In autumn, people don't wear thermal underwear directly, but rather wear an outer coat over their summer clothes.
These are all life experiences accumulated over thousands of years, and they are probably the most suitable for people living here. They have been passed down from generation to generation, and everyone has followed these customs.
The third day of the third lunar month is a good day for flying kites.
As the saying goes, it's the third day of the third month again, and kites fill the sky.
People in Qingcheng also love flying kites. On the third day of the third lunar month, every household makes and flies kites.
And they can also stir-fry beans.
Wang Tianxiao loved this day when he was a child.
On this day, my mother, Zhang Yufeng, would stir-fry a pot of soybeans and fill the pockets of my siblings' pants. The stir-fried soybeans were crispy and crunchy, and because saccharin was added, they were also sweet and delicious.
Each time, Wang Tianxiao was reluctant to eat every single bean in one go. Instead, he would put the beans in his mouth, lick off the sweetness of the outer skin of the beans like he was eating candy, and then slowly chew them.
When the children gathered with their kites, everyone's pants were bulging, filled with beans.
If some families are so poor that they can't even afford soybeans, then they can use corn kernels instead.
Although corn kernels have a similar effect, they don't taste as good as soybeans and are therefore at the bottom of the list of foods that people don't like.
In this respect, Zhang Yufeng, the mother, is actually a person who values rituals.
Even if there were no soybeans at home, she would buy a few pounds of soybeans in advance every year for the holidays to stir-fry for everyone, adding a bit of fun to his otherwise colorless childhood.
Wang Tianxiao felt that his mother was a very complicated person.
Sometimes he felt she was slow to understand things, like a traditional, feudal, and conservative old woman, but in some ways, she had foresight that transcended her time.
For example, encouraging all children to read is a typical example.
Looking across the entire Wangjia Village, almost no family in that era could afford to send all their children to school and teach them to read and write; this was an idea that was ahead of its time.
It was precisely because of her foresight that Wang Tianzhong and Wang Tiancheng were able to obtain excellent opportunities and take on leadership positions while serving in the army.
Imagine if they had never been to school, would they really be able to seize an opportunity presented to them?
That remains to be seen.
Wang Tianxiao had spent two days making a fish kite that was over two meters long for Wang Fang, but on the day of the event, after flying it enthusiastically for half a day, the kite simply wouldn't fly.
He didn't know if it was a problem with the kite's balance or the string, but the big fish could only lie flat on the ground, looking just like a dead loach.
Having no other choice, he took his child to town to buy a kite.
The child's interest has been piqued, and if her desires are not met, she will definitely feel regret.
Unexpectedly, while carrying his daughter on his back through the streets, he encountered a distressing incident.
Qingquan Town was originally a long, narrow street running north to south, but many people selling snacks, doing carpentry work, and selling all sorts of small items ended up blocking the area around Qingquan Pagoda, making the street completely congested.
In addition, some people don't know to leave their bicycles at the street corner, unwilling to spend the two cents, which further exacerbates the congestion.
When he reached a section of the tower, he was completely unable to walk any further.
It's a dilemma.
Because he was tall, all he could see in front of and behind him was a sea of black heads, and he couldn't see the end of the line at all.
Seeing the people around him still scrambling and pushing like maggots, he gradually became worried. With so many people, if something happened and a stampede tragedy occurred, it would be terrible.
He tried his best to calm himself down, letting Wang Fang hug his neck tightly, and slowly waited for the crowd to move away.
But a full half hour passed, and the flow of people remained completely still.
He could see people on both sides constantly rushing towards this location instead of taking detours, and he knew that if he didn't come up with a solution, he didn't know how long he would be locked down.
Just as he was trying to figure out a solution, several young men in front of him, who were even more impatient than him, jumped directly onto the vegetable vendor's cart next to them, ignoring the old man's shouts, and quickly stepped onto the cart to the side of the street.
Once that started, it was unstoppable.
Young people began to disperse along the "opened-up" road, and as gaps appeared on the ground, people surged forward even more frantically.
Among them were many elderly men and women.
Don't let their age fool you; they're incredibly healthy because they've worked their whole lives.
Their strength and momentum in pushing and shoving were in no way inferior to those of young and strong men.
There was an old lady in front of Wang Tianxiao who was like that.
She held the hand of her seven- or eight-year-old granddaughter in one hand and the hand of her even younger grandson in the other.
She and Wang Tianxiao were walking side by side, but when she saw a gap in front of them, she immediately used all her strength to overtake Wang Tianxiao and squeeze forward.
The two children looked like she was carrying two sacks.
But if she can squeeze in, others can too; nobody wants to give way to anyone else.
Wang Tianxiao watched helplessly as the old lady squeezed into the crowd, shielding her grandson in front of her, and quickly disappeared into the crowd.
But at that moment, her granddaughter, whom she was holding in her other hand, was separated from her by the crowd.
To make matters worse, the child lost his balance because of the pull from his grandmother and was pulled to the ground.
A person stepped directly on the child.
"grandmother!"
"grandmother!"
The pain and fear terrified the little girl. She didn't know how to get up and lay on the ground crying and calling for her grandmother.
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