CH.55 Watching the Dragon Boat (I)
Time flies very tightly, the spring rain and their trivial things are ready, and the Dragon Boat Festival is coming.
Chunyu's fourth uncle Li Wujun didn't expect to come from home the day before, saying that he wanted to celebrate the holiday with his eldest brother's family, but Chunyu knew that he hadn't seen Aunt Yu for several days, and he was afraid that he would miss it. Chunyu looked at her fourth uncle and smiled, until her fourth uncle was red and red when he laughed. Yang Yuemei and they don't know what Chunyu laughs at, but Liu Zhi knows that she also laughed at her fourth brother with Chunyu. Li Wujun didn't expect that he would have a day when he was laughed at by his niece and sister and couldn't raise his head!
On the fifth day of the new year, Yang Yuemei and Liu Zhi got up one step earlier. The two of them meticulously swept the courtyard. Then he put wormwood in the door, and hung calamus on the door frame. The small door of the gate, the stove, and the fire door are all hung with a bunch. Yang Yuemei also asked Li Dajun to take the wormwood and calamus to the store, and hung the door there. And those pierced Ai and Ai Hu were also put in the corner of the house, and they were sprinkled with realgar water inside and outside the house.
When this qiē was all settled, the two sisters-in-law went to the stove and started cooking.
Yang Yuemei first cooked her own eggs and the duck eggs she bought, and then dyed them red with red paper to make red eggs, which were all placed in colorful cloth bags. This is for the children to hang around their necks and let them eat, so that they can turn evil into good fortune and be safe.
When she was ready, she let the willow branches boil the rice dumplings, and she began to pack up the yellow eels. At this time, the yellow eel is round and plump, the meat is tender and fresh, and the deliciousness is really good.
Then I started making cakes and cakes......
When they all got up in the spring rain, they could eat after washing up directly.
Spring rain looks at the breakfast is quite rich, small and flavorful zongzi, green onion oil cake, red eggs, garlic eggs, as well as cake and garlic roasted yellow eel.
After the whole family had breakfast, Li Dajun brought another jar of realgar wine, and the adults and children all symbolically drank some of it.
Yesterday evening, Guo Lin came, saying that he had three days off, so he came to ask Chunyu if he would go to Xiangzi Lake in Dongcheng to watch the dragon boat meeting tomorrow, Chunyu didn't say anything, Chunsheng was excited, and Chunyu had to agree with a smile.
So today, Chuntao Chunyan and Zhang Zaoer and Qingxing changed into a summer shirt that was not worn before in the morning, and even Chunsheng also changed into a new summer shirt, Zhang Huzi was reluctant to wear a new shirt.
It was easy to eat breakfast and all of them were waiting in the yard for Uncle Guo and Guo Lin to call, it turned out that Uncle Guo came in a carriage yesterday afternoon, and Aunt Guo came to celebrate the festival with his son.
Today, Uncle Guo also drove a few people to Xiangzi Lake to watch the dragon boat, and sure enough, he didn't wait for a while to hear the knock on the door, and Chunsheng ran out and opened the door, and the monkey's anxious appearance made everyone laugh.
Originally, Yang Yuemei and Li Dajun couldn't go, but they were pulled out of the house by Chunyu insisted. As a result, she had to take care of Zhang Huzi again, because he said that he would not go to the house to watch the house, and Chunyu said that the door was locked and he was afraid of stealing, so he pulled him out.
Guo Lin was still smiling when he stood at the gate, but when he saw Chunyu pulling Zhang Huzi's arm, the expression on his face stiffened. However, it quickly recovered naturally, and smiled and let the spring rain and them all get into the car.
A group of people crowded into the carriage of Uncle Guo's house and set off towards Xiangzi Lake.
The Xiangzi Lake starts at the edge of the east city, forms a moat directly on the east side of the city, and then flows into the canal to the east.
Most of today's city residents have changed into newly made summer shirts, especially the flower-like women, who are wearing colorful and fresh summer shirts walking on the street, which has formed a special scenery. Even the ladies who were raised in the boudoir also took the maids out of the boudoir and came here to play and watch the dragon boat.
As for the stalls and vendors on the street, they all took this opportunity to start business, and those all kinds of food, tea and wine seemed to be more than usual.
came out to play and watch the dragon boat race today, Chunyu gave enough pocket money to the younger brothers and sisters, even Zhang Huzi and Zhang Zao'er brothers and sisters and Qingxing, Chunyu also gave some pocket money.
Chunyu walked behind a few people, looking at them all holding their purses tightly, afraid that too many people would accidentally be taken away, Chunyu really couldn't help laughing. Because there are dragon boat races to see during the festival, there are many cars on the street today, and they are also congested and congested for most of the day before they arrive at Xiangzi Lake.
When Uncle Guo got there, he went to find a place to stop the carriage, and Chunyu and they went to the periphery of the dragon boat race first.
I saw that the dragon boat race had not yet started, and the seats by the lake were already full, and even the surrounding area was full of people. Chunyu even saw that the big tree outside was also climbing
Many people are waiting to watch the dragon boat race.
"Brother Lin Zi, did you buy the seat you bought yesterday?" Chunyu asked, if there are so many people, if you can't buy a ticket, you can't see it. However, they know to buy in advance, and others naturally know about it, and they don't know if they can buy it.
"That's nature." Guo Lin said with a smile. "Originally, there were too many people just queuing up to buy seats, and I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to buy them, but I saw one of my classmates in the place where he was selling seats from afar, and I knew that he had a boat race at home, so I asked him to buy 14 seats."
"That's lucky, where we went there early, and the province will have more people for a while, and we can't squeeze in." Chunyu said hurriedly. She counted eleven people in her family, and the three members of Guo Lin's family were fourteen seats! However, thinking that this most ordinary seat is fifteen yuan, not to mention those middle and upper seats, the organizer of this dragon boat race can really make a lot of money. Hey, it's a pity that most of her family are children, and they don't have a children's price or anything.
"What the spring rain girl said is that there are more children in our group, so let's go over early." Uncle Guo was also busy talking.
"Yes, there are so many people, I'm afraid that I will accidentally lose one of my children." Yang Yuemei was also busy talking.
So everyone slowly squeezed forward to the seat, Li Wujun originally wanted to pick up Chunsheng with his little arms and legs, but Chunsheng refused. Looking at the appearance of Chunsheng Xiaobu still crowded in the crowd, the group of people was amused again.
When he finally got to the seat, Chunyu found that everyone seemed to be full except for their row. Their seat is on the left side of Xiangzi Lake, because there is a shallow beach on the left side of the lake, so it is farther away, but there are still some wild ducks or something on the shallows, which affects the viewing a little. There is no way, the medium and upper class seats are opposite, and it is convenient to see it up close in the lake. In particular, the high-class seats are still lined with rows of ornate painting boats standing against the shore, and there are still seats and small square tables on them, and from a distance it looks like there are still some refreshments and the like.
Hey, it's really the same life. Seeing that there are occasional vendors selling some food on their side, but they are also some fried melon seeds and peanuts, and they only drink sugar water, and Chunyu misses popcorn and coke a little.