Chapter 35: Fireworks (1)
The three of them continued to walk around the temple fair,
Yue Yao and Princess Anping have a string of sugar gourds in their left hands and a marshmallow in their right hands.
Looking at the people wearing strange clothes, drawing characteristic makeup, and stepping on long stilts, Yueyao's face was full of curiosity
Su Yunfei explained to her with a smile: "There are two theories about the origin of stilt folk customs:
First, in ancient times, in order to collect wild fruits from trees for food, people tied two long sticks to their legs, and then gradually evolved into today's art of stepping on stilts.
There is another legend that is even more interesting: once upon a time there was a diplomat from a small country who was relatively short.
Once on an envoy to a neighboring country, the neighbors laughed at him for his short stature, so he put on a pair of wooden legs, and suddenly became tall.
Let the monarchs and ministers of that country laugh and laugh. He borrowed the topic to play again,
Make a mockery of foreign monarchs and make them embarrassed. Since then, the activity of stepping on stilts has begun to spread among the people.
Yue Yao shook her head with a smile and said: "It should be more consistent with the first statement, this is the last resort of ancient human beings in order to survive, in order to commemorate the wisdom and hardships of the ancestors in that distant era, there is a custom of stepping on stilts."
Su Yunfei gave a thumbs up and complimented: "Sister Yueyao is really smart!" ”
Yue Yao grinned and punched him.
Then the three of them squeezed into a crowd and saw a group of people who were performing arts, only to see a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl lying on a bench, with a thick stone larger than her upper body on her chest, and a burly bearded man next to her, holding a hammer, smashed it down, and the surrounding people quickly covered their eyes and let out a burst of exclamation, Yue Yao didn't know why she was trying to stop it, but was stopped by Su Yunfei.
After a brief silence, the crowd erupted in thunderous applause. It turned out that the boulder shattered in response, and the little girl was unscathed, easily got down from the bench, and clenched her fists at the onlookers.
Then they took the copper plate and walked in front of the people one by one, and the people would take out some copper coins or silver and put them on the copper plate.
Su Yunfei also put a few pieces of silver, which made the little girl thank her excitedly,
After watching this group of Jianghu performers brush their knife skills and breathe fire acrobatics in their mouths for a while, the three of them turned around and left.
Yue Yao said dissatisfiedly: "Why did you stop me just now, what if that poor little girl gets hurt?" "The little princess of Anping has occasionally seen these rivers and lakes performing arts before, so she doesn't have any opinions.
Su Yunfei was silent for a moment, and said with a smile: "Look, they are obviously a family, how can they let the little girl get hurt, there must be protective measures,
It's just that they can't see it for a while, and if you stop it, they won't be able to make money.
The little girl will not only not be grateful to you, but will also be disgusted that you have ruined their good deeds.
It's just that Sister Yueyao is kind-hearted, others just have the mentality of watching the excitement, only Sister Yueyao is worried about that little girl. ”
Yue Yao nodded thoughtfully, and her praise for Su Yunfei was very useful,
Then the three of them came to the performance site of the well-known drama troupe of Xia Kingdom, and there were a lot of people outside the venue, and the water was impassable, but how difficult was this Su Yunfei and them, Su Yunfei and Yue Yao took the little princess, dodging and moving in the crowd, and soon arrived at the infield, and no one noticed their abnormality,
Looking at the face-changing drama performed on the stage, Yueyao was amazed, and kept applauding and cheering with the little princess of Anping.
After watching the drama troupe, they did the same and appeared in the infield of the Western Regions Acrobatic Troupe, which is like an animal world, with tigers jumping over fire rings, monkeys riding unicycles, big black bears stepping on the ball, and some people performing flying stunts.
Coming out of the circus in the Western Regions, they walked towards the next destination, and suddenly a fortune teller on the side of the road said: "Young man, I see that you are magnificent, dignified, and you must not be vulgar, but the Yin Hall is black, and there will be a bloody disaster in the near future." ”
Su Yunfei ignored him and continued to walk forward, he didn't believe in any fortune tellers, he only believed in the sword in his hand.
But when Yueyao and Princess Anping heard this, they asked the fortune teller with some concern: "How do you know and how should you avoid it?" ”
The fortune teller said: "The secret of heaven must not be revealed, the poor road has its own clever plan, but... He paused, his thumb and index finger kept rubbing, Yueyao didn't know why, and the little princess Anping directly threw a bag of silver.
The fortune teller suddenly smiled and immediately became serious, and said: "There is only one sentence for the clever plan: just protect yourself, don't care about others." ”
Yueyao and the little princess Anping, who listened, were confused.
Su Yunfei smiled and didn't care.
Then they entered a restaurant, the restaurant was already full, a group of people were waiting in line for a meal, and found a few more that was still the case, and finally the shopkeeper of a restaurant saw Yueyao and Anping's little princess Guose Tianxiang, and forcibly arranged a place for them, so that they could dine,
In fact, although Su Yunfei and Yueyao are not very high as monks, they have no problem not eating for ten days and half a month, but the little princess of Anping is not good, and she is hungry after only shopping for most of the day.
They ordered a large table of dishes, and as they were spitting out, they heard the voices of discussion around them: "Have you heard about it lately?" There was a genius boy in the sword mound of Shushan Mountain, the immortal family on the mountain, who killed Wu Gan, the first master of the young generation of Qingyun Sect with three swords, and defeated Shangguan Xiong, the young master of Xuantian Sect with three swords a few days ago. ”
"Yes, yes, yes, I've heard about it, but I remember that it was a sword defeat and retreat to Shangguanxiong?" Someone chimed in
Su Yunfei naturally heard it, but he didn't care, Yue Yao looked at him with a smile, her eyes were full of pride, like a parent hearing others praise their children.
The little princess of Anping looked at Su Yunfei with blinking eyes, stretched out her thumb and said, "Xiao Yunfei, you are famous!" ”
learned from Yueyao, and she also began to call Su Yunfei Xiao Yunfei.
At this moment, Su Yunfei heard someone talking in the private room upstairs, and one of them said, "Are you ready?" At three o'clock, all the fireworks at both ends of the main street in the north city should be detonated. When the time comes, you will be responsible for opening the north gate and letting the immortals outside come in and set up the formation. ”
The other person replied: "Ready, the guards of the fireworks depot have all been slaughtered, and now they are all replaced by our people, but the explosive power of the fireworks alone is not enough to kill millions of people, according to those immortal masters, it takes no less than a million people's blood to condense into a blood pill promoted to the Emperor Mirror,"
The man said: "What do you know, as long as an explosion will definitely cause chaos, and then our people will start a massacre, and if someone checks it at that time, they can't find anything, they all think that there was a trampling in the chaos and died, even if it is found out, it will be a long time later, and at this time, the Lord has already been promoted to the Emperor Mirror." ”
The other person smiled: "By the way, where are our people, don't be injured by mistake when the time comes." ”
The man took a sip of wine and said, "This time they are hired by a group of murderous outlaws, all of whom wear white scarves around their necks. ”
Every year, on the night of the Rongcheng Temple Fair, the fireworks show is one of the highlights that everyone is most looking forward to, when nearly 10,000 fireworks will slowly rise into the sky to light up the night sky.
When he was promoted to the Sky Mirror, Su Yunfei's ear power had already surpassed that of ordinary people many times.
Hearing the conversation upstairs, he immediately became angry, another person who wanted to slaughter millions of living beings for his own selfishness,
He quickly calmed down, lied to Yueyao and the others, walked to the door of the box upstairs, and then blocked the exit of the box with a steam engine to prevent the two from escaping and fighting to disturb the diners in the restaurant.
He quietly walked into the box and saw the two people who were plotting, and the two immediately drew their knives after discovering Su Yunfei, but they were directly trampled on the ground by Su Yunfei.
Su Yunfei's face was cold, and he said coldly: "Say!" Who told you to do this? ”
One of them said, "Who are you?" We won't say that! ”
Su Yunfei slapped the hard-mouthed man into a blood mist. Seeing this, the crotch of the other man's pants was wet, and he made a ticking sound on the floor, and his lips trembled and said, "Hero, spare your life!" I was entrusted by people, but I didn't know who those people were, only that they were a group of monks. ”
Su Yunfei continued to ask, "Where are those people now?" ”
The man hesitated, Su Yunfei slapped him, and the man immediately beckoned: "They are in an abandoned village twenty miles away from the East City Gate." ”
After Su Yunfei heard this, he slapped the man into a blood mist.
His whole body trembled, and he was extremely angry,
After going downstairs, Yue Yao saw that Su Yunfei's face was wrong, and asked with concern, "What's wrong with Xiao Yunfei?" Uncomfortable? ”
Su Yunfei smiled bitterly and said, "It's okay, come out with me now." "He put a mina of silver on the table.
walked out of the restaurant and found a secluded and uninhabited corner, and said to Yueyao and the little princess Anping: "Now the situation is urgent, I don't have time to elaborate,
Your Royal Highness Princess, you quickly go to the yamen of the Rongcheng City Lord's Mansion, find the city lord and ask him to immediately mobilize troops in Beicheng District to search for people with white scarves around their necks, and if they resist, kill them on the spot.
And immediately arrest all the guards of the two fireworks depots in the east and west of the North City! Remember to do it in secret, and don't startle the snake. ”
Then he said to Yueyao: "Sister Yueyao, you go with Her Royal Highness the Princess"
"What about you?" Yue Yao asked with concern,
"I have to go somewhere else." After answering, Su Yunfei asked the little princess Xiang Anping again: "Your Royal Highness Princess, can you contact those people who are secretly protecting you?" ”
The little princess looked at her head and said, "I don't know where they are, they only show up when I'm in danger." ”
Su Yunfei exhaled and said, "It's okay, you guys should act now!" ”
He sighed in his heart: I can only rely on myself!
Yue Yao felt a little uneasy before leaving, and reminded: "Xiao Yunfei! Be safe. ”
Su Yunfei showed a warm smile and signaled not to worry.
Many people who visit the temple fair don't know that a shocking conspiracy against them is about to take place...