"Master, the legend of the mountain song, there is still a legend of the mountain song!?" Tian Limai asked in surprise.

Tian Limai and Shi Niang came to the hall, and when they saw the master and the senior brother sitting there chatting, Tian Limai said, "Master, I'm still sitting!"

"Okay, sit with me!" Qin Laosan said.

Senior brother Chen Xingao stood up and said to his mother: "Mother, the water I burned to kill chickens is about to boil, I'll go catch chickens!"

"Qin Laosan, Tian Limai wants to hear the legend of your mountain song of Chen Guzi and rotten sesame seeds, you tell him about it!" Shi Niang said to the master Qin Laosan.

After the senior lady finished speaking, she and her senior brother Chen Xingao went to kill the chicken!

"Tian Limai, it's too late, tell the legend of the mountain song, there are some places that need to be sung, so let's talk about the legend of the mountain song tomorrow morning, if you really can't sleep, learn to sing a few mountain songs softly with me!" Master Qin Laosan said.

In fact, for Tian Limai, it's not that he can't sleep, but he is very tired, but he feels that the master, the master and the senior brother are still busy for him, but he doesn't care about going to sleep, which will make the master, the master and the senior brother feel that he Tian Limai doesn't understand the meaning of the world, so he has to stand up, and even he yawns and doesn't play!

"Master, I listen to you!" Tian Limai agreed.

Tian Limai was thinking while agreeing, the master said that he wanted to sing the legend of the mountain song, and it was too late, so he would also have to sing the mountain song with the master, so it would not be too late? Tian Limai secretly smiled in his heart: "Shichuan, if you don't tell the legend of the mountain song, I'm afraid that I am the only listener tonight, you don't think it's interesting, tomorrow morning, there will be more people listening, and your interest will be stronger!"

"Tian Limai, this singing mountain folk song must first find a good rhyme, find a good rhyme, you can sing casually, of course, some rhymes are wider, some rhymes are narrower, wide rhymes can be sung a few more, narrow rhymes are less sung, but no matter what rhyme it is, there is a turning sentence, that is the third sentence!" said Master Qin Laosan.

Tian Limai didn't seem to understand, but he still nodded very seriously.

Qin Laosan saw Tian Limai nodded, and a smile appeared on his face, he didn't look at the wrong person, this Tian Limai seems to have some talent for singing mountain folk songs.

"Tian Limai, mountain folk songs have mountain songs, minor tunes, trumpets, rituals and recitations, etc., relatively speaking, mountain songs are easier to learn, high-pitched, majestic, simple music scores, you listen to me whisper to you to sing a piece of "to be poor but Xiaolang is poor" of the past mountain songs!"

Qin Laosan sang softly as he spoke: "If you want to be poor, you can't be poor, and you live in a thatched hut in the mountains." Cooking rice is a broken can, and carrying water is a bamboo tube. ”

After singing, Qin Laosan asked, "Tian Limai, do you understand?"

Tian Limai nodded again.

"Well, the mountain song I sang just now was sung by one person, and there are also male and female duets, and I will sing two verses for you too!"

Then Qin Laosan sang: "When I saw the sun sinking to the west, I thought of my sister's family to talk about personal affairs." Oh ho asked my sister, I don't know if I will say yes or not?"

Qin Laosan stopped and said, "This is sung by the man, so the woman continues to sing!"

Qin Laosan learned to sing in a female voice: "I promise to talk about private affairs, but I'm afraid that you and I can't negotiate, my parents are in charge of the boudoir tightly, and the two yellow dogs often guard the door. ”

Tian Limai thought that the master Qin Laosan was going to stop after singing two paragraphs, but who knows, the master Qin Laosan continued to sing: "As long as you are willing to talk about personal affairs, I will make up my mind; ”

After singing this paragraph, the master Qin Laosan sang in a female voice again: "Even if you tease the two dogs, it will be difficult for you to enter the door." Mom and Dad made the door skillfully, the door will ring when the door opens on the left, and the door must be high when the door opens on the right, how can my brother enter the door?"

"As long as you are willing to talk about personal affairs, you have to open the door skillfully. I brought a bottle of vegetable oil, a door bucket poured four taels, two door buckets poured half a catty, the left door did not sound when the door came, the right door came to the door did not high, and gently and skillfully entered the door. ”

Next, the master Qin Laosan learned to sing in a female voice: "Brother Qing is a smart person, he has to enter the door with a clever idea, Yue'er has gone to the top of the East Mountain, and I will wait for my brother to talk about personal affairs." ”

The master finished singing a duet, and when he was about to say something, the senior sister and the senior brother Chen Xingao had already killed the chicken, and walked into the hall, the senior brother Chen Xingao carried a bucket and a pot of boiling water to pluck the chicken feathers, and the senior sister stood up and said to the master: "Qin Laosan, Tian Limai is still a small baby, you teach him to do those songs, teach him to sing something good!"

"Old right guest, you don't understand this, since I have been an apprentice, I have to learn a little bit of song, this love brother is an important part of the mountain folk song, if the mountain folk song lacks the love brother, there will be no vitality, love words are the eternal theme!" After Shi Chuan Qin Laosan glanced at Shi Niang, he looked at Tian Limai and said.

When the master heard this, she said again: "Qin Laosan, your notoriety is not far away, isn't it?"

"Tian Limai, don't listen to your master, tell me, is there anything unhealthy I sang just now?"

Tian Limai stood up and slurped and said to Shi Niang: "Shi Niang, Shi Niang, the master didn't sing anything else, only said that men and women talk about private affairs, and there is nothing indecent!"

"Tian Limai, are you still studying?!" asked Shi Niang.

"Yes, Master, I just graduated from junior high school and will enter high school soon!" replied Tian Limai.

"Qin Laosan, listen to what your apprentice said, after graduating from junior high school and entering high school, you let him learn from your flirting and scolding, Nanshan and North transfers, don't learn it, don't teach the baby badly!" Shi Niang's tone became harder and harder, and she looked a little angry.

"Master, don't be angry, it's not good for the master he didn't teach me, besides, the master taught him, I don't learn or not, I have a choice-" Tian Limai wanted to say "There is also a choice", but he suddenly felt that something was wrong and immediately stopped talking.

Although Tian Limai's words were not complete, Shi Chuan and Shi Niang had already understood, Tian Limai found that Shi Chuan Qin Laosan's face was a little unhappy, but Shi Niang smiled, Shi Niang said: "Tian Limai, you are so cute this little baby, maybe, Qin Laosan will really be lucky because he accepted you as an apprentice!"

After Shi Niang finished speaking, she looked at Qin Laosan and said, "Qin Laosan, don't you want to tell Tian Limai the legend of mountain songs?

"Old right guest, don't talk here, don't you still want to burn bacon and wash bacon? You are busy with your business, we don't care about you here, it's going to be dawn, why don't you do it quickly, and come here to meddle in your business!?" said Shi Chuanqin Laosan.

"Tian Limai, don't accompany your teacher here, go to sleep, do you still have to invite someone in the morning?" Shi Niang was still not busy leaving, but said to Tian Limai.

"Tian Limai, if you want to go to sleep, if you don't want to sit down, tomorrow morning you sleep a little longer, I will personally invite those people!" Master Qin Laosan said.

Tian Limai saw that Shi Chuan and Shi Niang were a little competitive, so he said: "Shi Niang, go, I'll help you wash bacon!"

Tian Limai said as he grabbed the master's hand and went to the stove room.

"Tian Limai, you are a student baby, you can't do these jobs, and you can't help Shi Niang! Tian Limai, the fine baby's family, you can't stay up late, you better go to sleep?!" Shi Niang and Tian Limai said as they walked into the kitchen.

"Master, don't underestimate me, I often help my mother do this and that at home, and my mother says that I want to do it!" Tian Limai said.

When he arrived at the stove room, Tian Limai saw that a piece of bacon had been placed on the stove door, and there was a small fire pit at the stove door, so he let go of Shi Niang and prepared to burn bacon, but before he could take a step, Shi Niang grabbed Tian Limai and said: "Tian Limai, you are really a good offspring of the family education, it is enough for Shi Niang to have your heart, don't you do it, listen to Shi Niang, you will talk to Shi Niang by the side, right?"

As she spoke, Shi Niang went to pick up the piece of bacon, and then added some firewood to the small fire pit at the door of the stove, lit it, and put the bacon on the fire and burned it!

The Tujia and Miao people in Wuling Mountain, after killing the New Year's pig in winter and wax every year, every family wants to cook some bacon on the kang.

The kang method of bacon is very simple, that is, after killing the pig, the pork is cut into pieces of meat of different sizes with the skin, the weight of each piece of meat is about three catties or more, and the palm leaves are rubbed into the "Maozi" piece by piece, and then salted for half a month or a little more time, of course, some peppers, peppercorns and other ingredients can also be added when pickling. After that, the marinated meat, take it to hang on the kang to smoke the kang, this time requirements to be a little longer, the minimum should reach more than 30 days, the best fuel at the time of the kang is the best charcoal and fragrant tree girl, the kang is good is bacon!

Because bacon is skinned, so when you get it to eat, you have to use fire to burn the skin place, when you burn bacon, you can only burn the skin, not other places, otherwise it will not be delicious!

A piece of bacon was originally only a few catties, and the most was only seven or eight or ten catties, and the skin was not much more, and soon, the master burned the bacon!

After cooking, Shi Niang transferred all the fire in the small fire pit to the stove hole, and then she put the bacon in the middle pot on the stove, mixed it with water, and slowly washed it!

The stove of Wuling people's house is also very distinctive, the stove is made of small stones and thin mud in the early days, the shape of the stove is half-moon shaped, generally one end is leaning against the wall, the other end is the end of the moon, three pots are placed on the stove, one is a cauldron, also known as the cow's head pot, placed on the end against the wall, this cauldron is mostly used to cook more things, the proportion of boiling water to kill the pig, boiling pigs, Beef food and so on, a pot in the middle is called two pots, used to cook rice, etc., generally the most used is two pots, by the tail is three pots, that is a small pot, mainly used for stir-frying, of course, when the number of people is small!

The stoves of the Wuling people have also changed with the times.