There are many traditional festivals in China, and due to different regions and customs, the importance of these festivals varies from place to place.

In addition to the Spring Festival, northerners pay more attention to the winter solstice and Laba, while southerners pay more attention to things such as the Dragon Boat Festival and Chongyang.

Yanjing belongs to the north and also attaches great importance to the Laba Festival. And the people here generally start the New Year from "Laba" and continue until after the Lantern Festival.

As written in a folk song in Yanjing in the old days,

"Children, children, don't slander, after Laba is the New Year; Laba porridge after a few days, Lili Lala twenty-three; Twenty-three sugar melons are sticky, twenty-four sweeping days, twenty-five make tofu, twenty-six go to cut meat, twenty-seven slaughter chickens, twenty-eight handfuls of noodles, twenty-nine steamed steamed buns, thirty nights of a night, and go to the New Year on the first day of the new year. ”

For ordinary Yanjing people, there may be some different feelings, but for Li Ranyan, the Laba Festival is actually not very important. But no matter what he thinks, the Laba Festival in 1994 is still in sight.

Mother is at home, so it is naturally impossible to do things hastily during the holidays, of course, Li Ran doesn't have to worry about it herself, she is busy with it.

Unlike in the past, this time, my mother did not plan to go back to Xishan, but spent it on Li Ran's side.

Although there is nothing lacking in Xishan Villa, after all, it is a family home in the garrison area, and it is short of the taste of home.

My mother is used to living here during this time, and she doesn't want to go back to toss, so she simply spends the holiday here. So on the afternoon of the 18th, after his father got off work, he asked the driver to send him over. As for sister-in-law Zeng Jing, her mother also asked Li Ran to call and tell her that she would come over in the afternoon. As for whether the second sister and the two have notified, Li Ran doesn't know, anyway, he hasn't called.

Maybe it's because of the first festival here, the day before Laba, my mother was busy preparing things.

Yesterday morning, the rice, millet, Jiang rice, corn rice, sorghum rice, red beans, and kidney beans were screened, and then the walnuts and almonds were peeled, and the peanuts and red dates were washed and set aside, and the porridge began to boil in the evening.

She had a lot of energy, and in order to make porridge, she worked in the kitchen for several hours without saying anything, and finally she had to watch it all the time.

However, she is not young in the end, and after a long time, Li Ran was afraid that her body would not be able to support it, so he let Vanilla watch it and persuaded her to rest.