Hengshan County is a small city, with only a few streets and dozens of alleys. Jiang Liu and Qingze found a big inn to stay, the Spring Festival is coming, there are few travelers in the inn, and there are few people.

After settling down, Qing Ze went out to play, Jiang Liu was not interested, so he meditated and practiced in the inn. An hour passed, and Qing Ze returned to the inn and bought many New Year's goods, such as dim sum, rock sugar gourd, and so on. It just so happened that the inn also brought dumplings to the tourists who were celebrating the New Year in the store, and the two of them were very happy with snacks and eating dumplings.

The next day was the first day of the Lunar New Year, and before dawn, Jiang Liu was woken up by the sound of crackling firecrackers. Outside, the streets are bustling with people, people get up early and walk the streets. The innkeeper also told Jiang Liu that the custom of the first day of the new year in their place was that in addition to New Year's greetings, there was also a grand temple fair.

When Qing Ze heard that there was a temple fair, he clamored to go. Anyway, there was nothing to do, and Jiang Liu also wanted to go and see it, so the two asked about the location of the temple fair and rushed over.

The temple fair was held at the Chenghuang Temple in the east of the city, and when the two of them rushed over, there was already a sea of people. The people who visited the temple fair, some on foot and some in horse-drawn carriages, all dressed in beautiful new clothes and with a joyful spirit.

Around the City God's Temple, there are dozens of old pine trees, and the stretched branches are full of red ribbons, fluttering in the wind, like red flowers on the trees, which is very beautiful. When I got closer, I saw that the red ribbon was full of words of blessing, including "Flowers bloom in four seasons, the whole family is healthy", "Gold List Title", and "I hope to fly with Wang Lang" and so on.

While he was watching, he suddenly heard someone shouting next to him: "It's time to start dancing the dragon lantern." Sure enough, the gongs and drums sounded, a group of people rushed over, and the dragon lanterns began to dance. Everyone rushed over, this dragon has a total of nine sections, is made of bamboo strips, each section is inserted in the middle of the candle, the outside is pasted with paper, painted with colorful linjia.

The person who plays with the dragon lantern holds a bamboo pole under the dragon lantern, one section per person. There was also a person holding a jewel in front of him, and the bamboo dragon danced with the jewel, rolling on the ground and turning over, dancing like a real dragon. From time to time, some people in the crowd applauded loudly, everyone moved with the dragon lantern, and the crowd was crowded, and Jiang Liu and Qing Ze were quickly dispersed.

In addition to the dragon dance, there are all kinds of juggling at the temple fair, and the vendors selling all kinds of colorful goods are scattered on both sides of the road, and the shouting comes and goes.

This big temple fair was surrounded by water, as if the whole city had come. The river squeezed through the surging crowd, looking for Qingze, looking and searching, until the crowd dispersed, and even Qingze's shadow was not found. Seeing that it was slanting westward, Jiang Liu had to return to the inn first.

As soon as he walked to the door of the inn, the innkeeper had already greeted him, looking very anxious, and shouted as soon as he met: "Son, you are back, something happened!"

"What happened?"

"Someone just sent the news that the friend of the prince was taken away by the people of the Si family, let you go for a ......"

"What?" Jiang Liu was taken aback, "Qing Ze was arrested, what the hell is going on." ”

"Son, I heard from them that your friend broke Miss Si's glass beads, and Miss was very angry...... "The boss said, it turned out that Qing Ze played by himself after the temple fair and the river were scattered. However, there were too many people, and she accidentally bumped into Miss Si and broke her beloved glass beads.

Miss Si was naturally furious, and her family grabbed Qing Ze and beat her violently. After the beating, he was still angry, and ordered someone to send him to his own home, Qing Ze was almost beaten to death, and kept begging loudly for mercy, saying that he had a lot of treasures and could compensate, but he had to find his master first.

The Si family then sent people to the inn to look for Jiang Liu, and Jiang Liu had not come back at that time, so they left a message to the innkeeper and asked the boss to tell Jiang Liu.

Jiang Liu generally understands the origin of the matter from the boss's mouth, Qing Ze is his person, so naturally he can't stand idly by. The boss told Jiang Liu the route to the Si family, and also told him, "Son, the Si family is one of the largest families in Hengshan County, you have to be careful in everything." Jiang Liu smiled slightly and walked away.

When I arrived at Desi's house, I saw that the house was tall, and the vermilion lacquered gate hung a couplet and a few red lanterns. There is a big plaque at the door, which reads "Sijia Mansion", which is very spectacular, and four strong men are waiting outside the gate.

Seeing Jiang Liu coming over, a big man stepped forward to stop him and asked, "Who are you?"

"I am the one you are looking for at the inn, and I am my friend in your house. ”

The big man carefully looked at the river and said, "Please come inside!" Open the gate and let the river flow in. The big man led the way and waited in the lobby.

After a while, several big men rushed in with Qing Ze, who was disheveled and covered in blood, and when Qing Ze saw Jiang Liu, he couldn't help but cry loudly: "Brother Jiang, you can count it as coming, if you don't come, my life will be gone." ”

Jiang Liu saw that Qing Ze was beaten and his nose and face were swollen, and he couldn't help but be angry in his heart, so he comforted Qing Ze first, and then turned to the people of the Si family and said: "Debt repayment, if my little brother breaks your things, I will compensate him." Why did you beat him so fiercely and hurt him like this?"

A man who looked like a butler swaggered forward and said, "Who are you, what's your name?"

"I'm his eldest brother, so I don't want to say my name. Jiang Liu said: "I heard that he broke your lady's glass beads, you let my brother go, and I will compensate her." ”

"Can you afford to pay it?" the housekeeper sneered: "My young lady's glass beads were purchased from the Western Regions with a lot of money, and they are worth a lot of money, how can you compensate?"

Jiang Liu said: "How much did you buy the glass beads, I will compensate according to the price." ”

"My young lady said, I don't want money, I want an identical glass bead......" The housekeeper shook his head and said.

"This is difficult to do, since the glass beads were bought from the Western Regions, for a while, where can I find this thing?"

"......" Before the housekeeper could speak, a sharp voice came, "I don't care, if you don't compensate me for the same one today, don't want to go out of our house." ”

The crowd dodged away, and a red figure rushed in, and everyone saluted together: "I've seen Miss!"

Jiang Liu knew that it was Miss Si Jia's arrival, and saw that this young lady was dressed in a red cotton jacket, full of jewels, with a big face and a chubby body. As soon as she saw Jiang Liu, she was stunned for a moment, and suddenly her face became red, and her voice was much lower, "You...... What's your name?"

"Hello Miss, in Xiajiangliu. "River Stream.

"Oh" Miss Si bit her lip, her eyes were fixed on Jiang Liu, and she said after a while: "I don't want you to pay for my beads, can I marry you?"