After seeing the scene after Su Juanjuan's party, Aunt Su was greatly relieved.

As long as the children are doing well, that’s enough!

Otherwise, will she be able to sleep well tonight?

The next day, Aunt Su got up as usual.

At noon, the kitchen prepared several tables of meals. In addition to the two masters, Aunt Su and He Shan, everyone else who was not on duty, regardless of gender, age or status, had meals to eat.

After lunch and a break, I started to get busy.

He took people to inspect the site again to make sure there were no problems. Then he returned to the yard and watched the maids and old women decorate various places in the manor.

Except for the small courtyard where He Shan lived, where a few small lanterns that the children liked were lit, and four large lanterns were lit on both sides of the gate, Aunt Su only allowed some seasonal potted flowers to be placed in other places.

Firstly, Aunt Su always felt that ancient lanterns were too prone to catch fire. Secondly, the original body had not yet left the mourning period. Even though she was on the farm, she had to be careful of outsiders' gossip.

As the sun set and the sky grew darker, the people on the farm, whether they were servants or tenants in the village, became more and more expectant.

Every family finished their dinner early and came to the lantern festival.

At this time, someone on the stage had already lit up the reserved lights one by one.

The stage, which originally looked very ordinary, suddenly became bright and beautiful.

Above the screen wall on the stage, there was a red silk cloth hung high, with four large characters written on it.

The crowd of onlookers below the stage grew larger and larger.

In fact, there were only about a hundred people in the farm, including servants and tenants.

But the news that Sujiazhuang was going to hold a lantern festival in the next few days spread to the surrounding villages. Many people from other villages who loved to watch the fun, young and old, had dinner early and walked ten miles just to see the lantern festival.

When we arrived at Sujiazhuang, we didn't need to ask anyone and just headed straight to the place with the brightest lights.

I saw a wide and flat stage standing in a large open space.

There were at least a dozen or twenty lights on the stage, making the stage as bright as day.

There was a little kid from another village who pointed at the four big words written on red silk above the screen wall and asked his parents.

"Dad, what are these four words?"

Some fathers were more honest and shook their heads and said they didn’t know.

But some fathers just want to save face and start guessing.

"Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival!"

What they are holding is the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival. What else could it be if not these four words?

However, someone from Sujiazhuang who was passing by burst out laughing.

"What Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival? That's the Mid-Autumn Festival!"

"Hey, this illiterate person!"

Wouldn't that make some people very embarrassed?

I wanted to make a few remarks in rebuttal, but when I remembered that all the children in Sujiazhuang could attend literacy classes for free, I became reluctant again.

Some people from other villages gathered together and chatted.

"It's really like that!"

"But if you can give them..."

"I heard that the children were taking literacy classes, but I didn't say that the adults were also taking literacy classes!"

"Of course it's the children who taught the adults!"

“…Shit luck!”

On the trees on both sides of the stage and on the specially erected mountain of lights, colorful lanterns of various shapes have been lit up.

Nearly two hundred people were walking around and looking around.

These lanterns were made in all kinds of interesting and beautiful shapes such as flowers, birds, fish and insects. More than a dozen revolving lanterns were painted with stories of people. If you count them carefully, there must be at least hundreds of lanterns.

There were many people gathered under the particularly delicate and beautiful lanterns, looking at them for a long time and unwilling to leave.

As the sky was getting darker, Su Zhuangtou, dressed in new clothes and holding a gong, walked onto the stage with a smile. He came to the center of the stage, clasped his fists towards the audience, and struck the gong. With a dangling sound, the whole audience fell silent.

"Dear fellow villagers, today, at the order of the old lady, we are holding a Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival. You are all welcome to come and support us."

"The first ones to perform for everyone are the girls from our literacy class at our farm!"

As soon as he finished speaking, people who had been standing in various places in the audience began to applaud.

For the other villagers, this was the first time they had seen such a scene. They were stunned and then they just followed suit and clapped randomly.

Then I saw a group of girls, wearing red ribbons around their waists and big red flowers on their heads, walking onto the stage in a line.

At the back of the stage, the sound of drums could be heard, which matched the girls' footsteps.

"Oh, isn't that my cousin?"

"Look, my second sister is standing at the front!"

"Our San Ya is so energetic, I can't recognize her at first glance!"

"Hey, stop nagging, it's making it hard for others to watch!"

The girls' performance was actually very simple.

Several teams marched in formation on the stage, and each person held a piece of silk cloth with big words written on it. When it was their turn, they read it out loud, and then everyone read out a sentence in unison.

For example, Erya, the tenant farmer, was holding a piece of green silk cloth with the word "water" written on it.

The three Miao people who were ranked ahead of her were assigned the character "山".

Although she had rehearsed several times, Bao Erya still felt cramps in her calves and her walk was unsteady as she walked on the high stage with so many eyes staring at her. She was afraid that she would not be able to keep up and make a fool of herself on the stage. How would she stay in the literacy class in the future?

She stared at San Miao in front of her, and saw her walk to the front of the stage, holding up the word "mountain", and shouting loudly, "I am the mountain!"

Everyone in the team followed up, "There is always a mountain higher than the other!"

She naturally shouted loudly, and then it was her turn...

Arya strode to the front of the stage and raised the silk cloth in her hand, "I am water!"

"The stream is flowing so fast!"

Hearing the uniform shout from the team, Erya held up the silk cloth and stood to the side of the stage, next to Sanmiao.

Arya stood still and couldn't help but smile.

Hahahaha, she really did it!

In front of so many people, he was not nervous, did not tremble, and did not stand in the wrong position!

If the audience was a little noisy at the beginning, they became quiet once the show started, and their eyes looking at these ordinary little girls from the village were full of amazement and envy.

At this moment, there are two or three rows of seats in the front under the stage.

Apart from the one occupied by Old Madam Su, these seats are reserved for the elderly.

Aunt Su, who was sitting in the first row below the stage, watched the first show and nodded slightly.

She has seen many high-skill and high-level cultural performances in primary and secondary schools.

I have to say that the difficulty of this show is not even as good as any of the square dances performed by the aunties.

But this cannot be compared like this at all!

What were those conditions in modern times, and what are these conditions today?

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