A few days later, the date of the exhibition written on Chen Jian's advertisement finally arrived, which coincided with the day of the tenth holiday, and people who had nothing to do or were full of curiosity, as well as those with various purposes, gathered at the place written on the paper. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It's summer, lotus red and willow green, and everything looks like it's business as usual. All the prescribed days are no longer special, whether it is the upcoming athletic meeting or the day off.

What can break this normal calm, that is, the reverie of the high-flying balloon and the resulting ones a few days ago.

In addition, those who are interested may have noticed that this year has somehow happened, and the fiery clouds in the evening began to increase, and they often burned the western sky red when the golden crow was about to fall.

However, the fire cloud is a fire cloud at this time, and people do not think that the dust from the eruption of a volcano thousands of miles away a year ago caused such clouds to spread, let alone that the weather will get colder and colder, or drought or torrential rain, and the whole world will be plunged into chaos and famine.

Turmoil, hunger, war, colonial survival, or change will be the dominant colors of the world for decades to come.

All one can think about is that tomorrow will be a good day, just in time to see such a novelty show.

Townspeople, workshop owners, merchants, ill-intentioned craftsmen, those who have their own interests damaged, and those who are interested in Chen Jian, think most of the real tomorrow than the actual future tomorrow in such a night.

For the situation that may arise tomorrow, Chen Jian is very well prepared, and he also took out everything he can think of that can arouse everyone's interest.

The rented space is filled with various wooden shelves with a wide variety of goods on them.

Early the next morning, Chen Jian and the people from the trading company came to the venue early, and some people who like to be lively have already arrived here.

Many vendors have set up their stalls in the vicinity early in the morning, ready to sell all kinds of snacks.

In the center of the venue, there is a cement platform that has been prepared early, and a few days ago, Chen Jian led people here to make such a cement platform with the cement he brought, but in fact, the internal bricks only have one layer on the outside.

After a few days of drying and maintenance, it has dried out at this time, and the blue and white color is like a boulder, but the boulder will not have such deliberate edges and corners, and a thick and artificial texture.

This cement platform is huge enough, and naturally it has aroused the interest of some people early. For this kind of clay that does not require much mixing and can be used directly and can be dried like a stone, some people have long been concerned.

Obviously, this is a business opportunity, whether it is for the construction of houses or for the military to build buildings such as forts, bastions or even stargazing platforms.

Around this concrete platform, there are also several curtains to cover the place, which is a place for children to play.

The hot air balloon was filled with gas early and tethered to a concrete platform, which is also a place to have fun.

Jian Chen knew that some experiments that would attract everyone's applause in the Academy Palace would not cause a sensation here, so he needed something more interesting, simpler, and more interesting to attract these people.

It is not necessary to sell, but to give people a concept: every year Nan'an Commodity City will hold a rally, and this rally will see a lot of novelties every year.

For some, it's a novelty, for others, it's a business opportunity. And there will be more new things that are not damaged or suppressed by the guild to rely on this platform to display, not only on Jian Chen's side, but also on the craftsmen in the capital, this is Jian Chen's idea.

When the sun rose overhead, the number of people gradually increased, and soon about one or two thousand people gathered, and the number was still increasing.

Jian Chen stood on the cement platform, shouting some of his usual advertising slogans hoarsely.

The trading company employee behind him filled the balloon with bellows, and Chen Jian shouted on it that about 50 people could be drawn today to feel the thrill of flying for free, and those who were selected each time could go up and experience it for a quarter of an hour.

Of course, it is impossible to fly too high, but to tie it with a rope, and when necessary, someone and a horse use a wooden winch to pull the balloon down, and then change another batch.

The overall atmosphere reminds Jian of the scenes when those people in a hundred years of solitude see the strange things brought by gypsies, or the itinerant market in a rural town in a western film, or the lottery buying and selling on the streets of the city in the 80s.

It is such a restless era, an era that is still indistinguishable from science and magic, but has begun to subconsciously worship, and it is full of vitality.

Many, many years later, when the Nan'an Commodities Fair has been renamed the World Exposition—from the arts, new machinery, magical animals and plants, all kinds of people, to all kinds of strange things, Lan Qi still remembers the first time she participated in the Nan'an Commodities Fair.

That was the first time she had met Jian Chen, although she had heard the name many times before.

Tall, sturdy and strong, with a slightly dark face, wearing an indigo gown, his voice is always depressed first and then high, always stirring people's emotions, and his hands always wave when he is excited.

This was Lan Qi's first impression of Jian Chen.

Then she noticed the strange bluestone-like platform that Chen Jian stepped on, and after asking, she knew that it was called cement, which could be dried in just a few days, and it would be the same as a stone after drying.

"It's a great thing to do a lot of things. For example, building roads. ”

She wasn't much interested in houses built with this kind of thing.

Her family background meant that she could not like such cold, stone-style houses, and the cramped, two- and three-story wood-framed buildings of the city were not for people like them.

But she easily reminded her of the muddy rutted roads after a rainy day, when cars bumped and horses splashed with mud.

After looking at the cement platform, I looked away from Chen Jianjian, who was giving a speech on the feeling of flying, and saw the balloon behind me that was preparing to soar.

"It looks like he's flying on that. The reason seems very simple, it's just a big flying lantern, but why didn't I think of it? ”

Hearing Jian Chen shouting above that he would draw out a few lucky ones today to feel the pleasure of flying to the sky and overlooking the world, he had an expectation in his heart.

A few employees of the trading company with red armbands were maintaining order there, and Lan Qi obediently lined up, took a note with number 23 written on it from the paperwork, and carefully tucked it away in his cuff.

It is said that this piece of paper can decide who will be the lucky winner in the end, probably because the space is too small and there are too many people, so you can only enter in batches.

Walking behind the curtain, Lan Qi felt that her eyes were full of dazzling light, and many people next to her let out bursts of admiration, looking up at the surroundings, the light was too bright, and she had to cover her eyes with her hands.

Behind the curtain are two long bamboo poles, which hang high above the heads of the people, and on top of them are two rows of crystal clear decorative glass chandeliers.

On both sides are all kinds of expensive and beautiful glassware. Cups, cups, small mirrors, or whatever.

Lan Qi was convinced that it was glass and not crystal, because she knew that Jian Chen was the owner of a glass workshop.

The various angular or angular decorations reflect the light of the sun, as if you have walked into a treasure trove, and when you look up, there are sparkling things that make people's hearts shine.

Those lamps and lanterns that have been carefully carved by craftsmen sway from side to side with the breeze, and there is not much background or even a little vulgarity, but this vulgarity makes people reveal all kinds of yearning, and the exclamations around them are like this.

It's just a sigh of amazement, because these people are probably frightened by such a scene, and don't know what kind of exclamation to make.

Walking past this dazzling lamp, the scene in front of her made Lan Qi's eyes widen.

A rainbow was printed on a huge white cloth, and the colors were so clear that it seemed that you could touch it with your hand.

In front of the white cloth is a huge triangular pillar of glass, beautifully ground and smooth.

The sunlight was divided into a rainbow from that pillar of glass, a rainbow that could only be seen after a rainstorm but was difficult to touch, and this rainbow was right in front of me at this moment.

There were already children who walked over and tried to touch the rainbow on the white cloth, but they were stopped by everyone, for fear that the rainbow would fly away as soon as the child stretched out his hand.

The child was a little frightened by so many people, but a man with a red armband next to him said it was fine.

On the contrary, he picked up the child, approached the prism, and threw the rainbow on the child's body, the child was unaware, but those who saw it exclaimed, and the seven-colored luster was on the child's body.

The dirty clothes are a little greasy, especially the cuffs where the nose is often wiped and dirty, but they are shrouded in a seven-colored luster, as if a layer of glaze has been applied.

Lan Qi watched with fascination, and wanted to walk into the rainbow by herself, and let the rainbow fall on her, preferably with a good painter to paint the scene of herself in the rainbow.

The child who was being held giggled, and the person holding it pulled out a smaller, finger-sized prism from the side and handed it to the child, asking the child to reach out.

Adjust the angle, and the rainbow will fall in the palm of the child's hand.

The child turned around happily and shouted to the family members on the side, "Mommy, Dad, look! The rainbow is in my hand, I caught the rainbow! ”

But as soon as the handshake was made, the rainbow ran from the child's palm to the fingers held up like a naughty ghost, and she would not be caught.

Those who want to continue to see the rainbow stay here, marveling at all that seems to be in a fairyland.

Lan Qi thought to herself, the most beautiful scenery must still be ahead, although the rainbow is beautiful, but as long as I spend money to buy such a prism and place it in the hall, then I can see it every day.

I wonder what other weird and fun things are behind it?

So there was no stop, and in front there was another curtain, on which hung a long paper tube, but it was not straight, but curved up and down, like a Z-shape, and the upper end was on the curtain facing the outside.

Next to the curtain stood a sign that read: "You never know if there is a pair of eyes watching you where you know." ”

This sounded a little eerie, which aroused Lan Qi's interest, and she approached the thick paper tube and followed the hint next to it to bring her eyes to the paper tube.

In the black paper tube was a mirror, and in the mirror were those waiting with their heads tilted up outside the curtain, turning slightly, and all kinds of small movements of those people could be seen, but those who were observed did not know that someone was secretly watching them.

There are children crying, adults waiting, and thieves touching their fingers into a person's bag......

For a moment, Lan Qi felt as if she had wandered out of the world, leaving only her eyes here, observing these people when everyone was not noticing.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel cold, my eyes left the periscope, and I subconsciously looked behind me and raised my head to look at the sky, some myths.

"Perhaps...... Is there really a pair of eyes in the sky looking at the world? ”