Chapter 494: The Courtyard of the Courtyard
Because they are all Asians, and in recent years, there have been quite a lot of Chinese in Puppet Country, Lu Zian and others are not particularly conspicuous when they go out.
For safety reasons, Lu Zian and Shen Mange both wore glasses and slightly tweaked the appearance, which looked a little different from usual.
"Hey? Master, why don't you wear a pair of sunglasses or a mask?" Zhao Chongshan said with a smile: "That feels safer."
Chen Mange shook his head: "You don't understand this, you haven't driven the car, who is wearing sunglasses on the street? That's just shouting: Come and see me, come and see me! But you can really wear a mask."
"Well, the most unique thing in Puji Country is that you love to wear masks. Not only in winter, but also in summer, but it is not only men, women, young and old, but almost all people wear them." Lu Zian smiled and picked up a mask and put it on: "So no matter when, it is safe to wear a mask when you go out."
After saying that, he waved to Zhao Chongshan and the others: "Go and play whatever you want, remember to come back and sleep."
Yuki Baimu said he was very confused. Should he follow Lu Zian and the others, or follow Zhao Chongshan and the others?
There is dog food on one side and wolf cubs on the other side. No one is easy to mess with, and I feel so tired!
When he reached the door, Lu Zi settled down: "Mr. Baimu, you don't have to follow us, this will be more obvious. Just look at them and don't let them cause trouble."
Since he said so, Yuki Shiraki had to come over to make a light bulb and agreed readily.
Chen Mange took Lu Zi'an's arm, and then Qingqing went out quietly.
The Puji Kingdom has always been famous for its cleanliness and tidyness. Now that I have seen it with my own eyes, I finally understand how clean it is.
The neat streets, you can't see a piece of paper at a glance.
The rainy season just passed and midsummer ushered in.
The two of them had no destination, so they walked casually and naturally on the streets.
There are always many women wearing kimono yukatas at the station, with fine cherry blossoms dyed on the yukatas, which look quite exquisite.
The girls in groups of three or three gathered together and whispered, with a happy smile flowing in their eyes.
Chen Mange looked at the scene while looking at people. His eyes paused on the bathrobes and leaned silently against Lu Zi'an: "Brother Zi'an, I actually think it's a pity."
"What a pity?"
"Look, there are so many ancient costumes in China, various dynasties, various styles, exquisite, complex or elegant, light and elegant, and all kinds of styles, but few people wear them on the street." Chen Mange walked a long way and still looked back at the station: "Even if someone wears them on the street occasionally, there are always many people pointing fingers. But in the case of the Puppet Kingdom, no one seems to be surprised when they wear kimonos on the street."
When Lu Zian heard this, his eyes gently glanced across the women: "In fact, they rarely wear kimonos. A set of kimonos is very expensive, and many of them only wear them during the coming-of-age ceremony."
"But……"
"If you can wear it today..." Lu Zian and the others passed by another station, and many women in yukatas were wearing: "July... maybe it's a fireworks."
In the Puppet Kingdom in July, there is a very lively fireworks.
Based on the information he had read accidentally before, Lu Zian thought for a while: "It should be the "National Fireworks Competition Daqu Fireworks" in Akita Prefecture, and it was almost this time."
"Let's go see it too?" Chen Mange said a little excitedly: "I went to see the last time Changyan's Orange Island Fireworks Conference. It's super beautiful! I don't know how the Puppet Country is like!"
"It should be good." Lu Zian looked at her with a smile: "If you want to go, go. This is a fireworks competition conference where fireworks masters selected from all over the country personally cast high-altitude fireworks. It ranks at the top of the fireworks competition conference in Pudong. The comprehensive winner will be awarded the Prime Minister Award for Cabinet. The fireworks masters will continuously cast their efforts in the sky, which should be very beautiful."
Cabinet Prime Minister Award!?
Chen Mange couldn't help but smack his tongue and sighed, "It's too exaggerated, it's just a fireworks meeting..."
"This is their habit, and they are very serious about their work." Lu Zi'an looked around and said, "Do you want to buy a set of yukata? There is a high-end yukata shop in front of it."
"No." Chen Mange smiled and quietly pointed to the little girls in front of him: "Look, do their clothes look like Hanfu?"
It was a witch's suit, wide-sleeved robe. Although it was a little thicker in this hot summer, it was indeed somewhat similar to Hanfu.
"If they can wear such clothes, I can see that I can wear Hanfu." Chen Mange wrinkled his nose and said playfully: "Anyway, I still want to wear the clothes I brought."
How could Lu Zian not see through her little thoughts? He gently pinched her fingers.
In fact, China also has witches.
Witchcraft can be traced back to the ancient Xia Dynasty in China.
Due to the lack of material resources at that time, people had a worshipful attitude towards nature and anthropomorphized nature in an attempt to communicate with the gods in nature.
In order to meet this need, jobs like wizards gradually emerged.
Witches were popular in Yin and could communicate with ghosts and gods in the world.
People respect witches, but they are even more afraid of witches.
At first, he was admired by thousands of people, but later he cheated and cheated.
With the evolution of history, the status of witches has declined again and again.
Especially during the Southern Dynasty, the first major witchcraft case involved an unknown crown prince, which caused a turmoil and even pushed the witch to the forefront.
Learning from history, emperors of all dynasties were most wary of witchcraft.
Nowadays, many times in the time travel, there must be witchcraft in any palace battle. Anyone who kills a villain can kill the prince of a country. Although it is a bit exaggerated, it can also show how cautious the palace is against witches.
So, later witchcraft gradually changed.
"The Official Witch of the Zhou Lichun" says: "Witches will be given away the bathing of the witches in the year."
Later, Wang Xizhi's "Preface to the Lanting Collection" begins with: "I met at Lanting in Shanyin, Kuaiji to cultivate the affairs of the ritual."
The evolution in this period has shown that the original witch was bathing in order to get into trouble, but later it gradually evolved into folk customs.
That is, the witchcraft color in March is fading, but instead becomes elegant like Qushui Liushang.
His voice had a unique tranquility, which sounded like drinking a glass of ice water in the summer, which was extremely comfortable.
"So that's it..." Chen Mange thought for a while: "But I haven't read it carefully. There seems to be no very famous witches in history. On the contrary, there is one in the Puji Kingdom, Kikyo, have you heard of it?"
"Inuyasha?" Lu Zian laughed: "You can choose."
"Oh, you must have seen it too!" Chen Mange fluttered: "Well, who do you like? I like Sesshomaru! Ahhhh! The Killing Yue Dao Dao!"
This humble drink attracted many people to look back with smiles.
The two of them turned around and walked through a long alleyway. They saw many tents connected in front, and the whole area looked quite large.
"What are you doing?"
Lu Zian thought for a while, took out his cell phone and checked it: "This is the market in Kuangguo, the handicraft market [yard of the courtyard], which is quite famous. Let's go in through the main entrance."
Only then did they realize that before they knew it, they had arrived at a park.
Those tents were placed on the empty grass in the park, and there were quite a lot of people.
After they turned around, they found that there were more people.
Such markets are often held in Pujiu. They are very lucky. This market is of relatively high level, gathering 95 popular handicraftsmen, including ceramics, woodworking, glass, ironware, leather products, etc.
"No. 10, No. 10! Go and queue up!"
Someone whispered in a hurry and rushed to No. 10.
Lu Zian and Shen Mange looked at each other, and were quite curious: "Is No. 10 so popular?"
Standing beside them was a Chinese. When he heard Chen Mange's Chinese with a straight Chinese character, he turned his head to look at her in surprise and smiled: "It's quite popular. The No. 10 store belongs to Mr. Abu. He made a preview on the SNS in advance. Today, he is sending the number card to enter the market. Those who take the number card first are advanced!"
“No limit on the number of people?”
"It's limited to 96 cards a day, so you can only enter 96 people, and each person can purchase 2." As he said that, he couldn't help laughing: "I feel inexplicably confident, and I don't have to worry about not being able to sell it at all. It's a bit like our Master Lu."
Lu Zian, who was inexplicably named, paused his eyes and nodded seriously: "Yes."
People probably have a herd mentality, thinking that it is definitely good to have so many people queuing up.
As a result, they just walked up to the front and the person who sent the number board in front had already left.
Someone said in annoyedly: "It's only been less than ten minutes, why did the number plate be collected? It's true."
But even though that was said, the people in the queue still did not leave.
After all, although they can’t buy anything without a number plate, they can watch it!
Lu Zian and Shen Mange lined up behind quietly. I wonder what kind of surprise this Mr. Abu would bring to them?
Lu Zian thought more and more: "What if we could hold more markets like this?"
There is often a saying in China that people go to markets, but usually the people buy daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil and salt.
What if the market is upgraded to a little more and replaced with handicrafts? Just like Changyan’s antique trading area?
The more I think about it, the more I think it is feasible.
Zian immediately sent a message to Zhuo Peng and told him what he saw and heard here.
Zhuo Peng happened to be holding a backbone meeting and asked directly about the feasibility of this matter at the meeting.
Based on all the data and suggestions, he believes that such an activity can be done.
[With Baigongmen’s reputation in the industry now, I think this is extremely feasible.]
Now they are a cultural and creative street in Changyan that accommodates elites from all walks of life. Do you think it’s just a joke?
There is no need to find someone outside, stand on the street and shout, and fill the market in minutes!
Those who were unknown in the past could have more opportunities to show themselves, and all kinds of exquisite gadgets are not afraid of them not being liked.
And if tourists visit too much, they will always buy something.
Zhuo Peng's efficiency has always been what Lu Zian likes the most.
In just twenty minutes, he directly decided on the time and place and the candidates to participate in the market, and also took out his grandfather to take charge.
The biggest gimmick is that Mr. Zhuo is here in person!
And the bigger surprise was that after hearing Mr. Zhuo talk about this, the five elders of Xiling called Zhuo Peng in person and said that they were here too.
After listening to the results of Zhuo Peng's report, Lu Zian was quite surprised and was also surprised, but he did not intend to participate directly: "Just look at the arrangements, I'll go in immediately, and we'll talk in detail when we come back."
Chapter completed!