Chapter 317: Melon Seeds
In fact, Master Chen thought wrongly, where is there a future, after a few years, everyone will stay at home and watch TV, and in more than ten years, everyone of all sizes will hold their mobile phones, and they will not have the ability to speak, and watch performances?
Even if someone is willing to watch it. In the past, there was a job, but now there is an honor, and in a few years it will not be able to attract anyone. The government did not have a budget for this, and then everything looked at money, and the most important thing is that there was a spirit that was gone.
It's a very mysterious thing. When eating a big pot of rice, everyone eats together, works together, and is lively. It's not that there are no contradictions, but the parents recalled their feelings at that time, except for being poor, they were happy. Later, the life of the small family gradually became estranged, although it was much better than the indifference in the city, but it would never be the same as before.
Props don't have them, and they're not a big deal. But at this critical moment, it can't be deployed for a while. Yang Xiaobei stood in the shed and talked to everyone for a while before he came out, the show was about to start, there were still many things they had to prepare, and now was not the time to catch up.
Zhou Pinzheng was taking his cousin outside, always paying attention to the movement here, and when he saw Xiaobei coming out, he hurriedly came over and took her hand and said, "Are you tired?"
Yang Xiaobei said, "Wait a minute, there are still few people now, let's take a look around." "There are gradually anxious villagers on the field, but after a while, there will definitely be a crowd of people, and Yang Xiaobei is not willing to squeeze, most of them will take a look and then withdraw when the time comes.
"Okay, okay, let's go over there and have a look!" Zhou Xiaoju naturally couldn't ask for it, she watched the backstage with relish for a while, and then thought about going to see the market over there. It is said to be a bazaar, but in fact, it is the nearby villagers who come to sell a little food and gadgets. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, lanterns are naturally indispensable, and the ingenious adults will help to paste the lanterns out of paper, make a shelf made of scorn, and light the candles inside, and a simple version of the small lantern will be ready.
But there are always a lot of adults who are impatient to do these little tricks. So there are specially made and sold, which naturally look much more delicate than what they do indiscriminately, and they can also be shaped out with a little difficulty, such as rabbit lamps, carp lamps and so on. It is simple and cylindrical, and there will be a few strokes on the outside to draw some patterns. Now that everyone has spare money in their hands, they can't stand the noise of the children, and the business of selling lanterns is exceptionally good.
Zhou Pinzheng also bought one for Xiaobei and his cousin and carried it in his hand. This kind of handmade cards in the countryside are naturally not as delicate as the city, but Zhou Xiaoju is still very happy, because the atmosphere is very good, adults and children are carrying small lanterns, laughing and noisy, so lively.
Inside the small lantern is a small piece of candle, which is not afraid of the wind blowing after it is lit, and it is okay to shake it vigorously. But some of them are not strong enough, and the children are dangling, and they accidentally burn the shell, and the good lanterns become "fire lights". At this time, there will inevitably be a burst of crying, adults are tolerant of children at such times, and will not reprimand, if they are lucky, they will be merciful and buy another one.
But after watching a social drama, most of the lanterns in the children's hands were broken when they went home. It's equivalent to a disposable, the candle is burned out, burned, and squeezed...... In short, it's enough for the kids to have a good night.
Yang Xiaobei didn't get many lanterns when she was young. At that time, it was not every year that social dramas were held, they were all connected to a few towns and villages, other towns were too far away, and she was too small, only so twice when she was in Xudian, although the lanterns at that time were on strike halfway, they were still reluctant to lose them, and they took them back and put them for a long time. But when she grew up and had a younger brother, no one took her there, and later, the social drama disappeared completely.
At this time, shaking the lantern in her hand and picking up the previous innocence again, Yang Xiaobei felt that her regrets when she was a child had been made up! She said with a smile, "I want to put this lantern on the bedside at night!"
"Me too, I'm going to take this lantern back to Puhai!" Zhou Xiaoju didn't dare to show weakness. She was also quite old, and she thought that she was past the age of playing with lanterns, but she didn't expect it to be quite fun! The dotted lanterns emitted a warm orange-red glow, dotted the square like stars. At this time, people are arriving one after another, and more and more people are pouring into the square, plus the vendors selling snacks pass through it, so there is a lot of noise.
"It's about to start, let's go back!" Zhou Pinzheng was still not at ease, he was nervous as soon as a child rushed over, even if he tightly protected Xiaobei in his arms, he was still afraid that Xiaobei would bump into it. Yang Xiaobei also walked a little sore, so the group followed the crowd and finally arrived at the rostrum.
The leaders were always late, but their positions were on the side, and a few people also had a tacit understanding that they didn't plan to go over to say hello, so they sat down on their own. Zhou Xiaoju also bought snacks such as baked sweet potatoes and baked cakes in her busy schedule just now, but she still didn't learn to nibble while walking like a local, and she couldn't wait to open it and eat it when she got to her seat.
Not...... This kind of sweet potato is still delicious! The sweet potato roasted by the wood and charcoal is fresh and hot and sweet and glutinous, and it is a little cold after walking for a long time, and the tongue is stuck out after eating a mouthful, but the whole person is warm. "Xiaobei, don't you eat it?" Zhou Xiaoju nibbled on the sweet potato without any image, and didn't forget to greet Xiaobei.
"Eat it! I'm tired of eating it these days. Yang Xiaobei picked up a baked cake and ate it, this thing is more complicated to make, and no matter how full it is, it is generally not eaten at home, and in winter, I stay in the stove room all day long, and I bake two if I have nothing to do, and it is not uncommon to eat something delicious for so long.
The two sisters-in-law sat here and ate with relish, and Zhou Pinzheng was speechless when he saw it. Is it really good to eat on the tuyere on this cold day? But men can't understand the realm of girls, especially foodies—sitting here without eating, always feel that something is missing.
After eating sweet potatoes (baked cakes), they began to eat melon seeds again. This is brought from home, knowing that Xiaobei is tricky and likes to eat snacks, Yi Huifen planted a lot of sunflower seeds this year, and waited until autumn to dry and put them away, and when she was fried in an iron pot with salt a year ago, it brought a hint of saltiness, and then there was the natural fragrance of melon seeds, which is Yang Xiaobei's favorite food.
It's still my mother who knows her taste best, and she loves to eat melon seeds since she was a child, not to mention, but she still loves this taste. She never eats spiced, cream, pepper and salt, and the walnut flavor and caramel flavor that became popular later, and she doesn't know what to add, and she can't even taste the taste of melon seeds. But buy the original flavor, and it's not delicious. So every year when I go back, my mother will still fry one or twenty catties of melon seeds, and the family loves to eat them.