The second day is the Dragon Boat Festival, Ziqing got up in the morning, and found that Shen had boiled eggs, duck eggs, garlic, green onions, and buckwheat, Shen took out five colorful bags, put each child around his neck, and then filled each bag with a duck egg and an egg, Zixi took it out, and there was wormwood on the wooden door of the house.

After breakfast, Shen asked her husband to go to the old house to deliver wheat, and asked Zifu to take the four brothers and sisters to the old house to find familiar neighbors to play, and Shen also asked them to change into clean new clothes, and the four of them jumped up and down behind Zeng Ruixiang.

After arriving at the old street, Ziqing found that almost all children had two eggs hanging around their necks, Ziping saw Zifu and said that he wanted to fight eggs, Ziqing didn't know what it meant, stood aside and watched, it turned out that the two of them each held an egg or duck egg in their hands, revealing a sharp end, bumping each other, whose egg broke first, who lost, the surrounding neighbors and friends fought it down, and the last one that was not broken was the egg king, although it was a little naïve, but Ziqing saw that everyone had a very good time, too, for the children of poor families, On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, there are at least eggs and duck eggs to quench hunger.

Ziqing went to the back room to see her aunt first, her aunt's family was sitting for breakfast, probably just finished selling the baked cakes, Xiao Xiushui saw her quickly finish the rice in the bowl, and said that she would take her outside to play, a large number of children gathered by the pond, Zifu and Ziping were also there.

Ziqing handed the egg in her hand to Xiushui, "What are you doing for me?" Don't I have one? You see I won them all. Xiushui asked.

"This is from the chickens you raised, didn't I promise you to eat it first? So I brought it. Ziqing replied.

"It's going to lay eggs so soon, I'll see, it's so small, forget it, give it to me, my big one, give you my eggs." Next time I go to your house, you can cook me some potatoes. I'll get you something nice to change when I get back. Ziqing thinks that Xiushui's cousin's personality is really good, not mean, bold, and not taking advantage of others.

It was almost noon, a few people said to go back and say hello to Tian before leaving, Xiushui God mysteriously dragged Ziqing to her room, there was no one in the room, and I don't know where she found a delicate small wooden box, which looked like a good thing, but Ziqing didn't recognize any rosewood rosewood, so she couldn't identify it.

Xiushui opened the box, it was a golden yellow-haired puppy-like thing, it was a dried corpse but the fur was shiny, Ziqing didn't know whether it was an animal or a plant, Xiushui plucked several strands of yellow hair and wrapped it carefully with a handkerchief, and handed it to Ziqing, "This is the best medicine for bleeding and wounds, my father dug it up, and it can save lives at a critical time." My father used this to save a life when he was injured in a tiger, I wanted to give you a little bit for a long time, I saw my eldest brother take it from my mother not long ago, I stole it for you, no one is allowed to tell it, you must remember. ”

It turns out that the old aunt also fought tigers, no wonder the family can live so easily, they don't even plant vegetables, they don't cut firewood, they all spend money to buy, but it seems that I heard that there is a field, rent it to others to plant, and collect the rent by yourself, which is very easy.

Ziqing carefully put away her things and went to the front room to find Zifu and them, the old man and Tian, Zeng Ruiqing and Zhou were all there, Zeng Ruixiang was also sitting, Zifu and the three of them were standing, pursing their mouths, very unhappy, as if something unpleasant had happened.

Zhou's eyes stared at the new clothes on Ziqing's body, "Hmph, I also said that I didn't favor the second family, look at how long it has been since the separation, and the children are all new clothes, who believes it when they come here?" "It turned out that it was the Zhou family who provoked trouble, and as soon as he entered the door, he was blinded, and he could be shot while lying down.

"It's not over, the second family has the ability to live a good life, that's the ability of others, you have the ability to make a lot of money, don't always look at others, you will have the ability to pull the old woman's long tongue, you can't see the chickens in the yard, you can't see the vegetables in the yard. I'm still saying that, I didn't make up for it privately. Ruiqing, you say something, don't be dissatisfied, don't say anything else, you are the eldest son when you divide the family, you can pick first, the second family has no nonsense, you took two acres of paddy field, that is fifteen taels of silver per acre, Ruixiang has two more acres of sand than you, that is only ten taels of silver, inside and outside you also take advantage of five taels of silver, his family has three acres of wheat land, your family also has one acre, your family also has two acres of rape land, although you gave me ten catties of oil, but one acre of land can produce sixty catties of oil, today Ruixiang also sent me a stone of wheat, that is the yield of one acre of land, You think about it yourself, why didn't your father rely on you first all these years. Dad didn't want to hear that again. Dad is just your two sons, and Dad is also a year old. The more the old man spoke, the more sad he became.

Zeng Ruiqing didn't squeak for a long time, Zeng Ruixiang didn't say anything, walked over and picked up Zishou to say hello and left, Zifu led Zilu with one hand and Ziqing with the other.

Who knew that as soon as he went out, he met the neighbor's aunt, and said to Zeng Ruixiang with a smile: "Master Xiucai is back for the holiday today?" Your father happened to kill a pig, and he brought his child over to be lively? ”

Zeng Ruixiang was stunned when he heard this, he didn't hear that the family killed pigs at all, so he had to respond vaguely, Ziqing didn't want to suffer this dumb loss, relying on his own youth, and asked: "Daddy, did Ah Gong's family kill pigs?" Why didn't you leave us to eat meat, didn't we send a stone of wheat to Ah Gong's house? I don't give any meat to eat. This time it was the aunt's turn to be stunned, and she answered indiscriminately and left.

On the way home, Zeng Ruixiang instructed a few of them not to talk about this to Shen when they went home. After arriving home, Shen is plucking chicken feathers, today's holiday, killed a gelding, Shen said almost three catties, and told her husband that the family left a chicken for seeding, and the rest she has found someone to castrate, it turns out that the local people do not like to eat chickens, especially women, said that they eat hot and dry, and generally castrate the male function of the rooster, just like the eunuch, this is called a gelding.

Ziqing remembered that her hometown seemed to be like this before, and it seemed that this custom had been around for a long time. There are still about 20 steers at home, 50 chicken mothers-in-law, Shen said that he can raise some more steers to sell just in time for the New Year, so that her husband can build another chicken coop. Zeng Ruixiang responded one by one, walked over, and held Shen's hand, "Oh, I still have chicken feathers on my hands." What's wrong? This is? After saying that, he washed his hands in the water and took the chicken into the house.

Ziqing poured the blood water from washing chickens and chicken feathers into the watermelon field, because the fertilizer was not enough, Ziqing used the vegetable washing water to water the rice water to water the vegetable field, and the blood water from washing meat and bones every time was used to water the watermelon, which felt that it was still useful. The watermelon has grown to the size of a pigeon's egg, and it should be ripe in a month. And the pumpkins and winter melons in the vegetable field are the size of a fist.

Dinner was eaten at about three or four o'clock, no lunch, this meal is the most sumptuous since Ziqing came to this time and space, of course, the Chinese New Year's Eve meal is also rich, but at that time there were many people, there was nothing good in Ziqing's mouth, unlike these own people, there are braised chicken, rice noodle meat, roasted eggplant, bracken, cucumber scrambled eggs, chili fried meat, fried beans, shredded potatoes, and of course, delicious bone broth, Zishou is the happiest, he couldn't even eat enough rice before, and now he can eat it casually.

It was still early after the meal, Zeng Ruixiang said to eliminate food, and took everyone to dig potatoes again, Shen put a small bamboo mat on the ground, spread old clothes, let his youngest son lie on it to play, and took needle and thread to make her husband's single clothes. The afterglow of the setting sun fell on Shen's body, as if there was a faint golden halo around his body, this scene was so familiar, Ziqing's heart was dripping.