Chapter 169: New Year's Garden Party
Time passed, and the Chinese in New York also entered the tail end of the Lunar New Year--- the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
Chinatown, which used to feel chaotic, complicated and scary, has changed its former appearance, and many people take to the streets early in the morning to clean up the roads.
In addition, everyone pasted Spring Festival couplets and hung lanterns, and the children wore the latest sewn new clothes, and they would hug their fists to congratulate each other when they went out to meet, creating the residual warmth at the end of the Spring Festival, and at the same time, they also made up for the missed ceremony.
However, all this is driven by Zhou Yu, who wants to use this Chinese New Year, which is about to end, to sell Chinatown to the citizens of New York in a new form.
During this time, they not only placed similar advertisements in newspapers, but even pasted large hand-drawn posters on Times Square in Central Manhattan.
[Chinatown New Year's tour and viewing activities, completely free ~ looking forward to your arrival ~ Anyone who signs up for the first time to participate in the play will also have exquisite small gifts~! γ
As soon as the ad appeared, it immediately attracted the attention of local New York residents.
Those citizens who had seen continuous reports in the newspapers could not suppress their curiosity, and asked from their own channels what was going on in Chinatown and whether the so-called New Year's event was safe.
Zhou Yu, who was supported by Congressman Moulton, will not be targeted by those police now, and after he came to power, the protΓ©gΓ©s of those gangs have become employees of the Chinese United Trade Union.
Zhou Yu scattered them, some of them were transported to Sunflower Valley to build infrastructure, some of them entered his two factories to become workers, and some of them stayed in Chinatown, where they became stall owners, shop owners, rickshaw drivers, or propagandists in charge of promoting Chinatown.
With tangible changes and positive media guidance, the first list of guests confirmed to visit the Chinatown New Year event was quickly confirmed.
Of course, most of the people here are friends and family members who have made friends with Zhou Yu and Chinese businessmen, and they brought their wives and children to the party.
On this day, before the official start of the Chinatown garden tour, Zhou Yu also found someone to perform dragon dance, lion dance, face change, fire-breathing and other stunts in the square outside Chinatown, which set off the atmosphere extremely lively.
After the tour began, several custom-made six-row four-wheeled carriages were parked on the side of the road, and visitors to the park sat in the carriages, and were led slowly down the main road of Chinatown by a special driver.
The carriage stops for a moment at one of the more distinctive shops for visitors to get off the bus and enter.
Zhou Yu repeatedly emphasized that participating in garden activities was free, but people in his time knew that "free is the most expensive", but people in this era were attracted by the word "free".
However, once they enter the shops that sell a wide variety of goods, they will always buy some as souvenirs, even out of curiosity.
In this way, these small shops and merchants in Chinatown will benefit from it, make a lot of money, and they can't close their smiling mouths, and praise the new president for being a good man and having economic acumen.
Well, not long after the elder was buried, the people here were already going to forget about him.
"Hey~~ Doug, come here, what do you see for sale?"
In Chinatown, in front of a clay figure craftsman's stall, a girl with light freckles on her face, long blonde hair tied into a ponytail, and a long yellow dress with ruffles lying tightly in front of the stall, her eyes pressed to the clay figure in front of her, and the tip of her nose was about to touch it.
Zhou Zhen followed behind him helplessly, pursed his lips and said: "How many times have I told you, don't call me Doug, I have a name, my name is Lucian." β
"But everyone else calls you a dog, and when I asked them what they meant, they said that in English it means puppy, and puppy is not Doug? I'm not wrong. β
"That's what they're screaming! I...... I have a name, my big name is Zhou Zhen, and my English name is Lucian! β
The blonde Margaret shook the ponytail on the back of her head, shook her head and said, "No, I think Doug's name is cute, hey~ Come and see what that one is over there?" β
After the girl finished speaking, her attention was attracted by a stall selling Peking Opera masks not far away, and she dragged Zhou Zhen and ran over.
"Ah~~~Oh my God~ Spare me~ Mr. Zhou, I want to learn to do things with you, I don't want to be a babysitter for a little girl, who can send her back to London~~~"
Zhou Zhen looked up to the sky and roared, but Margaret, who was already able to understand some Chinese, widened her eyes, grabbed his ear and said:
"Don't think I can't understand what you're saying, what is a little girl? You stinky boy, little flower! β
"It hurts, it hurts~~~ Let go, this is the street, men and women don't kiss, what kind of system do you have like this? Let go of me! β
Zhou Zhen was in pain and grinned sideways with his head, but the other party didn't mean to let go at all, so he dragged his ear to the stall selling Peking Opera masks.
"Mr. Zhou's Chinatown New Year's garden tour is really great~! The things in here are so interesting and beautiful, we have never seen them before~! There are also a lot of Chinese workers living in London, so why not do a similar activity there? β
Zhou Zhen finally broke free from the clutches of the girl, rubbed his ears and said: "Mr. Zhou said, there will be in the future, as long as we are where Chinese gather, we can rely on our own advantages to spread our traditional culture to the world." β
"Spread the world? Wow~~ Mr. Zhou's ideals are really ambitious, unlike you, Doug, learn more from me, and be like this all day long, when will you be able to catch up with Mr. Zhou's pace? β
Zhou Zhen asked with an incredible face: "Learn more from you?" What will you be? β
The girl showed a sly smile, put her finger in front of her lips and said, "I will have a lot of things, you come with me and tell you that I have discovered a secret~!" β
"Alas, alas~ Wait, what secret?"
Zhou Zhen was dragged forward by the girl again, and the two ran until they reached an alley in the hinterland of Chinatown.
It is far from the main road of the Spring Festival Garden Party, and the pedestrians on the side of the road are much sparser, and the road surface is not as wide and clean as the main road, and sewage flows everywhere.
"I found an interesting thing here, I heard people passing by say that there is a bottle fairy here, which is what you Chinese say about immortals, praying to it will be answered, it is very effective~"
"Bottle fairy? What kind of immortal is that? How come I've never heard of it? Those gods and strange things are all made up by people to fool the common people. β
Zhou Zhen has been following Zhou Yu for a long time, and he has long scoffed at these fairy and ghost things.
But Margaret seemed quite determined, and dragged him into the alley, and went on again, and after walking for a while he saw a small shrine made of wood by the side of the road, just like the Land Temple he had seen in the country.
In the middle of this shrine is placed a large porcelain vase imitating blue and white, and there is an incense burner in front of the porcelain vase, on which there are a few incense candles that have not yet been burned completely, and there are fruits, bread and other things placed next to it, it seems that it is really a shrine, and it really enshrines some kind of god.
Margaret clasped her palms together as if she were in shape, bowed to the vase, and said with a voice in her mouth:
"Bottle Fairy, Bottle Fairy, please tell me if there are any bad people in Chinatown who disobey Mr. Zhou, and if so, what is his name?"
"Hey~ What are you talking nonsense? Don't talk nonsense here, where are the bad guys in Chinatown right now! β
Zhou Zhen was afraid that this aunt and grandmother would be listened to by someone who spoke indiscriminately, so he glanced left and right at the moment, but fortunately, there was no one around.
However, at this moment, the huge vase actually trembled slightly, and there was a "woo" sound inside.
This sudden movement frightened Zhou Zhen a lot, and he stepped back half a step back, staring at the vase vigilantly.
Margaret pointed at him and smiled: "Hahaha~ Coward, look at your appearance, what's there to be afraid of just a vase?" Could it be that there is still a person in it? β
"But I'm ...... But I just heard a voice! Well...... That bottle seems to talk?! β
"What? Can you still talk? Doug, didn't you say you didn't believe in those fairies and ghosts? How can a vase speak? If you don't believe me, I'll take it out and show you. β
As she spoke, Margaret stepped on the shrine and stretched out her hands to try to bring the vase out.
"Don't! Don't do that, stop! β
Zhou Zhen wanted to stop it too late, only to see Margaret holding the top edge of the vase with both hands, and pulled it down with all her might, and the big vase was pulled down with a "bang", rolled out of the shrine, and finally fell to the ground, shattering.
At the moment when the vase shattered, an indescribable stench immediately came, and the smoked Zhou Zhen and Margaret subconsciously covered their mouths and noses and retreated sharply.
And the scene in the vase also made the hairs of the two stand on end, and a coolness instantly enveloped the whole body.
In the vase, there was a human with a cloak and a festering body, without hands and feet!
Yes, Zhou Zhen confirmed that it was a person, a person whose limbs had been cut off and it seemed that his tongue had also been cut off!
He kept making "whine" sounds from his mouth, and his eyes seemed to be blinded, unable to speak, unable to see, but audible.
This terrifying scene directly frightened Margaery in place.
However, if this person puts on his limbs, washes cleanly, and puts on a white robe, he will become the former leader of the Little Knife Society with an elegant temperament and good appearance, and the sycophant --- Chen Jielai who betrayed An Liangtang.