As soon as you enter Manzhou, Li Jiangliu left a sentence and then contacted, it disappeared, here is located at the junction of Han and Miao, there are both Han people in clothes and clothes, there are also gorgeous and colorful Miao women, there are many local products on the stall, most of them are bone carving, enamel pinched into small playthings, there are also bamboo reeds, Gonghou, coincidentally at the Lantern Festival, it is to place many lanterns, the craftsmanship is exquisite, dizzying.

Found an inn to settle down, Chu Ci and the young woman went out to play, bought a few small objects to collect, and ate a full meal of fragrant bamboo rice, the sky was dark, and at night, the lights would rise.

In the midst of the crowd, countless Han women and Miao girls wore flower clothes, carried exquisite lanterns to play in the human dragon, guessed lantern riddles, poetry competitions, and dozens of strong men with white seedlings, bare/bare arms, dragon and lion dances, and more juggling, martial arts, storytelling, painting and other celebratory things.

Seriously, the young woman is actually a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, seeing the excitement, how can she not get together, pulling Chu Ci into the sea of people, playing and shopping everywhere, standing in front of a juggling stall, at this moment Miao dressed in a big man with strong wine in his mouth, holding a torch in his hand, spurted violently, raised a fire, if only so, it is nothing, but the fire swelled in the air, and then split into two fire snakes with heads and tails, zigzag and circled for a few seconds, before quietly extinguished, which shows the delicate craftsmanship of the big man.

Miao people are still snakes, and the double snakes dance, which is exactly the meaning of auspiciousness, which immediately attracted everyone's applause......

"Good, good!" The green woman's eyes were shining, and she clapped her hands with the others.

But Chu Ci was depressed, he was too short, a nine-year-old boy, no matter how tall he was, he was only more than four feet. The crowd squeezed in front and back, left and right. You can't see anything at all.

glanced at the green woman. Chu Ci felt that it would be better to go shopping for the lanterns by himself, otherwise he would wait to catch his eyes in the crowd.

Letting go of the green woman's hand, Chu Ci turned around, and happened to see a stall selling masks not far away, rolled his eyes, squeezed out of the crowd, and came to the side of the stall.

The stall selling masks was crowded with many people, and a beautiful girl in a purple Miao suit even picked up the mask with her hand and gestured. When the vendor saw the Qingli girl's Miao clothes and thin braids, he knew that it was his own Miao people, and let her play with it.

"Wow, that's a lot of masks!" The beautiful girl put down her mask and pulled a white-robed woman beside her, the white-robed woman was dignified and Sushu, and the two stood together like a pair of mother and daughter flowers.

"Little girl, you like it, take a look." The vendor pointed to the mask and spat heavily, "It's all based on Nuwa's deeds." ”

"Nuwa?" A trace of narrowness crossed the eyes of the Qingli girl, and she glanced at the white-robed woman and snickered.

"Wa Huang?" The corners of Chu Ci's mouth also floated with an unpredictable smile. I was going to buy a mask to cover my face and stop to listen to the story.

"Have you ever heard of Nuwa's deeds?" The street vendors saw it attract the attention of passers-by. I was about to talk.

"Of course I've heard of it!" Qingli girl is obviously not a qualified audience.

The white-robed woman showed a doting and helpless look, quietly grabbed the Qingli girl, turned to the vendor and said, "Let's hear it." ”

"Nuwa, before the creation of man, a chicken was created on the first day of the first lunar month, a dog was created on the second day of the first lunar month, and a sheep was created on the third day of the first lunar month."

"Sheep!" The Qingli girl raised her finger and gestured to three, and said in harmony.

The vendor glanced at the Qingli girl and continued: "In the fourth year of junior high school, a pig was created" "Pig! ”

was interrupted by the Qingli girl, and the vendors forgot what they said: "On the sixth day of the first month, the horse was created, and it was the seventh day of the first month."

"On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Nuwa imitated her own appearance and created small clay figurines, so that human beings could pass on them forever. As for Nuwa, she also created a wedding gift and became a matchmaker herself, and all of them learned how to create people, and passed on the lineage with their own strength. "The beautiful girl's voice is sweet, and her gestures are unnatural, which makes people feel a sense of obedience and trust.

The vendor felt that he had poured mold for eight lifetimes, and it was easy to do a little business, why did this little girl always steal his lines, and hurriedly said: "By the way, there is a story about Fuxi and Nuwa that I don't know, do you want to know." ”

The audience cheered up and told the vendors to continue.

"If you want to hear it, buy a mask for each person, wear a mask and listen to the story, that's the atmosphere, come on!" Street vendors began to sell their masks.

"Ignore him, I'll tell you!" The Qingli girl frowned slightly, as if she was very reluctant for the vendor to use Nuwa's story to make money, and shouted, "I'll tell you." ”

The Qingli girl was about to stand up, Chu Ci looked at the bitter gourd face of the vendor, her heart moved, and she also squeezed out of the crowd, and said loudly: "This young lady, people rely on these little playthings to earn money to support their families every year, and you have said it, how to let the family live, or wait for a while." Take out a gold leaf, flick it casually, and nail it to the mask stand, "Today is the Lantern Festival, I have wrapped the mask here, everyone takes one and celebrates." ”

"The story just now is good, can you continue to talk about it, Miss?"

Chu Ci was arrogant, and there were free masks to take, and the audience rushed up, each chose a mask to wear, and did not disperse, and continued to gather around the mask stall, waiting for the beautiful girl to continue to tell the story of Fuxi Nuwa.

The Qingli girl glanced at Chu Ci in surprise, and continued to tell the story of how Fuxi Nuwa got married.

The vendor cleaned up the stall that had been sold, took out a golden twin-tailed snake mask from the bamboo bag, handed it to Chu Ci, and said gratefully: "This little boy, thanks to you tonight, I still have a mask here, I was going to keep it for my child, so I'll give it to you." ”

"Thank you!" Chu Ci took the mask, played with it in his hand for a while, and then put it on his face, the cold metallic feeling was attached to his forehead, and after wearing the two-tailed snake mask, the originally beautiful and handsome face added a sense of mystery.

After watching the fire-breathing juggling, when she turned around, she found that Chu Ci had disappeared unconsciously, although she was not worried about Chu Ci's safety, she was also anxious to look for it everywhere.

"Ziying! Little Ziying! ”

As soon as Chu Ci heard the paging of the Green Woman, he immediately hid back, left in the opposite direction, and went around to a water corridor where he guessed the lantern riddle, and then avoided the Green Woman.

"Bang!"

Before he could come back to his senses, he suddenly collided with another person's head.

"Huh?"

"Oops!"

The two of them exhaled painfully at the same time, and Chu Ci's eyes were quick, and he grabbed each other's hands at once, lest she fall in the crowd.

"Is that you?"

"Is that you?"

Chu Ci and Qingli Girl whispered at the same time.

"Zixuan! Where are you? ”

Hearing the paging of the white-robed woman, the Qingli girl showed a hint of cunning in her eyes, pulled Chu Ci by the waist, and hid elsewhere. (To be continued.) )