Volume 1 Hard Times Chapter 071 Celebrating the New Year (Ask for Collection)

Song Guoqiang and Xu Peiqiu are somewhat ashamed! I don't have much time to see my daughter's cheap "Baobao" family, but she keeps remembering it, and all kinds of things are constantly sent down.

"Yes, people are in officialdom, and they can't help themselves! That's a good thing you said! Finally met the legendary master, haha......" Song Guoqiang agreed very much and joked about Hong Yan.

"My parents said that if it is convenient, please go to my house for the Spring Festival." Hong Yan conveyed the invitation of his parents. Whether they go or not is another matter.

"Thank you mom and dad for your kindness! I would like to have been to your Spring Festival, but Uncle Song can't go, so of course I can't go. Xu Peiqiu's expression seemed to be intentional, but her husband was busy, so she naturally had to follow.

"I just said that I can't help myself. It's rare to sit down and eat a reunion dinner, hehe, I will visit your house with my aunt when I have time. I heard from my aunt that you have more than a dozen pigs at home, it's amazing! Song Guoqiang also had an intention in his heart, but the New Year was approaching, and he couldn't get away from his busy official business.

"Ha, the pigs are all sold, and Uncle Song can't see them if he wants to. However, after a while, it was another pen of piglets! Hong Yan smiled a little proudly.

"You must have sold for a lot of money, right? I can have a fat year, that's not good, my uncle must go to eat big, haha......" Song Guoqiang laughed loudly, joking.

"Thanks to the party's good policies and the wise leadership of the director." Hong Yan also smiled and praised.

"Good, good! The party's policies are good, but as for whether the director's leadership is wise, it needs to be continuously tested. The smile in Song Guoqiang's eyes couldn't be hidden.

"One slaps sycophants in front of you, and the other seems to be a little self-aware!" Xu Peiqiu scolded with a smile.

"Haha...... "The big one laughed louder." Hehe, are you talking about me? "The little ones haven't come to their senses yet.

"Guoqiang, the dumpling filling is here, you see how tender the leeks are. Hong Yan, go home and thank your parents on my behalf, you are all reluctant to eat, send it to us. ”

Hong Yan wants to rush back. Xu Peiqiu came out, and then filled two bottles of wine and two cigarettes. One of the whiteboard cigarettes had only the word "panda" on it.

"Uncle Song, I'm afraid my dad won't be able to taste this cigarette when I take it back!" Hong Yan said with a smile. He doesn't shirk either, both sides are mindful. Hong Yan's house is not a valuable gift.

"You know this smoke?" Song Guoqiang was surprised.

"The legendary Tegon!" Hong Yan pouted. You think I don't know? Who doesn't know that the afterlife will burst out? It's just that in this era, people still feel that everyone is equal, and there is no distinction between high and low.

Song Guoqiang was very devastated and very frustrated, especially Hong Yan's pouting and disdainful appearance made him almost go berserk. Let the little fart kid see the joke!

"Your Uncle Song doesn't smoke much, so take it back to your father, maybe you like it." Xu Peiqiu played a round.

"It's not a good thing to like it." Hong Yan said with a smile. Wouldn't it be even more unpleasant if you can't find it if you want to smoke it?

"Alright. Hong Yan, your wine is really a good thing. Uncle Song and I have a small cup every day, and our physical function has indeed improved! Xu Peiqiu packed up his things, carried it to send Hong Yan out, and praised the ginseng solid wine he sent.

By the time I got home in the afternoon, the upstairs walls had been completely plastered with lime. The uncle packed up his tools, carried the wooden horse to the back eaves, vacated the hall, and cleaned it. Li Yun laid hay, straw mats and mats on the new bed. Hong Yan took out the elastic quilt, and the aunt and sister-in-law were busy sewing the quilt cover. Rongrong is clamoring to sleep in a new bed at night.

Dinner was eaten just after dark, and the two groups of craftsmen were full of wine and food, and Hong Jianguo settled the wages of the plasterers. And Li Yongchuan and his younger brother insisted on not getting paid, saying that the things sent by his nephew were more than this money. Hong Yan stopped and said: "One yard to one yard, I know that I say hello to you, but I don't know that your nephew is Zhou Papi." ”

Supposedly, a new house that has just been plastered with lime is not suitable for moving in, but it is upstairs. The cement floor downstairs has long been dry, the walls are wooden, the new natural furniture, the wooden doors and windows cannot be sealed, and there is no formaldehyde and toxic gas after the decoration of the house in later generations.

On the morning of the 28th, in the sound of firecrackers, Hong Jianguo opened the door of the new house, pasted the big red paper of "Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher" above the shrine, lit a vegetable oil lamp, and offered incense to the ancestors to continue the incense. After finishing the ceremony, he entered the kitchen, and then poured a handful of fresh water from the well into the new water tank, and Li Yun lit the fire for the first time in the new kitchen. Later, Hong Jianguo also burned a handful of paper in the pigsty and bathroom, sacrificed to the gods, and set off fireworks.

At the end of the ceremony, you will be moved into your new home.

The new house is not far from the old house, only more than 100 meters away. Relatives and friends have already congratulated on the day of the house, and it is enough to officially move from the family to sit down and have a meal together to celebrate. On this day, Hong Yan's family and grandfather were busy preparing for the New Year. The children were especially happy because of the housewarming. The boxes and cabinets in the old house will be moved over after the New Year.

In a blink of an eye, it will be the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, and it will be the New Year.

After Hong Yan returned home, he was so busy that he couldn't touch the ground every day. It's finally time to calm down today. Look at the time, it's already past 7 o'clock.

After Hong Jianguo got up, he added lamp oil to the oil lamp on the shrine, then swept the floor, and then took out the marinated pork and hung it in the wind.

Li Yungang was busy in the kitchen. In the large basin is a water-milled glutinous rice slurry baba, which is rubbed repeatedly to prepare to make ingots (large rice balls). Due to the large amount of leftovers and shavings sawn off by woodwork, there is basically no need for a special person to cook the pot in the kitchen. The water in the pot boiled, Li Yun pinched out a ball of rice milk, pinched it, inserted her thumb into the middle, pinched it while turning, and a small nest appeared in the middle, and then put in a suitable piece of brown sugar, seal it, reunite again, and put it in boiling water.

Hong Yan saw that his mother had made a few ingots, so he went to wake up his younger brother and sister. Next to the bed are new clothes, new pants and new shoes, and as soon as they hear "It's the New Year, get up and wear new clothes and eat ingots", they get up as soon as they turn over, and they are no longer afraid of the cold. The two boys shouted for the cannons.

Some families have begun to set off firecrackers far and near, indicating that some families have reunited for the New Year. It is said that Zhang killed the god and destroyed Shuchuan back then, and ten rooms and nine were empty. Later, the Manchu Qing Dynasty moved a large number of people from Huguang to enrich the land of Shuchuan, and the history called Huguang to fill Shuchuan. Of course, later generations have proved that the sharp decline in population is not only due to the reason for the extermination of the Eight Great Kings, but also quite complicated. Shuchuan and Huguang accents are quite close, and the customs are also close. The last time he went to Xiangxi, he found that the customs of the two places were quite similar.

When immigrants entered Sichuan, they arrived at the immigration point early, afternoon or evening, and this time became their Spring Festival reunion time. It is rumored that the ancestors of the Hong family arrived at night, so they would be reunited at night and have a reunion dinner.

Ingot is all glutinous rice, and it hurts to eat too much. After paying homage to the ancestors, everyone sat down together. Hong Yan only ate 3, so he didn't want to eat more. Xiao Feng and Xiao Zheng ate more than 2, and Rongrong only ate one. The ingots are single, only brown sugar, and it is normal for children to be greasy when they eat. If there is no Hongyan rebirth, perhaps, the brown sugar ingots of the Chinese New Year's Eve may be all luxury. Fortunately, Li Yun already had experience and cooked some fruity colored rice balls for Sanxiao.

Today, the little ones play freely and uninhibited. After Hong Jianyuan ate the ingots, he immediately came with an iron ring. At ten o'clock in the morning, there were more than a dozen boys and girls in the dam of Hong Yan's house. Li Yun put the fried peanuts and melon seeds in everyone's pockets, and popped corn in the rice sieve on the edge of the steps. The only requirement is: the children are united and friendly, have fun, do not fight, do not scold, and do not cry.

Hong Yan took out the iron ring and spinning top and gave them to the boys to play with. The girls played with keys, ropes, rubber bands, etc. The boy rolls the hoop to see who can run fast. After Hong Yan saw it, he showed them tricks such as starting the hoop without hands, stopping urgently, pushing slowly, winding "S", winding "8", winding the pile, and jumping ring. Let them compete in groups, you can compete fast, slower, tricks, you can also roll to the trail (obstacles, cross-country) to see who lasts the longest, etc. Sure enough, Hong Jianyuan took it with him, and soon disappeared. The later boys were so envious that they could only run behind or smoke spinning tops.

Hong Jianguo called the little sister, and the two pasted all the Spring Festival couplets before noon. Then, Hong Xuecai took Hong Jianguo and Hong Yan to carry pig heads, pig tails, wine, burning paper, and firecrackers to the ancestral grave to burn New Year's paper.

At noon, the children hula ran home again. Firecrackers were set off more often. After Hong Yan returned home, he went into the kitchen and fried a few side dishes and shredded pork with green peppers, and lunch was relatively simple. In the afternoon, another group of children came to play. The sisters of the aunt and sister-in-law also came. Hong Yan went around his grandfather's house and pinched a piece of the meat cooked at his grandfather's house. Grandpa's family didn't kill New Year's pigs this year, and my father gave the eldest a piece. Of course, Hong Yan didn't want to eat it back. I just moved to a new house, and if I don't go back to see it, I can't keep my grandparents from having ideas.

Li Yun first cooked dinner. Hong Jianguo first burned paper to worship his ancestors and set off firecrackers. Hong Yan called all the people from his grandfather's family over, and the two tables were together to have a reunion dinner first. On the table, there are steamed pork, stir-fried shredded pork, sweet and sour pork ribs, tamales, stewed rooster, stewed fish and braised carp, as well as vegetarian dishes such as cold bitter gourd, garlic scoop cabbage, and spicy beans. The adults drank the Moutai wine given by Xu Peiqiu, and the children watched each with a glass of juice.

After eating, I closed the door and went to my grandfather's house for a reunion, this time just to make a show, take a sip of wine, eat a few chopsticks, and then pick a bite of rice and eat it before eating.

Hong Xuecai took his son and grandson and played leaf cards in the hall. Each person had some cents in front of him, and he couldn't bear to sleep sleepily in the morning. Hong Jianyuan played crazy for a day, and after eating the reunion dinner, he washed and fell asleep. Hongyan's ancestor and grandmother were guarding the old house, and the aunt, sister-in-law and mother were sitting under another oil lamp talking, knocking melon seeds. This year, hundreds of old pumpkins of Hong Yan's family were basically fed to pigs, and dozens of catties of pumpkin seeds were harvested. Although there were sugar cubes on the plate, they still felt that the melon seeds were more fragrant. The three of them chatted until ten o'clock, and then went to bed separately.

Hong Yan was actually lacking in interest. To keep the New Year, you have to accompany the three of you until you light the firecrackers until you light the New Year. Hong Yan played cards and asked the second uncle about the situation on the mountain, what arrangements he had after the Chinese New Year.

After the firecrackers to welcome the new year, the four of them went back to their rooms to sleep. After being reborn, Hong Yan lived the night of Chinese New Year's Eve for the first time without TV and Spring Festival Gala, but it was the distant year in his heart, the strong smell of the year, but he couldn't help but think of the mother and daughter in the next life, and quietly asked: "Wife, are you okay daughter?" ”