Chapter 65: Stealing Vegetables
Half a month of the New Year also passed quickly, and it was the Lantern Festival in a flash.
The Lantern Festival in Sweet Water Village does not eat rice balls, and there is no lantern festival to watch now.
But the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also a very fun day for the little dolls - touching the green.
As the name suggests, to touch is to sneak and touch the dark; Green is green vegetables.
All in all, on the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, I went to other people's vegetable fields in the dark to steal other people's vegetables.
The pattern is somewhat similar to the vegetable stealing game that later became popular across the country, and perhaps the game was inspired by this custom.
The stolen vegetables can't be taken home overnight, and they must be eaten immediately that night, which means stealing good luck and luck.
The people who were stolen couldn't stop the dolls from stealing the vegetables, and they couldn't scold.
It is said that if this is done, the crops and vegetables in the field will not grow well this year.
However, this activity is generally only attended by dolls, and adults generally do not touch the green.
During the day, Duan Huan followed his friends to all the vegetable fields in the village and walked around, and stepped on the points first.
As soon as the sky got dark, Chaomei Chaosu and Qiuyue couldn't hold back their excitement, and immediately shouted at the door to hurry up and steal the green.
Huanhuan stepped onto the basket and rushed to the vegetable patch with the little dolls.
It turned out that most of the ripe vegetables in the vegetable field were pulled home, leaving some vegetables that had not grown and some wilted defective products.
The little dolls don't mind, what they see and steal, as for the quality of the food, it is not considered at all.
There are also some vegetables that are poured with farmhouse manure in advance!!
Everyone knows about farm fertilizer, right? It's the waste of people and animals after eating and digesting!
Fortunately, Duan Huan was not carried away by the excitement, otherwise even if she didn't have a habit of cleanliness, she would have collapsed if she caught it.
In fact, I don't blame the owner for being stingy, originally now it is coarse grains and melons as the staple food, I'm afraid that someone will steal the green, and Zhengda Guangming will give all the dishes to the disaster, and the mother-in-law in charge will definitely cry to death!
Symbolically, the owner touched a green onion, plucked a garlic from the west garden, pinched a handful of pea tips, and plucked a green vegetable.
The rest of the time is to follow the large army around the village, who made her five senses wonderful, and she knew where the dish was and what the dish looked like even with her eyes closed.
When everyone was almost touched, a swarm of bees ran to Duhuan's house.
The reason is that Grandpa Xu explained before going out that he would use the vegetables they touched back to cook hot pot for them.
When he got home, Grandpa Xu had already boiled the soup base, and used the soup base made from the remaining mutton and beef bones.
A casserole of Tai Chi mandarin ducks, half red soup and half white soup, one red and one white looks like an appetite.
The meat dishes are wild boar, bacon and pheasant meat specially sliced by Grandpa Xu, and the portion is not much, and the vegetables are the green vegetables that everyone has just stolen back and washed with all hands and feet.
The small coal stove is directly placed on the ground, the casserole is on the rack, and a group of little dolls sit on a small bench around the stove, and under the dim candle flame, they are eating hot pot lively, and the atmosphere is really beautiful.
You eat a bite from my bowl, and I taste a bite of your good dish.
The little dolls eat at the table, you are fighting for me, not to mention that Grandpa Xu also got three meat dishes, although the portion is not much, but it is indeed a rare delicacy for them all year round.
Isn't this doll all sweating profusely, I don't know if it's hot or in a hurry?
After eating, it was nine o'clock, and Grandpa Xu took all the joy and sent the babies home one by one, and by the way, they could take a walk to eat.
When sending Xia Miao home, her mother Li Fanghua politely spoke to Grandpa Xu.
"Sixth Ancestor, Xia Miao, he is not sensible and has caused you trouble, right?"
"No, the dolls had a supper at my place together, and they came back late, don't blame the dolls!"
"No, no, no!" Li Fanghua hurriedly waved his hand, and also pushed Xia Miao, "Second child!" Eating at Taizuzu's place, have you ever thanked Taizuzu? ”
"Thank you, thank you!" Grandpa Xu hurriedly replied, "The doll was sent back, and Xiao Yu'er and I went back." ”
"Six Ancestors Walk Slowly!"
"Taizu Zu is gone!"
Duan Huan stood aside and pretended to be a good doll, without saying a word, and it was not her turn to speak.
She looked over from the courtyard of Xia Miao's house and saw that there were kerosene lamps and candles lit at the same time in his house, and a half-grown teenager was sitting on a table and writing.
It seems that this is the only junior high school student in the village who is in school, Xia Miao and Qiu He's eldest brother, Xu Chunsheng.
But it's past nine o'clock now, and I'm still studying with oil and lights, isn't this a bit too much?
According to my understanding, there are very few subjects in school now, and the amount of learning should not be large, why are you still writing homework at this time?
Qiu He stood at the door of the hall, watching her eldest brother read and write with envy, and did not dare to go in and disturb.
Last time, Xia Miao said that Chunsheng was very precious to his books, and it was normal for Qiuhe not to dare to go in.
Before Duan Huan and Grandpa Xu had gone far, they heard Li Fanghua scolding Xia Miao in a low voice.
"Second child, why don't you take your sister when you go to Taizu for supper?"
"Mom, the relationship between my little sister and my little aunt is not good, how can I take my little sister there!" Xia Miao felt very aggrieved, so she might as well not go.
Qiu He interjected at this time, she had already smelled the strong fragrance of his brother's body, and felt that Xia Miao must be eating delicious food at the house, with her cautious and jealous nature, how could she not sue.
"Second brother, I obviously called you when you went just now, but you didn't hear it!"
Xia Miao turned her head and glanced at Qiu He, "Little sister! When I returned to the drying field after touching the green, I obviously told you that I was going to my aunt's house and let you come back first! ”
"Then you can't just run away!" Qiu He actually just wants to find fault.
Xia Miao couldn't bear Qiu He's divine logic, and said angrily: "That's because you don't have a good relationship with others, why do you always rely on me?" ”
"Mom, can you shut them up, it's noisy! I still have to read books! At this time, Chunsheng spoke.
Li Fanghua immediately slapped Qiu He and Xia Miao on the back of the head, "Don't make any noise, I didn't watch your brother study, get out of the way!" ”
Xia Miao had a good attitude towards his mother, but his eldest brother was obedient, and he immediately went to the yard to squat with a blank face.
Qiu He was slapped by her mother very painfully, she bit her lower lip, wanted to cry but didn't dare to cry, her heart churned terribly.
She is really jealous and happy in her heart, even if she has no parents, but there is an ancestor who has the ability and loves her, and she doesn't need to share anything with others.
It's like she has a mother without a father, her mother's energy alone has to be divided into three parts, in fact, it is not an average of three parts, her mother loves her eldest brother the most, and his eldest brother has the heaviest weight in her mother's heart.
Her mother is the most partial to her eldest brother Chunsheng in terms of food and clothing, saying that Chunsheng should dress up and go to school, and he can't be looked down upon at school.
The delicious food at home is also eaten by her eldest brother first, because the study costs the brain and needs nutrition, and the small part left behind can be divided equally between her and her second brother.
Her mother is also soft-spoken to her eldest brother, never too loud, let alone beaten and scolded.
Her mother also often told her and Xia Miao that the four of them were all counting on the eldest brother, and the eldest brother passed the study exam, and their family could get through.
She also wants to go to school, and she also wants to eat well and dress well, but her mother said that she and his second brother are not good materials for school, and after two years, the family is rich, so they can come back to work after two years.
She used to think that her mother still loved her very much, at least better than his second brother.
But now it seems that she is no different from Xia Miao, and she is not as good as her eldest brother Chunsheng.
It's just that in the past six months, Xia Miao has played well with other little dolls outside, and Duan Huan also likes to play with Xia Miao, and Xia Miao never takes her.
Unlike before, she would do whatever Xia Miao said, she could no longer find a sense of superiority in front of Xia Miao.