen to gather.

And because the township exam was postponed - it was originally scheduled for September 15, but because the third exam was postponed for three days, the release of the list was also changed to September 18.

Thousands of talented people called friends to the streets, chanting poems, watching the lanterns, prostitutes swaggering, pink peach broken sleeves, and so on.

When Wang Shouye and the others first arrived outside the Donghua Gate, there was still a Xiucai who was drunk, crying and jumping into the river to find a short view.

However, the people of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division had already prepared, and before they could sink to the bottom, two willow leaf boats came up left and right, and captured this frustration.

Li Gao still wanted to see the follow-up, but Wang Shouye was impatient to watch these idle things, pulled him away from the riverbank, and watched some juggling and guessing some lantern riddles in a circle.

When he walked out of Donghuamen Street along the crowd, Li Gao's large bags and small bags were already full of things - Wang Shouye and Hongyu each carried a Su embroidery palace lamp that gave birth to a noble son early.

Seeing that he couldn't hold it anymore, Li Gao shouted behind him: "Brother, brother!" Why don't we take care of the car, how can we ...... this big bag Elder brother! You'll wait for me! ”

Do it yourself!

Wang Shouye didn't bother to pay attention to this guy, because at least eighty percent of the big bags were bought by Li Gao himself - he was originally called to come, one was to lead the way in front of the head, and the other was to be used as a humanoid baggage, who would have thought that this guy would buy one first.

However, Li Gao did have some ghost ideas, seeing that Wang Shouye refused to take advantage of the stubble, he turned his head and found the errand guarding the street.

First put the big bags and small bags of things in front of the people, and then pulled out the embroidered spring knife from the waist, and ordered the other party to send the things directly to the East Factory.

Then without waiting for the servants to respond, he turned his head and chased after him, dancing with his hands and foaming at the mouth: "Brother, brother! Did you see that grasshopper just now? The sound of the water...... Hey~ brother! The rice noodles in this house are a must, you wait for me to get two bowls...... The one who sells sugar gourds is called you! Stand still first, and wait for you to finish buying rice noodles and patronize your business! ”

This noisy ......

Next time, I won't take him to the street again!

Going around and around, I saw that it was not far from the noon gate, and suddenly I heard a sneering sound, and dozens of fireworks rose into the sky, rumbling red half of the sky.

"Yo, this year's fireworks are early enough!"

Seeing this, Li Gao jumped three feet high, and urged repeatedly: "Brother, let's hurry up and squeeze forward, I'm afraid there will be no place to settle down after a while!" ”

"What's the hurry?"

Wang Shouye is not interested in fireworks, but prefers those exquisitely made lanterns on the street, so he said disapprovingly: "It's not invisible here, let's find a stall to drink tea and watch the fireworks at the same time, wouldn't it be easy and comfortable?" ”

"Brother!"

Li Gao didn't give up: "What is rare to see here?" The finale of the fire tree silver flower, the dragon and the tiger leap, thousands of purples and thousands of reds, which one has to be close to see clearly? ”

As he spoke, he couldn't help but stand up and look in the direction of Wumen Square.

"Then let's go and see?"

Wang Shouye turned his head to ask Zhao Hongyu's opinion, and when he saw her bowing slightly, he immediately asked Li Gao for the embroidered spring knife, and stood in front of the two.

Anyone who is stunned on this occasion is most likely not good-tempered, but as long as he sees this standard embroidered spring knife, no matter how hot his temper is, it has become a finger-twisting softness.

The three of them overcame the obstacles one after the other, and when they saw the square on the left and right, the surging crowd suddenly stopped, and then even reversed.

At the same time, there was a lot of shouting and shouting ahead.

Could it be that there was a mass stampede?

Thinking of this possibility, Wang Shouye planned to take Zhao Hongyu and Li Gao to leave the place first.

As a result, when he turned around, he found that Li Gao had climbed onto the wheelbarrow of the noodle seller at some point, and the monkey was also holding on to the straw shelf and looking ahead.

He looked at it a few times, then lowered his head and shouted: "Brother, there is an old Taoist in front of him who is meditating cross-legged, and there are people lying around, men, women and children, and I don't know what evil nature he has fallen into!" ”

Cross-legged?

Lying on the ground?

Wang Shouye frowned, and was hesitating whether to go over to take a look, when he suddenly felt a tightening of his wrist, and turned his head to see Hongyu staring at him eagerly.

Tut~

Let's go and take a look!

Wang Shouye immediately raised the embroidered spring knife high, and shouted in his mouth: "Jinyi Wei does things, idlers avoid it!" ”

After shouting in this voice, the front suddenly opened again, and it took a long time before a narrow passage was slowly squeezed out.

Wang Shouye took Zhao Hongyu's hand, walked through the layers of crowds, and walked more than a dozen steps away, when he saw that the front suddenly opened up, and Zhang Xu Fangyuan was vacant.

In the middle of the empty field, a middle-aged Taoist was sitting cross-legged, and he was surrounded by more than 20 people.

Letting go of Zhao Hongyu's hand, Wang Shouye borrowed a lantern from passers-by [he lost it to Li Gao], and took a picture of the people lying on the ground nearby, and found that all of them were foaming at the mouth and unconscious, but it seemed that there should be no danger to life.

Looking at the Taoist priest sitting cross-legged in the middle, he also closed his eyes tightly, trembling like a swing.

Seeing this, he looked around and asked in a loud voice, "What the hell is going on, did anyone see it just now?!" ”

There was silence in the crowd.

After a while, a half-grown man said timidly: "Back to the official's words, the Taoist priest was watching the fireworks, but somehow, a muffled thunder suddenly appeared on his body, blowing up a piece of Ren around him, and he himself fell to the ground, trembling like a madman!" ”

Sullen thunder?

Could it be that there are fireworks falling here?

But after a closer look at the scene, it didn't look like that.

Because neither the Taoist priests nor those who were in a coma had any traces of external injuries.

Bang~

At this moment, the Daoist priest's body suddenly burst into a cloud of brilliance without warning, and at the same time there was a roar like thunder.

The brilliance swelled in an instant, enveloping Xu Fangyuan, and then disappeared without a trace, leaving only the trembling wounded on the ground.

This time, everyone present, but more than one of them saw it clearly, and they couldn't help shouting at the moment, pushing and running away.

"Don't panic, everyone!"

Seeing that a big chaos was imminent, Wang Shouye hurriedly shouted: "This is the Taoist master crossing the thunder tribulation, as long as you don't get close to him, it's done!" ”

Speaking of this, he pointed to the circle and said, "Let's move these people farther away first, otherwise we will be implicated by the Taoist Master a few more times, and I am afraid that we will have to die!" ”

In fact, Wang Shouye didn't dare to be 100% sure, but at this time, he couldn't tolerate the slightest hesitation.

When everyone heard this, they looked at each other, and although they stopped running, no one dared to come forward to catch people.

In the end, it was Zhao Hongyu who broke the deadlock, grabbed a woman nearby, and dragged her out of the circle with force.

Seeing this, Wang Shouye was also busy looking for a man and pulled him out.

The two of them started, and everyone took action one after another, pulling the outermost person out of the danger zone.

But no one dared to rush to save it.

Wang Shouye also stopped Zhao Hongyu, who was eager to try, and then ripped off the waist card of the Dongchang internal guard from his waist, stuffed it into Li Gao's hand and ordered: "Go, call the messenger guarding the fireworks - let them bring a few spears with wooden handles!" ”

"Okay!"

Li Gao responded sharply, went around to the opposite side and squeezed into the crowd.

A few moments later, a dozen soldiers hurried to the wounded in the inner circle with spears under the command of Wang Shouye.

Considering that more and more people are rushing to hear the news, after a long time, there may be some group incidents.

So Wang Shouye ordered those officers and soldiers to take local materials, requisitioned a few coarse cloths from nearby vendors, and used spears as pillars to hold the space in this square circle.

However, until all this was arranged, the third thunder tribulation was still delayed.

Could it be that I guessed wrong?

Saying......

The thunder light just now seems to have been released from the body of this Taoist priest - the legendary thunder tribulation, shouldn't it fall from the sky?

Guarding in the curtain, he waited for about two quarters of an hour, but still didn't see any movement from the Taoist priest, Wang Shouye's heart gradually became agitated, and he couldn't help pacing back and forth around the curtain.

At this time, I suddenly heard Zhao Hongyu exclaim: "Master, look at his face, is it ...... Isn't it the same as before? ”

Different?

Wang Shouye hurriedly picked up the lantern with a spear, probed to the Taoist priest's side, and then looked at it through Zhang Xu Yuan, but after only one glance, he couldn't help but gasp.

But I saw that the blood vessels and green tendons on the Taoist priest's face were all protruding from the surface of the skin, dense and straight like spider webs, as if they were about to burst open at any time!