After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

"It's in the main room." Yingbao thought that Lizheng came to her house to touch the gourd just like everyone else, so she took him to have a look.

There is only one big gourd in the main room at the moment, and the other one was carried home by Jiang Quan, who said that he would take it to the market as a matchmaker next time to attract popularity. After all, he can’t take his little cousin to the market every time. .

Sun Li was touching the big gourd and asked, "Yingbao, how much do you sell this gourd for?"

Yingbao thought for a while, and said a compromise price: "The shopkeeper of Simen Town paid 30 taels of silver last time. This one is about the same size as that one, and it's also 30 taels."

Sun Lizheng was very happy when he heard that, because his second son gave him 50 taels to buy a signature gourd and go back to the shop.

This saved 20 taels for nothing, and Sun Li would not return it to his second son.

Whoever said that I don't earn my son's money is all nonsense. When encountering such a good thing, it is only reasonable to go with the flow.

"I bought this gourd." Sun Lizheng said.

Of course Yingbao was happy and nodded immediately: "Okay, do you want to carry it back by yourself?"

Of course, Sun Lizheng couldn't carry it by himself. His youngest son and a few townsmen were collecting taxes in the village, and they would come to the south slope to pick him up in a while.

At noon, when Jiang Quan knew that his little cousin had sold the big gourd for 30 taels, he was so angry that he beat his chest and stamped his feet.

"You fool! It's sold at 30 taels. That's the gourd king. Many people have asked me about it. I've already offered 80 taels. Someone is going home to discuss how to withdraw the money."

"Isn't there another one?" Yingbao said indifferently.

She was thinking about how to get the big gourd out of the cave.The gourds in the cave are much larger than those outside.

"That's a matchmaker! Does the matchmaker understand, it can't be sold!" Jiang Quan sighed.

Yingbao blinked and comforted in a low voice: "Why are you in a hurry, actually I have hidden two of the biggest gourds, but I can't show them to you now."

She made up her mind, and at night she quietly took out two big gourds, saying that she had hidden them in the fungus shed before.

"Really? Why didn't I know?" Jiang Quan didn't believe it.

Since the little cousin's gourd has grown to the size of a washbasin, he has come to look at it every day, why doesn't he know that there are two other gourd kings?

Ying Bao made up nonsense: "Because I hid them in the bamboo shed, of course you don't know."

Jiang Quan touched the back of his head, a little puzzled.

But doubts are doubts, he is still looking forward to having two more gourd kings.

The conversation between the two came to an end, and they each went about their own affairs.

Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yingbao gave Chu Chu a few days off, and asked her to go back to spend a good holiday, and she can come back next month.

Yanru bought a lot of candles, boiled a jar of wax oil, dripped hematoxylin in the wax oil, and taught her nieces how to make river lanterns.

She took an egg, lightly dipped it in wax oil, and picked it up.

There is a layer of red wax oil on the egg shell.

After the wax solidifies, carefully peel the wax shell from the egg shell and set it aside for later use.

Just dip the wax again and again, peel off a bunch of oval-shaped red wax sheets, and then stick these petal-shaped wax sheets one by one to form a red lotus seat.

Then use a piece of sheepskin as the base, put a candle with a wick in the middle of the lotus, and the river lantern is made.

Yingbao followed suit and made a few lanterns, preparing to go out with her sisters to put on lanterns on Mid-Autumn Eve.

Jiang Erlang chopped bamboo and built a bamboo pagoda in the open space outside the yard, preparing for the Mid-Autumn Festival night.

The old man Jiang and his grandsons were not idle either. They bought all kinds of colored oil paper, cut bamboo strips, and made all kinds of lanterns at home.

Chunniang and her sister-in-law made mooncakes with newly bought carved molds. The mooncakes were filled with red bean paste and sweet-scented osmanthus.

After finishing the river lantern, Yingbao took her two younger brothers to knock on the red dates.

Her family has planted several jujube trees, and the jujubes have matured at this moment, hanging on the treetops, each of them is bigger than a bird's egg.

"Delicious." Jiang Jie picked up the dates and stuffed them into his mouth, eating them vigorously.

Seeing that there were still many jujubes out of reach on the top of the tree, Yingbao decided to climb the tree and knock again.

It is easy for children to climb trees, they climb up in two or three strokes, sit on the tree branch and look around.

In the distance, there are several houses under construction, all of which are brick and tile houses. The three main houses face south, and there are two kitchen rooms on the east side, which is similar to the layout of my own house.

When these new houses are built and people move in, Nanpo will no longer be deserted.

Yingbao suddenly thought of the flood in her previous life, and felt uneasy.

Although my family has moved to live on the southern slope, most of the fields are downhill, and there is no way to move that.

Top-grade fields like rice fields and wheat fields are basically within the range of floods, and just a big flood will wash away everything.

"Sister, come down!" Jiang Wu and Jiang Jie became a little anxious when he saw that his sister would not come down from the tree. He raised his neck and shouted upwards: "Stop beating the dates, sister, come down!"

Yingbao let out an oh, knocked on the top with a bamboo pole a few times, knocking down all the dates within reach, and then slowly climbed down the tree.

Jiang Jie and Jiang Wu bent down to pick up the dates, and the two puppies rushed to grab them. Rhubarb picked up the dates and put them in the basket.

Xiao Hei snatched one and crushed another. A dog ate dates with relish, just like its owner.

After picking up the jujubes, the three siblings went home with a basket. When they walked to the straw stack at home, they saw a child sneaking behind the haystack and peeping at them.

Little Black Rhubarb yelled in that direction, jumping up and down, trying to pounce on it, but didn't dare.

"Who! What are you doing!" Jiang Wu rushed over, threatening him with a bamboo pole in his hand.

"It's me." A dirty boy with messy hair leaned out from behind the haystack. "I'm Wei Zhan."

Yingbao and her younger brother were stunned.

How did this brat do this, and hide behind her haystack.

Jiang Wu and Jiang Jie also knew him, and asked suspiciously, "What are you doing here?"

Wei Zhan moved out, scratched his messy hair, and said in a low voice, "I... I lost touch with my elder brother..."

"Lost?" Yingbao expressed disbelief. "There are so many guards in your house, can they lose you?"

Wei Zhan frowned and said, "We met a big bandit on the way, I... I managed to escape back."

"Big gangsters? Where did you meet the gangsters?" Yingbao had never heard of any gangsters near Qinchuan County in her previous life.

"It's more than a hundred miles away from here in Zhouhe County." Wei Zhan whispered, "I haven't eaten for several days."

He was quite clever, so he exchanged his outer clothes for some dry food with the villagers on the side of the road, and then walked along the official road, all the way back to Chuanhe Town.

When Jiang Wu heard that he hadn't eaten, he handed over the jujube that Ah Huang was holding, "I'll eat it for you."

Wei Zhan took the jujube and started to eat it.

"Then what about your brother and those from the Chen family?" Ying Bao actually didn't really believe this kid's words.

Wei Zhan: "I don't know. There are too many bandits. My guards told me to run quickly, so... I lost touch with them."

In fact, he didn't say anything, he deliberately ran back on the horse, and finally the horse was so tired that it foamed at the mouth and fell to the ground, so he ran into the woods to hide again.

When there were no more pursuers, Wei Zhan came out of the woods and walked along the official road to Chuanhe Town.

Originally, he could have gone to Qinchuan County, but he didn't go. He went directly to Chuanhe Town and went to Jiang's house in Nanpo.