Eating big melon is so refreshing

Children don’t understand the conflicts between adults. The lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival in the county town are very lively, which is something they have never seen since they live in the countryside.

The cheapest goldfish lantern cost twenty cents, and Wang was reluctant to buy it. The money her three sons would earn from three lanterns was enough to buy two pounds of meat.

Wang felt that since her three sons were going out with their uncle Zhao Wulang, as long as Xiaochun'er and Xiaoqiu'er asked to buy lanterns, Zhao Wulang would not favor one over the other and buy only one for them.

When Zhao Erlang took Xiao Chunya and Xiao Qiu to the street for a stroll to digest their food, he originally wanted to buy them lanterns, but when they heard that the county magistrate was holding a lantern riddle guessing event tonight, they thought they could give it a try and buy lanterns if they couldn't guess correctly.

On Mingzhu Street, a platform was built in front of the entrance of Rongji Commercial Firm, with strings pulled and beautiful lanterns hung up. There were lotus, goldfish, rabbits, and butterflies. The craftsmanship was more exquisite than those on the market and the prices were definitely higher.

Xiao Chunya pulled Xiao Qiulin through the crowd and were delighted to see the notice. It turned out that the county magistrate had restricted the age of those who could guess the riddles to children under ten years old. He felt that if adults were allowed to guess the riddles, and the lanterns were taken away in less than a quarter of an hour, it would be meaningless.

"Hey, Fatty Luo."

"Huh? Xiaochunzi, Xiaoqiuzi, you're here too." Fat Luo was happy to see them and said, "Big Li has been standing here for a quarter of an hour, scratching his head and trying to figure out something. When the time was up, he was booed off the stage."

"Is it hard to guess?" Xiao Chunya took a fancy to a butterfly lantern and said, "This butterfly is fat, let me see what the riddle is. 1+2+3...+100, the answer is 5050!"

"Congratulations, little girl, for guessing it right." A steward took down the lantern and gave it to Xiao Chunya.

Luo Xiaopang was stunned, and after a while he asked, "How did you calculate so quickly?"

"Of course I've calculated it before. I used the abacus in your house." Xiao Chunya said perfunctorily. Of course, she knew the answer in her previous life.

"You can also count?" Luo Xiaopang muttered to himself.

"What else can't you do?"

"What you see is just the part I happen to know. There are many things I don't know." Xiao Chunya leaned over to look at the lantern in front of Luo Xiaopang and said, "Do you like this one?"

"I think this goldfish is majestic."

"Really?" Xiao Chunya read out the riddle, "The fallen flowers are all over the ground, but I am not startled. Guess the name of a Jin person. The answer is Xie An. Uncle, is that right?"

"Congratulations, little girl, you guessed it right again." The manager took down the goldfish lantern and gave it to Luo Xiaopang. Luo Xiaopang hurriedly took it with both hands, and was so happy that he didn't know what to do.

"Brother, don't you want to guess the riddle?" Xiao Chunya saw her brother standing aside motionlessly.

"I'm not good at guessing riddles." Xiao Qiulin looked sincere and didn't seem to be lying. What a joke! There were only about twenty lanterns on the stage, and my sister took two of them by herself. You can't pull the wool from a sheep, so leave quickly.

Xiao Chunya believed it, so they went down from the stage, squeezed out of the crowd and joined Zhao Wulang and the others.

"Little girl, my lady wants to buy this butterfly lantern in your hand." A maid stopped Xiao Chunya and said, "My lady likes butterflies very much. I hope you can help me."

Xiao Chunya looked at the six-year-old girl dressed as a rich lady standing in the distance, then looked at the two-liang silver ingot in the nanny's hand, and handed the lantern over without hesitation.

A hint of contempt flashed across the nanny's eyes, she took the butterfly lantern and turned away.

"Gua Gua, who is this old woman?" Xiao Chunya used her consciousness to communicate with the melon-eating system. This girl's acting skills were so poor that one could tell at a glance.

"Ms. Ding, the nanny of Ximen Qianqian, the granddaughter of Mr. Ximen, just arrived in Huangyang County three days ago."

In the Daye Dynasty, double surnames were valued. Lord Ximen Wenyuan was born in Jiangning Prefecture, and the power of Jiangning Prefecture was complicated with the royal family of the previous dynasty. Only ten years after Emperor Longqing ascended the throne, Lord Ximen's power was undermined, and Ximen Wenyuan had to retire and return home.

As a minister who had enjoyed power for decades, how could he endure a life without power? So when he learned that Master Mingyue was in Huangyang County, he sent his most promising granddaughter Ximen Qianqian to contact Master Mingyue. As long as Master Mingyue became his grandson-in-law, wouldn't power, glory and wealth be easy for him to obtain?

Xiao Chunya probably understood why the old lady acted like this. It must be because the Ximen family couldn't get along with Master Mingyue's people these days, so they chose to break through from her side. The whole Huangyang County knew that she and her siblings had a good relationship with Master Mingyue and they often visited each other!

"Let's go to Grandma Lin's stall to buy lanterns." Xiao Chunya led the way and walked for about ten minutes until they arrived at the street. There were more than a dozen lanterns on the stall, as well as small flower baskets with little rabbits and goldfish. The craftsmanship looked good, but the colors were a bit monotonous.

There are two handsome boys in Huangyang County. One is the six-year-old Mingyue Gongzi, who is as precious as gold and jade and is a rich and noble flower in the world. The other is the six-year-old Lin Shaoxuan, who was born in a humble family and is a proud green bamboo.

"You can choose whichever one you want." Xiao Chunya walked to a stall not far away and bought several kinds of mooncakes, including mung bean, red bean paste, five-nut, and lotus paste. Soon, only one tael of silver was left out of the two taels of silver in her hand.

"Brother Xiaolin, I'll give you a mung bean mooncake. Please give us the lanterns at a lower price." Xiao Chunya gave Lin Shaoxuan a red bean paste mooncake.

"Fifteen cents for each lantern. Any less and there will be no profit." Lin Shaoxuan and the brother and sister knew each other for the first time, so there was no need to be polite. He took the mooncakes generously.

Da Niu, Da Qing and Xiao Qiulin chose goldfish lanterns, Er Niu and San Niu chose rabbit lanterns, Xiao Chunya chose a lotus lantern and chose a rabbit lantern for one-year-old Xiao Qing.

With one hundred and five cents in cash in his account, Lin Shaoxuan's face was filled with a smile. He would buy a pound of meat tomorrow with the money, as the family had not had meat for a long time.

"Let's go home."

It took Zhao Wulang a full quarter of an hour to lead a group of little kids back to Fengshou Street. Along the way, he saw children staring at the lanterns. If it were any other day, the street would have been quiet.

"Grandpa, grandma, we are back."

Xiao Chunya was holding a lotus lantern in her left hand and a little rabbit lantern in her right hand. When she walked in, she saw everyone sitting in the yard admiring the moon, but the atmosphere seemed a little off.

Xiao Qing struggled to get out of his father's arms and ran over happily, "Fat sister."

"Brother Xiaoqing, your little rabbit." Xiao Chunya gave the little rabbit lantern to Xiaoqing and looked at the adults calmly.

Grandpa and grandma sat in the middle, uncle and aunt sat on the left, father and mother, third uncle and aunt, fourth uncle and aunt sat on the right. They all had dry faces, as if something had happened during the time they were away.