Phone novel Chapter 595: The Most Dazzling Kid in the Crowd
Chapter 595: The Most Dazzling Kid in the Crowd
Sure enough, Mo Jingchun’s guess was spot on.
Candy had a strong sense of purpose, heading straight for the central square in the community.
A few minutes later.
Candy dragged Mo Jingchun to the outskirts of the central square.
The small central square, about the size of a basketball court, was crowded with people.
Most of them were elderly men and women, and moms with their cute little kids.
Boys around Mo Jingchun’s age, Mo Jingchun glanced around, emm, were pitifully few.
Men in their thirties and forties were even scarcer, Mo Jingchun didn’t see a single one.
Well, although it wasn’t Lantern Festival yet, most companies had already officially resumed work on the sixth day of the lunar new year.
Companies like Candy Technology, which wait until after the Lantern Festival to open, were rare.
After all, not every company was like Candy Technology, not short of funds.
Just when Mo Jingchun thought Candy let go and was heading to the kids, Candy ran directly in front of the dancing aunties.
For the little kids running in front, the aunties not only didn’t blame them, but their faces were more filled with smiles.
Who doesn’t like porcelain dolls, especially when everyone in the community knows whose child this is.
The main person was standing not far away.
Candy thoughtfully watched the leading auntie dance.
Soon, Candy realized that the dance moves were repetitive.
Darn it, the rhythm was just too strong.
Remembering the dance moves, the next second Candy started moving with the music.
The aunties were just surprised at how well Candy danced.
No one thought that it was Candy’s first time doing square dance.
Is it possible to learn just by watching? And for a child?
Only Mo Jingchun and the others at the square’s edge showed stunned expressions.
"Wow, Candy is amazing!"
"Is there anything Candy can’t do?"
Zhou Yaling, full of surprise, took out a phone from her pocket to film Candy dancing.
Glancing at Zhou Yaling filming, Mo Jingchun instinctively said:
"Candy can’t draw."
That’s true.
Mo Jingchun swore he wasn’t lying.
In drawing, Candy really had no talent at all, not even as good as ordinary kids the same age.
If Candy had any drawing talent, she wouldn’t have cut out his ID photo and pasted it on drawing paper.
"You are my little, little apple~"
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Song after song played, and Candy showed no sign of stopping.
Especially when the song changed, getting praised by the aunties, Candy was over the moon.
Standing on the square’s edge, Mo Jingchun felt his legs were getting sore just standing, but Candy, hopping and twisting, was still full of energy.
As for Zhou Yaling, she was giggling while scrolling through short videos.
A short video, barely thirty seconds long, uploaded less than half an hour, had already garnered over a thousand likes.
The backend showed the view count was already in the tens of thousands.
Apparently, the video reviewer recognized Candy and gave it some traffic.
"Wow, two thousand likes already."
Glancing at the astonished Zhou Yaling, Mo Jingchun calmly said:
"My short video account has over ten million followers, did I say anything?"
"Such a fuss over nothing."
"Tsk~ can you even compare?"
Twitching his sore neck, "What’s different?"
"Just like Candy Technology, wasn’t it built from scratch by me single-handedly."
"I truly started from nothing."
Pausing for a moment, Mo Jingchun continued: "Of course, in the early days, Na secretly helped me a lot."
Zhou Yaling pursed her lips and didn’t respond.
If she countered, her brother would definitely refute her with a bunch of arguments.
When it comes to entrepreneurship, without a doubt, her brother was a legend.
His rise was just too fast.
By the time many big players noticed, Candy Technology had already grown into a giant tree and established deep cooperative relationships with numerous leading enterprises.
Until the square dance ended, Candy, sweating profusely, happily ran back.
Wiping the sweat from Candy’s forehead, Mo Jingchun smiled and asked:
"Shall we head back now?"
"After sweating so much, catching a draft is an easy way to catch a cold."
"Mm-hmm~ let’s go home!" Candy nodded vigorously.
The feeling of catching a cold is really unpleasant, Candy didn’t want to experience it.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival each year.
According to Taoist "Three Yuan" theory, the fifteenth day is also called "Shangyuan Festival." Lantern Festival customs have always centered around joyful and lively lantern viewing.
As for these, Candy wasn’t interested at all.
Candy only knew there were tasty glutinous rice balls to eat today.
And in reality? Huo County hadn’t had the custom of lantern viewing for a long time.
As elder generations skilled in lion dancing and opera passed away one by one, much precious culture had disappeared.
When Mo Jingchun was little, he remembered there was a lion dance team in the family, performing every New Year.
Now, the lion was still in the ancestral hall, but no one knew how to perform with it anymore.
Gradually, the Lantern Festival also changed each year.
It turned into an occasion where married daughters brought their families home to have a meal.
The most important thing was to offer sacrifices to deceased relatives before dining.
In the evening, Mo Jingchun placed three steaming bowls of glutinous rice balls on the table.
On the table, there was also an incense burner.
Inside the burner, three red incense sticks were emitting wisps of blue smoke.
Following uncle’s guidance, after doing all this, Mo Jingchun looked at his uncle with a cigarette tucked behind his ear.
"All done."
Uncle said this was enough to honor the ancestors, but in truth, Mo Jingchun was puzzled. With so many deceased ancestors, how do they share just three bowls of rice balls?
Of course, such a silly question, Mo Jingchun would never dare to ask aloud.
A beating was unlikely, but a scolding was very possible.
The best person to ask this kind of question would naturally be the still-innocent Candy.
Unfortunately, that child was watching TV right now.
Mo Jingchun was sure, if he called "Candy" right now,
Candy would probably jump off the couch and run to the kitchen, saying,
"Time to eat~ Time to eat~"
The dinner was excellent.
Zhou Yaling even cooked a pot of fragrant cured pork with garlic.
What a delicious aroma.
Although Candy’s lost teeth hadn’t fully grown back, it didn’t stop Candy from enjoying the tasty cured pork.
As for the cooked leek, compared to the cured pork, it was just as delicious, equally mouth-watering.
Melting in the mouth, exceptionally delicious.
Upon tasting this deliciousness, Candy even specifically picked out the leek to eat.
"Ugh~ Bro, I can’t eat anymore."
Pointing at the eight glutinous rice balls in her bowl, Candy looked innocent.
She really couldn’t eat anymore, definitely not trying to waste food.
Already ninety percent full, Mo Jingchun didn’t say a word and just dumped the remaining glutinous rice balls from Candy’s bowl into his own.