Chapter 55: Chinese New Year (II)
Yao Huang told the two little ones about "Mirror Flowers". Regarding this legend of grievances between immortals, Yao Huang's impression is that "the first half is exciting, and the second half is boring." Compared with the fun of a group of girls in the second half, Yao Huang only felt that the first half of Tang Ao traveled around the world and saw all kinds of strange people and strange customs, which was more exciting and interesting: like the "adult country" has clouds under his feet, the good people have colorful clouds under their feet, and the bad people have black clouds under their feet, and the big officials cover them with red silk because the clouds under their feet are unsightly; Lin Zhiyang was chosen as the "princess" of the queen in the "daughter country", and he was forced to pierce his ears and bind his feet like a local man; The people in the "two-faced country" have faces in front and back, each of them has two faces, a smiling face in the front, and a vicious face hidden in the Haoran towel in the back, these people are hypocritical and cunning; The people in the "intestinal country" have no heart, liver and lungs, they are all greedy and mean; The people in "Pig Beak Country" are all liars, as long as there is a mouth, it is all a lie, and none of it is true...... Yao Huang admires the imagination of the author Li Ruzhen, who can write about so many wonderful countries. On the surface, it is to describe people from overseas countries, but in fact, it is a metaphor for those people and realities in society who are different from the outside through the performance of these people.
Yao Huang slowly described what Tang Ao had seen and heard all the way, not only two small ones, Yao Hong and Wenren Qianye also stopped talking and listened to Yao Huang's story. It was talked about until Tang Ao arrived at Penglai Xianshan, saw through the red dust, and when the day had arrived, Xiao Ke Baozi had already begun to nap. Yao Hong hurriedly got the dumplings, and the five of them went to bed to rest after eating. Because of Yao Hong's cheating, each of the five people ate dumplings with copper coins inside. Yao Hong smiled and said auspicious words to everyone for peace and health in the coming year.
The next morning I was woken up by the sound of firecrackers outside. When I opened my eyes, I saw that the room was much brighter than usual, and I opened the window again. The earth was white, and it turned out that it had snowed last night. Ruixue Trillion Year. The people of the village must have been very happy.
After Yao Huang got dressed, he took his younger brother and nephew to pay New Year's greetings to his sister and brother-in-law, and they got a red envelope. It contained ten cents of money. For breakfast, I ate steamed dumplings and noodle soup, which means that the gold thread hangs the ingots. After the meal, Yao Hong put on thick cotton jackets for the two little ones, and Yao Qing took Xiao Ke out to pay New Year's greetings. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the children will go to each house to greet the New Year and send auspicious words, and each family is also happy to go to the children's door, which is lively and festive, and will always prepare snacks and snacks for the children. The Yao family prepared spiced boiled peanuts and roasted soybeans and peanut candy. Peanut candy is the most popular among children, and some children even go to Yao's house in order to eat candy.
At noon, they ate a simple noodle soup and a few refreshing side dishes, and after the meal, the family went to the village chief's house with gifts and a few respected elders to pay New Year's greetings. After playing in the snow in the morning, Yao Hong had to change another set of clothes for them. Fortunately, I made two more sets of new clothes this year, otherwise I wouldn't have to change.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, according to the custom, I went to my uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings, but unfortunately my sisters and brothers did not have an uncle's house, so they stayed in their own house. Those who read books read books, and those who do needlework do needlework, just like usual. The two children wrote three big characters and went out to play, and Yao Huang hid in the house to practice. After the mood is raised. The bottleneck disappeared, and Yao Huang's current cultivation is growing rapidly.
The atmosphere of the New Year lasted until the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, the day of the Lantern Festival. A lantern festival is held in Anpyeong County, which is even more lively than the Mid-Autumn Festival and Tanabata Festival. The family had an early dinner. followed Uncle Li's family to the city in an ox cart. The fire on Chinese New Year's Eve, the lantern lantern lantern. As soon as you enter the city gate, it is like entering a sea of lights, and all kinds of lanterns illuminate the entire Anping County like a dream; Sand play lanterns, horse riding lanterns, fire iron lanterns, frame lamps, elephant fish lanterns, a canopy lantern, seafood lanterns, red lights full of characters, lights in the market; Stalls, dragon lanterns, juggling, stilts, lion dances, lively and extraordinary.
There were too many people, and it didn't take long for Yao Huang to break up with Yao Hong and others. Yao Huang is not in a hurry, Yao Hong and Xiao Ke will not have an accident under the protection of their brother-in-law, and Yao Qing will be even more fine, although he is young, he is extremely smart, coupled with the skills he has trained in the past few months, ordinary men are not necessarily his opponents.
Yao Huang walked around stall by stall with the flow of people with peace of mind, reading the riddles under the lanterns. The riddles under the simple and rough lanterns are popular and simple, and the riddles under the delicate and beautiful lanterns are much more difficult, and some are even off the books, such as "Wei Xuan Jiang Mengchang Geng into his arms", guess the two sentences of "The Book of Rites", if it is not a scholar above Xiucai, who can guess that these two sentences are "for the wife of the Ling, for the white mother"? There is also the "interest rate hike", guess Mencius's sentence, can ordinary people know that the Tao is "profit-oriented"?
Yao Huang looked at the lantern and guessed the riddle while slandering, she stared at the riddle under a lotus turui lamp, "Ba Anqing came to see off the frequency, and they leaned on each other for more than spring." The flying flotsam of his own house is still uncertain, and he is fighting to solve the stumbling blocker". This question is quite simple, Yao Huang smiled, and a man's low and magnetic voice came from his ear, "The mystery is the willow of the willow tree." ”
"Congratulations to Childe for getting it right." The lantern seller took the lantern and handed it to the man.
The man's hands were white and slender, and he carried the lantern to Yao Huang's face, "Send you!" ”
What's the situation? Talented and beautiful people will meet at first sight, love at first sight, and talented people send beautiful lanterns as a token of love? Yao Huang was stunned, she couldn't accept the emergency.
The man's hand stubbornly stretched out and did not take it back, Yao Huang calmed down and looked at the man's face. Profound and handsome facial features, indifferent temperament, a little familiar! Yao Huang quickly looked through his memories and finally recognized the man in front of him as the masked man he had rescued on the night of Qixi Night. Do you repay the saving grace with a lotus lantern? Wouldn't it be too cheap?
Yao Huang smiled and took the lotus lantern.
"Thank you." The man also replied, knowing that Yao Huang had already recognized him.
"Your name?"
"Yao Huang." Yao Huang didn't plan to hide it, it was easy to find out his name as a man.
"Good name." The man said, "Mo Wuxin, my name, remember." ”
With that, the man turned and disappeared into the crowd.
Glancing at the lantern in his hand, Yao Huang smiled and continued to walk towards the next stall.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month has passed, and the days have returned to dullness. The Yao family's school resumed classes, and every day Wenren Chiba took the little child to the school next door, because the weather was still cold, Yao Huang raised two stoves in the classroom early for the children to keep warm. The children who come to class usually arrive early in the morning, carrying a raw sweet potato in their hands, and when they arrive at class, they bake it next to the stove, and after a while, the classroom is filled with the sweet smell of roasted sweet potatoes. The children swallowed as they read, and after the first class, they ran to the stove to get the roasted sweet potatoes for breakfast. After breakfast, the children will learn some superficial kung fu with Wenren Chiba, and the internal skills are relatively simple and easy to understand. As for advanced martial arts, Wenren Chiba secretly examines the character and qualifications of these children, and only after passing the test will he teach them more advanced kung fu. Nowadays, there is a small trend of reading and learning in the village.
Yao Huang and Yao Hong were busy preparing for spring ploughing. With two months to go before the start of spring ploughing, Yao Huang decided to raise seedlings and store fertilizer first. The fertilizer comes from Yao's toilet. The toilet at home was improved by Yao Huang after the toilets in the modern countryside. In the corner of the yard, dig a small pit one foot long and half a foot wide as a squatting pit, and two stone bricks are buried on the left and right sides of the small pit for people who go to the toilet to step on. The inside of the squat pit is an inclined plane, which is connected to a septic tank outside the yard; There is a water tank full of water outside the toilet, and after going to the toilet, scoop water from the tank and flush it into the squatting pit, and the feces will enter the septic tank from the squatting pit, which is clean and convenient. Yao Huang and Yao Hong often came back from cutting a lot of dead grass and reeds from the river and threw them into the manure tank to make the fertilizer ferment. In this way, there is no shortage of fertilizer in the field.
Seedling raising is also using the modern seedling method. To be honest, Yao Huang is an authentic urban lady, although she does not distinguish between grains and grains, but she has never done anything about the farmland, and it is purely a "paper talk" kind. As an otaku, she has read a lot of farming texts on the Internet and has some theoretical foundation, but she has not practiced it herself, what if those theories don't work? So, Yao Huang told Yao Hong that these new techniques were seen in the library of the master's sect, and she didn't know if they had any effect. Yao Hong is very confident in this, and in her heart she has deified Yao Huang's "mysterious teacher".
Liang'en should raise two kinds of seedlings, one is sweet potato and the other is rice. Although rice is the staple food, the yield of sweet potatoes is large, and the farmers are willing to eat a variety of sweet potatoes. Raising sweet potato seedlings is relatively simple, stack the sweet potatoes one by one on a mound mixed with fertilizer, pour an appropriate amount of water, cover them with oiled paper, and use them to keep warm. About a month later, after the sweet potato seedlings have grown somewhat, cut off the stems with scissors, cut them into small sections, with three to four leaves on each section, and plant them in the ground respectively, and then pay attention to watering and fertilizing.
By the time the rice and sweet potatoes were all harvested, the weather had already entered a warm spring. The spring breeze brought bursts of warmth and vitality, and the villagers planted the second peanut with a smile. Last year's peanut harvest made everyone more money than the previous five years, and the villagers hope to have another bumper harvest this year, so that they can build a new house, and the young men are counting on this income to marry their wives.
It has been a year since Yao Huang came to this world, and this year, she has changed from an ordinary peasant girl to a high-ranking cultivator, and the Yao family has also undergone tremendous changes. It's just that all this makes Yao Huang feel unreal, she always thinks that she is dreaming, and when she wakes up from the dream, she is still the leftover girl who is useless...... (To be continued......)