In the valley, bamboo shoots sprouted up one after another after the rain. In a few days, they grew from a few inches above the ground to half a person's height. In the bamboo forest, under the dead bamboo, a white mushroom grew, shaped like an egg.
Wang Xiaozhu observed carefully that when the top of the fungus bud is raised like a peach, it usually cracks from the raised part in the morning on a sunny day, revealing the cap first, and the stipe extends one after another. At noon, the stipe stops extending when it reaches a certain height.
Long, the fungus skirt gradually unfolds downward from the inside of the cover. It is said that it is seamless. The grid-like ice crack pattern and white color formed by this mushroom skirt are more beautiful than the skirts of the ladies at the Lin'an banquet. This mushroom is edible.
? I just picked some and dried them in the sun, and asked Chen Renyu when he arrived next time.
Finally, at the end of April, he went into the valley again. Wang Xiaozhu took a closer look and found that in just two months, he had grown a lot taller like bamboo shoots in spring.
"Uncle and aunt got a Ten Thousand People Umbrella during the Dual Song Festival on March 3rd." As soon as they met, Chen Renyu shouted to her: "The master of the Yamen drew a picture. The two of them stood on the Zhuangmin Umbrella.
In the meantime, he has become very powerful."
The so-called Wanmin Umbrella refers to a local official who is so popular with the people that when he leaves office, the people sign the umbrella and give it to him as a souvenir. Under special circumstances, current officials with excellent political performance also receive it.
A special case of Wanmin Umbrella.
He only took office for half a year, so he got the Wanmin Umbrella too quickly. Wang Xiaozhu listened quietly to him telling their story. Chen Renyu said: "When I took office, my uncle brought a large amount of soybeans and lotus seeds as seeds.
After Qinzhou, they planted extensively in the back garden of the county government. Soybeans were planted on the ground and lotus seeds were planted in the pond. After half a year, the soybeans began to be harvested and the lotus seeds also survived. The two of them took the opportunity of reviewing the case to ask for help.
The villagers visited Houya to see the soybeans and lotus seeds he planted, and they were invited to taste them for free. Qinzhou is mountainous and watery, with torrential rains and flash floods during the rainy season, and bare land for thousands of miles during the dry season. Although rice is harvested three times a year, it is often subject to floods.
Due to the disaster, the harvest is not stable. With soybeans, lotus seeds and lotus roots, the ponds in the mountains and low-lying areas can be used. Although the lotus roots have not been harvested yet, the soybeans have a short production period. The knowledgeable village elders
Planting was carried out from the beginning, and the first person to plant harvested. Seeing this, other villagers began to ask for seeds for planting.
At the antiphonal song festival, some young men and women made a song about their uncle and aunt teaching the villagers to dig wells, and performed a duet on the spot. In order to promote the planting of soybeans and lotus roots and benefit the people, the uncle and aunt also participated in the antiphonal song, and compared planting beans with
The benefits of growing lotus root were compiled into a song to promote to everyone. It was already a strange thing for Zhizhou to participate in the antiphonal song, and with the free seeds given to everyone, the crowd was excited, and they all praised the uncle as a good official. I don’t know who initiated it, and the villagers responded one after another,
On the day when the song festival ended, the people gave him the Ten Thousand People Umbrella."
Wang Xiaozhu asked strangely: "My brother-in-law is a talented Zhuang Yuan, but he is a Wu Zhuang Yuan. What kind of song can he compose?"
He replied: "My uncle is an all-rounder in both civil and military affairs. He sings a catchy Three-Character Sutra. The lyrics are: The yellow earth is the lifeblood. He raised me and nurtured you. There are disasters and floods in the sky. There are troubles on the earth.
It's a red land. The sky is unpredictable and disasters can be prevented. Looking back on the past, I feel sad. I don't have enough to eat and don't have enough clothes to wear. What should I do, my people? Build ditches and level terraces. Open up dry land and plant bean sprouts. Find ponds and raise lotus roots.
If there is a disaster every year, rely on yourself. Work diligently to make up for your shortcomings, and you will have enough food and clothing."
After he finished speaking, he started singing again. Because he was just in the stage of changing his voice, his voice was neither a child's voice nor an adult voice, which seemed extremely weird. Halfway through the song, he stopped and said, "I can't sing like my uncle or aunt."
Okay, I made my sister laugh. The letter also said, sister, the lanterns you gave them made a big splash at the song festival."
It was a song festival but not a lantern festival. Wang Xiaozhu was a little puzzled and asked: "It is silent on the fifteenth day of the Yuanxiao period, but it shines brightly on the third day of March?"
"Yes, the singing festival is very popular. At night, when the lights are turned on in other sheds, there are a lot of mosquitoes, but there is not a single one in the shed of my uncle and aunt. After the singers discovered this phenomenon, they noticed that the lights and
It was different from other sheds. So, many people came over to ask how this lamp was made." He bent his head and said, "Auntie suddenly became the center of attention among all the women."
Wang Xiaozhu knew that this was the function of the Hehe lamp that he and his sister made together. After hanging it out, the mosquitoes fled away. The method of making this lamp is more complicated. It is made of a total of 72 pieces pasted together to form a lotus shape. The paper is divided into seven layers.
The inner six layers are yellow paper, and the outermost layer is gauze-like white paper. When the light is turned off, it appears white, but when it is turned on, it turns yellow. It is said that one lamp can extinguish a thousand years of darkness, and one intelligence can eliminate ten thousand years of stupidity.
Sister's belief was over. Wang Xiaozhu took out the mushrooms dug out of the bamboo forest from the bag and asked: "I dug some mushrooms a few days ago. I wonder if these mushrooms are poisonous?"
When Chen Renyu saw it, he let out a cry from his mouth.
Wang Xiaozhu was worried and asked: "Why, is it so surprising to say that this mushroom is highly poisonous?"
"Where did you find this mushroom? This is the legendary bamboo fungus. It is divided into long-skirt bamboo fungus, short-skirt bamboo fungus, etc. What you picked is the best of the bamboo fungus - long-skirt bamboo fungus. I only picked it several times.
I picked one up years ago." He picked it up excitedly and said, "Look, its skirt is more than half as long as its body. Does its fluttering shape look like a fairy flying and dancing in the clouds?"
She took a closer look and said: "I think it looks more like the Ten Thousand People Umbrella. What's on the side is not a skirt, but a strip of cloth signed by the people."
He smiled and then said: "It's a bit like it. Dictyophora is rich in nutrients, rich in fragrance and delicious. It has been listed as one of the "Eight Treasures of Grass" since ancient times. It can nourish qi and nourish yin, moisten the lungs and relieve coughs, clear away heat and remove dampness.
Its effect is not only a delicious food, but also a good medicine."
Today's visit was over. Jin Huabin took the notes in his hand and asked Stationmaster Gan: "Can you be honored to let me read the county annals to see if there are any historical records such as the songs written by Chen Zhengda?"
"Yes, yes. Not only the Zhuang people, but other local ethnic minorities are also good at singing and dancing. However, there is no electronic version, so you need some effort to check it." Director Gan said as he took the two to the
A farmhouse in Qinzhou said to them: "Today, we will try our Zhuang people first, and tomorrow we will try the Miao people."
After a while, the rice was served. They were all made with rice and glutinous rice as the main ingredients, including eight-treasure rice, eight-treasure porridge, bamboo tube rice, pumpkin rice, colorful glutinous rice, etc.
Seeing the expressions of Jin Huabin and his wife, Stationmaster Gan smiled and said: "Eating is a national characteristic. The Zhuang people are the first to grow rice among the Chinese nation, so they have developed the habit of eating mainly rice. There are also aquatic products, such as
"Fish, clams, snails, and mussels are all delicacies, and fungi, cicadas, snakes, birds, and beasts from the mountains and forests are also their daily delicacies."
Seeing Zhuang delicacies, Jin Huabin and his wife thought of Chen Renyu's bacterial genealogy again. I wonder what wonderful story he has with Wang Xiaozhu?