Because I was alone on the mountain last night and reminisced about the experience since I came home, I couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic and excited, so I slept late. Originally, he should have slept lazily this morning, but Zhou Yu was still awakened by a low roar in his sleep.

After getting up from the kang, I opened the curtains and found that the sky was still gray, and there was no bright light at all. But from time to time, the muffled sound of firecrackers came from the direction of Zhoujia Village. Zhou Yu felt a burst of joy and joy in his heart, and the Chinese New Year's Eve finally arrived.

The joy and excitement of the festival stimulated Zhou Yu, even if he wanted to sleep back, it was impossible, and he had a lot of work to do today.

Unable to eat breakfast, Zhou Yu took advantage of the light of the street lamp to start feeding the animals on the mountain and the poultry halfway up the mountain. After a while, Zhou Zhi and a few people also came over from home on bicycles, and everyone did all the work together before going back.

The sky gradually brightened, and soon a round of red sun slowly rose, injecting a touch of warmth into this cold morning. Phoenix Mountain is still warm as spring, although it is in the north of the cold winter wax moon, but here is like the pretty Jiangnan in general, with red willows and green streams murmuring.

Today is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone is bound to keep the New Year at home at night, and it is impossible to keep people on this side of Phoenix Mountain, so just now everyone poured all the day's food into the pigsty and poultry pen. As for the brown bear family and the deer herd, as well as the big red brothers and the big donkey and the second donkey, Zhou Yu is ready to get them into the space for the New Year. But just in case, Zhou Yu still planned to leave Huahua and his family to guard the mountain, because they were smart enough, and they could rest assured that they would stay here and watch the mountain.

Finished the work on the mountain. After putting everything in order, Zhou Yu drove down the mountain.

Although it is warm as spring on Phoenix Mountain. But when it reached the bottom of the mountain, it immediately became dry and cold, and Xianyu Bay was also frozen up. Under the morning sun, the white ice reflects a dazzling light.

The car slowly drove along the asphalt road into the village, and the small village, which is usually very quiet, is constantly lively with firecrackers, happy laughter from every house, and even the smell of the New Year is in the air.

The yards of each house have erected a long wooden pole ready to hang lanterns, and the children are holding plastic bags in their hands, which contain freshly fried sweet potatoes, sweet potato strips, meatballs and other fried foods playing on the side of the road, and a few naughty little guys take apart the small whip and the earth red, and then put the lighted incense one by one.

The old man returned home with the pig bones and trotters that were frozen outside, and they were ready to boil the bones and remove the pork bones later. Then boil the pig's trotters to make pig's trotter jelly, and keep them for the morning of the New Year's Day. The women gathered around the pot and beat the rice with flour, and then pasted the Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters......

In the Northeast, there are two particulars about pasting Spring Festival couplets, one is that they must be pasted before 12 noon, which means that the family will be diligent and will not be left behind in the coming year; The second is that the "glutinous" (paste) of the Spring Festival couplets must be beaten with their own flour and water, so that the Spring Festival couplets can be pasted firmly and firmly. In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, every household is pasting Spring Festival together. Whose Spring Festival couplets have been "persistent" on the door frame for a long time, and they will not fall off after wind and rain, and even can be maintained until the Spring Festival next year, which proves that this family must have a clever daughter-in-law.

When Zhou Yu arrived home, his father was soaking pork bones. My mother was making rice dumplings, and the kang was full of Spring Festival couplets and colors of various colors.

Seeing that her son was back, Wang Guilan said with a smile: "Xiaoyu, you can rest for a while." After Mom beats the rice dumplings, you and your dad put the Spring Festival couplets on the word Fu, and our house is a two-story building. So upstairs has to be posted too.

Also, you two need to hurry. Hurry up and post it before the wind comes down in the morning, there are still so many houses on Phoenix Mountain. ”

Zhou Yu was startled and hurriedly said: "Mom, forget it on the mountain, when will so many houses be finished?" Don't you want to exhaust people to death? ”

"The stinky boy knows that he is stupid, as long as it is a house for the New Year, it has to be posted with the Spring Festival couplets and blessing words, and it is not good to say that there are more houses? Mom still wants to post from morning to night, the key is that you have so many houses? Wang Guilan said angrily.

Zhou Yu was speechless, since his mother said so, then it would be done, so he found a broom from the kang, divided the Spring Festival couplets and horizontal batches, and divided the colors of various colors into a group according to five different colors, so that it could be faster when pasting later.

After the paste was laid, Zhou Yu stepped on the ladder to paste the Spring Festival couplets on it, and Zhou Dingguo started below. As for Wang Guilan, she began to cook bones and pig's trotters, and the family of three had their own division of labor, and they were in full swing.

To say that the Spring Festival couplets are not only pasted outside the main house, but also on cars or livestock carts, chicken racks, pigsties, wells, ladders, etc. What is on the car is that the car travels thousands of miles, and the road is safe; The chicken rack is full of golden roosters; The pigsty is naturally full of fat pigs; The well is the source of drinking water; On the ladder, it is step by step.

Wang Zhijiang on the other side also brought out paste with the girl to paste the Spring Festival couplets at this time, and when he saw that his nephew had already started to act, he joked through the courtyard wall: "Oh, isn't this my eldest nephew?" Anyway, we are such a big boss, and I personally climbed the wall to paste Spring Festival couplets? If I were you, I'd brush and brush and throw out 10,000 yuan and hire a few people to do it. ”

Before Zhou Yu could refute it, Shanshan, who finally returned home, also said with a smile: "Oh, Dad, you are so wise, my brother should hire someone to help him do it now that he is so rich, what kind of brother, if you want to hire someone, you must hire me first, let's not flow into the fields of outsiders." ”

Standing on the ladder, Zhou Yu couldn't help but laugh when he heard the words of the two of them, and said with a smile: "Shanshan, why did you become as open-minded as your father?" Really, my uncle didn't teach you anything good. But sister, don't worry, when you are short of money, just talk to your brother, and say that we are so poor now that we only have money left. ”

Shanshan immediately looked at her with admiration, a pair of beautiful big eyes shining brightly, and said sweetly to Zhou Yu: "Brother, you are still good to me, unlike my father, who is an old picker." If you want to buy a notebook, you only let me buy a domestic brand, which is not allowed to exceed 4,000, and the function of that thing is not good? And there are 3,000 dollars in it that I earned myself, and he only added 1,000 dollars to me. ”

After speaking, the girl blinked a few times and then continued, "Oh, brother." Why do you think my dad is Zhou Papi? ”

"Hahaha, Shanshan. You feel right, but his name is Wang Papi. And not around the skin. But don't worry about this, after the New Year, my brother will buy you an apple, which is guaranteed to be a boutique of more than 10,000 yuan, do you think it's okay? ”

"Wow, brother is great, long live brother......" Shanshan danced happily, happily not looking.

Wang Zhijiang is full of black lines, these two dead children dare to bury themselves in broad daylight, can this be repaid? So he said with a tiger face and threatened: "Okay, Xiaoyu, Shanshan." You two dead children are really neither big nor small, and you dare to bury me. Today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, so I won't worry about the two of you, you two will wait for me to see how I clean you up later. ”

As soon as Lu Dao finished saying this, the brother and sister immediately burst into tears with eyes in their eyes, and shouted pitifully and loudly: "Mom, aunt (aunt), uncle (dad) is bullying people......"

Hearing these two words, Wang Zhijiang was so frightened that his soul was not possessed. Putting down the things in his hand and wanting to run out, who knew that the two women were faster, and the next moment they hurriedly pushed open the door and yelled at Wang Zhijiang, saying that Wang Zhishu was incomplete.

Old man Wang Yunhai stood at the gate and watched all this with a smile. As for Zhou Dingguo, he felt a chill behind his back, and felt deep sorrow for his brother-in-law in his heart: he can't live if he does his own sin, there are these two tigresses who protect their calves. The consequences of offending one of the children are scary enough, let alone offending two at the same time? Isn't this that I am impatient to live a long life?

saw that the arrogance of the Wang branch secretary was beaten down. The two unscrupulous young men laughed directly, and the brother and sister chatted happily while sticking to the Spring Festival couplets. The two fathers who saw the hands below shook their heads and sighed.

The sound of firecrackers gradually dissipated, leaving only sporadic sounds, which should be the children disassembling the firecrackers and putting them alone.

Zhou Yu and his father went to his uncle's house after pasting their Spring Festival couplets and colors, and helped finish the second floor.

At this time, it was already past nine o'clock, and the smell of boiled meat wafted from the kitchens of the two families, and Zhou Yu was about to go home with his sister to eat some broken meat, when he saw the grandfather and the third uncle come in with a roll of very wide things.

"Oh, uncle is here, come in and sit down." Wang Yunhai, who was standing in the courtyard, said with a smile.

"Okay, let's go in, let's go in and chat." After saying that, the old lady led everyone into the house.

"Taigong, wouldn't it be that Huzi smelled the fragrance of our family's boiled meat and fooled you all over to eat delicious meat, right? This kid's nose is really better than a dog's nose. As soon as he entered the house, Zhou Yu began to bury people.

"Cut, you've got a dog's nose. Brother Ergou, don't disobey it, we just have a good fate, as soon as you arrive at my second uncle's house, you can meet delicious food, do you say evil or not? Zhou Hu rolled his eyes and said.

Who knew that the old lady slapped the old lady as soon as he finished speaking, and the old man was not happy, and said with a dark face: "I said three donkeys, do you know what day Lu Dao is talking nonsense today?" Today is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, what is evil or not? Unlucky words are not allowed. ”

"Hey~ I know the truth, and I promise not to say unlucky things again." Zhou Hu said with a sad face.

Looking at Huzi's big cake blushing like a monkey's ass, Zhou Yu and Shanshan next to him were about to die of laughter at this moment, Zhou Hu didn't dare to be arrogant at this time, just glared fiercely at the pair of gloating brothers and sisters.

But how could Shanshan eat his set? first opened his mouth and spit out a little fragrant tongue to anger him, and then he hugged the old lady's arm and said coquettishly: "Taigong, you see Brother Huzi is here to scare me, oh, my heart is still pounding now." ”

The old lady, who was still serious just now, immediately smiled when she heard Shanshan's voice, showing a look of love, but after hearing Shanshan's words, her face sank again, and she said to Zhou Hu angrily: "I said three donkeys, you kid is a little promising, okay?" If you have the ability to go to outsiders, you will be a doom if you threaten your sister, I tell you, if you scare Shanshan again, don't say that I will whip you. ”

Zhou Hu was about to cry, saying that the old man had been shrewd all his life, why couldn't he see that this girl was pretending to be pitiful? Bullying her yourself? Isn't it good to say the other way around?

But Huzi is a tiger after all, but he has more eyes than Wang Zhijiang, and he knows the truth that a good man does not suffer the loss in front of him, so he replied twice and stopped squeaking.

At this time, Zhou Dingguo spoke, "Third child, is there something wrong with you and the master?" Have the Spring Festival couplets and the genealogy of the ancestors been hung up? ”

"Oh. The Spring Festival couplets are all pasted, and grandpa said that you have a new house, and the place is big enough. I'm going to worship here with you this year. I've taken it all over the genealogy. ”

Zhou Dingguo nodded, thinking to himself. There are more than 100 people with the surname Zhou in this week's village. Since the Taigong was the oldest and the patriarch, the family tree was in charge of the Taigong, and other branches would come to worship their ancestors on the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve every year.

used to be in the third child's house, but due to the limited space, it was really crowded with people, and it was really a little unbearable. Since my own house is a newly built house, the outhouse is big enough, and twenty or thirty people can kneel down at once, so it is really suitable to worship the family tree in my own home.

Next, the master cleaned the north wall of the outhouse, and Zhou Yu and his brothers went to Zhou Dingbang's house to bring over the offering table and the tributes made by the third aunt, as well as incense and candles. After arranging it, I finally got the genealogy thing done.

At this time, there was another group of people in the family, starting with Wu Lao Er and Shui Sheng, and the back were all young people in their teens and twenties. After these young people finished pasting the Spring Festival couplets at home, they were sent by the adults in the family to help Zhou Yu go to Phoenix Mountain to paste the Spring Festival couplets.

Wang Guilan said with emotion: "Xiaoyu, look at how good you are?" People remember that you have a lot of houses on Phoenix Mountain that have to post Spring Festival couplets, but you don't know what to do. ”

After finishing speaking, he said to Shui Sheng Wu Lao Er and the others: "When you go home, help me Xie Lu thank your parents, you will come back after you are busy on the mountain later, the second aunt has a boiled pig bones today, and they all come over to eat deboned meat, it is fragrant." ”

"A must. Second aunt, I like to eat this bite, so why don't you leave some for me. By the way, I'll go home in the afternoon and get two bottles of wine for my second uncle to taste. I feel that I have a good luck this year, and this wine will be successful. Wu Lao Er said with a smile.

The tiger pouted, if this guy can make wine, the sow can go up the tree. Seeing that the time was not early, he grabbed Wu Lao Er and dragged him out. A group of young people followed behind, got into the car, and headed for Phoenix Mountain.

In the end, there are many people, and the Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters and colors of the six villas were pasted before half past ten with the help of everyone. Afterwards, Zhou Yu sent a jar of good chrysanthemum wine and a small box of big cherries, which made the brothers smile happily.

Wu Lao Er said with a shy face: "Second dog, don't forget to inform your brother if you have any work in the future, promise to be on call, and give your kid a job This benefit is simply not to be said." Hey. ”

"Yes, second brother, brother Shui Sheng, and all the younger brothers, you will come to me to play when you have nothing to do in the future, except for a few of you who go to school, and now you have to study. The second brother is here today to give you a promise, whoever is admitted to the university will be rewarded with 10,000 yuan each. Zhou Yu said with a smile.

After listening to Zhou Yu's words, those young people in high school were overjoyed, and they secretly rubbed their hands one by one, planning to devote themselves to their studies immediately after the New Year, and they were bound to win the 10,000 yuan.

Next, Zhou Yu asked Huzi to send these brothers back, and he went to the mountain to collect all the animals except for the Huahua family into the space, including the small eagle and the King Kong eagle flying in the air and the big eagle and the eagle. At this point, in addition to the flowers and trees on the Phoenix Mountain, there are only the Huahua family and more than 200 wild boars under the mountain.

When it was nearly eleven o'clock, I went to the mountain next week, and I saw that the village was completely different from when I came back in the morning, and every household was pasted with the Spring Festival couplets and the colorful colors, and the long wooden poles erected in the yard were also hung with red lanterns. It can be said that the current Zhoujia Village is a color, brilliant red, gorgeous red, and everywhere is filled with the atmosphere of the New Year.

Before he arrived at the door, Zhou Yu was a little hungry, and he knew that Lu Dao had been busy since the morning and had not eaten yet. So Zhou Yu sped up the car, and it was only a moment before he arrived at the door.

The noon sun is warm on the body, and this year's Chinese New Year's Eve is really face-saving, and the weather is very good.

The meal is relatively simple, in order to save trouble, the two families eat together. Sauerkraut and pork stewed vermicelli in a large pot, while some steamed buns and bean buns are also hot. A dragon carp was steamed in a small pot, and then a garlic simmer was stir-fried in a frying spoon on a liquefied gas tank and a pork rib frozen tofu. Of course, there is also a large pot of deboned meat that has long been torn from the boiled bones and dipped in garlic sauce.

There are not many styles of dishes but they are absolutely authentic, Wang Yunhai and his son and son-in-law all drank a little wine, Shanshan came to Zhou Yu and gave him meat to eat, and he ate the red and bright dragon carp vigorously.

In the northeast, the meal of the Chinese New Year's Eve is not important. With so much to do, most families simply deal with it. What really matters is this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the evening.

This is the most important meal of the year, and it should be said that every family has poured all the harvest and joy of the year into this Chinese New Year's Eve meal. will carefully prepare this year-end feast.

After eating, the third aunt came over to help, and the two families had been eating together at this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the evening, and then began to ask the gods to worship their ancestors, these are all big jobs, one person can't be busy, so every year the two of them are busy together.

As for Wang Zhijiang's family, they all went back to their homes after dinner. No matter how good the two families are, they are also two surnames and two ancestors, and this can't eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together and ask the gods to worship their ancestors.

According to old tradition, an important activity on Chinese New Year's Eve in Northeast China is ancestor worship, which cannot be described as "feudal superstition". It used to be an agrarian society. The common people can only dig food from the land with their hands, and the more people there are, the more they can ensure that the whole family has a good life and sufficient food and clothing. Therefore, it is very important for people to prosper and family harmony. On the most important day of the year, the common people pay tribute to their ancestors, which not only expresses their gratitude and respect for their ancestors, but also tells their ancestors that they have successors. Therefore, there is a strong emotion in the Chinese New Year's Eve ancestor worship.

In addition to worshipping ancestors, it is also necessary to receive gods. Legend has it that on this night, the gods in the sky were going to the lower realm, and the king of the stove who was in the sky on the twenty-third day of the lunar month would also come back today. Therefore, people will set up an offering table and light a fire outside the house to welcome the arrival of the gods, and at the same time to bless their families with peace and security in the coming year......

In the afternoon, Zhou Yu was called away by Huzi, and the brothers went out of the house together and got into the car and ran to Taiping Town.

Sitting in the car, Zhou Hu said excitedly: "Brother Ergou." We didn't make less money this year, tonight's fireworks can't be bad, the more we put it, the more prosperous we will be next year.

By the way, do you remember the vows we made when we were kids? ”

Zhou Yu smiled with emotion. "Why don't you remember? I'll never forget it for the rest of my life. ”

I remember when I was a child, every time the Chinese New Year came, because there was no spare money at that time, my father and third uncle had to take care of those lonely and widowed old people. So the old brothers bought two small whips for the little brothers at most. As for the Sky Monkey and the Flower Cannon, don't even think about it.

But at that time, there were not a few types of firecrackers, and there were red and green whips. Fifty rings, one hundred rings, two hundred rings, three hundred rings, mostly without wrapping paper. Rows and rows look tempting. Of course, there are thousands of rings, and there are ten rings and one goo.

My brothers can't afford it, but there are still several kinds of children in other people's families. In addition, both of them are boys, and they are very angry about this, but no matter how they ask their parents, the answer they get is that they have no money.

Even such a small whip was not enough, so the brothers dismantled the bundle of hundreds of small whips, snapped, snapped, and threw them one by one. Sometimes the brothers would run to pick up the whip that had not exploded in the other person's release, pouted it, exposed the gunpowder, lit it with incense, held it in their hands and watched it sneer and breathe fire, and they were so happy.

Finally, one year during the Chinese New Year, the brothers didn't resist the temptation, each stole five yuan from the house, the brothers bought some earth red and two kicks and fireworks to have a good time, but it was not past twelve o'clock that night was discovered by adults, and when I asked, I learned that these two children actually stole money to buy firecrackers.

Since then, the brothers have made a vow that when they grow up and make a lot of money, they will spend a lot of money to buy countless firecrackers and let him sleep comfortably.

So on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Huzi went to the firecracker store in the town to check it out, and when he came back, he talked to Zhou Yu about it. But at that time, because I was afraid that the old man would feel sorry for the money and let himself return it after buying too much, so I rushed to buy it on the afternoon of the Chinese New Year's Eve. When I bought it back, it was raw rice and cooked rice, and it was too late to return it. (To be continued......)

PS: I have to say, it's not easy to write about the New Year's customs, and the upload is late. It's the last day of March, and the monthly pass is coming to the bowl......