After Zeng Ruixiang left, the days returned to the past, and Shen still took Zilu out of the fields and worked in the fields every day, and more than 20 days passed in a flash.

On the fifth day of the eighth month, Shen got up early in the morning, and put on new clothes and shoes for Zishou, Ziqing knew that it was the fourth birthday of the third brother, and Shen said that he was going to buy some good food, and his family would be lively and lively, and celebrate the birthday of the third son.

It happened that this day was a big bazaar, and Shen said that he would buy something to use for the festival by the way, and Ziqing suddenly realized that the Mid-Autumn Festival was coming. Shen took Zilu Zishou to the bazaar, Ziqing thought, Grandma has not said anything so far, and sure enough, she only remembers the birthday of the eldest brother alone, and when she was thinking about it, someone outside the courtyard called the door.

Ziqing thought that someone from the old house came to celebrate the third brother's birthday, but when she opened the door, she saw that it was Xiao Xiushui, who came to ask her to go to the mountain to pick up the pine tower, Ziqing was a little strange, didn't their family spend money to buy firewood? How could you suddenly go and pick up the pine tower.

"Is your pine tower ready? Why don't you give me a basket? Anyway, your family is here this year, and no one is looking for your family to collect it, right? Xiushui asked.

Ziqing did it for a long time to understand that the Mid-Autumn Festival here has the custom of burning the tower by the pond, the tower is built up with bricks and tiles, the middle is overhead, and the bottom is burned with a pine tower, generally the tower will be built two or three days in advance, almost one or two children in each village, they are responsible for the division of labor, and every household around the pine tower is collected, of course, the more the better, the more prosperous the tower burns, indicating that the days of the coming year will be more prosperous.

"But, I can't get out, and no one is watching my little brother, otherwise, you wait a while, my mother and they are back, I'll go out with you, let's go to the old house to see the burning tower, this side is not familiar, and there will be a basket of pine towers." Ziqing said that since she came here, she has never gone to the mountain to pick up the pine tower, and Shen always said that she was too young and afraid that she would be tired.

When Ziqing stood at the foot of the mountain with Zilu and Xiushui, Ziqing already felt that her legs were not her own, Ziqing watched Zilu go back and forth, and from time to time she took a thin bamboo pole to poke the pine tower on the tree, while she and Xiushui sat on the side to rest, and her heart was really moved, the second brother was actually more than two years older than himself, and for most of the past six months, the Shen family took him with him whether it was collecting firewood, going to the ground, going out to sell vegetables, etc., the hard work he paid was real, and he had to help the Shen family support this family at a young age. Ziqing can't remember what she would do when she was seven years old, but she wanted to make her second brother happy and do what he liked.

When I went back, Shen had already prepared a sumptuous meal, looking at the table full of dishes, Shen said: "When Lu'er celebrated his birthday, the family just moved out, and his hands were not rich, and he was busy harvesting rape, so his mother only boiled an egg for Lu'er, and it happened that your father was at home when Fu'er celebrated his birthday, thinking that Fu'er was ten years old, and wanted the family to be lively and lively, but I didn't want to be disturbed by your grandfather and grandmother, today is Shou'er's birthday, this time, let's eat as much as we want, laugh as much as we want." ”

As he spoke, Shen turned into tears, and then, wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, and said with a smile: "Look at me, this is a happy day, it's useless to talk about this, our family's life is getting better and better, and being happy is more important than anything else." At this time last year, I didn't dare to think that I could cook such a table for my son. ”

After Zishou's birthday, Shen took Zilu to the city to sell vegetables every morning, Ziqing still suggested that her mother bring the edamame beans in the field to sell together, how many can be sold, and let the rest grow into soybeans, and more than a dozen steers at home were also sent to Zhou's shopkeeper. When Shen came back from selling vegetables, he took Zilu to the field to shave peanuts and pluck edamame, Ziqing and Zishou sat on the side to help pick peanuts and edamame, and the boy liked to put them on the bamboo mat and climb to play, this was Ziqing's first time working in the field.

Walking on the afterglow of the sunset, walking on the country road, a mother holding a child, two teenagers carrying a basket, and two children chasing me next to them, scattering laughter and laughter all the way, what a beautiful painting.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is here in a blink of an eye, Shen got up early in the morning and killed a duck, saying that he wanted to make duck soup, the local custom of eating duck in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Ziqing went to the city with his mother the day before, this time in the city, Ziqing finally found oranges (that is, grapefruits), oranges, oranges, pears, pomegranates and other fruits, oranges and oranges are still green, Shen bought some of everything, as well as moon cakes, Shen also said that the city must be better than the countryside, so I also bought a lot. I said to the old man to send it to taste.

After dinner, Zifu hurriedly took Zilu, Ziqing, Zishou, four people, carrying a large basket of pine towers, to the pond on the other side of the old house, to see there, a large number of people have gathered, and there are many adults, Ziping, Qiuyu, Xiuying, Xiushui, Xiao Zusheng They are all here, Ziqing walked to the side of the tower, the bottom of the tower is built of broken bricks, the diameter is more than one meter, there is a foot high, specially left a hole, and then the top is the tile superposition, smaller and smaller, the top of the tower is sealed, Ziqing saw that there are a lot of pine towers in the tower, The body of the tower is actually taller than a person, and it is not glued with any clay, it is just a simple superposition, Ziqing feels that this really requires a certain amount of technology. So many children were singing, dancing, and playing all kinds of games, and everyone had a relaxed smile on their faces.

The moon climbed up, and someone shouted, "The burning of the tower begins." As soon as the words fell, someone lit the pine hair at the entrance of the cave, the fire burned more and more, until finally the tower body was all red, everyone cheered, spontaneously took the fire tower as the center, gathered in a circle, sang and danced, until the red light of the tower gradually receded, everyone was still unfinished scattering, and the activity was over. Ziqing had a great time, and the four of them walked home bathed in the clear light of the moon.

"Big brother, in this situation, you can recite a poem about the moon to listen." Ziqing said.

"Okay, big brother, think about which one to memorize." Zifu thought for a while and said, "Just recite Zhang Ruoxu's "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night", my favorite, there is a small river in our town." The tide of the spring river is even with the sea, and the bright moon on the sea is born together. Thousands of miles with the waves. Zifu's voice was subdued and frustrated, and it was very musical.

"Big brother, it's so nice, I want to read and memorize poems when I grow up." Zishou said.

"Really? Then big brother will teach you to memorize it now. Bright moonlight in front of the bed. ”

Ziqing thought, this is a poem of the Tang Dynasty, where is the turning point of history? I can't find a map to see if it's about the same.

Back home, Zeng Ruixiang and Shen sat at the door of the room waiting for them, Shen set up a square table at the door of the room, on which were offered two big grapefruits, two big pomegranates, a plate of moon cakes, a plate of peanuts, Ziqing happened to be a little hungry, reached out to reach for the moon cakes, and was slapped by Shen, it turned out that this was for the moon mother-in-law, you can't steal food, and you can't put it away until the next morning.

Shen said that everyone hasn't eaten moon cakes yet, and they haven't eaten oranges, so let's eat a little with the moon mother-in-law, and after speaking, I went into the house and took some out, Ziqing found that this moon cake was very delicious, thin, with jujube paste filling, red beans, and a salty, with a layer of lard, very thin, unlike the moon cakes that Ziqing used to eat were thick, and the grapefruit was also good, Ziqing left all the fruit seeds and prepared to bury them all in the soil, especially when Ziqing buried the pear seeds two days ago, she found that the four peach pits that were buried actually came out with three small sprouts, Ziqing was so excited that she immediately told the people at home that she didn't want to say it, but Ziqing was afraid that they would be pulled out as weeds.

The family sat in the yard admiring the moon, Zeng Ruixiang said, it's time to prepare for building a house, tomorrow first find a few cousins to cut some wood, this season is fast, harvest the soybeans in the field, you can start. He had already drawn the drawings, and as soon as Ziqing heard it, he wanted to take a look, because it was too late to give up.