"Lalala...... The day after tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, I want to eat big moon cakes!"

The little fat man on the other side of the patio, Wang Xiaoying shouted happily. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info their family contracted the town's orchard, the family conditions were good, and they had already bought a television.

His three-year-old is also a chubby little sister, chubby, cute, white and red round face like a red apple, big and clear eyes like two black grapes, two pigtails, living is a fat doll in a traditional freehand painting.

Wang Xiaoqiu took a sip of saliva and said, "yes, that's great." I want to eat meat mooncakes. ”

"Lin Ziqing, did your family buy moon cakes? My family bought a big moon cake this year, it's so big!" The little fat man drew a big circle in the air with both hands, showing off proudly.

"I haven't bought it yet, I haven't found it, maybe it's in the evening, my mother will bring it back!" Lin Ziqing said in a nonchalant tone.

She didn't want to eat moon cakes so much, because moon cakes were a little hard, she found that she had a big tooth decay today, and it hurt a little in the morning, after saying this, she turned around slowly and walked to the door of her house.

It's the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is the first big festival that Lin Ziqing has had since she was reborn.

The big moon cakes in the ancient town are made of earthen stoves, and firewood is burned underneath. A large pan is hung from it with an iron hook. Grilled on both sides, the filling of five kernels with fatty meat.

In addition to the beautiful color and pattern of the skin, the biggest feature is "large". On rainy days, children often shout: "God, God, the moon cakes are steamed on the pot and the lid is big, and the young man eats and the house jumps down." ”

The large moon cakes are more than ten kilograms, like a big pot lid.

By August 15, the son-in-law and his wife and children went to his mother-in-law's house, most of them with a large bamboo basket containing rice, and a large pig's foot with an elbow on the other end, and a jar of glutinous rice and water wine made by himself.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is always around the National Day, and this coke is bad for the children, because the school usually adds up Saturdays and Sundays to have a special holiday, so that you can play to your heart's content.

The adults were also very happy because they could have a good reunion with their families, and relatives from the surrounding villages would also move around, and the atmosphere would be lively.

These days, adults are getting busy, buying clothes for children, preparing for ancestors, buying moon cakes, chickens, ducks and fish for moon viewing...... Firecrackers, etc.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lin Ziqing's family had to spend time with her grandparents, and several uncles also went over, because they had to sacrifice their ancestors at noon.

Lin Ziqing's grandfather was the captain of the "East Gate Brigade" in the town, and he was usually a little unsmiling, and his grandparents gave birth to a total of 8 children, of which the second daughter was born with smallpox when she was 6 years old, and she was not rescued, and died at the age of more than five, and now there are only 6 sons and one daughter left.

Lin Ziqing's eldest uncle Lin Wenliang, the eldest aunt is a teacher in the town center primary school, the eldest uncle is the vice principal of the primary school, and also serves as the director of the general affairs office, they have four children, the eldest son Lin Jianping, and the three daughters are named Shuxiang, Shuhui, and Shufang.

The children of Lin Ziqing's generation are ranked as "Jian" for men and "Shu" for women, but Lin Ziqing and Lin Zitian did not name them according to generation, and the names of their sisters and brothers were given by Lin Wenshan after checking the dictionary.

Lin Wenliang and Lin Wenshan are 18 years apart, and the lobby brother of the eldest uncle's family is only eight years younger than Lin Wenshan, and he is in his second year of high school this year.

Lin Ziqing's second uncle opened a canteen in the town middle school, and there were more children, six or five daughters, and his son Lin Jianhui was the youngest.

The third uncle, Lin Wennan, graduated from primary school, farmed and planted vegetables at home, and also gave birth to four children.

The fourth uncle is a carpenter, and he can't know a few big characters, but he has learned a good carpenter skill, and many people ask him to build furniture, and the carved frame bed that Lin Ziqing's parents sleep on is made by him.

He has two sons, the eldest son Lin Jianxing and the younger son Lin Jianpeng. Because his wife was in poor health after giving birth to her youngest son, she passed away at a young age, and later continued to be a widow Luo from the next township, and Widow Luo also brought two children.

Lin Ziqing's youngest uncle, Lin Wenjun, who lived with his grandparents, had a high fever and meningitis when he was a child.

Sometimes I do some childish things, which is a bit unreasonable, and I am not married yet.

Lin Ziqing is the youngest of several cousins and has 10 cousins.

On the morning of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tan Liyun came over with a long-sleeved skirt, touched Lin Ziqing's head, and said

"You wear this today, and then go with your uncle's sisters. ”

"Okay, this dress looks so good. Lin Ziqing took it and took a look, it was a new skirt made of pink cotton cloth and covered with lilac light gauze.

"This is what your little aunt bought in Rongcheng!" 's mother began to change Lin Ziqing's skirt.

"Don't blame your brother-in-law in the future, he didn't mean it. Tan Liyun gently touched her daughter's head, stroked her hair, looked at the scar on her head and sighed.

"Oh, no," Lin Ziqing replied lightly.

"Qingqing, are you alright? Lin Shumei shouted outside the room.

"Just come. ”

Lin Ziqing and her cousin from the third uncle's family were wearing new clothes and were about to go to grandma's house. The adults didn't let them eat much for breakfast, and they were ready to save their stomachs for a "big meal".

Walking into the bluestone alley, flanked by high stone walls, the clear blue sky is divided into beautiful patterns by various upturned eaves.

Many of the old houses have intact exterior walls, but the internal wooden structures have deteriorated a bit in humid climates. Now the ancient town has not been developed for tourism, and no one has renovated it.

Lin Ziqing touched the moss on the wall with her fingers and walked forward along the bumpy road paved with stones.

Walk out of the bluestone alley, follow the cobblestone wall through the east gate, and then turn a big bend forward, next to a large rice field.

The rice has been harvested for some days, and the fields have been piled with stacks.

To get to my grandmother's house, you have to walk from a dirt path in the middle of this rice field, past a large barn and a small marsh with a lot of "rushes" growing in it.

My grandparents' house was right next to the big fish pond they had dug. It is a three-room bungalow made of mud and blue bricks.

There is a grape trellis behind the house, and a fence is tied with fine bamboo pieces around it, and a circle of "hibiscus flowers" is planted. Now that the hibiscus flowers have not yet bloomed, the lilac buds are very beautiful.

Lin Ziqing remembered a poem "The cool breeze hibiscus hedge, the twilight rain locust branches." ”

In the yard, there is a chicken coop on the east side, and next to the fish pond is a vegetable field with water spinach, leeks, garlic, ginger and the like.

When the group was about to reach the yard, her grandmother Liang Limei came out of the house and looked at them happily:

"It's all here, come in!" Grandma's two dogs, a yellow female dog and a black male dog, rushed out with their tails wagging wildly, sniffing at them.

One after another, everyone arrived, and the grandfather put a few bowls of vegetables in front of the offering table, a few smaller moon cakes were packed with a plate, as well as a plate of oranges, a plate of melon seeds, two candles were lit, and then incense was inserted in the incense burner, and he took them to start sacrificing to their ancestors.

After the sacrifice, because there were many people for dinner today, Grandpa asked a few uncles to set the round table in the sunning field outside the house.

"Let's eat, let's eat!" As grandma called, several families sat around the table.

Today's meals look very rich, life is not rich in this era, usually chicken, duck and fish are reluctant to eat, only the big festival and the New Year are a little richer, a few smaller boys are very happy, pick up delicious dishes, and stuff them into their mouths.

"Eat slowly, don't rush!" shouted Lin Shuxiang, the lobby sister.

The eldest aunt on the side saw it and said with a smile: "It's a little better than before, I didn't eat braised pork during the festival before, so I ate a few thin slices of fatty meat, and I had to use a tall bowl to put it in the middle, and there would be no chickens and ducks to eat." ”

"Yes, the food is better now," the third aunt continued.

"When we were young, wild vegetables were the staple food, not to mention wild vegetables, even the leaves and willow buds were gone, so we couldn't eat enough, and we fought for wild vegetables! 6 In the past few years, there have been people who have eaten Guanyin soil, which is like now! Put oil, seasonings, at that time it was boiled with water, put some salt and eat, sometimes even salt is reluctant to put more, not to mention how unpalatable, I don't want to eat it for the rest of my life!" After speaking, he took a big mouthful of food.

Lin Ziqing took a bite of the fried salted pork slices in front of her, which tasted very good, and the white was planted by her grandmother's fish pond. The bacon is cured at home. All cut thinly. It's very flavorful. She narrowed her eyes and savored it.

"Qingqing, your head is injured, eat more!" At this time, the second cousin Lin Shuhui smiled and put the most nutritious scrambled eggs with tomatoes in her place, wanting her to eat more.

"Thank you, second sister, you eat too. ”

"Qingqing's catastrophe has passed this time, there must be Hou Fuha! It's good to come to this fish soup, I'll scoop a bowl for you!" The fourth cousin, Lin Shuying, stood up and brought her a small bowl of milky white crucian carp soup.

"Qingqing, the smartest and most well-behaved person in our family, my sister will give you a piece of braised pork. The little cousin Lin Shumei sandwiched a large piece of pork belly and put it in her bowl.

"That's enough, thank you, sister!" Lin Ziqing responded to them with a touching smile. At this time, she felt a strong family affection, like a ray of sunshine and a clear spring, which made her heart suddenly pure and clear even if it was covered with the dust of the years.

After the meal was finished, several cousins brought out a table of eight immortals, and they didn't know where to take out the playing cards and said that they were going to play "Red Five".

The uncles and uncles also took out cards directly on the dining table to play the unique "marking" in northern Fujian, and the children went to the threshing floor to play.

Lin Ziqing didn't follow, she walked to her grandmother's small vegetable patch, wanting to see those small vegetables grown by her grandmother. More than 20 years later, my grandmother is almost 90 years old and has never planted again. Later, only local peach trees were planted in the yard.