79. New Year's celebration

The days passed day by day under the enrichment of trivial things such as martial arts training, shopping and entertainment, and taking care of business. Soon it will be the annual New Year's celebration of the world of Iber.

By the way, in the world of Iber, the year is divided into twelve months, each month has four weeks, and each week has seven days, for a total of three hundred and thirty-six days in the year. It was twenty-nine days less than the three hundred and sixty-five days of a year that traveled through the Earth world where they had previously lived.

The New Year's celebration is the first day of January every year in the continental calendar, and it is said that this day is the day when mankind built the first city in the world of Iber, laying the foundation for the establishment of the human city-state.

On the day of the celebration, the town of Praile, the main town of Prairly, was bustling with people. Many townspeople watched the wandering entertainers performing magic tricks or juggling in the open spaces along the streets, and a large group of children under the flower pillars happily danced around the pillars with ribbons. In the town's small churches, priests celebrate Mass for the faithful and lead them in prayer to the gods they worship. In the shops of the shopping street, the shelves are full of goods, and the vendors stand in front of the store shouting and shouting to attract buyers. The tavern is filled with noise, and the smell of food escapes from every house in the streets and alleys. Even the guards who are responsible for maintaining law and order in the town are very leisurely when they patrol and perform duties inside and outside the town.

The annual New Year's celebration is one of the most joyous times in human towns, and even farmers with modest incomes will take out their savings for a year to visit the surrounding towns and shopping streets in order to buy some affordable New Year's goods.

At noon, as the bell tower in the center of the town rang out loud with the sound of bells, the townspeople and the surrounding villages rushed to join in the fun.

At this time, the Travelers also participated in the town's celebration as guests invited by Kashya, and the Hawke sisters accompanied everyone to introduce the process of the annual festival in Prailly Town.

A woman dressed in a nun-like costume stood on a ceremonial platform in the town square, chanting prayers in praise of the gods. A choir of girls from the town sang in a low voice, complementing the harmony.

Yang Qianyu listened to the content of the prayer while listening to the introduction of Meiling next to her, a blessing ceremony that is part of the annual celebration. The content of the prayer is very simple, it is nothing more than wishing that the demons will be dispersed soon, that the gods will bless people more, and that this year's harvest will be as good as ever...... And so on and so forth. According to Meiling, in fact, the content of the blessing prayer is similar every year, but in order not to make people hear the same, the scholars in charge of writing the prayer in the territory have to rack their brains every year to find a way to change it, at least the wording of the prayer and some words of praise must be changed.

The prayer is long, but this is a prayer to the gods for peace in the new year. Everyone dared not listen, and they had to listen attentively. However, the voices of the choir girls were euphemistic, so that everyone, including the traversal, did not find it boring, and all the people looked up, and everyone listened quietly, regardless of whether they had faith or which god they believed in.

Meiling whispered to the people who traveled through the ceremony, introducing the origin of the friar on the stage - the friar in charge of blessing was the head of a church organization called the 'Blind Sisters' in Praile's territory, 'Akara Thea', and it is said that this friar had a relationship with the mother of the lord Count Kasha, and had participated in many national wars against demon invasions many years ago. Later, because he was blinded by a demon in a battle, he was no longer fit to fight, so he came to Prailly Town to live a semi-secluded life.

Although Akara is crippled, his ability has not regressed much. In addition to being a high-ranking priest, she also has the level of a high-ranking physician. Acala, who lived in seclusion in the town of Prailly, trained a group of doctors and priests to serve the Leopold family, the landlords of the place where he lived, and often consulted and treated the people in the town and surrounding villages, so Acala was a benevolent man who was loved by everyone from the lord to the people in the territory of Prailly.

While Meiling was whispering to the crowd, Akara standing on the stage finished chanting the last prayer and ended the blessing prayer. According to the process of the New Year's celebration, after the blessing is completed, the next thing is the town's revelry, which will last until the sun sets.

"Praise be to the gods!" The crowd erupted in overwhelming cheers. Immediately afterwards, the residents of the whole town took out the food and wine that had already been made, and the tables of food and barrels of wine appeared almost instantly all over the square. The scene changed so quickly that Yang Qianyu almost thought that everyone present had a space storage ring full of food and wine with him.

The whole town became a sea of joy, full of townspeople eating, drinking, talking and laughing, whether they knew each other or not, when they met, they would first toast a glass of wine, and then they would toast to each other and drink it all. There was a lot of noise and laughter everywhere.

Among the revelry crowd, there were also many ordinary warriors of the Rogge Knights and knights from civilian families, and even Li Xiang and the others who traveled through the crowd were infected by such a joyful atmosphere and then participated in it. As for the lord of Prailly, Kasha and her vassals did not participate in this carnival, but they also set up a sumptuous banquet on the balcony of the villa by the town square, and watched the noise of the people under his command while celebrating the arrival of the new year, and felt the joy of the people.

Yang Qianyu did not join the crowd in the revelry, but alone took a large plate of barbecue meat and a large bottle of milk mixed with juice, and found the roof of a house that was closest to the square, of a suitable height and slightly flat. Sit on the rooftop and pour yourself a drink while looking down on the crowds in the square and feel the joyful atmosphere.

Unknowingly, Yang Qianyu and his friends have been coming to this fantasy world of Yber for a year.

A wonderful life like a dream, but he already has some feeling of being reincarnated.

After crossing over, he has experienced so many life-and-death battles, even Yang Qianyu, who yearns for a passionate life, feels a little tired.

So even if the activities in the square were joyful and the banquet was enthusiastic, Yang Qianyu was reluctant to get involved.

After the carnival began, many people fell drunk on the streets, but the doctors in Prairly Town had already prepared for this, and bottles of hangover antidotes were distributed, and suddenly a group of people were alive and well. Immediately after that, the drunken man continued to play, and so on from noon until evening. Anyway, if you get dizzy, drink a bottle of hangover elixir to relieve hangover, and then drink it again. Anyway, ordinary ale and wine are not high in alcohol, and they can't get drunk.

Many people like the atmosphere of drinking, many people like to drink intoxicated, some people are still drinking, and some people simply lie down on the side of the road to sleep, and they are not afraid of freezing to death at night.

However, the guards in the town were prepared for this, because it seemed that every year, they would move the drunken fellows to a large warehouse by the square, and cover them with a layer of hay. This will minimize their exposure to freezing. Then they just have to go home when they wake up – if only their families could find them in time and carry them home, of course.

But after nightfall, the whole town suddenly fell silent. The speed of its quietness made Yang Qianyu feel weird. In Yang Qianyu's cognition, a day like the New Year's celebration should be lively all day long, and even when the sun sets, the celebration program should not be quiet so quickly. The current situation is indeed a bit confusing.