warm and deep

Chapter 17 Welcome
The tractor Chunhua and the others were riding was still a few miles away from the town government on the mountain road, when they vaguely heard lively singing.The group immediately fell silent, their eyes followed the direction of the singing, and their hearts had already flown to the meeting place.

In the distance, I saw colorful flags fluttering, balloons swaying in the wind, and a large colorful arch was built at the main intersection leading to the stage. On both sides stood an inflatable Yaojia doll with a round smiling face, shaking and shaking, It seems that if you are not careful, you will fall on the arch.

A staff member of the town was standing at the arched entrance. When he saw Guo Zisu and the others, he immediately raised his hands and said loudly, "All the actors gather in the conference room on the second floor!"

A week before the festival, the town government specially invited a teacher from the cultural center from the county seat to call the performance teams from each village, and asked the teacher to screen them out, leaving only those programs with neat movements and novel content.

The teachers are very professional and dedicated.He asked everyone to perform one by one, and those who were too poor were cut off immediately.Those who have a little foundation, give advice on the spot to see if there is potential for improvement, and if so, keep it. If the actor's foundation is too poor, he will not be able to catch up with the level for a while, so he will also be cut off.

Then, regardless of whether these rural actors are available or not, the teacher gathered them together every day for a week, guided the programs one by one, and rehearsed repeatedly until each actor's performance showed his ultimate performance.

The town government also asked the teachers to pick out the actors with outstanding looks, conduct etiquette training, and teach them to sing folk songs.Arrange for them to double as hostesses and extras on the day of the festival.

Guo Zisu and the others rushed to the conference room on the second floor in three steps and two steps, and the actors from other villages had already arrived first.When the teacher saw them coming in, he motioned them to stand still.Let them turn back and forth and left and right.After reading it once, he said: "It's okay, the clothes and make-up are not messed up, please pay attention to maintain it, the only way to touch up make-up here is to go to the toilet, there is not even a decent mirror, you don't want to embarrass yourself in front of the superiors."

After speaking, the teacher sent each of them a program list and told them to remember the order of their programs.Then he said: "After the show starts, I will always be by the stage. If you don't understand anything, just ask me. Now the actor who is in charge of welcoming guests will follow me."

Chunhua, Guo Zisu and several other girls followed the teacher to the intersection of the assembly, found where they were standing, and remembered who was on the left and right of each other.The teacher emphasized with a serious face: "When the leader comes later, the sound system on the stage will play a warm welcome song. As long as the music is accompanied, you will immediately clap your hands and stomp your feet rhythmically, say welcome words, and smile sweetly. Keep smiling with eight teeth."

Guo Zisu and Chunhua glanced at each other, made a secret grimace, and dispersed to walk around the intersection.

The center of the assembly is a tall altar made of thick wood. The back of the altar is separated by a large golden flannelette. Several statues of gods are hung on the flannelette. The largest one in the middle should be the statue of King Pan. Pig heads, glutinous rice cakes, chicken, wine and other sacrifices are enshrined in front of the temple.In front of it is a stage made of thick and long wooden boards, the top of the stage is covered with red and yellow woven cloth, the pillars on both sides are painted red, and are hung with colorful balls.There is a sound system in front of the stage to the right, and the music heard on the road just now came from here.The staff were walking around, continuing to place fruit and other offerings in the center of the altar, and many children were running around in front of the stage, laughing and playing.

A few young people who looked like staff members were arranging the chairs in front of the stage into two rows. There was also a table in front of each row of chairs. The table was covered with red silk cloth and some covered teacups were placed on it.Obviously a rostrum for VIPs.

minced meat.Guo Zisu heard Chunhua yell, and looked back, Liang Shi was walking towards Uncle Gu, when Min Rou saw his mother, he giggled and ran close, but did not rush over, he said proudly : "Mom, we didn't get on the tractor, we walked here by ourselves."

Chunhua approached him with a smile, kissed his tanned cheek, and said, "You're so good, follow Uncle Liang and don't get lost."

"I know!" Min Rou said and ran back to Liang Shi and Uncle Gu with a smile.

Liang Shi saw Guo Zisu looking at him from afar, and was about to say hello, when he heard the sound of a large truck beeping behind him, he looked back and saw that Shan Fu, whom he had seen last time, was driving that big truck that looked like a panacea. coming.

When Shan Fu saw Liang Shi, he stopped the car immediately, stuck his head out from the cab and asked, "Brother, you are here too? I heard that you rescued Mr. Gu from the bottom of the cliff that night."

"You idiot, you didn't send the uncle home that night, so you have the nerve to ask." Uncle Bone curled his mouth, pretending to be dissatisfied.

Shan Fu laughed loudly, and quickly said, "Master, you are here too? How can you see the shadows of the people on the stage when you are sitting in a wheelchair? Come on, you come to my compartment, so that you will sit higher than others .”

Uncle Bone twisted his body in an exaggerated lightness, stretched out a hand to hold the minced meat, and curled his lips again: "Who wants to sit in your car to see, I have Lianggong and Xiaowa."

Shan Fu laughed even louder: "Okay, Liang Gong and Xiaowa come up too." After saying that, he got out of the cab, moved Uncle Gu and the wheelchair to the carriage with Liang Gong, and minced meat also got into it cleverly.

When some adults and children around saw this scene, they rushed over like the wind, scrambling to climb into the carriage, and soon the car was full of people.

Shan Fu looked at Liang Shi, and said heartily: "Brother, you didn't squeeze in. Don't worry, the meeting is over, you come to find the uncle and the children, and I will watch."

Liang Shi exchanged mobile phone numbers with Shan Fu, and told him to call the mobile phone if he had something to do.

At this moment, a voice came from the stereo: "Attention all staff, the superiors will be here soon, play music, welcome guests and take their places."

Guo Zisu hurriedly waved at Liang Shi, then ran to her seat, and performed the welcoming etiquette to the music.For a while, the gongs and drums were noisy, the firecrackers were all fired, and the fireworks flew into the sky brilliantly.

A convoy drove over slowly.The vehicles in the front were the media vehicles, all with their carports open and cameras set up to take pictures of the leading vehicles behind them, and some of them took pictures of the welcome team from time to time.

Chen Yanming was also in the convoy.His health bureau was arranged by the city to attend the celebration and investigate how to provide medical assistance to counterparts.The new deputy director of the bureau had just transferred from the army and didn't know much about medicine, so he called him who had just graduated from a master's degree and came to the office.

Chen Yanming looked at everything outside the car window curiously, and was deeply intoxicated by the warm welcome from the road. He thought to himself, it feels really good to be a leader.

Suddenly, a familiar face passed by in the welcome line, and he was startled, trying to see clearly, but the car had already turned the intersection.He looked back to the rear window of the car, and saw a graceful woman dressed in Yao nationality, with bright eyes and bright teeth, clapping her hands gracefully, exuding a poetic charm all over her body.He thought, why is he so familiar?This is my first time here, I should have never seen the mountain girl here.No, why is there an air of bookishness about her?

Chen Yanming thought suspiciously, secretly praying for the opportunity to find out the identity of this beautiful woman.

After getting out of the car, Chen Yanming greeted the local leaders politely, greeted the deputy director, and went to the intersection to find someone.However, when he walked through the crowd and came to the place where the beauty was standing just now, the welcoming team had already dispersed, and the beauty had gone nowhere.

(End of this chapter)