Chapter 561: Happy New Year

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On New Year's Day, every family is ready for the New Year. Because the road is impassable, you can't go to the town market to buy firecrackers and New Year's paintings. Fortunately, the last time the village chief went to the town for a meeting, he brought back a roll of portraits of the leaders distributed free of charge in the town, circled with a red border next to it, and distributed it to each household and pasted it on the wall, which also looked joyful.

There was no shortage of wood to burn firewood in the mountains, and the Southern Dynasty did not pay attention to the management of forests, so the villagers went into the farther mountains and forests in groups, broke a dozen pine trees with axes and saws, and split them into large pieces of firewood, which were used to light bonfires in the open space of the village, and the whole village spent a festive Spring Festival together.

In every villager's house, bamboo strips and red paper are tied into festive red lanterns, which are made of wooden boards as a base, and an iron nail is inserted upside down, and a candle head is fixed inside. When lit up at night, the doors of every house are red and look very beautiful.

When she got up in the morning, Cao Haiyan changed into clean clothes for her children early, and after breakfast, the children invited each other to go out to play.

Chu Wanyi has lived in the village for a while, and she is already quite handy with some simple household chores, busy helping Cao Haiyan cook large pieces of bear meat and wolf meat, and put the big fish in a basin of water to melt. Brother Li's family in the backyard sent a little sticky rice, put it in a large pot and steamed it for more than an hour, sprinkled it into the groove of the stone mortar several times, beat it heavily with a wooden mallet, and put red bean paste on the bread, and the sticky cake full of customs and customs was ready.

Ling Yang had already gone into the mountains with the men in the village, and used a climbing plow pulled by a few yellow dogs to transport large pieces of firewood with the fragrance of pine resin back to the village in turn. When I returned to Cao Haiyan's house, as soon as I opened the door, I saw that the room was filled with hot water vapor, and the air was filled with the aroma of stewed meat.

Ling Yang took off his wide sheepskin jacket and shouted, "I'm back!" ”

Chu Wanyi had already run out of the back room, took the coat in Ling Yang's hand, cocked her toes, hung it on the nails nailed to the wall, and was busy preparing food and hot water for Ling Yang.

Seeing that Ling Yang and Chu Wanyi were so "affectionate", Cao Haiyan couldn't help but turn back to the bedroom and quietly wiped away her tears, obviously thinking of her dead husband.

Cao Haiyan quickly cleaned up his mood, and from the bottom of the box, he found a small plate plated with patent leather, which looked very delicate, put the sticky cake and a side of cooked meat in it, and turned it to the tablet of the deceased husband in the back room, and enshrined the plate on the table.

Cao Haiyan's tears fell, pouring out that his family's life was getting better and better, talking about the gold ring that Ling Yang secretly stuffed into him, the double share of game with his family, and the extra twenty catties of potatoes in a small piece of land reclaimed in the aftermath last year.

Cao Haiyan read to his mother's house, saying that the little sister has been married this year, and the man's family is a wealthy family that has opened a tofu workshop in the town, and the bride price is very rich. After chatting with her husband for a long time, Cao Haiyan wiped away her tears and turned out of the back room, just as she saw Ling Yang and Chu Wanyi sitting on their knees, holding hands and talking intimately, not knowing what to whisper.

Seeing Cao Haiyan standing aside, Chu Wanyi stood up embarrassedly and broke free from Ling Yang's claws. Ling Yang was confused: "I just explained half of it to you, you listen to me, the button next to the ring, if you pull it three times in succession, you can pop out a sharp stinger......"

Chu Wanyi glared at Ling Yang, hurriedly walked to the big basin containing the fish, and smiled at Cao Haiyan: "Eldest sister, the fish is almost melting, where is the knife?" ”

Cao Haiyan hurriedly walked over, picked up the big fish in the basin, and used a small piece of iron sheet to skillfully scrape off the fish scales: "Look at your small hands and delicate, how can you always do these rough jobs, you hurry up and go to the house to rest, I'll come!" ”

Ling Yang rolled his eyes, pulled Chu Wanyi's sleeve and said, "The village chief, they are clearing the snow in the open space outside, preparing for the bonfire drinking banquet in the evening, and building such a big swing, do you want to go and watch the excitement with me?" ”

Chu Wanyi felt the festive atmosphere in the whole village, and was happy to mess around with Ling Yang and enjoy this short but beautiful time. Putting on a scarf and thick cotton gloves, he ignored Ling Yang and ran out first.

At about two or three o'clock in the afternoon, Ling Yang and Chu Wanyi, who had gone crazy enough, finally came back from outside, both of them were so cold that their faces were red, but their faces were full of joy of satisfaction after having fun. Cao Haiyan had just prepared the meal, and the little girl from Brother Li's family ran in, wearing a red cotton jacket, and said crisply: "My father said that Uncle Qian and Aunt Chu should be invited to eat together for this meal, and Abba has already scalded the soju and is waiting for the guests to come to the door!" ”

After the little girl left, Brother Li and Sister-in-law Li came to invite in person. Ling Yang couldn't, so he had to take the meat and vegetables of Cao Haiyan's family to Brother Li's house in the backyard, and more than a dozen people had a lively lunch together.

After the meal, the little ones ran out early. Because there are no firecrackers this year, the children have their own way, pick up a large pile of pine towers with pine nut shells left in the woods, put a pile of fire, and keep throwing the pine towers into it, it will make a series of crisp sounds, similar to setting off firecrackers.

Playing until the sunset, the village chief has sent people to set up firewood in the open space, each firewood is smeared with pine bark roasted grease, in the middle of a large pile, around the place of seven or eight sets of tables and stools, this is the door-to-door notice, to gather around the purchase of goods to watch the New Year, spend the last night of winter and spring.

The people of Chaozhixian are originally a nation that loves singing and dancing, and children compete for swings to see who swings higher. Women stand in a row in front of the campfire and sing cheerful folk songs in unison.

The women all changed into festive costumes, bright little jackets and floor-length skirts, although they were relatively shabby, but they looked like they had a different flavor.

The men took out the soju they had treasured at home and poured it into a large bowl, enjoying the song and dance while guessing the order. The village chief held the wine bowl, and after saying a lot of auspicious greetings, he took the lead in toasting to Lingyang.

The men in the mountains have a bold personality and like to live freely without restraint, it just so happens that Ling Yang has a kind personality, and it is easy to mingle with the mountain people, calling friends and friends, calling brothers and sisters, wearing a set of unique folk costumes of the Southern Dynasties specially given by Brother Li, wearing a black ribbon round brim high hat, Chu Wanyi watched it for a long time, only felt that it looked very nondescript, and secretly laughed at Ling Yang several times.

In the hustle and bustle of singing and dancing, the atmosphere of the New Year, fermented more and more around the bonfire, everyone was intoxicated with a beautiful vision of the next side, not far from the side of the mountain road, but swept over a chaotic flashlight beam, a man shouted loudly in the native language of the Southern Dynasty: "We are the guards of Master Cao Ba's family, is Cao Haiyan not in the village?" ”