The merchants in the cold market were all looking for something to do to warm up their bodies. When he returned to the shop, he saw that many shops had begun to hang red lanterns, and there were more than one style.

    Fangsheng lanterns, umbrella

shaped lanterns, four-corner lanterns, etc. There were more lanterns hanging at the trees or at the door.  

[方 胜Fāng shèng: two diamond-shaped parts overlapped and connected.]


    One or two houses had hung the lanterns but still hadn’t lit them up, every houses hung up the lanterns, and the whole street looked like it was full of flowers. The weather seemed to be less cold under the background of the red lanterns.

    Zhang Fangyuan also bought a few lanterns from the lantern shop in Tianjie to decorate his shop, and took a few home with him.

    He clumsily hung the lanterns and they were not good at all, but he could only make do with them. It was not good to ask his fulang to do this kind of work, not to mention that the delivery date was getting closer and closer, and it was difficult for him jolted on the way from the village to the city, and he might not necessarily come even if he was asked, because he treasured his chickens and ducks.


    The first batch, Xu He hatched thirty of chicks and ducklings, but the weather was cold, then he ran into the city for a few days, so he failed to take care of these little things, as a result three of them were dead. He couldn't help but felt distressed, so he put all his thoughts to arrange for this thing.


    The yellow fluff of the little ducks that had grown up was fluffy and soft, and they were very cheerful in the room where the charcoal basin was lit.


    Xu He took advantage of this time to hatch the remaining 30 eggs.

    Everyday Xiaomao and Xiao'e would go straight to this place after school, just to see these chicks and ducklings, they liked it very much.

    The two children hadn't come yet, but Zhang Fangyuan came back first.

    The carriage rushed to the yard, and Zhang Fangyuan took a few red lanterns out of the carriage.

    "These lanterns are so beautiful." Xu He liked them after just one glance.

    "The lanterns are hung everywhere in the city. There are many kinds of lanterns in the lantern shop for Chinese New Year, and they are so affordable, so I brought a few back."

Xu He said: "Keep two at home and take the rest to the tea shed, let’s decorate the tea shed as well, so it really looks like the Chinese New Year.”

    Zhang Fangyuan slapped his forehead. Before he came back, he went to the tea shed. His second aunt and fourth aunt cleaned the tea shed became completely clean. They also pasted some paper cuts, but he didn't even give them the lanterns for the tea shed, and brought all the lanterns back to Xu He.


    "It's okay, I'll take the lanterns with me tomorrow."

    Zhang Fangyuan went to the hut to take a look at the ducklings. There were too many poultry. One was too little, but dozens of them were terrible. In the blink of an eye, the ground was covered with excreta, and the smell was also strong, but farmers had never been afraid of the smell of excreta.


    Many people saved it and use it to grow vegetables and fertilize the land.

    The smell was not strong in the winter, and Xu He cleaned the hut twice a day, so the smell was not bad.

    Xu He also collected the excreta for his own vegetable field, and it would definitely be a fertilizer for growing vegetables next year.

    Zhang Fangyuan stood at the door for a while, staring at the chicken coops in a daze. Xu He chopped the vegetable leaves, mixed it with a little bran powder and corn flour, and fed them to the ducks. Seeing that he didn't go in, he asked, "What's the matter, do you think it's dirty?"

 "How could it be? Then slaughtering pigs, shaving their fur and pulling out their intestines are not dirty? I just thought, now that we have money on hand, why don't we repair the house.

As soon as he mentioned it, Xu He recalled their plan before. Originally, both of them wanted to build a green brick house, but in the end they decided to use the money to do business.

    The fact was that Zhang Fangyuan's decision was right. They used the money as the capital for doing business, now they had earned a lot of money.

    Xu He put down the grain basin, cleaned his hands and went to the back room with Zhang Fangyuan. He took out the wooden box that contained the money from under the bed. The piggy bank that used to hold copper coins could no longer hold their silver and bank notes, so it was replaced by a box.

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