portable space

After all the social fires circled the streets in the village, they gathered towards the square in front of the theater, where the official performances took place.

This theater can be regarded as a landmark building in Fengyukou. The huge three-story theater is unique among nearby villages and even towns. The carved eaves and walls on it are quite ancient. Speaking of which, this theater has already

It has a history of forty or fifty years, and I don’t know how it survived during those turbulent ten years. It has been repaired several times and looks very bright today.

The theater building has two functions. The singing stage at the front is naturally used for performances, and the building behind the singing stage is the village committee of Fengyukou Village.

Every year during the festival in July or during the Lantern Festival around the 15th day of the first lunar month, operas will be sung here, and sometimes a song and dance team will be invited to perform songs and dances. In the past few years, there was a big screen movie here, but

In recent years, every household has a TV and cable TV, and there is no market for group movies. But this year, if you are trying to make a fuss about society, you will naturally not be able to do dramas anymore.

The square in front of the theater is very large and can easily accommodate tens of thousands of people. A bonfire is burning in the middle of the square. There is a high shelf not far from the bonfire.

After Shehuo entered here, everything stopped, even the gongs and drums lost their sound. There is a leader's opening remarks here, which is what the title should mean.

However, after the scene fell silent, before the leader walked up to the stage and stood in front of the microphone, something surprising and inexplicable happened.

I saw a bird with a hooked beak and brightly colored feathers flapping its wings and landing on the table behind the microphone. It first took a sip of water in the cup, and then screamed toward the microphone, "Start! Start!"

"The large speakers installed on the telephone poles around the field immediately spread their sound to every corner of the square.

Others don't recognize this bird, but how could Zhang Taiping not recognize it? This is clearly Xiao Wu, but I don't know who it came here with.

After the parrot flew away, the people below the stage were shocked. There was no noise from the dark crowd.

The leader who had just come on stage and was about to speak had a long speech, but now he was overtaken by a talking bird. He was embarrassed and had no interest in going on any longer, so he patted the microphone and came.

Say "Let's get started!"

What followed was a hearty performance, with everyone shouting and venting the joy and joy that the New Year brought to their hearts.

At about ten o'clock, all the performances were put aside, leaving a large open space in the venue, which was used for the final dragon and lion dances.

The scene when two dragons dance together is quite grand, and the fire is not exploding next to it, which makes the two dragons feel like they are in a fog. It is a bit interesting, but it is still less exciting and lacks the excitement.

People shout with passion.

The lion dance after the dragon dance is different. This is the show that people are most looking forward to tonight.

The stand in the field is four to five meters high, and it is used to perform for the lions tonight. Although the lions cannot perform martial arts like walking on plum blossom piles, it is still possible to get on the stand.

Two people go up the shelf together, and one person has to bend down all the time. This is not an easy task. If you are not careful, you may fall from the top, so some safety measures are also taken under the shelf.

First of all, a thick layer of straw is laid on the ground, and a layer of cotton mat is laid on top of the straw. This way, even if you fall from the top of the shelf more than four meters high, there is no risk of anything happening. However, stumbling on the shelf is not a problem.

What others can prevent, the lion can only be careful about.

Wang Peng took advantage of the break to remove the lion's head and take it out for some air. He drank a glass of water and said, "I didn't expect there would be lions on display this year. Uncle, I'm going to participate too."

The old village chief looked at him and shook his head and said: "Forget it, you can do the lion trick twice and you can walk on the bench twice, but you can't do it on the shelf."

"Why not if you don't try?"

"Do you still need to try this?" The old village chief glanced at him and said, "Have you ever trained to climb a shelf?"

"This is not difficult at all. What else do you need to train for?" Wang Peng said.

The old village chief really wanted to hit him twice on the head with the dry tobacco pot. He pressed the dry tobacco powder in the pot with his fingers and said: "It is naturally not difficult for a person to climb this. Children can climb it, but you have to know

Lion playing is an activity for two people, it cannot be completed by one person. Have you ever thought about how the two people at the front and back can cooperate on the shelf to keep the lion's shape in shape? If they don't cooperate even slightly, they will fall from the top.

ending."

Wang Peng scratched his head and argued: "There is such a thick layer of straw underneath, it won't be a big deal if it falls."

The old village chief knocked him on the head and said: "Look at the shape of that shelf? Is it possible that it fell from the top to the ground all at once? Of course nothing will happen if it falls to the ground all at once. The ground is covered with thick

straw, but what if it rolls off the shelf? Are you sure the wood stubble on it won’t touch your face?”

"It won't necessarily fall down." Wang Peng defended weakly.

"With your level of playing lion, it is certain that you will fall from the top." The old village chief said, "Do you think it is more important to have fun or to be safe?"

Wang Peng stopped talking. Even though he had not given up the idea of ​​forcing Xiangqiu on the shelf in his heart, he did not dare to say it anymore. The fear of the village chief was a psychological shadow that had been generated for more than ten years, but he did not dare to directly forcibly disobey it.

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There were ten lions in total, except for Wang Peng's two, there were four big lions, four small ones and eight small ones. Naturally, the little lions couldn't participate in this show. In the end, only four big lions were left to climb the shelves and grab the hydrangeas.

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There is a red hydrangea on the top of the shelf, and there is a small lamp inside, which looks like a night pearl on the top of the shelf. The rules are very simple, whoever reaches the top first and grabs the hydrangea will be the lion king tonight.

There will be rewards. They are all in the same village. For safety reasons, you can block them but you are not allowed to maliciously attack multiple parties.

After giving the order, the four lions each occupied one of the four corners of the shelf and began to climb upwards.

There are handrails and places to step on the shelf. If you are good at lion tricks, it is not difficult to climb up. But if you don't know how to keep still, the appearance on the shelf will be ugly.

As soon as the shelf is on the shelf, it is clear that there is a lion. Just like what the old village chief said Wang Peng just said, the two people in front and behind cannot cooperate together. The person in front has climbed up a step while the person behind has not moved. In this way, there will be a lion.

The lion's body was stretched so long that it no longer looked like a lion at all, but more like an earthworm always wearing red clothes.

Soon a lion climbed to the top, held the glowing hydrangea in its mouth, and made several thrilling moves on the top, which made the people below cheer.

The other three lions retreated first, leaving only the lion that got the hydrangea to perform various thrilling and hilarious moves on the shelf.

There were no accidents during this process, but something happened when the lion just got off the stage.

A group of young guys gathered around holding torches. At this moment, the careless guy sprinkled a handful of charcoal powder on the torches, and the fire exploded with a bang, and the sudden fire jumped up directly.

Lion's body.

You must know that the lion's body is full of flammable materials, and it is afraid to see even the slightest spark, let alone such direct combustion. If you are not careful, the two people inside will not survive.

The whole lion quickly burned into a fire lion. Inside, Nian Nian quickly threw away the lion head and body he was wearing, but the lion fur on his legs was already burning.

"Hurry up and put out the fire!"

"Hurry up and save people!"

The people next to them all shouted after the first moment of shock, and several people came up and helped the two men take off the burning "lion hair" from their legs regardless of the burning on their hands. Because it was winter,

The two people who were on fire were fine, but the hands of those who helped were all blistered by the fire.

People only focused on rescuing people, but ignored the burning lion head and body next to them. They quickly ignited the straw and cotton mats spread on the ground. The fire spread in the night wind and it was too late for anyone to put it out. Soon the place was destroyed.

It turned into a furnace, and even the central shelf was burned. Fortunately, there was nothing else around the center of the square, so there was no need to worry about the fire spreading again.

Looking at the raging fire, several other people wearing lion costumes all took off their clothes, including Wang Peng.

"Damn, I didn't expect him. Isn't this too scary?" Wang Peng sighed.

The old village chief shook his head and said: "The biggest fear when playing with lions is getting caught by sparks. Today's young people do things without thinking. They dare to go to the lions with torches. It's almost over and this happened.

It’s simply an unnecessary disaster.”

Wang Peng patted his chest at this time and said: "Fortunately I didn't go there just now, otherwise the result would be really scary."

People surrounded the place on three levels, inside and outside, until the village cadre from Fengyukou finally squeezed in and asked quickly: "Is everyone okay?"

"Fortunately, they were rescued in time and everyone is fine. It's just that a few folks who were in urgent need of help had their hands burned by the fire." Someone answered.

"As long as everything is fine, it's fine." The village cadre wiped the sweat from his head and said. Then he asked, "The fellow villagers who saved people are heroes, and I can only praise them." He took the burned hands of several people and looked at the problem.

It’s not big, but it’s definitely not possible to hold anything for half a month. He said, “The cost of treatment will be borne by the village, and each person will be rewarded with a thousand yuan. This moral character of risking life and death to save fellow villagers is worthy of praise.

Yes!"

When something like this happened, people's previously excited mood cooled down, and they all looked at the fire burning in the center of the field.

The village cadre felt that the atmosphere was not good, and it would be bad if a happy event turned into a bad thing at the end. He had an idea and said: "This fire is not bad!"

Everyone looked at the village cadre in surprise, wondering why he said this at this time.

The village cadre said: "The fire is raging, so our two villages are prosperous this year, and our days will be prosperous!"

"Yes! It's booming!" People always hope for good things in their hearts, and many people also agreed.