The rural life of a peasant girl

Chapter 17 Qingming (2)
The wind in March is mild, and there is no chill anymore.

In early spring, it is still relatively cold, and the children don't like to go out very much.

Now it is getting ready for late spring, although there is still a little bit of coolness, but the children who have been locked up for a winter can't wait to get out of the house and start playing. The grass is full of children running happily, and the laughter spreads throughout Huaxi. The village has been echoing.

Spring in Huaxi Village is windy.In this way, the windmill has become the favorite toy of children. There are windmills in the town. The colorful ones are very beautiful, but they cost one or two copper coins. of.But children's playful nature cannot be eliminated even in the poorest places.

The children in Huaxi Village can make windmills by themselves.

Although Su Ling has their own pocket money now, they are still relatively frugal children, and they are reluctant to spend money to buy windmills.

"Sister, let's make a windmill by ourselves!" Su Ho leaned in front of Su Ling, his big eyes were full of expectation.

"Okay!" Su Ling immediately agreed. She thought maybe she had stayed with He'er for a long time, and she had a child in her heart, but she had some expectations for playing with windmills. Is it because her childhood was too far away?
The two sisters excitedly found papers, all colorful and colorful, which were collected by Su Ling.The paper used to make the windmill should be harder, so that it can maintain the shape of the windmill and spin quickly.

Su Ling cut a large piece of paper into two square pieces of paper, folded the four corners of the square hard paper in half, and then simply cut the paper from the diagonal to the center along the fold line.It can’t be cut completely. Leave about two fingers wide around the center, and then use iron nails or bamboo sticks to nail the four cut corners to the center along one side, and then fix them with wooden sticks. Such a simple windmill it is done.

The windmill was finished, Su Ho was very happy, puffed out his mouth and blew at the windmill, seeing the windmill turning, he jumped up and down with the windmill and pulled Su Ling out to compete with his friends The windmill has been spinning for a long time.

It's windy outside, and it's time to play with windmills. Soho is showing off in front of his friends with the windmill that has turned well!
Su Ling looked at her, smiled lightly and said nothing.

The two played outside for a while and then went home.

"Ling'er, He'er is back! Sit and rest for a while, and later help mother origami money." Su's mother was on the pit, calling Su Ling and Su He while she was making paper money.

"Mother, what kind of paper money are you folding?" Su Ling asked suspiciously.

"Tomorrow is Qingming, your father and your grandfather are going to visit the grave." Mother Su replied.

When the Ching Ming Festival comes, everyone has to go to the graves of their ancestors.In fact, it is to repair the tomb and add new soil to the tomb, which is commonly known as sweeping the tomb, burning some paper money, and offering sacrifices.

In the households of farmers, there is not so much money to buy exquisite paper money, and they usually buy large paper by themselves, and then cut out various patterns.Or just cut the big paper into small pieces and fold it into the shape of ingots, so that they can be burned.

Some also cut the big paper into squares and printed it with a coin stamp. Grandpa Su borrowed a coin stamp from the next door, put the paper on the stamp, and hit the stamp with a hammer, and the big paper could be printed. It is much easier and more convenient to print, and you can print multiple sheets at a time.

The next day was Ching Ming Festival, Su Dong was also at home, because there was a lot of paper money to be folded, Grandma Su even called Su’s mother and Su Ling to the old house to help fold, so Su Ling had folded the paper money for a whole day, and her hands were all sour.

Before dawn the next day, Mother Su got up and prepared the offerings. Although she said she was going to the grave with the people in the old house, the family was separated anyway, and her own family had to prepare it too!

The folded paper money was packed in a bag, and Su's father rushed to the old house with Su Dong.

In this era, women's status is low, and they are not qualified to visit graves. Being able to prepare sacrificial offerings is already the greatest gift to them.

After Father Su and Su Dong arrived at the old house, the offerings for the old house were also ready.A large group of people took the good things and went up the mountain mightily.

The Su family's cemetery is in the back mountain. Although Su Ling often goes to the back mountain, she has never dared to approach the cemetery. She always feels that the place is eerie and creepy.

Grandpa Su led the way. The uncles of the Su family, Su You, Su Father, Su Jian, Su Shui, and even Su Qin also came back. They followed closely behind, and Su Dong's generation came even further behind.

A whole team, the number of people is quite large, Su Jian has two sons: Su Fu and Su Qiang, Su Shui also has two sons: Su Fei and Su Bo, Su Qin has three children in the room, two sons and one daughter, His son is relatively small, so he didn't come with him today, only Su You's family has three girls. Every time at this time, he always finds that his head is lowered, maybe because he feels that there is no son and no successor, and his back can't stand up. Bar!

Su Dong noticed that Su Ling and Su Ho were following far behind, and his pace also slowed down.

"Ling'er, why are you here? You know, the Lord forbids you to come." Su Dong was very worried.

"Brother, don't worry, I won't go up with you, I'll take a look from a distance." Su Ling looked at Su Dong and smiled slightly. He found that since this brother went to the school, his Confucian temperament has become even more serious, and his speech is also simplistic. She is gentle and gentle, without the vulgarity of rural people at all. On the other hand, she will become more and more like a village girl by then.

"Okay, then you and He'er be careful, I'll follow up first, and the master will get angry again." After finishing speaking, he chased the team and ran up.

Along the way, there were people in the village who went to the grave. When they saw Grandpa Su from a distance, they greeted him loudly. They praised Grandpa Su for being a blessed person. Grandpa Su was also very happy. I didn’t realize how united the family was at this time. It's important!Just thinking that the second child's family was separated, he looked up at Su Kuan who was walking behind, sighed, but didn't say anything.

The Su family's cemetery is on a small hillside, facing the Huaxi River. Such a cemetery is considered a good place for Fengshui!The place where Grandpa Su's father and mother were buried is not far away, maybe it is in response to the saying that they lived together before death, and they should sleep together after death!

The Su family came to Huaxi Village only in the generation of Grandpa Su's father, so only Grandpa Su's parents were in the grave. The brothers of the Su family quickly repaired the grave!The sacrifice was placed on it, and the incense was lit.

I saw Su Kuan repairing this small grave not far from the grave. Perhaps the grave hadn't been repaired for a long time, and it had already leveled down. Su Kuan filled the grave with soil from his heart, his face full is bleak.

Su Ling had never seen such an expression on his father, it was a kind of sadness, and it seemed to be mourning.Who was buried in this grave made my father so sad.

Su Dong may have sensed Su's father's sorrow and came to help. Su's father looked at Su Dong and thought to himself: ...After a long time, he sighed and said nothing.

(End of this chapter)