Chapter 13 One-year gift

Yang Momo himself can read words and read enough books in his previous life. He thought that as long as he pestered Yang Dalang to teach him a little traditional Chinese characters in the future, there should be no big problem in reading books, keeping accounts and counting when he grows up. As for exporting them into chapters and borrowing the poems of later descendants to pretend to be talented women, Yang Momo is a There is no interest... So Yang Momo first excluded a few things representing "shi" and did not intend to arrest them.

Yang Momo was not interested in rouge gouache, jewelry and jewelry. She was even worried that if she caught these things, Yang Dazhu and his wife would send her as a concubine in order to let her live a corresponding life. Yang Momo's cooking skills were a little better in his previous life. It should not be difficult to secretly learn some home-cooked dishes in the future. There is no need to deliberately learn from this aspect...

So Yang Momo used the elimination method to screen out some of the things around her, and finally set the goal of embroidery and flowers. Although Yang Momo is the most unfamiliar and unfavorable, Yang Momo knew that ancient women lived a simple life and did not show up much. Most of them relied on some needles. Line work to subsidize household work.

Yang Momo also knows that women who have done their skills earn no less money than women who are buried in farming, and if they want to do this needlework well, the key points are the three points of "flower pattern", "embroidery" and "color matching".

Yang Momo said that she would be able to design novel patterns with her insight, and the color matching would not be difficult for her, so as long as she practiced embroidery skills and had the ability to embroider those novel patterns, it would not be a problem to maintain her own food and clothing... So Yang Momo finally set embroidery as the person she had to learn first. The ability!

After making up her mind, Yang Momo immediately stretched out her little hand and grabbed the colorful embroidery thread in her hand without hesitation. Before everyone could make a statement, she immediately stretched out another hand and grabbed the flower of the embroidery in her hand, and showed everyone with a firm attitude that what she wanted to learn in the future was embroidery...

Seeing this, an aunt quickly picked out some nice words and praised, "Ba Niang is really a sensible child. When she is only one year old, she knows that the little women should learn the most is female celebrity, and they don't choose those things to eat and play."

Fang also praised: "Isn't that right? If Ba Niang learns this skill well, she can also embroider a handkerchief or something in the future to exchange money for the family to subsidize the family. It would be better if she could learn to become an embroidery woman."

This female red job is roughly divided into three aspects: textile, embroidery and sewing, and the embroidery thread caught by Yang Momo actually represents "female red", so someone immediately continued: "If you are not an embroiderer, can you afford to weave a good cloth?"

"Ba Niang has learned from the female red, and it's good to make more clothes for her family!"

"Ba Niang is really good at choosing. If she chooses stationery, Dazhu will have to spend money to send her to study in the school, but no matter how many books this girl reads, she can't take the imperial examination in the future. In the end, isn't it a bamboo basket?"

Although the words of several close relatives and friends were straightforward and vulgar, it was reasonable. Yang Momo was also a little proud when she heard this and secretly rejoiced for her wise decision.

And Yang Dazhu didn't care what Yang Momo would choose, so as soon as everyone picked good words, he was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth and thanked him repeatedly: "Thank you very much. The big guy invited me to the boat for dinner. My Hun family has cooked longevity noodles to entertain the big guys."

The place on the ship is small, so Liu set up several tables on the side of the kitchen, pulled the noodles to the end of the table and greeted close relatives and friends to get off the boat to eat noodles. Yang Momo's grasp of Zhou Erli also came to an end with the lively eating longevity noodles.

Yang Momo thought that after the big guys went back to their families after eating longevity noodles, Liu would change her new red clothes. Unexpectedly, as soon as those close relatives and friends left, Liu began to be busy again. First, she returned all the things borrowed from the village to grab Zhou, and then went to the mountain to pick a handful of bright chicken crown flowers. And thousands of red.

Yang Momo was puzzled why Liu suddenly picked a lot of flowers back, but Liu had greeted him and asked her to help carry the sacrifices he had just sacrificed to his ancestors. He held Yang Momo in one hand, chicken crown flowers and Qianrihong in the other, and walked all the way to the temple up the mountain.

When several familiar people greeted each other on the way, Yang Momo learned from their conversation that Liu was going to take her to the temple on the mountain to "worship Qi Niang".

Yang Momo didn't know what "worship Qi Niang", so he listened carefully to the conversation between Liu and Fang with his little ears all the way. Finally, he realized that the so-called "worship of Qi Niang" is a unique custom in southern Fujian. The "Qi Niang" in this custom is also called Qi Niang's mother by Minnan people and is the common "mother" of all children in southern Fujian. , is also a god respected by Minnan people.

After the child in southern Fujian is one year old, the devout mother or grandmother will hold the child. In addition to bringing rich sacrifices, they will also bring some chicken crown flowers and thousand-day red to the temple to worship the seventh mother, praying that the seventh mother will protect the child and grow up safely.

Yang Momo actually wants to ask Liu why "Worship Qi Niang" should bring chicken crown flowers and thousands of sun red in addition to tributes. However, Liu and Fang did not discuss this issue along the way. Yang Momo can only understand the unique custom of bringing these two flowers as "worship Qi Niang".

After arriving at the temple, Liu began to worship piously with Yang Momo in his arms. The worship ceremony was no different from usual. The only difference was that after Liu worshipped the seventh mother, he took out a copper coin and red thread from his sleeve. First, he turned around the incense three times in the palm of his hand, and then tied the two things together to Yang Mo. On the neck of foam.

Liu tied the copper money to Yang Momo's neck and whispered, "The red thread and copper money are given by the mother of the seventh mother. Eight women must not let these two things leave. You must wear them on the Qixi Festival of the year of the year of the emperor to take these two things. After taking them off, you must send these two things to the mother and prepare gifts. Thank you for your blessing over the years..."

How can a real child understand these words?

So Yang Momo knew that this was just an auspicious word said by Liu in front of the gods, and it was also a promise in front of the seventh mother. As long as Xu Ming could bless Yang Momo's safe and disaster-free growth, their family would prepare a gift and thank the protection of the seventh mother as soon as Yang Momo arrived.

It was not until Liu took Yang Momo to pay homage to the seventh mother that Yang Momo's first birthday gift was really finished, and Yang Momo gradually adapted to everything in Xiaoqi Village, slowly trying to adapt to her new identity and new life, and trying not to recall the colorful life of her previous life.

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The morning sun turned into a little golden light and scattered on the water. The wet sea breeze mixed with a faint fishy smell gently brushed across the sea. As soon as the morning sun in the sky jumped out of the sea, Liu was busy, while Yang Momo sat in a small chair, looking at everything around him with his round eyes...

Looking around, dozens of wooden boats of different sizes are slanting across the water. Some fishermen living by the water are drying fishing nets on the beach, and some are repairing wooden boats. On the land slope bordering the beach behind them, there are several grass huts scattered, and the busy figures of women can be faintly seen in the hut...

Time has passed slowly in countless such mornings. In a blink of an eye, Yang Momo is almost two years old, and it has been more than a year since he traveled to Xiaoqi Village. Over the past year, Yang Momo has slowly become familiar with the life scenes of the fishermen's family, especially the scene that everyone is busy every morning. Every day, it appears in front of Yang Momo like a simple sketch, which makes Yang Momo slowly integrate himself into this sketch.

As the time spent on the ship gradually lengthened, Yang Momo slowly figured out every corner of her home - according to Yang Momo's visuals, she estimated that the Yang family lived in a new ship about 12 meters long and two meters wide, and the size of the old ship docked side by side should be similar to that of the new ship, but More years have been used.

Because Liu ran both in the boat and the hut on the shore all day long, Yang Dazhu raised a yellow dog in the bow of the boat. Usually, he let the yellow dog watch the boat, so as not to let any stranger approach and secretly abduct Yang Momo away. The yellow dog barked when he saw a stranger, but it was still dedicated to protecting the family.

After going through the most difficult time of "sending a girl", the life of the Yang family slowly improved day by day. Yang Momo knew that for more than a year, Yang Dazhu not only installed a small stove in the stern of the boat for occasionally opening a small stove, but also added a big chicken cage next to the kitchen on the shore, which was covered with chicken cage. There are more than ten chickens bought by Yang Dazhu from the city.

Half of the eggs laid by the chickens went to Yang Momo's stomach, and the other half was brought back by Yang Dazhu to change some firewood, rice, oil and salt. Yang Momo's chair similar to a modern walker was exchanged by Yang Dazhu with a basket of eggs with a carpenter.

This chair is very cleverly designed. After putting Yang Momo's small body in, Yang Momo can sit or walk, but this chair is always a big clumsy object. With Yang Momo's physical strength, she can't drag it down a few steps, so Liu doesn't have to worry that Yang Momo will drag the chair around and run around when she is busy. He put Yang Momo in the enclosure and let her play by herself.

Just as Yang Momo looked around with her small eyes open, Liu had finished the kitchen work and got on the boat to dry with the clothes that had just been washed by the stream.

Liu Shi hung the washed clothes on the bamboo pole on the side of the boat and looked at Yang Momo laughing. It turned out that Yang Momo was tired of watching the scenery on the shore in the bow of the boat and wanted to drag the small chair to turn around to see the sea view, but she was too small and not strong enough, so no matter how hard she tried, the small chair She was only dragged away from the same place, which made Yang Momo finally sit on the chair with a depressed face, pouted her little mouth and stared at the sitting chair that trapped her.

It was Yang Momo's lovely appearance that made Liu Shi laugh. Liu Shi smiled for a moment, as if she remembered something, and said to Yang Dazhu, who was packing the fishing gear in the stern of the boat: "Master, our sister is almost two years old. Should it be named for her?"

At this time, the naughty Yang Liulang came out from nowhere, secretly reached out and pinched Yang Momo's round face, and rushed to answer, "Mom, it's time for my little sister to get a name. I had a name since I was as old as her!"