The Scottish Highland Games have a long history and many competitions, and only a few Highland counties in Scotland host such folk games. In places like Glasgow, even if the Highland Games were held, they would not be called "Highland" Games for traditional Scots.

For the Scots, though, the Highland Games were more like a grand rally, with bagpipe performances, sturdy Scottish strongmen competing and sword dances performed by Scottish maidens after the games. In addition to this, it is also a trade extravaganza, where prey, grain products, cheeses, cured meats and hams, seafood, whiskey, crafts, daily necessities, etc., can be bought here with everything that can be bought at Stonehaven, and what cannot be bought at Stonehaven, you can buy it here.

When Xiao Yan came to the competition venue, the opening ceremony of the Highland Games had already passed. Hannibal slept too soundly with him, causing him to wake up too late this morning. It had been a long time since he had slept so peacefully, and since last night when he didn't talk to Tristina but had a heart-to-heart connection, the original feeling of coldness had been reduced a lot, which made the panic and uneasiness in Xiao Yan's heart also reduce a lot.

All this is what puts him to sleep.

Relatively speaking, the one who has the best face for Xiao Yan to be late in the morning is Du Ruoxi. After seeing Xiao Yan emerge from the castle tower instead of Tristina's room, the girl, who had always kept her face calm, even nodded slightly to Xiao Yan.

"You said to Lilia that I'm a flat beauty?"

Xiao Yan was stunned for a moment, and immediately turned his head to find Lilia, who sold his teammates, but at this time, Lilia was laughing at the dining table. Also laughing with her was Tristina. As for the rhetorical Ennuen. Now I'm hiding in the corner of the restaurant early. and Hannibal, who is also good at observing words and colors, stared at him in a daze.

But this time Du Ruoxi let Xiao Yan go, or rather, this level of nickname is not very lethal for this woman who has never smiled, so after seeing Xiao Yan a little embarrassed, the female awakened person said calmly: "After I go back, write me a 30,000-word report, handwritten, it must be completed." ”

That's it. In the slightly lazy noise of the morning, Xiao Yan finished his breakfast, and several people left Tristina's castle with the two monster-like pets. Aunt Fei Lan and Martin had already arrived at the competition, so the process of these people going to the Highland Games was further delayed. It wasn't until it was close to 11 o'clock that they arrived at the venue.

Xiao Yan and Tristina were in Du Ruoxi's car, and with them were Ennuen, who sat in the front row, chattering, and always showing great hospitality to Du Ruoxi. As for Black Cat and Hannibal, they sit in Lilia's car. Don't look at Lilia's height, but she drives a big Audi. The rear compartment is empty enough to make people roll.

When we arrived at the parking lot, there was no parking space. Fortunately, Aunt Fei Lan was very careful, and used the rights of Martin's supplier to reserve two parking spaces for Xiao Yan and them in the supplier's parking lot, otherwise Xiao Yan and they might have to park their cars a little farther away, and then walk around for an hour to see this Highland Games.

The Highland Games held in Aberdeenshire have become more modern in terms of layout, the competition field and the merchandise sales are separated, and the merchandise sales points are also divided into different grades, the simplest is the stall level, the large cart has all kinds of small goods, Xiao Yan picked a few cans of Scottish Highland honey, his mother is good at this.

A little more advanced is the tent area, where most of the sellers come from remote parts of Aberdeenshire, and there are not many opportunities to get here, maybe only a few times a year, so simply stay here. Handicrafts are the main attraction of these people, and of course there are mountain goods, but the people of Scotland Yard around them patrol everywhere, so these sellers rarely take these mountain goods out for public sale.

Tristina was no longer so curious about these stalls, even when she lived with Aunt Ferran, she would participate in the Highland Games every year, and she was already very familiar with the Socrates souvenirs. However, these things are very novel to Xiao Yan, not to mention Xiao Yan, a native of China who has never been abroad, even Lilia, who was born and raised in Europe, spends most of her time studying, researching, and trying to shijie, and is also full of curiosity about the customs of a foreign country.

As for Du Ruoxi, although her face is still as calm as water, but looking at her nostalgic eyes that often linger in a certain stall, and the way she can't help but touch some goods many times, you can know that she is also full of interest in this kind of life.

Obviously, the soil buns are all the same, even if it is Du Ruoxi of the big family, the same is true.

Once the trialists awaken, they spend most of their time in the space constructed by the trial shijie and the shijie tree, and their movements must be monitored at all times, and they cannot go out at will or enter the worldly shijie at will. This makes them decouple from reality, and people like Du Ruoxi rarely arrive at such a meeting place, so they feel as fresh as they do now.

However, this is only the periphery of the stall, the further inward. The higher the grade of the stall, the more good things there are. Of course, for trialists, worldly things are good or bad for them, as long as the mood is happy, everything is the same.

"Weishenme, why don't you buy a little back?"

Xiao Yan looked at Du Ruoxi, who was a little impatient, and persuaded: "How many times can you come in the future?" Even if I can come, it won't be this time, will it? ”

Du Ruoxi glanced at Xiao Yan and said, "Your report can be reduced by 1,500 words." ”

After speaking, Du Ruoxi took the initiative to take out an owl carved from wood, looked left and right, and there was no place to put this owl. There have been a few times when I went shopping with my mother, and this bit of eyesight is still there, seeing this, Xiao Yan immediately went up, negotiated the price with the stall owner, and then bought another pocket and put the owl in it.

"Your report could be another 1,500 words less."

Xiao Yan smiled bitterly, turned his head to Lilia, and said, "Take out the money, you said that the European family is responsible for all my expenses here." ”

"I didn't say that I'm still responsible for your pickling expenses......"

Lilia, who blurted out, suddenly saw Du Ruoxi's cold eyes, and quickly changed her words and said, "Okay, okay, as a condition, what I bought will also be counted in your account." ”

"How about me?" Ennuen smiled and said, "You see, I also have some things I want to buy, but there is an old saying in the Orientals that the landlord's family has no surplus food. So, catch me. ”

"First of all, that's not an old saying," said Lilia, who also seemed to know a lot about things in the East, staring at Ennuen and saying, "Secondly, the economy of Europe has not fully recovered yet, and as you said, the landlords' families have no surplus food. ”

Ennuen spread his hands and asked, "So what?" You can use it, weishenme I can't? Could it be that the landlord's family is extra generous to you? ”

Lilia looked at Ennuen and sighed, "Okay, okay, just this once, not the next one." ”

"Of course, the next time the European family will not be as generous as it is today."

Xiao Yan wanted to laugh a little about the bickering between the two people, but looking at Du Ruoxi, who was still calm, this smile didn't last long. Fortunately, Du Ruoxi didn't intend to interrupt the process, she still calmly picked out her favorite things, and then when she needed to pay the bill, she would look up at Xiao Yan. Of course, different things mean different reports with less text, and by the time Xiao Yan and the others finally caught up with Tristina, who was at the forefront, Xiao Yan's report had been reduced to just 3,000 words.

With a black cat in her arms and a screaming Hannibal by her side, Tristina's spirits are much better than ever. Seeing Xiao Yan and the others finally struggling out of the crowd, and then looking at the bag in Xiao Yan's hand, the female designer covered her mouth and said with a smile: "It's really hard for you." ”

"I'm not hard, the hard people are behind."

As soon as the words fell, Ennuen walked out after the two beauties, compared to Xiao Yan's treatment of only two full bags, Ennuen's situation can be described as miserable. Well, any man with ham and cured meats on his shoulders, sausages around his neck, all sorts of handicrafts in his hands, and two top hats on his head will make the onlooker amazed and daxiao.

Tristina pointed at Ennuen and said, "This is just the beginning, the real goodness of this bazaar has not yet appeared." ”

Ennuen turned her head to look at Xiao Yan and wanted to say something, but Lilia didn't care, she kept pulling out her wallet, which always seemed to have 500 euros, 200 pounds and enough change. Then, she used the money to keep buying the things that Du Ruoxi fancied, including the things Lilia liked herself, and pushed them on Ennuen's body one by one.

"He needs a small cart."

Xiao Yan said with a smile, then looked at a few people from Scotland Yard who walked over in the distance, and said, "But in that case, we may be suspected of being wandering stalls." ”

Du Ruoxi on the other side still didn't smile, but her actions were worse than smiling.

Constantly picking out all kinds of things that he saw, and then buying a little bit at almost every stall, after that it ended up in a steady stream of Ennuen's hands, arms, or wherever he was. This has gone beyond the scope of laughter and reached the height of being a fool.

Lilia looked at Ennuen and said with sincere admiration: "I should make you the mascot of the Highland Games, this is really great now, and posting your image will definitely make more people come." Because people are curious to know what makes you buy so much. (To be continued......)