Chapter 156 I'm Afraid You'll Have Wild Thoughts
As the moon sets, the night breeze blows away a bit of the summer heat.
The tables and chairs in the house had been moved to the yard by Xu Qingye. At this moment, the food was already on the table, covered by a bamboo sieve. The first puppy lamp made by the two of them was lit on the table.
Xu Qingye pulled Song Yuntang to sit down before letting go of her hand.
He sat beside her, uncovered the bamboo sieve on the table, and handed her a pair of clean chopsticks.
"Let's eat first."
Song Yuntang hummed, picked up the chopsticks, lowered his head and started eating, not daring to look in the direction of Xu Qingye.
"You asked me a question before, and I want to correct it." While eating, Xu Qingye's voice rang out.
Song Yuntang paused while eating, raised his head and asked, "What's the problem?"
Xu Qingye said, "The wedding date is approaching. Although I am not nervous, I am still looking forward to it. I have said before that as long as you don't regret this marriage, I will not give up."
Song Yuntang lowered his head and fiddled with the porridge in the bowl.
"Why are you suddenly telling me this?"
"I'm afraid you might have wild thoughts." Seeing that she remained silent, Xu Qingye gave her a piece of egg and said, "Go to bed early after dinner. You still have to sell sour plum soup tomorrow."
"Yeah." Song Yuntang finished his meal in a few mouthfuls, then stood up and walked to the kitchen, "I'll go make the sour plum soup first."
Xu Qingye ate the food in the bowl slowly.
"It's ready."
Song Yuntang paused, then took a basin of water and went to the toilet to take a shower.
Knowing that the little girl was sensitive about her reputation, Xu Qingye just smiled and didn't say much.
After taking a shower, Xu Qingye was still sitting at the table, but the dishes on the table had already been cleaned and put in the kitchen.
He pointed to the moon in the sky.
"It's a rare full moon, why don't you sit down and take a look at it?"
Song Yuntang came to the table and sat down, taking off the handkerchief that was wrapped around his wet hair. He tilted his head and used the handkerchief to absorb the water on his long hair, occasionally looking up at the full moon in the sky.
A gust of night breeze blew by, making me feel refreshed.
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The next morning, Song Yuntang put the prepared sour plum soup into the bucket.
After dinner, she took the remaining packets of sour plum soup and nearly twenty lanterns. Xu Qingye carried two buckets of sour plum soup and the shoulder pole was full of lanterns.
The two of them walked all the way to the tavern amid the strange looks of outsiders.
Because they had to meet deadlines, Song Jinsheng led everyone in the farm to arrive very early. Two buckets of ice water had been covered with cotton cloth and wooden lids and placed under the awning, and two tables had been put together on one side of the awning.
After Xu Qingye arrived, he helped Song Yuntang lift one of the buckets onto the table, then went to the other side of the awning, tied up the racks, and hung up various colorful lanterns. Even the area above Song Yuntang's head was covered with lanterns.
There are rabbits, crescent moons, puppies, kittens, and lotus flowers.
This outfit looks particularly festive.
It immediately attracted many people to stop.
Song Yuntang first went to the backyard to light a fire and boil a bag of sour plum soup ingredients, then returned to the pergola, hung up a sour plum soup sign, and started selling it.
After drinking sour plum soup yesterday, we had a lot of repeat customers today as soon as we started selling it, both men and women.
"Girl, your stall looks so festive today. Are you selling these lanterns too?" The person who spoke was Zhou Zilang, who was the first person to buy sour plum soup from her yesterday.
He is the first guest today.
Song Yuntang smiled and handed the sour plum soup in his hand to Zhou Zilang.
"Yes, today is Moon Festival. In addition to sour plum soup, we also have lanterns for sale. Happy festival."
Zhou Zilang took the sour plum soup.
"Thank you. We will finish school early today. I will come to buy lanterns from you after school. I hope your lanterns will not be sold out by then."
Song Yuntang was a little surprised and asked more questions.
"Are you guys leaving school early today? When?"
"Usually it's the evening hour, but today it should be an hour earlier." Zhou Zilang raised the sour plum soup in his hand, "Miss, I have to rush to the school for morning class, so I'll leave first."
Song Yuntang smiled and nodded.
"Slow down."
I was thinking in my heart that I should ask my second brother to fetch two more buckets of ice water at 3 p.m. so that they could be used when school was over.
With the preparations made the day before and today’s stall being particularly conspicuous, the sour plum soup was sold out in no time.
Turning back to see Xu Qingye coming from the backyard, Song Yuntang asked hurriedly, "Xu Qingye, is the sour plum soup in the backyard ready?"
The man nodded, "It's almost time to shut down."
Song Yuntang took down the bag containing money and stuffed it into his hand. "Help me watch the stall first. I'm going to buy some candy. We've run out of candy."
Xu Qingye held the bag filled with a lot of copper coins in his hand and said, "Okay."
After seeing her leave, he came to the stall and packed cups of sour plum soup and sold them to the people who came.
Song Yuntang worked very quickly. She added the sugar she had bought into the pot and boiled it until it melted, then turned off the fire. She poured the soup into a wooden barrel and placed it directly in the ice water bucket she had used in the morning so that the sour plum soup would cool down faster.
After doing all this, she boiled the sour plum soup on the stove again.
"Second brother, please take the mule back to the farm and fetch me some spring water. There are a lot of people on the street today, so I'm afraid I'll have to make two more trips back and forth." Song Yuntang came out of the kitchen and said to Song Jinsheng.
"OK."
Song Jinsheng put down the work at hand, led the mule and went out.
Of course, money-making work cannot be delayed.
Anyway, Zhuangzi is nearby, so it won’t take much effort to go back and forth.
By the time the mule came back with four buckets of spring water, the sour plum soup in the ice water bucket had almost cooled down.
Xu Qingye put two barrels of spring water into the cellar to keep the temperature maintained longer.
The other two buckets were poured into the large barrel of cold sour plum soup, and in this way, the two continued to sell sour plum soup.
As the sound of reading aloud rang out in the academy, the number of people on the street gradually decreased. The sunshine of the Moon Festival was still warm, and the densely packed shops made the street tightly surrounded.
Fortunately, there were two buckets of mountain spring water under the awning, which provided a little coolness when standing next to them.
Xu Qingye got a palm-leaf fan from somewhere and stood beside Song Yuntang, fanning her.
Song Yuntang, who was sitting on the stool, turned his head.
"Where's the fan?"
Xu Qingye pointed in the direction of the wine shop and said, "It's hanging on the wall in the backyard. It should be what Uncle Pan used before."
Song Yuntang looked at him and smiled.
I was used to being alone in the past, and always felt that I could live well without a man, especially since I died on a blind date in my previous life, so I thought that I might be incompatible with men.
After coming here, I met Xu Qingye by chance, and we got engaged in a daze. Before I knew it, we were about to get married.
Everything seems as unreal as a dream.
She now feels that it is good to live a good life alone and have a man who understands her by her side.
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