The next thing to do is to do some peanuts and melon seeds and other New Year's goods, and people with conditions will weigh a few catties of milk candy, and then have relatives come to visit the New Year, put them in the fruit bowl and bring them out together, causing the children to cheer.

Xu Xuecheng went to Wang Meilan's branch for 100 yuan, and asked the two Xuede brothers to go to the town to make wine melon seeds. Wang Meilan is good to her son, but the money bag is too tight, according to her words, "Save it, marry a wife for you, and build a house!" ”

The key is that in the past six months, his family has already become an invisible household of tens of thousands of yuan, in this era when marrying a wife is still 88 yuan 8, Xu Xuecheng feels that he can open a harem, and he doesn't know that there are so many daughters-in-law, Wang Meilan doesn't care about it!

The town is very lively, people don't know where to jump out, crowding the two old streets, "rich or not, go home for the New Year," at this time is not only a slogan, in such a strong New Year's flavor, people who are away from home with only children will really be homesick and crazy.

"Alas, there are those who sell rice candy!" Jacky Xu's eyes were sharp and he saw a stall.

said it was a stall, but in fact, it was just an old man who picked up two large bamboo baskets, and the cloth covering the baskets had been removed, revealing the tender white rice candy inside. This kind of rice candy may be a delicacy in the childhood memories of most rural children, and in a slightly more remote countryside like Xujiawu, only the old man who makes sugar during the Chinese New Year will carry the burden here.

"Let's go, go over and have a look!"

The three brothers squeezed through the crowd and leaned in.

This thing is a rare thing, there is no need to sell it at all, as soon as Wang Na puts the stall in place, the customers will automatically come over.

"Old man, how much is a pound?"

"Two catties of rice and a catty of sugar, and 2 cents a pound of money!"

"Cheng, then weigh me 10 catties" Xu Xuecheng took a two-piece paper ticket and put it in the old man's basket.

"Okay"

The old man was very neat, took out a piece of rice candy, checked it, and knocked it on the sugar with the back of the knife, and put it on the scale, "10 catties and two taels, more for you to eat!" ”

After leaving the sugar stall, the three brothers looked around again, bought some melon seeds, peanuts and rice, etc., Xu Xuede carried them alone, he didn't feel tired, his shoulders were wide and strong, and he was a person who carried a hundred catties of rice bags like walking on the ground, and he still cared about this weight?

The three of them walked around for a while, Xu Xuecheng's freshness also passed, shopping for this matter, he was really talented, three minutes of enthusiasm, he would rather go home and shrink by the stove than go anymore, beckoning the two brothers to rush home.

Walking to the entrance of the village, I met Wang Meilan washing the curtains that had been replaced, saying that it was a curtain, but it was actually a piece of cloth, big red, it was said that it was the bed sheet that was torn in the year of marriage, and it was covered for a few years, and then it was replaced with a new one, and I was not willing to lose it, so I wore it on a wire and hung it on the window as a curtain.

"Mom, I'm back!" Xu Xuecheng ran over to help his mother wring water, this kind of cloth is cotton, absorbent, and it sinks very much in his hand, and the two of them went home together after finishing it.

In the afternoon, my mother can't be empty, fried tofu bubbles!

A pot of oil boils, cut the tofu into small pieces and throw it inside, "sneer~" The moisture and the boiled oil are in contact at first glance, and the pot is boiling, the moisture in the middle of the tofu is sublimated by high temperature, bulging into a bubble, and the surface is also fried golden, take out the latte colander, put it on the bamboo dustpan and drain the oil, and then sprinkle the salt flowers after it cools, and it will not grow hair in winter!

Xu Xuecheng also has something serious to do, what is the right thing? Write Spring Festival couplets!

There is no insurance in the countryside to send couplets and calendars to your home during the New Year, and you have to rely on your own handwriting, what about illiterate people? Then cut two pieces of red paper, take two eggs, and go to find a good one written with a brush.

Xujiawu is quite good, there are always so many literate people who can write, and when they encounter some villages in the ravines, no one in the whole village can write, so they have to make up two eggs and ask someone to write dozens of pairs.

In the first two years, the couplets at home were all written by Wang Meilan, and they were all "more than ten quintals of rice stored for the New Year, and thousands of yuan were deposited for the New Year." Horizontal criticism: Celebrate the Spring Festival" and other couplets with the characteristics of the times, Xu Xuecheng did not dare to be a demon on the Spring Festival couplets, so he picked some of the more common ones in later generations, such as "The purple gas rises in the mountains during the day, and the spring tide flows into the sea of the Yellow River" and the like.

On the morning of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, according to the custom here, the family began to beat "mochi", steamed glutinous rice while hot, poured into the stone pot, the man took a big wooden hammer, raised it high, knocked it down, and when the man lifted the hammer again, the woman dipped her hands in some cold water, turned the glutinous rice ball in the past, and kneaded the place that had not been hit to the middle.

This life needs to be cooperated, otherwise the wife of the family will be swollen by her own man with a hammer, and she can also provide a little talking point for the club after tea and dinner.

The glutinous rice was beaten and sticky, taking advantage of the warmth and softness, pinched into a ball with his hands, and rolled in the crushed sesame seeds mixed with sugar, the rice fragrance was mixed with the sesame fragrance, which made the mouth water.

There is no food at noon, so everyone will take a few "mochi" to pad their stomachs, and the main meal will be in the evening! The old man has long been hungry, this child is completely deviating from the road of the previous life, one day crazy in the house of the friends, Xu Xuecheng gave her a bag of 5 yuan change, she became the children's king of the girls, a group of teenage girls can go to the village store a few miles away to buy snacks!

She has a bite of mochi, this year is good, the family is not worried about money, my mother pinched the mochi is bigger than in previous years, the old man ate in a panic, and did not chew carefully, swallowed directly into his throat, how can this sticky and hot food be so easy to swallow, stuck in her throat, up and down.

Lao Mo slapped his chest with a bamboo pole, and the thump sounded, Xu Xuecheng laughed on the side, looking at her like a water duck that had eaten a long earthworm, stretching her neck, and her face was red!

Wang Meilan was not polite, and directly knocked a melon seed on the back of Xu Xuecheng's head, "Still laughing, hurry up and pour a glass of boiled water for your sister, what should I do if something happens to me during the New Year!" ”

Xu Xuecheng argued, "Mom, you should let him choke, see if she dares to be so wild next time, eat so fast, starve to death and reincarnate!" ”

Wang Lan's hand was raised again, "What is the death of the New Year, the death, will you go?" ”

Xu Xuecheng was forced by his mother's "obscenity", so he had to touch the back of his head to pour water for the living treasure at home, and when he poured the water, he still pumped and couldn't stop laughing.

Lao Mo held the sea bowl, gurgled and poured a mouthful, then stretched his neck and swallowed for a while, breathed a long sigh of relief, and finally swallowed!

"Brother, if you laugh again, you laugh again!"

Seeing that Xu Xuecheng was still laughing, he suddenly stopped following it, and jumped up with a body like a small bamboo pole, half of the people hung on Xu Xuecheng's body, and took two claws to cut on his head.

"Okay, okay, I won't laugh at you" Xu Xuecheng held Lao Mo's squeaky nest and dragged her off her body.

At half past five o'clock, the days are short in winter, and the sky is dark early, and each family greets each other, and each family begins to worship their ancestors.

A table of dishes, chicken, duck and fish are indispensable, in the countryside, ancestor worship is the top priority, not only the dishes must be prepared, but also the wine must be added three times.

In previous years, Xu Shigui did this kind of thing, but this year Xu Shigui pulled Xu Xuecheng, "You come to toast the ancestors, remember, your heart must be sincere, and the ancestors will bless my family with good luck in the coming year."

As for Lao Mo and Wang Meilan, women can't show up on such occasions, and the two have long since hid back in the room.

After three rounds of wine, and then served rice, about half an hour later, Xu Shigui waved his hand, "burn gold paper (yellow paper), light firecrackers to send ancestors"

Xu Xuecheng took a stick of incense and put it on the lead, and the 1000 firecrackers of "Zi~" crackled and exploded, which was in the era when everyone still put the "eight-character whip", the 1000 "good start" is very face-saving, and a string is 5 yuan!

In this regard, Wang Meilan is not stingy, she directly took a box of 10 strings, worshiped the ancestors, opened the door, kept the New Year, welcomed the new year, sacrificed to the stove, worshiped the God of Wealth, the eighty-fifth of the first month, and hid in the place to use it!

After the firecrackers went off, the door was closed and the dishes were set, and the family finally sat down at the table and enjoyed the reunion dinner.