This is a good implication. The villagers continued, "Look at our lanterns. They cover a large area and look majestic. Most importantly, the dragon heads on our lanterns were all carved by our villagers, stroke by stroke. They are full of our hard work."
"There are also poems on the four screens. Each one is a masterpiece. You can come and take a look. Then cast a vote for us. I hope you can support us..."
Village Chief Fang wanted to say something, but he was taken away by the yamen runners. Another village chief came up and said, "Hello everyone, I am the village chief of Lijia Village. This is the lotus lantern made in our village. Please take a look. This is the result of the hard work of our entire village. It is very beautiful."
There is also a huge lantern behind the village chief. The shape of the lantern is simple, but it is not easy to make, because each petal is not so easy.
Qian Jiujiu and Mu Yexiao nodded. It was true that the people's brains could not be underestimated. Look at these lanterns, they are also very beautiful. There are many more to be introduced later, including rabbit lanterns and dog lanterns. It seems that these more than 120 villages have agreed to make them different. Standing in front of these lanterns, you can't feel anything.
But standing at a higher place and looking down, it is very beautiful. Thinking of this, Qian Jiujiu suddenly wanted to draw a picture: "I suddenly want to draw the scene tonight. Or the kind of thing that looks down from a high altitude."
Mu Yexiao raised his eyebrows and said, "This is easy. After the evaluation, we will fly up to the sky on an eagle to see the panoramic view, and you can draw it."
Qian Jiujiu thought that this seemed to be possible: "Okay, after the evaluation is over, we will go to heaven."
Mu Yexiao found this a little funny, and looked at Qian Jiujiu: "Then do you have any result? Which one are you going to vote for?"
Qian Jiujiu curled his lips and said, "I am a person who protects my shortcomings. What's more, I wrote those poems. They must have voted for Fangjia Village. Besides, look at the lanterns made by these people. They can even send out the twelve zodiac animals."
Yes, there were lanterns in the shape of almost all the animals and plants she knew. The largest ones were the animals belonging to the Chinese zodiac. The dragon raising its head from Fangjia Village was the largest, followed by the lotus lantern, and then a giant rabbit, and snakes, cows, horses, etc. They all looked very thoughtful.
When everyone was admiring the lanterns, they saw the group of people from the academy who were almost always obsessed with the poems about the Dragon Raising its Head. Then they started to pester Village Chief Fang: "Village Chief Fang, who wrote these poems? They are well written and suitable for the occasion."
Village Chief Fang is very happy that those who have votes in their hands will come to him and see his lanterns, so that they will not go to see other people's lanterns. Then, won't the votes in these people's hands still be theirs
But more people followed the introduction of the village chief. Although Village Chief Fang went down, he still stood in front of his lantern and introduced it to the people coming and going. In the end, he excitedly started to recite poems to attract the literati in Xianyou Town. It was definitely a great victory for him to have literati singing praises for his lantern.
Qian Jiujiu and Mu Yexiao also followed the crowd. Even if they were just doing some demonstrations, they still wanted to look at all the lanterns.
Two hours had passed since they finished viewing the lanterns. Qian Jiujiu and Mu Yexiao looked at each other and said, "Okay, now all the village heads have introduced their lanterns. Our runners should be quiet. There are a total of 1,800 people present. Now we will start voting. After one stick of incense, we will start calculating the results."
It was only the time of a stick of incense, and everyone was working hard for their favorite lanterns, and they just ran to vote for their favorite lanterns.
Qian Jiujiu and Mu Yexiao had a total of 20 votes in their hands, so they naturally walked to Fangjia Village and cast their votes. The votes in the hands of those people in the academy basically went into Fangjia Village's lanterns.
When the heads of other villages saw this scene, they knew that the first place had nothing to do with them. However, there was nothing they could do about it. They had also seen the lanterns in Fangjia Village, and they were really well made, especially the poems. Although they could not understand them, they looked very impressive.
In this way, the lantern from Fangjia Village won the first place, the second place went to the lotus lantern, and the third place went to the rabbit lantern. Nan Nan had already prepared the silver, which was a silver note wrapped in a envelope, and Mu Yexiao went up to present the rewards.
Standing at the top, looking at the people below: "Everyone, now that the rankings have been decided, please ask the top three to come up to the stage to receive their awards."
Village Chief Fang walked up to the platform with a heroic and confident look on his face: "Greetings, sir."
The remaining two were Village Chief Li from Lijia Village and Village Chief Zhang from Zhangjia Village. They came up to the stage together and bowed to Mu Yexiao: "Greetings, sir."
Mu Yexiao took out the prepared letter: "This is for the first place."
Village Chief Fang took the letter and opened it. He saw two 100-liang notes. He waved them proudly in front of everyone before putting them back in the letter. “Thank you, sir.”
Mu Yexiao was a little amused, and gave the second place to Village Chief Li, and the third place to Village Chief Zhang. As expected, in the eyes of ordinary people, lanterns are festive only when they are big and beautiful.
After finishing the work here, Mu Yexiao saw Liu Yifang: "Liu Yifang, please ask the dean to present the award to the private lantern over there. I still have some things to deal with."
Liu Yifang looked at Mu Yexiao and Qian Jiujiu and thought to himself, is the master going to take his wife shopping
The dean and others had been pestering Village Chief Fang, and all the tickets in their hands were tricked by Village Chief Fang into giving them the answer that Fang Xiaoxi had mentioned, which was found in an ancient book.
Such a classic poem appeared in an ancient book. What kind of ancient book was that? After the village chief said this, the dean and others did not continue to ask, because the village chief seemed to know nothing.
It would be better to ask Fang Xiaoxi instead of him. At this moment, Fang Xiaoxi was standing with Nan Nan in front of her lantern. The lanterns for the private competition were different from the lanterns that the villagers had just participated in. They all looked very small and exquisite.
There was a lantern hanging next to each person, and there was a group of people walking around. These people did not participate in making the lanterns, but recently they all had tickets in their hands.
Fang Xiaoxi and Nan Nan stood together. There were already a lot of votes in the box in front. The results of the private contest probably wouldn't be released tonight. There were too many contestants, and everyone thought they had enough votes to register, and that was it.
Nan Nan looked at her pagoda lantern and counted the number of tickets in her hand. There were already more than 2,000 tickets. "I think we can go register. We can go out and have some fun later. With more than 2,000 tickets, I think we can be the first place."
Fang Xiaoxi was a little amused: "Brother, do you really think that your lantern got these two thousand votes by your own ability?"
These votes were mostly given by young girls, as well as the women who brought them with them. Nan Nan rolled her eyes at Fang Xiaoxi: "What do you want to say?"
Fang Xiaoxi chuckled: "I think they all came to vote for you, brother. After all, you are so good-looking!"
Tong Ruyu beside her also nodded: "Nannan is indeed good-looking. Sister Xiaoxi is not wrong in what she said."
Fatty Ling on the side was a little depressed: "As expected, good-looking people are more popular. Look at your lanterns, a pagoda lantern, a jade tree lantern, they are not as pretty as my beauty lantern, but you have more votes than me."
Fatty Ling was very depressed. After Nan Nan's help, he had become stronger. But his nickname could not be changed back. Everyone called him Fatty Ling.
The lanterns he made this time are also very delicate and look like a beauty! He thinks his lanterns are the most beautiful. The main reason is that many of these people are lazy and just use the lanterns from their village. The lanterns made in the village are big, and theirs are small. They don’t think that people will see the big ones and then the small ones. Naturally, they won’t like them and won’t give you tickets.
Nan Nan snorted when he heard people on his left and right trying to put pressure on him. During this time, many people came over and gave him votes. What mattered to him was participation, and he didn't want to get first place. More than 2,500 votes were enough.
"Okay, let's go register, and then you can get the lantern. We can also go shopping."
Fang Xiaoxi had wanted to go shopping for a long time, so she nodded and agreed: "Okay, let's go. Fatty Ling, Brother Tong, you guys wait patiently."
Fatty Ling opened his mouth and wanted to call Fang Xiaoxi to wait a moment. He also wanted to give his lantern to Fang Xiaoxi, and his lantern was obviously more beautiful than Nan Nan's. However, seeing the two of them walking so quickly, he didn't even have time to open his mouth.
Tong Ruyu was a little amused and patted Fatty Ling on the shoulder: "Brother Ling, do you like Miss Fang? Listen to my advice, some people are born to be looked up to."
Fatty Ling glared at Tong Ruyu and said, "Don't talk nonsense. Who likes Miss Fang? You are not good for Miss Fang's reputation by saying this."
Then he went back to guard his lantern, calling people to come up and see it, canvassing for votes for him. He suddenly had a goal. Nan Nan had just taken 2,500 yuan. As long as he collected more than Nan Nan, he would win.
So Fatty Ling worked even harder. Nan Nan was completely unaware of what Fatty Ling had done, and had already arrived at the registration place with Fang Xiaoxi.
After the large-scale lantern awards ceremony in the village was completed, Liu Yifang came to take charge of the registration here: "It's the young master who is here. If you register so early, it will be easy to suffer a loss."