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Chapter 52: The Liberation Ceremony

Earlier today, I asked for a recommendation, there is a vacant spot on the bookshelf to collect, and the famous kiln is here to thank you.

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"What, a release ceremony on Sunday?" In the evening, Li Shan took advantage of the meal to say, Li Feng was stunned and exclaimed.

I haven't done the release ceremony for many years, and now that the year is better, there is no need to get some food outside in the wind and sun.

"What's going on with this release ceremony?" Lin Lao didn't have a 100% grasp of Li Jiagang's customs and habits, at least he heard about this, he ate and lived here in those years, he saw a lot, and wrote it down.

"Hey, Limber, you don't know about the release?" Now Li Feng was even more surprised, can't it, this matter is not a small movement every year, and he still remembers that his grandfather pulled him, followed by a village, adults and children, but it was very lively.

"Hehe, Brother Lin really hasn't caught up with this matter, and it's a coincidence, the release ceremony has been passed down before liberation. After liberation, such things were listed as feudal remnants and never got up. As for Brother Lin, he has been shouting about breaking the four olds in the past few years, and the people in the village dare to mention this. Li Shan heard people mention it when he was a child, but the real insight was after the age of twenty, and after the package was delivered to the household, the village gradually became a little angry. However, there were still many people leaning against the river at that time, and the old people discussed it together, and the ceremony started. However, with the passing of the older generation, the younger generation became more and more unconcerned, and Li Feng remembered that the ceremony officially stopped ten years ago.

"Release? White dove? Lin Ying put down the steamed buns in her hand, quite surprised, important festivals in the city, or ceremonies, the release of white pigeons has always been a reserved item, although these white pigeons are raised by people, and most of them are released to go back again, but people have been doing this.

"Nope." Li Feng then told the ins and outs of the release to a few people present. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is still a kind of protection for nature in order for people to survive better.

In the past, Lijiagang has always been mountainous and poor, especially before the dam was built, and the river has extended to the current river beach. At that time, there were only the foot of the mountain, and some scattered places on the slopes of the mountain were suitable for growing crops, and the rest could only be planted with bamboo, fruit trees, even corn, and cotton. The village could not even be self-sufficient in food, and many families relied on the river to catch some fish and shrimp in exchange for some money and sell grain.

A big river nourishes dozens of miles of people on both sides of the river, at that time the big river can be more lively than now, there are not only fishing boats on the big river, selling grain, buying vegetables, and even many merchants outside the mountain transport daily necessities, the whole river is a market. Lively, or people on the water, or someone in the family makes a living on the water.

In any case, the river connects the people in the mountains with the people outside the mountains, and connects the people with vitality, in order to seek spiritual comfort. During the period held once a year, the release ceremony, more accurately is the sacrifice of the river, on both sides of the river, on the day of release, whether it is an adult or a child, each person holds a small fish, a small shrimp, a turtle, soft-shelled turtle, and even snails, river mussels, crooked and so on.

Most of the ceremonies were presided over by local respected elders, and the scene was very grandiose. And this time Li Shan mentioned that the ceremony was held to a certain extent in response to the city's requirements, the second phase of the construction of the reserve, thanks to that provincial Taiwan news, reporter Liu was very careful to shoot the scenery of Lijiagang, plus red-crowned cranes, egrets, mandarin ducks, wild ducks, water birds, etc., green mountains and green waters, so that many people exclaimed, there is such a beautiful place in the province.

A provincial leader said a word, and the city immediately responded and made a decision to add 200,000 yuan for the construction of the reserve, and Lin Ying's tenure was extended to one year to be responsible for the preparation of the bird-watching office. The town consulted Li Fukui and decided to hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the second phase of the reserve on Sunday.

As the most characteristic local custom ceremony, the release ceremony was put on the agenda, and Li Shan just learned about it.

"I see, hehe, but that's a good idea." It's not the construction of the reserve, it's not 200,000 yuan, these money can be completely solved, and the later protection funds, although the city has been emphasizing the solution to Lin Ying's food and housing problems, and the salary is also paid according to the salary of the clerk, but these are far from enough. After all, one person's strength is limited after all, and at least three or more people can take care of all aspects of the reserve, and Li Feng has made a feasible plan.

If the influence of the release ceremony here is bigger, it will cause a certain sensation and form a tradition to continue, which may make the city really set up a project.

Lin Ying also seemed to think of it, her face was quite excited, and she repeatedly confirmed with Li Shan whether the news was accurate.

"However, this time the scope is a little smaller, mainly Lijiagang and Likouzi on the other side of the river." Li Shan's look at Lin Ying's excited expression and shook his head, this time the nature is different from the past, it can be said to be a show.

It doesn't have the strong traditional atmosphere of the past, or even worse than the fifties and sixties, which is the kind of fishermen who catch and let go of the ten.

In the spring and early summer, fishermen have always had a tradition of catching fish and releasing one out of ten, a different kind of conservation, or sustainable development as it is today.

The next day, Li Feng was very surprised to find that many people from the city came to Lijiagang, in groups of three or five, both old and young, and there were quite a few old people. Some with birding goggles, others with only cameras.

As for bird watching or sightseeing, for Li Feng, these are his own guests. In their own peach forest, most of the peaches are already half red, and even all red are some, looking at it from a distance, the red hearts and green leaves are particularly gratifying, murdering many people's eyeballs. In particular, it is quite eye-catching with a few big words, clearly written "free tasting" Many people feel quite fresh, compared to those in the supermarket, between the mountains and rivers, the beautiful village.

"Old man, come and try it, this peach is good, the taste is pure, sweet, I haven't eaten it for many years." An old man in his sixties, with gray hair, wears a sign that says so-and-so travel agency, and the old man often travels.

Another elderly man with a digital camera around his neck and a bag on his back. "Really? I'll taste it, don't say it's good. It looks like this peach grove is doing well. ”

"Look, old man, look, is that a sika deer, it's so beautiful." The old woman was full of surprise and pointed to the leisurely steps under the peach forest, eating the small flowers of the tender grass, and the white spots on the crimson back, which were now beautiful and moving, attracting the attention of the old man.

"Yes." The old man with glasses and slightly presbyopia nodded, holding the camera, squatting slightly, click, Xiaohua's beautiful voice was forever frozen in the camera.

"Hello two." The noise outside attracted Li Feng's attention, and here Li Feng walked out, looked at the two old men, and hurriedly said hello.

"Hello, young man, is this yard yours? Pretty good. The old man looked at Li Feng with some surprise, he thought that he could make such a good peach tree, at least an elderly farmer.

"Thanks, sit here, it's the first time you're here?" Li Feng poured two cups of tea, and the table was placed by the lotus pond, with a faint fragrance of lotus flowers. The morning glory is still bright, the butterflies are dancing with honey, and a few small green gourd seedlings are a little sparse and a few gourds are hanging. Bitter gourd, with its yellow flowers, faces the sun, as if coated with a layer of gold leaf.

A few palm bamboos on the side of the yard, willows on the edge of the pond, reeds are more than one meter high, green with weeping willow branches, with some flavor. The half-closed door of the courtyard, the faintly exposed grapevine shelf, and the flower seedlings in the flower bed, looked at the two old men and were stunned. It's not that they haven't seen it, but it's the first time they've seen it in a small farmhouse. The two old men's surname Zhuang and the woman's surname Tang taught in a key high school before retirement, and there was only one child at home. The old man and his wife don't worry about food and clothing, they usually follow the tour group, and the day before yesterday, they watched the news and knew that there was a place like Lijiagang in the city. The two were quite happy, mainly because their bodies were not very strong, and it was always inconvenient to follow the tour group.

However, Lijiagang is only more than an hour's drive away from the city, and it is convenient to sit directly in the town, and it is also convenient to come to Lijiagang.

"Not bad, lad." The tea is neither hot nor cold, the fragrance is faint and there is some wild game, Mr. Zhou took a sip of tea, and Mr. Tang was quite surprised by the red glamour that flashed under the lotus leaves from time to time.

"Old man, come here, take a look, there are some koi fish here." Teacher Zhou smiled at Li Feng, turned his head, glanced at the pond, not to mention, take a closer look, there are really not a few carp flashing at the bottom of the lotus leaf from time to time, so dense, only some scenic spots have, the two of them have seen the place of watching the fish in the flower port by the West Lake in Hangzhou, dense, but I didn't expect that there are so many ordinary ponds.

"I raised it myself." Li Feng was quite surprised, the carp he raised was mixed with a lot of koi, although it is not a precious species, it is also suitable for accompanying the lotus pond.

"Yes, there are a few rare red and white koi, although they are not extremely valuable, but they are also rare." These are hundreds of dollars each, which are much more expensive than carp. Li Feng didn't care too much, he was raised by carp, and he didn't have to worry about the main spring water.

"Old gentleman, if you like that, I'll give you one." Li Feng smiled and watched the old man take a camera to take pictures of the swimming fish.

"This can't be done, old man, let's buy two and raise them, I look empty in the living room at home, and the kitten and puppy community looks troublesome, but it's good to raise two fish." Mr. Tang looked at the one that had just swam over, the pale yellow koi fish liked it quite much, there were mostly ordinary varieties here, one or two hundred more, and more than ten pieces less, which was suitable for the two of them.

Li Feng also knew this, Lin Ying said that a few days ago, Lin Ying was fishing by the pond, and she didn't want to catch a koi, which was faintly red. This girl was quite excited, and took it to a few old people, Li Feng was also on the side, and Li Feng had always felt that carp and koi were the same. It turned out that there were some differences, and in the end, Li Feng accompanied a few old people and checked them carefully, there were really a lot, and he found more than a dozen after a while, but Lin Ying said that these were ordinary, only one or two were not bad, at most one or two hundred yuan. This has already made Li Feng very happy, how much is a carp, and the bigger ones are only more than ten yuan, and these can buy more than a dozen yuan, or even one or two hundred, without even a catty.

In the end, before leaving, the two old men asked Li Feng to fish out four pieces and pour some spring water in a small bucket, the two red tails were slightly silver-white, and the two were pale yellow, and they received a hundred yuan. Li Feng sent a few catties of peaches to the old man to taste, maybe these fish can be bought in the city for one hundred and fifteen, two hundred, but even so Li Feng is still satisfied.