Chapter 537

Someone yelled "selling lanterns" and told them to wait.He Damao turned around and wanted to tell people that they bought the lanterns but not sold them.

He Xiaoxi hurriedly stopped him: "Stop, just sell a few." If you bought too much, sell some.Will buy a new one next year.After a year of storage, this thing not only attracts dust but also loses its color.

"You don't have much left!" The man was panting after chasing their donkey cart, but he still didn't forget to praise and criticize.Find a reason to bargain.

"Well, there aren't many more. The ones left on purpose will be sold out. If there are acquaintances, let me keep a few." He Xiaoxi was talking nonsense to this person.

It's almost noon now, and it's still early to light the lanterns at night.If it is sold until the evening, it can indeed sell for about the same price.Therefore, the reason for the price reduction that this person was looking for was blocked.

"If you want to buy one or two, we'll sell it to you. If you buy too much, I have to keep it for someone else. You can't take it lightly." He Xiaoxi's words made the man feel that it's good if he can buy it, so don't bargain. .

Because of the festival, people come and go on the road.Seeing people buying lanterns, some people gathered around to buy them.Generally, those who buy lanterns at this time either have not come to the city in time.

Or it was not originally planned to buy, but a sudden decision was made when seeing others buy it, which is an impulsive type.Both of these people are not very fond of bargaining.

After a while, several were bought away.He Xiaoxi saw that it would not be enough to sell his own house.Stop it quickly: "I won't sell it, I won't sell it, I have to keep it for others."

Those who bought it first secretly rejoiced.Thank goodness I bought it earlier, otherwise I would not have been able to buy it.

He Damao handed over the reins of the donkey cart to He Xiaoxi.I sat in the car and counted the money happily. "Sister, we've made money back, and it's basically free to buy lanterns."

Then he said to the big girl: "Second father will buy you delicious food." It looked like the money was not safe in his pocket.

Today is the Lantern Festival, the family should be harmonious.He Xiaoxi will try her best to satisfy the wishes that can be satisfied with money.Smiling at the front, he said, "Let's go around the market and buy some delicious food for the big girl to take back."

The big girl smiled shyly.The three of them walked around the market and spent a lot of money before giving up.

On the way back with the donkey cart, He Xiaoxi pointed to a house on the side of the road and said to He Xiaoxi, "Sister, that house is Jitou He's house."

He Xiaoxi looked in the direction He Damao pointed.The house is okay, the front and back of the house are tidied up quite neatly.It can be seen that it is a living family.

It's just a pity that I couldn't find a reason to catch up with the conversation.

"Sister, how did I hear that Qi Mazi's family is going to want that piece of land." He Damao said.He was talking about the land that He Xiaoxi was going to buy to build a house for He Ya and his brothers.The threshing floor next to Ma's house.

Qi Mazi's family really bought it, so how could He Xiaoxi encourage Jitou He's family to play against He Laoliu's family?He Xiaoxi hurriedly asked He Damao: "Who did you listen to?"

"Da Pao said that when he came back at night, he saw people from Qi Mazi's family secretly measuring the land." He Damao replied.

He Xiaoxi scolded secretly: Damn, this Qi Mazi's family is against her, why do you want to mess with Qi Mazi's family in everything?
No, before she connects with Jitou He's family, Qi Mazi's family can't mess with her.We have to find a way to make Qi Mazi's family have no time to buy this land.

"Excuse me, is Qi Mazi imprisoned in the Tulou now?" He Xiaoxi asked He Damao.He Damao has a good relationship with one of the guards of the tulou.Ask him about what he should know.

When I got home, I started to distribute the lanterns noisily.There are still lengths of ten fingers sticking out.The styles of lanterns are different, and it is impossible to satisfy everyone.

Some children came late and were assigned unsatisfactory styles.The little face was a little unhappy.Fortunately, the adults at home are reasonable.

It is something that is free, how can we be picky?Or let the older children in their own family give up to the younger ones, or He Xiaoxi took out a piece of candy to share, and he was happy after eating the candy.

He Xiaoxi distributed one of the bought candles to each child.The candle is the kind of small red candle with the thickness of a little thumb and less than a stick long.

One is definitely not enough.If it is opened to burn, it is estimated that this kind of small candle will burn four or five times a night.

Just like many people in later generations can afford cars but cannot burn oil, many families can afford lanterns but cannot burn candles now.Only one child can give a meaning.

And there are only a few families who can afford lanterns.Most people are reluctant to waste this money.The adults steamed a noodle lantern, put some oil on it and lit it.

Or take a canning jar and tie a string and light a candle inside.There are also elders in the family who are skillful, making a lantern out of sorghum stalks and covering it with paper.

He Xiaoxi is also helping Ma Shi and the others steam the noodles.There are three main shapes of face lamps.One is like an upside down bun.

The other is in the shape of a long spoon with a little mouse lying on it.It is the image of a little mouse stealing oil.There is also a coiled dragon.

It is said that the coiled dragon has to be made if there is a dragon in the family.This dragon is not immediately edible.It must be placed in a ventilated and dry place to air dry.

When the dragon raised its head on February [-], break the dragon into pieces and soak it in clean water.Then lower into the noodle pot and eat while you eat your noodles.

This has been the rule for generations, and everyone doesn't know why it is like this.

For those who are more particular, twelve of the upside-down corn-head-shaped face lamps should be made.Mark every face lamp you buy, one per month.

When it is steamed and cooked, check how much water there is in each noodle bowl.The amount of water in the noodle bowl represents the amount of rain in that month.Whether it is allowed or not, everyone does not know, but it is always implemented in this way.

Helping Mrs. Ma make face lamps, He Xiaoxi took a few early after dinner and took Aunt Lu back to the front yard.According to local customs, you cannot look at the lights of your mother's house.It is said that looking at the lights of the natal family is a dead husband.

It was just getting dark, and before it got dark, groups of adults and children began to patrol the streets with lanterns in the streets and alleys of the village.

East Village and West Village, on this day, there will be discordant voices.Like La Ge, the two sides talked about a set of rhetoric handed down from an unknown generation and provoked each other.

"Lighting lanterns, shaking cotton oil, all the old men and women in the East (West) Village are listening..." He Xiaoxi laughed: I don't know what happened to the old men and women in Shuidong Village, they are going to be yelled at like this.

At the beginning, it was unanimous to the outside world.When most people's candles and lamps have run out of oil.Only a few people's lanterns were still lit.

The children whose lanterns are still on usually came out late, or they refilled another candle at home.That's when the infighting started.

There are mischievous children coaxing those children whose lights are still on: "Oh, there is a scorpion lying on your lantern."

 Thank you Ziyuchenxin Children's Shoes for sending me a monthly pass. (*з)(ε`*)boo~

  The scorpion tiger refers to the gecko.Did you guess it?The names of geckos vary from place to place, and they are: Shougong, climbing gecko, wall climbing tiger, four-legged snake, Ba gecko, scorpion tiger, eaves snake, and eaves dragon ()

  
 
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