The main building of the primary school has been completed. All that is left is to apply paint, pull up the wires, install doors and windows, and only the teaching building. The finishing work has begun.

To do this well is to carry out soft decoration, such as installing lights, installing tables and chairs, putting blackboards on the front and back of the classroom, and building a podium, etc.

The commune government also supported them with a batch of decorative items, such as busts of revolutionary mentors such as Marxism, Leninism and Mao, and quotes from famous people.

After the primary school teaching building was built, an office building, a dormitory building and the school building of the Fisheries Technical School next door had to be built.

Therefore, the entire school is still far away from completion. However, once the teaching building is completed, it can be officially opened, which will not affect the students' learning progress.

The rest began on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was the Lantern Festival. So we had a good meal together at noon on the fourteenth day, and the workers dispersed and went home to celebrate the Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival in ancient times, also known as the Lantern Festival, began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It has a history of more than 2,000 years.

The outer islands belong to Jiangnan.

Since ancient times, Jiangnan has been a land of prosperity and inheritance of traditional culture. Even though the current economic situation is still relatively poor, the counties in the outer islands still attach great importance to the Lantern Festival.

This sentence may be problematic, because the outer islands would hold Lantern Festival seriously even in the 1960s and 1970s when the economy was worse, let alone the 1980s when the economy has improved now.

On the fifteenth day of the month, the production team had another day off.

The members of the commune are organized into several units as a family, and then the women dress up and the old people clean up, and the whole family goes to the city to celebrate the Lantern Festival happily.

Wang Yi discussed with Wang Xianghong: "How about our production team prepare some activities to have a good Lantern Festival?"

Wang Xianghong said: "What are you going to prepare for, what are you going to do, go to the county, go to the county, the county is the busiest!"

He gave Wang Yi a vivid description of the grand Lantern Festival in the county:

Starting from the tenth day of the first lunar month, preparations will be made in the county. Colorful archways will be erected in the streets and alleys, decorated with green pines and five-color paper flowers, with roofs, banners, and Spring Festival couplets on the left and right. Colorful beaded lanterns will flash up and down the archway.

Showing the grandeur and splendor of the scene.

At the same time, according to local customs, on the morning of the Lantern Festival, city residents will organize teams to go to the Nanhai Bodhisattva Temple or other temples to "lay out lantern sacrifices".

These people will carry gift baskets, bring pig heads, chickens, ducks, fruits, cakes, etc. to the temple for worship, and refuel the temple's sky lanterns to pray for peace and prosperity for the country and the people, good health and abundant fish.

Today, people from production teams in various islands and villages have to go to the county to set up lantern festivals, because they have to "turn off the lanterns" at night.

When the lanterns are turned off, every household in the city will make "light-up rice and rice" and "light-off rice" and send them to the temple, and then give them to those who come to the temple to pray for blessings.

To put it simply, go to the county tonight to turn off the lights and have something to eat.

And it's usually good food.

In addition to this metaphysical tradition, there are many more customs, such as guessing lantern riddles, watching lanterns, patrolling the streets, eating glutinous rice balls, etc.

In previous years, the members' dividends at the end of the year were only enough to celebrate the New Year. They entertained relatives in the first month, and every household had little spare money during the Lantern Festival.

So when they went to the county, they could only eat a bowl of rice dumplings made under the lamp, but they were reluctant to eat glutinous rice balls from the city.

This made them greedy. There are many glutinous rice dumpling stalls in the city, and you can eat glutinous rice dumplings at prices ranging from ten cents a bowl to fifty cents a bowl.

They have long wanted to try the glutinous rice balls made by the chefs in the city.

The conditions are better this year. After the dividends, everyone will have some money, and the students will have money in their pockets——

It's not New Year's money, the New Year's money has been collected by my parents to help save it for marrying a wife in the future. This is all money earned in school.

Students have already made money, but the Lantern Festival is over and school is about to start again. There are new ways to make money in the new semester, so during the Lantern Festival, you can be wild and get nothing.

In this way, they look forward to going to the city to celebrate the Lantern Festival, and start begging their parents and elders to take them to the city after the New Year.

They are going to the city to spend money.

Almost all the production team went to the city to celebrate the Lantern Festival, watch the lanterns and eat glutinous rice balls, so Wang Yi didn't stay behind anymore. He signed up with Qiu Weishui and formed a group with Wang Xianghong and others to go to the city.

Wang Xianghong and Wang Yi are the backbone of the team.

For the elderly and women in the production team, they were a little hesitant about entering the county town because they had never been to the county town several times in their lives.

In this case, Wang Xianghong and Wang Yi were going to the county seat, so they naturally followed them.

Originally, some families had agreed privately to go to the county. These family groups also had backbones, people who had been to the county on weekdays.

But these people certainly don’t know the county as well as Wang Xianghong and Wang Yi, and celebrating the Lantern Festival requires traveling at night.

The light was poor at night and the visibility was poor. It would be troublesome if they got lost, so since Wang Xianghong and Wang Yi were going to the county, they simply followed them.

More and more people came to the two of them to agree to go to the county to celebrate the Lantern Festival together. Finally, Wang Xianghong counted on his hands:

More than 200 people have already said they want to leave with them.

This guy's team is huge!

He simply took out a roster and asked the members to sign up. Anyone who wanted to go with them could sign up, and finally organized a team to go out together.

Wang Yi said this was called group travel, and he happened to think that the production team would celebrate the Lantern Festival together, so he prepared some things that could be used during the trip.

For example, a luminous red flag.

The little red flag itself is very ordinary, but the edge is a luminous light hose, which will glow brightly when shaken vigorously.

Originally, he prepared it for students to hold luminous red flags and wave them in the dark night.

Since we are going to form a group to travel into the county now, it is better to have one person. When the time comes, we will form a team for easier management.

He went back and took back the little red flag and showed it to Wang Xianghong.

Wang Xianghong curiously picked up the small red flag, shook it and asked, "Can this get brighter? Is there a switch?"

Wang Yi shook his head: "No, just shake it hard."

Wang Xianghong immediately grasped the small flagpole and shook it vigorously.

Wang Yi quickly pressed his shoulders: "No need, just shake it like before and it will glow."

Wang Xianghong said: "There is no light."

Wang Yi said: "Because it's noon now, it's too bright. So, you close the doors and windows and draw the curtains - no, you have to find a room that is as closed as possible..."

"Let's just use Teacher Xiaoqiu's room before." Wang Xianghong said, "It just so happened that Engineer Zeng went home for the holidays, so the room is empty."

He entered the room and closed the door, while Wang Yi went to close the curtains.

This was seen by Wang Dongfang who was returning home.

Wang Dongfang was humming a song. When he saw that the doors and windows of the next room were closed and Wang Yi wanted to close the curtains, he smiled evilly:

"Hey, Teacher Wang, what are you doing in broad daylight? Are you going to show off your prostitution in broad daylight?"

Wang Yi said: "Don't talk nonsense. Teacher Xiaoqiu has gone back to the county first. Who am I going to have sex with in the daytime?"

Wang Dongfang pointed to the room and said: "Yes, Teacher Xiaoqiu has returned to the county. Who are you having sex with during the day? Don't deny it, there is someone in your room. I just saw..."

"Get out!" Wang Xianghong opened the door and cursed.

Wang Dongfang was stunned: "Dad, why are you in there? What are you doing?"

Wang Xianghong said angrily: "Look at the little red flag that Teacher Wang brought."

Wang Dongfang scratched his head in confusion: "What's so good about the red flag?"

"Get out!" Wang Xianghong cursed again.

Wang Dongfang had no choice but to get out angrily.

The doors and windows were closed, the curtains were drawn, and the room was dark. At this time, Wang Xianghong waved the small red flag, and the plastic tube on the edge of the triangular flag revealed a red light.

Wang Xianghong saw such a small thing for the first time and sighed repeatedly: "High technology, this is high technology, what is in it? Is it chromium chloride?"

Wang Yi didn't know either and said, "I don't know. I asked someone to buy it. It's a luminous product, right?"

"Look, when the time comes, each person will have a small red flag and everyone will line up. This will make it easier to manage and make it easier to find the team if someone gets lost, right?"

Wang Xianghong nodded repeatedly: "Yes, but it's not cheap, is it?"

Wang Yi said: "No, this is quite cheap. A small red flag only costs 20 cents, because they are all wholesale."

Wang Xianghong immediately praised: "Good stuff, this is good stuff."

He immediately approved the distribution of a small red flag to the commune members who followed the team to the county, and the production team paid for it.

Then the news spread quickly.

Suddenly more members came to sign up for the group.

Not all came here for the little red flag, but mainly because they felt it was safer to follow Wang Xianghong and Wang Yi to the county at night:

"There will definitely be a lot of people in the county tonight. You'd better be careful. There were traffickers kidnapping children during last year's Lantern Festival Lantern Festival."

"It's absolutely fine to follow Teacher Wang and the captain. Teacher Wang is familiar with us in the county."

"It's a pity that my Lihua has to work in a restaurant. Otherwise, we can just let her show us the way. Lihua is very familiar with the county now."

At noon, I took a look at the statistics for the first time.

More than 700 people have signed up to go to the county!

Many elderly people want to go, but some men have been very tired recently and decided to stay at home and watch TV and fall asleep.

Wang Yi thought that the luminous red flags he had on hand were not enough, so he quickly went back to 23 years ago to make a batch temporarily.

In the evening, every household smokes from cooking and has dinner in advance.
To be continued...