Chapter Ninety-Four: Preparations Years Ago
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In front of the statue of the god of the hearth, they placed a large wooden table, on which were sold food, melons and fruits, a poorly boiled pig's head, two fish, and stove sugar.
Leng Xiaohan took out a small couplet and pasted it on the altar of the stove king, Shanglian: God says good things. Downlink: The Nether Realm is safe. Horizontal batch: the head of the family.
He drove all the women out, because there is a saying among the people, 'Men do not worship the moon, and women do not sacrifice to the stove.' ’
When all the women went out, Juan was a man of the stove, kneeling half-before the statue of the god of the stove (ordinary people should kneel completely), holding a large white rooster in his arms. Leng Xiaohan lit incense, and the cigarette smoke in the house was full of mystery. Then pour wine (ordinary people want to pour wine and kowtow) and recite words in their mouths.
After Leng Xiaohan finished reading, Juan shouted "Lead!" and then poured the wine on the head of the chicken, and the head of the chicken fluttered. Then let go of the rooster, and the two of them incensed the god of the stove and walked out.
After waiting for more than half an hour, Leng Xiaohan walked in with the women and Juan, sat on the big table in front of the statue of the god of the hearth, and began to eat the offerings, everyone avoided meat food. But the stove candy is chewed in the mouth by one person.
Nie Xinxin chewed the stove candy in her mouth and said vaguely: "I have to eat this every year, it's delicious or it's too sticky." ”
Leng Xiaohan continued: "It is said that every year today, the god of the stove will report the situation of every household to the immortals of the upper realm, and eating the stove candy is to cover the mouth of the god of the stove, so that the god of the stove can only report good things and cannot report bad things. ”
Everyone looked at Leng Xiaohan, who was talking about the Tao, and Wan Yexue asked, "You believe in this very much?"
Leng Xiaohan looked at Wan Yexue, but his thoughts returned to the unlucky time in the past and said: "If you were unlucky at birth, and you have been unlucky for a full nineteen years, you will believe it." But he said, "It's okay! Existence is reason, and the existence of everything and everything has a certain reason." ”
Everyone nodded a little understanding, but not very understanding.
But then the atmosphere gradually became lively, eating and talking to each other, so lively.
The next day, twenty-four.
Not only Leng Xiaohan and others, but also all the people in the funeral family who did not go home came to the manor to help clean the entire manor.
A very tiring day began with this, and I cleaned until dusk, and then I finished cleaning thoroughly.
Leng Xiaohan looked at Juan, who was looking at the sky with a broom, and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”
Juan looked up at the sky motionlessly and said in a low voice: "Only by looking at the sunset on the horizon can I have the motivation to persevere." ”
After Leng Xiaohan heard this, he walked behind Juan and slapped Juan to the ground, kicking Juan every time he said a word: "Let you do a job crookedly, crookedly, you have done the least among so many people, you still watch the sunset, and you can still persevere, you think you are Zhu Bajie!"
Juan curled up, holding his head and shouting, "I was wrong, I was really wrong." But I really don't know any Zhu Bajie!!"
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"Twenty-five, grind tofu". On the twenty-fifth day, Leng Xiaohan took the soybeans that had been soaked for two or three days, and led everyone to the big mill in the manor, and this day was the matter of the women.
The stone mill placed in the courtyard was exposed to wind and rain all day, and the girls who loved cleanliness brought a few buckets of water, carefully washed them with a brush inside and out, and washed them clean along the stone ridges one by one, row by row.
The grinding brush is clean, the right way is set, the women are worried, originally the grinding is needed donkeys, but how can there be a donkey in the academy?
The first to go into battle was naturally Nie Xinxin, who had the greatest strength, but in Nie Xinxin's rapid running, she was stopped by the women, and the women who watched the stone mill that was about to burn drove Nie Xinxin to the side to draw circles.
The second one to go into battle was the fire cloud, which kept the speed of the stone mill at an even speed. Grind around, and things will be simple. Yang Miaomiao stood next to the mill, one spoonful of beans and two spoonfuls of water, scooping water into the grinding eye to fill the soybeans. Huoyun pulled the mill to turn around twice, and the bean paste that was not dry or thin flowed down the mill edge......
None of the women have ever done it! Looking at this scene in surprise, they took turns to grind, taking turns to scoop water and fill beans into the grinding eye, and finally in Nie Xinxin's pleading, the women gave Nie Xinxin another chance. With the concerted efforts of all the women, the soybeans were finished in a short time.
When the women returned home, they hurriedly lifted up the square white cloth to "separate" the soy milk. A large pot of soybean milk was "separated", and the remaining tofu residue was originally useful, and it could be kept to feed the pigs, but everyone was a warrior, how could they raise pigs!
The soy milk that comes out of the "separation" should be boiled over fire. This boiling soybean milk is a technical job, boiling a large pot of soybean milk, opening wide, when the foam of the soybean milk is more than half a foot high above the pot surface, the foam splits from the middle, splits into two halves, and the heat is just right.
At this time, at the same time as the fire was stopped under the pot, the women added the brine prepared by the fat man in advance into the soybean milk spoonful by spoonful, and the soybean milk in the pot changed in an instant.
The women scooped the "ordered" tofu soup out of the pot and scooped it into the "tofu bun", which was actually a piece of white cloth placed in the "jar of shallow seeds". When the tofu bun is full, tie the tofu bun to the corner, put a "cover curtain" on it, and press a stone on the cover curtain - slowly press the water out.
That's it, just wait for half a day or so.
What, do you ask Leng Xiaohan what he is doing this day? Leng Xiaohan has been squatting with the fat man all day long, smoking cigarettes, watching the women busy, and pointing from time to time.
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Twenty-six, everyone went to the Void City together and bought a lot of meat from demon beasts, some flying in the sky, swimming in the water, and running on land. I also bought a lot of vegetables, melons and fruits, snacks according to the tips of the fat man, and bought a full five or six space rings.
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Twenty-seven, this day, the Void City was also lively. Stalls were spread all over the Void City, and Leng Xiaohan took everyone out for a day of shopping on this day, and bought a new set of clothes for everyone by the way.
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Twenty-eighth, everyone got a haircut.
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On the twenty-nine, Leng Xiaohan asked the people of the funeral family to come back with some wine, and informed everyone to come to the manor on Chinese New Year's Eve to celebrate the New Year together, and everyone should prepare a small program. You can sing, you can dance, you can play your own instrument, or you can perform something you think is funny.
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Thirty, on this day, Leng Xiaohan was not only with everyone, but after pasting the Spring Festival couplets on each door and hanging up large and small lanterns, he pulled the fat man into the house.
Everyone looked at the mysterious two, full of curiosity, not knowing what show they would perform at night.