The two continued to pinch, this time it was Didi who did it, and Yoyo was the conductor. His little hands turned dexterously, and after a while, he pinched a rabbit.

He rubbed the remaining noodles into long strips with his hands, and ran out to find some carrot leaves, pressed them onto them, and placed them in front of the rabbit.

"Little White Rabbit, give you carrots" Don't say it, it's really like.

Grandma turned her head and saw that they were pinching something, and her voice rose in anger. "You two losers, this is food, how can you play casually, this is to be punished. ”

Then, Grandma told them a story, "The Legend of Food":

I don't know how many years ago, the common people had a better life, the wind and rain were smooth every year, and the crops were abundant. At that time, there was a sentence that slipped away:

August 15 clouds cover the moon,

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the snow is lit.

Snow lights up, good years,

One wheat plant beats half a liter.

At that time, the crops were different from now, whether it was sorghum, wheat, beans, or millet, all the grain in the world was full of grain grains from root to tip. Think about it, how tall are the two of them, and how much does it have to bear from root to tip? Wheat is full of wheat particles from root to tip, and how much can be produced by one tree? Also, after the crops are planted, they will bear seeds every year, and they will not die for several years, and they will produce grain vigorously. So, people were better off at that time.

There is a family that is lazy, planting maps to save trouble, three acres of land manure in one acre of land, indiscriminately planted some grain, and a sorghum is produced. There is no shortage of fertilizer or water, and the sorghum grows to the sky. People from all over the country are tired of walking, and they are all cool below. In the autumn, when the sorghum is ripe, and the roots are full of grain, and the main family has collected the grain, and the bottom is within reach, and the high place is out of reach, so they put up scaffolding, take a long pole and go up to beat the grain, and a dozen is three days and three nights, and it has not been cleaned. The sorghum grains on the ground below were more than one person deep, so they cut down the sorghum trees, dried the grain on the spot, and put them in several hoards.

When the food can't be eaten, people are a little bit burned. Not only is food wasted, but even the gods are too lazy to pay respect. The incense in the Jade Emperor is getting thinner and thinner, and the other immortals say the same. The Jade Emperor thought to himself: The gods are very hardworking, and they are good to the common people in the mortal world, what is the matter? Zhang Tianshi became an old Taoist priest and came down to the world.

The old Taoist priest walked through the village and saw that the people looked very good, not like they were starving. Walking through the lake, I saw that the crops in the lake were growing well, and the roots were full of grain. As I walked, I saw a man plowing the field. Take a closer look: It's not ploughing! This man is harvesting taro. And he saw him whipping the oxen fast, plowing the taro with a plow, followed by a man collecting taro. If you plough it out, don't ask if it can't be ploughed, and don't ask if it's rotten or not. Those who pick up taro want to pick up a few pieces, pick up a few pieces, and pick up which piece is good. The old Taoist priest walked further and saw that some people were pinching grain, and wanted to pinch a few trees, but he was tired and left. The old Taoist priest said in his heart: People are not scarce about food, and it is not appropriate to take food as good things.

When the old Taoist priest walked to a village, he thought: I don't see that people's hearts have become bad anymore. With a broken bowl in his hand, he came to the door of the family and asked for food. The family was obviously full of food, but they said that there was nothing to eat, so they asked the old Taoist priest to go quickly. He went from house to house, from house to house. Finally, when I walked to the door of a house, the women here were baking a single cake, smelling the fragrance from afar. The old Taoist priest said, "Eldest sister, the Taoist priest is here, give me something to eat." The woman said angrily, "If you have anything to eat, go quickly." Coincidentally, at this time, the children sitting and playing in her yard started crying. When the woman saw that the child had pulled a piece of, she picked up a piece of bread and wiped the child's belly. After wiping the belly, I took some single cakes and padded the child's belly.

When the old Taoist priest looked at it, he thought to himself, it seems that people's hearts are also very bad. Zhang Tianshi returned to the Heavenly Palace and made a report to the Jade Emperor in 1510, and the Jade Emperor was so angry that he blew his beard and glared: "Okay, I want to rectify these people with bad conscience, and I will dry him for three years." ”

The common people on the earth have encountered three bloody drought years, three years, thousands of days and twelve seasons, and not a drop of rain has fallen. There is not a single inch of grass on the ground, thousands of people are starving to death, and the common people are about to die and become extinct, so they burn incense, make offerings, kowtow to God every day, and the gods ignore it.

An old man said, "If a person has a bad conscience, the gods will not spare him, so it is better to ask the puppy and the kitten for help." "Actually, the puppies and kittens are also hungry, and they want to make it rain. They went to the Heavenly Palace and pleaded with the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor saw that they were pitiful, so he said: "It is okay to rain, but there are two things, the first is that the common people have to face the loess with their backs to the sky, and they have to plant and harvest for a year; The puppy wagged his tail and said, "How big is the grain ear?" The kitten wagged his tail and said, "How big is the rice ear left?" and "The rice ear is like your tail." The rabbit jumped and said, "How big are the ears of wheat?" and "The ears of barley and the ears of wheat are like your short tails." The old rooster blushed and said, "How big is the sorghum ear left?" and "The sorghum ear is like your tail".

After the Jade Emperor finished speaking, he asked the thousand-handed monster to go down to earth and go through all the grain from root to tip, so that the ears of crops were as big as dog tails, cat tails, rabbit tails, and chicken tails. When he picked up the beans, he felt that the beans hurt strangely, and the Jade Emperor didn't say it explicitly, so he simply stopped doing it. From there, the beans still bear seeds from root to tip. The common people also face the loess with their backs to the sky, planting and harvesting for a year, endlessly.

After my grandmother finished speaking, my aunt said, "I heard one when I was a child, and it was similar to this." And then:

In ancient times, there was so much food that they couldn't eat enough, and people ate all the food with sharp noodles and rice hearts, and they spoiled the food they relied on at will, eating it when they wanted it, and throwing it away when they wanted to.

This is because every household has two magic weapons given by the gods: the grass gong and the insect mirror. As long as people bury the seeds in the soil at will, they will grow automatically, and if the grass grows on the ground, the grass will run away when the gong strikes. If there are bugs in the soil, look at the worm mirror and the bugs will die. Therefore, the crops are spikes and pods from the root to the tip, it is really a bumper harvest of grains, rice mountains and mountains, oil tanks and vinegar wells, people have nothing to do all day long, and they are idle, so they eat and sleep, sleep and eat.

As time went by, the Jade Emperor knew about the lazy behavior of people who did not work, and the Jade Emperor was very angry, so he sent a god to collect food. One night, the gods came to the world, and when they saw the grain, they scooped all the wheat in the mountains, rivers, ditches, and villages, so that only a little bit of the ears were left. The gods were exhausted, and when they reached the sorghum, their hands were broken and bleeding. The fairy pinched his hand on the corn cob, but he couldn't pick it off because the corn cob skin was thick and strong. The soybeans were not found because the seedlings were dwarf under the corn, so they remained untouched. The fairy grabbed the buckwheat with his hand again, and the blood on his hand stained the buckwheat stalks red.

The next morning, when the people got up, they went to the field to see that the wheat had become straight and erect, only a spikelet on the top was left, the sorghum stalks and corn cobs were stained with blood, the green buckwheat had turned bright red, and the vinegar wells in the oil tanks had dried up!

Everyone was stunned by this strange scene, people ran and cried: "God has taken away all the grain, how can we ......live in the future" Since then, the field is overgrown with weeds, the insects have eaten the grain to a mess, the frightened grass gongs and insect mirrors have also lost their effect, the wind is not adjusted, the rain is not smooth, coupled with the frequent occurrence of floods, droughts and insect disasters, crops can not be harvested, people live a hungry life without food, every day there are children and the elderly who die of hunger, only then do they understand a truth from the lesson of hunger, and truly know the value of food.