Chapter 44: White Dew Becomes Frost

When she got up early and the weather was getting cooler, Luozhi saw a lot of dew on the ground and leaves when she went to the backyard to pick vegetables, cut grass and feed the mules. Emperor Yuan, the founding emperor of the Daqing Dynasty, was born on the day of Bailu, and the court and the people had the custom of worshipping him during the Bailu season.

Every year on the eighth day of the first lunar month, Qingming, the seventh day of the seventh month of July and the Bailu season, the imperial court will hold sacrificial activities, among which the scale of the Qingming and Bailu sacrifices is the largest, and each time it lasts for seven days.

Specifically, the folk brew "Bailu wine" on the day of Bailu, drink "Bailu tea", and "stew" Bailu soup. ”

Bailu wine is made from glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, and its wine is warm and slightly sweet, and it is called "Bailu rice wine". On the day of the White Dew Festival, the family makes wine, and the guests must drink "White Dew Rice Wine". In the past, the Luozhi family was so poor that everyone was dying of hunger, so how could there be any surplus grain to make this wine. Now, of course, it is different, the white flour has been replaced with grains early, and the old man has personally brewed a large vat, which is fermented after more than a month.

There is a folk saying that "spring tea is bitter, summer tea is astringent, you want to drink tea, autumn white dew".

The tea tree in the white dew season is at its best after the scorching heat of summer. Bailu tea is neither as fresh and tender as spring tea, not brewed, nor dry and bitter like summer tea, but has a unique sweet and mellow fragrance, which is too expensive for ordinary people to buy, and Bailu tea is relatively cheap, which is the obscure meaning of the above statement.

The family drank Bailu tea, and the soldiers were divided into two ways. Grandpa took Ah Shu to clean up the wasteland in the backyard, and Luozhi took Luo'an out of the house with a basket to dig up the "three kinds of white" and came back to stew white dew soup, which is three kinds of herbs with the word "white", such as white hibiscus, white hair bitter, white cocoon, white grass root, etc., in order to literally correspond to "white dew".

There are two small rivers about 20 meters wide passing through Mujia Village, one is called "Lishui" and the other is called "Xiaoshui". "Lishui and Xiaoshui divide Mujia Village into three layers, and the two rivers are separated by 100 to 200 meters of earthen dams or stone bridges built by the villagers themselves to facilitate transportation.

The middle floor has the most people, and the seniority is also high, it is the first to live in the original Mujia Village reclamation, there are rivers before and after, it is more convenient, and it is called the Muli River.

There are many children and grandchildren to live separately, generally after the second and third get married and have children, they move to live in Henan, called Muwaihe.

The northernmost layer is called Mu Beigou, there are very few families, there are many children and grandchildren, and there are sons-in-law who have fallen into the door by catching lots, as well as the foreign surname of the ancestor who came up a little later.

Luozhi's family lives in Mubeigou, the geographical location is similar to Beijing's outer Sixth Ring Road, and his grandfather is not good at drawing lots, so he was squeezed out of the village center and lived on the edge of the village. If you want to dig up these "three kinds of white", you have to go to the vicinity of the Muli River to find it.

Crossing the stone bridge, to the Muli River, there are a few children playing and riding bamboo horses in the open space in front of the ancestral hall, Luozhi saw it, and felt very kind, this thing was made for her by her grandfather when she was a child in her previous life. Drag a long bamboo pole behind, tie the shape of the horse's head with cloth in front, raise the horsewhip in the right hand, pull the reins of the horse's head with the left hand, and ride the "horse" under the crotch.

"The bamboo horse shakes the green tail at the top, and the silver bend steps on half an arm", Li He wrote the joy of the bamboo horse in this poem.

However, cloth in the present world is a rare thing for the Zhuang family, Luozhi saw that the bamboo horse was extremely simple, that is, a bamboo pole with a crossbar, similar to the "T" shape, but such a rough and simple toy, so that Luo'an nailed his feet, his eyes stared without blinking.

Luozhi saw that Ah Di was too short of friends of the same age, so she asked him to go over to play, and made an appointment to pick him up when she dug up the "three whites". When the little guy heard this, he ran over as if he was flying, and Luo Zhi saw that he was playing with the children quickly, so he left with confidence.

Luozhi followed the riverbank and soon found the white hibiscus, and when she squatted down to dig the white grass roots, she found many pale yellow flowers that looked like orchids, graceful and graceful, like butterflies flying.

It looks good to take this flower home and insert it in a bottle, she tore off a branch, took it in her hand and looked at it carefully, her eyes suddenly widened, this ...... This looks like maybe it's dendrobium? Known as the first of China's nine immortal grasses, Dendrobium officinale...

She spread her eyes and looked far away, relying on the good eyesight of this world 2.0, and found that the entire riverside and fields were covered with this dendrobium, and the yellow flowers were waving in the wind.

The mountain bones are cut and squared, and the river treasures the shallows.

Clear the pond on a few cases, the broken moon falls on the cup plate.

When I get old, I have three friends, and I am sleepy in my life.

Jianzi chats and sets an example, and the beauty is also delicious.

It's good to go to the bearded house, and look at it with the eyes of the general.

The east slope is the last to offer, and the frost and snow shine on the cold.

Su Dongpo, everyone in the world knows that he loves Dongpo meat, but he doesn't know that this dendrobium is also his favorite, so he wrote a poem to praise it.

Luo knew that fresh dendrobium could be eaten directly, she directly pinched the leaves to remove the flowers, put the dendrobium strips into her mouth, her eyes lit up, this taste and fragrance are exactly the same as the taste of fresh dendrobium that my mother bought 50 grams from Taobao for 298 yuan from Taobao, no, carefully taste this taste is more rich and fragrant and sweet than before.

In his previous life, Luozhi's father had severe laryngitis, and after going to the provincial hospital for examination, Professor Huang, who was seeing his father at that time, recommended that his father could eat more dendrobium fresh strips to squeeze juice.

Later, I learned that this dendrobium "specializes in nourishing the qi and liquid of the lungs and stomach, the qi and liquid are prosperous, and the kidney water is self-generated", which is good at nourishing yin and rejuvenating Jin, treating yin deficiency and deficiency diseases, and has a lot of effects.

It is estimated that the people of the present world do not know the wonderful use and value of this thing, so no one digs it, this dendrobium has a very strong reproductive ability, both shade and drought resistance, and can also be cuttings, can be transplanted, it is simply the carrying handle in the plant world, so that the horns along the river of the entire Mujia Village are almost overgrown by it.

She stood still, rejoiced in her heart, dug up a dozen plants and put them in a bamboo basket.

"You have a mother and no mother, how old are you and how old is he? Are you addicted to bullying the small? ”

As soon as Luo Zhi walked into the ancestral hall from the riverside, he heard a female voice say. Her heart was pounding, and she ran over with her basket in her hand.

As soon as everyone saw Luozhi coming, they hurriedly gave up their positions. Luozhi hurriedly looked for his brother with his eyes, but fortunately he soon saw Luo'an being protected in his arms by Brother Yexian's daughter-in-law, Mu Li.

"Sister," Luo An immediately pounced when she saw her, and when Luo Zhi saw it, Ah Di's face was obviously red and purple, obviously being beaten. What distressed her the most was that Luo'an had suffered such a heavy slap, but she had been holding back her tears and not crying.

"You let me go, it's your business? You're not my mother, you're not qualified to care about me? ”

"You are a dead woman, ugly, long-tongued woman, short-lived ghost, you let go of me, let go of me."

Everyone frowned when they heard a series of uninterrupted scolding words in his mouth, this child was full of feces, and it was obvious that he was like her mother Song Jinhua.

Luo Zhi snorted coldly in his heart, Mu Koubao, Mu Fat, right? It seems that I wasn't afraid of this mother and son last time, but now I dare to bully my brother.

Everyone gossiped and quickly told Luozhi what happened, it turned out that Luo'an had a good time with everyone, this person came to grab the bamboo horse, Luo'an didn't let go, he scolded Luo'an for being a "little mongrel", and also started beating people, Luo'an was forced to be anxious, waiting for the opportunity to grab his hand and bite it hard, this Mu Koubao pulled out the hand that was bitten by Luo'an's skin and dripping with blood and slapped Luo'an's face fiercely, Luo'an was beaten to the point that his eyes were full of stars, and he almost fainted, but fortunately, Mu Li's family who was passing by saw it, so he was relieved.

Luo Zhi heard that the evil was born from the side of his guts, jumped up directly, picked up two small fists, and beat the fat man Mu with no head and no face. Fat Mu squirted and scolded, struggling to raise his feet and kick indiscriminately. Luozhi turned around and grabbed the bamboo horse that had just been thrown on the ground, and hit him, smashing him so hard that he shouted for help.

Mu Li forced him to ask, "Do you still bully the small with the big?" ”

Mu Fatzi was beaten by Luozhi and completely lost his fighting spirit, and promised in front of everyone that he would not dare next time, so Mu Li asked Luozhi to stop.

Mu Fat Man felt aggrieved, Mu Luo'an was alone today, it was really a godsend, he wanted to return the loss he suffered last time, who knew that as soon as the war started, this Mu Luoan bit himself and didn't count, and was disturbed by Mu Li's powerful woman, and was beaten by Mu Luozhi, and suffered a big loss today, he squinted and rolled his eyes, hating and leaving.

Mu Koubao, who had a grudge, went home, and her mother Song Jinhua saw that her son was unhappy, her fingers were dripping blood, and she was bluffing her hands and feet at the moment, and she cried and scolded which of the immoral ghosts who wanted to die hurt her son like this.

"Cry and mourn! Not dead yet!" Mu Koubao was even more displeased when he saw his mother's virtue, and in a blink of an eye, he saw his father Mu Chuanbao squatting in the hall, and he didn't say hello, and went directly into the bedroom.

Song Jinhua followed in, cautiously leaning over to carefully check the injury on her son's hand, Mu Koubao was angry in his heart, impatient to face his mother, and yelled at her repeatedly.

Song Jinhua, who was choked by her son, saw the man squatting in the corner, and opened her mouth to say, "You are a wreck, your son was beaten like this, why are you indifferent"

Mu Chuanbao pursed his lips and didn't spit out a word for a long time.

"If you don't go to me, our son can't be beaten for no reason like this, I'll go to the village and ask to know which short-lived ghost bullied my son, see if I can spare her?" As soon as Song Jinhua rolled up her sleeves, she was about to leave the house.

"Can you stop going out and disgrace me? Others say that I have a mother and no mother, and I am worse than those who have no father and no mother," she looked back, and her son was standing at the door of the bedroom looking at her with disgust.

Song Jinhua knew who this fatherless and motherless person was referring to, she just wanted to open her mouth to plead, but saw her son turn around and go back to the room. Her son didn't let her go out, she was afraid that her son would be hungry, so she hurriedly went to the stove room, her son was bleeding, and he had to eat some good supplements.

At this time, everyone saw that Mu Koubao was gone, and they all came to comfort the bitter lord Luozhi sister and brother.

Mu Li's name is Li Zhuyu, her mother's family is in Lijia Village, ten miles away from Mujia Village, and when she married into Mujia Village at the age of fifteen, she brought a dowry of twenty-four lifts, which was a person who blinded the people of Mujia Village at that time. The dowry is not counted, but she can also write and calculate, she has a fast mouth and a quick personality, she is very quick to do things, and she walks with the wind, and she is a capable daughter-in-law who is famous in Mujia Village. and his man Mu Yexian now have a son Mu Shi'an, a daughter Mu Yudie, the two have a good reputation among the clansmen, they love to take a hand in trouble, and they are deeply valued by the husband's family, and they are the objects of envy of the daughter-in-law of Mujia Village.

"Auntie, it was really thanks to you just now, otherwise my brother would ......" Luo Zhi didn't dare to think about it.

Li Zhuyu waved her hand and asked Luozhi to take Luo'an home, she had to go home in an emergency.

The onlookers saw that the protagonists were scattered, and they also went back to their respective homes, but after returning home, they all told their children that they must not play with Mu Koubao in the future, that is a bad person, and the children remembered it in their hearts when they heard it, and nodded their heads.