The Dharma Sea of ​​the Green Snake

Chapter 139 The Nightless Town of the Tang Dynasty
Jingfan Town is one of the nine villages and eighteen towns at the foot of Weishan Mountain.

At the same time, it is also the largest settlement in addition to the local counties.

According to official statistics, Jingfan Town has more than 1000 households in terms of resident population alone, almost approaching the level of a sparsely populated lower-level county.

As for why Jingfan Town is so prosperous?

In addition to occupying a key geographical position, it has rural and official roads extending in all directions.

The most important thing is that Jingfan Town is the meeting place of the dragon veins of Weishan Mountain. It is said that the people who live here will be promoted and rich, and their descendants will be blessed.

For Pei Wende, who has never studied Feng Shui, he doesn't know whether there is any scientific basis for this widely circulated statement.

But it is undeniable that Jingfan Town is indeed the most affluent town in the surrounding area.

Even Xinkang Town, where Pei Wende often goes, cannot compare with Jingfan Town in terms of pure prosperity.

"As expected, it is the most prosperous town at the foot of Weishan Mountain."

After the traces of various pedestrians gradually appeared on the country road, Pei Wende, who was panting slightly, slowed down his pace and entered Jingfan Town at an ordinary speed.

"Even compared to Changsha County, it's not inferior in any way..."

Pei Wende knew that his words were a little exaggerated, but he was a little surprised that Jingfan Town was really prosperous at night.

You know, the Tang Dynasty was a dynasty that strictly enforced the curfew system.

Even in the chaotic era of the late Anshi Rebellion, each city still strictly enforces the curfew system according to the division of the market.

In other words, once it was a fixed time at night, ordinary people would no longer be allowed to wander around in the streets of the entire Tang Dynasty except for the watchmen.

However, Jingfan Town seems to have lifted the curfew a long time ago.

Until nightfall, the town was still brightly lit, and there was no intention of imposing a curfew at all.

This makes Wende Pei, who saw the "night scene" for the first time in this era, feel very novel, and has a feeling of returning to the "city that never sleeps" in the 21st century.

It's a pity that the "night scene" is maintained by the candles and lanterns all over the street, not the neon lights that Pei Wende is more familiar with.

"Is it a festival tonight? That's why it's so lively?"

Looking at the lively crowds and streets nearby with great interest, Pei Wende looked around and found that the lights of the entire Jingfan Town seemed to spread from one place.

There seemed to be some kind of show being performed there, and the people around were packed in three layers, like those people in later generations who would watch the excitement and not take it too seriously.

"Opera? Poetry?"

From a long distance, Pei Wende could hear the faint tune coming from the crowd.

It's just that they are not singing songs of later generations, but excerpts of poems that are more popular now.

In particular, some of the looming female vocals exude an intoxicating elegance and etherealness.

In addition, Wen Wende even heard a counterpart performance similar to rapping, which made the onlookers around him burst into laughter from time to time.

Under such a lively scene, even the little green snake was awakened from its slumber, and carefully emerged from Pei Wende's neckline.

"hiss!"

The Little Green Snake, who has a stronger visual ability, can see the excitement not far away more clearly than Pei Wende.

This kind of lively scene that the little green snake has never seen makes it have a strong curiosity about the activities going on there-is there any gourmet snacks there that are more delicious than Changsha County?

"hiss!"

With this in mind, the little green snake neighed again.

"I suddenly regret raising you with this 'foodie' attribute. I didn't bring much money with me when I went out this time!"

Obviously understood the neighing of the little green snake, Pei Wende muttered in a low voice helplessly.

This trip down the mountain was decided on the spur of the moment, and Pei Wende didn't prepare much money at all.

If the little green snake opened its belly to eat and drink like it did in Changsha, Pei Wende felt that he might have to work as a waiter in the inn for the next month to pay off his debts.

However, complaints are nothing but complaints, and Pei Wende, who also has a strong curiosity, still walked towards that lively street.

Then, Pei Wende saw all kinds of thaumaturgy performances that shocked his cognition.

Playing swords, jumping balls, standing upside down, walking ropes, dancing giant beasts, playing big sparrows...

Immediate skills, car upper edge pole, jacking pole, car upper edge pole, five cases, seven plates, fish and dragons spreading...

Topping bowls, swallowing knives, spitting fire, butchering people, cutting horses, playing with wine jars, playing with horns, stacking arhats...

Countless "little magic tricks" that Pei Wende knows or doesn't know the principle are performing here, attracting the cheers and applause of most people in the entire town.

"Is there a 'tour' this year?"

Pei Wende felt that if the monkey show, jumping through a fire hoop, and breaking a boulder on the chest were added to this, it would be the standard equipment of a traveling circus.

"You are very interested in this? Didn't you dislike these when you were in Changsha?"

He couldn't help lowering his head and glanced at the enthusiastic snake head from his neckline. Pei Wende didn't expect that the usually cold little green snake would be interested in this type of performance.

However, after taking a look at the crowd surrounding him, Pei Wende could understand why this kind of performance was so popular.

After all, in this ancient time when entertainment activities were scarce, the attraction to human beings was not much different from the movies and games of later generations.

Not to mention that he had never seen a green snake in a similar scene, even Pei Wende, who came from the 21st century, had great curiosity about the content of those performances.

"Is the curfew lifted because of them?"

After looking around, Pei Wende found that the street where he was now was actually just a small circle in a huge crowd.

After the turbulent crowd, an entire alley was crowded with crowds, with various performances interspersed in it, like a lively "city within a city".

I just don't know whether this lively "city within a city" is resident in Jingfan Town, or wandered here from other more prosperous areas.

Anyway, judging from the lively crowd around him, Wen Wende tended to think that such performances were not common, otherwise it would not have attracted so many people to watch.

"Come on, let's go inside and have a look."

After thinking for a while, Pei Wende walked around this intersection and walked towards a deeper street.

On the one hand, it was because Pei Wende felt that the hustle and bustle of Jingfan Town tonight was inseparable from the disaster, and on the other hand, it was also because the beautiful singing voices he heard before came from the innermost street.

That elegant and long singing voice is even more beautiful than all the melodies Pei Wende has ever heard.

Pei Wende was suddenly a little curious, whether the women who were singing these verses were the famous prostitutes who were said to have brought disaster to the country and the people and made countless writers feel sorry for them.

Of course, Pei Wende didn't expect to meet the kind of famous prostitutes and actors who could interact with all kinds of great writers and great poets in this small town.

Pei Wende simply wanted to see if the beautiful courtesans of this era could compare to the beauties of later generations.

[After all, there is no plastic surgery technology in this era...]

[Those who can be called "beauties" must be natural beauties with their own styles and abundant collagen. 】

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(End of this chapter)