Chapter 336 Walking, coming

March is a busy month.

In addition to transplanting seedlings, it is also necessary to order corn and raise seeds.

There are too many folklore about farming in the old days.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there should be a "plowshare" ceremony for the first time.

Lichun wants to try the plow, Zha Chun Niu, Zha Mangshen, pretend to be twenty-eight nights carrying the grass cow Mangshen in the field to parade and sacrifice, Zongbo Chunguan sings spring words, burns the grass cow Mangshen and sends it away.

After that, the spring officials marched to each family and continued to sing village songs, seeing agricultural affairs, singing "Twenty-four Solar Terms", seeing pharmacies, singing "Medicine King Spring", seeing iron, singing "Lao Jun Chun", seeing hunting, singing "Meishan Spring", and all walks of life have tricks.

After the seedlings are planted, the gods should be invited to do the meeting, draw talismans to repel insects, and after the ceremony is completed, the society should be organized, and the village will invite the team to sing and entertain, commonly known as "green seedling opera".

After that, it is necessary to catch fireflies, and in the old time, it is believed that fireflies eat small cabbage leaves and hurt new mulberry leaves, so they need to light incense and fire in the field in the evening to repel insects.

Then those who plant vegetables and hemp should "burn their heads", that is, burn a layer of plant ash in the field, which is not only a ceremony, but also fertilizer.

Those who plant beans, peanuts and garlic should be "exposed", that is, all the peeled pod skins are taken and sprinkled on the road, which means "the more you step on it, the stronger it is", and "strong" is a good color.

Those who plant lychee longan also have to "put bitter water" on the fruit trees. It is to use a knife to cut some small holes in the bark of the fruit tree in the spring when it is watered for the first time, and then feed the fruit tree, and while feeding, say: "Bato, Bato, the fruit does not fall." ”

It is said that fruit trees that have spared bitter water will produce abundant and sweet fruits.

Then on the eighth day of the fourth month, he wanted to "marry a caterpillar", and paste various colored papers into a cross, which read: "Caterpillar caterpillar, black and black, marry to Qingshan, extinct and extinct." ”

In the middle, there are also customs such as grass people driving away finches and painting white ash to drive away animals.

If there is a drought, it is also necessary to fight drought.

There are many tricks to resist drought, such as doing rain meetings, singing the words of the sky, playing water dragons, singing rain plays, driving away droughts, and drying the main river......

There are also for the Bull King Bodhisattva, holding the "Bull King Meeting", cutting hooves, piercing the nose, training the cow and other board eyes......

In general, the rules and regulations of agricultural customs are many and cumbersome, reflecting the importance and worry of the villagers about a year's agricultural work in the era of low productivity and still relying on the sky for food.

Gossip turns back, Li Jiagou's present can be summed up in an ancient poem.

"Cuckoo Feifei advises early ploughing, and pounces on the spring eye. Thousands of stone trees walk on the road, and the sound of water in the mountains and fields in the area. ”

Before the Columbia University five-member group left, Li Junge also made a meal of "soft hagi baba" for a few people, which was regarded as seeing them off.

Soft Hagi Baba is also called Qingming Baba, Ai Yuan.

In March, on the river beach and on the field, there are fluffy and tender soft hagi grass everywhere, pick the grass buds back, put them in alkaline water and boil, the grass buds immediately become verdant.

The water contains alkali, and by the way, it can also remove the bitter taste of grass buds, leaving only a fresh fragrance.

Then put the grass sprouts in the nest to make a pulp.

Pour the pulp into a coarse cloth bag and squeeze it to get a bright green and bright green fine grass pulp.

Paste and glutinous rice flour, and then fill it with stuffing like a pig's cake, also put grapefruit leaves, and steam orange leaves in the upper and lower pots.

However, the technique is different from that of pigs, the rice dough is rougher, can not be rubbed, and it will leak when rubbed, and it needs to be formed by pinching, patting and other techniques.

Compared with practical goods such as pig baba, soft hagi baba is more cute and better-looking, oily and green, plus the fragrance of spring tender grass, which is more popular with the five-person group.

Li Junge prepared rich gifts for everyone, all kinds of dry goods were not brought for fear of being confiscated when they passed the customs, only insect tea, chicken fir oil, rice noodles, honey, ham, and sausages were prepared.

Then each person has a female red bag and a green stone pendant.

The ladies each got a handmade dress of Li Jiagou, a pair of embroidered shoes, a sachet sewn by grandma, and a hairpin made by Uncle Craftsman.

Ah Yin gave them a chicken blood vine bracelet and a Miao silver bracelet.

The gentleman Li Junge gave each of them a pen holder, a bamboo trekking pole, and a Miao hunting knife for each of them.

In the evening, Erzhun also came to visit a few people, and by the way, he asked if he needed to send the five-person group to Shudu, and he also wanted to go back to Shudu.

Li Junge asked, "What are you doing in Shudu? You're so busy here." ”

Erzhun said: "There is something wrong with the female number one of my TV series, and I have to solve it." ”

Li Junge said: "Even the female number one has been decided?"

Erzhun looked solemn: "It has been decided a long time ago, and the preliminary practice and training have been carried out for a long time." ”

Li Junge asked, "Then what else can't you do?"

Erzhun said: "You are omnipotent when I am an emotional problem! How do you tell me to deal with it? I mean let her come to Lijiagou to recuperate first, the little girl is really troublesome!"

Li Junge rolled his eyes: "The autumn girl is also a little girl, I didn't see you say trouble!"

Erzhun waved his hand: "Don't go far, when are you scheduled to leave?"

Li Junge said: "We will set off tomorrow when we receive Liu Ye and Sister Du, by the way, Liu Sanwa will also take it with me, and I will leave him with Brother Liu to learn the recipe." ”

The next day, he and Uncle Pharmacist and Uncle Orion picked up Liu Ye and Sister Du in Jiuchangju and sent them to Mulou B&B to settle down.

Uncle Pharmacist checked Sister Du's pulse and said, "Well, the pulse is very stable, there is nothing to worry about, so let's settle down in Lijiagou." Usually just rely on dietary conditioning, don't be idle every day, find some easy work to do, this is good for adults and children. ”

Sister Du said with red eyes: "Uncle Cai, you are our great benefactor, I, I really don't know how to thank you......"

Uncle Yao Shi waved his hand and said, "This is the blessing of your husband and wife, and it will be a blessing in the future, so you don't need to thank me." It just so happened that the geese of Piwa's family began to lay eggs, and this goose egg is also a good thing for the mother to eat, and the river fresh should not be interrupted, so that the child born is smart. ”

Liu Ye said with a smile: "Rolling rivers and lakes for decades, I never expected God to give me an heir, tomorrow I am going to go to Fawang Temple to offer incense, thank you Buddha for having mercy on me." What about these ten months, what do you think I'm doing in your Lijiagou?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "Don't think about fishing before June, you can accompany Sister Du to see the flowers and plants, take a walk on the mountain road every day, go to Panao Township to buy vegetables and come back to cook, if not, you can also grow vegetables, serve and serve the crops, as long as you are willing to do it in the countryside, there are so many things that you can't finish." Eh, the small-footed black-bone chicken is raised, and it is just right for Sister Du when she is confined!"

Sister Du said with a smile: "Or Lao Liu and I will clean up the garden next to the wooden building, the garden that I just looked at Uncle Craftsman is really exquisite." ”

Li Junge said: "That's okay, many flowers in the mountains are blooming, and then I will bring some spring orchids from the orchid field." But Sister Du, you can just fix the pruning scissors, and the tiring work has to be handed over to others. ”

Uncle Pharmacist said: "The routine of life and rest in the past six months has not been easily adjusted, don't change it easily, keep it up, Liu Rong, you still have the day to hold your grandson." ”

Liu Ye laughed: "Ouch, I really can't think of this, I guess I was eighty or ninety at that time!"

Uncle Orion also smiled: "Eighty or ninety is nothing, there is more than one more than ninety in our village, you look at the four ancestors, and now they still practice boxing and endorsement every day!"

After settling Liu Ye and Sister Du, and leaving Uncle Orion and Uncle Pharmacist to chat with them, Li Junge rushed to the ancestral hall to pick up a few foreign friends.

The two sisters hugged the fourth grandfather, tears flowing, and they were all reluctant.

Li Junge persuaded: "There is a machine room in the ancestral hall, if you want to send WeChat and open a video, these four grandfathers are already familiar with it, just like chatting in front of you, it's not a thing!"

The fourth grandfather touched the heads of the two sisters and cubs and said, "Yuxiang Yuhuai has been with me for half a year, and my ancestors rent me very happily every day." Be content, and you will not come back. When I arrived in the United States, I had to make a good use of what I had learned in the past six months, and I had to continue to improve there, but I couldn't waste it. ”

Aunt Bai and the fourth grandfather bowed solemnly: "Old Li, thank you for your teachings during this time, Sihui has also gained a lot, when the rice is ripe, we will come again, and then you will test us again to see if we are improving or regressing." ”

The fourth grandfather said with a smile: "It is rare to have such a foreign friend who has such an in-depth study of Chinese culture, and the teachings cannot be talked about, so we can be regarded as strengthening each other, and thank you for your education of Yuxiang and Yuhuai." ”

A group of people carried large bags and small bags to the pier, chatting while walking, the villagers saw this, they all rushed to see off, and more and more people gathered.

Especially the babies, they are reluctant to foreign big brothers and sisters, during this time, these four naughty things did not lead them to do less, and they have already formed a deep fighting friendship.

Bai Dada, they also came, rubbing around the legs of several people, and it seemed that they were also here to see them off.

After coming to Jiuchangju and meeting with Liu Sanwa and Si Xingzhun, the five-person group hugged and said goodbye to the villagers one by one, Wang Xiaosong took out a jar of honey-stained fruits, handed it to Zongba and said: "Brother Zongba, this is the wild honey we have dug together in the mountains during this time, you haven't eaten it yet, take it with you and eat it on the road." ”

Zongba and Taro were pretending to be tough guys all the way, and the tears came down all of a sudden, touching the heads of a few village children and saying: "When we come to harvest rice in September, Xiaosong, you still have to lead us around to play!"

Xiaosong Xiaogang and the others gossiped and said: "At that time, it was more fun, swimming, fishing, catching fireflies, and making ice powder cold cakes...... You must come early!"

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Wuxi No. 1 left the dock and began to drive towards Jiachuan City, and the villagers stood on a slope, waving goodbye to them.

Looking at the crowd that was getting farther and smaller, Aunt Bai couldn't help but sigh: "Living in an indifferent city abroad, I can't imagine this kind of village life like a big family. People's mental illness, most of the time is caused by inner loneliness, in Lijiagou, almost can't taste the taste of loneliness, even if it is an orphan like Master Huang, there is a group of people who care about and love him in the process of growing up, and I can't see that he has a little psychological problem. This kind of ethical ecology is definitely a great contribution of China's agrarian society to the world, and our ethics has not progressed for thousands of years, but has regressed......"

Li Junge also nodded: "It's not a regression, it's just that the great progress of science makes people no longer need collective labor, collectively confronts the cruel natural world, and collectively shares the huge survival risk, but it also highlights the estrangement and competition between people." This dramatic change in the way of life has occurred in just two hundred years, and the corresponding ethical norms have not kept up. In other words, human beings have not yet matured and are still exploring the way to get along in this way. This has led to the emergence of psychological and social problems, and there is still no one-dose cure for all diseases. ”

Aunt Bai stopped talking and fell into deep thought.