"She" is a small surname, which originated from the royal family and lives in Chashan, Donghai. After the Han Dynasty, some people changed the word "Yu" into "She". As for when the She people settled here, even the Taoist grandfather, the oldest aunt in the village east, is not clear. The farthest record in the genealogy is just 20 rooms, 40 households 100 men with the same surname as her nearly a hundred years ago.
Fiona Fang, the current Shejiazhuang, is a big village within a few kilometers of Fiona Fang, with more than 300 families and thousands of people. Compared with the scattered layout of other nearby villages, Shejiazhuang's village is too neat.
The village is divided into three layers by three artificially excavated east-west rivers, which are called "Henan", "Upper China-Myanmar", "Hebei" and "Houzhuang" according to the north-south trend. Villagers live along the river, with two households on each floor, with private plots in the front door and backyard, separated by the road. There is no bridge on the river, but there is a north-south road leading from east to west to the outside of the village.
People in the north and south of the country are trying to find a way to be convenient, and they all want to save their legs and feet for small things. They shouted across the river, "Ma, go to the street to help me pick up three cabbages tomorrow." "Jianjun Dad, the coach (a kind of pig seedling) is out of the circle. How many do you want?"
Reed grows in the morning and bamboo grows in the shade. Several families took idle wood or worn-out benches at home and opened a "water pier" to hammer clothes, wash rice and wash vegetables; There are also elegant ones, which dig steps along the slope in their front door and backyard, spread broken bricks or "melon seeds" (a kind of gravel) to dehumidify and prevent skid, and the stone mill that is not used at home rolls down the river to make a "dock". People don't shake when they stand up. It's really croaking!
There are no miscellaneous households in the main village, and large areas of flat farmland outside the village grow wheat in winter and transplant rice seedlings in summer, and harvest two crops every year; Rape, sesame and corn are planted on the land in the gully corner, and some people are too lazy to divert water to stop the dam and plant Xiang Lian taro.
There are four retail investors in the village, Zhang, Ding, Chen Mou and Zhou. They have settled in the four corners of the village in the shape of a mouth. In addition to major festivals and group activities, retail investors and villagers in the main village usually have little contact and rarely deal with each other.
Occasionally, I happen to meet them. Everyone in the main village seems to have a natural sense of superiority. "Where are you from?"
"Shejiazhuang!"
"Why haven't you seen it? What's your last name? "
Zhang! '
"Oh, in the open field (living in a remote place)!"
More than 85 houses in the village are all made of blue bricks and covered with small gray tiles. Most of them are three rooms and five planes, and some of them were later changed to three rooms and seven planes. The width is the room and the depth is the frame. Between two adjacent purlins is a step frame, which is called purlin beam by locals. The main entrance has four pillars and three rooms in the middle, which are separated by blue bricks. They are called "wide-faced three rooms" (east-west length), and each room is four frames deep (north-south width).
The house faces south by east, with people living in the east, a hall in the middle and a kitchen in the west. There are several families whose ancestors are well-off, their population is prosperous, and their houses go in and out several times.
Among the villagers, adult men make a living by laying bricks, and the proportion of sculptors and painters is very small. Only two apprentices cut clothes.
Life outside doesn't have things to do every day. More time is spent at home doing farm work and raising livestock. After all, women are too tired, sewing, cooking, watching babies, feeding chickens and driving dogs, weeding and planting melons every day. Even if you have a cost-effective livelihood, you must make sure that the road cannot be too far and the time cannot be too long. You must come back before the busy farming season.
Those who eat public meals and group meals can commute to work in the town on time every day, making money and taking care of their families. There are also several families in Shejiazhuang who can have a holiday during the busy farming season, which is really enviable.
In the main village, every family's She surname is very close to relatives and friends. There was a red and white incident, which was almost dispatched by the whole village. The nearest room is chosen as the right-hand man, while the distant room carries the contact details.
Wedding, beam, birthday and other red events, the host family invited helpers to warm up at home three days ago to make preparations to make it lively and festive; On the right day, wait for the auspicious opportunity, whip and shoot, beat gongs and drums, worship ancestors, gamble and pray for success!
If two families happen to have a secret crush on the same day, each family will show a sense of intimacy according to their distance, and even those who invite people to dinner at home will be particular about it, for fear of confusing the rules and dividing people's hearts; As for the two main families, if they are equally well-off, they are not willing to lag behind, leaving a slogan that makes people laugh.
Funeral is a white thing. If the elderly who live longer die naturally, it is also called a white wedding. There are yin and yang teachers in the village who are responsible for helping to deal with white things. Generally speaking, it is to look at the cemetery with a compass and post gossip to calculate the burial time of the coffin to protect future generations. From the decoration of the coffin door to the placement of memorial tablets to comfort the deceased.
There are ten production teams under the branch of Shejiazhuang Brigade, and each production team has a small team leader and five players. The branch office of the brigade is under the old acacia tree at the western end of the main village, with three rooms and three sides, next to Shejiazhuang Primary School.
Each team's office was originally placed in the pigsty next to the team's threshing floor, but it was abandoned because of disrepair and remote location.
All the closest relatives and loved ones are basically in the same team. If there is a small friction dispute within the team, there are respected people within the family to coordinate and solve it; Involving public interests or intensified contradictions, the team leader shall preside over it, and with the assistance of the Fifth Subcommittee, one or two representatives from each household shall find a clean and spacious room to sit down and discuss and vote. When the village committee election came, all the villagers concentrated on the playground of Shejiazhuang Primary School.
Shejiazhuang Primary School is the only rural complete primary school (Grade 1-5) within a few kilometers of Fiona Fang, Fiona Fang, which is sacred in the hearts of Shejiazhuang people.
The old Gleditsia sinensis in the southwest corner of the primary school wall grows on the highest mound in Shejiazhuang, and the branches extending in the air completely cover the brigade under the mound. The trees are covered with acacia thorns, and there are people in the village who want to reduce swelling and discharge pus. Take a ladder from the trunk and hook it with a long bamboo pole. Once the oval Gleditsia sinensis fruit is ripe, it will be black. When the autumn wind rises, withered fruits will sway all over the trees, making a unique rustling sound.
The back garden of the primary school is next to a harbor river that flows through Shejiazhuang. There is an old ginkgo tree in the garden. I don't know when the old tree was split in half by lightning, but it branched from the root and grew separately. There is even stranger rumor that there is a white snake in the tree. The snake's tail hangs from the top of the tree and lies on the Gangjiang River. The snakehead reached to the north of Hong Kong in search of food. On holidays, old people in the village lead their children and bring sachets to pray for the safety of the young and old under the tree.
On the Panshan Highway in the southeast corner of Qingming zhang jia zhuang, the branches and buds of wild chrysanthemum never avoid the footsteps of pedestrians. The needles in the Metasequoia glyptostroboides forest beside Jinzhai River have accumulated for many years, rotting with a bitter smell.
Crossing the canal between broad beans and pulling open the tentacles of peas, my parents were buried in the middle of a wheat field, and there was a flat road leading to the old house in the middle of our main village not far from the cemetery.
But I haven't been there once since my mother left. I am afraid of those eyes that are obviously full of kindness and sympathy, those warm words that clearly show concern, those familiar faces that make me trance, and those newly opened white blood peach blossoms that should be full of publicity in the yard. I just want to curl up quietly in the dark green like the sea and listen to the sound of heading in every wheat node next to the cemetery.
Later in Tomb-Sweeping Day, there were tender feet running briskly in the winding, and soft hands carefully collecting gray mushrooms from the needle pile. Toad's escape from the canal will surprise him. He said that the bent tentacles of pea seedlings are springs made by nature.
I looked down and asked him if he could hear the sound of wheat heading. His eyes as pure as black gems were full of surprises! I bent down, took off my shoes and stepped barefoot on the dark brown soft soil. The lovely man sat on the ridge next to me and still stepped barefoot on this warm land. I pointed to the flat road not far away and told him: That road leads to my mother's hometown!