"Mother, why haven't you floated up yet?" Yu'er and Baby squatted in the greenhouse, disappointed when they looked at the chicken feathers they had placed in the pit.

Today is the fifth day of the first lunar month, just in time for the first of the 24 solar terms - the beginning of spring. After Lan Yi came back from Huajia Village yesterday, Yu'er was very active in picking up chicken feathers in the yard, especially the chicken feathers dropped by the three beautiful male pheasants at home, and then mysteriously dug a hole in the greenhouse and put the chicken feathers inside. He was squatting by the edge of the cave early this morning and waiting, while Lan Yi weeded in the greenhouse, just when he found some fun game.

"If there is no wind, how can chicken feathers float?"

Yu'er held her small chin and muttered, "Grandma said, on the day of the beginning of spring, dig a hole and put the chicken feathers in it, and they will be able to float." ”

…… Lan Yi looked at the handful of chicken feathers in the cave speechlessly, and stayed peacefully. Even if the weather warms up in the beginning of spring, it will not be able to reach Cheng dù with chicken feathers.

"Change ** and ask grandma again, and you'll know."

At this time, Liu pushed open the door of the sister-in-law's house, walked in with Erniuniu, and she went to the greenhouse and shouted: "Sister-in-law, are you inside?" ”

Lan Yi threw the grass into the basket: "Here, don't come in, it's hot inside, let's go out." ”

With that, she put on the coats and hats of the two children, and then came out with the straw basket.

After Yu'er and the baby shouted "Aunt San", they automatically lifted the small straw basket to add grass to the donkey and goat.

"Sister-in-law, these beasts are also blessed to follow you, and you can still see Qing'er on a cold day." Liu Shi thought of the little calf that his father-in-law bought back that was combed every day, "The animals are all precious these days." ”

"Erniu, what's wrong?" Lan Yi saw tears on the second girl's face, and complained, "Third brother and sister, why do you want to make the child shed tears during the New Year." ”

Er Niuniu pursed her lips and was about to cry, but Lan Yi hurriedly hugged her over: "Good girl, aunt has delicious food here, let's go into the house to eat." ”

Liu was a little helpless: "Several mother-in-law's mothers and nephews came to pay New Year's greetings with a bunch of babies, big and small, and getting together is not to grab things and fight." ”

The second aunt Li's maiden home is not far from Beigou Village, and many people come to pay New Year's greetings today, and Liu used to help cook. Although Er Niuniu is young, she is also a strong pinch, and what she likes is hers, and no one is allowed to touch it. A large group of children came here and naturally wanted to rob it, and the girl who came and went became angry, and Li looked at her crying and felt distressed, so he asked Liu to take her out for a walk.

Lan Yi put Er Niuniu on the kang, and Yu'er ran in and said, "Mother, I took my younger brother to see Keju?" ”

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, it is also called breaking the fifth, and many taboos of the New Year's Festival can be broken after this day, and the men and children began to go to the store to play the dog hole and kick the bow, shouting loudly, and the shouting can also be heard in Lan Yi's yard.

"Go ahead, take care of my brother, and I'll be back later."

"Good!" Yu'er and the baby responded in unison, and then walked away hand in hand.

Liu looked at the two little guys and said enviously: "Sister-in-law, it's really their own lives." Look at your two children, they are all obedient and well-behaved, and they are so worry-free. ”

Lan Yi smiled, she wanted to be humble but couldn't say it, originally, her own children are the best.

"Brother and sister, are you at home?" There was another shout in the courtyard, and Lan Yi hurriedly went out of the hall to take a look, and it was the eighth mother-in-law and the second sister-in-law who led three or four daughters-in-law from the village over.

After breaking the five, the women no longer taboo the door, and began to hang out with each other. Although Lan Yi rarely goes out, she made a lot of money last year, and the living things in the family are also well raised, and the people in the village want to come over to learn from her, and ask her what her good plans are for this year, so that she can follow the light.

Lan Yi is not stingy, she knows that only when everyone in the village lives a good life, her environment will be better. Since she came, she put out melon and fruit tea to entertain her, and she would say all the questions everyone asked.

The plan of the year lies in the spring, and everyone begins to think about what to do this year.

Many women began to discuss catching piglets in the spring of this year, adding wheat bran and minced vegetable leaves to boil pig food like Lan Yi's family, after all, although this is laborious, it can also make the pig grow more meat, and it does not cost more money; After the spring bamboo shoots break the ground, dig up the spring bamboo shoots and pickle the sour bamboo shoots; Some people even have the flexibility to ask which wild fruits are worth money in autumn, so it is better to go to the mountains in advance to dig a few trees and plant them in their own yards. Lan Yi thought it was a good idea to transplant a few saplings and come back, so she thought about getting a few saplings of peppers, chestnuts, walnuts, etc., or planting them in the yard or planting them on the edge of the hillside, but the garden could also be full of fruit.

Of course, some people asked how to build a greenhouse, Lan Yi only talked about some precautions according to the current greenhouse, but also emphasized that the greenhouse is not easy to manage, etc., so that everyone can think carefully, but there are not a few people in the village who are tempted.

Soon, it was the Shangyuan Festival, the first full moon day of the new year. The ancients attached great importance to the changes of the moon, believing that it was related to good luck and evil. The main activities of the Shangyuan Festival are lantern viewing and temple fairs.

The Liu family of the lamp market in the county town talked about it a few times, saying that it was a thousand lamps, a wide variety of lanterns, and the activity of guessing lantern riddles. And this lantern market is from the fourteenth day of the first month to the sixteenth day of the first month on the night of three days, today is the fifteenth day of the first month, it is the right day, and many people in the village go to the city to see the lanterns.

Lan Yi didn't plan to go, the two children were still young, and she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to take care of them. And there are many people in the lamp market, there will definitely be bad people, isn't Zhen Shiyin's daughter in "Dream of Red Mansions" the Lantern Festival when she was three years old and was abducted by a kidnapper when she was three years old, and was sold here and there, and finally became a concubine for Xue Pan's bully, and her life was miserable.

Lan Yi's family didn't go, but there were still a lot of people in the village to see the lanterns and visit the temple fair, and after coming back, the children were showing off with the newly bought toys and lanterns, and Dafu and Niu Dan also came to Lan Yi's house, and Yu'er chattered about the excitement of the lantern market, Yu'er was envious, he never went to the temple fair, let alone see the lanterns.

But he also knew that there were many people at the temple fair, and his mother couldn't go with the two of them, so the ninja didn't say anything. Lan Yi looked at his envious and sensible eyes and felt a little distressed, so she thought that it would be better to take him to have a look, and as for the baby, it could be temporarily entrusted to the Li family's care.

Li is a pious, the fourteenth day of the first month to ride a donkey to the temple on the edge of the county to burn incense to the Buddha, the temple fair she is not interested in shopping, because the temple fair is crowded and noisy, Li is old, naturally do not want to join in the fun.

"Go ahead. I should have taken the children out to see it a long time ago, and now your third brother and two will also go, you will follow them together, and you will have a good response back and forth, and you will not be in a hurry to come back, the children have me. Li agreed, and today Lin Xi and his wife returned to their parents' house with their two children, so she still has time to watch the children here.

The baby doesn't cry or make trouble, he is almost two years old now, his mother and brother discussed it with him, they went out to the county this afternoon, and he will definitely take him next year when he is older.

When Liu came, he was wearing a new dress and a flower made of gold paper was attached to his head, and all kinds of flowers cut from gold paper or flower cloth were worn on the heads of the village women since the seventh day of the first lunar month, and they still carry it to this day. Lan Yi looked at the chrysanthemums on the Lunar New Year, and it was much more pleasing to the eye.

Lin Yuan and his wife greeted Li and Lan Yi, Lin Yuan went to set up an ox cart, and Liu handed over the second Niu Niu to Li to carry.

Li Shi advised: "Send the son Niangniang, you have to burn a few more pillars of incense." ”

Liu nodded shyly, she also hoped that her second child could conceive a son. Only then did Lan Yi know that the couple was going to burn incense for the mother who sent the child today, no wonder they didn't bring the second girl with them.

The temple is in the north of the county, and Lin Yuan's first stop on the ox cart is to go to the temple to burn incense. Lan Yi looked at the streets around the temple, which were full of small vendors selling things and people who came to shop and burn incense. It is said to be a temple fair, but in fact, it is almost the same as a normal market day, but there are more incense and candles sold, and many people buy some to pray for blessings and wishes in the temple.

"Sister-in-law, these are for you." Lin Yuan squeezed in, came out with four packets of incense, and handed one to Lan Yi.

Lan Yi shook her head, she didn't want to burn it, she just came over to have a good time.

"Sister-in-law, the two of us have to burn incense for the Buddha and Bodhisattva, and we can't finish burning it in an hour, what should you and Yu'er do?" Liu knew that his sister-in-law didn't want to burn incense, so he asked directly.

"Let's go shopping separately, I'll take Yu'er to look around, let's meet at the ox cart at the end of the day, and go back together."

Wang Lin saw Yu'er holding his sister-in-law's hand and looking around, so he nodded: "Sister-in-law, there are a lot of people here, you take care of Yu'er, don't get lost." Why don't we go shopping together? ”

Lan Yi shook her head, it was easy for the husband and wife to have the opportunity to go out to a temple fair together, and there was no need to accompany them with two large and small light bulbs.

After the four of them separated, Lan Yi hugged Yu'er and squeezed into the temple to take a look, the courtyard in the temple was full of three entrances, crowded with people, and there were good men and women kowtowing and burning incense in front of each mud bodhisattva, making all kinds of wishes, this kind of scenery is not much different from modern temples except for different clothes, and she also took Yu'er out to the temple fair.

Yu'er took his mother's hand, looking curious everywhere, he excitedly shared his new discoveries with his mother, and Lan Yi also felt that the temple fair was fun.

When the two of them walked to dinner, they found a small shop and ate two bowls of sauerkraut dumplings, Lan Yi didn't expect that sour cabbage had begun to appear so commonly everywhere, and the brains of the ancients were really not slow.

In the small shop, Lan Yi's mother and son met Zhao Zhongxuan, but it was not Pihou and the fat man who were with him today, but his mother.

Zhao Zhongxuan's mother is about the same age as the Li family, and she is also happy when she sees Lan Yi's mother and son.

"My third son is going to follow the merchant ship out to buy and sell in a few days, and I will bring him here today to ask for a peace charm to keep him safe." The old lady pulled her son, reluctant and proud, while Zhao Zhongxuan sat beside his mother in a regular manner, only daring to sneak a glance at Lan Yi opposite.

Lan Yi said a few words of congratulations and left with Yu'er.

Zhao Zhongxuan went out on the Hua family's merchant ship this time, and Lan Yi sincerely hoped that they would be safe and smooth and return as soon as possible, so that this new old woman who was looking forward to her son's future could get what she wanted.

As soon as it gets dark, the lanterns are lit, and the main street of the county is lined with people watching the lanterns.

Lan Yi took Yu'er to look while walking, the long dragon lantern was carried back and forth, and he couldn't see the head and tail; A string of lanterns with auspicious words in red characters such as the prosperity of the six animals, the longevity of fortune, and the fortune and treasure are beautiful; The beautiful lanterns are painted with auspicious pictures such as Chang'e running to the moon, five sons worshipping their birthdays, and having a phoenix to come, and the eyes are full of festivity......

Both mother and son watched with great interest, first bought a boat lamp that could be placed on the water, learned to make a wish and put it in the river, and watched it slowly float away with many wishes.

Subsequently, it is to guess the lantern riddles and watch the lanterns, which is the highlight of the Shangyuan Festival. Lan Yi remembered that a poet of which dynasty made a poem about the Lantern Festival where everyone went to the lantern market and guessed lantern riddles: "Playing the wall lamp sticks a three-sided question, rubbing shoulders to guess the riddle." ”

Isn't that the case?

Most of the lantern riddles hung out couldn't help Lan Yi, who was accustomed to all kinds of tricky lantern riddles in modern times, and she didn't guess them one by one, but picked some simple lantern riddles for Yu'er to guess.

For example, "five or six brothers sat around a column, and when everyone parted, their clothes were torn (beating a vegetable)"; "Wearing a small black jacket with a tail like scissors (to hit a bird)"; "I can't do it, brother, friends parted and congratulated it (hit an animal)" and so on.

Many Yu'er usually heard her mother say it, guessed several correctly, got a few small lanterns and other gadgets, and her excited little face was flushed, and she pulled her mother to let her read each lantern riddle to herself.

Lan Yi tried her best to take him to a place where there were few people, but there were only relatively few people.

At this time, I heard someone shouting, "Liang Xiucai guessed the lantern riddle that no one knows, let's go and take a look." ”

The crowd began to squeeze in one direction, and the group of people behind them pushed again, and these people, who seemed to be deliberate, became more and more fierce, and soon the crowd was filled with shouts and scolding and the cries of children.

Lan Yi's mother and son were unlucky enough to be in the crowd, crowded by the flow of people, and involuntarily walked forward with the flow of people. She was already small, and she held Yu'er in her arms, so she could only support herself and slowly squeeze towards the side of the road. R1152