After dinner, at the reminder of Grandma Qin, Tian An began to prepare for the moon worship.
The locals have the custom of worshipping the moon. On Mid-Autumn Night, they set up an incense table and place moon cakes, watermelons, apples, plums, grapes and other seasonal fruits on it. Moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable. The watermelons are also cut into lotus shapes.
However, this is a tradition of wealthy families. Ordinary people can just prepare some fruit and mooncakes according to their own conditions.
Tian An was a modern person, and these customs were no longer practiced in modern times. So if Granny Qin hadn't reminded her, she wouldn't have even thought about it. Luckily, there were mooncakes and fruits readily available at home. Chen Qiang also prepared some incense.
When there are many people, things get done faster. After the dining table was quickly cleared, the incense table was set up in no time.
There was a red candle on each side of the incense table, with fruits and moon cakes placed in the middle.
Grandma Qin said, "Men don't worship the moon, and women don't worship the kitchen god," so moon worship is the responsibility of women.
Thinking that Tian An might not have done these things before, she stepped forward and demonstrated it to her herself.
She took three incense sticks, lit them on the red candles, and then bowed three times towards the moon, muttering her hopes:
"Moon Goddess, please bless us all to be safe and sound, to have a good harvest, to have good weather next year, and to have all the children's wishes come true..."
After he finished his worship, he lit three incense sticks and handed them to Tian An.
Tian An bowed to the moon three times as she had just done and then began to express her wish: "Moon Goddess, please bless my brother Yiming to pass the imperial examination easily, pass the imperial examination on the first try, and one day become the top scholar, and rise to a high position.
May your dreams come true, your life be smooth, your studies be successful, and your family be honored.
I am rich, I have no worries about food and drink, I am forever young, and I have no worries.
I wish Granny Qin good health and all the best..."
For a full quarter of an hour, Tian An read out every name he could think of and expressed his wishes. The entire courtyard was completely silent. Everyone was listening to Tian An's lofty ambitions and great wishes.
Peng Zhang said in a daze: "You are really generous."
Everyone: "It's more than just big."
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the county school started on the 17th. After having lunch in the village on the morning of the 16th, Liu Hui took his people back to the shop to make preparations.
Tian An was busy with the village school. It had been completed a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the tables and chairs had been prepared long ago. It just needed to be cleaned and checked.
The village chief had already asked about the school opening date, and the children who were going to school had been notified in advance, so they were just waiting for school to start.
Shiqi delivered the new long gown she made for Mr. Han to him early in the morning on Grain in Ear. Due to the tight time schedule, she worked until midnight to finish it.
When everyone was ready, they walked towards the village school together.
When they arrived at the village school, many families were already waiting there with their children.
Seeing Mr. Han arrive, the village chief came over to greet him personally and took the opportunity to pull his grandson in front of Mr. Han to make him familiar with him.
"Sir, I'm sorry to bother you with this naughty monkey of mine. You just have to discipline him. If he doesn't obey, give him a good beating."
Seeing this, others also said:
"I'm also in the care of my kid, sir."
"And this one of mine, you can beat him if he doesn't behave."
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Mr. Han bowed to everyone and said, "Since you have sent your children to the village school, I will do my best to teach them. Please rest assured."
As everyone was talking, Wu Zhuang had already placed a table at the entrance of the village school. After Zhao Yiming prepared the writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone, Mr. Han began to register.
Everyone was polite to each other, and finally the village chief's grandson Dacong was the first to register.
Dacong's mother first asked Dacong to say hello to the gentleman, then took out the basket she brought from home, which contained some meat and eggs, and then took out the snacks she had prepared in advance and put them in the basket and handed them to Mr. Han.
After Mr. Han asked the child's name, he began to register. After the registration was completed, he let Dacong go to the village school first.
Everything was prepared in advance, and registration went very quickly. Soon, quite a few children were standing in the village school. Xiaokang saw that several of his friends had registered, so he said something to Tian An and went in to find his friends.
A group of children were chattering in the village school, and outside the adults were talking to each other about farm work in the fields. It was a lively scene.
Many people praised Tian An for doing good things.
"Thank goodness that An An is capable and able to take care of the village! Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to build a village school so quickly."
"Who says it's not true? And we only paid this little tuition. If we were in the county, we wouldn't even have enough to eat, let alone study."
"That's right. Now that we have a village school, the children can go home after school to eat and help with some chores. It saves us a lot of trouble!"
Everyone is happy that the village school tuition is low, allowing children to study at home. Unfortunately, some people just don't know how to be content.
Qian took her two sons to the gate of the village school and pushed them inside.
Mr. Han hurriedly stopped them when he saw this: "Please register first."
Qian stopped and turned to look at Mr. Han, saying with a stern face, "Sir, they are Tian An's younger brothers, one is called Li Jin and the other is called Li Yin. They are family members, so they don't need to register and can go to school directly."
Han Xun was puzzled. Didn't Tian An only have Xiaokang as a brother? Could this Li be a distant relative? Just as she was about to ask Tian An about it, everyone cleared up her confusion.
"Bah, what family? What does An An have to do with you?"
"That's right, can't you have some shame? How dare you say that?"
Qian put her hands on her hips and started swearing at the two women who had just spoken.
"My family's affairs are none of your business. I said we are family, so we are family. This village school was built by Tian An, so it belongs to us. Why should my son pay tuition fees when he is attending our own school?"
The other party sneered: "Your family? Tian An's surname is Tian, and yours is Li. The village school she built has nothing to do with your Li family. How much cow dung did you put on your face? It's so thick."
Tian An was talking to the village chief and some elders when he heard a quarrel at the entrance of the village school.
When she came over and took a look, well! It was Qian Shi who was stirring up trouble again. Why didn't she just stop?
Tian An stopped the people who were cursing at each other and said, "This is the village school, not the place for cursing in the street. If you want to go to school, please queue up and register. If you don't want to go, please go back by yourself and don't delay others."
When Qian saw Tian An coming, she became even more arrogant and said in a commanding tone: "Tian An, your two younger brothers want to go to the village school. Please arrange it quickly and don't waste my time."
Tian An was almost laughing at her. Did Qian Shi have a goldfish brain? How could she be so forgetful?
"You can go to the village school. Just pay the tuition and register and you can go in. Everyone does this. I don't need to make any special arrangements."
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