Every year in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, there is an important day called the Double Ninth Festival.

The Double Ninth Festival, also known as the Nine Festivals, the Autumn Festival, is the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year, and is a traditional Chinese festival.

The celebration of the Chung Yeung Festival generally includes activities such as traveling to enjoy autumn, climbing high and overlooking the distance, watching chrysanthemums, planting dogwoods, eating Chung Yeung cakes, drinking chrysanthemum wine, etc.

The grandmother and grandfather in Li Zhongxin's family call the Chung Yeung Festival the Old People's Day, and worshipping the gods at this time can eliminate disasters and bless the health of the elderly.

It is precisely for such a reason that every time the Double Ninth Festival comes, it is the time when Wang Xiutai and He Shuqing are in the best mood.

Later, at the end of the 80s, the country positioned the Chung Yeung Festival as the Elder Citizen's Day, allowing the children who were away to return home on Chung Yeung Festival to honor the elderly, which is still very different from the tradition of Li Zhongxin's family.

Before dawn, Li Zhongxin saw Li Shangyong get up early, light a fire, boil water, and sharpen his knife......

He knew that on this important day, the tradition handed down in the family was to kill an adult big rooster for offerings.

In later generations, when Li Zhongxin's parents were older, Li Zhongxin killed chickens every year during the Double Ninth Festival, and he was simply too familiar with this process.

The big rooster that had been raised at home for three days was tied up in the yard, and when he saw Li Shangyong go out with a knife, he immediately began to pull his neck and cry loudly, and he had an ominous premonition that this person should be going to take his life.

Although the big rooster dodged left and right, trying his best to avoid Li Shangyong's capture, there was such a big place in the yard that even if it flew and jumped, it couldn't escape this catastrophe.

It takes some skill to kill this kind of big rooster, not just chop off the head with a knife, but pinch the wings of the big rooster with your left hand, hand the comb of the big rooster to your left hand with your right hand, hold it with the wings, and then start to pluck the chicken feathers on the rooster's neck with your hands.

After cleaning the chicken feathers from the neck, use a knife to slit the throat of the big.

When killing the big rooster, you still have to say in your mouth: "Don't blame the chicken, the chicken, you are a dish in the yang world, you are gone this year, and you will come back next year." ”

After cutting the throat of the big rooster, the chicken blood flowing out of the neck is aimed at a rice bowl, so that the chicken blood is dripped into the rice bowl, and after all the chicken blood is dripped, the chicken blood and the chicken are placed on the offering table together, and then steamed in a pot for the old man to eat.

Under normal circumstances, after the neck of the chicken is cut, the chicken is not dead, and the windpipe of the chicken must be pulled out of the back end of the chicken's neck and cut with a knife.

In this way, the chicken is completely dead.

After the big rooster was completely killed, Li Shangyong put the big rooster in the big white porcelain laundry basin that Li Zhongxin bathed in when he was a child, and then brought the boiling water from the stove and poured it on the big rooster in layers.

Although he was killing chickens and shedding his hair in the yard, Li Zhongxin also felt an unpleasant smell, and he felt that the unpleasant smell simply made him unbearable.

Because Li Zhongxin had seen the latter series of things many times, and he didn't have the desire to see it, he opened the door and entered the house.

After Li Shangyong finished shedding the chicken feathers, he brought out two basins of water in the house, and after cleaning the big rooster after the feathering, Li Shangyong twisted the body of the big rooster back and forth according to the sacrificial chicken sacrifice method, making it look like a rooster kneeling down.

After the rooster and chicken blood, as well as two cups of white wine, were placed in the east, Li Zhongxin's grandmother and grandfather sincerely knelt on the ground to pray for blessings.

The content of their prayers is very simple, that is, they hope that the old couple can live a long and healthy life, and hope that the life in the family will be better and better, the adults can work smoothly, and the children will have good grades when they go to school......

After the sacrifice was completed for an hour, this big rooster that was killed on the Chung Yeung Festival completed its sacrificial mission, but it did not completely complete the task.

Next, it was chopped and stewed by Li Shangyong, and a good reed rooster completed the final mission.

It's like Li Zhongxin's grandmother and grandfather are talking about it, the chicken is a dish in the yang world, I went this year, and I will come back next year.

As for this custom that was passed down to Li Zhongxin's grandmother and grandfather from somewhere, Li Zhongxin did not forget it after marrying a wife and having children in later generations, and this custom was carried out every year.

It's just that the price of the big rooster in later generations has increased more than twenty times the price of the big rooster at this time, and a live, beautiful big rooster costs only one hundred and twenty yuan each.

After killing the chicken, Li Shangyong saw that it was still early, and thought that he had not been close to his son for a while, so he proposed to take Li Zhongxin to the morning market to buy some food, and by the way, he led Li Zhongxin to eat breakfast outside.

After being reborn, Li Zhongxin really never went to the morning market because of his morning exercises, and when he heard his father propose to take him to the morning market for a walk and invite him to breakfast, he readily agreed.

Since his rebirth, Li Zhongxin feels that he and his father seem to be a lot stranger, most of his time is busy making money, and his father is even more busy with the back of his head, it is rare for his father to have such a good mood, and it is a very good look to accompany Lao Tzu to the morning market.

After about ten minutes of bumps, Li Shangyong led Li Zhongxin to the largest morning market in Jiangcheng.

In the 80s, whether it was the morning market or the vegetable market, in Li Zhongxin's eyes, it was not large-scale, and it was chaotic.

He followed in his father's footsteps and saw that the morning market in '82 was very small, and there was no way to compare it with the major morning markets in Jiangcheng in later generations, but it was only half a street, and almost all the streets were filled with rural people who went to the city to set up stalls and sell some seasonal vegetables and fruits.

In the middle of the stall, there is also a barber stall with a bench and a basin, and some elderly people sit on the bench to cut their hair and shave their faces.

In the middle of these stalls buying vegetables and fruits, Li Zhongxin actually saw the stalls selling fish from Zhongxin Company.

The fish stall of Zhongxin Company can be said to be the largest stall in the entire Jiangcheng morning market, and the three floors inside and the outer three floors are full of people, all queuing up to buy fresh river fish.

In the whole morning market, there are two places with the most people, one is the head of the morning market to sell fresh milk and fresh goat's milk, and the other is the company that sells fish.

At this time, the people who buy vegetables and the people who buy vegetables can definitely be said to be competing for each other, and those who pay a penny or two can be counted for a long time.

Li Shangyong's stall to buy beans is not large, and there is only a small pile of beans left on the stall, which is the cheapest in the morning market, only five cents per catty.

After wrapping the beans round, the hawker weighed them and told Li Shangyong that they were four catties and three taels.

According to five cents a catty, four catties and three taels are two cents and a penny.

Li Shangyong wanted the bean seller to wipe out the cent, after all, he bought more than four catties, and he rounded the beans on the hawker's stall.

And the beans seller didn't say a cent, and even said that he couldn't sell much money when he came here to sell beans, which was not easy.

The bean seller said that it was not easy for him to sell some vegetables, and at the same time he said that two cents is one cent, and rounding should be two cents and two, and Li Shangyong should give him two cents and two, after all, Li Shangyong has taken a lot of advantage in wrapping up his beans.

Just because of the two cents, Li Shangyong talked to the bean seller for half a day, if he hadn't remembered that he came out with Li Zhongxin, and he would have to go to work in a while, he would have wanted to talk more.

Because he reluctantly gave the bean seller two cents and two cents, and spent two cents more, Li Shangyong's interest in buying vegetables was much lower.

After buying a large bag of beans and potatoes, Li Shangyong led Li Zhongxin to a breakfast shop at the head of the morning market.

It's a breakfast shop, but it's just a huge shed made of canvas, and a few tables are placed in it.

At this time, the breakfast sold was very simple, basically porridge and chicken soup and tofu brain, and the staple food was dry food with big white steamed buns and Erhe noodles.

Li Zhongxin originally told his father Li Shangyong that he wanted to eat steamed buns at the Yuanlong bun shop in the city, but his father strongly opposed it.

In Li Shangyong's words, Li Zhongxin is now a little unkind to Wang Bo, and he is too loser, if he goes to that kind of restaurant in the morning, not to mention that it will cost several yuan, and it will cost a lot of food stamps, their current family situation is not allowed to eat that thing.

It is already a luxury to be able to take him to the morning market in the morning and take him out for breakfast, and the children of ordinary families do not have such a treatment! No matter what time it is, you can't be too ambitious.

Li Zhongxin has no way to deal with his old-fashioned father, he is low-key enough, but in the eyes of his hard-working father, he is still a bad learner.

He knew in his heart that according to his father's thoughts, even if his third uncle Wang Bo was rich, he, as a nephew, could not open his mouth to ask his uncle for money, even if Wang Bo forced him to ask for it.

The children of the fundamental family must have the appearance of the children of the fundamental family, and the poor point is nothing, but the family must not be defeated.

Li Zhongxin and his father had a meal, and spent a total of four dimes and four taels of food stamps.

This time, Li Shangyong got his wish.

Seeing that some old-fashioned fathers talked for a long time about selling breakfast for a penny, Li Zhongxin's mind suddenly had countless black lines.

Not to mention a penny, even a dollar fell to the ground, Li Zhongxin felt that whether he picked it up or not depended on his mood, and his father actually bargained with someone for a penny for a long time, in the future, he should find a time to enlighten Lao Tzu, otherwise, he will suffer from what he wants to do in the future.

Two small bowls of tofu brain triangle money, two big white steamed buns for one dime and one plus four taels of food stamps, although it can be regarded as an extremely cheap breakfast at this time, but there are still not many people who eat it, after all, a steamed bun and two taels of food stamps make ordinary people unaffordable.

As the sun slowly rises, the sound of bicycle bells becomes more and more numerous.

Li Zhongxin saw that the people who went to work at this time were basically dressed similarly, all of them were blue coats issued by the factory, and on the 28th car, a small net pocket was filled with that old-fashioned aluminum lunch box, and his face was full of happiness and he hurriedly rode in a hurry.

In the early 80s, blue was basically the trend of this period, except for blue, which was army green, and other colors were almost invisible.

Li Zhongxin thought a little depressed, when can I start to have good clothes to wear, and when can I do whatever I want! When is it a head?