As night fell, a waning moon rose into the sky and illuminated the entire world. The town of Shawu changed from noisy to silent in the twilight, and the lively atmosphere before the New Year was blocked in the houses of every family, separated from the cold outside the house into two worlds.

But not far from the town, a square surrounded by trees and surrounded by a fence began to bustle. When the last rays of light had faded, an old man with white beard and white hair lit the first torch and walked slowly from the entrance of the square to the center of the field, and stopped beside a circular stone platform.

The stone platform was more than a foot high and three feet wide, and was made of stones of equal size, and the ground was very regular and solid. Inside the stone platform, a layer of flammable fine wood is firmly laid at the bottom, and on top of the fine wood, layers of long wooden blocks of bowl-shaped thickness are neatly stacked in a "tic-tac-toe" shape.

On the outermost side of these wooden blocks, at the bottom of the stone platform, the same rectangular wooden block with thick arms is erected to the middle of the round platform, and a hollow "hill" with a spire is built, and at the tip of the top, it is tied and fixed with a straw rope the thickness of a finger, and poured from the top with fire oil to make the most flammable shape, just waiting for a flame to light it.

The old man stood still, first raised the torch above his head with both hands to signal to the sky, waved it left and right three times, then slowly moved his arm down, touched the fire oil with the flames, and lit up the "wooden mountain".

With a "whoosh", the blazing fire spread rapidly, burning all the way down the fire oil, and a large dazzling bonfire was lit in an instant, illuminating the entire square land.

As the flames rose high, the old man stood still, raised his head to the sky and shouted, "Open ...... market"

Immediately, dozens of strings of firecrackers rang out outside the fence, clusters of firelight lit up next to the stalls, and bursts of cheerful voices of men and women laughing or making noise began to be heard from the entrance.

At this moment, the year-end night market has begun lively.

Zuo Qiusheng stood in the crowd outside the city, a little nervous and a little excited, and looked up at Luo Anhua by one of Luo Anhua's sleeves. He was stunned when the firecrackers sounded, and before he could react, he was squeezed into the night market with the crowd.

The crowd was too crowded and noisy, Zuoqiu had little strength, he was squeezed crookedly as he walked, the sleeve he grabbed in his hand was getting smaller and smaller, and he was about to take it off, he was anxious all of a sudden, and his little white face was instantly wrinkled together. He eagerly stood on tiptoe and looked up, trying to determine Luo Anhua's location, but with this move, the fabric in his hand was jerked and disappeared in an instant.

Zuo Qiusheng's heart "fluttered" a beat faster, and he fell into a panic all of a sudden.

A pair of black eyes were suddenly covered with a layer of moisture, Zuo Qiusheng bit his lip and endured it, trying his best to tiptoe in the direction where his sleeves disappeared, but at a glance, he could only see the heads crowded together, where was there still a trace of the ghost king.

At this moment, Zuo Qiusheng was really panicked, his heart was beating faster and faster, and he tried to stand up straight with his fists in his fists, but he was at a loss in the crowd.

At this moment, Zuo Qiusheng's shoulders suddenly sank, and a hand reached out from behind him and grabbed his neck tightly.

Luo Anhua frowned, leaned sideways and moved forward, and finally pushed aside a few people in front of him and came behind Zuo Qiusheng.

Glancing at Zuo Qiusheng's face that was still a little flustered after turning around, Luo Anhua sighed hatefully, grabbed his right wrist, endured irritability and lowered his head to him: "There are a lot of people tonight, you follow me well, I won't look for you if you get separated!"

Quite disgusted, he glanced at the crowd around him, Luo Anhua couldn't help but slander in his heart, looking for a head from the black pressure, I don't have that good eyesight.

Zuo Qiusheng was stunned by the moment he grabbed his wrist, but he was still a little frightened, nodded, and hurriedly took a step closer to him, clinging to his side.

Luo Anhua stopped looking at him, frowned and pulled him into the crowd. After a few steps forward and a narrow fence at the entrance into the market, the crowd dispersed. Some of everyone went to the east, some went west, and some walked directly forward, but Luo Anhua lost his direction all of a sudden, pulling Zuo Qiusheng to stop in place.

Although a large number of people have rushed into the night market at the beginning, there are still many people who have walked in one after another from the outside, Luo Anhua pulled Zuo Qiusheng to stand in the middle of the road, and was hit several times after a while, so he could only hurriedly walk forward a few steps, find a position on the side of the road and stop there first.

Luo Anhua's bad temper came out again after being hit a few times, and his face turned obviously cold when he looked at the noisy crowd in front of him.

Protecting Zuo Qiusheng behind him, Luo Anhua let go of his wrist and reached out to pat his clothes while raising his eyes to look around. When I was crowded in the crowd, my clothes were dirty and messy, if it weren't for the stupid wood of Zuo Qiusheng, I would have flown out a long time ago, how could I bear this sin!

"This is the night market?" Glancing back at Zuo Qiusheng, Luo Anhua turned his face back with disdain.

Zuo Qiusheng nodded with an "um", stretched out his hands and grabbed his sleeves from behind Luo Anhua, and showed half of his head from his side to observe the scene in front of him, only after looking at it a few times, he laughed happily and said softly: "It's the same as the bazaar I saw when I was a child, it's so lively!"

Luo Anhua sighed and glanced down at him, and it took enough strength to hold back the disgust in his heart and not speak.

Looking up and closing his eyes deeply, Luo Anhua finally calmed down, opened his eyes and looked into the night market again, but the more he looked at it, the cooler his heart became, and the more he looked at it, the more angry he became.

In the end, he couldn't help it, he rolled his eyes deeply, and said in his heart, what kind of place is this, it really meets the unique preferences of this little fool!

There is such a broken place circled on the edge of the wild woods in the wilderness, there is not even a serious outer wall, you look at the tattered appearance of the wooden fence that surrounds the side, there is not a little style, when this is a pigsty!

If you look at the soles of your feet, it is really a thick and hard, sturdy loess road, not even a bluestone slab is paved, and there are some dead grass and fallen leaves on the side of the path, and they have not even cleaned up.

If you look at the night market, these vendors don't even have a pair of serious tables and chairs, and the rows of old stone slabs are stacked up and covered with a layer of cloth, are they stalls?

Luo Anhua turned his face and rolled his eyes again, what are you thinking about, what good things can there be in this broken place!

Zuo Qiusheng withdrew his gaze from the busy scene of the night market, looked up at Luo Anhua, and finally noticed his cold face, instantly smiled, let go of the two hands that were grabbing his sleeves with some curtle, carefully straightened up, took a step back and lowered his head, and with both hands nervously pulled at his clothes and asked softly, "Ghost King, ...... Don't like it?"

Luo Anhua took a deep breath before turning around, glanced at him, thought about his previous decision, used the greatest strength to relax the expression on his face, softened his tone, and said, "I still thought I could see any rare treasures, this human night market is not much better than our demon world's ghost market." ”

As he spoke, he turned his head and pointed to the slip of shoes, hats, and clothes on the first row of stone platforms not far in front of him, and said, "That's all, can you call something good?"

Zuo Qiusheng followed his fingers, looked at his face again, frowned and explained softly, "Here...... It's not all of these. ”

Seeing that Luo Anhua looked at him, as if he was interested in listening, Zuo Qiusheng laughed and said: "The bazaar in the world is not like a ghost market, which only sells rare things, and everything in the bazaar is sold. There are food, drink, play, and use, clothes and jewelry, live poultry and livestock, and even girls and servants can buy them, but they are all one class and occupy one place. Especially at the year-end night market, there are more areas divided, and there are treasure stalls, and I heard that there are many good treasures, but they are not in the same place as these. ”

Luo Anhua seemed to have never seen him say so many words in one breath, and when he heard it, he laughed and asked, "This kind of place is also something you liked before but haven't visited?"

Zuo Qiusheng nodded a little aggrievedly, and lowered his voice: "My mother took me to the daytime market, but the night market has never been there." ”

Luo Anhua didn't believe that he could find anything good here, but he really liked this place by looking at the appearance of this little nerd. Since he has come, he can't ruin his interest, and he will be reluctant to accompany him to go shopping and coax him to be happy, so he should be kind.

Reaching out and touching the top of Zuo Qiusheng's head, Luo Anhua opened his mouth, "Since this place is so interesting, you can take me around, and I will see if I can find any treasures." ”

Zuo Qiusheng laughed, a little hard to believe that the ghost king had such a good interest, a little excited, and a little flustered, his hands were raised excitedly and raised to his chest, and he nodded quickly and said, "Okay, okay, ghost king, I'...... I'll show you around, I'm sure you'll find something good!"

Saying that, he was about to go to the market, but since he was going to lead the way, he must be in front, but Zuo Qiusheng was also here for the first time, and he didn't know where everything was, so he stopped after taking two steps, turned around a little hesitantly, and asked, "Ghost King, do you want to ...... What do you want to see first?"

How could Luo Anhua not even see this, he silently rolled his eyes in his heart and scolded "idiot", but he still didn't have a seizure on his face.

After looking around at random, he saw that there was a road in front of him, which was quite wide, so he pointed over and said, "Everyone is going over there, there should be something unusual, let's go and see the excitement." ”

"Good!"

Zuo Qiusheng heard this before he had the backbone, and followed Luo Anhua and walked towards that road.