Chapter 278 Blue Tears

  After a few days of uproar in the village, except for the victim who still went to Ye Yaohong’s house to scold him every day, the spectators stopped a lot, after all, they still had to prepare for the New Year.

  In fact, some of the victims were relatives, so you can scold them, but they really can’t do too much. In addition to the villagers, there are also people who fish in troubled waters.

But everyone has already been arrested, and scolding is useless. After a few days of scolding, everyone should do what they should do. I dare not go out.

  I heard that children of the same age will be beaten when they go out. Whenever they go out every day, they will have a bruised nose and a swollen face when they come back. Their bodies are covered in mud, as if they have rolled through the mud.

  Ye Yaodong was helping his wife to dry dried sweet potatoes when he heard Ye Chenghai come back and vividly talk about the beating of two young children in Ye Yaohong's family.

  Lin Xiuqing paused while cutting the sweet potatoes, then shook her head, "The sins of adults must be endured by children."

   "Otherwise, how could there be the saying that the father should pay the debt?"

"I don't know how the sentence will be sentenced. I heard that everyone has received a detention notice, and even the second cousin was arrested. My aunt's eyes are swollen from crying. The uncle said that he is going to the county to see if he can visit him. A family is so troubled that only orphans and widows are left."

   "So it's better to work down-to-earth to earn money, and don't think too much about it."

  Lin Xiuqing glanced at him, "Well, you're right, down-to-earth work is good, as long as you are willing to do it, it doesn't matter how late you are."

Hearing the pointed words, Ye Yaodong laughed a few times, and hurriedly grabbed the work, "I'll cut it, I'll cut it, you go wash your hands and rest for a while, you must be sore after standing for so long? Ye Chenghai, Help your third aunt to rest aside."

   "Ah, can't the third aunt go by herself, and still need to help? It's not Mrs...."

   "Looking for a fight, right? Do whatever you're told, why talk so much."

  Lin Xiuqing glared at Ye Yaodong, "You're the only one who has too many things to do!"

   "Go and rest, there is not much left."

  Ye Yaodong took the knife in her hand, imitated what she did just now, sliced ​​it, and dried it in the air. He didn't put away the kitchen knife and cutting board until he had cut all the sweet potatoes in the basin.

  Dried sweet potatoes are also a rare snack for children. Everyone circled around the bamboo flat and asked when it was ready to eat. He took pictures of those who couldn't wait to reach out.

   "It tastes good when it's dry, otherwise you can throw a few into the stove first, and it's just right for the lunch to be cooked. It will satisfy your cravings, and the roast is also very fragrant."

   A group of children sucked their saliva, and then went home to steal sweet potatoes, wrapped them in mud and stuffed them all in the stove of Ye Yaodong’s house, their own dare not...

  There are fire-breathing dragons in the house, how dare they mess around, they can't eat without being beaten, and now only the third uncle's house is relatively safe.

   Then at noon, all the children waited around the stove, asking questions from time to time, and ran over after eating, and stayed at his house all day.

   Moreover, his home was their base camp for several days in a row, and there was a lot of noise every day, and he came back after a while after being driven out. Ye Yaodong regretted it, so what kind of sweet potatoes should he bake for them?

  It wasn't until the twenty-fourth year of the twelfth lunar month that everyone stayed at their own home because there was too much food to eat in the sacrifice stove.

Ye Yaodong also rode his bicycle to the town early in the morning to buy fruits, candies and other things to be sacrificed to the kitchen stove. He had to arrange ten items, such as apples, oranges, sugar cane, grapefruit, candies, olives, rice cakes, lollipops, sweet potato yolks, New Years candy, and others Tianjin Yuanbao, three teas and three wines, and a bowl of clear water.

   There is no rule on what kind of sacrifice to use, any auspicious meaning is fine, eight or ten are acceptable.

  The children are all excited, and they are all waiting to eat after the sacrifice.

The food that people have eaten cannot be used to sacrifice the stove. On the day of the Xiaonian, the family will buy New Year’s candy, and children will find ways to eat it. The stove candy used for sacrifices must be put away in advance to avoid this situation. .

  Whether offering sacrifices to ancestors or gods, never use food that has been eaten, so as not to backfire.

  Although New Year’s Eve is the beginning of the new year, Xiaonian has officially kicked off the prelude to the new year. It is called a "busy year", which means getting busy and preparing for the new year.

  Preparing new year's goods, removing dust and welcoming the new year, except for some families who suffered heavy losses, every household in the village is immersed in a busy and cheerful atmosphere.

  After the stove is sacrificed and the Tianjin ingots are burned, it is the happiest time for the children in the family when the sacrifices are taken down. What children look forward to most throughout the year is the Chinese New Year.

  But Ye Yaodong felt that the sea surface was a bit different after dark?

  He looked up and felt that he saw "blue tears" when the sea water washed away just now.

  Looking carefully, another blue light and shadow appeared in the washing of the waves, "Ah? Really, Ah Qing~"

   "Ah? Why?"

   "Come out and have a look."

  Lin Xiuqing wiped her hands and came out, "What's wrong, it's getting dark, you didn't come in, and you asked me to come out, why?"

   "I want you to come out and watch the sea together!"

   "Crazy, you? It's too cold to come in and ask me to come out to see the sea? It's not like I haven't seen it."

  As soon as she walked out of the gate, she wanted to turn around and go in. She was too lazy to talk to him, but he stopped her, "Look!"

   "What are you looking at... ah? Blue? What's going on? How did the water turn blue?"

  Lin Xiuqing was halfway through speaking, when she looked up, she happened to see a wave of waves washing over her, bringing up a blue wave. Isn't it so beautiful?

   "This is called Blue Tears. I didn't expect red tides to happen in winter!"

   Actually, it is not called Blue Tears yet. The villagers think it is a kind of red tide, because every time this thing comes out, there is basically no harvest when it goes to sea.

  "Blue Tears" is a bioluminescent phenomenon, a type of red tide, which is naturally distributed along the coasts of Fujian Province, Wanwan and other places.

   Its instigator is dinoflagellate or sea firefly. The appearance of most blue tears is mainly represented by fluorescent algae.

  This kind of nocturnal algae is easy to gather locally under the influence of tide, wind and water flow, and will produce light blue fluorescence when stimulated by the outside world.

  Generally, late spring and early summer are suitable for the reproduction of nocturnal algae. When the density of nocturnal algae in seawater is high, it is easy to form "blue tears" visible to the naked eye.

   Unexpectedly, red tides rarely appeared this winter, which is not a good phenomenon.

  The explosive proliferation of Noctiluca often starts from January to February, showing the phenomenon of spreading from south to north. Start with Hainan first, then Guangdong Province will also appear, and then Fujian Province will gradually move north.

   As soon as he was talking, blue wavy lines appeared one after another, and the two children in the family ran out seeing their parents outside.

   As a result, he looked at the sea level and shouted in surprise, "Ah, our sea has turned blue, so beautiful ~ Brother Ahai, Brother Ajiang... come out quickly..."

  The children of the next two families were eating the sacrifices that had been taken down. When they heard his call, they also ran out of the house one after another. Then there were bursts of exclamation, and the adults in the family were also attracted and ran out.

   "Huh? Is it red tide?"

   "Why did the red tide suddenly occur?"

  The children jumped up and down happily, "It's so beautiful, our sea water is glowing."

   "It's blue."

   "Daddy, can we go down to the beach?"

   "The tide is rising, what to go, it's getting dark."

   "But it's so beautiful..."

   "Just look at it from the shore."

  Ye Yaodong rubbed his chin, "Fortunately, it's blue. If it's red, it may have a greater impact."

   It’s okay, there are no farmers in this era, and no one goes to sea now, and they are all resting for the New Year, so it doesn’t have much impact on everyone, it’s just that they don’t know when to retreat.

  Lin Xiuqing also said at this time, "It's strange to be pretty, but aren't all red tides red?"

   "Not necessarily, it depends on which kind of marine organisms caused it, and there are all colors."

   "Then will there be a pile of dead fish washed up on the beach tomorrow?"

   "It's just blue tears. Noctiluca is a non-toxic algae that won't kill fish."

"That is not bad."

  Everyone was watching and discussing at the door. Red tides don’t happen every year, and this is the first time everyone has seen blue ones.

  Several children packed their pockets full of snacks and watched the scenery while eating, excited. It was the first time they saw "Blue Tears".

  Blown by the sea breeze, they were still reluctant to enter the house with snot running down their noses. Afterwards, they were beaten and scolded by each family, so they took them all back and asked them to watch it tomorrow.

  Early the next morning, each pocket was full of sugar, and they couldn't wait to run to the village to share the "blue tears" they saw last night with their friends.

  Speaking vividly, dancing and gesticulating, and using their limited adjectives to describe, it provoked a group of children to scream, and the adults also knew it.

   After dinner in the evening, most of the people in the village ran to the beach to wait.

  After night fell, the blue tears were still there, and blue ripples were brought out by the washing of the waves, and when the waves hit, the reef area also brought out a blue dazzling light.

  The children didn't understand the origin of this phenomenon, they just thought it was so beautiful, and jumped up and shouted happily one by one.

   But the phenomenon of blue tears did not last long, it only lasted for three days, and when everyone came out to see it on the fourth night, it was gone, and it had already subsided.

  Although good-looking is good-looking, the villagers also breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it doesn't affect everyone's going to sea after the new year.

  (end of this chapter)