What is the passage of time, what is like the flow of water, only after you enter middle age, you will feel. I don't know why, time passes day by day in plain and plain. Going to work, leaving work, taking the bus, exercising, writing some small articles, day by day, I have finished one of my birthdays, and soon I will reach the age of knowing the destiny, thinking about this age will think about the meaning of life, think about as if my fifteen or sixteen, twenty, thirty years old was just yesterday, how suddenly I passed this age.
With the increase of age, will miss the mother more and more, the mother is also older, although under the careful care of the eldest brother, the old mother's spirit is strong, the physical state is also good, but always older, our brothers and sisters are gradually older, or should go back to their hometown to see the mother. So I took advantage of my child's summer vacation and decided to go back to see the whole family.
The wife went back early because of the death of her grandmother. My wife and grandmother are 92 years old, and we originally planned to use the summer to go back to see, but the plan is not as fast as the change, my wife and grandmother still drive to the west in advance, but it is also a high lifespan, let nature take its course. As planned, I arrived in Lincang first, and first went to worship my grandmother's tablet.
This time back to my hometown, my wife's sister heard about it and offered to send us back directly. Arriving at my hometown county town at about 2:00 p.m., I ordered a "big meal" at the catering department of a hotel, first of all, the local fried sausages, the plates were large and full, fried into a brown, making people salivate. The main dish is the big red fungus boiled chicken, with a locally produced big red fungus and the local chicken cooked together, red fungus and the umami taste of the local chicken mixed together, the fresh flavor has been raised to a higher level, the soup color is sticky white, the taste is fresh and smooth. There are also stir-fried mushrooms, which are very delicious.
I once saw a small message published on the WeChat account of the People's Daily: "If you have any unfinished dreams, bravely chase it, don't let it stay stranded." Whether you succeed or not, when you look back at the years when you insisted on your dreams, you can only feel calm and regretful. The most frightening thing is that you keep thinking about it, but you haven't started to do it. You are obviously not willing to be mediocre, but you do not act and refuse to change. ”
Seeing the old mother often is also the dream of those of us ordinary people, and it is not difficult to achieve. The mother was very happy to see her youngest son coming back to see her, and the person was much more energetic, but I didn't get tired of hearing those words.
This time back to the hometown, may be the end of summer, the grain in the field is in the season to be harvested, the rainy season has not yet ended, the wild water source and very much, the range of birds is very large, no new birds have been found around the hometown. Brown-backed Berau is a regular visitor and naturally appears in the cornfield next to home. The brown-winged crow that was photographed last time seems to have become a permanent resident in this neighborhood, it has just rained, it is standing on a communication cable to dry its feathers, its feathers are messy, and it looks like a "chicken in the soup" that has fallen off alive.
Some of the persimmons in the hometown are ripe, which attracts some birds to come and peck. However, because there is only one persimmon to peck at, or the food outside is too rich now, there are very few types of birds that come, only gray-bellied embroidered bird, Far Eastern, and long-tailed slit leaf warbler are often patronized. The long-tailed leaf warbler has a particularly small guts, and after a long period of observation, it dares to jump from the fence to the tree to eat persimmons.
Mountain sparrows are a regular visitor, and in the past two years, with the improvement of the ecology of their hometown, mountain sparrows have gradually increased. A white-spotted black stone bird appeared on a walnut seedling tree outside the wall, staring at us with bright black eyes.
The next time I returned to my hometown, it happened to be the traditional Chinese "July and a Half", which was the day when I picked up my ancestors and went home to see, as usual, to get a table of hearty meals for sacrifice. Mother took this custom very seriously and began to prepare it very early, and let us assist her in doing some work such as folding paper.
Mother folding paper is very exquisite, the front and back of the paper can not be mistaken, to three pieces, divided into yellow, white two, but also with paper folded into a boat type, yuanbao shape and other "chestnuts", used to sacrifice ancestors. In today's big cities, without these fireworks, many traditions have slowly disappeared.
Only in these places is this traditional custom preserved in the hometown. At noon the next day, according to the mother's request, the eldest brother prepared a very good meal, and after first sacrificing the ancestors, we would open the meal. During the ancestor worship, the sun is shining, and above the mountains to the east of the hometown, white cloud pillars rise from the top of the mountain, forming pagodas and other shapes.
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