After eating the reunion dinner, Shu Tong took the professor's hand and said coquettishly, "Grandma, let's talk about something relaxed." It is said that today is the Xie Stove Festival, what is going on with this Xie Stove Festival, you can tell me in detail. ”

The professor said, "Grandma is engaged in natural science, so this is not as good as your godfather, you can ask your godfather." ”

Shu Tong asked Yu Xinhe again, and Zhuang Ba also said Godfather, you tell me in detail, and I have always wanted to know. Seeing this, Yu Xinhe had no choice but to say:

"Xiao Nian is a traditional festival of the Han nationality, also known as Xie Zao, Sacrificial Stove Festival, Stove King Festival, and Sacrificial Stove. The date varies from place to place, but it is generally the 23rd, 24th or 25th day of the lunar month, which is regarded as the beginning of the Chinese New Year. Folklore has it that the Jade Emperor stationed a supervisor in each family - the god of the stove, which is often called the king of the stove, to supervise and inspect what the family did for a year. ”

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the god of the stove will report to the Jade Emperor, and the Jade Emperor will decide whether to reward or punish the family in the next year according to the report, and the god of the stove will come back to continue to supervise the actions of the family in the new year of the next year. On the day of the Stove Festival, it is actually a festival for each family to send off the Stove God to heaven. ”

"Did the ancients also want to sacrifice stoves?" Shu Tong asked again.

Yu Xinhe said, "The custom of sacrificing stoves is an ancient style, which has a long history and has become a part of Chinese civilization. In the "Analects", there is a saying that "rather than flattering the Ao, rather flattering and the stove". In the pre-Qin period, the sacrificial stove was one of the "five rituals", and the five rituals were the five gods of the sacrificial stove, the door, the line, the household, and the thunder. When the sacrificial stove is to set up the god, set up sacrifices, display the Ding, set up the beans, welcome the corpse, etc., there are obvious traces of primitive fetishism. ”

"In the Tang and Song dynasties, the content of the sacrificial stove was richer, such as the Song Dynasty poet Fan Chengda's "Sacrificial Stove Words", which described, 'In ancient times, the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, the stove king wanted to talk about things. The cloud car wind horse is small and stays, and the family has a cup and plate ceremony. The pig's head is cooked and the pisces are fresh, and the bean paste and sweet pine rice bait are round. The man sacrificed his daughter to avoid, and drank and burned the money stove Junxi. The servant fights against the king, and the cat and dog touch the filthy king. Send the king drunk to the gate of heaven, spoon long spoon short do not return to the clouds, begging for the return of the city. ’”

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The Spring Festival is spent in joy, and the ninth day of the new year will officially go to work. On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Lin Xue, Zhang Ling, and Chen Wen made an appointment to come over together to pay New Year's greetings to their father-in-law and mother-in-law, and they would pick up the generals together after lunch. Before leaving, the parents-in-law brought them a lot of food.

When they returned to Wuxianzhai, they cleared the snow from the yard, then lit a brazier and sat down together to review. After a while, Wen Xiaolin made a special trip over, she came to feed Xiao Ash, and when she saw that they were all back, she asked them to go to the restaurant for dinner in the evening and be lively together.

Just then, the doorbell rang again. Zhang Ling ran out to open the door, and the person who came turned out to be Li Xianglan, deputy secretary of the party committee of the garment factory and chairman of the trade union. Li Xianglan said that she was passing by here and stopped by to see how the three girls were doing.

She took Lin Xue's hand and said, "Xiaolin will be sixteen years old after the Chinese New Year, and you will become a big girl, but you are our factory flower." After going to work, the union is going to organize a costume model performance team, and the three of you beautiful girls are all internal team members, so you have to support the work of the union. ”

Lin Xue and the three of them felt too sudden, and quickly refused, saying that the three of us were rural girls, who didn't understand fashion at all, how could we join the model performance team.

Li Xianglan said unhappily, "Southern clothing is pouring into the whole country like a tide, and the garment factory is almost unable to support it." OEM production, without its own brand, simply does not work. The factory wants to organize its own model team, launch its own clothing brand, and fight its way out. After the festival, the factory is also preparing to organize the selection of the image ambassador of the river wind, and the three of you must sign up to show the style of our factory. ”

This was an order, not a discussion, and the three girls did not dare to refuse.

Sure enough, before February 2 was over, the factory did not solicit personal opinions, so it suddenly posted a notice of forming a model performance team, with a list attached to it. Lin Xue and the other three girls were at the front, and there were many discussions in each workshop, some people were envious, and some people were jealous, but Lin Xue and the three of them were full of sadness.

On the day the list was announced, the master Zhang Yingchun also encouraged in front of all the female workers in the workshop, "The factory is not having a good time, and it is necessary to compete with factories in developed areas such as G Province, J Province, Shanghai, etc., Lin Xue and other three girls will participate in the training on behalf of our workshop, and they must do their best. ”

Zhang Yingchun called Lin Xue, Zhang Ling, and Chen Wen into the office again, and after closing the door, Zhang Yingchun asked bluntly, "Did Li Xianglan come to you and ask you to join this model team?" ”

Lin Xue said, "She went to our house and said that this was a political task and she had to participate. But we didn't want to participate in this model team, let alone participate in any ambassador pageant. Those who show up will do their best to make trouble for themselves. ”

Zhang Yingchun said, "Li Xianglan has an evil spirit, and her husband is Zhuo Changren, the vice president of Mohs Logistics Group. She tried her best to get you to participate in this model team and beauty pageant, and I think it's famous, so you must be careful. Back then, a good sister of mine, who was introduced to Mo Wanying, the founder of Mo's by Li Xianglan, had enough of playing and abandoned her like throwing a piece of clothing. Later, I had to marry a widowed middle-aged teacher in another place, and dragged three 'oil bottles'. ”

The three girls all understood the master's voice, and they were all frightened. Especially Lin Xue, she faintly felt that a danger was approaching her.

The training team of the model team soon officially started classes, and the teachers invited people from the regional normal colleges, art academies, regional Peking Opera troupes, and song and dance troupes to give etiquette classes, dance classes, physical classes, and professional classes in model performance to the fifteen girls of the model team. Li Xianglan is the leader in charge, and she goes to the model team every once in a while to check the classes and exercises.

After the etiquette class that afternoon, Li Xianglan notified, "In the evening, the factory invited the sponsors of the model team, and Lin Xue and Zhou Xiaolan accompanied them as representatives of the model team. Lin Xue was nervous and wanted to resign, but was severely criticized by Li Xianglan, so she had to grit her teeth and go hard.

The dinner was arranged at the Guan River Hotel, which is said to have been designated by the sponsor. In fact, in terms of grade and level, Guanhe Hotel is not the opponent of Zhuang's catering at all.

Seven or eight leaders in the factory were all accompanied, and in addition to the teachers who attended the class, there was also a family of three, Mo Jiayun and his parents. It turned out that the operation of the factory was relatively difficult, and the main sponsor of the model team turned out to be Mohs Road Transport, which had nothing to do with clothing.

Mo's father's name is Mo Wanying, and he is a tall, burly, and very capable middle-aged man. He is 1.8 meters tall, with the calm style of an entrepreneur, silent and silent, but not angry and self-assured, and his aura is very strong. In particular, the eyes that are perceptive, arrogant, and always smiling, are as sharp as eagle eyes, and make people shudder. Few of the people in the room dared to look at him for a moment as an equal.

Mo's mother's name is Xia Wei, who seems to be only in her thirties, and is a graceful and empty-eyed lady. The beauty of women, especially the beauty of mature women, is most perfectly reflected in this woman. She is tall, plump, rounded in the buttocks, and always has a quiet smile on her fair face, which inadvertently embellishes the mature charm and feminine taste of a married woman to the extreme.

No wonder it used to be a flower in the county, the first beauty, this name is really true. Lin Xue sighed that in front of Xia Wei's strong female taste, she was a green raw melon egg, an ugly duckling, and Cinderella.

When the factory director introduced Lin Xue, Xia Wei looked Lin Xue up and down, and suddenly said happily: "Yes, it's really worthy of your reputation, Xiaolin, you are really beautiful, and your temperament is also excellent!" ”

"Auntie, I'm just a little rural child. You are really beautiful, I envy your demeanor and temperament, and I am an ugly duckling compared to you! Lin Xue said from the bottom of her heart.

Mo Jiayun took the initiative to sit next to Lin Xue, and Liu Xiaolan, who was sitting on the other side of him, obviously showed a good impression of him, but he was very impolite and arrogant and ignored him. On the other hand, he kept being courteous to Lin Xue, but Lin Xue obviously kept a distance from him, and sometimes even disgusted and avoided him.

Seeing that her son was treated coldly by Lin Xue, Xia Wei said calmly, "Xiaoxue, Xiaolan and Jiayun are the same age, and they are all young people. You young people can connect with each other more, communicate more, learn from each other, and make progress together. Isn't there a saying, having multiple friends is to give yourself one more chance, but also to give others one more chance. ”

Li Xianglan immediately said, "Yes, my sister-in-law is right, young people need to know each other more, so that they can become friends and have feelings." ”

Lou Daming, the director of the factory, said flatteringly, "Mo Shao is a handsome young man, he is the heir of the Mo family born with a golden key, and there must be a lot of girls in pursuit, right?" I think it's like our Xiaolin, but it's a pair of jade people, a pair made in heaven, don't you say? ”

Everyone agreed, saying that it was indeed a pair of golden boys and girls.

Lin Xue had already seen the fame, she didn't have stage fright at all, and said with a smile, "Mo Shao is indeed a young talent, and he is the object of many girls' pursuits." It's a pity that I don't have a chance, I'm just over sixteen years old, and although I don't want to talk about it so early, I am a teenage hero. His name is Yu Songyuan, and he has been specially recruited by the Navy and is a special soldier engaged in special operations. ”

"It's the young man who saved the navy cadres in the irrigation river, I heard Lao Lu of the Armed Forces Department say that this young man is very good at water." Lou Daming sighed.

Li Xianglan said, "Xiaolin, you are still too young and immature." Now is not a troubled time, what can be done with martial arts, Shaolin monks, Wudang Taoists, and there are also people who want to eat. Now it is a commodity economy society, wealth is a symbol of status, entrepreneurs are the mainstay of society, social elite, looking for a partner should find such a person. ”

"That's it, that's it, this is not the old Shanghai, let alone Hong Kong, Taiwan, or Southeast Asia, where you can mix with the underworld to fight and kill to support your family. At present, the state advocates the development of a commodity economy, and those who are truly capable should go to the sea, run businesses, and strive to create wealth. Lou Daming hurriedly cheered and hurriedly agreed.

Li Xianglan continued, "Isn't there a saying, a good iron does not hit nails, and a good man should not be a soldier......"

"Shut up, the more you talk, the more you don't like it!" Li Xianglan's words were rudely interrupted by Mo Wanying, who was sitting in the main guest seat.

"You are not allowed to insult the military. A society is made up of all kinds of people, and the country does not have an army, okay? A society that gets into the eyes of money has no future! The Great Song Dynasty was the richest dynasty in Chinese history when all people were in business, surpassing the Han and Tang Dynasties, but Shangwen was light on martial arts, what was the result, and it was not a dead country?! ”

Although they were not convinced, these women, including the factory director Lou Daming, were very afraid of Mo Wanying, so they didn't dare to refute it at all.

These words came out of Mo Wanying's mouth, but Lin Xue was shocked. She remembered what her mother-in-law, She Wenfang, told her about the loss of her son in Xinpu Zhang, and remembered what Zhang Cheng had said on the river beach. She felt a chill in her back, this is too terrifying, how deep this person's scheming should be, no wonder no one can fight him.