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Chapter 80

After singing the birthday song, Chen Huiyin made a wish and blew out the candles. Zhou Jinghao cut the cake for everyone, and she explained to Gu Xinfang, Mu Yang and Wei Chen: "This birthday cake is related to prayer. Just blowing the fire Before the candle, I am making a wish, this is a new birthday ceremony."

Gu Xinfang stared at the birthday cake, and said thoughtfully: "Why do I feel that this new type of ceremony is more suitable for young people!"

"If you want, you can." Chen Huiyin said with a smile. It was true in the previous life. Aren't all kinds of birthday parties held by young people?

This time, Zhou Jinghao has already divided the cake, each person has a small piece, eating the cake like this will not affect the food.

After lunch, Mr. Wu said to his disciples: "Today is Qixi Festival and sister Qiao's birthday. You will be exempted from the afternoon class, but Dalang's alone class cannot be exempted. When the time comes, you will be on time." Go to class, you know?"

"Understood, sir." Tang Yaoling hurriedly responded, while Mu Yang and Wei Chen were overjoyed.

However, although the two of them are playful, after taking a nap, they still do the same as usual, first reviewing their books, then doing their homework, and after finishing their homework, they go to the next door to find Chen Huiyin and the others.

Daping Village is located in the center of the village. There is a huge pond. They built this pond by themselves. The rainfall here is low. There was a drought in one year, and the yield in the field was reduced. Some even had no harvest, and starved to death that year. There were quite a few people. At that time, Chen Boyu moved to Daping Village, but it was only two years.

When the village recovered, he suggested to Fang Jiawang, who had just become the village head, to dig a pond. Fang Jiawang listened to his proposal and led the village's young and strong to dig after the autumn harvest, before the first snow fell.

Coincidentally, there were several heavy snowfalls that winter, and everyone piled up the snow in the pit. After the snow melted in the next year, there was a pool of water.

Chen Boyu also suggested that each household in the village contribute money and buy some lotus seeds and put them in the pond. After summer, there are continuous lotus leaves and flowers in the pond to reduce the evaporation of water in the pond. After autumn, the harvested lotus pods, The lotus leaves, as well as the lotus roots in the pond, are sold one after another from autumn to winter, and each family can also get some money, which is an income.

Later, fish fry were thrown into the pond one after another, not for sale, but only for each family to get two fish at the end of each year.

So this afternoon, the place where Chen Huiyin and the others played was the big pond in the village. Chen Boyu went to the village head's house in the afternoon and said hello to Fang Jiawang. The lotus pods picked by the children will be settled at the normal market price .

But before boarding the boat, Chen Huiyin also reminded the friends: "The lotus pods and lotus leaves in this pool are related to the income of each household, so you can play on it, pick lotus pods, and lotus leaves. As long as the lotus leaves are enough, don’t pick them and throw them away, it’s still a medicinal herb.”

Tang Yaoling knew the rules, so Mu Yang, Wei Chen and Gu Xinfang nodded.

Everyone played in the pond for half an afternoon, and Tang Yaoling was going back to class. Naturally, Chen Huiyin and the others couldn't continue playing, so they paid the village head for the lotus, and everyone went home together, talking and laughing.

Tang Yaoling went to class, and Mu Yang and Wei Chen also returned to the school to practice archery.

Chen Huiyin handed the picked lotus pods to Auntie, and took Gu Xinfang back to the boudoir. After drinking a glass of water, she said to Gu Xinfang, "Sister Gu, we will worship Zhinu Niang and Qiqiao at night in our village. Do you want to pay respects?" I'll stay at home for one night and beg for cleverness together at night?"

Gu Xinfang knows about the Qiqiao Festival, but because of family reasons, she has learned business matters from her father since she was very young. She has never participated in the girls' Qiqiao Festival, so when Chen Huiyin invited her, she was moved and hesitated. After a while, I asked Lan Ying to send the driver back to the county seat first, and told Uncle An that he would pick her up early in the morning.

The Chen family still has two guest rooms, but Gu Xinfang likes to talk with Chen Huiyin, so he didn't live in the guest room, and lived in the same room with Chen Huiyin, so Lan Ying simply lived in the guest room.

After dinner in the evening, Chen Boyu gave two small boxes containing spiders to his daughter and Gu Xinfang respectively. At this time, Mr. Wu also brought Mu Yang and Wei Chen over, and then we all went to the drying yard together.

Fang He didn't know that Gu Xinfang would stay at Chen's house, and even came to participate in Qiqiao, and didn't reserve a seat for her, but Gu Xinfang didn't care much, and sat next to Chen Huiyin. After all, they were all little girls, so it didn't look crowded.

Seeing the situation, Fang Li hurriedly brought spare needles and threads and put them in front of Gu Xinfang.

Still the same as last year, everyone threaded the needle first. Chen Huiyin still kept a low profile and wore five coins. Gu Xinfang had never held a needle before, but it was not difficult. Steady, with good eyesight, she couldn't help threading needles at all, and she also wore four.

Today, Fang Li is still the best threader. After finishing the mini-game, everyone started queuing up to pay homage to the Weaving Girl. Xinfang was able to interject, and the atmosphere was good for a while.

After worshiping the Weaver Girl, each family collected the fruits, Qiaoguo and Qiaosu, and dispersed back to each family.

Chen Boyu invited Wu Shengzhe to go to his house to taste melons and fruits, and to eat Qiaoguo and Qiaosu.

Gu Xinfang took Chen Huiyin's arm and was in a very happy mood: "It's the first time I've grown up to pay homage to the Weaver Girl and play the game of threading needles and threads. It's really interesting."

Chen Huiyin smiled and said, "It's quite interesting. I heard from my aunt that Qiqiao has different customs in different places, but this is the festival that our girls look forward to the most besides the Huachao Festival."

Gu Xinfang nodded again and again: "After all, it's Girl's Day, it's our festival, and it's normal to look forward to it."

Back home, everyone tasted melons and fruits, ate Qiaoguo and Qiaosu, and then went back to their rooms to wash and rest.

The next day, Gu Xinfang ate breakfast at Chen's house, got in the carriage that picked her up and went back to the city.

Days passed, and in August, the cold vegetables in the field gradually matured, and Daping Village became lively again. In mid-August, Wu Shengzhe gave the children a three-day holiday for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

On the first day of the holiday, the four of Chen Huiyin did not practice martial arts or archery as usual. After washing up, they went to the drying yard to join in the fun.

After all the ox carts transporting vegetables in Gu's Commercial Bank left, and the little steward in charge of buying vegetables also left, Fang Jin came to Fang Jiawang's side, frowning and said: "Uncle Wang, when our family went to pick vegetables in the field this morning, It was discovered that some of the vegetables in the field had been stolen, not only in our family, but in several of the houses we know, this happened.”

At this moment, the people didn't leave, everyone heard Fang Jin's words, and immediately exploded, because the vegetables in everyone's vegetable field also found traces of being stolen.

Fang Jiawang's complexion suddenly became extremely ugly. Such a large-scale stealing of vegetables is very likely to be the result of a crooked person who has a crooked idea of ​​getting something for nothing. This matter must be clarified as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)