When Lin Wei went to the small courtyard that Tang Shen bought, several people had already cleaned the house, and even the Spring Festival couplets painted on the door had been pasted.

Cheng Liang was smoking with a few people, and when he saw Lin Wei coming over, he knew that she didn't like people to smoke, so he had to quietly stuff the cigarette in his pocket.

"Why did you come back? Don't you have all the tools in the storage room?"

He was a little loud, obviously trying to hide something.

Lin smiled and shook his head, "Uncle, don't think I didn't see you hiding cigarettes!"

As he spoke, he put down the bag in his hand, "Let's just clean it up simply, don't be too careful, just pile up the weeds together, and press some soil on it." ”

In this way, it can also fertilize the soil.

"Isn't it okay to burn it directly?" Wang Dashan wondered, "It also saves trouble and prevents earthworms." It also prevents accidental fires. ”

Lin Wei also thought about burning it, but after thinking about it, it was better to forget it.

During the Chinese New Year, if some sparks drift out with the wind, or if the smoke is too big when the grass burns, it will not be good for the public security to dispatch.

It's all the New Year, and if you can do less, you will have one less thing.

"Cover the haystack with soil and make it thicker. Lin Wei said, "This way it won't catch fire." As for the earthworms, it will be easy to do when the time comes, my mother said that she will let my grandmother raise a few chickens next year, and then it will be chicken food. ”

Her mother did say this last night when she was washing her feet. said that she was afraid that after she gave birth, she would not be able to buy enough eggs and chicken, so she thought about beating a few chicks for her grandmother to raise.

It's just that I haven't had time to tell my grandmother yet.

"That's okay, let's finish it quickly, and then go home for dinner. ”

Cheng Liang greeted him, and everyone immediately took action.

Lin Wei took a flower shovel, found a corner and squatted, and began to shovel the dead grass little by little.

Seven or eight people work, and the speed is self-heating.

After a while, the yard changed dramatically. A few people glanced at the fruits of their labor, and then swarmed towards Lin Wei's small courtyard.

After pasting all the door painting couplets, when I arrived at Cheng Man's place, it was already 1:40 pm.

As soon as he saw a few people coming back, Cheng Man hurriedly shouted to the kitchen, "Mother, you can make dumplings." ”

After shouting, he said to Lin Zhiyuan: "Hurry up and set off firecrackers." ”

After some orders, she picked up a handful of incense that she had already counted, looked for a match, and found a piece of yellow paper that had been used before, and made a preparatory move.

As soon as the firecrackers sounded, she immediately lit the yellow paper in her hand, lit incense with the ignited yellow paper, and recited words while lighting it.

"God, the gods and Buddhas, please bless your family with peace and security, no illness and no disaster, and harmony and ......happiness."

After reciting it a few times, he inserted the incense into the incense burner and lit it again, "The ancestors bless the children in the family with a prosperous business, if you make money in the coming year, I will sacrifice you a big pig's head in the New Year, and treat you with good wine and meat......"

The voice is not loud, but the words are clear.

This is the most common prayer in the countryside, simple, but it expresses the appeal of people's lives.

Although it may not be possible, it will be repeated every year, and it will never be left behind.

After praying in the living room, Cheng Man beckoned Lin Guo to go to the kitchen with the offerings, while she herself held the offerings in one hand and three incense sticks in the other.

When Grandma Cheng saw Cheng Man coming, she hurriedly came out from behind the stove, so that there was nothing else in front of Cheng Man except the stove.

"Lord Stove blesses the peace and security of the family, when you go back to heaven, say more good things, and burn some sugar cakes for you in two days......"

After speaking, he prayed to the door god at the door for a while, and then returned to the kitchen, kowtowed to the stove king, and then respectfully inserted the incense into the incense burner on the stove.

Seeing that the incense was all firmly in the incense burner, Cheng Man showed a smile on his face and beckoned a few humanitarians, "You all go wash your hands, the cold dishes in the living room are ready." ”

As soon as Grandma Cheng Liang came back, she also hurried home with someone, and she hadn't prayed yet.

"There's no rush. ”

Wu Xuewen smiled and said, "Wait a minute, Brother Cheng, I'll eat when everyone is ready." ”

Everyone else insisted.

There was no way, Cheng Man had to ask Lin Zhiyuan and Lin Wei to greet a few people, and Lin Guo stayed in the kitchen to help make dumplings on the fire.

In the past, coal fires were used at home, but this time there are more people in the family, and the underground pot can meet the needs of so many dumplings at one time.

Lin Zhiyuan didn't know how to speak, but he was a real person, and he didn't eat first when he saw a few people, so he quickly got some peanuts and melon seeds and candies to pass the time for a few people, and took out a cigarette and gave a pack to each person.

Because Cheng Man is often, he generally doesn't smoke, so there is still a lot of tobacco and alcohol left in Tang Shen.

Lin Wei saw that a few people were a little moved, but because she was there, she was not good at smoking, so she had to say that she would go to the kitchen to help and leave a space for them.

"What's going on?"

Cheng Man was turning the dumplings with a long-handled soup spoon, and when he saw her coming, he hurriedly said: "Just your father's temperament of not speaking when he sees a living person, do you expect him to entertain guests? There is no shortage of you here, go back quickly." ”

Don't be speechless when the time comes, how embarrassing and rude it is.

"Mom, I saw that my dad was very well entertained. "At least it's much better than when I was in Wangshan Village. He also took melon seeds and peanut candy out. ”

"What about the smoke?"

Speaking of cigarettes, Cheng Man also understood, "It's okay for you to come over, otherwise they will be really embarrassed to smoke in front of you." ”

Lin Guo has been busy enough all day today, and he is wilting at this time, listening to these two people talking, he stuffed firewood into the stove for a while, and he didn't say a word.

Seeing her sister Lin Wei coming, she only raised her eyelids, and when she saw that Lin Wei didn't say anything, she stared at the stove with a loveless face.

"Go out, I'll light the fire." ”

Lin Wei wanted to replace her, but was blocked, "The dumplings are almost cooked." ”

So, there's no need for a substitution.

Cheng Man saw that she looked weak, and scolded with a smile: "Won't you just wash the fruit and then set a plate?

"I also burned the fire, stacked gold ingots, cleaned the yard and posted doors, washed vegetables and meat, and made dumplings. If it weren't for her lack of strength, Lin Guo felt that her mother might have to let her chop the dumpling filling.

"Okay, good, you've worked hard today. ”

Lin Guo glanced at Cheng Man, and bargained hopelessly: "Mom, you said that I worked hard, so can you not take away my New Year's money this year?" and the money you owe before, you can also write it off for me?"

"Okay, okay, a write-off, don't charge your New Year's money, okay?"

Cheng Man now has more money, and seeing her pitiful again, he nodded with a smile, but still warned, "If I find out that you spend money arbitrarily, then I won't say it." ”