Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

According to the custom here in my hometown, except for the outside of the courtyard, couplets must be posted on the door of every house, including the back door of the courtyard.

In addition to seeking clear seasons and smooth weather, there are also blessings and longevity.

When my family was still there, I didn't have enough pocket money, so I always felt that I had to have money. Only now do I really realize what the old people often say, being able to live a healthy life is much more important than anything else.

Unlike in the north where you have to put up window grilles during the Chinese New Year, this year’s New Year’s Eve, in addition to putting festive couplets and blessing characters on your home, you also have to do one of the most troublesome things -

Give the family dogs a bath.

Bathing the dogs is the most labor-intensive task today. These dogs don't cooperate very well every time they take a bath. It's not that they are afraid of water and don't want to wash, but they are either impatient or too excited.

Rhubarb and Xiaohua belong to the excited group, while Xiaohei and Xiaohuang have very little patience. They always want to run away every time they take a bath, and they run away with white foam all over their bodies after just a few rubs.

Xiao Huang and Xiao Hua were washing and shaking at the same time, and the two of them were covered in foam dots and water drops.

In September and October this year, the two of them picked up a lot of soapberries and put them in the foaming bottles they found to make a cleaning agent. Once pressed, dense and soft foam came out, which saved a lot of foaming. time.

One for each person, wash the impatient one first, because you have to chase it back. After washing the two running around, you can wash the two foam-loving ones in the same spot. After washing, the two of you can take a bath. According to custom, they must take a bath on New Year's Eve. , you can no longer wash it in the first few days of the first lunar month.

The New Year pig has been slaughtered, and the New Year dishes have been prepared. They can be cooked and eaten in the evening. After washing the dogs today, the next step is to give people a bath.

The dogs returned to the house refreshed, and their hair, clothes, and faces were all covered in foam.

This year’s Chinese New Year is very special. After crossing twelve o’clock, in addition to ushering in the New Year, there is also the beginning of spring.

The twenty-four solar terms of the ancients are really not a guarantee. In this changing climate, we can still be held by the solar terms by the tail and never let go, and we can always find some signs that correspond to the solar terms.

In the New Year before the polar night, it snowed on the first day of the new year. As soon as the beginning of spring arrived this year, the sky in the meadow, which had been silent for a long time, began to rain. After the two of them enjoyed the leisurely atmosphere of the New Year for a few days, they had to Prepare to start a new round of rice planting.

This year, in addition to smothering the rice seeds into sprouts, we also have to cultivate the seedling beds.

The spring rain fell for three consecutive days. Even the initial flooding of the rice fields was no longer needed. Instead, we started digging and weeding with rakes. The land was moist and soft, but the soaked soil was a bit heavy to dig.

We waited until the rain stopped before we started digging. During the few days we dug the rice fields, we could see obvious changes in the meadow. Yesterday, the grass was only ankle-high. Today, it is knee-high.

When the two of them saw the growth, they ran to the back of the house and picked off all the new bamboo shoots.

It's still a step too late. In just two days, many bamboo shoots have grown taller than people, but there are not many left, and you can see new ones growing every day.

Spring is the most lively season of the year, even more enjoyable than autumn when the fruits are ripe.

As soon as Zhao Yeqing had his first meal of spring bamboo shoots, he had already set his sights on the wild vegetables in the forest.

"If you ask me, I should look for duck feet recently. The duck feet in this season are the most delicious. I can eat them after the Qingming Festival."

Mu Xi put a chopstick into her bowl with spring bamboo shoots and stir-fried bacon, "Okay, but I'm worried about you going to the woods alone. We can go together after we've finished setting up the seedling bed."

In the past two days, the weeds have been removed and lime and manure have been spread. Today, the rice seeds have sprouted small white buds one centimeter long. When the seedling bed is stacked up and planted tomorrow, it will be done.

Zhao Yeqing also knew that he had to deal with one-third of an acre of land at home first. After all, Grain Rain was coming soon. It was hard to get a few sunny days, but it would rain again two days later.

Mu Xi suddenly thought, "Look on the grass inside the wooden fence, maybe you can find some other wild vegetables."

After throwing away the weeds dug out of the ground in the afternoon, I still had time to wander around. This season, even if it is not duckweed, you can find other wild vegetables.

For example, fresh dandelions, purslane, chrysanthemum brains, shepherd's purse, and sage grass for Qingming glutinous rice cakes.

There were lush ferns growing close to the edge of the forest. Zhao Yeqing bent over and found edible varieties in no time. Breaking off the newly grown shoots, he could fry bacon or fresh pork belly at night.

Almost all mountain bracken grows on the edge of the forest. One root is only as thick as the head of a chopstick. Zhao Yeqing picks bracken very quickly. If he is not careful, he will pick the inedible white bracken. White bracken is relatively thick. , one piece is about the thickness of your little finger, you have to pick it out, if you accidentally eat it you will feel dizzy and have diarrhea.

Unfortunately, I still haven’t found the duck feet dish I want to eat.

The thing you want to eat does not mean that it is so delicious that nothing else can replace it, but once you have that thought, you will always be dissatisfied if you don't eat it.

Mu Xi was a little too tired to move after clearing away the weeds in the rice fields. On the other hand, Zhao Yeqing could happily pick a bunch of wild vegetables back, which showed that he really loved it.

He can already foresee that in the next period of time, the food at home will revolve around various wild vegetables.

Zhao Yeqing really thought so. Who could bear to not be a vegetarian after the Chinese New Year? From the slaughter of pigs to a few days ago, there were meat dishes every day. Whenever a plate of green food appeared on the table first, it would definitely be the fastest consumed dish. vegetable.

This 'custom' seems to be the same in every household since childhood. There are several days after the New Year when we don't want to see meat or vegetables anymore.

There are many dishes that can be made from wild vegetables, including sage made into glutinous rice cakes, chrysanthemum brains boiled into a greasy vegetable soup, cold purslane and chopped wild vegetable pancakes wrapped in batter and deep-fried in a pan until golden and crispy.

After finally finishing the remaining meat dishes from the Chinese New Year, there was no meaty smell on the table for several days. This fried vegetable pancake is the oiliest dish.

Even the dogs were tired of eating meat. The Chinese cabbage that Zhao Yeqing took back was placed on the floor in the corner of the kitchen. When he came back to look at it in the afternoon, only a small half of the nearly ten kilograms of Chinese cabbage that was originally fresh and tender was left. On the ground, there were vegetable scraps left after eating.

In the next few days, the dogs' food also changed to rice with cabbage and pork soup, which was cooked lightly. I don't know if these dogs can lose weight by eating this way.

After the fence was set up, the dogs became larger and larger, moved less and ate much more, and were all smooth and round.

It's time to go out and lose weight.

Zhao Yeqing walked out of the house after checking the gasoline reserves, and said sarcastically to Mu, who had just returned from sowing grain seeds on the ground, "I'll refill the gasoline tomorrow, and take a look at what good stuff there will be in the woods after the beginning of spring."