Chapter 194 Watching the lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month
Seeing Lin Xiaoman, someone wanted to come over and say hello. Lin Xiaoman pulled Lin Erhu and got into the crowd.
What a joke, in front of so many people, if they say "Princess Qingping", she will be surrounded and admired like a monkey.
However, Aunt Guihua took care of the people in her husband's family. Not only did they not come to the house to cause trouble, but they could also make money with them, which was also a good thing.
It seems that the vegetables grown this year have made money, and the old lady is not as short-sighted as before.
Well, things are moving in a good direction.
In addition to those selling skewers with baskets on their backs, Lin Xiaoman also saw many people selling hot ginger tea on the roadside with carts. The jars containing the ginger tea could be seen to be from Grandma Four’s workshop.
There are also many people eating braised skewers while walking, smelling the smell as they pass by, which is the smell of the packages taken away by the family members of the government servants when they go home to kill the pigs.
After that, they came to buy braised food packets a few times. They said that the braised food shop opened in the city and the business was very good. It seems that they all have business minds.
Lin Xiaoman also bought some braised skewers to try. The taste was good, but it felt like it was still missing something compared to the other ones.
Probably the delicious soy sauce and vegetarian chicken essence.
I also saw someone selling fried potato cubes, sprinkled with a little bit of chili powder and salt. They were bite-sized and sold for a penny a piece.
Lin Xiaoman bought it for fifty cents and put it in an oil paper bag. It is convenient to hold it in your hand and eat it while walking.
I tasted it, and it just tasted like potatoes fried in oil. It wasn’t bad, and I couldn’t say it was delicious. It wasn’t as delicious as the small sizzling potatoes sold over there.
After walking around, I saw that most of the popular snacks in the street market were related to her, which makes me feel quite proud when I think about it.
In addition to delicious food, the best seller today is the various lanterns.
Unlike those places where they are all made of plastic, the lanterns here are made of paper or gauze, with candles inserted inside. You have to be careful when you buy one and carry it in your hand, for fear of lighting the lantern if you turn over the candle.<
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Even though I am so careful, I still hear someone exclaim from time to time that their lantern is on fire.
Lu Jin bought Lin Xiaoman a rabbit lamp. The white rabbit held a carrot in its arms. It was not very beautiful, and it was even a bit funny.
Lin Xiaoman raised it carefully, fearing that the rabbit lantern would catch fire if he was not careful.
Suddenly, he heard cheers, and Lin Xiaoman looked over there, but there were people everywhere, and it was not clear whether anyone was performing a show or not.
Lu Jin protected Lin Xiaoman, Qingshu held up Lin Erhu and squeezed into the crowd. They saw a dark and thin man holding a monkey with a chain, holding a small whip in his hand, and commanding the monkey to do something.
Various actions.
The children nearby clapped their hands when they saw it, and the adults also kept cheering.
In the past, Lin Xiaoman and Lin Erhu would have enjoyed watching it, but after going there and being exposed to many new ideas, both siblings began to sympathize with the monkey who was forced to perform.
But compared to the thin and skinny man, the monkey looks very fat, and his hair looks very smooth under the light.
Lu Jin saw that Lin Xiaoman looked wrong and asked in her ear: "What's wrong?"
Lin Xiaoman shook his head. How was she going to say that it was wrong for the monkey charmer to abuse the monkeys? After all, the thinking of people in this era is different from that of later generations. She really jumped out and said those monkeys were pitiful and asked the monkey charmer to let the monkeys go. I guess everyone is human.
I think she is sick.
But it seems that this monkey is well-raised and does not look like it is being abused.
After a round of juggling, the monkey was holding a big bowl and jumping around the circle of people.
Most people would throw a few copper coins into the big bowl. Some people didn't want to give money. The monkey stood for a while and then moved on to the next one.
When he walked up to Lin Xiaoman, Lin Xiaoman put a paper bag of small potatoes he had just bought into a large bowl.
The monkey looked at the paper bag and was stunned for a moment. Then he came to the paper bag and smelled it, then wanted to open the paper bag and eat it.
The man was chatting with the people who were watching. Seeing that the monkey was about to eat, he ran over and snatched the bag from its hand. When Lin Xiaoman thought he was going to teach the monkey a lesson, the man opened the bag, looked at it, and took the bag away.
I gave it back to the monkey. I touched the top of its head, took the big bowl in its hand, and said angrily and funny: "You greedy thing, eat it while you're at it!"
The monkey held the paper bag with one front paw, jumped with three paws and ran to sit on the stool on the side. It also knew how to poke potato pieces with the bamboo skewers inside to eat.
The clever and strange appearance made the onlookers very happy, and many people actually threw money into the man's bowl.
The man is sweet-tongued and can talk a lot. He calls women "girls" when he sees them. He makes several older women laugh so hard that they don't feel bad even if they throw money away.
When she sees a child, she calls her "Miss Gongzi" and compliments the child on how rich he looks. The adults next to him are happy and throw money into the bowl willingly.
After receiving the reward, the man would go back to the monkey and tell him to buy it food. Coupled with the monkey's funny look from time to time, the bowl was filled with copper coins before the circle was completed.
Lu Jin even gave him a broken piece of silver, and the man immediately knelt down, kowtowed twice, and blurted out a string of auspicious words. He was so fast-talking that you couldn't even hear what he said unless you listened carefully.
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Lu Jin was used to people kneeling down, so he didn't feel anything at all. Lin Erhu was very surprised when he heard this. This monkey trick was also a strange person. Most people can't memorize these auspicious words.
After watching the monkey show, Lin Xiaoman and the others walked around for a while. It was getting late. People living outside the city had left the city one after another. People in the city were also shopping around. There were not so many people on the street, and many stalls were also gone.
We are all ready to close the stall.
Lu Jin wants to take Lin Xiaoman and her brother back to live in the county government office, while Lin Xiaoman wants to live with her fourth grandma.
In the end, Lu Jin said that if Lin Xiaoman could not move, he would send the siblings to the fourth grandma's place.
When he was approaching the fourth grandma's place, he heard someone scolding in the alley in front. One of them was a sly talker, and he could scold her in all kinds of ways, but he was also really dirty. Lu Jin didn't want to offend Lin Xiaoman's ears, so she motioned Qingshu to go.
Take a look.
Qingshu took a few steps and ran into the alley.
Lin Xiaoman listened for a while and then said: "The scolding one sounds like a monkey trick. Is he being robbed?"
Lu Jin sounded like he was a little worried about that fat monkey.
Qing Shu came in and roared. The people inside were quiet for a moment, and then someone told Qing Shu not to mind his own business. How could Qing Shu listen? He just listened to the random screams of "Ouch mother."
An officer on night watch passed by and rushed over after hearing the sound. He saw Lu Jin and his sister and brother standing outside the alley. They greeted the three of them respectively. When they heard that Qingshu was inside, several officers rushed in.
Not long after, the officers escorted five people out of it. These five people all had scratches on their faces and looked a little miserable.
Behind them came Qingshu, making the monkey charmer next to him even smaller.
At this time, the face of the monkey charmer was bruised and bruised, his clothes were torn with many holes, and the reed flowers inside were flying everywhere.
Chapter completed!