Cartoonist's Dream

Speaking of the celebration banquet, the impression is that dozens of Mercedes-Benz and BMW parked in front of the restaurant, and then the entire restaurant is booked for a large banquet... This kind of thing has never happened in Pingnan.

Of course, it still won't happen now.

On Tuesday afternoon, firecrackers sounded in Pingnan Village from [-]:[-], from the entrance of the village along the dirt road to the fork in the road.Thick white gunpowder smoke lingers on the village road transformed from the field ridges, and the rapeseed fields are also shrouded in confused smoke.In the cloud and mist, there is a colorful dragon swimming faintly, undulating and shuttling in the smoky mid-air.

One, two, or three?

Among the field ridges, the number of dragons swimming in the white mist is indistinct, as if attracted by a certain direction, they entwine each other and move forward. [

The widened village road is filled with tables and chairs, and the spring breeze carries the aroma of the food, arousing the hunger of the students who are about to go home for dinner.But they were all stopped by parents at the table before they could go home.This is a once-in-a-ten-year feast. It was initiated and organized by the village committee. Even if you don't want to eat by the vegetable field, you have to come out to enjoy the face, not to mention that the village has not been so festive for several years.

I remember that the last one or two times was more than ten years ago.The Li family and the Lu family took a class when they built the building.At that time, there were only these two buildings in the village. Standing on the top of the buildings, you can browse the whole village, which is very spectacular.Especially Lijia, because it was the first time that such a tall building was built in the village, and almost all the villagers took turns to go up and browse.Now that there are more people starting the building, it is not very novel to look at it, and the building completion ceremony is no longer as lively as before.

(It's really... It's been a long time since I saw this scene.) The old villagers couldn't help sighing.

In the past, we used to farm in adjacent fields, and went to the same place to fetch water and wash clothes together, and greeted each other warmly every day.But I don't know when, the folks in the village gradually become strangers, and many people seem to be alone.

This dinner party is a dinner party for the whole village. Everyone will gather in the open space to eat and chat.

Although it was a bit hasty, more than 90 large tables with nearly one hundred tables were set up, and they were placed from the entrance of the village to Lu's house.The village still invited a dragon dance team, with colorful cloth strips pasted on the surface of the dragon, dancing in the smoke generated by firecrackers as if it had life.It is accompanied by the sound of firecrackers, gongs, drums and trumpets.

The frog that finally woke up from the winter was frightened back into the cave. Two dragons wandered among the fields, and the loud sound of the small drum and the gong was getting closer.

Finally, in its slow and roundabout way, it came to the door of the grocery store.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom—

The leader wears a fat-headed doll's headgear and holds a bamboo pole on which a large hydrangea ball is raised high. The "Dragon Ball" swings up or down, left or right with the rhythm of the drum.

The two colorful dragons are Xiaonanlong, which is smaller in size. The body of the dragon is about 20 meters, and the head is large and slender.The so-called Nanlong is exactly the cloth dragon produced in Jiangnan Province, and the dragons in the water villages are naturally more traditional than other dragons.The dragon head is made of bamboo paper, and the pattern is sewn with cloth strips. The body of the dragon is relatively heavier than that of other regions.

The fat-headed doll in front of Ssangyong waved the dragon ball in his hand, just like a Nezha who is not afraid of death, playing with the sea dragon of the East China Sea.It's rare that the two dragons foolishly chased after the dragon ball, as if they were insane, no matter how hard they chased, they couldn't catch up with the dragon ball in front of them.There are about a dozen dragon dancers under Xiaolong, and they are sweating profusely waving the wooden poles in their hands.

The dragon body of Nanlong is much heavier than the dragon ball, and ordinary bamboo poles will break with a single swing. Only solid wood poles can bear the heavy responsibility.

After the two colorful dragons came to the open space in front of the grocery store, they continued to twine. Their heads turned to the grocery store, and they kept nodding towards the facade of Li's house from left to right in celebration.More than 300 villagers from Pingnan Group [-], Group [-], and Group [-] also gathered nearby on the fields and village roads.

"Stop!" Following an order, the dancing dragons stopped and rolled.The one who spoke was the host standing on the stairs, holding a big electronic speaker in his hand, he led Li Mu to the front of the store and shouted:

"Everyone has worked hard! We invite you to come here today because our village has a world champion, who was won in the United States, the champion of the top competition! He is the prodigy of our village—Limu!"

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The cheers of the crowd immediately resounded through the field.

"Li Mu jumped into the first year of high school, next year she will jump into the third year of high school, and in the year after that, she will go to Tsinghua University and Peking University to guarantee another celebration...!" [

"He is a unicorn born in the village, and he will definitely be able to walk on the road of prosperity and live a prosperous life in the future...!"

"..."

wow... wow... wow...

Shen Chang's speech was cheered again and again, and he counted his achievements like a treasure, even the thick-skinned Li Mu couldn't help but blush.After the host finished reading and everyone got to the point of eating, Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief.

There are about [-] large round tables for the banquet, and each table can seat three to five people. The number of people in each family varies from single family members to four generations.Those who are eligible to sit are real villagers of Pingnan Village, and tenants without Pingnan household registration are not invited.Of course, the dragon dance team will be invited to stay for dinner.

Cailong was put back into their truck by the team members, and the fat-headed doll also took off his headgear.Li Mu didn't expect that there was a thin face hidden in the hood. She was a girl, and her hair was messed up by the hood.The arms are slender but have grown biceps, obviously not training the pink muscles like Isa.

Everyone in the village found their acquaintances and neighbors to sit down, and the dragon dance team crowded together on a big table.

"Are you tired from dancing the dragon?" Li Mu, the protagonist of the banquet, sneaked out of the banquet center, ran to the end table at the entrance of Lu's house, and chatted with the dragon dancers.

"Not tired, just get used to it." The dragon dance captain who was in charge of supporting the dragon's head just now replied.

"That doesn't sound real."

Li Mu looked at the girl who played the fat-headed doll, she was still sweating profusely, and kept wiping her forehead and cheeks with the towel around her neck.

"How much do you charge for one dance?" Li Mu asked again.

It may be too direct to make people suspect that he has bad intentions, and the captain of the dragon dance did not tell him the real number.

"Not much." The dragon dance captain declared that.

"Not many, hahaha" Seeing Li Mu's disbelief, his team members all grinned.

Hearing their laughter, Li Mu, who originally thought they made a lot of money, couldn't judge whether the dragon dance team was making a lot of money, but they looked very happy.

I saw them chatting and laughing while drinking Sprite, Coke and beer. They were not in a hurry to eat, but just sat or leaned on the table to rest.Their blood gathered in their limbs, their stomachs and brains were completely devoid of hunger, and they sat quietly waiting for the cool evening breeze to dispel the fatigue from their bodies.

"I heard that you are better than adults, and you can earn as much money as the eight of us in one month." The dragon dance captain finally told Li Mu the answer in the form of this math problem.

According to conservative judgments in some newspapers, Limu’s manuscript fee should be around 200*44p8800 yuan, so one person earns eight people’s money, which means that each of them has an income of more than 1000 yuan per month.After the captain finished speaking, he handed over a glass of yellow bubbling liquid, and invited Li Mu:

"How about it, my lord, do you want to drink?"

The wine glass appeared in front of him, and Li Mu subconsciously wanted to take the beer, but he decided not to drink because of heart disease.The dragon dance team couldn't help but smile when they saw his funny appearance of wanting to drink.

The girl fighting the dragon opened the captain's hand and poured a glass of Sprite for Li Mu. After taking a sip, Li Mu chatted with them.During the conversation, he didn't feel shy, and asked the dragon dancers about their way of life.For example, "How many times do I have to dance dragons a month to live?" The answer I got was that I don't dance dragons every day in a month, but occasionally I do lion dances, act, perform acrobatics and do almost anything. [

If the contact person really can't find a job, the dragon dance team will go to find a newly opened store for dragon dance. Generally, the owner of the store will give some money.However, the red envelopes of two or three hundred yuan won't get much for a team.

It happens from time to time that shopkeepers don’t give red envelopes. At such times, I can only consider myself unlucky, but occasionally I still have conflicts with the shopkeepers.The shopkeeper can just chase people away during the dragon dance, so that the team won't be wasting effort in front of the door.But when the dancers were sweating profusely and came to congratulate them, the shopkeeper not only refused to give red envelopes, but even cursed that the dragon dance team hindered the business, which inevitably made some team members blush with anger.

So it is inevitable that there will be some fighting.

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