Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 238
Let's go to school for the time being. In order to relieve the child's psychological pressure, he even took her to school to play in the afternoon.

She had to get acquainted with the environment first, and found out that school was actually very fun, so that she would honestly be willing to go to school tomorrow.

In fact, there are already many children playing here.There are a lot of equipment here, which is more fun than at home. Children, big and small, are willing to play here.

After playing with more children, Cheng Xinxin obviously forgot the worry about going to school.

The kids are actually pretty sweet.

In the school, the bamboo weaving shop office has started to work normally.As for the Taohua Village Art Learning Center, it will officially open after the Lantern Festival.

These things have been arranged years ago, and it will be fine to follow the steps at that time.

As for the bamboo weaving work, the old people in the village can arrange it themselves.Anyway, it's all for making money for yourself, there's nothing to say about this.

In the evening, after dinner, some young people from Taohua Village got together to discuss what to do in the evening.

The Lantern Festival, when they were young, was actually very lively - it didn't mean rowing colorful boats during the day, but at night.

When Cheng He and the others were young, there were many children in the village. At that time, a very lively game was popular - holding a torch and running all over the mountain, shouting to drive away the mountain monster.

I don't know if there were any mountain demons, but at that time, every Lantern Festival, children as young as five or six years old, and as old as fifteen or sixteen years old, all held a torch and rushed into the mountains.

At that time, there were many children, and the torches gathered together, illuminating half of the mountain.Coupled with the children running blindly and shouting all the way, it feels very lively.

Later, there were fewer children, and young people had to go out to work. There were not many adults at home on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and this activity gradually disappeared.

This year, there are many young people staying at home, and there is no farm work to do now, and it coincides with the holidays, so young people want to do something.

It is very easy to make a torch. Take out some old cloth that you don't need, wrap it into a pile, tie it to a strong branch with a wire, pour some kerosene on it, and it will burn for a long time.

Cheng Xinxin was very anxious, and kept urging her: "Dad, hurry up, Dad, they're all well, they're all leaving."

Cheng He was also making torches outside the door, but the speed obviously made his daughter anxious.

"Don't worry, they'll be waiting for us. Take it easy."

"But……"

Cheng Xinxin looked at her father and at the others, feeling that more and more people were leaving, but she was still not well.

She is so anxious.

Although she didn't know what the event was going to be tonight, she became inexplicably excited and began to urge her father.

There are a few tourists who haven't left, who are also very interested in this kind of activity, and they have already joined together, and they are going to have a look - anyway, they don't charge money, so go and play for a while.

Those who set up the torches first have slowly gathered at the intersection leading to the back mountain in the village.

This time this year, not only children, but also many young adults joined the team, so the team still looks very spectacular.

The elderly people in the village also walked here after dinner, thinking that these young people are still so childish, actually playing with children.

However, envy was clearly written on their faces.

It's good to be young!

If they have the strength to run, to run all over the mountains with their children, they can only look at it now.

Holding the torch, Cheng He was dragged to the team by Cheng Xinxin, clapping his hands in excitement.

Now the sun is setting, and the remaining afterglow barely illuminates the village.It won't be long before the sun goes down, and the torches in their hands look even brighter.

Cheng Xinxin saw a few of her little friends, all singing and dancing together in excitement.

Although it hasn't started yet, these children are already so happy that they don't know what to do.

In other words, children as young as them have never played such a Lantern Festival.

More and more people came, and the torches became more and more prosperous.

Several tourists in the team also excitedly picked up their mobile phones to take pictures, taking advantage of the only afterglow to illuminate.

Cheng Xinxin ran around in the crowd, ran back, tiptoed and said, "Father, I'll get it."

She wants to get a torch.

The whole torch is still a bit heavy, a stick is as heavy, and the head of the torch is poured with kerosene, which is not light.

The most important thing is that Cheng He is afraid that she will take the danger and get herself or others, which is not good.

He squatted down and said, "Come on, let me give you a try."

Take it, she knows it's heavy, so she won't take it.

Sure enough, Cheng Xinxin had to use all her strength with both hands to be able to hold it.

Besides, she was short, when she held the torch, she felt like the fire was burning right in front of her eyes, it was hot and scalding, the little girl was a little scared.

It's not a boy after all.

Cheng He said: "Come on, Dad takes it, you see, it's the same."

"it is good."

Cheng Xinxin returned it to her father as she said, and watched with an unsatisfied expression on her face.

It was so much fun today.

When almost everyone has arrived, the person walking in the front shouted: "Let's go."

Then lead the way.

The people who followed followed suit, and the torch dragon moved slowly.

There is a distance from the entrance of the village to the back mountain.Fortunately, the weather has been beautiful in the past few days, it hasn't rained much, and the dirt road is still dry, so walking is not too much trouble.

After the last ray of the sun disappeared, the moon rose and became full on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

The bright moon illuminates the mountain road, and the bare branches cast cold shadows on the ground.

The world under the moonlight is gray, and the white clouds in the sky are also gray at this time. There are occasional stars shining between the clouds, which makes the tranquility of the mountains even more contrasting.

From time to time in the mountains and forests, there are sounds similar to weasels, owls, or some unknown sounds, which is a natural night in the mountains and forests.

Those who have not spent the night on the mountain road, looking at such a natural scenery, feel very comfortable in their hearts, feeling that everything in the world can be put down at this moment, and they can play to their heart's content.

Very close to the mountain, the people chatting freely, I don't know who led the way, and shouted at the mountain: "Ah~"

With this shout, the rest of the people also shouted.

Children like to be lively the most. Although they don't know why they shouted, they also shouted.

The sounds, big and small, one after another in the mountains and forests, are quite spectacular.

This is a tradition that has been passed down for a long time.

People in the past said that boys have strong yang energy. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, if they gather together, light torches and shout loudly, they can drive away monsters in the mountains and make the village safe for a whole year.

Whether it is true or not, boys in general like to play with fire, and they also like such slightly "adventurous" activities.

"Ah..."

"Ah..."

People shouted in the open mountains and forests, as if they were comparing their voices.

The tourists who came with them felt very embarrassed at first, thinking it was silly to shout like this in the mountains.

But gradually found that only a few of them didn't shout, and they seemed too out of group.

Come to play is to experience, even if you are too embarrassed to shout, then it is better not to come.

"Ah..."

They also imitated the people in the mountain village, shouting into the mountains and forests.

After yelling, I found that I felt pretty good, and even felt refreshed all over my body, as if I had shouted away all the usual pressure.

So, these people also followed suit and shouted together with everyone, as loud as a competition.

The birds in the mountains and forests were startled by these people, fluttering and flapping their wings, looking curiously at the people walking on the ground.

From a distance, each torch is like a fire dragon, winding and circling on the path in the mountain forest, moving forward slowly and winding.

The mountain roads I walk are different every year. Sometimes I encounter some relatively large ravines and relatively large rocky slopes. If I walk boldly in front, I can easily cross the ravines and climb over the rocky slopes.

The timid ones were at a loss in the back.

And the younger ones, those with short calves who couldn't climb the slope, just started crying behind them.

The older ones who walked in front turned around and laughed at them.

Fortunately, there were adults behind, no matter whose family the child was, they raised one hand and sent him across the steep slope.

At this time, Cheng Xinxin had already let her father carry her away.

At the same height as an adult, you don't need to walk with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and you can look at the torches closer, which is very interesting.

Cheng He was walking in the crowd with the child in his arms. When he turned his head by accident, he saw two people not keeping up with the group and walking in another direction.

From a long distance, he can still see that the man is Cheng Shi, and the woman is probably the girl he brought on the motorcycle last time on the eighth day of the lunar new year.

The moon was dark and the wind was high, and it was in the mountains again. Where did he take other girls?

This guy is not an honest person!

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