On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, there is a special name in many places in China - Xiao Nian.

There is a sentence in the folk song sung by children during the New Year, "Twenty-three sugar melons are sticky", which refers to the sacrifice to the god of the stove on the twenty-third day of the lunar month every year, which means that the New Year is about to begin.

In ancient times, there was a saying that the officials had three people, four boats, and five families, which meant that the government sacrificed the stove on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, and the ordinary people were on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, and the water people were the latest, and they were sacrificing on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month. After the two, this custom slowly evolved into "twenty-three, spend the new year." ”

However, Wang Yong really ate sugar melon when he was a child, a penny is small, and a penny is a lot bigger, and it can be held in his mouth for half a day, which is very durable! It's just that this thing is too sticky!

However, there is no local custom of "sugar melon sticky", and there is no custom of sacrificing stoves. Locals usually clean their houses on this day, which is called removing the old and welcoming the new.

Schools, generally elementary and junior high school students, have winter vacation on the 23rd day of the lunar month. For this, Wang Yong was absolutely impressed.

"Hey! Wang Yong, do you remember, on the day of our winter vacation that year, we first sent out the kind of "Winter Vacation Homework" bound into a booklet. ”

Speaking of this, Dawei, who didn't smoke a cigarette in his mouth, touched Wang Yong with his shoulder, with a narrow smile on his face. Wang Yong glanced at him very dissatisfied, how could he forget that matter, he couldn't forget it for the rest of his life!

That was when he was in the third grade of elementary school, and the teacher didn't assign winter vacation homework as usual during the winter vacation that year. What kind of pre-study text, how many times to recite and come back to check, how many essays to write, how many math study questions to do, thirty or forty times to write words.

Fortunately, at that time, the rural areas of Hong Kong were still very backward and poor, like what English classes children learn from childhood now, they have to start in junior high school. This will also reduce the number of winter vacation assignments. You don't have to worry about going to cram school during the Chinese New Year, you can have a good time.

The most annoying thing about Wang Yong's winter vacation homework is the composition, which also requires the number of words, and it is not possible to write less. There are no requirements for writing scenes and memorizing, just one sentence, ten essays, each of which cannot be less than 300 words!

Oh my God! I don't even want to write according to the words, how can I have time to rack my brains to make up an essay for you! But at that time, Wang Yong had a clever plan.

He has a book of "Excellent Essays for Primary School Students". coupled with the book "Selected Classified Essays for Primary School Students" in Dawei's hand, almost all his essays in his six years of primary school.

However, if you want to do this so that the teacher can't find fault with it, there are many tricks. You copy and fry, but you can't be stupid and copy it, and there is no change at all.

Wang Yong summed up a series of experiences, such as: names, whether they are place names or personal names, must be changed; There are also some plots that obviously don't match your identity and have to be changed.

For example, the essay is written by a child in the city, and a child in the countryside also writes how to clean his room and bathroom. Cleaning the kitchen, how to clean the glass, and then how tired and sweaty to carry a pile of garbage to the trash can downstairs.

You're a fool to be a teacher! When did you live upstairs in your family?

In the words of the old uncle, you are Yan zhòng, doubting the teacher's IQ! You are scolding nakedly: Teacher, you are a fool!

The fat man once did this kind of thing, and the two didn't remember that he had written any of his ten essays on the last day of the holiday. So I copied the paperwork, which was very copyed. However, there is also a masterpiece that he himself is said to have written with a lot of effort.

So there was a joke that had been circulating in their elementary school for many years.

The title of the essay is "My Day", a very common topic, but the genius of the fat man wrote this essay is called a heart-wrenching and touching one!

His essay reads: I'm fine with the day. At nine o'clock in the morning, my mother lifted the quilt, and at half past nine I washed my face and started eating.

Today's breakfast is rice porridge. Pickle sticks, I don't like to eat them. At 9:40, I hurriedly finished eating a bowl of porridge and stopped eating, and then cleaned up and left the house at 9:50.

The whole text is about what he did at what time, what he ate at what time, what he did with his friends at what time, and what his father asked him to buy at what time.

At the end of this essay, the teacher wrote a comment with a red pen: You have a strong sense of time! But it's better not to use it in writing!

The composition here was directly pasted on the blackboard at the back of the class by the very bad Chinese teacher, and it was pasted for a whole semester, until the end of the semester when it was time for the exam, and the fat man took it off under the guise of cleaning the teacher's hygiene.

I digress, or talk about the cold homework that year. The teachers didn't give homework that year because each student was given a copy of "Winter Vacation Homework" with more than 30 pages.

I don't know that the great god thought of such a good way to make money, it is said that the entire Bac Ha Province, whether it is a city or a village, whether it is a primary school student or a high school student, each person has a copy of this thing.

But at that time, at least Wang Yong was overjoyed. Because this winter vacation homework not only has various exercises in Chinese and mathematics, but also many small stories, small jokes, scientific knowledge, brain teasers and so on, how can these rural children, who usually have little contact with extracurricular reading materials, not be happy?

However, there is a lofty statement about this matter, and there is another saying that cannot be put on the table, that is, this "Winter Vacation Homework" can be printed with the answer behind the sitting!

This makes the bear children who don't want to use their brains crazy! Copy up according to the answer, it's very simple, how much time you save for playing!

Of course, this situation can't always happen, and it didn't take the winter vacation of the second year, and during the summer vacation, the teachers learned well. directly tore up the answers to "Summer Vacation Homework" and sent them to the students, which made Wang Yong and them bitter.

In Wang Yong's impression, in addition to the winter vacation, there is also the memory of the twenty-third day of the lunar month, and when he comes home from school, he usually has to help his parents clean up the guards at home.

Moving stools, moving tables, and cleaning glass are the most annoying things for Wang Yong. No matter how you get it, the glass in the end is still full of bells and whistles, and being caught by his mother is a lecture.

There are bungalows in the countryside, and at that time, there was no house with the current reinforced concrete structure, all of which were made of wooden beams, and there was no ceiling (suspended ceiling), so at the end of the year, there would always be some cobwebs or something left in all corners.

The bedding on the kang will generally be moved to the yard to dry, or stacked in the open space, and other furniture, furnishings and other things will also be covered with a cloth or bed sheet, old clothes or something by the careful mother to prevent dust from falling when cleaning the house.

Of course, if it was snowing or windy on that day, the futon would be stacked directly in a corner of the kang and covered with a sheet to prevent dust from falling on it.

When it comes time to actually clean the house, it's very simple, 10 minutes is enough. Take a broom, tie a long pole, and sweep the cobwebs and dust from the roof beams around the house.

Then my mother would always tear down the old clothes, old bedding and other things that should be dismantled, wash and wash all the time, until it was almost noon to cook.

Since the twenty-third day of the lunar month is called the New Year, the food on this day is of course much better than usual. Stir-fry a few dishes that are different from house to house, and each has a fixed number. But there is one point that is the same in every family, and that is that this meal should have fish and meat at all points.

Meat is the stewed meat that every family in the countryside has to prepare during the New Year, and the method is very simple, just blood medicine and fire.

Cut the large pieces of pork belly into small pieces that they are used to, and then pour them into a large iron pot and start refining the oil first, wait for the oil in the meat to come out, weigh out the oil, and then start to add soy sauce, peppercorns or other ingredients, and then add water to stew.

After the meat is cooked, it is stored in a large bowl or a large basin, and the weather is cold in winter, and it will not be bad for ten days and a half months.

When you want to eat, you don't need to put anything anymore, just put it on the cage drawer and steam it, and you can taste this stewed meat delicacy. But this dish was indeed a delicacy for many rural people who lacked meat to eat in that era, but it made Wang Yong very depressed.

Because he doesn't know when it started, he hates eating fatty meat very much. Usually pinch dumplings at home and chop the fat into filling, as long as he finds that there is a little bit of fat in the dumplings, don't think about it, he must put down the chopsticks and play his temper and stop eating.

The fat of the stewed meat made Wang Yong dislike, and the lean part was completely depressed. He has a large gap between his teeth since he was a child, and no one knew that there was such a thing as orthopedics at that time, so as soon as he ate lean meat, he would stuff his teeth, and you would be uncomfortable, so that you would not have an appetite to eat at all.

What Wang Yong likes the most is fish, no matter what the family conditions are, eating a fish on this day is a custom that has never changed in every family, and no matter how difficult the family is, there will be a fish on the table on this day.

Just like making stewed meat, making fish is also a pot stew, cleaning all the fish prepared for the New Year, and then putting it in a large pot to stew together, and then putting it in the pot to steam it when eating, I don't know how many years of tradition.

Families with good conditions generally eat carp, grass carp, and of course, there are also sea fish such as tilapia, pomfret, and yellow croaker. If the family conditions are poor, they will eat silver carp, or mackerel in the sea, swallow fish or something.

By the way, there is another kind of fish that is rare, and it is generally snatched as soon as it appears. This is the best of the local fish, delicious and tender. But nowadays, due to environmental pollution and other reasons, this fish is rare.

Hairtail fish bones are more fleshy and less meaty, at that time, it was very rare to stew fish stewed hairtail, not how expensive it was, in fact, at that time, hairtail was quite cheap in the local area, but few locals ate this kind of fish.

Imagine that the very gorgeous hairtail fish that is now packaged, there are also called knifefish, and they are magnificently listed as gifts, Wang Yong is always very puzzled, what is delicious about this thing? (To be continued......)

PS: Tomorrow's official holiday.,There's no network cable at home.,The house goes to get a wireless network card.,Tomorrow may not be able to open in time.,So this chapter is uploaded regularly!