Tonight's Fuyang, lively like the Lantern Festival, the lanterns will shine the night like day, and the riverside is even more lively than the temple fair.

This is the first time that Fuyang County has held such a grand singing and dancing conference, and when Zhu Youning and Li Tuobei came to the riverside, the riverside was already crowded with people.

Zhu Youning's height can only see people everywhere in front and behind, and he can vaguely hear the music and singing voices mixed in one place on the river, as well as the chattering and cheering of many people on the shore.

"The Chinese New Year has not been so lively."

"That's right. I can't imagine that everyone loves to watch singing and dancing so much. Hey, you're so close, if I lose you, Uncle Zhu will have to eat me raw! ”

"Don't worry, I'm sure I'm not going to run around."

In such a crowded environment, it is too dangerous for her to run around, not to mention what to do when she encounters a crutche, she just falls down carelessly, and it is not a joke to stampede.

The closer you get to the river, the more distinct the singing and music are mixed together.

The people who watched the bustle on the shore crowded next to the guardrail, trying to find the best position.

Zhu Youning found that the original shore was not completely devoid of arrangements, every other distance, there was a flower building with its own lanterns or a gatehouse with flowers, and the opposite position on the river was the painting boat of the flower building's performance.

Under the opening of the two small houses, Feilong Soup, Buddha Jumping Over the Wall and Zhu Youning, Li Tuobei escorted Zhu Youning to the location of Huancai Building.

The two of them leaned over the guardrail of the embankment and looked out.

"Look, the river is so beautiful!" Li Tuobei admired.

"yes, it's pretty." Zhu Youning's voice was a little trance-like.

At night, the Fuyang River presents a deep blue, and the large and small painting boats on the river are holding all kinds of lanterns, reflecting colorful halos on the river surface, bright and dazzling like the neon she has seen in her previous life.

She saw the painting boat of Huancai Building. I also saw not far away, the Zhu family painting boat with the word "Zhu" lantern high.

I saw that there were tables and chairs on the deck, and several men of the Zhu family were eating tea leisurely, and they were watching the singing and dancing on the painting boat of the Huancai Building nearby.

Watching singing and dancing on the river has this benefit. If you are tired of watching this show, you can also row to the next boat to watch it, unlike the overcrowding on the shore, and it is difficult to take a step.

"Zhu Xiaojiu, look over there."

Li Tuobei pointed to a vacant space on the right side of the embankment separated by flowers, on which stood a hollow wall made of bamboo, and at the top of each bamboo wall was a lantern, with the names of each flower house brothel written on it, and there were desks, tables and chairs on the open space, and it seemed that the scribes in the yamen were sitting.

"Hey, what do you think that's for?"

Zhu Youning thought about it and said with some surprise: "It may be used to vote." ”

"Vote?"

"That's right, that bamboo wall doesn't look good when it stands, and I guess it's going to be hairpins on it. I heard someone say that the government hired a lot of people to tie saffron. ”

"yes, I've heard about it, too. The government has been preparing for so long, why don't you just arrange the bamboo wall directly into a flower wall and then put it out? It doesn't look good like that. ”

"The county master is smart, I guess the flowers on the bamboo wall for the hairpins of each flower building are all bought with silver. Naturally, the money obtained belonged to the yamen. ”

"Huh? Is that okay too? Li Tuobei was surprised.

"Of course, the enthusiasm of the people is so high, there is a girl who likes it, in order to support her, it is natural to be willing to buy a flower with silver.

"Not to mention the ordinary people, look at the large and small buildings and boats on the river, and the people sitting in them are all rich people from Fuyang. These people have the ability to spend a lot of money, and buying hairpins in public to support the Oiran is also a face-saving thing. It is normal for rich people to buy face with silver. ”

Li Tuobei was stunned by Zhu Youning's explanation.

Someone next to him heard Zhu Youning's words, and couldn't help nodding and said, "What the little girl said makes sense." ”

"I have relatives who know the people in the yamen, that's what they said."

……

"Good!" Then there was another round of cheering.

Zhu Youning fixed his eyes on the painting boat in Huancai Building, and saw a slender woman in red, who was bending her soft waist backwards, and her long water sleeves were danced into two circles by her, and then she got up violently, and it was a continuous flat turn, dancing light and graceful like a fairy.

"Good!"

When she turned more than 30 times in a row, and the water sleeve danced into a blooming flower around her body, there were shouts of applause around her again, and some people were full of praise: "Miss Miao Moxiang is really amazing in dance!" ”

It turned out that this was Miao Moxiang, although she couldn't see her face, she only looked at her body shape and dancing, Zhu Youning also felt that she must be a great beauty.

At this time, someone next to the bamboo wall sang loudly: "Li Gongzi of Fuchun County, eighty hairpin flowers for the Miaomo Xiang girl of Huancai Building!" ”

"Second son Wang, fifty hairpins for the rose girl of Huichun Pavilion!"

……

As he sang loudly, he saw the dexterous boy climb the high ladder and insert the red paper flowers on the bamboo wall corresponding to the flower building where the girls were.

As time went on, there were people who supported each family, and there were more and more flowers on the bamboo walls corresponding to each family.

But the hairpin flower is the most, or the Huancai Building, the front bamboo wall has been full of red flowers, the original thin bamboo frame is very bright at this time.

The crowd exchanged ears, and someone asked how much silver it was.

Li Tuobei was also a little curious, so he sent the buckle meat to ask.

The buckle meat was easy to squeeze out and squeeze back, and it was almost squeezed into a meatloaf, panting and replied: "Master, that one costs ten cents a flower." ”

"It's not expensive."

"Of course it's not expensive, it's not expensive for ordinary people to get up."

As soon as Zhu Youning's voice fell, he heard someone singing loudly: "The Zhu family in Fuyang County, the fourth master of Jun, has 5,000 hairpin flowers for the girl Miaomoxiang!" ”

"Wow! That's fifty taels of silver! ”

"He is worthy of being the master of the Zhu family."

……

The people were talking.

You must know that some ordinary people may not be able to save 50 taels of silver if they don't eat or drink for two or three years.

Zhu Youning looked at the Zhu family's painting boat.

I saw that Zhu Huajun, the fourth master of the fourth room, was proudly throwing the folding fan, and I didn't know what the mood of the fourth wife beside him was.

Just when the fourth master was proud, someone suddenly sang loudly: "Guangzhou Mansion Yan Gongzi, 50,000 hairpins for Miaomoxiang girl!" ”

The words fell, and there was silence for a moment both on the boat and on the shore.

Fifty thousand flowers, five hundred taels of silver, ten times more than the fourth master.

On the boundary of Fuyang County, there are still people who dare to fight with the Zhu family to get rich?

And it's still ten times more!

Isn't this throwing ears and scrapers in the face of the Zhu family?

The faces of the four masters in the fourth room changed suddenly.

At this time, a gorgeous building boat slowly stopped next to the Zhu family's painting boat.

A handsome young man with a noble temperament stood at the bow of the boat, and the river breeze blew the hem of his splendid robe, as if he could feather and ascend to the immortal at any time and ride away in the wind.

The fourth old man looked over vigilantly.

The young man seemed to notice something, and looking back, the thick black and slender sword eyebrows, the deep smiling eyes, and the delicate and flawless facial features came into everyone's eyes.

He looked at the fourth old man's polite chin, and the corners of his lips slightly curved when he smiled seemed to contain a bit of banter.