The Most Dazzling National Style of Comprehension

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South China is already very humid in March, but the weather is still slightly cold, with the temperature staying between 10-15°.One year in South China, there are three rainy seasons in four seasons. It will rain intermittently from the twelfth month of the lunar calendar. The winter rain in South China is like the footsteps of a Miao girl. , Lively, innocent and cheerful.

Chunyu, on the other hand, is like a fruit wine unique to southern Xinjiang. It is sweet and soft, with a long aftertaste, and you will be drunk without knowing it.To put it bluntly, the spring rain in South China can last for a long, long time.It is said that the plum rain in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is terrible, and it lasts for a whole month, but compared with the spring rain in South China, it can only be said to be a battle - the spring rain in South China lasts for three months!And once it rains, it will start to return to the south wind. In the south wind, a layer of water will condense on all solid surfaces, whether it is the wall, the ground, the table, the door frame or even the inside of the cabinet.Everything, especially the clothes in the closet, gets moldy so easily that it can't be washed off.Generally speaking, the clothes hanging under the eaves cannot be dried in a week. Rural people can dry them while cooking. Urban residents... In this era when hair dryers are extremely rare, it can only be said that they prepare a few more inner clothes. 1 trousers.

"It's terrible..." Ying Feichi jumped up again as soon as he lay down that night, "Zhou Man, the pillow towel and quilt are moist! I feel a wave of water vapor!"

There was nothing Zhou Man could do about it, he could only say, "How about preparing another spell?"

Without his reminding, Ying Feichi has already got up quickly to find the bamboo slices.At the end of February, Yingfeichi of the water attribute quickly discovered that the moisture in the air had increased surprisingly. He had already placed desiccant symbols in the warehouse where books and other materials were stored, and added a fire talisman to the cleaning talisman of each classroom. Mantra, eliminate excess moisture in the classroom.When the clothes were not dry, he hung a drying charm under the eaves where the clothes were dried, which was specially used to dry clothes.

I thought it was enough to do this, but I didn't expect the spring rain in South China to be so powerful that it even wet the quilt and pillow towel, and the whole bed smelled musty, which made me want to die.Fortunately, Ying Feichi's charm-carving technique has been perfected now, and he brought back a piece of bamboo in less than 10 minutes, and carved cloud patterns around and on the back. It doesn't look like a charm, but a decoration.

"Your hands are getting more and more dexterous." Zhou Man patted his head and praised.

"Of course, I'm in the business of eating." Ying Feichi said proudly, "By the way, not only are my hands strong, but my feet are also getting stronger now! Zhou Man, I'll show you~"

As he spoke, he ran outside the door and took out a ball made of leaves.

In the third month of the lunar calendar, everything in South China ushered in a new lease of life.Pear blossoms, plum blossoms, and peach blossoms are all in bloom, and maple trees have grown new green leaves. When you get up every morning, you can smell the fragrance of grass and trees in Yingfei Lake.At this time, the children are the happiest, because the arrival of the green leaves means that they can all play shuttlecocks.Ying Feichi learned from Meiluo.

Generally, iron blocks such as chicken feathers and copper coins are used to make shuttlecocks, but Guanjiang Village does not have much communication with the outside world, so it can only use local materials and young leaves of various plants to make them.It is best to use maple leaves and mugwort leaves for new leaves, and mugwort leaves are the best.The shape of mugwort leaves is similar to that of a fish bone. The petiole parts of two mugwort leaves can be tied together when they accumulate to a certain height.The rope is also made from local materials, and it is enough to peel off the bark of the shrubs.There is a shrub that grows cocklebur-like thorns in autumn, which stick to clothes and are difficult to remove.Children like to roll around, and they will get stuck if they are not careful. When they come home, their mother finds out that it is a good meal.

The mugwort shuttlecock is tied up and needs to be pulled to form a ball.After that, you can kick.Although the shuttlecock made of leaves will drop leaves everywhere, it does not last long, but it is very stable to kick, even a novice can kick it well.There are many ways to kick the shuttlecock. There are two types of one-foot kicks: outward and inward.Kicking with one foot inward can land the foot once, but the foot cannot land with one foot inward.There are also two types of kicking with both feet. One is that the two feet kick alternately in one direction, and the left and right feet count as one kick.The other is the most difficult, called "jumping foot". After kicking the shuttlecock with the right foot, the whole person jumps up, bends the left foot and kicks the shuttlecock around the right foot from below, and then catches the shuttlecock with the right hand twice.These four actions add up to one.

Ying Feichi weighed the mugwort leaf shuttlecock in his hand, then tossed it up, and tried all the four methods flexibly, and finally when he jumped, his movements were as light as a swallow, and his posture was so beautiful that it was pleasing to the eye.Zhou Man leaned against the wall, taking everything into his eyes, just like a camera recorded everything and stored it in his mind, clear and undistorted, and took it out for review from time to time.

"How? How?" Ying Feichi caught the shuttlecock and asked expectantly.

Zhou Man's eyes were heavy, like the gentlest night, he smiled and asked: "You played well, but there should be no one playing shuttlecock with you now, right?"

Ying Feichi's heart was hit by a red arrow, and he covered his heart and fell to the ground.Yes!This is the tragedy of Xueba (playing master). If the skills are too bad, no one will play with them, but if the skills are too good, they will!Why is Dugu Qiubai named Dugu, because the realm of seeking defeat is very lonely!

"Haha!" Seeing the tearful look of the little Taoist being bullied, Zhou Man couldn't help laughing out loud. When the little Taoist rushed over to kiss his face with a cry, he hugged him, rubbed his hair and said: " Don't be angry, can I make you something delicious?"

Ying Feichi's hair was shunned immediately, and his tearful eyes turned into starry eyes of expectation, and he raised his head and asked, "What's delicious?"

What's delicious?Of course, local materials are used to make Aibaba.

During the Qingming Festival in March, people in L City have the habit of eating Aibaba.The wormwood around Qingming grows the fastest, and it seems that it can be raised several tens of centimeters overnight.There are two types of wormwood, one grows on the side of the road, it grows close to the ground, it is very low, and the locals call it wormwood.There is also a tall plant that grows on the sandy land by the river, called He AI.To make Aibaba, you need to use the newly grown shoots of wormwood. The brighter the color, the better the quality.Relatively speaking, wormwood has few young leaves, and generally only the heart part of the leaves can be pinched.The river moss grows very quickly, and can basically be pinched half a finger long.

Regardless of wormwood or river wormwood, pick off the young leaves of wormwood and scald them with water first (blanching means scalding them with white water).Then knead the wormwood and glutinous rice flour together, so that the wormwood and glutinous rice flour are evenly mixed together.When the rice noodles turn from white to dark green, they can be kneaded into balls.You can stuff things in the middle of the dumplings, you can put white sugar, brown sugar, or crushed peanuts and sesame seeds.Then it can be left to steam. L City likes to steam it directly without wrapping it in anything, but Guanjiang Village likes to steam it with pomelo leaves, and the taste of pomelo leaves will also enter the dumplings, neutralizing the fragrance.

"Delicious!" Ying Feichi took it for breakfast, two mouthfuls, and there were traces of stuffing on the corner of his mouth.The aibaba made by Zhou Man is stuffed with sugar, sesame seeds and white sugar peanuts, both of which are sweet. If you eat sugar and white sugar while it is hot, the sesame seeds and peanuts will flow in your mouth, and the taste is not too good.

"It would be great if I could sell Ai Baba too."

Zhou Man took off his apron and said with a smile: "Ai Baba can't do it, but wormwood can."

"Oh!" Ying Feichi understood instantly. With a wave of his arm, he swept a plate of newly released Aibaba into the basket, stepped on the basket with one hand and raised the other hand, saying, "Zhou Man, I'm going to modify the dryer." Already!"

Comrade parents smiled with satisfaction, the little guy really understands his mind more and more.Zhou Man turned around and went to inform the students: Harvesting the young leaves of river moxa in March costs 3 cents a catty. Overnight wormwood is also acceptable, but it cannot be kept for more than two days.

For adults, the remuneration of 3 cents per catty is a bit low, and the corn planting will start in March, so there is basically no young and middle-aged labor force to do these things.But the elderly are different from children, they only need pocket money, especially children.

The settlements in the south are generally built on the water. There is only one river in the Guanjiang River, which is the Guanhe River. The school is located between Shimo and Xiaguanjiang.From the day when Zhou Man said he was collecting wormwood, the students of Guanjiang Elementary School did not carry schoolbags when they went to school.I go to Shazhouba by the river after school at noon, and walk along the river after school in the evening. I can hold 20 catties of mugwort leaves in my back basket a day.

"Teacher, I finally don't have to ask my mother for money!" Meiluo was very happy, and when she put down the basket, she straightened up and wiped the sweat from her forehead. "Teacher, I have 6 cents today, right?"

"Well, yes." Zhou Man put three [-]-cent banknotes in Mei Luo's hands, and said: "That is to say, I can let you do a little at the beginning of school, and learn all of them obediently after the due date. Graduation class If I don’t take the first place in the township this year, I’ll take care of them one by one when I come back!”

"Teacher, don't worry!" Meiluo promised, "I will definitely show you the number one in the township exam!"

Zhou Man smiled and said, "If you get the first place in the township, I will help you pay the tuition for three years."

"Teacher, it's good!" Meiluo's eyes lit up.Her grades have always been good, but many girls in the village did not go to junior high school. Now they do farm work at home for two or three years, and go out to work when they are 16 years old.Meiluo didn't want to do that at all. She wanted to go to the teacher training technical secondary school like Teacher Zhou and come back to teach the children in the village.But middle school fees are very expensive, and living expenses need to be paid to study in the countryside, which costs an average of about 20 yuan a month.Although the family made some money by selling mountain products, the house has been there for a long time. I don't know whether her parents are saving money to build a house, or they will teach her.If someone helps her pay for her tuition, then she won't worry about her family at all!

Thinking of this, Meiluo's little face lit up, and she bounced back with her back basket on her back.

"Alas..." Looking at the petite figure of the little girl, Ying Feichi couldn't help sighing, and said in a low voice, "I have to work hard to earn money at such a young age, and I'm afraid there will be no books to read. For ordinary children, 20 catties The weight will crush the immature skeleton? If there is no broadcast exercise, I really dare not do these things for them."

"Everyone has difficulties. Didn't you also when you were young? They were struggling to survive, struggling to eat, wear and study. What about you back then? Although you didn't have to worry about food and clothing, you were bullied all day long, and you were careful every day. Isn't it another kind of difficulty to protect one's spiritual roots from being destroyed?" Zhou Man touched Ying Feichi's head and said with a smile: "We can't change the environment, we can't change the times, but we can transform themselves buy mountain products to make money, let them exercise under the cover of teaching radio gymnastics, and let them create more wealth under the premise of protecting them."

"Zhou Man..." Ying Feichi looked at his parents with sadness but happiness in his eyes. "Although I didn't meet you when I was young, I'm very lucky to be by your side now. I think they think so too."

"Nonsense." Zhou Man patted his head, "I'm just an employer who exploits their labor."

"No!" Ying Feichi hugged him and said firmly, "It's the benevolent boss!"

The author has something to say: I really like eating Aibaba!But in order to pick mugwort leaves when I was young, I had to carry a big backpack and walk a long way along the river to pick enough mugwort leaves.In fact, after the mugwort leaves are ripe, they will become very few. To make [-] catties of glutinous rice, you may need to pick [-] catties of raw mugwort leaves. I’m too lazy to calculate here, let’s beautify everything~

The next chapter is about wild fruits~Thank you everyone who bought v~