Happy Farmer's Life

Chapter 14 New Years

Jingguo's new year customs are similar to Du Weiming's original impression, and the night of New Year's Eve is also observed.After the New Year's Eve dinner, Du Weiming brought out some melon and fruit snacks, as well as pastries specially bought in the town, made a pot of hot tea, and watched the New Year with Jing Yuan.A few days ago because of Jing Yuan's injury, he had to eat in bed all the time, and it was inconvenient to eat soup and water.Du Weiming remembered the computer desk invented by modern people for the convenience of using computers in bed. He asked the carpenter in the village to help him make a small desk for use on the bed. Now it has become a good helper for the two of them at night.

Put all the food on the bed, the two of them sat cross-legged on the bed, covered the quilt on the lap, they could eat and play, and they were not afraid of the cold.Sometimes Liu Jingyuan is really surprised. Du Weiming seems to have countless thoughts in his little mind, which will pop up suddenly.He may not have noticed it himself, but he often speaks surprisingly, with a bunch of strange electronic words.But don't say it, it's much more convenient to have this small table.The winter here is much more difficult than in Kyoto. There is no charcoal fire, and the sun is good during the day. At night, after a good meal, I can’t wait to get under the quilt immediately. Sitting outside is really unbearable.

The third Du Weiming who woke up from his illness took this small table and put it on the bed so that he could eat easily.Now the two are eating and watching the new year.Liu Jingyuan has a soft spot for the olives made by Du Weiming himself.That Du Weiming made some dried olives himself. He soaked green olives in sugar water for a period of time and then dried them in the sun. In order to make the olives sweet, Du Weiming specially added honey to them.In this day and age, honey can be said to be a rare commodity.Liu Jingyuan has never eaten this kind of dried olives before. It is sweet and delicious, and there is a fragrance when chewing.Before he knew it, he ate half of the plate, and Du Weiming stopped him from reaching out to the dried olives.

"This thing is not easy to digest if you eat too much. Let's eat it tomorrow."

"Wei Ming, have you ever thought about leaving the village and going outside?"

"I think so, but I'm still too young. It's not easy to survive outside the village. I originally planned to go outside when I was 16 years old. Hehe, there are still 4 years left. And I always go out. If you need money, I have just saved a little money now, and I want to save more later."

"I might leave the village after a while, would Weiming leave with me?"

"Where to go?"

"My hometown is in Kyoto, Weiming, would you like to visit?"

"You let me think about it. I'm still too young. It's not easy to leave the village. Let me think about it."

Du Weiming felt that although Jing Yuan invited him to go to Kyoto, he could temporarily live in his house, but it was not a long-term solution, and since he was only a 12-year-old child now, it was impossible for him to make a difference in Kyoto.I originally thought about going out and looking around, but the plan for a few years later, I still want to farm in the village in a down-to-earth manner.

The two ate and drank, and the time passed quickly, when suddenly there was the sound of firecrackers.There are no firecrackers and fireworks here. Every household is lit with sun-dried bamboo, which is the most primitive firecracker.

"Jing Yuan, let's go out to firecrackers too." Excitedly, Du Weiming took out the bamboo that he had prepared earlier, and went out to firecrackers with Jing Yuan and the torch.Du Weiming used to experience firecrackers and fireworks.This firecracker is really the first time, he has been looking forward to it for a long time.After the excitement, Du Weiming smiled and said Happy New Year to Jing Yuan, Du Weiming's smile was very bright in the firelight.

What to eat in the morning of the first day of junior high school, the rules are different in different places.In the north, dumplings are eaten, while in the south, glutinous rice balls are eaten.But in Jingguo, there are special rules for breakfast on the first day of the new year.If you want to eat white rice, put the red bean rice on the 24th day of the lunar month on top of the rice and cook it together.There is only one dish, which is called the venetian roll.It is fried with choy sum, tofu, dried tofu and fennel.When eating, spread them out with louvers, and put choy sum in the middle, which represents people’s health, and tofu represents silver, and dried tofu is gold, and then wrap them with louvers, and eat them together Eating it represents health and longevity in the new year, and wealth is abundant.The red bean rice on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month is placed on the white rice, so that if the family members who work outside have no time to eat red bean rice, they can also eat it in the new year, which means a kind of reunion.

After eating and putting on new clothes, everyone went out to pay New Year's greetings to each other.Du Weiming and Liu Jingyuan walked around the village and paid New Year greetings to everyone.Go home and prepare snacks and pastries, waiting for the arrival of the children.This day is the children's festival in the village.Children organized a group to "sweep" every house, and when the door was opened, more than a dozen children would shout "Happy New Year!".Parents have to come up with snacks and pastries to entertain these little guests.Du Weiming also did these things when he was young, and this day can be said to be the happiest day of the year.

Put the family food on the table and wait for the children to arrive.Du Weiming went to the room to sort things out, and when he came back, he found that half of the plate of dried olives on the table was gone, needless to say, all of them had gone into Jing Yuan's stomach.He couldn't help laughing, from Jing Yuan's appearance, he is a mature man, why he likes to eat snacks so much.

"Jingyuan, you can't eat this dried olive anymore. It's bad for digestion. I still have more to make. Don't eat too much at one time."

Jing Yuan stopped his hands in embarrassment. In fact, he didn't know why. He hadn't seen how much he loved so many delicacies before, but this dried olive really appealed to him.Du Weiming filled up the dried olives on the plate, and the children also arrived.

"Uncle, Happy New Year. I wish you good health and a long life!" After shouting, he rushed into the house. Du Weiming quickly brought out the food at home to the boys. Du Weiming is four or five years younger, calling him uncle really kills him.The children took the food, played around and set off for the next goal.