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Chapter 170 Lantern Festival (2)
This Lantern Festival is actually glutinous rice balls, which are a kind of festive food and a symbol of the festival, just like the zongzi of the Dragon Boat Festival and the moon cakes of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Eating Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month represents reunion, harmony and beauty, and the days are getting more and more prosperous. It reposes people's yearning for a better life and expresses people's good mood for family reunion and happiness.

It can be said that family reunion and eating Lantern Festival is a unique activity on the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

In view of this traditional custom, Mrs. Li also wrapped glutinous rice balls with various fillings for the whole family today, including those with sesame sugar filling, sweet-scented osmanthus sugar filling, and bean paste filling. Each glutinous rice ball is round and round , Put it in boiling water and roll it up a few times before eating.

In addition, Lin Xiaoqiao saw that there was a surplus of glutinous rice flour left, so he took his sister Lin Xiaoxi to make some small solid balls together, planning to cook some rice balls with homemade rice wine to eat at night.

During the day, the village did not show a very lively scene. Apart from setting off firecrackers in every household, there were no other activities. The lively scenes and activities of the Lantern Festival were all in the town.

This Lantern Festival is different from other festivals, such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and New Year's Eve. These are all based on the family unit, and the family stays at home to spend together.

However, what this Lantern Festival pays attention to is to go out of the house and have fun with the whole world. It is the only festival among various festivals that focuses on "noisy".

As the saying goes, "Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month", the word "noisy" expresses the joy and excitement of the Lantern Festival, and also points out the difference between the Lantern Festival and other festivals.

Therefore, on this day, every household, rich or poor, old or young, as long as they are interested and energetic, will go out to watch the Lantern Festival at night and watch the excitement.

It is also the first time for Lin Xiaoqiao to celebrate such a grand Lantern Festival. In her previous life, every time during the Lantern Festival, she would almost stay at home and watch the Lantern Festival. The festive atmosphere is not strong at all.

As for the Lantern Festival here, there are no mobile phones, no TVs, and no computers, but listening to Li's story, there will be many lively and fun activities in the town on this day.

So, that day, Lin Xiaoqiao's family and Chen Xuewen's mother and son, under the urging of Lin Xiaoqiao, had a reunion and ate glutinous rice balls together early in the evening. In the evening, Lin Erniu drove the ox cart to the town.

It was still early when Lin Xiaoqiao and his party came to the town, but there were already many people on the street, and many cars and horses were parked on the road, so the traffic seemed a bit congested and not smooth.

Lin Erniu drove the ox cart to find several places to park the horses and carts, but they were all full and there was no place left.

Therefore, the group of people went to Yunlai Restaurant first, intending to pay respects to shopkeeper Zhou and Qin Ye in their old age, and then leave their own ox cart in the backyard of Yunlai Restaurant.

Speaking of Qin Ye, Lin Xiaoqiao hasn't seen him for a while, and her family has been busy for a while, so she didn't have time to come into the town to have a look. She originally wanted to go to Yunlai Restaurant when she bought new year's goods a few years ago. Look at him, but something delayed him later.

This guy must be busy having a banquet recently. The gentry and wealthy households in this town must be scrambling to invite him to a drink. He must be so busy that he has no time to go to his house to play recently.

Lin Erniu turned a corner and drove the ox cart directly to the backyard of Yunlai Restaurant. The doorman knew them. Lin Erniu briefly negotiated with him, and then led the ox cart into the backyard of the livestock. In the shed, by the way, I gave the boy twenty copper coins to help take care of it and feed some water and grass.

After the young man received the money, his attitude became more enthusiastic, and he patted his chest to promise that he would feed the cows grass and drink water, and let them go shopping with confidence.

Then, a group of seven people turned to the main entrance of the restaurant. The business of this restaurant is really very good today, almost to the point where there are no empty seats.

The entire lobby of the restaurant was full of noisy sounds, and the guys were carrying drinks and dishes, and kept busy shuttling between the tables.

Seeing such a scene, Mrs. Li and the others just waited outside and didn't want to go in. They asked Lin Erniu to take Lin Xiaoqiao in to pay New Year's greetings to shopkeeper Zhou and Young Master Qin, and then came out after paying their salutes.

As soon as Lin Xiaoqiao and the others stepped into the restaurant, a waiter came up to greet him, and immediately recognized Lin Xiaoqiao's family: "Master Lin, Miss Lin, please come inside! The restaurant is really busy today, please bear with me if the reception is not good enough." Come on!" After speaking, he turned around and wanted to lead them to find a seat to sit down.

"Hey—don't worry, we're not here for dinner! Where are your shopkeeper Zhou and Young Master Qin?" Lin Xiaoqiao quickly stopped the boy and asked.

After hearing this, the young man replied: "What's the hurry for Ms. Lin to find our shopkeeper Zhou? The restaurant is busy today, and many regular customers are eating in the private room. Shopkeeper Zhou is busy entertaining them, so I don't think I have much time."

After Lin Xiaoqiao heard this, he thought about it, the restaurant is so busy today, there must be some distinguished guests who need to be entertained by shopkeeper Zhou, so he must have no time to see them.

"Where is Young Master Qin? What is he busy with?" Lin Xiaoqiao asked after thinking about it.

"Master Qin already returned to the capital a few years ago. Miss Lin didn't know? At that time, a big butler came to pick him up from the capital. The butler came over in the morning, and Master Qin followed him back in the afternoon!" Bridge replied after asking.

gone back?When did you come back?Why is there no wind at all?This guy Qin Ye is lucky enough to be his friend. It's really not interesting not to tell him when he goes back.

"Oh! We got it, thank you!" Lin Xiaoqiao said.

"You're welcome! Miss Lin, is there anything else you can do? If you want to find our shopkeeper, I'll send you a pass and ask for you?" the boy replied.

Lin Erniu was a little hesitant when he heard the situation, and asked his daughter: "Why don't we bother shopkeeper Zhou, he's too busy!"

Lin Xiaoqiao nodded after hearing this, and said to the boy, "Little brother, it's no big deal for us to find shopkeeper Zhou. We just came here to pay him a good old age. Since he's busy, let's not bother him. It's a bit of a blessing." Li, help me pass it on! Let’s just say that the Lin family from Shanglin Village came to visit, okay?”

The little guy accepted the salute from Lin Erniu, and readily agreed: "Success! I will pass it on for you!"

"Thank you little brother!" Lin Erniu took out some copper coins from his pocket and stuffed them into the boy's hands.

The boy hurriedly declined, saying, "No, no!"

Lin Xiaoqiao saw that he really didn't want to take it, so he pulled back his father's arm, thanked the boy again, and then the father and daughter walked out of the restaurant.

(End of this chapter)