The ritual of worshipping the mountain god is carried out in the evening.

And the villagers will prepare the things needed for the ceremony in advance before the ceremony.

On this day, the sky is just hazy, and the whole village, regardless of men, women and children, will gather in front of the door of the ancestral hall.

The patriarchs of the four major surnames in the village each assign their own clansmen with the same surname to divide labor and cooperate.

The people surnamed Hua cooked rice in front of the stove, the people surnamed Xie killed pigs by the lake, the people surnamed Li slaughtered sheep by the stream, and the people surnamed He went to prepare the sundries needed for the ceremony......

This division of labor has also lasted for more than ten years, and people who grew up in Shoushan Village are no strangers to this set of processes.

Although the scene looked chaotic, it was also carried out in an orderly manner under the arrangement of the patriarchs......

The older ones are next to the adults in the family, helping to beat them, and the younger ones are noisy, and when there are many people, they don't need their help, so they go to have fun.

When the flower pulls the shadow of the small flower, and when he follows the crowd to the ancestral hall, countless figures and chaotic sounds fill the eyes and ears in front of him.

This is the first time she has seen such a lively scene in Shoushan Village......

She also noticed that many women and young girls were wearing clothes that were mostly bright colors like red or pink.

Although the men are not so brightly dressed, they will wear light red scarves around their necks, and if they don't, they will tie a red rope around their wrists.

She looked left and right, and there were no exceptions, so she guessed that it was some kind of custom in the village, or the custom of the day......

Before Hua Shi had time to look twice, a ruddy-complexed and smiling woman came up to her.

"Hey! You, that's you! Where are you? Why are you just watching here? ”

The woman pointed at her, and her voice came to her.

Hua Shi looked at her, his eyes a little confused.

As the woman spoke, she had already walked up to her, and her voice was a little high-pitched: "Look at your confused appearance, I am asking what is your surname?" ”

"My surname is Hua." Respond when you spend your flowers.

The woman nodded, then stretched out her hand and tugged at her: "That's right, then come with me, why do you look at you as confused?" Haven't you been here in previous years? ”

Hua Shi was pulled forward by her, a little confused.

But the woman was very talkative: "You call me Sister Hua, I'll be in charge of the spoon in a while, you help me beat it." ”

"Sister Hua?" Hua Shi blinked, and immediately reacted, this woman is surnamed Hua like her.

Strictly speaking, it was indeed the first time for her to participate in the mountain worship ceremony in the village, and seeing that Sister Hua's heart was very big, she also intended to inquire, so she tentatively asked a lot of questions......

Sister Hua was a little strange: "Why do you ask me why do you ask what your surname is?" ”

Hua Shi met her gaze and nodded.

Sister Hua looked even stranger, but she still replied: "Because of our division of labor arrangement, it is arranged according to the surname, of course I have to ask what your surname is." I'm all the way away, and I saw you pulling your brother? Or your son? Standing there stupidly, everyone is busy with their work, I see that you are confused, I know that you don't know what to do......"

Sister Hua is really talkative, as long as Hua Shi asks, what she knows and what she doesn't know, she has to answer two sentences.

"This is your brother? Also, I think you're quite young, so you shouldn't be married yet, right? Sister Hua's voice changed, and she glanced at the little flower shadow who was honestly led by her.

Hanashi shook his head.

While talking all the way, Sister Hua had already led her to the mouth of a stove under rows of straw sheds.

Many of the women here sat in a circle, smiling and chatting while busy with their work, their young, flushed cheeks and happy smiles.

Sister Hua took her through the crowd until she came to the stove of an iron cauldron before stopping.

At a distance of two meters, there were many people who were familiar with Sister Hua and raised their heads to greet Sister Hua, and Sister Hua also responded happily.

When the flower was concerned, he was attracted by the clusters of green cabbage, and the dozen or so large wooden pots were all stained with yellow mud and had not been washed cabbage, as if they had just been dug out of the ground.

Seven or eight women gathered around the well, some were fetching water from the well, some were using wooden ladles to fill water, and some were squatting and washing vegetable leaves.

Not only vegetables, but also several bulging bags of rice and flour were leaning against the stove.

There were a lot of people around, and she was dizzying when she spent her flowers, and the bursts of conversation and laughter in her ears made her brain hurt.

Sister Hua talked to her a lot again, and Hua Shi listened carefully......

Sister Hua saw that she listened carefully, and she didn't dislike her loud and chattering, so she couldn't help but chatter again.

And Hua Shi learned a lot about Shoushan Village in Sister Hua's mouth......

For example, the specific process of this mountain worship ceremony, and the significance of this ceremony......

The people in Shoushan Village firmly believe that there is a mountain god with boundless power living in Lin Haishan, and no one knows what this so-called mountain god looks like, and no one knows whether it really exists, which is like a kind of belief rooted in the hearts of everyone in Shoushan Village.

Even the name Shoushan Village came from Lin Haishan......

As for why the people who guard the mountain village believe in this ethereal mountain god so much, it has to start from many years ago.

I heard that a long time ago, under the feet of Lin Haishan, the place where they live now, was originally a large grove of small forests and barren sandy land, and Shoushan Village did not exist at that time.

It's just that a natural disaster, a large number of refugees fled from the distant imperial city, wars, natural disasters, the people of the world panicked, mourning all over the wilderness.

The ancestors of Shoushan Village, when fleeing, passed by this place and found such a place, on the way to escape, the relatives who were seriously ill and dying, came to this place, and miraculously came back to life in just a few days.

Since then, they have been stationed in this place, and over the years, more and more people have become in the village, and gradually, they have become what they see now.

The village is also headed by the four surnames in the earliest days, Hua, Xie, Li, and He, which have not changed until now.

And the ritual of worshipping the mountain god has also continued from the very beginning to today.

In order to worship the mountain god, people will hold a ceremony on the day before the new year to thank the mountain god for his protection in the past year, and hope that the mountain god will continue to protect them in the coming year......

When Sister Hua said these things, her voice was a little emotional, and her expression was also pious: "... You don't even know that, so you're not that old, right? These are all things that I have heard from the elders of my clan. ”

Hua Shi nodded.

Sister Hua spoke, and her hands were not idle, so she neatly washed the cauldron with water twice, and when the water was dry, she boiled the oil and poured the cleaned cabbage into the pot.

I only heard a stabbing sound, the collision of boiling oil and cold water, and the rustling sound that surrounded my ears.

"Oops! Pull your brother well, don't let him get so close, wait for that tender little face, it's going to be splashed with hot oil. ”

Sister Hua lifted the shovel, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw that she was on the edge of the stove, and the little flower shadow with her little hand lying on her stomach was busy reminding Hua Shi.

With his back to the side, he was about to add Chinese cabbage flowers to the bamboo basket, when he heard Sister Hua's voice, he hurriedly turned around and stretched out his hand to drag Xiaohuaying back.

Hua Shi said to him: "Xiaoying, follow me well, don't run around." ”

Xiaohuaying's eyes were already attracted by the smell of oil from the hot dishes burning in the cauldron, and she raised her chin and tried to lean over there, not listening to Hanashi's words at all.

Hua Shi was a little helpless: "Are you hungry again?" It's only been a long time. ”

Hearing the word hungry, Xiaohuaying reacted a little, and turned to look at her, with a bright innocent meaning in her big eyes.

Hua Shi took out the meat film that had been stuffed in the morning from his waist bag, broke half of it, and handed it over.

She had guessed early in the morning that the flower shadow would follow her and would not return until the evening, although she had heard that there would be food during the ceremony, but it would not be eaten until almost evening.

She was also worried that Hua Yu would be untenable and would make a little trouble, so she brought a few meat films with her in advance, in order to coax this little guy and prevent him from going hungry.

This little guy is just a snack, as soon as he sees something to eat, he can't move his feet, and he doesn't care if he's really hungry or not, anyway, when he sees something to eat, he has to come up and stare at it.

"After eating this, you must be obedient, otherwise there will be no follow-up."

Hua Shi said, handing the half of the flesh film to Xiaohuaying.

The little guy reached out and was about to take it, but was raised by Hua Shi and dodged it.

When he looked up at the flower, he looked uncertain.

Hua Shi said unmoved: "If you hear it, you have to say that you heard it." ”

The little guy blinked his big eyes, paused for a while, his eyes did not take his eyes off the flesh membrane in her hand, and said slowly, "Listen, hear." ”

Only then did the flower give him the flesh film.

Sister Hua, who was stir-frying vegetables, also saw Hua Shi take a cake from her belt and handed it to Hua Ying, and her expression couldn't help but be a little surprised: "Huh? Is your brother hungry? Do you want to eat something to cushion your stomach before you go out? ”

Hua Shi replied: "If you eat, he is greedy, and if you don't give him something to eat, he won't be able to stand." ”

Sister Hua smiled: "Haha... Not really! Children are like this, they are very greedy. ”

After these words fell, Sister Hua remembered the child she had just heard speak, and it didn't seem to be very neat?

What Sister Hua thought, she asked directly: "Why doesn't your brother seem to speak very well?" Are they all six or seven years old? It's almost the same as my dog's egg, my dog's egg may have said, that little mouth horn, at the end of the day, it hasn't stopped. ”

Hua Shi touched Little Flower Shadow's hairy head, and the little guy buried his head in his head and gnawed on the flesh membrane, letting her hands mess up.

"I'll be seven years old after the New Year, and I don't like to talk much." Flower time said.

"That's not good, at this age, you have to talk more, otherwise when you grow up, you won't be able to get a fart for a long time, be careful that you can't marry a daughter-in-law, and no one will give him a warm kang head......"

Hua Shi smiled and didn't answer.

Sister Hua was still chattering, and when she talked about her own affairs, she became even more energetic.

Hua Shi also learned from her that Sister Hua's husband's surname is He, who is less than thirty years old, and she herself is only twenty-five or sixteen, and she has two daughters and a son......

Listen to it when you spend it, and you should say two sentences from time to time.

The two were talking, and suddenly there was a commotion behind them.

On the edge of the well, the voices of the women and girls who were still talking and laughing together suddenly became a little sharp, and there was an indescribable disgust.

Sister Hua hurriedly put the ripe Chinese cabbage in the pot into a large wooden plate, and then turned her head to look at it......