really

In the afternoon, the men who had fallen into the pit muttered again about the time to find the culprit.

The women beside him spoke fiercely.

"We let a few kids throw it, why? Not convinced? ”

Hold the grass! What else can be said about this?

Although they were unwilling, under the strong attitude of several sisters-in-law, the men could only knock out their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs, holding back the fire themselves, and just forbearance.

But just after they thought that this bad luck was over.

There was another sound of mending knives behind him.

Cao Yan said weakly on the side: "That, the toilet is down, you guys are always responsible, you go to dig a pit nearby, wait for me to draw the drawings, and build a better toilet." ”

"Auntie, this is as it should be." The women present nodded in agreement, and then scolded: "Don't go quickly, you can't finish digging, don't eat today." ”

"This! ...... "In addition to their bitter faces, they can only consider themselves unlucky, and the pits they dig must be filled by themselves!"

After lunch, a few brothers and sisters had to take tools and go to the location designated by Cao Yan to dig a pit.

Seeing that he didn't even have to dig a pit now, the little children looked at Cao Yan with even more admiration.

……

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At this time, Da Chu also had the custom of eating slots during the New Year, and the dumplings at this time were called slots.

Looking at the dumplings wrapped on the table, Cao Yan was very happy in his heart, now he is finally no longer alone, but has so many relatives.

One afternoon, Cao Yan was helping out in the cafeteria.

There are some things that I want to eat, but I haven't made them before, and when I suddenly think about them during the Chinese New Year, I have to stay here to guide them.

"Auntie, the cows and sheep are all here." A few villagers brought a dozen oxen and forty or fifty sheep.

As I said earlier, in ancient times, this cow could not be killed indiscriminately, this is stipulated by law, only the "natural death" of the cattle slaughtered and sold for meat, so they must go to the government to report.

This is also the recent business between Cao Yan and the grassland, and he transported a large herd of cattle, so that he can sneak around and kill such a head every once in a while, and he has a good time.

Compared to beef, mutton is the most expensive in Dachu, the beef at this time is about 100 wen a catty, and the mutton is sold for 900 wen a catty during the New Year, and it may not be bought, so, through this era, if you want to realize the freedom of skewers, you really can't do it without any ability, but this year, thanks to Cao Yan's regardless of the cost, let people transport cattle and sheep back, and now the mutton in Jiangning Mansion can barely be eaten.

This made many people ask Cao Yan to kill a few more heads every day so that everyone could buy them, but Cao Yan ignored them, why did he cheapen them when he finally shipped them back?

"Take them to the back and kill them all." Now there are seven or eight thousand people in the entire Zhuangzi, except for the people from Lin Jiazhai before, the others are all the righteous sons and daughters that Cao Yan and Lin Yiru have received in the past six months.

If you don't kill so many people at once, Cao Yan is afraid that it will not be enough.

After the killing.

Those who have good knife skills will begin to break down the pieces of meat so that they can make food of various flavors.

There is a pot of braised beef.

There are skewers made into various meat skewers.

There are those that are pureed into meat and made meatballs.

Wait a minute......

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At four o'clock in the afternoon, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner began.

Cao Yan led everyone and began to worship the ancestors at the big pingzi in the Zhuangzi, because there were too many people in the ancestral hall.

There is a large offering table, and offerings are placed, and the offerings mainly include three animal meals, three teas and five wines, etc.

The parents officiate, burn three incense sticks, bow down, pray for a good harvest, and finally burn paper, commonly known as "sending money and grain", which is what we often call burning paper money.

When Cao Yan took the lead in kneeling and bowing, everyone else followed suit.

Then firecrackers were set off and paper money was burned in the brazier in front of the offering table.

Wait until everything is done.

Everyone went back to the cafeteria again.

Happy to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, everyone seems very happy, after all, this year, under the leadership of Cao Yan, their life is getting better and better, which everyone has experienced.

……

In the middle of the cafeteria, a stage was set up.

Anyone who is interested can go up and perform, these shows do not have hard requirements, the only requirement is that you want to go up.

After that, there were people who kept toasting Cao Yan and his wife.

The wine drunk at this time is a special wine called Tusu wine, which is only drunk during the Chinese New Year, and this custom is very popular in Dachu.

Tusu is the name of a grass, and the liquor made from this grass is called Tusu wine.

It is said that Tusu wine is made by soaking traditional Chinese medicines such as rhubarb, atractylodes, cinnamon branches, and peppercorns.

This wine also has a different way of drinking from other wines, usually drinking from the elderly, while drinking Tusu wine during the New Year is just the opposite, but starting from the youngest.

Cao Yan They just drank a glass, and then they didn't drink anymore, of course, no one dared to come over and force them to drink, they didn't drink, the others just drank the wine in their hands, and then retreated.

These children are still more afraid of Lin Yiru, and it can also be said that the people in the entire village are more afraid of her, mainly because she always has a cold face, and the aura on her body is too strong, which makes people feel a little psychological hairy at first glance.

Then it's time to make a New Year's money.

Lin Ruyi and the others helped Cao Yan and them bring over a few large bamboo baskets, on which were written the numbers from one to sixteen.

Inside the red envelope are shopping coupons disguised as currency, ranging from one to sixteen yuan.

At this time, the New Year's money is linked to age.

How old you are, you can get a few copper plates.

In fact, this is quite miserable, at this time, a copper plate is about equivalent to five cents in later generations, that is, the highest age that can get the New Year's money is sixteen years old, which is only sixteen copper coins, which is equal to eight yuan, and not even a whole number has been raised.

Of course, Cao Yan couldn't remember the age of all of them, only when they came to pay New Year's greetings.

Pointing to the bamboo basket, let them take the red envelope according to their age.

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After some excitement, after everyone had eaten, someone began to clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

In order to avoid boredom, everyone played various games, chess and cards.

Including poker with mahjong, chess, military flags......

Among them, the military flag was changed by Cao Yanmo, and the commander and commander in the military flag were directly changed to first-class officers and second-rank officials......

In fact, there are also many games in Dachu.

For example, "fighting horses", which is known as the invention of Li Qingzhao, the ancestor of China's first gambling ghosts, has actually existed for a long time, but Li Qingzhao has improved it on the original basis.

Lin Yiru, Lin Ruyue and Lin Yiniang, Lin Wuniang got together at a table and played mahjong.

And Cao Yan fought the landlord with the two people he found casually.

Everyone's gambling amount is very small, basically just a penny, in the early days, Cao Yan gave an order, if anyone gambles too much, then the people involved in gambling, expelled from the house, it is this regulation that makes the people in the village dare not gamble, they do not dare to try.

The children are not much interested in playing cards, and after they finish eating, each of them is at their respective class leader, and after repeated instructions, they are given some firecrackers and fireworks, and they go out to play.

For fire awareness, Cao Yan will ask their squad leader to do safety education classes for them every once in a while.

There was once a disobedient one, who lit a straw stack, was afraid of running away, and almost burned a piece of land, and was asked by Cao Yan to swell his buttocks in front of all the children, so that they had a vivid education lesson, so now these children, when playing with fire, know that they will avoid things that are easy to catch fire, and if they accidentally light it, they will quickly find something to extinguish, instead of running away.