20. Lantern Festival
When Jiang Wan met with her family, there was no abnormality on her face, and no one knew that she had just discovered that she had an extra golden finger.
Before returning home, the side effects of Goldfinger after using it appeared, and she walked extremely difficult on the way back to the village, dead and alive, her eyelids were fighting, and she almost fell asleep on the road, and pinched herself several times before she could get home. Fortunately, there was a cover for this walk, and after telling Xu Fenggu that she was tired, she climbed into bed and lifted the corpse.
Jiang Wan slept directly until the next morning, and was woken up by hunger. Xu Fenggu came to call her to dinner the night before, but when she saw that she was sleeping so hard that she couldn't wake up, she had to go with her. In the morning, Jiang Wan ate a big bowl of pumpkin porridge, and after the goods in her stomach were much more comfortable, she began to help Xu Fenggu prepare things for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, a day for family reunion. There is no place near Yamashita Village to enjoy the laurel and tide viewing, but there is a lantern festival, which is jointly organized by several nearby villages, and this year it was selected at the entrance of Yamashita Village. During the day, a lot of bamboo poles were erected at the entrance of the village, and a lot of reed sheds were built, and the lanterns of each family were hung up at that time, and there would be people who used to set up stalls to sell snacks and sell all kinds of fun, which was a rare liveliness in a year.
Jiang Wan's family's lantern was made by Jiang Funian, he was skillful, made a paper plum blossom lamp, sparrow lamp, cat lamp, and also made a pumpkin lamp, and the pumpkin porridge in the morning was made of pumpkin pulp dug out of it. One lamp for one person for a family of four, just right. Jiang Wan likes the jack-o-lantern the most, relying on her family to let her, she took the jack-o'-lantern for herself, and inserted a small candle in it, and the thin-skinned jack-o'-lantern was bright and translucent after it was lit, which was particularly beautiful.
Jiang Wan wanted to make their family have a more festive atmosphere, but they didn't dare to run over directly, nor did they dare to mention Pei You to her mother, so she had to mention Pei Yulian: "Mother, Yulian next door is ...... Without her father to make a lantern for her, Mr. Pei can't do it well, you said that our neighbors, do you want to help her make one? Otherwise, Yulian, she is so pitiful......"
Xu Fenggu was very soft-hearted towards the girl, and when she heard this, she remembered Yulian's thin and small appearance, and she sighed in her heart, so she said: "Yes, there are three people in Mr. Pei's family, Aunt Chunying can't see it, Mr. Pei is a scholar, and Yulian is small, so we should help them." ”
"That mother, Yulian depends on you, I'll play with Xiao Er!" Jiang Wan said with a smile, and really turned her head to find Jiang Gu with the pumpkin lantern.
Xu Fenggu saw that Jiang Wan was no stranger when she mentioned Pei You, and she only handed over the matter to herself after only saying Yulian, and did not take the opportunity to get close to the Pei family, so she was relieved.
As everyone knows, Jiang Wan deliberately made such a gesture to reassure Xu Fenggu.
Xu Fenggu was very mobile, and soon asked Jiang Funian to make three animal paper lanterns, with candles in them, and carried them with wooden sticks and ropes. In addition to the lanterns, she also took some pastries and fruits prepared by herself, just enough to make a large plate, and called Jiang Gu back, and the two took it next door together.
For Xu Chunying, Xu Fenggu actually doesn't like to associate with her very much, she always feels that Xu Chunying and her are not very compatible. When their family first moved over, Xu Chunying was not blind, but she always looked like she was not close to anyone, and it was even more difficult to approach after being blind, and Xu Chunying said in front of her face last time that she would keep her daughter away from her son, Xu Fenggu was even more suspicious of Xu Chunying. But today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xu Fenggu has always been kind-hearted, and thinks that everyone should have a good time on such a day, no matter what suspicions there are in the past, don't worry about it now, so when she went to Pei's house, she was smiling.
The person who heard the movement was Pei You, and seeing that it was Xu Fenggu, Pei You subconsciously glanced behind her to look for a certain Qianying, but when he only saw Jiang Gu and no one else, he couldn't help but feel a faint sense of loss in his heart.
"Mr. Pei, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, I don't think I have time to prepare these at your house, right?" Xu Fenggu was also happy not to see Xu Chunying, so she only smiled at Pei You and said, "My family has prepared a lot, this lantern is useless, these foods are accidentally bought too much, and they are easy to spoil after a long time, if you don't dislike it, Mr. Pei, take it." Our neighbors, don't be polite to me! ”
Xu Fenggu finished saying everything, Pei You couldn't say anything to refuse, and in the face of the enthusiastic Xu Fenggu, she had to be grateful: "Thank you, auntie, this is a piece of my aunt's heart, how can I dislike it?" ”
Xu Fenggu said with a smile: "It's good not to dislike it, it's good not to dislike it." She turned her head to look at Jiang Gu, "Little Er, quickly help Mr. Pei bring things in." ”
"Thank you." Pei You hurriedly got out of the way.
Jiang Gu was actually not very happy to come, with a stiff face, he snorted unhappily when he passed by Pei You's side, thanks to Xu Fenggu not hearing it, otherwise she would have reprimanded him a few words when she went home.
Pei You could only think that he didn't hear it, he naturally remembered that when Jiang Wan had an accident, he looked at the door, and Jiang Gu probably thought that he was looking at her house with a heart...... This grievance, he has to swallow even if he doesn't swallow it.
After putting down the things, Xu Fenggu and Jiang Gu left. Pei You went to call Pei Yulian out and asked her to help see where those things were going to be placed. Seeing so many delicious foods, Pei Yulian's eyes were shining.
Pei You touched the top of her slightly sparse and yellowish hair, and said with a smile: "These are all sent by Aunt Feng's family next door, and when you see Aunt Feng in the future, you must remember to thank you." ”
Pei Yulian responded obediently, but in her mind, she recalled Sister Wan next door. In the past few days, she only feels that her life is like what they say about the gods! My brother would help her with laundry, and often gave her good food, and moved a soft quilt into her room, and she slept comfortably every night. And this qiē started when Sister Wan carried her back on the day. Sister Wan is good-looking and gentle, always smiling at her, and always helping her to be good to her, she really wishes she had such a sister, she is a little envious of Jiang Gu. But now, her brother is also very good to her, and she is not as envious as before...... She also had a secret agreement with her brother, that is, her brother's laundry, and she couldn't sue her mother. She felt a little scared, but her brother said that everything has him, and it was good to listen to him, so she settled down.
My brother is very good to her now, and it would be nice if Sister Wan could be her sister-in-law...... But the people in the village said that Sister Wan Kefu, whoever wants to marry her will be unlucky, and Brother Da Niu broke his leg because of this. She didn't want her brother to break his leg, but she wanted Sister Wan to be her sister-in-law, which only became a small tangle in her heart.
When Xu Fenggu and Jiang Gu came back, Jiang Wan was holding a jack-o-lantern in a daze. She was thinking about a very difficult question.
The thing is still on her golden finger. Since she foresaw the future of Xie Chengchou's family, she understood that the scene she saw in Pei You's high school at that time was not her daydream, but something that would definitely happen in the future. This made her originally extinguished mind ready to stir again.
Traveling to this ancient time, he still dressed as the most miserable low-level people, and it is not easy to live a comfortable life. And now, an opportunity to live a comfortable life in the future is in front of her, and she really can't help but be excited. What's more, although there are some twists and turns in the middle, she does like Pei You, how rare an ancient man who is not machismo at all and is not straight male cancer, it is comparable to a panda. Although Pei You himself has a lot of problems, but with his character and character as the main premise, those are small problems, and they will be adjusted well in the future. Just teach. Although is a big problem...... But she has confidence in herself, and if she can hook up with Pei You, she will be able to coax her future mother-in-law. The worst thing is that Kefu's statement, looking at the way he was when she first met Pei You, he seemed to believe it, because when she first hooked up with him, she deliberately pretended that she wasn't hooking up, so he would have been with her on an equal footing, and when he realized that she wanted to marry him, he didn't know what his reaction would be?
Another concern is that she has already promised her mother that she will not hook up with Pei You again, it is not good to go back on her word after all, she doesn't want to disappoint her mother.
Several worries added up, Jiang Wan fell into a tangle, and she really couldn't think of what to do.
After all, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, Jiang Wan didn't want to affect her mood for the holiday, so she temporarily put her entanglements in the back of her mind and accompanied her family to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival happily.
After it got dark in the evening, the family first had dinner happily at home, in order to enjoy the full moon, Xu Fenggu deliberately moved the table to the yard, and the family admired the moon and then laughed and ate, happy and unhappy.
The moonlight was excellent today, and there was not a single dark cloud in the sky, illuminating the whole earth. And what is brighter than the sky is the lanterns that gradually light up on the ground.
Jiang Wan's family had dinner, Xu Fenggu and Jiang Funian stayed at home for the time being to pack up their things, and let Jiang Wan and Jiang Gu go to play first. The two of them did not twist, and happily walked out with lanterns.
When passing by the courtyard of Pei You's house, Jiang Wan heard Pei You's voice reciting poems inside, what "Say heaven in the world, I don't know what the sky remembers the world", what "people can't climb the bright moon, but the moon travels with people", what "it should be the toad palace has no love, and it is clarified half a time every autumn"...... She felt that his voice was very good, and it made people's ears crisp, if it weren't for Jiang Gu beside her, she might have hid in the corner and listened to him read poems for a night.
Although she slowed down, Jiang Wan still finished this way, and Pei You's voice gradually became inaudible.
Jiang Gu was very excited, and kept talking all the way: "Sister, what do you say we should eat for a while?" There are so many delicious things to eat at the Lantern Festival, I don't know which one to eat! He took out dozens of copper coins given by his father and mother, and smiled stupidly.
Jiang Wan smiled: "Look, my father and mother gave us so many copper coins, you can eat whatever you want, until your stomach is too strong to eat, if the copper coins are not enough, I still have them here!" ”
Jiang Gu smiled hesitantly: "Enough is enough, these are enough for me to buy some food!" ”
After a while, Jiang Gu remembered something and said angrily, "Sister, why do you want to be so good to Mr. Pei's family?" On the day you pretended to be injured by Dafu Niang, when I asked Dr. Qian to come back, I saw that Mr. Pei was actually watching the excitement of our family! ”
Jiang Gu was also there when Jiang Wan mentioned the matter of Yulian to Xu Fenggu, and he didn't say anything at that time, but the dissatisfied feelings piled up in his heart.
Jiang Wan was a little surprised: "What did Mr. Pei think of our family's liveliness that day?" ”
Jiang Gu said angrily: "He just stood under the plane tree of his house with a book and looked at our house!" Phew, he's reading a book, he just wants to see the excitement of our house! ”
Jiang Wan pursed her lips, and the corners of her mouth gradually curled slightly. Jiang Gu thought that Pei You was watching the excitement, but how could Pei You be interested in things like lively gossip? He was worried about her that day, right? You must know that everyone except her family thought she was going to die......
"Let him watch the excitement, who doesn't like to watch the excitement? Everyone is a neighbor, if you can't keep it together, you will have to ask Mr. Pei to help us one day, now let's help his family, sell him better, and ask him for help in case of accidents in the future, don't you say? ”
Jiang Gu pouted, he thought about it and felt that his sister was reasonable, but he just didn't like Mr. Pei, and he just didn't like him.
"Okay, Xiaoer, don't think about it, let's have a good time today!" Jiang Wan said with a smile. Pei You was worried about her instead of watching her house lively, and she couldn't explain it to Jiang Gu, so she could only try her best to persuade Jiang Gu not to take it to heart.
“…… All right. Jiang Gu reluctantly agreed.
When the two arrived at the location of this year's Lantern Festival, the early arrivals had already hung up the lanterns, and the warm light made everyone's eyes glow with excitement and happiness. The annual Mid-Autumn Festival is the grandest event in several nearby villages, after all, other festivals are basically separated, and it is very rare to hold large-scale events like this.
Jiang Wan and Jiang Gu found a place to hang the lanterns they brought, and took advantage of the fact that there were not many people, and they took the opportunity to start wandering around.
In addition to lanterns hung with bamboo poles, a dazzling array of small goods under the reed shed, and a dragon dance performance in the evening, the cost of hiring people comes from the entrance fees of the vendors who set up their stalls here. Many people are not interested in buying food to eat, but the free dragon dance performance is a must-see.
The two walked around for a while, and the number of people gradually increased, and after a while, they saw Xu Daniu and Xia Bailing who came together. The two have been married, and they will soon get married, rural people are not so particular, and now the two often go in and out of pairs, which is enviable. Jiang Wan has been staying at home, but she rarely sees them, and this is the first time she has seen the two together. However, given that she had had an unpleasant relationship with these two people, as soon as she saw the two, she pulled Jiang Gu and ran to the other side.
The villagers love to join in the fun, and there are many people who come over after dinner in the villagers under the mountain, Jiang Wan and Jiang Gu have met many familiar villagers, but most of them pretend not to see it, anyway, her relationship with them is not good. The only greeting was Xu Guanghai's son Xu Xiaohu, he came alone, Xu Guanghai is Lizheng, today's Lantern Festival, he and Ma Xiumei are still busy.
Jiang Gu was very close to Xu Xiaohu, and when he saw him, he pulled him and smiled: "Little cousin, are you here too?" The dragon dance seems to have started in a while, let's go grab a good spot! ”
Xu Xiaohu's personality is upright and honest, and when he heard this, he said: "Okay! ”
"Sister, let's go together?" Jiang Gu asked Jiang Wan.
Jiang Wan was just about to nod, when she saw the figure of a little girl out of the corner of her eye, and suddenly her heart moved: "You go and help me occupy a place first, I saw Yulian, I called her over." ”
"What are you calling her for...... Then I'll go with you! Jiang Gu muttered, and at this moment, a gong sounded, indicating that the dragon dance performance was about to begin.
"No need, you guys go take a place first!" Jiang Wan heard the opening gong, and hurriedly smiled and urged Jiang Gu, "It's about to start, don't delay." ”
Hearing this gong, Jiang Gu's heart was also itchy, so he said, "Then sister, you have to come over quickly!" ”
Xu Xiaohu smiled at Jiang Wan innocently, and ran with Jiang Gu to occupy a position.
Jiang Wan looked around, but after not seeing her for a while, Pei Yulian was gone. Pei Youniang will definitely not come today, and if she wants to come, Pei You is not worried that Pei Yulian will come alone, so the people who come should be their brother and sister. It's just that she saw Pei Yulian, but she didn't see Pei You, could it be that they got separated?
Jiang Wan continued to look for Pei Yulian's figure while thinking, and it took her a while to see Pei Yulian's back flashing and running into the small forest next to the reed shed. That forest is an extension of Grandma Mountain, on the edge, so there are not many trees and they are not luxuriant, but it is always too dangerous to enter this night, what should I do if I accidentally step on the air and fall?
Jiang Wan hurriedly chased after her, but in the blink of an eye, Yulian was gone.
She stopped near the entrance of the small forest, because the light of the fire at the reed shed not far away, this part was still a little bright, and it was completely dark and invisible, like a giant beast opening its mouth. She seemed to stand at the junction of light and darkness, with the sound of people on one side and silence on the other.
Jiang Wan felt a little weak in her heart, and called Pei Yulian a few times, but she didn't hear a response, she was a little worried, she didn't know if she would go in to look for or find someone, she would be afraid of the former, and the latter didn't know if something would happen to Yulian if she was delayed.
After standing for a while, Jiang Wan was timid and decided to go back to Jiang Gu and they came to find someone together, but before she could turn around, a pair of big hands reached out behind her to cover her mouth, and dragged her to the depths of the forest!