According to the different customs of the north and the south, traditionally speaking, July 14 and July 15 are both mid-year festivals. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

On the day of July 14 of the lunar calendar, a lot of tourists gathered on the beach of Dongbin City, all of all skin colors, and many families came together.

Among them, there are many old people who are not very interested in high-tech things like lazy gods.

Most of them gathered in the "river lantern area" in the east, holding river lanterns in their hands, and some people who spoke the local dialect held mini wooden boats in their hands.

This is a local custom, and unlike other places to put river lanterns, Dongbin City because of the relationship between the coast, the traditional custom is to put small wooden boats.

This wooden boat is like a traditional boat for fishermen to go out to sea to fish, the hull is wooden, exudes the fragrance of logs, not delicate, with a small shed on the hull with a straw (sorghum stalk or something), a note on it, or directly engraved with the name of the deceased, and then a candle is lit on the bow of the boat, and some tributes are placed in the sea.

These boats could have floated on the sea, and even if they were overturned, they would not sink, and they could last longer and go farther than river lanterns.

On both sides of the river lantern area, there are several security guards, checking the river lanterns of visitors, some of the river lanterns are made of oiled paper or biodegradable materials, but some are made of plastic river lanterns, when they meet such people, the two security guards will take back the river lanterns, and then change to a small wooden boat for them.

On the side, seven or eight old men with dark complexions and deep wrinkles like knife cuts are making wooden boats on the spot, with a large number of straw and wood piled up around them, and a few small robots with round heads and round brains are working on the side, and there is a machine next to them, the whole log goes in, and is quickly divided into the shape of the hull, the little robot runs to get it, hands it to a few old people, and then the skillful old man weaves a few times, and it is made into a small wooden boat, which is very fast.

Many people gathered around and watched the craftsmanship of the old people, but they didn't feel bored.

Fan Jiaqi walked in the crowd and said to Lu Zhenguo, who was silently watching beside him: "These small wooden boats, I still saw them when I was a child, at that time, every Midyear Festival, my grandfather could rely on this craft to earn a lot of good cigarettes, good wine and good meat, after my grandfather died, I haven't seen it for thirty or forty years in the blink of an eye, I didn't expect anyone to know this craft......"

Fan Jiaqi's mother is from Dongbin, and she grew up in this city when she was a child, and she is very emotional at this time.

Someone next to him was very good at doing things, and hurriedly ran over to help him ask for a wooden boat, Fan Jiaqi did not refuse, and after taking it, he took out the money and said, "Who will help me buy a pack of good cigarettes." ”

The entourage next to him just wanted to pick it up, but Fan Jiaqi patted his head and said, "I'm stupid." ”

He took out his mobile phone, clicked it a few times, and soon a drone descended from the sky and handed him a few packs of cigarettes.

Fan Jiaqi walked to the old man who helped him weave the wooden boat just now, and silently put the pack of cigarettes next to the old man.

The old man looked at him, grinned and nodded.

At this moment, Fan Jiaqi felt as if he had returned to the summer of decades, when his grandfather sat beside him, used a small wooden file to break a piece of wood into a boat shape, and said to Fan Jiaqi while frustrating: "Da Bao'er, grandpa will buy you candy to eat at night." ”

A few villagers came into the yard: "Second uncle, don't forget my boat, where do I put these two catties of rock candy?"

The memory has faded into old photos, but everything in front of me evokes memories that have long been dusty.

The little robot next to him saw the cigarette next to the old man, talked about the probe and walked over, stretched out his hand to pick it up, Fan Jiaqi couldn't cry or laugh, and kicked with his foot: "Go, go!

The little robot glared at him and raised the hull in his hand, which means that it took the hull and it also has credit.

"Uh......" Fan Jiaqi was speechless, he touched his body, I don't know where to find a few coins, and handed them to the little robot: "Oh, take it to buy candy." ”

The little robot happily took it and put it in the small box on his chest.

A big hand reached out behind the little robot, touched its round shell, and said, "Good boy, get me a few more boats." The little robot screamed happily a few times and rushed back to work.

Fan Jiaqi couldn't help but smile, then shook his head.

Seeing Fan Jiaqi doing this, a little child walked in with a box of cigarettes, looked at him, looked at the old man in front of him, and said crampedly: "Grandpa, my father asked me to ask if I could change a small boat." ”

The old man smiled, picked up a small boat beside him, and handed it over.

The child happily took it, dropped the cigarette and turned to run.

A voice came from behind: "Do you thank Grandpa?"

The child hurriedly stopped, turned around and said loudly, "Thank you, grandpa!"

The old man grinned happily again.

When the child ran past Fan Jiaqi, Fan Jiaqi couldn't help but reach out and touch his head, as if he saw himself decades ago.

Fan Jiaqi did this, as if he had turned on a switch, and many people who did not bring river lanterns lined up and were ready to change boats, and the old people were a little busy for a while.

And a few young people, who didn't leave when they changed to the river lantern, stared at the side, and began to get started after a while: "Is it made up like this?

After a while, the boundaries became more and more indistinct, with a group of old people as the center, there were many people around, and Fan Jiaqi and them were all squeezed out.

Lu Zhenguo looked more and more emotional, and he sighed: "What is tradition, what is inheritance. Traditions without a mass base, no matter how elegant and atmospheric they are, are only self-appreciating and difficult to last. A hundred years from now, when we are all gone, these children will also use this method to honor us. ”

"Yes, yes. Fan Jiaqi said.

In the "River Lantern Release Area", the Tianfeng docked quietly.

It was a huge dock at sea, and its hull was half-sunk into the water, extending out on both sides to form a huge U-shaped passage.

In this U-shaped passage, the sea water is suppressed to a calm level, and several small vents create an outward flow of water under the surface of the sea, and a river lantern and wooden boats are put into the channel, and they drift forward in a line, and after a few minutes, they come out from the other side of the channel.

Even so, they did not disperse in disorder, under the surface of the sea, the lazy god system placed a lot of magnetofluid thrusters, two by two to spray outward water, relay each other to create a stable artificial current under the sea surface, the river lanterns converged into a ribbon like a heavenly river, some extinguished, some overturned, but still stubbornly drifted into the distance.

Under the sea, which no one else can see, the underwater office and living quarters of Lazy God Island have long been built.

In the restaurant on one side, many employees of the Lazy God Department are enjoying the food, Nan Ming and Zhang Feilin are also sitting opposite each other in the corner, since the construction of this place, it has become one of Nan Ming's favorite dining places, and the two of them will choose a meal every day to sit here for a while.

The lights went out suddenly, and the two raised their heads and subconsciously clenched each other's hands.

The endless lights curved forward, like a heavenly market.