The next morning, there was still a light snow falling on the horizon, although it was only goose feather snow, but it was indeed snowing, and the snow was fluttering.

Touching the snowflakes falling on the palm of his hand, Li Yun was shocked.

"Shocked, this is happening to us... It was actually snowing. ”

"Wow, it's really snowing..."Hanxiang said excitedly, holding the falling snowflakes in both hands, feeling the feeling of the wet snowflakes melting in the palms of her hands.

"Hanxiang, haven't you really seen snow for so many years?" Li Yun was a little surprised, although it is rare to have a snow here, it is not a rare occurrence in a thousand years, at least once in a few decades, it may be long enough for a mortal's life, but for Hanxiang, it may only be a snap of a finger.

"No, in the past, except for waiting for people, they just stayed in the tree hole, or they just wandered in the mountains and fields, and exchanged experiences with other mountain gods, and there was no more... Maybe Hanxiang has seen it before, but she forgot about it, after all, time is claimed to be able to erase all traces. Hanxiang held her chin and looked at the snow in the sky.

A thin layer of snow covers the branches, and the snow may stop at the beginning of the next morning, but now, the snow is falling non-stop.

"Maybe, but the snow is falling, which means that the New Year is coming, we have the coldest time of the day here, the new year and new weather, this time the new weather is really coming. ”

Snowflakes are falling from the sky—

....

On the 23rd day of February in the new calendar, the snow has not stopped, and there is no meaning of expansion, or the feeling of covering the tree with light veil, which not only maintains the beauty, but also makes people not feel too cold.

Snow is definitely a new thing for people here, especially for the children in the village, the snow on the horizon is a little rarer than the New Year's money... Of course, if you choose one of the two, the children will decisively choose to spend the New Year's money.

The children collect the snow covering the ground little by little and throw it in the faces of the children on the other side, which is not very efficient, but it is also the feeling of a snowball fight.

"Come on, come in my face!"

"Hey, hey, hey... Look at my invincible cannon!"

"Haha, it's crooked, you hit... it! Hit the big black dog next door, run!"

"Wangwang~~~"

Li Yun knew through his heart that the big black dog was playing with the children, and after catching up with a child, he immediately turned his belly and begged for a snowball by the way...

"Xiao Li, are you going down the mountain? Come on, come on, Aunt Zhao has some glutinous rice balls at home, you can take some and go up the mountain." Aunt Zhao, who was washing clothes by the river, said enthusiastically after seeing Li Yun.

"Enough is enough, we haven't finished what you gave us that day. Li Yun smiled bitterly, there are still a lot of flour and sesame stuffing on this mountain, and they can be eaten for a long time.

"No, no, this is done by Aunt Zhao, you don't need your little sister Hanxiang to be busy, I have already made all the things used to sacrifice to the god of the stove... We will do the cleaning every once in a while, and I hope that the Lord of the Stove can come happily and return happily. Zhao Dashen said with a smile on his face, and a young man with a tiger head poked out next to him.

This young man is Xiao Hei, the one who was carried to the hospital by Li Yun when he was a child, not to mention how happy his little face was after seeing Li Yun.

"Brother Yun!"

"Xiao Hei, I've grown a lot taller. Li Yun smiled, looked at Xiao Hei who was already standing up and open in front of him, and sighed for a while, Xiao Hei was still a little kid at that time.

"Hehe, I'm a junior high school student now, I'm no longer a primary school student, of course I've grown taller. Xiao Hei raised his head and looked proud, and then complained: "It's been annoying lately, every household is preparing to sacrifice to the god of the stove, and no one is going out to play with me." ”

Xiao Hei's face was a little depressed, and he finally had a winter vacation, but he was busy with things at home.

"Worship the god of the stove is our traditional program, for every family, this is a time for the whole family to do activities together, so as to deepen family feelings, cherish it, and everyone will be happy during the New Year. Li Yun smiled and said, "Poor Dao is also going to prepare to sacrifice to the god of the stove, which is a serious ritual activity for us."

"Brother Yun, are your Taoist temples sacrificing to the Stove God the same as us?" Xiao Hei said curiously, he never knew how the Taoist Temple sacrificed to the Stove God.

"Hundreds of stove ashes, sake lees, desserts, cleaning Taoist temples, especially on the beams, no dust can be left, because the stove prince likes to write down the small reports on the beams, and we wipe them off so that the stove prince does not bring those small reports back to the sky. Li Yun explained with a smile.

"Wow! The Lord of the Stove will also make a small report! Isn't he a god of cooking?" Xiao Hei complained, his own process is similar, but there is no Baijia incense ash, but he still has to use wine lees and desserts to send the Lord of the Stove.

I didn't know the reason before, but it turned out that he liked to make small reports!

"The Lord of the Stove is not only the god of the kitchen, but also the god in charge of good and evil, the actions of a family will be recorded in a two jars called [Good Jar] and [Evil Jar], at the end of the year, report to the Jade Emperor your good deeds and evil deeds in the world, to determine your fortune for the next year, and in addition to good and evil, it is a small report, and a small report is something other than good and evil. ”

"What do you mean something other than good and evil?" Xiao Hei said with some curiosity.

"God is not a high-ranking existence that does not eat the fireworks of the world, some of them are changed from people, and the god of the stove is like this, since he is a human being, then he has his own outlook on life and values, and under the urging of this concept, there will be likes and dislikes, and these likes and dislikes are things other than good and evil. Li Yun said.

Now Xiao Hei finally understands the true meaning of sending the Stove God.

"Hmm... Since the god of the stove is so careful, we must also use sugar and sake lees to gag his mouth and make him not make a small report. ”

That's exactly what happened. Li Yun said with a smile.

Li Yun and Xiao Hei also reunited after a long absence, chatted for a long time, and then went to Xiao Hei's house, collected his stove ashes, and by the way, saw Xiao Hei's mountain of winter vacation homework.

Li Yun mourned for Xiao Hei, and dared to wave everywhere without moving his homework during the winter vacation, and there was no one left...

After returning to the Taoist temple, Hanxiang also prepared the incense burner and other utensils for the sacrifice, and the offering table was piled with glutinous rice cakes, sweets, and sake lees.

There is also an old statue of the god of the hearth.

"Senior Brother Yun, you're back. Hanxiang said with a smile.

"Hmm... Let's begin, sacrifice to the god of the hearth. ”

After Li Yun sprinkled the incense ashes into the incense burner, he came to the platform.

The incense burns –