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The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is a traditional festival in Yunxi Village. Every year on the Lantern Festival, their village has festivities with lanterns and lion and dragon dances. However, there are fewer and fewer young people in the village these years, so these The festival is not as grand as it used to be, but every year on this day there will be a cutscene.

Making lanterns is a traditional handicraft here. Some of the elders in the village know how to make lanterns, and they do it very beautifully.

A few years ago, the craft of paper-tied lanterns in their village was featured on their local TV station, which attracted the attention of local leaders. The skill of paper-tied lanterns has also become a local cultural feature.This year, the leaders of the city also asked their village masters to make a few lanterns for the city. The lantern makers in the village have been busy with this matter since then. On the day before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the The finished lanterns were handed over to people from the city.

But in addition to the lanterns sent to the city, they also need to use lanterns in their own villages.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Village Chief Gu, Secretary Yang and others went to the house of Uncle Qi, who was the most skilled at making lanterns in the village, early in the morning to ask about the lanterns.

Uncle Qi is the old man who is best at making lanterns in their village, and everyone in the village will come to his house to make lanterns.

"Uncle Seven, are our lanterns ready?" Village Chief Gu shouted as soon as he entered the door.

"The store is almost done, and there are two more that are almost there. They will definitely be ready before noon." Uncle Qi is an old man in his 70s. He is tall and thin, and he has few teeth to eat. , but he said the craft of making lanterns was the second in the village, and absolutely no one dared to say that he was the first.

The old man has two sons and two daughters. Both daughters are married. Both sons and daughter-in-law have gone out to work. Only a few grandsons and granddaughters are at home. The oldest grandson and granddaughter have gone to junior high school. , the youngest grandson is in elementary school in their village.

However, there is no school holiday for the Lantern Festival. At this moment, the grandchildren of the old man's family are still studying at school and have not come back.

"This year's lanterns are doing well. Uncle Seven and everyone have worked hard." Village head Gu and Secretary Yang went to see the lanterns and they were very satisfied. The two lanterns are still a little bit behind, and they look similar.

"Hehe, there's nothing hard or hard. We old men can still do something for the village. We can do a little bit." Uncle Qi and the other masters were all grinning, and it was obvious that they I am very happy that I can still do my part for the village.

"That's okay, that's okay, these two are not good, we will send someone to come and get them later, and I will take them away first when they are done."

"Okay, okay, the finished ones are here, you take these first, and when the remaining two are ready, I'll have someone send them over to you."

Seventh Uncle led people into the house, and a side hall inside was filled with all kinds of ready-made lanterns, big and small in different colors, but they were all very beautiful, and the patterns on the lanterns were drawn by these masters one by one. painted on.

On this day, the village head of their family, Gu, was busy with the affairs of the village, and Gu Changning was also busy with harvesting fruit in the shed. The cherry tomatoes in the shed had matured in large quantities, and he was leading the workers to pick the fruit inside.

A basket of blue cherry tomatoes was picked from the tree, with branches and leaves still attached, and a bunch weighed less than half a catty.Each fruit is bright red in color, the big one is the size of a thumb, and has a thin skin. When you put it in your mouth and bite it, jam will burst out. The taste is fresh and sweet, and there is no residue at all.

"Put another bunch of smaller ones down." The number displayed on the scale is already ten catties, and Gu Changning will ask someone to choose a bunch of smaller ones to put down, so that even if the box is removed, the fruit inside is definitely enough for ten catties heavy.

Someone next to it is responsible for packing, weighing each box of fruit, closing the lid, and sewing the outside with packing tape.

Gu Changning took a few photos with his mobile phone next to them, including the fruit trees in their shed, photos of people picking fruit, and pictures of them packing and weighing. The fruit came down.

After taking the photos, he selected a few photos that looked satisfactory and put them on Moments, and edited a paragraph: Cherry tomatoes are starting to be collected, ten yuan per catty, ten catties per box, minimum order of two boxes (free shipping ).There is also the address of their online shop at the back.

Recently, he opened a new online store, and recruited a little girl to help him manage the online store, mainly responsible for editing and putting products on the shelves and processing some customer information.Now he doesn’t take orders in the circle of friends very much. He always asks his friends to go to their online store to place orders, but now that the online store is newly opened, some customers are not used to it, so they still like to order from him. list.

Gu Changning also sent a copy of these photos to Xiao Lian, the customer service girl, so that the girl could edit and post them on their online store.

Xiao Lian is the daughter of the aunt who came back to him to ask about her work. She is just 20 years old this year. She is a little shy girl, but she is very serious in her work. In the past few days, he has taught the little girl how to edit and put products on the shelves , as well as information about responding to some inquiries from guests, if you don’t understand, ask him again.

However, their online store has just opened not long ago, and there are not many items sold online. Most of them are some vegetables in their sheds. The price is relatively expensive, and the amount is small and there is no free shipping. Only free shipping, so there are not many customers who go to their house to buy things, they are all regular customers who saw the link he sent from Moments.

As soon as his message was sent, Xiao Lian replied to him with a message: [Okay, I will edit and put it on the shelf now. 】

[Remember to set, a minimum order of two items for a single subscription, no more than ten items. 】

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The little girl likes to post all kinds of anime pictures. When Gu Changning saw the pictures sent by the little girl, she felt that the little girl who sent the pictures had a personality that was too different from her own. personal differences?

He was busy until almost noon, when Gu Changning saw Senior Brother Qin, Master Gao and others come over for lunch.Master Gao is the head of the construction team that came to repair houses in their village this time, and everyone calls him Master Gao.

In the past, lunch was cooked at their home. Now that there are more people eating, lunch is served at Houshan. It just so happens that the water and electricity here are complete. Just buy an extra gas stove and put it outside for cooking. up.At noon, his mother took a few women to cook lunch here, and everyone came here to eat, which saved them from moving around like before.

For lunch today, they ate stir-fried pork belly with sauerkraut, fried chicken with mushrooms, fried lettuce and dry-stir-fried green beans, as well as a large pot of seaweed pork rib soup and rice.

The dishes are very rich, and the quantity is also very large, all served in large plates.

"Everyone has eaten. The rice is here. Those who drink the soup come here and serve the rice here." Seeing that everyone came to eat, Gu's mother warmly greeted everyone to come and serve the soup and rice.

Several large plates of dishes are placed on the table, and a large spoon is placed in each plate. Whoever wants to eat as much can use the spoon to scoop out. The soup, rice and vegetables are all taken by themselves, and as much as they eat, no waste is allowed.

Everyone eats at their home, and there is money for meal allowances and board and lodging from above. These money are all in the hands of Gu's mother, because they live in their house and don't need money, so she spends the money on When buying vegetables, there are also some women who come to help them cook. They also need to pay some wages.

Whether it was a loss or a gain, Mother Gu didn't know too well, because in addition to the masters who came to work in their village, there were also workers in their own sheds and people who ate at home, so the money for buying vegetables was very high. They bought it together, and they have to pay part of the money for the food themselves.

"Hey, good." Master Gao also brought their group of working men over for dinner. Everyone knows a few women who cook, and the wife of the village head Gu's family. The eldest lady said hello, and then took the rice bowl to fill the rice.

Qin You also came over with a few juniors, and the young men didn't show any restraint. One of them took a big rice jar to cook rice. After two spoonfuls, the rice jar was almost full, and then he went to fill the vegetables, a little of each dish. , the food tanks are all on the tip.

"I washed some cherry tomatoes for everyone. I just picked them from the shed. After dinner, everyone will take some to eat." Here, he put the washed cherry tomatoes on the table, reminding everyone to eat after dinner.He also went to get his own rice jar to cook and load vegetables. When he passed by, he said hello to Master Gao and the others, and took the rice jar and sat with Senior Brother Qin and the others to eat.

Originally thought that they would have the opportunity to be together often because they were in the same village, but the reality was a bit different from what they had imagined. The two of them were busy with their own things during the day, and they only met when they were eating, and every meal There are always many people together, Qin You stays at his house at night, and Gu Changning sleeps on the back side of the mountain.

So even though the two of them met, apart from seeing each other during meals and occasionally finding opportunities to say a few personal words, there was no chance for them to do other bad things, which made Gu Changning extremely resentful.

"How's your cherry tomato harvest going?" Seeing the young man sitting next to him with a rice bowl, Qin You looked at the young man's plate of rice and vegetables that seemed to be more than his plate. It's not surprising, the two of them have had so many meals together, and the young man has never concealed his appetite.

"I have to receive it in the afternoon. I will deliver the goods in the afternoon, and the rest of the order will be shipped tomorrow morning." Gu Changning took a piece of pork belly and put it in his mouth, but he glanced at the other party's bowl. Green vegetables, isn't the pork belly fried by his grandma not delicious?The man didn't hit at all.