Far away from Pingjing, Daxu Village is the lively atmosphere when every household is preparing for the August Festival, and Li Manman and Taotao are busy collecting hemp straw all morning, preparing to let his father tie torches for himself and his younger brother in the afternoon. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the morning, Li Tianxue didn't have time to make toys for his children, although he had already written a letter of resignation and handed it in, but before the reply came down, the brigade still had to fulfill its responsibilities. In the morning, he not only had to take the village cadres to visit the five guarantee households and the families of military martyrs in the brigade and send some rice and flour oil, but also to send condolences to the local garrison troops.

Lin Xiujuan didn't have time to play with her children, today was the most prosperous in the market, and she rode her bicycle to Baitang early in the morning, ready to earn a sum of money to come back for the holiday.

Li Manman returned to the yard with a dozen hemp stalks and went to pull some wheat straw. In Li Manman's hometown, after August 15, the most attractive thing for children is not that there is delicious food, but that they can play with their friends with torches at night. Torches generally use hemp straw as the main material, and wheat straw and cotton are stuffed in the middle.

There are only four masters in the village to plant hemp, hemp used to be very widely used in the countryside, but since the appearance of nylon rope, it has gradually declined, but the four masters will be in a three or four points every year, the children in the village are very fond of hemp this crop, before cutting it down, you can play in it to hide the old cat, the flowers are also good-looking, adults will not stop the beauty of the girl to pick, its flowers have several colors, emerald green, pink, purple, but emerald green, pick the flowers, there are black small steel cards through the short flower stalks, You can wear it on your head, Li Manman has also brought it before, and she feels very beautiful in the mirror, but now she doesn't do such stupid things. At the end of summer, the hemp is cut down, bundled into bundles, and thrown into the pond, and gradually the pond will emit a stench, and when the smell begins to spread in the village, the emerald green skin becomes dark brown, the hemp is soaked, fished out, and the skin is peeled off with the smell, and put it in clean water to wash, the skin can be made into various ropes after simple processing, strong and tenacious, but the four masters like to rub it into a thin rope, play the hemp nest, and the children in the village can get the hemp nest sent by the four masters in winter, Walking into the place where you sleep can not get the shoes inside is more comfortable than wearing boots.

For example, you can make a homemade musical instrument, choose two stalks of similar thickness, cut them with a knife at one end, and then wear them together in an overlapping manner at the end of the two poles, tie them with ropes, grab the other end of the two poles with your hands, squeeze and squeeze, it will make a squeaky sound, in the countryside where there are no toys, this is the children's guitar, electronic organ; You can also cut one of the ends with a knife, prop it up with a small stick, and then roll it on a spider web, which is the best tool to catch dragonflies; Not only that, this hemp straw is also favored by adults, it is the best tool for managing children, because it is very brittle, easy to break, but thick, looks very deterrent, adults like to choose it to beat children, which can play a deterrent role, and is not afraid of breaking the child, and they are distressed after themselves, Li Manman and Taotao have not been less affected by hemp straw fried meat, of course, the most popular among children is in the August Festival, every year on August 15 a few days before there are fights because of the grabbing hemp straw, Is this a hemp straw or Li Manman and his friends fighting wits and courage to get it.

When Li Manman took his younger brother to collect things to make torches, Lin Xiujuan came back on a bicycle again, today she didn't insist until the crowd dispersed, the chickens at home have not been killed, and if you don't eat chickens on August 15, it will not be a holiday, and the daughter and son don't know what trouble they made at home, and they don't know how many fights they had with those children.

Parked the car, Lin Xiujuan was surprised to see her son obediently sitting at the small table drawing, the little face was clean, there was no tear mark that she thought she had, her daughter was boiling water in the kitchen, holding her cheeks, sitting on the small bench, I don't know what she was thinking, suddenly Lin Xiujuan felt that her heart was full, there was an emotion that filled her chest, if she had gone to school and read the books of those sour people, she should know that this emotion is called happiness!

"Da Hong, your water is about to boil, right?" Lin Xiujuan looked at her daughter and asked gently.

"Hmm!" Li Man came to his senses, nodded, and stuffed a handful of soybean straw into the bottom of the stove.

"Then, you burn it, I'll kill the chicken!" Lin Xiujuan picked up the kitchen knife from the board and walked out. Li Manman looked at the chicken coop in the yard, and the Luhua chicken, who didn't know that his doom was in front of him, was still pacing proudly, and he couldn't help but gloat in his heart. This chicken has had a holiday with Li Manman, in addition to being the king and hegemon in the chicken flock at home, he also likes to peck people, Li Manman has been pecked by it several times, not only that, but it also pecked Grandma Li's heart and liver baby Li Manman's cousin Xiao Yongzi, this time it caused a big disaster, Aunt Li hugged Xiao Yongzi, made trouble at Li Manman's house, sprinkled Lai, and finally Lin Xiujuan matched a set of children's clothes, only to get this plague god away, from that day on, Lin Xiujuan decided to August 151, and killed the troublesome chicken.

At half past eleven, Li Tianxue returned home, and before he had time to drink a glass of water, the four masters came with a few cousins, and wanted to go down to the ground to go to the grave of their ancestors.

Li Manman was left at home to help his mother cook, but he was kicked out by Lin Xiujuan not long after, Lin Xiujuan disliked Li Manman not only clumsy, but also liked to point fingers at himself, which was really not enough.

Dejectedly came out of the kitchen, squatting on the threshold with his cheeks, he was very unconvinced, he had also cooked for a lifetime, although it was not delicious, but it would definitely not be as bad as my mother said! His eyes drifted over the pile of chicken feathers in the yard, and suddenly lit up, and a good idea appeared in Li Manman's mind, take a few steps closely, spread out the chicken feathers, the autumn sun in the eighth month of the lunar calendar is still a little powerful, and this chicken feathers will soon be dried.

After spreading the chicken feathers, Li Manman returned to the room, rummaged through the cabinets and found two copper coins, this kind of copper coins with a circle on the outside and a square on the inside, Li Manman did not have many at home, about a dozen, but they were all lost later, don't ask why you lost them, Li Manman will not tell you. He took a small piece of cloth, put the copper purse, sewed it tightly along the edge of the copper coin with a needle and thread, and cut it with scissors. Now that everything is ready, it is up to the east wind. Where is the east wind? It's in the yard of the second sister-in-law's house!

Li Manman tiptoed to the back of the big white goose with his head up, taking square steps, and pacing leisurely, and pounced hard, pressing Da Bai under his body, Da Bai was caught off guard, and was scared to scream, Li Manman didn't care about it, he worked hard with both hands, and tore off a thick feather from its wings three times and five by two, and then got up and ran to his house, Da Bai reacted, he was attacked by a thief, followed behind the thief, stretched his neck, and chased over.

The second sister-in-law was preparing lunch in the kitchen, and she was also scared to come out quickly, and when she walked to the kitchen door, she only saw Li Manman's figure flashing at the door of the hall, and entered the house, and the door was also quickly closed.

Li Manman leaned against the door, looked at the feathers that still had a big white body temperature in his hand, laughed, felt that today was good, and took revenge! The second sister-in-law's big white is not an ordinary goose, it is a guy who is more powerful than a dog, and he is a great protector of the family, when Li Manman hid the old cat with his friends, he was treated as a thief by it, and he twisted his buttocks, and the red pimples on his buttocks disappeared for several days. However, there are few children in the village who have not been screwed by it.

When the feathers arrived, Li Manman cut off a piece of goose feather tube with scissors, cut it into a cross shape at one end, and sewed it on the copper coin wrapped in cloth with needles and threads, and a simple shuttlecock bottom was ready.

Secretly looked through the crack in the door, Da Bai had already left, Li Manman opened the door, came out of the house, picked a few of the most beautiful chicken feathers that had been dried, inserted them on the bottom of the shuttlecock, and a beautiful shuttlecock was made. Pick out the remaining chicken feathers and keep them, and then shovel them all into the manure pit at the back of the house with a shovel.