Chapter 104: It's the New Year
The time suddenly came to the twenty-ninth year.
Tang Yuehua led Yue'e to the mountain together, "Master, tomorrow is the New Year, the New Year is healthy, we won't come up tomorrow." ”
"Go ahead, remember the day of class." Master Kongming glanced at his disciples and let them go down the mountain.
On the evening of the 29th day of the Lunar New Year, the people of Meishan Village prepared their dinner early, and the sky was still bright, and every household was already ready to eat dinner.
Because Tang Yuehua's mother is an only daughter, there are no relatives in the family, only the same clan in the village, but the relationship is already very far away, and their family lives on the side of the mountain, which is a long distance away from the village.
Tong had been busy in the kitchen all afternoon, and the siblings would come into the kitchen from time to time, taking whatever they wanted, such as fried dried fish, shredded egg meatballs, or candy.
Sometimes they would stay in the kitchen to help chop vegetables or go to the yard to fetch water.
However, most of these things are done by the husband and wife, and they also think that the children are staying in the kitchen to take up space, and if they are running errands, they can just scream.
Today, the family should prepare enough food to eat, and it is best to prepare until the fifteenth day of the first month, but there will be several sacrifices to the gods, so the food is generally prepared until the third day of the first month.
They had everything ready for the day, and the next few days were all about eating and drinking comfortably.
The food prepared by Tong includes a five-piece Meishan set, fish, meat, tofu, eggs, a piece of rice cake or yellow cake, and a variety of vegetables.
Cleaned food is hung in a bamboo basket, and when it is time to eat, it is taken directly from the inside.
The brothers and sisters had already washed from head to toe and put on new clothes, and the Tang couple had not yet put on new clothes, and there were still many things to do.
Originally, they weren't going to buy it.
Tang Yuehua saw that her parents were reluctant to buy clothes for herself, and she was going to go to the ready-to-wear store to buy some finished clothes, but in the end, her brothers persuaded her to cut the fabric and come back, otherwise her mother would be angry.
Tang Yuehua was wearing a new dress, and her mother pulled her hair again, and now she is also a smart little girl from behind, but the front is ......
I don't know why, Tang Yuehua has not lost her face these days.
Seeing that his mother's complexion gradually became white and ruddy, and Mrs. Zhang's face was much better, but her face was unchanged and terrifying.
Oh, by the way, where did the book that the master handed over to him last time, Tang Yuehua suddenly remembered the book he took in Ge Hongshan.
It seems that we will have to wait until after the end of the year.
"Let's eat."
At Tang's order, the family began to move, moving their food from the kitchen to the hall.
Today, Tang steamed a wooden barrel full of white rice, and he will definitely eat the leftovers today, and there will be more than enough every year.
In the next three days, their family should no longer need to prepare staple food, after all, there are still those yellow cakes to eat.
After eating a good meal, Tang Yuehua received his father's first red envelope, which contained two copper plates, which were available to several brothers and sisters, and Yue'e's one was also indispensable.
"Okay, the New Year's money should be hidden, the New Year's Eve will be kept tonight, and you will get up early tomorrow." Chen Nianqun handed out the red envelopes and instructed the children.
Everyone had a good meal and helped to clean up the things, and Tang washed the pot.
Tang Yuehua watched her mother brush the pot without leaving a trace of oil, and then poured water into the pot, blanching the whole green vegetables after the water boiled.
In such a cold weather, Meishan still has no shortage of vegetables, watching her mother put the vegetables on the plate.
These are the homework that the housewives of Meishan must do when they are twenty-nine years old, and the children and husbands have already washed up and gathered around the fire, eating snacks and chattering.
The housewives are still busy, and when they are done, they have to leave a fire in the stove to ensure that the fire is not extinguished.
When the Tang family is done with things, the time is almost up, and it will be the New Year after a while.
The new clothes on the body and the warmth of the stove all make people drowsy.
Tang Yuehua, who had been sleeping early in the past few months, felt that her eyelids had already begun to fight.
The silent night suddenly sounded the sound of crackling firecrackers, and with the one at the beginning, the firecrackers below began to sound in a scramble.
"Children, it's the New Year." Chen Nianqun took the firecrackers and went to the gate to set them off.
They followed behind their father, and the family fixed the fleeting fireworks in their hearts, lively and warm, and the whole village was wandering in the smell of the New Year composed of fireworks.
The next thing they do is to get some sleep and welcome the morning.
Parents are busy worshipping their ancestors, and when they are busy, they can go to bed and squint for a while.
The village lights were lit up all night.
At the beginning of the day, Tong got up and steamed the remaining white rice from yesterday, and placed the hot rice on the back stove, a pot dedicated to boiling hot water, with a wooden lid on it. The round wooden lid has a small concentric round hole slightly larger than the water scoop, which is used for scooping water.
The pot in the back stove can only enjoy the embers, just enough to hold water.
She boiled the sacrificial greens again and put them on a plate one by one. At this time, Chen Nianqun also got up and sat by the stove to light the fire.
The brothers and sisters got up together and went to wash up separately.
Tang Yuehua led Yue'e to the stove to look at her mother, Tang added some water to the pot, and when the water boiled, he put down the longevity noodles.
Roll the slender longevity noodles in a pot a few times, scoop them up with chopsticks, and put them in a small bowl with red rice wine.
Tang Yuehua has never eaten this kind of noodles.
She followed the actions of her family, mixed the noodles, tasted a bite, the noodles were soft and salty, moistened with the aroma of rice wine, but it was quite delicious, it turned out that this noodles were originally salty.
Yesterday, Tang Yuehua and Yue'e were instructed again, in fact, they mainly said it to Yue'e, but it let Tang Yuehua know some customs that "she" should know.
On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, everyone has to be vegetarian, and every green vegetable on the table must be eaten.
So Tang Yuehua still ate a lot of celery today, originally she didn't eat it even if she was killed, and some other green vegetables were within the acceptable range.
However, the vegetables at this time of year are frosted, and they taste sweeter, and the people here seem to love red rice wine and it is still a rarity.
For the whole village, or the people of these ten miles and eight towns, the dipping sauce on the first day of the Lunar New Year must be red rice wine with a little salt.
It's just that Tang Yuehua doesn't like it very much, and I miss millet pepper, sesame oil, sesame paste and soybean flour......
Yes! When will I be able to eat those dips again?
But no matter how much I miss it now, Tang Yuehua obediently ate all the vegetables on the table, and it was also delicious to taste it carefully, sweet and sweet, properly natural and organic vegetables.
"Eat well, eat full." Tang Yuehua said hello and got off the table.
When you celebrate the New Year, you must say good words, all of them are good, Wishing you prosperity, these words of peace and security, all unlucky words are strictly prohibited.