Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 716
Chapter 710 The Seventh Legend of Rice

Everyone laughed and chatted for a while, and then moved to the second floor where the beauties drank tea and enjoyed the scenery.

The beautiful scenery of Miao Village made the painters full of praise: "There are scenery everywhere, it is different from the last time I came here."

Grandpa Yu said: "Piwa took us to change the house, and the sewage and garbage were also disposed of. The stockade is so clean now. We don't catch wild animals anymore, and we still raise them. It turns out that the money we get from catching wild animals is not yet You get a lot of money watching wild animals!"

"Then Xiaozhun made a movie, Piwa built the plank road, and our place became popular. Now every village and village of the Miao family is very envious. You can see that there are many foreigners when you watch You Fang this afternoon. The young man from the village."

Mother Ni took the time to serve everyone tea, and there was a yellow flower in each cup of tea.

Ding Lao said: "Hey, what is this?"

Wu Meixian knows the goods: "I have drank golden flower tea! But Piwa, the appearance of this flower is average!"

Li Junge smiled and said: "This is a new species discovered in Shuzhou. It is unique to us here. It is still in the stage of expanding the planting area. Wait until next year, when the freeze-drying plant will be built next year. This camellia is so beautiful. Now we use it for ourselves. I don't care about appearance."

Wu Meixian held the cup: "The one I drank, one flower is worth eighty!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "I've been to a medicinal herb store in Hong Kong to know that each chrysanthemum costs one or two hundred, so the price is not a problem, the key is to look at the things, the things are good enough for others to be willing to pay for them."

Li Mingqi laughed when he said this: "Isn't your goose egg gold? It's four hundred ones! It's terrible!"

Li Junge smiled and said: "Isn't this an eye-opener for the local tyrants! If it weren't for Brother Kaizi, I wouldn't have imagined that lychees could be sold like this. You don't exist, and I can still afford a few catties of goose egg gold."

Old man Ding said: "Goose egg gold is just a mouthful. I like your real longan. It is really good for helping sleep. I just feel refreshed during this time!"

Li Junge said: "If you feel refreshed, you will be able to produce a work. After this month, do the four have any creative ideas?"

Wu Kuang said: "It already exists, but today I saw Miao Village and wanted to change it."

Wu Meixian said with a smile: "I don't care if you change it or not, I must change it! I was inspired when I saw A Yin serving dustpan rice just now. If she had changed into Miao's attire at that time, think about it." That picture: in the half-dark old wooden hall, a few rays of sunlight cast from the roof tiles, indoor cigarettes curling up, a Miao girl, dressed in a festive costume, squatting on the edge of the firepit, playing quietly Offerings to ancestors..."

Old man Ding slapped his thigh: "Wonderful! With the fine brushwork of my junior sister, this painting can break out of the traditional stereotype! This idea is really important!"

Then several people began to discuss the idea, how to make the meticulous painting feel like an oil painting with religious themes, composition, brushwork, color use... There are countless details that need to be deliberated, and the competition is about to fight.

In the end, Wu Meixian got angry and slapped the beauty leaning on the railing: "Shut up! My creativity, my painting, I make my own decisions!"

Then Li Junge looked at Qiu girl helplessly: "Boss Xu is already crazy, and your teachers are going crazy too, how about you?"

Qiu girl pursed her lips and smiled: "I haven't reached their level yet, my idea is that I won't go to the square for a while, just look here, and then follow Shirly's way, starting from the details, and transforming thousands of places in the entire Miao Village Large scenes of human activities are recorded."

Li Junge put his hand on his forehead, that means you will go crazy too!
Lunch is very rich, a big pot of sour soup Shikang, smoked fish and bacon from Miao family, fern cake twice-cooked pork fried from large pieces of sacrificial meat, braised pork with smoked bamboo shoots from small pieces of meat, glutinous rice processed into deep-fried glutinous rice cakes, Black-bone chicken soup with small feet in the mountain at the foot of the mountain and thick sweet potato vermicelli from Panao Township. The beef obtained from the cows is made into stewed beef and served with cold seasoning according to the Jiachuan method. Li Junge also personally roasted a squirrel rice fish, served with The rum and rice wine for ancestor worship, no matter adults or children, is a joy to eat.

But before eating, before people are on the table, Grandpa Yu mixed the rice with some broth, come, come, thank you for your hard work, please first.

Li Junge was puzzled, these silly dogs played crazy with the children every day in the back mountain of their house, and they had to go to the Xijiaoxi River to enjoy the cool and swim at night.Work hard on their size!
When asked about this during the dinner, Grandpa Yu laughed and said: "This is an old legend of the Miao family. It doesn't matter at other times. On the New Year's Eating Festival, dogs eat first, and humans last."

Li Junge asked: "Why?"

Grandpa Yu said: "It is said in the ancient song that in ancient times, there was no rice in our world, only in the Thunder God Valley in the sky. People who live in the world can only hunt wild animals, hunt birds, and pick wild animals in the deep mountains and old forests. Fruits and wild vegetables, life is hard."

"At that time, there were two ancestors under the Nantianmen, one was called Xunxian and the other was called Xunli."

"The two ancestors thought of a way, and they were clever, so they gave their advice first: 'We have a lot of good things in the world! Trade rare birds and beasts for Thunder God!'"

"Xian first took 99 kinds of rare birds and animals to the country of Guzi, and exchanged them with Lei Gong for nine buckets, nine liters and nine bowls of rice seeds, and put them in a wooden warehouse, ready to sow them in the spring."

"Unexpectedly, one night, a mouse came to Nantianmen to pound fern roots. It accidentally knocked over the sky lantern, and it just fell on the wooden warehouse in the first and last days. It immediately ignited and burned bigger and bigger. It won't go away."

"The millets ran around in the warehouse, and finally they all flew into the sky on the fireworks and ran back to Lei Gong's house."

All the children snorted, only Wang Meixian liked listening to stories the most and had long ears, so she stopped sitting at the table over there, and came to this table with a bowl in her hand, and crowded beside Grandpa Yu to listen.

Grandpa Yu picked her up and put her next to him, put a piece of chicken for her, and then said: "The rice seeds ran away, and Li Xian was very annoyed. After much deliberation, he decided to find Lei Gong and ask him to return the rice seeds."

"In the end, Lei Gong refused to accept the account after beating him to death. He just said that the rice seeds did not go to the sky."

"Xianxian's mouth has worn out nine layers of skin, and his throat has dried up nine jars of water, but Lei Gong just refuses to admit it."

"Xianxian had no choice but to come back and prepare rare birds and animals again, and exchange them again. I didn't expect that these thunder gods already existed, and this time I didn't do it."

Wang Meixian's eyeballs started to roll, and she said, "Then it's time to find a way. I went to Leigong's warehouse wearing the hiking shoes that Sister Ayin bought for me, and just said to have a look. There might be rice in the soles of the shoes when I turned around. kind!"

Li Junge was not in a good mood: "If you were to go out, don't talk about rice seeds, I'm afraid Lei Gong would have been tricked by you! First of all, he is an honest man!"

Grandpa Yu laughed loudly: "Meixian is really smart! Xian Xian's method is actually similar to yours, but he has been thinking about it for nine days! Unlike us Meixian, who come up with ideas in the blink of an eye!"

Li Junge said: "She is a dog-headed military adviser, and she cannot be praised in this respect. Grandpa, you can continue."

The fourth grandfather took a sip of his wine and said with a smile, "After thinking about it for nine days, I came up with an idea: when the rice is ripe, send a dog to roll in the rice field to let the rice seeds stick to the dog's hair Come back, isn’t it all right? So on the morning of the [-]th day of the seventh lunar month in the ancient calendar, Xun Xian sent the dog to set off..."

Wang Meixian asked, "Is it Bai Da?"

Grandpa Yu said with a smile: "I guess not? But it might be Baida's ancestor... When the dog was about to set off, he explained first and then again. If he wanted to take it, he would take the best one. The rice stalks were only five inches high. The ears of rice are five feet long."

"As a result, the dog was impatient, and ran away after listening to it. When he ran across the overpass, he tripped over a rock and fell hard. When he got up after rolling several times, he remembered what he had told him in reverse. When I ran to a field where the ears of rice were only five inches long but the stalks were five feet high, I rolled a few times in a hurry and ran back.”

Wang Meixian was delighted: "This dog really looks like Bai Da!"

Grandpa Yu patted Wang Meixian's head lovingly, and then said: "At this time, Lei Gong also got the news that Lian sent a dog to fetch rice seeds first, and has sent 99 warriors to guard the bridge head. When the dog returned to the bridge, immediately He was knocked down by warriors into Tianhe."

"The Milky Way is very wide and bottomless. The warriors thought that this dog would die, and he would not be able to swim across it with twelve lives. Even if he passed, the rice on his body would have been washed away by the water, so they all went back to report to Lei Gong. It's gone."

"But I never expected, how do you say the old saying? 'Pigs float on three rivers, dogs plan on the four seas!' This dog can swim! After falling into the Tianhe River, the dog immediately raised its tail high and exposed it to the surface of the water." Then, with great effort, he swam across the Tianhe River and returned to the world."

"The rice seeds on its body were indeed washed away, but there are still nine precious rice seeds stuck to its tail!"

Wang Meixian cheered "yes"!Then he raised his small palm and looked at Grandpa Yu eagerly.

Grandpa Yu wondered, "What do you mean?"

Wang Meixian also raised Grandpa Yu's hand, asked him to slap open, and then slapped it with a "yes": "This means we have won!"

Grandpa Yu laughed loudly: "So that's the case, you little girls in the city are really interesting!"

Then Wang Meixian asked: "Yuzuzu, is the story finished?"

Grandpa Yu said: "There is also a tail. It means that after the rice seeds were obtained, Lixian was so happy that he killed the rare birds and animals that he planned to exchange for the rice seeds and gave them to the dogs as a reward. Since then , the dog learned to eat meat."

"Then I first used the valleys as the yoke, the mountains as the plow legs, the rocky mountains as the plow posts, the stones as the plow feet, the hills as the plow handles, and the whirlwind as the plow ropes. I plowed on the land for nine days and nine nights, plowing all over the land. Everywhere in the world."

"After the seeds are planted, I will take care of them day and night, and let the dog guard the field ridge all the time, and don't allow sparrows and mice to wait by the side."

"On the sixth day of the sixth lunar month in the ancient calendar, a string of five-inch-long rice buds finally emerged from the tips of the seedlings. Then on the thirteenth day of the seventh lunar month in the ancient calendar, which was the first anniversary of retrieving the rice seeds, the rice buds were picked first. Come down, take some and peel off the shells, and you'll get three bowls of rice."

"When the rice was cooked, Li Xian and Li Li thought that their dog had risked their lives to find the rice, so they scooped up three big bowls for the dog to eat first, and then they ate it themselves."

"The remaining rice becomes seeds, and every year the rice is planted and more and more rice is grown, so people all over the world can eat rice."

"Later, in order to commemorate this event, our Miao family set up a 'Eating New Festival', which could be on the sixth day of June or the [-]th day of July. Our village has always celebrated the thirteenth day of the seventh month. , it’s time to harvest rice.”

(End of this chapter)