Ye Weidong and the others set up the large roll of firecrackers and then shouted a few times from the downstairs.
"Set off the firecrackers!"
...
Everyone stepped back, and Ye Weidong lit the firecrackers.
Soon, the old textile factory neighborhood was filled with the 'crackle and pop' of firecrackers.
It took nearly ten minutes before the large roll of firecrackers finally burned out.
With one roll left, Ye Weidong handed it to Zhou Weiguo, asking him to help burn it later that night.
Thick smoke rose, and although some people cursed at the beginning, wondering why firecrackers were being set off in broad daylight, when they found out that Ye Weidong was celebrating Ye Qiu's achievement as the top scholar in the Jiangnan Province college entrance exam, no one complained any longer.
