Chapter 113: Majestic Drums
For the memory of the New Year, there are not many motoo.
As early as Huangshi Village, grandpa did not have the ability to buy him a new dress, so the New Year represented grandpa's long sigh.
Later, he came to Yuwang Port with Mu Wei, and thanks to the wealth of his father-in-law Li Wu and the care of the brothers and sisters of the Liu family, Yuanwei tasted the fun of the festival for the first time.
But when he embarked on the road of cultivating immortals, Yuan Wei no longer had the concept of time. Sometimes the days are long and sometimes they are short, and those mortal festivals always slip by unconsciously.
The New Year in Shangdian Village is particularly special.
Perhaps they have been suppressed by the hardships of life for too long, and they urgently need a grand festival to indulge themselves.
Early in the morning, every household posted a fiery red couplet, which was the ink treasure of the old Xiucai in the village. The black ink made of charcoal ash and pine oil at the bottom of the pot shines on the red paper, which looks particularly festive.
Before the sun rises, in the hazy morning light, every house opens its door, and young people go from house to house to worship the New Year. The young men entered the hall and fell to their knees, saying auspicious blessings and kowtowing. And those girls put away the big grinning image on weekdays, as if they had twisted into a big family overnight, and when they arrived at the elders' house, they bent their knees shallow and said "Ten thousand blessings"...
Yuanwei was dragged by the big man and the second man to also travel away from everyone's house, kowtow to the elders, bless the peers, and take out a few copper plates as New Year's money when he meets the juniors...
The sun rose to a height of more than a zhang, and the old village chief Li Ma roared: "Let's go! The majestic drum is beating, let's all go to Xiadian Village to see the excitement!"
For a while, except for those old grandparents who couldn't walk, the whole village, men, women and children gathered into a flow of people and went straight to Xiadian Village. At the head of the team was a majestic drum corps composed of more than 20 young men. They wore the same white lambskin shoulders, black corset fat leg trousers, a copper basin-sized cowhide drum tied to their waists with red satin, and bare, sturdy arms smeared with lard, which were very dazzling in the cold winter bleakness.
"Erman's knock is wrong, oops, legs, legs, don't raise your legs so high..."
"The Great Wilderness is beating too hard, and the drum hasn't been broken by him when I get to Xiadian Village..."
"The three foals are not in a good position, take a look... Look at what's gone..."
"No, no, no, I have to talk to the village chief, say, say, or I will go and replace one of them, or I will not be able to give it and disgrace our village..."
Along the way, Da Man was very dissatisfied with watching the boys of the drum corps show off, and from time to time he used his identity as a person to pick thorns in everyone, and even had his own ideas. But having said that, he himself understood the reason for quitting from the drum corps, and in the end he just complained to Motoo, and did not have the cheekiness to go to the old village chief.
The mountain road from Shangdian Village to Xiadian Village was rugged and long, and by the time they arrived at their destination, it was already past noon.
Xiadian Village, a mountain village whose name is only heard and not seen, finally appeared in front of Yuanwei.
The scale of Xiadian Village is much larger than that of Shangdian Village, in addition to the houses piled up with mountain stones, the country road paved with stone slabs, there is also a beautifully carved archway, and there is a plaque engraved with the four big characters of "Liugu Plateau" on the archway.
Originally, the mountainous area where Shangdian Village and Xiadian Village are located is called Liugu Plateau.
The Liugu Plateau is the territory of the Sanglong Empire, and compared with the rest of the empire, the Liugu Plateau is like an outlier uprooted from flat land, with an average terrain of more than a few thousand zhang high, and it is extremely barren. In the eyes of the imperial dynasty, the Liugu Plateau was a chicken rib, and they didn't even bother to send officers and soldiers and courtiers to manage it.
As the name suggests, there are six huge valleys on the Rokuya Plateau, and these valleys are a haven for mortals who have lived here for thousands of years, forming one small mountain village after another.
The valley where Shangdian Village is located is not one of the six valleys, but only a fork in one of the valleys. The valley where Xiadian Village is located is one of the authentic six valleys, and it is also a valley leading to the imperial city below the plateau, so it has become a transportation artery for the entire plateau.
The New Year's carnival was held in the huge square around the archway, opposite the archway, on a stage built of stone, a pair of men and women were singing something, even if the noise of the majestic drums in Shangdian Village attracted the attention of the audience, they still sang unhurriedly, as if they had seen the world.
However, the majestic drum corps drove the spectators to make room for an open space in the square, and the high-spirited young men did not give in and performed one of their best performances in the open space.
The momentum of the majestic drum beating was extraordinary, and the big girls and little daughters-in-law in the neighboring villages cast hot eyes one after another, which made Da Man very jealous.
As soon as the drums fell, the drummers, who had been serious-looking, immediately changed their faces, and they scattered in groups of three or five, of course, their target was the big girls who had just gathered around. Once they found their target, they had a lot of fun and even improvised a part. The arms, which were stronger because of the lard, made the girls' eyes straighten, and a good karma might have been made.
Motoo and Daman were not treated like this. Da Man relied on his familiar face in the drum team, and pulled Yuan Wei to talk to a small group of girls one after another.
"Chunzhi, this, this, this is my brother Tiger, Tiger, Tiger..."
"Tiger baby. "Mototail picked him up.
"Together, together, together..."
"Let's talk?" Motoo understood what Daman meant, and hurriedly added to him. At this point, Yuan Wei suddenly realized that the real reason why Da Man pulled himself together was not to let himself be his tongue?
But the girls obviously didn't like this lame combination, and they fled easily under various excuses without saying a word, and then the two seemed to be able to hear their discussion and ridicule: "A lame man... A stammer... Toad...".
The two were defeated repeatedly, but Da Man was not discouraged, and Motoo was not annoyed but followed happily.
"Brother Tiger Wa, I can't imagine that you, you, and your skin are so thick, and you don't, no, blush when you are ridiculed. Da Man cocked his thumb and admired Motowei very much.
Yuan Wei laughed, you must know that in the early years he lived by begging in Yuwang Port, what kind of face has he never seen!
And just when the two of them were looking at the target and were about to take action again, Aunt Li and Aunt Qi came with a black and strong girl.
Yuan Wei chuckled in his heart, you must know that he already has the existence of Nie Youlan in his heart, and he is really not interested in finding a daughter-in-law. I didn't expect Aunt Seven to be so neat, and she really brought her niece to find her.
For Yuanwei's marriage, Aunt Li and Aunt Li hit it off, the maiden home of the two of them was originally Xiadian Village, and when Yuanwei was watching the drumming on the square of the majestic drum corps just now, they had quickly come to Chaiqing's house and found Chaiqing who was busy.
Chasing Qing is dark and strong, and the ground is swaying when she walks, and Yuan Wei is facing her who is a head shorter than herself, and she has a lot of depression.
"Qing'er, this is the tiger baby I mentioned to you. The tiger baby's medical skills are really smart, and in the future, I will have to count on the tiger baby to see a doctor!"
Chaiqing's big black eyes looked Yuan Wei up and down, "But, but, he is still a cripple, Brother Huwa, you take two steps and I'll take a look, can you work with me in the future?"
"Oh, this is not to buy a donkey and a horse, why do you have to take two steps?" Aunt Li didn't know the bottom in her heart, so she hurriedly stopped it.
"It's okay, mother. I'll just take two steps. As he spoke, Motowei walked around with a snake staff.
"It's not very lame. But I don't like good-looking men, because good-looking men tend to provoke goblins. Seventh aunt, I'm going to go home and discuss it with my father and mother, can I say okay?"
Chaiqing's euphemistic refusal made Aunt Qi and Aunt Li very at a loss, but Yuanwei secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Watching Chaiqing's departure, Aunt Li and Aunt Qi began to study other suitable girls, such as the bald Xiaohua, the mute Xiaomei, and the little dot that will never grow tall. This made Motoo, who was eavesdropping, feel chills. What made him a little desperate was that the two didn't just talk, but quickly went their separate ways.
No one noticed that Da Man excused himself to send Chaiqing home, but they talked happily along the way, and they didn't seem to stutter much.