Poor family mother and son

Chapter 302

Fog lost the tower.

In the dense fog, Xiaobao and his group of five boats slowly left the boatyard. The lights on the prow of the boats could not shine into the water, so that the nearby boats could see them and not scratch each other.

A wooden plank is hung with ropes on the outside of each ship’s side, on which are placed five offerings: an incense burner, a pair of flower goblets and a pair of candlesticks.

This is a temporary altar set up to worship Xingshen.

"The God of Walking is also called the God of Road," Li Hu was "popularizing" the common sense of sailing for Xiaobao: "It is said that the son of the Yellow Emperor, Leizu, traveled so far and died in the Tao, so he was regarded by later generations as the God of Walking, one of the five gods of wealth. one;

The five gods of wealth include household god, kitchen god, earth god, door god, and walking god. "

Xiaobao asked: "Do you think there really are these Gods of Wealth?"

Li Hu smiled: "It's just a wish, or praying is fine. After all, we always hope that everything goes well on our trip. This altar should be put up before departure and after arrival;

Also, the common people believe in this, and they will build an altar. If we don’t, it will make people who see it feel unhappy. If you are more peaceful, you will criticize them for being unsophisticated, and if you are anxious, they will think you are disrespectful to the gods. will drag them down;
So, no matter how you look at it, going with the flow is not a bad thing. "

These words reminded Xiaobao of a joke his mother once said:
It is said that there is a place where the custom is "not to shave your head in the first month", because "uncle will die if you shave your head".

It was originally hundreds of years ago that people spontaneously grew their hair during the first month when they didn’t have to go out in order to express their yearning for the old lord and resist the rule of foreign races.

As a result, this "nostalgia" was passed around through the mouths of the people, and it became a rumor hundreds of years later, saying that "uncle shaves his head and dies".

So no matter how annoying the long hair is, I dare not shave my head during the first month, or my uncle will see it during the New Year greetings, let alone not giving the New Year's money, and I will be beaten up.

Although Xiaobao didn't understand why the people in that place didn't have long hair, he still felt that such things seemed to coerce and kidnap.

However, do as the Romans do, my mother also said "don't go against the big environment".

Li Hu continued: "There are many ways to sail a boat, and there are also many ways to walk a dart. If you don't believe me, just watch it, it will be enough for you to be fresh for a few days."

This is coaxing Xiaobao like a child, afraid that he will find the journey difficult.

The bow of the boat is very bright. There are two three-legged iron stoves there, which are "gifts" from Chu Qing. This small iron stove does not take up much space and can be moved anywhere. It is very convenient to light a fire and cook.

In one iron pot on the stove, porridge water was gurgling and steaming, and on the other stove was a frying pan with a thin layer of oil, and Gan Lai was rudely putting two eggs in each hand. Beat the egg juice in the pan.

Soon, in the frying pan, like gold ingots growing out of the snow, ten round, golden egg yolks on the white bottom were already half-cooked. Gan Lai picked up a flat spatula and turned them over. Bucket of raw eggs.

The scent is steaming with the heat, making the dense fog seem to flow.

With a "crash", the sound of sizzling fried eggs was covered by the sound of water, and a man emerged from the side of the boat, holding a basket in one hand, and wiping the water off his face with the other hand, half of his body floating on the water, It's like having roots under your feet.

Xiaobao marveled at how well this person treads water, he can stand firmly in the water, and pull the water with his legs, but his upper body doesn't shake at all.

"It's so delicious! Can you give me something to eat?" the man said.

With a shovel in one hand, Gan Lai was about to cut a large fried egg with ten yolks into several pieces.

Hearing this, he simply lifted up the whole thing, grabbed a piece of mat casually, pulled it hard enough to tear off the size of two feet square, put the fried egg on it, rolled it up, and threw it at the person.

The man laughed loudly, and raised his hand to take it. It was not for nothing. He threw the basket in his hand onto the boat and said, "It's a change!" He ate it while standing in the middle of the water.

A boatman went over to open the basket, so be good!Inside, entangled and twisted, was a basket full of eels, more than 30 catties!
It's only the end of February, so it's not easy to get so many eels!

Looking at it from the side, Xiao Bao got goosebumps all over his body, it was too numbing.But the boatman smiled so much that he closed his eyes: "At noon, I'll cook eel vermicelli for you!"

The man in the water finished the steaming fried egg in two or three bites. Gan looked at it in a daze: it was so hot, how did he swallow it?

Before Gan came to ask, the man had already sunk into the water and swam far away, leaving behind only one sentence: "If you don't eat now, tie the basket to the side of the boat, you won't die in the water, there's still more to eat! "

"The people of the water monkey." Li Hu said.

Just now the person said "There is not enough to eat and there are more", which means that there are people following the fleet at any time.

"Gan Lai, how do you know that person is from the boat gang?" Xiao Bao asked puzzled, Gan Lai gave the egg without asking who that person was.

"I don't know." Gan Lai had already brushed another layer of oil in the pot, and beat eggs in it with bows left and right.

Xiaobao pointed to the egg bucket: "Then why do you give him eggs? You are so expensive!"

"It's so pitiful to beg for food in the cold weather!" Gan Lai sucked the egg liquid on his fingers with his mouth.

Chu Yuan frowned when he saw it: "Are you disgusting? It's raw!" Then he took a rag to wipe Gan Lai's hands.

Gan Lai dodged him, and had already grabbed four more eggs and cracked them into the pot: "Pretentious! When I was in the mountains, it would be nice if I could eat eggs, not to mention bird eggs, even snake eggs were eaten raw!"

For breakfast, gruel is served with baked pancakes, fried eggs, and Nanping County's special old pickles. Everyone finds a place to sit and eat.

Southerners are much more particular about making pickles than northerners.

This kind of old pickles are made from the heads of green vegetables harvested in spring. They are peeled and tendoned, broken in two, and spread out on the stone sill of the house to dry.

After taking off some water, cut it into blocks or filaments, and wash it with spring water repeatedly to remove the residue.

Then spread it out with a bamboo sieve, take it outside to dry the moisture, and then add an appropriate amount of salt, herbs, ginger rice, garlic, spices and many other ingredients, and put it in the tank for storage.

After pickling, the cabbage head becomes bright red in color and has a rich aroma. It is both crisp and tough when chewed, and the taste is extremely delicious.

Seeing that the fog is thinning, the sky is getting brighter and brighter. The sun seems to be greedy for this hot breakfast and wants to rush to share it.

Li Hu looked at his egg with dissatisfaction, and Gan Lai scratched it blindly with a shovel, until the good yolk was smashed: "Boy Gan, next time you might as well stir the eggs until they are evenly mixed before frying."

For the convenience of traveling, Ganlai is called as a boy.

Gan Lai just ignored him, hmph, just as hypocritical as Chu Yuan.

It’s good to eat something, what else do you want?
Li Hu said again: "It is estimated that someone approached our boat and was killed by the water monkeys."

Little Treasure was also dissatisfied with his eggs, the heat was not well controlled, and the half-baked ones turned out to be runny. Hearing Li Hu's words, he didn't think about the eggs anymore, and asked, "Why didn't I notice it?"

Li Hu said: "Me neither, but someone must have approached, otherwise the Water Monkey wouldn't have shown up so early."

It seems that unlike Li Hu's analysis earlier in the morning, there is only danger when the ship is parked, and it is not optimistic when the ship is sailing.

Gan Lai didn't care about it: "Come here, there are still a lot of eggs."

She meant that it would be a big deal to fry eggs for the water monkeys, so that people don't work for nothing.

Chu Yuan didn't make a sound.

He traveled around with his master back then, and he had been to the Jiangnan area, and it was at that time that he developed his water skills.

So he knew that despite the seemingly calm waters on the river, the bottom of the river was undulating, with rapids, deep troughs, and criss-crossing. There were many aquatic plants, whirlpools, and silt.

The people from the water monkeys can solve their troubles without anyone noticing, which shows that the boat gang is also capable.

The boatman and bodyguard of Sanshun Escort Bureau interjected at this time: "I heard that the boat gang used to recruit a large group of water thieves, all of whom are very good at water. I used to think that water thieves were not too bad. I saw this one today. It's a good temper."

Another bodyguard patted him on the shoulder and said: "I heard that you were a bandit before. You are all thieves. The old raven fell on a pig. Don't laugh at anyone!"

Hee hee haha, these guys started laughing.

(End of this chapter)