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Chapter 70 Seventy: A Night of Fish and Dragon Dance ([-])

It was almost dusk, and the nearby several squares of Hongxiuzhao were already very lively. Vendors selling divination, medicine and goods crowded the roadside, and performers swallowed iron swords, danced swords, and played with fire, which dazzled people.

Li Chan bought Nie Kongkong a bunch of candied haws mixed with shanlihong, hemp yam and walnut kernels. After she finished eating, she went to the entrance of Lvyi Lane.Walking into the alley, behind the Lijia Fragrance Shop and the Liangjia Bead Shop is the most famous Fanjia Rouge Shop in Xuandu.

The best gouache in the rouge shop is the jade girl peach pollen, which is made of more than ten kinds of materials such as mussel powder, wax fat, musk musk deer, a box weighs one tael and four, and the price is one tael or six renminbi.The best rouge is blended with rouge flowers, osmanthus oil, red and blue flowers and ox marrow, and the price is only slightly lower than that of jade girl peach blossom powder.

Li Chan also bought four boxes, and gave a copy to Nie Kongkong as a gift. The son and daughter of the rivers and lakes said disdainfully, "I don't need this thing", and ran to watch other people doing "sleeping on the wall" tricks on the side of the road. .

The juggler first performed a few sword skills, and then threw it casually, and the sword flew into the box impartially, with only a sharp clang sound.Everyone cheered in unison, but he was drunk and dimmed. He sang "I drank the gods that day, fell drunk and slept on the wall of my clothes", staggered a few steps, turned over suddenly, and lay down on the wall in the air, sleeping peacefully , which drew thunderous applause.

When Nie Kong waited for the juggler to come down, he stared at the wall where he was lying on just now.But after all, he didn't see anything, so he ran to hold Li Chan, and said in a low voice: "Look, Uncle, is it possible that this is also a practitioner who came to play in the world?"

Li Chan can see that he is a martial arts master with some foundation in the first two levels of martial arts. Although he doesn't know how this person plays tricks, he can tell from his breathing that this person has no foundation in Qi training, and his martial arts are not congenital, so he laughed. : "I can't tell."

After hearing this, Nie Kongkong stared at the man closely, as if he was afraid that he would run away.

Sao Qingniang chuckled, "Kong Konger wants to learn from a teacher?"

Nie Kongkong muttered, "I have to be liked by others."

"How can you not like it!" Li Chan touched her head and said with a smile, "Do you want to seek longevity, or do you want to learn supernatural powers?"

Nie Kongkong said without hesitation: "Practitioners can spit out swords to kill people and fly with swords. Of course I want to learn supernatural powers!"

Li Chan laughed, "Good ambition!"

Nie Kongkong smiled, and took Li Chan's arm, "Uncle, teach me two tricks."

"Okay." Li Chan replied straight away, "I'll teach you when you've mastered kung fu."

"Ah?" Nie Kongkong looked disappointed, "When will that be?"

Li Chan said with a smile: "The sword in my hand is still not working well, so I just think about the flying sword. I'm afraid that the sword will fly out and hurt myself first. Let's go and watch the Qionghua puppet show."

As he spoke, his eyes suddenly focused, and he looked behind Nie Kongkong.Among the crowd, a woman was walking down the street.

The woman is wearing a moon white skirt, which reflects the dusk light.She is quite tall, and she is not short compared to men, but her figure is a bit weird.Her upper body looks a little longer, and her shoulders are too narrow.

The weird figure and the really unattractive face make others not interested in approaching her at all. Li Chandan stared at the woman, but saw a slender yellowish hair under the curly head. neck.The neck twists and turns under the collar, like a long snake.

Li Chan frowned, and murmured in her heart: "Demons are walking..."

If the woman sensed something, she turned her head sensitively.Li Chan looked away and looked at the light box of the "Ten Thousand Foot Shop" at the entrance of Wa Si.

The woman didn't notice anything unusual, so she just tilted her head and blended into the crowd.Li Chan lifted her foot and followed, followed by Sao Qingniang.

Nie Kongkong was taken aback for a moment, and was pushed back a dozen steps. He yelled "Hey" at Li Chan's back, pointed to the east and shouted: "The puppet show is over here! Over here!"

After shouting a few words, he was thrown further away.Nie Kongkong hurriedly followed her, but a few young men and women walked past her, chatting and laughing.When Nie Kongkong passed between them, he could only see the bustling pedestrians in front of him, and there was no trace of Li Chan and Sao Qingniang.

She hurriedly squeezed into the crowd, smelling the hot people's sweat, various clothes flashed before her eyes, her hands were itchy for a moment, she picked up a purse in her hand, slapped the back of her hand herself, and quickly hung the purse back there people's waist.

Pushing out of the crowd, Yu Guangmin saw a crimson shadow from the corner of the eye, turned her head and saw that it was Sao Qingniang, she was relieved, trotted over and shouted: "Qingniang!"

"Kong Konger?" Sao Qingniang stopped, turned her head and smiled.

"I almost got lost." Panting, Nie Kongkong touched Xu Da's head, then looked around, "Why is Uncle missing?"

Sao Qingniang said: "Li Lang is at the front."

Nie Kongkong looked over the crowd and saw a huge canopy surrounded by Washi Goulan and building vendors.The crown of the tree is luxuriant, and many red threads hang down from the branches.There are many copper coins strung on the red thread, and there is a wave of jingling bells when there is a little wind.

She walked through the crowd and saw a bluestone field.Among the bluestones, a large androgynous ginkgo tree occupies the center.This ginkgo grows huge, and there are incense burners and shrines under the tree.The incense burner in the furnace is quite strong, and the incense heads are uneven, giving off a red shimmer.

The shrine was five feet high and was enshrined on an altar,

The wooden sign on the right reads: "What about Fake, you can't beat the axe."

The wooden sign on the left reads: "How about marrying a wife, bandit matchmakers are not allowed."

Inside the shrine is enshrined a handsome young man holding a broken branch, and the divine tablet in front of the young man is engraved with the words "Marriage and Fate to Hold Ke God".

Li Chan was standing under the tree, a few copper coins hanging from red thread were only a few inches away from his head.He looked twenty steps away, at the side of the censer, the woman was kneeling on the futon, bowing her head to the statue.

Her head hit the ground, but her neck was like a snake, she slipped out from the collar quietly, and leaned towards the shrine.

The long neck crawled past the feet of two pairs of young men and women offering incense, but those people didn't realize it.

(End of this chapter)