In the early morning of the next day, Ye Yaodong slept too much at night, and as soon as the rooster crowed in the morning, he had already woken up before it was all bright, but there was still a little guy who woke up earlier than him.

When he sat up, he saw a ball of meat lying at the end of the bed, and he was holding his feet and gnawing on the fragrance there.

Afraid of waking up Aqing, he didn't speak, just smiled and held the child in his arms, and then sat on the stool to put on her clothes, pants, shoes and socks, and stood on the chair before he got dressed.

"Rake rake ......" Ye Xiaoxi shouted excitedly as he leaned on his stool.

"Shhhh

He quickly put on his clothes and pants, and quickly carried her out.

In the hall, the old lady was already sitting there making a fire and cooking porridge, and when she saw that the father and daughter had already gotten up, she said with a smile: "I slept enough last night, but the two of you got up early." ”

"Well, I went to bed too early, so I woke up early."

Through the window, you can see that the sky outside is gray, as if it is about to rain again.

Ye Yaodong put Ye Xiaoxi in the station cage and stood to play, then went to the window to take a look, and by the way, he opened the window, and the heavy water vapor entered through the window.

"It's going to rain again?"

"It's going to rain, and the day after tomorrow will be clear, and there will be a lot of rain in the past two days."

He stood by the door and looked at the calendar hanging on the wall, the page on the second page yesterday had been torn off, today it was the third number, he turned down two more pages, and the three red letters in capital letters, Qingming Festival, were clearly printed on the calendar.

It rained a lot during the Qingming Festival, so it was rare to have a sunny day yesterday.

In the past few days, I have been busy trawling, and the child is one year old, going out early and returning late, going home and falling asleep, and I don't have time to look through the calendar, I didn't expect it to be the Qingming Festival.

"Then we're going to sweep the grave the day after tomorrow?"

The old lady nodded, and the smile on her face was gone.

Ye Yaodong turned his head again and continued to look at the calendar, until May Day, when he stopped again, and a light rain began to fall outside the house.

Originally, Ye Yaopeng still wanted to take advantage of the free time in the past few days to go to the wall to clean up the pigsty, and in a few days he would be able to hug the little piglets, but it seems that he can't do it today.

Ye Yaodong was also happy, and leisurely dragged the rocking chair out of the house, put it under the porch at the door, and lay on it, watching the rain fluttering and drizzling outside.

And when Ye Chenghu came back in the evening, he was also muttering in his mouth: "During the Qingming Festival, it rains a lot, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls." By asking where the restaurant is, the shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. ”

"Oops? Can you carry it? Is my family going to be the champion? ”

Ye Chenghu craned his neck and said proudly: "I have to take two 100-point exams, of course I will memorize them, you just wait and see, wait for the mid-term exam, if I score 100 points, you will take me to the city." ”

"Remember it's quite strong, wait until you get 100 points."

"Hmph, you're not allowed to go back anyway."

"You do it first."

Ye Chenghu shook his head and ran into the house arrogantly, "Mother, the day after tomorrow, on the Qingming Festival, the teacher said that you won't go to school tomorrow and have a two-day holiday!" ”

"I haven't been to school for two days and I'm going to have a holiday again, and I have to take two days ......off."

"Because the teacher has to go home early to sweep the grave, it is a holiday."

"It's not going to be noisy......" Lin Xiuqing chattered in the house, quite unhappy to see them arguing at home.

But later, she wanted to see them arguing in the house, but she couldn't see it yet.

The day before Qingming, early in the morning, the children of the whole village stood majestically and proudly on the side of the road at the entrance of the village and waited, and they all followed who walked by the side of the road with a hoe and broom.

Because they have the custom of dividing the tomb cake in the local tomb sweeping.

Tomb cakes are basically bare cakes.

The light cake is very famous in the local area, according to legend, it is dedicated to Qi Jiguang by the common people to fight against the Japanese, a hole is made in the middle, and it can be worn with a rope to facilitate the march and fight.

On the day of the Qingming Festival, for many locals, it is a tomb cake, which is used to sacrifice the tomb, and the interesting thing is that when the light cake becomes a tomb cake, it must be distributed on the spot when the ancestors are sacrificed.

In these years, the material is relatively scarce, and the children have no snacks, and the Qingming Festival is also a festival that the children like very much.

Although it is considered a Halloween festival, during the Qingming Festival, as long as firecrackers go off in the fields, fields or mountains, children will rush to the cemetery from all directions to ask for tomb cakes.

Not only can it be used as a snack, but it can also fill the stomach, so it is not only for children but also for many adults who work in the fields.

Several children of the Ye family, regardless of men and women, have been running around since the day of the holiday, and they have not seen anyone from morning to night, and they have not seen anyone running back to eat at noon.

Ye Yaodong didn't come back to his senses at first, and wondered why he hadn't seen anyone for most of the day, and thought he had run somewhere to play, until the sound of firecrackers kept coming from everywhere on the mountain, and he suddenly realized that he went to the mountain to beg for tomb cakes one by one.

"I said, why is it so quiet this morning? Exactly save a meal at noon. ”

Lin Xiuqing also smiled and said, "You should be wandering around the surrounding mountains at this time, right?" At this time, there was a little rain from time to time, and the road was full of muddy water, and I didn't know what to do when I came back. ”

"Yangyang is so small, don't lose it."

"I didn't let him go last year, and I don't know when he sneaked away this morning."

"There are so many people here, and they are in a few nearby hills anyway, so they shouldn't lose him. One more person, you can also ask for one more cake, so many children in the family, today we can ask for dozens or hundreds, tomorrow we will have a supply of goods to sweep the grave, save money! ”

Lin Xiuqing's teeth were not visible, "Your abacus is really loud." ”

Last year, it rained heavily during the Qingming Festival, and they didn't let their children go out to beg for tomb cakes, and when their family swept the tomb, few children came to beg for it, so they prepared more than a dozen, and all of them were left home to eat for their own children.

Today is only a little rain occasionally, and it is sunny from time to time, and tomorrow it is estimated that there will be a lot of children and adults.

When Ye Yaodong was sunny in the afternoon, he was also called by Ye Yaopeng to the old house to help build the wall and tidy up the pigsty.

It's just that this is an old house, a little old, Ye Yaopeng's room belongs to the old house, connected together, unlike the old lady's original cottage that was independent in the backyard.

When the wall was hit, the whole house shook, and the roof tiles were rattling, so frightened that Ye's father hurriedly shouted to stop, and his heart hurt so much that they were not allowed to fight again.

Only let the two of them put together in the old lady's small room to raise, raise it together, and divide it together when the time comes.

There have been many years, tattered, just because it is made of stone, so it looks stronger, the roof leakage will be terrible, and the door panel water seepage is terrible, if this really knocks off half of the wall, it is estimated that the entire old house is also abandoned.

Sister-in-law Ye and Sister-in-law Ye can only reluctantly accept it, otherwise they will have to spend money to build a pigsty, this old mansion already has a ready-made one, and no one is willing to pay for another one.

"Hehe, my sister-in-law and I use the old lady's house to raise pigs, is that the old lady's land, and half of it will be planted for me?" The abacus in Sister-in-law Ye's heart crackled.

Father Ye's brows furrowed.

At that time, because the second daughter-in-law bought a pig, the old lady's small house raised pigs for her, and in order to block the mouth of the eldest daughter-in-law, the old lady planted a small piece of land on the side of the road for the eldest daughter-in-law.

And now I'm talking about this again!

Father Ye looked at Ye Yaodong.

Ye Yaodong raised his eyebrows and looked over, "Don't look at me, I don't know how to farm, I don't want to fight, Aqing doesn't have time to farm, she won't have any opinions, you can do it yourself." ”

The small plot of land in his yard is enough for them to work, and the vegetables they grow are enough for their family to eat.

"I went back and asked your mother, neither of us is dead, what are you fighting for? Now help me fix the tiles on the roof first, you smack them twice, and your mother and I can lie on the bed and look at the stars at night. ”

Ye Yaohua glared at his daughter-in-law fiercely, and hurriedly said, "Hey, okay Dad, I'll go and move a ladder over." ”

Second sister-in-law Ye was a little unconvinced, but she didn't dare to say anything more.

Ye Yaohua felt that his daughter-in-law was embarrassed, and wanted to make up for it as much as possible, so he volunteered to climb up the stairs after moving in.

Ye Yaopeng also felt embarrassed, and also climbed up to help, while Ye's father and Ye Yaodong helped hold the stairs at the bottom and handed the tiles by the way.

The two concubines also picked up the broom with great discernment, sprinkled and cleaned it up, but they couldn't see the appearance of being scolded just now, and they looked quite self-adjusting.

Father Ye looked at Ye Yaodong and said: "Tomorrow Qingming sweeps the tomb, and later you will ride a bicycle to Dongqiao Village, and order 50 light cakes from the person who specializes in making light cakes, and we will go and get them early tomorrow morning." ”

"What to order? A large number of children in the family have all gone out to earn all the bread today......"

"I'm afraid it's not enough, I thought so in the morning, but it looks sunny in the afternoon, and tomorrow may be sunny, at most it will rain a little sun, then it is estimated that there will be more people, not enough."

"It's not enough points, then it's good to send money, everyone is happier, maybe the cake can't be made there, there are a few villages near here that one or two families will make light cakes, it's so late today, and then order, where can it be made?"

Father Ye is right to think about it, he didn't book it a few days ago, and he didn't book it in the morning, so temporary, people can't do it.

"Then buy other bread......

"That person doesn't have time to do it, shouldn't they all work overtime to make light cakes these days?"

"That's the money... I haven't seen anyone send money either......"

"It's rare and weird, it's not enough, and it's happier to send money later."

In a few years, everyone will have no shortage of food and drink, and no one will like these cakes and the like, and ordinary people also find it troublesome, and they have to go out of their way to order, and it is the most happy to send money directly.

The people who sweep the tomb save trouble, and the children who ask for the tomb cake are happy, and they can use it at will.

Father Ye hesitated, "Then let's take a look tomorrow, see if it's enough?" ”

"Well, I'll bring a little more change then. Anyway, Dad, do we have to build a tomb for my grandfather? It's always just a small coffin tomb, which isn't good. ”