Reborn farmhouse busy farming

Chapter 122 Lantern Festival

Ever since Cheng Qing left, Fang was counting the days and only hoped that he would come back sooner, but Cheng Qing didn't turn back until a few years ago. .

Fang Shi was overjoyed to see him, hurriedly welcomed him in, and asked repeatedly: "Why have you been here for so long? But what's going on in Beijing?"

Cheng Qing's nose was red from the cold, and the clothes on top of his head were covered with snowflakes. After entering the room, he drank a big bowl of ginger soup and sneezed several times. I said it again.He was not talkative in the first place, and when something like Axiu happened last time, his temper became more silent, and he only said that Luo Baisu was studying in the academy and everything was fine.The head of the Zhuyuan Academy is Zuo Qingzhi Zuo’s good friend, so he takes good care of Luo Baisu, but the academy opened on the tenth day of the first lunar month, and Luo Baisu can’t go home in time. This year he will stay in Beijing to study, so he can’t go home for the New Year .

"Study is important, and it doesn't matter if you don't come back." Even though she said that, Fang still felt a little disappointed, but she also knew that Luo Baisu had this opportunity to go to Beijing to study, and the opportunity was very precious, so she let go and turned When asked about Cheng Sheng who went with him, Cheng Qing said, "I've grown taller and stronger."

Fang's heart was relieved after hearing this, and she was in the mood to care about other things: "Where is his second uncle? Didn't he find a way to enter the Imperial Academy, did the matter come to fruition?"

Cheng Qing paused, frowned, and said, "I don't know what's going on. I stayed in Shangjing for more than half a month, and I only met the second master once, and I met him on the street."

Before Fang could ask, Luo Tiandu changed the topic and said, "Brother Cheng must be tired and hungry after driving such a long distance, mother, let him have a meal today so he can rest for the night, what's the matter?" Ask about it tomorrow."

Fang agreed and went to set the table for dinner.Cheng Qing was extremely tired, after dinner she saw that Fang was all right, so she went to wash and go to sleep.Luo Tiandu and Jiang Xia took a look at the bee barrel with a lamp, and found that many bees had died again.

Because the weather was too cold, Luo Tiandu asked Jiang Xia to bring the dozen or so bee barrels back from the mountain, and put them together in the room where Jiang Xia used to sleep. , but in the end the conditions were limited, and some died one after another, but fortunately, it didn't have much impact.

Although the New Year is approaching, because Luo Baisu is far away in Shangjing, the family is not emotional, and they also want to save some money at home and save more money for Luo Baisu, so they only bought some New Year's goods, marinated a piece of bacon and two bacon fish Even if it's over, that's it, compared to the first year when the family separated, it is already much richer.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Changhui Niang came to invite Fang Shi to go to the town to watch the lanterns during the Lantern Festival. Fang thought that he would be fine at home, so he wanted to take Luo Mingdu and Luo Tiandu to watch the lanterns.

Luo Tiandu actually didn't really want to go, she was afraid of the cold, and she would rather sleep at home with her head covered than blowing the cold wind outside to watch those lanterns.Luo Mingdu's eyes lit up when she heard that the lanterns were going off, but when she heard that Luo Tian would not go, she shook her head and said no, she wanted to stay at home with the younger sister.

Luo Tiandu then thought that Luo Mingdu is a child after all, he helps with the work at home all year round, every day except in the fields, even the gate is rarely taken a step, it is rare that this time he has the opportunity to go out and play for a while He didn't want to spoil her interest, so he agreed.

In her eyes, Luo Mingdu is just a child, as long as conditions permit, she is willing to pamper her all the time.

Luo Tian was thinking about the rare first month of leisure, so he drove the ox cart and went out. Apart from a pig in the pigsty, there would be no other living things in the house, and there was no need to leave anyone to look after the house, so he told Fang to bring Jiang Xia and Cheng Qing with him. Let's go to see the lanterns together, it will be more lively if there are more people.

It has been almost a year since Jiang Xia and Cheng Qing came to this house. Both of them are diligent and capable. Needless to say, Jiang Xia has earned more than 100 yuan for the family just by raising bees this year. Now he has been promoted to the Luo family Cheng Qing's main earner is Cheng Qing. Although he has lost an arm, in order to be calm and reliable, he speaks and handles things very much to make the family feel at ease.

Fang then agreed.

On the fifteenth day, Changhui's mother really came to invite Fang Shi to go to the town, along with Xiao Changhui and his father.The Fang family and Changhui's mother both had bullock carts, so Changhui's mother took little Changhui and Fang's mother and daughter to sit in the Luo family's bullock cart, Jiang Xia drove the cart, and Cheng Qingzi sat with Changhui's father. .The most eye-opening thing for Luo Tian was that Cheng Qing saw that he was the only one in his car, so he went to bundle two bundles of dry firewood and put them on the car, and took them to the town to sell.

When Chang Hui Niang saw it, she couldn't help laughing: "This Cheng Qing is really thinking about your family wholeheartedly, and he still doesn't forget to earn money for your family at this time."

Fang Shi also laughed, and said: "To see the lanterns today, you still brought two bundles of firewood, where will you be free to sell them later?"

Cheng Qing said: "It's useful."

Seeing this, Fang had no choice but to give up.

When we arrived in the town, lanterns were hung everywhere on the street, and people and cars were coming and going, which was very lively, and Luo's cart could not move at all.

It took Cheng Qing and Jiang Xia a lot of effort to drive the ox cart to the house where they used to buy firewood, sold the two bundles of firewood at a discount, and left the ox cart at the person's house by the way, and then returned with the Fang family. to the street.

It was only then that Luo Tiandu realized that Cheng Qing's purpose of bringing two bundles of firewood was not to make money. Presumably he expected that the town would be very crowded, so he deliberately brought two bundles of firewood, which was a few pennies cheaper, in order to give The two ox carts looked for a place to settle properly.She couldn't help but look at Cheng Qing with admiration for a moment.

Very nice person.Luo Tiandu had always had a good impression of Cheng Qing, but at this moment, it was a pity that he lost an arm. If Cheng Qing was a person with sound limbs, with his ability, he would not be reduced to being a slave in someone else's house. the point.

Just as she was thinking, Fang squeezed her hand tightly and said, "Don't look around, be careful not to get lost."

It was still early at that time, but it was not until evening to watch the lanterns. There were vendors setting up stalls everywhere on both sides of the street, selling all kinds of beautiful lanterns.

Probably because he didn't have much to do on weekdays, Luo Mingdu was extraordinarily excited today, with a pair of bony eyes looking around, almost dizzy, completely lacking in his usual steady appearance.

Seeing Luo Tiandu, he secretly thought that in the future, he would also find opportunities to bring Luo Mingdu out to play more. Children of her age are most playful, and when they feel new about everything, Luo Mingdu would either be in the Working at home, or studying with her, there is almost no entertainment, it is a bit too pitiful.

There were so many people on the street, Fang took one of them with each hand, for fear of losing them, Cheng Qing stood calmly by the side, separating the crowd from time to time, and Changhui's father also picked up little Changhui , let him ride on the neck.

Sitting on his father's neck, Xiao Changhui could see farthest. After a while, he heard him yelling, "I saw Aunt Ning."

The Aunt Ning he was talking about was naturally Luo Baining.

Changhui Niang was taller than Fang Shi, she saw it too, and bumped Fang Shi with her elbow, saying: "It's really your sister."

Fang followed the direction she was looking at, and sure enough, she saw Luo Baining walking with a young young man, they were talking and laughing, very affectionate.

"Hey, isn't that the young master of the Qi family?" Changhui Niang looked at it for a long time, and recognized that the young man next to Luo Baining was Qi Jin who had visited the Luo family a few months ago.

Luo Tian even saw Luo Baining, she didn't want to meet Luo Baining, so she said: "Mother, let's go over there."

Fang Shi also thought about it, nodded, turned around and wanted to go to the side, but Luo Baining and Qi Jin over there might as well have seen them.

Before Luo Baining said anything, Qi Jin came up in a few steps, greeted Fang and the others: "Sister Fang."

I don't know if it's an illusion, but Luo Tian only felt that Qi Jin seemed to have a relieved expression on his face when he saw them.

Luo Baining stood by the side, and coyly called "Sister-in-law", which frightened the Fang family quite a bit.One must know that ever since Luo Baining became sensible, she never called Fang's sister-in-law, but just "Hello".

Seeing that there was only Qi Jin beside Luo Baining, Fang asked her: "You came out alone?"

"My eldest sister and I came to see the lantern, and my mother-in-law called him to go. I happened to meet Mr. Qi, so we went to watch the lantern together." Luo Baining said softly, pinching his throat.

Fang took another look and saw that Qi Jin was followed by a boy and a middle-aged woman, so she let go of her heart and said, "If you want to follow us back after watching the lanterns, you can go to the alley on Dongzheng Street." Wait outside."

"I'll spend the night at my second sister-in-law's place when it's late." Luo Baining didn't want to ride in Fang's ox cart, it was cold and bumpy, and had a strange smell.

"That's alright, go to your second sister-in-law's place earlier after you finish watching the lanterns. It's cold outside after dark." After a few words of advice, Fang was about to leave.

Qi Jin said: "Sister-in-law Fang, since you are also going to see the lanterns, why don't you go all the way, there are more people and it will be more lively." He really had enough of Luo Baining's pestering, and Fang's came just in time.

Before Fang could answer, Luo Baining pouted first and objected: "Sister-in-law and the others have to go back to Luojia Village, they won't be long." The implication is that they don't want Fang's group to go with them.

Luo Tian didn't want to go shopping with Luo Baining and Qi's family, so he immediately said: "We'll go back immediately after setting off the lanterns, so I won't delay your shopping."

Qi Jin said: "It's okay, I'm going to go home to study later, and I'll call a carriage to take you back after the lanterns are set off."

Fang hurriedly declined: "Don't bother, we drove here by ourselves."

In the end, Qi Jin still ignored Luo Baining's reluctance, and followed Fang's group to the river to release lanterns.On the way, Luo Tiandu always felt that Qi Jin's little boy was always secretly looking at her family's Luo Mingdu.

Didn't this girl really like her family, Luo Mingdu?
She was very depressed.How old is Luo Mingdu?No matter how precocious you are, you don't have to attack a child!It seems that Qi Jin is not very old at that time, and he is also a child!
She immediately lost interest in shopping, and after the lanterns were set off, she urged Fang to go back quickly.

Qi Jin wanted to send them in his own carriage, but Luo Tiandu firmly refused.

It wasn't until Luo Tian got into the bullock cart that Qi Jin finally asked Fang: "Sister-in-law Fang, is Luo Xiucai's going to the imperial school settled now?"

(End of this chapter)