Every night, the family did not go out to visit the house, but gathered in the grandmother's house. Grandma and mother spin cotton, and plan to weave a machine of cotton cloth with the second grandmother's family in the first month. There are no looms in either family, and it is still relatively cold in early February, and there are not many people weaving cloth, so it is easier to borrow a loom.

Grandpa and Dad weaved baskets with shade wicker, and at the same time told all kinds of easy-to-understand stories to the brothers and sisters, entertaining and educational, and imperceptibly popularizing all kinds of knowledge to the children.

The two of them used wicker of different thicknesses to weave all kinds of daily necessities, such as shoulder baskets, dung baskets and baskets, large and small.

Grandpa's dexterity made a small shoulder basket for Youyou, twenty centimeters high, twenty centimeters wide, and thirty centimeters long.

Yoyo took his brother's textbook and pretended to ask his brother for advice from time to time, showing a strong learning ability. ”

In order to understand this society as soon as possible, Yoyo asked all kinds of questions to adults, and asked a whole family society of 100,000 why it came, which often attracted the old people to talk about the past.

On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, my grandmother sent a large piece of white noodles, soaked a handful of red dates, and began to steam new buns. Yoyo was so happy, circling around grandma and mother. After the New Year, I ate all the leftover buns steamed from the previous year, but I can eat enough for Youyou.

The slots are dry and cracked, and after steaming, they have to be scooped out with a spoon and put in a bowl to eat. The skin of the sticky bean bun is delicious, and the filling inside is boiled with red beans and sweet potatoes and red dates, but after a long time, there is a sour taste.

But there are also delicious foods, that is, every morning, Hao Hao and Youyou are afraid of the cold and stay in the bed to sleep lazy. Grandma warmed a bowl of meatballs for breakfast, including sweet sticky noodle balls and vegetable balls, and when it was hot, she brought it over and let them eat it under the covers. It is said that the child is hungry fast, and he will get up after eating.

There is also the bean dregs bun. A few years ago, steamed steamed buns were mixed with tofu dregs, with seasonings and salt. After steaming, it is boiled in the wheat straw pile while it is hot, and it turns into a sauce red after the year, exuding a strong sauce fragrance.

Cut into thin slices and dried, eat with the broth left over from cooking meat years ago, stew together with vermicelli, all kinds of aromas mixed together, it is still quite delicious, but it is a pity that it is too salty, similar to pickles, stew two bowls at noon every day, the family has never finished eating, and continue to eat at night.

On the evening of the fourteenth, the second grandmother gave two pieces of cut flower cakes, each of which had to be the size of a bowl and more than half a foot high, exuding a strong sweet smell of red dates.

"The osmanthus mother-in-law gives the steamed flower cake to the big one, so that the children can taste it and eat it rarely. ”

"Second grandma, my daughter will take this flower cake, and you have to press back half of it, your second elder is not in good health, put more food to nourish your body, you still think about the children, they can't eat anything after they are young. ”

The second grandmother didn't listen to her grandmother at all, and put the flower cake in the kitchen of Youyou's house.

According to the particularity in the countryside, the new daughter-in-law's fifteenth flower cake must be kept for her in-law's family, and she will take it with her when she returns at sixteen.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the people here don't even know what the Lantern Festival is. The local custom is to eat flower cakes for breakfast, which means that the harvest of whole grains is high.

The flower cake is filled with red dates, and the whole bun has a sweet taste, and there is a strong fragrance of dates when you eat it. The bowl is a big flower cake, and you eat one by yourself.

Grandma slipped a grate full of flower cakes, and after breakfast, there were only two left.

Hao Hao held his stomach in satisfaction and suggested: "Grandma, let's also plant a jujube tree in the yard, and we can steam a few more flower cakes to eat after drying dates." ”

Grandma smiled, "Silly boy, what we are missing is not dates, but white noodles." Besides, this yard belongs to the team, and the team has the final say on what trees to plant. ”

After breakfast, my grandmother and mother got busy. Prepare the dumpling filling first, chop the spicy radish and vermicelli, and chop the cooked meat that weighs half a catty specially left over for the New Year into dices.

Put two spoons of oil in the pot, add the green onion and ginger foam and stir-fry until the meat comes out of the oil, pour the radish vermicelli into the pot, add salt and peppercorn noodles and mix well, and the flat food filling is ready. Don't look at only half a catty of meat, but it smells very fragrant.

The oil skimmer is not much bigger than a copper coin, and there is a shallow dimple in the middle, and you can't scoop a tablespoon of oil twice.

Grandma also said that this is a big one, and some people insert a wooden stick in the hole in the middle of the copper coin as an oil skimmer, and they can't scoop up the oil at all, and they can also drain some oil stars.

Then drown the bacon, the remaining five or six pieces of cooked pork for the New Year are about three catties, put them in the pot and boil them, take them out to dry and smear them with fine salt around them, put them in a small jar and seal them, according to grandma, bacon can be put in dog days.

At noon, a pot of boiled meat soup with cabbage vermicelli and mung bean flour balls was stewed, which was the second stew after the Chinese New Year. Although there are all kinds of delicacies in the storage park, I don't have the opportunity to be alone, and I don't want to eat alone. Now a bowl of cabbage in clear soup, the fragrant tongue is about to swallow it.

In the afternoon, my mother made a big piece of white noodles, "Why are there so many?"

Grandma gave you a puzzle: "This is two meals of dumpling noodles tonight and tomorrow morning, under the sixteenth year of the first month, after eating tomorrow morning's dumplings and the New Year, it will be over, and there will be thirty leftovers and fifteen leftover noodles." ”

Grandma and mother made dumplings, seeing that her brother was learning to make dumplings, Yoyo also shouted to help, grandma asked her to press the agent, Didi followed the trouble, and was wiped with flour by Yoyo with his hands, and he was so happy that he cracked his mouth, like a clown on the stage, which made the family laugh non-stop.

Just wrapped for a while, the three sisters of Osmanthus came, and when they entered the house, they started to help with the bag, and Osmanthus instructed Si Ni Guiping: "Wash Didi's face and lead him to play on the street."

Grandma also washed her hands and followed her out into the street. Seeing this, Yoyo followed out in a hurry.

On the street, the merchant car came again, surrounded by adults and children, and business was booming.

Youyo squeezed in, this time there were more fireworks than fifteen. The red candle the size of the little finger is inserted on the bamboo skewer the length of the chopsticks, ten handfuls and a dime. There are two kinds of Qihuo (Drill Sky Monkey), both of which are twenty handfuls, the large one is two cents, and the small one is five cents. The half-foot-high soil flower is five points, and the small point is two points. Didi tendons cost two handfuls a penny, and a handful of five.

People with children buy some of them more or less, so that the children can celebrate the New Year happily, that is, it costs a dime or two. If you don't have money, you can exchange eggs, messy hair, rotten soles, and scrap metal.

Grandma bought a red candle, a small flag fire, two small earth flowers and two dripping tendons, which cost a total of two cents.

When I got home, I had already wrapped my flat food. Grandma took out a few pieces of colorful snack wrapping paper and led Sanni and Sini to tie the flower tree.

Sanni ran out and broke two branches more than two feet tall on the willow tree outside. Grandma cut the colored paper into strips and hung them on the branches, and the colorful strips of flowers fluttered, which was really a veritable "flower tree".

Then, the grandmother tied two flower girls with straw (sorghum straw) and colored paper, carried a flower basket in her arm, filled the basket with a few cotton, and hung the flower girl on the flower tree. Sanni and her family planted on the dung heap in the yard, hoping for a bumper cotton harvest.

Before it got dark, people had an early dinner, gathered in the center of the street, and took out the fireworks they bought at home and set off them together.

Several earth flowers are set off together, and the scene is also quite spectacular, as if the fire tree silver flowers are scattered all over the sky, and the height is more than two meters.

It still requires skill to set off a flag fire, and it will go straight to the sky with a "whoosh" sound; as soon as it can't let go, it will go out on a slanted (sloppy) ground, and the panicked crowd will hurriedly dodge, causing bursts of screams.

The little ones held the burning candles, and the older ones leaned in to light the dripping tendons, flicking and drawing circles, and small sparks flew down, which can be described as beautiful.

The happy smiling faces and cheerful crowd brought the New Year to a successful end.