Chapter 21 The Mid-Autumn Festival of a Rural Family

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2008, and it is also a festival that Liu Yi has really lived after leaving the company. He couldn't help but recall that he left the company in mid-May and opened a noodle shop soon after, and then he was happy with the busyness of the noodle shop in the first two months, and he sighed as the noodle shop closed after the business was bleak to the worst in the second two months. From sweetness with my girlfriend to the occasional cold greeting on the phone. Later, I found "Shennong Jing" on the bookshelf back to my hometown, and in just a few months, I experienced bumpy and fantastical, as if time had passed for a long time.

When he came back from workout, before Liu Yi finished his solitary daze in the morning, his mother had already come to him to do something. Today's Mid-Autumn Festival is over, and my father, who likes to be lively, may have arrived in a place where he doesn't know what to do, or heaven but not hell, because my father has also been hard all his life, and he has not done anything that hurts heaven and reason, and heaven and earth do not tolerate it, and he should not be punished.

My mother's thoughts are that although my father has passed away, he is still alive in our hearts, and I have been comforted by the spirit of heaven when I asked me to buy some incense, candles, and paper money. Although Liu Yi didn't want to go to town, he didn't have a car to go back and forth, and it would be noon when he waited for the shuttle. But there is no excuse to refuse, ask the mother what else to bring back, the mother replied, "That's it at home, there is nothing missing, it depends on whether your nephew comes today, if you come, buy more fruit snacks, children love to eat."

"Hmm" didn't look back and walked towards the outer path.

I finally squeezed into a bus full of people, went to the town to buy incense, candles, paper money, and came to the more concentrated fruit stalls in the town, ready to buy some fruit back. Originally, there was no shortage of fruits in the countryside this season, but now people are empty, and the fruit trees are not taken care of, either they are suffering from pests, or they are plagued by birds, and some of them have been entangled by wild vines. So now in the countryside, unless the land is planted by someone, you won't even see a single vegetable, it's all vines and grass.

"Hey, sister, sister, here" As soon as Liu Yi arrived at a fruit stall, he saw his sister, brother-in-law Wen Quan and his nephew Wen Yiqiu were also buying fruit.

Hearing my familiar words, my nephew Wen Yiqiu was the first to reflect, "Uncle, you are also in Luoshi Town, didn't grandma say that you went back to your hometown for the holidays?"

"Hehe, I'm in my hometown, my uncle will take you back to see the vegetables I planted, it's delicious" Wen Yiqiu lifted it up and hugged it to his chest, and touched his head a few times with his other hand. When I was a child, Wen Yiqiu liked me the most, especially when he liked to sit on my shoulders with two legs and hold my head with both hands. I was like his car and obeyed her call, and I was often seen by my hungry sister, and even I was criticized. Now that I'm older, I know some etiquette, and when I see me, I don't straddle my shoulders anymore, at most I carry him on my back, but I still miss the way he looked when he was a child.

At this time, my sister and they have already bought the fruit, every time I go home, my sister and brother-in-law will come with gifts, I respect Liu Yi's father and mother very much, Liu Yi's father and mother are also very satisfied with the husband my sister is looking for, I don't care that my brother-in-law is relatively short, and I have been educating me for a long time that "a person can't just look at appearance, the main thing is to see whether a person's morality is good or not" I deeply think.

Seeing that I was also carrying something in my hand, "I heard my mother's phone call that you went to the street yesterday to buy something, and it was not enough."

"No, Mom wants to burn some paper for Dad, I didn't buy it yesterday, and I don't buy it now," I said.

My sister and brother said, "Have you bought all the things, I borrowed the car in the company when I went home today, and I can fit more things, if I don't buy them all, I'll buy some more."

"At noon, we were a big family, and we wanted to buy some fruit, but when we came to the market, we saw you buying."

"How about going back to the countryside now to grow vegetables, planting the kind of vegetables you brought us last time?" Sister Wenquan asked.

"Now the vegetables grown in the rural greenhouses are still 10 days away from harvesting, and the varieties are the same, and it may be better," I said with confidence.

"The kind of lettuce you gave last time was very good, I took some to my sister and brother, and I happened to meet him at home for a treat, and the guest ate the dish I sent, and he was full of praise, and kept asking where this dish came from. Later, your sister told me that you helped a friend to give you "My sister and brother also gave this lettuce to his boss, and he was also taken by his boss's friend!" Brother-in-law Wenquan's brother-in-law is the boss of the company, my sister and brother are working in his brother-in-law's company, and the salary is not very high, the key is to give red envelopes at the end of each year, with the continuous development of his brother-in-law's company, the red envelopes given to my sister and brother-in-law Wenquan every year have also increased year by year.

"Have you finished talking, haven't you finished chatting and going home to talk." Seeing Liu Yi and Wenquan chatting on the street, my sister stepped forward a little decisively and interrupted.

It is convenient to drive, take the things you bought and throw them in the car, sit firmly in the car and gallop back to the village. Liu Yi also got a driver's license, and when he was doing motorcycle sales for 7 years, he usually took time out to run a driving school to sign up for nearly a year before he got it. However, there has been no internship opportunity, and no one has lent you a car to drive for no reason, you are still a novice, you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what if, no one can take off the claws if there is an accident, so Liu Yi is still a theoretical expert, and he only secretly thinks that he will have to buy one when the economy improves in the future.

After returning home, it was still early before noon, Liu Yi watched his mother busy and his sister was doing it beside him. The brother-in-law and the uncle went to the dragon gate array, both of them were smoking guns, and they were sitting in the corner of the courtyard dam swallowing clouds and spitting fog.

When my nephew returned to his hometown in the countryside, he was very active. Seeing the uncle's flower cat, you have to go over to investigate, but the rural cat is not as good as the pet cat in the city, that is to catch mice, nephew Wen Yiqiu was just about to reach over to touch it, only to see the flower cat all over the body The cat hair exploded, the back arched, and the mouth was "meow, meow" while screaming, and quickly stretched out the cat's paw, and also showed the claw tips in the cat's toes, as long as the nephew made another move, he would definitely attack. Wen Yiqiu saw this formation, and hurriedly withdrew his hand, standing there at a loss. I saw it on the side, and immediately ran over to scare away the cat. When the nephew saw it, he also reflected, and he also learned to meow and confront the flower cat together. How dare Liu Yi tell him to stay here, the rural cats are wild, and they are so powerful that they can catch snakes and eat them. In case the cat goes crazy, if you catch it casually, the clothes will be damaged, and the skin will be at least a few blood marks.

Hurriedly picked up Wen Yiqiu, he was still struggling to go back, where can I see this kind of thing in the city? It's still early, and I almost forgot what I was thinking about yesterday, that is, touching the snails.

I didn't go into the water, I just rolled up my sleeves, I bent down and reached out and touched the stone on the edge of the paddy field. When you touch it, you should stretch your hand to the water surface of the paddy field, as long as the weather is not cold, the snail is not far from the rice stump or paddy field wall under the water, and there is a random touch. Moreover, the snail is not as fast as the lobster, as long as the snail touches the water, many of them will retract into the shell and do not move. I didn't see my movements, Wen Yiqiu ran in front of me with the bucket, and he really touched it after learning my appearance. After the most discuss, one person touched a section of the ridge, and after a while, the bucket was filled with 5 or 6 catties, Liu Yi was ready to go back, and the snails would have to be taken care of later, so many snails were enough for the whole family to eat.

When he asked Wen Yiqiu to leave, he couldn't move, at this time he was on the rise, and he caught a lot of snails, and he couldn't help but be proud. I had to tell him, "You can't catch too much at once, if you don't catch it in the field, you won't be able to catch it next time."

Today's children are amazing, smart one word. "This field is gone, so I'll go to that field and catch it," he pointed to and showed me the paddy field below.

I really want to cry without tears, fortunately, the paddy fields are not deep, and there is no problem with leaving him here to play by himself, "Then you go back with me and get a bucket yourself, be careful that the water is very cold, and the mud doesn't get on yourself, do you know how to say, otherwise I will tell your mother that I won't let you come."

As soon as I finished speaking, I ran faster than me, and when I was about to get home, Wen Yiqiu came out with a plastic bucket again, I was dizzy, I took a shower, how could it be good to make it all fishy

It is simple to take care of the snails, which can only be eaten at night, and the snails should be soaked with water, and the snails will spit out the dirty things in the stomach by themselves. But the mountain people have their own clever plan, put some salt in the clear water, drop a few drops of vegetable oil, and soon you will see the tentacles of the snails in the water sticking out, constantly bringing out something like silt in the belly. After cleaning it again, use a vice to remove the tail of the snail, and then it will also bring out the internal organs of the snail and throw it away, and then fresh it again.

I won't go into details about the rest, anyway, under the division of labor and cooperation of everyone performing their duties, at ten o'clock at noon, a sumptuous lunch overflowing with oil and fragrance was ready. However, my deceased father, who had to be a shaman before, lit incense and candles, put on a pair of dishes and chopsticks, and my mother would nag some words in her mouth, which was nothing more than to bless the family with peace, everything went smoothly in the family, and there should be more blessings in the countryside What kind of wind and rain are smooth, the chicken and dog are peaceful and then burn some paper money, and wait for the incense candles to burn before you can enter the table to eat.

After eating a farmhouse-style lunch, today my sister and brother-in-law are going to stay here for a night, and the most important thing in the Mid-Autumn Festival is the evening, and it is called a reunion banquet at night. When the weather is good, you can also boil a pot of tea or wine, bring moon cakes, sit in the small courtyard to taste tea, drink, eat moon cakes, and enjoy the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival.