Chapter 59: Mid-Autumn Festival
The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wei Cheng arranged for the Mid-Autumn Festival gifts to be delivered to his parents, uncle’s, and in-law’s homes. The ones he sent to his parent’s house and uncle’s house are ordinary gift boxes of simple mooncakes. Each family has two boxes of mooncakes and candies.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone is busy celebrating the festival at home so few people go to restaurants, and Xian Manju has a half-day work-day.
The workers who work in the Wei family workshop and Xian Manju were given a mooncake that is bigger than the palm of their hands as welfare. It was an ordinary mooncake with red bean paste. The baked mooncake is crispy, full, and delicious.
The workers happily went home with the mooncakes and shared them with their families.
In the suburbs, in the home of Wei Cheng.
The servants were busy preparing the Mid-Autumn Festival feast.
Wei Cheng and Zhou Yuan personally hung lanterns at home.
They were celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival with Wei Yuan’s family and Wei Lei. Wei Yuan’s family manned the stall in the county town, so they lived in the worker’s house beside the grocery store. They had no spare time to gather supplies for the festival so they spent the festival together at Wei Cheng’s house, which made the home lively.
Wei Yuan’s family has made a lot of money by relying on the stall business, and they have planned to settle down in the suburbs. Their homestead had already been bought, and it was just 20 meters away from Wei Cheng’s house.
Wei Lei always thought of himself as a single person, and it was even more impossible for him to go back to his home in the countryside for the holidays so they all got together for the holidays.
Wei Cheng originally invited Yun Chengfeng to come to his house to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, but Yun Chengfeng couldn’t come, so he gave Wei Cheng his Mid-Autumn Festival gift and took Yan Yi and Steward Guan to Fucheng.
His elder brother said something about arranging manpower. He wanted to go over and start arranging things so that he could go back to Beijing before the end of the year to implement his plans so he had no time to celebrate the holidays.
He was very impatient as if he wished he could be in the imperial county in just the snap of a finger.
It seems that after a certain person has become enlightened, he has become more stable. He now knows that he has to make some achievements and go back, he wants to impress others so that his brother-in-law will not attack him and find fault with him because he has nothing to show.
He also took away all candles, handmade soap, and glass handicrafts in stock from Wei Cheng.
In just one Mid-Autumn Festival, the silver taels in the hands of Wei Cheng had amounted to tens of thousands of taels.
They both have plans to expand and open new stores in the next year and he now has the money to train manpower.
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There were three tables at the Mid-Autumn banquet.
The servants and homeless workers, as well as Wei Cheng and others, were spread upon them.
Unexpectedly, Wei Yuan brought an acquaintance, the ger named Li Shuiqing.
Wei Yuan and Li Shuiqing were a couple?
The atmosphere between the two was harmonious, the two were getting along quite well with one another. Li Shuiqing seemed shy in front of them but he was not at all cautious in front of Wei Yuan and Wei Yuan’s family. It was obvious that the family knew about the two of them for some time now. Only Wei Cheng and Wei Lei learned of this recently, it seemed that the secret was kept tight.
Faced with Wei Cheng and Wei Lei’s jokes- Wei Yuan, a hearty man, was very embarrassed, but his mother, Aunt Lu, couldn’t see him faltering and revealed the story of the two people’s affairs.
“It was during the days when my family was helping Cheng-zi collect the vegetables. Qing-ger sent bamboo shoots and mushrooms to my house every day. This kid started thinking about Qing-ger, and from time to time he used many excuses to go to Qing-ger’s house and say something about seeing the bamboo shoots. He’ll ask how much mushrooms they have, and how much he can buy from other places.”
“Cheng-zi said that he would collect as much as he had and that he could store things. Qing-ger’s family didn’t know much about it but believed it was true, so he went there every day. He always chatted with Qing-ger every morning when he was buying vegetables, I kept wondering why he kept chatting with Qing-ger, and only after I asked him did I know that he was interested in Qing-ger.”
“I scolded him! How could he use this excuse to talk with Qing-ger? People in the village would gossip when they saw it. Qing-ger’s family is in a bad situation, if there were any more bad rumors spread in the village, it would affect Qing-ger’s reputation. Is this not embarrassing Qing-ger’s family?! I told him that if he likes someone, he should be honest and direct when he pursues someone, he should not be so secretive. This kid, as soon as I told him this, he went directly to Qing-ger’s house and talked about marrying Qing-ger. Aiya, he made a joke of himself.”
Aunt Lu covered her mouth and said cheerfully, “Qing-ger is already working at the stall, and the family has discussed their matters already, the appointment with the matchmaker will be made next month, and we will get married at the end of the year.”
Aunt Lu is very happy, her eldest son is finally getting married.
Others were also happy for Wei Yuan.
“Yuan-zi, congratulations.”
“Ah, you really hid it so well, congratulations!”
“Congratulations!”
“Thank you!” Wei Yuan was no longer shy and held up his wine glass to toast with them, then he guided Li Shuiqing to a seat.
Everyone ate, drank, and chatted, and they didn’t forget to hear Aunt Lu continue to reveal her son’s stories, which made everyone laugh.
After dinner, it was just getting dark.
High-hanging lanterns were lit, and the inside and outside of the house were bright.
Gers and girls made a bunch of sticky paper lanterns as they chatted, drinking tea and eating moon cakes.
Wei Cheng, Wei Lei, and Wei Yuan gathered at a table to drink and chat.
Wei Lei suddenly said, “I have separated from my family.”
Wei Cheng and Wei Yuan looked surprised and then realized that Wei Lei and his family being separated would’ve come sooner or later.
Wei Cheng asked, “Will your parents and your brother let you separate?”
“Will they be willing?! Of course not.” Wei Lei said, “But they won’t and can’t make trouble. I was originally a single household registration. My grandparents passed away and my parents coveted their home so they asked me to get back to their house. My household registration has never been moved back home. To amend my household registration, it would cost taels of silver, since my parents were not willing to spend any money, my household registration has always been a single household.”
Wei Cheng continued, “Is your parents going to make trouble?”
Wei Lei can make money, Wei Lei’s younger brother is an idler, his parents regard Wei Lei as a money basket, and if Wei Lei wants to separate, it is impossible for them not to make trouble.
“Let them try!” Wei Lei said, “I will give them a tael of silver every month to support them. If they make trouble then I won’t have to pay a penny and I will cut them off. That way, they won’t dare to make trouble.”
There is one more thing Wei Lei didn’t say- his parents ordered him to bring his younger brother into the workshop to work, his younger brother is a lazy and slippery person, and he can’t arrange for that kind of person to work in the workshop.
His parents scolded him at home, scolded him for being unfilial, called him an asshole, and threatened to make trouble in the workshop to force him to allow his younger brother to work in the workshop, so he proposed their separation.
Wei Yuan said, “Lei-zi, since you split up with them, why don’t you buy land and build a house in the suburbs, and be my neighbor!”
Wei Lei is planning to do so.
Now all three of them can live in the suburbs.
“Let’s all have a drink!”
The three of them clinked glasses together and had a drink!
As their glasses were emptied, it seemed that it was almost time to go to the county to watch the lanterns, so the three of them didn’t continue to drink.
When going to the county town to watch lanterns, Wei Cheng took his wife, Wei Yuan took Li Shuiqing, and Wei Lei…
“I won’t go, you guys go.” Wei Lei was not interested in going for a walk alone.
“What’s the matter, we’ll all go, it’s okay, you’re not going alone!” Wei Yuan said.
Wei Cheng patted Wei Lei on the shoulder, “Let’s go together.”
Wei Yuan continued, “During the Mid-Autumn Festival, single girls and gers will go out to play, and everyone in the county wishes for a happy marriage. I already have a partner, and you are the only one who is still single. Take advantage of the festival, and maybe you can meet fate.”
Wei Lei was dragged away like this.
The others either went in groups or watched the moon and ate moon cakes at home.
Wei Yi and his husband Wei Shu went to the county town to play. The two maids, Wei Liu and Wei Qiaoxi, also went. The grandson of Aunt Mao’s family, Xiao-An, was not as timid and thin as before but it was still unsafe so Wei Jin and Wei Shi were arranged by Wei Cheng to protect them.
Wei Hu, a rough guy, likes to eat moon cakes and he already has enough moon cakes to eat.
The other servants, also not interested in roaming the county, stayed at home to watch the house.
There are lanterns in the outer county and inner county of the county town to watch. Wei Cheng and the others went to the inner county by horse-drawn carriage, which was driven by servants who bought it later.
The servants of Wei Cheng’s family went to the outer county and walked there.
A group of people set off for the county.
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Ah it makes me happy that Li Shuiqing found someone good.
Can you tell me who was he?? I kinda forgot 😢
Sure np, he shows up in chapter 27.2 where he was selling mushrooms and bamboo shoots at a market. He’s from a poor family in the village Wei Cheng lived in before.
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