Chapter 135 Vertical Mid-Autumn Festival (seeking the moon)
Chapter 135: Mid-Autumn Festival (please recommend monthly tickets)
Author: 久l久
"It's in the main room." Yingbao thought that Li Zheng was coming to her house to touch the gourd like the others, so she took him to see it.
There was only one big gourd in the main room now, and Jiang Quan carried the other one home, saying that he would take it to the market next time to be a matchmaker and attract people. After all, he couldn't take his little cousin to the market every time.
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Sun Li was touching the big gourd and asked, "Yingbao, how much does it cost to sell this gourd?"
Yingbao thought for a moment and came up with a compromise price: "Last time, the shopkeeper in Simen Town gave out thirty taels of silver. This one is about the same size as that one, and it's also thirty taels."
Sun Lizheng was very happy when he heard this, because his second son gave him fifty taels and asked him to buy a signature gourd and go back to his shop.
This time he saved twenty taels for nothing, and Sun Li would not return it to his second son.
Whoever said that I don't earn my son's money is all lies. When encountering such a good thing, it is only right to go with the flow.
"I bought this gourd." Sun Lizheng said.
Of course Ying Bao was happy and nodded immediately: "Okay, do you want to carry it back by yourself?"
Of course Sun Lizheng would not be able to carry it by himself. His youngest son and several villagers were collecting taxes in the village, and they would soon go to the south slope to pick him up.
At noon, when Jiang Quan found out that his cousin had sold the big gourd for thirty taels, he was so angry that he beat his chest.
"You fool! You sold it for thirty taels. That's the Gourd King. Many people asked me about it. I've already offered eighty taels. Someone is going home to discuss withdrawing money."
"Isn't there another one?" Ying Bao said nonchalantly.
She was thinking about how to take out the big gourd in the cave. The gourd in the cave was much bigger than the gourd outside.
"That's a matchmaker! Do matchmakers understand? You can't sell it!" Jiang Quan sighed.
Ying Bao blinked and comforted in a low voice: "Why are you so anxious? In fact, I have hidden two of the biggest gourds, but I can't show them to you now."
She made up her mind and secretly brought out two large gourds at night, claiming that they were the ones she had hidden in the mushroom shed.
"Really? Why didn't I know?" Jiang Quan didn't believe it.
Ever since his little cousin's gourd grew to the size of a washbasin, he has been coming to see it every day. Why didn't he know that there were two other gourd kings?
Ying Bao made up a lie seriously: "Because I hid them in the bamboo shed, of course you don't know."
Jiang Quan touched the back of his head, a little confused.
But doubts remain doubts, and he still looks forward to having two more gourd kings.
The conversation between the two came to an end and they each went about their own business.
Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Yingbao gave Chuchu a few days off and asked her to go back and have a good time. She could come back next month.
Yanru bought a lot of candles, boiled a jar of wax oil, dripped hematoxylin red into the wax oil, and taught her nieces how to make river lanterns.
She used an egg, lightly dipped it in wax oil, and then picked it up.
The egg shell is stained with a layer of red wax oil.
When the wax solidifies, carefully peel the wax shell from the egg shell and set it aside for later use.
Just dip it in wax again and again, peel off a bunch of oval red wax pieces, and then stick these petal-shaped wax pieces together one by one to form a red lotus seat.
Then use a piece of sheepskin as the base, place a wick candle in the middle of the lotus, and the river lantern is made.
Yingbao followed suit and made a few lanterns, preparing to go out with her sisters to put out lanterns on the Mid-Autumn Festival night.
Jiang Erlang cut down bamboo and built a bamboo tower in the open space outside the yard, preparing to erect the Mid-Autumn Festival on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Old man Jiang and his grandchildren were not idle either. They bought various colored oil papers and cut bamboo strips to make various lanterns at home.
Chun Niang and her elder sisters-in-law used newly purchased carved molds to make mooncakes. The fillings of the mooncakes were red bean paste and sweet-scented osmanthus sugar cakes.
After making the river lanterns, Yingbao took her two younger brothers to knock red dates.
Her family planted several jujube trees, and the jujubes were now ripe and hung red on the treetops, each one bigger than a bird's egg.
"It's delicious." Jiang Jie picked up the dates and stuffed them into his mouth, eating them enthusiastically.
Seeing that there were still many jujubes out of reach at the top of the tree, Yingbao decided to climb the tree and knock again.
It is easy for children to climb trees. They can climb up in a few seconds and sit in the tree and look around.
There are several houses in the distance that are being built, and they are all brick houses with three main rooms facing south and two kitchen rooms on the east side, which is similar to the layout of my own house.
When these new houses are built and people move in, the southern slope will no longer be lonely.
Ying Bao suddenly thought of the flood in her previous life, and felt uneasy.
Although my family has moved to the south slope, most of the fields are at the bottom of the slope, and there is no way to move them.
High-quality fields such as rice fields and wheat fields are basically within the scope of floods. Just a flood can destroy everything.
"Sister, come down!" Jiang Wu and Jiang Jie became a little anxious when they saw that their sister never got off the tree. They raised their necks and shouted upwards: "Stop beating dates, sister, come down quickly!"
Yingbao yelled, knocked on the tree a few times with a bamboo pole, knocking off all the dates within reach, and then slowly climbed down the tree.
Jiang Jie and Jiang Wu bent down to pick up the dates, and the two puppies rushed to fight with them. Dahuang also picked up the dates and put them into the basket.
Xiao Hei grabbed each one and bit it into pieces. A dog ate the dates with gusto, just like its owner.
After picking up the dates, the three siblings carried the basket home. When they walked to the haystack at home, they saw a child sneakily hiding behind the haystack and peeping at them.
The little black big yellow barked in that direction, jumped up and down, and wanted to pounce on it, but didn't dare.
"Who! What are you doing!" Jiang Wu rushed over, waving the bamboo pole in his hand to threaten the opponent.
"It's me." A dirty boy with messy hair leaned out from behind the haystack. "I'm Wei Zhan."
Ying Bao and her brother were shocked.
How could this damn boy do this and hide behind her haystack?
Jiang Wu and Jiang Jie also knew him and asked in confusion: "What are you doing here?"
Wei Zhan moved out, scratched his messy hair, and said in a low voice: "I...I am separated from my eldest brother..."
"Lost?" Ying Bao expressed disbelief. "You have so many guards at home, how can you be lost?"
Wei Zhan frowned and said, "We encountered a large group of bandits on the way, and I...I finally escaped back."
"Large group of bandits? Where did you meet the bandits?" Yingbao had never heard of any bandits near Qinchuan County in her previous life.
"Over there in Zhouhe County, which is more than a hundred miles away from here." Wei Zhan whispered: "I haven't eaten for several days."
He was quite clever and exchanged his outer clothes for some dry food with the villagers on the roadside, and then walked along the official road all the way back to Chuanhe Town.
When Jiang Wu heard that he hadn't eaten, he handed over the date Ah Huang held in his mouth and said, "Here you go."
Wei Zhan took the dates and ate them.
"What about your brother and the Chen family?" Ying Bao actually didn't believe what this guy said.
Wei Zhan: "I don't know. There were too many bandits. My guards told me to run away, so... I got separated from them."
In fact, he didn't say that he deliberately ran back on his horse. In the end, the horse fell to the ground from exhaustion and foamed at the mouth, and he ran into the woods to hide.
When there were no more pursuers behind him, Wei Zhan came out of the woods and walked along the official road to Chuanhe Town.
Originally he could have gone to Qinchuan County, but he didn't go and went straight back to Chuanhe Town and even ran to the Jiang family in Nanpo.
