Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1953 Chinese New Year
Especially for those families who have Chu craftsmen, warriors, or Bimos, they will become guardian gods. Therefore, during the New Year's Eve ceremony, the items they have used should be returned to their original places in time and placed on the offering positions in the home so that they can enjoy the sacrifice together.

As the festival approaches, young people are preparing gunpowder and artillery powder; women are preparing to pound glutinous rice cakes and make buckwheat buns. And until the two days before the end of the year, Lao Chi Ri does not go out, because the most important "Madu" in the entire Lianhe Township, no, even in the entire Meigu County, Daliangshan area, is in this grain station.

In previous years, due to the consideration for his son, the village chief, Lao Chi Ri did not dare to hold a large-scale sacrifice. Now he has Zhou Zhi's support and has raised the banner of protecting intangible cultural heritage. In addition, the grain station slaughtered three big fat pigs this year. The ancestors must be very satisfied with Lianhe Township this year. Lao Chi Ri naturally wants to have a complete sacrifice.

Tu Liangzhi's face has been beaming these days. He has sold a lot of homemade corn wine from the grain station's small winery, but he estimated that there would be a big consumption during the New Year this year, so he kept a lot for himself.

Zhou Zhi and Wu Renzhong took turns driving to the county and state to bring the necessary supplies to their fellow villagers.

This year, the villagers have a lot of requests for cloth, small silver jewelry, candy, and cakes. For some families who only grow potatoes and corn, they also want to exchange for some rice, glutinous rice, or even directly buy the bait blocks that weigh five pounds each.

Everything else was easy to handle, but the silver jewelry took some effort. Silver products are quite precious nowadays, so Zhou Zhi and Wu Renzhong entrusted the matter to Li Yutang and asked the People's Bank of the Autonomous Prefecture to find channels in the province to get a batch of them.

This batch of goods is very important, so Zhou Zhi and Tu Liangzhi went to the state to pick it up in person, and also to pick up a group of important guests - Chi Xueli and her filming team.

“Elbow!” Chi Xueli gave Zhou Zhi a big hug when she saw him. “I miss you so much! I’ve also been traveling around the capital of Shudu, but we’ve never met once!”

"Sister Xueli." Zhou Zhi was also very happy to see Chi Xueli. This was the beginning of changing the fate of himself and even his entire family. Chi Xueli played a huge role: "How did you get yourself into this state? I almost didn't dare to recognize you!"

"You little brat, how dare you look down on me!" Chi Xueli grabbed Zhou Zhi's ears: "Do you look down on me?!"

"No, no!" Zhou Zhi quickly begged for mercy: "This is how a director should act! I'm just worried that you won't be able to get married!"

In the past, Chi Xueli was an intellectual host. She usually wore high-end shirts, suits, skirts, stockings and high heels, and had fashionable big wavy hair. She perfectly grasped the image of an urban beauty.

Later, when she became a channel host and was not on the show herself, she changed her tube skirt into trousers and put on big black-rimmed glasses, which made her look even more like a queen.

Since she started filming "Blood Veins River", Chi Xueli's outfit has changed dramatically. For example, now she wears sports boots, canvas pants, a down jacket, and her hair is cut very short, and she is almost invisible with a sun hat on. Anyway, she looks neat and heroic. Except for her face which is still as beautiful as before, there is no connection between her image and the past.

"Rare! If she can't get married, then she can't get married!" Chi Xueli didn't care about Zhou Zhi's teasing at all, and finally let go of his hand: "You idiot, there are so many beautiful places in Daliang Mountain, I saw a lot of them along the way, but you didn't even think of taking some footage, and all you sent me were old grandfathers performing rituals and singing..."

"Those are just basic materials." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Just like the bricks and cement used to build a castle, how to turn the bricks and cement into a beautiful manor villa depends on you, the documentary director, to design it well and add the materials."

"Uncle Tu, I don't need to introduce this person, right? She's the great director Sister Chi." Then he introduced Chi Xueli, "This is the secretary of our township. She's a retired soldier who returned to his hometown to lead the villagers on the road to poverty alleviation and prosperity. She was just elected as a representative of the National People's Congress this year, and she will go to the capital to attend the meeting next year."

"Hello, Secretary Tuzhi." Chi Xueli took the initiative to extend her hand and said, "I watched Elbow grow from a high school kid. We are used to joking with each other. Please don't be offended."

"Let's call him Uncle Tu." Zhou Zhi also laughed and said, "It's strange to call him the village head or the party secretary." "Welcome, welcome." Tu Liangzhi also stretched out his big hand and shook hands with Chi Xueli: "If it weren't for Elbow, our village wouldn't have been able to wait for a great director like you!"

"How can you be called a great director? I just made a movie. To be honest, it's because he found good materials. I just got the reputation." Chi Xueli smiled and turned to Zhou Zhi and asked, "Is it Elbow?"

"That's not true!" Zhou Zhi denied it outright: "It's your ruthlessness, Sister Xue Li! We filmed from the plateau to Haikou, from the Gobi Desert to the swamps. Many places are extremely desolate, with graves all over the ground. Most people can't endure that kind of hardship."

"Speaking of this, I have to introduce the team of heroes." Chi Xueli turned around and called the team members over.

"Brother Da Wei is here too!" Zhou Zhi saw a man in the crowd wearing a vest with many pockets and long hair, "Why does he have a beard?!"

The man was immediately delighted: "Oh my, even though I have a beard, Elbow still recognizes me?!"

"Of course," Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "When I went to the provincial TV station to look for Sister Xue Li, it was you who brought me in."

"Hahaha! Yes, there was also a kid named Yang He. Now that I think about it, a child's character can be judged by his age. You guys were so brave back then!"

After the excitement was over, the comrade in charge of cultural reception at the state level came up and led everyone to the car. Chi Xueli is now considered a top star in the world of documentaries, and her status is different. Everyone had to go to the state government for a meeting first, so that the leaders could meet with her to express their welcome and care for the crew, and to express the local government's attitude of fully cooperating with the crew.

Afterwards, two tables of welcoming banquet were held in the state guesthouse. In the afternoon, Zhou Zhi and Tu Liangzhi came with a large group, carrying the silver jewelry they had bought from the gold and silver shop in Shudu. At this time, Shama Ricong also rushed over from school, and went to the medical school to pick up Jilie Azi who was on vacation, and everyone returned to the village together.

That evening, after a sumptuous welcoming banquet with glutinous rice cakes and buckwheat steamed buns as the staple food, everyone in the grain station began to clean the courtyard and the house, while preparing sacrificial items such as Tuotuo meat.

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Chi Xueli set up the camera and filmed the highest-level ceremony in the autonomous prefecture, which was to "welcome" the ancestors back to Madu.

In the following days, Chi Xueli followed Zhou Zhi, Wu Renzhong, Mai Xiaomiao, A Zi and Heilong to visit the villagers one by one and distribute charity supplies organized from Shudu.

Zhou Zhi also prepared gifts for the boys and girls, all of which were earrings made of southern red produced in Lianhe Township.

Don't be surprised, both men and women of the Yi people wear earrings, but girls wear them on both ears, while boys only wear them on the right ear, and they only use red and yellow colors.

The yellow material is usually beeswax, which is also a good thing, but there is nowhere to find it in Zhouzhi. As for the red material, don’t use too much of it, as it can be used to dress up all the bachelors and even kids in the village.

Every time they arrived at a house, Zhou Zhi and his friends would shout twice as soon as they got to the door, and the owner of the house would come out to greet them with the entire family.

This kind of roaring is also a custom. Every time you arrive at a house, you will roar a few times, meaning to tell the host that the visitors have arrived.