Chapter 125. Teasing: Can still get better and better
After feeding the rebellious Little Lian’en and washing thoroughly with three basins of dirty water, it was already late morning.
Since everything now is about being revolutionary, and the whole country is advocating diligence and thrift. Lianshan wanted to give his son a grand full moon banquet so that everyone in the ten-mile radius would know that even though this wasn’t his biological son, he had the heart of a true father, but he didn’t have the chance.
Why? Because he feared being accused of extravagance and waste, showing bourgeois tendencies of hedonism.
Being a proper poor farmer for eight generations, maintaining a pure lineage wasn’t easy. Regardless of his desires, he didn’t dare joke around with such matters. Otherwise, if he were publicly criticized and struggled against, his peaceful and happy little life would be no more.
But sometimes, just when you want peace, disturbances arise unexpectedly.
Take Little Lian’en’s full moon, for instance. Many who had borrowed from their announcement on the purchase of herbs made some money, and those hoping to foster a closer relationship by following the family’s success with vermiculture, chicken-rearing, and mushroom farming, or purely neighbors coming to celebrate, made for quite the gathering.
The gifts weren’t extravagant, but the sentiment was deep, making refusal difficult.
With no choice, Lianshan could only have Shuzhen meticulously account for each family’s contributions, thinking of reciprocating when they needed it in the future.
They prepared a few hundred eggs, boiled them in a large pot, and dyed them red with paper. Each visitor received two as a token of appreciation from the couple.