Villager of Daming

Chapter 150 Worshiping the Ancestors is Crying Officials to Introduce (Fifth Change)
The villagers first went to the mountain temple to offer sacrifices under the leadership of the head of the village. They put food, including pig heads and sheep heads, but no cows, and put a chicken to make three animals.

Then everyone went to cut mugwort. Others need to pick mugwort in the wild. The village specializes in planting mugwort, which is a medicinal material.

I have to collect a lot today!Next comes processing and storage. In fact, a lot has been harvested in the past two days. After the Dragon Boat Festival, the effect of mugwort will become worse.

There is also Artemisia annua, which is used for cold soaking to treat malaria. It has been written in the prescription for Taiyuan Hospital, and Artemisia annua must be used.

Then go to the location of the archway to offer incense, and wait for the ancestors, and go when it is time to eat lunch.

Everyone makes zongzi, boils eggs, hangs glazed lanterns, and waits for the night to order, and each person is tied with colorful thread and equipped with a sachet.

There is no dragon boat, and this year's conditions do not allow it. The village head plans to see that next year, when other villages become rich, everyone will have another dragon boat race.

The guards of the Prince's Mansion and Zhu Taiyi also got colorful ropes and sachets, and put mugwort in them.

Children in the village eat eggs, eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs. The latter two are salty, and they eat them at noon after touching them.

The eggs are bland, and after being touched, they are given to the kitchen to make egg stuffed meatballs.

Hurry up, the kitchen awaits!
Raw eggs are not allowed. Raw eggs are stronger than cooked ones. The key point is that they are not easy to recycle if they are damaged.

Seeing the lively and festive appearance of the people in the village, the people in the Prince's Mansion were also happy, and the village sent something to their family.

Including the boatmen, every family has a lot of gifts to let them have a happy Dragon Boat Festival.

At noon, everyone went to the well to fetch water together. After fetching water, they followed the head of the village to the sacrificial hall. The people from the Prince's Mansion could only stand outside.

The sacrificial hall was built big and entered three times, because there were so many people in the village, men, women, old and young all entered.

The head of the village first placed the offerings and incense, then knelt down on the futon with a puff and began to cry.

"Ancestors! I, Zhu Yichang, should be ashamed to be the village head of Dangqiu Village! I didn't do a good job. I was invited by the prince some time ago to take the villagers to participate in the prince's concubine reception. I thought about it when I saw the current emperor! My villager How can it be bad to grow up?

I offered my skills and suggestions for the imperial court, and replaced the wheat that increased the village's yield by two buckets per mu as seeds. I am guilty, I... woo woo woo...

Also this year, the people in my village worked so hard to get back three archways, one is Zhongzheng Archway, the other is Renyi Archway, and the other is Liangshan Archway, all of which stand at the entrance of the village!too little!It is simply too little.

When we were invited to attend the ceremony for the prince and concubine, we bought a big yard next to the imperial city and added a property there for the village. We wanted to buy another better one, but unfortunately it was a pawnshop, and I was incompetent!
Now the village has to learn blacksmith skills by itself, there is no way!The imperial court allowed the village to make firecrackers by themselves, oh, this firecrackers!We gave a good method, and then we made a better flintlock gun ourselves.

When I think about the slow speed of making guns, I feel like a waste, I can't do anything, ancestors!I have no face to face you!woo woo woo..."

The villagers wiped their tears. Xiaqiu Village is stronger this year than last year. Everyone worked hard and got three memorial archways. Many people ate His Majesty's banquet.

The head of the village said that there will be opportunities in the future, everyone can see His Majesty and the prince, and then this life will be worthwhile.

People from the Prince's Mansion standing outside: "..."

They looked at each other when they heard the chief's crying and shouting, feeling that something was wrong.

"Come on, Hanhan, you go first, then the village elders." After crying, the village chief wiped away his tears and recovered in an instant.

Zhu Wentian stepped forward and knelt down: "Okay, hi, um! Hehehehe!"

When the village elders came up, they really cried one by one, and wiped their tears to describe the current situation in Xiaqiu Village.

In the end, all the villagers knelt down and kowtowed, including the married daughter-in-law. They sent a lot of things to their natal family, and the neighbors around their natal family were envious.

There are daughters in the family who have not left the court, and they all want to marry Xiaqiu Village, and the teenagers who have not married a wife dare not think about the girls in Xiaqiu Village.

After the ancestor worship is over, everyone washes their faces and eats. Except for the children who are too young to apply medicinal wine, everyone else drinks a cup of medicinal wine, realgar.

Realgar is poisonous and is also a medicine. It can be made into arsenic. It has already been made, and the medicine shop in the village has it.

After drinking the medicinal wine, those who don't drink eat normally, and those who drink drink slowly. There is nothing to worry about today.

Each table has twelve dishes, four meat dishes, four vegetables and four cold dishes. The staple food is naturally rice dumplings and bean noodle cakes.

The cake is stuffed with bean paste, walnut kernels and sesame seeds.

Zongzi is filled with dried fruit and pork. There is lard in the pork, so it must be eaten while it is hot, and it will congeal when it is cold.

The people in the Prince's Mansion laughed at everyone, their smiles were sincere, and each of them was dressed in silk clothes, which were given by Xiaqiu Village.

It is the same style as the people in Xiaqiu Village, with several pockets, the sleeves, the left and right inner pockets, and the waist. The waist is not obvious unless you look carefully. The texture of the pockets is well processed.

The silk clothes were actually robes, and a new pair of boots felt very nice.

They want to buy it themselves and get a year's salary without eating or drinking.

Less than a quarter of an hour after eating, a large group of people arrived, including officials from Ningguo Mansion, including officials from Xuancheng County.

The head of the village pulls Hanhan to change a table, a new table, and the village kitchen serves food.

Hanhan mentioned it, you have to be prepared, in case someone from any village comes over, or an official comes, it really comes in handy.

"Zhu Lichang, today's Dragon Boat Festival, our government invites local people to offer sacrifices, that..."

Song Zhifu found a reason, he had already held a sacrifice in the mansion, and rushed to Xiaqiu Village immediately after the end.

The same goes for Li Zhixian and others. On festive days, I feel comfortable staying in Xiaqiu Village.

"In this way, Xiaqiu Village will be set up?" the village head asked, and he was also prepared for this.

Soon the altar was set up and the things were put on. Prefect Song took the lead and said a lot, all right, wash your hands and eat.

The village elders tied colorful ropes and hung sachets for them. The status of the village elders is different. They have accepted Zhu Yuanzhang's banquet, and the two sides have talked a lot, such as the experience of raising cattle.

The officials looked at the people in Xiaqiu Village, and they were really in a good mood. They were all dressed in silk, and the girls had red dots on their foreheads.

It is only when we arrive at Xiaqiu Village that we can feel what a prosperous age is, and then look at the dishes, the glazed multicolored lanterns without candles, and the big two-story houses.

The officials sat down and drank a cup of realgar wine first. Twelve dishes are enough for today's dishes, and they can only be added to sixteen dishes, because fourteen divided by two is an odd number.

The officials are already very satisfied. The food in Xiaqiu Village is delicious, and many dishes cannot be seen outside, unless they are eaten in the palace, which is more difficult.

Song Zhifu took a sip of iced rice wine: "Yichang, today I am not only here to bring everyone to sacrifice, but also to visit the village more, maybe I won't be able to return until dark..."

"I can't go back. The room has been tidied up. At night, we will watch the lanterns and set off the river lanterns. There are rules. I also ask the prefect of Song Dynasty and other officials to correct me."

The village chief understood what the other party meant, but he didn't want to leave, so he ran over in the morning, took half a day, and went back after eating, half a day.

Obviously too tired, he drank again at noon, and when he got home at night, it was dark.

　Today is gone, thank you brothers and sisters for your support, the farm is bowing!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)