15. Mid-Autumn Festival

When they arrived at the intersection where they came, they saw Xie Qingshan sitting on the noodle stall next to him drinking a bowl of hot noodle soup, and when he saw Xie Wang's family coming, he beckoned them to sit down.

Asked the boss to serve three bowls and three small bowls of shredded pork noodles, Xie Qingshan said with some resentment: "Sure enough, as the old saying goes, 'the foot teeth of the car and boat shop, if you are not guilty, you should also be killed', these tooth are really ruthless!" ”

"How so? What's going on? Xie Wang hurriedly asked.

"I went to the tooth shop on Tongque Street to inquire about the situation, and I saw two people coming to find the tooth couple, one said that he spent fifty-five taels to buy five acres of fertile land, and a few days after signing the title deed, he happened to meet the seller, but I heard the seller say that he only sold forty-five taels of silver, and it turned out that the tooth farmer kept lowering the price from the seller, but the buyer raised the price vigorously, and the tooth farmer only grinded his teeth and moved his mouth, and got ten taels of silver in vain, and the two of them found the tooth theory together. But I didn't want Ya Yu to suddenly turn his face, saying that he had signed the title deed and pressed his handprint, and both parties had already agreed, and it would be unreasonable to shout at this time, and he wanted to call the officials to arrest them......" Xie Qingshan said hatefully, "Where do I dare to inquire, hurry up." ”

"This ...... How good is that? "Xie Wang's family also has no idea, for fear that after his family buys Tian Jingya's hands, he will be taken advantage of in vain.

Xie Xuan didn't have much idea, little Xie Xuan was at an ignorant age, and she had just arrived, remembering a few common techniques to get rich in later generations, but she couldn't get the secular favor of the Ming Dynasty.

Several people were annoyed, but Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng, two children, were naïve and ignorant, eating shredded pork noodles there, licking two mouthfuls of candy, looking around with bony eyes, feeling that it was novel everywhere.

Everyone had no choice but to eat noodles and go home first to discuss.

After some discussion, I only said that slowly acquaintances asked who sold the fields in several nearby villages, and the silver was put at home first, and it was not moldy anyway.

As the days go by, the Xie family still goes up the mountain every day to collect mountain goods and medicinal herbs, and comes back to concoct Shou Wu, but every few days, the kitchen chimney smokes for a day or two in a row, which finally attracts a few familiar neighbors to ask, and Xie Wang's family is just fooling the past.

Soon, the Mid-Autumn Festival arrived.

In fact, for the poor farmers in Linzhang County, the Mid-Autumn Festival is not very rich and lively, it is basically a festival for married girls to go back to their parents' homes to visit relatives, not as lively as firecrackers during the Spring Festival.

On this day, the married girl and her aunt take the children back to their parents' house, bring gifts to honor their parents, eat at their parents' house at noon, and go back in the afternoon.

In the evening, the women of the family bathe in incense, put fruit and snacks on the sacrificial table, and pray to the full moon together. Then the housemother of the family holds a knife and divides the mooncakes evenly according to the number of people, one for each person.

After eating on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Xie family did not go up the mountain to dig the first Wucai mountain goods, Xie Wang took the Lin family to slaughter chickens and fish, Xie Qingshan took his two sons to the back mountain to cut branches and bamboo, because Xie Xuan said that in winter, planting vegetables needs to be built with a shelf to build a grass shed, and he went to take advantage of his free time on this day, after all, there is no free time in the farmer's house all year round.

Xie Xuan was wearing the new dress that Xie Wang had rushed out in the past few days, pedaling the new cloth shoes made of tender lotus color, and was looking at the spinach planted in the backyard a few days ago, some of which had already sprouted tender and tender sprouts. Because of the good weather in the past few days, there is no thatch and wheat straw, and it is working hard to grow under the slightly warm sun.

On the left side of the vegetable garden is the chicken shed and the pig shed, the pig shed is built with stones, two black pigs are snoring and eating non-stop, and next to the pig shed is a chicken shed built with a wooden shelf, Lin mixed chicken food with wheat bran, and a group of chickens are fighting to grab food. There were also two winter melons climbed on the chicken shed, and two or three huge winter melons were on the roof of the shed, and Xie Wang said that he should pick them off in a few days.

The land is flat, the houses are like that, the traffic is strange, and the chickens and dogs smell each other. The leisurely scene in front of him made Xie Xuan's impetuous heart calm down, as if his thoughts were gradually slowing down with this ancient life.

If there is one word to describe the 21st century, it is the word "fast". Everything is changing rapidly, in the blink of an eye, the world has become different, familiar villages have become high-rise buildings in the blink of an eye, yesterday I was still happy to answer the telephone at home, everyone on the street of Ming'er took a black box and shouted loudly, and in a few days the smart large-screen mobile phone was rampant, and everyone became a low-headed family again.

Technology brings speed and comfort, but also makes people's hearts impetuous, people can't stop to watch a flower grow quietly, a fish swims gracefully, can't read a book that has no practical value but only brings inner peace.

Everything around us is changing, and if people stop, they are backward, and backward will be eliminated. In order not to be eliminated by society, in order not to become an outlier and a loser in the eyes of the people around them, people desperately want to keep up with the pace of the times and society, and in the end, they forget why they are in such a hurry.

Life is in a hurry, talking and doing things are in a hurry, and even sleeping is in a hurry.

What is this for? Why am I in such a hurry all day? What's the point of such a life?

Of course, Xie Xuan told herself that it was for money and a better life, but in her occasional free time, she often asked herself these questions that seemed meaningless to her.

Of course, there are no answers. So, Xie Xuan comforted herself that these unanswered philosophical questions were used for self-reflection, not to find answers.

So he continued to be busy, so that he could not be idle for a moment.

But after coming to the Ming Dynasty unexpectedly, he had to follow the life and rest of the villagers every day, and arrange his life according to the sunrise and sunset.

Sometimes I feel that life is really boring and annoying, such as when squatting in the toilet, I always want to find something with words to look at, such as a large free time before falling asleep at night without a mobile phone is always difficult to endure, and then suddenly there is a problem I want to check on Baidu.

Without all kinds of information in your mind, like a wild horse galloping, people are dizzying, there is no want to know what you want to know and there are thousands of answers for you to choose from, everything can only be borne by yourself, thought by yourself, and decided by yourself.

So she learned to look at the stars in the dark and contemplate the vastness of the universe; learned to listen to the crickets and crickets before going to bed, and think about the life like a mayfly; Learn to watch a vegetable sprout from planting to breaking the ground, and experience the vitality of life; I will also look at the human nature around me that is both simple and honest, but also secretly cunning, selfless and selfish.

When you have to focus on the people and things around you, instead of pointing fingers at distant news and commenting on distant news, you will discover new worlds from the prosaic and unfamiliar world around you, which seems to be microscopic but grandiose, and seemingly boring but interesting.

Xie Xuan sometimes suspects that she is comforting herself, but she can't go back anyway, if she doesn't comfort herself to find a new joy of life, will she be depressed to death?

Bored thinking about messy thoughts, the small stone in his hand boredom threw the chickens in the chicken shed, and let the chickens in the wooden shed cluck and fly, Xie Xuan began to do nothing again.

Just as her eyes were looking at the pig in the pigsty that she was still at a loss, and the stone in her hand was eager to try, she heard the noise in the front yard, and heard Xie Wang shouting: "Qiu Niang is here......" I knew in my heart that it was Xie Huiniang's sister, that is, Xie Xuan's aunt went back to her parents' house to visit relatives, so she threw away the stone in her hand and walked to the front yard.