The terrain on the far left is relatively flat, according to the old man, there are many big maple trees here many years ago, so this place is named Maple Ping, there is an old house built in the late Qing Dynasty is located in this maple Ping, more than ten families here are surnamed Wang.

Although more than 10 families in Fengshuping belong to Sha Tin Village, they are not the same surname as the people in the surrounding villages such as Sha Tin and Liutian, Wang He has seen the genealogy that Wang Xiangyu took home in later generations, according to the genealogical records, this Wang clan originated from Taiyuan, Shanxi, and moved here to avoid the war, based on this reason, when worshipping the ancestors during the New Year, the people of Fengshuping burned incense to the ancestors in the hall of the old house, and the plaque on the hall was written "Taiyuan Hall".

Originally, there were only three families in the old house, but in Wang Xiangyu's generation, because of the advocacy of "more people and greater strength", there were more children in rural families, such as Wang He, who had five uncles and five aunts, which was still pro, and if you count the same clan, there were even more, and ten fingers could not be counted. When the post-50s generation of my father's generation got married, the old house was not enough to live in, so I began to build new houses around.

When the family was separated to build a new house, Li Feifeng thought that it was convenient to work close to the farmland, so he chose this mountain, according to Wang He grew up and heard his mother say that the ownership of this mountain did not belong to his parents, but to a cousin of his grandmother, and it was the ownership that his mother went to find this person who called Wang He and his uncle.

Wang He lived in the old house until he was seven years old, and after moving to a new house, because there were many people on the other side of the old house, he would often go over to find someone to play, and the main person he was looking for was the uncle, that is, the uncle who ranked sixth (only for men).

He is the same age as Wang He's sister Wang Yan, but the month is older, that is, a few months before Wang He's mother gave birth to her daughter, Wang He's grandmother just gave birth to her eleventh child.

This kind of thing was not new in the countryside at that time, two years ago in the summer vacation, Wang He followed his mother and sister to the market, happened to meet a sister's classmate who was carrying a child herding cattle, originally thought that she was carrying a younger brother, casually asked, but did not expect that the child was her uncle.

Uncle and nephew niece, uncle and nephew are in the same grade, this phenomenon appeared in the countryside in the 80s and early 90s, after a hiatus of about 20 years, before Wang He crossed back, affected by the two-child policy, this situation reappeared, Wang He has a neighbor who is a post-90s, and his daughter is only one year older than his sister.

Wang He's parents took off the seedlings to be planted in advance today, and threw them into a few fields that had been rolled by the second uncle yesterday, and after the family finished eating, cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, they wore straw hats and went to the field with food and drink. Farm work is very hard, coupled with sun exposure, physical energy consumption is very high, and you need to replenish some water and food halfway.

I drank Kuding tea brewed in advance, which was full of a large teapot and an iron bucket. Eat rice oranges, crab roe, dried sweet potatoes and other foods.

Rice orange is the same food as Saqima, but this is not bought, but made by hand, about a month before the Spring Festival, basically every household will make it, the fried rice flower, boiled maltose, peanut kernels, etc. are mixed together, put on a rectangular wooden board with a side height of two or three centimeters, compacted, and then cut into pieces with a knife, and then stored in a tin box, which is to prevent moisture.

Old crab roe is a fried food made of rice noodles, the shape is a bit similar to the letter K and the number 8, according to the preferences of each family, it will be decided whether to make sugar or salt flavor, salt will generally add pepper, of course, some people are not too troublesome, both flavors are made some, the perfect solution to the salt party and sugar party dispute.

These foods are generally used to entertain guests during the Spring Festival and to take them to relatives after the Spring Festival.

Li Feifeng is hardworking and capable, in addition to rice oranges and old crab roe, he also made triangular crisp, sugar plums and other foods before the Spring Festival, which are now packed in iron boxes and brought to the trees at the edge of the field together.

"The rice oranges made by my aunt are delicious, and there are so many maltose and peanuts. ”

At this time, Wang He will hear his mother smile proudly and modestly, saying that the second aunt and the third aunt are delicious, and then talking and talking, remembering the bittersweet and sweet, recalling the tight days of the previous few years, when each family celebrates the New Year, there are not many decent things to take out to entertain relatives, one year I bought some candy and a few catties of oranges, and hid them in the barn to prepare for the New Year, but I didn't expect that when I went to pick them up for the New Year, I found that the things had already disappeared.

When he said this, Yi Feifeng would laugh and scold:

"I only knew that hiding in the barn could prevent mice, but I didn't expect that I couldn't prevent the eldest sister and the second crazy guy, two good eaters!"

"Hahahahaha......"

At this time, everyone would burst out laughing, and then uncles, aunts, and aunts would make fun of Wang He, telling him to go to the barn again before the Chinese New Year and find out the delicious food!

This year, when everyone was resting and eating, Wang He and Da Mao Ermao were putting ducks in the creek next to them, and their uncle and aunt asked Wang He about how he caught the murderer.

In fact, they have heard it many times from other people's mouths, but the nephew is back today, and he still has to listen to him say it again. After listening to it, I was amazed and proud.

When everyone went to plant seedlings after listening, the third uncle came over and whispered to Wang He:

"Erer, I heard that you had a wrist competition a few days ago, and you made a lot of money by fighting invincible opponents all over the town, is it true?"

Wang He said haha, the game was won, but he didn't win much.

The third uncle said dissatisfiedly:

"I won't borrow money from you, what are you afraid of. I mean......"

Speaking of which, the third uncle glanced around and whispered:

"The pig killer in the village shouts every day that he has great strength, you go to compete with him, win him once, and see if he dares to brag in the future!"

Wang He knew that among several uncles, the third uncle was the best gambler, and he was the most addicted to buying six lottery tickets in the future, and he didn't want to compete with the pig killer, so he shirked and said that he was reprimanded by his parents last night, and he would never compete with others again in the future.

The third uncle still wanted to continue to agitate, saying that he would quietly drip into the village or something, but when he saw that Wang He had already walked away, he had to give up.

With the efforts of a large family, after a day and a half of hard work, several acres of Wang He's fields were finally planted with seedlings, and Li Feifeng's heart that had been tight finally relaxed, because of Wang Xiangyu's work, his family's farmland was often the last to be planted.

In the busy season of farming in the countryside, relatives who live close to each other will help each other, such as planting rice and cutting rice, the two most important time periods of the year, to seize the time, especially when cutting rice, to take advantage of the sunny day to cut the rice from the field, and then take off the grain from the rice stalk on the threshing machine, dry it as soon as possible and put it into the barn.

If it rains when planting rice, as long as it is not a heavy rain for several days, if it coincides with heavy rain when harvesting rice, the farmers will scold God for ignoring the life and death of the farmers, Wang He has seen the rice being wet by heavy rain because of the sunbath on the drying lawn, or because after the harvest comes back, because it rains for several days, the rice cannot be dried, and then it sprouts, and finally has to be fed to the chickens and ducks. As a result, there is a shortage of food, and farmers can only survive by borrowing or buying rice.

Rural life is busy all year round, and planting seedlings does not mean that you can rest, there is still a lot of work to do, according to the priority, first prepare for the work of sweeping the tomb. After the noon break, Wang He's mother and her aunt went up the mountain with sickles and hoes, and they first went to clean up the miscellaneous trees and weeds around the cemetery.

Before her mother went out, she arranged for her sister and brother to work, Wang Yan went to hunt pigweed, and Wang He wanted to cut fish grass and put ducks.