Chapter 155 - 128: Unanimously Elected Village Head and "One-Man Rule

Li Xiang actually woke up around the same time as Jiang Cai’Er, opening his door to set off firecrackers at about three in the morning. He lit a massive 200,000-shot firecracker roll and a case of 88-shot display shells—these were called "Beckoning Wealth and Inviting Fortune" and had a larger caliber than yesterday’s (2.0-inch straight-tube).

For private use at home, you could only set off these small-caliber types, as they came with their own cardboard tubes. The larger ones—six-inch, eight-inch, or ten-inch—were big, round individual shells that required special mortars to launch and needed to be handled by professionals.

Li Xiang, of course, also liked Jiang Cai’Er’s social media post. ’A girl who’s grinding through practice problems at four or five in the morning on the first day of the New Year is the most beautiful!’

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