Chapter 79: The Top Scholar Sister Jiang (Second Update)...
At 7 p.m., the old street was packed with tourists from South Street to North Street. To prevent stampedes, volunteers and police officers stood guard every ten people, holding a red silk ribbon to keep the crowd behind them.
There are twenty folk performers, each dressed as a prominent figure from Huai County's thousand-year history. The performers will interact with tourists, and one lucky tourist will be randomly selected to walk hand in hand with them down the long street.
To provide visitors with an immersive experience, the traditional Chinese string and wind instrument ensemble took the lead.
The atmosphere group consisted of experienced musicians recommended by the Huai County Folk Music Association. They played instruments such as the erhu and flute, singing and playing with great enthusiasm.
Following closely behind, a stream of folk performers appeared one after another. The actors' antique costumes, from their hair ornaments and makeup to their clothes, shoes, and socks, and even the lanterns they carried, made it seem as if people from the past thousand years had traveled through time and space to stand before the tourists.
The tourists were dazzled and grinned from ear to ear.
A young actor carrying a lantern approached a female tourist in her thirties, bowed, and extended his hand, saying, "It's dark and the road is long, so I'm escorting Mother back to the palace."
The female tourist quickly handed her handbag to her husband, and the volunteer pulled up the red silk to let her crawl inside.
The female tourist took the hand of a child actor who looked about seven or eight years old without any hesitation, and accepted the lantern from the child actor's hand. "The prince is filial, and the queen is very happy."
The onlookers burst into laughter, applauding and cheering.
"It's fun, so much fun."
"Choose me! Choose me! My Hanfu suits you better!"
"This is much more interesting than the embroidered ball tossing game at other scenic spots."
The official Weibo account of Huai County's Culture and Tourism Bureau mingled with tourists to broadcast live in public, simultaneously streaming on Weibo and Langyin (TikTok), drawing continuous praise from viewers in the live stream.
The folk activities in Huai County were so interesting! I regret not buying tickets to go!
Is this event only for today?
There will be one show each on the third and sixth days of the Lunar New Year. After all, scarcity increases value; if there were daily performances, tourists wouldn't find them special.
Huai County's cultural tourism sector understands marketing.
I wonder if Sister Jiang will participate in this event.
Huai County has a real talent for culture and tourism; it truly lives up to its reputation as an ancient county with a rich cultural heritage.
[I don't think she'll participate, otherwise it wouldn't be Sister Jiang choosing the participants, and all of her fans would rush over.]
[I bet a bag of spicy strips that Sister Jiang would watch silently from the crowd.]
[No gambling, the folk activities are so much fun, Sister Jiang will definitely be there.]
After the child actors, the characters are a venerable old scholar, a female Taoist doctor from the surrounding villages, a beautiful and refined daughter of a county magistrate, and a butcher who is famous far and wide.
The old scholar chose a young tourist as his student and tested him by teaching him five ancient poems about autumn. The young tourist, who had only been working for a year, knew the poems by heart and recited them effortlessly, winning applause from the crowd.
The female Taoist healer selected a female college student dressed in Hanfu and took her pulse on the spot, saying, "Young lady, you should avoid staying up late at such a young age, otherwise how can you inherit my mantle?"
The female university student knelt down on one knee, cupped her hands, and said, "Master, please accept my bow."
The onlookers seized the opportunity to laugh, clap, and shout, "Bravo!"
Everyone burst into laughter.
The county magistrate's daughter, carrying a lantern, approached a tall man, her face half-covered by an embroidered handkerchief. She said shyly, "Young master, my foolish father insists on forcing me to marry the fifty-year-old prefect. Would you be willing to take me away to a distant land? I will repay you by serving you like a slave."
The person chosen was none other than Qi Sheng in disguise. Qi Sheng was stunned and kept looking at Wei Lai beside him.
Wei Lai smiled and gestured for Qi Sheng to step forward, then chimed in, "Brother, please agree quickly, we can't let Miss down."
Qi Sheng: "..."
The onlookers, eager for a spectacle, cheered, "Say yes! Say yes!"
Qi Sheng was both amused and exasperated, so he had no choice but to crawl inside and take the lantern. However, he turned the tables on her, saying, "Brother, you are kind enough to send me to help you, Miss. But men and women should not touch each other, so please go first."
The actress playing the wealthy heiress chuckled and nodded in agreement, "Okay."
The viewers in the live stream burst out laughing when they saw this.
These two male tourists are quite the actors, aren't they?
The one who was chosen looks so familiar.
His clothes were awful, but his eyes looked young; he seemed like a handsome guy.
Could he be an actor?
[Their tone of voice and physical performance are very similar to a celebrity I know, but I can't think of one right now.]
[Can any expert uncover their identities?]
[What are you digging up? Can't celebrities come to Huai County for vacation? Besides, the fact that they're dressed so unkempt clearly means they don't want to steal Sister Jiang's thunder.]
The butcher's folk background is both touching and moving. His child was kidnapped by a kidnapper, and the butcher searched for his child along the way, slaughtering pigs for people for free along the way.
The butcher spent ten years finally finding the child, but the child didn't recognize him. So the butcher settled in the child's village, finding contentment in just a glimpse of him from afar each day.
Without the butcher even having to invite them, seven or eight third or fourth graders volunteered to be his sons.
"Okay, okay, there's always a chance."
The butcher took out a red silk ribbon from his pocket and invited all eight children to join him. He then had them hold the ribbon and form four groups to follow the main group ahead.
The tourists couldn't help but tear up, and then thunderous applause rang out, paying tribute to the brave father from a hundred years ago.
Six more folk figures passed by in succession, and the tourists were all looking forward to the last one. According to the event brochure distributed by Huai County Culture and Tourism Bureau, the last one was the famous filial son and top scholar Lu Zhi.
A moment later, a man dressed in the robes and hat of a top scholar, wearing black boots, strode over.
Upon approaching, the tourists' smiles froze, and they stared at the top scholar in disbelief.
The next moment, smiles returned to the tourists' faces, even gradually increasing in size, and developing into a state of frenzy and madness.
This top scholar is handsome and cool, with a beautiful face, a resolute and cool gaze, and the air of a dignified scholar.
His eyebrows were like distant mountains, his eyes were bright and his brows were sharp. He came against the light, his pace was neither fast nor slow. He faced the tourists on both sides and bowed slightly to greet them.
Someone shouted "Lu Lang" first, and then the crowd went wild, yelling, "Lu Lang! Lu Lang!"
“Lu Lang, they are all too young. I am forty years old this year, just right to be your mother!”
The 40-year-old woman's husband's face darkened, but the next second he shouted, "Would you mind if I were your father?"
The crowd burst into laughter. This couple is really funny; birds of a feather flock together.
No wonder the tourists were excited. Among the twelve folk performers, a handsome scholar had finally emerged, and this actor's looks were so striking that he outshone a bunch of effeminate young male celebrities in the entertainment industry. How could the tourists not like him!
Author's Note: Hahaha [laughing out loud][laughing out loud][laughing out loud]
Tourist: "Lu Lang, PICK ME!"
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