Chapter 237 Entrusted, comb your hair

"Piwa, I've been in charge of Ayin for more than 20 years, and I haven't been a good grandfather. Today, I took you to worship the ancestral gods of our Miao family, even if I handed over Ayin to you. You will have a good life in the future, what is wrong with Ayin, please think about the suffering she has suffered since she was a child, and take care of it......"

Grandpa Yu stopped and turned around, and the two old men had tears on their faces.

Li Junge wiped his face and said, "Grandpa Yu, I'm not as good as Ayin, far from being comparable, but don't worry, I will keep her safe and happy for the rest of her life!"

"Ayin is the treasure of your village, and also the phoenix of our Lijiagou, I will cherish her for the rest of my life and love and respect her. ”

"The current environment is a hundred times better than when the ancestors first arrived at the Lijiagou Hanging Sky Cliff, right?

Grandpa Yu smiled and wiped his tears: "What the hell are the two big men, what is this? I just feel it, you are all good babies, looking at you like this, I really don't have anything to worry about." Let's go, hurry home and wake them up, this year's village is not early, there are lazy people in the village!"

Only then did the two of them clean up their moods and happily return home, and Grandpa Yu put the stone dragged back by Li Junge under the east wall of the hall and offered it reverently.

Daddy Yin went to wake up Grandma Ou, Mother Ni and Ah Yin and asked them to get up and freshen up for dinner.

It was just dawn when the thrush hanging under the eaves began to chirp.

The first thing the girl and her young daughter-in-law who were woken up on this day did when they got up was to go up the wooden ladder and comb their hair.

When Li Junge saw Ayin get up, he took the comb up the wooden building, climbed three steps up, began to comb his hair with his back to the stairs and facing the floor, and after combing, he took a silver hairpin and inserted it, and carefully picked up the hair that fell and tied it up.

It is said that in this way the hair can grow well, and it is easy to put the hairpin in the bun.

Turning his head and seeing Li Junge looking at him stupidly below, Ayin smiled, came over and said, "I ran seven or eight miles of mountain roads early in the morning, and you can do it." ”

There will be taboos when talking in the New Year, what "hard" and "troublesome" and the like should be paid attention to, of course, the call of grandpa Yu on the mountain road is sent by feeling, not among them.

Li Junge stretched out his hand to take Ayin's few strands of hair, and said, "I'll hide this close to me and wait for a while to stuff it into the sachet on my bag." ”

Ayin smiled slightly, and he could help him.

Yin's father lit firecrackers again and shouted: "Ayin, Piwa, it's the New Year, come and have an early dinner!"

Li Junge has been drooling for a long time, but now he tastes it really good, light and sweet.

This morning, pay attention, do not sweep the floor, do not pour water, dirty water is in a large bucket.

You can't soak in the soup while eating, and you are not allowed to blow air. If you soak in the soup and blow air, in the new year, robber water will wash over the fields, and the mountain wind will blow down the crops.

After eating the early dinner, Ayin and Ni's mother carried a bucket to the well next to the "Jingtai" to fetch water.

Li Junge snatched the flat burden from Ni's mother's hand and said, "I'll go, no, isn't there mountain spring water at home?"

Mother Ni snatched the flat shoulder back again, and said with a smile: "This is the custom, the earlier you carry water today, the more diligent the women in the family are, we have to hurry, you go with Grandpa Yu to drink 'Kuanzhai wine' first, and we will come later." ”

Drinking "string village wine" is also the custom of the Miao family, the male owner came to the door first, one to congratulate the New Year among his peers, to talk about the income of the year's labor, and the other is to strengthen the unity between relatives and neighbors, in order to show that the next year each family has a bumper harvest, and the whole village is united and harmonious.

The male host of "String Wine" arrives first, and the hostess participates after picking up the water.

In the past, the reason why the village did not sing drinking songs was probably because the same family did not play with each other.

However, a lot of Miaojia village tourism has started, and guests are most willing to listen to these, so this custom is gradually evolving.

There are rules for toasting, the hostess of the family first toasts the oldest or the most important guest, and salutes the last person, who must stand up and drink a glass of wine with the toasting hostess, otherwise, you will be rude.

Li Junge followed Grandpa Yu, who could enter any house.

Many people are sitting next to each other, with some dry goods and braised pork on the table, drinking together and setting up a dragon gate array.

All the way to the village, Li Junge couldn't tell which one was which, anyway, everyone was so enthusiastic, and this wine was really drunk.

All the way to a small open dam, the eaves of the door are full of chili peppers, dried corn, and sausage sauce and meat, and there are many people sitting in the yard, who seem to be neighbors, drinking and laughing there.

Seeing Grandpa Yu and Li Junge coming, everyone stood up, shouted "Lao Zhai" and "Piwa", and welcomed the two to the table.

Grandpa Yu was pushed to the chief position, and Li Junge was the first to accompany him in the guest seat on the side.

Grandpa Yu laughed and said, "Ah Yan, what happened to your family yesterday?

The man named Ah Yan peeled peanuts and said: "My monkey, I heard from the old man that this year is ahead of schedule to rob the dragon god, the sooner the better, I don't know how to figure it out, so I secretly adjusted my mobile phone forward for five minutes! Ah Bo come out and greet Grandpa Yu for the New Year! See how he teaches you!"

A seven or eight-year-old baby jumped out of the hall and shouted, "Hello Grandpa!" and turned his head to say to his father: "It's the old man of the village who said that the sooner the better, he didn't say the rabbit day and the dragon day!"

Grandpa Yu touched the top of the baby's head and said, "Good, it's okay!

A middle-aged man said: "Don't mention it! I was holding incense in one hand and looking at the time in the other, obviously there were still a few minutes left, why did I listen to the firecrackers of Ah Yan's house next to me, and the hand holding the incense began to involuntarily go up to the fuse, shouting in my head that the time was not right, but this hand just didn't listen to the call!"

A group of people laughed, and they all said that they were right, and that was the case at that time! As soon as they heard the sound of firecrackers, they stopped listening to the call.

Grandpa Yu smiled: "It's okay, it's okay, this dragon god didn't grab it, the God of Wealth invited it to you, everyone knows this baby, right?"

Ah Yan smiled: "Hahapiwa is the real god of wealth, those neighbors shouldn't complain about me now, right?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "Then bother Uncle Ayan, by the way, Ayin told you? The dolls in our village can all go to study in Panao Township this year." If you have good grades, you can go to the county seat!"

Ah Yan smiled: "It's a good thing, I have to thank you!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "There is really nothing for me here, this is the credit of Liang Yatou and Ayin in the township, but when the children go down the mountain on the zipline, it is true that I can drive them to the school." ”

Everyone was very happy, and several families talked about the village again.

Tomorrow, there will be bullfighting in Bagou Township, also known as "bull fighting", and everyone says that they want to see the excitement.

An old man said: "Speaking of the most losses we suffer the most, the most we do every year is to participate in cockfights and thrush fights, and this cow goes up and down for dozens of miles, which is too tossed! In fact, the cattle in the village are still good!"

Grandpa Yu said with a smile: "You have to leave some for others, every year the cockfights are thrushes, and we take the head from Hanging Heaven Village, so that everyone will be uninterested." ”

The crowd laughed again, saying that the birds on the mountain should be wilder.

At this time, Ayin and Ni's mother also came over, greeted everyone, and went to the kitchen to help.

Ah Yan said to Li Junge: "Piwa, Ah Yin is the most outstanding girl in our village, you have to be good to her!"

Li Junge said: "Ouch, Uncle Ayan, you can't tell me this, Ayin is the high-level of my Lijiagou, how do you treat the old village, I will do to Ayin, isn't it here to be right? This water flows to a low place, people go to a high place, and the girls who come down from the mountain have to press my baby at the bottom of the mountain!"

These words can be regarded as giving enough face to the people on the mountain, and a group of old and young masters nodded their heads when they heard it, smiling so much that they couldn't see their eyebrows. are muttering that this baby is not small, but in front of his girlfriend's mother's family, he can still make a small suit softly, and he has to be better to the family when he goes back.

After eating a village meal in the open dam of Ah Yan's house, Grandpa Yu led the family back again.

Tomorrow I will go to Bagou Township to string villages, and today I will settle down for cockfighting.

The fighting was not kept downstairs, but a single fruit grove was set up and two circles of fences were set up to raise it.

There is one rooster in each circle, three or four hens.

A chicken coop was built between the two trees, and this is where the fighting cocks lived.

An ugly black and red chicken stayed on the chicken rack, staring at Li Junge with fierce eyes.

Li Junge said with a smile: "Yo! It's quite fierce, believe it or not, I'll call the hemp head up, and let you sing conquest in minutes!"

Ah Yin snorted and said, "Erpi, you are unreasonable! Take the peregrine falcon and fight the rooster, you can say it!"

Li Junge said: "Look at how beautiful my hemp head is, your chicken looks like it, tsk ......."

Fighting cocks are different from ordinary chickens, the crown is very small, so that it is not easy to be caught in the fight, the whole body is short and sparse, the skeleton is thick, the claws are sharp, and the mouth is hooked.

Grandpa Yu said: "This is last year's chicken king, called Heijin, don't stretch out your hand! ”

Sure enough, as soon as Hei Jin saw Li Junge stretching out his fingers, he immediately pounced down from the chicken rack, and pecked hard at Li Junge's fingers with his crooked sharp beak.

Li Junge said with a smile: "This name is the underworld as soon as you hear it, look at my family's pockmarks, how simple this name is!"

Grandpa Yu said: "This is a southern breed of fighting cocks, which is very fierce and dares to chase and peck people! This fighting is the same as practicing martial arts for a family, and it has to be practiced since childhood, and there are many intermediate techniques. ”

Li Junge said: "Ouch, I like to hear these things the most, Grandpa Yu, tell me about it quickly." ”

Grandpa Yu said: "This cockfight, three points of chickens and seven points of raising, the main work is in training, generally in early spring, this is to catch up with the 'head channel' in October." ”

"We don't eat on the first day of the shell, and the next day we mix the egg yolk with cool white boiled and soaked millet, we become 'wet material', and only try to feed dry material omnivorous on the third day, these three days are called 'opening'. ”

"After opening the mouth, it is carefully raised, and every night there is a meal called 'cushion food'. ”

"The temperature of the chicken house in early spring should be kept good, low is easy to get sick, high easy to cause the bones not to be hard and deformed, and so on to two and a half months, when the male and female can distinguish with their eyes, they should immediately separate the roosters from breeding, called 'separate nests', to prevent fighting. ”