Chapter 22: "Welcome the Case" in the Country Customs

Days passed day by day. Zhang Niu, who was idle and had nothing to do, replaced the small wooden board in front of the door with the words "Happy Small Building" with a round huge stone nearby. The stone was used to be kept when the mountain was opened, and it was useless. Zhang Niu went directly to the villagers to pull it back. Anyway, it didn't cost money.

I found an old man who could make stone carvings in the village to help, and carved the four words "Happy Small Building" on the round stone. I carefully painted them along the marks with red paint. A huge stone nearly three meters high stood beside the pond. You can see the tall huge stone when you walk from afar. Now it has become a sign of Zhang Niu's contracted ground. Zhang Niu, who was originally a slut, wanted to ask the old man to carve it into a statue, and it would be better to look like him. The old man was so confused that he had never seen such a request. He ignored it and said to the old man who was annoyed. If I only carved this huge stone alone, I would have never seen it for a year. After hearing this, I walked away in shame.

The word "two hundred ducklings" used to look quite a lot, but now they have grown up and changed their hair. I feel that the number is too small. I called the boss of the fruit seedlings and asked him when he had time to buy 800 ducklings back. Just meat ducks, don't buy them into egg ducks. Calculate that this batch of ducks has been raised for almost two months, and it is estimated that they can be sold in another month. I didn't feed any feed now, just a single duck weighs about four pounds. Even minor influenza diseases have never occurred. People don't have to worry about it at all.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, several other major villages near Zhangjia Village, including other large villages, had to hold a case-hooking event. Zhang Niu didn’t know when the event would start. His grandfather’s generation had already appeared. At that time, the wild children in the village were happiest because they all had to play the role of little boys and put on long clothes from ancient times.

The reception event started at five o'clock in the morning. The sound of firecrackers could be heard early in the morning. The seven immortal tables were placed all the way down. Two big incense thick and tall arms were burning beside them. It was not until the morning was burned until midnight. Zhang Niu, who saw him the first time, realized that the incense could be made so tall and so big, which was a bit scary.

There were some special foods in the village on the table from the beginning. They were placed until the last table, densely packed. The parents next to them usually told the children that this was a gift to welcome the great god. If someone snatched it, the great god would go to find him at night. The scared child nodded repeatedly.

After this, people will go to the empty venues chosen by each village to watch performances. If you like more elegantly, you can watch "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" and "Old Master Carrying a Seal". Young people like to see big rocks on their chests, martial arts, and fire in their mouths. So, they will cause a series of cheers from people around them. On the day of the reception, there were also many people selling snacks, such as sesame cakes, chaos, fried rice cakes, duck necks, bananas, etc., which are hot food for children. Zhang Niu also bought a few strings of fried taro and mushrooms for his younger sister. But there were too many people, and the fried people did not rush to make them.

In the morning, Zhang Niu took his little sister around. For the little sister, this is a big festival. You can see the rare acrobatics you saw in the past, etc.

In the afternoon, a parade was held. Several nearby villages were about to pass by. Every household would wait on the roadside to see. Children would also follow and mingle among the crowd to join in the fun.

At night, everyone would go to the temple to pick up the gods with small lanterns in their hands, which was the last activity to welcome the case. A long human-shaped dragon leads to the temple on the mountain.

Everyone will consciously keep quiet on the road, and only the rustling sound of everyone walking on the winding mountain roads can be heard. The temples on the mountain are very popular all year round and they are very effective. I don’t know whether it is true or not.

After everyone brings back the temple’s prayers, the annual welcome event will be over. The annual event is more about hoping for a harvest next year and everything goes well. It continues the tradition of many years.

The next day, the boss of Guomiao drove the tool truck to deliver the ducks. The little ducks in the back car made a rattle sound, which caused the ducks by the pond to scream and froze.

Move the duck cage into the duck shed. Cover it with small wooden boards and put it like this first, and then take it to the space for a few days. After that, the ducks that come out will feel very easy to raise and will not get sick.

After moving the duck cage, Shengming from the village happened to ride a tricycle to the cow and borrow a water pump, saying that the one in his house had just been burned. He heard that there was a new one on the mountain. So he rushed up.

It turned out to be the pond not far away, and the pond was about to pump water to dry it. It had not been dried last winter. This year, I want to dry the pond early and sell it for a good price.

With the tool truck of the boss of Guomiao, he moved Shengming's tricycle and water pump up and went directly to his pond.

Shengming's pond is next to the dirt road outside the village. When we arrived, there were already many people by the pond. It turned out that today we were preparing to pull the fish net. The untied fish net could be seen by the pond.

When changing into a new water pump, Shengming said it was stronger than his old-fashioned one. You can see from the outlet of the water outlet. The water outlet of the new one was very strong. The old-fashioned water outlet was much smaller. You could see that the water level dropped apart and you could pull the net and pull the fish. There were three people at both ends of the fish net, so it was easier to pull the pond of seven or eight acres.

Zhang Niu and Guomiao Boss were standing on the shore, and there were still many wild children watching. When the net was closed, the villagers would throw a handful of unfamous fish to the shore and let them go home to raise them for fun.

In just a blink of an eye, the other person had already pulled half of the net, and the people here continued to put the fish net. The place where the net was closed was two or three meters next to the net. Today, Shengming pulled the fish, and he was lucky. The fish net was halfway through the fish net. The sink net was filled with mud, and the more he pulled it, he couldn't pull it. At this time, he could only swim to the sink net and lift the fish net up. Once he lifted it, the fish ran out. The appearance of the sink net means that there were not many fish in the net.

The scope of the fish net is gradually narrowing. Many big fish in the net keep jumping out of the water. Some are lucky enough to jump out of the fish net directly.

Zhang Niu on the shore also ran over to help pull the fish net when they closed the net. Today, this net is a great harvest. Look at the big fish that keeps jumping, this net can have at least two or three thousand kilograms of fish. Throw the bamboo poles and fish pond on the shore into the water so that they can free up their hands to pull out a fish pond and fill it with fish.

After the fish pond is tied to the bamboo pole, drive all the fish in the fish bag into the fish pond. This way, you won’t have to pick fish in the fish net at that time.

The fishmongers were collected before coming in the afternoon. So Shengming also had to guard the fish pond. He was afraid that those passing by would take a few. After Zhang Niu and Guomeng were about to go back, Shengming also chose two big heads weighing about ten pounds in the fish pond and asked them to take them home to eat.


Chapter completed!