The Era of Hard Work

In rural areas, the year is considered to be over after the fifteenth day, but in Lujia Village, once the fifth day is over, it gets busy.

Prepare for the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, pretend play and fireworks.

The lanterns specially ordered from Gaojia Village were installed on the sixth day of the lunar new year, not only hanging on the streets, roofs and trees, but also dragon lanterns on the ground.

Lions make a scene in spring, peacocks spread their tails, dragons and phoenixes make auspicious, Qingzhao spring, etc., each with its own unique theme lantern group, from the front gate of the folk custom area to the empty space above the old street.

In order to attract family-based tourists, there are also elaborately prepared lighting groups such as Black Cat Sheriff, Calabash Baby Rescue Grandpa, Nezha Nao Hai and Da Nao Tian Gong.

Related advertisements were launched years ago.

Because Chinese New Year people seldom travel far, the advertisements are mainly placed in Qingzhao and Quannan, with eye-catching slogans on the advertisements - if you don’t go to Lujia Village to catch the Lantern Festival, it’s not New Year’s Eve!

By the eighth day of the lunar new year, all kinds of lanterns have basically been installed.

On the night of the eighth day of the lunar new year, all the lanterns are officially electrified, and the folk landscape and the lantern art are in harmony with each other, and the lamp houses are in harmony with each other, in various poses and with different expressions, and colorful lights.

People from nearby villages gathered here.

After Lu Dong got off work and had dinner, he called Li Wenyue and went to the old village together.

"Others can't be predicted for the time being." Turning to Laoji Street, with colored lights constantly flashing in front of his eyes, Li Wenyue said to Lu Dong as he walked: "The room reservation can roughly reflect one or two, and the homestay here is fourteen ten. Nearly 60% of the five reservations, I asked the resort, and the reservation rate is quite high.”

Lu Dong went to buy two bunches of candied haws, handed a bunch to Li Wenyue, and said, "The folk food festival held a few years ago has gained a preliminary reputation. We may not be able to do it far away, but in Quannan, it is considered well-known."

Li Wenyue bit a candied haws, sweet and sour: "Quannan, Linzi, Pingcheng and Laicheng, these four prefecture-level cities, many people have heard of us."

Through the food company itself, Lujia Village has accumulated a considerable reputation in the past few years. Last year's intensive publicity and the success of the folk food festival made the reputation even higher.

This is probably also the feedback of the real society.

No matter how noisy the poor village is, no one can remember it, but the rich village is very easy to leave a deep impression on people.

When we came to the intersection of Laoji Street and Food Street, there were several lantern groups. Among them, Uncle Qi was talking to a few children on the side of the gourd baby lantern group.

Lu Dong and Li Wenyue went over, and Lu Lanlan and some classmates pestered Seventh Uncle to tell him the story of Calabash Baby.

Li Xiaoxiao from the same village said: "Uncle Qi, don't talk about the cartoon!"

"Yes, you can't talk about the cartoon!" Lu Lanlan said in a serious voice, "You have to talk about a new one."

The group of half-grown children in the village started to boo, and everyone knew that Uncle Qi liked to make up some messy stories, such as the barbecue big fur fox, the big locust tree suppressing the white lady, the mouse butt rice jar lid of Jiansong uncle's house, etc. all very interesting

Uncle Qi stood in front of the lantern, giving hints one by one: "You bastards, don't you know that I'm tired after a day of practice? Think I'm you, idle all day long?"

A boy shouted: "Uncle Qi, you are the person in charge of training, and you don't practice by yourself!"

Lu Dong and Li Wenyue stood behind Lu Lanlan, and the latter also booed: "Uncle Qi, come one!"

This group of older kids have all gone to high school and experienced military training, and they immediately yelled, "Seventh Uncle, come one! Seventh Uncle, come one!"

"Okay! Okay! Okay!" Lu Jianren couldn't resist, looked back at the lantern group where Gourd Baby rescued his grandfather, and pondered: "Wait a minute, I have to think about it."

Lu Dongxin said, Seventh Uncle wouldn't come out as a child?

Lu Jianren turned his head twice, and immediately had an idea: "Okay, I will tell you a new version of the story of the gourd baby."

Quiet here immediately.

Lu Jianren raised a finger: "A thousand years ago, a child saved a white snake, and later the white snake became a spirit and became a human!"

"I know! I know!" shouted the youngest one, "That's Lady Bai!"

Then, Lu Lanlan murmured in dissatisfaction: "Isn't it a gourd baby? Why is she becoming a white lady again?"

"Should I tell you or you?" Lu Jianren glanced around and saw that no one, including Lu Dong and Li Wenyue, spoke, and then said: "When this white snake becomes a human, it is called Bai Suzhen. In order to repay her life-saving grace, she She married Xu Xian, a child who had grown up, but people grow old, but snake spirits don't. Xu Xian is old and looks unattractive. Bai Suzhen dislikes the old man with a wrinkled face, so she abandons Xu Xian and runs to the mountains Find a male scorpion to live with."

Everyone else is listening carefully, this nonsense is quite interesting.

Lu Jianren thought about it and made up things: "Xu Xian was abandoned and got angry. He ran to the mountains to find Bai Suzhen for revenge. He is a little old man, how can he defeat monsters? Just search and search, and find the legendary fetish Qicai Gourd seeds, seven gourd babies are grown!"

The youngest one shouted again: "I know! I know! Cucurbit Baby defeated the snake spirit and the scorpion spirit, and avenged Xu Xian!"

You don’t know how many times you’ve watched the cartoon, so you don’t need to go into details. Lu Jianren continued: “What you don’t know is that the seven gourd babies defeated Bai Suzhen and ran west until they lived in seclusion where no one else could find them. , They also have to earn money to eat, so they dig mines to make money, and they have been digging for decades. They didn't grow tall, but they grew a lot of beards. One day, a woman ran into the forest and said She was persecuted by the queen, what is her name? Guess what?"

Lu Lanlan rolled her eyes: "I guessed it, she is Snow White! Snow White and the seven dwarfs!"

Lu Jianren said: "You guessed right, no prize!" He glanced at Lu Dong and Li Wenyue, and said to the older children, "Okay, that's it for today, let's go."

A group of people left one after another, and many of them were still discussing the story of the seven gourd babies and Snow White.

Lu Jianren joined Lu Dong and Li Wenyue and turned to the food street together.

It's winter night, just after the new year, the temperature is not too high, at least half of the shops here are open, there are not too few people on the street, and the business is okay.

When they arrived at the insect store opened in the village, the three of them went in and ordered some skewers, mainly scorpions, grasshoppers and golden cicadas, as well as jars of itchy peppers.

I just had dinner, but I actually just eat it as a snack.

Lu Dong ate a golden cicada, thinking of when he caught the golden cicada a few years ago, he said, "The company keeps a lot of this thing?"

Chongqu Store belongs to the food company.

Li Wenyue understands the situation better: "Last summer, we made a large-scale acquisition, and there are a lot of goods in the cold storage."

Lu Jianren said suddenly at this time: "It seems that there is a village in our county that has started to raise cicadas. That village mainly grows fruit trees. It is said that it was suggested by agricultural experts, which can increase a lot of income."

Lu Dong swallowed the golden cicada in his mouth: "Many people like to eat this stuff."

Lu Jianren said: "Why don't we introduce some golden cicada seeds to our village?"

Li Wenyue put down the iron rod: "Uncle Seven, what do you think?"

Lu Dong was also very curious and looked at Qishu.

"That's what I think, you two give the staff to the staff."

After staying in the village for a long time, like a half-headed brick, wherever there is a hole, it is thrown there to fill it. Even a sophomore like Uncle Qi has some business acumen: "The farmers in our village are With the reduction, how many people are willing to plant the remaining land besides the elderly in the village?"

This is the truth, as long as anyone who is willing to go to work is not in poor health, the wages in the factory are much better than farming.

Not to mention the young ones, few people in their forties are willing to farm.

As far as feelings for the land are concerned, there is indeed, but as long as most rural people live a good life, the feelings for the land, that is, the matter of a few vegetable fields, let them work hard to plant a few acres of land, most people actually have no that thought.

Maybe those in their sixties have a different idea, and feel that if they have land, they have to plant it.

Lu Jianren said: "Young people don't want to ask the old people to plant land again. Just save some vegetable land. Why do you plant other things? If you are tired and bumped into it, don't talk about the little money dug out of the field. A serious illness is enough to catch a few colds."

"Since last autumn, there has been a lot of abandoned land in our village. The reserved land will not be moved in the short term, and no one is planting crops. I think we can do other things, such as planting trees and getting some golden cicadas. Plant the seeds and let the grass grow freely, after two years, people who come over in the summer can come out and touch the golden cicada with their own hands."

When Lu Dong heard this, he roughly guessed what Uncle Qi would say next, and asked, "Is it possible to catch a rabbit and a pheasant?"

Lu Jianren chuckled: "Let's enclose the land and introduce some wild rabbits into it. This thing breeds very fast. If someone is interested, you can use a set of digging holes to catch rabbits. There are pheasants and wild quails." , you can do it, wild quail is not easy to do, this thing can fly high, pheasant can! It can’t fly high, and it’s basically impossible to get out when it’s circled. We can also have more projects here.”

Lu Dong nodded: "It's an idea, I think it's feasible."

Li Wenyue also agreed: "There should be a lot of people in the city who are interested in this, right?"

Seeing that the two nephews agreed, Lu Jianren said, "We still have hundreds of acres of land in our village. We can coordinate with the town to take the public land under the river bank in the north. If the land is big enough, we can bring some silly roe deer over. "

He has often been on the construction site in the past two years, and he often sees people: "We Chinese, toss and fro , do it yourself, eat it yourself, enjoy it more!"

"Seventh Uncle, it's rare for you to be serious." Lu Dong laughed.

Lu Jianren wiped his face: "Since when did your seventh uncle become dishonest?"

Lu Dong hurriedly said, "Okay, I said something wrong."

Come to think of it, Uncle Seven has spent the past two years first leading apprentices in a construction company, then engaged in hand-casting with Grandpa Zhenjia, and then performed Lu Opera and Allegro on stage. .

Li Wenyue said at this time: "Uncle Qi, I will call Li Yanyan tomorrow, and let's have a meeting together."