Chapter 132 The Ritual of Mid-Autumn Festival

We grabbed the weeds along the way and walked up the path in the back mountain. They often come here because there are wild fruits on the mountain and villagers grow fruit trees. When we were young, we used to go up the mountain to pick them. Now it is the turn of the next generation. Picked from the mountains.

There are some sheep dung along the way, and a row of small wooden houses can be seen on the mountain in the distance. From time to time, you can hear a few sheep braying, as well as the sounds of other wild animals.

But after walking for a short distance, they saw a tree growing not far away, and then several trees growing in other locations, scattered and scattered.

"Those trees growing messily on the roadside belong to your family." Ye Yaodong affirmed.

"Yes, they have only been planted for a few years and I haven't fertilized them much, but they are growing pretty well. Maybe the sheep dung is used as fertilizer. You can cut them as you like, but my family can't eat that much."

"You can't eat that much. Why didn't you ask us to pick it last year and the year before that? We can help you eat it!" After finishing the novel, Xiao Xiao rushed towards the nearest tree with a bamboo pole in his hand.

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"You didn't say you wanted them either? My father wasn't at home. There were so many, and I couldn't bother to pick them, and I couldn't eat much, so I asked my uncle to pick them. I only kept a little, which was enough to eat. "

Ye Yaodong patted him on the shoulder, "If you call me from now on, I won't be too many. I have many family members too."

"It's okay if you don't mind it."

"I'll plant two trees at the back door of my house tomorrow."

As he spoke, he walked towards Xiaoxiao, who was yelling at him to go over and help chop.

Aguang said he didn't want to do it anymore, but he still helped pick several handfuls.

Ye Yaodong looked at the dozens of bunches of plantains at his feet and quickly stopped Xiaoxiao who wanted to continue, "It's almost enough. Don't pick any more. It will spoil if you don't eat it for two or three days after it's ripe. Eat it later." ”

Xiao Xiao looked up at the banana tree with unfinished thoughts, "Then come back in a few days."

The three of them shared a little bit each, but Aguang got the least. According to him, the whole mountain is his back garden, and he can pick it at any time.

After dividing them up, they took two sacks from A Guang. Ye Yaodong and Xiaoxiao each carried a sack of plantains and walked back.

When they reached the fork in the village, the two of them parted ways and went back to their homes, but before they had walked a few steps...

"Damn it, I haven't chopped the wood yet, Dongzi, Dongzi, don't go, I haven't chopped the wood yet..."

Ye Yaodong heard the call from behind and ran away immediately. Now that he's back, who will follow him to the mountains to chop wood?

"Don't run away when you're riding a horse!"

"Just take the bananas home and pick up some dead branches..."

"Let's go together...don't run~fuck~"

Ye Yaodong kept running with the sack on his back until there was no movement behind him, then he stopped to take a breath. The sack of bananas on his back was not light, so he had to take it home first.

A grown man is chopping firewood on the mountain, what should I do with him?

As for him chopping firewood, instead of chopping bananas and returning without a single branch, I wonder if he would be scolded and beaten? Hehe~

Ye Yaodong returned home with a full load, carrying a sack of bananas, and walked slowly home in a good mood.

….

The old lady was sitting at the door chatting with the neighbor's old lady. She was looking at a group of children playing at the door. She saw him from a distance. When she got closer, she asked: "Where are you going? What's carrying a sack?" "

The other children saw it and gathered around them, "Ah, Third Uncle, what did you bring back?"

"What's in the bag?"

"Show me, show me."

The little one was not tall enough, so he stood on tiptoes and stretched his head to look.

"Go, go, don't get in the way here. You can only eat it when it's cooked. You can't eat it now."

Ye Chenghai took a look inside the sack and said, "It's a banana. Your mouth will be numb if it's not ripe."

"It's good to know. Let's take them to the edge to play."

After speaking to the children, Ye Yaodong said to the old lady: "Go to Aguang's place to pick the native bananas, and I'll give them to you to eat when they're ripe."

The old lady smiled and narrowed her eyes, "Hey, good."

The old lady next to me smiled and said, "Your little grandson is very filial. He gave you dentures and even picked bananas for you to eat."

"Yes, Dongzi is the most filial..."

Ye Yaodong felt a little embarrassed when he heard the old lady praising him so much. He quickly carried the sack into the house and gave the bananas to his mother to wrap in old newspapers and put them together with the persimmons.

At noon, the family just cooked some noodles and ate a little. The meal was officially served at four or five o'clock in the evening.

As soon as the children at home heard that dinner was ready, they all ran into the house screaming, climbed onto the stools, and stretched out their hands to grab something to eat.

Ye Yaodong quickly stopped them, "Can you stretch out your hands and take a look first?"

Everyone didn't know why, but they still spread out their hands obediently. The results were more scary than the other.

Without opening it to look, I didn't know how dirty my hands were.

"You've been playing on the ground all the time. You dare to grab things and eat them with hands like this. It's so scary."

"Didn't you adults all say that if you are unclean, you won't get sick after eating it?"

"That's talking about things. Look at your own hands. Do you still dare to grab something to eat?"

Ye Chenghai stuck out his tongue and hurriedly washed his hands consciously, and the others followed suit.

Mother Ye's voice suddenly came from the back door, "Why are you so reluctant to wash your hands today? You all came to wash them."

"Third uncle thinks we are dirty!"

"He was no cleaner than you when he was a kid."

"Let's just say, he still has the nerve to laugh at us..."

Mother Ye washed their hands one by one and then rushed them to the table. Only then did the whole family sit neatly on a large table.

After building the house, their family resumed eating porridge three times a day, and began to live on a budget again. Today they can finally eat freely again.

The children were very excited. After the food was served, they picked up the tachyons and went to their favorite dishes.

The bowl of prawns that Ye Yaodong left back yesterday was the most popular. He just stretched his hand a little slower. Half of the whole bowl of prawns was caught by Ye Chenghai. The pile was piled up, and the rest was also eaten by a few. The children were divided.

He raised his eyebrows, and just as he was about to say something, Sister-in-law Ye scolded him first, "You are the only one eating it, and no one else should eat it, right?"

Only then did he reluctantly pick out all the shrimps. The other children honestly did not dare to pick out too many shrimps and returned them all. Only then did Ye Yaodong feel satisfied and picked out one for each of his wife, children and old lady.

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Fortunately, the families will be separated soon. When the time comes, each family will eat from their own family. Otherwise, my wife and children won’t be able to take a bite of the good things I left back.

The children were quiet for a while, and then started making noises again after eating a few mouthfuls. Those who couldn't be caught would scream...

After a lively meal, before the adults had even finished eating and left the table, they were clamoring to sacrifice to the moon again.

In this era, they had the custom of worshiping the moon on August 15th. After 2000, there will be no more people offering sacrifices to the moon. Many customs have been lost in the ocean of time.

"It's not dark yet, why worship the moon? Go out and play first, and then worship the moon when it gets dark."

After hearing this, everyone had to wait at the door. When it got dark and the moon came out, they immediately ran into the house and shouted to sacrifice the moon.

Mother Ye was so big that she could only take out the mooncakes that Dongzi and his aunt sent them a few days ago.

This mooncake is quite big, about 20 centimeters in diameter. Aunt Ye is very considerate. If it is too small, there will not be enough for so many children in the family.

Ye Mu took a wooden stool and placed it at the door. The round cake was placed on a plate with three sticks of incense stuck on it. She placed it facing the moon. After the incense was burned, she could take it in and share it with the children.

The children squatted in two rows around the mooncakes in great anticipation. They looked at the moon for a while, and to see where the incense was burning. Then they yelled at the children next door, asking how big their mooncakes were and whether they were better than theirs. big?

After finishing his meal, Ye Yaodong leaned on the pillar by the door and looked at a group of little carrot heads squatting there in anticipation, with the corners of their mouths raised. It felt quite ritualistic at the moment.

When these children grow up, the next generation will not be interested in eating it. Not to mention the sense of expectation, they will not even have such a simple sense of ritual.

"Why does this incense burn so slowly?"

"Shall we blow on it to make it burn faster?"

"Huha~huha~huha~"

A bunch of people were blowing there with their mouths pouted...

The children from the neighboring houses next door also followed the same example and blew the incense there, hoping that the incense would burn faster.

"Ah, don't spit out your saliva. It's disgusting or not. How can we eat this..." Second niece Ye Tingting slapped Ye Chenghai in disgust.

"Then I'll eat it alone!" Ye Chenghai said proudly.

"shameless!"

"What a beautiful thought!"

"You are not allowed to blow..."

Several children puffed out their cheeks and blew hard, and the incense burned quickly. After the last bit of fire disappeared, they quickly brought the mooncakes into the house.

"You can eat it, you can eat it."

"Mom, grandma, come and cut the mooncakes~"

After the whole moon cake was distributed equally to everyone, everyone walked to the door to eat with satisfaction, to seduce the neighbors who had not eaten the moon cake yet.

After eating, they didn't forget to lick their fingers, eating all the dregs and sesame seeds on their hands, and then licked their lips again, still not satisfied. The mooncakes were too delicious for them, and they were too rare to eat.

Seeing the satisfaction on their faces, Ye Yaodong turned around in a good mood and asked Lin Xiuqing who had just walked out, "Do you want to eat mooncakes? Let's buy a small one tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival. As long as the children can eat any mooncakes, the meat oil used in these big mooncakes will become vegetarian tomorrow."

"All right."

Lin Xiuqing thought for a while, "While we have free time in the next few days, let's move the clothes cabinet over first?"

"Also, after Mazu finishes patrolling the sea, we can go to the town to have a look and buy some pots and pans for the house. Then people can come over."

"That's what I'm thinking. I've sorted out the clothes, quilts and sheets. You can push them to your new home on a cart with dad and the others tomorrow."

"good."

"There's no need to call your friends. It's quite troublesome for them when building a house. It just so happens that no one will go to sea in the next few days. We can just help from our own families."

"Um."

Return to the small fishing village of 1982.

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