There is a city in Huai'an that disappeared into the flames of war. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

That's my hometown.

Grandma sat at the threshold, looking at the lonely moon in the blue sky.

She said she was looking at her hometown, thousands of miles away. I didn't say anything, just stared at the green fireflies flying by the oblique corners of the room. The fireflies are not very bright, and the light is also bright and dark for a while. But I always thought that fireflies were stars that fell to the mortal world and unfortunately died.

Grandma always mentions Huai'an and her hometown. Of course, her hometown is also Huai'an in her mouth.

She said that there is a temple in Huai'an, and a pair of sisters are molded in the temple, which are golden and glowing at night.

She said that there is a kind of watermelon in Huai'an, which is strung together and hangs on a tree, the size of a fist, and even the skin is sandy and sweet.

She said that if the girl in Huai'an wanted to get along with a young man, she would twist off a strand of her hair, tie it with a red silk thread, and give it to others. If someone accepts it, two people can be together......

"Don't you put wine?" Every time my grandmother repeated the nagging to Huai'an's wedding, I would interrupt her with wide eyes of curiosity.

"Don't put wine." Grandma tucked the broken hair that fell from her ears and replied very seriously.

"Then how can it be considered marriage?" I retorted in amazement.

"Why doesn't it count?" Grandma glared at me and bit it off with the thin thread in her mouth. At the end of the broken thread was my grandfather's pants that were about to be exposed. Now, she's sewn it up. The fine needle and thread resemble a sinuous centipede, which is ugly.

The grandmother, who had completed the sewing task, was very happy and began to hum a song. There are no lyrics, just soft tones. Her voice was a little hoarse, but it sounded beautiful in the night.

Seeing that my grandmother no longer planned to deal with me, I had to forcibly suppress the doubts in my heart. How can you get married without wine?

I've seen the head of the village get married. The groom wears red, and so does the bride. The bride was carried on her back, and her hair was tied in a large bun with strings of plastic saffron. The safflower is small, cut from red cloth, with four or five petals, and a small opaque white bead pierced through the center of the petal.

My mother said it was called pearls, and it was very expensive, and I was not allowed to stretch my dirty hands to the bride, who was as beautiful and delicate as the petals of a blooming flower. Therefore, I have always had a dream in my childhood, to be a bride, to insert a string of flowers with pearls, and then to set up a flowing water feast, and to eat delicious food all the time.

The Flowing Water Feast is called Wine Presentation in our place. Setting up wine and serving wine is to set up a banquet and drink wine. The bride first arrives at the groom's house for the first three days to set the wine. The most capable women in the village will be invited to help, make fancy steamed buns, fry fish and meat, kill chickens and steam bowls, and keep their busy feet on the ground. The groom's relatives will be invited, those who live in the same village will also come to congratulate them, and even the bride's seven aunts and eight aunts will come to join in the joy.

At this time, the competence of several women in the kitchen is reflected. They kept stir-frying, adding fire, and garnishings. After a while, one after another, steaming and fragrant dishes were served. They didn't care about wiping their sweat and resting for a while, and they prepared the dishes and condiments for the next round. Titian's fishy minced garlic is missing, and then chop some more; When the soy sauce runs out, send your children back to your house to get some~

Usually the banquet will have cold dishes, hot dishes, and steamed bowls. Cold dishes, including six snacks and three formal dishes. The six snacks are a plate of fried melon seeds, a plate of fried peanuts, a plate of candy, a plate of biscuits, a plate of syrup popcorn, and a plate of fried leaves. The three formal dishes are cold cucumbers, smoked sausage slices, and marinated eggs cut into four pieces. The hot dish is three vegetarian and six meat, which is not particularly particular, and can be played by a capable kitchen woman. What I look forward to the most are the last six steaming bowls. Steaming bowls usually put the prepared food in a bowl, send it to a steamer basket to steam, and then turn it upside down in a porcelain plate. My favorite is the steamed pork ribs.

The so-called pork rib steaming bowl is to coat the pork ribs in flour, put them on top of the potato cubes cut with a hob, and then put them in the steamer to steam them and take them out. Of course, this is my guess, because I haven't really seen it. I also do it at home during the New Year's Festival, but I've already run away with my brothers and sisters.

Whenever the pork ribs come up, I always have to look at the right time to pick up the biggest piece of meat.

Thinking about this, I couldn't help but swallow my saliva. There is not much meat at home on weekdays, except for big festivals and weddings and funerals.

I carried a stool and sat in the open space in front of the door. The moonlight fell and reflected on the medlar trees in the courtyard, casting exaggerated shadows on the ground.

"Mom, Xiaocao, it's time to eat~" Mom came out of the kitchen with a big black spatula in her hand and called out to us.

In the smoke wafting with the smell of rice and grass ash, the night was suddenly gentle.

The family ate around the table, and the young lady also came over. The younger sister is the youngest daughter of the second uncle, two years older than me. Her house is next to mine, and we play together a lot. On weekdays, our relationship is sometimes good and sometimes bad, when it is good, it is like a person, and when it is bad, we fight, but we never quarrel. If it is said to be a fight, it means that if you hit me, I will pay you back, and if you fight again, I will pay it back. Usually, a fight goes on and on for a long time. Usually two people argue that they have been hit several times by the other person. If no adult had appeared at that time and mediated it, I am afraid that the account would not have been able to be resolved from dark to dawn. After the fight, we didn't blush, and after a while, the two of us were like one person.

After eating, the adults chatted together, and the grandmother would take shoes for a while. But the sleepy bugs stuck to my eyelids like kraft candy. Seeing me yawning for a long time, my mother poured me water to wash my face and feet, and told us to go to sleep quickly. But when we were done washing, we were awake and played for a while before we got into the bed with a long-tailed bird.

The bed is narrow and the quilt is not big. The two children slept on one side and made a lot of noise. Grandma asked my sister to sleep on the other side. But the young lady didn't do it, she also wanted to sleep with her grandmother. We fought to sleep with my grandmother. But my grandmother was partial to me and asked the young lady to sleep on the other side, and the young lady cried angrily, and at night when I was asleep, she clamped me with her foot, and I whimpered in my dreams.

When I woke up the next day, I felt some pain in my legs, and when I opened the quilt, I saw that there were a few more bruises on my white legs. I pointed to the bruises on my legs and told the young lady in front of the second aunt, and the young lady was beaten and sternly warned not to bully me. The young lady was also angry, ignoring me all day long, and she didn't come to me at night. So, that night, I snuggled up to my grandmother next to me, and for the first time, I felt a little lonely for some reason.