Is it possible to use a little silt from the bottom of the river to make a garden full of dead bamboos turn into spring?

The eldest uncle's mother Fang Shi pursed her lips, with a look of disbelief, but the eldest uncle Zhang Chengdong believed most of it, without it, he wanted to "resurrect" those bamboos too much, if it wasn't really impossible to kill him, he didn't want to sell the bamboo garden.

Now Liu Guiyuan told him that the method does not need to spend a penny to take risks, but he needs to use his hands and make efforts to dig some river mud in the two rivers in the north and east, and then fill in the bamboo garden, such a simple method, why didn't he try? Try!

"Okay, uncle believes you, and today I will start digging at the bottom of the river, if Zhuyuan can really come back to life, then ...... At that time, your uncle will definitely give you a big gift, not only you, but your eldest sister and second sister are like this. ”

Zhang Chengdong's eyes lit up, and he looked at the three nieces with blazing eyes, as if they had seen the green bamboos all over the garden.

"What do you think, you are still coming back to life, I don't plan to sell the bamboo garden when I hear you? Where can I get money if I don't sell bamboo gardens? "The eldest aunt Fang was so angry in her heart, she didn't care about complaining about Guiyuan's mouth, and quickly looked at her man.

"This ...... If the method that Gui Yuan said can be successful, it will be a pity to sell the bamboo garden, and it will be cheap to sell it, and it will not be able to sell it famously. "Zhang Chengdong understands the current market very well.

"Her little girl is talking nonsense with red mouth and white teeth, and you also believe it? In those years, you asked a few bamboo growers, which one was useful? "The eldest aunt Fang's family wants to sell the bamboo garden, but it hasn't improved for so many years, and it looks like it's all blocked.

"Uncle, aunt, this method I said must be useful, you think the old bamboo roots are too dense under the ground, a lot of coiled together to form a knot, if we shovel off some, leave some gaps to come out, and then pave the river mud river new soil, those old bamboo roots feel fresh soil, must rush over to show their heads." Liu Guiyuan briefly explained the principle, afraid that his uncle would be silenced by his aunt and mother.

"I listened to what Cousin Guiyuan said is reasonable, Dad, Mother, why don't we try again, we don't need money to dig river mud horizontally and vertically, we just need to contribute." Zhang Jichao stood outside the door with his hands behind his back, and it seemed that he had been listening to it for a long time.

Grandma Luo on the side also wanted to speak in favor, but thinking of the fact that she persuaded the old family to bring the second family with the bamboo garden, she still stopped talking after thinking about it, she didn't want to do bad things with good intentions.

"Cuizhen, look, Tiezhu is the same as I thought, I think this method will work, you can wait for two more days to see. Having said that, I went to the town today to see the bamboo carvings sold in other people's stores, many of them are carved with old bamboo roots like ours, hundreds to thousands of texts, so many old bamboo roots in our bamboo garden if they are engraved with patterns, they will definitely be able to sell at a good price! ”

Uncle Zhang Chengdong was excited, and his face gradually turned red, but it was a pity that he had no other money on him at that time, otherwise he really had to buy a small piece and show it to a few of them.

"Dad, let's go to Fucheng again tomorrow, if you can invite a good carver to go home, these bamboo carving ornaments will definitely be more expensive than those sold in the town." Zhang Jichao didn't say a word in his heart, since he remembered the pen holder used by his classmates, he had an urge to carve as soon as he saw the bamboo......

When the eldest aunt heard that the bamboo carving could really be sold for money, she was silent, she knew that it was so, and she would definitely not make those old bamboo roots cook on the fire, thinking of this, she trotted to the kitchen with a sigh, and soon came out with a piece of burnt bamboo roots, and asked: "His father, do you think this can still be sold for money?" ”

Poof, everyone couldn't help laughing, and the uncle Zhang Chengdong looked at her with disgust and said, "It's all burned to ashes, and you still sell a fart?" In the future, you will use wheat wool and branches to burn the fire, and none of the old bamboo roots in the garden will be allowed to move, do you hear? ”

The eldest aunt Fang Shi rolled her eyes at him and said, "I'm not stupid, why do I burn it when I know that I can sell it for money?" Then he thought of something, pointed to the east and said: "His father, mother, and iron bamboo, our old bamboo roots can be sold for money, don't forget to say it, I'm afraid that some people will be red and come to the door to regret it." ”

Who is the eldest uncle's mother Fang talking about, I'm afraid there is nothing here who doesn't know, the eldest uncle Zhang Chengdong pursed his lips and glared at her, telling her to stop talking nonsense, and hurry up to cook and eat when it's not early. The eldest aunt Fang's pot had already cooked rice, and at this time it was enough to fry two more dishes, she said a few homely words without hurry, and then rushed into the kitchen to get busy.

After the family had lunch, the eldest uncle Zhang Chengdong sat at the dinner table and spoke, and the other party assigned: "Our mother will be born tomorrow, you go and inform the second brother's family and the little sister's family, come over for a meal tomorrow, and the family will get together lively." After speaking, she looked at Grandma Luo, with an apology on her face, and said slowly: "The family has not had a good time in the past two years, I haven't held a serious birthday for my mother, and my mother will be sixty-two tomorrow, so I should hold a birthday banquet." ”

"No, I don't like that kind of lively, crackling noisy, and it's annoying to listen to when there are too many people." Grandma Luo knew that the birthday banquet that her son said was to invite the whole village to come to congratulate the feast, and to invite the troupe to sing the opera, how much money would it cost, and the time would not be able to catch up.

She looked at her eldest son and said sincerely: "Chengdong, your filial piety mother knows, but you don't need to do those false things, just get together with your brothers and sisters and say a few auspicious words in front of me." At my age, I haven't eaten or worn anything good, I don't ask for anything else, I only want my children and juniors to be safe and healthy, and everything else is fate. ”

Uncle Zhang Chengdong's eyes were slightly wet, and he nodded silently and agreed. The eldest aunt Fang got up to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and the three sisters on the side were quick to take the dishes and chopsticks to the kitchen to scrub.

This afternoon, the aunt Zhang Xiangqiao and the uncle Wei Donglai came to the door, Zhang Xiangqiao just turned nineteen this year, two years ago, married not far away, is the Xitou Village next door, her husband Wei Donglai is two years older than her, the two have known each other since childhood, and they have played together, which is a childhood sweetheart.

Later, the boy of the Wei family took the initiative to come to the door to propose, and Grandma Luo took a fancy to his character, close to home, and after asking the meaning of the little girl, she agreed to the family affair of the two of them. After getting married, the two did live a good life and were very affectionate.

"You can eat quickly, these are all pastries I made myself, there are many at home, feel free to eat."

Zhang Xiangqiao warmly entertained several nieces, she had only seen red dates and peanuts twice when she was unmarried, but Guiyuan had not seen them once, this time she saw three well-behaved nieces, and naturally her heart was overjoyed.

"Why, don't you look at your aunt's youth and dare not admit it?" Grandma Luo smiled slightly, she was forty-two years old when she was born Xiangqiao, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she was an old woman, at that time, the third daughter Zhang was fourteen or fifteen years old and was about to get married.

"Thank you, aunt, your hands are so clever that you can make so many delicious dishes." ”

Liu Guiyuan looked at the four pastries on the table, namely sesame cake, mung bean cake, lotus cake and crystal blessing bag, all of which used common ingredients at home, but the appearance was chic, especially the plate of lotus cake, which was pink and white, like a real lotus flower, which was eye-catching just by looking at it.

"Then you can eat more, and when you finish eating, ask your cousin Tiezhu to take you out to play."

So this afternoon, the three sisters finally experienced the happiness of going to relatives, one took two pastries, followed Zhang Ji to the tree to dig birds' eggs, catch knowledge, go down to the river to touch grass shrimp, crab fishing, halfway met the second cousin Zhang Jiqing, he saw a lot of people, went home and called his sister Yulian to play together.

The eldest cousin is seventeen years old this year, in fact, he didn't play these for a long time, just to accompany a few cousins, so he went up the tree and down the river to be busy, and when the second cousin and Yulian joined, the brothers and sisters were lively, and they ran to the bamboo garden while playing, and found a vacant place to roast bird eggs to eat, and played until it was almost dark, and Grandma Luo came out to find someone, and the group of children reluctantly returned home.

On the second day, after the family had breakfast, the eldest aunt Fang rolled up her sleeves and began to prepare for the luncheon later.

There are a lot of vegetables in the vegetable garden, eggs and white noodles are enough, which is the most critical meat dish, she has no good idea to think about it, or go to the people who sell meat in the village to go to Sheshang for half a catty?

Fang's was having a headache, sister-in-law Zhang went to the door with a basket, she took it and opened it, two catties of pork, two catties of mutton, now it's okay, the meat dish is solved!

"You are still careful, my sister-in-law didn't hurt you in vain." Fang's family couldn't help but praise her, after she got married, her mother-in-law gave birth to this sister-in-law, which is equivalent to watching her grow up, and she always speaks to her with a little doting.

"I haven't picked the leeks yet, I'll pick them here." Zhang Xiangqiao pursed her lips and smiled, pinched a handful of freshly picked leeks, squatted on the vegetable field and began to pick.

The sister-in-law and sister-in-law gossiped, and after a while, they finished the work in the vegetable patch. When it was almost noon, more than a dozen dishes were cut and matched, and when they were about to get out of the pot, the second uncle's family finally came, and the second uncle and mother held a handful of long beans in her hand and said: "I went to work in the field in the morning, so let's come back and bring you some long beans and a dish, what else has you not gotten, but you want me to go over and help?" ”

"No need, we've got it all done, you can wait and eat." The eldest aunt Fang Shi stood at the kitchen door and glanced at her, didn't pick up the long beans, and turned her head to the pot to stir-fry.

The second aunt Chen was not angry when she saw it, she smiled on her face, put the long beans on the kitchen table, and followed her men and children to the hall to talk. Although there is no lantern in the hall, it has been scrubbed again, and there is a square table in the middle, which is full of longevity fruits, longevity wine and longevity fish, among which there are longevity peaches and longevity screens made by the three sisters of the Liu family.

Grandma Luo was wearing the dresses bought by her three granddaughters, combing her hair in a neat bun, sitting at the square table at the moment, holding a red-fronted lotus seed in her arms, watching a group of children and juniors gather together to talk, with a happy face.

Before the birthday, the uncle first set off a string of firecrackers, and then several families kowtowed to Grandma Luo in order of eldest and youngest, saying auspicious words in their mouths, and then prepared their own birthday gifts, like the uncle's family Although they were nervous, they still prepared a basket of red birthday eggs, and then the second uncle's family worshipped their birthday, and their couple prepared also birthday eggs, and then Aunt Zhang, she prepared a dark red cardigan made by herself.

In the end, it was the turn of the three sisters of the Liu family to kowtow to their birthdays, and each of the three sisters said a prepared auspicious word, and then got the birthday eggs given by Grandma Luo. Shou eggs are actually dyed eggs, and this is the most common birthday in their country.

When a large family worshipped their birthday, several families sat together and had a lively feast, and the three sisters of the Liu family took the lotus seeds to sit on the ox cart, brought two kinds of vegetables picked by Grandma Luo from the vegetable garden, and went home slowly. After three days away from home, I don't know what happened to the pigs and chickens at home......