Chapter 57: The Marriage Tree

Jiuquxi 4A-level scenic spot, near a public toilet at the edge of the parking lot, Xu Fan leaned on the side of the sink and smoked a cigarette, he saw through the shadows that Yang Ningshang finally separated from Xu Siya and them, so he extinguished the cigarette butt and walked towards his car.

He walked to the SUV, opened the door and stepped on, and saw that Yang Ningshang on the co-pilot was no longer lifeless when he had just gone out in the morning, but became cheering, which couldn't help but make Xu Fan wonder, what did they say just now to make this girl happy like this.

"What's the matter, I'm so happy after meeting them, could it be that they agreed to take you to play with you?" Xu Fan fastened his seat belt and said with a smile at Yang Ningsheng.

"No, I just eliminated the estrangement with them, it turned out that I always thought that they didn't care about me at all, but I didn't expect them to find me last night, looking for me so hard, Shao Hui also had a conflict with others for me, it seems that he still has me in his heart. ”

Yang Ningshang put her hands into fists on her chest, and said with longing, there were stars shining in her eyes, and Xu Fan was in her pupils, as if she saw the sweet fantasy in Yang Ningsheng's heart.

Xu Fan started the car and said, "So you don't plan to go back?"

"Yes, I will continue to follow them, sooner or later, I will squeeze Xu Siya away from Shao Hui and let me stand by his side......"

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In the next half a month, Xu Fan drove a car behind Xu Siya and them, stopping and visiting the mountains and rivers of H and F provinces all the way, leaving their footprints in many famous scenic spots and tourist destinations.

During this period of time, Yang Ningshang took the initiative to follow Feng Shaohui's footsteps every time she went to a scenic spot, but Hu Yuqing was very unimpressed by her initiative to show goodwill, and even took the rest of the people to avoid Yang Ningshang intentionally or unintentionally, which made Yang Ningshang very depressed.

Although Yang Ningshang did not get closer to Feng Shaohui, her relationship with 'Fu Chou' became more and more familiar, and the communication on weekdays also increased.

Why do you say that? Yang Ningshang just wanted to ask, how many men in this world can follow their girlfriend's ass all the way for half a month, only watching their girlfriends and other men play in the dark, who else!

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"Flower Boat Festival" is a very small number of ancient towns in a city in G province from the previous dynasty preserved the ancient festival, according to legend, here before the Qing Dynasty, there is a long-term worker and the landlord's daughter fell in love, but the two families are not the right household, the love affair of the two attracted the landlord's stick to beat the mandarin duck.

So on the twelfth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the bitter lovers tied a red knot on a tree to make love, and also came to the rough river to jump into the water that night to martyrdom, when people learned the news, there was no longer their figure on the river.

In order for their souls to return home, people spontaneously set up origami boats, lighting candles on the top of the paper boats, and the paper boats drifted through the river, so that the starry candlelight could illuminate the lovers' way home......

After the passage of time, on June 12th, the 'Flower Boat Festival' has become a local Valentine's Day event comparable to the Qixi Festival.

On this day, the ancient town will hold a temple fair, and the ancient tree, known as the 'marriage tree', will also be tied with countless red ropes by people who are full of longing.

The festival will attract thousands of people on the day, and in addition to boosting local GDP growth, it will also add to the politicians' achievement of 'good protection of intangible cultural heritage', so with the support of the government, the 'Flower Boat Festival' is getting bigger and bigger.

The Flower Boat Festival is an integral part of Xu Siya's travel route, and on the evening of the 11th, they finally arrived in the ancient town, and after resting in the town for one night, they ushered in the second day's 'Flower Boat Festival'.

At noon the next day, the deafening sound of bells, gongs and drums sounded in people's ears as promised, and the temples in the ancient town were holding temple fairs.

In addition to watching big plays, the temple fair also has lantern walking, dragon dances and other programs, which can also be seen in other places, and there is no attraction.

Nine times out of ten, these tourists who came to the ancient town to celebrate the 'Flower Boat Festival' came for the 'Love Marriage Tree' and the 'Flower Boat River Tour' held by the river at night, and Xu Siya and her sisters did the same.

Halfway up a hillside, there are several towering trees with lush branches, the trunks of which are low and less than three meters high, but they are luxuriant, and the branches are like straw that forms a chicken's nest.

The nearby ancient temple saw that people had been tying red ropes to these big trees, so they simply made a mistake, so they built a temple next to the big tree, and also set up a merit box in the temple to ask for people to sign and unsign for a fee.

The ancient temple not only repaired a month-old Buddha statue to earn money for couples' incense, but also added a three-star statue of Fu Lu Shou next to it to earn more people's money.

Therefore, due to the "marriage tree" contaminated with the smell of copper, it is now not only tied with the red rope of both couples, but also the "peace rope" of a family of three, the "friendship rope" between friends, and a lot of messy ropes specially used to cheat money in the temple fair.

Even if this is a pit, but now people with a little surplus in their pockets eat this set very much, generously stuff a piece of RMB towards the merit box, ask for a large piece of red cloth that has not yet *** the slap, and then happily write blessings on the red paper, stuff it into a small cloth bag connected to the red cloth strip, and then tie it to the tree, praying for the wish to come true.

Today's festival, the hillside where there is no human figure on weekdays is crowded with people, and the locals who are familiar with the gameplay bring their own red ropes, and when they come, they run directly to the tree to tie it, and outsiders like Xu Siya have to go to the temple next to it to stuff some incense money in exchange.

Feng Shaohui, as the leader of the team, stuffed a piece of Grandpa Mao into the merit box, finished the incense under the admiring eyes of the temple keepers, and received a so-called 'open light' friendship rope from his hand, and a few palm-sized pieces of broken paper, and walked out of the temple to a row of wooden tables outside.

There were a lot of worthless pencils scattered on the wooden table, Feng Shaohui divided the red paper in his hand with everyone, and then each found a pencil, wrote their wishes on the prayer paper, and then handed the red paper to Feng Shaohui, who put it into a small red bag strung with the friendship rope, and then squeezed into the marriage tree full of people with the other two classmates, found a vacant seat, folded it up as a human ladder, and tied the red rope to it.

After that, everyone went to finish the incense on the Buddha statue in the temple, and then went down the hillside and blended into other lively places in the temple fair.

As soon as Feng Shaohui and the others left, Yang Ningsheng, who was hiding aside and peeping, immediately came out, she patted Xu Fan's shoulder excitedly, and said, "Fu Chou, you go into the temple and ask for a piece of red paper to come out, I want to put my wish and Shao Hui together!"

"Then you don't want the red rope?" Xu Fan asked.

Yang Ningshang shook his head and said, "No, anyway, my paper is going to be put in their red rope, if you want to play, you can go and ask one to put it yourself." ”

Xu Fan nodded, raised his legs and squeezed into the surging flow of people in the temple, followed the line, and soon it was Xu Fan's turn, Xu Fan stuffed a hundred-yuan bill into the merit box, and the temple keeper nodded with a look of relief, and said: "This little friend, are you asking for a marriage rope or a career rope, a peace rope......

"Well, let's have one rope, but I want two prayer sheets. Xu Fan was stunned by so many types of rope in the mouth of the temple guard, he shook his head and said casually.

The temple keeper saw that he had a lot of marriage ropes in stock, so he took out one and handed it to Xu Fan, and after giving Xu Fan two pieces of waste paper, he sent Xu Fan away.

"Hey, I'll give you one, this palm-sized piece of paper is expensive, and two of them cost me a hundred yuan. ”

Xu Fan handed the red paper to Yang Ningshang with a heartache, Yang Ningshang took the red paper and picked up a pencil that could still write, she seemed to be afraid that Xu Fan would peek, so she raised her leg and took two steps away from Xu Fan, so she lowered her head and wrote on the paper, and did not forget to shoot back at Xu Fan in her mouth:

"No one stipulates that you have to donate 100 yuan for incense money, you can donate one or two yuan casually, and others will still give you what they should give you. ”

"Come on, didn't you see that the person in front of me donated ten yuan, and the old man's face turned black like a pot in an instant. Xu Fan muttered in his mouth, his hands did not stop, and he wrote the red paper, and after a while, the eight crooked characters of 'hugging left and right, sleeping together' were written on the paper by Xu Fan.

Xu Fan folded the red paper, stuffed it into a small cloth bag with red rope, and asked Yang Ningsheng, "Do you want me to help you tie it together?"

Yang Ningshang shook his head and said, "No need, mine is going to be put together with Shao Hui's, let you put it, I'm afraid you put it wrong." ”

Yang Ningshang put down the pen, folded the red slip of paper that said 'I have you in my heart', and was just about to walk towards the marriage tree, but Xu Fan stretched out his hand to stop him: "There are so many people over there, I'm too lazy to squeeze it, you help me tie it." ”