In the sound of chanting, people receive the holy flame of the ever-bright lamp from the Zenlong Temple, and ignite the fire dragon in each square in the open space. Then take the statues of the Northern Emperor, the Mother of Dragons, the Monkey King, and Hua Tuo out of the open space in front of the temple; When the people gather and the flames are strong, the pre-selected people in the village are responsible for carrying the statues of the Northern Emperor and the Dragon Mother, while the people of each workshop select more than a dozen strong descendants to be responsible for carrying the fire dragons of their respective workshops. After the deacons cast their horns, they marched to the village under the guidance of gongs, drums, and lion dances.

Along the way, there are people in front of the water to clean the road, followed by Gong Xiang Pavilion, "Jinli Village He Lantern Festival" lantern plaque, lantern float, carried by four people, followed by the treasure mirror, dragon mother, maid, great sage, Hua Tuo and other gods and lantern festival plaques, each square fire dragon, slowly moving forward under the crowd. In the flickering lights, the words "Lantern Festival in Jinli", "A round of moon in the sky, ten thousand household lamps in the world", "Celebrating the Lantern Festival", "Guotai Min'an", "Harvest of Five Grains", "Prosperity of Six Animals" and so on. Under the guidance of the "He Lantern Festival Plaque" in their respective square numbers, people follow the roaring fire dragon parade. The women in the workshop are responsible for carrying firewood, and some men carry firewood, following behind the fire dragon or waiting at the intersection to refill the fire dragon at any time to keep the fire dragon burning vigorously. Every open place such as the archway and the ancestral hall, the fire dragon is danced under the guidance of the lion dance, while shouting loudly, holding the fire dragon high and comparing who can lift it higher than each other; There is a fire dragon that spins and dances, and sees whose fire dragon flame burns vigorously. The more people who watched the excitement and the louder the cheers, the more energetic the fire dragon danced.

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A lantern float flickered in the lights, reflecting the Lantern Festival in Jinli, a round of moon in the sky, the lanterns of ten thousand households in the world, celebrating the Lantern Festival, Guotai Min'an, five grains harvest, six animals and other words.

In order to get a complete panoramic view of the whole procession, Lu Huilan climbed a big tree on the edge of the village. At night, I saw a team of about 20,000 people in front and behind, like a long fire dragon, wandering between heaven and earth, magnificent. This situation provoked her poetry and improvised poems:

After all, in Qiu County at the beginning of February, the customs are not the same everywhere.

The holy fire in the sky is infinitely green, and the fire dragon in the brocade is different red.

After the fire dragon dance team entered the village, they saw that every time they passed through a square, each household added the pre-prepared firewood pieces to the fire dragon, and set up a pavilion in front of each square or ancestral hall, offering offerings on it, lighting incense and candles, and praying for smooth wind and rain, peace and security of the country and people, and a happy life; The young men who dance the fire dragon dance in the workshop dance a few times, and the villagers burn firecrackers, fireworks, incense, etc., and after the above rituals, the statue is invited back to its original place and placed.

Finally, each workshop gathers its own fire dragon in the open space of the village, or performs lion dance, martial arts, or continues to dance the fire dragon until all the firewood is burned. At this point, the fire dragon dance event came to an end.

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Suddenly, the village resounded with the sound of "crackling" firecrackers......

Listening to the bursts of "crackling" firecrackers, Zhang Shaofei remembered the scene of spending the Spring Festival with his father and mother.......

But now, Daddy is no longer in the world. After Daddy passed away, every Spring Festival, Zhang Shaofei would recall the Spring Festival he had spent with Daddy and his mother, how much he hoped that such a scene could be reproduced and let time freeze at that moment.

This year's Spring Festival is no longer the Spring Festival spent with Daddy and Mom in the past.

With Lu Huilan dancing the fire dragon together, she should be happy, but Zhang Shaofei's melancholy is difficult to dissipate.

Exactly: when there is poverty at the ends of the world, there is only endless lovesickness.

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Besides, since Zhang Shaofei was in the mountains, he inadvertently spied on the natural law of "the situation is born from the heart, and everything is safe with the encounter", he seems to be a different person, returning to the true form, with a normal heart, returning to those happy days when he was a teenager.

At this time, Zhang Shaofei was already a young man full of youthful vitality, although the injuries on his body had not fully recovered, and he could not go up the mountain to collect firewood, but at home, he smiled all day long, and sometimes turned out the four books and five classics left by his father from the bookcase; Sometimes I took a book and went to the creek at the edge of the village and sat in the shade of the canopy-like longan tree. When I was tired, I looked at the small river, thinking about the Xijiang River and the big river in a daze, thinking about the Xijiang River breaking through the barrier of the mountains and mountains, and going to meet the spectacular scene of the big river......

Thinking, thinking, and naturally thinking of the sweets and sorrows of life, it is also the heart that is separated, the heart is experienced, and the heart is determined.

People who are wealthy can certainly enjoy the delicacy of big fish and meat; However, the whole grain of vegetable root also has a unique fragrance, and the key is the experience of the heart. Enjoy leisure, you can taste the breeze and bright moon; And in the deep mountains to collect firewood, while tired, you can also appreciate the singing of small birds and the fragrance of wild flowers. The key to all of this is the transformation of the heart......

Zhang Shaofei has thought a lot, a lot, and seems to have gained a lot in this autumn recuperation season.

On this day, Zhang Shaofei finished reading the book at home, Wang Shaoxiang stopped the loom and said to him: "Fei'er, take advantage of the good weather these days, you go to the nearby fields or mountains to pick some herbs such as 'White Flower Snake Tongue Grass' and 'Tianqi' and come back, there are not many herbs at home." ”

"Well, okay, A-Niang, I'll go" Zhang Shaofei put down the book, picked up the bamboo basket and small hoe that Wang Shaoxiang usually uses to go up the mountain to collect medicine, and went out.

The autumn sun shines on the field at the junction of Taizhen and Houliang Village, and everything looks vibrant.

Unconsciously, facing the great autumn light, Zhang Shaofei thought to himself: How good it would be to be able to play with Chen Mushui, Li Zhiwen and Ergou and a few of their childhood friends for a while......

Don't say it, there is a saying that "heaven obeys the wishes of man". This Zhang Shaofei just had a whim, no, Li Zhiwen and Shui Lian were driving their big buffalo towards him.

Li Zhiwen is a big family surnamed Li in the village, with a lot of wealth, his father Li Tianyou married his wife Wang, and gave birth to four girls and one boy, Li Zhiwen is the fourth, seventeen years old, and Zhang Shaofei is the same year; Shuilian's father, Zhang Dazhi, and his mother's relatives, died soon after giving birth to Shuilian. Zhang Dazhi later continued the string, the mother of the water lotus, Shen, gave birth to four males in a row, Zhang Dazhi can be regarded as a rich cane family in the village, with fields, land and cattle; Ergou is one year younger than Shuilian, the poorest in the family, he was born before the month, his father Liang Caiqing wanted to go up the mountain to hunt a few pheasants to make up for his daughter-in-law's body, but who knew that he would never return...... Ergou's mother, a widow with an orphan, raised Ergou with hard work.

"Brother Fei, what are you doing alone in the field?" Ergou saw Zhang Shaofei from a distance and shouted loudly.

Zhang Shaofei heard the shouting, looked up, and saw that Li Zhiwen and Shuilian were each leading a big buffalo, followed by a second dog, as if they were going to herd cattle.

"I'm picking herbs on the ridges!" Zhang Shaofei responded loudly.

Li Zhiwen and the others said in unison: "Brother Fei, the weather is good today, let's go to the mountains to graze cattle and collect medicine." ”

Zhang Shaofei said happily: "Okay! ”

Chen Mushui, Li Zhiwen and Shuilian have often played together since they were children, and the two dogs always like to play with them. Whenever they have fun, they always like to bully Ergou, calling him a fart and a nerd. The two dogs don't care, they always laugh silly and follow them.

After passing the fields of Taizhen Village, we came to the river beach of Houliang Village. When the big buffalo saw the green grass on the riverbank, he lowered his head and ate it in a big gulp.

Zhang Shaofei saw that the banks of the river were still full of yellow and clear rape flowers, and he thought about things and people, and once again remembered the scene when he met Lu Huilan here......

"The village flower of Houliang Village is here." Li Zhiwen took Shuilian's hand, looked at Zhang Shaofei who bowed his head and pondered, and said softly.

"Brother Ah Fei, look, Sister Alan is here, call her over to play?" The crisp sound of the water lotus echoed on both sides of the river.

"Brother Fei, go and call it!" The second dog barked vigorously.

Zhang Shaofei was shouted at by a few of them and woke up from his contemplation......

Before Zhang Shaofei could say anything, Lu Huilan came to them with light steps.

"Brother Fei, are your injuries healed?" As soon as Lu Huilan saw Zhang Shaofei, she asked with concern.

Zhang Shaofei patted his chest and said, "Okay." But my aunt said that I can't do heavy work yet, and it will take 100 days for the injured tendons to heal completely. ”

Lu Huilan blinked and asked; "Brother Fei, then what are you doing today?"

"Come out and pick some herbs and go back. As soon as they came to the field, they saw them grazing cattle. Zhang Shaofei looked at Li Zhiwen and the others, and then said, "Sister Alan, I didn't expect to see you here." ”

"It's called where you don't meet in life!" Li Zhiwen said in a crepe.

Shuilian approached Lu Huilan's side and whispered: "Sister Alan, let's go to the opposite mountain to herd cattle together, and help Brother Ah Fei pick herbs by the way, I really want you to go with me." ”

Who knew that the second dog ear spirit heard what Shui Lian said to Lu Huilan on the side, and he also coaxed on the side, clapped his hands and said loudly: "It's so wild! The village flower went to play with us, and the death was over! ”

"Dead paparazzi! What are you yelling about? The water lotus raised her right hand, pretending to be fighting.

"Brother Fei, come and save me......" Ergou shouted and hid behind Zhang Shaofei.

Zhang Shaofei touched Ergou's hair and said with a smile: "As long as the paparazzi don't talk nonsense, Ah Lianmei won't beat you." Then, Zhang Shaofei turned to Lu Huilan and introduced, "This is the second dog from Taizhen Village, you know both of them, so you don't need me to introduce them." After Zhang Shaofei finished speaking, he said to Ergou: "Paparazzi, it's good to call Sister Lan in the past!" ”

These two dogs are not stupid, they walked in front of Lu Huilan, took her hand, and said stupidly: "Sister Lan is good!" Sister Lan's hands are so white, soft and fragrant, no wonder Brother Awen said just now that you are the village flower......"

Lu Huilan heard Ergou say this, and shook off Ergou's hand with a "brush", and her delicate face was as red as Guan Gong, from her head to the root of her ears.