vrcanaries Chapter 175: How many people can live to be old?
Chapter 175: How many people can live to be old?
Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for family reunion.
The workshop specially gave workers a half-day holiday so that they could go home early and have a lively reunion dinner with their families.
Ge Li, Bao Xiaoxiao and other six brothers saved up one month's wages, bought good food and wine from the canteen, and crossed the mountain to celebrate the festival with their fifth brother.
In Yuxi Village, every household is also bustling and festive.
The Jin family originally planned to live here for a period of time every year, treating Yuxi Village as a place for leisure and vacation. Unexpectedly, they didn't want to leave after living here. Now that the whole family is together, they don't have to travel back and forth and can celebrate the festival directly in the village.
Mrs. Jin, Gu Fanghua, stayed in the Lin family's kitchen in the afternoon, making moon cakes and snacks with Mrs. Lin and Zhang Cui'e. The tempting aroma never dissipated in the yard in the afternoon.
Lin Jiang specially went out to buy a few lanterns in the morning and hung them on the gate of the courtyard and the eaves of the main hall to add a festive atmosphere to the home.
When the kids come home from school, they start drooling and their stomachs rumble with greed even before they even enter the door.
This time the thin arms couldn't twist the thighs. Not to mention the two Lin brothers, even Bai Xiang couldn't steal first.
A large pot of hot water had already been boiled on the stove, and the children were taken away to wash and change into clean clothes.
Bai Xiang put on the light green embroidered skirt prepared by her mother, and a plain jacket of the same color. She untied her two pigtails and combed them into two buns, and tied them with a blue tassel headband, looking cute and playful.
As dusk falls, a full moon rises across the sky.
The Lin and Jin families celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival together. After bathing and washing, they burned incense and worshiped the moon in the courtyard.
This is the first time that Bai Xiang has celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival with his family in such a formal way, and everything feels new to him.
Because of the flood last year, our family was not in the mood to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival. So Baixiang only found out today that on Mid-Autumn Festival we have to take a bath, comb our hair, wear a small skirt, sweep the yard, burn incense and worship the moon.
After following the adults to burn incense and worship the moon, and getting the adults' permission, the children immediately rushed forward, holding moon balls in one hand and dim sum in the other to offer to the gluttons.
The adults sat around the table, sipping chrysanthemum wine, appreciating the moon and chatting.
"The six brothers, Ge Li and Bao Xiaoxiao, have all settled down in the workshop. They have been working diligently and carefully for more than a month without any problems." Jin Qianlai casually found a topic to talk about, and found the Niu brothers and said happily, "I was worried that they would have trouble adapting to the gold workshop, but later I found that I was overthinking. In just one day, the six brothers became friends with the workers."
Lin Jiang also laughed, "When the workers got off work at noon, they dragged them to the canteen to eat. In fact, they were all asking about the details of the trial. Now the old lawyer's name has spread all over the place."
The others pricked up their ears, "What's going on? Don't keep us in suspense! Tell us now!"
"Old Xu has a sharp tongue. I heard that he scolded the descendants of the official in the government hall. If it weren't for the yamen runners, Old Xu would have been beaten."
"What did you curse?"
Lin Jiang cleared his throat and imitated Old Xu's tone of voice.
——"You were born as human beings but you have lost your humanity and are left with only animal nature. What are you still doing standing in the world? You should find a deep mountain and crawl on the ground!"
——"You beasts, others become more intelligent as they grow older, but you become less civilized. You insist on being different and going backwards. You burn paper money to offer to your ancestors during the Spring Festival, but they don't even bother to accept the money you burn!"
——"If it weren't for the fact that Da Rui has laws that cannot be violated, I would send you to see your ancestors right now!"
——"What the hell are you? You're so ugly even when you tear open human skin. Even dogs find your toad faces disgusting!"
The Lin family, "..."
Mr. and Mrs. Jin pinched their thighs so hard that they were polite enough not to laugh.
Perhaps the only one who can curse people without caring about anything is Mr. Xu.
Lin Dashan's face turned red from trying not to laugh. "I heard from Old Xu that the sons of that wealthy family are all perverts. It's not uncommon for them to bully men and women and rob people. Old Xu just scolded them, which was too light. It didn't hurt or itch at all."
"So the prefect exiled them to the same place as Cao Wu. For more than a month, I heard they were beaten more than a dozen times."
Bai Xiang and his friends huddled in a corner, listening with great interest and marveling at the performance.
After eating a round, while everyone was not paying attention, the child put a few mooncakes in his arms, slipped out of the door quietly, and ran to Yan's house under the moonlight.
The Yan family was also enjoying the moon.
A group of people were sitting and chatting beside the bamboo pavilion in the front yard, with incense sticks still burning in the incense burner next to them.
Yan Changqing was also there, but he did not admire the moon. Instead, he sat in the pavilion. On the stone table was a translucent lighting lantern, and next to the lantern were several plates of exquisitely shaped snacks of various colors.
It was as if he had known that a little girl would come and was waiting for her to come and eat together, and the snacks on the plate were untouched.
"Brother Changqing! I'm here to give you some moon cakes!" The little baby's head popped out from outside the pavilion fence, his voice crisp and sweet.
Before Yan Changqing turned his head, the corner of his mouth curled up, "What a coincidence that Bai Xiang sent you off. Brother Changqing has a lot of snacks here, but there is no Yuetuan."
Hearing this, the little kid immediately took out the moon balls in his arms and handed them over, holding his little hands high. "I brought a lot, here! They're for you to eat! Master has one, Madam Du has one, Grandpa Xu has one, Uncle Yu has one! Sister Xu has one! Uncle Mo Yi also has one! The rest are all yours!"
The base of the pavilion is high and the fence is not low. The child stands below, tiptoeing and raising his hands high. His serious look is reflected in the soft moonlight, which makes people's hearts soften when they see him.
Yan Changqing took all the moon balls she handed over, leaned over and directly carried the baby in through the fence, "Okay, I'll eat the moon balls, and Bai Xiang will eat snacks beside me to keep me company, okay?"
Bai Xiang's eyes curved into crescents, and he trembled his little feet and shook his head, and the blue tassels swayed with him.
She can eat!
She is a big eater!
The more the better!
Outside the pavilion, all the people sitting around the table were adults.
Mr. Xu, Madam Du, Jia Banxian, Yu Heng, and Xu Enhui.
Listening to the noise in the pavilion, the adults smiled and shook their heads, realizing that this scene was already commonplace, and continued to chat.
Xu Hanzhang took a sip of chrysanthemum wine, looked up at the moon, and sighed, "It's rare for a person to live to seventy. In another three or four years, I will be a rare person too. I just don't know if I can live to that time, and how many times can I see a moon like this? I have had many ups and downs in this life, but I don't have any regrets. The only regret is that Enhui hasn't gotten married yet, and the old man wants to see her get married with his own eyes."
"Grandfather, it's such a nice Mid-Autumn night. Why are you saying all this? It's just spoiling the fun." Xu Enhui scolded him lightly, but there was a lingering sourness in his nose. He glanced at his grandfather's gray hair and quickly looked away.
There is an old saying that a hundred years pass in a flash, but in this world, how many people can live to be a hundred years?
Living for sixty years is already a long life.
There are very few people who are lucky enough to go forward a few more years, otherwise how can it be said that “this is rare in the world”?
My grandfather is already sixty-six years old this year. Xu Enhui suddenly felt extremely fearful, terrified of the prospect of such a separation.