Chapter 512: Qingming Tomb Sweeping II
"Hehe, thank you so much Brother Yao. When the new house is built, we will move to the new house, and all the old houses will be converted into homestays, so that we can also make more money. Someone couldn't help but rejoice.
Lu Yao glanced at him and quipped, "Ah Wei, I see that your kid is not thinking about living in a new house, but about marrying a daughter-in-law, right?"
Lu Dawei scratched his head embarrassedly and said: "Brother Yao, I am also not young, and there is no problem if I want to marry a daughter-in-law, right? In the past, others thought our village was poor and refused to marry in, but now it is different, the young men in our village are popular in the surrounding villages." ”
Lu Dayou sighed on the side when he heard this: "This is true, there are a lot of young men in our village who are on a blind date this year." I haven't graduated yet, and when I went home for the New Year, my aunt asked me if I had a girlfriend at school, and said that if I didn't introduce one, I was so scared that I ran away from school quickly. ”
Lu Dayou is a senior this year, and he is now working as an intern in a travel company, and when he saw that everyone came to take care of the grave this afternoon, he also transferred an afternoon shift to join in the fun.
As soon as Lu Dayou said this, everyone laughed, and Lu Mingshan, who came with the team, said with a smile: "This shows that the life of our village is getting better and better, and in the future, you younger generation will have to fight more, build our village better, and let the girls in other villages be proud of marrying into our village." ”
In the past, people in the village wanted to let their girls marry off, so that life would be better, but now it is different, in addition to the transportation is not particularly convenient, Xiasha Village has a very rapid economic growth.
Even Lu Yao has heard that in order to better serve tourists, the tourism company plans to set up a rural clinic in the village, and it is inevitable that some tourists will encounter headaches, brain fever, fever, etc., and there is a doctor guarding the clinic, which can solve some problems in terms of illness.
Talking and laughing, Lu Yao came to the first tomb in the mountain, it is said that this tomb is the tomb of the ancestor surnamed Lu in the entire Xiasha Village, Lu Yao does not know whether it is true or not, anyway, he will come to worship this tomb every year during the Qingming Festival.
Lu Yao wielded his hoe and dug the drainage ditch under the grave a little deeper, and at the same time cleaned up the garbage such as stones and leaves that had been clogged inside.
Lu Dayou, Lu Dawei and others used firewood knives to cut down the weeds that had also spread from the miscellaneous trees that had grown in front of the grave, leaving only two lush juniper trees.
The drainage ditch was cleared, Lu Yao went to the hillside and chose a place with lush turf, dug a round piece of turf with a hoe, and put it on top of the grave, and the grave was finished.
After dealing with the grave of the old ancestor, each person began to separate from each other, to find the ancestral grave of their own lineage, and to sort it out separately.
Lu Yao worked hard for a total of an afternoon before finishing the ancestral grave of his lineage.
The main reason is that Lu Yao and his father are the only sons in the family, although they have sisters but no brothers, so their ancestral grave can only be taken care of by Lu Yao alone.
This is also the reason why rural families want to have sons, not because they have a throne or a mine for them to inherit, but because they don't want to die without anyone taking care of the grave and letting the weeds grow.
People in the city will be buried in the cemetery after death, and it doesn't matter if the son or daughter is there, just one person can tidy it up, not to mention that the cemetery and the grave keeper will clean it frequently, and there will be no grave grass left unmanaged.
In the evening, Lu Yao came home in the sunset and found that Lu's mother was making Qingming fruit, and she was soaking glutinous rice to prepare for glutinous rice tomorrow morning.
Eating glutinous rice cakes for breakfast on Qingming Festival is a major feature of Longze Town, especially the hot glutinous rice cakes that have just been beaten, mixed with fried sesame seeds, sugar, etc., wrapped in food, not to mention how beautiful the taste is.
If you buy fried dough sticks at home and sandwich a balls slightly larger than your thumb wrapped in sesame white sugar in the fritters, the sweet and salty taste makes Lu Yao drool when he thinks about it.
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Before six o'clock the next morning, Lu's father and mother had already gotten up, preparing to steam glutinous rice and grind glutinous rice milk to prepare all kinds of food.
When the glutinous rice was steamed, it happened that Lu Yao and Shi Meng came back from outside from cultivation, took the wooden pestle from Lu's father's hand, and began to prepare to make glutinous rice cakes.
Good glutinous rice must be repeatedly forged, the steamed glutinous rice is placed in a stone mortar, and then the pestle made of wooden sticks is repeatedly rammed into the stone mortar until the glutinous rice is pounded into a paste.
If you want to be delicious, you must be willing to work hard, and only if you repeatedly ram it hard, it will be strong, so in the past, several people at home usually had to take turns to play it.
With Shi Meng here this year, he can top a group alone. Lu Yao moved the stone mortar of the cleaned barrel row to the yard, and Shi Meng was responsible for beating it, and Lu Yao was responsible for turning it over.
Because Shi Meng has a good appetite, he will play some more glutinous rice cakes today, and it just so happens that Zhou Wenjie's crew has not left yet, so it will be fun to invite them to come over and eat a little together.
The beaten glutinous rice dumplings should be eaten while they are hot, and Lu Yao and Shi Meng fought continuously for more than half an hour, making a total of more than 50 catties of glutinous rice cakes.
Lu Mu had already brought the prepared iron basin with sesame and white sugar and other seasonings to the courtyard, put it on a table of eight immortals, and each person was given a pair of chopsticks, and then kneaded the beaten glutinous rice into a round ball slightly smaller than a table tennis ball, and ate it with the seasoning.
Lu's mother knew that Lu Yao liked to eat fried dough sticks and glutinous rice cakes, so she specially ordered the kitchen on the side of the B&B Garden Villa to fry a lot of fried dough sticks in the morning.
The two little guys also got up early today, brushed their teeth and washed their faces, took the chopsticks handed over by their grandmother, ate fragrant glutinous rice cakes, and smiled happily.
Fortunately, even if they have a little conscience, seeing that their father and Uncle Shi Meng are working so hard to make glutinous rice balls, they will also use chopsticks to clip a glutinous rice ball wrapped in sesame seeds and white sugar and feed it to their mouths, which comforts Lu Yao's heart.
When Lu Yao was busy making glutinous meals, Zhou Wenjie and some staff members of the crew came over, these were all guests staying in his homestay garden villa, and they didn't want to invite them to taste this delicious snack.
Zhou Wenjie and several big men saw that Shi Meng had not stopped, so they offered to help, and Lu Yao smiled evilly and asked Shi Meng to give them the wooden pestle.
After a few hits, they were tired and panting, and then they realized that looking at simple things is not easy to do at all.
In the end, it was Lu Yao and Shi Meng who took over, so that the glutinous rice cake was not unavailable, so that everyone could taste this rare delicacy.
Lu Yao picked up a fritter and placed the four kneaded glutinous rice balls wrapped in sesame sugar on one end of the dough dough sticks, and then folded the fried dough in half and sandwiched the glutinous dough in the middle.
to Zhou Wenjie and Yan Baiyi demonstrated: "This glutinous rice cake should be eaten together with fried dough sticks, it is the supreme delicacy, you try it, I promise not to lie to you." ”