The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty Chapter 227: May Day

When the little tiger was resting, he ran to look for Yun Yan back, and his classmates followed behind, but did not dare to approach.

Yun Yan Hui picked up the little tiger, "Did you call someone?"

Little tiger still remembers knowing, when Yun Yanhui took him to meet him, and now he is lying on Yunyan's shoulder and shouting: "Abbot is good..."

Knowledge smiled and patted the little tiger's head, holding his wrist for a while, then let go, "The child is in good health."

Yun Yanhui knew that he just took the opportunity to show the little tiger's body, hugged the little tiger a little, waved at the little tiger's classmates, and called them all.

These children are very curious to see Shi Gaobi and his brother who looks very much like him. Moreover, Shi Gaobi's elder brother seemed to be more friendly than Shi Gaobi, so he asked them questions one by one.

"Brother! Will you go to Jinming Pool during the Duanyang Festival?"

"We're all going to play, let Shi Gaobi go too!"

"Little Tiger, everyone invited you out to play? Are you going or not?" Yun Yan smiled back and asked for Little Tiger's opinion.

I didn't expect that this time, everyone started talking.

"Little tiger, Shi Gaobi's nickname is Little Tiger?"

"Yeah, so cute..."

The little tiger suddenly felt a little awkward. Although this was his name, he felt a little embarrassed when he heard these people discussing, and turned his head and said, "No, no!"

"You really don't want to go? Jinming Pond during the Duanyang Festival is fun, have you seen the water puppet show?" Yunyan teased the little tiger, "If you don't, I'll go alone?"

The little tiger held back for a long time, then suddenly said, "So you don't bring Brother Chu? That's fine!"

Yunyan replied: "..."

Of course, in the end, the little tiger agreed to go play. Every festive season, Bianjing is full of fun, and there is no child who doesn't love it.

……

The May Festival has arrived quietly. From the first day of the May to the fifth day of the fifth day, the streets are buying and selling all kinds of festive items such as longevity strands, fragrant candy dumplings, and rice dumplings.

Yun Yanhui searched the market for a long time, and finally found the seven-pointed mugwort leaves, bought a large amount, and hung a bunch on the door. The rest boiled water and bathed the little tiger, which could remove dampness and ward off evil spirits.

This is a custom passed down from generation to generation. Before Yunyan returned to travel, he bathed with mugwort water when he was a child, and it was the same after travel. At that time, he felt inexplicably moved.

The water of mugwort leaves is dark in color and has a strong aroma of mugwort leaves. Yunyan washed the head and body of the little tiger. The little tiger kept holding his breath with a bitter face, "What a great taste!"

"You won't be bitten by mosquitoes after taking a bath, dear." Yun Yanhui wrapped the little tiger in a large towel and carried it to the bed.

The little tiger sniffed at himself, "Is this fumbling away mosquitoes?"

"Yeah!" Yun Yan put on his clothes and tied a five-color longevity strand around his wrist.

"What is this?" The Miao people don't have this custom during the Dragon Boat Festival, so the little tiger doesn't know what the longevity thread is for.

"This is called a longevity thread. After wearing it, it can expel disasters. Don't pull it off yourself." Yunyan explained to the little tiger, "Also, tomorrow, sister Shuangyi will take you to Jinmingchi..."

Little tiger's eyes widened, "Brother won't accompany me?"

"It's not..." Yun Yan looked back, "it's just different from you..."

……

This year's Duanyang Festival, the people of Kaifeng House pay more attention than in previous years.

Once upon a time, every time I went to Duanyang, Jinming Pool, one of the royal gardens, would hold a series of activities. The Jin Myung Pond is man-made and used to train sailors in the past. When the first emperor was in power, he began to allow people to go in and play regularly.

Of those activities during Duanyang, the most popular should be dragon boat racing. In addition, there are hundreds of performances such as water battles, water puppets, and water swings.

Only this year, I don't know who came up with the bad idea. It is stipulated that the court's lawsuits in Beijing should also participate in the dragon boat race. As for which departments, the groups will take turns, and which group will go first depends on the lottery.

The Kaifeng Mansion was drawn to participate.

Imagine that Kaifeng Mansion is responsible for maintaining public order in the whole city. If the common people saw that they lost a crushing defeat during the dragon boat race, wouldn't it be very imposing?

Bao Zheng personally gave instructions, he must pay attention to it and get a good ranking.

Those like Zhan Zhao, Wushu, Kaifeng Mansion f4 and even Zhao Yunchu are the undisputed main force. But Yun Yanhui thought it was inconceivable...why did he pull him too? !

Zhan Zhao: "Fifty people are needed. Brother Yan should also participate."

Yunyan replied: "I'm not participating! Why do you want me to participate!"

Yun Yanhui was very sad and angry, and showed them his stature. Although men didn't want to admit that they "can't", he really felt that he might be held back.

"Hahaha, don't worry, I've already gone to see it in advance," Bai Yutang said proudly, "There are twenty teams in total, and the other teams are not as good as us. Even if we bring a chicken, we can win."

This Yunyan Hui is stronger than a chicken, right?

Zhao Yunchu: "Actually, it was Mr. Gongsun who said that I am afraid other teams will use the trick and need to bring a 'strategist'."

"The reason is quite similar..." Yun Yan tangled back for a while, "For the victory of Kaifeng Mansion, I'd better go. Thinking about it, it is indeed a bit dangerous. I heard that the censors will also participate this time. The physical strength is not very good, but what if they talk about it and affect us?"

And with Zhao Yunchu here, at least one can support two.

Therefore, Yun Yanhui takes time every day to rehearse with others. In this rowing, cooperation and rhythm are very important. It is not a group of masters who can win.

Yun Yanhui also went to Jinmingchi to survey the terrain, and then went to the Censor's Terrace and other places to inquire about their practice.

Unfortunately, when they saw him in the past, everyone was very welcoming. Now, when they saw him, they all drove him away, all of them were sure that he was here to spy on the military situation.

……

On the opening day of Jinming Pool, Shuangyi and his wife went with the little tiger.

Jinming Pool can be said to be a water garden. There is a water palace on an artificial island in the middle of the pool, where you can enjoy the scenery of Jinming Pool.

Today, the official's family will visit and watch the water battle show. The shore is also full of tourists, in order to see all kinds of wonderful water shows.

Shuang Yi and the others came a little late. At this time, they could already see a painting boat on the pond, with a swing set up on the boat, and a Baixi artist went up and swung the swing.

There was cheers from the shore, rising as the Baixi artist got higher and higher on the swing.

These are Bianjing people who are familiar with routines. Shen Kuo also applauded desperately when he saw Shuang Yi, and said in his mouth: "Don't make a mistake, this is swinging on the water."

"What is a water swing?" As soon as the little tiger's voice fell, he saw the Baixi artist swing the swing almost flush with the overhead, and then let go at the highest point!

Many people who came here for the first time exclaimed, and more, more and more warm applause and cheers.

The Hundred Opera artist threw himself on the swing, stretched his body in the air, turned over several somersaults, stretched his arms like water, and splashed a big splash.

After a few breaths, a person emerged from the gradually calming water waves and waved to everyone.

It was only a momentary stagnation, and the atmosphere at the scene reached a low level, and the visitors applauded desperately, like a tsunami.

Shen Kuo was deeply impressed by this, and he repeatedly praised: "It's really a bold artist, it's very rare to swing the swing so high, and you have to dive at the top and do all kinds of movements, which is very impressive. For!"

"The first time I and Brother Yan came to see it, we were all terrified. At that time, we thought it was just an ordinary swing. When the artist was swinging very high, we thought it was a show. Who knew that he actually let go and dived, and we all misunderstood that something went wrong. It was he who let go and fell. It was not until he came out of the water and the audience shouted in unison that we realized that this performance turned out to be like this." Shuang Yi recalled Past events, showing a faint smile.

"If I hadn't heard about this performance method earlier, I'd probably have misunderstood." Shen Kuo sighed, and he figured it out, the moment he watched people let go and fly out, it still made his heart beat faster.

Shen Kuo regained his energy, "Speaking of Brother Yan, when will they start the game?"

"It should be at noon," Shuang Yi glanced around and pointed to one place, "Look, the east side of the Water Palace, is that them?"

There are rows of dragon boats facing the east of the water hall, which are the boats used by the dragon boats to compete for the bid, and Yun Yanhui and they are standing in the water shed on the shore.

The little tiger raised his hand in Shen Kuo's arms and shouted: "Brother!"

……

No matter how many times you watch it, the water swing can bring Yunyan back a sense of shock. He had seen people diving up close before, and he had also seen people swinging on extremely high swings, but the combination of the two had never been seen before, and the excitement felt exponentially increased.

At this moment, Yun Yanhui suddenly turned around, "I think I heard the voice of a little tiger."

However, the crowd was so loud and crowded that he couldn't find any trace of the little tiger.

"Don't worry about tigers, look at those censors, how come there is a very tall person?" Bai Yutang pointed to the censor's desk team. There was indeed a very tall person there. It seemed that there were at least two people. rice.

"I don't know either, they didn't reveal their lineup to me." Yun Yan glanced back, and suddenly understood, "Wait, I understand... I'm **** sure, what a thief!"

Yunyan pointed back at the pole in the water. The pole was hung with brocade, silver bowls and other objects. Later, they painted boats and competed for the competition. These are the things they are fighting for. Different objects represent different rankings.

"Don't you think...the bar is really high?"

Everyone sees it, it really is!

“Competing for a bid is not a competition. To get the first place, it’s not enough to get there first. You have to win the lottery.” Yunyan replied, “They must have bribed people and raised the bar to get the ranking. The odds are higher.”

The Kaifeng House is afraid of shame, and the Censor Station is also afraid. They also want to get a place. Unfortunately, no matter how hard they work, it seems that they can only compete for the second place at most.