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Chapter 60 Busy Before Qingming Festival

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"Around Qingming Festival, plant melons and beans", "There is no better than Qingming Festival to plant trees and forests." As Qingming Festival arrives, the temperature rises and spring flowers bloom, which is a great time for spring plowing and planting. Tomorrow is Qingming Festival, and now every household is busy preparing what they need to use on Qingming Festival.

Grandma and Aunt San were preparing green dumplings and rock sugar glutinous rice lotus root. Green dumplings are also called moxa glutinous rice dumplings, which are made of grass-tow juice. They are made of green wormwood juice and glutinous rice flour, and wrap them in bean paste fillings, sesame stuffing and other fillings, making green dumplings the size of a child’s fist. This green dumpling is the favorite thing that Li Jiahao and Jiahui have. The green dumplings are green and green, glutinous and soft, sweet and delicate, fragrant and refreshing, and have the smell of spring from color to taste. Grandma of Green dumplings made mugwort juice, and also made of malantou and spinach. The taste is really fragrant. Jiahui can eat several of them at a time. After making green dumplings, they will make rock sugar glutinous rice lotus root.

Rock sugar glutinous rice sugar lotus root is made of lotus root, glutinous rice, wolfberry, red dates, rock sugar and roses. It tastes soft but not sticky, and is sweet and fresh.

All these foods are kept for tomorrow, because Qingming Festival is also called the Cold Food Festival, and it cannot be fired.

After making these, Aunt San brought some paper. The paper was made of ingots and kept for tomorrow. Grandpa and Uncle San also used paper to paste the TV and the small house, saying that it would be burned for Li Jiahao's parents tomorrow. Li Jiahao's parents unfortunately passed away after trays when Li Jiahao was young. Li Jiahao's father liked watching TV the most in his life. Li Jiahao's family had a black and white TV. Grandpa and Uncle San were afraid that Li Jiahao's father would have no place to live in the underworld and his soul would be floating in the place, so people in the world used paper to burn the house to the dead.

Grandma also prepared some incense, candles, "labels", "broches", firecrackers, and dark banknotes. This "label" is a kind of paper flower, which is a connected copper coin-shaped paper cut from paper of various colors. It is said that it is a flag in the underworld, and a flag corresponds to the identity of an ancestor. There is also "broches". The so-called "broches" also means a packet sent by filial piety from the Yang world to the "humb". The so-called "broches" means a large bag of white paper. The bag is filled with money prepared for the ancestors, and the name of the underworld is written on it. The Ming banknotes are imitated after foreign money tickets are found in the world. They write the words "Paradise Bank", "Bank of the Underworld", "Bank of the Underworld" and other words, and have the patterns of the capital. Most of them are huge tickets. I hope that people in the underworld can also have money to live a good life.

Grandpa took out his own peach blossom wine and fruit wine, and Aunt San prepared a whole chicken, a large piece of pork and other tributes.

The girl Jiahui broke many willow branches, and later weaved a circle with her third aunt and grandma, and would wear it on her head tomorrow. Willow trees were inserted at the front door of the room. It is said that Liu Yong often traveled in the flower streets and willows. At that time, all the singers loved their talents and were proud of being favored by Liu Yong. However, because of their bad life, Liu Yong was unwilling to be tolerated by his career. Although he passed the Jinshi, he died in poverty in Xiangyang. The cost of his tombs was all admired by his singers. Every Qingming Festival, the singers would plant willow branches in front of his grave to commemorate it. Over time, it became the custom of planting willows on Qingming Festival. Later, it was to get rid of the harm of poisonous insects. Qingming Festival is also the Ghost Festival, and it is also the time when a hundred ghosts appear. The planting willows is also to expel ghosts. "Liu" and "Liu" are homophonic to express the meaning of retention.

Grandpa made a very beautiful butterfly kite for the girl Jiahui, which is also kept for tomorrow. Flying kites is also a custom of the Qingming Festival in Litang Village. The villagers of Litang Village not only flew during the day, but also at night. At night, under the kites or on the wind-steady string, hanging strings of colorful lanterns, like twinkling stars, and are called "magic lamps". Some people cut off the strings after they flew the kites into the blue sky and let the breeze send them to the ends of the earth. It is said that this can eliminate diseases and disasters and bring good luck to themselves.

Uncle San tied a rope on the trees in the yard and made a swing. The girl Jiahui and a group of children picked a lot of wild flowers and tied them to the swing rope, and tied some ribbons, which looked very beautiful. Swinging is also a custom in Qingming Festival in Litang Village. Swinging means moving with a leather rope. Its history is very ancient. It was first called Qianqiu, but later it was changed to a swing to avoid taboos. Swinging can not only improve health, but also cultivate a courageous spirit. It is the favorite of Jiahui and a group of children.

After everything was correct, Jiahui and her children started swinging. No matter what festival it was, the children were the happiest, because they could play on holidays and not do their homework, and they could also eat a lot of delicious food.

At this time, Xiao Diandian and Xiao Tornado ran over, circling around Li Jiahao's feet, chasing him. The girl Jiahui held Xiao Diandian and sat on the swing. The big hair behind him pushed Jiahui and swung the swing. Xiao Diandian screamed in Jiahui's arms. The girl Jiahui seemed to have no reaction, and she was getting taller and taller. When Li Jiahao saw it, he hurriedly said, "Jiahui, do you look like a girl, you're crazy."

Jiahui stared at Li Jiahao, pouted, and said, "Brother, look at Xiaodiandian is afraid of swinging."

The children took turns to swing, and laughter came far away. Aunt San and grandma said the children several times, but it was useless. The children still did their own thing, and there was no way to deal with adults.

The big haired child was the most naughty. When he saw the giant lizard running over, he quickly smiled and said, "Can we carry the big lizard to the swing and let the lizard swing on the swing?"

After the decision was unanimously recognized by the children, several children actually wanted to move the giant lizard to the swing. The giant lizard shook its body and crawled over. Seeing a group of children playing with big tongues. Seeing a group of children walking towards him, they quickly turned around and wanted to run away. Big Hair took the child to block the giant lizard with a quick arrow. Big Hair said with a smile: "Big Lizard, don't run away. We will carry you to swing on the swing. It's very fun."

The giant lizard was not grateful at all, and she stuck out her tongue and protested. However, the girl Jiahui said from behind: "Big Mao, let's go up and hold it together and carry it together."

After hearing Jiahui's shouting, a group of naughty children rushed up to force the giant lizard to the swing. The giant lizard was sticking out its big tongue and shaking its tail. Perhaps the giant lizard knew that the children were playing with it, so they did not attack the children, so they turned around and ran away. The children still chased and shouted without tact. The children's screams seemed to have a loud noise to the giant lizard. The giant lizard became a little angry and immediately bulged its neck to make its body thicker. It made a hissing sound, and its mouth was still spitting out a big tongue. The body was backward, and it was a fighting posture, and its sharp claws kept grabbing the soil on the ground. When the children saw the giant lizard like this, the younger child was a little scared and retreated timidly. The brave child said with a smile: "It's okay, this is a big lizard raised by Uncle Jiahao, and it won't bite us."

"Yes, this is my lizard, my brother's, I won't hurt you." The girl Jiahui said.

Seeing that the children had no intention of leaving, the giant lizard quickly squirted the fish they had just eaten. When the children saw the giant lizard spraying out the food they had eaten, they quickly smiled and said, "Look, the big lizard is still vomiting us."

Damao took the children to catch the giant lizard in one step. Li Jiahao saw it at this time and shouted: "You naughty kids, what are you doing? Why are you catching the giant lizard? Be careful that it will eat you."

The children were intimidated by Li Jiahao and stopped quickly and stood there. Li Jiahao stared with his big eyes and said, "You kids really don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick. This lizard is very powerful. It can bite horses to death and cows to death, and can't deal with you little kids. It's so bold." Li Jiahao was also shocked. These children are so bold that they dare to fight giant lizards. It really makes them feel that they have a long life.

When the giant lizard saw its owner Li Jiahao coming, he quickly climbed to Li Jiahao's feet, looked at Li Jiahao with his big tongue, and looked at the children again. Li Jiahao comforted and touched the head of the giant lizard and said, "Okay, it's okay, they are playing with you and will not hurt you."

The giant lizard seemed to be able to understand it, rubbed Li Jiahao's legs with his head, stuck out his tongue, and looked at Li Jiahao affectionately. Li Jiahao glared at the children again and said unhappily: "Go and play, don't mess with the giant lizard easily in the future, be careful that it bites you. The giant lizard, let's go and take you to eat fish." As he said that, he led the giant lizard to the pond.
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