After saying goodbye to the Li family's father and daughter, the two left the central area and continued to go to the second half of the festival long street, enjoying the excitement and noise of the spring festival.

"Brother, there is also a fireworks display at night, and the best viewing place is on Wishing Mountain." Ye Bai ate the marshmallow in his hand while pointing to a certain location on the mountain: "It's almost evening, let's go into the mountain early, take a good place to watch the fireworks, what do you think?" ”

"Okay, I think that's a good idea."

Ye Kong had no reason to refuse, so he naturally agreed with his sister's idea.

However, it is still early in the evening, and they can play on the long street for a while.

Today's festival long street is more lively than in previous years, and even, Ye Kong also saw some tourists with large bones who obviously belong to the Xiya time zone, and came to play at the spring festival.

In the era of the Federation, the whole world was divided into regions by time zones, with a total of 24 time zones, which were roughly divided into the Sea-Wood time zone and the East Asian time zone.

Among them, the residents of the West Asian time zone, their bones are larger, inheriting the characteristics of the last century, and the general height and physique are slightly taller than the average of the East Asian time zone. Similarly, their average life expectancy is not as good as that of the East Asian time zone, which in some ways can be regarded as a mutual pros and cons.

As a result, although people's eye color and hair are no longer uniform due to genetic improvement, they can still distinguish 'out-of-area' and 'native' by their body shape and bone characteristics.

As the signature of Sheung Shui City, the Spring Festival also attracts some tourists from other districts, who flock to the festival street from thousands of miles away, lined up in high spirits, no different from the locals.

"Brother, let's go eat that." Ye Bai pointed to a stall on the side of the road, his face was full of expectations and memories, so when Ye Kong heard this, he saw a noodle stall and a very terrifying long queue.

"Okay, then we'll eat that."

Ye Kong covered his head, but said a little dotingly: "You go to occupy the position first, and I will help you line up to buy sacrificial noodles." ”

Hearing this, Ye Bai said happily: "Well, my brother is the best!" I want a full set of sacrificial noodles of Wufu! ”

In this regard, Ye Kong shook his head helplessly-

"Don't worry, I'll always remember that."

Half an hour later

"Whew, I finally bought it back."

Ye Kong hurriedly ran to Ye Bai with two large bowls of steaming noodle soup and hurriedly put them down.

"Wow, I almost burned to death." After Ye Kong put down the big bowl, he complained a little: "This queue is too long, I waited for nearly half an hour before it was our turn to put the noodles in the pot........"

"The business is so good, the queue time will naturally be long." Ye Bai shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "There's no way, who called it the only traditional sacrificial noodle in Sheung Shui City, and the other masters who can make sacrificial noodles have either passed away, or they are too old to make noodles, only Liu Lao is left, and his body is quite tough, and he can stand up and set up a sacrificial noodle stall." ”

The festival noodles, like the spring festival, are also a folk thing in Sheung Shui City, mainly made of buckwheat noodles, with the broth and toppings of the local chicken, and some meat and vegetable ingredients to make a fresh and hot noodle soup.

Among them, the five blessings include fried meat skin, black fungus, handmade meatballs, spring bamboo shoots and new bright shrimp, which symbolize peace, health, happiness, joy and longevity. At the same time, there are five kinds of vegetarian dishes as ingredients, which correspond to 'benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith', which is the five constants in Confucian culture.

This traditional noodle can only be eaten during the spring festival.

"However, although the queue was hard, I was not idle." Ye Bai pointed to the table and said in a teasing tone: "Brother, do you know how many accosters I rejected in order to occupy the table?" When you were in line, at least double-digit boys came up, and they came up and said, 'Beauty, are you eating noodles alone?' Why don't we ....... together' or something, my ears are almost calloused. ”

Saying that, Ye Bai shrugged his shoulders helplessly and made a grimace: "Such an old-fashioned way of picking up, it's really a shame that they can say it, and they don't know how to learn from others, if they are the same as someone, they use the correct way to pick up......."

Ye Kong heard her voice, and couldn't help but pause with chopsticks, obviously concerned: "Someone? You say the right way to pick up, what does that mean? If it's convenient, can you tell me about it......"

As an elder brother who cares about the family, his sister was accosted and said the word 'correct', which naturally made him extremely concerned, and even faintly had an urge to pull out the other party and make it disappear.

"Oh~, you said someone?"

Ye Bai smiled slyly, supported his chin with both hands, and pretended to recall: "That person's accosting is amazing, and he persuaded me in one sentence: sister, let's go to see fireworks together at night, if it's too late to get a taxi, let's find a small hotel to spend the night - anyway, my parents also traveled, and it was the same whether we went home or not." ”

Saying that, Ye Bai also added: "Which stupid person came up with a bad idea?" As a result, neither he nor I were adults, nor even had an ID card, so we couldn't open a hotel room at all, so we had to walk home. ”

At that time, Ye Kong was still young, and the two were also ignorant, thinking that the hotel was just a place to sleep, and had no other purpose, and anyone could run to open a room. Therefore, Ye Kong, who was a bear child, planned a plan to watch fireworks alone, and by the way, he pitted his sister.

"Ahem..... Ahem! Let's eat noodles quickly, the batter won't taste good. ”

Ye Kong picked up the chopsticks as if he changed the topic, reached into the bowl and scooped up the light brown noodles, and a strong fragrance rushed to his face, making his index finger move and eat it while it was hot.

Ye Bai was one step ahead of him, and he had already eaten the sacrificial noodles, his delicate red lips were agitating, faintly visible, and his teeth were gnawing on the elastic noodles, making a 'swooping' sound, which was pleasant and could not help but lead to reverie.

"Woo~, this taste is so good, it's really an old craft!"

Ye Bai took a sip of hot soup, his eyes narrowed so comfortably, and he didn't recall: "When I was a child, our favorite thing to eat was sacrificial noodles........"

"Yes, I still remember that there is a local legend about the sacrifice noodles." Ye Kong put down his chopsticks and said with full recollection: "In ancient times, Shangshui City was a feudal land, and the clan that ruled this place at that time suffered a serious famine, and the onmyoji of the clan said: 'It's just the beginning of the disaster, if you want to avoid everything, you can only sacrifice the purest bloodline'." ”

So they sacrificed their firstborn son, and although the famine was quelled, weeping was often heard in the middle of the night in the years that followed. At this time, the onmyoji of the clan said, "If you want to appease the resentment of the eldest son, then hold a spring festival once a year" - and in this way, the spring festival was born. ”

After speaking, Ye Kong couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, because he thought of a strange thing.

The Spring Festival in Sheung Shui City is, in essence, similar to the 'myths' of the Demon World, but the problem is that there are no 'myths' in the real world, only some anecdotes.......

in other words

In real-world folklore, there are no gods.