In the fields at the foot of Niuxin Mountain, half-green wheat swayed with the breeze. The wheat was growing well, the ears were in full bloom, and the grains were full. It looked like there would be a bumper harvest in the near future.
A group of children squatted nervously and excitedly at the edge of the field, folding green wheat with their hands. The little girl in the lead, with white hair and pink pupils, stood out among the group of children.
However, it seems that the other children have long been accustomed to her appearance and do not treat her differently. Moreover, because she looks older, they treat her as a child.
"Everyone, hurry up!" Bai Lingmiao squatted on the ground and stretched out his hand to pull the green wheat in the field.
These children looked very nervous and looked towards Liang Qu from time to time, as if they were wary of something.
Under the leadership of Bai Lingmiao, the children moved very quickly, and after a while everyone had at least one handful.
At this moment, an old man carrying a hoe in the distance ran towards us while shouting. "Oh~!"
"Everyone, run! The third uncle is coming!" As she gave the order, all the children immediately dispersed.
Because of the early warning, all the children escaped without being caught and regrouped at the foot of Niuxin Mountain.
Looking at the two trophies in his hands, Bai Lingmiao, whose face was flushed with heat, showed his missing tooth and laughed along with other relatives and children.
"Sister, fire." A little carrot head next to him stood up on tiptoes and stretched out the fire sickle he brought from home in front of Bai Lingmiao.
When the other children saw this, they spontaneously went around looking for dead leaves and branches without being told.
After a while, wisps of green smoke appeared at the foot of Niuxin Mountain. The smoke was caused by the roasting of green wheat ears. All the children gathered around the fire, swallowing their saliva and waiting for something.
After all the children's trophies were roasted over a small fire for a while, the rich aroma of wheat began to fill the air, attracting them to inhale fiercely.
When the wheat awns were scorched and the wheat ears turned black, the experienced Bai Lingmiao knew it was time to turn off the heat.
She stretched out her young hands, pulled out three or five wheat ears, put them in her palms, closed her palms and rubbed them vigorously three or five times, and the wheat kernels and wheat husks were separated.
Then she puffed up her cheeks and blew a few times into her palms. After the wheat chaff blew away, only the green and black wheat grains were left.
She put these roasted green wheat kernels into a pile in the palm of her hand, clasped them in her mouth, and chewed them a few more times. The fragrant wheat flavor and sweet juice suddenly filled her mouth. It was fragrant, so fragrant, fragrant and delicious.
Such delicious food is a very rare snack for children in remote areas. Moreover, this kind of roasted green wheat can only be roasted for a short period of time a year. When the wheat is ripe, there is no need to eat it.
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Therefore, all the children ate very carefully, squatting or standing to enjoy this rare meal.
When all the roasted green wheat was finished, everyone's hands and mouths were stained black by the burnt wheat ears, and everyone pointed at each other's faces and laughed.
But after laughing, everyone felt a little unfinished.
"Hey, it's just that the three goodbyes came too fast and there wasn't enough to eat. I just had a taste."
"That's right, go pick my family's. My parents are visiting relatives, and there is no one in my field."
"Your field is not good. Your field is next to my field. There is no one in your field, but there is someone in my field."
"Green wheat is so delicious. I really don't understand why adults insist on letting the wheat turn yellow before cutting it."
"Stop arguing." Bai Lingmiao waved his hand, "Let's go! Let's go see if the dates at my second uncle's house are ripe! There is no one at home at this time."
After urinating and extinguishing the fire, a group of children, led by Bai Lingmiao, rushed towards the village noisily.
Although the dates at the second uncle's house were not ripe in the end, it did not stop them from chasing chickens and dogs around the village. Children of this age happened to be full of energy and people were disgusted with ghosts, causing the adults to shout and scold them.
But for children, this happens to be the time when they are the happiest and carefree. The whole world is full of fun in their eyes, and every day is happy.
But it won't work when they get older. When they get older, the boys will have to work in the fields and the girls will get married.
Just when this group of people were planning to go to the village pond to kill Mengzi, the salesman's cries attracted them all.
Under the tree at the head of the village, the various novel gadgets on the peddler's high-shouldered grocery load attracted the attention of all the children.
The salesman with the dog skin plaster on his chin fanned himself with a straw hat and said to the children: "Baby, go and call your adults, needles and thread, wooden combs and ink grates, finger scissors, fruit sesame candy.
Ah, I have all of these."
"Maybe your wife is so happy with her shopping that she can buy you some candies."
When it came to sweets, all the children's eyes lit up one after another, and they immediately dispersed and went to the village to look for someone.
The salesman looked at Bai Lingmiao, who was holding his younger brother in front of him, and couldn't help but feel very strange. Why did this girl look like this? However, as a man who has seen the world, he was not surprised.
He cares more about whether he can make more money from his business than what other people look like.
After taking a look at the silver chain around Bai Lingmiao's brother's neck, he knew that there was a longevity lock attached to it. Then he looked at the condition of his clothes, and he suddenly felt confident.
"Bai Wa, your family is rich, right? Your parents didn't give you any coins to buy something to eat?"
Bai Lingmiao looked away from a flowered copper hairpin on the burden, "No, you can't buy anything with money in the village."
The salesman immediately slapped his forehead with regret, forgetting that this poor place was no longer the county seat, and he couldn't spend any money. This girl definitely didn't have a penny on her body.
"Then what are you doing? Hurry and call your adults and ask them to buy you some candies."
"My elders are away on business, and my brother and I are staying at my aunt's house."
"Hey, it's all in vain." The salesman was too lazy to pay attention to the white girl. He sat under the root of the tree and picked up his gourd kettle and drank.
Bai Lingmiao looked like she wanted the hairpin very much, but she didn't do anything. She just stood there and watched, as if she was enjoying watching more.
Not long after, the village began to become lively. The children spread the news about the arrival of the salesman throughout Niuxin Village. Many people were beaten because of their dark faces, but they were a little happy.
He didn't even care, and kept begging the adults at home to buy him candy.
The people who came were all mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law. At this time, most of the men went to work in the fields. Everyone surrounded the salesman and asked questions non-stop.
Many children pestered their mothers, begging them to buy sweets, but except for a few doting ones who succeeded, they basically got a big slap in the face.
"Still eating sweets! You idiot! Where did you get the black ash on your face just now!"
However, the baby with the candy did not eat alone. He spit out the candy in his mouth and handed it to the crying mouth. The small candy was passed around in different mouths and finally reached Bai Lingmiao's mouth.
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Looking at the little brown jelly bean that was about to disappear, Bai Lingmiao licked her lips. She took it and hesitated for a while, but finally resisted the temptation and stuffed the jelly bean into her brother's mouth.
"Is it delicious?" Bai Lingmiao asked, touching his little head.
"Yeah, it's delicious." Seeing his brother nodding vigorously, Bai Lingmiao smiled happily.
When the women dispersed, it was obvious that the seller's shelves were quite empty. He secretly thought that his judgment was indeed correct. The more remote the village, the fewer other sellers came there, and the more profit he made.
After cushioning his money bag, which had become a lot heavier, the pleased salesman once again sat on the root of a tree to rest, planning to rest for a while before walking to the next village in one breath.
"Uncle, have you been to many places?" Bai Lingmiao came closer and asked.
"That's not true. I've traveled all over the world over the years and been to everywhere." The salesman, who was in a good mood, answered the other party's question.
"What's it like outside? Is it very different from Baijiacun?" Bai Lingmiao's eyes were full of longing, and she was curious about the outside world.
Not only was she curious, but all the children in the village were curious. When they heard this question, all the children couldn't help but gathered around.
"But, do you know what is in the far west? That is the sea. Have you ever seen the sea? I have seen it. I remember back then, when I was begging for food on Hedong Road, I saw someone fishing a fish as high as two people from the sea.
Where’s the fish?”
Seeing those shocked eyes and listening to those exclamations, the corner of the salesman's mouth couldn't help but turn up, feeling a little arrogant.
"Forget it, I am happy today, so I will give you little kids a good talk, so that you people in this small place can also learn a lot."
Soon, from the mouth of the salesman, the children of Baijia Village had new concepts about other things for the first time, such as what a shop is, what a pawnshop is, and what a teahouse is.
As the salesman talked more and more enthusiastically, and listened to more and more exclamations around him, he simply imitated the storyteller in the teahouse and started talking.
However, he didn't remember some parts very clearly, so he just made random nonsense. Anyway, they were just babies, so I'm sorry they couldn't understand.
"It is said that in ancient times, there was chaos in the world, and the people and gods were mixed together! No, it's not right~, the gods follow the rules of the people, and don't do what they want. This means that in the past, the gods in the sky lived with us.
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"As a result, someone saw that this was not possible, and that person was Zhuan Xu."
"Speaking of Zhuanxu, he was very tall. He was nine feet tall when he was born. He could eat a cow in one meal and drink up a stream in one sip of water."
"I heard that Zhuanxu's father is a god. I don't know if he is, but he is so powerful. You can tell at a glance that he is not an ordinary person!"
The children in Niuxin Village were fascinated by what they heard. On the small road in the distance, several carriages were driving towards this direction, but no one noticed.
"When disasters are recommended, don't use up all your energy. Zhuanxu accepted it, which means that if Zhuanxu is so awesome, he must have great abilities, so he became the king of men and the emperor of men."
"When you become an emperor, you must have something to do. He looked at the gods living with people and felt uncomfortable. Hey, how can this be done? How can people and gods live together? So he took Bai Zhong and Yu Li with him.
General, I have gone to discuss matters with the gods."
"Hey~! Guess what the result is?" At this point, the salesman was very proud of his success.
"What's going on?" Bai Lingmiao and others couldn't help but be intrigued.
"It turned out that the gods were not happy, hey~! How could you say that he could be so convinced by Zhuanxu's violent temper? He could bear it, but I couldn't, so we fought with the god on the spot. Oh, that scene, tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk
, grab the hair and slap it, bang bang bang! That makes a loud noise."
Just when he was listening intently, Bai Lingmiao felt someone on the side tugging at his sleeve.
She turned around and saw that it was her uncle who was one year younger than her. "How come the fight between these gods is like the fight between my aunt and my second aunt?"
Hearing this, the other children's eyes also showed a trace of doubt. Although they were young, they were not stupid, and they felt that something was wrong.
"Ahem~ What's going on? You don't want to hear it, right? You don't want to hear it. I'm leaving." The salesman pretended to get up, but was quickly stopped by the children. "Listen, you go on."
Seeing everyone's attention drawn to him again, the salesman coughed slightly, "What did I just talk about? Oh yes, it was about Zhuan Xu winning the battle, scratching the immortal's face, and touching the immortal's chicken.
, and also robbed the gods of their copper coins."
"As a result, this god is still not convinced and brings others to trouble him. How can my ancestor Zhuanxu endure this? He spat twice into the palm of his hand, stamped his feet and started doing it."
"This emperor knows how to do it again? He didn't know it just now, when did he learn it?" Bai Lingmiao asked curiously.
"Go, go, don't interrupt, I'll do what I say."
The salesman learned to stamp his feet and muttered something randomly, and then he suddenly raised his hands to the sky, and all the children also looked at the blue sky above their heads.
"I just heard Zhuanxu yelling "Mima Mima" to coax the earth to heaven! Oh, that scene was so huffing and puffing, oh, that guy, he's going down, he's going down~ You guys weren't there, it was so exciting."
When they heard the salesman fluttering and spitting, all the children couldn't help but anxiously asked what was going on. The salesman's mouth was full of onomatopoeia, and they couldn't picture the scene.
At this moment, Bai Lingmiao turned his head and his eyes lit up. He saw his grandfather, his parents and several uncles leading a carriage into the shade of the big tree.
"Master!" Bai Lingmiao bent down, picked up his brother and ran towards that side.
Bai Hangshu picked up his grandchildren, pricked his beard a few times with a smile, but his face suddenly changed, and he rushed towards the salesman with his sons.
"What were you talking about just now!" Following Bai Hangshu's unkind tone, the sons behind him geared up and looked like they were going to beat up the salesman.
"I'm not talking about anything. I'm just telling them about ancient times." The salesman took half a step back timidly.
"Shit! What kind of ancient are you talking about? Do you know how to talk about ancient times? You just talk about ancient times? What you talk about is wrong! You are misleading people!!" Bai Hangshu kicked the salesman's burden directly.
"Hey, hey, it's wrong. You keep saying it's wrong, so it means it's wrong."
The salesman shrank his neck and didn't dare to tell any nonsense. This old man had given birth to so many sons, so he couldn't afford to offend him.
Seeing that the Bai family was about to surround the salesman and beat him up, Bai Lingmiao gently grabbed his grandfather's beard and said, "Master, don't beat him, okay? If you beat him, the salesman will never come to our village again."
Bai Hangshu loved his eldest granddaughter the most. How could he disagree? He immediately smiled kindly and touched Bai Lingmiao's head, "Hey, just like my little girl, why do you have such a black mouth and eat roasted green wheat?"
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The salesman who had escaped a beating was just talking nonsense and immediately started to leave with his load on his shoulders.
"Wait a minute!" Bai Hangshu's voice frightened the salesman, who trembled. With a smile uglier than crying, he turned around and looked behind him, "Master, do you have anything else to do?"
Bai Hangshu walked over with a straight face, picked up a handful of sesame candy from the burden and stuffed it into the arms of his granddaughter and grandson. "How much does it cost?"
Looking at the Bai family who were staring at him eagerly, the salesman tentatively said with some hesitation: "No money?"
"No money? Bah! Do you think we are kidnappers? Stop talking nonsense, how much money do you need!"
Seeing that Bai Hangshu was really planning to buy rather than rob, the salesman suddenly put a smile on his face again, and secretly quoted an extra copper plate when he quoted the price.
"Master, is this your granddaughter? She has been staring at this copper hairpin just now, but she likes it. It is not expensive, only 40 copper coins." The salesman picked up the copper hairpin and started selling it.
Bai Hangshu looked at it hesitantly, and finally stretched out his hand to pull it over and put it on Bai Lingmiao's head, "Nanny, you are so old, it's time to dress up. Let your mother tie up your hair tomorrow. Don't follow me every day.
He's running around in the woods and fields like a wild lunatic."
Bai Lingmiao's mother came over and touched her daughter with a smile, "Her father, it's okay. All girls are like this. When they grow up, they will become quieter."
Bai Lingmiao, who had sesame candy stuffed in his mouth, didn't say anything. He reached out and touched his head. The copper flower on the hairpin was very happy.
The group of people who had traveled far away came back unscathed. It was as if some great happy event had happened to Baijia Village. They had a banquet in the Baijia courtyard that day. A pig that was not allowed to be killed during the New Year was actually killed today.
And not only did they kill a pig, but they also killed a sheep and a cow.
He killed three beasts in a row. The meat that is rarely eaten on weekdays must be enough for today.
Fragrant beef with soy sauce, sizzling pork belly with pickled vegetables, and large pieces of elbow were brought to the table on a plate.
There were so many delicious foods, and the children in Baijiacun suddenly became happy. They lay on the children's table and ate like pigs.
The free-range dogs and chickens in the village burrowed in and out under the table, eating delicious leftovers and spending a good year together.
After drinking and eating, Bai Hangshu, who was sitting in the main seat, picked up his wine glass and said something with some excitement, but Bai Lingmiao couldn't understand.
At this moment, her attention was entirely focused on the few sesame candy in her arms. When she thought that if she could eat one piece a day, she would still be able to eat it for eight days, she was as sweet as honey.
"No, we have to share it with others. If we don't share good things, how can I be the boss?" Just when Bai Lingmiao was still thinking about the distribution of sesame candy, a voice sounded next to him.
"Sister, do you still have some candy? I've finished eating."
Seeing his brother standing next to him sucking his fingers, Bai Lingmiao nodded and opened his clothes to get the candy.
But when she saw the sesame candy inside that had been turned into a puddle by her body temperature, she couldn't help but shed tears from her eyes.
"Aiya, aiya, who is bullying our little girl?" Bai Hangshu, who had a red nose, came over with a wine glass, hugged Bai Lingmiao and kissed her hard.
"Grandpa, the sugar has melted." Bai Lingmiao said aggrievedly with her lips pursed.
"Hahahaha, what should I do? It's okay, you can eat it even if it melts." Bai Hangshu stretched out his fingers, wrapped some softened sesame candy around it, and stuffed it into Bai Lingmiao's mouth.
Bai Lingmiao followed suit by wrapping softened sesame candy around his fingers and stuffing it into his brother's mouth.
"Nanny, don't believe what that salesman said, it's all lies."
Hearing this, Bai Lingmiao immediately looked at his grandfather with wide eyes, "Grandpa, what is true?"
"Hahaha, do you want to hear grandpa tell a story? OK! Call all the dolls over."
When all the children in the village arrived, Bai Hangshu began to talk. All kinds of strange and weird things came out of his mouth, which made the children extremely surprised.
Bai Lingmiao sat on his grandfather's lap and looked at him with admiration. His grandfather was so amazing. He could tell something different every time.
Leaning in the arms of her favorite relatives, listening to the novel ghost stories in her ears, eating sweet sesame candy in her mouth, and with her parents back, Bai Lingmiao felt that this was the happiest day in her life.
Bai Lingmiao Extra: Today is Bai Lingmiao’s birthday, let us wish Miaomiao a happy birthday!
This chapter has been completed!