Chapter 273: Happy New Year

Grandma brought a bowl of water, drew a circle with two fingers against the water, muttered a few words, brought the water to the taro and said, "Come, baby, drink two sips and try!"

Taro took the bowl, tried to take two sips, and touched his neck again: "Oh God!

Aunt Bai's eyes were full of little stars: "Jungle, your grandma can still magic?!"

Zongba beat his chest and paused: "Oh! Oh no, I didn't shoot it!"

Grandma put the bowl back and said, "It's okay, it's okay, it's just a neighbor, the family has built a new house, and when we come back, we can't find our own home, so let's go back and continue to eat." ”

This is an understatement, just like the neighbor's house on a normal day to ask for directions.

A few people came out of the kitchen, and the uncle went back to sit down at the table, still teasing: "This old Tang, the boar can't eat fine chaff! Shaoping repaired the house, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to enter the new house!"

Black, white and brown saw that everyone was telling jokes and listening to jokes, it was really like looking at a small thing, they were all unconscious, it was a supernatural event just now, okay!

Li Junge led the three back to the table, filled each of them with a bowl of chicken soup to suppress the shock, and said, "It's okay, although I don't say anything, but this thing is really an ordinary thing." Those old people were all elders who loved us before they passed away, aren't they still the elders who love us? There is really nothing to be afraid of when they come! The main thing is that I have never seen such faces like you, and I have scared him, but now I will be fine if I make it clear. ”

The black, white and brown people want to cry without tears, and there is no place for reason! It's not our fault that he looks like this! We scared him! The old men are almost scared to pee their pants, okay!

After this little episode, everyone continued to drink and eat with a smile, but no matter how enthusiastic Li Junge and Ayin persuaded them to eat and drink, the black, white and brown three of them would no longer touch the pot of fragrant watercress fish.

After eating, the table seats were removed, and four braziers were dragged, and everyone looked at the fields in the distance together, baking the fire and chatting.

This is actually an old custom on Chinese New Year's Eve, commonly known as "Shoutiankan", and legend says that if you keep Tiankan for 30 days, Tiankan will not be washed down by floods in the coming year, indicating a good harvest.

However, since the Spring Festival Gala, this custom has basically been abolished.

This year is different, it is not easy for the old man to come back, so everyone picked up the old customs again.

There are many topics to talk about sitting together, from the changes in the country, the changes in Jiachuan, the changes in the village, and the changes in each family, the old man listened with a smile and relish.

The babies were taken away by Alice and Shirly again, along with the dumplings and taro, and they didn't let go of the guns and the guns, and followed the babies all the way along the ditch, giggling and jumping and making trouble.

Li Junge's family didn't have time to participate, they had to be busy pasting Spring Festival couplets and door gods.

The time for Jiachuan to paste Spring Festival couplets must be after eating the New Year's dinner, and the Spring Festival couplets cannot be pasted before the New Year's dinner.

Therefore, after eating, my father took out the door god and the Spring Festival couplets and asked Li Junge to paste them.

Ordinary people's homes are nothing more than like to pray for wealth and safety, so the content of the red Spring Festival couplets is also written around such a theme.

The content of this year's couplet is very simple: "The days increase the years, the people increase the longevity, and the spring is full of blessings in the world."

On one side of the door god is Wei Chi Jingde, and on the other side is Qin Shubao.

In fact, most people in the city don't know that there are generally three colors of Spring Festival couplets, which are red, yellow, blue or green. Different colors have different accents.

In the countryside, in the year after the death of a loved one, that is, in the first year, yellow couplets are pasted, blue or green couplets are pasted in the second year, and red couplets are pasted again in the third year.

The content of the first two years is generally cautious and longing for relatives, such as "Kindness will always remember the family, and the festival will come back to laugh before opening" and so on.

Those who understand the local customs can know from the yellow and green Spring Festival couplets that a relative has died in the past two years.

In the first month, sometimes there will be dragon lantern dances, lion dances, guns and singing money boards to perform, when you see the door of the hall with yellow and blue couplets, you know that the family is still in filial piety, refuse all entertainment, will not go to the door to ask for red envelopes to beg for money.

If there is a newlyweds in the family to get married and do a happy event in the first month of the lunar month, you need to post the marriage union. At this time, the marriage union is also used as a spring couplet, pasted on the door of the hall for a year, stained with a year of celebration, and the content is a change, to be replaced with "the red lotus blooms and the pedicle of the festival, and the New Year color phoenix flies" and the like.

After doing this, the whole family also joined in the chat, and it was not until after ten o'clock that everyone got up and called the babies back, ready to go home.

A few small ones are still noisy, and they don't want to be separated, in previous years, everyone played together until midnight and slept directly at Uncle Erpi's house.

Then the mothers came out to educate, this year is Aunt Ayin's first year at Uncle Erpi's house, no one is allowed to make trouble, at most tomorrow early to come over to rent a New Year's greeting to the ancestors.

When everyone is gone, the family begins to clean the room again, and everyone has to clean the kitchen stove and the big open dam all over the house before the year, because it is taboo to sweep the floor on the first day of the first month, and sweep the floor in the morning of the first day of the new year, and there are many lice in a year.

After the kitchen was cleaned up, my father took the rice with burning paper and held it on the side of the road, and my mother and grandmother picked up all the knives in the house and hid them.

Do not use the knife on the morning of the first day of the new year to ensure that the four seasons are safe and secure, and there are no accidents and no swords, guns and blood disasters.

Li Junge moved the yellow pumpkin at home to the outside of the house, the yellow pumpkin is the old pumpkin, "old south", "old difficulty", rural customs, the old pumpkin stays at home for the New Year, and the old generation will die in the second year, so all of them must be invited out.

After doing this, Grandma began to put incense on the Stove God, lit candles and burned money paper, and Dad began to fill the water tank at home with water.

I used to go to the well to fetch water, but now it's tap water, but the custom is still the same, in short, you have to fill the water tank.

Feng Shui talks about "mountain management of people and water management of wealth", filling the water tank, implying that the fortune of the coming year will roll and the four seasons will be rich.

Then everyone began to take turns bathing, washing away the filth, washing off the whole body, and welcoming the arrival of the new year.

While Li Junge was working, he explained to the black, white and brown, but he also listened to the three of them with relish.

When everyone takes turns to take a shower and come out, it's time to prepare for the New Year.

Twelve o'clock on Chinese New Year's Eve is the time of the sub-hour, which is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. At this time, people began to set off firecrackers one after another to welcome the arrival of the New Year, commonly known as "New Year".

Li Junge and his father began to arrange firecrackers, all of which were 10,000 sounds, and they were hung on one side.

After the arrangement, there is only half an hour to watch the Spring Festival Gala.

When the countdown began on TV, Li Junge and his father came out of the house to stand on one side, ready to light a gun.

When the three words "Happy New Year" of the host on TV came out together, the firecrackers "crackled" and exploded.

The village was filled with the sound of firecrackers, firelight, smoke, and the smell of gunpowder smoke in the air.

This year, everyone's income is good, and many people have also bought big flowers, and after your house has released it, my house has put it, and the sky is full of brilliant fireworks that explode from fireworks.

Black, white, brown raised his head and opened his mouth wide, and he almost forgot to shoot it when he saw it.

Li Junge and Ah Yin began to greet their grandmother, father, and mother one by one, and Ah Yin also took out three red envelopes, which were 1,200 new tickets stuffed by Li Junge, indicating "moon and moon red", and handed them to the three elders with a smile.

After working, you can no longer ask for red envelopes, you must be filial piety in turn.

Grandma, Mom, and Dad were ready to rest, and Ayin and Li Junge sent black, white and brown to the farmhouse.

Coming to the door of the farmhouse, Li Junge instructed the three of them to come over early tomorrow morning and "grab the ingots" with them.

Leaving Jiuchangju, the two walked back along the village road hand in hand, and Li Junge said to Ayin: "Ayin, Happy New Year." ”

Ah Yin smiled shallowly, and pinched Li Junge's fingers with his fingers: "Well, Erpi, you also have a good New Year." ”

The firecrackers in the village will not stop tonight, and there will be a faint "crackling" sound from time to time.

It's young people who can't sleep and are still playing.

Ah Yin said to Li Junge: "Erpi, will you still wear big cloth clothes tomorrow?"

Li Junge smiled: "No, tomorrow I will wear the set you bought for me last time." Ouch, I forgot to get you new clothes!"

Ayin smiled: "I've prepared it myself, and I've prepared a new set for you, you, you're really not particular about this." ”

Li Junge smiled and said: "Ayin, you are really good! It's so worry-free to have a daughter-in-law like you! Come, come to my back!"

Ayin smiled: "What are you doing?!"

Li Junge squatted in front of Ayin and said with a smile: "I'll carry you! You have been making cattle and horses for us in Lijiagou for half a year, and you still don't want me to make cattle and horses for you for a while? Come up!"

Ayin said, "Oh, don't make trouble!"

Li Junge insisted: "No trouble, come up!"

Ayin smiled: "Then you are not allowed to make it bad!"

Li Junge rolled his eyes: "I have this image in my mind?"

Ah Yin smiled: "It's not in my heart, it's that you are this image in the hearts of netizens!"

Li Junge smiled: "I'm not like that to my daughter-in-law, can't I get up?"

After speaking, he pouted his ass and stepped back, and pulled Ayin's leg back with his hand.

Ayin giggled: "Don't make trouble, I'll come up!"

After speaking, he leaned on Li Junge's back and put his face next to Li Junge's ear.

Li Junge laughed, picked up Ayin's legs and stood up and ran: "Daughter-in-law, let's go home!"

Ah Yin exclaimed "ah", and then laughed and fell back on Li Junge's back......

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, Li Junge woke up and heard that his grandmother was already busy outside.

I went out and said good new year to my grandmother, and then started to wash.

On the first day of the first lunar month, there are many taboos, in addition to not sweeping the floor, but also not pouring water outside the house, because water is wealth, and pouring water outside is pouring wealth outside.

Therefore, the face washing water, tooth washing water, dishwashing water, foot washing water, and even washing water for clothes in the morning of the first day of the new year should be packed in a large bucket or basin and poured out again on the second day of the new year.

When he finished it, the family got up, and Ayin not only prepared a new set of clothes for himself and Li Junge, but also prepared his parents, mothers and grandmothers, so happy that the three elders couldn't find the north, and praised Ayin for being thoughtful.

Li Junge and Ayin are jeans and short down jackets, grandma is a long down jacket, mom is a water-red jacket, and dad is a short tweed coat.

Dad stretched out his sleeves to show his mother: "Hehe, daughter-in-law, you see that Ayin bought me this body, and made me look like a cadre in the township." ”

Mom rolled her eyes: "The cadres in the township are not as magnificent as you, right?!" Hurry up and collect firewood, let's hurry up and pack ingots, and there will be a number of foreign friends coming later!. ”

There is almost no outside this custom, picking up firewood is "picking up wealth", and you can't go to the back mountain of your house, generally the male owner goes to the roadside to pick up some ownerless firewood and comes back, indicating that he will bring foreign wealth to his home.