The cold comes and the summer comes, and the autumn harvest is hidden in winter. After the light snow of the lunar calendar, Nanyi County, located in the hinterland of Jingshan Mountain, officially entered winter. At this time, the mountain people stopped slash-and-burn cultivation and began to plan for the Spring Festival, and a winter collection kicked off.

Nanyi County is located in the mountainous area, the staple food is rice and bud grain, there are large areas of rice along the river, wheat, rape, soybean is the season planting of the side-grain. The agricultural work of winter storage is to put buds, rice, wheat, rape, and soybeans into storage. The main tool for warehousing is the grain cabinet, which is a long, wide and high cabinet, and there is a chute under the façade of the cabinet, which is convenient and neat to take grain; Sometimes, in order to prevent rats, the grain cabinet is also made into a shelf bed, and every night people sleep on it, and the grain is hidden under their bodies, and the rats are discouraged.

Before the warehouse is full, the grain has to be rinsed, with a big waist basin, the grain is placed in it, washed repeatedly with clean water, and the floating surface is mostly straw or small grains, which are scooped up as pigs, chickens, sheep, cattle for the winter, and really sink in the water is full of grains, which are repeatedly dried, and finally put into the cabinet.

Hemp sugar is a unique craft of the mountain people, and the raw materials are mainly corn and sweet potatoes (potatoes). There is no skill in boiling hemp sugar, that is, to hold the heat, generally put corn or sweet potatoes into a large iron pot, boil rotten but can not be boiled dry, during which water must be added repeatedly until the juice of corn or sweet potatoes is made into a paste, and then add a certain amount of white sugar or brown sugar, and it will be successful.

It often takes at least five or six hours to make a pot of sesame sugar, and the pot does not leave the person, the person does not leave the shovel, and the shovel is stirred repeatedly. It's hard work.

After the hemp sugar is ready, get it from the pot, this is learned, then you have to prepare good fried noodles, fried noodles with high-quality flour over low heat, put on the bottom of a plate or basin, and then scoop up the hemp sugar and put it on the fried noodles, waiting for it to cool and set. The cooled and shaped hemp sugar is often crushed as soon as it is knocked, and the buds, soybeans, peanuts, and sesame seeds can also be kneaded together into balls, pieces, or slices with hemp sugar. During the Spring Festival, it is a delicious dim sum.

When the mountain people arrived in Layue, they wanted to make bacon. In order to ensure the color and aroma, they often find a slightly closed small shed, use charcoal fire as fuel, and put the toon branches and juniper leaves on the charcoal fire, so that it does not burn fully, but makes the smoke smoke make the pork transparent inside and out, and the meat is beeswax color. It's all very tempting to look at.

The people of Nanyi County are also good at making soy products, among which dried soy beans and dried bean dregs are unique farm foods. In the early stage, the soy beans should be soaked with rice artemisia or yellow wattle leaves to turn black, and then placed in the sun and repeatedly exposed to the sun until the smell is completely gone, and the aroma is flushed.

Drying bean dregs is to use the leftovers of tofu to make tofu, first knead into a ball, put it in a place to keep warm and let it ferment first, until the long enzyme emits a foul smell, and it is exposed to the sun, which is similar to the soy beans.

Say fast and fast, in a flash, Nong Tianyi will reach the age of reading.

The farmer and his wife discussed, it's time to hire a teacher for their son.

At this time, the New Year is approaching, and every household is busy buying New Year's goods. The farm house followed the days step by step, he was doing business while buying New Year's goods, and the store was busy inside and outside the store. Even though it was a thick winter, he was sometimes busy and sweating profusely.

After the New Year, the Lantern Festival is approaching. Before and after the Lantern Festival, whether in urban or rural areas, or near and far, all places must raise funds to hold gatherings, beat drums and blow trumpets, set up sacrifices to reward the gods, and play dragon lanterns at night. This is a local custom.

As soon as it was night, Nong Tian muttered that he wanted to go to see the dragon lantern, and the couple took their son out of the door.

The streets are full of pedestrians, and the festive atmosphere permeates the corners of the ancient city. When the three members of the farm house squeezed into the place where they were playing with the dragon lantern, it was already crowded, the scene was hot, and the laughter continued.

Seeing this posture, Nonglu had no choice but to let his son ride on his shoulders to watch.

This dragon lantern is first woven into the shape of a dragon with bamboo, and then covered with a silk cloth, and the torch is lit in the middle, only to see several strong men holding it high up and down, imitating the dragon's meandering, bending, leaping, coiling and other postures, the performance is vivid, and the audience is amazed.

This is followed by a variety of flowers tied with colored silk, decorated with short candles, and lit at the same time, when the light is like day.

Nong Tianyi looked strange on his father's shoulder, laughing and shouting, and his emotions rose and fell with the dragon lantern.

Every time the jade dragon flies away, it is like tens of thousands of flowers competing to bloom. The night sky became a galaxy on earth, brilliant, dazzling, and dazzling.

When the lanterns were about to come to an end, suddenly a bruise with a green face and fangs squeezed in through the gate, this beast was several times larger than the average ox, its hair was densely clumped, several feet long, its hair stood tall and flying, its head was like a peasant's bucket, its eyes were like bowls, it turned and flickered, and its tail was half the size of its body.

When you first enter the door, make a limp and sway, and then circle the field. Soon, his eyes widened and he looked around, and the mouth opened like a dustpan, shrugging and strong.

At this wonderful moment, Nong Tian was dumbfounded, and from time to time he swayed on the shoulders of Nonglu, either forward or backward, left or right. At this time, Nonglu will shout: "Tianyi, you be honest." ”

At this moment the spectators shouted loudly, and the roar was like thunder, and suddenly a little boy, about three feet long, wrapped his head in torn silk, jumped out of the crowd, and when he pulled his narrow sleeves so hard that he exposed his arms, he went straight to fight the beast. When the beast jumps, he hibernates, and when the beast hibernates, he jumps, sometimes he burrows under the belly of the beast, and sometimes he jumps on the back of the beast, just like a dazzling snow.

Man and beast resisted each other for a long time, and then everyone vied with each other to light firecrackers and at the same time besiege the beast from all sides, and the encirclement became smaller and smaller. The angrier the beast, the braver the little boy became. Jin Qi is noisy, as if it should be in tune with the beat, and the little boy moves skillfully and smoothly. Just like a wise and brave little warrior.

At this time, there was another burst of chanting from the crowd, and the scene was wave after wave, gradually reaching a climax.

Nong Tianyi will also follow the progress of this rhythm, or excited, or nervous, or high, and so on.

Soon, the little boy spotted the beast's loophole and finally grabbed the beast by the throat.

The beast obeyed, so he raised his head and spoke, his voice was chaotic and indistinct, to the effect that it was auspicious words such as "Shi He Sui Feng" and "Guanchun Folk Music".

Then the performers filled the huge boxes with fruits and cakes, and threw them all over the court, and people and wild animals rushed to eat, and after eating, they scattered in a hurry.

Some people say: This is called "beast cover lion".

The night is getting darker. On the way home, Nong Tianyi fell asleep on Nonglu.

When they got home, Wu Qing settled their son, and the couple went to wash. At this time, Nonglu was already leaning on the bed, waiting for Wu Qing to go to bed. Wu Qing likes to be clean and fine, so he washes it more slowly. After a while, she went back to her room, next to the farmhouse, fragrant, soft, and incomparably attractive.

Wu Qing said: "Tonight's dragon lantern is really wonderful. ”

"yes, I haven't seen it in years."

The cold wind of the night did not disturb their sweetness and warmth!

Only love can make this world more complete.