She left behind a few white candles and a few red candles, and put the rest into the gold and jade space.
Qiu Manzhi came over quickly, holding a pile of bamboo sticks and thin oil paper in her hands. The oil paper was yellow and red.
Qiu Yantang gave her a big thumbs up and waved to her, and then the two of them began to make lanterns. The base of the lantern was a round wooden board with nails in the middle and wax dripping next to the nails.
While the wax is still wet, fix the candle on the nail and the base is ready.
A circle is made on the top with small iron wire, and bamboo strips are roasted to make a fixed curved shape, and then several bamboo strips are used to connect the base and the iron ring.
The preliminary outline is done, and then the outside is covered with oil paper, which looks particularly beautiful.
Qiu Yantang even used her not-so-great painting skills to draw some patterns on the oil paper, a burnt-yellow Pikachu, a pink and tender Hello Kitty...
Although Qiu Manzhi thought the painting was a bit strange, it was inexplicably beautiful.
Then just connect a small stick on top with wire, light the lamp inside, and hold it up. It will be bright.
It is really beautiful to admire the branches full of autumn flowers!
"Little ancestor, why don't you ask your head farmhand to help? It's been almost half an hour since we made one."
No... Qiu Yantang was stunned. It's fine if you're not afraid, but you also asked me to call them out to work together. This is a bit too much.
Qiu Hua and Zhang Shouquan were called over by Qiu Yantang and started to help together. Looking at the bamboo pieces flying in the air, Qiu Manyi forgot what he was doing with his hands.
"Little ancestor, is she a little too excited?" Qiuhua said, her eyes still looking at Qiu Manyi. She had to say that she was more or less nervous being stared at by this person.
"Don't worry about her. This is only the second time the child has seen a ghost. You should forgive her for being so naive."
Qiuhua understood a little and nodded.
"Little Ancestor, how can you say that to me? If someone else were to say that, they might stare at me even more fiercely than I do."
"If it were someone else, they would have run away long ago." Zhang Shouquan also spoke up. He did some physical work, such as hammering nails or sawing wood into circles.
Qiu Yantang and Qiu Hua looked in agreement.
This child may not have the heart of a carbon-based creature.
"Little Ancestor, it's getting dark. I'm going back first."
Qiu Manzhi saw that it was getting late and said that it was not safe to travel at night.
"Shall I ask Qiuhua to see you off?"
"OK!"
Qiuhua: ...
Looking at the lanterns floating in the air, Qiu Manyi felt a full sense of security.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, time passed even faster. Qiu Yantang started to live a lazy life again, while Qiu Hua and Zhang Shouquan became busy, making dried vegetables at home for easy storage in winter.
As November came and the weather gradually cooled down, Qiujia Village also began its annual big event.
Harvesting corn.
At this time, all the corn in the field has matured. Qiu Yantang has also seen that the work is quite good. If they harvest it now and complete the task, there will still be 30% left. If it is 30%, each family can get a lot of it.
Even Zhang Tiansheng, who was dragged to the cowshed to collect cow dung, was dragged here.
No matter how well the corn grows, at least there is a harvest.
As for Qiu Yantang, she didn't go to pick grass for the pigs, but went directly to the village office. Because she was worried that everyone would not eat well, she took out the meat that had been left over. Anyway, it was only for these few days.
Bacon stewed with potatoes, cabbage fried with bacon...
Qiu Yantang and Wei Dengzhi did things in different ways.
When Zhang Tiansheng and the others went to the village office to eat, they saw Qiu Yantang holding a bowl and eating next to the village office. There was quite a lot of meat in the bowl.
Qiu Manzhi was there registering their work points.
Zhang Tiansheng saw Qiu Yantang's work points at a glance. It was ten centimeters long. It was good enough that she didn't just peel corn. She actually got ten work points without doing anything.
"Zhang Tiansheng, seven work points."
The work points were given according to the degree to which he completed the work, without any water or malpractice, and he was not given any trouble.
Zhang Tiansheng wanted to say something, but he held it back.
After Qiu Manzhi finished recording the work points, she took her bowl of rice and sat next to Qiu Yantang. Eating with the little ancestor would make her feel much better.
Looking at Qiu Yantang chatting and laughing with Qiu Manzhi, Zhang Tiansheng understood in his heart that as long as he could establish a good relationship with Qiu Manzhi, he could fill in the work points however he wanted!
When he thought of this, Zhang Tiansheng laughed, and even the rice in his hand felt more delicious.
However, Qiu Yantang and Qiu Manzhi did not know what Zhang Tiansheng was thinking.
After lunch, they rested for a while and then continued to work. Some people used sickles to cut corn stalks and then put them on the ground in a large layer.
The people who came after that sat there and broke the corn cobs out with their hands and put them directly into the basket. There was no other way, if they threw them into the ditch, a lot of corn kernels would definitely fall out.
There wasn't much food in their Qiujia Village to begin with, and because Qiu Yantang's rain came a little late, the corn didn't actually grow very well.
But if they knew what the corn in other villages looked like, the corn in Qiujia Village could probably be considered the best.
"Little Ancestor, Captain Feng said he would lend us his car. Do we need to remind him?"
Hearing Qiu Guangdong's words, Qiu Yantang was silent for a while, and after thinking about it, he said, "No need, Captain Feng's words will count."
"Can they finish it?" Qiu Yantang asked.
"This one should be okay, but there's another one on the hillside, and that one is hard to dig."
"Let's go and take a look."
Qiu Guangdong nodded repeatedly. When the little ancestor arrived, who knows, he might come up with some good ideas. In short, he could do anything.
When Qiu Yantang saw the mountain, he understood why no one in Qiujia Village had starved to death during the three years of drought. Half of the mountain was covered with crops, so even if the harvest was poor, no one would starve to death.
Moreover, the corn on this mountain obviously grows better than the one on the plain over there, which makes people very happy to look at.
"Those educated youth in this area don't know, right?" Qiu Yantang asked.
"I don't know. They just arrived not long ago."
They came from the same group. How could they know something that even the little ancestor didn’t know?
"That's good. Don't worry about this piece and don't hand it in. Just hand in the other piece."
Everyone in that area knew that there was a drought throughout the country, but Qiu Yantang kept it a secret as to what relationship it had with Qiu Village.
The fundamental purpose is to ensure that Qiujia Village can have enough food to eat, and no one else cares.
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