Happy Farm Ranch

Chapter 141 Thunder in Winter
"Hey, what's so easy to learn about dipping candied haws? I'll show you how to do it tomorrow." Liang Fei smiled and lit another cigarette. Generally speaking, the taste is not too bad.”

Everyone in the room has registered what they want, and they are just sitting and chatting at the moment.

Anyway, that’s what Maodong is like in winter. There is no entertainment other than playing small cards. At most, you can eat some sunflower seeds grown at home, drink some tea and chat for a long time. .When they heard that Liang Fei was going to dip the candied haws, most of them were aroused with curiosity.

Huatanao is located in a remote place. Many years ago, when it was still in close contact with the outside world, few vendors came to sell things.

Occasionally, when they come across a seller of candied haws, most of the villagers will spend money to buy a bunch of them for the children to satisfy their hunger.

Sometimes there are no small vendors for more than half a year, and the children can only go up the mountain to find "snacks" to eat.All kinds of berries, jujubes, jujubes, and wild hawthorn are all delicacies in their mouths.

In recent years, few people have gone out of the mountains, and no small vendors are willing to come here, so only small shops will buy a few bunches from vendors walking around the streets in the town when they buy goods, and sell them in the shop.

But this kind of candied haws that has been bumped for too long is naturally not as delicious as fresh.

What's more, most of the production techniques and materials used nowadays can be saved if possible, and once in a while, the taste of the past will not be lost.

"Well, the younger children don't know what it's like to sell candied haws now." The second fool squinted his eyes slightly, licking melon seeds and recalled: "When I was young, a candied haws seller came into the village from time to time, riding a Muzi to say So what— Er Ba Da Kick, a big wooden pole is tied to the front handle, some straw is tied on the top of the wooden pole, and layers of candied haws are filled. That guy, Hong Yanyan just looks at it and satiates his appetite!"

He gestured while describing, "The red fruit used for dipping candied haws is so big, with a layer of sugar hanging on it! Now that I think about it, tsk tsk, my mouth is sour!"

After being said by the second fool, there was a sudden sound of sucking in the room.Even Su Mu couldn't help but quickly took a sip of tea, he really remembered the sourness of hawthorn, no one would not drink sour water.

"The yelling at that time sounded good. I haven't heard it for so many years." The village chief took a puff of cigarettes, coughed twice after blowing out the smoke ring, sat up straight and imitated: "Who wants a bunch of Shanlihong! Who wants A bunch of mountain red!"

The village chief's vivid imitation immediately drew applause from the crowd, and Ou Chen and Liang Fei had never heard such dialect-like yelling before, so they only followed suit;
However, Su Mu was reminded that when he was a child, he lived in the countryside, and it seemed that there would be similar shouts every winter.

At that time, most people still called hawthorn as Shanlihong, but now more and more people have forgotten this term, and they all changed their name to candied haws.

After this topic was opened, the chat atmosphere in the room suddenly changed to reminiscing about the past.

Ou Chen and Liang Fei also described with gusto the delicacies they ate when they were young, which have gradually disappeared, such as ice cream wrapped in blue penguin paper, sour plum powder, mint-flavored bubble gum...

"Boom!" Just as everyone was immersed in the lively discussion, there was a burst of thunder from the sky!
The lively talking and laughing stopped in an instant!
Su Mu reacted the fastest, and subconsciously scanned the surrounding area to make sure it wasn't an accident in the village, then asked in a low voice, "Will there be thunder in winter?"

"Should...it's not thunder!" Ou Chen was stunned, and said to himself that he had heard of snow in June, but thunder in winter seemed a bit unreliable. He had never heard of thunder in winter when he grew up!

"Certainly not, how can there be thunder in winter." Liang Fei rolled his eyes at the two of them, but before the words finished, there was a clearer "boom" sound!

"Damn it, it's really evil!" Liang Fei was also stunned, why is there thunder in winter?

At this time, the villagers on and off the kang were silent.

After a while, the village chief looked at the crowd with a slightly bad face, and said, "Muzi, there is an old saying in the village: 'When Lei hits winter, nine out of ten cowpens are empty'. According to old principles, this But it's a bad omen..."

"There shouldn't be anything wrong, right?" Dad doesn't believe in evil. After all, this year's harvest is so good, how could it be possible to encounter a poor year just because of a thunderstorm in winter.

The original harmonious atmosphere was affected by the thunder, and no one spoke. Everyone felt that thunder in winter was definitely not a good omen.

It made Ou Chen and Liang Fei stare wide-eyed, not knowing what to say.

After a while, while some elderly people in the room were instilling the idea of ​​"Old Lier" to Su Mu and his son, Ou Chen took out his mobile phone and looked at it. Although the signal is not very good, it can barely use the data to surf the Internet. .

I randomly searched for the keywords of thunder and winter, and I saw that several explanations popped up, all of which were about unknown explanations, and some explained them from a scientific point of view, but it seems that besides blizzards and snowstorms, thunderstorms in winter are also prone to hail. Some of the opinions of the villagers coincided with each other.

"Ou Shao, what did you find?" Seeing him playing with the phone, Su Mu knew that Ou Chen was asking "Du Niang".

Ou Chen frowned and didn't answer, and handed over the phone.

"'Jingfang, a well-known Yixue master in the Han Dynasty, said: "Thunder in the winter, the earth will surely shake. He believed that thunderstorms in winter were caused by killing innocent people indiscriminately in spring and summer. If human beings do not think about their sins and repent, warm winds will blow up in winter, causing rampant pests and plagues in the world.Our ancients said something terrible: when thunder strikes after autumn, the land is full of thieves.The occurrence of Donglei shows that the government is benevolent and the law is abnormal, so that villains run rampant, and the troubles of prostitutes, thieves and thieves are rampant..." Su Mu read a short paragraph, then twitched the corners of his mouth and raised his head: "It doesn't seem very reliable, does it? "

"Anyway, it's not good to have thunder in winter! Muzi, you have to think about the next year's harvest!" The village chief sighed, not even in the mood to smoke.

Originally, it was good for their family to move back and bring the villagers to make a fortune together. They had just persisted for more than half a year before encountering a thunderstorm. If the farm and pasture were really hit by disaster next year, Su Muke would have to pay a lot of money!
When everyone was silent, the cotton curtain in the room was raised suddenly, and it was Su Mu's grandfather who came in.

He patted the snowflakes on his body and asked: "Did you all hear the movement just now? Snowflakes started to fall outside at this moment. Although it sounds like it should not be the movement of thunder, is it possible that there will be avalanches in the mountains now?"

When grandpa asked this question, the older man immediately slapped his thigh with joy, "Hey, why didn't I think of this! We were all thinking that it was thunder and winter, and we had forgotten that the mountains would collapse from time to time in winter. The movement should be that a mountain has collapsed!"

(End of this chapter)