Early in the morning of the eighth day of the new year, the sun came out warm, Ziqing remembered the rape field at home, and when she saw that this time it was okay, she told Zifu to sell vegetables tomorrow. Zeng Ruixiang went to the vegetable field to see it and said that after pulling out the green garlic and parsley a few years ago, the vegetable field was still empty, and the left and right were idle, so it was better to turn over the vegetable field and plant something else.

Shen listened and said: "Turning over the vacant land in this small courtyard and planting some vegetables is enough for my own family to eat, and I want to vacate the vegetable plot over there to raise for a period of time and keep all kinds of watermelons, selling watermelons is much more suitable than selling vegetables." ”

Ziqing was thinking about how to talk to her family about this issue, but she didn't expect Shen to bring it up by herself, which saved trouble. It seems that Shen also has a plan in his heart.

The family was in full swing turning over the ground in the small courtyard, the doorbell rang, Ziqing wondered who came to the door this time? I heard her mother say that the guests who should have come have also come.

Ziqing opened the door and saw that it was the shopkeeper Zhou, who was carrying some small snacks, and gave Ziqing a pair of silk flowers, saying that they were brought from the capital. Zhou shopkeeper told Ziqing about the glass he asked, a piece of ordinary window size costs ten taels of silver, Ziqing converted, his family has five taels of silver a year plus the production in the field can live well, two years of living expenses to buy a window glass, it seems a bit luxurious, but think about it, even mahogany nanmu is used, and I still care about this. Ziqing was still in a reverie, and Zifu woke her up with a brain meltdown.

It turned out that this time the shopkeeper Zhou came to ask for the rape strips at home, and he sent it to the owner last time he brought it back, who knew that the old people and children of the owner were particularly fond of eating, especially the New Year's Eve to eat more greasy fish, eat some rape strips to relieve greasy, a little bit of bitter fragrance, more popular than other vegetables. Originally, the owner wanted him to come over and buy it, but he felt that the New Year could not be disturbed, so it was delayed until today. Since you come once, you can't just buy a little, Shopkeeper Zhou set a gift every other day, 200 catties at a time, and the restaurant also has it, and the price is given to 5 wen a catty, and once it is settled, this time he took away 200 catties.

Sending them away, Shen said that this owner is really a noble person of our family, and he doesn't have to worry about selling anything he grows at home.

Ziqing thought about trying to raise seedlings early this year, anyway, the sky in the south was very warm, she planned to try it with cucumber beans, and she was not afraid of wasting it, this time she soaked it in warm water for two days, and it was about two hours to change the water, and put it at the stove at night, that there was residual temperature, because she was holding a broken clay pot, but it did not attract everyone's attention. Two days later, they were thrown into the vegetable patch in the yard and covered with thick straw at night, and this time everyone couldn't pay attention to it.

Ziqing said seriously: "Didn't the chick sleep on the straw when it was cold?" It's the same with the seeds. ”

The crowd laughed when they heard this, and they just thought she was messing around.

In the blink of an eye, the Lantern Festival, Shen rolled a lot of rice balls with a round tray, fried some in oil, and Zeng Ruixiang took Zifu to the old house early in the morning. It turned out that on the day of the Lantern Festival, I was going to go to the grave and burn the burden for my ancestors, which was similar to the winter solstice.

Shen picked up some candles, incense, firecrackers, and a piece of boiled pork, a whole fish killed, no fruit, picked up a few jujubes, a plate of fried rice balls, there was almost a basket, just ready, Zeng Ruixiang and they came back.

Shen asked Ziqing to change into sheepskin boots, and Ziqing learned that on the day of the Lantern Festival, both men and women could go to the ancestral grave, and Ziqing didn't understand what the rules were. However, the old man said that this year, because Zeng Ruixiang was the first year to build a new house, he needed to send a letter to his ancestors and thank his ancestors for his protection, so the whole family had to go.

When I go to the mountain road from the back of the village, look back at the foot of the mountain in the village of several cooking smoke curling from the treetops, the distant mountain is a misty color, the rape flowers near are yellow and bright Ziqing's eyes, a large piece of a large piece, there are bees flying in the flowers, if it is not for the fear of soiling the boots under the feet, Ziqing wants to roll, no wonder the ancient women have to come out in the spring, this flower is yellow and willow green, even the air is filled with the fragrance of grass, it is a good season to go green.

Ziqing had seen the advertising of Jeju Island in her previous life, and the golden sea of rape flowers made the silver flow into the pockets of Koreans. In fact, when Ziqing was a child, in the countryside, there were a lot of rape flowers, a large patch, high and low, more natural, not inferior to Jeju Island at all. It's just that later, the main laborers in the village went out to work, leaving the old people and children behind, so the fields were so barren that every time Ziqing looked at it, she would be embarrassed.

When you get to the ground, you can't laugh, the old man takes everyone to line up, the man is left and the woman is right, the man is incense, the woman is not slight, the firecracker sounds, the man's hands hold the incense as a rub, Tian picks up the tray first, and then kneels down, everyone follows Tian to kowtow three heads, and burns the sealed burden in a circle, Tian puts a stack of paper money around the baggage, which is also made of straw paper, Tian burns while chanting, "Listen to the wild ghosts from all walks of life, the loose money outside is to honor you, don't rob what you shouldn't take, my ancestors have no money... Ziqing laughed when she heard it, in exchange for a lot of dissatisfied eyes, no way, it's really funny, wild ghost, is there such an obedient wild ghost? After burning the burden, a circle of paper money should be placed around the grave, pressed with stones, and by the way, the ancestors of the nearby branches should also be put in a circle.

On the way home, Zifu picked a rape flower and had to put it on Ziqing, Ziqing didn't do it, you chased me on the ridge, it was like coming out to play, and was stopped by the old man with a loud shout. Ziqing saw that the grass in the field had grown, and the duckweed in the pond had also come out, and the tadpoles still hadn't seen it, so she suddenly thought of the grapefruit tree in the grandma's vegetable field, and hurriedly told Zifu that she called Zilu to go to the old house together, and the aunt's family really didn't leave, and Ziqing couldn't admire her aunt's cheekiness.

The three of them said to the old man, looking for a hoe to go to the vegetable field, the old man was afraid that they would not dig well, so he dug it himself, and then the old man said that a few more trees grew under the oranges of the neighbor's house next door, and he wanted to ask.

The three of them carried six small saplings home, Ziqing originally wanted to plant them in the small courtyard, but Zeng Ruixiang said that he would plant two osmanthus trees in the courtyard, and he had made an appointment with Zeng Ruiyu to go into the mountain tomorrow to find them. So Ziqing planted two citrus trees in the courtyard, and the rest were planted in the open space in the courtyard where chickens were raised.

Originally, Ziqing wanted to find a camphor tree to plant in the yard, and there were no mosquitoes to cool off in summer, but who knew that it was unanimously opposed by everyone. It turned out that the tree dropped a kind of green insect in the summer, thicker than a finger, and spit silk, which was too terrifying.

Ziqing had no choice but to give up.