Chapter 101 Park Fireworks
A few days before the park opened, this was the topic of discussion throughout the capital.
"I wonder what's inside this park? I really want that day to come soon!"
"Didn't the newspaper say that? There's a goddess parade and sky lanterns tonight!"
"I plan to bring my family with me that day. What about you, Brother Li?"
"I'm not going. I don't like crowds. Besides, what can be better than listening to an opera?"
"Wow, maybe you didn't know this? On the day the park opens, the Jixiang Theater will be performing a new play in the park!"
The person who spoke emphasized the word "new play", and the person who had just said he would not go immediately changed his mind.
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On the opening day of the park, the ticket office put up signs in an orderly manner, one person per ticket, and lined up!
There is a special carriage parking area outside. You just need to park the carriage in the designated location and get a small sign, and someone will take care of it.
Yan Xuanyu set out from the palace in a low-key manner. His simple carriages did not look as grand as those of some wealthy businessmen in the capital.
In addition to Li Zhongxian, he was accompanied by Wang Qinyao, Li Zhiwei, and Han Yuanlinfu, a teacher and student. Su An and others were busy in the camp outside the city, so they missed the first day of the park's opening to the public. However, this was not a big deal. In comparison, the matters of the camp outside the city were more important.
Because Yan Xuanyu also secretly gave Su An a task. In the early spring of next year, the Great Zhou will hold a review of the Great Zhou soldiers and announce to the world what weapons they have. Of course, the latest developed ones will not be displayed. For example, explosives that the Turkic army has long been familiar with can be displayed in another form, as well as armor, swords, bows and crossbows.
Of course, it will not be just a simple military parade in the spring of next year. At that time, Yan Xuanyu will invite envoys from the Southern Kingdom and the Rongdi and other tribes on the grassland to participate. As for what message Yan Xuanyu conveyed... it depends on what they can figure out!
According to Yan Xuanyu's assumption, the Jinyiwei were the ones walking in the front. Yan Xuanyu specially took out the experience he had learned in his previous life and taught Su An in writing how to do it...
So even though the suburbs are very close to the capital, Su An doesn't have time to come to the capital to watch the fireworks. However, he is training the Jinyiwei who will be at the front in the suburbs, so they should be able to see the fireworks!
The rest of the soldiers will be arranged by the group of generals, but they are still clearing the battlefield in Turkic and have no time for the time being.
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"Sir, oh, sir!"
Before coming here, Yan Xuanyu thought there might be a lot of people, but he didn't expect there would be so many.
It was almost identical to what Yan Xuanyu had experienced at a tourist attraction in his previous life.
Li Zhongxian wiped his sweat while protecting Yan Xuanyu.
Yan Xuanyu looked at Li Zhongxian working hard and said with his hand on his forehead, "Don't worry about me, just follow me closely."
Yan Xuanyu brought secret guards with him, but it was inconvenient for the secret guards to show up in the dark, so Yan Xuanyu would not be in danger. However, there were so many people...there was nothing he could do.
He turned around in the crowd and said, "You two should also..." Follow me closely.
Before he finished speaking, Yan Xuanyu discovered that Wang Qinyao and Li Zhiwei were no longer there.
Li Zhongxian said, "Sir, the two girls have just gone to the Goddess Makeup Department."
This is also a project initiated by Yan Xuanyu. There is a shop that specializes in selling skirts with fluttering sleeves and colors like those of fairy concubines. The shop will also give the women who come here the same makeup as the goddess' parade tonight and the same bouquets of different colors.
The bouquet is made of velvet, which is both beautiful and durable. There are many different styles and they are very attractive and not expensive.
Soon, almost every woman passing by held a handful of the Goddess Flower in her hands.
Yan Xuanyu followed the crowd forward. There was a lot of noise around him and everyone had a smile on their face. Perhaps infected by the atmosphere in front of him, Yan Xuanyu also smiled unconsciously.
The ticket prices are not high, so there are almost all kinds of people coming and going.
Children carrying wicker baskets and selling small items were walking around.
"The goddess is parading through the streets!"
Someone shouted, immediately attracting the attention of everyone on the street.
The music seemed to come from far away, and the noisy voices on the street gradually died down. It seemed that everyone was concentrating and didn't want to miss any of the performance.
A huge wooden cart with a fence was pushed by several people. The cart was decorated with flowers and musicians sitting around it were playing music. The music alone was enough to make people intoxicated.
Several dancers dressed as goddesses danced gracefully, their clothes fluttering in the wind. As they danced, flower petals fell, bringing a burst of fragrance.
At this time, several fluttering silk ribbons were hung from a high shelf. The woman in the lead, dressed as a goddess, used the force to leap into the air with her long sleeves flipping.
Everyone was stunned.
Yan Xuanyu was also watching in the crowd, thinking to himself, the effect is very good!
The crowd began to move as the goddess paraded through the streets. At this time, Yan Xuanyu also saw Wang Qinyao and Li Zhiwei.
The two of them wore hairpins of the same color on their heads and were talking and laughing as they walked.
They soon saw Yan Xuanyu and walked over here quickly.
"Ouch!" A little girl holding a wicker basket and chasing the crowd of people parading the goddess staggered a few times.
Li Zhiwei quickly supported her.
"Are you okay?" Yan Xuanyu walked over.
"Nothing." Li Zhiwei smiled.
The little girl with pigtails rolled her eyes and said sweetly to Wang Qinyao, "Sister, do you want to buy me a wooden hairpin? My mother carved it herself. It has the flowers of the twelve flower gods that will be parading tonight on it!"
Wang Qinyao really bent down and picked it up. The little girl's mother had very skillful hands, and the wooden hairpin was carved with lifelike flowers.
Yan Xuanyu became playful and teased her: "Why don't you let me buy it?"
The little girl looked at him and shook her head, "My two sisters, well... they are very beautiful, but they don't look old enough to be your wives..."
Perhaps it was because Yan Xuanyu looked gentler when he smiled, the little girl looked at his expression while speaking.
Li Zhiwei and the other person covered their mouths and laughed secretly.
Yan Xuanyu also smiled and said, "You are right."
There was some intelligence in the little girl's eyes, which was very different from the dull eyes of the beggars that used to be seen everywhere on the streets of the Great Zhou city. However, beggars are rarely seen nowadays, and even if you see a beggar, you can report it to the government and let them take it over.
In the past, beggars were sent to various places to do work, and they could also take time out to learn to read according to their wishes. Just like the little girl in front of us, their eyes gradually showed the spirit of children of this age.
Of course, the little girl was trying to make her two sisters happy. Wang Qinyao picked out two wooden hairpins and gave them copper coins. The little girl happily ran to chase the goddess in the parade.
Yan Xuanyu looked at the little girl running away and smiled softly.
He once laughed at himself, saying that even though he had become the ruler of the world, he never had a moment to relax. When he finally had some free time, he would look for things to do and get into a new busy routine without enjoying himself at all.
But when he saw that these changes were caused by his arrival, the great sense of satisfaction in his heart was incomparable.
Han Yuan and Lin Fu came over to meet them soon after. The teacher and student went to the calligraphy and painting stall. There was a secluded place in the park which was a special calligraphy and painting stall. Many people who liked quietness or had just watched the goddess parade came here, stopping in groups of three or two to appreciate the works.
The group continued to walk inside together. As soon as they entered the park, they could see the Zhaixing Tower. At first, they could even see the highest point. The further they walked inside, the more they were impressed by how high the Zhaixing Tower was.
Those who saw the Zhaixing Tower up close for the first time expressed their admiration. However, because this was once a place where emperors and scholars had walked, people cared more about the special meaning it represented than its height.
Yan Xuanyu saw a man holding a child and letting the child touch the stone tablet.
"Amu, this is the Zhaixing Tower. If you become the top scholar, you can go to the highest place to see His Majesty." The man touched the stone tablet with the child's hand and coaxed him gently.
The child wore a small square scarf on his head, a new style of attire for elementary school students in the capital. He nodded and said loudly, "Don't worry, father. I will study hard! I want to become a Jinshi too!"
"Okay!" The man smiled with satisfaction and patted his son's head. "Then Amu, please recite the Disciple Rules to me later. Tomorrow I will test you on the three Su's."
Yan Xuanyuji: Has the chicken-child education started now?
So he's half the culprit?
"Dad, can I have a candy painting?" the child wearing a small square scarf asked again.
The man couldn't bear the child's constant begging, so he took the child to buy sugar paintings.
Yan Xuanyu chuckled. Why this road, when there were so many other options? He had designed this street to be filled with shops selling things children would love. There were now a few sugar painting shops, and further ahead were intricate mechanical toys. Back then, the park was too big to waste space, so he built a children's playground, modeled after the children's playgrounds of later generations, with wooden horses, swings, slides, and of course, the nine-linked rings and tangram puzzles that children in the Great Zhou had learned to play since childhood.
Yan Xuanyu didn't believe that any child could resist the temptation. Sure enough, not long after, Yan Xuanyu saw the child wearing a small square scarf and who had just declared that he would become a Jinshi in the future crying and wanting to go into the children's playground to play.
It only costs a few cents to have fun for a while. After hearing the price mentioned by the ticket seller, the man took the child in without thinking.
After a while, the fireworks that everyone was looking forward to were finally about to begin.
Yan Xuanyu stood in the crowd, looking up into the distance, and heard a little girl ask the adults beside her in a clear voice: "What are fireworks? Are fireworks also flowers?"
The park's security guards, wearing specially made clothes, banged gongs and drums while shouting, "The fireworks are about to start! The fireworks are about to start! Those with babies, please cover their ears. Don't be afraid!"
In the huge park, everyone put down what they were doing, and those who were talking stopped talking and looked up at the dark night sky.
"Bang--"
“Bang—bang!”
Accompanied by a series of bangs, several bright lines shot into the sky, and then the dark sky suddenly became bright.
Beams of light of various colors scattered like chrysanthemum petals, blooming crowdedly in the sky.
“Swoosh—bang!”
The fireworks did not stop and continued for a long time. People went from being cautious at first to pointing at the fireworks and talking excitedly later.
Even if you're not in the park, you can see that more and more people are stopping what they are doing and looking up at this moment that is difficult to describe in words.
The little girl who had originally asked the question also clapped her hands happily: "Great, great! It turns out that fireworks are flowers that bloom in the sky!"
Although the park set off fireworks later, this one was still the most impressive.
The people of Beijing watched with anticipation and anxiety as beams of light shot into the sky, emitting dazzling rays of light that illuminated people's faces.
It seems to be welcoming the future and rebirth of the Great Zhou.
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