Qin Fan hugged Xuemei and comforted him lovingly: "Isn't it uncomfortable?"

Xuemei nodded, the big fish and meat in the past few days, don't talk about her, even Qin Fan couldn't stand it, and then looked at Qin Ying who was not far away, and frowned.

The kitchen is still shuttling to serve wine on the tables, and the rules in the countryside are good to eat and drink, calling the busy cousin and asking him to find his cousin to arrange a place to rest.

In the resting room, there were a lot of bulging sacks, and the smell that came into the nose seemed to be watermelon seeds, and after seeing Xue Mei sleeping peacefully, Qin Fan took out the hand that Xue Mei was holding.

The cousin at the door sneered: "That's your wife, you just found a baby girl for yourself." ”

Qin Fan didn't answer his stubble, pointed to the sack and asked, "Are there melon seeds in this?"

The cousin replied: "No, it was sent to Zhongshan Street in Jiangcheng a year ago, no, I heard that something happened over there, so I didn't dare to send it." ”

After a pause, he asked again if the young fool would never come out again.

Qin Fan shook his head, the locals all thought that the young fool would sit through the prison, but he knew that the fool would be released soon after the great man's speech next year, but after coming out, was it a small farmer consciousness or was he afraid of being caught, and he had not become big for decades, in his previous life, Qin Fan also went to Zhongshan Street to see him himself sitting in the store selling melon seeds, which was far inferior to Xiao Liu melon seeds and Qiaqia melon seeds a few years later than him.

Thinking of the little Liu melon seeds of the Divine Dao and the old Chen of Qiaqia melon seeds, Qin Fan smiled on the corner of his mouth, at this time, Lao Chen was probably still busy with his small fried food stall, stir-frying some walnut kernels, peanuts and the like, as if he would start Qiaqia milk yogurt again in the year after tomorrow.

However, everyone who knew Lao Chen at that time did not expect that Lao Chen would sell Qiaqia melon seeds all over the world. Afterwards, everyone praised sourly: Awesome!

"Stockpiling these goods at home, the old man is going crazy. The cousin muttered when he saw the old man in the hall, looking like he wanted to help but couldn't.

Qin Fan looked at his cousin, maybe in a few years, his sister-in-law left him a daughter and said goodbye, and only raised his daughter alone for decades in the second half of his life. Fortunately, his daughter has a very good relationship with him, and the girl is also extremely competitive, not only admitted to college, but also stayed in the magic capital to work and start a family.

As the sun set, still returning in a small boat, Xuemei nestled quietly in Qin Fan's arms, her face pale, Qin Fan whispered distressedly, "Does it still hurt so much?"

Xuemei nodded, and leaned a little closer into his arms. The second uncle, who was sitting behind him, snorted heavily and said, "The girl is going to be spoiled by you." ”

Qin Fan just wanted to reply, but was covered by Xuemei's slightly cool little hand, and her bright eyes were full of apologies.

The cool air on the river enveloped the people in the boat, and there was only the sound of paddling into the water, and occasionally the croaking of wild ducks could be heard in the sky, and the cousin who was holding the bow of the boat was again annoyed: "I forgot to bring a gun again." ”

For the rest of the way, Qin Fan was still carrying Xuemei on his back, and the second uncle couldn't hold back any longer, and was about to speak, but was stopped by Qin's mother behind him and explained: "His second uncle, Fanzi hasn't always been like this, the main reason is that the girl's family has menstruation, and she can't walk with a stomachache." ”

The second uncle shook his head disapprehantly, still thinking that the girl in the city was too squeamish.

Qin Fan's family, who had never walked the mountain road, returned to the old house exhausted, and had a hasty dinner and were about to lie on the bed.

Qin Fan just wanted to talk to Xuemei, but his cousin Lanzi ran in anxiously and shouted, "There is a dragon lantern in Shangyun Village tonight, don't you go and take a look?"

Seeing Qin Fan and Xuemei's faces embarrassed, he said hurriedly: "There is only one time a year, you have to miss it, maybe you will not see it for the rest of your life." ”

Qin Fan scolded with a smile: "I can't see it for a lifetime." In my heart, I recognized what she said.

Lanzi pursed her lips disdainfully, and was about to say something, when the grandmother who came in from the door came over with a bowl of brown sugar water, trembling slightly, and said softly with a pout: "Girl, drink this better." ”

Seeing Xuemei drink the brown sugar water mixed with ginger slices and wolfberries in one go, grandma said again: "Let Fanzi carry you on your back and go to see it for me, I'm too old to walk." ”

Xuemei felt that her body was not so painful, pushed Qin Fan, and said in a loud voice: "Grandma, let Fanzi carry you to see, I can go." ”

Before grandma could reply, my cousin walked in and said with a smile: "Grandma, I'll carry it, you still carry your younger siblings." ”

In the faint moonlight, there were pillars of light emitted by flashlights, and the flow of people on the mountain road gradually increased.

The place to see the dragon lantern is the threshing floor between Shangyun Village and Lingheng Village, and thousands of people have gathered outside the field, not only the villagers of the two villages, but also the villagers from the neighboring villages in the distance.

Xuemei lay on Qin Fan's back, looking at the black figure, thinking of her parents and grandmother at home, her heart was sour, and she fell into Qin Fan's ear: "When will we go back, I'm a little homesick." ”

Qin Fan comforted: "It's almost over, we'll be back after fifteen." "It's a bit long to spend the New Year here.

After a while, the long fire dragon meandered to the grain field, Xuemei was surprised to find that the fire dragon was completely different from the dragon dance in Gao'an City, the fire dragon that was coiled up with the dragon head as the center was about 80 knots, all of which were ordinary household flower benches decorated with colorful dragons, and the boards were connected with a wooden stick, each wooden stick was held by a person, and each bench was tied with a lantern (instead of the dragon body), and the lanterns were painted with their favorite flowers, trees, Birds and other patterns, more than 80 dragon lantern patterns are different, candles are lit in the lanterns, and the dragon shape is placed on the bench with bamboo strips, and the dragon claws are shown with wooden feet, and the shape is realistic.

"Why is this dragon dance lantern different from ours?" Xue Mei couldn't help but ask.

"This is the bench dragon, also known as the plum bamboo dragon, and our dragon there is a cloth dragon. Qin Fan explained.

The bench dragon is solemn and simple, the sense of ceremony is strong, generally with the dragon head coiled into a circle, and then the dragon tail coiled into a circle after the end of the performance, seemingly simple, but extremely physically demanding, people with small dragon tail force may be thrown out.

There are also a lot of exquisiteness, women basically don't give the front, and men can't step over the dragon's body, but can only drill under the bench.

At night, the candlelight reflects the dragon's head and the dragon's body is beautiful.

At the end of a dance, the leader collected the dragon dance fees from the two villages, and then walked meandering to the next village.

Qin Fan, who was carrying Xuemei on her back, had not yet reached the old mansion, Xuemei had already fallen asleep, lay down on the bed, took off her shoes and socks, and Qin Fan was distressed to see the blisters on her feet.

The next day, I watched the lanterns that came to the village to perform, and at night when it came to Yangsidu Town to watch the singing, Xuemei and Qin Fan were killed and didn't go. The kind-hearted Arashi had to follow the others in disappointment to watch the excitement.

Xuemei felt sorry for Qin Fan's back, but Qin Fan had a headache and the second uncle scolded him a few words from time to time, and I don't know when he knew that Qin Fan also opened a restaurant, not only training Qin's father and Qin's mother, but also persuading Qin Fan to let him study well and not engage in crooked ways.

Saying that he was in a hurry, Qin Fan couldn't help but reply: "Isn't it good to make money?"

When the second uncle heard this, his face darkened and he shouted: "It's a good thing to make money, I'm afraid that people's hearts will be bad!"

Qin Fan immediately closed his mouth, thinking about it, some people in later generations are really black-hearted in order to make money, like gutter oil, hanging white blocks, water-filled pork, milk powder mixed with melamine, and so on. caused the people to laugh at themselves for having a hundred poisons to test the best body in the world.

"Can't you stay a few more days?" asked her cousin Lanzi reluctantly.

"School is about to start, and it's too late to go. Qin Fan replied with a smile.

"It's a pity, if you leave a few days late, you will be able to see the peach blossoms. Lanzi said regretfully.

Qin Fan thought about what else he had to explain.

"Auntie, Shouzi will have to bring it herself in the future, and I can't let my grandmother bring it anymore, she is an old man, and if there is anything bad about taking Shouzi, I have to settle accounts with my aunt." Qin Fan confessed half-jokingly and half-seriously, and the little aunt snorted unhappily and picked up the child and went back to her room.

Qin Fan looked at the door of his aunt's room for a while with sour teeth.

"Second uncle, after the New Year, you should go to Jiangcheng University Hospital to have a look, and treat your illness as soon as possible. Qin Fan kindly persuaded, and the second uncle also snorted, smoking a dry cigarette.

"Grandma, you must be in good health, we will come back to see you next year......" Qin Fan said in a rambling voice, and grandma looked at him kindly with a grin.

Uncle, third uncle, cousin, Lanzi...... Qin Fan explained a few words to everyone, and everyone couldn't help but laugh when they looked at Qin Fan's chatter.

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Xuemei snuggled uneasily beside Qin Fan, not understanding his sentimental expression.

Standing on the high slope at the head of the village, looking at the village like a peach source, Qin Fan couldn't help but think that a few years later, with the death of his grandmother, the eldest uncle became a monk, the second uncle and the third uncle also died of illness, and the old mansion was demolished, and the peach trees, bamboo forests, and ponds no longer existed......

On the day he left, he didn't tell or disturb his grandmother, his cousin carried their luggage, as well as two sacks of mountain goods, Qin Fan insisted on carrying Xuemei on his back and walked out of the village, and the sky was just dawning.

After going down the high slope and walking along the ridge for a while, Xuemei, who was lying on her back, glanced back by chance, and then patted Qin Fan's back and said, "It seems to be grandma." ”

Qin Fan turned around and saw a thin figure on a high hill in the distance, it was his grandmother looking down at the hill.

"Grandma!" Qin Fan shouted, tears falling from his eyes.