Chapter 213: Lantern Festival
On the first day of the first lunar month, the Yuanlou Bazaar will be held in the Yuan Lantern Festival.
The Round House Market has only been open for a year, and with its peculiar architectural style, convenient and affordable shopping experience and unique food street, it has become the first choice for shopping and enjoying food in Linjiang County.
As early as a year ago, the people on both sides of the north and south sides learned from various channels that the Yuanlou Bazaar was going to hold a big Shangyuan Lantern Festival this year.
Whether it was the letter released in August last year, the Shangyuan Lantern Competition, which had a large number of participants, or the all-wide discount on the night of the Lantern Festival, was very tempting.
The most beautiful lights of the year must be at the Round House Bazaar.
This was something that everyone knew in the middle of last year.
I have been looking forward to it for half a year, and on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, most of the people and monks in the county town have chosen to come to the Yuanlou Market to celebrate the Lantern Festival.
Some booked a room in Fumanzhai during the day and had a pastime.
But only a few people know that the northwest gate of the Yuanlou market will also be opened tonight.
In the evening, before it was dark, the people came to the market one after another.
When most people linger on the lanterns and delicacies in the market.
A small group of people, without squinting, hurried through the heavy flow of people and went straight to the depths of the bazaar.
Near the northwest gate of the bazaar, it used to be the most deserted place in the bazaar, but today it is very different.
There were several more people who stopped here, looking nervous and expectant.
There are beggars in ragged clothes, young couples in rich clothes, octogenarians on crutches, and young women with pink faces.
As night fell, the northwest gate slowly opened.
The men went into the door.
Someone passed by here, saw their backs as they entered, and followed them curiously.
Others, when they found that the door, which had been closed all day long, suddenly opened, also went in to see the excitement.
At this time, Song Yushan had just finished dinner with a few friends in Fumanzhai.
She invited Xiangxiang and Lin Fuyin, as well as Mo Yuming and Ning Danxia, and her senior sister was also on the side.
"Yushan, you said that today you can see why you learned the Heavenly Eye Technique and the Paper Binding Technique, why didn't I find anything after shopping for a long time?" Ning Danxia asked.
The lantern festival in this round building market is indeed beautiful, but she has never seen anything to do with the Tianyan technique and the paper technique.
Song Yushan smiled mysteriously: "Actually, today's lantern festival and the hidden map should have been turned on now, so let's go and see it together!" Get there, and you'll understand. ”
"Let's go!" Ning Danxia died of curiosity.
Song Yushan led their group out of the west gate of Fumanzhai and came to the northwest gate of the market: "This is it." ”
"I remember this door used to be closed, is there anything else in there?" Xiangxiang asked.
She is a frequent visitor to the food street of Yuanlou Market, and often eats from the street to the end of the street.
The northwest gate is the end of the food court.
She stepped on her feet and looked out the door, where a straight and wide bluestone path stretched out into the thick fog.
The stone lamps on the side of the road glow a warm yellow.
A dark shadow was reflected in the thick fog, which looked like an archway.
There were faint lights and shouts.
"Let's go, let's go out and see." Song Yushan made a gesture of please.
Ning Danxia and Mo Yuming glanced at each other and went out together.
Xiangxiang and Lin Fuyin followed.
Song Yushan and Qin Yuan were at the back.
"There's a Lost Circle here, too?" Mo Yuming looked at the obviously abnormal dense fog and said.
Song Yushan nodded.
The bluestone road is not long, and soon came to the archway.
Inside, the fog disappears, and the brightly lit street market appears in front of you.
"Wow! It's so lively! Xiangxiang exclaimed.
She sniffed, smelled the familiar scent, and her eyes fell on the first small shop on the left hand side of the street.
There was a lantern hanging at the door of the small shop, which read "Ah Bao Shop".
"Wow! Is it the same Po's house I ate at when I was a child? Xiangxiang hurriedly ran over.
Ning Danxia looked up and saw the words on the two lanterns on the archway, and frowned: "Ghost market? ”
"That's right, Ghost City!" Song Yushan said: "There are not only ghosts here, but also demons. ”
Ning Danxia looked at the longing figure in the market in surprise.
"Senior! Do you eat roasted sweet potatoes and fried chestnuts with sugar? It's really the one I ate when I was a kid, but it's delicious! Xiangxiang shouted at them.
Ning Danxia and Mo Yuming did not speak.
Xiangxiang took matters into her own hands and bought each person a roasted sweet potato and fried chestnuts with sugar.
"Okay! Guest, please wait! ”
The shopkeeper and his wife pack sweet potatoes and weigh chestnuts, and they cooperate tacitly.
"Boss, why haven't I seen you set up a stall in the city in the past few years? I've been looking for you for several years, and no other restaurant has any delicious food in yours. I heard from the street that you died of illness, but I didn't expect you to be alive? ”
Xiangxiang looked at the two bosses who were no different from the memories and asked.
The boss smiled with a white face: "It's inconvenient to do it in the city anymore." ”
Xiangxiang glanced at the ragged child sitting on the small bench next to her, and frowned: "This is your Bao?" ”
She saw that the shopkeeper and his wife were wearing red and green satin clothes, how could they dress their children like this?
Lin Fuyin looked at this child dressed like a beggar, and his expression was shocked: "Chen Abao? The only daughter of 'Ah Bao Shop', eight years old? Death of both parents? Wasn't it you who received the Acex benefit last year? ”
Ah Bao covered his face and denied it: "No, I'm not Ah Bao!" ”
"I still remember you! It's a crime to fake your death to cheat on welfare! Lin Fu Yin said sharply.
Ning Danxia glanced at the shopkeeper and his wife and asked, "...... you two It's a ghost, right? ”
The boss and the hostess were suddenly a little panicked.
"Just tell the truth." Song Yushan walked over.
Seeing her, the boss and the proprietress suddenly felt certain.
"We are indeed dead, now ghosts. We can't rest assured that the child can't be relieved, so we asked the shopkeeper Song to rent this store, and now we can take care of Bao! The proprietress said.
Everyone looked at Song Yushan in unison, with a question mark on their stomachs.
"You set up shop for the ghost shop?" Ning Danxia asked Song Yushan.
"So the owner of the 'Ah Bao Shop' has really been dead for several years? Is this a ghost selling roasted sweet potatoes and fried chestnuts with sugar? Xiangxiang looked at what she bought, and she didn't take it, and she didn't put it: "Can this still be eaten?" ”
"It's good that it's not a fraud." Lin Fuyin sighed and said to the shopkeeper and his wife: "You two don't have to worry, Ah Bao can receive the relief money of Anji Division before he becomes an adult." ”
"Song Daoyou, people and ghosts have different paths, ghosts and people come into contact, and yin qi will hurt people!" Mo Yuming disagreed.
"Mo Daoyou, if you feel it carefully, can you feel the yin qi from the two of them?" Song Yushan asked.
Mo Yuming and Ning Danxia looked at it, it was really!
Although they could see that these two were ghosts with the Heavenly Eye Technique, they did not see any yin qi on the things they had handled. (End of chapter)