Before Tanabata, grind into flour, sell the wheat bran and buy some brown sugar and leeks. Everyone makes dumplings together, steamed flower cakes, steamed sugar buns, and sacrifices to the sky.

The girls' begging festival was spent in Jiege's house, mainly because her family had a simple population, a spacious house and a big pot. Now there are only three people in her family, and she has four older brothers, and the pot at home is too small to cook.

Hantun Village has gathered this group of girls who have had a begging festival, from the oldest to the smallest: Guijin, Erpan, Haihong, Cuiping, Jiege, Sanfang, and Guixiang. The oldest of them is Gui Jin is twenty years old, and the youngest Gui Xiang is only seventeen. One person exchanged two eggs, and those who had red dates at home also brought some.

There were many people gathered in the courtyard of Jiege's house, including old ladies and children, and everyone was laughing and laughing, which was very lively. The old people recalled the old stories of their begging festivals and sighed at the passage of time.

The seven girls were busy working in the hall, steaming the flower cake first. The noodles have been made, and the two large pots full of them were prepared by Jiege and her mother in advance.

There were two tables in the hall, and they poured all the dough on the board, kneading the dough together, you and I, kneaded it and put it in the basin for later use.

Jiege Niang helped in the kitchen, put the red dates in boiling water and washed them, put them in a basket and brought them over, and then helped them pick leeks. Gui Jin and Pan Ni are older, both twenty years old this year, and they are in command of everyone.

Panni rolls out a piece of dough into a bowl-sized round cake and places it on a disc made of sorghum in a pot. Everyone began to make jujube flowers, that is, to knead the fist-sized dough into slender strips, press it twice with chopsticks, and the round strip has three levels, bend and twist it into various patterns, put a red date in the bend, and then clamp it firmly with chopsticks, and a jujube flower is completed.

Place the jujube flowers next to each other on the round dough cake, and swing them in a circle from the outside to the inside. The outer layer of the outer circle of jujube flowers is cut with a knife, like spreading wings, called a butterfly flying double.

The middle circle of jujube flowers are round, and various patterns are pressed with clean wooden comb teeth, such as dots, squares, twills, and diamonds, which is called Tuan Tuan Tuan Yuan.

In the middle is a four-petaled jujube flower, which is called Four Seasons Peace.

Finally, press a large red date in the center of the flower cake, and it is done. Cover with a clean cloth and set aside to rise.

After making the flower cake, there were still some red dates left, and they made some individual date flowers.

Then I started to make sugar buns, and this time Yoyo was an eye-opener. The girls showed off their skills, first kneading a fist-sized piece of dough, putting some brown sugar in the middle, and kneading it into a ball.

Then I started to make tricks, knives, scissors, and rolling sticks were used together, and with the skillful hands of the girls, various patterns of sugar steamed buns jumped out.

The honest pig's head, the rabbit with long ears, the pomegranate with a smile, the little hedgehog with thorns all over the body, the noodle fish with fish scales, and the red beans, mung beans and black beans as eyes, immediately look alive. There are more than a dozen kinds of steamed buns with various patterns.

The younger ones won't, so they will follow the older ones, and there will be on-site guidance from the elderly next to them. If you don't want to do it, start again after kneading it. Actually, this is also a pasta-making training class.

Under the skillful hands of the girls, the two large pots of dough have all been transformed into vivid varieties of flower buns.

The flower cake woke up, and Jiege Niang helped them steam it. Everyone packed up the panels and prepared to make dumplings.

Gui Jin mixed the remaining white noodles into pieces of noodles, the leeks had been washed and chopped with clean water, and the oil, salt and seasonings used for the filling were all from Jiege's family.

Each of them brought two eggs, broke them and poured them into the leek filling, mixed well, and the filling was ready.

The girls sat around and started making dumplings. The girls are ingenious, and the dumplings are also varied, some are like ingots, some are bent like crescent moons, some are like ears of wheat, and some are pinched on the edge with a circle of lace.

Jiege's mother took out the things that had been prepared a long time ago, a copper coin, a needle and a red date, and wrapped them into three dumplings. It is said that those who eat money are blessed, those who eat needles are skillful, and those who eat dates are married.

The flower cake is steamed, the pot of Jiege's house is big, and there is a circle of sugar buns out of the pot together. They took them and handed them to the children who watched the excitement, and it was said that the children ate begging buns to get rid of their health.

When the old people saw it, they all said, "One person can break one piece, and you don't need to give one." ”

Gui Jin replied with a smile: "This year, the wheat in our village is good, and we have picked up a lot, which is enough for the children to eat." ”

After a while, more than 20 were divided, and the children took the sugar buns in their hands and compared them excitedly. This rabbit is good-looking. The one who said it was still a hedgehog, and I was a hedgehog, and everyone said that they were good.

The anxious child took a mouthful, and the sugar in it was all over his hands, and he quickly licked it with his tongue.

The old man led the child and went back with the food. Jiege and the others began to prepare things for the moon sacrifice, cutting the yellow paper into rectangular pieces and stacking them into small ingots.

Gui Ping dragged Youyou home, both of them holding a sugar bun in their hands. Gui Ping's is a pig's head, and Youyou's a hedgehog. Didi and Gou Yu saw it, threw down the hoop they were playing with, and pounced.

The two of them are eating each other, and you shout, "I ate a pig's mouth." He shouted, "I ate a hedgehog head." "Only until the sugar bun is eaten, the two of them have never stopped. Grandpa sat under the tree at the door, smiling and watching them eat and make trouble.

After dinner, Youyou had to follow Gui Ping to see the girls worship the moon, but was stopped by her grandmother. It turned out that the moon worship ceremony could not be watched by outsiders.

Grandma told Yoyo that in the evening, the moon came out, and flower cakes and sugar buns were placed on the offering table as offerings, and incense was dyed and ingots burned.

The seven girls bowed to the moon and knelt in front of the desk to pray to the moon. "Emperor Nn, Emperor of the Earth, I invite the seventh sister to go to heaven. Don't draw your needle, don't draw your thread, optics you seventy-two good means. ”

Then, each person took a needle and a thread, and threaded the needle by the faint light of the incense. Whoever wears it online is a "Qiao girl". Whoever dresses fast is the most skillful.

Because no one else was present, no outsiders knew about it, and just like who ate the dumplings wrapped in something, the girls would never spread it out.

On the tenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the month-long summer vacation ended, and my mother and Hao Hao started school. At the beginning of school this time, I can't attend classes for a month, and it's time for Bailu to have an autumn vacation.

Sister Wisdom also went to the Xiangyang Brigade to study in junior high school, Xiangyang Middle School actually only has a junior high school, two grades and four classes, and the Xiangyang Consignment Store of the Xiangyang Brigade Department, in a compound.

In junior high school, there is morning reading and evening self-study, because there are no girls in the village who are with her, her grandmother's house is Zhoulou, and there is a girl in the neighbor's house who is in the same class as her, and Sister Zhizhi lives at her grandmother's house at night. 11