Chapter 285: The Prelude to May Day

The troublemakers were more relaxed when they returned. They left the earthen basket, and they walked back with a shoulder pole, and the one who was at the beginning was replaced by Li Suozi.

This guy strids hard and is steadily flying, probably thinking about proposing his marriage.

After the team entered the village, they saw Bigfoot sister-in-law running out of the house: "Suozi, someone has come to you for a marriage. Come home and clean up, and come to your house later."

When Li Suozi heard this, he ran away without a trace. The other young men stopped doing it and surrounded his big-footed sister-in-law. His sister-in-law was long and his sister-in-law was short, and they all quarreled, "When will you introduce me to a partner?"

"Everyone is so anxious that he follows the monkey. Don't worry. I guess someone will come to propose marriage one after another. I'm stuck, I'm a little promising. Don't be like you haven't seen a wife in your eight lives - fat man, why are you joining in the fun? Don't block the way, I'll go back to the house to greet the guests."

"Hehe, I'll just follow and take a look." The fat man was blocking his wife's way home. He moved his body and said to the young men: "My sister-in-law is right. We can't catch a carrot or just a dish, and we can do whatever we want."

When the young men heard this, they immediately raised their backs and dispersed themselves. The fat man didn't need to get involved in this matter and slowly walked to the house. The flower-faced fox leaned against the window and basked the sun, and the three little chickens were chirping beside its claws. The flower-faced fox bent its body and circled the three little chickens in front of him. If one of them wanted to run, he gently pulled it with his claws and brought the little chickens back to his control.

Fatty Daqi: It is said that foxes like to steal chickens. Look at our fox, a whole chicken nanny. So he brought out a big fish and threw it to the flower-faced fox for encouragement. This guy was not polite, and he was so at ease that he chewed the fish. The little chicken also picked up the meat residue next to him and ran around the yard with his mouth in his mouth.

After squatting there for a long time, the fat man entered the house and sat there to start sorting the newspaper. Maomao also squatted on the bench, holding a book in his hand, his eyes rumbling around. He saw that he was not a good student and he had even taken down the books. After a while, a strange voice sounded outside: "Honghong is so good, there are many chickens."

Then three black shadows rushed out of the window, and then the parrot and the starlings flew out as well. The door of the outer room slammed and then kept creaking and moaning. It was probably Benben who rushed out.

"If it really doesn't work, you have to change to a new iron gate." The fat man put down the People's Daily in his hand and muttered.

"Popular movie!" After Da Braidie entered the house, she immediately cheered, grabbed her hands, and sat happily on the edge of the kang to read a book.

Qiqi also ran in, grabbed children's literature and childhood, jumped onto the kang, stretched her legs forward, and clamped the book on it, reading it with great pleasure.

The fat man coughed twice: "Everyone does homework, go cook."

The two girls didn't listen at all and got into the book. The fat man scratched his head: "I'd better go cook."

In a blink of an eye, June was coming. These days, the fat man went to build the Earth Dragon Pool for nothing. Now six of them have been built. He also traveled to Nanwazi several times and transported tens of thousands of earthworms from there, all of which were scattered into the No. 2 Pool. The remaining four were still empty for the time being.

Gradually, the fat man also discovered a problem. Although the feed was the same, the earthworms in the second pond seemed to grow faster, and there were more small earthworms like thin lines inside.

After thinking hard for a while, the fat man felt that there was only one possibility: most of these earthworms had been put in wooden boxes, perhaps because they were affected by some kind of influence.

After all, it is a good thing, so the fat man doesn't care about it. When dividing the pool in the future, try to use the earthworms from the second pool as seeds.

When I got home, I saw Qiqi and Old Lin sitting on the kang facing each other, stacking gourds with colorful paper. Several of them were already made next to me, and they were blown squarely. Below were cut with colorful paper into ears more than half a foot long.

"You are so skillful when doing handicrafts." Fatty always was willing to praise Qiqi.

"Fat Uncle, I'll celebrate May Day tomorrow." Qiqi said beautifully, then put the folded gourd on his lips, and blew hard, and another one bulged.

The fat man slapped his forehead hard: "Look at my brain, I live my life all day in a daze, and I have to spend the Dragon Boat Festival well. This is a traditional festival in our country."

As he was talking, the big braid came back from outside, holding a long colorful thread in his hand, which was asked by the girl who could embroider the flowers in the village.

When Qiqi saw it, she quickly stretched out her neck with her big braid and tied a colorful thread to her. Suddenly, she saw a big hand reaching out: "I'll do one too, so as to save the insect prince from sending her hands to cause trouble for me."

Speaking of May Day, it is said that children can tie the children tightly, be safe and safe, and are not afraid of all kinds of insects.

"Fat Uncle, you are so adult, you are still afraid of bugs."

"Then you don't have to be afraid. When the bugs see you, they want to kiss you."

Big Braid looked at the fight between the big and the small. After tied Qiqi's hands and ankles, she tied them around the fat man's hands and neck, and the colorful threads disappeared.

Qiqi wrinkled her little nose and tucked it into the collar of the front of her neck: "I still have this."

When the fat man looked at it, he found that it was a purse, sewn very finely, with a lotus embroidered on it. He put his nose up and smelled it. The fragrance was rich, but it exuded a freshness and no vulgarity.

"Who gave it to me, it must be Grandpa Lao Yaozi, right?" The fat man saw that the fragrance was good, and he guessed that Lao Yaozi was.

When Cao Cao was said to him, Cao Cao arrived. When the door of the outer room rang, Lao Yaozi walked in, holding Xiaoyan in one hand and a big fish in the other: "It's the holiday, I'll give you some gifts to Fatty."

"Uncle Yaozi, can this fish that is made of paper be eaten?" Fatty man was very happy. The big fish was made of paper, with scales and eyes drawn on it, and a thread hanging in the middle of his body. The little swallow was sewn with red plastic skin, and it was bulging inside, probably stuffed with cotton.

"This is hung on the tent pole. Your aunt said that no one in your family could do it, so she made double portions." Lao Yaozi handed the thing to the big braid, then tied it to the tent pole, and hung it with ropes, swaying, just like being able to move.

The two parrots had the shallowest eyelids, flying around the little swallows, and their mouths were still chirping. The fat man couldn't help but scream: "If you get the sarcastic look, I'll hang you too!"

Mr. Lin and Lao Yaozi are very recent: "I saw a lot of mugwort on the hillside. I went to pick some later, just to tie the gourds and then insert them into the doors and windows."

"Finish, we pick it every year." Lao Yaozi agreed.

When Qiqi heard this, she jumped to the ground to find a basket. The fat man was idle and the whole family followed him out. Even the three Maomao brothers and Benben were huddled. On the way, she saw many wild boys carrying small baskets containing mugwort that were more than a foot long.

The fat man had never seen this thing before, so he stopped one and snatched two: "It's similar to ordinary wormwood, but it has a layer of gray hair on it."

Then I put it under my nose and smelled it, and couldn't help but sneeze: "The smell is really rushing. Uncle Sanpao used to smoke mosquitoes, and it seemed like he used this."

Qiqi also brought her little nose over, but she felt the fragrance was rich. After smelling it, she felt refreshed and even more happy.

Mr. Lin smiled and said, "This mugwort was amazing in ancient times and was the most commonly used medicinal material. The acupuncture that the ancients mentioned was acupuncture, and the roasting was to use mugwort leaves to ignite and smoke and roast."

"It turns out that I'm using this." Da Braida couldn't help laughing: "When I read ancient Chinese, there are often records in this area. I thought it must be very mysterious, but I didn't expect it to be using mugwort."

"That's why I have to read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles." This was actually the first time that the fat man understood this problem. Sometimes, theory and practice cannot be linked.

Everyone was talking and laughing. When they left the village, there were clusters of wild artemisia growing on the grass. The characteristics of artemisia mugwort were very obvious. One was gray in color and the other was unique in fragrance, so everyone quickly picked a handful, and after a while, the basket was full.

"Often people pick some mugwort leaves every year to dry them. When this thing is lit, it will smoke but not catch fire. It smells spicy and is most suitable for repelling mosquitoes. In addition, most women use mugwort leaves to make soup and bathe after confinement." Old medicine gave the fat man another popularization class on herb knowledge.

Mr. Lin also nodded slightly: "And the more the mugwort leaves are, the better. Mencius recorded that 'A seven-year illness, I want to have three-year wormwood'." He and Lao Yaozi complement each other, one is a native village doctor, and the other is a scholar with profound theory.

He asked Maomao to carry the basket and walked back together. When he arrived at the door of the house, the fat man suddenly slapped his thigh: "I almost forgot about the big thing!" After that, he ran to the captain's house.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw Aunt Li and her daughter-in-law making rice dumplings. They used soaked yellow rice and stuffed a large red date into it. The outer skin was made of wide reed leaves, which was unique.

"Don't forget to send some to Qiqi when it's cooked." The fat man saw Erya squatting beside him and watching the fun, so he took a photo on her head.

Erya squatted over there and looked back, then said, "My breasts said, I'll give you more when they're cooked, so the fat uncle can eat it."

The fat man yelled twice, then he entered the house and muttered to Captain Li for a while. Captain Li went to the production team, while the fat man went to Dajiao's wife's house.

After a while, Captain Li's voice came from the loudspeaker: "Please pay attention. Tomorrow, every family will go to the chicken farm to get eggs and celebrate the festival well."

When the little kids heard this, they were so happy that they jumped up. Eating eggs on May Day is a tradition, but at most they can be divided into two pieces every year. They put them in their pockets and couldn't bear to eat them. In the end, the egg skin was all crushed.

The fat man also happily brought back a basket of eggs. Lin Qingshan, Wang Erlangzi and others were all inside. After arriving at home, the fat man washed the eggs and then slipped out along the side of the pot.

He grabbed a small handful of tea leaves and sprinkled them in, then added pepper and fennel, and finally grabbed a few handfuls of salt and sprinkled them in. Qiqi was amused at a glance: "Fat uncle is cooking tea eggs--"

After boiling for a few minutes, the fat man took a spoon and slowly beat the egg with the bottom of the spoon, beat the egg skin into small pieces, and then the taste was tasted.

Half a pot of eggs is enough for the fat man to beat him for half an hour. Benben slapped two hands on the edge of the pot and stretched his head to look into the pot. The fat man quickly asked Qiqi to get it outside. Good guy, if the pot is crushed, no one has to eat it.

After more than an hour of gurgling, even the soup and eggs were taken into the large basin. Qiqi was anxious and took it with a spoon, but the fat man stopped him: "Soak it in for a night and it will get warmer tomorrow morning, and the taste will be more abundant."

"Taste two first." Wang Erlang came back from work and saw the fragrant tea eggs. He ignored the hotness and took out one and ate it.

The outer skin has been dyed with brown color, revealing the fragrance of tea leaves and seasonings. After taking a bite, it tastes full of flavor. One egg will be eaten in two bites.
Chapter completed!