Rebirth of the poor elder sister-in-law

Chapter 233

After the family tidied up, they started to set off. Everyone was very excited. Liu Man'er held Ye Tianchen with his left hand, and Fang's was on Ye Tianchen's left hand. Liu Man'er held Ye He with his right hand. Liu Fusheng and Ye Feng are on the far side.

Everyone was holding hands, and there were Aunt Han's family and some servants behind them. The group walked towards the street in a mighty manner.

However, when they approached the gate of the city, the few people in their family were like water flowing into the sea, and they were nothing. The streets were densely packed with people.

"Mother, there are so many people!" Ye Tianchen looked up at Liu Man'er, who was so small that he was inconspicuous in the crowd, and he couldn't hear anything except the sound of gongs and drums in his ears.

"Let's choose a place with a good view." Liu Man'er suggested.

"There are people everywhere, where is there any good place?" Fang shook her head, feeling that she was satisfied if she could feel the excitement.

"Go to the city wall." Liu Man'er said when she looked up at the majestic city wall.

"The city wall, that's only for officers and soldiers of the imperial court. How could they let you go there?" Fang also took a look at the high city wall. This grand event is under the city wall. If you can stand on the city wall, You must be able to see everything below clearly. It looks like they are standing behind here, except for human heads.

While talking, people came from behind one after another, they squeezed forward desperately, Liu Man'er and others were pushed further and further outside by them.

"Of course I have a solution." Liu Man'er smiled slightly, turned her head to Han Shixin and said, "Uncle Han, go discuss with the guards and see if we can go up and visit."

As she said that, she secretly gave Han Shixin a wink, money can turn ghosts around, but it's just going to the city wall to see lanterns, it's no big deal, she believes that as long as the price is right, these soldiers guarding the city will agree.

What's more, in the eyes of the dignitaries and dignitaries in this city, these lanterns are all belongings of lower Liba people, so they won't come to see them, so no one comes back to compete with Liu Man'er for a position, but in Liu Man'er's eyes, these simple and simple activities Be interesting and captivate her.

After Han Shixin listened to Liu Man'er's order, he turned around and walked towards the city wall from the side, while Liu Man'er and others waited for his news.

After a while, Han Shixin came over, followed by a soldier guarding the city.

"Mistress, old lady, the guard agreed to let us go to the city wall, but after all, it is an important part of the city wall, so we must remember not to make any noise when we go up." Han Shixin bowed and said.

"Well, don't worry about that." Liu Man'er nodded, and bowed to the soldier again.

"Thank you very much. We have never seen a lantern before, and we are very curious about it, but there are too many people here. If you hadn't agreed to let us go to the city wall, we might have returned without success today." Compared with Liu Man'er's calmness and alienation, Fang's was much more enthusiastic, and she was very grateful in her words.

"Hey, it's a trivial matter, as long as you don't tell others." The soldier guarding the city felt a little embarrassed when he saw Fang's gratitude to him.

"Of course not." Fang showed a clear smile, and a group of people went to the city wall with the soldier.

Even though they were walking on the side, and there were soldiers guarding the city to open the way, it still took a lot of time for the group to reach the city wall, but it was lucky that they didn't waste the time to look at the lanterns. Liu Man'er and the others When we reached the city wall, the two furnaces downstairs were burning.

Standing on the city wall, the field of vision is wide open. Looking down, the dancing fire dragon is very powerful, and the colorful lion is also majestic. Sure enough, this county town is incomparable with the countryside. This county town is really lively for the New Year.

Liu Man'er and the others arrived just in time, and after a while, the dragon and lion dance team withdrew, replaced by two middle-aged men with wraps on their heads, their faces were imprinted by the flames, and they couldn't see what they were looking for. They looked like men, but they could vaguely see their bronzed faces, which looked like a tough guy.

They began to sing loudly a ballad that Liu Man'er couldn't make out the tune. It should be in a dialect, but Liu Man'er couldn't understand it. After all, this county is very big, especially Fengyang County, which is said to have different sounds in five miles. Liu Man'er's dialect was different from theirs, so she didn't understand it. She just felt that the ballad was very powerful from the dantian to the chest to the throat. Although she couldn't understand it, it was still shocking.

There was a man singing the ballad, and the singing resounded all of a sudden, and the crowd of ordinary people also sang along, the sound came from all directions, although there was no one directing it, it was unusually orderly, Liu Man'er felt that she really did not come in vain.

I don't know when, the singing has stopped, followed by the sound of gongs and drums, and someone shouted loudly: "Playing lanterns..."

Accompanied by this melodious and lofty sound, the scoops of hot molten iron were hit on the city wall by the two men wrapped in scarves. The molten iron splashed like pieces of gold and scattered bursts of sparks, although not as good as fireworks , but it doesn't have a heavy feeling. In Liu Man'er's eyes, it is more beautiful than fireworks.

This lantern lighting is to beat the melted molten iron on the city wall, forming circles of gorgeous and bright sparks. This lighting lantern also needs to pay attention to skills. After all, this is hot molten iron, and the strength is not enough. The shape of the lantern flower is not good-looking, but if it is too powerful, if you are not careful, you will burn yourself.

The poor people couldn't afford expensive fireworks, so they used this molten iron instead. Day after day, a custom was formed, which added a bit of excitement. Now, even the government will support and sponsor some scrap iron.

This lighting went on for a long time, until the molten iron in the barrel was finished and the fire gradually went out, people reluctantly dispersed.

The dispersed crowd did not leave, it was rare that there was no curfew, and taking advantage of this festive day of the Chinese New Year, everyone must have a good time. Just after the lanterns dispersed, the small vendors on the street began to set up their shops again. All kinds of festive snacks, good-looking dough figurines, lifelike sugar figurines, all kinds of masks, and small fireworks that can be held in your hands like incense sticks.

Today, not far from the gate of the city, a stage was set up for opera singers, storytellers, ventriloquist performers, and jugglers.

According to Han Shixin, there will also be two storytellers in his shop to perform on stage, but unfortunately, Liu Man'er stands far away and cannot see clearly, and the noisy crowd also limits the transmission of their voices.

But it doesn't matter, what everyone wants is the enthusiasm, and it doesn't matter what they said.

On this special day today, everyone is happy. Pedestrians, men, women, and children are all happy and happy. Even people who are depressed and melancholy on weekdays will not be stingy with their smiles today. Liu Maner saw Everyone was smiling, and she couldn't help being infected.

After all, it's the Chinese New Year, let's forget about some unhappy things today.

There was a mask seller on the side of the road, Ye Tianchen liked it very much after seeing it, opened his eyes wide, and kept tugging at Liu Man'er's clothes: "Mother, I want to buy a mask."

"What kind do you want?" As long as a small request such as a mask, Liu Man'er naturally would not refuse, she brought the whole family to this mask selling booth, and said: "It's rare to come out to play once, each of us Buy one."

Hearing what Liu Man'er said, Fang also took a piggy mask from the booth with a smile, put it on Ye Tianchen's face, and said, "Tianchen, this piggy, it looks really good on your face." .”

"Does it look good?" Ye Tianchen asked innocently.

"It looks good." Liu Man'er replied seriously.

Everyone tried their best to hold back their laughter, this is a pig's head mask, but Ye Tianchen also looks like a little pig.

"Mother, you wear one too." Seeing Fang Shi looking at Ye Tianchen with a smile on her face, Liu Man'er also picked up a pig's head mask from the booth and was about to put it on Fang Shi.

"I won't wear it." Fang stretched out her hand to stop it, and said shyly, "I'm old, what would it look like wearing such a mask?"

"Oh, no one knows you when you wear this mask anyway." Liu Man'er didn't listen to her, and insisted on putting the mask on Fang's face.

Fang was helpless by Liu Man'er, and Liu Man'er put the mask on with half-pushing. After seeing them, everyone burst into laughter, and Fang shook his head helplessly when he saw them.

After Liu Man'er put on the mask for Fang, she glanced at the people who were still laughing. These people immediately picked out a mask and put it on, otherwise, Liu Man'er would definitely give them another pig's head mask.

Seeing their winks, Liu Man'er didn't force them anymore, she took a pig's head mask from the shelf and put it on.

Seeing that she was also wearing a pig's head mask, Ye He and the others knew that she didn't intend to play tricks on the Fang family.

"Sister-in-law, it turns out that you really like pig-head masks." Ye He, who was wearing a tiger-head mask, said.

"That's right, pigs are one of the five lucky animals. I really want to be a pig that will eat and die." Liu Man'er replied.

"Oh." Ye He nodded half-understanding, Cao'er next to her wore a sheep's head mask, and Ye Feng and Liu Fusheng chose two horse's head masks.

The horse head mask is golden and only covers half of the face. It looks good when worn on their faces. The sheep head mask and tiger head mask are also pretty good. Only Liu Man'er and the three pig head masks are cute and a little silly.

"Guest officer, this mask looks really good on your face, buy it!" The shrewd stall owner on the side had a simple and honest smile on his face.

"How much?" Liu Man'er asked.

"Ten coins each." The stall owner replied.

"Ten Wen is so expensive? Don't buy it." Liu Man'er didn't speak yet, but Ye He was about to take the mask off her face when she heard what the stall owner said.

Seeing that Liu Man'er and the others were planning to take off their masks, the stall owner said quickly, "Hey, it's Chinese New Year, take care of the business and see how much you buy, how about eight cents?"

"I'll buy it for five pennies." Ye He said firmly, as long as the stall owner agreed, she would not buy it.

"Okay, okay, this one is big for Chinese New Year, I'll sell it out early, go home early." The stall owner agreed.

Seeing that Ye He was like a victorious general, Liu Man'er also smiled slightly, but she handed out a piece of silver from her purse and handed it to the stall owner.

"Here, I can't find it." The stall owner stretched out his hand to pick it up but hesitated.

"You don't need to look for it." Liu Man'er replied, "Forge a good relationship, so that you can sell them out early so that you can go home for the New Year."

"Thank you ma'am, thank you ma'am, what an embarrassment." The stall owner was overjoyed and said modest words.

"I'm sorry to return it, I have some change here." Ye He said after hearing it.

Hearing what Ye He said, the stall owner smiled awkwardly and took the money into his arms. For a businessman, face is of no use, money is the most important thing.

"Hey, you all come up and choose a mask." Ye He was a little unwilling, so she said to some servants who were not far away from them, then looked at the stall owner, and said: "I will let my servants come and choose Two masks, you can't lose, right?"

"It's okay, it's okay to make a good relationship, even if it's a loss." Although the stall owner felt a little pained, he didn't feel anything at all when he thought of the money Liu Man'er gave him.

Only then did Ye He forcefully smile, and walked away a few pig-head masks from the booth before leaving.

"Come on, come on, today we are all like sister-in-law, wearing a pig's head mask and being a pig waiting to die." Ye He said and changed into a mask.

"No, you children can't think like this." Liu Man'er heard Ye He say this, and quickly suppressed her thoughts, saying: "You should still wear your tiger head mask and be a queen in the future."

"Queen, sister-in-law, you really dare to say it." Ye He pursed her lips and smiled, "I just think this tiger is beautiful and majestic."

Liu Man'er said, "You don't have to be the queen of this world, as long as you follow your heart, you will be the queen in your heart."

"Yeah." Ye He nodded, with a smile in her words, "Then I see, Cao'er is just a little sheep, and third brother and Fusheng are a pony."

"They're not ponies, they're Maxima." Liu Man'er laughed.

"Yes, yes, Maxima." Ye He took Liu Man'er's voice, and saw that a certain place was very lively, so he pulled Cao'er and Liu Man'er to go there.

"Slow down." Fang Shi dinged her. Seeing that she likes to join in the fun, everyone smiled at each other and followed her there.

(End of this chapter)