On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, each family began to sweep the house, boil water and bathe, and on the twenty-eighth day of the baking room, after the fire was extinguished at night, they began to clean the baking room, wiped all the utensils spotlessly, covered them with red cloth, and prayed that there would be more orders next year and a better life.

The patriarch stood in the ancestral hall with a smile, watching the women clean the ancestral hall, and muttered: "Don't be surprised by the ancestors, they have been busy since the beginning of the year!" It's all blessed by the ancestors, this year our families are living in a new house, busy making money, and the new clothes for the baby haven't been made yet! ”

"The ancestors have to continue to bless us next year, the children of each family, the ancestors look at the string, we want to marry more daughters-in-law back, now look, the daughter-in-law is less than the middle! I can't get busy, and I will cook on the spot. ”

"The ancestors are happy to see that their children and grandchildren are doing well? I'm very happy, we will build a house next year, and we will live a better life! ”

The daughters-in-law thought to themselves, don't nag, you have to trouble your ancestors! Let your ancestors stop over there! Give the kid back? What do you think, when you say this, we all have a chill down our spine!

At noon in the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the old ladies all returned, and when they entered the village, they found that the number was wrong, and after asking, they learned that the patriarch had learned to worship the mountain with the people in the village.

Worship the mountain god, you can't burn incense, sprinkle a dozen live chickens, a big fat pig, and two sheep on the mountain! What is this for! Life is good, enough meat? You only have a few taels of oil and water in your stomach, and you haven't eaten it yet, so you will arrange it for the mountain god first.

The old ladies gathered together to complain about the patriarch, but they didn't dare to say it loudly, for fear that the mountain god would hear it and get angry!

"How much do you order over there? The earliest day to get it! The flower woman asked.

Mrs. Song laughed and said: "The deposit is more than 200 taels, and I will pick up the goods early in the morning on the second day of the new year. ”

Mrs. Niu said: "The second girl of the junior high school will go back to her parents' house, and we will start to be busy when we get over there at the beginning of the morning, and the amount of the decorated cake in the second year of junior high school will be set out, and there will be a lot of gift boxes to box the pastries." ”

Mrs. Liu said with a smile: "We have had a good year this year, and we will get better and better year by year in the future, but it is too delayed to go back and forth." ”

Mrs. Niu glanced at her sister-in-law, you can be regarded as saying an auspicious word.

On the evening of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the patriarch and Fang Mingyuan led the team, and those over seven years old in the village followed out and stopped by the official road.

The patriarch knelt down first and said: "The immortals who pass by, the little ghosts who pass by, these are filial to you, and when we send money to our ancestors, you can't come and rob them." ”

Fang Mingyuan didn't know what to say, so he bowed his hand to the surroundings and said, "You're welcome, this wave is for you, and we will send money to our ancestors later." ”

The patriarch lit the yellow paper, burned a few piles of yellow paper, found a branch and drew a big circle on the ground, "We are going to send money to our ancestors, please let me go." ”

Then he knelt on the ground again and shouted: Ancestor bless, we have moved this year, we have moved a little far, you come to recognize the door today, and we will live here in the future.

The old ladies in the village held the paper money, knelt on the ground and burned the paper, shouting: "Daddy, come and pick up the money!" Don't be reluctant to spend it over there, let's live a good life now, don't save it over there!

Daddy, let's have a good life this year, we have money at home, I will give you more money, you keep it, and next year we will work hard to protect us, let us make more money, and let the babies be healthy and safe!

Several carts of paper money burned for half an hour, Fang Mingyuan's kneeling leg hurt, and he kept shouting: Father-in-law, mother-in-law, we are here to send you money, rest assured, the ancestral tablets of the Dong family have been brought here, and I promise to continue to burn the incense of the Dong family!

But I said in my heart, Mr. Dong, Mrs. Dong, we occupy the body of the daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren of the Dong family, but we are just as grateful to have you, rest assured, rest assured! After Chang'an gave birth to two sons, he promised to continue the incense in the Dong family.

The old ladies took the time to look at Dong Xiaoying, Mingyuan said that the Dong family's incense was endless, was the fourth daughter-in-law pregnant?

After the festival was over, everyone returned to the big canteen, which was full today, and the tables were temporarily built with long boards to ensure that everyone in the village could sit down.

At the head table sat Fang Mingyuan, the patriarch, the third uncle, the fourth uncle, the clan uncle, Fang Mingzhang, Fang Mingxian, Daddy Zhang, Blacksmith Guo, and Daddy Wang.

On the table are the ten bowls of the hometown, button meat, red stewed elbow, roast chicken, braised fish with fish head and tail hanging outside the bowl, crispy meat buckle bowl, bean skin roll heart buckle bowl, egg skin fried meat dumpling buckle bowl, garlic scrambled eggs, garlic spinach, stir-fried small greens, a big bowl of steamed mutton, a big bowl of Sixi meatballs.

The roast chicken and whole fish are to watch the dishes, and they will be brought back to the ancestral hall later, and they will be brought back to be eaten hot tomorrow night. Only the head table and the women's head table of the old ladies next to them have whole fish and roast chicken, and the other tables are ten bowls of dishes!

The patriarch raised the wine first, "Let's eat ten bowls today, and eat ** bowls next year, everyone has done a good job this year, and next year we must work harder, work hard, and make more money!" ”

"Good!"

"Uncle Patriarch said well!"

Fang Mingyuan took a sip of wine, stood up in applause, and said with a smile to everyone: "Thanks to everyone, I haven't done enough this year, and there are still many people who don't work, it doesn't matter, next year I promise that everyone will have a job, and there will be money every month!" ”

Everyone applauded again, and the children howled with Fang Yue, today is a good day, everything you want can come true, tomorrow is a good day, let's open the door to welcome the spring breeze.

In the midst of the bustle, Dong Xiaoying held a tray with a red cloth and handed it to Fang Mingyuan.

"See? Spend money in vain, do you know who doesn't earn it? Our old birthday star Grandma Zhang! Fang Mingyuan stood beside Grandma Zhang with the tray in his hand, and bowed down to deliver the tray.

Grandma Zhang's ears were behind her ears, and the chaos in the house was even more inaudible, "What are you giving me money for?" I didn't work, and I still had to spend the public money in the clan for food and medicine! ”

Fang Mingyuan shouted: "There is a law in the imperial court, all the old people who have reached the age of seventy-three will be given annual silver according to their age, and our old birthday star Grandma Zhang has earned seventy-three taels of silver this year." ”

Grandma Zhang's eyes widened, and she pointed to the silver and asked, "Am I still making money while I am alive?" ”

"Yes, this is the silver given by the imperial court to the old birthday star." Fang Mingyuan shouted.

He got the silver back when he went to the government for a meeting, but he was only angry and forgot to send it to Grandma Zhang, and then Dong Xiaoying said that it was better to take it out at the New Year's dinner.

Grandma Zhang touched the silver and said with a smile: "Hey! And this money! I want to live a few more years and strive to get back a hundred taels of silver a year! ”

"The old lady should be good, and strive to get a few hundred taels a year for her children and grandchildren in the future."

"Old lady, don't be stingy, one hundred taels is not enough, why should you get two hundred taels back."

"The old lady can earn more than us, more than seventy taels of silver a year!"

Grandma Zhang heard everyone shouting, and said with a smile: "Then I want to live well, and I will make money by living one more day!" ”

Mrs. Wang is unhappy, why, I won't give money if I don't have seventy-three! Whoever the court looks down on, I can earn a hundred taels a year if I work hard.

Mrs. Niu said with a smile: "Look at how many more years you have to live like this, with the silver given by the imperial court according to the age of one year, the children and grandchildren can also be honored." ”

Mrs. Wang raised her glass and shouted: "We must live hard at this table, strive to let the court send money, and earn one hundred and two years of silver for our children and grandchildren every year. ”

"Medium!"

Fang Yue sang loudly in response to the situation: I really want to live for another 500 years~

"That's right! Five hundred years, five hundred years! ”

Just this sentence, the children all howl! The big cafeteria was completely messed up.