Chapter 135

The next morning, the prayer ceremony began, and the worship activities started early in the morning at the Mazu Temple. Ye Yaodong also went to offer three sticks of incense.

The first day was very simple, just offerings were placed, gongs, drums, and suonas were invited, and then the villagers voluntarily went to offer incense. Only on the last day would Mazu be invited to go on an inspection tour.

He came back directly after offering incense. His wife had said that they were moving things to the new house today.

Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua also planned to take advantage of the free time these few days to move everything that could be taken to the new house in advance. It would be just right to move on the same day.

There was only one flatbed cart in the family, so they took turns moving, each family pushed once, and it was finished in three trips. Originally, there weren't many belongings, the large items were their wardrobes, and the rest were just bedding and clothes that weren't in season yet.

The bed had to wait until the day of moving to be moved. Moving the bed not only depends on the day but also on the time, and Lin Xiuqing was very likely pregnant. There was a pregnant woman in the family, so the bed couldn't be moved casually.

Ye Yaodong actually really wanted to change to a new bed, that wooden bed creaked every time they did something, it affected his endurance too much. Although there are Simmons mattresses now, how could he bring himself to do it? It's too expensive, the money he earned wasn't enough yet, so he could only make do with sleeping on it for now.

Then buy a small iron-framed bed for the children, similar to the bunk beds in the staff dormitory, except it only has one layer, which is temporarily enough for now. The younger son still has to sleep with them for at least two years.

After moving the things, Ye Yaodong ran home to get a hoe again. He planned to reclaim some of the empty land on the side. Anyway, it was all empty land, the land he reclaimed was naturally his, as long as it wasn't used as a homestead to build a house, there was no problem with farming.

When the time comes, chop some bamboo, surround it with a fence, and he'll have a vegetable garden!

Ye's father and mother also came to the new house to wander around when they were idle. Seeing him reclaiming land again, they were very satisfied. The third son had indeed become more and more calculating during this period, and would also think about planting more vegetables, no longer lazy and not working.

"Dongzi, when you're done with the hoe, let me use it. I'll also take advantage of this free time to reclaim some land, just right to plant some radishes."

"Okay."

He pondered in his heart that he should go to the blacksmith shop to buy a hoe. Many things are only remembered when they are needed, and there was only one set of farm tools in the house, which couldn't be divided, so they could only add them themselves.

Many things in the house only had one copy, only bowls, chopsticks, and things in their respective rooms could be brought over, the rest had to be left for his father and mother. They were all young and still able to work, so they couldn't take everything out to divide.

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After reclaiming the land for half a day, after lunch, Ye Yaodong pushed the wheelbarrow towards the mountain. He had to go dig some soil, and by the way, chop some bamboo to tie the fence.

Busy with these things all day, Ye's father also helped him tie the fence together. After all, he had never done this kind of work, Ye's father was more experienced and knew everything.

By evening, the men in the family went to the Mazu Temple to offer the three sticks of incense for the evening again. During this week of eating vegetarian, they had to offer three sticks of incense morning and evening.

Ye Yaodong was also very pious. In this life, he hoped that the whole family would be safe and healthy. There was a young man next to him who didn't know better, and he even helped correct him when his method of offering incense was wrong.

Traditional culture considers the left as auspicious and the right as ominous. When offering incense, one must cover the left hand with the right hand to kowtow, and then one must hold the incense with the left hand and insert it into the incense burner.

There is a saying that the right hand kills and is unclean, while the left hand is relatively peaceful and suitable for offering incense before the Buddha. There is also a saying that it should be men on the left and women on the right.

Seeing that he was quite reliable, didn't need to be taught, and could even teach others, Ye's father couldn't help but nod.

"Alright, let's go back to eat."

Dinner was the same as lunch, a table full of vegetarian dishes. The adults didn't mind, knowing they had to eat vegetarian to pray for peace, but the children didn't understand these things. Seeing a table full of vegetarian dishes again, their faces suddenly collapsed.

"It's all vegetables again, do we really have to eat for seven days?"

"Can we not eat vegetables?"

"I want to eat yesterday's prawns!"

"Me too, I've never eaten such big prawns..."

Ye Mu knocked on the table. "The whole village is eating vegetarian, it's not just our family, eat quickly, after eating big fish and meat yesterday, it's good to eat some vegetarian food for the next few days to clear the stomach."

"But I'm not full!" Ye Chenghai touched his flat stomach, his stomach was empty after a few pees.

"Yeah, not full!" The children echoed in twos and threes.

Ye Dasao glared at the eldest son, he was the one who started everything, he was really annoying. "You're the only one eating, everyone else doesn't need to eat, right? Eat quickly, don't be long-winded, if you're long-winded again, don't eat the meal either."

"Sigh, it feels like the good days only lasted for one day, and I was beaten back to my original shape, no... even worse than before, at least there were small fish, small shrimp, and shells to see before."

"Shut your mouth, don't affect your younger brothers and sisters, just persist for a few days, if you don't want to eat, then don't eat, go back to the room."

Ye Mu hurriedly acted as a peacemaker. "Don't scold him anymore, a half-grown boy eats the old man poor, they are growing their bodies, it's normal not to be able to resist hunger, not to mention they have been eating vegetarian food all day, and still eating porridge, tomorrow I will cook dried sweet potato rice, it's more hunger-resistant."

With Ye Mu speaking, no one had anything to say. Ye Dasao didn't scold the child either, just glared at him and told him to eat quickly.

After Ye Mu finished speaking, she looked at Ye's father again. "The ash at the bottom of the pot is too thick, after eating, lift the pot to the back door and use a hoe to scrape the bottom of the pot."

"Got it."

Children don't love to join in the fun, even if they have seen it a thousand times, they are still very interested. After eating, they waited there and didn't run out to play.

The large iron pot of the earthen stove was lifted to the back door after the meal and turned upside down on the ground. A circle of children squatted around, Ye's father couldn't drive them away, so he could only let them step back a little.

He stepped on the pot with one foot to prevent it from moving, took a hoe, and scraped it slowly along the edge of the pot, scraping off all the black pot ash on it.

"Grandpa, why do you always have to lift the pot out to scrape the bottom of the pot?"

"Don't you see all the ash? A thick layer has accumulated, how can you stir-fry vegetables and cook rice like this? It will take half a day to cook."

They nodded as if they understood.

Ye Mu took a jar with half a jar of pitch-black powder inside, squatted down, and carefully grabbed the pot ash that had just been scraped off into the jar.

Pot ash can stop bleeding and diarrhea, it is a reliable rural folk remedy with scientific basis, but their family always uses it to stop bleeding. It is inevitable to have bumps and bruises in daily life, just wipe a handful of pot ash and it will be fine, Ye Mu collects it every time.

After scraping, they lifted the large pot back onto the earthen stove, Ye Mu also put the jar away, and couldn't help but instruct.

"After eating vegetarian, you go and buy an iron pot each to put in the new house, it will be used on the day of moving, everything must be prepared in advance."

"Got it, we know."

After watching the fun, the children ran off to play happily again.

The adults all went back to their rooms to talk.