On the third day of the third lunar month, the empress feasted her ministers in Chang'an.

On this day, not only the emperor is "the weather is new on March 3, and there are many beautiful people on the waterside of Chang'an", but Anjia Village, which is thousands of miles away, is also a fun place to play in the water, after all, today is one of the three major festivals in the country.

"Zhou Li" contains: "Purified when the year is old, and now March is like water." ”

Purification, that is, to go to the waterfront to wash, remove the dirt, and at the same time take away the bad luck of the body, which has the meaning of praying for blessings.

People in the Middle Ages were very superstitious, going out to divinate the period, when people are sick, charms are more important than medicine, how can you not participate in the purification activities in March?

Another agricultural proverb: When it comes to the sting festival, the hoe does not stop.

It has already passed the tenth day of the year, and the farm work of spring plowing and sowing has been busy, just taking advantage of this festival to remove the water and play, and the villagers have also taken a rest.

There is a river at the entrance of Anjia Village, the grass by the river is green, and the fish and shrimp in the river are plump, which is a good place to wash and play.

The peasant family is the most budget-conscious, and the housewives who will be in charge of the house think that the whole family will have a day off today, and they will be hungry if they work less, so this morning meal is inevitably a little harsh.

Steamed cakes of black and hard wild vegetables are indispensable, and then there is a bowl of wild vegetable porridge, a bowl of porridge with clear soup and little water, and a few rotten vegetable leaves are pitifully floating, and a bowl of porridge can not taste ten grains of rice in the end.

After eating such a dull meal, the men and naughty boys in the family were all holding back their anger, wanting to catch a big fish when the village entrance was cleaned, so that they could go back and fight tooth sacrifices, and then they could catch some river shrimp and crabs, which was more or less a meat.

I was afraid that it would be too late, and the big fish in the river at the entrance of the village were caught by others, and the sun had just risen in the east, and there were several farmers with three or four-year-old children around their necks, and a few older children around them, and under the shouts of the women at home, they walked towards the river one after another.

By the time the sun was up, the lawn by the river was full of men, women and children.

As far as the eye can see, hundreds of people should be there, and almost the whole village is dispatched.

The old Liu family lives at the entrance of Anjia Village, occupying the geographical advantage, and Grandma Liu urged Liu to hurry up and occupy a good seat early in the morning.

The old wife Grandma Liu is a housekeeper, they have supported each other for nearly 40 years, and now as the sons and grandchildren have grown up and have their own small families, he is more and more able to understand what is the old companion of young couples, for the old wife of Grandma Liu, Uncle Liu attaches more and more importance to it.

After listening to his wife's words, before the sun rose in the morning, Mr. Liu took two steamed cakes of wild vegetables the size of a child's fist, carried a bucket waiting for fish and shrimp, and a simple bamboo fishing rod and hurried to the river to occupy a seat.

In spring, fish typically congregate in the upper reaches of the water, and then move to the middle and lower reaches as the temperature in the water rises.

Uncle Liu is an old crop, and he is clear about farming, so he naturally found a good seat in the upper reaches of the river, and then tied the earthworms he dug yesterday to the hook, and fished patiently.

But I don't know what's going on today, from the first time he came to the river, and now the whole village has gone to the river, and he didn't catch a single fish.

Grandma Liu is anxious, seeing the men in the village, as well as the teenage boys who are flexible in their hands, holding their trouser legs, regardless of the fact that the river water is still a little cold in spring, they jump down one after another to catch fish, not to mention that going down to the river in person is different, after a while, many people have caught big fish and come up, Grandma Liu's eyes are going to be red.

"Uncle, what's the matter with you!? The big fish will be caught, if you don't catch a fish again, how can I cook pickled fish!? ”

As she spoke, Grandma Liu stood up from the grass in a hurry and stomped her feet.

Hearing his wife's pickled vegetable fish, Mr. Liu couldn't help swallowing his saliva, and his shriveled stomach was still "cooing".

The people take food as the sky, and they can't stand it when they think of improving their food, so Uncle Liu finally threw the fishing rod in his hand, sat on the grass and said while pulling his trouser legs: "Hey, don't worry about it, I'll go down to the river to catch fish!" ”

Uncle Liu's hands and feet were neat, and as soon as he finished speaking, he pulled up his trouser legs and wanted to stand up.

Grandma Liu became more anxious and said, "Uncle, what are you doing!" It's more than 60 people, what kind of river are you going down!? And you didn't even get better when you flashed your waist during spring plowing a few days ago, in case you slipped your feet again in the water-"

Before he finished speaking, Uncle Liu got up too violently, and his waist seemed to flash again, and he bowed his back straight at the moment, so frightened that Grandma Liu hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Uncle, are you okay?" Don't scare Grandma! ”

The young people of the village all went down to the river to bathe and catch fish, and those who remained on the shore were women who washed and shampooed their hair with children, and old men and women in their sixties and seventies.

The village neighbors next to the old couple of the Liu family, and Uncle Liu have been old villagers for many years, he is also fishing on the side, seeing what happened to Uncle Liu, and under the emotion in his heart, he couldn't help but persuade: "Uncle Liu, the eldest of your family is also going to be forty people, and the eldest grandson is also in his early twenties. ”

The words are long and heartfelt, and anyone can hear the kindness in the words.

Uncle Liu can grit his teeth for his children and grandchildren to study, he is not a stupid person, not to mention similar words, I have heard a lot over the years, and I still know it.

He thumped his hand on the back of the waist for a while, and then he bit his teeth, and a piece of green tendons suddenly broke out on his thin and dark face, and it hurt so much that his muddy old eyes almost fell off the golden beans, which was a complete shame, fortunately, the golden beans did not fall, and he finally straightened his waist, Liu Laozhang's heart was relieved, and he said with a smile on his face: "I know that you are for my good, but you also know the situation of my family, the boss and Qingyun are about to go to Beizhou to take the exam, and now is the most critical time. Can't they delay the big thing of their imperial examination for this little thing? Saying that, he took a deep breath, endured the pain and straightened his waist a little straighter, and glanced at the men and boys who were fishing in the river indifferently, and said, "What's more, their father and son are scholars in the end, and it's too unseemly to go down to the river to catch fish!" ”

There is a modern saying that you should never want to wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep.

Although the neighbors didn't know this, they also knew that Mr. Liu was a face-loving man, not to mention that the son under his knee had already split up, and now he was living with his eldest son.

If you can't count on it, you can only continue.

The neighbor is also a good person, and he doesn't want to lose face to Uncle Liu, so he shook his head and didn't say anything.

But the wife on the side had suffered from Grandma Liu's loss, and said unceremoniously at the moment: "What kind of scholar is not good at going down to the river to catch fish?" The eldest son of Liu Er's family was admitted to Chang'an, and in our Anjia Village before, there was no shortage of fish caught in the river! ”

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