Portable space

Time flies by in the busyness and joy of people, and it is the thirteenth day of the first lunar month in a blink of an eye.

In the morning, the village chief called everyone together again, and everyone knew what was going on.Generally speaking, at least two shows are needed for fun, one at night and one during the day.The one during the day has a lot of shows and travels far away, but the one at night is held in the village.What the village chief wanted to talk about was the excitement at night.

Sure enough, the old village chief waited for everyone to sit down and lit their cigarettes before saying, "We will follow Fengyukou Village to the town for a tour the day after tomorrow, that is, on the fifteenth day."

"You still want to go around the town?"

The old village head nodded: "This year is a big show, not only Fengyukou and we will go there, but also several villages will go there together. It will definitely be a big scene."

"Haha, this is a good thing, and our village will also show its face when the time comes."

The old village head pressed his hand and said: "Originally, the evening show was scheduled for the [-]th night, but the [-]th was going to the town, so after discussing it, the night show was moved forward by one day, and it will be played tonight. At night, I can play with everything else, except brushing the refill, because the pattern on the refill can only be seen during the day, and if it is pulled out at night and smeared black, it will not be worth seeing at all.

"Just wait for this day." Wang Laoqiang said with a big smile.

"The matter about Xinzi can be put aside for the time being and the final preparations will be made tomorrow. Today, we will prepare the show tonight." The old village head said, and then asked Wang Peng, "How is the lion playing? "

Wang Peng patted his chest and said, "No problem, it's not a problem to jump on the table or bench."

Seeing Wang Peng's confident and smug expression, all the old people in the room smiled and shook their heads.Jumping on the table and bench is the most basic requirement for lion dance. In their time, lion dance had to go on a high platform. There was a lantern on the top of the platform made of long benches or wood, and many lions danced together. Compete on the stage, whoever gets the lantern first will be the lion king.Some highly skilled lion dancers will also build some plum blossom piles, jumping and dancing on the plum blossom piles, which is the pinnacle of lion dance, but in the hands of modern young people, they can be put on the table and simply jump obstacles. Proud.

There may be passionate memories of their era in their smiles, and there may also be a touch of sadness for the youth that will never return.

The old village chief didn't expect Wang Peng and the others to perform any great tricks with the lion dance, so he nodded and said, "That's good."

Zhang Taiping remembered the bamboo horses that Fan Ming had been practicing for the past few days, and asked, "Our village doesn't have a team of bamboo horses, so what about the girls practicing bamboo horses?"

The old village head said: "Go early in the evening, let them join the bamboo horse team in Fengyukou."

That's the only way, Zhang Taiping thought, two or three people can't represent a village.

The old village head asked again: "Do you have any comments?"

Everyone shook their heads, "No more, nothing to do, just wait until night."

"That's good, let's leave. When we get back, let those who have a show at night inform them to get ready. I will use the loudspeaker to announce when we gather again in the afternoon." After finishing speaking, he waved his hands in the air He said at once, "Marshal and old man Qian stay here for a while."

"Is there anything else you can ask?" Old Man Qian asked after everyone else had left.

The old village head said: "I still need some small things, and you two have to prepare them for us."

"What?" Zhang Taiping asked.

"Torches." The old village head said, "The firecrackers have already been bought in the village, and now we still need torches."

Torches are indispensable for playing lively at night. In the past, they were only illuminated by torches at night. Although there are lights now, torches are also indispensable, because their functions are not only for lighting, but also for other ways to play.

"It's simple." Old Man Qian said, "I'll just make some later, it won't take much time."

The old village chief asked, "The main reason is do you have kerosene there?"

"Oh, I really don't have this. A few years ago, I would keep some kerosene in the house for emergencies. Now that the electricity is cut off, who would store kerosene at home." Old man Qian said, "This is a trouble."

The most obvious shortcoming of China's vast land and large population is the lack of energy. In the 21th century and even the beginning of the [-]st century, the country's power supply was still dwarfed. Some underdeveloped places still implement a system of power supply in shifts, especially in marginal mountain villages. Power failures are frequent. Therefore, every household basically has a kerosene lamp and a few candles for emergencies, but in recent years the country has already changed this situation, and power outages have become very uncommon accidents. So the kerosene lamps in the house have already dried up.

Zhang Taiping said: "Where do I have some gasoline, I don't know if it's okay?" He prepared two small barrels of about ten liters of gasoline for the motorcycle, and stored them in the space in case he was riding that day and suddenly ran out of oil and broke down halfway. .

"If you don't have kerosene, you can only use gasoline, but it just smells bad when it burns," said the old village chief.

He didn't leave at the moment, and made more than a dozen torches directly from the old village head's house. They were wrapped with old clothes and cotton, and they would become simple torches after soaking in gasoline.

The old village chief said to Zhang Taiping again: "By the way, I remember you had a barbecue in your house, do you still have any charcoal?"

"There are quite a lot of charcoal." Zhang Taiping wondered, "What's the use of this?"

Old Man Qian explained with a smile: "Powdered charcoal is indispensable when playing with torches."

"How do you say it?" Zhang Taiping asked.

The old village head replied: "If you have any, take a few pieces, grind them into powder, add rosin powder to it, and sprinkle it on the torch at night, and a big fire will come out with a bang." , it can be regarded as a program."

"This is no problem." Zhang Taiping said, "I'll go back and tinker with it."

"Don't worry, don't worry, there is one more thing." The old village head stopped him and said.

Old man Qian said beside him: "I said, old man Wang, you are really serious. You don't finish what you say at once. I feel uncomfortable when you say that you don't feel uncomfortable."

The old village head didn't talk to old man Qian, but said to Zhang Taiping: "We don't need wicks tonight. There are few things in our village. There are only two lions and a few bamboo horses. I think so, Let Wukong perform another show, what do you think?"

"Let it beat the gong, it has learned to beat the gong in the past few days to keep up with the rhythm." Zhang Taiping said.

Unexpectedly, the old village chief shook his head and said: "Bai is okay. Wukong hides in the crowd at night and beats the gong to attract people's attention, so there is no highlight. I mean let it perform a show alone. "

"Performing alone?" Zhang Taiping said, "I haven't specially trained it, and I don't know what it can perform."

The old village chief said: "It doesn't matter if you don't know any programs, as long as you assign it a character who can walk in front of people and attract everyone's attention and make people watch it happily."

"I have an idea here, the two of you can see if it works." Old man Qian had an idea.

The old village head said angrily: "If you have something, tell it quickly, don't dawdle."

"I'm not learning from you. You said something just now, so you just dawdled." Old man Qian and the old village chief said after arguing, "Since it's called Wukong, let's dress it up as Monkey King and give it a stick. The golden cudgel, didn’t it swing the knife to open the way again at night, let it and those young men open the way in front or on both sides.”

Zhang Taiping nodded and said: "This does not require training, but it is possible."

Old man Qian chuckled and continued: "You have four big dogs at home, don't you? Find a relatively mild-tempered one for Wukong to ride on. If you think about it, it will definitely be the two o'clock tonight."

The old village head clapped his hands with bright eyes and said, "This idea is not bad, what do you think, Commander?"

Zhang Taiping imagined the scene of a monkey riding a dog, but it made people happy.He nodded and said, "I'll go back and give it a try. It would be best if Wukong and Dagou can be arranged together."