The flower nursery also had a day off for the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
In previous years, Granny Sun would call some people into the office the morning before the holiday to make tangyuan, then hand them out that afternoon for the workers to take home.
Bai Congming would always be called into the office for one reason or another.
Sometimes it was because the flower stems he had selected looked bad, and sometimes it was because he had soaked a patch of ground while watering.
Granny Sun would scold him in front of everyone, saying he couldn't even do a simple task properly, then send him to stand in the office as punishment.
But after he had stood there a while, Auntie Zhou would have him join the people making tangyuan, and Granny Sun wouldn't say anything when she came in.
His mother had told him that Granny Sun was a good person with a sharp tongue but a soft heart, and that Little Bai should listen to Granny Sun just as he listened to Auntie Zhou.
Bai Congming didn't know why someone would have a sharp tongue but a soft heart, but he thought his mother was absolutely right. Granny Sun only looked fierce.
He might have seemed like a fool, but he knew perfectly well who treated him kindly.
So that day, when Auntie Zhou said they would have tomorrow off, Bai Congming was distracted, looking up toward the door from time to time.
On the one hand, he was afraid Granny Sun would come in and scold him; on the other, he wanted to go play with the dough in the office.
"Little Bai," Auntie Zhou called to him, "come on, let's go make yuanxiao with the aunties."
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