Chapter 38: The Informer (2)
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Luoshui Village was full of joy, the villagers who farmed the land picked up their hoes, first went to the fields to go around, and then lit three incense sticks to express their awe for their own work and gratitude to the gods; the children picked up their books, read aloud the texts, looking forward to knowledge to change their fate, and waited for the parents to go home, before putting down the books.
Then, they will bathe and change their clothes, and go to the most sacred place - Guanyin Temple together, to pay New Year's greetings to Guanyin Bodhisattva!
For most of the villagers, it doesn't matter whether the idol on the offering table is old or new. After Luo Ming opened the light to the new temple owner, he wore a red coat and a golden light, and he was still the god that everyone worshipped!
At the end of the day, it's the psychological needs that are met that counts.
The only unsatisfactory is that the words on the red are written crookedly, slightly unsightly, Luo Ming looked at his dog-like calligraphy, it was inevitable that his face was dull, fortunately, with the smoke of the incense burner in the middle, everything ugly is no longer ugly.
Li Qihuai led a family, as well as a group of people from Beiting, who came to pay New Year's greetings, he knelt on the futon for a long time, thinking a lot, he was not so relieved of the death of his third brother.
Although the third brother has lived a bad life in this life, he is still a responsible person, and he has a good relationship with himself, so he left miserably, with tears in his eyes, and quietly wiped it when he got up.
Li Yiting saw that his father's expression was a little depressed, and after arranging for everyone to burn incense and kneel down, he set off a string of firecrackers that were not too long, and beckoned everyone to return.
The father's touching scene is certainly experienced by the son.
When I got home, my mother brought me the rock sugar water that had been prepared and drank it sweetly. In Luoshui Village, women are not allowed to enter the temple on the first day of the New Year (they can go to the temple on weekdays), and they cannot enter the ancestral shrine, which has long been customary.
Liu Zichen and Shen Mingyue followed the customs of the countryside and did not go, but Shen Mingyue still had some bad feelings in her heart. Men are inferior to women, and she is really not used to being a Northeasterner.
Bear with me!
At noon, I ate a special food from Luoshui Village - rice cake. Southerners should be more familiar with it, the japonica rice is steamed, licked, steamed again, repeatedly beaten until the taste is Q bomb, and those who are not allergic will also add some freshly picked wormwood to beat together, the kueh skin is grass green, fragrant and fragrant; after flattening, wrap fresh winter bamboo shoots, local pork, sour mustard greens, tofu, radish dice, people with craftsmanship will also make some strange fillings, such as oil residue, purple blue cabbage, etc., and finally look like a thick-skinned dumpling several times larger, which makes people's appetite move.
In some places, rice kueh is called "gold and silver", but it is actually the same thing.
One bite down, the mouth is full of oil, there are not only soft and elastic kueh skin, but also crisp, tender, sour, fresh, fragrant taste, folk delicacies are not inferior to any kind of food.
Just when everyone was eating and feasting, Li Fuyu, the son of the fifth uncle, walked into the house with a gloomy face, and everyone beckoned him to eat something, but Li Fuyu shook his head and sat on the bench to smoke.
Other people didn't know him well, so they didn't care about him, and Li Qihuai didn't care too much about this pampered and eccentric nephew, so he didn't care about it anymore after shouting twice.
Li Yiting was cousins with him, hurriedly filled his stomach, and came over with a glass of water, Li Fuyu looked up at him, and said hoarsely: "Second brother......"
"What's wrong with you?" Li Yiting swallowed the last bite of rice cake and asked suspiciously.
"Uh......" Li Fuyu suddenly hesitated and said in a hesitant manner, "I want to tell you something alone......
Li Yiting thought for a while and said, "You wait outside the door, I'll wash my hands and come." ”
"Okay. Li Fuyu stood up and didn't say hello to anyone, he walked out of the living room and stood in front of the door in a daze.