Chapter 238: Xiao Nian

After receiving Li Lili's call, Wang Haiming was stunned at first, helping those poor people.

"This little girl, when did she become so enthusiastic, and her determination is quite big." Wang Haiming only verbally agreed, after all, there was no plan in his heart, and this did not mean that he could be rescued.

used to be a poor person, Wang Haiming also thought about how to help those who wanted to get rid of poverty and work hard. Except, of course, for those who are poor, but not motivated.

"Forget it, let's wait for the New Year." Wang Haiming is not Doraemon, when he encounters a problem, he immediately has a solution, so he has to let it go first.

"Xiaoya, why did you come back, I said I'll pick you up." During the winter vacation, Wang Haiming originally wanted to drive a brand-new pickup truck to show off, but he didn't expect that when he came back from a walk around the construction site, his little sister had already arrived home.

"Originally, it was a holiday in the afternoon, but then it was changed, and it was a holiday at noon, and I walked around the city before coming back, look, what I bought, beautiful." Wang Xiaoya is fiddling with her things, beautiful clothes, rag dolls, nail polish

Wang Haiming went to help his mother very gorgeously, and talked about clothes, rag dolls, nail polish and other things with girls, which felt a little weird, although it was his sister.

"Mom, what are you doing, preparing so many things." Wang Haiming ran into the house and found that his mother was making a lot of things, and it didn't look like she was cooking, which was very strange.

"Today is Xiao Nian, you young people, you don't even know these things." Liu Mei stopped. Explain it to the brother and sister.

Xiao Nian does not refer to a festival specifically, but a custom. The main folk activities of our Han nationality include pasting Spring Festival couplets, sweeping dust, sacrificial stoves, etc.

"It seems that you don't know about the sacrificial stove anymore, so I'll tell you about it." The sacrificial stove is a custom that has great influence and spreads widely among Chinese folk. On this night, every household performed the ritual of "sacrificing to the god of the stove" to send the king of the stove to heaven.

The twenty-third night of the lunar month is the day when the king of the stove goes to heaven, so there is the saying of "twenty-three, sacrifice to the stove official". and "Heaven says good things." Return to the palace to descend auspicious; Twenty-three goes, the first and fifth days of the new year come". On this day or in advance, every household will. Go to the street and buy back the "sacrificial stove candy" made with corn or millet, and offer the sacrificial stove at night. It is said that this day. The Lord of the Stove has to go to heaven to report the good and evil of this family to the Jade Emperor. Let the Jade Emperor reward and punish.

When sacrificing to the stove, the Kanto sugar is melted with fire and applied to the mouth of the stove king. In this way, he can't speak ill of the Jade Emperor in front of him. "Men do not worship the moon, women do not sacrifice to the stove" custom, so the sacrifice to the king of the stove is limited to men.

At the same time, it is necessary to set off firecrackers and send the god of the stove. Do you want to use the sacrificial stove?

The sacrificial stove candy is generally mixed with fried jade cocoon and held into a ball, and distributed to children or adults at home to eat. Traditionally, the day of the stove is the prelude to the new year. The continuation of the mantra is: twenty-one, send the girl; Twenty-two, send the fourth; Twenty-three, the priest of the stove; 24. Sweeping the ashes (i.e., cleaning); xxv, and coal-earth; xxvi. cut off the flesh; Twenty-seven, go to the market (there are also called small squeezing, that is, grinding rice noodles); Twenty-eighth, grip the (steamed New Year's bun); Twenty-nine, playing pot wine; Thirty, a fat boy is pasted on the wall; On the first day of junior high school, the pouting ass was rubbed.

The small year also means that people begin to prepare for the New Year, ready to have a clean and clean New Year, indicating that the new year should have a new atmosphere, expressing the people's good wishes to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.

At this time, Wang Haiming roughly understood, he used to know that Xiao Nian, the sacrificial stove, would forget it when he heard it, let alone those details.

In fact, not only Wang Haiming, but now, not to mention the city, even many people in the countryside don't know what is going on, only some elderly people in the countryside will understand.

Before she finished listening, Wang Xiaoya ran away, ready to go crazy in the village, and often added classes in the third year of high school, so that this energetic beauty hadn't gone crazy for a long time.

Moreover, Wang Xiaoya also brought a bodyguard who was in the wind, the obese Xiong Da. Although Wang Haiming is committed to Xiong Da's weight loss work, he has no choice but to eat too much, and the brown bear's body shape is already fat, so it looks like Xiong Da is not thin.

Regarding these ancestral customs, Wang Haiming felt that it was better to know more about them, so he followed his mother and prepared together.

"Haiming, when will Liangzi come back, Xiaoya is on vacation, didn't you say that the university holiday is very early, this week will be a week, and the New Year will be." Liu Mei kept complaining, she hadn't seen her youngest son for half a year, and Liu Mei still missed it very much.

"Well, it's quite early for the holiday, but it seems that he went to participate in some event, and he should be able to come back in the last two days, and I'll call him later." Wang Haiming is also strange, why did Wang Liang come here and not come back, he didn't pay attention to the last call because it was too noisy at the construction site, it seems that he will call and ask later.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and although it is customary to be a shopkeeper, some of the last matters still need to be dealt with. The issue of holidays, bonuses, and plans for next year all need to be discussed with you by yourself.

"Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrives." Liu Mei was just chattering, and Wang Liang stepped through the door and came in.

"Mom, I'm back". The three siblings usually shout like this when they go home.

"You, you've been on vacation for a few days, why did you come back, let me see, have you lost weight?" Liu Mei complained and said a few words, then took Wang Liang away, and didn't cook lunch, she must have asked how she had been in the past few months.

Wang Haiming took over and continued to cook lunch.

Big brother, I'm hungry, you can make me an oil cake to eat first. Wang Xiaoya ran in sweating profusely, flipped over, and had nothing to eat, so she had to beg her eldest brother, because her stomach was already growling.

"Can't you see that I'm already cooking, go and go, go out and wait, I'm hungry and running all over the village, and I deserve it when I'm hungry." Wang Haiming said angrily, this girl is too worry-free.

"Hmph, you don't do it for me, I'll do it myself." After all, Wang Xiaoya really did it herself. As a girl from the countryside, she knows some cooking work.

"That's right, finger cake is hand cake." Wang Haiming suddenly thought that what Li Lili said, the project that needs to be grasped is just right, and it is a small investment, and it is not a problem to feed the family if it is done well.

"Haha, Xiaoya, you're amazing, go out and play, I'll make it for you, don't stain your new clothes." Wang Haiming took the oil cake that Wang Xiaoya almost fried, added a little more oil, and lowered the fire of the gas stove a little.

"It's weird, it's inexplicable, but I like it." Wang Xiaoya cheered happily and ran out again. Because there is a level file at home, Wang Haiming plans to make a few finger cakes at noon to try.

As for the half-paste oil cake fried by Wang Xiaoya, it was naturally given to Xiong Da. Xiong Dake is a good boy who is not a picky eater, no matter what, as long as it is eaten, he likes it.

Wang Haiming made several cakes respectively, the first one was added with a drop of morning dew, the second was added with space river water, and the third one did not add anything, just using the usual tap water, but spices such as green onion and ginger were planted in the space, and the fourth was green onion and ginger planted outside, but it was watered with space river water.

After making it, Wang Haiming tasted it separately and found that the best taste was the one with a drop of morning dew, and then it decreased in turn, and the worst was the fourth.

However, even the worst fourth is still much better than the finger cakes sold in the market. And this cost is the lowest, and the quantity of green onion and ginger can also be supplied.

Yes, in the end, Wang Haiming chose the fourth finger cake, but since it was noon, he ate it himself, of course, he still made several of the first three.

"Woo, the food at home is delicious, big brother, it's all your fault, and you don't often send me delicious food, now the third year of high school is strict, don't let me out of school, otherwise I will go to the small farm to eat." Wang Xiaoya took a big bite of rice, but she still couldn't stop her small mouth.

The same is true for Wang Liang on the other side, taking a big bite of rice, as if he has been hungry for a long time and has not eaten for a long time.

"You two eat slowly, it's not nothing, Xiaoya, drink some soup quickly, eat so urgently, don't choke." Liu Mei saw the two of them eating and said distressedly. (To be continued......)