Volume 5 Absurd Southern Han Forty-three, Masquerade
The four idiots remembered that before the Double Ninth Festival last year, Zhou Xuan took the third brother and Laifu to Hongzhou to meet friends with insects, she was not angry that the third brother became Zhou Xuan's sword slave, so she chased after her, but Zhou Xuan forced her not to speak with a small bet, and said a word to pay Zhou Xuan a tael of silver.
Zhou Xuan came back, holding a bamboo tube in his hand, and said with a smile: "Fourth, guess, what color insect is this?" β
The four idiots were thinking about last year, and when Zhou Xuan asked him, he blurted out: "You still want to force me not to speak!" β
Zhou Xuan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly didn't realize that the four idiots were talking about last year, and thought that the four idiots were angry, and blamed him for sitting on her bed, so he smiled and said, "What's the matter, angry?" We're buddies and friends, and it's not uncommon to sleep on our feetβ"
The four idiots were embarrassed and said: "What nonsense is the master, where am I angry!" I mean, last year you lied to me that I couldn't touch the color, but it turned out that there was not only one worm jar that could not be touched, but also a three-tailed female, and you, the master, were really cunning. β
"Haha!" Zhou Xuan laughed loudly, put the bamboo tube on the small table in front of the bed, lit the oil lamp, and said with a smile: "Fourth, we haven't bet for a long time, let's bet again, you can guess the color of the crickets in this bamboo tube?" Rest assured, there is no trickery this time, there is only one cricket in the bamboo tube. β
The four idiots sat cross-legged on the bed, looked at the bamboo tube erected on the table, and said: "I can't afford to bet, I lost to you all the time, what else can I bet with you!" β
Zhou Xuan's heart jumped twice, and he said secretly: "The fourth child is ambiguous, the fourth child is hinting at me?" Tease me? Wouldn't it, the fourth child is so sullen? I was looking at the four idiots sitting cross-legged, wearing a tailwind head, and their temples were slightly messy. The hole in the placket of the right chest revealed the white of the strip of cloth wrapped in the chest, and the eyes of the four idiots were not big, they were the kind of squinting eyes. It should be a little charming to laugh, but he hasn't seen the four idiots laugh head-on, and if he wants to laugh, he quickly turns his head and smiles towards no one, and these days, the four idiots must have no time to trim their eyebrows, and the jagged eyebrows are gradually growing together, and they are much more delicate, and other women trim their eyebrows to make them look good, but the fourth child is deliberately ugly. Hehe, this is really a maverick.
The four idiots saw Zhou Xuan looking at her. Panic in my heart. His wheat-colored cheeks turned slightly red, and he patted the bamboo couch with his hand, and said angrily: "What are you looking at." Look at what you're wearing, brute! β
Zhou Xuan laughed in his heart, the fourth child became more and more feminine, and he would be angry, and said: "Be quiet, don't let the Shanha people hear it, the Shanha people don't like to hear the word barbarian - so be it." For your sake. I'll let you order, don't bet on you this time. If you guess the color of the cricket, you can ask me to do something for you, and you don't have to pay anything if you don't guess. β
The four idiots asked: "Does the master mean what he says?" No conspiracy? β
Zhou Xuanxue Lin Hanyun rolled his eyes like that: "When did I never speak?" I am a great official who speaks like a mountain. β
The four idiots smiled and said, "Okay, I'll guess, I guessed one thing you promised me-"
Zhou Xuan left a hand and said, "Okay, I promise to do one thing for you, please make a bet." β
The four idiots didn't notice the extra word "for you" in Zhou Xuan's words, and said: "If I guess correctly, the master will promise to let me leave at any time." β
Zhou Xuan exaggeratedly shouted: "No, the fourth child, your bet is too ruthless, you are a robbery!" β
The four idiots pouted and said, "I knew you wouldn't agree, the master is used to cheating." β
Zhou Xuan didn't speak, walked to the window, looked at the bright moon that had just risen in the mountains in the east, and asked in a very lonely tone: "Fourth, we have known each other for a year, and we have always gotten along very happily, do you want to leave so much?" β
It was the first time for the four idiots to pay so much attention to a man's back, but it did not achieve the effect expected by Zhou Xuan, if Zhou Xuan was still wearing a Tang shirt and robe, it might be able to pluck the four idiots' insensitive heartstrings, but now Zhou Xuan is wearing a mountain man's clothing, with a blue short coat with white edges, and cyan trousers, which looks very funny in the eyes of the four idiots who are accustomed to Zhou Xuan's elegant appearance, and can't help but "pounce" and smile, and said: "I'm not leaving now, I just said that I can leave one day." β
Zhou Xuan looked at his costume, it was a little small, he was wearing it like a stupid big man on his body, he was quite frustrated, his acting skills were first-class, but the costumes and props couldn't keep up! So he walked back and said, "I don't understand, why do you have to leave when you are a woman?" Can't I pretend I didn't see anything? The four idiots remembered that Zhou Xuan helped her wrap up her injuries, and bowed his head and said, "Pretending not to see it, but actually seeing it." β
Zhou Xuan said: "It's nothing if you see it, anyway, when you are a man, your chest muscles are particularly strong, you have practiced the ground." β
"You-" The four idiots glared at Zhou Xuan, about to be annoyed and angry.
Zhou Xuan hurriedly said: "Don't talk about it, guess the color of the insect, green, yellow, red, black, white, which color?" You guessed it, you can let me do one thing for you, of course, not too much, as much as I can. β
The four idiots stretched out their voices and said, "I know, it's hard to win a little bit of you, you only get in and can't go - okay, I'll guess -
At this time, the crickets in the bamboo tube suddenly screamed several times, and the bamboo tube resonated and "buzzed" softly.
Zhou Xuan made a helpless expression and said: "This cricket has reported the news, and I am doomed." β
The corners of the four idiots' mouths curled, a smile flashed, and they said, "I guess it's a black-backed worm." β
Zhou Xuan smiled slightly, and dumped the crickets in the bamboo tube on the table, but it was a yellow-backed insect.
The four idiots said in frustration: "I lost, I was really dizzy and tinnitus, and I couldn't even distinguish the cries of yellow-backed insects and black-backed insects, alas! β
Zhou Xuan smiled: "Watch me play tricks and turn yellow-backed insects into black-backed insects." As he spoke, he poured out a few more blades of grass from the bamboo tube and wiped them on the back of the cricket a few times.
The eyes of the four idiots widened sharply: "Ah, it's a black-backed worm, it turns out that it is stained with yellow mud on its back!" Zhou Xuan said with a smile: "It rained in the morning, and there was soft mud everywhere, and the crickets were not stained with mud." β
The fourth idiot said: "Fortunately, I didn't make a bet, otherwise this worm can be black and yellow, no matter how you guess, I will lose." β
Zhou Xuan smiled: "It's good to understand, it's good to understand." Haha, you guessed it, I lost the bet this time. You can ask me to do one thing for you-" staring at the bulging chest under the green shirt of the four idiots, I want to help her treat the inverted buds, this is a disease, it can't be cured, it is better to be strong!
The four idiots thought for a while and said, "I want to ask my master to help me catch a fierce insect at the rank of lieutenant general or above, which is better than last year." β
Zhou Xuan agreed: "Okay, I can't catch it this year, I can't catch it next year, and I can't catch it next year." I have a proposal-"
"What proposal?" The four idiots were alert, she knew that Zhou Xuan must have a proposal for every bet. Ten is a ruse.
Zhou Xuan said: "I am like catching a fierce insect above the level of lieutenant general. And won the championship in the insect war of the five countries of Xingwangfu, then you have to promise me one thing, don't ask anything first. I won't hurt you anyway. β
"Promise you what? Let's talk about it first. β
"Don't say it, just ask if you dare to bet?"
The four idiots said: "You haven't said what if you didn't win the championship." β
Zhou Xuan laughed: "Fourth, you are quite fine, okay, if you win the championship, you will promise me one thing, and if you don't win the championship, I will promise you the same thing, that is, what will I do to you if I win, and you will do the same to me if you win." That's always fair, right? β
Speaking of betting. Speaking of gambling bugs, the four idiots feel excited. The insect war of the five countries is really full of fierce insects, and he said: "Okay, a word is decided!" However, does the master really want to go to Xingwangfu? β
Zhou Xuan said: "On the emperor's order, of course I want to go, don't regret not going to fight so fiercely!" β
The four idiots said: "Now the prince of the Southern Han Dynasty still doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, if he is dead, how can Liu Jixing still be in the mood to hold the Five Kingdoms Insect War!" β
Zhou Xuan said: "Liu Shousu will not die, even if he is caught by Wu Yueren, he will not kill him, and that Chen Yanshou is a traitor, he should be able to escape with Liu Shousu, I want to talk to the Pan patriarch in the afternoon, but I didn't see her, it is estimated that I went to Changxi County to find out the truth of my identity, and I will soon know whether the Snow Pig Prince has been arrested." β
The four idiots said: "The master really wants to give Princess Qingle to the snow pig?" I think the owner also likes Qingle Princess Land. β
Zhou Xuan grinned, knowing that he couldn't hide the matter of painting and dancing with Princess Qingle on the boat, and said: "When I find Liu Shousu, let him gamble with me, Liu Shousu is also a fan of insects, I bet on the worm to win him, and he won't lose the princess to meβno, it's not that I lost to me, it's for me to take the princess back to Jinling intact." β
The four idiots said: "Duplicity, want to cover up." Nodding his head, he said, "Well, you can win everything, and now you have to win other people's crown princess-" Suddenly remembering something, he lowered his head and laughed.
Zhou Xuan said: "What are you laughing at? What's so funny about that? Gambling loses wives - losing wives and children abounds. β
The four idiots barely stopped laughing and said: "I'm not laughing at you for winning the Southern Han Princess, I'm laughing at the Southern Han Prince's affection for the master, maybe the Southern Han Crown Prince and the Crown Princess will go back to Jinling with the master." β
"Wow, wow, fourth, shut up for me, don't say it again!" Zhou Xuan stuck his throat and vomited.
The four idiots laughed out loud.
The voice of the chief of the mountain came from the courtyard: "Lord Zhou-Lord Zhou-"
Zhou Xuanying said: "Over here." β
Panshan Chang held a torch in his hand, the flames were brilliant, and he bowed to Zhou Xuan outside the door and said: "Lord Zhou, the bonfire duet is about to start, and my family patriarch invites the adults to participate, and the adults' subordinates also go." β
The four idiots said: "I'm not going." β
Zhou Xuan said: "Well, the fourth child, you have a good rest, let this black-backed insect accompany you, and the insect song is not bad." β
The four idiots despised and said, "A black-backed worm! β
Zhou Xuan said as he walked out: "Don't underestimate the black-backed worm, do you have to touch the black-backed worm?" β
The four idiots said: "I can't touch that kind of alien worm, it's hard to pick one out of a thousand." Seeing that Zhou Xuan stepped out of the threshold, she couldn't protect herself, she felt a little sorry in her heart, and said, "Master, be careful." β
Zhou Xuan also looked back and smiled: "It's okay, it's all Shanha's friends, you can practice pranayama, it's good early, I need you, I can't do without you." Before the words fell, Zhou Xuan hurriedly followed the chief of the mountain and left, saying it was too sensational to even bear it.
Doctor Fang is nearly fifty years old, old and strong, and also wears Shanha man's clothes, and is very enthusiastic about participating in the bonfire duet song. Mrs. Fang's real interest should be those beautiful and innocent mountain girls.
Mindi Shanha is monogamous, but it is said that such a bonfire party is as long as both men and women agree. You can avoid everyone, find a secluded place to love, and leave separately in the morning, which has a very one-night stand.
Xu Mingjiang didn't want to go to the land, but his beautiful wife Mei Zhi said that he wanted to see and see, Xu Mingjiang knew that such a duet Mei Zhi was likely to see and see which young and handsome Shanha man went to the arms, Shanha people retain ancient customs, women are respected, and they don't care about these things. He Xu Mingjiang is Han, and he cares a lot. Since killing brown sugar with his own hands. Xu Mingjiang's masculinity has doubled, and his wife will never be allowed to have other men, but Xu Mingjiang loves his wife very much. I couldn't bear to be scared of Mei Zhi, so I agreed to go with Mei Zhi.
The loyal and honest Lihu followed behind Zhou Xuan with the golden retriever Lulu.
A group of five people came to the outside of the village from the back gate of the bamboo village under the leadership of the chief of the mountain, which is a valley with gentle slopes and cleared trees, sparse and clear, without those miscellaneous bushes. Camellias, pine chrysanthemums, bananas, cinnamon, okra, etc. are planted all over the place...... Under the hazy moonlight. Flowers and trees are swaying, and the fragrance of flowers is floating.
People pass under the flower trees. Even the garments are fragrant.
Three bonfires are burning in a large open space, nearly 100 young men and women are already singing and dancing, August 13, the bright moon will be full, such a night can dance and sing to their heart's content.
As soon as Zhou Xuan and others arrived, there was a beautiful mountain girl offering sweet and sour fruit wine, and the chief of the mountain said happily: "It has rained for several days in a row, I was worried that it would not be sunny tonight, and when I saw the moon, I didn't think that the dark clouds in the sky would be dispersed with the arrival of the distinguished guests, this is the blessing of the snake king, and Lord Zhou is the envoy of the snake king." β
Zhou Xuan looked at the dancing crowd, and couldn't help but want to jump, he was active by nature and would dance fiercely in the streets, but he couldn't dance in the mud, and the street dance looked too much like juggling in the eyes of people in this era, which did not match his current identity.
Pan Shan Chang handed five wood carving masks to Zhou Xuan and the five people, this wood carving mask is strange and fanged, hideous and terrifying, mainly red, blue, black and white, and the color is extremely distinct.
Panshan Chang handed one of the masks to Zhou Xuan and said, "Lord Zhou, before the Mid-Autumn Festival sacrifice, first use the Wu dance to drive away evil spirits and pray for blessings, please wear this mask, we need the blessing of Lord Zhou in Xiapu Mountain." β
Zhou Xuan smiled and took the wood carving mask and asked, "Where is the Pan Patriarch?" β
Pan Shan Chang pointed to the dancing crowd and said, "The great patriarch is in this crowd, please ask Lord Zhou to look for it." β
Zhou Xuanxin said: "Interesting, interesting, masquerade!" β
Lihu had some trouble wearing the mask, because the chief of the mountain said that the golden retriever Lulu couldn't get close to the crowd of Nu Wu, but Lulu and Lihu were inseparable.
Zhou Xuan asked Lihu to watch the excitement on the side, and he walked towards the bonfire with Fang Taiyi and Xu Mingjiang and his wife wearing hideous masks.
The drums of "Dong Dong Dong" are like torrential rain, the sound of the sharp and clear pan flute is like flowing water, and there are several kinds of music, Zhou Xuan can't tell what kind of instrument is played, it should be a unique instrument of the Shanha people.
Zhou Xuan's arms were stretched out like eagle wings, his feet rose and fell sharply, the amplitude was very small, and he came to an Irish tap dance, shuttling through the dancing crowd while dancing, to find the beautiful Xiapu Shanha female patriarch, there were about forty or fifty Shanha women dancing by the three bonfires, all of them were slender and danced, and they didn't see any bloated and obese, which should be related to the life in the mountains, coming and going in the mountains, working hard, and being naturally slender.
Zhou Xuan has a talent that will never be forgotten by beautiful women, as long as the beautiful matriarch is in this dancing crowd, even if she is wearing a mask, Zhou Xuan will definitely be able to recognize her, don't look at Zhou Xuan's eyes are a little short-sighted, looking at the beauty is not ambiguous at all, this is the painter's keen intuition!
The beautiful matriarch is taller than the average Shanha woman, the Shanha people are generally short, the men are generally below 1.65 meters, and the women rarely have 1.6 meters, but the beautiful matriarch is over 1.6 meters, about the same as a sewing needle, 1.62 meters in appearance, the legs are very long, and it looks taller.
Jumping and jumping, the Imperial Doctor Fang and Xu Mian and his wife, who were originally following him, didn't know where to jump, Zhou Xuan's three bonfires were all over, but he didn't see the shadow of the female patriarch.
Suddenly, a soprano-like voice sang: "The sun is setting in the mountain and the mountain is yellow, I saw my brother coming into the village, my sister has nothing to entertain, so I will come to play a pair of songs tonight." β
As soon as the song was sung, the drums disappeared suddenly, and only the pan flute was still playing happily.
The dancing crowd fell silent, looking around one by one, waiting for someone to sing?
Zhou Xuan thought to himself, who else should I be, these Shanha people must have been told in advance, to let the distinguished guests sing first, if I don't sing, no one else dares to sing, Amitabha, sins and sins, so he cleared his throat and sang:
"Heyβ
The moon comes out bright and bright and bright -
I think of my brother in the deep mountains-"The girl doesn't surround the bonfire, she dances around Zhou Xuan, gossiping, warbler Yanyan, please sing another song, the song just now is so beautiful, they are ashamed of themselves, they can't sing it."
Zhou Xuan searched for dry intestines, thinking about what song to sing, to meet the occasion, to have national customs, suddenly remembered, he bowed his hand to everyone, and sang:
"The big river is full of water, but I don't know how deep the river is? Throw a stone to test the depth, sing a mountain song and try the sister's heart. β
More than 100 people laughed loudly, and the laughter went straight to the sky, dispelling the only remaining floating clouds in the sky, and the moon in the high sky became brighter.
Suddenly, a hand gently held Zhou Xuan's wrist, Zhou Xuan looked back, the blue-faced fangs were close at hand, the mask was particularly vicious, and it was so close that it startled Zhou Xuan, and then looked down, wow, good figure, cardigan, blue tight-fitting skirt, 100-section shoes, bare arms and ankles wearing silver bracelets and chrysons, and they sounded in pieces.
This woman has a thin waist and round hips, and her figure is also very beautiful, but Zhou Xuan can see that this is not a matriarch, the matriarch is slender than this woman below the waist, with a similar height, but long legs.
The ghost-faced woman took Zhou Xuan's left wrist, pointed towards the back mountain, and pulled Zhou Xuan hard to leave.
Zhou Xuanxin said: "No, this is going to be a one-night stand?" Buddy is not such a casual person, the main thing is that now is not the time to have fun, I still have to discuss things with the Pan patriarch. Just about to push, but at least six or seven Shanha girls hugged him behind him, "Gege" smiled coquettishly, more than a dozen palms pressed on Zhou Xuan's shoulders and pushed Zhou Xuan away, and a few hands were still pinched on Zhou Xuan's fatless wolf waist and sturdy big **.
Zhou Xuan was a little frightened and shouted: "It's too much, it's too much, I have to hurry tomorrow." β
The group of girls burst into laughter and said in unison: "No more, no less, I will not neglect the distinguished guests." β
Zhou Xuan turned his head to look, not far away, Lihu led Lulu back and forth as if on patrol, it was not good to call Lihu here, let the golden retriever Lulu scare away these beautiful girls, that was too slight, not buddy's style.
Just hesitated, Zhou Xuan was pulled and pulled, pulled and pushed into the back mountain, the back mountain on both sides is a neat osmanthus tree, the osmanthus blooms in August, the fragrance is strong, and the moonlight of Ling Ling is in causf, making people dreamlike.
At the end of the osmanthus tree, a two-story bamboo building appeared, where there was no one and the sound of bonfire singing was far away.
The girls who were pushing Zhou Xuan giggled and said, "Okay, the distinguished guest has arrived, and we will guard it here." β
Only the ghost-faced woman who pulled Zhou Xuan's wrist before still didn't let go, dragging Zhou Xuan into the bamboo building.
At this time, Zhou Xuan's body was not in charge, so he had to follow the customs.