Chapter 478: Just a Meeting Gift
Chapter 478: Just a Meeting Gift
The noise like a tide lingers in my ears.
Liang Qu walked around the screen wall and paused when he saw the magnificent scene on the street.
This year, there are far more people participating in the River God Festival than expected!
The Liang residence is quite far away from Shangrao Port. Even so, the crowds of people gathered in front of the mansion were like ants surrounding honey!
Under a large locust tree just across the street, a storyteller set up a small stall with a tarpaulin. He told a passage from "Three Heroes and Five Gallants" in a high-pitched voice, but it still caused a great stir.
Business has come all the way here!
Xiang Fangsu leaned against the screen wall, stroking the dog's head fiercely. After finally seeing the real protagonist appear, he urged him on.
"Stop wasting time! Let's go!"
"Why are you in such a hurry?" Liang Qu looked up at the sun, feeling helpless about Xiang Fangsu's urging. "The River God Festival starts at noon, at least an hour later. Why don't you go to the pier to bask in the sun?"
"If you cram at the last minute, things will go wrong. You are practicing, but you don't know this?"
Xiang Fangsu kept muttering, and suddenly his pupils dilated. He pulled Liang Qu away and lay on the screen wall to look around.
"What are you looking at?" Liang Qu wondered, "What is there to see in my yard?"
"You are so good, you have thick eyebrows and big eyes. You look honest, but what you do is not honest at all. You have a beautiful maid in your house at such a young age! Where did you find that maid? Come on, help me find a way!"
Xiang Fangsu never expected that Liang Qu actually kept two very beautiful maids in his own home!
If there is a girl in the pawnbroker who is slightly pretty, twenty or thirty taels are enough to win her over.
Those who can be called good-looking are only worth a hundred taels, but the two in front of me, just based on their looks, are worth at least a thousand taels...
No.
Can't give a price.
Not even visible!
"No way, Long Pingjiang, Long Pinghe's sister, come and work for me."
Xiang Fangsu turned back in surprise: "The dragon man's sister? Isn't that the dragon girl?"
Liang Qu shrugged.
He wasn't talking nonsense.
The Long people are originally one family. If Long Yao and Long Li trace their roots, they can indeed call Long Pingjiang or Long Pinghe brother. If they strictly follow the seniority, they may call him more than that, they may even call him uncle or grandpa.
Xiang Fangsu was greatly disappointed.
Boring.
"let's go!"
As the two stepped out of the house, a small circle of open space suddenly appeared on the crowded street, just like boiling water pouring on snow.
The villagers did not recognize Xiang Fangsu, but they recognized Liang Qu next to him.
"Mr. Liang!"
"Hello, Mr. Liang!"
Greetings come one after another.
No matter where he went, people would make way when they heard the sound, which made Xiang Fangsu gasp in amazement.
It was not until the pier came into sight that Liang Qu was stunned and pointed to the altar in the center of the pier.
"Did you do it?"
Xiang Fangsu raised his head slightly.
"Time was tight, so I asked the craftsmen at the shipyard to work overnight. It's a little rough, but it roughly looks like what it is."
Compared with the River God Festival in previous years, the entire altar has completely changed.
The thirteen steps remained unchanged, which was an auspicious number, but each step was widened, lengthened, and raised, raising the entire altar to nearly three stories high, and the floor space was more than doubled!
It is enough for more than ten people to sit side by side.
Next to the altar, there was a small platform, slightly lower than the altar. It was obvious that it was prepared by Xiang Fangsu for himself.
Behind them, on both sides of the square, there are six large drums, and the big vertebrae are as thick as human leg bones.
It is majestic and magnificent.
Weird, I really care about it.
Liang Qu originally thought that Xiang Fang was just playing around.
I didn't expect to come up with so many things.
"Amazing."
Xiang Fangsu was not without satisfaction: "There are grand sacrifices every year in the imperial capital, and there is an altar everywhere."
The young and strong man who saw Liang Qu coming from afar under the eaves ran to report the news.
moment.
Chen Zhaoan led the reception.
Liang Qu was familiar with the route, so he went into the house to rest for a while. The owners of martial arts schools and wealthy people in the town came to greet him one after another.
This year, there are many more wealthy families in the town, and there is also a martial arts school, forming a three-legged tripod.
The new martial arts school owner’s surname is Xu. He is stronger than the two owners of the “old martial arts school” that have been open for a year, and is at the level of Langyanrenqiao.
But I couldn't get one when I got to Liang Qu.
He has a number of such people.
Before this, Master Xu had never shown up. He quietly paid 100 taels of silver as a contribution to the River God Festival, and then he officially opened his shop to accept apprentices.
It seems that paying for organizing the River God Festival is regarded as some kind of unique business license.
At noon.
All the important people in the town were present.
It was found out that Fan Zixuan, Yan Qingshan and other subordinates also took time out to participate.
It was even more lively outside.
The alleys between houses and the small paths between streets were crowded with people.
"Come on, come on, make way, make way!"
"Make way!"
There was a burst of uproar.
Three huge carts, pulling three giant beasts, came from the end of the street.
The ferocious beast was tied up with iron chains and put on the slaughter table.
The villagers' high spirits reached a new peak.
"Is that a sacrifice?"
"Strange, it's so big!"
"I heard that if you eat a small piece of this monster's meat, you won't feel hungry for a whole day, and it will make you feel strong and even cure diseases. Do you think we will get this fortune?"
"Where are you from? Is this your first time in Yixing Town?"
"I'm from Nanxun...it's my first time here." The man who spoke held his wife and children's hands tightly to prevent them from being separated by the crowded crowd.
He had heard before that no matter whether one was from the same hometown or not, one could share the fortune by participating, and that it would be divided according to the number of people, so he brought his whole family here early in the morning to try his luck.
"I thought so." Hearing that the person was a stranger, he couldn't help showing a bit of pride on his face, "You are lucky to have met Master Liang, so just put your mind at ease. Do you think Master Liang cares about you?"
"Yes Yes Yes."
The man smiled awkwardly, and his tense heart relaxed slightly.
The daylight is moving.
The June sun was bright and sharp, and the surroundings were dim and white, as if in a vague and unreal dream.
The villagers were sweating profusely and their mouths were dry.
Seeing that several people's faces turned pale, Chen Zhaoan sent young and strong men to distribute iced mung bean soup.
At the same time, let the crowd move back and make room.
The weather was hot this year, and with so many people around, it was inevitable that people would get heatstroke. He sent people to prepare medicine early in the morning and bought a lot of ice.
Although ice is expensive in midsummer, to be honest, Chen Zhaoan had collected so much silver from the River God Festival that he could only spend this much.
"sulfuric acid!"
The long incense smoke rises and burns the thin rope.
The iron beads fell into the tray with a crisp sound.
The noisy crowd at the pier gradually quieted down.
Several miles away, there is a vast swamp.
Several large snakes saw the humming crowd gradually quiet down, and scanned with their pupils, trying to find the water man named Liang among them.
Having never met Liang Qu before, the big snakes didn't know what he looked like, but they had found out early on that the chief priest of this sacrifice was Du Shuilang, a man named Liang, so it wouldn't be difficult to identify him.
The red-scaled snake looked around and turned back to look at the other snakes: "Are you all ready?"
The yellow snake said: "One water treasure ginseng, one glass grass, and one blue lotus, there will be no mistake."
"Good! Send them out, one beast at a time!"
The red-scaled snake revealed its snake signal.
These three are all precious plants!
The value of each one is no less than that of a deep-sea precious fish. Even if a big monster takes it, it can save several years of work!
And this is just a meeting gift!
(End of this chapter)