Chapter 262: Incense Bucket
After learning that it was making moon cakes, Ling Manshu immediately joined in with great interest. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Although the mooncakes she made in the end were not even as good as Jiang Rong, they were still unanimously praised by everyone.
Sure enough, other people's children just hate it!
Jiang Yi, who worked hard but didn't get a little praise, was unhappy, "Obviously I'm the best-looking!" ā
"Okay, good, our brother Ping is the best-looking." Ling Manshu hugged him and gave him a big fragrant kiss.
In this way, the little guy will generously not bother with this beautiful sister who stole his limelight.
Everyone else watched with amusement.
Twilight is just around the corner, and the town is already bustling with activity. Red lanterns are hung in front of every house, and a series of programs such as burning incense, Mid-Autumn Festival in trees, lighting tower lanterns, putting sky lanterns, walking the moon, and dancing the fire dragon have been released one after another.
Burning bucket incense is also called "lighting heavenly incense", "burning heavenly incense" or "heavenly incense". Douxiang is a kind of big incense bucket, square, big at the top and small at the bottom, similar to a bucket. Inside the bucket is really incense crumbs or sand, incense is inserted, and some people also insert the Kui star and colorful flags tied with paper.
Exquisite people will also paste gauze silk around them, which is painted with the pavilions of the Moon Palace Chang'e, or written with paper-cut gold characters such as "full moon life".
The incense in the incense bucket is not ordinary incense, but a thick incense at the top and thin at the bottom, and two feet high. Its front is painted with the memorial arch of paper tie, the eaves are warped, the golden light is shining, the two sides of the archway are decorated with couplet plaques, and there are also colorful flags and other things decorated, it is really a grand luxury!
Incense sticks are placed on the offering table in the courtyard and can be burned continuously for several hours until dawn. This is the "burning incense".
Jiang Rong's yard is naturally indispensable to this.
The custom of burning incense sticks has a long history of praying for happiness, tranquility, family well-being, and reunion.
There are poems: the square incense bucket is offered in front of the court, and the pennant is fresh; Sandalwood incense row book auspicious language, family Luo Bai to celebrate reunion.
After that, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival in the tree, Jiang Rong and Jiang Lan few, plus the newly added Ling Manshu, a few people took out various lanterns such as fruit lanterns, bird and beast lamps, fish and insect lamps and word lamps that had been tied with bamboo strips before, lit candles in them, and connected many small lamps below, tied to bamboo poles with ropes.
Next, you need to stick bamboo poles in high parts of the house, such as platforms, roofs, or tall trees.
Jiang Rong proposed: "Why don't we divide into two groups, one group starts to hang from the front yard, and one group starts to hang from the back yard, and then pushes towards the middle of the house, see which group finishes first, how about it?" ā
Jiang Yu Jiang Yi immediately jumped and clapped his hands in approval, and hurriedly ran to her side, pulling her sleeves left and right and shouting: "I want to be in a group with Sister A, you are not allowed to rob me!" ā
Jiguang Heizai Xueduoer and the Monkey King also ran to make trouble, scurrying around next to Jiang Rong, and also clamoring to join her.
Jiang Rong was really happy and helpless, she said to Jiang Lan and Ling Manshu: "It seems that the two of you have a group." ā
Ling Manshu snorted lightly and said, "Seeing that you are all radish heads, shrimp soldiers and crab generals, I'll let you take the first step." ā
Jiang Rong's eyes slipped around the eldest brother and her, and he responded with a smile, "Okay, how can I be punished if I lose when the time comes?" Let's make it clear first. ā
Without waiting for Ling Manshu to speak, she said first: "If you lose, you have to carry my eldest brother around the yard three times!" Do you dare to say yes? ā
Jiang Lan's face turned red when he heard this, and he didn't dare to look at Ling Manshu beside him, and he wanted to refuse, but he couldn't speak for a while.
Ling Manshu said nonchalantly: "What don't you dare!" What if you lose? ā
"If we lose, let Yoshimitsu carry us three laps!" After speaking, without waiting for Ling Manshu to agree, she took the bamboo pole and lantern and led a group of shrimp soldiers and crab generals to run first.
"Hey, you guys!" Ling Manshu was so angry that he stomped his feet, and when he saw Jiang Lan still stunned in place, he snorted softly: "What are you still doing in a daze?" Hurry up! They all ran. ā
Jiang Lan said: "Didn't you say let them take a step?" ā
Ling Manshu was really going to be angry with him, "Isn't this already already?" Let's go, I don't want to lose to a bunch of turnip heads. ā
As he spoke, he pulled Jiang Lan to the backyard.
Because Jiang Rong and they went to the front yard.
Although Jiang Rong and the others are all radish heads, Jiang Yu is already a six-year-old man. He began to practice martial arts at the age of five, and with the spiritual liquid and medicinal baths provided by Jiang Rong every day to polish his body bones, he saw that his body shape was almost the same as that of an ordinary seven or eight-year-old child.
And although he doesn't have a special physique, his talent for practicing martial arts is not bad, and he is practicing the "Nine Elephants True Scripture" that Jiang Rong specially exchanged for him, which is a practice that focuses on refining the body, and he can be said to have entered the realm quite quickly.
Now it's time to get started.
So don't look at Jiang Yuren's small size, in fact, when it comes to strength, he is not weaker than an adult, and those bamboo poles full of lanterns are like playing in his hands, and it is not difficult at all.
In addition, the Monkey King is not only a troublemaker, after getting the benefits promised by Jiang Rong, they are all like chicken blood, and the lanterns are hugging or holding or catching, jumping fast.
Therefore, if Ling Manshu underestimated them, he would lose miserably!
In the end, Jiang Rong saw the scene of his eldest brother being carried by Ling Da Beauty in the yard as he wished, Jiang Yu and a group of boys jumped and screamed next to him, clapping and coaxing, watching the excitement is not too big, and the atmosphere is very hot.
Jiang Lan wanted to come down, but was forcefully suppressed by Ling Manshu, joke, she is not the one who backtracks! Back on back, what's the big deal!
Jiang Rong also added fire to the side and said, "Big brother, do you want to play tricks?" Admit to gambling and admit defeat! ā
In this way, Jiang Lan could only lie on Ling Manshu's weak shoulders with a red face, his hands and feet were not where to move, and he was desperately trying to lift his breath in order to reduce the weight he was pressing on Ling Manshu.
As a result, after running down three laps, he was actually leaving, Jiang Lan, who was carried on his back, was even more tired than Ling Manshu, who was carrying it, and he was sweating profusely.
Jiang Rong watched from the side, and couldn't help but feel a little strange, how could Ling Manshu look like he didn't know martial arts at all? Even though the woman's physical strength is poor, she can be very good after practicing martial arts, let's talk about herself, not to mention running three laps with her eldest brother on her back, even running around the town is no problem.
Could it be that she doesn't know martial arts? So how did she become that "Wa girl"?
Jiang Rong secretly paid attention to it and wrote it down.
Every house in the town has a tree in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and at night, the city is full of lights, such as stars, and the bright moon in the sky.
The Mid-Autumn Festival burned incense, and the sisters and neighbors raised their hands to invite. Join hands to visit Mingyue Lane, and sing to Caiyun Bridge.
After burning the incense bucket and finishing the Mid-Autumn Festival, it's time to walk the moon.
At the foot of Tonglu Mountain, in addition to Jiang Rong's family, there is also Yang Weidong's family who guards the mountain road.
After Jiang Rong's family settled here, they had to have a good relationship with their neighbors. And when she first moved here, Aunt Zhao of the Yang family came to help a lot, and she was even more rare for Jiang Yu and Jiang Yi's two children.
After coming and going, the relationship between the two families is quite harmonious.
After learning that Uncle Yang and Aunt Zhao had been married for many years and had no children, Jiang Rong secretly touched Aunt Zhao's pulse, and after understanding the situation, he exchanged a pregnancy pill from the space specifically for her physical condition, melted it in tea and gave it to her.
Within two months, Aunt Zhao spread the news of happy events, often chanting: "It must be the blessing that Ah Yu and Ah Yi brought to me, thank them so much......"
During pregnancy, she often came to get close to the brothers and asked them to guess whether she was a boy or a girl in her belly?
Jiang Rong taught them to say "male baby", and Zhao was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth when he heard it.
Eight months later, the Zhao family really gave birth to a big fat boy, and Yang Weidong was crazy with joy and named him Bao Dan! When I met people, I said it once, and I said it a second time, and finally the whole town knew.
When I met him again, people took the lead and said: "I know, your daughter-in-law gave birth to a fat boy of seven pounds and six taels for you, called Bao Dan, right?" Congratulations. ā
After saying that, he left, and didn't give him a chance to chatter.
Now Bao Dan is two years old, he is strong, and his calves are fast, and Zhao sometimes can't catch up with him.
No, he ran to the courtyard of Jiang Rong's house by himself, and shouted in a loud voice: "Auntie, auntie, my mother is here to tell you to walk the moon!" Walk the moon! ā
Zhao followed him breathlessly, shouting vigorously, "Slow down, slow down, beware of falling."
Jiang Rong came out and picked up the fat boy and kissed him, "Bao Dan, have you eaten it?" ā
Bao Dan was about to reply, "Eat!" ā
I heard her say again: "I made braised pig's trotters in the kitchen, and I specially left one for you alone, do you want to eat it?" ā
Bao Dan immediately shook his head, "I didn't eat it, I didn't eat it." My belly is screaming, sister, give it to me. ā
Jiang Rong smiled and touched his stomach, "I'll touch it, is this stomach hungry?" ā
Where is the treasure egg willing to let her touch? Isn't it all revealing when you touch it? couldn't help but turn around to avoid her outstretched claws.
"Okay, I won't tease you, the pig's trotters are kept for you, you can't run." Jiang Rong put him down, and saw him hurriedly run in the direction of the kitchen, like a fast-moving ball, and his face couldn't stop smiling.
Turning around and seeing Zhao, he called out with a smile, "Auntie." ā
Zhao responded with a smile, walked over and took out a very well-blooming osmanthus flower from the basket, inserted it in her hair, took a few steps back and looked at her for a while, and said: "Plug in the wooden lotus, our Ah Rong is more beautiful!" It's still fragrant, what do you say about it? ā
"The country is beautiful and fragrant?"
Zhao slapped his face, "Isn't it!" ā
Li Shi walked out and patted Jiang Rong lightly, "The girl's family is not ashamed." ā
Zhao said: "Can't you say that, aren't we Ah Rong worthy of this word?" ā
Li didn't reason with her, pulled her into the house, and said, "Eldest sister, I haven't eaten at home, I can't leave at this time, why don't you invite Sister-in-law He and them to go to the moon together?" ā
"Why haven't you eaten yet?" Zhao put down the basket and said. The basket was filled with her home-made mooncakes and a few well-bloomed osmanthus flowers.
"Alas, my family hasn't come down yet, I don't know when."
The two chatted for a while, and Zhao took away the eggs that were full of oil and went to the moon.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is planted with sideburns, and the sisters walk with the moon. The night is cool and the shirt is thin, and Lu Yuan only hates the long embroidered skirt.
This poem is about the custom of walking on the moon.
The girls and daughters-in-law in the streets and alleys all stepped out of their homes on this day and walked happily together on the streets, with smiles on their faces.
In addition, there are customs such as putting sky lanterns and dancing fire dragons, so I will not repeat them one by one. In short, on this night, every household in the town is lively and festive, and the street is even more prosperous.
When the table was set up, Jiang Yu and Huo Lao hadn't come yet, and the Li family couldn't help but be a little worried, so Jiang Lan went to the front to take a look.
It didn't take long for the person she was looking forward to appear, walking in the front was Huo Lao, Jiang Yu walked behind with Jiang Lan's shoulder, and Huo Lao's disciple Han Zongwei walked in, and several people walked in with a smile.
Old Man Huo arrived before he arrived, "Jiang Yu's daughter-in-law, my favorite Chen Ji pig's trotters, have you prepared them for me?" ā
Li Shi hurriedly greeted him and said with a smile: "It's ready, you should hurry up and take a seat." As he spoke, he invited him to sit down.
Jiang Yu and Jiang Yi pounced on Jiang Yu as early as when they saw them, shouting that they wanted to hug, ride a horse, and throw high.
Jiang Yu hugged one in one hand, turned it upside down, and said with a smile: "Good boy, it's a lot heavier, it seems that you have a good meal at home, what do you want your father to reward this time?" ā
"Bow and arrow!" Jiang Yu couldn't wait.
"I want a slingshot!" Jiang Yi also followed.
"Okay, I'll give it to you when I'm done." Jiang Yu put down the two of them, walked up to Jiang Rong and touched her head, "Ah Rong has grown taller again." ā
Jiang Rong hugged his arm and smiled: "Dad, you haven't seen your daughter for more than two months, of course you will think that I have grown taller." ā
The tone was delicate and soft, like a coquette, Jiang Yu's heart immediately softened, and said, "Soon I will be able to go down to the mountain to see you every day." ā
"Really?" Jiang Rong's eyes immediately lit up.
She hurriedly confirmed to Huo Lao, who was gnawing on pig's trotters: "Master, is what my father said true?" ā
Huo Lao snorted and glanced at her, Jiang Rong immediately stepped forward to pour him wine and vegetables, and finally got a positive reply.
She smiled happily and returned to her seat and took a long sip of her wine.
Before Li could speak, Han Zongwei next to her persuaded her: "You are a girl, you drink so much and hurt your body, do you know?" ā
Saying that, he was about to snatch her wine glass, Jiang Rong turned around and avoided it, and glanced at him: "On such a festive day today, you still don't allow me to drink two sips of wine?" Is there any heavenly reason? I want to drink it! ā
Saying that, another glass of wine was served.
Han Zongwei couldn't help it, shook his head and stopped stopping her anymore, but only gave her a hangover dish.
Ling Manshu next to him saw it, rolled his eyes, approached him and asked, "Boy, report your name, are you interesting to the little girl?" ā
Han Zongwei almost choked, his face flushed, and he quickly returned to normal, "This girl, you can eat indiscriminately, you can't talk nonsense, Ah Rong is my nephew's daughter, do I care about what's wrong with her?" Don't slander her reputation.
"It's nothing that I'm a man, Ah Rong is a girl, it's hard to kiss if it goes out......"
Seeing that Ling Manshu's eyes were becoming more and more weird, Han Zongwei couldn't help but stop talking, and felt inexplicably empty, "What's wrong?" ā
Ling Manshu shook his head, "It's nothing, come, eat vegetables." These dishes are all made by my aunt herself, and I have to swallow my tongue when they are delicious. ā
The two of them sat next to each other, and their voices were very low when they spoke, and the wine table was so lively that no one else could hear them very clearly, but they could only see that they were very close together.
When Jiang Lan saw it, he felt a little uncomfortable somehow, so he only ate the vegetables silently, took care of Jiang Yi next to him from time to time, and gave him dishes that he couldn't reach. (To be continued.) )