Chapter 272: Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner

Li Junge's family didn't have this bad habit, so everyone set up a table of eight immortals in the middle of the hall, three stools, one above and one on each side. Ｘ

There is no stool below, only three incense and two candles are lit under the table, and the remaining three parties are respectively placed on the bowl, chopsticks and wine glasses, a little dry rice is placed in the bowl, and the chopsticks are placed on the bowl, each side has two pairs of bowls and chopsticks and two wine glasses, the cup is filled with liquor, and three cooked dishes are placed on the table.

In this way, even if you set a table for the ancestors and invite them back to eat.

Dad has already asked the fourth grandfather to write the fire sheet early, and it is the same for every family, regardless of gender.

The next thing is the yard paper, Dad dragged out a big broken pot, and then each yard its own house, piled up like a pile of bricks, leaving a hole between the paper bag and the paper bag, for overheating.

Wang Meixian and Jing Zilun Ma Cuiru thought it was funny and asked for a code.

The aunt turned around and smiled while stacking paper: "This is not good for you, you can come back when you burn paper for the old ancestors!"

Boxes of paper were neatly built like brick walls, pressed with firesheets, and Dad first burned a pile of paper money outside the basin.

This is used to dispel the little ghosts, so as not to let them come and rob the treasures of the ancestors.

Then the aunt called the little ones over to light the fire, hoping that the ancestors would bless them first, which was also the good intentions of the elders.

Li Junge's family is not small, and he will represent it, and together with the six babies, he will take the money paper to start a fire and burn the paper.

After the paper was lit, the second aunt found a yellow wattle stick for each of the few small ones, and beat around the paper fire, which was also to prevent the lonely ghost from snatching the offerings of the ancestors of the family.

A few small people did not know the importance of this ceremony, and beat happily with sticks, and the adults began to make a ceremony to the ancestors under the table, reciting eulogies, and inviting the ancestors to come to the New Year's dinner to collect paper money.

After the paper is burned, the incense wax is basically over, and the ceremony is basically over.

However, the ashes cannot be lost, and they must be carried back by the uncle and sprinkled on the graves of the ancestors in the back mountain.

Mom and Dad began to clean up the Eight Immortals table, first removing the incense candles, and then collecting the dry rice in the six rice bowls.

Li Junge explained to Ayin and Black, White and Brown: "There are two customs here, one is to splash water and rice, and the other is to cover the New Year's dinner. ”

The six bowls of rice are divided into two parts, one is to wait for everyone to eat the New Year's dinner, take it to the roadside outside the house, put the bowl upside down on the ground, and wait for wild dogs, wild cats and some unsacrificed lonely souls to enjoy, which is considered a benevolent heart and a charitable activity.

To cover the New Year's rice is to put another portion of rice in a bowl and cover it with a saucer, put it on the side of the incense table under the tablet, and wait for the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to open it again.

If the rice turns red, it indicates a good harvest of sorghum in the coming year, and it will be more abundant, if it is yellow, it will be more abundant if it is a good harvest of rice in the next year, and if it is white, it will be a good harvest of sesame seeds in the next year...... In this way, the next year's harvest is determined by the color of the rice and the color of the grains.

This also reflects people's good wishes for good weather and abundant crops.

After explaining a set of rituals, Li Junge felt that his mouth was about to dry, Ayin expressed his understanding, and the black, white and brown servants couldn't stop nodding, saying that they had gained a lot, and their awe of traditional Chinese culture deepened.

After burning the paper and serving the gods, it is time to serve the appetite of the living.

Mom and Dad Ayin began to serve cold dishes, steamed dishes, roasted vegetables, and soup dishes, and Li Junge began to go into the kitchen to prepare stir-fried dishes.

Preserved meat platter, folded ear root mixed with chong vegetables, green onion mixed with bean curd, the big rooster just finished the sacrifice is cut into white chopped chicken, sweet roasted white, salty roasted white, squid balls crispy pork roasted winter bamboo shoots, snow konjac sour cowpea roasted duck, garlic cabbage roasted belly strips, stewed chicken soup, bacon soup stewed radish...... It was brought out like water.

My mother smiled at Ah Yin in the kitchen and said, "Good girl, you should have sat at the table, but today I won't treat you as an outsider, you can greet the guests with us." ”

Ayin blushed and said, "Why don't you and your uncle go to eat first, it's rare for the old brother to come back, you can talk to them more, I can get it with Erpi here." ”

Mom smiled and said, "Okay, we'll start eating when we've finished serving the ready-made dishes, and you'll be quick with your hands and feet!"

Li Junge was roasting the watercress fish and said with a smile: "Don't worry, it's very fast!"

Ayin began to cut the knife head meat, and brought out the watercress fish in the middle, Li Junge quickly fried a pickled pepper chicken and duck offal, a yellow-flowered fungus shredded pork, and then fried a pot of meat, celery shredded meat, and then fried vinegared cabbage and fried purple rape.

Then I took off my apron and came out. Find a place to eat with Ayin.

Thirty-nine people opened four tables, black, white and brown liked little dolls, and squeezed into a table with six babies.

It seems that they are still talking happily, and Li Junge doesn't know how they communicate.

squeezed to this table with Ayin, first made a bottom, and said to Aunt Bai: "You eat first, and I will go with Ayin to toast a round of wine." ”

Aunt Bai smiled: "Go, don't worry about us, your food is so fragrant, and the children are very polite to pick up the food for us!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "Then you can eat more, don't see outside, by the way, I guess you are not used to drinking high-grade wine, this prickly pear rice wine is made with a kind of wild fruit in the mountains, the degree is not high, you can drink some, but don't drink high, there are still a few customs at night." ”

Zongba was surprised, "Also, I finally know what Alice and Shirly mean when they say that there are many rules...... But your wine is delicious, come, taro...... I'll toast you too, cheers!. ”

Taro hurriedly put down the chopsticks and held the cup: "Okay zongzi...... Happy Chinese New Year!"

Ayin couldn't laugh anymore, this is a bad name, and the two of them shouted it themselves.

took Ayin to the main table first, this table is full of elders, only the mother is not at this table, there are just ten people.

As soon as I saw the two little ones coming, the aunt coaxed: "Ouch! The chef is here! Not bad, Piwa's skills are enough to open a restaurant! Ayin girl, thank you for your hard work!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "When my family eats, I don't need to play a lap alone, right?

Uncle coaxed again: "That's not good! When you opened your new store in Junwei, you gave us a good time! I know how much you drink!"

Li Junge hurriedly begged for mercy: "Ouch, uncle, I'll watch the Spring Festival Gala later, and there are international friends over there, so you should pay attention to the international influence!"

The old man laughed: "You don't come here, you pay attention to the influence now! When you call people taro dumplings, you don't think about the international impact?"

The taro and the dumpling turned their heads: "Sir, you called us?"

The old man raised his glass to the two of them with a smile and laughter, and the two of them were flattered and raised their glasses to drink one.

A table of people laughed crookedly, and the uncle said: "Piwa is good anywhere, but this skin monkey can't change his temperament." Ayin, you'll have to be more restrained in the future!"

Ayin only pursed her lips and smiled.

Li Junge said: "You have to get it, you can go alone! Ayin doesn't have a lot of wine, then one person has a sip, I have a full cup here, and that starts with the fourth grandfather! Fourth grandfather, this year's children and grandchildren are back, this is the happiest day in decades, right? Come, I wish you the old man a clean and healthy body, and a longevity better than Nanshan." ”

Today is a big day, the men's two tables drank Wuliangye, a circle of elders saluted, and the four taels of wine did not stop.

After drinking, he came to the table of Brother Lobby, this table is Li Jiajun's character plus Alice and Shirly, Li Junge directly squeezed Brother Lobby out of half of the stool and sat down next to him, and said: "No, no, no, this is half a bottle......"

The second cousin hurriedly said: "Yo! Erpi, then you can eat something and press it!"

Brother Lobby pouted and said, "Look at him pretending! Hurry up, he hasn't come back for so many years! What are the rules at the last table, what are the rules at this table!"

Li Junge said: "Isn't it? Huh? Our table happens to be in pairs, so let's respect the pairs!"

That's another five cups of belly.

Then it's my cousin's cousin's side, and after a circle, it's a pound smaller.

When I returned to the original table of the babies, I saw taro frowning and touching his neck.

Li Junge asked with concern, "Taro, what's wrong?"

Wang Meixian said: "Brother taro is not well-behaved, eating fish and talking, fish bones stuck in the throat! It's been a long time!"

Li Junge said: "Yo! There are a lot of fish bones in freshwater, and this is still a little troublesome, grandma! Uncle! The taro is stuck in the throat by the fish bones." ”

Grandma quickly stood up and said, "Then the kid will come with me into the kitchen." ”

Uncle and Li Junge also followed, and Aunt Bai and Zongba were also very concerned, so they also followed.

Grandma said to the uncle: "When you burn the paper, there are ancestral gods who have missed it?"

Uncle picked his head and recalled, "No!"

Grandma shook her head, took four chopsticks and moistened them next to each other, stood on the stove with the chopsticks face down, and began to recite the names of the ancestors one by one.

After reading them all, the chopsticks still can't stand up.

The uncle said, "Fifth aunt, look, I'm not wrong, right?"

Grandma also wondered: "Then it doesn't make sense?"

Uncle slapped his head: "Don't be a neighbor who went to the wrong door, right?!"

Grandma suddenly remembered something and said, "Oh! Accountant Tang's family has a new house this year, don't you come back and can't find the door?!"

Before the words were finished, the chopsticks stood up, Li Junge was not surprised by these early sights, although the black, white and brown three people were okay in Chinese, but the Jiachuan native dialect spoken by the eldest uncle and grandmother, several people seemed to understand it, the kitchen was already gloomy, and when they saw the chopsticks standing on the stove, they were all frightened.

I heard my grandmother say to the chopsticks: "Old Tang, how did you start it! The house has been renovated, but the foundation of the roof has not changed! Why don't you dare to go in? Don't worry, your family Shaoping can do a good job, then the new house is your family! The daughter-in-law is also virtuous, and the baby is well-behaved! They are all waiting for you to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner! What are you doing here? Go quickly!"

The old man also said: "By the way, follow me to the old aunt and bring a good message." These three are guests, don't look at their strange appearances, they are all good people! In the future, there will be many such foreigners in Lijiagou, so don't make a fuss when you see them? Do you hear that?

It's strange to say, as soon as the two finished speaking,