It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road are heartbroken.
However, this year's Qingming Festival was destined to be a sunny day. The drought continued.
Many people's fields had seeds that didn't even sprout. Even those that did sprout were scattered and looked yellow, rotten, and sickly.
Fortunately, Tian An's family is large and has cows. After sowing, they go to the river to fetch water to irrigate the fields. The crops grow well after drinking the water, and they are green and lush.
Tian An's family was the last to start planting, but they were the first to finish. While everyone else was still planting, her family started watering their fields. By the time everyone else started, her fields were already well-prepared and filled with water, and they were already starting to plant rice seedlings.
In Daba Village, Tian Anjia serves as a role model, and everyone is vying for attention. Although the crops are not good, they are still acceptable. Other villages are not so lucky.
To the extent that the village chief of Shangba Village always stands the straightest in front of the village chiefs of the surrounding villages.
After Tian An came back from inspecting the fields, Chun Xi came to find her.
"Girl, Qingming Festival is coming in two days. We should start preparing early."
Tian An looked at Chunxi and said, "Where are Chunxi and Mangzhong's parents buried? If it's nearby, I'll give you a few days off so you can go burn some incense for your parents!"
Thinking of her parents, Chunxi's eyes instantly turned red. After a while, she said, "Thank you, young lady. Chunxi and Mangzhong's parents passed away on the way. They were too far away to catch up."
Tian An hurriedly comforted her: "It's okay. If you can't go this year, you can go next year. By then, just remind me earlier and you can leave earlier so that you can make it."
Chunxi wiped her eyes and composed herself: "Thank you, young lady."
Tian An thought about the crops in the fields and said, "Go and tell everyone to have a holiday for Qingming Festival! We've been working for such a long time, it's time to take a break. But we have to arrange for people to take turns watching over the seedlings and watering the fields. We can't let anything go wrong."
Just then, Daniel came back.
"Brother Daniu, let's go to the county town tomorrow! It's almost Qingming Festival, and we need to buy some incense, candles, and so on."
Speaking of Qingming, Daniu also thought of his recently deceased parents. He felt a little depressed and said after a while, "Okay."
Tian An stretched out her finger and hooked his palm, and Da Niu raised his head and smiled at her.
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Early the next morning, Chen Feng drove an ox cart with Da Niu and Tian An towards the town.
The three of them first arrived at an incense shop. There were many people in the shop buying incense, candles and paper money, and it was crowded.
Tian An finally squeezed in, but after searching around, he only found the kind of paper that was round on the outside and square on the inside like copper coins, but he didn't find the gold and silver ingots that were sold during the Qingming Festival in his previous life.
Seeing Tian Anton looking around as if he was looking for something, Daniu said, "An'an, what are you looking for? There are too many people here, and I'm worried you'll get squeezed."
Tian An pursed his lips and said, "I'm looking for gold ingots! Our family has been doing well this year. It must be your parents and grandparents who have blessed us! I have to burn gold ingots for them."
The shopkeeper heard Tian An's words and laughed, "My dear, we don't have any gold ingots in our shop. If we did, I would also like to burn some for my ancestors!"
Tian An sighed and said, "Forget it if you don't have any, just buy some incense and candles!"
He glanced at the yellow paper beside him and his eyes lit up: "Give me some more of this yellow paper! I'll go back and make gold ingots myself. It would be even better if there was gold paper."
The shopkeeper squinted his eyes at Tian An and said, "Golden paper is available, but can you really make gold ingots?"
Tian An raised his chin and said, "Of course. You can't joke with our ancestors."
The shopkeeper thought so too and said repeatedly, "That's right, that's right." He then looked at Tian An and said, "I wonder if the young lady is interested in chatting!"
Tian An guessed that the shopkeeper wanted to inquire about the gold ingots, so he pretended to be embarrassed and said, "But we are very busy."
Seeing that Tian An didn't want to talk any more, the shopkeeper said, "It won't take long."
Tian An turned to look at Daniu with an embarrassed look on his face: "Brother Daniu, how about we talk to the shopkeeper?"
Da Niu glanced at the shopkeeper and then at the sky: "We have a quarter of an hour."
The shopkeeper immediately smiled and invited the two into the inner room: "That's enough, please move to the inner room."
After a few people entered the house, the shopkeeper closed the door to block out everyone's inquiring gazes.
The shopkeeper took out a few golden papers from a drawer and handed them to Tian An: "Young lady, can you let me see what the gold ingots look like first?"
Tian An didn't say anything. He took the paper and turned his back to the shopkeeper. In a few seconds, he folded a gold ingot. He blew on it with his mouth and the middle of the gold ingot bulged out, just like the real thing.
Tian An handed the gold ingot to the shopkeeper, who looked at it with a fiery look on his face, as if it were a real gold ingot. He immediately said:
"I am willing to pay you for the method of making gold ingots. Please teach me."
Tian An said with a look of disinterest: "How much money are you willing to pay, boss?"
The shopkeeper looked at Tian An's expression and said hesitantly, "How about one or two taels of silver? I'll cover everything you two bought today."
Tian An thought for a moment and said, "I don't need you to pack the things. Just give me the price. This is something for our ancestors, so I can't be greedy. Two taels of silver, if that's okay, fine. If not, forget it. A quarter of an hour will be up soon."
The money doubled in an instant, and the shopkeeper felt a little painful, but looking at the gold ingots in his hand, he gritted his teeth and said, "Alright! Please teach me, young lady."
Tian An asked Da Niu to go out and buy things and pay the bill first, while he taught the shopkeeper how to fold gold ingots.
Watching Tian An fold one in just a few seconds, the shopkeeper instantly felt like he'd lost out. He'd actually spent two taels of silver on such a simple folding method. It wasn't that difficult! Why hadn't he thought of folding a gold ingot this way before? Ugh!
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