The little man on the apex

Chapter 47: Salted Duck Eggs

Today is the day of the dragon boat race, and Yan Heyi and Yuan Xi rarely got stuck on the bed. Aunt Gu's rooster crowed three times, and they got up sleepily.

After finishing breakfast and packing up all the necessary things, Yan Heyi saw that it was still early, so she held Yuanxi in her arms again, making up for the tenderness she owed this morning.

After making out for a while, when it was time to go out, Yuan Xi tapped Yan Heyi's lips a few times like a chicken pecking rice, and wrapped his neck around him and said, "Brother, please behave well today."

Yan Heyi felt a little nervous, bowed her head and returned him a long kiss, and said softly: "I will do my best, young master."

If it wasn't for Zhou Ziyu calling the door in the yard with a loud voice, these two people who want to be at one point and don't know how to restrain themselves, don't know how long they will be lingering.

When they arrived in the town, Yan Heyi followed his team members to change clothes. Before leaving, he specifically told Yuan Xi not to run around, and obediently stayed on the stone bridge with Zhou Ziyu.

This stone bridge is very long, just across the middle of the river, and has the widest view. After a while, the dragon boat will pass under the bridge after entering the water.

A tall platform was set up in the distance for the team members to come out and receive awards. The game has not yet started, and an excerpt is being played on the platform.

After the sun had risen, all the performances were over, a gong taller than a person was moved onto the stage, and an old man with a gray beard but still tall and tall walked up to the gong.

This is Zhou Yuanwai from the town. He has a lot of money and is willing to give. This dragon boat race was organized by him at his expense, so he is also in charge of it.

Zhou Yuanwai said a few words loudly, then picked up the copper hammer, every time he struck the gong, a team came from a distance, passed the stone bridge where Yuanxi and the others were, and walked up to the platform.

Yan Heyi's team was the first to appear on the field, and Yuanxi started to tiptoe and yell after a long distance: "Brother——Brother—"

On the contrary, Zhou Ziyu felt embarrassed for him, tugged his sleeve lightly, and whispered in a low voice: "Yuan Xi, restrain yourself, others are looking at you."

When Yuan Xi heard this, he closed his mouth and kept quiet for a while, and when Yan Heyi walked in, he waved at him and shouted again.

When passing by Yuan Xi, Yan Heyi stopped for a moment, and rubbed his big head vigorously.

Looking at Yan Heyi's tall and straight back, Yuan Xi proudly said to Zhou Ziyu, "Look, how handsome my brother is!"

After the very handsome brother of his family walked away, the gong sounded, and another group of men stepped onto the bridge. Yuan Xi's head, which had just been rubbed by Yan Heyi, turned around unconsciously.

Countless men with bare arms passed in front of the two of them, and when they approached, they could even smell their unique smell. In Yuan Xi's words, "you can tell that you are very strong when you smell it".

Yuan Xi didn't dare to look too much, and even raised his hands to cover his eyes.

Zhou Ziyu asked in surprise, "Yuanxi, why are you covering your eyes?"

Yuan Xi frowned slightly, and muttered in his mouth: "Except for my brother, I can't just look at other men."

Zhou Ziyu couldn't help laughing out loud: "You are really a good baby, so I can only watch it by myself."

After a while, he fussed in Yuan Xi's ear and said, "That brother is so tall, and everyone else is tanned, why is he so white?"

Yuan Xi peeked through his fingers, and then quietly said: "It's okay, the one in the front line just now is whiter than him."

Roughly counting, there are six men's teams participating in the dragon boat race, each team's clothes are of different colors, for example, Yan Heyi's team is light goose yellow.

There were strong and tall men passing by the bridge constantly, Yuanxi's eyes were too busy.

After these men finished, someone in the crowd shouted again, saying that the women's dragon boat team had come.

Yuan Xi looked over to the bridge, and suddenly heard a male voice next to him full of disgust: "What kind of women's team is formed, it's really outrageous."

"My ancestors have said that if a dragon boat passes by a woman, it is unlucky. There are so many women on the bridge, but now they are allowed to go on the dragon boat. I don't know who came up with the idea?"

The more Yuan Xi heard it, the more familiar the voice became, and he turned his head to look: Isn't this Feng Wanlong's fourth uncle?

Zhou Ziyu frowned when he heard this: Fortunately, he didn't become my fourth uncle.

Someone next to him retorted, saying that the fourth uncle was "stubborn", and the fourth uncle was not forgiving, so he quarreled with them.

You came and I quarreled for a while, and the fourth uncle sat down on the bridge railing: "Even if the sky is broken today, women shouldn't be on the dragon boat!"

As soon as this sentence was finished, the fourth uncle had no time to exclaim, and was kicked into the river by a woman who had just stepped onto the bridge.

The woman was wrapped in an orange scarf, and with a hearty laugh, she yelled at the fourth uncle who was thrashing in the river: "Fart your mother!"

"What kind of world is it now, and you are still full of such pedantic things, and you are not afraid of being laughed at?"

Some people on the bridge clapped their hands and applauded, some covered their mouths and snickered to watch the fun, and some kind-hearted people couldn't help worrying: "Forget it, can he know how to drink water?"

After getting an affirmative answer, no one was worried about the fourth uncle in the river, and all turned their attention to the woman.

Someone recognized her: "Isn't this the English girl from the blacksmith's family?"

Behind Miss Ying, a group of women who were as attractive as her followed up, and everyone consciously stepped out of the way and let them walk over.

This is the women's team of the dragon boat race, and there are also six teams, which are also distinguished by the color of their clothes.

I don't know what happened to the other places, anyway, in the area of ​​Looking Back Mountain, there has always been a tradition of women's dragon boat races. Once the dragon boat enters the water, women are no worse than men.

Yuan Xi stopped looking at those brothers, and his eyes stopped on Miss Ying, moving forward closely with her.

The results of the lottery were announced, and it was the women's team that competed first. There was a clang and clang of gongs, and a group of girls raced across the river in a heroic manner.

As a result, there is no doubt that Miss Ying's team was far ahead, and everyone got a small brass dragon boat.

After the women's competition, there was a half-hour break, and Miss Ying and her sisters from the team also went on the bridge, preparing to watch the next match.

She happened to be standing next to Yuan Xi, and the heart in Yuan Xi's chest was pounding suddenly, and she smiled and pasted her: "Sister Ying is just so amazing!"

Miss Ying didn't have any pretensions, she smiled openly at Yuan Xi: "Thank you, my name is Chang Ying, how about you?"

Yuan Xi excitedly reported his name, said it like a cannonball, and found a salted duck egg from his body.

Yan Heyi stuffed this in his pocket specially for Yuanxi in fear that he would be hungry at noon.

He handed the salted duck eggs to Miss Ying: "Sister Ying, this salted duck egg is delicious, try it."

Miss Ying took it with a smile, touched her body, and found that there seemed to be nothing to exchange, so she untied the red silk flower for the winner of the dragon boat race and tied it on Yuanxi's shoulder.

Just like this, Yuan Xi acquiesced to become friends with Miss Ying, calling "Sister Ying" one by one, from today's game to yesterday's dispute with Yan Heyi.

Coincidentally, Miss Ying also likes to eat glutinous rice dumplings dipped in sugar, and the relationship between the two has gone a step further, as if they have become good friends.

Half an hour passed quickly, and the men's competition was next. Yuan Xi remembered his brother, and mercifully divided his attention, stretching his neck to look for Yan Heyi in the crowd.

Among the men, Yan Heyi is not particularly strong, but she is well-proportioned and tall, with a three-pointed scholarly air, which is very different from the people around her.

Yuan Xi excitedly pointed to Miss Ying: "The prettiest one is my brother!"

Zhou Ziyu added thoughtfully from the side: "It's also his future husband-in-law."

Girl Ying and her sisters started to boo, and Yuan Xi blushed belatedly, but she was extremely beautiful in her heart.

At the beginning of the game, Yuanxi's attention was all on Yan Heyi, but Yan Heyi's group was really not very up-to-date, and fell behind at the beginning, and then caught up for a while, barely maintaining No.5.

The group that was far ahead were all the most robust young men, Yuan Xi couldn't help but look away, his eyes slid along those tough arms one by one, and landed on a familiar person at the bow.

Yuan Xi shook Zhou Ziyu's arm, jumped up and pointed to him: "Then is that Zhao Jing?"

The dragon boat broke through the water and got closer and closer to them. Although all the men were outstanding, the tall and strong Zhao Jing was still very eye-catching among them. He had a pomegranate red ribbon wrapped around his hair, and his body was more colorful than the others. Wearing a shirt, it should be the "dragon head" on the ship.

Yuan Xi also couldn't care less about looking at others, and used all his energy to attack Zhao Jing, leading the sisters beside him to make a fuss, Qiqi paid attention to Zhao Jing.

With the sound of gongs, the leading dragon boat lived up to expectations and won. As soon as it landed, a group of children who had already been waiting on the shore lined up and brought them garlands and red silk flowers.

After the dragon boat race was over, it was just getting dark, and several dragon boats used for performances were launched into the water again. With an order, all the dragon boats were lit up.

It was only then that Yuan Xi realized that every dragon boat in the river was covered with lanterns. The warm yellow light shone on the water, but with the flickering water waves on both sides, it turned into countless dancing light spots.

Long dragons dance in the water, like a dream.

Everyone on the bridge was busy looking at the dragon boat, and Miss Ying suddenly pointed to the side: "Zhao Jing is here."

Looking along Miss Ying's fingertips, I saw Zhao Jingsan ran up the stone bridge in two steps and was slowly walking towards here.

Those who recognized him surrounded him, wanting to see the champion up close.

Seeing so many people around, Zhao Jing was a little embarrassed, and nodded shyly at everyone, then went straight to Zhou Ziyu, and put the small brass dragon boat with red silk in his hand.

Zhou Ziyu didn't dare to answer for a while, and said in a low voice, "Xiaojing?"

Zhao Jing thought that he was too abrupt, and hurriedly explained: "This, don't you want it?"

"I promised you when I was a child, I will give you whatever you want."

Zhou Ziyu was stunned, it seemed that it was true when he was a child, such as the biggest lotus pod in the middle of the river, the wild fruit on the top of the tree that was not picked by others, or the pair of wooden dolls in the town that cost a lot of copper coins to buy.

The dragon boats in the river parade under the bridge, connecting end to end, and the lanterns reflected on the water, swaying forward.

The habit of Zhou Ziyu and Zhao Jing, which had been separated for many years, seems to be connected again now.