Chapter 167: Tiancang Festival
After the wax moon is the New Year, after the fifteenth day of the first month, to the nineteenth day of the family began to steam cakes to prepare the food of the Tiancang Festival.
Tiancang is to add a warehouse, which means that the granary at home is full and there is plenty of food and clothing.
Chunniang and her two sisters-in-law use rice, noodles, wheat noodles, bean noodles, etc., kneaded into ingots, pots, burdens, sheep, cows, chickens, dog-shaped lamps, and put them in the cage to steam.
After that, take it out, put cotton threads in the steamed cake in the shape of a lamp, and pour in a little castor oil.
At night, the Jiang family lit rice lamps and placed them in all corners of the house, implying that people are prosperous, grains are abundant, and livestock are full of livestock.
Early the next morning, all the men of the Jiang family went out, carrying water and soil, pouring water into the water tank, and cultivating the soil in a circle outside the reed mat grain turn.
Then pour all the grain in the grain bag into the grain fork until the grain fork is filled, and the grain is piled up high with a spire, which means abundance and contentment.
Chunniang and her two sisters-in-law got up early in the morning and were busy cooking, boiling a pot of crucian carp soup, wrapping dumplings and zygotes, and then fried last night's rice lamps and lamps in lard for the family to eat.
Dumplings mean to fill the warehouse, zygote is to cover the warehouse, and drinking fish soup means that there is more than enough every year, which are all seasonal foods.
When Chun Niang was making dumplings, she also used dough to pinch a few little hedgehogs and a few little mice and place them in the corner of the yard.
From the day of the twentieth day of the first lunar month, the rice tank at home cannot be empty, the water tank cannot be short of water, and there must always be food in the pot, even if it is a few steamed buns.
On the twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month, Jiang Liu used a sieve to fill the ash cellar with plant ash.
I saw that she was holding a sieve in one hand and a small wooden stick in the other hand while walking and knocking, and the green ash that shook off drew a circle of grain cellar grain hoards in the yard, and then sprinkled rice and wheat and other grains in these three-ring and five-ring grain hoards painted by blue and gray, pressed a few stones on the corners, and then drove her own chickens into it to eat.
This means that the grain is full of warehouses and the grains are abundant.
At noon, the Jiang family carried out the incense case, hung out the painted statue of the god Cangguan, and the whole family lit the lamp and burned incense to worship the Cangguan.
After the big addition, the Spring Festival of the entire January month is completely over.
Soon at the beginning of March, the weather gradually warmed up, and it was a good time to transplant seedlings.
Sakura took out dozens of grapevines from the cave house, as well as a bunch of pepper seedlings, and secretly placed them in the bamboo shed in his yard.
This bamboo shed has been managed by Sakura, and Dad has built a new row of bamboo sheds on the vegetable garden outside the yard as a fungus shed.
"Dad, I've cultivated a lot of seedlings, where do you think it's good to plant?"
Ying Bao pulled his father into the bamboo shed and pointed to a pile of seedlings on the ground, "This is the grapes of the Western Regions, and this is the pepper seedlings." ”
Jiang Saburo squatted down and picked up a pepper seedling to check. "Pepper really?"
Pepper is a precious thing, and although it is now cultivated by many nobles, its price is still extremely high and the demand is still in short supply.
But there are no small mountain villages like Chuanhe Town.
Ying Bao nodded: "It's pepper, the pepper seeds I bought in the Jiukang Pharmacy in the county seat, I can't be wrong." ”
Jiang Saburo didn't mean not to believe his daughter, he just thought it was incredible.
Is his daughter a human or a fairy?
But whatever she took out, nothing was ordinary. Including the constant water treasure gourd that everyone has been rumored to do.
Jiang Saburo felt that it should all be related to his daughter, and the second nephew Jiang Quan was just taking the blame for Yingbao.
But no matter what, the girl's magical methods are only known to himself, and he has to go back to what others say or suspect.
"What should I pay attention to when planting pepper?" Jiang Saburo asked.
Since the girl has cultivated these vine seedlings, she must also know some planting methods.
Sakurabao: "Pepper is drought tolerant, so it should not be planted in a damp place, preferably in a well-drained sandy field. The same goes for grapes. ”
This was told to her by a guy from the big pharmacy, and that guy also heard from a pepper farmer.
As for the grapes, she has grown them herself once, and she already has some experience.
Jiang Saburo thought for a while and said, "We might as well build a vineyard and a pepper garden." ”
Sakura did mean this, otherwise she would have planted it herself.
It takes a lot of land to grow seedlings, so she has to get her father's permission first.
After the father and daughter finished summing up, Jiang Saburo immediately went out to check the land.
In the end, it was decided to plant pepper and grapes in an inferior field outside the village.
But this place is remote, and the seedlings are easily destroyed by wild animals.
So Jiang Saburo invited a few villagers to help cut some bamboo and insert a bamboo fence around the two fields.
It is a bit outrageous to put a circle of bamboo fences on two inferior fields, attracting the villagers to come and watch.
"Third brother, what are you doing?" Chen Yinpao asked on the bamboo fence.
Jiang Saburo was digging and planting seedlings with Chunniang, and he didn't raise his head and said, "Plant some grapes." ”
"Grapes?" This Chen Yin knew that he had also secretly picked the grapes in the orchard of Jiang Sange's family and eaten them.
"This area is planted with grapes, will there be too many?"
After all, fruit trees are fruit trees, and they can't be eaten, so it doesn't matter if you plant one or two at home, planting more will not only occupy land, but also increase taxes.
Jiang Saburo cultivated a seedling, "It's not much, you can make wine if you can't finish it in the future." ”
No matter how bad it is, it is sold directly to the winery in the county, and the little girl said so.
Chen Yin scratched his head and pointed to the fence next door, "Where are grapes also grown?" ”
"That slice of pepper." Jiang Saburo ploughed the soil by hand, put the grape seedlings inside, and then compacted the soil.
"What? Pepper! Chen Yin jumped up, his eyes lit up with excitement, "Third brother, do you still grow pepper at home?" ”
Pepper is a good thing, and the value of that thing is not worrying about selling, and all the pharmacies in the county are rushing to collect it.
Jiang Saburo glanced at him and was speechless.
Chen Yin ran in from the fence door, blinked and asked, "Third brother, do you have pepper seedlings at home?" ”
"Hmm." Jiang Saburo kept in his hands and planted another vine.
Chen Yin smiled: "Can you give it to your younger brother?" ”
"Let's wait for the pepper seedlings to grow."
The little girl said that the pepper vine can be cut and transplanted, and then there will be no need for pepper seeds to cultivate seedlings.
"Then brother, I'll make an appointment first." Chen Yin squatted down to help Jiang Saburo plant seedlings together.
When a few villagers who were watching outside saw this, they looked at each other and hurriedly ran in to help plant seedlings.
With the help of someone, the grapes were planted quickly, and the pepper seedlings were planted.
Pepper is a climbing plant, and Jiang Saburo planted it on the edge of the bamboo fence first, so he didn't need to insert a climbing frame for them in the future.
After that, the distance is estimated and the whole pepper garden is planted.
Wait for these seedlings to grow up, and then insert climbing frames for them.
Jiang Saburo and his wife planted seedlings with a few villagers, and Sakura carried a small bucket to water it behind.
She used water from the cave and a little water from the river pond to water each seedling.
The two gardens were soon full of seedlings, dotted with verdant greenery, arranged neatly, which was very gratifying.
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