pastoral little wife

Chapter 842: Sneak Attack (1)
This year's Lantern Festival in Baishi Village is more lively than in previous years.

Because Nie Zichuan and Yunduo did not go to the county seat, but stayed in Qingyuan for the fifteenth day, Nie Zichuan also gave colored paper and bamboo strips and other materials for the little children in the village to make lanterns for the sake of excitement.Then hold a lantern race and lantern riddle race.

One is to compete who can tie the lanterns well, and the top ten will be awarded, and different lottery rewards will be given in turn.

The second is the lantern riddle competition. There are twenty or thirty boys studying in Baishi Academy, and Nie Shen and Yang Goudan who have gone to study in the town after their enlightenment.

In the past, Mr. Fan also thought about it, but there were not many scholars in the village, even few who could read and write, not to mention it is not like now, almost every child in every family is sent to the school for enlightenment.

The boys in the village also learned from this legendary man, Nie Zichuan. In just a few years, they won the first prize in the examination and became an official. This is not something ordinary people can do.

As soon as Qingyuan said that there would be a lantern contest and lantern riddle contest, not only the children in the village, but even the adults came to Qingyuan, saying they wanted to see the excitement.

There are usually many people in the family, and there are many maids, women, and servants around, but there are many children, big and small. For several days, the children in the village ran to Qingyuan, and those who can't make lanterns and guess lantern riddles can watch it. Lively, mixed with sweets and snacks, it quickly became a children's den.

Xiao Liu and Xiao Qi were so happy now, they were just learning to walk, seeing how lively the house was, they were so excited that they couldn't sleep.

Even Sanjiha was very excited to see a group of children in the family having a good time.

Originally, Chinese New Year was busy, and there were many people coming and going at home. The two children seemed a little startled, and slept less during the day.There is a group of children in Qingyuan, and they are even more excited and can't sleep for a while.

Do not sleep during the day, sleep at night is a night.

Yun Duo was worried that they would wet the bed, catch a cold and get sick after sleeping on the wet mattress, and would get up and touch twice at night, always unable to sleep soundly.

Nie Zichuan wouldn't let her get up to touch him, he got up to see, she couldn't sleep well, and wanted to coax the two babies to sleep during the day, not only Xiao Liu, but even Xiao Qi had big black eyes open, very energetic, coaxing them all Can't sleep.

Fortunately, the little ones were nimble, and quickly tied up their own lanterns.

Yun Duo also pasted some ugly lanterns for herself. She originally wanted to make Kongming lanterns, but she thought that this place is either a village or a mountain. It's a stack of firewood, and it's a bad thing if it catches fire, so I didn't do anything.

On the day of the fifteenth day, before evening, the little ones from the village gathered in Qingyuan, chattering so lively.

There was an endless stream of calls from the village to go home for dinner, and those little children reluctantly ran home to eat, and even called their familiar friends to hurry up and come quickly.

With such an event held in the village, Nie Lizheng naturally wanted to join in the fun.Seeing that there are too many people, let it be held in the workshop, you can light a fire to warm up, and those who come out to play wear thicker clothes.

Mother Luo took two maids and two boys to the workshop to tidy up the room first, then lit the brazier to heat up the room.Mama Wan also boiled hot water in the small kitchen, brought all the snacks and candies here, and brought a lot of glutinous rice balls, and cooked them later to share.

Everyone in the village knew about it, and they all cooked early and came over after eating.

The fire was lit, and all children, big and small, happily came over with their own lanterns.

Nie Zichuan held Xiao Liu in his arms, Yun Duo carried Xiao Qi and sat in the upper seat, and Nie Lizheng also moved a chair and sat down.Someone moved a stool, someone stood directly, and formed a large circle.

Boys and girls holding lanterns stood happily in the crowd, waiting for voting and judging.

Show the lantern riddles competition, all the children who have read the book and can read the characters will participate.

Yun Duo and Nie Zichuan produced many lantern riddles, including guessing characters, animals, idioms and objects.Nie Shen was the host and asked the villagers to guess, "Not only children, adults can also guess if they know! The more correct guesses, the more prizes!"

Wan Sen smiled and took out a basket of candy and snacks, holding them in colored paper, "The top ten guesses are all correct. Participation rewards!"

Now the people in the village were even happier, shouting that they wanted to guess, so hurry up and come up with a question.

Nie Shen took out the cardboard with the lantern riddles written on it, and rushed to answer.

The previous ones are relatively simple. Many people thought about it and shouted out the answer.

Yun Duo stuffed the grinning Xiao Qi to the wet nurse, took sweet potatoes, chestnuts and potatoes and threw them by the fire, "Whoever wants to eat barbecue, you can use a skewer to skewer the meat and roast it!"

Huamei burst out laughing, "Young Mistress! When the scent comes out, they won't be in the mood to guess lantern riddles!"

Some people saw Yun Duo throwing sweet potatoes, chestnuts and potatoes into the fire to roast, and they also went home to get sweet potatoes and potatoes.

With the establishment of the workshop, the life of each family has improved, and there is no longer a time when you are hungry and can’t eat enough. Basically, you eat less miscellaneous noodles. Sweet potatoes and potatoes have become occasional foods, and most of them enter the workshop to make starch.Keep some small ones at home, which are not good-looking.It doesn't take much to take it and bake a few, just have fun.

The lantern riddles were guessed quickly, and the one who guessed the most was Yang Goudan, and the prize given by Nie Zichuan was a small black jade paperweight.

Although the quality of the jade is not very good, such a black jade paperweight costs more than two taels of silver, and it was used by Nie Zichuan. Yang Goudan was so excited that he took it and put it in his arms.

Yang Shitou and Aunt Shitou's family are also very happy that their son is promising.

Then came the most anticipated, the Lantern Competition.

The boys in the village have begun to study, but the girls still do more sewing and housework, and can read a few words. They don't study much, but most of them are dexterous.Therefore, the lanterns made by the boys can be compared with those made by the boys.

Nie Jiao also tied up a lantern. She didn't know how to tie it up, so she tied it up with the help of Liu Shi. She lit up the lantern and queued up for the competition.

Yun Duo and Nie Zichuan didn't say which one was good and which one was bad, and let the people from the village to participate to vote.

"Here, it's not only about who makes the best lanterns, but also about popularity! Your own family can vote for your own children!" Nie Shen said the rules with a smile, and asked everyone who made lanterns to light up the lanterns.

The villagers all applauded and shouted who to vote for, and some people were already laughing and canvassing for their children.

The children who tied up the lanterns all took their own lanterns and lit them up, waiting to vote.

After rounds of voting, the rankings came out, but Nie Jiao didn't make it to the top ten.Seeing those people happily took the lottery head, purse, materials, pens and ink, hairpin accessories, pursed their mouths, and burst into tears in their wronged eyes.

After Wan's mother cooked the glutinous rice balls, Yun Duo greeted the children to eat the glutinous rice balls, "After eating the glutinous rice balls, if you don't want to leave, let's play games together, but don't be too late!"

Everyone happily ate and played.

(End of this chapter)