Chinese New Year is the happiest for children, but it is busy for adults.

Dust, as the name suggests, is to clean up the dust accumulated in the house.

For example, the tower ash on the shed, the dust on the wall, and the corners of the wall that can't be swept at ordinary times, and the places behind the cabinets must be cleaned.

Just this sweep of the dust, Zhou Shujie was busy sweating.

She moved the quilt and the cabinet by herself, and swept away all the dust that she usually couldn't clean behind.

After sweeping the house, I went to the outhouse.

Clean up the shelves, and the dishes that are not commonly used will be used during the New Year.

When the bowl rack was emptied, she was forced to move it.

"Mmmm~~~Ah! Finally moved a little, eh! It's too heavy. ”

Zhou Shujie exhausted his strength to feed, and moved the bowl rack to the ground with a drag.

A small empty space that was only big enough for her to get in sideways.

It was only in this small gap that she cleaned the back of the bowl shelf.

With the same effort, Baal moved it back to its place, and put the cleaned dishes back in.

After cleaning up for a day, the house was cleaned up and cleaned.

The house is clean, but I look like a mud monkey.

That night, I boiled another pot of water and scrubbed myself.

The next day, I was busy steaming dry food for a short day.

Most people in the village take sticky cornmeal and steamed sticky bean buns.

The stickiness of this sticky corn is not as great as that of Jiang rice, and the steamed bean buns are not as strong and delicious as the steamed Jiang rice.

So Zhou Shujie didn't earn this kind of bean bag.

She mixed the stick rice noodles with white noodles and put some jujubes and steamed two pots, the color was slightly yellow, and the taste was soft.

People in the city are steamed out in winter, so it is convenient to eat on weekdays.

In the countryside, they are steamed before the Chinese New Year, and if you steam early, it will not be enough for the children at home. These half-sized children are hungry every day, and they often take frozen bean buns and eat them like that, and they have to eat them all before the New Year, so the countryside is steaming bean buns before the end of the year.

Although there is enough grain to eat this year, the concept of frugality among rural people cannot be changed in a moment.

After a few days of busyness, the day will be the twenty-ninth of the lunar month, and tomorrow will be the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Zhou Shujie plans to melt all the frozen meat and fish in the house, and make a hearty Chinese New Year's Eve meal on thirty bowls.

Speaking of Chinese New Year's Eve, there is also fun to watch.

People living in the Northeast come from all over the world.

Some of their festive customs will be different.

For example, Shandong people, they celebrate the New Year on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Northeast people celebrate the New Year, but it is the Chinese New Year's Eve.

There used to be a family in the village, an old man and his wife, one from Northeast China and the other from Shandong.

Every year, their family will have disputes over which day the New Year will be, and one year when there is a lot of trouble, they will come forward to the village chief and let the village chief decide which day to celebrate the New Year.

The village chief didn't want to care, but in the end, they had no choice but to quarrel, so he decided to give them a year of thirty and a year of the first day of junior high school.

Let's talk about it, twenty-nine this day.

Zhou Shujie took out all kinds of meat, put the fish in the house and painted it first, and waited for 30 nights to make a hearty Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

Zhou Shujie also planned to go down to the vegetable cellar to get some fresh potatoes and cabbage.

went down the vegetable cellar and took out some fresh vegetables, seeing that there were still a lot of vegetables left in the vegetable cellar, Zhou Shujie thought that he must eat them all before the beginning of spring.

The vegetables were put into the outhouse, and I walked around twice, but I couldn't find anything else that I hadn't done.

Zhou Shujie washed his hands and went into the house.

When I entered the house and saw the children and my mother-in-law, I remembered that I hadn't cleaned them up yet!

Pick up the piping hot kettle on the stove and get some water.

first washed the hair of the two children, and then wiped their bodies with a soft towel, after this winter, I was afraid that the children would catch a cold when they took a bath, so Zhou Shujie did not bathe the children, and wiped their bodies like this.

After finishing the child, he changed the water again, and helped the mother-in-law wash her hair and wipe her body.

When the mother-in-law's hair is semi-dry.

Zhou Shujie helped her mother-in-law comb her hair again, and tied his gray hair behind her head.

After combing, turn to the front and take a look.

Sure enough, it seems that the mother-in-law is particularly energetic and temperamental.

Reaching out from the quilt, he took out the new clothes for the children and mother-in-law to wear during the New Year.

These new clothes are the fruits of Zhou Shujie's labor this winter.

The fabric she used to make her clothes was the one she bought in the fall.

In winter, she didn't use it to make a padded jacket, so she used it to make a new set of clothes for her mother-in-law.

The same is true for the children, who bought the little flower cloth at that time and said that they would make cotton pants.

Aunt Guo said that she was too wasteful, and she couldn't wear cotton pants, so she could wear a smock for the child.

Zhou Shujie listened to Aunt Guo'er's suggestion and made a small flower gown for each of the two children.

Although the son and daughter are dragon and phoenix fetuses, they don't look so similar, but as soon as they put on this little flower dress, it makes people feel that they are a little similar, and Zhou Shujie laughed for a long time, if there was a camera, it would be great to take a picture.

When I saw the three grandparents and grandchildren wearing new clothes, they were all very happy.

Zhou Shujie let them wear it all the time and didn't let them take it off.

Wait until the two children are tired of playing and fall asleep.

Zhou Shujie saw that it was already noon, so she went to the ground to light a fire and prepared to cook the next year's dinner.

In the village, every family's next year's meal is big porridge, and it will be eaten today, and the rest will be kept until after the fifteenth day before eating.

The meaning of this alternate year's meal is, simply put, the meaning of "having a surplus of grain every year".

At two o'clock, the porridge was finally cooked.

Zhou Shujie and her mother-in-law didn't cook, so they drank three bowls of porridge each with pickles.

After eating, take the remaining large porridge and water it twice.

Take it out and make it into a ball, and put it outside to freeze.

After the year, when you want to eat, take a ball and put it in a pot with water, and boil it to make porridge.

After packing these up,

Zhou Shujie washed his hands.

Take out a basin, scoop two bowls of noodles, and mix the noodles.

This noodle is not used to make dumplings.

It is used to make lamps, and this lamp is to be given to those who have passed away.

It is their custom here to bring a lamp to a deceased relative on the evening of the twenty-ninth day.

If there is no white flour, you can use other grains to make it, and as long as there is a loved one in the family who has died, this lamp must be made and must be delivered.

As for why this lamp was sent? What is in it, Zhou Shujie doesn't remember much.

I just remember to make a lamp for my deceased father-in-law every Chinese New Year.

In his previous life, Zhou Shujie had never sent this lamp in person.

She was a little timid and afraid to go to the cemetery, so she didn't send lamps to the old man, all of them were sent by Guo Sange.

Now that she has lived once, Zhou Shujie is no longer afraid of these, she will make lamps in person this year and give them to her personally.

Of course, I still have to go with Guo Sange and them.

Let her walk four or five miles alone, she really didn't dare.

I don't dare to have nothing to do with gods and ghosts, but I'm afraid that I will meet some bad people.