Chapter 1605 Night banquet and wine
Fragrant flowers, fine wine, flames, bonfires, pretty girls, the moonlight is as drunk as a scroll, and the painting is as beautiful as a scroll. The girls on this night, dressed in national costumes, danced the national dance and sang ancient national love songs.
“I am at one end of the river,
I can’t forget the look you looked back at when you left,
Standing by the river again and again,
I hope you will come back from your long journey.
I am at one end of the river,
like the stars in the sky waiting for you,
When you think of me,
don’t forget to raise your head , those are my affectionate eyes..."
This poem is very long, and girls in every costume festival have to sing several verses. The lyrics tell the story of two young lovers separated by war. It is divided into two parts. The first part talks about the girl's longing for her lover day and night in her hometown. The second part talks about the boy's undying love for the girl. Later, the girl waited from a fifteen-year-old girl to a twenty-five-year-old girl, but there was still no news about her lover. She had no choice but to stay away from her hometown and go to distant places to find the person she missed. But what awaited her was a tragic fate. The boy had already been there He died in battle ten years ago, leaving only a suicide note, which described his love for the girl. The girl could not bear such a separation, so she found the battlefield where the boy died, and committed suicide with her sword there.
This poem has few happy parts and many sad parts. It is sad and touching. It has always been sung among young men and women and has become a love song and a holiday song here.
Because this costume festival is for girls, the songs are all about girls’ longing for boys. Only during the men’s costume festival will the other half of the song be sung, which is the story in the ‘suicide note’. Bimoye understood the meaning of the poem during the dinner and found it quite touching. He didn't have many other thoughts. However, there were some girls near him who had not participated in the costume festival and wept bitterly.
The place where this night banquet was held was in the wild, and there happened to be a small river next to it. Everyone was sitting on the carpet, sitting cross-legged. Because the protagonists of the festive banquet are young men and women, the people sitting in the middle circle of the venue are all unmarried young people of this age group. On the contrary, the adults sit in the outer circle, and there are only a few elders, elders or members of the town's clan. Only those with high status were allowed to sit in the middle seats.
After the singing, there is the assistant dance. The assistant dance is first danced by the married young men and women, which is intended to show how happy and happy they live after getting married. After the married assistant dancers, the young men will then go to assist the dancers. After they dance a section, the girls from the costume festival will come up to lead the dance, and the boys will dance with them. Once here, the climax of the entire costume night party begins. During this long dance, the girl will invite all unmarried men over seventeen years old to accompany her as dancers. If the girl likes a boy during the dance, she will take off the garland bells tied around her wrists and give them to the boy. You can hold hands and dance with the girl, and it also means that they have become a couple and regard each other as marriage partners. Therefore, this is a very solemn link, and it is also one of the three links that can determine life-long commitments at the banquet.
Bimoye felt that the local folk customs in various countries were very different and very interesting, and he was willing to experience this kind of ethnic customs here. At this time, various delicacies were also served on everyone's banquet table. Petal sugar cakes, hazelnuts, grapes and fruits, mostly sweet fruits and the like, no meat at all, and some wine.
Wine is good wine. Bimoye has never smelled such a fragrant wine. Although he is not an alcoholic or addicted to alcohol, he also knows the quality of wine. He heard people at the table say that this wine is Brewed by the locals, it is made from flower petals and a unique local grain. It has a strong aroma and is produced in a very small amount. Only at night banquets, everyone will take out this wine for banquets. It is not easy to drink at ordinary times. . And what we are drinking now is not the best. Only when the wine presentation and toasting time comes, will the best and most fragrant wine be brought out.
Bimoye was surprised when he heard this. The wine he drank now was fragrant enough. The aroma could be smelled several miles away. There would be better ones later. How good could it be? .
Among the companions who came with him, there were two good drinkers. They couldn't help it when they smelled the aroma of wine. They were like old cows seeing red cloth or hungry dogs seeing big bone sticks. Because the wine bottle is made of wood, and the bottle and cork are as one, they need to use a special wine opener to open it. They don't know how to use it, and they find it troublesome. When they smell the aroma of wine next to them, they can't help it, and they get anxious. Open the cork with your teeth and start drinking.
After drinking this one breath, they drank more than half of the small bottle of wine. After drinking it, they took a long sip, with a face of satisfaction and happiness, and they were completely immersed in the wine. in the taste.
A young man next to him was horrified when he saw the two of them drinking like this. He shouted: "You can't drink like this, you can't drink like this. You are ruining such a good wine by drinking like this."
These two people are not allowed to drink like this. Answer, looking at him doubtfully.
The young man said: "Our wine is called 'Hua Mei Cao Fragrance Wine'. It is not easy to brew a bottle. It takes a lot of effort, including the brewing process, the brewing method, and the brewing time. , the utensils used to hold wine, and the final drinking method are all particular, you guys What a waste of this good bottle of wine.”
These two people don’t know that such a small bottle of ‘Hua Meicao Fragrance Wine’ can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars when sold abroad, and it is the main item in local villages and towns. One of the income sources is that the secret recipe has never been revealed, so the output is extremely small. And this is not a matter of money. The locals are hospitable and don’t mind inviting outsiders to their own folk festivals and serving their own wine. However, the valuable thing is that the brewing of this wine is cumbersome and time-consuming. It can only be used in the right season and with the right wine. Only the best wine can be brewed using the right method. If you can’t drink the wine in the best and most correct way, wouldn’t it be a waste?
These two fools were too hasty. Only then did they realize that they had made a mistake, and they quickly said sorry and apologized. Then asked how to drink this wine.
The young people were angry, but in line with the custom of hospitality, they patiently taught them how to drink the "Flower, Beautiful Grass and Fragrant Wine". He said: "Our wine is mainly made from the petals of the Yinglu flower and green corn. After the wine is brewed, it is made into bottles of white sandwood and bottled for storage. All the aroma of the wine is sealed and concentrated in the wine by the white sandwood. The wine bottle has just been opened and the aroma of the wine cannot be fully released. You have to use green corn rice leaves and throw them into the wine bottle, so that the aroma and sweetness of the wine can be quickly released." As he demonstrated, he put the two rice leaves that came with the wine into the wine bottle. , the aroma of the wine suddenly became richer and more wonderful.
The eyes of the two idiots were so stupefied by the smell that they hurriedly did the same thing, and then poured the wine into the glasses specially used to hold wine. After one sip, their eyes shone, and they were so beautiful. A person who loves wine is so drunk that the wine is so delicious that it is countless times sweeter than just drinking it. It is simply wonderful. The two of them cried out in their hearts that they regretted not asking clearly before drinking. The little bit left was not enough for two or three glasses, and it was impossible to get another bottle.
Bimoye listened clearly to the drinking method taught by the young man, put two rice leaves into the wine bottle, poured out a small cup of delicious wine and drank it. The wine tasted sweet but not astringent, sweet. It's not greasy, has a pleasant fragrance, and has endless aftertaste. Even people who don't like to drink can only think of this wine in one word - beautiful! One more word - wonderful! In their mercenary group, there were only three of them who were old enough and unmarried. Therefore, in the front circle, other people who came to participate could only sit at the back of the outer circle, and there was no one bottle, only one cup. Otherwise, there would be no There were so many bottles of wine for everyone to drink. After the two people finished drinking their own wine, they could only look at Bimoye's wine eagerly, each with a look of entreaty, hoping that Bimoye would be merciful and reward them both. But Bimoye turned a blind eye at all, pretending not to know anything and not seeing anything. There was only a bit of snickering on his face showing pride.
Why didn't these two people see Bimoye's evil smile? They both had serious faces: "Stingy Qi Jin, what are you doing? That friend just said, stay a while." I still have wine to drink, so I’m not in a hurry.”
Bimoye still ignored him, and drank another glass.
The two of them were so angry that their eyes were red: "Drink, drink, drink to death, you will feel like you have never drunk in your last life. Huh! I am so angry."
Undine is here Watching on the sidelines, he couldn't help but burst out in joy, and begged for them: "Bimoye, look at how pitiful they are, just give them some."
When the two people heard about Undine After speaking for them, hope reignited in his eyes.
Bimoyer still said mischievously: "Didn't they just say that there will be wine for a while? I don't care about this, let them wait."
When the two of them heard this, they were so angry that they turned around and never looked back.
Wandini looked at the two people, feeling a little guilty for not being able to help, but seeing that Bimoye was drinking with peace of mind, she didn't care at all.
Bimoye glanced sideways and saw Undine's expression, so he walked up to them and whispered: "I deliberately made them angry. These two guys usually talk bad about me behind my back, thinking that I don't know." Well. It’s my turn to make them angry today.”
Undine covered her mouth and smiled: "Hehe, it turns out you heard it all. I thought you didn't know. But I didn't know you were so bad and vindictive."
" That means I will hold a grudge." Bimoye poured another glass of wine with a smile. He and Undine spent time together day and night, and as time went by, those qualities were lost, not to mention that Undine was still a cute elf and goblin. He handed the wine to Undine: "Would you like a drink? It's delicious."
Undine hesitated for a moment, twisted her body, and shook her head: "No, you better drink it." She actually wanted to drink it when she smelled the aroma of the wine, not to mention that the wine was full of floral and woody aroma, which was hers. Favorite, but her last drinking experience made her afraid to give it a try. The last time someone deliberately teased her and tricked her into taking a sip of strong wine, she only took a small sip and she was so drunk that her cheeks turned red, she looked cute, she talked nonsense, and said a lot of incomprehensible things. Then she flew around the house like a headless fly, and everyone who saw her made fun of her for a long time. This time she didn't dare to drink again.
Bimoye persuaded: "It's okay, this wine is really good. I think it will be good for you if you drink it. If you don't believe me, try it."
"Really?" Wen Tini didn't believe that anyone would believe Bimoye. Seeing that Bimoye was so determined to let her drink, she leaned forward to the wine glass, lowered her head and took a shallow sip. As soon as she tasted it, she found it really delicious. Before Bimoye could say anything, she took another sip, and then another sip. She drank it one mouthful at a time. It was fine at first, but the wine had a strong stamina. After a while, Undine, who drank seven or eight sips of wine in a row, began to feel dizzy, and then she staggered and fell into Bimoye's arms. It's just that this time, I didn't say any nonsense.
Bimoye carefully picked her up and laid her next to her. Now Undine's water vapor has been stabilized, and she is not worried about the danger of the elements dissolving. Bimoye ate the fruit by himself and continued to experience this national celebration.
After drinking for a while, a beautiful figure suddenly walked up to Bimoye's table and gave him an invitation gesture. Bimoye took a look and saw that the woman in front of him wearing a wreath on her head and a floral dress was the girl in blue floral dress that she saw on the float during the day. She was also the most beautiful girl among all the girls participating in the costume festival as Sanchi said. Although the girl had changed her clothes at this time, she was still dressed in blue. Looking at her from such a close distance, her eyes were like bright pearls, her delicate nose, beautiful lips, a pair of picturesque eyebrows, and rosy cheeks. Her teeth are like gourd rhinoceros, and her hair is like a waterfall. With her blue clothes, she looks like a fairy in the moon or an elf in the flowers, alluring.
Bimoye didn't expect that she would suddenly come to his desk. When she looked at him, he was a little startled.
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(End of this chapter)