Chapter 300

He yawned and added, "I've been relying on strong tea to stay alert today, haha?"

Reba half-joked, "So Brother He is a riddle-master too."

He Diqiang shook his head, "Tomorrow morning, there will be a big surprise, that's all!"

He continued, "Lion dancing isn't something just anyone can master in a day or two; you must practice martial arts first. Without some foundation, you can't even step onto the plum blossom piles!" Qin Feng said to Reba, "Actually, there is a lion dance suitable for you." Brother He smiled and nodded, "Making a small lion head to play with would work too."

Reba: "Isn't that something children play with? I've seen it online; it's very cute!"

Qin Feng: "You're not even as mature as a kindergarten kid."

Reba: "

She whispered, "Save me some face out there, thanks."

Qin Feng coughed lightly and said, "What I mean is that you are very innocent and very cute."

Reba smiled and nodded, "That's more like it."

The viewers in the live broadcast room were about to die of anxiety!

--【So what will happen tomorrow morning? Don't keep us in suspense!】

--【Brother Qiang! Is your melon ripe for sure??】

--【Waiting for the grand lion dance scene? It feels impossible to predict Qin Feng's moves.】

--【Whatever scene you can imagine won't be what Qin Feng has in mind; his whole thing is catching people off guard!】

--【The little awakening lion is very cute too~ Looking forward to Reba trying it out!】

Brother He Diqiang said to the program crew:

"Everyone here is a guest, and Brother Qin is here to do good deeds; I've already arranged your meals and lodging."

The large courtyard has many guest rooms.

There's no worry about having nowhere to stay.

Brother He then asked, "Brother Qin, do you know how to make a lion head? I still need to supervise the children's training; feel free, don't be polite."

Qin Feng nodded, "I know a little."

Reba was stunned~

Everyone knew better than anyone else what the "gold content" of Qin Feng's "knowing a little" actually was!

He Diqiang treated everyone to tea and arranged the meals and lodging.

Then he went on to train the lion-dancing youths in the courtyard.

After Brother He left.

The cameraman was responsible for following Qin Feng and Reba.

He asked curiously, "Brother Feng! You won't run this time, right? Can I film you the whole time?"

He had already been scared by Qin Feng and Reba running away~

Terrified that if he wasn't careful, Qin Feng and Reba would vanish again!

So it was better to confirm in advance~

Qin Feng patted the cameraman's shoulder and said, "Brother Ni, rest assured, this time I'll let you film to your heart's content!"

The cameraman was excited inside!

He felt sure he'd film a grand scene tomorrow!

As for what kind of scene, no one could imagine it.

Qin Feng's train of thought was too abnormal.

According to a normal person's thinking, it was impossible to guess.

Reba pinched Qin Feng's palm and said, "I want a little lion."

Qin Feng pointed to the black lion head hanging in the main hall and said, "This one suits you best."

Reba blinked her eyes curiously, "Why?"

Qin Feng answered, "This one is Zhang Fei!"

Reba:......

Dead memories attacked me again!

"Qin Feng! I'll fight you to the death!"

Qin Feng continued, "Most Foshan awakening lions use red, yellow, and black as their main colors, symbolizing Liu, Guan, and Zhang; the black one is Zhang Fei."

Reba: "None of them suit me! Hmph!"

Qin Feng nodded and answered, "Thinking it through carefully, indeed they don't suit you."

Reba smiled and said, "Of course, I'm more suited for a beautiful little lion~"

Qin Feng: "Because these three lion heads represent wisdom, benevolence, and courage; you have none of them."

Reba puffed her cheeks, about to be angered into a little pufferfish again~

The two walked toward the lion-head-making workshop.

Qin Feng said, "Since we're here, let me make you a custom little lion head; you'll need it tomorrow."

With that single sentence of his.

Reba was instantly overjoyed and flying high!

Who could refuse a cute little awakening lion!!

Reba asked curiously, "What exactly are you going to do tomorrow?"

She then leaned close to Qin Feng's ear and whispered, "Tell me secretly~ I'll even listen to you all night!"

Qin Feng curled his finger.

Reba brought her ear closer.

Yet Qin Feng spoke very fast!

Reba listened to the end, utterly baffled!

She scratched her head: "Didn't really understand it... only remembered a few place names..."

Reba thought back carefully for a moment.

Qin Feng had mentioned Foshan, Jieyang, Gongyi in Jizhou, Shenqiu in the Central Plains, and Lichuan in Pohu!

Her CPU was about to fry again!

Although she hadn't really understood.

Reba felt that tomorrow a lot of people would show up!

The cameraman was still on the other side filming the lion head — a close-up on the left, a close-up on the right.

So what Qin Feng and Reba had said to each other, no one knew.

Yi Yi: 【Cameraman, stop filming!! Reba and Qin Feng are whispering to each other — where's your cameraman's nose for news?】

Yi Yi: 【I'm just curious, why is Foshan's lion dance called the Awakening Lion?】

Yi Yi: 【That has to start with the Foshan dialect. The lion dance was originally called 'Auspicious Lion,' meaning a lion of good fortune, but the local pronunciation of 'auspicious' sounds a lot like 'sleep,' which doesn't sound great. So they made the sleeping lion wake up, and it got the name 'Awakening Lion'!】

Yi Yi: 【Holy crap! A cultured person has snuck into the livestream!】

The man who had received Qin Feng and the others earlier — He Diqiang.

He was an intangible cultural heritage inheritor of the Southern-style Foshan Awakening Lion.

In the workshop of the big courtyard, the tools and materials for making lion heads were fully stocked.

Bamboo strips, gauze, pom-poms, and paste and paint for mounting and coloring, among other things.

The materials were simple, but the process was very complex.

Under the guidance of the workshop's master craftsman.

Qin Feng and Reba got hands-on, planning to make a small lion head.

Reba: "Let's use pink for the colors! I like pink!"

Qin Feng: "It's for you anyway, so even if you paint it a multicolored black I wouldn't care." He then added: "Later I'll teach you a few moves."

Reba: "Yay~ okay!"

After several hours, a small pink lion head was finished!

A single-person little Awakening Lion, with pink fuzz — very cute.

Reba happily hugged the lion head and said: "I thought it would be really heavy before! Didn't expect it to be this light"

Qin Feng said: "The heaviest regular Awakening Lions are only a few kilograms; yours is at most three jin."

Reba: "I've heard of those bronze lion heads that weigh hundreds of jin??"

Qin Feng shook his head: "In films and TV, Sun Wukong can also transform into seventy-two things."