"Xi Na Yasuko, it's time to eat, woo woo
Cui Guiying, who was wearing an apron, held a bowl in her left hand and a spoon in her right hand, shouting and tapping the edge of the porridge jar.
Li Weihan, who was sitting next to him and was filling the hookah with tobacco leaves, kicked the woman's cheek and cursed angrily:
"Your brain is in water, what about calling the piglet?"
Cui Guiying glared at her man, put a stack of bowls heavily in front of him, and cursed:
"Bah, pigs are not as noisy as them, let alone eaten by them!"
Under the call, a group of children ran in from outside the door, including seven boys and four girls, the oldest was sixteen and the youngest was only three years old.
Li Weihan and his wife have four sons and one daughter, and the children have separated when they grow up.
But when the summer vacation arrives, I don't know if it's for convenience or because I think my parents don't take advantage of it.
If you accept the old family's, the other families will be embarrassed not to accept them, and this will make the family look like a school.
The sweetness of Sun Mantang here is so sweet that the couple hasn't had time to taste it, but the rice jar at home is about to run out.
As the saying goes, half a child eats Lao Tzu, including female dolls, it is the time when the body grows, the thief can eat it, the belly is like a bottomless pit, Cui Guiying's family has to use a jar to hold the staple food, and one jar is not enough, and there is still a pot warm on the stove.
Although the couple has already had a group of grandchildren, they are not too old, and according to the current rural rules, unless you are sick and bedridden and lose your ability to work, as long as you still have the strength to go to the fields, no matter how old you are, you are not qualified to enjoy meals from your children.
"Don't grab it, don't grab it, starving ghosts are reincarnated, all of them are queuing up for me!"
The children came to pick up the bowls, and Cui Guiying was responsible for making porridge.
The last one to come over was a ten-year-old boy, wearing denim suspenders and fashionable sandals on his feet, with white and tender skin and a shy face.
It was a bit out of place with the brothers and sisters around him who were playing dirty and snorting.
"Xiaoyuanhou, come, put it here for you to eat."
"Thank you, grandma."
Cui Guiying smiled and touched the child's head, he was the only grandson among this large group of grandchildren, but not now.
The child's name is Li Chaiyuan, and the child's mother is Cui Guiying's youngest daughter, the first college student in Siyuan Village.
The youngest daughter was admitted to Jingli University, and after graduation, she stayed in Beijing to work, and she was also the object of her conversation.
I can't remember the specific appearance, because Cui Guiying and his wife were very restrained in front of their uncle that day, and they were too embarrassed to look closely.
Later, my daughter became pregnant and gave birth to a son, and she never returned home because she was busy with work because of the long distance, but since her daughter graduated from work, she has never stopped sending money to her parents every month.
When the daughter took her uncle home that time, Li Weihan pushed back the bride price handed over by her uncle, and added the money sent by her daughter back.
I wanted to be tougher and add some extra at home, but my four sons got married before, and no matter how hard the couple tightened their belts, they wouldn't be able to squeeze out the oil.
This matter has always made the couple feel ashamed, and the money given by the daughter is returned to the daughter, which is equivalent to the fact that the parents did not pay anything when they married their daughter, which is really a loss.
As for the money sent by their daughter every month after marriage, the couple also kept it, and the sons were picked up by their daughter-in-law to try to make this money for various reasons, but Li Weihan pointed their noses and scolded them back.
Half a month ago, the daughter asked a man in military uniform to send her son over, bringing a letter and a sum of money, which said that she was divorced and had recently changed her work, so she could only temporarily entrust her son to her parents for a while.
The daughter's letter also said that after the divorce, she changed her child's surname to her surname, and the grandson suddenly became her own grandson.
After coming to the countryside, Li Chaiyuan not only did not adapt to it at all, but quickly integrated into it, and had a lot of fun with several brothers all day long.
The staple food of this meal is sweet potato porridge, which tastes sweet, but not full, and digests quickly.
And sweet potato porridge and sweet potato fries, if you eat too much for a long time, it will really hurt your stomach.
He enjoys this kind of "big canteen" feeling, and Cui Guiying's various pickles and salty sauces are also deeply loved by him.
"Milk, why don't you go to Grandpa Beard's house for dinner today?"
The one who opened the question was the son of the second uncle's family, nicknamed Huzi, who was nine years old this year.
Cui Guiying knocked Huzi's head with the tail of her chopsticks and scolded: "Dead Kangzi, that's what someone else's mother did when she left, do you want them to hold a banquet every day?"
Huzi covered his head and said: "Why not, how good it is to do it every day."
"What kind of did Yasuko say, even if his family wanted to do it, how could there be so many people who would queue up to die every day."
"Snap!" Li Weihan knocked on the table heavily with chopsticks and scolded: "What nonsense do you say to a young woman?"
Cui Guiying also noticed that she had made a mistake, but she didn't rebel against her man, but used a spoon to dig out a piece of salty sauce and sent it to Li Chaiyuan's porridge bowl beside her.
Li Chaiyuan used his chopsticks to pull a few times, the sauce color faded, and white and tender diced meat floated on top of the porridge.
The children are sharp-eyed and most persistent in not worrying about widowhood but unevenness, Huzi immediately said: "Milk, I also want meat, the kind in Brother Yuanzi's bowl!"
"Milk, I want it too."
"I want it too."
The other children also followed suit.
"Go, go, go!" Cui Guiying scolded them angrily, "Forget it if your younger siblings are ignorant and make trouble, Pan Hou, Lei Hou, Ying Hou, you older brothers and sisters, you all know something about me.
Pan Zi, Lei Zi and Yingzi lowered their heads a little embarrassed, while the younger ones looked at each other and smiled and passed the stubble.
It's not that they didn't hint at it, they also conveyed it to their families, but their parents told them to pretend to be stupid.
At this time, the eight-year-old stone of the third family asked: "Is the little yellow oriole still there?"
Cui Guiying asked: "Who is the little yellow warbler?"
Huzi replied: "Milk, the little yellow oriole is the one who danced and sang at the bearded man's house yesterday, he sang very well, and he danced very well."
"Really." Cui Guiying was helping to wash dishes in someone's kitchen yesterday, and she was so busy that she couldn't touch her feet, but she didn't have time to go to the front to watch the performance of the white affairs team after dinner.
Her man Li Weihan didn't go either, he made an excuse to go out of the boat, but in fact, he was at home, and the reason he didn't go was because he was embarrassed; After all, Pan Zileizi had already asked Pan Zileizi to lead the five children Yuanzi, Huzi, and Shitou to the dinner, and it would be ugly for him as an adult to eat again.
The five children not only ate by themselves, but also carried a lot, especially the hard dishes on the dinner table that were divided by heads; Li Chaiyuan followed his brothers, tearing off a piece of red plastic paper on the table in front of him and using it to wrap food.
When they got home, they distributed them to the younger siblings who couldn't go to the dinner, and when they watched the younger siblings eat, they felt like a general who had returned from a victorious battle.
Lei Zi said: "The singing is really beautiful, and she is also beautiful, she asked us all to call her little oriole."
Pan Zi nodded: "The person is good, the person is good-looking, and the clothes are good-looking, I want to marry her like this in the future."
Cui Guiying lowered her head and asked Li Chaiyuan beside her: "Xiaoyuanhou, is that so?"
"Ang." Li Chaiyuan put down his chopsticks and nodded, "It's good-looking."
The white affairs team in the countryside pays attention to the hall and the kitchen.
When performing the ceremony, you can wear a Taoist robe and chant scriptures, with a fairy style and dignified demeanor;
After the noon banquet, we have to organize a theatrical performance, singing, dancing, acrobatics, magic, etc., everything that can be done must be done.
When I encounter people from wealthy families who love to save face, they will also ask those specific white affairs teams to hold an evening show, but the adults will drive the children home to sleep before the performance starts.
Xiao Huangying's surname is Xiao, her real name is Xiao Huangying, her stage name is Xiao Huangying, she is actually not young, she is in her thirties, and she is divorced.
In terms of singing and dancing skills, she is actually only half-hanging, but she can dress up, and her clothes are bold and trendy......
To describe it as the most vicious abuse and the highest praise of the women in the village, it is - sassy.
Therefore, in the countryside where the popular wind has not yet blown in a large area, the "show" of the little oriole is a dimensionality reduction blow to the surrounding rural girls and daughters-in-law.
Not only did he take away the souls of the old men, but even the half-size children were hooked.
At this time, a figure appeared at the door of the main house, it was neighbor Zhao Simei, and Cui Guiying were "sisters" for many years.
"Have you eaten it?" Cui Guiying asked, "Come on, add two chopsticks."
Zhao Simei hurriedly waved her hand and smiled: "Oh, it's embarrassing to come to you to eat at someone's house, look, you're drinking thin here."
"This porridge makes my stomach feel comfortable, I love this bite. Come on, serve you a bowl, no matter how much you scrape the rice jar, you still can't eat it?"
"Okay, okay, I've eaten it. Hey, do you know that the leader of the white affairs class just took someone to the bearded man's house to make trouble, and it is said that he almost did it after smashing something."
When Cui Guiying heard this, she immediately picked up the dishes and chopsticks and stood up, pulling the porridge into her mouth and approaching the door: "What's wrong? The bearded family's money has not been settled?"
"It's not about the performance fee, it's someone in the team who lost it."
"What, embarrassing?" Cui Guiying snorted her chopsticks, "Who did you lose?"
"A woman, the one with a slutty fart on her body, her butt was twisted so much yesterday that she wished her tempered eyes were leaking out."
"Is it the little oriole?" Pan Zi asked.
The other children also perked up their ears.
"It seems to be her, just that hoof." Zhao Simei was very gloating.
"What the hell did you lose, have you found it?" Cui Guiying asked.
"It is said that someone saw the hooves in the team last night following the bearded youngest son into the small forest by the river, and then the person did not return to the team, so the team came to the door to beg for help."
"What about the bearded boy?"
"He was at home, but he said he didn't know, nothing; But there are many people in the village who have seen it, that is, he and the forest that the waves are drilling."
"What about that person?"
"Who knows, it's gone, the leader of the team came to ask for people this time, but the old bearded family bit him to death and said he hadn't seen anyone, and said that the hoof ran away by himself."
"What should I do?"
"The old bearded man lost a sum of money to the team leader, regardless of age or age."
Cui Guiying immediately patted Zhao Simei's arm and raised her eyebrows: "Something is wrong!"
Zhao Simei also immediately patted Cui Guiying's arm back and raised her chin: "That's not good!"
The old beard used to be the deputy director of the grain station in the town, he was a fat and lacking child, and now even if he is retired, except for the youngest son, who is idle, the other sons all have errands in the town.
Therefore, if this old beard is willing to pay for something, there must be a ghost inside!
"This gave the money, and the team leader left?"
"Let's go."
"Where is that person, aren't you looking for him?"
"Find a fart, the team will take the guy's business and take a truck to the next one."
"Ouch." Cui Guiying shook her head, "But don't have an accident."
"Who knows."
"People, it's true or false."
"No."
Hearing this, Huzi and Shitou suddenly burst into tears:
"Woohoo! Little oriole, little oriole!"
"My little oriole, the little oriole is gone, woohoo!"
Seeing this, Zhao Simei almost laughed out of her snot and pointed: "See, your two grandsons are a stubborn person."
Cui Guiying rolled her eyes and said, "Don't you have a granddaughter, worthy of one?"
"Huh." Zhao Simei snorted, pointed at Li Chaiyuan and said, "It's not impossible to get married, you have to marry your Xiaoyuan Marquis, so that my Xiaojuan Marquis can also follow him to Beijing to enjoy the blessings."
"Go, go, don't just think about beautiful things."
Li Weihan had already eaten, and the old ladies said that he was not interested, and it was inconvenient to interject, so he just silently picked up his hookah and opened the matchbox, but it was empty.
Li Chaiyuan put down his chopsticks and ran to the back slot of the stove to bring a box of matches to Li Weihan.
Li Weihan didn't answer, but moved the smoke pot in front of Li Chaiyuan. Li Zhuyuan smiled and pulled out a match, "Whoa", "Whoa", "Whoa", finally scraped out the fire, and hurriedly protected it with his other hand, moving the match down to the smoke pot.
Li Weihan took several breaths, exhaled a cigarette, satisfied, and smiled.
At the beginning, her daughter also liked to light cigarettes for herself, and said that she would buy herself a carton of cigarettes when she grew up.
"Huh."
Li Chaiyuan blew out the match, threw it on the ground, and stepped on it several times with the sole of his shoe.
Pan Zi spoke: "Master, take a boat to pick lotus pods in the afternoon?"
Li Weihan glanced at the dullness on the dinner table, nodded, and said: "Leizi together, bring the net, and see if you can catch a few fish and let your milk make soup."
When Huzi and Shitou heard this, they hurriedly forgot about the little yellow warbler and shouted: "Master, I want to go too, I want to go too!"
The other little ones also shouted along, for fear that something fun would fall on them.
Li Weihan looked around seriously and scolded: "Master tells you that there are water monkeys in this river, who specialize in drowning people into the water and being his substitutes, so that he can be reincarnated by himself."
Immediately, the children were scared and did not dare to speak.
Shitou asked a little unconvinced: "Why can my brothers go?"
Pan Zi and Lei Zi are big children after all, sensible, and will help grandpa scare his younger siblings:
"Brother, I have a lot of strength, and the water monkey can't hold me."
"I'm a good swimmer, but the water monkeys can't catch up with me."
Li Chaiyuan was not frightened, he also wanted to go, but he was too embarrassed to speak, so he could only lower his head and touch his little hands, peeking at his grandfather from time to time.
Li Weihan said: "Xiaoyuanhou will also go."
Huzi immediately said indignantly: "This is not fair, Brother Yuanzi is one year older than me."
Shitou also helped: "Yes, Brother Yuan is not as strong as me, how can he fight with the water monkey!"
Li Weihan slowly spat out a puff of smoke ring, giving a very reasonable reason that even children would be convinced of:
"Xiao Yuanhou came back from outside, and our local water monkeys don't know him."
……
The houses in the village are basically built on the water, with the main entrance facing the road and the back door facing the river.
When washing vegetables, you only need to carry your things out the back door and walk down a few green brick steps to reach the river.
Those who can live often set up a net by the river near their home and raise ducks and geese in the net.
Li Weihan untied the rope and boarded the boat first, using bamboo poles to stabilize the hull.
Pan Zi held the fishing rod and Lei Zi held the fishing net and jumped on the boat one after another.
Li Zhuyuan was carrying a small bamboo basket on his back, and Li Weihan reached out to catch him on the boat.
"Sit down, let's sail!"
As the bamboo poles on the water repeatedly became longer and shorter, the boat also began to move.
Pan Zi and Lei Zi had long been accustomed to it, both of them were very leisurely lying on the boat, while Li Zhuiyuan sat upright and straight, looking at the aquatic plants floating past and the dragonflies passing by on the river.
"Here, Yuanzi." Pan Zi handed over a small handful of fried beans.
He is from an old family, his home is close, and he will take time to go home on weekdays to get some snacks at home, but his mother told him to hide these things and eat them by himself, so he couldn't divide them.
On the contrary, Li Chaiyuan's mother brought a large bag of snacks, biscuits, pork floss, canned fruit, etc., and a large bag was mailed the day before yesterday, all of which were locked in a cabinet by Cui Guiying and distributed to all the children every day.
"Thank you, Brother Panzi."
Li Chaiyuan took it and put one in his mouth, this bean is called "fist bean" locally, in fact, it is broad beans, with the shell and some spices and then some salt and stir-fry, it tastes very fragrant.
However, Li Chaiyuan didn't like to eat it, it was too hard, it couldn't bite, and it was easy to break teeth.
Therefore, when the two brothers kept "quacking" in their mouths, Li Chaiyuan put one in his mouth and slurped it like sugar.
"Come to the same place is Brother Qianqianyi, wandering on the road; Come to Qianqianyao, Liangliang will be bright tonight."
Pan Zi started singing.
"You are singing wrong." Lei Zi smiled and said, "That's not how you sang."
Pan Zi said disdainfully: "Hmph, you can sing, you sing!"
Lei Zi muttered his lips a few times and scratched his head: "I only remember the tune."
Li Weihan, who was boating, asked: "What are you singing, I don't understand."
Pan Zi replied: "Master, it was sung by a little yellow warbler yesterday, called Yue Opera."
"Yue Opera?" Li Weihan was a little surprised, "You just sang Yue Opera?"
Lei Zi: "No, grandpa, it's Cantonese opera, from Hong Kong, Guangdong."
"Oh, that's right, you can sing it well for my master."
Lei Zi: "Pan Zicai can't sing, he can't even remember the lyrics, it's far from the little yellow oriole yesterday."
In fact, the little yellow warbler sings very non-standardly, but for today's mainland, there is not much difference between standard and non-standard.
Pan Zi pointed to Li Chase Yuan and said: "When the little yellow warbler sang yesterday, I saw Yuanzi singing along, and he could sing."
Li Weihan: "Xiaoyuanhou, sing it to my master."
Li Chaiyuan was very embarrassed and said: "I will sing that point."
"Sing, sing." Lei Zi urged, "Yuanzi doesn't talk about Cantonese opera, he can also sing English songs."
Li Chaiyuan had to sing:
"Even if there are thousands of songs in the future, they will float on my road in the distance; Even if there are thousands of evening stars in the future, they will shine brighter than tonight's moon.
I will be so much, my mother likes this song and often plays it at home."
Lei Zi looked at Pan Zi provocatively: "Did you hear it, the lyrics you sang are wrong."
Pan Zi rolled his eyes at Lei Zi.
The brothers talked all the way, and the boat finally reached the wider river.
Pan Zi went to help his grandfather get the pole, Li Weihan began to find a point and fix the net, and Lei Zi set up the fishing rod.
Li Zhuyuan was not assigned a task, and continued to sit there with his small bamboo basket on his back, watching his grandfather and brothers work for a while, and then looking at the aquatic plants on the river and the frogs jumping on them.
Looking at it, Li Zhuiyuan leaned forward with some doubts.
Li Weihan has been paying attention to this "grandson", and when he saw him like this, he immediately reminded: "Xiao Yuanhou, sit inside, don't fall!"
Li Chaiyuan pointed to the river in front of him and asked; "Master, brother, there is a ball of black aquatic plants there."
"Where is it?" Lei Zi looked in the direction of Li Chaiyuan's finger, "Hey, it's really, it's black."
"Where, where?" Pan Zi helped hold the bamboo pole at the stern of the boat, but he couldn't see clearly, so he took the initiative to prop the pole to move the boat in that direction.
Li Weihan didn't take it seriously at first, he was busy loosening the fishing net, and when he heard Li Chaiyuan and Lei Zi still chattering and discussing, he looked up and looked there.
That ball of black, slender but pervasive, scattered but not separated, what kind of aquatic plant is this, this is clearly human hair!
At this moment, because Pan Zi kept leaning the boat over, it became closer to that area, and the underwater part was also vaguely visible, the black lines, white buttons, and Qu Man's lines......
Because Li Chaiyuan was sitting, the first thing he saw underwater was Lei Zi standing next to him, and Lei Zi immediately shouted:
"Master, that's a person, someone has fallen into the water, Panzi, hurry up and save someone!"
The story of the water monkey has long been unable to scare big children like them, and their simple and kind nature made them subconsciously think that someone had fallen into the water, and their first reaction was to rescue them.
"Fart!"
Li Weihan suddenly roared, although this grandfather was a little stricter to children but was kinder, he was a rare gaffe, and the blue veins under the rough and cracked skin were exposed, he immediately threw the fishing net in his hand on the boat, and shouted to Pan Zi as he walked to the stern of the boat:
"Turn, turn, give me the pole, don't lean over!"
It had been a while since my own boat had been here before, and I didn't hear any movement of falling into the water at all, and at this time it was even more calm there, how could there be any need for rescue, that person must have died a long time ago!
But it stands to reason that even if you encounter a drowning corpse, you will feel bad luck at most, so why should you be so frightened?
But Li Weihan knew that he could only dodge as quickly as possible at this time.
Due to the dense waterway near the river, it is not uncommon for people to drown in the water.
Generally, it is not the main business, but the candidates are very fixed, one is because of bad luck, and the other is because there are many taboos, and those who are not veteran craftsmen with inheritance are really unwilling to touch this.
There is a corpse digger in Siyuan Village, named Li Sanjiang, and Li Weihan has to call him uncle according to his seniority.
This Li Sanjiang had no children or daughters, and he was too lazy to plant the land allocated in the village, but rented it out and only asked for some rations and chewed grain.
But he is not the kind of lazy man who has this meal, he makes paper, and he works to fish for corpses, both of which have a lot of money, but they are much richer than planting a little land, so although he lives alone, he drinks and meats every day, and his life is not moist.
In the early years, in order to help his four sons start a family, Li Weihan rented Li Sanjiang's field, which really took advantage of others, so when he needed to fish for the corpse during this period, Li Weihan would also follow this uncle to help.
Although Li Sanjiang never let him get on the boat and touch the corpse, he only asked him to arrange the offering table on the shore and prepare some chicken blood and dog blood every time, but the more times he did, he learned some ways about retrieving corpses from Li Sanjiang.
In this line of black words, floating corpses are called dead.
Normally, drowning people will float after soaking in water for a few days and gradually decomposing.
After most of them went through a set of fixed procedures, Li Sanjiang picked them up and carried them back to the shore and handed them over to his family, but when he was drinking, Li Sanjiang solemnly said that there were two special cases, and he didn't dare to fish.
One is the whirlpool with a nest on the side, which means that there is a leak and mud trap nearby, and if you can't keep it, even if you bring a boat, it will be overturned and sucked in;
As for the second one, it was that even he Li Sanjiang would tremble and his scalp would tingle when he saw it......
It's the kind of dead who only leave their hair floating on the water and stand upright at the bottom of the water!
This is with great resentment, and I can't close my eyes, so I have to pull down the cushion!
Li Weihan still remembers that time at the wine table, Li Sanjiang stared at him with red eyes and said to himself very seriously:
"Han Hou, remember, if you see this kind of death on the water, don't think about anything else, walk as fast as you can, and if you walk late, you will be left by it!"
Therefore, after discovering that this was an upright dead, how could Li Weihan not be shocked, not to mention, he still has three grandsons on the boat!
When his grandfather came over to snatch the bamboo pole, he stumbled, and even stabbed the bamboo pole sideways, causing the hull to tilt seriously to the right.
For example, Lei Zi, who was standing on the side of the boat, quickly leaned over and grabbed the side of the boat and maintained his balance, but Li Zhuyuan, who was sitting there, had no experience in this area.
The water in the river is very clear, and the sun is just right in the afternoon, so the light under the water is very good.
Li Chaiyuan, who had just fallen into the water, was still fluttering instinctively, but he was immediately shocked by the scene in front of him.
As Brother Lei Zi said, there was a person standing in the water, and this was none other than the little yellow oriole that the brothers were still talking about at the dinner table today!
She was still wearing the same black cheongsam from the performance, with white patterned buttons, slits to her waist, and a pair of red high heels on her feet.
The water flowed smoothly, and under this thrust, her arms swung back and forth regularly, and her legs were also swaying back and forth.
It feels like you're walking underwater.
She was waving her hands, she was twisting her waist, she was showing her legs, she was tiptoeing, she was singing......
Even underwater, she was still interpreting the sloppy posture that made the women in the village envious and disgusted.
"Even if there are thousands of songs in the future, they will float on my road in the distance......
In my ears, I seemed to hear the non-standard Cantonese accent of the little yellow warbler again.
Accompanied by singing,
The little yellow warbler slowly turned around and gradually approached Li Chaiyuan.
Her long hair fluttered diagonally upwards, like holding up a black umbrella, the powder on her face was thicker than yesterday, and her lips were even redder.
Suddenly,
She smiled.
(End of this chapter)