Chapter 143 Making Lanterns
Xu Qingye walked out of the house.
"Mrs. Lin loves her daughter dearly, and she can't bear to see her own daughter suffer any injustice. But have you ever thought about how Tang'er will cope in the future if Miss Lin and Huang Heyu succeed in their evil plan? Even if she agrees to this, I will not agree!"
In Song Yuntang's impression, Xu Qingye's attitude rarely seemed so tough.
Being protected by him like this, it is bound to be difficult for her heart to remain calm.
Zhuang Wenyin didn't expect that there was a man in Song Yuntang's yard, and she frowned.
"Who are you?"
Song Yuntang approached Xu Qingye.
"He's my fiancé."
A hint of annoyance flashed across Zhuang Wenyin's eyes.
"Is this the complaint you filed in the county?"
Song Yuntang was worried that the Lin family would target Xu Qingye, so he immediately stood in front of Xu Qingye.
"I asked him to go. This matter has nothing to do with him."
She had been in the Lin family for thirteen years and knew Zhuang Wenyin quite well. She couldn't be called vicious, but she was definitely not kind.
After all, he had been raised by her for thirteen years, and she would still have some feelings for him. If he targeted Xu Qingye, she would definitely not have any concerns.
Looking at the woman who suddenly stood in front of him, Xu Qingye was stunned and a strange feeling spread in his heart.
Obviously she was the one who was wronged and needed protection, but she stood in front of him without hesitation.
He suddenly wished he could become stronger so that she could live as she pleased and no longer fear being targeted by any person or force.
Zhuang Wenyin had a hint of majesty on her face, "Tang'er, when you were at the Lin family before, I taught you to leave a way out for others. Do you really want to do things so ruthlessly now?"
Song Yuntang asked her harshly, "Has Madam Lin ever put herself in my shoes? If Huang Heyu had climbed into Lin Zhaozhao's yard at my instigation today, would you have persuaded her to let him go?"
"I……"
Zhuang Wenyin frowned even more tightly.
If that was the case, she really wasn't sure if she would still be so kind to Song Yuntang.
Song Yuntang looked at her with sarcasm in his eyes.
"So, don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you. Your daughter's life and reputation are important, but mine are not important? She acted viciously and didn't care about the consequences. She deserves what she has now. I didn't add insult to injury. I have done my best!"
Zhuang Wenyin tightly grasped the handkerchief in her hand. In her impression, Song Yuntang was not such an aggressive person. She didn't know whether he was instructed by the man behind her.
"Tang'er, are you really unwilling to let Zhao Zhao go?"
Song Yuntang said coldly, "It's not that I won't let her go, it's that she never wanted to let me go!"
Seeing that she was so stubborn, Zhuang Wenyin looked deeply in the direction of Song Yuntang and Xu Qingye, then turned around and left with Madam Zhao.
Looking at Zhuang Wenyin's back, Song Yuntang breathed a sigh of relief.
When Xu Qingye saw this, a flash of heartache flashed in his eyes that he himself was not aware of.
"How are you?"
Song Yuntang shook his head calmly.
"I'm fine, I just feel a little sad."
Maybe it was the original owner's emotions that affected her.
Xu Qingye placed the two large sachets that Song Yuntang had just given him in her hands and said, "Take them first. I'll be back soon."
After saying that, he opened the gate and left quickly.
Song Yuntang didn't know what he was going to do. After closing the gate, he waited in the yard. She didn't know if the two dogs sensed their owner's mood, but they came to her side and kept rubbing their furry and chubby little bodies against her feet, and occasionally rolled in front of her like a show of cuteness.
Xu Qingye came back soon.
In his hands he also held a bamboo, some thin papers, a lamp, a portion of date paste cake, and a portion of fried peanuts in shells.
He took a piece of paper and gave it to Song Yuntang, then moved the table in the room to the yard.
"Draw a shape you like, and we'll make a lantern."
Song Yuntang looked at him in surprise.
"Can you?"
In her previous life, although she had excellent medical skills and was also good at painting, she was lacking in other aspects. She had never made lanterns and had no chance to watch others make them.
Xu Qingye's voice was calm.
"I haven't done it, but I've seen others do it, so it shouldn't be difficult."
Song Yuntang nodded doubtfully and picked up the charcoal pencil to draw on the paper.
Xu Qingye brought two plates, put the date paste crisps and shelled cooked peanuts on them and placed them on the table so that Song Yuntang could eat them conveniently. He also poured her a glass of water and placed it next to her.
After doing all this, he took a knife, split the bamboo, and then cut it into small pieces.
After Song Yuntang finished drawing the blueprint, Xu Qingye took the shaved bamboo strips and roughly bent them into the shape she had drawn. His hands were indeed skillful, and the bamboos seemed to listen to him and were bent into the shape he wanted in his hands.
After cutting out the drawing, I glued it to the bamboo strips with batter.
Soon, a delicate and small cartoon "puppy lamp" was made. The dog pattern looked silly and quite cute.
Xu Qingye placed the lamp on the table on the candlestick inside the puppy lamp, lit it, and handed the bamboo stick holding the puppy lamp to Song Yuntang.
"alright."
When he was working on it, Song Yuntang was watching and eating nearby. Now that he was done, she patted the pastry crumbs on her hands and reached out to take the puppy lamp.
"It looks pretty good. It would be even better if it could be colored."
Looking at her curved eyebrows, Xu Qingye's lips curled up slightly, "I thought you would draw a rabbit."
"Why a rabbit?"
"Moonlight Festival is coming soon, don't you know?"
Song Yuntang understood.
The Moon Festival here is somewhat similar to the Mid-Autumn Festival in previous lives. On the 15th day of August every year, everyone will get together to light lanterns, eat reunion cakes as a family, and set up incense tables to worship the moon god.
Usually, when the evening hour comes, the number of people in the town gradually decreases.
On the day of the moonlit night, people always leave gradually at the hour of Hai.
I looked up at the sky. It was already dark and a nearly full moon was hanging on the horizon, like a big jade plate.
She looked at Xu Qingye, "Isn't it unsafe to go back now?"
"I didn't plan to go back." Xu Qingye lowered his eyes and slowly cleared the clutter on the table. "I'll sleep in the room next to yours later. Before you move to the farm, I'll stay here with you to avoid any accidents."
Song Yuntang did not object. Instead, he felt at ease because he was willing to stay here.
"My second brother still has a set of clothes that he hasn't worn yet. I'll give them to you to get by for the night."
"Okay." Xu Qingye turned his head and asked, "Where does Tang'er plan to spend the moonlit night?"
"It should be on the farm." Song Yuntang thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "It's possible that I'll just get the urge to set up a stall in town that day. It's no fun to celebrate the festival alone anyway, so I might as well take this opportunity to make some money."
"Have you decided what to sell?" Xu Qingye asked.
"Maybe plum soup. No one in town seems to sell this." Song Yuntang looked at him with a smile. "I made my own plum soup yesterday. It tastes really good after I boiled it and cooled it with cold water."
Xu Qingye smiled warmly, "Do you mind if I sell lanterns next to you?"
He felt that instead of interfering with her decision, it would be better to do what she wanted to do with her.
Maybe it will be an interesting experience for both of them.
Song Yuntang immediately smiled and said, "Of course I don't mind. I'm afraid I'll have to ask you, the stall owner next door, to take care of it when the time comes."
"Sure, sure."
"Hahaha……"
The two chatted intermittently, and Song Yuntang was amused and laughed from time to time, and the bad mood he had at the beginning also disappeared completely.
The pure white moonlight illuminated the courtyard. The puppy lamp on the table made the faces of the man and woman in the courtyard particularly clear. Two puppies, one black and one yellow, were playing happily at the feet of the two men. Perhaps they were tired from playing, and they gradually calmed down, curled up at their feet and fell asleep.
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