The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty Chapter 228: Dragon Boat Competition

There is a water puppet show after the water swing. This is also a traditional show. A small boat is built with a colorful building, just like a stage where puppet shows are performed on dry land. After a burst of music, a pair of wooden puppets come out.

The puppets are a man and a woman. The clothes on their bodies are reduced to those of real people. One looks like a scholar and the other is a beautiful lady. No matter the accessories such as folding fans and rings, they are all real and very fine.

These puppets can perform dances, play **** and other activities. When Yunyan returned to their side, many people were too nervous to watch the performance. Only the people from Kaifeng Prefecture watched with great interest.

"I wonder what kind of performance this year will be?" Yun Yanhui was very interested.

There are musicians who come out to sing, "Carp eyes look at the peach blossom bank, looking forward to the affectionate Qiao Liang Lang. Ping Chi Zhong and Meng Chunguang, you and I will become a phoenix in our lifetime."

At that time, there was an exclamation from the shore.

Although this lyric is not from "Wang Qingyu", it obviously tells the story of "Wang Qingyu". The Beijing people are very familiar with this play, and they know that today's water puppet has adapted "Wang Qingyu" The content of Love Fish.

Even Yun Yanhui laughed after being shocked, looking forward to how the puppet show would be played.

Since it is "The Fish of Hope", then the pair of puppets is naturally He Lishu and Liang Fuxue.

I saw the wooden puppet Liang Fuxue pick up a fishing rod and threw it into the water, while the wooden puppet He Lishu was trembling and looked very panicked. Next, when Liang Fuxue's pole moved, he actually caught a small carp!

He Lishu stepped forward and pushed Liang Fuxue forward, as if asking him to put the fish back, causing the audience on the shore to laugh and applaud.

The water puppet show originally had puppets kicking balls, fishing and other actions, but it used to be a simple action performance. This time, the plot was added, and the original technology was integrated to make it more interesting. It is a breakthrough.

I have to say that the emergence of Bian opera has brought a lot of ideas to Bianjing folk artists.

Yun Yanhui was really interested in seeing it, when Chen Lin suddenly appeared, "Yun Xiaolang!"

Yun Yanhui quickly stood up, "Chen Banban, what are you looking for from me?"

Chen Lin said with a funny look: "The officials saw that you dragon boat teams are all gloomy and gloomy, only Kaifeng House is laughing and laughing, so I asked me to come to you and ask."

Yunyan replied: "..."

Yun Yan was speechless when she returned, uh, is it our fault for being strong and not under pressure?

He followed Chen Lin and saw that Renzong was not very happy and said: "The Kaifeng government is full of strong men. It seems that you are very confident, but what's the point of this comparison?"

"... This can't be blamed on us," Yun Yan said with a bitter face, "We are not equal to other yamen in strength. If we look very sad, it would be too fake, right?"

Renzong snorted, "Don't be too confident."

Yunyan whispered back, "We're not very confident either. Have you seen the people from the Yushitai? They're so despicable. They directly bought people to raise the bar..."

Yunyan "betrayed" the Censor's desk and turned her attention away.

"What?" As soon as Renzong heard it, he looked at the pole, it was not obvious from a distance, but there was a very high contestant in the Censor's desk, so what Yunyan said back was probably true.

Renzong was lost in thought.

Yunyan shouted back: "The officials, it's time to revoke their qualifications!"

"You go back first," Renzong suddenly shook his hand, "I know what to do, this game is really boring, like the court's self-entertainment."

"?" Yun Yan felt inexplicable. He was obviously accusing the Censor Desk of cheating. Where did Renzong want to go?

……

After Yun Yan went back, she saw Chen Lin inform each team one by one, and suddenly felt a little bad!

At noon, the competition for the dragon boat competition officially began, and people from various government offices boarded the boat separately. Everyone first rowed under a flying rainbow bridge, this is the starting point, and the benchmark is in front of the water hall.

People on both sides of the strait are cheering, and Kaifeng Prefecture has received the most cheers.

Yun Yanhui sat on the bow of the boat, turned around and said a word. Everyone raised their hands and greeted the people. After interacting, the cheering became even more enthusiastic. Other officials in the government followed suit when they saw it.

The gongs and drums were loud, accompanied by fierce drum beats, and a military academy at the finish waved the flag fiercely, symbolizing the start of the game!

Twenty dragon boats set off at high speed, shouting horns and paddling.

For the common people, this is indeed not as fierce as the more intense races in previous years, but when the dragon boats are nearing the end, they know they are wrong.

There is no doubt that Kaifeng's fleet ranks first. The second place is also Yun Yanhui's old friend, the officials of the tea case. These people have traveled all year round, and their physical strength is still good, only a little behind Kaifeng Mansion. As for the third place, it is the Censor Desk.

At this moment, the second crew member suddenly lifted the oars and stabbed the person shouting at Kaifeng Mansion in the waist, and the person fell into the water like dumplings.

The rhythm of Kaifeng Mansion suddenly became chaotic, and the audience also shouted. Yun Yan heard back, and then turned to look, and was immediately stunned.

The people in the tea case can't just break the rules so openly, so it can only be... Renzong changed the rules!

Yunyan looked up and saw Renzong smiling on the water hall.

Yunyan replied: "..."

As for the fight?

At this time, the boat of the tea case had taken the opportunity to pass and became the first.

Yunyan had an idea and turned around and said, "Poke the people from the Censor Terrace!!"

The people of Kaifeng Mansion were ordered, and they all picked up oars and attacked the third-ranked Censor Terrace.

All Censors: "???"

I rely on—what do they do? !

Even the head of the imperial censor station who was watching the battle from the shore jumped his feet in a hurry, shouting to the officials and colleagues on the side: "This, what's going on with this Yunyanhui, Baofutai! What are they doing? What's going on!"

Bao Zheng looked innocent, how did he know?

Yun Yan replied: Who do you stab you if you don't stab?

The benchmark is still high, and it seems to be even higher. Only the Yushitai has a tall person at the scene. Since Renzong wants to play, of course they should cooperate, focus on the Yushitai first, and let others compete .

So, the people from Kaifeng Mansion swayed the boat, stopped the people from the Censor Terrace, and began to focus on them, ignoring that one boat after another overtook them.

The people from the Censor's desk were devastated, and while dodging and fighting back, they cursed: "Yunyan Hui! What are you beating us for? The tea case stabbed your people!"

"Injustice has its head, and the debt has its owner. Don't be unreasonable!"

"Don't reason with them!" Yun Yanhui shouted, reasoning with the people from the Censor Desk is the most unwise, because you can't reason with them, which Yun Yanhui knows very well, "Take them all Poke it!"

The officials of the Censor's Terrace fell into the water one by one, and were picked up by the rescue boat beside them, but they were disqualified from the competition. Later, when some people saw the tragic state of their colleagues jumping into the water, they became afraid and simply took the initiative to dive.

As for the real creditor tea case? As the first place, they are now being besieged by more than a dozen other dragon boats!

A group of spectators on the shore petrifies.

They originally thought it was an ordinary dragon boat competition. In previous years, there were some small tricks in the dragon boat competition, but this year they are all officials. Shouldn't that happen?

Who knows, it's even more extreme! Where are these people making small moves to attack the opponent directly!

Most of the dragon boats have reached the benchmark, and now there is a melee, not only stabbing people with oars, but also suicide attacks, that is, jumping on other people's boats and pulling as many people as possible into the water. There are also tactics such as combining verticals and horizontals to join forces to attack other teams.

——It is also because of these actions that many people have discovered that this may have been agreed in advance, not a temporary play. As long as they get into the water, they lose their qualifications. Those who fell into the water did not climb back, but were picked up by the boat beside them.

The people who came to the competition were young and strong officials who could afford it and had a good time.

After a moment of astonishment, the people came back to their senses and let out even louder shouts and laughter.

How can I see such an unimpressive side of the imperial court officials?

Yunyan went back here, and took the people from Kaifeng Mansion to "kill the censors". Li Zeyun, who led the team there, showed an expression of grief and indignation. He is already glorious, and now he is lying in Kaifeng Mansion. beside the dragon boat, "Master Yun, what about you?"

"For victory, it's worth it!" Yun Yan replied decisively, "I'm sorry, Xiao Li, there are no masters and students on the battlefield!"

Li Zeyun was shocked, and before he had time to complain, Yunyan pulled his ears back, and he let go of the pain and swam to the boat.

"Then we can go to fight!" Zhao Hu shouted.

"Wait," Yun Yan called back and stopped, "Does the war need us all? Fifth Master!"

Bai Yutang threw the oars and moved his wrists a bit. He didn't need to continue rowing at all. He directly practiced light body kung fu and stepped on the water to cross the waves, causing the people to exclaim.

The people of Kaifeng Mansion slowly paddled towards the finish line.

Bai Yutang, on the other hand, had already stepped on the bow of someone else's boat. When he looked up, two or three people were scrambling to climb up the pole.

Bai Yutang let out a chuckle, stood up, stepped on top of someone's head, jumped up and hugged the pole, then pulled Jin Cai off with two strokes and stood on top of the pole, squatting on the top of a child's fist-sized top , steadfastly!

At this time, the boat of Kaifeng Mansion also rowed forward, Bai Yutang turned over, and landed on the bow of the boat from a height.

The drums stopped, the winning team was the Kaifeng government!

After a brief silence, the people screamed and applauded for Bai Yutang's wonderful performance. There are even countless little ladies who saw Bai Yutang's figure and face, all with affection on their faces, and whispered quietly.

Bai Yutang was very proud, and he lifted Jin Cai up and raised it a little arrogantly, and immediately drew a tidal wave of voices.

The relatively calm Zhan Zhao shook his head helplessly when he saw this scene.

……

Above the water hall, Emperor Renzong, his concubine, and other important officials were also very enjoyable to watch.

The competition for the dragon boat just now not only showed the very detached side of the officials they knew who were usually very gentle, the fierce confrontation, but also the unparalleled lightness of Bai Yutang, which was full of appreciation.

Renzong took the lead in applauding and nodded towards Kaifeng Mansion with a smile.

If it's a competition, then today's competition is definitely not as good as in previous years, but the competition for the final benchmark is also far behind in previous years.

After the game, everyone changed their clothes and went back to the booth to sit down. Many people were still talking about the interesting events in the game just now, which caused bursts of laughter.

Compared to the results of the competition, it is the process that is more talked about by everyone.

Of course, the behavior of the Kaifeng House chicken thieves was also blamed, because most of the time they hid behind and beat the censor, so they were the least casualties.

"It's really a mantis catching a cicada, and the oriole is behind!"

"Actually, the white guard has already won the championship, he still left us some time to show his figure!"

"Haha," Yun Yanhui also teased, "Now the little ladies in Bianjing probably have one more dream lover. Bai Huwei was very handsome in the previous two strokes, and later they were all applauded by the little ladies. It's loud. I see, someone will be entrusting Baofutai as a matchmaker tomorrow."

"Yeah, we fought for so long in front of us, and in the end the limelight was stolen by the white guards."

Bai Yutang folded his arms and gloated: "I think Brother Yan will be besieged by the censors before tomorrow!"

Yunyan turned her head to look, and the people from the Censor's Terrace were all staring at him, wishing they could shoot him into the water with their eyes.