Little wealth

While they were talking, a couple stood in front of their shop with two children, and the leading man asked, "How do you sell this lantern in your family?"

"The small ones here are three yuan each, the big ones are five yuan each, and the biggest ones on the top are fifteen yuan each." It's not that Josh boasted, but the lanterns sold on this street are not in their shop. The lanterns made by several masters are beautiful.

The lanterns at the entrance of their house are hung in two rows according to their size and price. The two lanterns at the top are the largest and the most expensive.

"The lanterns in your house are too expensive. The ones on the street outside only sell for one or two pennies each." They walked along the way just now and saw lanterns sold at some other stalls, but they only cost one or two pennies. One piece of money.

"You get what you pay for. Our lanterns are sturdy and beautiful. If you really want to buy them, you can pick any of the smaller ones here. I'll count you two for five cents, and you'll be one penny less. "The two children looked at him eagerly. Josh himself has children, and he couldn't bear to let the children down, so he automatically lowered his money by one penny.After all, they also want to make money in business, and it would be impossible to give it away for nothing.

The woman who followed carefully pulled the man's hand, probably thinking it was too expensive, so she pulled the man's hand to ask him not to buy it.

"Just buy two, one for each of the two children. Two for five renminbi, right?" The man still took out five renminbi from his pocket, and let the two children choose their favorite lanterns by themselves. A pair of sons and daughters left.

Looking at the family of four leaving, Josh threw the five copper coins he had just earned into the drawer, and said to Master Zhao and Ah Mu: "Then the small lanterns here will be sold for five yuan and two yuan." Well, it’s the same as usual.”

"Hey, good. How do you sell this thing? Tell me again, so that I won't make a mistake later." Zhao Amu nodded, and asked the prices of the rest of the things by the way. Keep it in mind, so as not to forget it when you sell things for a while.

Dinner was brought to them by Chen Yan. There were pancakes and braised pork they brought from home, as well as freshly fried chicken nuggets and skewers from the store, as well as taro glutinous rice balls in syrup. The food was no worse than at home.

The happiest thing is the few children, who taste delicious with a bite of pancakes and a bite of fried chicken.

Sure enough, children like to eat deep-fried food. He already knew that he would not send fried chicken and skewers over there, but now that they have been delivered, he has no choice but to let a few kids eat them.Josh was eating a bowl of taro soup, watching their son who was stuffing fried chicken into his mouth, scooped a mouthful of taro and fed it into the child's mouth, "Nian Nian, you can eat two more pieces, don't worry Eat so much, save some for my brothers."

Ah Nian looked at the fried chicken on the table with a look of reluctance.

"..." Seeing the expression on his son's face, Josh felt that he was a big bad guy.

Fortunately, the plate of fried chicken was quickly divided by everyone. Their son stared at the empty plate, looked and looked, and couldn't find a piece of fried chicken, so he died.

"If it's gone, it's gone, let's eat something else."

While they were eating, Cao Ping came with Fu Lang and the child.Cao Ping stood outside the shop, looked at the people inside and said with a smile, "I guess you are here."

"Come in, why are you here so late, have you eaten yet?"

"I've eaten, I've eaten."

"Sit down and eat some after eating." Hearing the voice, he looked up and saw that Cao Ping was bringing his husband and children. Josh hurriedly let them in, invited someone to sit down, and picked up a bowl for the two of them. A bowl of taro glutinous rice balls and sugar water, "Fortunately, you come here quickly, otherwise we will eat it up, try this homemade glutinous rice balls."

"Come on, give me the baby, and I'll help you hug it."

As he said that, he took the little guy in Liu Jin's arms. The little guy was awake, staring at him with a pair of big eyes. He was no stranger to him, and smiled at him.

"Why are you so happy, with such a beautiful smile?" Josh teased the child, and asked, "How did you get here? Did you come on foot? If you want to know that you are also coming, we will take you by the way." You are here together."

"We came here in the bullock cart of Lord Wang, and we came here slower than you." Cao Ping took a spoonful of glutinous rice balls into his mouth, tasted it, and couldn't help but hum, "This glutinous rice balls are delicious. , is it stuffed with something?"

"There are red beans with sesame seeds, ham and pork, see what you eat." Josh held a moving little guy in his arms, and the little guy made a sound of ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I don't know what I'm talking about, but I'm dancing with joy.

***

As the night fell slowly, the lanterns in the whole town were lit up.

With so many lanterns lit at the same time, the whole street was as bright as day, and there were more pedestrians on the street than during the day, making the whole street lively.

There are Yamen servants patrolling everywhere on the street to maintain order.

The business of their family is also getting better and better. The lanterns hanging at the door are sold one by one, and some little brothers and girls come to their stall to choose small ornaments.Cao Ping and his wife stayed with them to help run the stall, and Liu Jin carried the sleeping child on his back and followed her husband to help sell things.

"Hey, why are you here too? Long time no see, little Nuomi. Happy New Year." Seeing Bai Luoxi bringing Xiao Nuomi over, Josh was a little surprised.

Bai Luoxi said with a smile: "I guess you will definitely come to town today. It happened that Nuomi said that he wanted to buy lanterns, so I took him out for a walk to see if I could meet you. I didn't expect that we were lucky and found it as soon as we came. you guys."

"This is our fate. What is it called? We are destined to meet thousands of miles away." Josh laughed and said, "Does Xiao Nuomi want a lantern? Then, you can choose any lantern here, and I will give it to you after you choose it. No I boast that the best lantern in the whole town is in our shop."

"Brother!" Ah Nian obviously didn't forget his favorite little Nuomi brother.

"Brother Anian." Xiao Nuomi also showed her reserve when she saw her younger brother, her eyes were crooked with a smile, and there was a happy smile on her small face.

"Then go out and play with Xiao Nuomi." The shop is too small, and there are so many people inside, so Josh didn't invite Bai Luoxi and the child to sit in. Seeing their son arguing to go out, he let the child out , and he himself followed out.

I saw two children holding hands, you smiled at me, and I smiled at you, which made them both adults laugh.

"Choose a lantern each of you, and I'll take you for a walk after you've chosen." After keeping the children in the store for so long, it happened that they also wanted to go out for a stroll, so Josh asked the two children to choose a lantern, and turned to talk to them. Ah Mu and Master Zhao said, "Mum, I will take them outside for a stroll, do you want to come out together?"

"I'm an old man, so I won't go out anymore. You guys go, I'll just watch the shop here." Zhao Amu said and asked his son to accompany his daughter-in-law and grandson to take care of his wife and grandson. child.

"Yeah, you go, I'm here to watch." Cao Ping said.

"Then I'll trouble you to watch here. We'll go shopping and come back." Seeing that the shop doesn't need so many people here, Josh brought a group of boys and their master Zhao together, and went to the street with Bai Luoxi went shopping.

Xiao Nuomi picked out a rabbit lantern, and Anian followed his brother's lead and chose a rabbit lantern too.

The other four boys did not choose lanterns.

Pedestrians on the street come and go, if you don't pay attention when you walk, you will easily bump into others.

This winter, after staying at home for such a long time before going out, the adults didn't think it was a big deal, but the children found everything new when they came out.

Seeing that Bai Luoxi was the only one with the child, followed by two guards and maids, Qiao Xu asked, "Why are you the only one with Xiao Nuomi, and the county magistrate doesn't have time to go out with you today?"

"Don't mention him, Mr. Fu is busy, how can he go out shopping with us when he has time?" Speaking of Mrs. Fu, Bai Luoxi couldn't help shaking his head and sighing, "Every time you promise to accompany us out, you will have something to do when you are about to go out. , just like the last time, he walked out halfway with us and left, and the guards in the mansion sent us back when we went back."

"I see that there are quite a few office servants on the street. Mr. Fu must be busy with a lot of things." They walked on the street, and they could see office servants everywhere, and Josh could quite understand it. Mr. Fu, the official parent, cannot be with Fu Lang and the child on this special day.

"Yeah, I'm just too busy. I'm used to it. Don't mention him. I'll feel bad when I mention him." Bai Luoxi didn't understand.But in his eyes, their Master Fu is not only a good county magistrate in the eyes of others, but also his husband and the father of the child. It's just that since the children grew up, their Master Fu has been by their side and the children. The time is too little.

Even if it was understandable, there would always be complaints in his heart.

"Yes, yes, it was my fault. To express my apology, I invite you and Xiao Nuomi to eat our glutinous rice balls. We made them ourselves today. They should be pretty good." There were so many people that it was difficult for them to even get in, let alone get in and sit down to eat.

"Ayan, help me pack a few glutinous rice balls, they are going to be raw."

"Hey, good."

Qiao Xu greeted Chen Yan, asked him to bring out a serving of glutinous rice balls in a food box, turned around and handed the food box to the maid who was following Bai Luoxi, and said hello to the family members, and then he and Bai Luoxi continued to walk forward with the children, and said: "The glutinous rice balls are not tasty after being boiled for a long time, and they will taste better when they are cooked in a restaurant later."

"Okay." Bai Luoxi didn't refuse Josh's kindness, and let the maid following behind hold it.

There are quite a few small stalls on the street, selling all kinds of things, but they don't really need these things. On the way, they just bought some snacks for a few children to eat in their hands, and the group went to the restaurant.

Today's Jufu Building is also full, but with Bai Luoxi as the big boss, they don't have to worry about not having a place when they come here, the shopkeeper has already reserved the best place upstairs for their boss.

"Please come inside my master." The shopkeeper personally took their master, young master, and friends from the master upstairs together, ordered someone to serve tea and snacks, and left two young servants to guard at the door. Going to work on him.

"Dong dong dong..."

As soon as they entered the box, before they sat down, they heard the sound of drums beating from the bottom.

"Is this the start of the lion dance?" Hearing the voice, Josh guessed that the lion dance team was coming.

"It should be. You open that door, and you can see it when you go out." Bai Luoxi asked Josh who happened to be standing by the door to open it.

"Is this the door?" Josh asked as he opened the door and found a large balcony outside, so he took a group of children out to watch the lion dance.

Following the sound of drums, a group of lions came first, and behind the lions were people on stilts, and some rode and carried small fish to swim in the street, and some rode among them on ponies. There are two long dragons at the end.

The crowd on the street rushed in one direction, following the lion and dragon dance team to this side.

"Wahhahaha..." Ah Nian stood outside the railing, looking at the lions and dragons coming towards them, and screamed happily.

"..." Josh followed the child, grabbing the collar of their over-excited son with one hand, for fear that the child would fall out through the cracks in the railing.He lowered his head and glanced at his son who was screaming there. He was stunned. Son, can we laugh a little better?

Bai Luoxi went out behind Josh, and said to Josh: "Every year these lions and dragons come to dance in front of our restaurant. If you want to watch lion and dragon dances in the future, you can come here to watch them. Say hello to the shopkeeper and ask him to reserve a place for you."

"That's a good thing." This Josh really didn't know.

There is a spacious road in front of the gate of Jufu Building. The lion dancer soon arrived at the gate of the restaurant, followed by fish dancers, horse dancers and stilt walkers. The crowd surrounded the gate of the restaurant. made a big circle.

"puff--"

A man held a torch in his hand, shouted something, and sprayed it on the torch, and a string of fire shot out.

The most powerful thing is that those who are walking on such high stilts can still stand firmly on them.

People in the entire restaurant ran out to the balcony and windows, and even the doorway below was crowded with people watching the excitement, and it was bustling downstairs.

It's better for them to stand upstairs, at least there are no crowds around them.

It was the first time for Josh to stand on a high place and watch people dance with dragons and lions. His vision was very wide, and he could see the scene below clearly. It was indeed very lively.Turning his head, he found that the man was standing behind him. When he turned his head, the man was also looking at him, and the two looked at each other.

The two of them secretly held hands together, watched the dragon and lion dance below together, and felt the joy brought by this festival...