Rebirth Farmer Yaomei

Chapter 108 Rebus
Everyone looked at the lights and played together, and when they reached the north of the town, Ning Wan looked at the Wu family's grain shop from a distance.She is no stranger here, when Ning Liang brought Ning Wan to sell grain, it was nearby, and it was the market where grain was bought and sold in the town.

Food is the most important thing for the people, and the grain shops should be the most numerous in the town, and most of them are concentrated here. Apart from the Wu family, there are a few others, but none of these shops is as big as the Wu family.

It can only be distinguished from the grain storage seen outside. There are dozens of grain storages in the courtyard of the Wu family. The red cloth is very neat.And the rest of the shops are just food stores in twos and threes, which are neither neat nor tall enough, and even if they are tied with red cloth, they are not beautiful enough.

Looking at Wu's shop again, there is another door besides the three main rooms. It is very spacious and the kind that can be driven in by a carriage. People feel quite dignified.

Grain storage surrounded by reed mats is the most common method for storing large quantities of grain in Liaodong. Dig a few feet from the ground, pile up firewood and burn it, remove moisture and remove insects and ants, and then use plant ash, stones, planks, and reed mats Wait for the bottom, and then use the reed mat to form a barrel shape. When storing grain, put the grain in the hoard, and surround it little by little, exceeding the ground. While piling up the grain, surround the reed mat upwards. Put it into a wooden frame with a sharp top, then surround the reed mat into a sharp point, and then cover it with thick reed grass, so that the rain and snow will not invade, and the grain can be preserved for a long time.

Right now, the dozens of stockpiles of grain in the Wu family's shop can be roughly calculated as tens of thousands of stones. It's no wonder that the Wu family is rich and powerful, and they want to compete for the first place in the town for everything!

Ning Wan was looking at the group of food hoarders, but Ning Qing pushed her back, "What are you looking at, line up to get the glutinous rice balls first, and then see if you can guess something!"

Ning Wan smiled, now her mind is full of business, when she arrived at Wu's house, she didn't even see the lanterns everywhere and the long line waiting to eat glutinous rice balls, she just focused on the food stockpiling!
The whole family listened to Ning Qing, and they lined up behind the long line, and soon it was their turn. It turned out that the Wu family set up a stall in front of the door, and several people performed their duties. The sesame, walnut, pine nut and sugar fillings are cut into small pieces, and the second person puts the small pieces of filling in water and rolls them back and forth in a basket filled with glutinous rice noodles until the glutinous rice noodles are no longer sticky. Put the water into the glutinous rice noodle basket of the next person and roll it. There are a total of six people who rolled it six times. At this time, the amber fillings have long since turned into snow-white balls. Cook it in a boiling pot. A man with a long-handled iron spoon laughed loudly while stirring the pot: "This is a Lantern Festival made from the materials in our Wu's shop. It's full of bite. Let's try it." Try it!"

As he spoke, the long spoon moved, and the bowl already contained two Yuanxiao and a bowl of soup, and handed it to Ning Liang, who was at the front of the line, "Looking at the face, it must be someone from outside."

Ning Liang just smiled, "He's from Sanjia Village, so he moved to the town."

"Then there will be more contacts in the future!"

After a few pleasantries, all the Ning family got the Lantern Festival, and sat down on a bench beside them with bowls. Ning Qing took a wooden spoon and scooped one up to feed Jin Shan first, then laughed and said, "Let's eat the Wu family first." The glutinous rice balls from the Ma’s, and the Ma’s, the flavors of the two families are different!”

Ning Wan knew that she didn't understand the difference between Yuanxiao and Tangyuan, so she smiled and said, "Second Sister, Wu's is Yuanxiao, Ma's is probably Tangyuan, but they are actually different."

"What's the difference?" Ning Qing really didn't know, "It's both the skin of glutinous rice noodles and the filling of pralines."

"Although the ingredients are the same, but the method is different, the taste is different." Ning Wan pointed to how many people rolled the Lantern Festival, "Look at how the Lantern Festival is rolled, and the glutinous rice balls are made after kneading the dough. Therefore, after the Lantern Festival is cooked, the skin is soft and the inside is hard, giving it a firm bite."

It was the first time everyone heard it, and Yu said, "I just thought about how the Wu family rolls glutinous rice balls. Wouldn't it be much easier to wrap them?" He pointed to the soup in his bowl and said, "Because It is rolled out, and the soup of Yuanxiao is much thicker, like glutinous rice porridge, while the soup of Tangyuan is much clearer."

Ning Liang said with a smile to Mrs. Yu at this time: "I remember when I was a child, my family always rolled Yuanxiao. After you married into the house, you must wrap Yuanxiao. I think it's the same. I don't want to know that Yuanxiao and Tangyuan are different now."

Ning Wan said again: "I heard people say that people in the north eat more Lantern Festival, and people in the south eat more Tangyuan, so Mother has been making Tangyuan at home, and our sisters used to think of Yuanxiao as Tangyuan!"

Liu Wulang also smiled and said, "Our family always talks about eating Yuanxiao after the fifteenth day, but Qing'er said eating Tangyuan, and I couldn't refute her, so I had to follow her. Now that my sister-in-law said it, I knew it was so. Son."

Everyone talked and laughed, ate the Lantern Festival, and looked at the lights of the Wu family.Although I have seen many lights along the way, there are not as many and interesting lights in front of any house as Wu's.A row of revolving lanterns of various colors was hung in front of the shop, and when the lights turned, the pictures on the lights also moved, attracting children to gather around three layers inside and outside, "Look! The general is chasing the barbarians!" "This It's a few tigers running!"

How could Shitou and Jinshan not like it? They stared at it intently, and wanted to touch the lamp, but the revolving lanterns were hung on a high place, and they couldn't reach them, so they became anxious, "I want it!" "I want it!"

Ning Wan used to wonder why the revolving lantern would have people and objects moving around. Later, when she was at Zhao’s house, she quietly disassembled a revolving lantern, only to find out that after candles were lit inside the revolving lantern, the axle in the lantern turned, and there were paper-cuts and candle lights on the axle. The paper-cut shadows are projected on the surface of the lantern, and everyone looks as if the characters are moving.

However, in order for the axle to rotate, the candles in the revolving lantern must be placed very straight, and they cannot go away if they are slightly skewed, so Ning Wan told her younger brother and nephew, "You can only look at this, and you can't touch it, otherwise you won't be able to see it." There are people inside!"

Persuaded the two children, and took them to see several big lamps placed outside, which were made into various shapes, including beauties, flowers, and houses and palaces, which attracted many people like a lifelike around.Seeing that the children couldn't see enough, Ning Qing said: "The lights in front of Ma's house are even better than here, let's go back quickly, and the guessers will take them away later." come out.

After shopping around the main street of the town, the Ning family came to the front of the Ma's shop. It turned out that the Ma's grocery store was also on the east side of the street, not far from the Ning's house.Right now, the bustling here is no less than in front of Wu's house, there are many people surrounded by three layers inside and outside, and the outermost people almost reach the front of Ning's house.

Naturally, the most people were queuing up to get the glutinous rice balls. Everyone used to eat them at home and Wu's Lantern Festival, but now they don't want to eat them anymore.Only Ning Qing was very unwilling, "No, if you don't eat for nothing, I'll go to the queue!"

Ning Wan looked at Ning Qing who hadn't lost weight after giving birth to Jinshan, and said: "The glutinous rice balls come for nothing, but your stomach is always yours, and you are the one who feels uncomfortable after eating too much, not to mention the glutinous rice. "

How could Ning Qing listen to it, "It's okay, I have always had a good spleen and stomach." Seeing that no one agreed, she made an excuse and said, "I'm hungry again after walking around the town." She pulled her husband again ,"let's go together!"

Liu Wulang also felt that it was a pity not to eat for free, "I'm hungry too, let's go with you."

Yu Shi hugged Jinshan, "The children are not allowed to eat any more, it's time to accumulate food!"

Ning Qing also nodded, but came up with another way, "We might as well go home and get a big bowl, take back the glutinous rice balls we can't finish, and eat them tomorrow morning."

Ning Wan was really frightened by the second sister's stinginess, "If everyone thinks like you, the Ma family and the Wu family will not have enough food." In fact, Mayi Town is not big, and most of the hundreds of families are acquaintances. Who has the nerve to take the glutinous rice balls home?

Yu, who has always been able to live a good life, also objected, "In the future, we will be neighbors, how can we do such a shameful thing and make people laugh!" He said to everyone: "Eat what you want to eat, and watch if you don't want to go." lamp."

So except for Ning Qing and Liu Wulang, everyone came to watch the lantern.It turned out that Ma’s house didn’t hang a row of lanterns in front of other people’s houses, nor did Wu’s house put many lanterns on the ground. Instead, they built a wooden shelf and hung five or six rows of square red lanterns of one color. There are lamp fans and painting fans on it.I heard that as long as you guess correctly, you can take away the lamp with the puzzle written on it.

So many people pondered carefully around the lanterns, and there were more people around than eating glutinous rice balls.

Literate people naturally went to see the lantern fans. There were still many illiterate people in Mayi Town, and they all surrounded the painting fans, and even stood aside to watch the excitement. A few members of the Ning family walked around the painting fans. They couldn't figure it out, and when they stepped back, they all said, "I don't have a clue at all. It really isn't easy to guess."

Is it difficult to say that guessing a mystery is difficult, and it is not easy to say that it is easy, but you have to work hard.The family is busy with their livelihoods all year round, so where there is such a leisurely mind, of course it doesn't matter.

Ning Wan had a leisurely time. She learned how to read and read some miscellaneous books at that time, so she actually guessed a few lamp fans along the way, but her literacy is already very far-fetched. Where can I show my talents?

Seeing that both parents are shaking their heads in confusion, even Shitou and Jinshan are quite dejected, so they smiled and took their mother's hand and told her, "The one with flowers on the porcelain plate is incense. Let the lantern say something, and you can bring the lantern back for Shishi and Jinshan to play with."

Coiled incense is the most common thing. In summer, the Ning family uses ropes made of dried wormwood to coil it. As for the coiled incense sold in grocery stores, it is much more delicate. The shelf can be lighted overnight. It not only repels mosquitoes but also has a very pleasant fragrance. In temples, rich people will also use agarwood, sandalwood, or fragrant flowers and medicinal materials to make more high-end incense coils. Among them are Many are untold secrets.

Yu naturally knew about Pan Xiang, but she didn't understand, "Then why is it Pan Xiang?"

"Aren't flowers fragrant, and they are incense on a plate."

After listening to Yao Nv explaining the reason, Yu became suspicious again, "It's so simple? I'm afraid it will make people laugh if I make a mistake!" Ning's family watched from the sidelines, and they often saw that someone raised a lantern to ask, but the result was wrong and they had to hang the lantern back again. , causing bursts of laughter from the onlookers.

"It must be right," Ning Wan said, "Mom, have you noticed? The Ma's fans are all from the shop. Doesn't their shop sell incense?"

"Oh!" Yu patted his forehead, "Isn't it?" He took a few steps forward and took off the lantern, took it to the front of Ma's shop and talked to others, and after a while, he carried the lantern with a smile on his face. The lantern is back.

(End of this chapter)