Happy Farmer's Life

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, there is a very important festival called Fuze Day. For this day, the village is busy early, and preparations will start almost from the fifth day of the first month.There is a platform in the middle of the village, which is usually used for meetings or something, but at this time it is a lively place for the whole village.The young men in the village want to erect an altar in the center of the platform, and there is a towering tree not far from the altar.The women in the village are carving a rectangular piece of wood out of bamboo. The wood piece is not big, with a round hole drilled in the middle, and a red string hung on it.

Du Weiming has never had such a festival, and it seems that there is no such thing as Fuze Day in his impression.He and Jing Yuan also joined the ranks of construction.The altar is made of trees.Everyone in the village paid for a piglet and prepared to use it that day.The two got up early in the morning on the first day of the eighth day of the eighth day of the lunar new year. After washing up, they came to the platform to gather without even having breakfast.The village chief came forward and said a few words before announcing that the sacrifice had begun.First, the piglet will be slaughtered on the spot and offered to the altar, and then everyone will kneel down and worship the gods together.I pray that the coming year will be smooth, that the country will prosper and that everyone will live and work in peace and contentment.After the ceremony, everyone has to drink a small bowl of wine. At this time, the women in the village will distribute a small piece of bamboo to everyone. After making a wish, everyone will go to the big tree and throw the bamboo piece. The bamboo piece must be hung Only on the tree, whoever has the tallest bamboo slice represents whose wish can be realized the most.

Du Weiming was also very happy, and after silently making a wish in his heart, he joined the ranks of throwing bamboo chips.Generally, children are the most excited at this time. Children are short and weak, and the bamboo pieces are generally not high, so everyone jumps up and hangs the bamboo pieces on the tree, and the red ropes on them hang down. Standing down, looking from a distance, it is very beautiful.

After the ceremony, everyone went home, and there were important activities in the evening.Du Weiming was also preparing for the evening after returning home.He was assigned the task of making pancakes.The village head delivered the cornmeal yesterday. It is quite a lot to make pancakes for the whole village.Scoop out part of the cornmeal in a large basin, add water to make it into a puree, add salt and other seasonings, Du Weiming thought about it, and added a few eggs in it.

"Do you want to add eggs to this?"

"Well, look at me, the tortillas with eggs are very delicious, I will try one for you later."

Jing Yuan's task is still to light the fire, and with Jing Yuan's help, Du Weiming can only make pancakes, and the speed is quite fast.Du Weiming took out a small can of olive oil cruelly, coated the pan with a layer of olive oil, and pasted the pancakes one by one, turning over the other side to continue when one side was golden.One by one, the hot and fragrant tortillas came out of the pan.Liu Jingyuan felt that he seemed to be able to eat more and more.Although I have eaten this corn tortilla twice before, I have never eaten such a good taste. It is not the kind of hard tortilla. The tortilla is hot just out of the pan. Once I bite into it, the unique aroma of cornmeal comes out.Two or three bites of a pancake wiped out the background source.I still want to eat, but Weiming won't give it to me. It's for dinner.For a whole day, Du Weiming made hundreds of pancakes.The wooden basins at home are almost not enough.He and Jingyuan carried several wooden basins to the platform, and found that the platform was already a scene for the two of them.

The altar was demolished, and the trees were cut down for firewood. There was the largest pile of firewood at the original altar position, and there were small piles of firewood in each area below.Du Weiming carried the pancakes to Aunt Zhang who unified the management of food.The aunt is also very busy at this time.Every household in the village is assigned tasks, some prepare meat dishes, such as meatballs, chicken, etc., and some prepare vegetables, such as cabbage and radishes.Several earthen stoves were directly set up on the platform, and hot soup was being burned.In the evening, everyone in the village eats here.

The firewood was lit, and everyone's faces were filled with excitement.Everyone was eating dishes around the fire, and the aunts were busy bringing the hot soup in the pot to everyone.There are not many people in the village, everyone drinks, eats vegetables, and chats about topics.At the place of the altar, several boys in the village were roasting the piglet, and the aroma kept coming.After almost seducing everyone's gluttons, the roast suckling pig was finally completed.Several young men carried the pig and distributed food to everyone one by one.First of all, of course, the elders in the village, then the children, and finally the young adults.Du Weiming took the pork he got and ate it happily.In fact, this kind of time is not about how delicious the food is, but the most important thing is the atmosphere.Du Weiming has never attended such a party with so many people eating together.In fact, Jing Yuan never participated.Although there are sacrifices in Kyoto, at most everyone has a meal together in the evening, and there is no such thing as so many people, and they eat together.

After eating and drinking, it's the main event.Everyone danced and sang around the fire.At this time, unmarried men and women in the village also had blind dates in disguise. If a man was interested in a girl, he would go over and sing to him.Girls don’t need to express it today. If they are interested, they will sew a purse and give it to boys when they watch the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month after discussing with their families.Du Weiming was not interested in these things. In modern times, he had never been in a relationship at all, and he had no interest in dating. At that time, he just studied and went home to take care of his sister.Now, he's a 12-year-old kid with no interest.He joined the dancers, and they danced and sang around the fire.

Fuze Day is the happiest day that Du Weiming has lived since he came here. He used to be trembling, worked hard, and struggled for his livelihood.On this day, Du Weiming drank two bowls of wine and became drunk.They kept talking to each other and looking for someone to dance with. In the end, Liu Jingyuan couldn't stand it any longer. Weiming thought of going to dance with a girl in a daze.Liu Jingyuan stopped him, carried Du Weiming on his back, asked the village chief to say goodbye and went home.

After returning home, Du Weiming was noisy for a long time and was also tired.Liu Jingyuan hugged the quilt to sleep when he put him on the bed.There is no other way, Liu Jingyuan can only wait for him to clean up. He has never done anything like serving others, and Liu Jingyuan is obviously not familiar with it.Finally got him all done, and took off his clothes to go to bed, when he heard Du Weiming calling softly, "Sister, sister, I miss you so much..." Liu Jingyuan had never seen him like this before, Du Weiming called Crying, Jing Yuan had no choice but to fetch a piece of cloth for him to wipe.Gently patted him on the back to lull him to sleep.Finally, when it was almost dawn, Du Weiming finally fell into a deep sleep.Liu Jingyuan was also exhausted, so he hurriedly washed up and went to bed quickly.

Thinking about coming the next day, Du Weiming felt that his head was hurting, and his whole body was lying on Jing Yuan's body, so he quickly got up.Hey, those two bowls of rice wine are probably to blame.What the village drinks is homemade rice wine, which tastes sweet and has no taste of wine, but it has a lot of stamina.Du Weiming thought for a long time, there is no such thing as hangover tea here, and he remembers that honey can save him.When I was making olives last time, I bought a small jar of honey and still had some leftovers. I made a cup of tea with the honey and drank it. It felt much better.Du Weiming didn't have much memory of drinking, and of course he didn't remember Jing Yuan being bullied by him last night.When Liu Jingyuan got up, Du Weiming's words almost drove him to death.

"Jing Yuan, come and drink some honey water to sober up. Jing Yuan slept so late today and got up, it seems that he should drink less in the future, you can't drink well."

Who the hell is a bad drinker, got drunk after two bowls, and went berserk all night.Liu Jingyuan didn't bother to talk to him anymore. Seeing him like this, he knew that he didn't remember what happened yesterday.It will be a few days before Du Weiming learns from others what he looks like after drinking, so I won't show it here for the time being.