After graduation, I went home to keep bees

It’s the Mid-Autumn Festival again. This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival is more lively than in previous years, especially in Langshan Village. This year, almost every household stays at home. Except for a few people in the village who have stable jobs in the city and their children go to school in big cities. The rest, without exception, all stayed in their hometown.

Now they are not the farmers who used to face the loess and back to the sky.

There is an industrial park in the village, and there are agricultural cooperatives under the industrial park. As long as people are not lazy, they can find jobs in the village.

There are some clever ones, others made money to build a house, they made money, they simply went to the next town to contract mountain land, plant tea trees, grow mushrooms, raise bees...

Although they haven't made a lot of money yet, I heard that Jiang Xiaoman and the others are already discussing cooperation with other villages and towns. Once the two sides start to cooperate, these industries will be hens that can lay golden eggs in the future!

The common people have money in their hands and hope in their hearts. Isn't this day getting more and more prosperous?

Even before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the market in the town became lively. Even the butcher who slaughtered pigs, who used to kill only one pig in a market and could not sell all the pigs, now dared to kill three pigs!

Everyone in the township was busy going to the market to buy things for the festival, only Jiang Baichuan, the principal, and a few teachers of the school had no chance to go shopping at all.

The people of Langshan not only respected Principal Jiang, but worshiped and respected him.

The four words of respecting the teacher and respecting the way, the simple mountain people never say it, but do it.

There are still ten days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the school communication room is full of gifts from the parents of the students.

They also knew that he would definitely not want to send Principal Jiang alone, so they simply took advantage of the chaos at the school gate when sending their children to school, threw the things they brought into the reception room, and ran faster than rabbits!

Poor Uncle Security was alone, and he still stood at the door staring at the students, ignoring the security room at all. When he came back after maintaining order, the security room must be full of bags again.

What homemade smoked fish and bacon, salted eggs and smoked tofu.

What homemade dried mushrooms, dried wild vegetables, and wild fruits picked in the mountains.

Someone even sent homemade tofu, maltose and stinky soybeans...

Now that the school cafeteria has government subsidies, and the extra money earned by making videos on the school’s official account, the children’s usual food expenses have long since left Principal Jiang to worry about. I don’t know who gave these things, and I don’t know who to return them to. , Simply use it as a benefit for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and give the teachers a point.

He also got some for himself. After the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, Jiang Baichuan put the things in two baskets, carried them up the mountain with a pole.

The industrial park is also on holiday today. Jiang Xiaoman and the others are e-commerce companies. During this kind of holiday, the general gift boxes are sold out in advance, so they simply give everyone a holiday.

Anyway, money is endless, his father is so old, and every festival will be one less, Jiang Xiaoman would rather earn less money than give up the opportunity to spend the festival with his father.

Half a day in advance, the employees of the industrial park were given Mid-Autumn Festival benefits, and the on-duty personnel were arranged. Finally, he took the management to check the security of the park. Jiang Xiaoman also picked up the things he had prepared for the festival and went up the mountain.

When they got home, they found that Jiang Baichuan had come back earlier than him!

The family of three tacitly began to prepare things for the festival.

Every household here makes a lot of Zongye Baba during the Mid-Autumn Festival, not only for their own food, but also for the Mid-Autumn Festival when guests come.

Jiang Xiaoman called his father yesterday, and asked Jiang Youliang to soak the glutinous rice and miscellaneous grains and beans for Zongye Baba in advance.

Jiang Baichuan went into the house and changed into an old T-shirt, wearing old man's shorts, and squatted in the yard with Jiang Youliang, washed the whole grain beans soaked overnight, poured them on the bamboo sieve, and put some insect-eaten beans The beans are picked out and discarded, and the rest can be made into papa.

Jiang Xiaoman also changed into old clothes and went to the kitchen to get a piece of bacon. After it was burnt, he washed the dust off the surface and cut it into thin and fat diced meat for later use.

Jiang Baichuan brought in the selected miscellaneous grains and beans, saw Jiang Youliang's pre-prepared herbal tea on the table, poured himself a cup, and drank half of the cup in one go. Xiao Man mixed with stuffing.

The Zongye Baba they eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival has two flavors. The salty one is usually stuffed with bacon and carrots, and the sweet one is glutinous rice with mixed grains and beans, and then mixed with a certain proportion of white sugar.

"How is Xiao Qu adapting to you?" Jiang Baichuan was idle and bored, thinking that he hadn't seen Qu Jingjiang for a while, he couldn't help asking.

Jiang Baichuan actually admired Qu Jingjiang a lot. This young man has real skills, a solid professional foundation, willing to learn, and devoted himself to the students. The only shortcoming is probably that his emotional intelligence is not high, unlike his nephew who is so flattering. like.

"Teacher Qu? That's pretty good. He's so happy that he doesn't want to leave. He often works overtime and forgets to eat and sleep. Even the security guards on the night shift in our park can't survive him..."

"Cough cough! Jiang Xiaoman, stop in moderation, don't bully others like this." Jiang Baichuan gave him a warning look, "Don't think I don't know, just rely on him knowing a little bit about everything, and let him be three people alone. work, I also need to help you repair your computer..."

"Wrong! Uncle, who did you listen to? I clearly gave Director Qu a chance to exercise himself!" Jiang Xiaoman called Qu.

It's really not to blame Jiang Xiaoman for oppressing Qu Jingjiang.

It is really that the industrial park lacks professional and technical talents like him.

After Qu Jingjiang came, he took on the technical support of the entire e-commerce incubation center by himself.However, in the initial stage of the company, the division of labor between various departments is of course not as clear as that of the big Internet companies. Several times the company’s computer broke down, and they called to the county to find someone to repair it. You have to pay more.

Qu Jingjiang minored in computer technology when he was in college. Because he was poor, he assembled a computer himself, and he knew how to do some simple repairs. Thinking that it would take several days to wait for the county's order, he simply asked the office to help him buy some spare parts and put them together by himself. The computer was fixed.

What's wrong with Director Qu who is able to work too hard?

Jiang Xiaoman is already planning to give him a salary increase, okay?

He is not a black-hearted capitalist. Seeing the versatility of his employees, he tried his best to squeeze them.

"I didn't expect Xiao Qu not to be a teacher, and she is also very good as a technical talent." Jiang Baichuan just chatted with his nephew in idleness, and nodded when he heard Jiang Xiaoman said that Qu Jingjiang performed well and his salary would be raised after the next year. , did not say anything.

Jiang Xiaoman deliberately soaked more glutinous rice and beans, and made a lot of zongyebaba. When a relative came to give a festival gift, he asked someone to give some to Qu Jingjiang's mother and son.

Qu Jingjiang and Qu's mother did not return to their hometown during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Originally, Mother Qu was still a little hesitant. Although her husband was gone, her mother-in-law was still there.

She still doesn't know that her mother-in-law has gone underground to reunite with her eldest son who was killed by her...

Qu Jingjiang managed to get his mother out of the man-eating den in his hometown, how could he let her go back?

However, he has also learned from Jiang Xiaoman now, instead of simply and rudely rejecting his mother as before, on the contrary, he stayed up late at the industrial park for several days and worked overtime until late, and finally made himself "tired and sick".

The doctor in the town gave him nutrition injections for three days and asked him to hang in salt water for two hours a day.He also asked him to lie down on the bed and rest for a few days in a stern tone, otherwise he might die suddenly.

As soon as the word "sudden death" was uttered, Mother Qu's face turned pale with fright.

Now even if Mrs. Qu came to invite her in person, she would not bring her son back to her hometown.

She no longer has a husband, and her son is her dearest person in this world. To say something unfilial, even if Mrs. Qu is critically ill today, lying on the bed and wanting to see her grandson for the last time, she will pretend not to have received the news.

After all, the mother-in-law still has two biological sons by her side, and her son has only her relatives by her side.

Jiang Xiaoman asked someone to bring Qu Jingjiang a basket of zongzi leaves. That night, the relative who helped him with the things said, "Director Qu is tired from working overtime late at night."

Facing Jiang Baichuan's condemning eyes, Jiang Xiaoman hastened to avenge himself: "The park has a collective holiday for the Mid-Autumn Festival! Even I, the general manager, have had a rest. How can he, the director of the technical department, stay up late and work overtime?"

Called and heard Qu Jingjiang said that he made himself "tired and sick" in order to keep his mother from going back to his hometown for the holidays. Jiang Xiaoman couldn't laugh or cry.

"What did I say? I didn't make him work overtime at all~"

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Xiaoman explained the whole story, and Jiang Baichuan was quite speechless.

Didn't expect Xiaoqu to have such a face.

It was something he had never seen before.

However, although her son was "tired and sick", this year's Mid-Autumn Festival was the happiest Mid-Autumn Festival that Qu's mother had spent in all these years of marriage.

In previous years, when her husband was still there, they spent the Mid-Autumn Festival together.

One of her two sisters-in-law was lazier than the other, and mother Qu had to prepare the holiday meals for a large family of more than a dozen people, and it wasn't a single meal, it was eaten from morning to night.

Every year after the holidays, Mother Qu is like going through a catastrophe. When she returns home, her back is sore and her legs hurt and she has to rest for several days.

Forget it, every time during the holidays, the couple would carry things home with big and small bags, and they would also give red envelopes to the children of the second and third family.

What made Qu's mother angry was that they gave red envelopes to the children of the second and third children, but the second and third children never gave Qu Jingjiang red envelopes, and even smiled and said something in front of her mother-in-law. Jingjiang has grown up, such a big boy , I’ve already been paid, so I won’t give him a red envelope in the future... Is this a human word?

Qu's mother doesn't like to go to her mother-in-law's house for festivals at all. Once she is with Qu's family on any festival, it will become a catastrophe.

Her son was tired and sick, of course she felt distressed.

But when she thought that she would have an excuse not to go back to spend the holidays with her mother-in-law, Mother Qu couldn't help but secretly rejoice.

What warmed her heart even more was that although Qu Jingjiang had never taken care of several classes of students in Langshan Primary School, it was heard that he was sick. Many people in the village came to visit Qu Jingjiang with things, just live old hens , The family collected seven of them!

For so many years, their family only throws things outside every festival, and this is the first time they recycle things.

Qu Jingjiang has also learned badly. If it was in the past, he would definitely not accept gifts from students' parents, but now it is different. Mother Qu said——

"When I was a teaching assistant in Langshan, I didn't know how many local eggs I ate from the parents of the students. Now that we have moved here, we should have taken the initiative to return the gift on the first big festival. Unfortunately, the doctor didn't Get me up..."

As soon as she said this, Mother Qu couldn't sit still.

"Lie down! I'm going to the supermarket in the town to buy some things. Favors have to come and go. We can't rely on you teaching other people's children for a few years and just accept their things for nothing. Write a list for me. I will return the gift according to the list."

Mother Qu immediately got busy, and she completely forgot about the troubled mother-in-law and uncle.

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On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival on August [-]th, the whole Langshan was very lively.

In fact, in recent years, migrant workers are willing to give up their work and go home for the holidays. After all, the holiday is too short, and some factories are only willing to take one day off, even if they want to go home for a reunion.

This year, it was rare for every family to be reunited. Even Grandma Jiang's family was taken to the Shanghai Stock Exchange ahead of schedule, and spent a reunion Mid-Autumn Festival with Jiang Cancan.

The mountains are also very lively.

After the reunion dinner, offering mooncakes, pomegranates, zongzi leaves, and glutinous rice candies in the yard, Jiang Xiaoman turned off the lights in the yard and watched Jiang Youliang and Jiang Baichuan light the torches.

"Steal a big one, and next year I will bless you to find a good wife and give birth to a fat baby!" Jiang Youliang solemnly handed the torch in his hand to Jiang Xiaoman.

There is also a custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in Langshan, which is called "stealing autumn vegetables" locally.

On the night of the full moon in August and fifteenth, after the reunion dinner, young people and children in the family will run around the village with torches, stealing melons and vegetables from other people's fields.

Children generally steal vegetables, especially cauliflower. It is said that it is because cauliflower is a homonym for "talent". Whoever steals the cauliflower that is the largest and the most beautiful means that he will definitely get good grades in the exam this year.

People like Jiang Xiaoman's age usually go to steal melons, pumpkins or watermelons, and they must steal big ones, the heavier the better.

So you have to bring a torch, not only to follow the road, but also to find a bigger melon.

Jiang Xiaoman hasn't been so naive for many years, but who made him slip up in the live broadcast room and let fans know about their custom of Langshan.

Fans are clamoring to see Brother Xiaoman steal melons under the moonlight, what else can Brother Xiaoman do?

Of course it is to satisfy the distinguished fans~

However, what left him speechless was that he didn't know who was the first to spread the word that he was a "Little God of Wealth in Langshan". fiscal!

When Jiang Xiaoman went down the mountain to steal a melon, his vegetable garden was ransacked!

It wasn't until the next morning when he went to his vegetable garden to pick some vegetables and go back to serve noodles, that he realized that there was not even a green onion left in his vegetable garden...

The villagers laughed and tied the green onions stolen from brother Xiaoman's vegetable garden with red strings and hung them on the door. They also laughed and pulled more green onions from their own vegetable garden and transplanted them to Jiang Xiaoman's family. In the vegetable garden.

The pumpkins and winter melons that were stolen must not be replaced by new melons. The villagers simply picked more pumpkins, winter melons, gourds, etc. from their own vegetable gardens, and went up the mountain to dry them while there was food in the river. Work, piled up in front of his house!

After being sent melons for several days in a row, the storage room at home was almost full. Jiang Xiaoman had no choice but to appeal to everyone in the newly built Langshan Village "love each other as a family" to stop giving him melons!

It's not the entertainment industry, one melon a day is not enough to eat.

Their Langshan melons are big and delicious, and they are really easy to eat...