Chapter 694 Qingming Festival

In the early morning of the next day, Ye Yaodong had slept too much at night. As soon as the rooster crowed in the morning, he had already woken up before it was fully lit, but there was a little guy who woke up earlier than him.

When he sat up, he saw a meatball lying at the end of the bed. Zhengxiang was holding her feet and gnawing there. He smiled knowingly and moved over gently.

Afraid of waking up Ah Qing, he didn't say anything. He just smiled and held the child in his arms. Then he sat on a stool and put on her clothes, pants, shoes and socks. He stood holding on to the chair while he got dressed.

"Rake, rake, rake, rake..." Ye Xiaoxi shouted excitedly while holding on to the stool.

"Shh, your mother is sleeping, please keep your voice down."

He quickly put on his clothes and pants, and quickly carried her out.

In the main room, the old lady was already sitting there making a fire to cook porridge. Seeing the father and daughter getting up, she smiled and said: "I slept enough last night, but we both got up early."

"Well, I went to bed too early, so I got up early."

Through the window, you can see that the sky outside is gray and it looks like it's going to rain again.

Ye Yaodong put Ye Xiaoxi in the standing cage and stood to play. He went to the window and took a look. He opened the window and thick water vapor came in through the window.

"Is it going to rain again?"

"It's going to rain. It will be clear the day after tomorrow. It's rained a lot in the past two days."

He stood by the door and looked at the calendar hanging on the wall. Yesterday, the page numbered on the 2nd had been torn off. Today was the 3rd. He flipped down two more pages. Three red letters in capital letters read Qingming Festival. , clearly printed on the calendar.

It rained a lot during the Qingming Festival, but it was a rare day to have a sunny day yesterday.

I have been busy trawling the net these days, and my child is one year old. I go out early and come back late. I fall asleep when I get home. I don’t have time to look at the calendar. I didn’t expect it to be Qingming Festival.

"Then we go to visit the grave the day after tomorrow?"

The old lady nodded, and the smile on her face disappeared.

Ye Yaodong turned around and continued to look at the calendar. He didn't stop until May Day. It started to rain lightly outside the house.

Originally, Ye Yaopeng thought of taking advantage of these few days to build a wall and clear out the pig pen so that he could hold the piglets in a few days, but it seemed that he couldn't do it today.

Ye Yaodong was also happy and at ease. He dragged the rocking chair out of the house idly, put it on the porch, lay on it, and watched the rain falling outside.

And when Ye Chenghu came back in the evening, he was also muttering: "It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and passers-by are desperate. I asked where the restaurant is, and the shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village."

"Oh? You actually know how to memorize it? Is my family going to be the top pick?"

Ye Chenghu raised his neck and said proudly: "I have to take two exams with 100 points. Of course I can memorize them. Just wait and see. If I get 100 points in the mid-term exam, you can take me to the market." inside."

"I remember it quite well. Let's wait until you get 100 points in the test."

"Humph, you are not allowed to regret it anyway."

"You do it first."

Ye Chenghu shook his head and ran arrogantly into the house, "Mom, the day after tomorrow is Tomb-Sweeping Day, the teacher said that we don't have to go to school tomorrow, and we have two days off!"

"I haven't even gone to school for two days and it's vacation again. I have two more days to go..."

"Because the teacher has to go home early to visit his grave, it's a day off."

"This is going to be such a quarrel..." Lin Xiuqing babbled in the room, not happy to see them arguing at home.

But later, she wanted to see them arguing in the house, but she couldn't see them yet.

On the day before Qingming Festival, early in the morning, all the children in the village were standing on the roadside at the entrance of the village, waiting proudly. They watched whoever was walking by the roadside with a hoe and broom, and they all followed them.

Because there is a local custom of dividing tomb cakes when sweeping tombs.

Tomb cakes are basically light cakes.

Guang cake is very popular in the local area. According to legend, it was dedicated to Qi Jiguang by the common people for fighting against Japanese invaders. A hole was made in the middle, which could be threaded with a rope to facilitate marching and fighting.

On the Qingming Festival, for many local people, it is also a tomb cake, used to worship tombs. What is interesting is that after the light cake becomes a tomb cake, after worshiping the ancestors, you must Hand it out on site.

Materials are relatively scarce these days, and children have no snacks. Tomb-sweeping Day is a festival that children like very much because they can ask for tomb cakes.

Although it is regarded as the Ghost Festival, during the Qingming Festival, as long as firecrackers go off in the fields, fields or mountains, children will rush to the cemetery from all directions to beg for tomb cakes.

Not only can it be used as a snack, but it can also fill the stomach. Therefore, not only children but also many adults working in the fields will go there. As long as they meet a few families to pay homage to the tomb, the snacks for the day will be exempted.

The children of the Ye family, regardless of gender, have been running around outside since the day of the holiday. They didn't see anyone from morning to night, and they didn't see anyone running back for dinner at noon.

Ye Yaodong didn't come back to his senses at first. He was still wondering why he hadn't seen anyone for most of the day. He thought he had gone somewhere to play. It wasn't until the sound of firecrackers kept coming from all over the mountain that he suddenly realized that everyone was going to the mountain to ask for help. Tomb cake.

"Why are you so quiet this morning? Just in time to save a meal at noon."

Lin Xiuqing also smiled and said: "I should be wandering around the surrounding hills right now? It rains a little from time to time, and the road is full of mud and water. I don't know how dirty it will be when I come back."

"Yangyang is so young, don't get lost."

"I didn't let him go last year. I don't know when he escaped this morning."

"There are so many people here, and they are on a few nearby hills anyway, so he shouldn't be lost. One more person can also beg for one more piece of bread. There are so many children in the family, and today we can beg for dozens or hundreds. , we will have supplies when we sweep the tomb tomorrow, save money!"

Lin Xiuqing smiled so hard that her teeth couldn't even see her eyes, "You're so calculating."

It rained heavily during the Qingming Festival last year, so they didn’t let their children go out to beg for tomb cakes. When they were sweeping the tomb, not many children came to beg for it, so they only prepared a dozen, and then they all left them home for their children to eat. .

It only rains occasionally today, and it gets sunny from time to time. It is expected that there will be quite a few children and adults tomorrow.

When it cleared up in the afternoon, Ye Yaodong was asked by Ye Yaopeng to go to the old house to help build walls and tidy up the pig pen.

It's just that this is an old house, a bit old. Ye Yaopeng's room belongs to the old house and is connected together, unlike the old lady's original cabin which is independent in the backyard.

When the wall was being hammered, the whole house shook and the tiles on the roof rattled. Ye's father was so frightened that he shouted to stop. His heart ached so much that they were not allowed to beat him any more.

They were only asked to put the two families together in the old lady's small house and raise them together, and then they would share it together.

It has been there for many years and is in tatters, but because it is made of stone, it appears to be stronger. The roof will leak a lot, and the door panels will see a lot of water. If half of the wall is really knocked down, it is estimated that the entire building will be damaged. The old house is also in ruins.

Sister-in-law Ye and Sister-in-law Ye could only reluctantly accept it. Otherwise, they would have to spend money to build a pigsty. There was already a ready-made pigsty in the old house, and no one was willing to spend money to build another one.

"Haha, my sister-in-law and I are using the old lady's house to raise pigs. Isn't that the old lady's land, and half of it is for me to plant?" Sister-in-law Ye's calculations began to click in her mind.

Father Ye frowned.

At that time, because the second daughter-in-law bought a pig, the old lady's small house was used to raise pigs. In order to silence the eldest daughter-in-law, the small piece of land opened by the old lady on the roadside was given to the eldest daughter-in-law to plant.

Now they are talking about this again!

Father Ye looked at Ye Yaodong.

Ye Yaodong raised his eyebrows and looked over, "Don't look at me. I don't know how to farm. I don't want to fight. Ah Qing doesn't have time to farm. She won't have any objections. You can do it yourself."

The small plot of land enclosed in his yard is enough for them to work on, and they can grow enough vegetables to feed their family.

"I'll ask your mother later. We're both not dead yet, so what's the point of arguing? Now help me repair the tiles on the roof. If you guys smack those two, your mother and I can lie in bed and watch the stars at night. ”

Ye Yaohua glared at his wife fiercely and said quickly: "Hey, okay dad, I'll bring a ladder over."

Sister-in-law Ye was a little dissatisfied, but she didn't dare to say anything anymore.

Ye Yaohua felt that his wife had been embarrassed and wanted to make up for it. After moving the stairs, he volunteered to climb up.

Ye Yaopeng also felt embarrassed and climbed up to help, while Father Ye and Ye Yaodong were helping to hold the stairs and handing out tiles.

The two sisters also had the foresight to pick up the broom and sweep around to tidy up. They didn't look like they had just been scolded. They seemed to be able to adjust themselves.

Father Ye looked at Ye Yaodong and said: "Tomorrow is the Qingming Festival tomb-sweeping. You can ride your bicycle to Dongqiao Village later and order 50 light cakes from the man who specializes in making light cakes. We will pick them up early tomorrow morning."

"What are you ordering? All the kids in the family went out to make money today..."

"I'm afraid it's not enough. I thought so in the morning. It seems to be sunny in the afternoon. It may be sunny tomorrow. At most it will be sunny and rainy. Then there will probably be too many people and it won't be enough."

"If you don't get enough points, just give out money. Everyone will be happier. The cake makers may not be able to make them. There are only one or two families in the nearby villages who can make all the cakes. It's so late today, so go ahead and place an order." , where else can it be done?”

Father Ye was right when he thought about it. He didn't make an order a few days ago, and he didn't order it in the morning either. It was so last minute that no one could make it.

"Then buy other cakes..."

"Then I don't have time to do it. Shouldn't I be working overtime these days to make all the cakes?"

"As for distributing money... I haven't seen anyone distributing money..."

"It's rare to see many strange things, and it's not enough to score points. People will be happier when they get paid later."

In a few years, everyone will not be short of food and drink. No one will like these cakes and the like, and most people will find it troublesome, so they have to order them specially. It is the most satisfying thing to give out money directly.

It saves trouble for those who sweep the tomb, and the children who ask for tomb cakes are happy and can do whatever they want.

Father Ye hesitated, "Then let's take a look at it tomorrow. Have you seen enough?"

"Well, I'll bring more change when the time comes. By the way, dad, do we have to build a tomb for my grandpa? There's only a small coffin tomb here. It's not good."