Reborn under the White Mountain

Chapter 45

After the pine mushrooms were brought to the table that day, Mrs. Zhou kept saying that she dared not eat them, but Yuxian and Dalang ate them very deliciously. Later, Mrs. Liu also tasted some and said they were delicious. When Mrs. Zhou wanted to eat them The time is gone.Everyone ate the mushrooms, but there was nothing unusual about it. Mrs. Zhou regretted it. In fact, the mushrooms smelled very good to her.Later, Zhou always told Yuxian to ask them to pick more, and Yuxian felt funny when she heard it.This pine mushroom can be said to be the king of edible fungi, no less than Hericium erinaceus, of course the taste is good.

This season is a good time for the growth of pine mushrooms, and Yuxian also wants to take the opportunity to pick more, and it is good to give them away after drying.So I often went to the mountains with Dalang and the others. This time, Yuxian didn't keep it a secret, saying that whoever wanted to pick it would follow, but Qin said that pine mushrooms can't be sold for money, so what are they doing with so many.Junjie and the others are also lazy, so they don't follow up the mountain, but Chunsheng's wife and Zhuzi's wife both let their children follow them up the mountain to pick mushrooms.A piece of pine mushroom is delicious, and I want to dry some and save it for winter, and I can add another dish.The second is to let the children get in touch with the Tong family's children more. For children, it is always good to have more playmates.So as long as it doesn't rain, you will see more than a dozen children, big and small, going into the pine forest to pick up mushrooms. Picked up mushrooms.Before this area was finished, the mushrooms in that area grew again, and the children returned with a full load every day.

Since Mrs. Zhou finished cooking that day's meal, Mrs. Fang has been cooking for a few days.This is the rule set by the Qin family. When you go out and don't work, you have to make up for it twice when you come back.This rule is the strictest for Fang Shi, even if he turns a blind eye to the other two daughter-in-laws, Fang Shi doesn't care about it.It took them [-] days to go back and forth to Fucheng, of which Fang Shi was supposed to cook for four days, and after returning, he would make up twice as much, that is nine days of cooking, and the beginning of the next round, so Fang Shi It's been a really busy few days.Sometimes Yuxian doesn't go up the mountain, and helps Fang's feed the pigs and chickens at home, and make a fire or something.In addition, the picked mushrooms had to be dried in the sun, which made Yuxian dizzy with too much work.After all, Fang stopped cooking continuously, and the mother and daughter took a breath of breath.

Today is the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, and it is the Ghost Festival, which is also called the Ghost Festival, and Buddhism is called the Yulan Basin Festival.In the area of ​​Yanjiang Village, on the day of the Ghost Festival, people go to the graves to worship ancestors, and at night they also light river lanterns.After breakfast in the morning, Mr. Tong led all the males in the family, gathered the males from Tong Shiwang and Tong Shiming's family, and a large group of people went to the Tong family's ancestral grave to worship their ancestors.It is said to be the ancestral grave, that is to say, the grandfather of Mr. Tong was buried here. According to Dalang and the others, it is the great grandfather, and there are no more.The ancestor of the Tong family was a soldier back then. He came to the north during the melee between the north and the south. After he was disarmed and returned to the fields, he came to the village along the river to take root.So the Tong family's ancestral grave starts with him.

The ancestor of the Tong family married Li Shi and had two sons. The eldest son was the father of Tong Shiwang and Tong Shiming, and the second son was the father of Tong Shirong.The two sons married wives and had children, and finally they had this big family.The one who worshiped the ancestors was of course the long house. Tong Shiwang arranged the offerings, lit three sticks of incense and plugged them in, and then began to burn the paper money. When the paper money was about to be burned, Tong Shiwang led everyone to kneel down and kowtow to the ancestors.After kowtowing, the paper was burnt out, everyone got up one after another, and fiddled with the ashes of the paper again, so as not to burn any clean ones, and when the ashes of the paper cooled down, everyone went home.

Naturally, Yuxian has no part in these matters. She is watching those mushrooms drying at home.Some of the mushrooms picked in so many days are dried and some are half-dried. They must be turned over and dried as much as possible for easy storage.While drying, I also need to clean up the fallen pine needles and grass leaves. The sun is pretty good today, and Yuxian will get a little hot after a while.

"Yuxian, don't just stay under the sun, it will get hot after a while, be careful of heat stroke." Fang said aside.

"Mother, it's already autumn, what's the heat?" Yuxian smiled and argued with her mother, but she still obediently ran to a cool place.

"It's not hot all over yet, why can't it be?" Fang was also happy to play tricks with his daughter for a while.

"Mother, there are only six days left before the end of the summer heat, right? Does it mean that after the end of the summer heat, the weather will start to get cold?" Yuxian didn't quite understand these things.

"Well, yes, after the end of summer, the summer will be completely over, and the weather will get colder and colder. It's already cold in the north, so you must remember to add clothes sooner or later, and be careful not to catch cold." Fang told her daughter . "After the end of summer, the crops will almost grow, and the land will be harvested around Bailu. This year's weather is good, and there is enough rain, so we should be able to harvest more food." Fang talked about crops. "During the autumn harvest, everyone in the family has to go to the fields, even your children are no exception. Xian'er will be tanned by then." Fang touched Yuxian's small face.

"Mother, I've been going everywhere this summer, and I haven't seen much tan. You don't have to worry about it, but I'm worried about you. With so much work at home, can your body handle it?" Yuxian looked at her worriedly. Fang's belly has been more than four months old, and it will be five months before the autumn harvest. Will mother be able to go to the field by then?
"It's okay, there are no such delicate ones, just pay more attention when working." Fang didn't care much. "When I was with you, I went to work in the fields during the autumn harvest." Yuxian was born on September [-]th, and Fang was almost nine months pregnant during the autumn harvest, and she still had to work in the fields. "Okay, your grandpa and the others are coming back soon, and we have to prepare for setting off the river lanterns in the afternoon." Mrs. Fang got up and went back to the house.

Yuxian ran to turn over the mushrooms again, when Mr. Tong came back with all the men in the family.Xiaosan held a branch in her hand and handed it to Yuxian. "Sister, do you know this thing?"

"Ah, it's candied pears. They're all red, but they're still too hard and unripe. It looks like they'll be ripe in ten and a half months." Yu Xian took the branch and recognized it as a candied pear.Tang pear, also known as Tangli, bean pear, is a deciduous tree belonging to the genus Pear in the family Rosaceae. The fruit it bears is small, only the size of a little finger, so it is also called bean pear.The fruit is red when ripe, the pulp is noodle, and the taste is sour. It is not very delicious, but there are still too many children who like it in the era when there is always a shortage of snacks. "Find a small pot in a while, pick them all up, put some sugar and steam them to eat." Yuxian happily went into the room to ask Fang for sugar.

In the afternoon, Yuxian was holding a bowl with steamed candied pears in it. The red flesh was steamed and burst into bloom. She picked one and put it in her mouth. It tasted sour and sweet.Yuxian ate deliciously, and gave one to her mother from time to time. Fang also liked the taste: "It's just you thinking about it all day, and you don't know where you got such weird ideas." The mother and daughter were sitting In the shade of the yard, Fang is holding a pair of shoe soles in his hand, and is holding the shoe soles.There are five sons in the family, and they are all half-children. They go up and down the mountains and rivers all day long. Wearing shoes is a waste of time. As long as Fang has time, he keeps making shoes.

"Mother, can I watch the river lantern release at night?" Yu Xian was still very curious about the river lantern release.

"What are you looking at? On the day when the gate of hell is wide open, children cannot go out at night. Children before the age of seven are open-eyed, and they are easy to see other things, which will scare them. Just go and light the river lanterns at night. You all Stay at home, don't go out." Fang said to her daughter with a straight face, and she kept working.

"Mom, what do we set off the river lanterns to commemorate?" Yuxian didn't quite understand the custom here. She knew that in the south, river lanterns were not only released on the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also on March [-]rd, Qixi Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival. The river lanterns are only released on the [-]th of July in the north, so I want to ask.

"Xian'er, our village is called Yanjiang Village, and this river is called Xijiang. In fact, it is the upper source of the Huntong River. Our Huntong River basin is densely forested, with towering ancient trees, and there are many high-quality timber. But the mountain roads are rough and difficult to walk outside. It is too difficult to transport wood, so in general mountain farms, the felled wood will be tied to the rafts by binding or other methods, and then drift down the river, and then loaded on the car at a flat place downstream, and transported to other places. This is called release. Wooden rafts. Laying wooden rafts is a very dangerous job. If you encounter dangerous beaches and rough waves, you will be buried at the bottom of the river, and you can’t even find your body. So every time the Ghost Festival comes, the family members are in the river The river lanterns are released, hoping that the river lanterns can guide the souls of the family, find the way to reincarnate, and live a happy life in the next life. Later, it became a custom. Every time the Ghost Festival comes, people on the riverside will release river lanterns to express respect for those A kind of blessing for those who died at the bottom of the river." Fang explained to Yuxian in a low voice the reason for putting the river lanterns here.

"Mother, I understand, but I haven't seen much of someone putting rafts?" Yuxian asked her mother with her head tilted.

"The discharge is generally in the spring. The logs are cut and stored in the winter. After the spring, the knotted logs are discharged, sold downstream to the timber merchants, and then returned by land to the mountain farm where the logs were logged. This is the annual work of the releasers. They This job also has a head, and when it is released, it is experienced to hold the head and grasp the direction. Where there is a dangerous shoal, where there is an undercurrent, know the head, and the experienced lead the way, and the loss will be reduced. "Fang said. Let go of the hard work of sending people.

"By the way, mother, did we buy our river lanterns or make them at home?"

"It was your father who pierced it. He should have pierced the river lantern inside the house, right?" Fang replied.

"Mother, if you didn't tell me earlier, I'll go into the house and have a look." Yuxian ran into the house after speaking.

In the house, Tong Yunsong has already finished the river lantern.Using a piece of wood as the base, the lamp is shaped like a lotus flower, and the petals are made of pink paper. There is a place for candles in the middle of the lamp, which looks very beautiful.

"Daddy, you didn't tell me when you made a river lantern." Yuxian complained.

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