Chapter 202 Mid-Autumn Festival



It was already the fifteenth day of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The construction of the academy had stopped today. The men who had received their wages and carried mooncakes happily went home to celebrate the festival and would return to work tomorrow. The road construction in the village had also stopped for a day, but the clothes in the clothing workshop had to be shipped out in a hurry, so the guys working in the workshop had to work half a day today.

"Ada, give me two pounds of pork belly."

"Give me two pounds of meat too..."

"Ada, I'll give you a leg."

The pork stall had good business early in the morning. Half of the pig was sold out soon after it was put on the stall. Now that the people in the village have money in their pockets, they are willing to spend a few copper coins to buy two pounds of pork to cook for the whole family during the festival.

"Okay, Third Uncle, take the meat you want." The knife went up and down. If you want a pound of pork, it will definitely not be less than 1.2 pound. Cao Ada weighed the cut meat and gave it to the people who wanted to buy meat in front of the stall.

He listened to his brother and expanded the pig pen to raise dozens of piglets. Now they are fat and strong, and they can be slaughtered and sold for a good price before the New Year.

Everyone in the family was busy for two days. The mushroom rack was built. Cao Gang took people to the mountains to pick seedlings and planted them. He also hunted some game to add to the dishes. Cao Xiangnan was busy like a top two days after he came back. He ran between the town and home, and also took care of the things in the garment workshop.

At noon, everyone in the garment workshop had finished work. Li Mei, who was the last to leave, locked the door after checking everything, and went back with the other guys waiting outside.

The carriage came back with a clatter. Cao Xiangnan came back from the town and took Aning and Xuanxuan with him. Sun Yanshan and Cao Dapeng were waiting to sell the food in the shop and would come back later. Everyone would come to his house for dinner tonight, so they didn't have to cook separately at home.

"Come on, get off." Cao Xiangnan got off the carriage and helped Aning and Xuanxuan get off.

"Aning, Xuanxuan, you're here." Qi Wanfeng heard the sound of the carriage coming back outside and walked out. Aning noticed that Wanfeng's belly was bigger than the last time he saw her, so he hurriedly walked forward a few steps and said, "Xiangnan went to pick up Xuanxuan and me, so we came here first. The clerk in the shop over there can help watch it for a while."

"Okay, that's good. Come in quickly." Qi Wanfeng was very happy to see Aning coming with the child, and hurried to welcome them in.

Seeing her husband behind her, Qi Wanfeng called out "Husband."

"I brought some vegetables and mooncakes from the town. Let's carry them in first. I'll go to the village to deliver the mooncakes. Is Chen Hong inside? Call him out and go with me to the village to deliver the mooncakes." Cao Xiangnan opened the curtain and moved the things down first. Just then, Sun Dahu heard the sound and came out. Without saying a word, he came over to help move the things.

Today, he cooked at his house. Several families who lived nearby were invited. In addition, the third uncle and Liu A-ma and several single elderly people were also invited to come. Those who were free came to help with the work. Chen Hong came early in the morning and was helping with the work inside.

"Ah Hong is inside, I'll go call her out." Sun Bailian also came out from inside. When she heard Xiangnan was looking for Chen Hong, she went inside and called her out.

After taking everything off the car, Cao Xiangnan called Chen Hong to drive the carriage into the village to deliver moon cakes.

In the past two days, two shifts of people in Yipinzhai worked overnight to make moon cakes, and only then did they get all the moon cakes ordered before today. There were especially many people in the town who bought moon cakes today. When he came back, the people in the building were still rushing to make moon cakes.

Originally, Cao Xiangnan only wanted to send mooncakes to his employees for the festival, but later he thought that since he had already sent them, he might as well send them to every household in the village. There will be many places in the future that will need people from the village, and it will be easier to find people to do work if he builds a good reputation.

The carriage went to Li Zheng's place first. Cao Xiangnan first delivered mooncakes to Li Zheng's house, and mentioned to Li Zheng the matter of delivering mooncakes to every household in the village, and called Li Zheng to go with him. Li Zheng agreed without saying a word, and said, "It's too conspicuous to drive a carriage, I'll call two people to carry the load and deliver it."

"That's fine." Although he wanted to get this done quickly, since Li Zheng said it would be conspicuous, he would find someone to carry the load, and Cao Xiangnan had no objection to this.

Li Zheng went out and came back quickly, followed by two or three men carrying baskets and several children, presumably their children. A group of children were laughing and playing with each other. Cao Xiangnan opened a bag of mooncakes and gave one to each of the children. "How can this be?" The man next to him wanted to stop him when he saw it, feeling a little embarrassed.

"It's okay, it's for everyone to eat. There's enough here, eat it first." Cao Xiangnan said.

The mooncakes on the carriage were quickly distributed to several baskets. Cao Xiangnan did not forget to tell Seventh Auntie, "Seventh Auntie, Zhao Auntie, when you are free here, take Xiao Fuer to my place. Everyone is there, and Xiao Fuer can play with his brothers there."

"Okay, okay, I'll take Xiao Fuer there now." The person standing there replied with a smile.

The group delivered the mooncakes to the Cao family compound, followed by many children, all eating mooncakes in their hands. Since mooncakes were delivered to everyone in the village, Cao Xiangnan did not forget the Cao family compound. Knowing that there were many people here, he also prepared a few pounds of pork to send over.

The Cao Family Compound was divided into two families, and the cakes were delivered according to the number of households. Li Zheng and Chen Hong calculated the amount of cakes per person. Knowing the relationship between the Cao Family Compound and Cao Silang, they also gave each household an extra basket.

"Seventh Uncle, why are you so polite? You are sending gifts." When Cao's father saw Li Zheng and his Si'er coming to deliver gifts, he hurried over, took the cakes with both hands, and said a few polite words.

"How could I send them? Your Silang asked Yipinzhai in the town to make them, and sent one to each family in the village." Li Zheng said.

"This must cost a lot of money." Chen Zhu was so upset, as if he was spending his own money.

"Dad, Mom, I brought you a few pounds of meat. You can cut another pound for my eldest brother's family." Cao Xiangnan handed the meat in his hand to his father. Those unpleasant things had passed for a long time. They were no longer like enemies. They could still talk to each other when they met.

"Well, okay." Cao's father took it and responded.

Chen Zhu saw a big piece of meat and thought about giving a portion to Chen Li, that bitch? Chen Li was dreaming!

"Fourth brother." Cao Laowu heard that his fourth brother went to Yipinzhai to buy cakes and gave them to the whole village, and was reluctant to give him a few taels of silver. What kind of place is Yipinzhai? Going to Yipinzhai to buy cakes and give them to the whole village, how much money did it cost? He immediately felt uncomfortable.

"Well, fifth brother, you are back too." Cao Xiangnan responded, only sparing a glance at his fifth brother.

Since the last time his fifth brother went to him to borrow money, he asked the storekeeper Liu to find someone to check his fifth brother. You don't know until you check, and you will be shocked. It turns out that Cao Gao often went out to drink with his classmates while studying, and kept a lover outside. No wonder no matter how much money this family has, it is not enough for him.

Hearing that he was penniless now and his lover wouldn't even let him in, he could only chuckle.

"Fourth Uncle." Chen Li came over with a shameless face, took the mooncakes sent by Fourth Uncle, and said a few nice words with a smile.

Ever since he made a fuss about splitting up the family, he lived with his mother and had to watch her expression all day long. He now went out during the day and came back at night when the sun was about to set, so as not to see her. As long as he and his husband could save more money, they would build another house outside and move out.

Now that the family has split up, their life is getting better and better. Chen Li didn't regret making a fuss about splitting up the family, otherwise they would still be living a life of hunger every meal. He had had enough of that kind of life.

Wang Yan always spoke in a sour tone, "Fourth Uncle has made a fortune. He has given mooncakes to everyone in the village. How much money does it cost? It would be better to give some money to the family. We can't even afford to eat meat on weekdays."

Wang Yan's words expressed the thoughts of many people here.

Cao Xiangnan was too lazy to even pay attention to Wang Yan. Li Zheng and his group had already rushed to the next house to give mooncakes. After saying hello to everyone, he said to his father, "I have something else to do, so I'll leave first." Then he walked

out of the compound and caught up with Li Zheng and his group.

When Cao Adie saw Si'er leaving, he sighed, glanced at the second son's wife, and gave the meat in his hand to his wife, saying, "Go cut a pound for the first son."

Although Chen Zhu was unhappy, he still had a dark face and said that he would cut a pound of meat. In the end, he gave seven ounces. As soon as

Chen Li got the meat, she knew that it was not a pound. She remembered that the meat that was delivered by the knife was at least five pounds. Fortunately, he also bought half a pound of meat. She smiled and said "thank you, mother" to his mother, and went back with the meat.

"Bah!" Little bitch! Chen Zhu cursed in his heart.

Wang Yan is now bullied by his mother everywhere. He doesn't like his mother in his heart. If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't support several children by himself, he wouldn't want to live by his mother's nose every day.

Now that life at home is getting harder and harder, he also follows his father to work in the fields. How could he have done such work before? !

Every household in Caojia Village received the delivered cakes. This cake is different from the cakes they ate before. It has stuffing inside and the taste is different. I heard that it is made by the big restaurant in the town. The happiest ones are the children in the family. They have never eaten such delicious cakes in their lives.

"Good, good, this Caojia Silang is a good one." The grandmother who has lived in the village for most of her life has never eaten such delicious cakes in her life. After taking a bite, the old grandmother shook her hands and said that Caojia Silang is a good one.

"Yes, Cao Jia Silang is a man with a conscience. He still remembers the villagers after he got rich." said the old man.

The children ate the mooncakes in their hands and ran around happily outside.

Every household in the village received mooncakes. People who ate the delicious and sweet mooncakes were all talking about the goodness of Cao Jia Silang and that their Caojia Village was getting better and better. There were expectations in their eyes. However, there were a few families who ate other people's things and cursed the people who sent them.

Fortunately, Caojia Village was not very big. After walking around for an hour, the group stopped and walked. At last, there were still a few mooncakes left in the basket. Cao Xiangnan gave them to the men carrying the baskets and asked them to take them home to eat.

After distributing the mooncakes, they returned to their respective homes. They

rushed back to Li Zheng's place and found that no one was at Li Zheng's house. It was thought that Qi Amao had already taken Zhao Amao and Xiao Fu'er to his home. Cao Xiangnan rushed to the carriage and took Chen Hong and Li Zheng to his place.


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