Grandma rested at home for a day, and then went again. back and forth, busy until the twentieth month of the lunar month.

Yoyo reminded grandma: "Grandma, it's time for us to sell pork, everyone in the village is waiting there." ”

The 82 fat pigs in the team were all sold to the food station today. Each head is more than 200 catties, and the stationmaster is happy, and he gives a thousand catties of meat tickets on the spot.

The twenty-third day of the lunar month is the day of the sacrificial stove. After the sacrificial stove, it is considered to be the New Year's Festival. Unmarried men began to give gifts to their women, and meat sellers began to be sold in the bazaar.

Grandma went to discuss with her uncle and grandfather, and the two decided to start slaughtering from the twenty-third day of the lunar month. There are still more than 160 pigs in the village, and with the experience of the winter solstice, it is estimated that no one will stay this time.

After selling pork, I can't eat the rest of it for the New Year. What's more, each family has a meat ticket of more than 20 catties, and relatives and friends can go to the food station to buy and supply meat, which is only 0.56 yuan per catty.

In fact, selling meat during the New Year is concentrated in the five-day period from the 24th to the 28th of the lunar month. In this way, thirty heads had to be slaughtered in one day. The Foreign Trade Bureau has already said that they want ten heads.

Grandma said: "It's cold now, pork can be put down, try to kill it in advance, starting from the 23rd, you can kill as much as you can in a day." ”

Uncle and grandfather said: "If you can't be busy, call Uncle Wisdom to help, he is young and strong, he is also a real person, and his mouth is strict, so it will be much faster." ”

My aunt's maternal brother can kill pigs, and he is only in his thirties, which is the age when he can contribute.

"Brother, you arrange it at home, Aiguo is in charge of transportation, and I am still responsible for taking out the food. ”

On the 21st of the lunar month, the public security officers sent a letter, asking his uncle and grandfather, Han Daowei and the second grandfather to go to the commune to solve the matter of Zhang Liugen's family.

Guilian is still in the hospital, but she has basically recovered and will be discharged from the hospital before the year. Zhang Liugen was accompanied by the hospital, and he went directly to the commune from the county seat.

Uncle and grandfather came back and said that Zhang Liugen's mother had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for robbery and injury. His second and third brothers collaborated with their mother to commit the crime, were detained for 15 days, and compensated 500 yuan for economic losses. Guilian 470 yuan, Han Daowei 30 yuan.

That old woman is really hateful, in order to exonerate her youngest son, she dug out all the family funds, and there were more than 700 yuan, which is considered a top family in the countryside.

put so much money away, and came to rob Da'er's things, and deliberately hurt people. took a human life, and sentenced her to ten years is really cheap.

Although Han Daowei was lying at home, he was not willing to be idle, and calculated the accounts of the village for a year. Coupled with the income from selling pigs and willow weaving, this year, a job in Hantun Village is worth 1.30 yuan. It is estimated that it must be high in the county first.

On the twenty-second day of the lunar month, the team settled. Plus soybean oil, two catties per person. This year, my grandfather helped out at our consignment point, and my parents earned work points for the Yoyo family. In addition to the grain payment, more than 350 yuan was also divided. The largest number of families in the village were divided into more than 700, and Zhang Liugen's family settled down after Mai, and they also divided more than 200 yuan.

Everyone was very excited when they got the money. Women, in particular, come to grandma and ask grandma to help carry clothes, both adults and children. Everyone said, we have money, we can buy finished clothes without cloth tickets, and we have to be good.

The women all fell in love with the trench coats and striped pants of the two aunts, and the men wanted polyester cadre clothes. Kids love Sister Wisdom's sportswear, and boys and girls want it.

Sister Wisdom's sportswear was used by her as a smock and wore it for a winter. Thickened polyester sportswear, warm and easy to wash. The cloth for knitting, elasticity is large and comfortable to wear,

Grandma told everyone: "I have to be busy selling meat until twenty-eight or nineteen, don't be afraid of delaying." Everyone said, "We are waiting for it in the morning and evening, as long as we can wear it on the first day of the new year." ”

Also, this year, everyone has money in their hands. Although there are many dividends in the team, the key is that each family has fed a few pigs, and a pig is sold for at least 200 yuan, and this alone has an income of nearly 1,000 yuan. At this time, the gold content of the 1,000-yuan households was much higher than that of the later 10,000-yuan households.

On the twenty-second day of the lunar month, the school also had a winter vacation. In fact, the annual leave of 20 days starts on the 27th of the lunar month, but the commune education group arranges the examination on the 22nd. Then the teacher corrected the test papers, and on the 26th, the children went to school to see the results.

This practice is actually a disguised increase in holidays, but it is quite humane and welcomed by parents and children.

The twenty-third day of the lunar month is the day of the sacrifice stove, that is, to clean the house, sacrifice the stove king, and send the stove king to heaven. Since the automatic rebellion, the ritual stove activity has been abolished as the four olds, but the habit of cleaning has been retained.

This year, the old people in Hantun Village came to the consignment point on the 22nd, indicating that they wanted toffee, bought two pieces of straw paper, and added mosquito coils in summer.

Originally, the sacrificial stove should use maltose, and use sticky and sweet maltose to stick to the mouth of the stove master, which is intended to make it report more good news and less bad news after going to heaven. Now there is no maltose, so you can only use toffee instead, at least the toffee is also sticky.

The old man's reason is: this year, all the gods are protecting our village, you think about it, just after the New Year, we began to sell Maodi pears, and when we dug Maodi pears, bells and alfalfa grass came out, and our village can afford to feed so many pigs and sheep.

The chickens outside all died of chicken plague, and they pulled down our village alone. This time, none of the children in our village got sick. You are young and ignorant, and we are old, so we can't pretend to be confused. People, you have to know gratitude. There are gods three feet above our heads, and the heavens are watching us.

Listening to what the old man said, think about it carefully, it is really like this, and everyone also believes eight points. Therefore, none of the children stopped the old people in the family.

On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, the children began to sing early in the morning: Twenty-three, sugar melons are sticky, twenty-four, house-sweeping day, twenty-five, frozen tofu, twenty-six, beef stew, twenty-seven, slaughtering roosters, twenty-eighth, putting noodles and hair, twenty-nine, steaming steamed buns, thirty-year's stay up at night (reading xiu), and twisting on the first day of the new year.

Sugar melon sacrifice stove, the New Year is coming. The girl wants flowers, the boy wants a cannon, the old man wants a new felt hat, and the old lady wants a new padded jacket.

The old man was in front of the stove, put the milk candy, lit the mosquito coils, twisted a paper horse with wrapping paper, folded a few ingots, and burned them together. There are words in his mouth: "There is grass and fodder, and the pony is fed." The stove king rode a horse to the sky, and reported more good news to keep safe. Then he shook his hands and kowtowed, and the sacrifice stove ended.

After the day of the festival, until Chinese New Year's Eve, the gods go to heaven, and there are no taboos. Most people marry at this time. First, in order to save food, the wedding things and the New Year's preparations can save a lot. The second is that the new daughter-in-law saves three days to return to the door, and she can be combined with the new guest on the second day of the Lunar New Year, and save another gift.

There are also Chinese New Year's Eve to marry a daughter-in-law, at this time people have finished preparing things for the New Year, and they have eaten a few good days in a row, especially croquettes, and there is oil and water in the stomach, and then they will not eat much, at least they can save dry food.

Most people who get married find someone to see a good day, and those who get married in their thirties have an excuse for thirty-one good days. In fact, everyone understands in their hearts that people laugh at people who do this: fine skin, look at thirty.