Chapter 717: The Legend of Rice

Everyone laughed and talked for a while, and then moved to the second floor, where the beauty drank tea and enjoyed the scenery.

The beautiful scenery of Miao Village made the painters full of praise: "There are scenes everywhere, and it is different from the last time." ”

Grandpa Yu said: "Piwa took us to change the house, and the sewage and garbage were also disposed of, and the current village is called a clean one." We don't catch wild animals anymore, we still raise them. It turns out that the money you get from catching wild things is not as much as the money you get from watching wild things!"

"Then that little quasi-made a movie, Piwa repaired the plank road, and we were on fire here. Now the Miao family is envious of all the villages and villages, and you can see that there are many young men from other villages. ”

Mother Ni took the time to bring tea to everyone, and there was a yellow flower in each cup of tea.

Ding Lao said, "Hey, what is this?"

Wu Meixian knew the goods: "I've drunk it, Jinhua tea! But Piwa, this flower looks average!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "This is a new species discovered in Shuzhou, which is unique to us here, and it is still in the stage of expanding the planting area. Wait for next year, next year will be built freeze-drying plant, this camellia is beautiful, now we use it at home, and we don't care about the appearance. ”

Wu Meixian held the cup: "The kind I have drunk, one is eighty!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "I have been to the medicinal herb shop in Hong Kong to know that chrysanthemums have one or two hundred, so the price is not a problem, the key is to look at things, things are good enough, and others are willing to spend money to pay." ”

Speaking of this, Li Mingqi smiled: "Isn't your goose egg gold? Good guy 411!

Li Junge said with a smile: "Isn't this following the eyes of the local tyrants! If it weren't for Brother Kaizi, I wouldn't have thought that lychees could still be sold like this, you don't exist, I can still afford a few catties of goose egg gold entertainment." ”

Old man Ding said: "Goose egg gold is a refreshing mouth, I like your real dragon's eye, it is really good to help sleep, I only feel refreshed during this time!"

Li Junge said: "If you are refreshed, you will have to publish a work, this month, do the four of you have creative ideas?"

Wu Kuang said: "I already have it, but today I want to change it when I look at Miao Village." ”

Wu Meixian said with a smile: "I don't care if you change it or not, I must change it! I just saw Ayin serving the dustpan rice when I was inspired, if she had changed into the Miao family's costume at that time, you think about the picture: in the half-light and half-dark old wooden hall, a few rays of sunlight fell from the bright tiles on the roof, and the cigarette smoke was curling in the room, and a Miao girl, dressed in festive costumes, squatted and knelt on the edge of the fire, quietly fiddling with sacrifices to worship her ancestors......"

Old man Ding slapped his thigh: "Wonderful! Little junior sister's brushwork, with this painting, you can jump out of the traditional rut! This creativity is really necessary!"

Then several people began to discuss this idea, how to paint the feeling of religious themes in oil painting, composition, brushwork, and color...... There are still countless details to be worked out, and the fight is about to start.

In the end, Wu Meixian was furious, and slapped the beauty against the railing: "Shut up! My creativity, my painting, I make my own decisions!"

Then Li Junge looked at Qiu Yatou helplessly: "Boss Xu is already crazy, and your teachers are also going crazy, what about you?"

Qiu Yatou pursed her lips and smiled: "I haven't reached their level yet, my idea is that I won't go to the square for a while, just watch here, and then take Shirly's way, starting from the details, and record the big scene of thousands of people's activities in the entire Miao Village." ”

Li Junge holds his head with his hand, that is, you have to go crazy too!

The lunch is very rich, a large pot of sour soup stone Kang, Miao's smoked fish and bacon, the large piece of sacrificial meat fried out of the fern baba back to the pot meat, the small piece of meat burned out of the smoked bamboo shoots braised pork, the glutinous rice processed into fried glutinous rice cakes, the coarse sweet potato vermicelli of the small foot black bone chicken soup under the mountain and the thick sweet potato vermicelli of Panao Township, the beef shared by the cattle is made into braised beef and then matched with cold seasoning according to the Jiachuan method, Li Junge also burned a squirrel rice fish with his own hands, with the sweet wine and rice wine of the ancestors, whether adults or children, they all eat that is called a happy.

But before eating, before the meal, the people have not yet been served, Grandpa Yu first mixed the rice with some broth, come on, Bai Da, you have worked hard, you please first.

Li Junge wondered, these stupid dogs were crazy with the babies in the mountains behind their homes every day, and they had to go to wash their feet and swim together at night. They're hard work!

Asked about this during the banquet, Grandpa Yu smiled and said: "This is the old legend of the Miao family, it doesn't matter when you eat at other times, on the day of the New Year, the dog eats first, and the person eats later." ”

Li Junge asked, "Why is this?"

Grandpa Yu said: "It is said in the ancient song that in ancient times, there was no rice in our world, only in the heavenly Lei Gong Guzi country, there was rice, and people living in the world could only hunt wild beasts, hunt birds, pick wild fruits and wild vegetables in the deep mountains and old forests, and live a hard life. ”

"At that time, there were two ancestors under the Nantian Gate, one was called Qianxian and the other was called Qili. ”

"The two ancestors thought of a way, and Qi Li was clever, so he gave Qi Xian an idea: 'We have a lot of good things in the world!

"Qi Xian took 9,999 kinds of rare birds and beasts to the country of Guzi, and exchanged them for nine buckets, nine liters and nine bowls of rice seeds with Lei Gong, and put them in the wooden warehouse, ready to wait until the beginning of spring to sow seeds. ”

"Unexpectedly, one night, a mouse ran to the South Heavenly Gate to scoop the fern roots, accidentally touched the sky lantern, and just fell on the wooden board warehouse of the first and the second, and immediately ignited, and the more it burned, the bigger it became, and it couldn't be extinguished. ”

The millet people jumped around in the barn, and finally they all flew into the sky with fireworks and ran back to Lei Gong's house. ”

All the babies are snoring, only Wang Meixian likes to listen to stories the most and has long ears, and she doesn't sit at the table over there, she runs to this table with a bowl and squeezes next to Grandpa Yu to listen.

Grandpa Yu picked her up and put her beside him, sandwiched a piece of chicken for her, and then said, "The rice seed ran away, and Qian Xian was very annoyed. After thinking about it, I decided to find Lei Gong and ask him to return the rice seeds. ”

As a result, Lei Gong was killed and denied this account. It is hard to say that the rice seeds did not go to heaven. ”

Qi Xian's mouth was worn through nine layers of skin, and his throat said that he had dried up nine jars of water, but Lei Gong just didn't admit it. ”

"Qi Xian had to come back and prepare rare birds and beasts again, and take them for exchange again, but I didn't expect these Lei Gong to already have them, but this time I didn't do it. ”

Wang Meixian's eyes began to roll and said, "Then it's time to find a way." Wearing the hiking shoes that Sister Ayin bought for me to go to Lei Gong's warehouse, I just said to see, maybe there are rice seeds in the seams of the soles of the shoes that come back after a turn!"

Li Junge was not angry: "If you go out of the horse, don't talk about rice seeds, I'm afraid that Lei Gong will deceive you!

Grandpa Yu laughed: "Meixian is really smart! Qi Xian's method is actually similar to yours, but he thought about it for nine days! Unlike our Meixian, he came up with an idea in the blink of an eye!"

Li Junge said: "She is a dog-headed military advisor, and she can't be praised in this regard." Fourth grandfather, you go on. ”

The fourth grandfather took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "Qian Xian thought about it for nine days and came up with an idea: When the rice is ripe, send a dog to the rice field to roll a few times, and let the rice seeds stick to the dog's hair and bring it back......, isn't it okay?"

Wang Meixian asked, "Is it Bai Da?"

Grandpa Yu smiled: "It shouldn't be, right? But maybe it might be the ancestor of Bai Da...... When the dog was about to set off, he first explained and then explained, and if he wanted to take the best, he wanted the stalk of rice to be only five inches high, but the ear of rice was five feet long. ”

As a result, the dog was an impatient, and when he heard this, he ran, and when he ran over the overpass, he tripped over a stone and fell hard. After rolling up several times, I reversed what Qian Xian had said. Ran to a field where the ears of rice were only five inches long, but the stalks were five feet high, and he hurriedly rolled a few times and ran back. ”

Wang Meixian was happy: "This dog really looks like Bai Da!"

Grandpa Yu touched Wang Meixian's head lovingly, and then said: "Lei Gong also got the news that Qi Xian sent a dog to fetch rice seeds at this time, and he has sent ninety-nine warriors to guard the bridge head. When the dog returned to the overpass, he was immediately beaten down into the heavenly river by the samurai. ”

"The Tianhe River is very wide and bottomless, and the samurai thought that this dog had only one way to die, and twelve lives could not swim away, and even if it passed, the rice on his body had already been washed away by the water, so they all went back to report to Lei Gonggong. ”

"But I never thought that as the old saying goes, 'Pigs float in three rivers, dogs cut all over the sea!' This dog will swim in the water! After falling into the heavenly river, the dog immediately cocked its tail high and exposed it on the water, and then with great effort, it swam across the heavenly river and returned to the world. ”

"The rice seeds on its body have indeed been washed away, but there are still nine precious rice seeds stuck to its tail!"

Wang Meixian cheered "too"! Then she raised her little slap and looked at Grandpa Yu.

Grandpa Yu wondered, "What do you mean?"

Wang Meixian also raised Grandpa Yu's hand, asked him to spread the slap, and then slapped it with a "also": "This means we won!"

Grandpa Yu laughed: "So that's the case, you little girls in the city are really interesting!"

Then Wang Meixian asked, "Yu Zuzu, is the story finished?"

Grandpa Yu said, "There is also a tail. After having rice seeds, Qi Xian was overjoyed, so he killed the rare birds and beasts that he was going to take to exchange for rice seeds and gave them to the dogs as a reward. It was only then that the dog learned to eat meat. ”

Then he made a yoke out of a mountain col, a plough leg for a mountain range, a plough post for a rocky mountain, a plough foot for a stone, a plough handle for the hill, a plough rope for a whirlwind, and a rhinoceros on his shoulder, and ploughed the earth for nine days and nine nights, ploughing all over the earth. ”

After sowing, the first took care of it day and night, so that the dog also kept watch over the field, and did not allow the sparrows and rats to wait next to each other. ”

"On the sixth day of the sixth month of the ancient calendar, a five-inch-long bunch of rice buds finally came out of the tip of the seedling. Then on the thirteenth day of the seventh month of the ancient calendar, which was the first anniversary of retrieving the rice seeds, he first picked the rice, took some and peeled off the husk, and then got three bowls of rice. ”

When the rice was cooked, he and Qianli thought that the rice was found by their dog at the risk of his life, so they scooped three bowls for the dog to eat first, and then ate it themselves. ”

"The rest of the rice became seeds, and every year the grain was sown and planted, and more and more rice was planted, so that all the people in the world ate rice. ”

"Later, in order to commemorate this event, our Miao family set a 'new eating festival', which can be the sixth day of the sixth month of June or the thirteenth day of July. Our village has always been celebrated according to the 13th of July, and after this festival, it is time to harvest rice. ”