Chapter 281: The Lantern Festival
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
As for the other person, Madam Wang had already recommended a candidate to Qin Xiaoyao. She recommended her own sister-in-law, saying that she was as quick as her and knew how to make buns.
Tomorrow, Madam Wang would be able to bring her to try the job.
The three of them nodded.
They also agreed with Qin Xiaoyao on hiring the Liu family members.
After all, they were all from the same village, and the Liu family had a special relationship with their family.
The horse carriage swayed along the way and soon returned to the west of the town.
When they returned to the Song family’s residence, the whole family became more relaxed and went back to their rooms to rest.
It was not until late in the afternoon that the family started to get busy again.
Together with Eldest Sister-in-law Qin who had come to help, they began to sort out the soybean seeds.
As Qin Xiaoyao worked, she thought that she might have to hire a helper for her family as well.
Notwithstanding anything else, the work of harvesting bean sprouts in the morning had to be done by someone.
Her eldest sister-in-law couldn’t handle it all by herself.
She also couldn’t just let her big brother, second brother, Daniu, and Dashan do it themselves every time.
That would waste too much of their time.
After thinking for a while, Qin Xiaoyao decided to bring up this topic.
Eldest Sister-in-law Qin naturally advised her younger sister-in-law not to hire anyone, saying that they could handle it.
However, Qin Xiaoyao insisted.
Eventually, Eldest Sister-in-law Qin introduced the daughter-in-law of the Liu family, who had been breastfeeding Xiaohu.
“Alright then. If Mrs. Liu doesn’t mind the short working hours and low pay, she can come over to work tomorrow,” Qin Xiaoyao said.
“20 copper coins for two hours. Who would complain about such a job?” Said Eldest Sister-in-law Qin.
“Don’t worry. I’ll go talk to her. She’ll definitely come!”
Qin Xiaoyao agreed with a smile and stopped worrying about this matter.
The Song family was very busy thereafter, and they busied themselves all the way until the Lantern Festival when the porridge shop was closed.
The Lantern Festival was the 15th day of the new year. On this day, perhaps because the situation in Mountain Spring Town was getting better, it was more lively than the 1st day of the new year.
The Second Prince, as the person in charge of Mountain Spring Town, had ordered his men to prepare for the Lantern Festival in advance now that they had plenty of time on their hands.
This time, there were not only firecrackers but also fireworks in Mountain Spring Town.
The government even joined hands with some merchants to organize activities like lantern appreciation and solving lantern riddles.
After dinner, the Song family went out to the streets.
In the beginning, everyone was still walking together.
After a while, Song Que dragged Qin Xiaoyao away and they went off alone, spending some private moments with each other.
As the well-known talented scholar of Mountain Spring Town, solving lantern riddles was definitely Song Que’s forte. As soon as Qin Xiaoyao had her eyes on a lantern, Song Que would win it without a hitch.
After a while, Qin Xiaoyao had collected quite a number of lanterns.
Qin Xiaoyao enjoyed this kind of treatment very much.
When she saw the envious gazes of the young girls around her, her heart was filled with indescribable joy.
That was understandable. This was like having a boyfriend helping to grab a soft toy in the claw machine before the apocalypse. A boyfriend who had the ability to help his girlfriend grab a soft toy and, ahem… was also handsome, with an attractiveness that was absolutely unbeatable!
Qin Xiaoyao only stopped when she was holding six or seven of the most exquisite lanterns in her hands. She did not let Song Que continue solving the lantern riddles.
This was to prevent themselves from solving the riddles on all the pretty lanterns, which would attract too much hatred.
“Let’s go! Let’s go for a walk and then float lanterns on the river!” As they say, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. It was so romantic to release a lantern on the water and make a wish.
“Mm-hmm.” Song Que looked at Qin Xiaoyao lovingly and reached out to hold her hand.
Then, under the envious gazes of the young men and women, the couple left.
In the end, they didn’t walk far before they ran into a group of people.
They were the army officers led by Han Chao.
“Teacher Qin!”
“Ah! It’s Teacher Qin!” That big group of men noticed Qin Xiaoyao and quickly waved to her.
After spending time together over this period, this group of people had grown to admire Qin Xiaoyao.
In the beginning, because Qin Xiaoyao was a woman, many of them were unconvinced and had their noses up in the air.
In the end, after a round of training, they were all fully convinced.
Not only were they convinced, but after witnessing Qin Xiaoyao’s abilities and even fighting with her, they were all in awe.
In particular, when everyone heard that Qin Xiaoyao could actually wield that meteor hammer and was even able to deploy it with great vigor, everyone almost worshiped her as their idol.
In fact, it was all thanks to Han Chao’s help in promoting Qin Xiaoyao. In any case, Qin Xiaoyao was now a god-like existence in the army.
Today was the Lantern Festival, so everyone was granted leave and they wanted to go out for a walk. They had wanted to join in the fun, but they did not expect to bump into their “idol.”
Not surprisingly, they had to come up and greet her. After that, they would have to buy their Teacher a drink.
As for Song Que, well… That large group of people chose to ignore him.
Qin Xiaoyao instinctively wanted to greet them when she saw them.
Then, she seemed to have thought of something and dragged Song Que away in a bid to escape.
If this had been another occasion, she would definitely be willing to drink and play morra games with those people and have a great time together.
However, today, she was keeping her husband company.
How could she bring her husband to drink and fool around with her and those rough men?
If her husband ended up being frightened by her rough behavior, it would not be worth it.
Song Que saw the change in Qin Xiaoyao’s expression and realized that she was pulling him to turn around, but he did not resist.
That group of people not far away saw this and quickly called out.
“Hey! Teacher Qin! Teacher Qin, don’t go!”
“Teacher Qin!”
Someone shouted loudly and then quickly ran after her.
Qin Xiaoyao wanted badly to escape with Song Que, but she didn’t dare to drag too hard, so that fellow quickly caught up with the couple.
“Teacher Qin, it really is you! I’m not mistaken!”
“Teacher Qin! Gosh! Why did you run when we called out to you just now? I almost thought I got the wrong person!” another person chimed in.
As he spoke, he sized up Qin Xiaoyao.
That man’s eyes lit up at this moment
“Teacher Qin, you look quite pretty in this outfit,” he continued.
Usually, when Teacher Qin went to the military camp, she would wear men’s clothes.
If they had not known in advance that she was a woman, almost no one would have dared to suspect her of being a woman.
However, today, Teacher Qin was dressed like a woman. Moreover, she was dressed up so attractively…
That was right. She looked very attractive. It was different from the other girls’ attractiveness. Teacher Qin’s attractive looks were very heroic!
As soon as the man spoke, he immediately felt a hostile gaze on him.
Following the other party’s gaze, he realized it was from Song Que.
The man’s eyes froze for a moment, and then a look of disdain appeared in them.
Through Han Chao, they already knew that Teacher Qin had a husband.
However, her husband was not manly at all. He had a girly face and used it to seduce Teacher Qin.
Now that this guy looked at Song Que, he realized that Han Chao’s description was really accurate.
When Song Que saw that man’s expression, his eyes narrowed slightly.
Just as he was about to step forward and say something, Qin Xiaoyao pulled him back and pushed him behind her back.
“Hehe! Everyone! I didn’t notice you guys just now. It’s my fault.
“However, I have to go shopping with my husband tonight. I won’t be accompanying you guys.
“Another day perhaps? I’ll be the host on another day. How about I invite all of you to Fortune Mansion for a drink?”
Fortune Mansion! She would have to fork out a big sum to treat these booze-loving heavy drinkers.
However, in order to deal with the current situation, she had no choice but to spend this sum of money. It was better than making her husband angry later..