Chapter 330 Mid-Autumn Festival
Maner and Yaozu are about to go to a private school.
Just like children in later generations, the two children were both nervous and excited.
I was worried that the teacher would be strict, but I was excited that I could go to the school and learn from other people in the village.
"I sewed two schoolbags, you two can try." Chen Sufen handed the sewn schoolbags to Maner and Yaozu.
After Chen Sufen became pregnant, Tong Huaqiong did not allow her to work and asked her to recuperate at home.
After all, Chen Sufen's body is still too weak compared to Tong Dajiao's previous one. Although the Gu family has been living a better life in the past six months and has meat on the table for every meal, a person's body cannot be restored so quickly.
What's more, Chen Sufen has been very busy managing Taohua Dessert for the past six months, going out early and coming back late.
Therefore, ever since Chen Sufen was diagnosed with pregnancy, she has become the treasure of the Gu family.
Chen Sufen couldn't sit still, so when she heard that the private school was about to start, she sewed schoolbags for Maner and Yaozu.
Chen Sufen is very good at needlework. She embroidered a wild goose on Yaozu's schoolbag, which symbolizes spreading wings and flying high.
Peonies were embroidered on Maner's schoolbag.
Yaozu and Maner carried him on his back and spun around happily.
"Mom, why isn't there anything for me?" Xiaolong asked sullenly.
Chen Sufen didn't expect that Xiaolong also wanted to study.
She wasn't sure whether her mother-in-law would let Xiaolong go to private school.
When he was hesitating, Tong Huaqiong came back. Xiaolong ran to Tong Huaqiong and said, "Grandma, I want to go to a private school too."
Tong Huaqiong thought that people of Xiaolong's status would have been enlightened a long time ago, probably by some big shot like the Imperial Teacher.
His going to a private school was a dimensional attack on other children in the village.
But not letting him go to school goes against my own character.
"Okay, you and Maner Yaozu can go to the private school together, but you are not allowed to be naughty in the private school." Tong Huaqiong said.
It would be good for Xiaolong to go to a private school.
This will dispel the village's suspicions about his identity.
Xiaolong ran to Chen Sufen with a smile and said, "Grandma said that I can go to a private school, so mother, please sew a school bag for me."
Chen Sufen agreed with a smile.
Tong Huaqiong discovered that Xiaolong was particularly attached to Chen Sufen and actually treated Chen Sufen as his mother.
The next day is Mid-Autumn Festival.
The Mid-Autumn Festival in this era is a big day of the year.
After the corn is harvested and the winter wheat is planted, the farmers can finally take a rest after working hard for half a year.
This year, Qinghewan had a bumper corn harvest, and every household was delighted to see the golden corn in their yards. Some families had already sold some of their corn and were overjoyed to have the money in their pockets.
With the backdrop of the bumper grain harvest, the festive atmosphere is stronger than ever.
The villagers were grateful for Tong Huaqiong's kindness and sent their own produce to the Gu family.
You have a basket of vegetables, I have a chicken, and he has a fish.
Therefore, Tong Huaqiong's house was piled with a lot of things, and she could celebrate the Festival just by relying on the things given by the villagers.
Taohua Dessert had a holiday, and the hired workers at home had a holiday. In addition to the holiday, Tong Huaqiong also gave each of them an extra hundred yuan as a holiday gift, in the hope that everyone could celebrate the holiday happily.
The Gu family started preparing from the afternoon before.
I bought chicken, duck, fish, meat, fruits, and mooncakes from Taohua Dessert.
Gu Dashu couldn't come back from the city, and Shopkeeper He also didn't come back for the development of Taohua Dessert in the city. Hong was alone in the town, so Tong Huaqiong invited her to celebrate the festival together.
With the addition of Xiaolong and Su Chengmin, the Gu family is as lively as ever.
Gu Taohua and Liu Yue'e were in charge of cooking, while Su Chengmin sat in front of the pot and lit the fire.
Since it was their first time and they had no experience in making fire, the whole kitchen looked like it was on fire. Tong Huaqiong, who was chatting with Zhao outside, was so scared that she rushed home to put out the fire.
When I got home I found out it was a false alarm.
Gu Jingzhe went into the kitchen and taught Su Chengmin how to make a fire.
Gu Taohua and Liu Yue'e prepared a sumptuous meal, and Gu Dahan poured two jugs of wine.
A bright moon rose in the evening, and everyone sat around the table to eat, drink and enjoy the moon.
The moonlight spreads down like salt.
Tong Huaqiong looked up at the moon. She thought of her parents in the afterlife and wondered what they were doing now.
I don’t know whether I am just a shell left in the afterlife or I am still dreaming.
I don’t know if my current life is a dream or reality.
Tong Huaqiong raised her glass and toasted to the bright moon to herself in another world.
Today people do not see the ancient times and the moon, this month once looked like the ancients.
She believed that the bright moon she was facing at this moment would definitely shine on herself in another time and space.
Su Chengmin, who was sitting opposite Tong Huaqiong, also looked up at the moon.
He had celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Shengjing family compound, attended the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the palace, and spent the Mid-Autumn Festival on the border battlefield, but he had never seriously appreciated the moon.
At the age of seventeen, he was young and promising, one of the brightest young people in Shengjing. He never thought that one day he would be hunted by someone and would spend the Mid-Autumn Festival in this yard in the countryside as Lai Fu.
He looked at Xiaolong.
Xiaolong was sharing a mooncake with Man'er, with a smile on his face, as if he had completely forgotten about escaping, the death of his parents, and being hunted down...
Su Chengmin wasn't sure whether Xiaolong had completely integrated into the Gu family.
Su Chengmin wiped his eyes, sniffed, and raised his glass.
Respect your past self and respect those who have passed away.
"Laifu, let me give you a taste of this mooncake."
Gu Taohua took a piece of mooncake and handed it to Su Chengmin.
Although there was a look of disgust on his face, he took a piece of Su Chengmin's favorite red bean paste filling.
Su Chengmin took it flattered.
When he was lighting a fire in the kitchen, Liu Yue'e asked him what kind of mooncake filling he liked. He casually said red bean paste peach blossom and the man remembered it.
"Mom, we should give Lai Fu more work tomorrow. His legs are not convenient now, but his hands should be fine, right? Let him thresh all the corn in the yard, and he won't worry about anything else." Gu Taohua said.
Tong Huaqiong swept the corn in the yard. The fat girl seemed to want to tire Su Chengmin to death.
Su Chengmin took a bite of the mooncake, glanced at Gu Taohua's sparkling eyes, and said, "Okay. Leave the corn in this yard to me."
Gu Taohua snorted: "Can you do it with your small body? Don't make such boasts."
Su Chengmin's nose felt a little sour.
Gu Taohua saw his disappointment just now, and deliberately gave him mooncakes and talked to him to get him to work.
In the countryside in autumn, the nights are late and the dew is heavy.
After eating the mooncakes, everyone went back to their rooms.
A sound sleep all night.
The next day, the 16th day of the first lunar month, Gu Jingzhe set out early in the morning to go to the county town to ask Mr. Li for advice.
In order to show his respect to the teacher, Mr. Qian once again lent the carriage as a favor.
Qin Qingyou harnessed the carriage and took Gu Jingzhe to Pingchuan County.
Everyone in Qinghe Bay knew that Gu Jingzhe had gone to seek guidance from the teacher, and from time to time they would come to the big locust tree at the gate and look outside the village.
"I'm coming."
Following a shout, Tong Huaqiong, like everyone else, saw a carriage appear on the road leading to the village entrance.
Qin Qingyou sat in front of the car and whipped it.
"Everyone, be careful when you speak, don't scare the Master."
Village chief Liu Tielian reminded everyone.
The teacher is an educated and civilized man. Don't scare him if you country folk have such loud voices.
However, from the village chief's tone, one could tell that he was also extremely happy.
He had already discussed with Tong Huaqiong that he would be the one to arrange the welcoming banquet for the teacher.
As the village chief, you have to help Mr. Qing, right?
When the carriage arrived at the entrance of the village, everyone gathered around it.
Gu Jingzhe lifted the curtain of the carriage, and everyone looked inside and was stunned.
There was no third person in the carriage except Gu Jingzhe and Qin Qingyou.