Chapter 135 - Chapter 135: Chapter 135: The Upright Mid -Autumn (Seeking monthly recommendation tickets)_l (1/2)

Chapter 135: Chapter 135: The Upright Mid -Autumn (Seeking monthly recommendation tickets)_l

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“He’s in the hall.” Yingbao thought that the Lizheng was there, like everyone else, to see her gourd, so she led him there.

Only one large gourd remained in the hall at this moment. The other had been taken home by Jiang Quan, who planned to bring it to the marketplace next time to draw a crowd. After all, they couldn’t always bring his little cousin to the market.

Sun Licheng touched the large gourd and asked, “Yingbao, how much are you selling this gourd for?”

Yingbao thought for a moment and gave him a middle-of-the-road price: “The shopkeeper in Simen Town offered thirty taels of silver for it last time, and this one is about the same size as that one, so it’s also thirty taels.”

Sun Licheng was quite happy to hear this because his second son had given him fifty taels to buy a gourd to attract business.

He just saved twenty taels out of nowhere, which he had no plans of returning to his son.

Whoever says a father doesn’t profit off his son is likely lying. When such good luck comes along, it’s best to take advantage of it.

“I’ll buy this gourd,” Sun Licheng declared.

Yingbao, of course, was happy to agree, nodding immediately: “Great! Would you like to carry it back yourself?”

Sun Licheng certainly wouldn’t carry it himself. His youngest son and a few townsmen were collecting taxes in the village, and they would come up to the South Slope to pick him up shortly.

At noon, when Jiang Quan heard that Yingbao had sold the large gourd for thirty taels, he pounded his chest in frustration.

“You fool! Sold for just thirty taels? That was the King Gourd! Many people have asked me about it. I was already offering eighty taels. One guy is at home discussing how to get the money.”

“There’s still one more,” Yingbao replied with nonchalance.

She was pondering how to get the large gourd out of the den. The ones in the den were much bigger than the ones grown outside.

“That one is for advertising! You understand? It cannot be sold!” Jiang Quan sighed heavily.

Yingbao blinked, whispered soothingly, “Why are you in such a hurry? Actually, I have two more of the largest gourds hidden away. But I can’t show them to you right now.”

She had decided to sneak out two big gourds that night and claim they were previously hidden in the mushroom shed.

“Really? How didn’t I know?” Jiang Quan was a bit skeptical.

Ever since Yingbao’s gourds grew to the size of washbasins, he visited every day. How did he not know about another two King Gourds?

Yingbao made up a serious lie, “Because I hid them in the bamboo shed, that’s why you didn’t know.”

Jiang Quan scratched the back of his head, a bit puzzled.

But puzzled as he was, he was still very eager to have two more King Gourds.

With their conversation done, each of them went about their own business. Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn festival. Yingbao gave Chuchu a few days off, so she could enjoy the holiday at home and come back next month if she wanted.

Yanru had bought many candles, and melted a potful of wax. She added some red dye into the wax, teaching her nieces to make floating lanterns.

She took a chicken egg, lightly dipped it into the melted wax, and then picked it up.

A layer of red wax stuck to the eggshell.

Once the wax hardened, she carefully peeled it off the eggshell and set it aside.

This tedious process of dipping and peeling created a pile of oval, red wax petals, which she then attached to each other, forming a red lotus base.

She then used a slice of sheepskin as a base for the lotus, put a candle in the middle of the lotus, and thus, a river lantern was created.

Yingbao decided to make a few of these lanterns, to release with her sisters during the Mid -Autumn night.

Jiang Erlang chopped up some bamboo and built a bamboo tower outside the yard, preparing for the Mid-Autumn festival.

Old man Jiang and his grandsons were not idle either. They bought all kinds of colorful papers and sliced up bamboo strips, making a variety of lanterns at home.

Madame Chun and a few other women used new mooncake molds to make mooncakes. The mooncake filling was red bean paste and osmanthus sugar crisp.

After making the river lanterns, Yingbao took her two younger brothers to knock down some dates.