At this moment, the sound of drumming suddenly sounded outside, and the drums sounded slowly and evenly as if they were accumulating power.
Ren Yaoqi looked out the window subconsciously, but saw more than a dozen long and narrow dragon boats spread out on the river. Each boat had two rows of dragon boats, about twenty people, dressed in different clothes. There is a drum in front of a person, and the sound of the drum comes from this.
Xiao Jinglin also tilted her head and glanced: "This is about to begin."
At this time, Xiao Jingxi also happened to sit down beside them. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Wenting disembarked just to start the race."
Ren Yaoqi and Xiao Jinglin turned their heads. Although they were in the cabin, they had an excellent view. In addition to seeing the scene on the river, they could also see the high platform on the bank.
Sure enough, Yun Wenting happened to be on the high platform at this moment, standing behind Mrs. Yun. In addition, the heads of the Su family, the Ren family, and the Han family were also standing there. They all looked at a certain place, but their gestures were very respectful, as if they were waiting for someone.
Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but move in his heart, and then saw a tall and straight middle-aged man on the high platform surrounded by several people. The man's face was serious and calm, and his facial features were warm and gentle with the majesty of someone who had been in the upper position for a long time. Seeing this dress, Ren Yaoqi can already guess the identity of this person. This is Xiao Yan, the king of Yanbei.
This was the first time Ren Yaoqi saw the legendary King of Yanbei, so he took a second look. Xiao Jingxi and Xiao Jinglin are not very similar to him, they must be more like Xiao's mother.
"Brother, aren't you going down?" Xiao Jinglin glanced at Xiao Jingxi and asked.
"I didn't get on the boat here, they didn't even know I was here." Xiao Jingxi replied with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
There were men on the high platform, but Ren Yaoqi's eyes froze slightly when he looked behind King Yanbei. There were several people who came with King Yanbei, one of whom was the second son Xiao Jingyue whom he met on the bridge earlier. Standing beside Xiao Jingyue was a handsome, slightly short boy, but Ren Yaoqi recognized that the boy was a girl disguised as a woman, and this girl happened to be the one who had met once. The Miss Wu family, Wu Yiyu.
Wu Yiyu followed the people from the Yanbei Palace to the high platform, staring at the river with some arrogance, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was very reserved.
Brothers and sisters Xiao Jingxi and Xiao Jinglin must have seen Wu Yiyu, but they didn't say anything, just like Ren Yaoqi or anyone on this boat, they were just watching the fun.
The old man of the Su family, Su Chengyuan, offered a stick wrapped in red silk with both hands, and King Yanbei took it with his right hand and weighed it casually in his hand.
Xiao Jingxi and Xiao Jinglin stood up. Although Ren Yaoqi had never participated in a dragon boat race, she also stood up without a word. Everyone outside looked at King Yanbei respectfully. No matter how noisy the scene was before, it was quiet now.
King Yanbei walked to a gong hanging in front of the high platform, raised his hand and struck it violently. The resounding sound of gongs and drums echoed all the time, as if there were substantial waves, and the whole river could be heard clearly.
Almost at the same time, more than a dozen dragon boats on the river started to move, and the drumbeat on the dragon boats changed from slow to eager. With the sound of the drums, the dragon boats shot like arrows and went out and rushed up. The thunderous cheers also sounded at this time.
On the high platform, everyone surrounded King Yanbei and sat on the throne.
Xiao Jingxi and Xiao Jinglin sat down again, and Ren Yaoqi also sat down. Just when I saw that on the high platform, Young Master Yun, who was going to come down, was stopped by Wu Yiyu, who was disguised as a man. Ren Yaoqi didn't care about these nostalgic affairs, so he pretended not to see anything and turned his eyes away, and the brick looked towards the river.
The big boat also moved, but the speed was much slower than the dragon boat in front, hanging far behind. As soon as the boat moved, the slightly warm wind with moisture on the river surface became obvious, which made people feel very comfortable.
Seeing that Ren Yaoqi was serious, Xiao Jingxi couldn't help but ask with a smile, "Who won?"
The distance between the dragon boat and the big boat has widened. Even if Ren Yaoqi tried his best to look at it, his eyesight was out of reach. Just as he was about to shake his head and say he didn't know, Xiao Jinglin opened his mouth and said, "The Lei family and the Su family are the second ones looking at it now. , and the third is the Yun family."
"The Lei family also has a boat?" Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but be stunned.
It's not that she looked down on the Lei family when she asked this question, although the Ren family only shared a dragon boat with other families symbolically every time because their own family was not in Yunyang City. Even the Han family, although invited by the Su family this time to prepare for this dragon boat race, but because the Han family had been in Yanzhou for less than a year, it was too late to prepare their own dragon boat, so they shared a boat with a family named Li.
Although she hadn't watched the dragon boat race before, she also knew that the people of Yanbei were very particular about this dragon boat, and it required a lot of procedures before it was officially launched. So be very surprised.
Xiao Jingxi glanced at Ren Yaoqi and said with a smile: "The reason why Yanbei's dragon boats are complicated is that the process at the leading head is too complicated. Although the body of each dragon boat is placed outside the city In the Temple of the City God, the faucets are kept by each family. The Lei family took the faucets with them when they moved south, and they have been well maintained over the past few decades, so they can only be launched this year.”
Ren Yaoqi was stunned when he heard the words, and also glanced at Xiao Jingxi, but met his dark and smiling eyes. The shimmering light on the river seemed to be projected in his eyes, and after looking at it for a long time, it could shake the eyes of flower people.
Ren Yaoqi subconsciously shifted his gaze to the window, but immediately felt something strange. She tilted her head slightly subconsciously, her eyes seemed to fall on the river, the drum beat outside was from far to near, and the dozen dragon boats returned.
Suddenly Ren Yaoqi thought of what was wrong. The Lei family was fleeing for their lives in the south, and it was reasonable to carry the family treasures with the ancestral tablets. Why should they even bring the dragon boat racing dragon? You must know that this thing is really not small, and it is also very bulky, I am afraid that a carriage will be spared for it.
I always feel that the Lei family took out the faucet at this time to prove something, what to prove? Prove that this room is a legitimate inheritance
However, Ren Yaoqi felt a little bluff when he looked at it.
"This Lei family... the momentum is quite strong." Xiao Jinglin's voice drew Ren Yaoqi's attention.
Ren Yaoqi looked at Xiao Jingxi subconsciously when he heard the words, Xiao Jingxi looked out the window with a smile at the corner of his mouth. At this time, the dozen or so dragon boats just came into their line of sight, except for the dragon boat with the temperament of Yanbei Wangfu who took the lead. , there are three dragon boats behind it, you are chasing me, the situation is stalemate.
Somehow Ren Yaoqi just moved in his heart and subconsciously said, "Do you want to use the Lei family?"