Chapter 3 People become old and refined

Xiao Gang smelled the fragrance and shouted that the children all checked that their little hands were clean, no, the children looked at the big children who were not clean, and the older children helped to rinse with the water in the bamboo tube. The www.biquge.info pillar was so happy to see the children like this, and put down all the bamboo tubes and piled them aside. Xiao Gang asked the pillar to pick some large leaves around, and there is a companion herb in the bamboo forest, and the leaves are very large, which are non-toxic and a little fragrant. In my previous life, when I was making Ye Er Ba, I used this kind of leaf to hold Ye Er Ba, and this is how Ye Er Ba got its name. In front of everyone, there were two leaves in front of Xiaogang, who broke the barbecue bamboo tube and distributed the bamboo insects, and the bamboo insects were deflated, steaming with oil and aroma. I don't dare to send too much, and the small children have five or six plus a black egg, and the older children have more than ten black eggs, and the black eggs in the pit are all taken out and piled together, with leaves underneath. In front of the pillar, there are three leaves and a whole bamboo tube, and there are no black eggs. Xiao Gang means that his father is an adult, just eat as much as he wants. There is still a bamboo tube left that has not been opened, and when the insects and bamboo insects are released, they are full, and now they are only half a tube open. And he filled the pit with black eggs, and put the fire back. Then Xiaogang announced that it was time to eat, and the children cheered. The big cow and the peach also shouted vigorously, and then Xiao Gang peeled off the skin of the black egg to reveal the white and yellow flesh, noodles, powder, glutinous, sweet and smooth when he took a bite, grabbed a worm and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it, and the fragrance of bamboo, the high protein fat of the insect was drilled all over the mouth, and it came out of the nose again. Everybody learns to eat like this. The horn chirped and stopped talking, and some of the bamboo tubes in front of the pillar were insect pupa, which were more fragrant than insects, but the fat of insect chrysalis was less than that of insects, and the salt water had been absorbed by the body of insects, and the salt taste was just right. The pillars peeled one after another, and the black eggs were peeled and the insects ate a bite, and the insects were scratched a few by one, and everyone ate them quickly, and the smaller children's mouths could not contain the oil, and the corners of their mouths flowed. The children ate after a while, and they all wanted to eat Xiaogang and didn't let them eat. I can't eat more greasy things, and I can't eat more, and I can't eat any more snacks, but it's a terrible thing. The pillar is still eating, and now it has slowed down, and it still catches a few bugs and chrysalis one by one, chewing slowly, and sometimes drinking a sip of water. Xiao Gang asked the big cow and the peach to put a few stones on the rack, put the water jar on it, burned it, and took out some powder from the back basket and added it to the jar. The children all watched the pillar eat a few three or four-year-olds and sucked their fingers, and Hei Niu shouted in embarrassment: "Brother and sister, don't suck your fingers, Xiao Gang said! He almost sucked his fingers himself, and if he hadn't noticed Xiao Gang staring at him, he would have sucked it too. When the water was boiled, he wrapped the jug in leaves, took it off the jug along the big cow, and suddenly realized that the water that Xiao Gang's family drank was made like this! The younger children wanted to sleep when they were full, and it was noon, and the sun outside the forest was hot. The monkey and the peach carried the bamboo basket on their backs, and the older children went around collecting dried bamboo leaves, and after a while they were full, and they spread the leaves to make duck baba, and carried the youngest children, who had fallen asleep on the ground, to continue to pick them up. After a while, it was laid out in a circle, and everyone slept. The pillars are guarding the children, and they are still slowly eating the pupae. "It's so fragrant, today is a big meal! This son didn't raise it in vain!"

Half an hour later, Xiaogang, Peach, and Da Niu all woke up. The pillar ran far away and dug a pit for convenience, and almost didn't squat down. After a while, even the children who had not woken up were screamed. The black bull commanded: "All have eaten and slept well, and now those who are thirsty come to drink water." After drinking the water, we went to work," one by one pointed to the assigned work. Kittens, piglets, sheep's horns, bamboo insects, black cows, monkeys, dogs, and roe deer followed Xiaogang's father to carry bamboo tubes. Xiao Gang, Peaches, and Da Niu have to do more important things, catching birds and chickens. It happened that the three back baskets were all used, and everyone was beckoned to work quietly. The big cow took two, the peach was a bamboo basket, and the little one just held the leaves and wrapped the insects and left.

One part of the bamboo forest may be a big stone underground, but the bamboo does not grow, the big leaves are sprinkled on the pad, a handful of insects dug out of the ground are sprinkled, a small wooden stick is supported, a bamboo basket is covered, and the three children are lying on their stomachs. Da Niu asked Xiao Gang in a low voice: "Why don't you take the ripe insects to fish? Isn't the cooked ones more fragrant?" "The cooked ones are salted, the cost is too big, it's not cost-effective!" Xiao Gang replied. After a while, a few quails came and pecked at the insects, which were held inside and crashed in a panic. Da Niu laughed: "It's ridiculous that I've killed me so much at once! I'm so happy to be able to play with Xiao Gang!" "Brother Da Niu, you go and catch it. I'm afraid they'll peck me. "Okay, brother, don't be afraid!" the big cow ran over, grabbed them one by one, tied their feet with straw ropes, and asked Peaches to carry them back to the children who were digging for insects. also explained: "Tell them that Xiao Gang won't play with him after stealing food." The remaining two baskets continued to wait, and after a while, a few more bamboo chickens were caught. The bamboo basket that Xiaogang's father carried was big enough to buckle three, and the big cow was almost knocked over by the bamboo chicken. Fortunately, the big cow ran quickly and held it down, and the peach also came back. After discussing it, I still felt that it was almost dark and it was time for Xiaogang to get food, and then everyone went home, so they happily returned to the place where they cooked with bamboo chicken.

When I saw that the bamboo insects on the ground were much better, I couldn't close my mouth with a smile. Xiao Gang opened the bamboo tube left at noon and distributed it to the children as a snack, and the black cow also shared it when they came back with the bamboo tube. Xiao Gang beckoned the child to take care of the quail and the bamboo chicken, leaving the monkey with him. Big Niu, Peach, and Black Bull carried a bamboo basket on their backs to pick up Xiaogang's father. It turned out that the pillar watched a child help pick up the bamboo tube in the morning. I found some bamboo with insects and cut it down, no wonder the children couldn't finish moving, this time it was no problem to bring three bamboo baskets. Carrying three baskets of bamboo tubes, he returned to the place where the fire was cooking, and there were children on the fire from time to time adding dry firewood and bamboo leaves. Xiao Gang still used the old way to remove the fire and dig out black eggs, the top is pasted, and the bottom is not pasted. Throw away the mushy and start grilling the bamboo tube again. The pillar was not idle, and took a firewood knife to cut the black eggs. Xiao Gang pointed him out the location, and he just went to plan. The black bull only saw the quail and the bamboo chicken this time, and regretted not letting Xiao Gang take it to catch the bird. "Xiao Gang, your black bull brother has always listened to you. Why don't you bring such a fun thing with Brother Hei Niu! And you don't eat this black egg pig, how do you make it so delicious?" Xiao Gang raised his head and replied: "The first time I go, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch it! And these younger brothers and sisters can only rest assured if you take care of them." This thing is taro and cannot be eaten raw, and if it is eaten raw, it will be poisonous, and of course the pigs will not eat it. "The black bull who is slapping this sycophant can't find the north, and his mouth is grinning to the back of his neck. said loudly to the children: "Brother Hei Niu didn't go to take care of such a fun thing for you, you have to obediently remember Brother Hei Niu's good." "The things are also cooked, and the bamboo insects that Xiaogang distributed to everyone are even fewer this time, including the pillars, only half of the bamboo tubes. Again, if you eat less greasy, you can't eat more.

After a while, everyone was ready. The pillar didn't mind if it was full at noon, and it was still very proud. "My son of the gods is amazing!" thought to himself with a smile on his face. After a while, I dug back a large pile of taro, sorted it out, and began to load the basket. This taro is the most fragrant, it is dried taro, but the yield is not high, and it grows near a place with a lot of water. Where there is a lot of water, the soil is also soft, so it is easy to plan.

When the bamboo basket is loaded with bamboo insects, Xiaogang asks the peaches and the big cow to use large leaves to pad the edge of the bamboo basket and spread a layer of raw bamboo leaves and put a layer of bamboo insects. The two baskets were full, and the rest of the thicker bamboo tubes were loaded for the monkeys and black oxen, and they tied straw ropes to carry on their backs. I don't want to take this jug back, I can't take it anymore. Just put it upside down in the burned pit and the little charcoal brought was useless, and it was also detained here, covered with a broken bamboo tube, and all the children went to the stream to wash their hands and faces. Then, everyone went home together. Walking and stopping all the way, the pillar carried a large back basket of taro to be full, and the cooked taro was put on the noodles, and the raw ones were all on their backs, and they also grabbed a bamboo chicken on their hands. Sometimes this child wants to pee, and that child wants to on the side of the road, and everyone takes a break. There were no children crying, and it was still very hard to walk for more than an hour and about 200 meters to reach the end of the village.

I saw a group of adults returning to the village from a distance, and everyone greeted them. The one who shouted Dad, the one who shouted Mom, the one who shouted Uncle, and the one who shouted Uncle higgled and trotted while waving his hands. Xiao Gang beckoned everyone not to run, so that they couldn't work too hard when they were full, and their stomachs would hurt. The children slowed down and waved vigorously, and a few older children did not have time in their hands, holding the quail and not daring to wave. The adults hurried over to pick up the children, and the bull also came with his brothers. laughed and shouted: "Brother Zhuzi has worked hard for you! I have caught so many bamboo chickens and quails, you are so capable." The children didn't cry, did they? You took it with you at dawn, and it was really too hard for you!" The pillar also shouted loudly: "Brother Manniu, you have worked hard to go to the ground, are you thirsty, are you hungry? I have food and drink here, come and order on the hour!" Next, the pillar's back basket asked, "What are you doing with these black eggs?" The pillar smiled and said, "Brother Manniu, this can be used as food, but it's delicious." ”

Manniu was sad for a while, "Our family has been mixed up like this, and Brother Zhu still uses this thing as food." How can I be this brother?" and put down the back basket of peaches and black bulls, "are all big insects and take them back to feed the chickens?" brother is really capable, how did you get so many big insects?" The pillar laughed: "This can't be a waste for the chickens! After speaking, he handed over a peeled taro and an open bamboo tube. The wild cow cried and cried: "The pillar brothers can't even open the pot, eat these things." Let me die!" A handful of tears and a handful of snot, people in their forties are crying very spectacularly. The adults who followed behind were all crying, and the pillar hurriedly advised: "It's really delicious! The brute bull said fiercely: "Taste it all, the pillar brothers can eat it, and we can eat it too." "Looking at the insects in the bamboo tube, smelling the smell and feeling that it may be really edible, I first catch a bamboo insect and put it in my mouth. "Yo, it's so fragrant, it's exciting!" the taro also took a bite, "Hey! This thing is so delicious! Why don't the pigs eat it?" he stuffed the rest into his mouth and ate it, grabbed one from the basket, learned to peel the pillar, and ate it in one bite. The other adults have a bamboo worm per person, and they all say that it is delicious and another person has a taro. If it's not cooked enough, I break it open and taste half of it, and they all say it's delicious. Now everyone was staring eagerly at the pillars and their baskets. The pillar said, "This big insect is called a bamboo worm, and it can be eaten raw, but not too much." This black egg is called taro and must be cooked before it can be eaten. Now the adults started chewing a handful of bamboo worms. "It's really delicious! Raw with a sweet taste, are the bamboo insects growing in the bamboo? The children have eaten them all with oily faces!"

The adults helped some to carry the children, some to carry, and some to help carry the bamboo baskets and walked to the village. As he walked, he asked his own children and found out that his children had been eating with Xiaogang for a long time, and he was shocked! Such an older child can really make trouble, and his child can't come home at night and don't eat much. Manniu smiled and said to everyone: "Let's talk less about Xiaogang of the Zhuzi family, let's talk less about it, I have known for a long time that the black cow takes so much rice at home, can I not know? Anyway, if you don't eat bad children, you eat and don't give it bad, so I don't care." Hehe, in the future, the black cow will not use the rice and beans at home for food. The pillar said embarrassedly: "Brother Manniu, I really don't know that the children are eating your family's food these days! Why don't you tell me! We will also produce some food!" Manniu said earnestly: "We are a family, and we have limited ability and can't take care of it." The children are our future, so what's the matter, do you have that much food? Besides, even the children of our own family can't eat much food. ”

Now everyone knows that Manniu is so hearted, including Xiaogang. Xiao Gang smiled and said, "Uncle Manniu is so good!" Manniu also smiled and looked at Xiao Gang like an adult: "Big nephew, you are the top figure in our next generation! You should have seen that I knew it a long time ago, right?" Xiao Gang smiled and nodded without speaking. The wild bull looked at the sky and laughed: "The ancestors have appeared!" Then he turned back to the adults and said, "Keep your mouth tight, you know what you should say and what you shouldn't say." Our family's affairs may really be possible in our generation. Everyone nodded silently and saw it. As he spoke, he went to the end of the village and asked Xiaogang. Then, divide everything up. The taro bamboo insect wraps a family branch with big leaves, a bamboo chicken quail, two bamboo chickens from the black cow, a bamboo chicken from the monkey's family, a quail from the roe deer family, a quail from the dog's family, and the rest are put in the big back basket. The brute bull said that he couldn't do it, and it was enough to divide taro and bamboo insects. The pillar whispered to him: "These things will be indispensable in the future, and they will not be rare." The brute bull laughed and asked everyone to take it home, and he himself was going to pick up the old lady at the pillar's house.

When I got home, there were still a few pounds of taro, four quails, and a bamboo chicken. Xiao Gang's grandmother couldn't close her mouth with a smile, and Xiao Gang's mother was also full of sunshine. Manniu chatted with grandma for a while, and grandma seemed to have made up her mind and nodded. Beckoning Xiaogang's mother, Lotus, to take care of these things at home, bamboo insects can't be put away, they will be broken if they die. took Xiao Gang's father and Xiao Gang and followed Manniu out to Manniu's house.

The houses of the Manniu family are all cut out of stone, and the bottom of the courtyard is also very high, and it is necessary to go up five steps to reach the courtyard. The courtyard walls were all cut of stone, and the wild cow told Xiao Gang: "These are the ones left by our ancestors, and I will tell you all about the pillars today! I am most afraid to tell the children about these things, and I will cry once and again." In fact, people of their generation, including your grandfather, feel that there is no hope left!" Speaking of this, he paused and looked at Xiao Gang: "But today, I see hope." As he spoke, he came to the courtyard gate, which was made of heavy wood wrapped in copper nails, and there were two large copper rings, seven feet wide. This is the style of the temporary dwellings established by the ancestors at the beginning, and it can be seen that the ancestors are really very energetic. At this time, the gate of the courtyard is open, but in fact, it is only at night that there is rarely this door. There is a courtyard of more than 2,000 square meters, which was originally full of military tents, and it was for 500 soldiers and 100 domestic servants, so it is so big. The ground was covered with thick stone slabs, and the stone slabs in the middle of the courtyard were smaller, straight and straight to the hall, and the large hall with ten tables was already filled with more than a dozen low tables. At first glance, the case looks like an old object, painted black and red. There were already a number of old people standing at the door of the hall, some with gray hair, some with gray hair. The father of the wild cow was also among them, taking the lead in welcoming the three of Xiaogang's family. The two old men closed the hall and pressed Xiao Gang to the middle of the case and sat down to pay homage. Xiao Gang smiled and said, "Grandparents, aunts, I know what you have to do, don't worship." If you want to worship me, you will run away!" The old men were stunned, and the old man of the bull called Qingsong and said: "The gods do not want to be worshipped, so take a salute! Don't abandon our family when you accept this gift, so that you can achieve our wish to become our ancestors!" Xiao Gang knew that reasoning didn't make sense, and he had to suffer this. sat up straight, put away his smiling face, and accepted the salute. When he finished, he said, "You old people don't know how much blessing you have to give me now?" Alas, I am the one of this family and will not abandon everyone. "Now even the other old people who are skeptical believe it, and the Qingsong family didn't believe it when they invited everyone to come today. After the salute, everyone's mood was also relaxed, this god is the god of our family who can't run. The uncles here are pillars and brute bulls, and the others have long been shouted to go outside to do things. A group of old people gathered around and were about to ask questions.

"What kind of system, the god is still a child! You are not afraid of tired him? Sit down, I'll say first. "He doesn't blush either. The other old people all sat down around Xiao Gang's case, and Qing Song was tall. Although emaciated, not skinny, and gray-haired, he was sixty-one years old. Squeezed in and sat cross-legged opposite Xiao Gang, the case was only one and a half feet wide, four feet long, and one foot six inches high. He sat down before he was at his chest, and he looked at Xiao Gang with a smile and didn't speak.

Xiao Gang also smiled: "Grandpa Qingsong, the kid has eaten your family's food." I am your nephew and grandson, and the people of this family will do their best to fulfill the wishes of their ancestors. Then the old man asked, "How did you choose our family, did your ancestors invite you?" when you could take over as the head of this family? What do you need most importantly, and how can the family help you?"

All the old people nodded, including Xiaogang's grandmother, "The boss is the boss, and he really has a level!"

Manniu was dumbfounded, "Daddy is too good!"

The pillar was dizzy: "How can my son answer so many questions?"

Xiao Gang replied through the case: "If I am selected, I am selected, and in the dark, maybe I should be a member of this family, so I came; I was not invited by my ancestors, and I have never seen the spirits of my ancestors, but I believe that my ancestors have spirits in heaven; the affairs of the family are not suitable for me, so I will talk about it later! Now even if I agree, I can't do it; I need to be literate, learn martial arts, and classics, and I also need carpenters and blacksmiths at home, I also need to look at what my ancestors have left behind at home, and I may be able to deduce something from them, and even find the bones of my ancestors. ”

The old people began to sobb one by one, and Qingsong was also in tears: "A few of us old people can know how to read and write, and it may be enough to add up; no one in our family can learn martial arts, so let's go outside and ask some to teach it; there are still some classics, and the ancestors leave them to dust four times a year; carpenter, I can barely be regarded as a carpenter, and no one else learns it; we don't have a blacksmith in our family, but the uncle of the pillar is; Langzhong doesn't, Qingshan will be a little rough and shallow pharmacology is not Langzhong; the gold and silver left by the ancestors, There is not much left of the jade and other belongings that were used as pensions for 500 soldiers and 100 servants, but the rest of the things are kept in the backyard; go and retrieve the bones of the ancestors, and let all the brothers go when the autumn harvest is over! When the time comes, please help measure the good fortune!" After Qing Song finished speaking, he turned his head and beckoned the wild cow to go and look at the kitchen, and if it was okay, call them to serve the meal.

Xiao Gang saw that although the old people were in good spirits, their bodies were not very good, and they were sitting for a long time, and they were a little stiff. So he asked: "Grandpa Qingsong, these cases are too short to sit and eat on their knees, can they eat at the table?" The old people all laughed, although they are gods, they are still children! Qing Song beckoned the pillar to summon the bull to carry the big table and withdraw the case. The pillar ran out, and Qingsong also stood up. Everyone stood up, and Xiao Gang also stood up and stretched his legs. Suddenly I remembered something and said to the old people: "They are busy with theirs, I will play a set of boxing grandparents, let's try it!" The old people all said, okay. So Xiao Gang played a five-bird play, and said while fighting: "A set is divided into five styles, which cannot control the enemy but can strengthen the body and prolong life." "The old people are more active, and they have learned everything after a while. Head to ear, some like this, some like that, and I'm very happy!

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