Chapter 36: Winter

In order to welcome the National Day on October 1, these days, Zhang Guangming commanded the village's gong and drum team, Yangge team, dry boat team, stilt team, as well as singing and performing teams and Henan opera performance teams.

The actors in this comprehensive art team, under the command of Zhang Zhishu, used pine oil lamps and took advantage of the moonlight at night to step up rehearsals.

On this day, Makino Hana Village finally ushered in the birthday of the motherland.

In the evening, Zhang Guangming sat under the stage with the village cadres and the masses, waiting for the performance to begin.

Li Dongzhi and his girlfriend Guo Yingzi are the host of the show.

The two of them announced with a smile in Henan dialect: Today is an important annual festival, and the cadres and masses of our village celebrate the birthday of the motherland together!

The two of them first said that the village, under the leadership of agricultural technician Zhang Zhishu, has made the lives of the villagers a little better!

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Zhang Guangming hurriedly walked onto the stage, and the audience immediately burst into warm applause.

He whispered to the two village program hosts: Don't talk nonsense, just invite the actors of the art team to appear.

"Now we invite the gong and drum team and the lion dance team to play!"

As soon as the voices of the two program hosts fell, they saw the gong and drum team first on the stage.

A deafening sound rang out.

Some young men carry drums, some beat the drums vigorously with drumsticks, some hold gongs in one hand and brass hammers in the other, and beat the gongs to the rhythm of the drum music.

They quickly lifted the drum to the edge of the stage, and thump, thump, thump, thump,

Amid the sound of gongs and drums, the members of the dragon and lion dance team also trotted on the stage.

I saw the dragon and tiger leaping on the field, which was shocking.

The lively scene made the village cadres and villagers feel uplifted, and everyone gave the warmest applause.

Followed by the Yangge team, the stilt team, and the dry boat team, these teams went into battle together.

The big girls of the Yangge team, all dressed up as beauties in ancient costumes, their graceful appearance, while twisting Yangge, sang the song "Big Harvest" composed by Zhang Guangming.

The girls' singing voices were crisp and loud.

I also saw the members of the stilt team with elm sticks tied to their legs, kicking, kicking, kicking, singing, singing Henan Opera sonorously as they walked.

Next up were the little daughters-in-law in the dry boat team, all handsome, they walked with one hand on the green dry boat, and on the other hand, they also twisted their thin waists, which was very joyful.

These teams danced, danced, and twisted.

The last to take the stage were the singing team and the opera team.

In the rehearsal room, Zhang Guangming asked the singers and the people who sang Henan Opera to sing one sentence per person, so that the song and the drama could be sung together.

This combination of old and new is truly refreshing and unique.

The performances of the various performance teams enriched the boring rural life of the people of Makinohua Village and enlivened the atmosphere.

The actors performed the show very energetically, which made everyone laugh.

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In the tenth winter of the lunar month, rural areas all over the country are repairing rivers and clearing silt.

Immediately afterwards, rural people everywhere were busy sweeping leaves and cutting hay.

Then these leaves, leaves, grasses and grasses are mixed with the dung of people at home, poultry manure, and livestock dung, and then wrapped in mud, waiting for the next spring to warm up and ferment, and then they can go up to the crops.

The village of Makino did the same.

Because no matter what kind of crop it is, as long as you can put more manure, the grain and cotton grown will be very vigorous and taste good.

Of course, after the fruits and vegetables are put on the manure, the taste will be extraordinarily delicious.

In the evening, when Zhang Guangming came out of the experimental base, he saw a disabled couple in their 40s walking in front of him on the main road, carrying a burden.

The man was blind, and the woman was lame.

The couple gave birth to two healthy, intelligent and lovely children.

The eldest was a boy, and he looked like he was about ten years old.

The girl was about five or six years old.

The two children had big bright eyes, and the couple were supported by a son and a daughter, and walked forward slowly.

Zhang Guangming hurriedly stepped forward, supported the couple and said to the two children, "Little friend, let me support your parents." ”

The two children said in unison, "Thank you, uncle!" ”

He hurriedly asked, "Big brother, sister-in-law, where are you and the children going?" ”

The man replied, "Oh, I met a good guy again today!" Thank you bro!

We're going to go to this village in front of us and play the strings and tell the story. ”

Zhang Guangming hurriedly said: "I am the party secretary of this village, and on behalf of the masses, I welcome you to my village to enliven the atmosphere and enrich the cultural life of my village!"

During this time, it was not only you who came to our village to tell stories.

There are also artists who talk allegro, sing opera, and play acrobatics who come to my village one after another!

There are groups of singing operas, and there are several types of operas that come to the village to perform.

There are Henan bangzi, Henan pendant, two plus strings and so on.

Whether it is the interesting stories of the pear orchard brought by the artists, as well as the witty and humorous performances, it has brought infinite joy to the people of my village, and the anecdotes you bring are all kinds of interesting!

You artists have made great contributions to enriching the cultural life of my village!

Thank you so much!

With a proud look on their faces, the couple smiled and said, "I hope we can bring fun to your villagers!"

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The farmers' agricultural management of the solar terms is very timely.

As the old saying goes, "A little snow produces turnips, and a big snow produces cabbage." ”

This Sunday, the sky was filled with light snow like white sugar cane flour, silently falling down.

The captains of each team led the members of each team and rushed to the vegetable field.

Li Yue'e led her three daughters to pluck radishes while telling riddles to the children for them to guess.

My mother said, "What kind of dish is the red rooster with a green tail and a head hidden under the soil?" ”

As soon as Mom's words fell, Wen Ya and Wen Hui said almost at the same time: "Carrot." Li Yue'e smiled and nodded.

Li Yue'e said: "Green coat, green tail, sweet and delicious are better than watermelon." ”

"Sweet radish." As soon as her voice fell, the children spoke impatiently.

Li Yue'e praised the children for being very smart.

The mother then said, "I'll give you another difficult riddle: "The fat doll is playing tricks, half white and half green, with a green tassel on her head, what kind of dish is it?" ”

The two of them pointed to the radish in front of them and replied: "This kind of radish".

Mom nodded and smiled with satisfaction.

Li Yue'e always likes to play riddles with children in labor.

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Zhang Zhishu commanded the cadres of each team to pull all kinds of radishes to the county town in horse-drawn carts to sell.

And let the captains sell spinach, lettuce, and rape...... The money from the sale of all kinds of autumn ripening vegetables is distributed among the members.

The members of the club were happy.

As the saying goes, the festival and the festival are half a month, and the heavy snow solar term is coming.

The captains of each production team and the "big handful" of the production team will load the pulled cabbage into horse-drawn carts and pull it to the vegetable market in the county town to sell it for money.

As soon as they returned, they were divided among the members according to their population.

Members can buy a little candy, or a sugar gourd, or a candy blower.

Every family will buy these folk snacks for their children to eat, and the children will naturally smile from ear to ear.

In the middle of winter, the women of each family are very happy to pickle the Chinese cabbage.

Pickling cabbage is not so simple.

On snowy days, children are especially happy, because they can play at home to throw sandbags, jump rubber bands, jump rope and other games.

When the three daughters of Zhang's family were tired of playing, they would sit next to their mother and watch their mother pickle cabbage.

They asked their mothers, who were pickling Chinese cabbage:

"Mom, several kinds of cabbage you pickled are delicious, how did you pickle them?" The beautiful eldest daughter, looking at her mother with bright eyes flickering, asked first.

"yes, how? Mom, tell me about it. The second daughter, Wen Hui, walked over with a sky-high "cannon twist" pigtail in her hand, staring at her mother with her big watery eyes and asked.

"Mom, tell me about it." The third daughter looked at her mother with impatient eyes and said.

Li Yue'e told the children how to pickle cabbage very seriously.

My mother said while breaking the cabbage leaves with her hand, "Then you guess the riddle first, and guess it right?" I'll tell you again. ”

The children nodded and said, "I love riddles." ”

Mother said, "A good girl, with a white and fat face, and a green garment. What kind of dish is it? ”

The three children said in unison, "Cabbage." ”

"Yes, you guessed it." After Li Yue'e praised the children, she began to tell the children about the method of pickling cabbage......

It snowed again, and for one night, it was like dressing the whole bleak village in a clean white gauze skirt.

Makino Flower Village has "this silver-white outfit", which looks noble and elegant.

The next day, the morning sun shone on the silver-covered village, and it looked as beautiful and flawless as a carpet of elegant white for the whole village inside and outside.

A heavy snow fell, and there was a group of children carrying a small basket in one hand, a small shovel in the other, red peppers in their hands, a handful of black beans in their pockets, black threads, and black horsehair...... The parents of the children, who were followed behind, walked towards the barley field.

The children chirped:

"Let's build an animal snowman, it's fun."

"I think it's fun to pile up flowers and trees."

Zhang Guangming saw that the children's views were inconsistent.

The elder suggested, "If you want me to say, let's have a fairy tale to be the most fun." ”

After discussing with the children, they decided that Snow White from "Grimm's Fairy Tales" would be the most interesting......

Jiao Dachuan and Qin Sanjin suggested that the children should be divided into three classes and that it would be better to make snowmen separately.

Li Baomei and Zhou Feng heard from the people in the village that her husband and children went to play outside the village with the adults and children of the enemy's family.

Suddenly, with a look of rage, both of them staggered towards the place where they were playing......