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Chapter 236 Entrust, Comb Your Hair

Chapter 230 Seven Entrustment, Comb Your Hair
"Piwa, I have been in charge of A Yin for more than 20 years, but I have not been a good grandfather. Today, I have brought you to pay homage to the ancestor gods of our Miao family, and I will hand over A Yin to you. You will have a good time in the future, A Yin If there is anything that offends Wuqu, please think about the suffering she has suffered since she was a child, and how much you should bear it..."

Grandpa Yu stopped and turned around. The faces of the two elders were covered with tears.

Li Junge wiped his face, and said: "Grandpa Yu, I am not as good as A Yin, far inferior, but don't worry, I will keep her safe and happy for the rest of her life!"

"Ayin is the treasure of your village, and also the phoenix of our Lijiagou. I will cherish and respect her for the rest of my life."

"The current environment is better than when our ancestors first arrived at Lijiagou Cliff, right? Please don't worry, we will do well!"

Grandpa Yu wiped his tears with a smile: "Fucking old men, what's the matter? I just feel it. You are all good kids. Seeing you like this, I really have nothing to worry about. Let's go, go home and wake them up, this year, if you don't live in the village early, there will be lazy people in the village!"

Only then did the two of them pack up their spirits and returned home happily. Grandpa Yu placed the stone dragged back by Li Junge under the east wall of the main room, and offered it reverently.

Papa Yin went to wake up Grandma Ou, Mama Ni and A Yin, and told them to get up, wash and eat.

At this time, it was just dawn, and the thrush hanging under the eaves began to chatter.

The first thing the girls and young daughters-in-law who were awakened to do after getting up on this day was to climb up the wooden ladder and comb their hair.

When Li Junge saw Ayin get up, he went up the wooden building with a comb, climbed three steps, and began to comb his hair with his back facing the stairs and facing the floor. After combing, he took a silver hairpin and inserted it, and carefully picked up the fallen hair and tied it .

It is said that only in this way can the hair grow well, and it is convenient for the bun to be inserted into the hairpin.

Turning around and seeing Li Junge staring at him from below, Ayin smiled and came over and said, "I ran seven or eight miles of mountain road early in the morning, Erpi, you can do it."

There are taboos in talking during the New Year, and you should pay attention to things like "hard work" and "trouble".

Li Junge reached out to take Ayin's strands of hair, and said, "I'll hide this next to my body, and put it in the sachet on my bag later."

Ayin smiled slightly, but he couldn't help it.

Yin's father lit firecrackers again and shouted: "Ayin, Piwa, it's Chinese New Year, come and eat early dinner!"

The frozen fish Li Junge has been drooling for a long time, and now it tastes really good, light and sweet.

Pay attention this morning, don't sweep the floor, don't pour water, and put the dirty water in a big bucket.

You can't make soup while eating, and you are not allowed to blow air.If you soak in water and blow air, in the new year, robber water will be sent to wash away the fields, and the mountain wind will blow down the crops.

After the early dinner, Ayin and Ni's mother carried buckets to the well next to "Shanjing Terrace" to fetch water.

Li Junge snatched the pole from Mama Ni's hand and said, "I'll go, no, isn't there mountain spring water at home?"

Mother Ni snatched back the pole again, and said with a smile: "This is a custom. The earlier you carry water today, the more diligent the women in the family are. We have to hurry. You go to drink the 'Chuanzhai Wine' with Grandpa Yu first, and then we will drink water." Come."

Drinking "Chuanzhai wine" is also the custom of the Miao family. The male host comes to the door first to congratulate the New Year with his peers and tell about the labor income of the past year. , The whole village is united and harmonious.

"Chuanzhai Wine" The male host arrives first, and the hostess participates after picking up the water.

In the past, people in Chuanzhai did not sing wine songs, probably because the same family did not play with each other.

However, a lot of tourism in the Miao Village has started, and the guests are most willing to listen to these, so this custom is gradually evolving.

There are rules for toasting. The hostess of the family will first toast from the oldest person or the guest to the last person. That person has to stand up and have a drink with the hostess who is toasting, otherwise, you will be rude.

Li Junge followed Grandpa Yu, so he could enter any house.

Many families are sitting next to each other, with some dry goods and stewed meat on the table, drinking together and setting up a long-term battle.

Along the way, Li Junge couldn't tell which one was which. Anyway, every family was so enthusiastic, and he really drank a lot of this wine.

All the way to a small open dam, the eaves of the door are covered with peppers, dried corn, and sausage sauce meat. There are also many people sitting in the yard. It seems that they are all neighbors, drinking and laughing there.

Seeing Grandpa Yu and Li Junge approaching, everyone stood up, shouting "Old Master Village" and "Pi Wa", and welcomed them to the table.

Grandpa Yu was pushed to be the chief, and Li Junge was accompanied by the first guest seat on the side.

Grandpa Yu laughed and said: "Ayan, what happened to your family yesterday? How did this dragon god get to Uri?"

The man named A Yan peeled the peanuts and said, "Hey! My monkey, I heard from the village elders that this year's dragon god is ahead of schedule, the sooner the better. Adjusted forward by 5 minutes! Apo, come out and say New Year greetings to Grandpa Yu! See how he teaches you!"

A seven or eight-year-old child jumped out of the main room and shouted, "Grandpa Yu!" He turned around and argued with his father: "It was Grandpa Zhai who said that the sooner the better, he didn't say that the day of the rabbit is the day of the dragon." !"

Grandpa Yu touched the top of the baby's head and said, "Good boy, it's okay! By the way, what's going on with your family?"

A middle-aged man said: "Don't mention it! I was holding the incense in one hand and looking at the time with the other. It was obviously a few minutes away. Why did I hear the firecrackers at Ayan's house next to me, and the hand holding the incense started to burn? I can't help but go up the fuse, shouting in my head that the time is wrong, the time is wrong, but this hand just doesn't listen to it!"

A group of people laughed and said they were right, that was the situation at that time!As soon as the firecrackers sounded, the hand lost control.

Grandpa Yu smiled and said: "It's okay, it's okay, the Dragon God didn't grab it, the God of Wealth invited you here, everyone knows this leather baby, right?"

Ah Yan smiled and said: "Hahaha Piwa is a real God of Wealth, those neighbors shouldn't complain about me now, right?"

Li Junge smiled and said, "Then I'll bother Uncle Ayan. By the way, did Ayin tell you? All the children in our village can go to study in Pan'ao Township this year. If they get good grades, they can go to the county town!"

Ah Yan smiled and said: "I said it! This is a good thing, and I have to thank you!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "I really don't have anything to do here. It's the credit of Liang Yatou and A Yin in the village. But it's true that I can drive the kids to school when they go down the mountain on the zipline."

Everyone was very happy, and several families talked about the village.

Tomorrow and Sunday, there will be a bullfight in Bagou Township, also known as "bull fighting", and everyone says they want to watch the excitement.

An old man said: "Speaking of what we suffer the most, the most we do every year is to participate in cockfights and thrush fights. The cattle go up and down for dozens of miles, which is too much trouble! Actually, the cattle in the village are pretty good!"

Grandpa Yu said with a smile: "Let's save some for others. Every year there are thrushes in the cockfights, and we Xuantianzhai pick it up. It makes people lose interest."

Everyone laughed again, saying that the birds on the mountain must be wild.

At this time, Ah Yin and Ni's mother also came over, greeted everyone, and went to the kitchen to help.

A Yan said to Li Junge: "Pi Wa, A Yin is the most outstanding girl in our village, you have to treat her well!"

Li Junge said: "Oh, Uncle Ayan, you can't tell me this. Ayin is a high-ranking officer in my Lijiagou. If you treat Laobazhai, I will treat Ayin. Is it right here? People go to low places, and people go to high places, and the girl who comes down from the mountain will crush me, the kid who is down from the mountain!"

This remark gave enough face to the people on the mountain, a group of old and young men nodded their heads and smiled wide-eyed.They are all muttering that this kid is quite capable, but he can still act softly in front of his girlfriend's family, and whether he should be nice to the guy at home when he goes home.

After having dinner in the open dam of A Yan's house, Grandpa Yu led the family back.

Tomorrow, I will go to the village of Bagou Township, and I will settle down for the cockfight today.

The fighting cocks were not kept downstairs, but a single orchard was set aside and surrounded by two fences.

There is one rooster and three or four hens in each circle.

A chicken coop was built between two trees, and this is where the fighting cocks live.

An ugly black and red chicken stayed on the chicken stand, staring fiercely at Li Junge.

Li Junge smiled and said: "Hey! It's quite fierce. Believe it or not, I will call Matou up and let you sing Conquer every minute!"

A Yin chuckled and said, "Erpi, you are unreasonable! Fighting a peregrine falcon with a rooster, thank you for being able to tell!"

Li Junge said: "Look how beautiful my hemp head is, and your chicken looks so good, tsk tsk tsk..."

Fighting cocks are different from ordinary domestic chickens. The crown is very small, so that it is not easy to be caught in the fight. The body feathers are short and sparse, the skeleton is thick, the claws are sharp, and the mouth is hook-shaped. Everything is suitable for fighting. Corresponding This is so ugly.

Grandpa Yu said: "This is last year's chicken king, called Hei Jin, hey, don't stretch out your hand! You will be red when you touch it."

Sure enough, as soon as Hei Jin saw Li Junge stretching out his finger, he immediately jumped down from the chicken rack, and pecked fiercely at Li Junge's finger with his curved beak.

Li Junge said with a smile: "This name sounds like a gangster. Look at my Matou, how simple this name is!"

Grandpa Yu said: "This is a southern species of fighting cock. It's so fierce that it dares to chase people and peck it! Raising a fighting cock is like practicing martial arts with a family. You have to practice it since you were a child. There are many tricks in it."

Li Junge said: "Oh, I like to listen to these the most. Grandpa Yu, tell me quickly."

Grandpa Yu said: "This fighting cock, three parts chickens and seven parts raising, the main work is training, usually hatching in early spring, this is to catch up with the 'head rush' in October."

"We don't eat the first day after hatching. On the second day, we mix egg yolk with cool white boiled and water-soaked millet. We call it 'wet food'. We try to feed dry food on the third day. These three days are called 'opening'."

"After opening the mouth, they are carefully raised, and there is an extra meal every night, which is called 'pad food'."

"The temperature of the chicken house in early spring should be kept well. If it is too low, it will easily cause illness, and if it is too high, the bones will not be hard and deformed. After two and a half months of breeding, when the male and female can be distinguished by eyes, the roosters should be raised separately. 'Divide nests' to prevent fighting."

(End of this chapter)