Changping Village.
It is already the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, and the Chinese New Year will be celebrated in two days. For the residents in the town, their busyness is another scene.
But for the villagers, the flavor of the new year is not as strong as usual.
Ming people don't tell secrets. Yang Ruoqing has traveled here for so many years. What she enjoys most is celebrating the New Year in the twelfth lunar month and visiting relatives and friends in the first month of the year.
She even prefers this short and precious time in the twelfth lunar month to visiting relatives and friends in the first month.
Compared with the industrialized civilization of later generations, this era was truly ancient and a completely agricultural society.
In this era, there is no such thing as working part-time and then going home to show off.
More than 90% of the villagers in this era lived in the village all year round, working at sunrise and resting at sundown just like their ancestors.
Under the old maple tree at the entrance of the village, at the entrance of the alley, at the threshing floor at the south end of the village, under the south wall where the sun shines, next to the dung pile behind the house, in the stacks of firewood and hay in front and back of the yard...all are the belongings of men, women, and children in the village. paradise.
Children play hide-and-seek here, men gather together to bask in the sun and smoke cigarettes, women sit in a row with their needlework and do household chores, and old ladies pass by carrying their eldest grandson on their backs, picking and choosing. Those who work on water, those who chop firewood, those who wash starch, those who go to the vegetable garden to skim cabbage, and those who come back from the market in the town. Everyone who passes by these places has to stop and chat.
As we enter the twelfth lunar month, the most common questions everyone asks when meeting are the following:
"Are you all ready for the New Year's goods?"
“Have the New Year’s clothes, shoes and socks for the elderly and children at home been prepared?”
"How many kilograms of pork were weighed this year for the New Year?"
"Thirty pounds? Tsk tsk, that's enough to eat. I can have a fat year this year!"
"..."
Yang Ruoqing was walking in the village, hearing and seeing all these things, and she was really immersed in this atmosphere.
Unlike later generations, there were not many young people in the village throughout the year, only empty-nesters and left-behind children.
Young men and women went to other places to make money and make a living. The village was lifeless, and the doors and windows of every house were closed.
Only they know the ups and downs throughout the year.
I can't come back until the Chinese New Year. After the New Year's Eve dinner, I have to start planning to go out to work on the second day of the first lunar month. The children seem to feel something and stick to their parents' side all the time, fearing that their parents will disappear in the blink of an eye. Gone.
Therefore, many parents secretly leave the village while their children are sleeping.
But when the child wakes up, he will still search up and down the building where his parents left him, crying heartbrokenly.
This era is different. No matter how poor the parents are, they are still together with the children. Even if they eat rice bran, it is a bowl for you and a bowl for me. It is lively.
Yang Ruoqing likes this era and the excitement of this era.
Even if you are poor, there are advantages to being poor. People are relatively simple, not as impetuous as later generations, and do not commit so many pretentious acts!
If you have money, you have money. If you don’t have money, you have no money. Unlike some people who play big at the poker table, the reminder messages in mobile online loans come one after another.
These days, if you don’t have money for the New Year, you just borrow it from relatives and friends, or transfer it to a big family in the village.
At this time, while having dinner, Yang Ruoqing and Luo Tiejiang received several groups of villagers who came to borrow money for the New Year.
Some even come from neighboring villages.
As for the villagers who come to borrow money, as long as they are not of bad character, lazy to eat, no matter if they are Yang Ruoqing or Luo Blacksmith, no matter if they borrow more or less, there is no way they can go back empty-handed.
As Blacksmith Luo said: "This year more people came to our house to borrow money and food than in previous years. The reason is inseparable from the summer flood!"
Yang Ruoqing also nodded lightly: "It will be fine once this year is over. My father received a message from the town's security chief in the afternoon and asked him to take people and cars to the town tomorrow morning. It must be relief food." ”
Hearing that the relief food was finally delivered to the village, Blacksmith Luo breathed a sigh of relief, "This is really a timely help. Today's Holy God is merciful and still cares about the life and death of our people."
Yang Ruoqing smiled, "That's for sure. Today's sage loves his people like his own children."
I dare not say anything else, but in terms of governing the country and caring for the people, Qi Xingyun, as a generation of emperors, really worked hard.
Because the custom here tonight is that after dark and before midnight, everyone in the village should quickly lie down in bed. Whether you are asleep or unable to sleep, try to stay quiet and don't make a big noise.
People who have dogs will be hungry and full even if they pick at their dogs.
Tonight, the owner will let the dog eat a full meal, then pat the dog's head and tell it to huddle up in the doghouse and sleep well tonight, and don't talk too much regardless of what's going on outside...
A dog with a high IQ may be able to understand, but a dog with a low IQ will just think that the dog owner farts and barks anyway.
Therefore, on the second day, the dog will inevitably be beaten, and even hung up and skinned, and served with onions, ginger, and garlic, becoming a dish for entertaining relatives and friends in the first month of the year.
No idea, because everyone thinks the quieter the better tonight, and barking dogs tonight are regarded as a symbol of unlucky...
But in Yang Ruoqing's opinion, it is the dog's nature for the caretaker to bark a few times as a warning when hearing noises, and the owner should not take it seriously.
"Qing'er, dinner is cooked. Let's eat early and go back to the house to rest." Wang Cuilian came over to discuss with Yang Ruoqing.
Tonight, four girls from Yangzhou suddenly joined the family. Sun and Xiaohua came over to help cook, so the two families gathered together to eat tonight.
"Okay, I'll call Zhi'er right now and ask him to tell a few girls to sit down in the dining hall."
Yang Ruoqing went over and called Dazhi, who said, "Mom, Xiao Qiao won't let her go to the dining hall. I'll send her to the house later."
Yang Ruoqing nodded: "Okay, you can make arrangements."
Then Yang Ruoqing went to call Yang Huazhong and Da'an. In the yard next door, Yang Huazhong and Da'an were there. Not only were they there, but Yang Huaming, Yang Huazhou and other young and old men of the Yang family were also there. Obviously, Yang Huazhong was going to the town early tomorrow morning to collect disaster relief food. He wanted to recruit manpower from within Lao Yang's family.
Seven or eight people and five or six cars can be taken out completely.
When Yang Ruoqing called for dinner, Yang Yongqing asked jokingly: "Qing'er, just call me third uncle or fourth uncle instead of us. Are you being too partial?"
Yang Ruoqing smiled and didn't hide anything, and said truthfully: "It's not that I'm biased, it's that my fourth aunt was helping in the kitchen here before. My family beats the rice for the pot based on the heads. I called my brother and you didn't get any food. Instead, he was negligent.”
Yang Yongqing said: "I don't care, I don't care. As long as I have a sip of wine and a few peanuts, I can do it!"
Yang Huaming laughed and scolded Yang Yongqing: "What are you going to do? I don't even want to go. The guests from the Luo family this time are some pretty girls. Why don't we rough men go and scare them?"
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