Chapter 54 In the restaurant, the dragon boat race
"This guest official costs five cents per person. The sachet is embroidered by his little sister stitched and thread. The dried flowers and mint inside are all picked and dried on the mountain. They are very fresh. It will be cool when you carry them for ten days and half a month.
"Give me one."
Everything is difficult at the beginning. There are countless times when it comes to the first time. Ye Xiaomei also opened it here. The twenty-five sachets were sold out quickly, including those that were bought before and then brought someone to buy them back.
It can be seen that Ye Xiaomei's craftsmanship is good.
"Let's go, my sister-in-law and I go to the restaurant with my sister-in-law." Ye Erlang carried his back basket and went to the restaurant with Ye Xiaomei.
Jiang Zhi sat in a private room. Looking out from the restaurant, you could see the Pier Pier of Zhuohe, where six dragon boats were docked. The banks of the river were crowded with pedestrians and various small vendors, with the crowds of people and the bustling bustling.
"Sister-in-law, I sold all the sachets I made. Thanks to my brother, he is so amazing." Ye Xiaomei ran in with a smile, picked up the teapot and poured Ye Erlang a cup of rough tea.
"Okay, you and Erlang are both great. My little sister's sachets are well embroidered. Erlang is more experienced in selling things for the first time than those who have been working for more than ten years." Jiang Zhi looked at Ye Erlang: "Thank you to Erlang for any hard work, let the waiter pick up some delicious food and bring it up."
"I got the order." Ye Erlang went downstairs to find the waiter.
"Our family is rare to be free and easy. Today I will have a good time taking advantage of the last day of Dragon Boat Festival." Jiang Zhi poured a cup of tea for Ye Xiaomei.
Ye Heng was tilted on the chair and was sleepy, and Jiang Zhi was not willing to disturb him.
The family leaned against the windowsill and watched the lower head of the county magistrate Li and his people invited the Dragon God to sacrifice. After the sacrifice, they installed a dragon head and a dragon tail on the dragon boat, and then killed the chicken and bleed.
After this process, Jiang Zhi had already knocked out half of the melon seeds.
Ye Xiaomei even got so idle that she started to fight.
Only Ye Erlang saw it seriously. He rarely saw such a big scene, and now he saw it very fresh.
In the past, I spent the Dragon Boat Festival at home, so I only ate two white rice dumplings with pickles. How could I sit in a restaurant and watch it now?
"Wow, it's going to start." Ye Erlang woke Ye Heng up, stuffed him a small meat bun, and held him and looked by the windowsill.
The drums outside were shaking the sky, and the shouts were constantly coming.
Six dragon boats flew out with the order from County Magistrate Li.
The paint on the dragon boat seemed to be different from later generations. Jiang Zhi kept staring at the pattern on her head, staring at it.
"Boom, bounce, bounce!"
"Quick, C-font size, fast!"
"The size of the B font is going to be exceeded, it's going to be exceeded!"
"A font size, A font size, stroke hard, use force!"
Most of the people on the shore followed the dragon boats and were crowded with people.
There was a stall on the other side of the pier, and the people from the county sat in the same place, and sent out the dragon boats and came back after arriving at the designated destination.
In the end, whoever returns to the starting line will be the first place and wins the lottery.
The first prize for dragon boat racing this year is ten taels of silver.
This is a total of twenty coins, and the annual income of ordinary people is only counted.
Therefore, the competition is so fierce.
"I didn't expect that the Dragon Boat Festival in Xin'an County was so grand. Now I have opened my eyes. Under Brother Li's rule, the people under Xin'an County must be extremely simple." Ouyang looked at the dragon boats that were getting farther and farther away on the water.
When he was studying in Dongdu, he had seen dragon boat races more than once, and His Majesty would go to watch every time. Although it was many times bigger than Xin'an County, because His Majesty was present and the performance was stronger, it was better to be pure here.
Everyone here has a very pure smile on their faces. This is a kind of smile from the bottom of their hearts, not a fake smile, nor awkward smile.
"Brother Ouyang is too good. I already had this custom before I came. In previous years, county officials would also hold dragon boat races." County Magistrate Li did not take credit for his merits.
However, in previous years, county officials would not have used so much money as a lottery ticket, and they also had to organize officials and soldiers of the government office to compete with each other. The lottery tickets would not be obtained by the people.
So it goes without saying who got into the end.
"The competition will be over later. Can Brother Ouyang enjoy his face? Let's go to the restaurant and stop drunk?"
"It's not enough to mention Brother Li." Ouyang? As soon as the folding fan opened, his beard swayed in the wind, and the tea foam in the tea cup gradually dissipated. After two cups of tea, the people's shouts were approaching.
It seems they are back.
Li Jintian stood up and held the railing with both hands. The wind blew up the corner of his blue official clothes, and the dragon boats in the distance flew over a loud drum sound.
"Quick, I'm going to be overtaken." County Magistrate Li was also worried about the current top name.
"Does Brother Li think the current top name can become the final top name?" Ouyang closed the fan and asked with a smile.
Li Jintian looked embarrassed: "This... is really impossible to see until the last moment."
"Then I bet that the third time I will get the high prize set by Brother Li." Ouyang said confidently.
Above the restaurant, the Ye family members watched the movements on the river carefully.
Jiang Zhi was eating melon seeds and saw that some dragon boats that were obviously scratched and disordered when they came back, probably because they did not exercise enough on weekdays.
"Hey, little sister, why don't we guess which dragon can win the first place?" Ye Erlang touched Ye Xiaomei's elbow lying on the windowsill.
"How can I know this? Didn't we win by investing in the C font? Then I'll bet on the C font." Ye Xiaomei casually said the font size, but now it seems that she doesn't have much chance of winning.
"My little sister is becoming more perfunctory. I insist on betting on the first place to win. This dragon has been ranked first from the beginning, and they will definitely keep it until the end." Ye Erlang said.
"Bad Second Brother, how do you know I'm just perfunctory?" In fact, she was really perfunctory, but was ruthlessly exposed by Ye Erlang in public.
Jiang Zhi touched Ye Heng's head and said, "Good baby, which boat do you think can win the next one?"
"There is the red flower." Ye Heng pointed to the river.
"Look carefully, there are red tweeds on each boat." Jiang Zhi said.
"That, that." Ye Heng pointed hard: "That person has big flowers hanging on his body, he is so fat."
Jiang Zhi looked in the direction Ye Heng pointed, and it was the third boat, with big red flowers hanging on the boat. Because it was too far apart, the person on the boat could not see clearly, and he was indeed a fat man.
"Then tell my mother, why do you think that boat can get the first name?" Jiang Zhi asked again.
"I don't know." Ye Heng shook his head.
What and why, why does he know why?
Ye Heng couldn't understand.
"Oh~" Jiang Zhi rubbed Ye Heng's head. This kid didn't know what he was thinking about? But he really got it right. It was indeed the third dragon boat that won the final first place.
Cheers burst out on the shore, and some viewers sighed because they had pressed the wrong treasure.
County Magistrate Li laughed to the sky: "Hahaha, I am worthy of being Brother Ouyang, but Brother Ouyang, how did you determine that the fat man who beats the drum will definitely win?"
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