porridge for two

The sun gradually slanted to the west, the car walked a few miles, and then stopped again.

A few people didn't know what was wrong, and were about to ask, when they heard the village chief say: "This car can only go here. The road below, we have to walk."

"Oh! How do you get that thing?" Ainan was mentally prepared to walk before, but they couldn't get it.

"It's okay, let the master guard here. I have already sent people from the village to help. They are busy harvesting millet, so they came late, and it should be here soon."

"Aren't we going to take some? Are they finished?" Xie Xiuping and Su Zeyu got out of the car, walked over, and asked after hearing what the village chief said.

"It's okay, more than a dozen people came. They can pick up two bags of 50 catties of rice, oil and parcels. There are enough people." The village chief estimated.

Everyone got out of the car, said a few words and was ready to go on the road.The days are getting shorter and shorter, so you have to hurry, otherwise it will be dark and the mountain road will be difficult to walk, especially for this group of students who are not used to it.

After walking for more than ten minutes, we met more than a dozen men oncoming, all holding poles and baskets in their hands.

We greeted each other and moved on.

We have already climbed three mountains, but we have not arrived yet.It was when everyone climbed the fourth mountain again, the people who carried the burden behind caught up.Soon, he was thrown farther and farther away by those who carried the burden.

Everyone finally knew why the village chief didn't use them to carry things, because they walked empty-handed and couldn't keep up with these burden-bearers.

One and two were exhausted and out of breath.Su Zeyu took pictures of everyone with his camera along the way, Xie Ping urged him not to take pictures, it was very dangerous.Su Zeyu said that he knew it well, so he walked all the way, taking pictures of everyone's embarrassing appearances.

Everyone ate some noodles at noon, and was a little hungry at this time, so they took out snacks and walked while eating.

When they were about to climb the fifth mountain, the village chief told them that this was the last mountain. Everyone was happy and finally saw hope, but looking at the high hillside, it looked like this The mountain has already entered the clouds, how can it be turned over.

Tunshang is on the high ridge, and the terrain is extremely high.But it’s not enough for them to climb up. After climbing to the top of the mountain, they have to go down to the halfway up the mountain to Tunshang Village.

When people walk more, it becomes a road.It could be called a ladder, but it is not made of stones, but soil steps dug out with a hoe.

The road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky.However, it is difficult to go up the mountain, and it is even more difficult to go down the mountain.When going down the mountain, looking down, I always feel that I will roll down at any time, my feet are trembling, and my palms are sweating.

Everyone worked hard and finally arrived at Tunshang Village at six o'clock. At this time, it was getting dark, and they walked like walking on stilts.

The information about poverty has already been connected before. When Xie Xiuping and the others arrived, some of Mi You's clothes had already been taken away, and there were still some who had no way to survive.

Seeing everyone gathered in the yard of the village chief's house, they chatted for a while before they gradually dispersed.

In the end, there were only two sets of rice oil and three sets of clothes left. The village chief said that one household belonged to the Xiaozhai group and the other belonged to the nearby Tunshang group.Send it over tomorrow.

Xiaozhai is a pair of lonely elderly people, too late and inconvenient, so they didn't come.And there are no other needy households over there, so there is no one to help.

The family in the Tunshang group consisted of an old woman in her 60s and a little boy of eight or nine years old. After the little boy’s father died of illness, his grandmother came to take his mother back and was not allowed to come here again. up.

Knowing that everyone was tired and hungry, the village head asked his wife to bring up the meals he had prepared after working for a while.

The meals at the village chief’s house are very rich, including bacon, chicken, fried fungus, bean sprouts, tofu, etc.Xie Xiuping knew that this didn't mean that the village chief's family was rich, but that everyone was a hospitable person, so they treated them with the best.My family usually doesn't see a piece of meat for ten days and a half months, but when distinguished guests come, they are entertained by killing chickens and geese.

"Excuse me, ma'am!" Looking at the dishes on the table, Xie Xiuping thanked the village chief's wife.Several others followed suit.

Xie Xiuping asked them to call the village head's wife the empress, saying that the empress here is the aunt, the father is the grandfather, and the wife is the grandma, and let them figure it out.

After dinner, everyone sat in the yard chatting and asked the village head for more information.They are so old in traffic.It is said that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads, but the mountains are high and the water is far away, the roads are not easy to repair, and the cost of manpower and material resources is also high.

Ainan asked, have you ever thought about moving out? The village chief shook his head and said, although it looks like a remote place, the village has existed for 500 years, and its roots are here. , and no land, how to live on.

There are also young people in the village who go out to work, but they still have to come back in the end. This is their home.One or two got rich in business and bought a house in the town and county, but their parents still live here in their hometown.

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"Why do you go to the toilet for so long, are you okay?" Several people were chatting in the courtyard, watching the two girls, Yang Qin and Sun Qi, go to the toilet and not come back for a long time, and they were a little worried.

"It's okay! President, we saw the village head's wife doing handicrafts in the side room of the village head's house. It's really interesting, so we'll stay for a while longer!" Sun Qi heard Xie Xiuping ask them, and she told them about the new discovery just now. Speak up.

"Is it batik?" When we first arrived, when everyone was distributing rice oil, Xie Xiuping glanced at the wing room. He even saw those guys at his grandmother's house, and that was a small batik workshop.

"How do you know?" Sun Qi was a little curious. They watched it for a long time, but they couldn't understand what they said. It took a long time to realize that it was called batik.

"Guess!" Xie Xiuping said to Sun Qi with a smile, then turned to ask the village head, "They are all very curious, they haven't seen it before, can we take a look?"

"Ka! Kea!" The village chief went to work after finishing speaking. It is estimated that today was delayed for a long time, and some things have not been dealt with yet.

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Several people came to the wing room, where the village chief lady was drawing wax flowers on a square white cloth with a steel knife.While painting, she explained the skills of using steel knives and the steps and methods of batik.Because some words were too strong in accent, they could not understand them very well, so Xie Xiuping acted as an interpreter again.

Soon, she drew a piece of cloth, on which two flounder jumped.I saw that she took the painted cloth into a large dyeing vat, soaked it for a while, took it out, put it in again to soak, and repeated it three times, then took the dyed cloth into the pot to boil, dewax, and rinse. Just hang to dry.

After the village head's wife demonstrated a process, she pointed to a pile of square or rectangular cloth, large or small, and asked them to pick a piece of cloth for a try.

The village head, Niangniang, guided them and talked with them about batik.Like what kind of wax is this?What is beeswax?What are dyes made of?Can they make money to subsidize their family by doing this?

Almost every family in Tunshang Village can make batik.Batik fabrics are used here for weddings and funerals, weddings and ceremonies.Now that we communicate more with the outside world, everyone will also wear some Hakka clothes, which are simple and convenient when working. Once there is something to do, the clothes, headgear, belts, shoe uppers, etc. are made of batik cloth from head to toe.Basically, they are all self-sufficient, and there is no mention of selling them at present.

The embroidery they do themselves and the well-made suspenders will be sold in the market, but most of them are for their own use.They were busy working during the day, so they took time out to do something at night, basically saving dowries for girls and dowries for sons.

Everyone was chatting and doing their own batik. Seeing that everyone had already started, the village head lady took out a slightly larger white cloth, chatted with Xie Xiuping for a while, and began to draw wax flowers.