Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 497 Making a Lantern

A few days later, under the special care of Big Yellow Dog, Jiu Jiu, and Cheng Xinxin, the raccoon finally calmed down a little and learned to get along with others a little.

The rural area is large. In addition to the big yard for it to play, there is a vast world outside the gate of the yard, where it can vent its infinite energy.

It's just that Napoleon sometimes doesn't understand this new family member. Isn't this guy too particular about his food?What should be washed before eating?

Everyone eats the same dog food, why does he eat it directly, and that guy needs to wash it?Doesn't this make you look very unhygienic?

Therefore, Napoleon always looked at the raccoon with a bit of contempt or hostility, and always felt that the guy was weird.

In addition, it has nothing to do and wants to find fault with the raccoon and teach it how to be a dog.

The raccoon has no memory at all, and no shame. It neither remembers to hit nor eat. Anyway, if it catches it, it admits cowardice, and if it doesn't catch it, it continues to hide. I don't know what it relies on.

It's just that it's only skinned a little now, so I don't dare to go too far.Occasionally, when bored, he will chase the chicken, but he dare not really claw.

In addition, it is also a good swimmer. It swims sneakily in the pond, and catches a fish to eat from time to time, which can save a lot of dog food.

Time passed slowly, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to the lively celebration like last year, there is another happy event, that is, Cheng Shi is going to get married, and the date has been set before.

Taohua Village is a village with a common surname. 95% of the people in the village are surnamed Cheng. If you go back up, you can trace it back to an ancestor.

And such a big event as marriage is basically attended by the whole village, except for those families who hate each other and will cut off contact, basically they will come.

So very lively.

When there are a lot of people, the arrangement of the banquet is also very special. Generally, all the tables are set up in the house and the yard, and there must be more than enough to eat in one round, so there is also a running water table. After eating in front, quickly clean up the table, and the guests in the back quickly arrange to sit. .

This is probably a scene of Taohua Village.

Generally, people with more surnames in the same village may find it difficult to see such excitement.

Regarding Cheng Shi's marriage, it can be said that his old mother has taken great pains.Ever since Cheng Shi reached the legal age of marriage, his old mother has arranged for him to have countless kisses every year, and every year she looks forward to his marriage——

Therefore, their family specially feeds two pigs every year, hoping to wait for the wedding banquet to be used.

As a result, of the two pigs every year, one is killed for the New Year, and the other is sold for money, which makes his old mother very worried.

Well now, the two pigs fed this year finally had a wedding banquet.

There are still four or five days before the wedding, and Cheng Shi's family has been busy for a long time, and Cheng He can hear it from his own home.The two pigs in their family hum every day, probably knowing that they are about to be cooked.

Except for pork, the banquet for such a big occasion must be prepared in advance. The rest of the dishes should be bought, and those that should be ordered in advance should be ordered quickly.

In Taohua Village, it is still an old tradition to hold banquets. When a family hosts a banquet, the three relatives and four relatives of the same branch all go to help. Those who chop vegetables, help, buy vegetables, clean up the wine table, etc. are basically their own people. .

In addition, invite a chef to take charge of the spoon, and arrange the size of the banquet kitchen and so on.The chef is also from the village, not a famous chef, but he is very experienced in organizing banquets in the village.

Being a chef is not easy. In addition to being able to cook, you also need to master a lot of related matters.

Generally speaking, as long as you tell the chef how many guests are there, he can tell how much meat, how much fish, even how much oil, salt, etc., will be used for the whole banquet.

This is the experience accumulated from countless banquets.

This has many advantages. First of all, he can arrange to order in advance what dishes he needs to use, so that he will not be in a hurry; on the other hand, he can also save costs, and will not buy a lot of ingredients and waste money.

The chefs here don't need to pack wedding money, they can also get red envelopes and a pack of cigarettes from the owner's family.

In other places, many rural banquets have already been contracted by "one-stop", that is, there are people in the town who specialize in this kind of business. A chef leads a dozen helpers, and the kitchen is directly handed over to them, just pay the wages. .

Some families do not have a large population, and there are not enough people to help with the banquet, or those who have a bad relationship and are unwilling to help, they all hire "one-stop" to do it.

Taohua Village is still relatively traditional in this regard, and they are all with their own families.This kind of happy event brings people together. When they are working, they talk and laugh, which seems to bring them closer.

Isn't it right now?There are still four or five days before the official day. Those who help with fishing have gone fishing, those who have prepared vegetables are also busy, and those who need to go to the town to buy things have also gone early in the morning.

Some dishes need to be marinated in advance, and now we have to start preparing them.

Hearing the busyness next door, Cheng He was very leisurely busy with Cheng Xinxin's affairs.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and the school has also assigned tasks to the children, saying that parents should help their children make a lantern.

Probably the school is trying to arrange the parent-child relationship between parents and children, with the pretext of assisting in handicrafts.

Cheng He is also seriously preparing for the child.

For Taohua Village, a village of bamboo weaving, it is too easy to make a lantern. Once the bamboo strips are cut off, the outline of a lantern is pasted, and then a layer of paper is pasted on the outside to finish the job.

Didn't they always do this when they used to play with lanterns during festivals?

But not this year, the children are required to figure out the shape by themselves, and the adults help to do it together.That is to say, the traditional shape of the lantern is not enough, and it cannot be perfunctory.

Cheng Xinxin drew a fish-shaped lantern to test her father.

Cheng He looked at the pattern drawn by his daughter and was a little worried. She drew so complicated, how to do this lantern?Can this still be called assistance?Just ask Dad to finish it.

Bai Qian looked at them with a smile while peeling the grapefruit.

She can't help making lanterns, she's trying to make grapefruit honey tea now, so she doesn't have time to play with them.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is here, and it is also the season for grapefruits to ripen. Without exception, how many people bring grapefruits to their homes, they are all piled up, and they can't finish eating.

So, she searched on the Internet and found that making grapefruit honey tea is very easy, so she wanted to learn how to do it.

In autumn, the climate is dry, so you need to eat something that clears the fire and moisturizes, which is also good for the throat.

Now, she can understand some online tutorials by herself, and if she doesn't understand, she can ask her own man, which is good.

Originally, as Cheng Shi's nearest neighbor, the relationship between the two families has always been good. She, the daughter-in-law of the Cheng family, should also go to help, helping kill fish, pickle fish, wash onions and peel garlic, etc.

But she didn't know how to do it, how could Cheng Shi's mother let her do this?Secondly, although Bai Qian didn't tell anyone about her pregnancy, because it's not yet three months, superstitious sayings can't be said to the outside world, but judging by her appearance, Cheng Shi's mother seems to have guessed her situation.

Then she won't be able to help.

Originally, my appetite was not stable within three months of pregnancy, and I smelled fishy smell all day long, and I couldn't eat anymore.

Therefore, Cheng Shi's mother would not let her help no matter what.

With nothing else to do, Bai Qian was thinking about how to make grapefruit tea.And grapefruit is fragrant and smells very comfortable.

While peeling the bamboo strips, Cheng He looked at Cheng Xinxin's drawing and asked, "Honey, how do you plan to help? Or let Dad do it for you?"

Cheng Xinxin was also thinking about it decently, but what could she come up with!She just stared at the "lantern" she drew for a while.

She thought, Dad is omnipotent, of course he can make fish-shaped lanterns.

I adore my father the most.

Cheng He whistled, thinking about how to weave thin bamboo strips into a fish-shaped frame, and then how to paste paper.He does it with gusto when doing handwork for children.

Seeing her appearance, Bai Qian couldn't help smiling, and thought of her childhood again.

History is surprisingly similar.

At this time, Bai Qiming was pacing in the yard, looking at the fish he caught today from time to time, enjoying a very leisurely life.

It was his daughter who left him after the Mid-Autumn Festival. He will be leaving in a few days. This holiday is very comfortable.

Bai Qian looked at him and said, "Dad, I remembered that you cut a model for me when I was in elementary school."

At that time, she was in elementary school, and the school wanted to hold a celebration event, and she participated in it. The event at that time was to bring a model of a ship.

Bai Qiming was also very energetic that day, so he happily made one for her.Although the manual skills are a bit poor, she still remembers the more than one hour of joint completion time.

She said: "Dad, I remember that day, it was almost finished, and you said that you need to beautify it, plan it a little more, and use a knife to smooth it, but in the end, you cut your own hand and bled a lot."

"Is there?" Bai Qiming was stunned for a while, thinking carefully, he really didn't have much impression.

"Of course I did. I still remember that I lost so much blood that I regretted asking you to help me with handwork." Bai Qian said.

At that time, she was already in the fifth grade, and she would never forget many things.

Until now, she still remembers it.

No matter what, there are some things she will never forget.

While Bai Qian was thinking, she heard Cheng He say over there: "Come on, Xinxin, help daddy press this side...yes, press it and don't move, daddy has to fix that side first..."

The father and daughter looked extremely focused.

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