Parents are busy farming

After Ye Zitong threatened her, she stopped disturbing Ye Zifen and left her alone to make Yuanxiao.

In the yard, everyone led by Ye Yongwang was making lanterns together.

"My family was poor at that time. Every year on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there were no fun games and no money to buy delicious food. Your uncle would lead us to make lanterns. The lanterns made by your uncle were so good. In the evening We lit the lights inside the lanterns and took them outside to play. All the children in the village were surrounding us!"

Ye Yongrui was telling his sons about his childhood. Ye Yongwang was listening, but his men kept moving.

"Now my father will personally make lanterns for us every year on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, but we never take them out to show to others. Instead, we put them at home. Everyone thinks of a lantern riddle and sticks it on it, and everyone guesses it together. "Zi Fang's sweet voice reached everyone's ears.

Qingyin suddenly had an idea when he heard this, and suggested: "How about each of us make a lantern by ourselves, and then think of a lantern riddle to stick on it and hang it in our field outside. With so many lanterns, it must be very crowded at night. nice!"

Ye Yongwang said: "Okay, let's set up some more awards. If you guess the lantern riddles, you can get rewards. Not only people from our own family and caravan can participate, but also people in the village."

Everyone else found it interesting, so they started making lanterns one after another.

Ye Yongwang went to the house to find Ye Zifen to discuss the reward.

After Ye Zifen heard this idea, she said: "It's easy to reward. The children in the village are all learning to read. We have more pens, inks, paper and inkstones, so we will use paper as a reward. Who can guess all the lantern riddles? Then I will reward you with a knife of paper."

"What about the others? If you can't guess all the lantern riddles, but you can only guess one, should we reward you with something?"

Because Ye Zifen was making Yuanxiao, she then came up with an idea and said: "Every time I come up with a lantern riddle, I will reward you with a bowl of Yuanxiao. What do you think about putting three in each bowl?"

"As for the other rewards, let the person who made the lantern go. After I finish making Yuan Xiao, I will also make a lantern. By the way, go notify the people in the caravan and ask them to make one too, what not? It would be boring to just stay there, it would be interesting if everyone participated.”

After hearing this, Ye Yongwang said: "Okay, I will ask Ziwei to inform everyone. Do you need help here? If you need help, I will call Mrs. Feng over."

"No need. With Mrs. Feng helping to look after Chengsi, I feel relieved. Besides, making Yuanxiao is not that difficult. It can be done in a while."

Ye Yongwang saw that she really didn't need help from others, so he went out.

Ye Zifen speeded up the movements of her hands, and after finishing the fillings prepared in advance, she went to the courtyard to make lanterns with everyone.

When she came out, everyone had already polished the bamboo strips very smoothly. They only needed to make the bamboo strips into a suitable shape according to their own ideas, and finally paste paper of different colors on the outside.

She just thought about this lantern riddle for a while, and finally decided not to make it too difficult, so she thought of a random one, wrote it on a red piece of paper, and stuck it on the outside of her lantern.

In the evening, after everyone had eaten the Lantern Festival, they began to prepare for the upcoming lantern riddle guessing activity.

First, I stretched several ropes in the small courtyard, then supported them with sticks, and then hung lanterns on them.

After dark, light the lights inside the lanterns, it's really beautiful.

In order to attract the crowd, Ye Zifen also set off several firecrackers.

People in the village heard the sound of firecrackers and looked over here.

Seeing the bright lights here, they all ran to watch the excitement.

On the square of the small courtyard, a winding passage has been made with lanterns.

The paper on the lanterns is of different colors, and the colors of the light emitted are also different.

Next to each lantern stood a person.

Ye Zifen even made animal-shaped lanterns.

Because the lantern she made was the most special, she hung it at the end.

Next to it is the big pot prepared by Zhi Zifen. Yuan Xiao is pouring in the pot, and a pile of bowls and chopsticks are placed next to it.

When everyone knew that if they guessed the lantern riddles, they could eat Yuanxiao, everyone's enthusiasm was mobilized and they ran under the lanterns one after another.

It’s just that not all people are literate. Fortunately, there are people nearby to help them read the words above.

This is also a question that Ye Zifen and Ye Yongwang have considered in advance. Most of the people in the village are illiterate. How can they guess the answer if they are only allowed to guess out of thin air.

So whoever made the lantern would stand next to his or her own lantern and help everyone read what was written on it, so that everyone could understand what it meant.

Although most of the villagers have little education, their rich life experience has allowed them to guess one or two lantern riddles.

After guessing the lantern riddle correctly, the person standing nearby handed them a piece of paper with writing on it. With this piece of paper, they could go to Ye Zifen's place to get Lantern Festivals to eat.

Of course, the person who guesses all the lantern riddles can bring all the slips of paper to Ye Zifen. After checking, Ye Zifen will reward the other party with the paper.

In the end, only one person guessed all the lantern riddles, and this person was beyond everyone's expectations. This person was Lu Ziyi.

Lu Ziyi is young and has less life experience. It is unexpected that he can guess them all.

Although Ye Zifen did not believe that he had guessed all the lantern riddles by his own ability, compared to giving the knife and paper to others, it was more appropriate to give it to him who was reading.

"Ziyi, I heard from your elder brother that the Master has been praising you a lot recently. You are so good. You deserve the knife and paper that you are given today. I hope you can continue to study hard. You will make great contributions in the future and honor your ancestors!"

When Ye Zifen handed him the reward, she not only encouraged him a few words.

"Sister Zifen, I can do it. And some of these lights were actually guessed by my brother." He said quietly.

In fact, Ye Zifen had already guessed it, but she was not angry. Instead, she touched his head and said, "We all understand your brother's intentions. You just need to accept it with peace of mind. Don't have any psychological burden."

Lu Ziyi nodded, hugged the knife and paper, and happily went to find Lu Zili.

Ye Zifen returned to Da Ge and continued to serve Yuanxiao to other people who guessed the lantern riddles correctly.

"Ye Lizheng, after you became Lizheng, our benefits have increased more and more. I didn't expect that on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, we could guess lantern riddles and eat Yuanxiao made by your family. Even the lantern festival in the county is nothing more than that, let alone The county has not held a lantern festival for many years.”

After hearing this, Ye Yongwang nodded and said: "Two lantern festivals were held before when Magistrate Hong was here, but public security was difficult to maintain. There was also an incident of human traffickers abducting children. Although even if they were discovered by officials, they still made it difficult. Everyone was panic-stricken, and since then it has not been held anymore.”