Chapter 383: The Scramble (33)
On the square in front of Xingqing Palace, countless Yulin Army sergeants separated the palace gate, and several fires were lit on the huge square, and the sound of "crackling" firecrackers was heard from time to time.
The firecrackers in this time and space are a piece of sun-dried bamboo.
The crowds around the square are surging, and people come from all over the world just to witness the annual Da Da Da with their own eyes.
To put it simply, it is a ritual to exorcise ghosts, with the meaning of praying for the coming year, the big Da outside the Xingqing Palace, which is of an official nature, of course, is more authoritative, and the people just want to take advantage of this to get a little luck for themselves, so many people, maybe only Liu Ji is completely out of curiosity.
There are too many people, not to mention squeezing slowly, in order to grab a good seat, his subordinates have gathered over, Chen Jin took a few wrestlers to open the way in front, and the rest of the people were separated behind on both sides, finally separating a small space for them not to be disturbed.
Only then did Feng Hanyue understand how much thought Gorou had put into making himself happy.
Under the escort of these people, the little couple carried a lantern and walked unhurriedly in the flow of people, talking as if no one was around.
"The two are almost inseparable, which one is the green ghost and which one is the mountain ghost?"
Liu Ji held two masks in his empty hands, leather lacquer paintings, one was a blue-faced fang, and the other was a red-faced and black-eyed person, in his mind, the green-faced one was the green ghost, who knew that the girl snatched the red-faced mask from his hand and made a grimace proudly.
"Hugh wants to coax me, you were a green ghost last year, and you said that you would exchange it for the next year."
Liu Ji's heart moved, and he handed the rest of the mask to her other hand and hugged her slender waist.
"My daughter-in-law can pretend to do anything, let me see, get rid of a beautiful ghost, Hades has to run out of the underworld."
"Why did Hades run?" The girl tilted her head and blinked her eyes.
Liu Ji rolled his eyes, stuck out his tongue, and spread his hands.
"Scared."
"Okay, you're making fun of me."
Feng Hanyue "giggled", raised the mask in his hand and smashed it at him, the place was too small to run, Liu Ji squatted down and made a gesture of holding her head and running around, so that she could fight easier, the girl was also just pretending, laughing for a while, when he stood up, Chen Jin, who was opening the way in front, took a step back and said in a low voice.
"There are several people coming towards us, dressed in the same clothes, they should be the same group."
Liu Ji's smile disappeared all of a sudden, and he raised his head to find that he was almost at the square of Xingqing Palace.
"You deal with it, don't kill anyone."
"Hmm." Chen Jin answered, raised his hands in the air, and made a series of strange gestures towards the outer brothers.
Feng Hanyue saw his expression and asked nervously, "Is there trouble?" ”
Liu Ji turned his head and pressed her hand: "It's just a precaution, not necessarily coming at us." ”
The girl was obviously a little worried, and Liu Ji shook the mask with it.
"Aren't you going to pretend to be a ghost, why don't you wear it now."
"Good"
The girl didn't hesitate, the two put on their masks, and from the exposed eyes, Liu Ji only saw a grimace with a red face and black eyes and a long tongue, he didn't believe that anyone could recognize it.
Soon, there were several screams in the crowd, such a large flow of people, pushing and shoving people are common things, no one took it seriously, when the few slaves struggled to squeeze out of the crowd, the ugly man standing on the side of the street was already a little impatient.
"What about people?"
"If you go back to Your Highness, we did our best, but there were too many people and I don't know who tripped over the small one, and we were almost trampled to death."
"Yes, I don't know who kicked the small one and hit a woman, and the people around the world came to hit the small one, and I can't say clearly."
"Little ...... Small ones too. ”
"Rubbish, it's all rubbish!" The ugly man stomped his feet and scolded: "Go and call people, call more people, so-and-so still don't believe it, and the duck can fly to the beak." ”
"Your Highness, you can't, just a little movement, it has already alarmed the Yulin Army, this time, Da Da is about to start, the Son of Heaven can watch from above."
The man was reminded by his subordinates, and suddenly came to his senses, this is outside the palace walls of Xingqing Palace, and he is not allowed to be wild, having said that, looking at the crowd full of eyes, the man's face was unwilling, and even his crooked neck twisted out of the green tendons.
With the arrival of the Son of Heaven, the exorcism ceremony officially began, a group of nu masters holding raccoon dog tail canes came out of the palace gate, reciting a whisper that no one could understand, they were in groups of three or five, danced a simple dance around those fires, and the people who watched on the periphery of the square, all raised their hands high, prayed to the sky, Liu Ji looked left and right, and was immediately relieved, everyone put on masks, and the ghost knew who was who.
"One wishes the wind and rain are smooth, the second wishes the family is prosperous, and the third wishes are rising step by step......"
Listening to the greetings of the girl around him, Liu Ji unconsciously became pious, there are no virtual gods here, the people pray to the heavens, and ask for the heroic spirits of their ancestors, just like blowing out candles and catching meteors in later generations, pinning on the most simple willingness, which is the largest science in the world.
At this moment, he really hopes that his parents, brothers, and lovers in another time and space will be fine!
The long half-hour expulsion ceremony is the end of the people's mountain shouting "long live", on the high flower tower, only a few figures under the light of the lights, and for the people of Chang'an City, this is even if they see the holy face with their own eyes, they can blow the cowhide for a whole year.
After the ceremony, there are no hard and fast rules, but many people begin to disperse one after another, the new year is over, the next year begins, and life is the most important thing.
"Gorou, today is enough, let's go back." The girl tried to take off her mask, but he reached out to stop her.
"It's out, play for a while, do you want to go out of the city to see the river lanterns?"
The girl didn't say anything, and he had dragged her to the other end of the square, just in the opposite direction from where she had just come.
Opposite the Xingqing Palace is the Daozheng Fang, not far from the Chunming Gate, even the usual will not be open, only the day of Shangyuan, will be open until dawn, the reason is that as an important part of the festival, the river lantern is also a traditional project.
Of course, at this time, most of the people who have leisure to play are the children of rich families, and most of them are couples like them, and some of them even looked at each other not long ago, and immediately found a restaurant to open a room and roll the sheets? You think too much, go with the United States, and the lantern night tour is the flirtatious technique that Tang Shimin can think of.
At another intersection in the direction of Dongshi, those slaves stroked the scars on their faces and bodies, staring at the crowd of people walking by without blinking, but until the people were gone, the square gradually emptied, and they couldn't find the previous target, the reason is simple, most of the people still wear masks on their faces.
In the end, the ugly man did not give up, so he could only scold twice in the distance with hatred, and left unwillingly.