Uncle Li, the shopkeeper of the grocery store, is a native of Qingshui Village, and often helps the villagers who enter the city, and small things such as storing goods often happen, just wave their hands and let the two sisters put the goods in the corner of the backyard of the shop. In order to thank Uncle Li, the two sisters bought nearly two taels of silver at the grocery store, including salt, brown sugar and various flavorful spices, and also bought a string of 5,000 firecrackers, and two packs of scattered firecrackers for the two small ones.

The two of them went to a shop selling pen, ink, paper, and inkstone to buy new pen and ink and rice paper for the three scholars in the family, and bought a continuous shengxuan for painting for Wenren Chiba, and a half-cooked jade version for the two children. This alone cost half of the silver brought by Yao Hong, no wonder few people in the peasant families can afford to read, and consumables such as pen, ink and paper are the big numbers that ordinary people bear the difficulties of.

After buying the things that had to be bought, the two sisters went about casually. Women are born shopaholics, and this saying is true throughout the ages. Yao Huang followed behind Yao Hong, watching her linger in front of various stalls, and then the things in the basket behind her increased little by little, Yao Huang decided that he would resolutely not go shopping with his sister in the future. Shopping or something is a dead hole for otaku.

Yao Hong, who was still unsatisfied, was pulled away by her sister after buying a few packs of pastries, and it was almost noon, and her brother-in-law and the two little ones were still waiting for them to go back to eat.

Walking into the teahouse, the storyteller was talking about "Fengshen Bang". When it came to the section of "Huang Tianhua Tongguan Father", all the people in the teahouse were fascinated, Yao Qing and Xiao Ke had already heard Yao Huang speak, but they still had to be excited, and almost fell to the side of the platform where the storyteller was standing. The two sisters Yao and Huang didn't dare to disturb everyone, under the leadership of Xiao Er. The two of them sat lightly at the table of Wenren Chiba.

There were three bowls of tea and a plate of snacks on the table, and the two sisters estimated that the three of them would not be too hungry after eating the snacks. did not urge the three of them to leave, and one of them took a piece of snack and chewed it carefully. Yao Hong and Wenren Chiba whispered. Yao Huang listened to the storyteller and felt that he was much more wonderful than in the book.

“…… However, it was said that Huang Roll was the father of Huang Feihu and guarded this pass. Hearing that the eldest son Feihu rebelled against Chaoge and killed the general guard along the way, Huang Rolling was annoyed, and the detective army reported, "The eldest master, the second master and the third master are here!" Huang Roll tightly and order: "Form a formation of 3,000 men and horses." Ten prisoner carts, take this anti-thief, and send them to Chaoge. 'I don't know what will happen to Huang Jiahu's life? Let's see the next breakdown. ”

The storyteller Shi Shiran walked off the stage amid the cheers and retentions of everyone in the teahouse, and Yao Huang was surprised to find that the man turned into the backyard of the teahouse and glanced at the Wenren Qianye covertly.

"Let's go eat." Wenren Qianye didn't seem to notice the storyteller's attention to him, and picked up Xiao Ke with one hand, supported Yao Hong with the other, and said to a few people.

Five people came to Baiweiju, and Xiao Er recognized Yao Huang. It is also known that the Yao family is the supplier of longevity fruit, and they greet the five people very warmly. Yao Huang chose a place against the wall, and several people ordered a few good dishes, all of which they couldn't usually eat. The cost of a plate is not small. But it's rare for a family to go to the restaurant, as long as they're happy, they don't care about money or anything. Except that Yao Hong complained that it was too wasteful. The other four were all very happy.

Between eating and drinking, a middle-aged man in a shirt walked into the restaurant. It was the gentleman who told the story in the teahouse. The storyteller walked straight to the table of five and bowed to the smeller, Chiba. "The Third Son."

"You are?" Hearing this, Chiba put down his chopsticks in confusion.

"The villain Tong Keyi once worked as a guest in front of the fourth master."

The so-called "Qingke" is actually a staff member. Wenren Qianye carefully looked at the man in front of him, he was indeed a little familiar, he was his father's staff, and he should have been dragged down by the change of the Wenren family, so he came to this northern town to be a storyteller.

Standing up, Wenren Qianye asked Xiao Er to open a private room and invited Tong Keyi to enter the box for a long time. Yao Hong fed her son, and glanced in the direction of the box from time to time, with a faint worry in her eyes. Yao Huang saw it in his eyes and patted her hand for comfort. Yao Hong smiled back, she figured it out, her husband was not an ordinary person in the first place, as long as she supported him behind his back, she didn't have to worry too much about the rest.

After the four of them finished eating, they asked Xiao Er to serve a pot of tea and wait slowly, and after about half an hour, Wenren Qianye and Tong Keyi finally came out of the box. The moment he opened the door, Yao Huang saw Tong Keyi put a letter into his sleeve.

"Xianggong, it's still early, shall we take a stroll first, or find an inn to rest?" Yao Hong greeted Wenren Qianye.

"Let's find an inn to rest in. After dinner, we went to the night market together. ”

"Okay."

It is not a festival before the New Year, the night market in Anping County is not lively, the two small ones are not having fun, and they go back to the inn early to rest. Early the next morning, after taking the family around the city and the neighborhood, he returned to Shimizu Village.

The gold and silver nests are not as good as their own kennels. When they returned home, all five of them felt the most comfortable in their own home. It's the Chinese New Year, and although there are only two children at home, there are still the same things that should be done, cleaning up, and preparing all kinds of food...... Yao Hong is busy making new clothes for everyone, although there are no ready-to-wear clothes, the clothes she buys are always not as comfortable as the ones she made. Yao Huang also helped Yao Hong share it, but she didn't like to be a female celebrity very much, so she only made one for the two small ones and didn't do it again. Yao Huang himself is too lazy to do it, but he likes to point fingers beside Yao Hong, conveying some modern ideas to Yao Hong, and Yao Hong does it according to the ideas proposed by Yao Huang, and the effect is quite good. Especially the two small clothes, which were spiritual and cute, were seen by other women in the village, and they followed suit, making Yao Huang, who was the driving force behind the scenes, proud.

Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky; twenty-four, sweep the house; Twenty-five, grinding tofu; Twenty-six, to cut the meat; Twenty-seven, kill the stove chicken; Twenty-eighth, put the face hair; Twenty-nine, steamed steamed buns; Stay up for 30 nights, and twist and twist on the first day of the new year.

The twenty-third day of the lunar month is the day when the king of the stove goes to heaven, and every family wants to sacrifice to the king of the stove to make him happy, so as not to sue the heavens. The two sisters made the sugar melon a day in advance. Sugar melon is made of millet boiling, first soak the millet millet thoroughly, wait for them to grow white buds, and grind the sprouted millet with water, these crushed millet with juice and water is the "enzyme" for making stove sugar; Cook the millet into rice, dry it for a while, wait for it to be not too hot, put in the "enzyme" that has been made, mix it evenly, and put it up, after a period of time similar to "fermentation", the starch in the millet rice will be converted into starch sugar, that is, stove sugar; Take out the dilute sugar, fry it in a hot pan into a semi-dry paste, take it out, let it dry for a while and it will not be hot, then rub it into strips, put it outside the house and freeze it overnight, and the finished sugar melon will be completed.

When they got up early in the morning, the two sisters began to arrange the sacrificial supplies, and when they were completely ready, they handed over the main field to the three "masters". No way, women can't sacrifice to the stove. It is said that the king of the stove looks like a little white face, and he is afraid of the woman's sacrifice stove, and he is "suspected of being a man and a woman".

After the festival is held, preparations for the New Year begin in earnest. The most important step is to "sweep the house", which is called "dusting" in the south, in order to welcome the New Year cleanly and cleanly. The whole family worked together, Wenren Qianye took two small cleaning yards and the cobwebs in the corners of the house - this job was very easy, Yao Huang set up some small protection and dust-proof formations when arranging the Spirit Gathering Array, so that snakes, insects, and the like could not get close to the Yao family's big house, and there were almost no cobwebs and dust. The three gentlemen cleaned up at will, and the work was done. The work of the two sisters is heavier, cleaning all kinds of utensils and dismantling and washing the bedding and curtains, these days the weather is clear, the warm sun shines on the people is very warm, the yard is full of cleaned sheets and bedding, originally a day can be dried, Yao Huang secretly cast a wind spell to dry, less than half a day's effort, the sheets and bedding are dried. Yao Hong was surprised, and Wenren Qianye glanced at Yao Huang clearly, he thought that Yao Huang was a futon that was dried with internal strength. The sun-dried bedding smells of sunlight and is very comfortable to lie on.

Yao Hong took out the red paper he bought in the city, cut out two long strips and a short horizontal strip, Yao Qing and Xiao Ke ran to Wenren Qianye with an inkstone and a brush with a brush, urging him to write Spring Festival couplets. Hearing that the thousand leaves of the person are waved, the pen is vigorous and powerful, and the handwriting is flowing smoothly, such as a loose horse taking off the air and leaving the dust, and like a dragon flying in the sky, it is extremely good-looking. Yao Qing happily read the Spring Festival couplets, "Happy to live in a treasure land for a thousand years, and everything is prosperous according to the family", and horizontally criticized: "Four seasons are wishful". With a small bun, he pasted the couplet at the gate.

Yao Hong took out the scissors and began to cut the window flowers, her hands were very dexterous, and after a while, a few window flowers were cut. Two "Fu" characters, two "Magpie Climbing Branches", two "Fish Every Year", and two "Flowers Bloom and Wealth...... Sticking to the windows of the three bedrooms and the hall doubled the joy in the room. Yao Huang was envious on the side, but unfortunately for some reason, she just couldn't learn to cut paper, so she could only watch a beautiful pattern show in Yao Hong's hands, drooling with envy.

"It's all at home!" Fourth Aunt Li walked into the yard with a small basket, and Yao Hong hurriedly got up to greet her, "Fourth aunt, come in and do it." ”

"No need, there are a lot of things at home, and I have to rush back." Aunt Li took out an earthen bowl from the basket and handed it to Yao Hong, "Some meatballs have been fried at home and sent to you to taste." ”

Yao Hong hurriedly took the bowl and walked into the kitchen, and when she came out, the food in the big bowl was replaced by yellow crispy meat.

"Fourth aunt, this is crispy meat, it tastes pretty good. You take it home and let the fourth uncle, the eldest brother, the second brother and Yun Heng taste the usual. Yao Hong put the bowl into Aunt Li's basket. (To be continued......)