It was just dark, and almost all the shops were holding bamboo poles and hanging ten thousand whips in front of the doors. I don't know which shop guy lit the medicine twist on the Wanxiang whip first, and the crisp and bright sound of firecrackers made people feel refreshed, and suddenly rang out one after another on the streets of Sijiu City!

With the sound of the firecrackers, I don't know which trading shop invited the ringer team to play the "Lantern Festival Music" first, and it is almost the same as stepping on the loudspeaker team to play the eyes, a lotus statue of Guanyin Buddha and Bodhisattva has been carried to the street. When a character who understood the reason saw it, he immediately shouted in a loud voice: "Hey, this porcelain Li family is really a master who speaks seriously!" Last August, the New Year's Eve invited Guanyin Buddha and Bodhisattva lanterns to worship, and today it is really brought out! ”

As soon as the words came out, the master who liked to inquire about all kinds of movements and reasons on the street immediately caught up with the conversation: "This lord, this porcelain Li family invites Guanyin Buddha and Bodhisattva lanterns, what's so particular about the head here?" ”

"Don't you know? In August last year, the old lady of the porcelain Li family had a serious illness, the sons of the porcelain Li family are all filial sons, and they have been waiting for two months, and the temple also made a big wish to eat a long fast and invite Guanyin Buddha and Bodhisattva lanterns! Coincidentally, it was almost the second day before the Buddha made a wish, and the old lady of the Li family was able to eat and drink. ”

"Huh...... This is really a first-class loyal minister and filial son, and the Buddha blesses such a character! ”

"Who's to say it isn't? You look at the lantern of the Li family, the Guanyin Buddha and Bodhisattva, the purple bamboo of the lotus seat is from the Putuo Mountain Dojo, and the golden body of the Guanyin Buddha and Bodhisattva can be really pasted out of real gold. There are nine hundred and eighty-one eight-treasure glass lamps next to the lotus seat, guess what the origin is? ”

"Look at this posture...... Which wealthy family has to be enshrined in the Buddha Hall? ”

"What you said is also marginal - what was enshrined in the Buddha hall where Lafayette Cixi worshiped Buddha in the Forbidden City was these ninety-nine eighty-one eight-treasure glass lamps!"

Before waiting for the character to answer, he smacked his tongue in surprise. On the street, there are shops carrying out a Maitreya Buddha seated statue lamp. I don't know how the characters in the merchant shop figured it out, the mouth of the Maitreya Buddha sitting statue can still open and close slowly, and the butter candle in the belly of the Maitreya Buddha also goes out with the movement of Maitreya Buddha's mouth, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a living Buddha descended into the world, and is looking at the beautiful scenery in front of him laughing and spitting golden light.

Almost immediately, the Maitreya Buddha sat on the street with the lantern of the statue of Maitreya, and the lanterns were bought and sold by various businesses and the mansions of wealthy families. They have also been asked to move out one after another. Especially on Zhushikou Street, many young men in the shops of many merchants are clustered with freshly tied lanterns, bowing to the neighbors who come to see the lanterns, and the auspicious words are constantly spoken, but a pair of eyes are scanning at other people's lanterns, and they can't see the benefits of each lantern at a glance, but also to see the unsightly boundary of the land.

That is, in the midst of the guys looking left and right on the shops of various businesses on Zhushikouer Street, the originally closed door of Huozhengmen suddenly opened, and the little apprentices in their twenties who were wearing new coats and neatly cleaned up and down shouted crisp bar heads. Knocking out of the spacious gatehouse, a lantern archway like a gatehouse suddenly caused a big uproar on the street.

The lantern archway lifted out of the main gate of the fire, the height is more than three zhang, the appearance regulation is to shine on the face of the main entrance of the fire, the eaves flow tiles, the stone railing steps are the same, and even the eight small windows on the second floor of the door face are not missing. Carry the first archway on a hollow large plaque, the three big characters of the main gate of the fire written on it are called the lights lit in the archway are particularly eye-catching. If you really want to put this lantern archway towards the street, maybe there is really a poor look at the foot towards the entrance of the archway to visit friends?

It is also regulated according to the appearance of the main entrance of the fire. The eight large lanterns on the head of the snake, scorpion, eagle, dog, rat, cow, chicken, monkey eight fighting beasts patterns are vivid. Look at the vivid appearance that is about to break the light.

Seeing that the little apprentices of the fire gate carrying the lantern archway were carefully putting the lantern archway on two large shelf cars tied together, a number of people who were watching the lively scene on the street suddenly pointed to the lantern archway taken out of the main gate of the fire, shook their heads and muttered: "On the fire main gate, the lantern archway, the workmanship has taken a lot of thought?" This is alive, it is to extend the face of the main gate of the fire, isn't it? ”

"This lord, you are right! Don't say anything about the side, this lantern archway accounts for a 'big' word! I remember the archway that showed its face at the lantern festival in the early years, and it was two feet high, right? ”

"It's a pity....... There is really a fly in the ointment! What can be taken out on this lantern archway is the eight fighting beasts in his main gate. Let's talk about the benefits....... But can't we talk about it? Shelved at this year's lantern fair, the lantern archway at the main gate of the fire, can you get the word 'good' when you top the sky? ”

"Dare to love! I heard that this year, the main gate of the fire did not invite the master of the lampsmith's shop to tie this lantern at all, and it was good to have such a lantern archway by relying on the master of the main gate of the fire to make the lantern archway by himself! ”

"I have to say that the days of poking the flag at the entrance of the fire are short, and the rules of the scene have not yet been understood. How else can such a leak come out? Looking at the lantern archway, there is no less money on the top, but it has not been able to fall out of the way, this time the fire is in the main entrance of the scene, but it is really lagging behind......"

In the chaotic voice, I don't know who glanced at the lantern archway raised from the main entrance of the fire, and suddenly pointed to a row of small windows open on the lantern archway and shouted: "Ladies and gentlemen, hurry up and see what it is?" ”

Listening to the shouting movement, many people on the street who were watching the excitement suddenly looked at the windows that opened and closed on the lantern archway. As the eight small windows opened again, and under the light of the bright butter candle, a large python with green scales quickly swam between the windows, and as it crawled, it made the whirring sound of snakes spitting letters.

Before the exclamations that sounded on the street fell, the eight small windows opened and closed again. A large black scorpion was already slowly poking its head out of each window. As soon as the black scorpion pincers opened and closed, the scorpion tail with barbs also stretched out from the window from time to time, and the sharp whistling sound quickly gathered the thorns, which really revealed a fierce appearance.

In the midst of bursts of exclamations and admiration, all kinds of fighting beasts were constantly poking their heads out of the eight windows that were constantly opening and closing on the lantern archway, dancing with the whistling sounds of all kinds of fighting beasts. Cycle after cycle, and back and forth!

With a smug smile on his face that couldn't be concealed, in the gate of the main gate of Huozheng, Na Jiuye and the others, who were wearing tufts of new guest clothes, came out at this time, politely greeting and making friends with the people from all walks of life who rushed forward. And in the alley outside the small corner gate of the second courtyard of the main gate of the fire, Nalan, who had already carefully cleaned up and dressed up, also took a few children of the Xie Men Shen family to the entrance of the main gate of the fire, looking up at the bright lantern archway, and the faces of the adults and children were all happy.

Seeing this lively scene, Na Jiuye, who had a pair of arms and ears full of compliments, had a smile on his face. shouted at the crowd who rushed to the entrance of the main gate of the fire with a loud voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, you have raised this little thing from my main gate of fire so much, Na Jiu has thanked you all the old and young masters here!" It's really not early this day, let's take a step under our feet, and we're walking towards the overpass, right? This year's lantern festival can make you look at a lot of good things, let's go to the ground of the overpass to see this excitement? ”

In the roaring applause, the crowd gathered in front of the main gate of the fire suddenly moved slowly, surrounding the people in the main gate of the fire and the eye-catching lantern archway. Slowly moved towards the floor of the bridge. Along the way, new lanterns are constantly adding to the bustling crowd. Gradually, on the streets of Sijiu City, a trend of combining people and lanterns has converged.

Squeezed out a heavy sweat, Xiang Youbao finally squeezed to Nalan's side in the crowd, helped Nalan protect several children of Xie Menshen's family, and slowly walked forward with the pace of the crowd. Under the light of the dazzling lanterns, Xiang Youbao saw the golden crested hairpin on Nalan's head at a glance, and immediately said to Nalan with a smile: "Sister." You put on this hairpin....... Seriously...... It's so beautiful! ”

With a crimson face, Nalan reached out and helped the hairpin tied in the bun, and gently flew towards the smiling Xiangyou leopard beside him: "What are you smiling at?" There is no one before and after the person, this is ...... How can people live with them in the future? ”

Although Nalan's voice was getting lower and lower, the leopard heard Nalan's half-true anger word for word. Look left and right, the eyes of the big guys are fixed on the lantern archway. Xiang Youbao suddenly grabbed Nalan's slap with the boldness: "Sister, as long as you can take care of me by my side, won't that day go on day by day?" ”

Gently slapped back, Nalan saw Xiang Youbao squeeze his slap firmly, so he could only throw another roll of his eyes at Xiang Youbao: "Hurry up and let go........ Let go! Somebody is watching......."

Shaking his head, Xiang Youbao pretended to look left and right: "Where is there anyone watching?" Uncle Na and Uncle She are talking to people, Uncle Xie and Uncle Hu are talking with Old Man Hong, and even Master Yan is ....... with Nine Monkeys."

As if he suddenly remembered something, Xiang Youbao stopped talking suddenly, and Zhengse whispered to Nalan: "Who else is there in the mouth of the hall today?" ”

Blinking a pair of big watery eyes, Nalan shook his head in surprise: "Today's Lantern Festival, my father said that everyone should relax for a day, and they will all come out to watch the Lantern Festival soon, and Uncle Xie's aunt is not well-organized, so she rested early......."

With round eyes, Xiang Youbao suddenly let go of Nalan's slap, and shouted at Nalan urgently: "All out?" Didn't that church just sing about the empty city plan? No, I have to go back to the entrance of the hall........"

Before the words fell, from the street in the direction of the main entrance of the fire, a noisy shout like a sea wave suddenly sounded, but it was so shadowy that people couldn't hear what they were shouting? After a few moments, a red light suddenly jumped in the night sky, which had been illuminated by lanterns everywhere!

They didn't care about it, and with a sudden effort under the feet of the leopard, they jumped on the rack car with lanterns like lightning. By the cold wind blowing from the slightly higher realm, the leopard only heard the shouting of one ear with the wind, and his face had turned pale!

At this time, there were also people in the crowd with nimble ears, and the shadow heard the shout coming from the direction of the main gate of the fire: "Go to the water....... Fire main gate hall...... Walk the water, ......." (to be continued.) )