He stood on tiptoe to look. Unexpectedly, the village chief saw them and waved with a smile: "Ling Bao, Mr. Xie, come here quickly."
Lingbao jumped up and asked excitedly: "Uncle village chief, do you want me to be the first?"
Village Chief: "Yes, yes, you are a great contributor to all of us, so of course you have to be the first. Doesn't everyone have any objections?"
"No objection, no objection! Lingbao, sit on it quickly and let us see how much you weigh?"
Lingbao didn't have stage fright at all, he shouted "Okay" loudly, and then climbed up to the bench with a humming sound, holding on to the edge of the bench with both hands, wanting to weigh himself but afraid of falling off.
Cheng Yun and Cheng Yi were standing next to him, half-stretching his hands unconsciously, his eyes never leaving Ling Bao.
Xie Wuyang looked at it and stood in front.
No one squeezed him, and some people even made room for him.
The village chief stuffed a stone into Ling Bao's arms, firstly to increase the weight, and secondly to bring longevity. This is their old tradition.
There is another point here when the village chief moves the weight. The weight can only be moved outward, not inward, which has a bad meaning.
"Thirty-nine kilograms of big and small, three gentlemen and nine ministers come inside; sixty kilograms at the age of nine, sixty-six after the age of ten; twenty-three kilograms for a dozen when weighed, twenty-three grandsons for a dozen; seventy-three when weighed.
, a small person will be successful when he grows up; if he is seventy pounds at a young age, it is not difficult to find a county official of the seventh rank; if a flower weighs one dozen and twenty-three, a small official will be successful when he grows up. Don’t make trouble for a county official of the seventh rank, it will be easy to climb up to the three nobles and nine ministers
——”
The village chief sang a song with a loud voice.
Xie Wuyang didn't quite understand, so he quietly asked Cheng Yun and Cheng Yi: "What do you mean?"
It's a pity that Cheng Yun and Cheng Yi didn't know that it was their first time to spend the Beihe Village in Beihe Village, but they all sounded auspicious!
After Lingbao was weighed, Cheng Yun reached out and hugged her down. Lingbao jumped twice like a rabbit: "Uncle Village Chief, how much do I weigh?"
The village chief said: "Thirty-six pounds!"
It is worth mentioning that when you report your weight, you may not be reporting your true weight, but you may be looking for an auspicious number nearby.
For example, Lingbao is actually only thirty-four pounds, but Liuliu Dashun sounds so good!
Ling Bao wowed: "I am indeed much heavier than last year!"
Among ordinary people, eating fat is a very lucky thing!
The village chief said: "You can't relax, you have to eat harder, do you understand?"
"Yeah!" Lingbao patted his belly, "I'm full every day!"
"Uncle village chief, please weigh my eldest brother, second brother, and brother Wuyou as well." Ling Bao said.
The village chief agreed: "Okay, come, everyone!"
Cheng Yun waved his hand and said with a smile: "I'll forget it..."
"It can't be calculated, it can't be calculated!" Ling Bao pushed Cheng Yun's leg and tried his best to persuade him, "Brother, don't worry, the scale is very strong and will not break."
Cheng Yun: "..."
He wasn't worried at first, but once she said it, Cheng Yun was really worried.
"Brother, hurry up. Only by weighing yourself on the day of Beginning of Summer will you not be afraid of the heat, weight loss, and illness. This is a good thing!" Lingbao said eagerly, "Go ahead, brother, go ahead."
What can Cheng Yun do? He can't stand his sister's eyes like this.
Even when I sit on it, I feel nervous, afraid of falling, and having so many people watching and weighing me feels weird...
Fortunately, time passed quickly, Cheng Yun couldn't wait to jump down, and Cheng Yi climbed up instead.
Cheng Yi was so energetic that he jumped up on the spot and pushed the scale down so much that it startled the village chief.
Realizing that he had done something wrong, Cheng Yi scratched his head in embarrassment.
In the eyes of the village chief, Cheng Yun and Cheng Yi are still children, so when weighing them, their weights are the same as those of Ling Bao.
Xie Wuyang originally thought it was only averagely interesting, but Ling Bao, Cheng Yun and Cheng Yi came up one after another, and the "interesting" seemed to have doubled in the process, making him look forward to his turn.
"Thank you, young master, it's your turn." the village chief said cheerfully.
Xie Wuyang climbed up quickly with hands and feet. The bench shook a little. His heart raised and he subconsciously grabbed the village chief's hand that had not been taken away.
It was different from any other hand he had seen before. This hand was dark, wrinkled, and dry.
But, it's a little warm.
Xie Wuyan's ballads were the same as those of Ling Bao and others, but he still listened to them with gusto.
There are different songs for weighing young people, girls, women, and old people. Everyone has to be weighed, so it takes a long time. The weighing was not completed until noon.
After breakfast, Lingbao wanted to play the "egg fighting" game, but unexpectedly it started to rain.
She had no choice but to give up the idea, sat on the bench, crossed her legs and asked, "Brother, haven't you weighed yourself before?"
Cheng Yun said: "We have weighed it several times, but never at the beginning of summer."
He had read about the custom of weighing in books, but what impressed him most about Lixia was that the Holy Emperor would give ice to civil and military officials on this day.
As their mother, Princess Kangyang, was the sister of the Holy Emperor, she would naturally receive rewards. Plus her father's share, his family was never short of ice cubes.
The summer rain comes and goes quickly. Just after it wets the land, it stops without warning.
Cheng Yun planned to go to the county town, just as he had finished copying the book, and wanted to ask Miao Manniang if she had any plans to cooperate.
Lingbao also went with her. She hadn't seen Sister Shang for a long time.
Sensing someone coming in, Miao Manniang subconsciously raised her head and her eyes immediately lit up: "You are here, I was planning to go find you in the next two days!"
Cheng Yun nodded indifferently and asked straight to the point: "How are you thinking about it?"
Miao Manniang asked: "If I want it, how much do you want it?"
She had to ask this clearly first, fearing that she wouldn't be able to get it out if there were too many.
Cheng Yun said: "Two methods, I will sell this method to you directly and I will not care about the others, or I will give you the method for free, but we will get 50/50 of all future profits."
Miao Manniang thought for a moment. She was short of money now. If it was the first method, she might not be able to spend so much money.
In order to maintain the operation of the shop, my husband's family has provided a lot of subsidies. For this reason, my sister-in-law has been acting strangely all day long, and she is hanging there half dead with raised eyebrows.
As for the second method, she only needs to invest the cost, which is feasible.
Mainly because she was reluctant to use this method. Her second sister-in-law had used it for so long, and the spots on her hands had really faded a lot. She saw this with her own eyes and couldn't fake it.
Miao Manniang was able to open a shop by herself, and she was also a person with great ideas. She had a hunch that maybe this would be the turning point for the Miao family's fragrance powder shop to come back to life!
Miao Manniang raised her head with firm eyes: "I choose the second option."