Chapter 211: Back to the village
"The dumplings that saw off the noodles that caught the wind". Yao Huang ordered a bowl of hot noodles for everyone, and made a few home-cooked side dishes, which made everyone satisfied. Although the food in Wenrenfu is exquisite, it is not as delicious as its own food, not only delicious, but also full of the taste of home.
The next day, Yao Hong and Wenren Chiba distributed the gifts and went to visit the villagers one by one. The villagers were very happy to receive the gifts, and praised the two of them for their hearts and abilities, and they had more respect for Wenren Chiba. Yao Qing and Xiao Ke also brought gifts to the friends, and the friends listened to them describe the prosperity of the capital, and they were all envious.
"But the people in the capital are too annoying, intrigued, not as real as the people in our village." Yao Qing sighed, and Erhuzi and others carried a big basket up the mountain to pick firewood.
Soon after the Yao family returned to the village, spring began, and the village chief took the villagers to worship the heavens outside the ancestral hall, and then began a year's spring ploughing work. The cultivation level of the Great Zhou Dynasty was the same as that of the Tang Dynasty, and the cultivated land was cultivated with a highly flexible Quyuan plow. Yao Huang has no concept of this at all, after all, she has only seen Quyuan plough on the Internet, and the real thing has only been seen after coming to this world.
Spring ploughing and spring planting, and when everything is done, the time has reached the end of April. After more than a year, the vegetation in the mountains has recovered some of its vitality and is no longer the bare appearance it used to be. Yao Huang chewed on the grass root (a kind of wild grass that chews sweetly in his mouth) at the corner of his mouth, and went up the mountain to pick weeds with Sister Zhang Qiao and other little girls. Now life in the village is better, everyone is not short of food, and they can only use wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger as before. Now picking wild vegetables and eating them is just a change of taste. Sister Zhang Qiao was married last year. Married. The date of marriage is set for August. Now is the day when she is the most reckless and playful day in her daughter's family, and after May, Sister Zhang Qiao has to stay at home obediently to embroider wedding clothes and prepare for marriage.
"I'm so envious of you, your eldest sister is starting to prepare a dress for you now, she must want to hold a grand ceremony for you, right?" Sister Zhang Qiao and the girls are all envious, Yao Huang and Xu, Yao Hong has now begun to make clothes for her, skirts, deep coats, and wide-sleeved dresses. It is completely prepared according to the clothes worn by the lady of the status family and the time of the house. Just like Sister Zhang Qiao guessed, Yao Hong must want to give her sister a formal ceremony. Unlike other girls in the village, they only ask the village chief's wife to comb their hair and invite a few neighbors, relatives and friends to have a simple meal. Therefore, the girls in the village are envious of Yao Huangquan, and they are also looking forward to her ceremony coming soon, and seeing what the etiquette of the ladies with status is like.
Yao Huang smiled, she was quite looking forward to the ceremony in her heart, modern society has long thrown away many traditional etiquette, and the reincarnation of several worlds has not held the ceremony. Yao Huang is looking forward to this.
"When my sister was in the capital, she participated in a ceremony for a young lady of a family, and when she came back, she talked about holding one for me too. Actually, I don't care. How can we ordinary people compare with other young ladies. Yao Huang said duciously.
"Miss Saga? Isn't it beautiful, very temperamental, and noble? The girls asked curiously.
"yes!" Yao Huang nodded, although he didn't like most of the young ladies of the family, he had to admit that the temperament they had raised since childhood was not comparable to that of Sister Zhang Qiao, a little girl in the countryside.
"That's great!" All the girls were envious.
"Don't envy them! Although the young ladies of the family are noble and rich, their lives are all arranged by the family, and even sacrificed for the family, which is not as free and easy as us ordinary people. Yao Huang thought of Xiahou Ruofu, who had entered the palace, she was very sad, she had been a chess piece all her life, but the hand holding the chess had changed from one to the other.
Yao Huang dug up half a basket of shepherd's cabbage, took it home and fried a plate of shepherd's cabbage eggs, and made the rest into dumplings. Yao Qing, that foodie, has been making a fuss about eating dumplings for a long time, so this time make more and let him eat enough.
"Erya, what are you doing chopping bamboo? Do you want to make bamboo rice? Sister Zhang Qiao watched Yao Huang take out a machete and cut down a bamboo in two or three strokes, envious. Erya's strength is really great!
"It's not. The weather is getting hot, and I want to weave a few bamboo mats. Yao Huang said, "By the way, I made a pen holder for Xiao Ke, and my brother-in-law gave him a new set of brushes, and the little guy found me without a pen holder." ”
"Xiao Ke, this kid is so smart, at a young age, he knows more words than me, it's amazing!" Sister Zhang Qiao praised, "I will definitely be able to win the champion in the future!" ”
Yao Huang laughed hehehe, listening to people praise his nephew, she was honored. However, the champion or something is exempted, and she has no good impression of the royal people and the crooks in the court.
"Second sister!" Yao Qing jumped out of the woods with a group of boys, with an axe pinned to his waist, and the boys behind him dragging the branches cut into several pieces.
"You went to the mountains to cut wood? Don't you still have firewood at home? Yao Huang asked.
Yao Qing's eyes puffed: "Sister doesn't remember?" Didn't you promise to make new toys for little ones to play with? I'll go up the mountain to help you find materials. ”
Yao Huang squirted at him: "When did your second sister and I say that I did it myself, I asked Uncle Amu to help me do it." Uncle Amu still lacks wood? ”
Yao Qing smiled: "Anyway, we cut everything, and we will send it to Uncle Amu's house." ”
"Sister Erya, what kind of toys are you going to make, can we play with them?" Erhuzi approached Yao Huang and asked.
"What about us? Is it possible to play? The girls also came together, and everyone remembered Yao Huang's invention of bamboo dragonflies, juju and braided flower ropes, which were very fun.
"It's an empty bamboo, and it can be played by all ages." Yao Huang replied.
"Is empty bamboo an empty bamboo? Sister Erya, did you chop bamboo and go back just to make empty bamboo? A boy asked.
"No, hollow bamboo is not made of bamboo, it is made of wood. In this way, let's go to Uncle Amu's house together, let him make a few more empty bamboos, and everyone will play together when the time comes. ”
"Good!" The boys and girls cheered happily, and surrounded the Yao family sisters and brothers and rushed back to the village to find Chen Amu.
Hollow bamboo is a kind of toy that makes a sound by shaking the rope to make it rotate at high speed, shaking the hollow bamboo is a traditional folk game in China, which integrates entertainment, games, fitness, competitiveness and performance. When pulling and shaking the bamboo, each whistle is pronounced at the same time, high-pitched and majestic, and the sound enters the clouds. Therefore, the empty bamboo is also called the empty bell, the wind gourd, the ringing spring, the bell, the nonsense knocking and so on. According to legend, during the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Zhi once composed a poem "Empty Bamboo Fu", which is the earliest record of empty bamboo. In the one hundred and ten episodes of "Water Margin", Song Jiang saw someone playing with empty bamboo on the way to be ordered to conquer Fang La, and he was inspired by the grace of Su Taiwei to protect the lifting and made a poem: "One low and one high, the loud voice is clear through the sky." There is a lot of strength in the void, and there is no one to carry it in vain. ”
The spring planting has passed, the villagers are much more idle, and Chen Amu has more time to do carpentry work. Yao Huang told Chen Amu the drawings and production points of the empty bamboo, Chen Amu got the drawings and his eyes lit up, promising to produce the finished product in three days and make a few more, Yao Huang and the boys and girls were satisfied, and they were so happy that they went back to their respective homes. (To be continued......)