Chapter 15: The Ups and Downs of Jingzhou and the Dangers (Part II)
The next day, three poles in the sun, Nameless just rubbed his eyes, sat up, looked at Meng Luo beside him, very distressed, since the daughter came out, I haven't slept a good sleep for a long time, although I came to Jingzhou this time, but I have no money on my body, I can't live in the museum, I can only live in this broken temple, and I suffer this woman who entrusts her lifelong dream to herself, and look at her future is still unpredictable, maybe a new crisis is lurking around them, and they may push them to the abyss of disaster again at any time. Nameless stood up, stretched, woke up Monroe, and said, "My dear, it's such a good weather today, let's not go out for a walk, I'm sorry God." ”
Monroe nodded and got up as well.
After a while, two people walked out of the temple, and as soon as they left the temple gate, they were stopped by a little girl.
When the little girl saw the two of them, she burst out laughing. said: "Ouch, who is the handsome guy I said when I was a princess and was praised by her?" It turned out to be a beggar! It doesn't even look as good as our family's slaves, and it seems that there is something wrong with the aesthetics of our princess. ”
Nameless shrugged his shoulders, glanced at the seemingly well-behaved girl, and sneered: "What's wrong with the beggar, the beggar can eat a hundred meals, the beggar can travel to the famous places in Kyushu, can you?" In addition, I can still marry such a beautiful woman, maybe, tomorrow I will marry all the princesses of your family, it is estimated that you will not even be able to marry a slave, and say that I, maybe our toilet will be in your own hands in the future. ”
After Nameless finished speaking, he turned to Monroe and smiled.
I saw that the slave maid's eyes were as round as beads, and she glared at him angrily, stretched out her finger and pointed at Nameless, and it took a long time to squeeze out a few words from between her teeth, "You, you, you." ”
"Forget it, Miss Ben won't be as knowledgeable as you today, I'm here to bring you a message for our princess, and our princess asked me to tell you that she has set up the stage, so how about you go over and see it right away?" After that, he turned around and left.
Nameless also said to her coldly: "Go back and tell your princess, bring more silver taels to come over to the master in person, no, it should be the little beggar to apologize, otherwise she will not help the beggar." Nameless deliberately accentuated the word beggar.
"You dream, you think you're amazing! Let our princess compensate you, can you afford it? I'd like to see. ”
Nameless ignored her anymore and walked out with Monroe in his arms.
After a while, I saw Princess Yunruo running towards her panting with a bag of tortoise shells on her back, and when she saw her, she first arrived at a thousand blessings, and then said very apologetically: "My slave has offended a lot, here I will compensate you for her, and ask my brother to bear with me." This is a little bit of my heart, not a respect, and I hope that my brother will smile. With that, he handed the backpack to Nameless.
Nameless took the package unceremoniously, and immediately pulled Meng Luo and Yun Ruo to a wine shop, ordered a few catties of beef, three catties of Yangshao wine, and ate and drank.
At this time, Princess Yunruo looked anxiously left and right, couldn't sit still at all, and said eagerly: "Everyone is crazy, you are still drinking slowly, tomorrow is the last day, otherwise you will have to be sent to the Xia Palace." ”
Nameless smiled: "How nice is that! It's good to be a princess, enjoy the worship of all people, and all people admire, if I were you! You don't need to be sent by others at all, you just run to the Xia Palace. ”
Yun Ruo said with a slight sorrow: "You, you, you, you know to make fun of me, I want you to help me, not to make fun of me." ”
Nameless smiled instead: "No matter how anxious you are, you have to wait until I eat the meal, it doesn't matter if I don't eat, you see that my wife hasn't eaten well for a long time, you don't feel sorry for me." ”
After speaking, he smiled and looked at Monroe beside him.
After the nameless wine was full, he asked the owner of the wine shop for three bamboo slices, and the nameless took out a carving knife from the pocket of his underwear and wrote a couplet on it, only to see that it read: "The fate comes to kill you, and the ball asks for marriage and criticizes the ball to determine the marriage." ”
After writing namelessly, he looked left and right, and felt twelve points satisfied, so he handed these bamboo pieces to Princess Yunruo and instructed her: "Immediately make this into a plaque and hang it on the platform that has been built." ”
Yun Ruo took the bamboo piece and hurriedly walked towards the plaque. After checking out the bill, Nameless pulled Monroe towards the square.
At this time, the square was already full of people, all talking about something? Opposite the crowd is the platform, the platform is as high as two floors, divided into two floors, the inside and outside of the platform are covered with red curtains, on both sides of the platform, hang two big red lanterns with the word Xi dancing in the wind.
Nameless walked up to the stage at this time, faced everyone and said, "What about tomorrow?" Our fairy-like Princess Yunruo will be here, by throwing hydrangea to choose her future colt, as long as you are not married or married to marry the main house, you can participate in tomorrow's hydrangea throwing marriage activities. The little brother just said that he must come early tomorrow, stand in a good position, and have a better chance. Let me tell you, if you can grab the hydrangea and be the horse of the palace, you still have to stand in a good position, hey, don't look at me! I can't do it in this position, and if I stand in my position, I will definitely throw it like a hydrangea tomorrow. ”
After speaking, there was a "coaxing" below, and everyone laughed.
Nameless moistened his throat, and then said: "This time the princess can come with true feelings, you can't live up to the princess's affection, fate is predestined, right, but fate is your own, so no matter whether you are rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, as long as you receive the hydrangea, and the hydrangea can't land on the ground, it will be invalid." Then the princess will marry everyone. But then again, if you are a woman disguised as a man, or if you are missing that pillar, if you receive it, you will definitely not be able to count, you must know. Princess Yunruo is the number one beauty in our whole Jingzhou City, what is that? Hey, I forgot how to say it, anyway, whether it's in the water or in the sky, you can't find such a beautiful beauty with a lantern. ”
Then there was another burst of laughter.
"Okay, everybody's got it." Nameless and sly looked at the audience.
There was already a lot of people below, shouting: "Remember." ”
"Actually, it doesn't matter if you can't remember, tomorrow the hydrangea will come down, you have to work hard to grab it! Think about it, if you marry a princess, you don't have to worry about food and clothing in this life, plus the princess looks like a fairy, if you can marry her, it is estimated that you will wake up laughing when you dream, and tell everyone a heartfelt word, in fact, I want to have this dream. But tomorrow I'm hosting this event, and I'm not participating. I'm afraid I won't have everyone's share if I want to participate. ”
The crowd laughed again.
"The princess said that this time she couldn't find the colt by throwing the hydrangea, so she had to keep going. Until someone catches a hydrangea. Ouch, it seems that this ghost sun also wants to rob you of your daughter-in-law? After speaking, he took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his face.
The crowd began to talk about it, and some said, "Get up early tomorrow and stand up." "Some plan to bring all their seven aunts and eight aunts over to help.
At this time, Nameless walked through the crowd and carried Monroe out of the square, came to a blacksmith's shop, gave all the money in the backpack to the craftsman, and asked him to make an iron ball as big as possible, the bigger the better, the craftsman took the coin, processed it day and night, and finally finished it the next morning.
Early the next morning, when they came to the square, the square was already full of people who came to participate in the hydrangea recruitment, and there were even relatives and friends who came over to help them grab the hydrangea.
Nameless walked up to the stage with the support of Monroe, and after everyone was quiet, he announced the rules of the activity of throwing hydrangea and setting horses.
Nameless said: "Yesterday I communicated with the king of Jingzhou City, many friends from other places also came, in order to enhance the friendly and intimate relationship between my Jingzhou City and the outside world, but also for more friends from other places to increase the probability of receiving hydrangea, so it was decided that the hydrangea will be thrown from the top, ugly words to the front, don't because of the snatching of the hydrangea kicking and smashing each other, hurt people's lives, we can't afford to pay for this, but if you are injured because of this, you will get an unexpected prize from the palace." ”
Then, Nameless read out the couplet on both sides and explained: "Fate has wronged you, the ball is asking for marriage and the ball is marrying, I will give you a simple explanation, the meaning of the union is that fate is coming, you are not sure, it will be over, and the consequences arising from this can only be borne by yourself, and you can't bear it for you, for example, I received hydrangea today, Princess Yunruo married me and didn't marry you, you have to pay attention, don't resent me!" The meaning of the lower link is that the hydrangea falls from the sky and falls to the ground, which is to seek marriage, so everyone should take advantage of this opportunity. Don't miss the opportunity, now is the time to invite Princess Yunruo. ”
After a while, Princess Yunruo walked up to the stage. Nameless shouted excitedly: "The moment to witness the miracle is coming, everyone is ready." ”
The crowd below also cheered, "Get ready." ”
"For the sake of fairness, the princess is not selfish, we can't let the princess throw this hydrangea, otherwise if it is thrown to someone, others will say, this is the princess's order, it's just a form of walking, so I found five or six guards to throw it together and give everyone a witness at the same time. Everyone said it was good or not. ”
Everyone said in unison, "Okay." ”
"Now everyone shouts with me: 1, 2, 3 toss." A behemoth flew from the top of the platform towards the crowd.
Everyone looked at it, "Mom" scattered in all directions, it turned out that the hydrangea thrown from above was made of iron, weighing hundreds of pounds, everyone was afraid of hitting themselves, only hated that the mother did not give them a few more legs, the whole square was in an uproar, boiling, crying, scolding, noisy, and laughter suddenly filled the whole square.