During Chinese New Year, the little dolls in the village are the happiest. No matter how poor people are, they have to grit their teeth to buy the dolls and home-made clothes. They can eat delicious food these days, and the adults give them New Year's money. Sometimes you can also eat fried peanuts and melon seeds when you go visit the other villagers. They all wish that every day is Chinese New Year.
The dolls were running around the whole village, and the one they most envied was the old Feng family's children.
Look at Dawa & Erwa, they are all wearing small green military uniforms, and their younger sister Mengmeng is wearing a beautiful red cotton jacket. They also have candy cubes in their pockets. The seven children of the old Feng family all have candy, it's even been upgraded from fruit candy to white rabbit toffee!
Whenever the Feng family doll took out the white rabbit toffee, they would slowly tear the white candy wrapper on the outside. Holding a white rabbit toffee in his hand, they would licked the transparent layer on top with great enjoyment. Then put the whole candy in your mouth, eating it with great enjoyment. The little dolls in the village are so envious, they also wanted to have a taste of the White rabbit toffee.
The dolls can play wildly every day, but the adults in the village are already busy building the road in the mountain.They did not stop until the Lantern Festival. The whole village went to worship Mazu after eating the dumplings at home. Now, I have added another one this year, and I have to go to the mountains to pay homage to the mountain god.
Now that the mountain road is much easier to walk, the people in the village all walked up the mountain with offerings. Madam Feng had already reached the mountain intersection with Mengmeng in her arms. Immediately, she retreated in her heart, shoved Mengmeng into Su Wan's arms and said, "Su Wan, there are too many people on the mountain, you go back with Mengmeng and Erwa, I think it will be fine if I only take Dawa with me."
The whole village was dispatched, it will be indeed difficult to go with so many people. Before leaving, she did not forget to say, "Mom, be careful, I'll go home and cook first and wait for you to come back to eat."
Madam Feng followed the group with Dawa. She could not get in as soon as she reached the intersection of the Dragon Bone Temple. She stood on the hillside and watched the crowd in front stretched all the way to the entrance of the temple. I came here early in the morning with rice cakes and dried meat, otherwise I would definitely be stuck here.
Fortunately, all the people on the road were from the village, and no one dared to crowd randomly. Madam Feng finally entered the temple after waiting for a long time. She looked at the offerings on the offering table. Her family's air-dried meat was the most conspicuous. At most, the others are meat buns or fish. Compared with her family, she is completely incomparable. She is so sincere, of course, she hopes that Grandpa Shanshen will continue to take care of her family and send more meat to her family.
She took Dawa to kneel down and worshiped the mountain god. Madam Feng saw a woman in the village pick up their baby and touch the white bone on the offering table. Today, Huzi didn't follow, so Mrs. Feng bravely stepped up and touched it carefully. When I touched that bone, it felt very warm and cool to the skin, just like touching Mengmeng's silk scarf. It really deserved to be the bone of a real dragon, but it was different from other bones.
After she touched the bones, nothing strange happened. Seeing that people in the village were still touching the bones, she quickly picked up Dawa and asked him to touch it too, and said with words in her mouth: "God of the Mountain, we are from the Feng Family from Taoyuan Village. Please bless our old Feng family members to make a fortune safely, and bless our eldest grandson to learn to read and become outstanding in the future. There is also a young granddaughter in my family, you have to bless her health and for her to grow up quickly. There is also a tiger. I won't say much about it, It is the animal that comes from this mountain. You know that meat that I brought to you. If you think it is delicious, give it to my house next time Son, I'll bring it to you again."
Madam Feng prayed satisfactorily and went home with her eldest grandson. Her eldest son was sitting on a long bench chatting with the men in the village.
Seeing the people in the village coming and going to worship the mountain god, Feng Yimin couldn't help showing a beam of joy on his face, and said in a negotiating tone, "It's time for spring plowing in a few days. When the road is repaired, it will be much easier to pay the public rations this year, what do you think?"
"Okay, village chief, now that we have the blessing of the Mountain God, isn't it a matter of minutes to complete this road?" The villager who used to be the rudest nodded in agreement immediately.
Feng Yimin turned to look at Feng Guoqiang, the head of the militia next to him, and heard him say, "No problem, I'll go to my comrades for any amount of explosives that are still missing. We must repair it in one go."
The village accountant Zhang Guangming also said: "When the mountain road is completed, it will only take us two or three hours to go to the provincial capital. By then, all the seafood in our village will be shipped out and sold, which is definitely better than now. It will be more valuable, this is a good thing for everyone. I also agree to continue to build the road after the spring plowing."
The three most powerful people in the village agreed, and the rest of the villagers agreed. The villagers also know the benefits of building the road.
Feng Dafu hid in the crowd, and he agreed on the surface, but turned his head and complained to Feng Dakang next to him: "At first it was said that the village chief just happened to be favored by the mountain god, that's why the initial building of the road processed smoothly. But now he seems to be saying it's because of him that the road was built. The people in our village also worked so hard for it but in the end it will be under his credit. I'm pretty sure most of us are dissatisfied."
Although Feng Dakang is lazy, he is not stupid. He just stared at him and said, "What's the use of you being unsatisfied? If you want the credit then you can become the village head. And have you ever gone to elementary school? Can you convince the people in our village to build a road? I think Accountant Zhang is right. Once the road is repaired, It doesn't matter who will get a credit. Everyone in the village will benefit from it."
"Yo, Feng Dakang, are you a changed man? I remember you were the laziest person when we were building the roads. Every day you will have a headache or a pain in your feet? Aren't you embarrassed to talk now?" Feng Dafu put his hand on Dakang's forehead to check if he had a fever. His hands were thrown away by Feng Dakang.
Feng Dakang squinted at him, rolled his eyes to the sky and said, "Let's not talk about it second brother. I'm lazy and you're not much better. You're the one who's tired all day long. I at least still help building it. I admit that I'm lazy, how about you? Are you better than me?"
"Hehehe..." Feng Dafu stretched out his hand and embraced his brother's shoulder, putting on a good-looking brother and saying, "With anyone I knew in our village, I will only tell this to you Feng Dakang. If you can't see that the village chief is taking credit for this, then why do you think those cadres are so active building the road? Believe it or not there is some motive behind it."
Feng Dakang was stunned for a moment by him, and he intuitively told him that there must be some secret inside, and he said impatiently: "Then tell me, what do you think is going on?"
"Didn't you hear what Accountant Zhang said just now? They want to go out to sell fresh seafood. I think there are some tricks going on there. Think about it, who will sell the goods and how much will it cost? What about the lip service? Who knows if they are greedy for our money and get more for themselves? That's why I said that people in the village are stupid, don't count the money when they are sold." Feng Dafu's eyes flashed. A trace of mockery will be seen in his eyes. I don't know if he was looking at Feng Dakang in front of him or at the people in the village.
Today is the Lantern Festival. After today, the year will be over. The little dolls seized this last chance and ran out of their homes at night with lanterns in hand, forming teams to wander around the village.
The seven dolls of the Feng family also formed a team. Mengmeng was unsteady walking and was still sitting in the small wooden car. There was a small red lantern hanging on the bracket in front of the car. It was shaken by her little hand. When they pushed her past the old Zhang's house, Brother Rui saw it in the door, grabbed the lantern in his mother's hand and ran out, jumped in front of Mengmeng and said, "Sister, where are you going?"
Mengmeng didn't want to pay any attention to him. Last time on the beach, this person didn't let her go to the sea and even brought her back to the car. She still remembers that this is a bad person.
Brother Rui waited for a long time and didn't hear a response, not to mention how disappointed he was in his heart. When the candlelight lit his face you will see his slightly curled bangs and dark eyes seemed particularly aggrieved.
Dawa's heart softened when he saw it. He thought he was the eldest brother, so he comforted him and said, "Brother Rui, we are going to put lanterns in the sea in front of the Mazu Temple. Come with us."
Brother Rui was only sad for a while and then immediately eased up. He nodded and said with a particularly flamboyant smile: "I know a good place there, and I will take you there."
Brother Rui joined the small team and walked beside Mengmeng's left hand. Although Mengmeng ignored him, he could see Mengmeng's white and tender chubby face while holding the lantern. It's beautiful, it's prettier than any doll in the village. He has never seen such a good-looking child when growing up. This person is still his sister. When he thinks of this, he suddenly smiles happily, and takes out a bunch of grinds from his pocket. It is a bright little shell necklace, "Sister, this is the necklace brother made for you. The pearl I gave you last time is missing. You should wear this first, and I will replace it when I find a new pearl."
Mengmeng didn't want to talk to him at first, but he was dangling the shell necklace in front of her. The small shells on it were shining brightly in the candlelight and rattled. The ground moved with the necklace, and her clear eyebrows blinked playfully, glittering with moving brilliance, but she didn't say she wanted to.
Brother Rui teased her for a while, and when she puffed up her cheeks and was about to pout, he quickly put this necklace on Mengmeng, which finally made Mengmeng smile happily.
The brothers surrounded Mengmeng and walked to the front of the Mazu Temple. There were already many little dolls setting lanterns on the beach. Brother Rui took everyone around the group of little dolls and came to a small crescent-shaped beach. The shape of the beach is like a sickle. The sea water is relieved and slowed down when it arrives here. The surface of the water is shallow and calm. The dolls can see the fine white sand under the lanterns.
Dawa observed it for a while, and said very knowledgeable, "This place is good. If we let the lantern out, it will definitely float far away. Grandpa Sea God will bless us not to get sick."
The Dawa told everyone to unload the lanterns. These lanterns were made by their grandfather. They were all in the shape of lotus flowers. Only the lantern in Brother Rui's hand was in the shape of a boat.
"Is everyone ready? I'll call one, two, three, and let's float it together." Dawa held two lanterns in his hand, one of which belonged to his sister. He carefully protected the candles inside and came to the beach, shouting in his mouth. After saying "one, two, three", he put the two lanterns on the sea, pushing them with his little hands and slowly drifting forward.
The lantern drifted further, and the candle inside was not extinguished for a long time, just like the happy smiling faces of the dolls.