Back to the small fishing village in 1982

In the early morning of the next day, because Ye Yaodong slept too much at night, when the rooster crowed in the morning, he woke up before full light, but there was another little guy who woke up earlier than him.

When he sat up, he saw a meat ball lying on the end of the bed, Zhengxiang was holding his feet and nibbling there. With a knowing smile, he moved over lightly.

Afraid of waking Ah Qing up, he didn't speak, just smiled and held the child in his arms, then sat on the stool and put on her clothes, trousers, shoes and socks, and stood on the chair before he put on his clothes.

"Rake rake rake rake..." Ye Xiaoxi shouted excitedly while supporting the stool.

"Shh, your mother is sleeping, keep your voice down."

He quickly put on his clothes and pants, and carried her out quickly.

In the main room, the old lady was already sitting there lighting a fire and cooking porridge. Seeing that the father and daughter had already woken up, she smiled and said, "I had enough sleep last night, but the two got up early."

"Well, I went to bed too early, so I got up early."

Through the window, you can see the gray sky outside, as if it is going to rain again.

Ye Yaodong put Ye Xiaoxi in the cage to stand and play, he went to the window to take a look, and opened the window by the way, thick water vapor came in through the window.

"Is it going to rain again?"

"It's going to rain. It will be clear the day after tomorrow. There has been a lot of rain these two days."

He stood by the door and looked at the calendar hanging on the wall. Yesterday, the page on the second day had been torn off. Today is the third day. He flipped two pages down, and there were three red letters in capital letters, Ching Ming Festival. , clearly printed on the calendar.

During the Qingming Festival, it rained a lot, so it was rare to have a sunny day yesterday.

These days I have been busy trawling nets, my child is celebrating his first birthday, I go out early and return late, and I fall asleep when I get home, and I don’t have time to look at the calendar. I didn’t expect it to be Ching Ming Festival.

"Then shall we go to visit the grave the day after tomorrow?"

The old lady nodded, and the smile on her face disappeared.

Ye Yaodong turned his head and continued to look at the calendar, until it was May [-]st before he stopped, and it started to rain lightly outside the house.

Originally, Ye Yaopeng wanted to take advantage of the free time these few days to go to the wall to clear out the pigsty, so that he could hug the piglets in a few days, but today it seems that he can't do it.

Ye Yaodong was also happy and at ease, dragged the rocking chair out of the house in a leisurely manner, put it on the porch at the entrance, lay on it, and watched the rain falling and drizzle outside.

And when Ye Chenghu came back in the evening, he was still muttering in his mouth: "It rains a lot during the Qingming Festival, and the passers-by on the road want to die. May I ask where is the restaurant, and the shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village."

"Oh? Can you recite it? My family is going to be the number one scholar?"

Ye Chenghu raised his neck and said proudly: "I'm going to take two exams with 100 points, of course I will memorize it, just wait and see, wait for the mid-term exam, if I get 100 points in the exam, you can take me to the market." inside."

"I remember it pretty well. Let's talk about it after you get 100 points in the exam."

"Hmph, anyway, you are not allowed to go back on your word."

"You do it first."

Ye Chenghu shook his head, and ran into the house arrogantly, "Mom, the day after tomorrow Tomb-sweeping Day, the teacher said that there will be no school tomorrow, two days off!"

"It's going to be a holiday after two days of school, and two more days..."

"Because the teacher has to go home early to visit the grave, so I have a holiday."

"This is going to be a big quarrel..." Lin Xiuqing babbled in the room, not happy to see them arguing at home.

But later, she wanted to see them arguing in the room, but she couldn't see it yet.

On the day before Qingming, early in the morning, all the children in the village stood proudly by the roadside at the entrance of the village and waited, watching whoever walked by the roadside with a hoe and broom, and they all followed.

Because they have the custom of dividing tomb cakes when sweeping tombs.

Tomb cakes are basically light cakes.

Guangbing is very famous in the local area. According to legend, it was dedicated to Qi Jiguang by the common people for fighting against the Japanese. There is a hole in the middle, which can be worn with a rope, which is convenient for marching and fighting.

On the day of Qingming Festival, for many local people, it is also a tomb cake, which is used to sacrifice tombs. What's interesting is that when the light cakes become tomb cakes, they must be eaten after offering sacrifices to their ancestors. Hand it out on the spot.

Things are relatively scarce these days, and children have no snacks. Tomb-sweeping Day can be regarded as a festival that children like very much because they can go to ask for tomb cakes.

Although it is considered a ghost festival, during the Qingming period, as long as firecrackers are fired in the fields, fields or mountains, children will rush to the cemetery from all directions to beg for tomb cakes.

It can not only be used as a snack, but also to fill the stomach, so it is not only children who ask for tomb cakes, but also many adults who work in the fields. As long as they meet a few families offering sacrifices to the tomb, the day's snacks will be saved.

The Ye family's children, regardless of gender, have been running around since the day of the holiday. They didn't see anyone from morning to night, and they didn't see anyone running back to eat at noon.

Ye Yaodong didn't come back to his senses at first, wondering why he hadn't seen anyone for a long time, and thought he had gone somewhere to play, until the sound of firecrackers came from everywhere on the mountain, he suddenly realized, everyone went to the mountain to beg Tomb cake.

"I said, why is it so quiet this morning? Just save a meal at noon."

Lin Xiuqing also smiled and said, "Should I be wandering around the surrounding hills right now? It rains a little from time to time, and the road is full of mud and water. I don't know how dirty it will be when I come back."

"Yangyang is so small, don't lose him."

"I didn't let him go last year, and I don't know when he sneaked away this morning."

"There are so many people here, and they are on the nearby hills anyway, so I shouldn't lose him. One more person can ask for one more cake. There are so many children in the family, and today we can ask for dozens or even hundreds of them. , Tomorrow we will have a source of goods when we sweep the tomb, save money!"

Lin Xiuqing smiled so hard that she couldn't see her teeth, "Your abacus is really good."

It rained heavily during the Ching Ming Festival last year, and they didn't let their children go out to beg for tomb cakes. When their family was sweeping the tomb, there were not many children to beg for them, so they prepared a dozen, and all of them were left home for their own children to eat. up.

Today is just a little bit of rain occasionally, and it will be sunny from time to time. Tomorrow, there will really be a lot of children and adults.

When the sun cleared in the afternoon, Ye Yaodong was called by Ye Yaopeng to the old house to help break the wall and tidy up the pigsty.

It’s just that this is an old house, a bit old. Ye Yaopeng’s room belongs to the old house and is connected together, unlike the old lady’s original hut which was independent in the backyard.

When the wall was hit, the whole house shook, and the tiles on the roof rattled. Father Ye was so frightened that he immediately shouted to stop, his heart ached, and they were not allowed to hit again.

Just let the two of them be raised together in the little house of the old lady, raised together, and shared by partners at that time.

It has been quite a few years, and it is dilapidated, but because it is made of stone, it looks stronger. The roof leaks will be serious, and the door panels will seep too much. If half of the wall is really knocked down, it is estimated that the entire The old house is also abandoned.

Sister-in-law Ye and Second-sister-in-law Ye could only reluctantly accept it, otherwise it would cost money to ask them to build a pigsty specially. There was already a ready-made one in this old house, and no one was willing to spend money to build another one.

"Hehe, my sister-in-law and I will use the old lady's house to raise pigs. Is that the old lady's land and give me half of it?" Second sister-in-law Ye's mind was crackling.

Father Ye frowned.

At that time, because the second daughter-in-law bought a pig, the little house of the old lady raised pigs for her. In order to stop the eldest daughter-in-law's mouth, the old lady's small piece of land on the roadside was planted for the eldest daughter-in-law.

Now they are talking about this again!

Father Ye looked at Ye Yaodong.

Ye Yaodong raised his eyebrows, and looked over, "Don't look at me, I don't know how to farm, I don't want to fight, and Ah Qing doesn't have time to farm, and she doesn't have any objections, you can figure it out."

The small piece of land enclosed in his yard is enough for them to work on, and the vegetables they grow are enough for their family to eat.

"Go back and ask your mother, we are not dead yet, what are you arguing about? Now help me repair the tiles on the roof, you suck those two times, and your mother and I can lie on the bed at night and watch the stars gone."

Ye Yaohua gave his daughter-in-law a hard look, and said hastily: "Hey, good dad, I'll bring a ladder over here."

The second sister-in-law Ye pursed her lips a little bit unconvinced, but she didn't dare to say anything more.

Ye Yaohua felt that his daughter-in-law was ashamed, and wanted to make up for it, so he volunteered to climb up the stairs after moving them.

Ye Yaopeng also felt embarrassed, and climbed up to help together, while Ye's father and Ye Yaodong were underneath to help hold the stairs and pass the tiles by the way.

The two sisters-in-law also picked up the broom very discerningly, and swept around to tidy up, but they couldn't see the appearance of being bullied just now, and they seemed to be able to adjust themselves.

Father Ye looked at Ye Yaodong and said, "Sweeping the tomb in Qingming tomorrow, you can go to Dongqiao Village by bicycle later, and order 50 light cakes from the person who specializes in light cakes, and we will get them tomorrow morning."

"What are you ordering? A large group of children in the family have all gone out to earn all the cakes today..."

"I'm afraid it won't be enough. I thought so in the morning. In the afternoon, it looks clear. It may be sunny tomorrow. At most, there will be a little sun and rain. Then there will be too many people, and it won't be enough."

"If you don't have enough points, let's send money. Everyone is happier. The cake maker may not be able to make it. In the nearby villages, there are only one or two families who can make light cakes. It's so late today, so go to order again." , where else can it be done?"

Father Ye was right when he thought about it, he didn't make an order a few days ago, and he didn't make an order in the morning.

"Then buy other cakes..."

"Then they don't have time to do it. Shouldn't they be working overtime these days to make light cakes?"

"The money... I haven't seen anyone send money..."

"It's rare, it's more strange, it's not enough, and it's more happy to pay people later."

In a few years, everyone will have enough to eat and drink. No one would like to distribute these cakes, and most people would find it troublesome, so they would have to order them specially. The most joyful thing is to send money directly.

The tomb-sweepers save trouble, and the children who ask for the tomb cakes are happy and can do whatever they want.

Father Ye hesitated, "Then let's see if it's enough tomorrow?"

"Well, I'll bring some extra change. By the way, Dad, do we have to build a tomb for my grandfather? There's always been only that small coffin tomb, it's not very good."