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The ancestor worship table is set up in the middle of the back room, and against the back wall is a table of eight immortals. Zhang Taiping unloaded the landscape paintings on the wall, passed the genealogy, the genealogy was scattered in the form of a binary tree, some branches were not there a few generations ago, most of them ended in the generation before the old man, this is also the common situation of most genealogies, that time let the continuation of many clans dissipate in the long river of history, the old man has continued. Generally, only the names of people who have passed away will appear on this racial genealogy, and at the bottom is the names of Zhang Dashuai's parents, and there is still a vacant position above these two names, because the old man is still alive and well.

The genealogy was hung up, and an incense burner was placed on the table of the eight immortals in front of him, with fine sand in the middle. On both sides of the incense burner are placed a pair of the largest candles, between the candles and the wall where the family tree is hung are three plates, a plate of bananas, a plate of oranges and a plate of large and red apples that Zhang Taiping came out of the space.

The sacrificial stove can be completely handed over to the woman to do, and the man can not interfere, but the worship of his ancestors is all done by the man, and after placing the tribute and candles, Zhang Taiping went to the room and took out the portraits of his parents and grandmother and stood against the wall in front of the family tree.

After thinking about it, Zhang Taiping went into the house again and took out a jar of wine and put it on the side of the Eight Immortals table.

The old man looked at the portrait for a long time and was silent, his back was gloomy, his eyes were full of loneliness, and his body was filled with a sadness that could not be dissolved. Seeing the jar of wine placed by Zhang Taiping in the corner of the table, he finally couldn't control his feelings, and the old man with tears in his eyes and white hair who had seen all the ups and downs of his life could no longer maintain his usual calm mood at this moment.

The loss of a mother at a young age, the loss of a wife in middle age, and the loss of a child in old age, the three major sorrows of life are nothing more than this.

As for whether the old man lost his mother at a young age, the old man never told others about his past, so Zhang Taiping has no way of knowing, but it is a fact that he lost his son when he was old, and the unfortunate death of Zhang Taiping's parents hit him a lot, and then his wife went with him, causing the old man to live alone in the mountains and forests for a long time and was unwilling to come out, which was really sad and could not be resolved.

It's just that the old man is also very human, his feelings are fleeting, and in a blink of an eye, he collects his emotions again, standing in front of the table and not knowing what he is thinking.

Zhang Taiping called Yaya in after making all the food, although the women of the family were not allowed to be present when inviting the ancestors to worship the ancestors, the women here refer to the women with foreign surnames who married in, and the children of the offspring were not among them, and the Yaya was of course to worship.

First, two big red candles were lit, and then Zhang Taiping carried a string of firecrackers in the courtyard and set them off, and the sound of thunderbolts and firecrackers invited the spirit of heaven to come. After the gods were returned, Zhang Taiping first lit five sticks of incense and handed them to Yaya, and then lit five sticks for himself and also, and then knelt down and kowtowed three times with the incense.

The old man did not kowtow with Zhang Taiping, there were names of his son and daughter-in-law on the family tree, and there were portraits on the table. When Zhang Taiping's father and daughter were finished, they pinched five incense sticks and lit them, and half-clasped their hands towards the family tree and inserted the incense into the incense burner.

After the firecrackers were lit, even if the ancestors were invited home, the candles would not be extinguished for the time being.

Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve don't vote for a sumptuous meal, only a warm reunion. Only the Cai Yazhi sisters are busy in the kitchen, Fan Ming and Yaya are watching variety shows in front of the TV, and now the New Year's Gala has not started, but the variety shows celebrating the New Year are very good everywhere, one big and one small staring intently at the TV.

Zhang Taiping and the three of them sat together and chatted, the old man's life has experienced twists and turns, rich experience, after years of precipitation, the knowledge is naturally extraordinary, what surprised Zhang Taiping is that the woman's knowledge is also extraordinary, the knowledge learned is especially complex, and the old man chats about tea art, weapons, famous fists and feet, talks about farming and farming, and even the old man casually says that the study of feng shui has also been involved. Zhang Taiping knew how much weight he had, and he didn't offer ugliness, so he sat next to him and listened silently. There is no specific number of small talk between the two, it should be idle chat, where is the chat, never cold, and the old man can't help but treat each other differently in the end.

The Chinese New Year's Eve meal should not be eaten too late, and the sisters prepared the meal at about eight o'clock.

A circle of people sat down around the table, and there were not many dishes on the table, first four cold dishes, then four hot dishes, and one soup. These are Cai Yazhi's kitchens, during this time she and Xing Rushui learned a lot of cooking skills, and when she is fine, she will check some menus on the Internet under the guidance of Zhang Taiping, and try to make them herself, not to mention, after this period of hard work, her cooking skills have really risen sharply, she was originally a person with a blue heart, but because of real life, she has constrained her early development, but in fact, her learning ability is still very good.

Tonight's dishes are first of all "color" and "fragrance". The four cold dishes are: cut a plate of beef, a plate of frozen meat, this frozen meat is frozen out of the village people themselves with pig's head meat, it is definitely much greener and more affordable than the one sold on the big market, the beef and frozen meat are cut into thin slices, the knife is even and neat, and the chef's talent has begun to appear.

The other two cold dishes are spiced peanuts and shredded dried onions. The color of the spiced peanuts is primitive, and the boiled peanuts are soaked in five flavors and tasteless, which is delicious and has no harm to the human body of fried peanuts, which is really a good thing to drink. Dry pulling shredded onions is to cut the onion into thin strips and then put it in a basin and sprinkle salt to let the water flow out, and then press out the water in it and cool it, so as to remove the natural spicy taste, and it tastes refreshing and delicious.

The hot dish is sweet and sour fish, scrambled eggs with leeks, stir-fried pork with lotus vegetables, minced meat and cauliflower, and the soup is a simple vegetarian soup made of enoki mushrooms and green vegetables picked in the mountains.

Tonight's main dish is actually this sweet and sour fish, the red juice poured over the fish, exuding a mouth-watering sweet and sour aroma. Eating fish symbolizes that there is more than enough every year, and there will be fish in the lunch dinner tomorrow, and tonight will symbolize that the remaining meals will not be packed up and saved for next year, which is also the meaning of surplus every year.

These dishes look fragrant if you don't eat them, let's not talk about how they taste, just the color and fragrance can be satisfying, such an attractive color and aroma, even if it is really not perfect, at least it will not be bad.

After the old man spoke, Zhang Taiping took a chopstick sweet and sour fish and tasted it, nodded to Cai Yazhi, who was full of anticipation, and said, "Yes, this level is much better than the cooking skills in the restaurant outside." ”

Cai Yazhi's face bloomed happily after hearing this, she learned cooking skills one to cook for her family, and the other was to open a farmhouse at home when the time came, and there was no need to hire a cook.

The family had a warm and reunited Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and everyone was very happy with this warm and relaxed atmosphere. In fact, if you think about it carefully, none of these people have really enjoyed this kind of warm and relaxing Chinese New Year's Eve at this time. Needless to say, the old man spent the New Year alone for several years in the mountains; Fan Ming has always been accompanied by only walking like water because of her body, and she is naturally insulated in this warm and cheerful environment; The two sisters of the Cai family have also been working hard for life over the years, and their poor life has never allowed such a Chinese New Year's Eve meal, which seemed to be absolutely luxurious before; As for Zhang Taiping himself, not to mention, two lives, one is not the opportunity to feel this atmosphere, the other is not to cherish this opportunity, so this is also his first warm Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the true sense.

After eating, Sister Cai Yazhi went to the kitchen to prepare tomorrow's ingredients, tomorrow at six o'clock in the morning is to have an early meal, some people are longevity noodles, some people are dumplings, which has something to do with economic relations and people's laziness. Zhang Taiping's house prepared dumplings, except for the old man who went to the back room to guard the house to prevent the candles from suddenly collapsing and catching fire, the other six people sat around the kang and watched the New Year's Gala while making dumplings.

Fan Ming saw Cai Yazhi take out a few coins and asked puzzledly, "Sister Yazhi, what are you doing here?" ”

Cai Yazhi made a gesture of putting it in a dumpling.

Fan Ming is even more curious, what do you do with coins in dumplings? How can I eat this, and asked, "What if it gets in my stomach?" ”

Cai Xiaomei explained beside her: "Putting coins in dumplings can measure everyone's blessings, and whoever eats coins will be blessed." Don't worry about eating it in your stomach, you are not Zhu Bajie, the coin is so big, at most it will be a jump of teeth. ”

"Measuring blessings?" Fan Ming was suddenly amused when she heard it, and said, "Then let's let a few more." ”

Cai Yazhi smiled and shook her head. Cai Xiaomei explained: "You can only put as many coins as you want, and if you have more, it won't work." ”

There is a custom of staying up in the countryside to stay up for the year, after making dumplings, everyone did not go to sleep, Fan Ming shouted to stay up for the year, and he would not sleep all night, so the four women took out a deck of poker and played cards on the kang, and even brought counting tickets, but they were all dime and dime tickets, the purpose was not how much money to win, but to have fun.

The little girl fell asleep watching in front of the TV, Zhang Taiping stuffed her in the quilt and put her in a comfortable position, and then turned on the computer and started the Internet.

After twelve, when the New Year's bell on TV rang twelve, Zhang Taiping came to the courtyard and first lit a big thunder cannon to wake up the whole village, and then lit a large string of firecrackers. Drive away bad luck, usher in the new year, and usher in a new beginning.

The firecrackers in Zhang Taiping's house have not yet finished, and the firecrackers in the village have sounded one after another, and suddenly the whole village is filled with a cloud of smoke and cannot see the true face of the village, but in this smoke there is laughter, pregnancy for the coming year, and a beautiful vision for the new year.

Many people can feel that after this year, the village may still usher in a wedge, because there is that tall and majestic man in the village.