Chapter 472: Happy New Year
The time of the year is about to pass and the time of the next year is about to begin. According to the Lou Baole national calendar, winter and spring will meet at this time, and in ancient times, farming and sowing would be carried out according to the calendar, after all, grain is the most important thing, so the festival on this day is also extraordinarily grand. Now that magic is in vogue, there is no need to be so rigid. However, the significance of this day is still preserved to this day, as the New Year of Lou Paule.
Many countries have their own New Year, many religions have their own New Year, and while everyone has become accustomed to using the Gregorian calendar as their daily calendar, key national holidays are kept. It's just that Lou Baole is too large, and its random festival celebrated by the whole country is enough to break through many historical records.
And this year is very different from previous years, after large-scale urban construction, the urban circle has basically taken shape, and many people's lives have changed dramatically. Under this kind of change, there are certainly people who are proud of the spring breeze and are like fish in water. But there are also people who are at a loss and at a loss, and these people are by no means a minority.
If you want to stabilize people's hearts and educate people's hearts, in addition to suppressing them by force, cultural influence is undoubtedly the best choice, and the Spring Festival Gala is bound to take on such a heavy responsibility. But civilians are not fools, and too much didactic content, or politically correct content, will inevitably cause a lot of disgust.
After weighing the pros and cons, this Spring Festival Gala simply gave up those didactic contents, and only rolled out all the excellent links and presented them in front of the national audience. Excellent things are here, and people who feel lost can only think for themselves and choose which path to take.
Two days ago, a notice had been circulated in major cities across the country, stating that teleportation arrays would be open for free from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m., and then from 12 p.m. to early the next morning. After calculating that most people can come and go for free, there is even a temporary teleportation array outside the capital for diversion. Anyway, the sky projection can be seen outside the city, but the sound is out of sync.
In the absence of precedent, no one knows whether it looks good or not, and no one knows whether it is worth running to the capital in the middle of the night. Some choose to go, others don't. It's just that there are too many people in Lou Baole, even if only 10% of the people plan to leave, they can still make the teleportation array line up in an instant.
In order to deal with emergencies, it was no longer enough for sheriffs alone, and the army was mobilized, and the number of parrots in the air was more than doubled. In addition, in order to prevent the suspension of the magic incident, the magic tower has also been reinforced, and special personnel have been sent to each point. Traffic was restricted, and all the city's main roads were turned into pedestrian streets, because if they didn't, they might not be able to accommodate the people who were being transported over.
Street shops have also reopened, with enough foot traffic to make any business salivate. At this time, the teleportation array is free, even if it is a merchant who goes home for the New Year, he will have to come back to open a store at this time, unless there is really a major change.
At this time, the whole school of Wang Li Academy is closed, such a wide campus can't let anyone in, who knows who will come in, and the orc students are still there, once something happens, it will be very troublesome. Anyway, people in the school want to see it, and they can look up and see it.
Around 5 p.m., the sun was setting in the west, and the streets were already full of people, and many people were tired from standing, so they just sat on the street with a piece of paper under their buttocks. Anyway, everyone sits like this, and it doesn't matter. From time to time, stall owners come to sell boxes of snacks, such as melon seeds, fruits, biscuits, barbecue meat, etc. After eating, throw it anywhere, the first time this kind of big scene, everyone has no sense of civilization, and the quality of the crowd is uneven, which is also a helpless thing.
As the number of people increases, there will inevitably be some quarrels, such as who squeezed whom, who stepped on whom, etc., and it is inevitable that there will be a burst of chatting in the chat. But at least no one dared to do it, and of course they didn't want to do it, for the sake of the festival, it also gave the patrolling soldiers a face.
Today's national holiday is also included, including the orc students of Wang Li Academy, and they don't have to go to class today. But they can't go out or mate, and the game is due to the fact that the two Dark Elf teachers on duty are also on vacation, and the magic tower doesn't want to start, which ultimately leads to them having nothing to do.
This is a pain for the two temporary workers of Little Spoon and Sain, and the orc students who have nothing to do seem to be in an extremely unstable state, as if something will break out at any time. The two of them summed it up and decided to have the orc students sing in a chorus.
"Come on, come on, move the tables and chairs here, put them in a row, and then the people will stand up......" The little spoon kept shouting, and the orc students lazily moved the tables and chairs, and then put them at the school gate.
Outside the school gate, most of the audiences who came to see the Spring Festival Gala from all over the country sat on the ground, and when they looked back and saw the situation inside the school gate, they couldn't help but be curious, pointing and discussing. Many people really met a real minotaur for the first time, and through the iron gate at the school gate, it seemed that they were really watching monkeys in the zoo.
Of course, the minotaurs could see that they were not real monkeys after all. At this time, the action is lazy, and it is just a kind of soft resistance.
"What are you doing?" the little spoon scolded them, "what's wrong with the others? Am I not here too? I'm not afraid of what you're afraid of?"
The minotaurs muttered in their mouths, but under the majesty of the temporary workers, they finally stood in a chorus formation, and the little spoon nodded with satisfaction, and finally reminded: "Do you know if you sing well? If you don't sing well, you will be ridiculed even more, you know?"
The minotaurs looked at each other and did not say a word, which was considered acquiescence.
Little Spoon raised his hands and began to command. As her arm slid down, a majestic and powerful song erupted from the queue:
"Five funny flags fluttering in the wind, how loud the song of victory, singing our dear funny country, henceforth to more comical ......"
The people outside the school fell silent for a moment, and everyone was stunned for a while, but then there was amazement, and then joy. The melodies are familiar, but they are all sung by the orcs, and somehow they feel new and interesting, and it feels good to watch the minotaurs open and close their mouths neatly.
The orc students sang really well, they were very talented in music, but the command of the little spoon was down, she just simply drew the eight-character conductor and the accent was thrown out. During the whole process, the students' voices were loud and powerful, and they didn't read the lyrics, and their aura was strong, except that the accent was a little strange, and there were no problems.
At the end of the song, the last high note soared into the sky, and the minotaurs almost craned their necks to shout, and almost the whole street heard it. People outside the school gate gave a standing ovation, and people in the distance didn't know what was going on and were still asking around. The minotaurs are also very happy at this time, they can understand what is sincere and what is perfunctory.
"Happy New Year!" the minotaurs congratulated the crowd outside the school gate at the order of Little Spoon.
"Happy New Year!" people outside the school also responded positively. Although strictly speaking, today is not the New Year of the Minotaurs, but it doesn't matter, there is no need to take it seriously.
"Alright, let's go. With a wave of his hand, the minotaurs scattered, leaving behind a pile of neat tables and chairs, and had to let the little spoon shout again, "Come back and move the tables and chairs!"
This small episode caused a burst of laughter outside the school gate. Maybe everyone has forgotten that not long ago, the Minotaur and the Terran scolded each other on the Internet, causing the website to crash, and there was even a fight before. Maybe you haven't forgotten, maybe there are still people who mock the minotaurs in this crowd, and maybe there are still people who despise the human race among the minotaur students, but at least during this festival, it's still good to have fun.
And at this moment, Kevin has successfully infiltrated the backstage of the theater. Of course, it wasn't his own ability to infiltrate here, but the help of the Assassins. However, the Assassins also made it clear that they could only do some limited help, and could not directly replace Kevin, and that he could only do some occasions when he needed to show up.
At this time, Kevin also put on a mask, and he took over a dragon role, without lines. And the original actor has been gotten by the Assassins for no apparent reason, at least to ensure that he will not appear tonight.
"Let's go through it again," the actor of the Demon King began, "everyone close the script and recite it verbally." ”
This has nothing to do with Kevin, who is a trick and is responsible for being killed by the Demon King on stage. There are ten more people like him, and some of them also play the set part-time, such as trees, statues, etc. He just had to run along.
After a while, after a round of lines, Kevin listened again. In fact, he memorized their plot as early as last night.
There is also a suspected director's task on the side, with a black cloak, and I can't see who it is: "We still have to act well, feeding is not the same as eating ourselves." We don't feed ourselves, we want to instill in them a whole new set of values, you know? And to achieve that, we have to act well. ”
The actor of the main character, the cook, asks rhetorically, "Do you think we amateurs can do it?"
"Do you still want dog food?" said the black cloak in a loud voice.
Everyone lowered their heads, and Kevin hurriedly lowered his head too, almost slowing down a beat.
As he spoke, there was a faint burst of cheers outside. You must know that the soundproofing of the theater is excellent, and the sound that can be heard here can only be the result of the whole city cheering together, but it seems that the time has not yet come. Is it advertising in advance?
"Alas, it's a pity that we can't see the Spring Festival Gala. Someone sighed.
"Cut, our one is not necessarily worse than the Spring Festival Gala. The man in the black cloak responded.
A smile appeared at the corner of Kevin's mouth, but he wore the mask and no one else could see it.
"Why don't we, too. Anyway, our show is going to be half past twelve, and we'll finish it and then put it on, can't we?" someone asked.
"No!" Black Cloak snapped refused, "Give me a good look at the script, and don't think about anything else." ”