RPAGF Chapter 354 Mid-Autumn Festival Reunion
Chapter 354 Mid-Autumn Festival Reunion
August 15th, Mid-Autumn Festival reunion.
This is the most lively Mid-Autumn Festival in the memories of many young people. The seven major counties of Zhuocheng are decorated with lights and colors everywhere. Even those families who live a little poorly will use the materials they have at hand to make lanterns or flags.
Princess Zhuo ordered people to post illustrated instructions for making lanterns and flags in prominent places in every county government office, township or village a month in advance. Each stronghold would also send out 300 small candles and 50 baskets of rags every day, all provided free of charge by the workshop under the princess' name.
The easiest way to make a flag is to cut scraps of cloth into triangles and sew them one by one on a cloth belt. The length is optional and can be hung on trees, windows, door frames, or even wardrobes, bookshelves, etc. If you are more particular, you can also embroider various blessing words on the triangles.
It can not only add a touch of festive atmosphere, but can also be reused. Almost every household in Zhuocheng has hung one.
As for lanterns, those with better conditions would make them with bamboo and paper, while those with less favorable conditions could also make them with the peel of the sweet magnolia tree, although they would use less candles.
Most people who had scholars in their families were reluctant to use the small candles they received to make lanterns. When the princess learned of this, she prepared three large candles for all the students in Zhuocheng, who could receive them based on their household registration.
The princess said that the most important thing during the holidays is to have fun.
The prince followed his husband's lead and proposed with a wave of his hand that in the future, every family with students in Zhuocheng would be able to go to the county government office to collect a candle every month. The cost would be borne by Prince Zhuo's Mansion. There was no upper limit on the number of students and the candle would be valid forever. However, if anyone was found to have cheated or collected the candle on behalf of others, they would be disqualified from the imperial examination forever.
This action led to countless poems praising the prince and princess popping up like mushrooms after rain, and eventually their reputation for benevolence spread throughout Linyue, but that is a story for later.
Shen Yu's Mid-Autumn Festival plan, which he came up with on the spur of the moment with the idea of "sharing happiness with others is worse than enjoying it alone", developed more and more in different directions, and finally directly spawned a new business, supporting two groups of people.
A group of businessmen with business acumen saw the business opportunities and produced various precious lanterns inlaid with gold and jade, or exquisitely embroidered flags.
The other group is the poorest people. They line up early in the morning to get the materials, and then set up stalls after making them. Some people with better conditions are too lazy to make them themselves, so they choose to buy them. Many families in Zhuocheng are now eager to offer a longevity tablet to the princess.
Shen Yu, who was constantly praised, was fighting against the lanterns with a group of little ghosts.
The fact that the whole city was making lanterns was really a coincidence. After she became pregnant, she especially liked eating fruits and had no resistance to any kind. Lu Yingxing sent people to bring back all the fruits that could be named in Linyue Kingdom. She then discovered that the modern pomelo was called Xiangluan in ancient times. Isn't this a ready-made material for lanterns!
Old King Zhuo was grinning as he watched the people who kept screaming. Lu Yingxing was also grinning. Starting this year, he would finally not spend the New Year alone. He had family, a wife, and their children.
As the new generation of "sucker" in Prince Zhuo's mansion, Gao Yong took Meng'er in one hand and Yang'er in the other and took them out for shopping today. After Gao Chang learned that his son had caught the eye of the prince and princess, he shamelessly came to the door to try to establish a relationship with them, and made all kinds of helpless excuses that even Yang'er didn't believe.
As much as Gao Yong once admired his father, he now despises him.
But he had also listened to many of the stories the princess told her younger brothers and sisters on weekdays, and he understood that parents are a mirror that reveals the true nature of their children, because children will always imitate and learn their parents' words and deeds.
So, he learned his father's shamelessness without any instruction.
He accepted all the silver bills, house deeds, shops, etc. sent by Gaochang's men, neither rejecting nor making enemies, but simply ignoring them.
The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, he received another banknote from his victim in Gaochang. He grabbed two little kids from the palace and took them out for a stroll, happily spending money.
The little flower head that Meng'er likes? Buy it! If Yang'er thinks it's delicious, buy it!
They bought everything fun and interesting, and also bought souvenirs for everyone in the yard, including the secret guards. If you didn't know, you would think they were leaving Zhuocheng tomorrow.
Shen Yu looked at the ugly pomelo lantern he had made, and then at the vivid pumpkin lantern made by Yu Mu. For the hundredth time, he suspected that he must have inherited Shen Nian's bad genes.
So, seeing Gao Yong and his friends coming back with full loads, he immediately got angry and said, "Gao Yong, if you continue to indulge your brothers and sisters and make them develop the habit of wasting, they will be yours to take care of from now on!!"
Unexpectedly, Gao Yong became excited when he heard it. He rushed over with the two kids in his hand and said, "Really? Are you really giving them to me to raise? That's great. My brothers and sisters at home used to be so ugly that they were unbearable to look at. Finally, I have cute brothers and sisters too. Hahahaha..."
But before he could be happy for long, Meng'er started crying, "Wow... I don't want to, I want to follow my sister, wuwuwuwu..."
"Sister, don't you want Yang'er anymore..." He pouted, looking like he would cry if she dared to do anything to him.
"Wow, wow, wow, you just said that I was your favorite brother..." Gao Yong also squatted down and pretended to cry, and he really fooled the innocent Meng'er.
The little girl looked at this, then looked at that, looking embarrassed.
Shen Yu glared at him and was about to say something to comfort him, but Meng'er patted Gao Yong on the shoulder and said something shocking, "How about this? Usually Meng'er is your sister's sister, but when you need to spend money, I will be your sister, okay?"
Gao Yong, "…………"
"Pfft! Hahaha!" Fu Yunxiu, who had just stepped into the courtyard, laughed out loud, almost crying. He walked up to the little girl, stroked her head, and praised her, "Meng'er is so smart. She is worthy of being the princess's biological sister. She has a business mind just like her!"
Yang Er was not to be outdone, he raised his chubby little hand and said, "Me too, when I was spending money I was Brother Gao Yong's younger brother, when I was studying I was Brother Mu'er's younger brother, when I was learning martial arts I was Brother Yu Su's younger brother, but I have always been Sister's younger brother!"
After saying this, he stared at Shen Yu with sparkling eyes, an expression that looked like he was asking for praise.
Everyone was amused by the innocent words of the child. Gao Yong didn't care and said proudly that he would buy all the children's things in the future! As soon as he said this, he was immediately surrounded by a group of children who made wishes and said what they wanted to buy. Even Mu'er was eager to come forward, as he also wanted to buy a hairpin for his sister.
Shen Yu, "..." She finally gave up on her own education, and decided to leave the matter of raising the child to Lu Yingxing.