Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 396 Customs and Humanities of a Place

On the Mid-Autumn Festival, it seems that the whole village is filled with a festive atmosphere.

Niuweiling is relatively remote and far away from the old village, but you can still hear the sounds of children running and laughing.

Several small hills near the old village were full of people, who turned out to be picking fruits in the mountains.

At this time of the year, there are still some twisters hanging on the branches, and the purple-black wine glasses are hidden among the leaves. They are very tempting, but the focus of picking is not on them, but on the chestnuts.

Maoli is a wild chestnut. It is smaller in size but still tastes very sweet. It can be found all over the mountains and fields. It is the most important source of snacks for children in autumn.

In addition to hair chestnuts, there are also some wild hawthorn trees. There are not many wild hawthorns here. Gao Mingcheng only knows about a dozen trees. When he was a child, he was like these greedy children, tossing some in the mountains every day. food.

What impressed him most was eating a sugar bowl, a fruit whose scientific name is Golden Cherry. This thing is also a kind of medicine, but because of its sweetness, it is a favorite snack of children.

Almost every kid has a love-hate relationship with it, loving its sweetness and hating its burrs!

Gao Mingcheng believes that anyone who has ever picked a candy bowl to eat must have had their hand pricked by a candy bowl!

In addition to these, you can also pick wild persimmons in the mountains now.Wild persimmons are small in size and are late-ripening fruits. If you don't use the right method, the wild persimmons will taste astringent even if they are soft.

No matter how greedy he was when he was a child, Gao Mingcheng would not pick wild persimmons to eat, but some people in his village were good at making persimmons. Those wild persimmons that no one wanted were made by him into sweet and waxy persimmons, which became very popular.

Last time when Sister Duomei and Duojin's family paid New Year's greetings, Duojin made a lot of persimmons to entertain the guests.

After returning to Gaojiacun, Gao Mingcheng made it a habit to go into the mountains early in the morning, first to practice boxing, and then to look for prey.

The easiest prey to find is naturally the hare.

This thing has no natural enemies now, and it reproduces quickly. As long as you go into the mountains, you can see their traces. Of course, whether you can catch the hare depends on your personal skills.

For ordinary people, it is a bit difficult, but for Gao Mingcheng, it is not difficult at all, as long as you have the skills!
Sometimes, he didn't even need to take action and directly commanded the black tiger and elf dogs to hunt the hare. If he was watching next to him, the hare would be doomed.

No, when he went down the mountain, he was carrying several hares in his hands.

After returning home, he first dealt with a hare, divided the rabbit meat into two pieces and threw them to the two dogs to eat.

He is not at home often, which also affects the quality of the two dogs' food.

In the morning, Gao Mingcheng worked at home until eleven o'clock before preparing to leave for his parents' house.

He drove a tractor there because he had to bring a lot of things. He wanted to send a box of moon cakes, two bottles of wine and two hares to his parents' house.

In addition, the same is true for Xi Nainai's family and Zhang Chengyuan's family.

As for those cousins, just give them a box of mooncakes, and carry a pack of cigarettes with you. If you meet relatives or friends who smoke, give them a pack.

When passing by the home of many beautiful second sisters, Gao Mingcheng got out of the car and gave gifts to Zhang Chengyuan.

Duoyu is the second sister of Duomei, and her brother-in-law is an employee of Gao Mingcheng. For this big holiday, he must prepare thicker gifts, so in addition to these gifts, Zhang Chengyuan also has an extra red envelope for employees.

After putting down his things, Gao Mingcheng didn't stay long and went straight down the slope.

Zhang Chengyuan went outside to see him off, watched him leave, and then returned to the house.

"Look how much money is in that red envelope? Tsk tsk, their family's life is getting better and better." Duo Yu's tone was sour.

Zhang Chengyuan glanced at the red envelope in his hand. It was directly given to him by Gao Mingcheng, but he didn't even look at it and directly gave it a lot of jade.

The money at home is managed by many jade.

Under normal circumstances, Zhang Chengyuan has no time to spend money.

After handing over the red envelope, Zhang Chengyuan silently began to make the pole again.One of the poles at home was broken, so he had to make another one quickly. There are two materials for the pole, one is wood and the other is bamboo.

Bamboo is light and easy to obtain, but it has a disadvantage, that is, it cannot carry heavy objects, so it is suitable for women to carry things within [-] kilograms.

As for heavy objects such as grain, fertilizer, bricks, and cement, it is best to use wooden poles to carry them.

What Zhang Chengyuan is making now is a wooden shoulder pole. The wood is mulberry. Mulberry is a common tree species in the mountains. It has suitable weight, moderate hardness, high strength, good elasticity, and is not easy to deform or be eaten by insects. It is very suitable for Make a pole.

Almost every household in Gaojia Village has several mulberry wood poles.

While he was making the pole, his son was playing on the ground next to him. After Duoyu put away the red envelope, he put on an apron and went into the kitchen.

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, so of course they have to eat well. They bought two kilograms of pork before, and now Gao Mingcheng has given two hares as a gift, so the dishes will be even richer.

The days are peaceful and quiet, but having food and drink is a kind of happiness.

The tractor came all the way to the old village and stopped at the pond at the entrance of the village.

Gao Mingcheng didn't let Duo Mei get the things, he just said: "You walk slowly, I will get the things!"

He had already packed his things in a big bag, and now he was carrying a big bag in one hand, which was quite convenient.

He walked as fast as the wind and soon arrived at the door of his parents' house.

Before I even entered, I heard people talking and laughing inside.

Usually Gao Mingwan drives a car outside, Gao Mingli works in a sugar factory, and Gao Shufang works in a clothing store.As for Gao Mingcheng, his family had separated a long time ago, so Gao Yuanyuan and Luo Xiaohua were a little lonely on weekdays.

Now that the children are at home, parents are naturally happy.

Gao Mingcheng carried the things in first, handed one of the bags to Gao Yuan, and then said, "I'm going to deliver moon cakes to my uncles first, and I'll come back later."

With that said, he went out carrying another bag.

I went to Grandma Xixi’s house first, put down my things, and got ready to leave.

Grandma Xi quickly shouted from behind: "Come over for dinner tonight!"

"Okay." Gao Mingcheng responded with a smile on his face. He had originally planned to come here for dinner in the evening.

After taking out the gifts for Grandma Xi's family, there weren't many things in the bag, just a few boxes of moon cakes and a carton of cigarettes, so he went door to door to deliver them.

Here, the interactions between relatives are not that close. If you are bullied, you yell and relatives and friends will come to help, but if nothing goes wrong, you can live your own life.

And because many people come from families with many children, they sometimes choose to cut off their relationships because they cannot afford so many favors.

After breaking up, there is no need to give each other gifts during festivals such as Mid-Autumn Festival and Chinese New Year.

Of course, if there are important events such as wedding, birthday, life or death, etc., you still have to go with the family to eat.

In a situation like Gao Mingcheng's, if he lived an ordinary life, it would be reasonable not to send moon cakes to his uncles. But now that he is living so well in his childhood and everyone knows that he is rich, it would be reasonable not to send them anything. , it is easy for others to make irresponsible remarks.

However, Gao Mingcheng still has a good reputation in the village. When doing work in the orchard, he will hire people to do it, and every autumn, he will also buy a large amount of medicinal materials, giving the villagers a way to make money.

In addition, he has the best relationship with Gao Guobing, so even if someone feels sour, they will not say anything blatantly.

After he finished running this lap, many beauties came slowly over, so the couple went to his parents' house together.

(End of this chapter)