Travel through the farmhouse leisurely

Chapter 63 Dragon Boat Festival (2)
Although Mrs. Li said she felt a little regretful, but as Sun's own daughter, she naturally understood her mother's thoughts, so the mother and daughter agreed that in the future, Erhu's business must be done with her daughter for a few days. Only then.

After Mrs. Sun left, everyone in the second bedroom of the Lin family began to discuss and implement the matter of the two brothers Dalang going to school.

Because the Lin family's ancestors have never produced any scholars in several generations, so when it comes to reading, everyone is blind and doesn't know where to start.

In the end, it was Lin Xiaoqiao who suggested to take Lin Erniu and the others to Yunlai Restaurant in the town to seek help from shopkeeper Zhou, so they would not be so blind.

In the end, the two brothers Dalang Erlang chose a teacher with a good reputation in the town, known as Mr. Duan, to enroll in the school. The school he opened was specially designed to enlighten children who had not yet read books.

Moreover, Lin Xiaoqiao heard that this Master Duan is not rigid, and his teaching method is more lively and interesting. The children studying in his school have hardly ever shown any signs of being tired of learning.

Mrs. Duan is quite satisfied with this point, Lin Xiaoqiao is quite satisfied, after all, she does not want her brother to be taught to be old-fashioned and pedantic, and the enlightenment education is the most critical stage for a child to receive education, if at this stage, the child appears disgusted The mood of learning has a great impact on the mentality of reading in the future.

The school opened by Mrs. Duan has a bath every five days, and each time there is a day off, Lin Xiaoqiao thinks that this arrangement is more reasonable for the children who have just studied, and it does not push the children too hard. On the contrary, it will backfire!From then on, the two brothers Dalang Erlang embarked on their journey of studying...

During this period, Mrs. Li also acted quickly, catching more than [-] small chickens and two pigs in the market.Mrs. Li did this not because she wanted to use them to make money, but because she wanted to raise them up so that she could feed the children more. It seemed that she wanted to eat something that the four Lin Xiaoqiao brothers and sisters hadn't been able to eat for more than ten years. , let them eat now.

In this way, every day the parents were short-tempered, and soon came the Dragon Boat Festival, which was also the first festival Lin Xiaoqiao had celebrated since his rebirth.For Mrs. Li, this is also the first holiday they celebrate after their separation, so she attaches great importance to it, and she started to prepare for it a few days ago.

Seeing the whole family actively preparing for the festival, Lin Xiaoqiao's enthusiasm was mobilized at once. She took the initiative to help Mrs. Li prepare zong leaves and soak glutinous rice.

Mrs. Li recalled that when she was in the old house of the Lin family, Mrs. Zhou would always hold back every Dragon Boat Festival. The whole family of seventeen people, big and small, only asked them to wrap thirty zongzi. Not even enough for gift giving, let alone for the kids to eat.

Therefore, only Mr. Lin and Mrs. Zhou can eat two of the rice dumplings wrapped in the Dragon Boat Festival every year in the old house of the Lin family. If they are lucky, Lin Jiao and Lin Shan, the eldest grandson of the big house, can also be in line for one.

Every time at this time, the four brothers and sisters in the second room are very greedy when they look at the rice dumplings, but Li knows that no matter how greedy they are, they are all very sensible, and they will never ask her for it. Thinking of this, Li Shi couldn't help feeling sad and wanted to cry.

So, this time, Mrs. Li soaked ten catties of glutinous rice at once, and prepared to make more rice dumplings, in order to let the children have a good time and eat enough.

Lin Xiaoqiao noticed that Li Shi didn't seem to have prepared any fillings. Thinking about it, it was true. In this impoverished small mountain village, every family is not willing to eat dry rice on weekdays.

Because, some zongzi will be wrapped during the festival, which is considered to be in the atmosphere of the festival. It is very rare for children to try something new and have a good taste. It is very rare for them to eat fragrant glutinous rice dumplings. Wrap stuffing.

Therefore, at the beginning, Mrs. Li also wanted to follow the consistent tradition. She didn't think about what kind of fillings to wrap in the zongzi, but planned to wrap all of them with light rice zongzi.

However, Lin Xiaoqiao is an out-and-out traveler, and was once a out-and-out foodie, how could she allow such a situation to happen.

So, under her strong request, Mrs. Li had no choice but to buy two catties of pork, marinated it according to her daughter's instructions, and prepared to wrap some fresh meat dumplings.

Lin Erniu was also assigned to go to the town to buy some red dates, salted eggs, and red beans.Once Lin Xiaoqiao took care of them one by one, he waited to wrap them into rice dumplings as fillings, and then he could eat delicious rice dumplings with various fillings.

On the fifth day of May, the two Dalang brothers also have a day off today, and the four brothers and sisters all got up early.

According to the custom, Lin Erniu hung wormwood and calamus on the gate of Lin's house.Wormwood is a kind of herbal medicine that can be used to cure diseases. Hanging it on the door represents the meaning of attracting all kinds of blessings and can make the whole family healthy.

There is a relevant record in Zong's "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji": When the rooster is not crowing, the moxa that looks like a human is picked up, and it is collected for moxibustion. Hanging on the door, it can eliminate poisonous gas.The calamus, on the other hand, symbolizes the sword that drives away the unknown, and it is inserted at the door, which means to ward off evil spirits.

Mrs. Li also hung embroidered sachets for each of the four brothers and sisters. Inside the sachets were some realgar powder to repel insects, magic charms to exorcise evil spirits, and copper coins.

The wrists of the four people were also wrapped with multicolored silk threads one by one, which also meant to ward off evil spirits and keep healthy.

In addition, Mrs. Li dipped her fingers in realgar wine on the foreheads of Lin Xiaoqiao and sisters, and painted the word "king". It is said that the meaning of this move is to use "realgar" to expel poison The second is to use the forehead pattern of the tiger "king" to suppress evil.

Lin Xiaoqiao thought it was very fresh and interesting at first, but later he couldn't stand the jokes from time to time from his two brothers, so he wanted to wipe it off.

However, Li Shi insisted on refusing, Lin Xiaoqiao watched the two elder brothers make fun of them, so he insisted on pestering Li Shi to also paint the Dalang brothers.

Looking at the word "King" forcibly painted on the foreheads of the two elder brothers, coupled with the helpless expressions on the faces of the two, Lin Xiaoqiao also felt that this appearance was very funny, so he pulled Lin Xiaoxi to face them. It took a long time to make fun of it, so I gave up.

After all this is done, the next step is to prepare for the highlight of the Dragon Boat Festival, making zongzi.

The family of six gathered in the kitchen, busy with their own tasks, preparing to help Mrs. Li wrap the zongzi for the festival.

Lin Xiaoqiao was like a little conductor, looking here and there, and finally imitated Li's making a few rice dumplings, but she was very small and handy, so it was very inconvenient to wrap.

Although these rice dumplings don't look very good, but Lin Xiaoqiao is very supportive of herself, insisting on telling Lin Erniu to put her wrapped rice dumplings together, emphasizing again and again, After all the zongzi were cooked, she had to eat them by herself.

Li Shi looked at her competitive little appearance, both helpless and funny, and the others were also sitting on the side laughing and couldn't straighten up.

(End of this chapter)