The New Year is approaching, and the villagers' toes have reached the threshold of the Spring Festival.

In the blink of an eye, it was already the twentieth day of the lunar month. Every family began to be busy with various preparations for the New Year. Before the twentieth day of the lunar month, we must make enough pancakes to eat in the first month, and on the twenty-fourth, we must send the prince of the stove to heaven to say good things for each family, and on the twenty-fifth we will start steaming steamed buns, on the twenty-sixth we will slaughter pigs and chickens, on the twenty-eighth we will make tofu, and on the twenty-ninth we will clean the courtyard of the house wall, and we will be busy until the thirtieth day of the lunar month. After all the preparations for the New Year are ready, everyone will be immersed in the festive atmosphere of the New Year, waiting for the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, and taking their steps from the old years to the hopeful time of the new year.

Xue'e was busy spreading pancakes at home.

The hammer is temporarily propped up next to the stove in the pot house. The upper half of the room was filled with smoke and vapour. When talking to the other side, I only heard his voice and did not see him. Only in the lower half of the space does it appear clearer. If you want to speak to your face, you have to bend down and put your head close to the floor in order to see the opposite brow. She sent the stick baby out early and went home to carry the wheat straw. When it was enough, he asked the stick baby to lead the grass and go to the mountain to cut the dry branches for the Chinese New Year.

The firewood and grass used by the villagers to spread pancakes are all wheat straw. This material is soft, flammable and easy to extinguish. The hammer is too hot, and it will be extinguished with a flick of a burning stick. If it's cold, just blow it through your mouth and it will burn on its own. It's easy to use. At this time, Xue'e had already spread out a large stack of pancakes. There are also two large basins of potato paste beside her, waiting for her to spread them into pancakes spoonful by spoonful.

was busy working, Mao Lin sucked and got into the pot house. Seeing that there was only Xue'e at home, he unscrupulously tucked his cold paws into Xue'e's chest and rubbed the soft ** vigorously. Xue'e was so cold that she inhaled the cold air, and shouted and scolded repeatedly, dead ghost, let go quickly, freeze me. Mao Lin smiled with a smile on his face, but he didn't let go. Xue'e had sweet potatoes in both hands, and she couldn't free her hands to grab Mao Lin's arm, for fear of sticking the paste on her hands to his clothes. Moreover, the flame under the hammer is booming. She couldn't spare time to avoid it, so she had to let him be reckless.

The two were arguing, and there was a sound of footsteps outside the courtyard. Then, there was another question from the sour jujube mother-in-law. As soon as the words fell, a tall figure flashed at the door of the pot house. Frightened, Mao Lin quickly pulled out his claws as if he had been burned, and the two of them were so embarrassed. Fortunately, the heat above the house was strong, and the mother-in-law was tall and big, so I didn't see what the two were messing with. She thought that the two of them were busy spreading pancakes, so she raised her voice and said, "Yo, I'm busy." Why don't you squeak, I'll come early to take the handle.

Xue'e thought that she had seen the misdeeds of the two of them, so she replied with a flushed face, not busy, not busy.

Maolin also thought that her mother-in-law had seen it. He coped with a few words embarrassedly, hurriedly got out of the pot house, and hid in the hall and didn't dare to show his face.

The mother-in-law wanted to help spread a few pancakes, but when she saw that Xue'e was resolute and refused to do it, she took the initiative to help her light the fire. Xue'e knew that when her mother-in-law entered the door, something must be wrong, so she calmed down and listened to what she had to say.