Chapter 5 Chapter Two Five

Two years passed. In the two Mid-Autumn Festivals in the past two years, there happened to be no moon to watch. All the stories about men and women singing all night because of watching the moon in this city could not be held as scheduled. bland.In the two New Years, as usual, you can see lions and dragon lanterns from the military camp and various villages, and welcome the spring in the small teaching ground, which is very lively with the sound of gongs and drums.On the night of the 15th day, the soldiers of Zhenyu, who danced dragons and played lions in the city, were still bare-shouldered, and went everywhere to welcome the firecrackers and fireworks.In the military barracks in the city, the mansion of the Customs Director, and some big-name stores on Hejie, all of them cut old bamboo tubes in advance, or hollowed out the roots of palm trees, mixed with sulfur, carbon and steel sand with nitrate, and made fireworks with one thousand and eight hundred beatings.The brave and fun-loving sergeant, naked to the waist, came playing with the lamp and beating the drums. The small firecrackers, like rain, fell from the air hanging from the tip of the long pole to the shoulders of the lamp, and the gongs and drums urged the rush. Everyone is very excited about this matter.After setting off the firecrackers for a while, a large tube of light tied to a bench ignited a fuse at one end of the open floor. At first, white light hissed, and then slowly the white light roared, making an astonishing sound like thunder and tigers. It rushed up into the sky, reaching a height of twenty feet, and when it fell, it rained flowers all over the sky.Soldiers playing with lamps circled in the sparks, as if they didn't care.Cui Cui and his grandfather also saw such excitement and left a lively impression, but for some reason, this impression was not as sweet and beautiful as what happened during the Dragon Boat Festival.

In order not to forget that incident, Cuicui went to the river street next to the city with her grandfather to watch the boat for a long time on the Dragon Boat Festival last year. When everything was going well, it suddenly rained and no one's clothes were soaked by the rain.In order to avoid the rain, the grandfather and grandson and the yellow dog went to the Shunshun stilted building and huddled in a corner.Someone passed by carrying a stool. Cuicui recognized that person as the one who lit a torch to send her home last year, so she told her grandfather: "Grandpa, that man sent me home last year. He looked like a fool when he walked with a torch!"

Grandfather was silent at the time, and when the man turned his head and walked in front of him, he grabbed the man and said with a smile: "Hey, you man! I don't even want you to come to my house for a drink. I'm afraid that the wine will be poisoned, and it will poison you to death!" When the man saw that he was guarding the ferry and saw Cui Cui, he laughed. "Cui Cui, you've grown up! The second elder said that you are a big fish by the river and will eat you, but the fish in our river can't swallow you now." Cui Cui didn't say a word, just pursed her lips and smiled.

This time, although I have heard the name of "Second Elder" from this minion's mouth for many years, I have never seen this person.From the long-term conversations between grandfather and Na, Cui Cui understood that the two elders spent the Dragon Boat Festival at Qinglang Beach six hundred miles downstream.But this time I didn't see the second elder, but I got to know the "big elder", and met the well-known Shun Shun.After the old man caught the duck from the river home, Shun Shun asked the old man to give the duck to Cui Cui because the old guy guarding the ferry praised the fat duck twice.I also know that the grandparents and grandchildren are living in a very difficult time, and I can't make zongzi during the festival, so I gave away a lot of sharp-edged zongzi.

When the celebrity on the water talked with his grandfather, although Cui Cui pretended to look at the scenery in the river, she could hear every word clearly.The man told his grandfather that Cui Cui was very beautiful. He asked Cui Cui's age and asked if there was anyone there.Grandfather happily praised Cui Cui a lot, and seemed not to allow others to care about Cui Cui's marriage, so he kept his mouth shut when it came to this matter. When returning home, grandfather carried the white duck and other things in his arms, and Cuicui lit a torch to lead the way.The two walked along the city wall, with the city on one side and water on the other.Grandfather said: "Shun Shun is really a good man, very generous. The boss is also very good. This family is good!" Cui Cui said: "The whole family is good, do you know their family?" Grandpa didn't understand this sentence The meaning of the words, because I was a little too happy today, I smiled and said: "Cui Cui, if the elder wants you to be a daughter-in-law and invites someone to be a matchmaker, will you agree or not?" Cui Cui said: "Grandpa, you are crazy!" If you say it again, I will be angry with you!"

Although the grandfather didn't say anything, he obviously still had these ridiculous and bad thoughts in his mind.Cuicui was annoyed, she waved the torch to both sides of the road, and walked forward unhappily. "Cui Cui, don't worry, if I fall into the river, the duck will get away!" "No one cares about that duck!" Grandfather understood why Cuicui was unhappy about it, so he sang the song of the oarsman urging the oars when they sailed down the beach. Although the voice was hoarse, the words were steady and unambiguous.Cui Cui walked forward while listening, and suddenly stopped and asked:

"Grandpa, is your boat going down to Qinglang Beach?" The grandfather didn't say anything, but continued to sing. Both of them remembered that the boat of the elder Shun Shun's family was celebrating the festival at Qinglang Beach, but neither of them knew where the other person's memory ended.The grandfather and grandson walked back home in silence.When they arrived at the ferry, the agent watching the boat was mooring the boat on the shore and waiting for them.A few people crossed the stream to the house, peeled the rice dumplings and ate them. After arriving, the man was going to the city, and Cui Cui hurriedly lit a torch for the man, so that he would have a torch to light his way.When people crossed the creek and went up the hill, Cuicui and her grandfather watched from the boat. Cuicui said:

"Grandpa, look at the minion going up the mountain!" Grandpa held the horizontal cable with his hands, stared at the mist on the surface of the stream, and let out a soft breath as if he saw something.When my grandfather quietly pulled the boat past the house on the other side, he wanted Cuicui to go ashore first, but he himself stayed by the boat. Because of the festival, he knew that some country people must go to the city to watch the dragon boat, and they had to drive home by black.