pastoral days

The Laba Festival was coming, and Song Chaoyang and Zhang Ruihua were so busy that they never left the ground.Now that the school is on holiday, in the important month of the twelfth lunar month, the two of them decided to do something.Haha, in fact, it is to launch a new product.The requirement of new products is to give people a high-end atmosphere.

Of course, the development of Laba porridge with excellent flavor and taste is the top priority.

Finally, with everyone's efforts, the ideal Laba porridge was developed in the early stage of the Laba Festival.Use yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut rice, chestnuts, red beans, peeled jujube paste, boiled in boiling water, and use red dyed peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, and brown sugar as embellishments ( Slobber).The important question now is what is the packaging of Laba porridge?

To take the high-end route, packaging is the top priority.It's Laba Festival soon, Song Chaoyang is the most straight man of steel, full of artistic bacteria.After thinking about it with Zhang Ruihua for a long time, I still have no idea.The two discussed to use the traditional packaging first, and of course it is better to use the one with special meaning.Time is a little tight, and the two of them are almost bald with worrying hair.

On this day, Song Chaoyang brought the sausage from home to give Zhang Ruihua a gift.Some time ago, Song Zhaoyang saw that his father was really bored, so he asked him to try making sausages. He didn't know how to do it, and he only vaguely heard that the coating of sausages was made of pig small intestines.But the method is all thought up by people. After Song Lai's unremitting efforts, the sausage finally succeeded.It's the holidays. Although their family's life is getting better and better, the Zhang family is not a family that lacks things. It is best to send some novelty food.

Song Chaoyang discovered that people in ancient times were all foodies.It may be that the supplies are relatively scarce, and everyone attaches great importance to food.After all, there is a saying that "food is the paramount necessity of the people".

As soon as he entered Zhang's mansion, a figure rushed over. "Brother Song, you are here. I have something to tell you." Zhang Ruiwen has been guarding Song Chaoyang at the mansion.

"Xiaowen, what's the matter?" Song Chaoyang looked at Zhang Ruiwen with a rather changeable expression, he really couldn't guess what happened! (Now that Song Chaoyang has finally called "Xiaowen" instead of Zhang Ruiwen, his mother expressed excitement.)

"Come with me." Zhang Ruiwen hurriedly brought Song Chaoyang to the place where he raised rabbits.To say that Mr. Zhang is also a character, he successfully turned himself into a professional rabbit breeder in a few months.

Mr. Zhang became pregnant after raising the rabbit carefully for two months. Today the rabbit is a bit abnormal than usual. His rich theoretical experience (books and asking others for advice) told him that the rabbit should give birth today.

He knew that Song Chaoyang was coming today, so he came here to wait for him, hurry up!

Song Chaoyang was also dumbfounded when he saw the pregnant rabbit, why did he ask him.He can only beat people, but he can't deliver babies.Besides, this kind of wild rabbit can do everything well by itself, the emperor is really not in a hurry and the eunuchs are in a hurry.

"Okay, don't worry. The rabbit can give birth by itself. Think about what the rabbit would do without you. What you should do now is not to disturb it and keep everyone away from it." It is getting more and more stable.

After Song Chaoyang finished speaking, he asked a servant in the mansion to look at the little rabbit from a distance, and then dragged Zhang Ruiwen away. "I have delicious food, can you go?" Song Zhaoyang only said this, and Zhang Ruiwen followed him.

After Song Chaoyang gave the sausage to Mrs. Song, he went to the study to find Zhang Ruihua.Zhang Ruihua was still thinking about what to use for Laba porridge.

"Brother Song, have you eaten? Don't tell me that it's what you gave to mother just now. It looks so hard, so you can't eat it." Zhang Ruiwen followed Song Chaoyang all the time in order to eat.

"Why don't I get it for you? Brother Hua, come and taste it. My father made it. Let's see if it can be sold in the store as a New Year's gift. The Chinese New Year is coming soon. If it's okay, you need to hurry up." It's time." Song Chaoyang took out a small piece of sausage that had just been steamed this morning.It's a little cold now, but it tastes good when it's cold.

"Chaoyang, you are too good at this. This thing looks very ordinary, and it tastes delicious in your mouth, not bad. Let's have another food." Zhang Ruihua's brows finally relaxed.

"I think we have more and more novel and delicious foods now, but it's a bit difficult to sell them. We have to find a gimmick." Zhang Ruihua has always wanted to use a novel idea to sell these foods.

But a good idea requires a flash of inspiration, but neither he nor Song Zhaoyang has that inspiration yet.

"Yes, let's not talk about it. There are only a few days left in Laba. If we want to go to the state capital to sell it, we have to come up with good ideas on the Laba Festival. This will also make our restaurant famous." Song Zhaoyang said for this Things are also worrying.It is harder than writing with a brush.

"Is it the Laba porridge that my brother brought back a few days ago? Brother, I really want to drink it." Zhang Ruiwen focused on the key points and was first-class.Ha ha.

"What's so difficult about the idea of ​​the Laba Festival? You can figure it out according to the legend. It's okay for everyone to accept it," Zhang Ruiwen said after eating a piece of sausage.

"Legend?" Zhang Ruihua and Song Chaoyang spoke at the same time.It sounds good, but he is not completely familiar with (the) legend.

"Xiaowen, tell me, Brother Song will bring you the Laba porridge from the store next time," Song Zhaoyang said boldly.

*****Introduction to the legend (you don't need to read it)****

According to the present, more than 500 years ago, before becoming a Buddha, Sakyamuni abandoned his throne and became a monk. After six years of ascetic practice, and even a solar eclipse, he gradually became extremely thin.I finally realized that people in the world pursue material desires, are obsessed with sensuality, and enjoy pleasure too much, and of course they cannot achieve liberation; while blindly clinging to asceticism will only cause physical suffering, which will only increase the attachment to the body, and there is no way to do it. Enlightened; only by abandoning both pain and happiness can we enter the Bodhi road of great enlightenment.So, I readjusted the method of practice, stood up from the seat of asceticism, walked down the Nilian Chan River, and let the long-term clean water wash away the dirt on my body.

There are two cowherd women by the Nilian River, one is Nanda and the other is Polo. They are very moved and admired when they see Sakyamuni practice so piously and asceticly.At this time, seeing that Sakyamuni had made the vow, he hurriedly chose a fat cow, took a bath in the river, squeezed the milk, steamed it into chyme, filled a bowl full, held it in front of him, and worshiped and offered it.

Sakyamuni accepted the offering and made a vow: "Eat today, you will gain strength to preserve your wisdom and life, and save all living beings." Then he took it.Since then, Sakyamuni was offered chyle by the shepherd girl every day.One month later, his physical strength was strong and he had returned to his former strength. He went to bathe and wash clothes in the Nilian River, and he felt refreshed and radiant all over his body.After that, I came to the place called Bodh Gaya today, sat on the Vajra Seat under a tall and lush Pippala tree (also translated as Bodhi tree, that is, fig tree), sat upright and meditated, and made a vow: "If I don't realize it, The Buddha who is waiting for enlightenment, would rather shatter this body than lose this seat!"

In this way, Sakyamuni sat under the bodhi tree for 48 days, until the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month.That night, the sky was bright and clear, and the wind was smooth.Sitting silently on the Vajra Seat, Sakyamuni manifested various states of meditation, surveyed the immeasurable worlds in the ten directions and all things in the past, present and future, and had insight into the cause and effect of the three realms.In the early morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, a star appeared in the sky, and he suddenly realized that he had attained the supreme way and became a Buddha who was consummated, upright, and enlightened.

Since then, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the day when our master Shakyamuni Buddha became enlightened, it has become a grand and solemn memorial day for Buddhism, and the Laba Festival comes from this.

According to the Buddhist scriptures, when Shakyamuni became a Buddha, the earth shook, and all the gods and men praised him. He took a break for a while from the many sufferings of hell, hungry ghosts, animals, and three realms. Flowers, manjusha flower, golden flower, silver flower, glass flower, precious flower, seven treasure lotus, etc.

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Song Ruiwen spoke up and down, and Song Chaoyang drew a key point. "That is to say, it is the day when Shakyamuni became enlightened, and it is a big day for Buddhism," Song Chaoyang said.

"Of course, there are many legends about the Laba Festival, and this one is my favorite," Zhang Ruiwen said beamingly.So where do you know these legends.

Most people celebrate festivals, and they only know a general idea of ​​the origin of the festival. There are really few people like Zhang Ruiwen who can explain it in detail.Mainly "extensive reading" and excellent memory.Song Chaoyang was envious of someone with such a good memory.

Song Chaoyang and Zhang Ruihua set the theme of the propaganda on Buddhism.The two picked up Zhang Ruiwen, who usually has more ghost ideas, and started a discussion.The final idea is to use some exquisite wooden barrels to hold the Laba porridge. Of course, the shape of the wooden barrels is mainly based on modern thermal insulation barrels and ancient dim sum boxes.

Although it is difficult to make a wooden barrel into a spiral shape, do not underestimate the wisdom of ancient carpenters.They can use mortise and tenon structure instead of modern nails to complete various fixings.After the rough shape is determined, the pattern is highlighted on the outer carving.Since it is a Buddhist theme, deep Zen words are carved on the body of the barrel, and the sacred flower of Buddhism-lotus is carved on the cover.Of course, carpenters can do these jobs.Now that Song Zhaoyang has time, he and his cousins ​​are now studying carpentry with his father Song Gang, and he is deeply impressed by the ancient carpentry craftsmanship.Too awesome.

Speaking of it, now Song Gang is taking Song Feng and Song Hai to do carpentry work. Although the handwork is relatively slow, it is really great compared to going out to do short-term work.Make the winter of Song Gang's three brothers less difficult.Even more comfortable than at Lao Song's house.As for the money earned by Song Chaoyang and Zhang Ruihua, Song Gang said that he can still support his family now, and that his family's brat's money is saved for him to marry a wife (double) wife (son).

well, let's get back to business.On the pitch-black paper drawn by the three of them with brushes, the shape was vaguely determined.Song Zhaoyang let out a sigh of relief and ran out.When I came back, I took a burnt wooden stick from the kitchen and cooled it with water.Regardless, the Zhang family brothers looked puzzled.Draw and write what you have just discussed on paper.Not bad, but stick figures are pleasing to the eye.Well, now it's finally confirmed.

Fortunately, it is winter now, and most of the carpenters are relatively free, as long as the patterns are done and the Zen words are written.Worked for the next few days.These little things should not need to be done by yourself.

Since the wooden barrels are paid on a piece-by-piece basis, Song Chaoyang took the job for his father based on the principle of not letting the fat and water flow into outsiders' fields.Let my father find a familiar carpenter to do it, and the character and quality are also guaranteed.

Just when Zhang Ruihua pestered Song Chaoyang to play with black sticks, the servant came to report that the rabbit was born.8 were born.Perhaps Zhang Ruiwen fed the rabbits too well, and there are usually about 5 rabbits. 8 is simply high yield.

Suddenly Song Zhaoyang remembered a piece of news that a farmer in England brought 24 rabbits to Australia, which turned into 100 billion rabbits.It makes people in Australia turn pale when they talk about rabbits.Song Chaoyang thought of the strong reproductive ability of rabbits, and looked at Zhang Ruiwen who rushed out, and Zhang Ruihua, who was always a handsome young man.Song Zhaoyang just hehe.

The author has something to say:

Everyone think about the impressive reproductive ability of rabbits, haha.