Back to the small fishing village in 1982Y

Chapter 135 The Ritual Sense of Mid-Autumn Festival
Grabbing the weeds along the road, they walked up the path of the back mountain. They often come here because there are wild fruits on the mountain, and there are also fruit trees planted by the villagers. When they were young, everyone went up the mountain to steal them. Now it is the turn of the next generation. It was stolen from the mountain.

There is still some sheep droppings along the way, and a row of small wooden houses can be seen on the mountain in the distance, and a few sheep and other wild animals can be heard from time to time.

But after walking for a short distance, they saw a tree growing not far away, and then several trees grew in other places, scattered and separated.

"The mess on the side of the road is so messy that those trees belong to your family." Ye Yaodong said affirmatively.

"Yeah, it's only been planted for a few years, and I haven't fertilized it much, but it's growing pretty well. Maybe there's those sheep dung as fertilizer. If you chop it up casually, my family can't eat that much."

"I can't eat that much. Why didn't you ask us to pick it last year? We can help you eat it!" After the short novel, he held up the bamboo pole and rushed towards the nearest one.

"You didn't say you want it? My father is not at home. I don't bother to pick it so much. I can't eat much. I ask my uncle to pick it. I only keep a little, enough to eat. .”

Ye Yaodong patted him on the shoulder, "Everyone will call me here from now on, I don't mind too much, and I have a lot of family members too."

"It's fine if you don't mind the trouble."

"Tomorrow, I will also plant two trees by the back door of my house."

He walked towards Xiaoxiao while talking, Xiaoxiao was yelling for him to go over and help chop.

Ah Guang said that he didn't want to do it anymore, but he still helped pick a few handfuls.

Ye Yaodong looked at the dozen or so bunches of plantains at his feet, and hurriedly stopped Xiao Xiao, who was about to continue, "It's almost enough, don't pick any more, it will go bad if you don't finish it after two or three days, you have to eat it later gone."

Xiaoxiao raised her head and looked at the banana tree, "Then come back in a few days."

Each of the three shared a little bit, but Ah Guang took the least. According to him, the whole mountain was his back garden, and he could pick it anytime.

After dividing, they took two sacks from Ah Guang, Ye Yaodong and Xiao Xiao each carried a sack of plantains and walked back.

When they reached the fork in the village, the two parted ways and went back to their respective homes, but they hadn't walked a few steps...

"Fuck, I haven't cut my firewood yet, Dongzi, Dongzi, don't go, I haven't chopped my firewood yet..."

Hearing the yelling from behind, Ye Yaodong ran away immediately, and they all came back, who would go to the mountain with him to cut firewood?
"Don't run away if you are riding a horse!"

"You take the bananas home, and just pick up some dead branches..."

"Let's go together...don't run away~Fuck~"

Ye Yaodong ran with the sack on his shoulders until there was no movement behind him, then he stopped to take a breath. The sack of plantains on his back was not light, and he must take it home first.

A big man chops firewood on the mountain, why should he accompany him?

As for him chopping firewood, he turned into chopping plantains and went back without a single branch. I don't know if he will be scolded or beaten?hey~

Ye Yaodong returned home with a full load, carrying a sack of bananas, and walked home slowly in a good mood.

The old lady sat at the door chatting with the old lady of the neighbor's house when she had nothing to do. By the way, she looked at a group of children playing at the door. She saw him from a long distance, and when she approached, she said, "Where did you go? Why did you carry a sack? "

The other children gathered around after seeing it, "Ah, third uncle, what did you bring back?"

"What's in the bag?"

"Show me, show me."

The little boy is not tall enough, so he just stood on tiptoe and stretched his head to look.

"Go, go, don't get in the way here, you can eat it when it's cooked, you can't eat it now."

Ye Chenghai glanced into the sack, "It's a native banana, and your mouth will be numb if it's not ripe."

"It's good to know, let's lead them to the side to play."

After talking to the children, Ye Yaodong said to the old lady: "I went to Ah Guang to pick the native bananas, and I will let you eat them when they are ripe."

The old lady smiled and narrowed her eyes, "Hey, good."

The old lady next to him smiled and said, "Your little grandson is very filial. He gave you dentures and even picked bananas for you."

"Yes, Dongzi is the most filial..."

Ye Yaodong felt a little embarrassed when he heard the old lady spare no effort in praising him, so he quickly carried the sack into the house, handed the plantains to his mother, wrapped them in old newspapers, and put them together with the persimmons.

At noon, I casually cooked noodles at home and ate a little bit, and the meal was officially served at four or five o'clock in the evening.

As soon as the children in the family heard that the meal was ready, they all ran into the house screaming, climbed directly on the stool, and stretched out their hands to grab something to eat.

Ye Yaodong hurriedly stopped them, "Let me stretch out your hands and take a look?"

Everyone didn't know why, but they spread out their hands obediently, and the results became more and more scary.

Without opening it to look, I don't even know how dirty my hands are.

"Playing on the ground all the time, you dare to grab and eat things with such hands, it's frightening to death."

"Didn't all of you adults say that you are not clean and you will not get sick if you eat it?"

"That's talking about something, look at your own hands, do you still dare to grab something and eat it?"

Ye Chenghai stuck out his tongue, and hurried to wash his hands consciously, and the others followed closely.

Mother Ye's voice came from the back door immediately, "Why are you willing to wash your hands today? Come wash them all."

"Third Uncle hates us for being dirty!"

"He was no cleaner than you when he was young."

"Let's just say, he still has the nerve to laugh at us..."

Mother Ye washed their hands one by one before rushing them to the table, and the whole family sat neatly at the big table.

After the house was built, their family resumed three meals of porridge a day, and began to live on a budget again, and today they were finally able to eat again.

The children were very excited, and immediately picked up the chopsticks to pick up their favorite dishes after serving the table.

The bowl of prawns left by Ye Yaodong yesterday was the most popular. He just stretched out his chopsticks a little slowly. Half of the whole bowl of prawns was caught by Ye Chenghai. The children are divided.

He raised his eyebrows, and was about to say something to him, but Mrs. Ye scolded first, "You are the only one who eats, and no one else should eat, right?"

He was aggrieved and took out all the prawns, and the other children honestly didn't dare to take too much, so they all returned it. Ye Yaodong was satisfied to take one for each of his wife, child and old lady.

Fortunately, the families will be separated soon, and each family will eat their own food, otherwise the good things left by themselves will not be able to be eaten by the wife and children.

The children were quiet for a while, and after taking a few mouthfuls, they started to make noise again, and those who couldn't catch them screamed there...

After a lively meal, before the adults finished eating, they clamored to offer sacrifices to the moon again.

In this era, they have the custom of offering sacrifices to the moon on August 2000th. After [-], there will be no more sacrifices, and many customs will disappear in the ocean of time.

"It's not dark yet, why sacrifice to the moon, go out to play first, and then sacrifice to the moon after it gets dark."

Everyone heard the words and had to go to the door and wait. When it was dark and the moon came out, they ran into the house as soon as possible, shouting to worship the moon.

Mother Ye had a big head and could only take out the mooncakes that Dongzi and his aunt sent a few days ago.

This mooncake is quite big, with a diameter of about 20 centimeters. Aunt Ye is very considerate. If it is too small, it will not be enough for so many children in the family.

Mother Ye took a wooden stool and put it at the door, and put the round pancake on the plate with three sticks of incense sticks on it, and set it up facing the moon. After the incense burnt, they could take it in and share it with the children.

The children were looking forward to squatting in two rows around the moon cakes, looking at the moon for a while, and seeing where the incense was burning for a while, and then yelled at the children of the neighbors next door, asking how big their moon cakes were, and whether they were better than theirs. Big?
After Ye Yaodong finished eating, he leaned on the pillar by the door, watching a group of little radish heads squatting there expectantly, with the corners of their mouths raised, it was quite ritualistic at the moment.

When these children grow up, the next generation will not be afraid to eat, not to mention the sense of expectation, they don't even have such a simple sense of ritual.

"Why does this incense burn so slowly?"

"Shall we blow it? Let it burn faster?"

"Huha~huha~huha~"

A bunch of mouths are pouting and blowing...

The children of the neighbors next door also followed suit, and they all blew the incense there, hoping that the incense would burn faster.

"Ah, don't spit out your saliva. Is it disgusting? How can we eat it..." The second niece Ye Tingting patted Ye Chenghai in disgust.

"Then I'll eat alone!" Ye Chenghai said triumphantly.

"shameless!"

"Thinking beautiful!"

"You are not allowed to blow..."

A few children puffed their cheeks hard and blew the incense, and the incense burned quickly. After the last light of the fire disappeared, they hurriedly brought the mooncakes into the house.

"You can eat it, you can eat it."

"Mother, grandma, come and cut the mooncakes~"

After the whole mooncakes were shared equally among everyone, everyone walked to the door to eat contentedly, to tempt neighbors who hadn't eaten mooncakes yet.

After eating, he still didn't forget to lick his fingers, and ate all the dregs and sesame seeds on his hands, and then licked his lips, feeling unsatisfied. Mooncakes are too delicious for them, and they are so rare to eat.

Seeing the satisfaction on their faces, Ye Yaodong turned his head and asked Lin Xiuqing who had just walked out in a good mood, "Do you want to eat mooncakes? Let's buy a small one tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow will be the Mid-Autumn Festival. What kind of moon cakes are there for the children to eat? Besides, the meat oil used in this kind of big moon cakes will be vegetarian tomorrow."

"Ok."

Lin Xiuqing thought for a while, "Let's move the locker there first while we're free for the next few days?"

"It's okay. After Mazu finishes patrolling the sea, we'll go to the town to have a look and buy some pots and pans for the house. Then we can just go there."

"That's what I think. I've tidied up the clothes, quilts and sheets. You can push them to your new home tomorrow with a cart."

"it is good."

"You don't need to call your friends anymore. They were troublesome when building the house. It just so happens that no one is going to sea in the next few days. We can just help from our own family."

"Ah."

(End of this chapter)