As the old saying goes, Qingming must be clear, and the valley rain must be drenched, so that the wind and rain can be smooth in a year.

More than 20 years ago, natural disasters continued, droughts and floods followed, and locusts plagued the world, and the climate never had a normal one. However, since the big girl can remember, the climate has been better every year, and now it has not seen a major drought or flood for many years.

On the day of Qingming, the weather was sunny, and early in the morning, every household brought incense, candles, paper money, flowers and fruits to the ancestors to go to the grave, and then the fruits were distributed to the children. On this day, both adults and children can have a relaxing day, putting paper kites, playing swings, folding willow branches, and stepping on songs

Lily and Lamei also swing on the swing at the head of the village with many big girls and little daughters-in-law, and the timid ones scream tightly on the swing rope, and some of the bold ones can turn over several tricks on the swing.

The skirts that visitors can only wear bloom in the air with bulging flowers, blue or red, and the laughter spreads far and wide, making people feel happy when they hear it.

Foods such as green rice, cold porridge, fried flower petals, jelly powder, and Qingtuan can also be taken out and eaten, and each household has its own secrets, and dishes of different sizes and colors are filled with all kinds of food, which are placed in one place and taken by each person.

Although the Qingming Festival is a day to commemorate the deceased, it is also a time for the living to enjoy themselves, which is really lively.

On the second day, it began to rain, and since the beginning of spring, there have been several light rains, all of which did not last as long as this time.

As soon as it rains, you can't enter the ravine, lest the rain suddenly become heavier and you will be in trouble if you are blocked in the mountains. Sometimes it rains so hard that there is a flood in the ravine, and even a man's thick log can be washed away.

Lily originally used wood, mats, and torn clothes to build a nest for Kuroko and the Black Tiger, but the Black Tiger was full of interest, and had to have fun in it every night.

As soon as it rained heavily, the kennel began to leak. People are afraid of getting sick, dogs are also afraid, Lily put two dogs into the house to shelter from the rain, the black tiger is curious, wants to gnaw on everything, practice predation, pounce and roll on the ground against the empty space, fortunately, there are sunspots watching, there is no big mess. I didn't go to the market to sell raspberries, and Lily braved the rain to go to the vegetable field to see it. The water level of the Baishui River is rising, but the river is quite far from the vegetable field and will not be flooded. There are pre-dug drainage channels in the vegetable field, and although the rain is heavy, the vegetable seedlings are very energetic, and the trees are full of water and stretch greenly

with leaves.

The clouds are like water-soaked cotton, low and heavy on the horizon, the rain as thin as cow's hair falls to the ground, infiltrating the fertile land, and the wicker and flower branches fall heavily, inadvertently causing a heavy rain that has lasted for several days.

The dirt road and yard were muddy, the chickens in the coop behind the house were huddled together to keep warm, and the sunspots and black tigers did not go out much, but Lily stipulated that they must go outside to defecate so as not to stain the house.

Every time I came back from the door, the two dogs stood at the door and shook their fur, throwing water droplets everywhere.

The room was not well lit, so Lily moved the table to the vicinity of the door, and used the daylight to make insoles, and Lamei followed to learn to use rags to make handkerchiefs and parquet, which can be regarded as learning the same ability to settle down.

Lamei didn't talk much, Lily made insoles seriously, and the two of them didn't say anything for a while, until Lamei looked up and saw Lily with a smile on her face. She didn't understand why the eldest sister showed such an expression, which made people feel envious and embarrassed.

Lamei wanted to pretend not to see it, but the smile on the eldest sister's face did not fade, as if the troublesome matter of sewing insoles was a pleasure for her.

"Sister, what are you laughing at?" Lamei couldn't hold back after all.

Lily was stunned, put down the needle and thread and touched his face, and found that he was really smiling. She blushed a little, "Didn't laugh at anything." ”

She looked at the sky outside, and a sense of sadness invaded her heart again: "The weather is so bad, and your brother-in-law doesn't know what it's like outside."

Before Song Haonian left, she prepared a lot of things, and when she looked back, she always felt that it was not enough, and she should have prepared an oil-paper raincoat. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that I was not fully prepared, for fear that he would eat cold meals and sleep in the fields outside, and if he was sick, there would be no one to take care of him.

She was still smiling just now, but she was worried in an instant, and Lamei didn't understand what the eldest sister was thinking, so she had to persuade her: "It'll be fine." ”

This is also their two sisters, otherwise Lamei would not be able to say it if she persuaded people.

Lamei was clumsy and couldn't dispel Lily's worries, but the girl's relief was also a comfort, and Lily retracted her thoughts and asked Lamei, "What time is it?"

In these years, there are no clocks, and when there is a sun, they rely on the sun to keep time, and when there is no sun, the lily does not know the time accurately, and you have to ask Lamei to know what time it is.

Lamei naturally didn't understand the timing of Zi Chou Yinmao, only knew: "It's almost time for lunch." ”

Lily stood up and moved her waist, let her eyes relax as she looked at the hazy smoke willow in the distance, and asked, "What do you want to eat at noon?"

Lamei is very uneasy about this, she hasn't worked for the past few days, seeing that the eldest sister has not earned a penny, and she has to provide herself with good food and drink, she is afraid that the eldest sister will be poor, and she will return to the old days when she couldn't eat.

After a long time, Lamei didn't answer, and when she looked at it, the girl was stunned with straight eyes, so she had to figure out how to make some pimple soup to eat.

Pimple soup is the simplest meal, boil the water, beat an egg into it, stir it into egg drops, sprinkle the flour evenly in it and let it coagulate into small lumps.

The lily boiled the water, took the noodles, and suddenly saw a wriggling white fat insect in the flour, and the hairs stood on end.

She clutched her chest and took a breath before remembering that when the weather is warm and humid, insects are easy to grow in the rice noodles, especially when there is no refrigerator.

The noodles of the raw insects are not bad, Lily hesitated, did not pour it out, carefully sifted twice, and poured out the sand and insects to the chickens, they like to eat this.

She called Lamei to carefully inspect the noodles on the case and pick out all the possible impurities, so that Lamei could make pimple soup. She sewed a few small cloth bags by herself, filled them with dozens of peppercorns and a few cloves of garlic, and stuffed them into wooden barrels and bags containing rice noodles to prevent the regeneration of insects.

The plum pimple soup was cooked quickly, and the plum put on an old dress and went to the yard to pull two green onion and garlic seedlings in the rain against the rain, came back to wash them, and crushed them into the soup to taste.

This meal had a bad appetite, and Lamei asked worriedly, "Sister, what's wrong with you?"

It's a blessing to be able to eat, and it's not a good sign to be sick if you can't swallow it.

Lily shook her head, ate the last bit of pimple soup at the bottom of the bowl, and Lamei added another bowl to herself. She waited for Lamei to finish eating before she talked about the insects in her noodles: "Look weird and disgusting." ”

Lamei wondered: "What's this! Worms are born in the rice, which year doesn't grow a little? We eat at home and there are worms in the meal, and my mother also said that it is not clean, and there is no disease after eating!"

Lily thought back to the past and couldn't help but laugh dumbly: That's really the case.

Most of the people in the countryside don't pay attention to hygiene, and they cherish food, rice and noodles are insects, just pick them out, even if they accidentally eat it in a bowl, they don't make a loud noise, and they don't feel disgusting like her.

She is a habit she developed in her previous life, and she has a more pursuit of quality of life, and she can't see dirty things.

Lamei didn't take it seriously, Lily had to take it seriously, and checked all the rice and noodles at home at night, but fortunately, there was only a small piece of raw worm in the noodles, and the rice was fine.

Sichuan pepper and garlic can prevent insects, and she is very careful not to let the rice noodles get wet, the situation is not bad, and it is estimated that it will not deteriorate again.

In the middle of the night, Lily was awakened by a "tick-tock" sound.

At first, she thought that an outsider was approaching the house, but Kuroko didn't scream and still lay down next to the bed. If you listen closely, the sound is in the kitchen next door.

Lily hurriedly woke up Lamei: "Sanniu, wake up!

Lamei was sleepy-eyed, listened for a while, and said in a daze: "It's nothing, it's leaking." And he fell asleep again.

It is common for the thatched house to leak rain, as long as it does not leak into the bed, the three girls have long been used to it. In fact, some tiled houses also leak rain, and Lily had long forgotten about these things in the last years of her life, either in college or in a newly built school building in the town.

Knowing that it wasn't an outsider, and there was no light at night, Lily had to lie back. It's just that the sound of the rain hit her heart like a little bit, and she couldn't sleep peacefully.

She thought that her life was already good, but then she suddenly realized that it was not enough, and her life was still 108,000 miles away from her ideals, and she had to work harder to live better.

As soon as dawn Lily got up to look at the kitchen, she didn't have to look in the mirror to know that she still had two dark circles on her face, and she didn't look like she had slept well.

As soon as I entered the kitchen, there was already a large puddle of water on the floor, and the whole floor was wet, and the water was still dripping from it.

Lily looked up for a while, and found that most of the water had dripped from a gap in the thatch, except for some seepage from the four walls, and landed next to the stove, where a small pit had been smashed.

The kitchen was dirt, and it was only rammed with a mill a few times when the house was being repaired, and the water on the floor was not easy to sweep, so I had to wait for it to seep out on its own.

Lily took a wooden basin and put it under the leaky roof, so that the dripping rainwater would fall into the basin and at most splash out and wet a small area around it.

Every two hours or so, Lily would go to see it, splash the water in the basin outside the house, and then use the basin to hold the rain.

By the end of the night, it was raining in the bedroom, but it was not leaking on the bed, but in a corner of the room. Lily began to worry that if the rain continued, her house would leak everywhere, like Du Fu's thatched hut, "the bedside house leaked without a dry place".

The rain drops into the wooden basin, the sound is louder and clearer than the dripping on the ground, if you are a poetic person, you can also think of the monk's house listening to the rain, but Lily frowned, and couldn't help sighing. Lamei didn't take the rain leak seriously, but when she saw that her eldest sister was worried, she also became sad. Her face was bitter, and when she was worried, she looked even more worried, and sighed with Lily.