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Chapter 72 Dragon Boat Festival

Lin Ying left, and with her parents going back to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, Liu Lan and Li Xin took a holiday. Today, Li Feng's house is much cleaner, and several old people follow Li Shan up the mountain to collect medicine. Li Feng takes care of melons, fruits and vegetables at home, mainly watermelons are now mostly ripe in the space, and only a few of them are ripe outside, Li Feng took advantage of no one to enter the space and made more than a dozen watermelons. Mixed outside the yard, today is the Dragon Boat Festival city people holiday, many people may come over.

Li Feng picked two baskets of crispy melons, only half a basket of melons, a lot of vegetable melons, and the bitter melons he planted are now green. Li Feng thought that now it was time to eat bitter gourd, bitter gourd made a lot by himself, the whole hillside was slippery, Li Feng took the basket and picked it again, and he was stunned that it was full of piles, a few forty or fifty catties, this is still Li Feng didn't pick too much.

Bitter gourd, also known as grapes, turns yellow-red in color when ripe, sweet and honeyy, and a little greasy. There used to be a lot of them in the mountains, waiting for the summer to ripen thoroughly, attracting a lot of birds and beasts, at this time, the children of Li Jiagang carried baskets and picked grapes, but at that time they didn't know that this thing could be eaten in green.

Nowadays, most people eat unripe bitter gourd, bitter silk, pure heart, bright ears and eyes, clear heat, and is an indispensable dish on the summer table.

After Li Feng was busy with these, he took out some burnt leaves, which were fried the day before yesterday, crispy and fragrant, with sesame seeds on them, and Li Feng ate them as snacks. The bell accompanied Zhang Lan to Li Kouzi to buy realgar wine, in fact, Li Feng felt that he drank realgar wine strangely, there was nothing to drink, but the Dragon Boat Festival gets some every year, it is a look, and it always has to be put on the table whether to drink it or not. It's better to buy some realgar powder, get some herbs, grind them into foam, and put them in a bamboo box, fragrant, which can not only repel mosquitoes, but also refresh and clear the brain, which can be described as a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.

As for the realgar wine sprinkled on the doors and windows, smoked wormwood, it is quite reasonable, after the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is hot and dry, snakes and insects reproduce quickly, especially mosquitoes are easy to bite people, spreading viruses. This method of preventing snakes, insects, rats and ants can be regarded as a medical and health festival of ancient people. All these traditions, Li Feng thought that as a Chinese, he should still pass them on.

As for wormwood and calamus, a few old people got a lot yesterday, Li Feng found a few pieces of red paper, painted them according to the ghost drawings of previous years, put wormwood, calamus, and bitter peach branches, wrapped them, and made four packs, each door, gate, and door of the hall, as for the rest, Li Feng felt that there was nothing else to want. The herb box is directly placed in the single room, not to mention the thing of avoiding evil spirits, Li Feng, a highly educated person, even though his space is very peculiar, makes Li Feng have a little doubt about ghosts and gods, but it is still very rare for him to believe in it.

Speaking of calamus, Li Feng remembers deeply, when Li Feng was young, there were a lot of mosquitoes, there were no mosquito coils at that time, only a small medicine machine by hand, and a blue-green mosquito killer in a water bottle, but it often didn't work. Annoyed by mosquitoes every day, one day Li Feng heard that calamus can kill mosquitoes, Li Feng pulled a cart, along the river bank, ditch, and got a cart. Let Li Shan, Zhang Lan look at it and cry and laugh, as for the insect repellent effect, Li Feng only remembered that he pulled a cart of calamus and spread it in the yard, but there were still mosquitoes.

As for why calamus is used to ward off evil spirits, calamus is the first of the five rui in the sky, symbolizing the sword that drives away bad luck, because the growing season and shape are regarded as the "qi of a hundred yin", and the leaves are sword-shaped, which can be inserted at the door to ward off evil spirits. Therefore, the monks called it "Water Sword", and later customs extended it to "Pu Sword", which can kill thousands of evils.

Wormwood represents Zhao Baifu, which is inserted in the door and has a beautiful meaning, and the bitter peach branch has always been considered to be a sacred object caused by the suppression of the underground.

Li Jiagang's daughter who got married, the first time she returned to the door, the first time she took her toddler back to her parents' house, her mother's family would prepare to wither peach branches all the time, for the newcomers, for the children to suppress evil spirits and exorcise ghosts.

This year's Dragon Boat Festival, Li Feng's house is after noon, at this time it is only ** o'clock, Li Feng put the remaining wormwood, calamus on his own shed to dry, and it is also good to light smoked mosquitoes at night. The weather became hotter and hotter, and Li Feng built a straw shed not far from the pond for cooling. It's okay to take a nap at noon, smell the fragrance of lotus flowers, it's quite refreshing, and move your own cool bed over, but it's not a pleasure.

As for the calamus planted by several old people on the edge of the swordfish pond, Li Feng watered some spring water, and now it must not have shrunk, looking at the green oil growing well, but it is too close to have some taste, bitter.

There are no special customs for the Dragon Boat Festival in Lijiagang, zongzi, salted duck eggs, yellow eel, realgar wine, these don't eat. As for other worship of the land father-in-law, few people have mentioned worshiping the mountain god, and the most popular is how many years the water race has now become the precipitation in the memory of Li Feng's generation, as for the second child, these children no longer know the existence of the water race.

Li Feng was busy with the grass shed, several tourists came to the door, and it seemed that Li Feng was happy, this is not Sun Chenchen, it seems to be Sun Can in the back, two girls accompanied an old man, the old man's waist was a little rickety, his hair was gray, and his hands trembled slightly.

Li Feng looked a little surprised, how did these two get together, Li Feng put down the work in his hand and greeted him. Let the old man sit down, pour water, and take the melons and fruits.

"Don't be busy, young man, we can't stay for a while, the old man came here this time to see the reservoir, for many years, I don't know how the reservoir is?" The old man said, with deep nostalgia in his eyes, infecting a few people on the side, Li Feng knew that this one was like Lin Bo, thinking about the dam that had been engraved with the deep mark of a generation. "The reservoir is still the same, and now it is well protected." Li Feng said with a smile, enthusiastically letting a few people eat melons.

"Brother Li, this is my grandfather, this is my cousin Sun Can." Sun Chenchen looked at Li Feng and only looked at the two of them, his face was slightly flushed, Sun Can was not polite here, eating crispy melon, muskmelon, and said it was delicious.

"Sister, I don't need your introduction, Brother Li and I are acquaintances, and I came over to play with Sumi last time." Sun Can pursed his lips and finished eating a piece of melon.

Within a few minutes, the two sisters helped the old man along the mountain road towards the dam, and Li Feng looked at the old man's slightly trembling figure, feeling nostalgic in his heart.

Later, more than a dozen guests came one after another, and several of them actually came to buy yellow eels, Li Feng was quite surprised. Is the custom of eating yellow eels during the Dragon Boat Festival also popular in the city? Li Feng had some questions and asked, who knows that people are not like that at all? It turned out that last time a few people in the city bought some yellow eels back, it tasted good, and the old man praised a few words, which is not the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, and I have time to buy some back to give the old man a gift.

Li Feng was stunned for a moment, smiled and pulled a few strokes in the ditch with a net bag, and got a few catties, there are not many ditches in his house now, Li Feng wants to leave some seedlings. Now it doesn't sell much, Xu Fatzi called yesterday and said that he wanted Li Feng to get some more yellow eels, Li Feng could only smile bitterly and say that he really didn't have anything here.

Sending a few people away, Li Feng took the net pocket and got another two or three catties, kept it in a pot, and kept it for his own food at noon. At ten o'clock, Zhang Lan pulled the bell, rang the bell far away, and woke up the little hare who squinted a few times, I don't know why, a few little guys were particularly sticky to the bells. This made Lin Ying and Cheng Bo quite jealous, and Lin Ying muttered several times that these little guys had no conscience.

"Mom, I'm back." Seeing his mother and the bell sweating, Li Feng hurriedly poured two cups of herbal tea and handed them to his mother and the bell.

"Well, it's really hot today, there are too many people buying over there, and there is a long queue." Zhang Lan carried two porcelain jars in the basket, and it looked like this was the realgar wine she bought.

Realgar wine is a liquor or rice wine brewed with realgar ground into powder*, and realgar wine must be dried in the sun. Originally, most of them were made early at home, but now people have no spare time, which is not much to buy in the past, which is very trouble-free. Here Zhang Lan took out a paper bag, inside is realgar foam, realgar foam can be used as an insecticide, the ancients believed that realgar is good at killing a hundred poisons, dispelling a hundred evils, making Gu poison, people wear it, into the mountains and forests and tigers and wolves, into the river and a hundred poisons to avoid. Zhang Lan bought these to accompany the herbs to make a box and put them in the house to repel insects.

The main chemical component of realgar is arsenic disulfide. Realgar is converted into arsenic trioxide after a chemical reaction when heated, which is arsenic of the highly toxic drug. Therefore, drinking heated realgar wine is actually taking poison. There is no scientific reason to apply realgar wine to children's heads, nose tips, earlobes or rub them on their bodies to ward off evil spirits and avoid epidemics. Wine can dilate blood vessels, accelerate the absorption of arsenic in the digestive tract and skin, the short time is ten minutes, the elderly will be poisoned in 4 to 5 hours, the mild ones are post-skull pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, stool is "rice swill", and the severe ones are death. Realgar wine has a strong pesticide effect. In ancient times, the main disinfectant for pesticide and disease eradication in summer, realgar wine is one of them. It is often sprayed under the bed, in the corner of the wall and other shady places to avoid poisonous insects.

These are all information that Li Feng found on the Internet, yesterday he said Zhang Lan, Li Shan listened, the two didn't say anything, only said to buy some realgar wine and sprinkle it in the yard to get rid of insects, as for drinking, I didn't say anything, at least the two of them agreed with their son in their hearts, mainly because technology is now developed. Some things from the past have been tested, and many of them are not good for the body.

Eating in Taolin today, Zhang Lan rested for a while and started cooking, the bell was wearing a new skirt bought by Li Feng, the pigtails were re-tied, and the bow was tied up, which was very cute, and the bell on the neck Li Feng bought a silver chain to wear again, which was quite interesting. This time, the little girl, ran to the rabbit cage and carried the rabbits outside one by one to bask in the sun. The first thing a few little ones saw was a human being, but now they are not afraid of people at all, sniffing their petal mouths and shaking their big ears.

At noon, there were unexpectedly three more people at the dinner table, but I didn't expect Sun Chenchen's grandfather to be old acquaintances with Lin Bo and Li Shan, which was a coincidence. In fact, Li Feng should have thought that Lin Chengdong lived in Lijiagang at that time, and he was on the dam every day, for a few years, who didn't know him. Multiple people with multiple chopsticks, lively, the big dining table used today, gathered together, eating and drinking.

At noon, several old people drank more, Li Feng took care of it, Li Shan rarely saw the old man, and he was already drunk and was helped back to sleep by Zhang Lan.

Tables, chairs, benches, dishes, Li Feng took Sun Chenchen, Sun Can, and the bell to clean up and wash the dishes. Sun Chenchen and Sun Can were quite embarrassed, the two of them were not as fast as the bell and washed cleanly.

Li Feng smiled and shook his head, what kind of girl is now liberated, and she no longer touches the kitchen.