Yingbao went to call her younger brother to go home for dinner, and saw her two younger brothers digging the ground with Wei Zhan in the orchard.
When Jiang Wu saw his sister, he excitedly pointed to the dug tunnel and said, "Look, we and Wei Zhan dug this."
Yingbao's eyelids jumped and she pulled her two brothers back: "Why do you ask him to dig the ground?"
Jiang Jie defended: "He wanted to do it himself."
Jiang Wu: "He wanted to eat vegetables, so he dug in the ground."
Yingbao:……
When I got home, I washed my brother's hands and face and asked them to have breakfast.
While drinking porridge, Jiang Sanlang said: "Let's send the child back to Patriarch Chen. After all, he is a guest of Chen Laoshuan's family."
After all, Chen Laoshuan is also a member of the Chen clan, and he is related to the leader of the Chen clan.
"It doesn't matter if you send it over there, it's not a problem here." She and Chen Laoshuan had become enemies, and Chun Niang really didn't dare to push too much on his relatives and friends.
But thinking of the child's poverty, she finally couldn't bear it, so Chun Niang took an egg and two moon cakes to send.
When Wei Zhan received the things from Chun Niang, his nose became sore and he burst into tears. He sobbed and thanked her, then peeled off the shells of the eggs and ate them.
He wandered outside for several days. Although he was excited and excited, he was also very tired.
Several times he regretted it and wanted to run to the inn for help, but he resisted.
After begging and sleeping in the open all the way, I finally returned here.
Now that I think about it, all the hard work was worth it. He finally accomplished a life feat alone.
When Chun Niang saw the child crying, she felt even more unbearable. She touched his head and said, "I'll take you to Patriarch Chen's house later. After the festival, they will find a way to contact your elders."
Wei Zhan was confused when he heard this and shook his head quickly: "No! I'm not going anywhere! I'll live here."
Seeing that Chun Niang was silent, Wei Zhan blinked and began to wipe his tears again. "Auntie, please don't send me away, okay? I can work and dig the ground."
Then he stretched out his hands to show Chun Niang, "Look, I dug so hard this morning that my palms were blistered, but I'm not afraid at all."
Chun Niang whispered, holding his small hands, "How did it happen like this?"
She also has a child, and when she saw the child's miserable condition, she naturally thought of her own children and couldn't help but feel heartbroken.
"I'll go back and get the medicine for you."
After Chun Niang finished speaking, she hurried home, took the medicine powder, and then turned back to give Wei Zhan the medicine.
She didn't see Wei Zhan's sly smile flash past.
After giving Wei Zhan some medicine, Chun Niang returned home and said to her husband: "That child is so pitiful. Let's take him in for a while. Alas, as soon as I saw him like that, I thought of Bao'er being kidnapped."
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Jiang Sanlang frowned and finally nodded: "Okay, I will send him to the village after the festival anyway."
In the evening, the whole family celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival together, and Chun Niang simply called Wei Zhan over for dinner.
By now Wei Zhan had washed himself, put on Yuanbao's old clothes, and even replaced his broken deerskin boots with Yuanbao's cloth shoes.
Before eating, Jiang Cheng lit the lanterns one by one and hung them on the bamboo tower outside the yard, a total of eighteen lanterns.
Jiang Dalang and Jiang Erlang took out the incense case and placed it on the south side of the bamboo tower.
Place a plate of moon cakes, a bowl of dates, a plate of pears, a plate of persimmons, and a handful of tied rice ears on the incense table. Then put incense in the incense burner and let the children come over one by one to worship the moon.
There is a special emphasis on worshiping the moon here. Only unmarried men and women can worship the moon. It is meant to let Yue Lao hold a red thread and find a good wife (good husband) in the future.
When the full moon rises, starting from Jiang Cheng, the Jiang family children come forward one by one, twist incense and kneel down.
When Wei Zhan saw that they all bowed, he also followed behind and knelt down in a decent manner.
After worshiping the moon, the whole family went back to the yard to have a reunion dinner.
There are two tables in the yard of Jiang Dalang's house, one for adults and one for children.
Tonight, Yan Ru was in charge, cooking chicken, duck and fish in different ways, filling two big tables.
After dinner, Yanru took the children to put out river lanterns.
Of course, there is no river on the southern slope, so they can only go to the pond to have fun.
Several children each carried a lantern, came to the pond, lit the prepared river lanterns, put them into the water one by one, and then gently pushed the river lanterns away with bamboo poles.
Wei Zhan also took a river lantern, followed the example of the little girls, put his hands together and made a wish, lit the river lantern with a fire stick, and put it into the water.
The red river lantern reflected his face and made his eyes shine brightly.
After setting off the river lanterns, a group of children carried the lanterns home.
Wei Zhan was allowed to live with Yuan Bao, so he went back to Jiang's house with him.
Yuan Bao was very curious about this boy and asked him how he returned to Chuanhe Town.
So, Wei Zhan excitedly told Yuan Bao about his glorious deeds, leaving Yuan Bao dumbfounded.
"You actually walked more than a hundred miles alone? For more than ten days?" Yuan Bao couldn't believe it. "Where did you sleep at night?"
Wei Zhan said with a proud smile: "I sleep on trees or in haystacks at night. When I meet kind-hearted people, they will let me sleep in their kitchen."
Yuan Bao clicked his tongue, full of admiration: "You are really amazing."
"Hehe." Wei Zhan pretended to be mysterious and said: "Do you know what I ate along the way?"
"What?" Yuan Bao asked, stretching his neck.
Wei Zhan pulled out a small dagger from his leg and said, "I dug vegetables from other people's fields and ate raw rice. Once I even caught a fish and ate it raw."
In fact, he also killed a man while escaping. The man tried to steal the jade pendant he was wearing, but he killed him with one blow.
Yuan Bao felt disgusted when he heard it, "Stop talking about it, raw fish is so fishy, you can still eat it."
"If you're hungry, you'll eat naturally." Wei Zhan wiped the dagger and inserted it back into his leg.
This adventure will last him a lifetime.
Huh! When you get home, you must take care of the escort team.
Originally he was with his eldest brother, but a guard deliberately blocked his horse to separate him from his eldest brother.
As a result, the bandits caught up with him and he had to turn around and run towards safety.
Wei Zhan didn't know whether the guard did it unintentionally or if someone wanted to harm him, but no matter what, this time it made him wary.
My mother was right, she was a thorn in some people's side, and if I wasn't careful, I would be eaten up and wiped clean.
My father had many concubines, including a noble concubine and a good concubine. Both of their sons were older than him.
His mother also said that they wished they would die, so she asked him to be extra careful and not to trust anyone, including his eldest brother Wei Wenbo.
The moon's shadow slanted to the west, and the lanterns on the bamboo tower were extinguished one by one. The south slope was silent again.
Not long after, the rooster crows, waking up the dawn, and a new day begins again.
After the festival, Yingbao and Erni went to school.
Yuan Bao, Hu Zi, Jiang Jie and Jiang Wu also came along.
Wei Zhan also insisted on following him to school and back after school, as if he was a member of the Jiang family.
Patriarch Chen already knew about this from Jiang Sanlang, so he wrote a letter and sent it to the courier shop. He handed it to the anxious postman and quickly sent it to the Wei family in Fucheng.
