In the old year, under the hard work of the two seedlings, the harvest in the field was quite good, after handing over the public grain, the yard and the house were full of bags of grain, and they couldn't eat it, so they discussed and sold some, and they had spare money in their hands, and they didn't spend it so much, and they went to buy what they wanted to eat.

The New Year, the big fish and meat at home have also prepared a lot, the Chinese New Year's Eve meal is very rich, that is, the second seedling has no appetite, every day fried fish stew, smoked are full, and the eight meridians are eaten but not much.

Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Tujili, must prepare a fish, called more than every year, the fish is fried and braised red, the sauce red fish soup floats turquoise garlic seedlings and coriander, Fugui and jujube flower master said fragrant, as soon as the second seedling saw the fish, the nose floated the fishy smell when cleaning up the fish, tasted a chopstick, fishy and did not taste a little fragrance.

There are also a few bowls, there are steamed elbows and button meat, fat and thin with three layers of button meat, oily and tempting, the two of them can't stop eating, Er Miao looks tired, in previous years, when there was a lack of mouth, she also liked to eat these things the most, complaining about the lack of meat every day, looking forward to when she could open her mouth, and eat as much as she wanted.

This year, I have money in my waist, and I buy New Year's goods spicy, and I buy everything according to my heart, but I look at my stomach and feel that there is nothing garlic sprouts and coriander pickles are delicious.

The dumplings are filled with pork and radish, mixed with vermicelli, this year there is a lot of meat, and the filling inside is boiled out into a small meat egg, and when you bite into it, the fragrant soup flows down the corner of your mouth. This is delicious, just with pickles, Er Miao ate a big bowl, supported her, patted her stomach and shouted: "But it can kill me." ”

Since Ermiao lost weight, people are not so ugly, and they are diligent and capable, in the eyes of wealth, the wife is perfect, the wealth is originally rich and hurts the daughter-in-law, and now it is even more regarded as a treasure in the palm of the hand, listening to the wife said that it is supported, the panicked rich took out the dried hawthorn dried in the autumn, soaked a cup thickly, and served it to Ermiao: "Look at you, as if you can't grab it, prop yourself up like this, and quickly drink a cup of hawthorn water to eliminate food." ”

When Zaohua saw it, he stretched out his hand to manage Fugui and asked, "Dad, I will drink it too." ”

Serving this girl, wealth is sweet, but you still have to say two sentences in your mouth, "You want what people have, and you will make trouble while it's hot." ”

"Dad, I'm holding it too, don't believe you." Zaohua said, and deliberately raised her belly high to prove that she was not lying.

The sour hawthorn water is very appetizing, and the two seedlings blow hot air, and take a small sip into the mouth.

Jujube flowers are really hot, Fugui washed her up, she held the cup and drank it sour, and pushed the cup to Ermiao's side in disgust, twisted her nose and said, "Hey, it's too sour, mother, give it to you." ”

Ermiao didn't feel sour, she felt that there was sweetness in the sourness.

"I'll just say you're a kid to make a fuss." Fugui sat next to Ermiao, casually picked up his daughter's teacup and took a sip, grinning sourly, "Hey, it's really sour, there are too many hawthorns, just put two less." He raised his eyes and glanced into Ermiao's cup, "Hua her mother, don't you feel sour?" I've put more of your cup than my daughter's. ”

"It's not sour." Ermiao took a big sip, and chewed the hawthorn slices that he drank into his mouth, "It's sour, it's weird and delicious." ”

Seeing that Er Miao ate so boldly, Fugui felt that his mouth was full of sour water, and he was so sour that he was excited, and put the cup straight to Er Miao's hand, "I can't enjoy it, so I'll give it to you." ”

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the sky is still dark, and the crackling sound of cannons is endless.

Although it has long passed the 39th day, the weather is still as cold as ever, on the eaves, there is no melting snow in the alley, and the hand is stretched out for a while It has been frozen cold.

Fugui sighed in the palm of his hand, shrunk his head and went back to the house to stab the fire first, and when the temperature in the house came up, he called the two of them to get up, "Hua her mother, it's time to get up." After shouting Ermiao, he took the new clothes to coax the jujube flower, "Zaohua, get up, wear new clothes, and have New Year's money." ”

If it was usual, Zaohua would ignore her father, today is different, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, there are new clothes to wear, and crushed money to take, and more importantly, after eating, her father and mother will take her to the temple fair.

The customs here are like this, on the first day of the new year, you have to get up five watches, wear new clothes, hang lanterns, cloth lamps for the ancestors at home, that is, burn incense, kowtow, set off firecrackers, and after eating, you need to go to the temple outside the village to make offerings to all the gods respectively, the sooner you go, the better, if you can burn the first incense, it means that the family will have great blessings this year.

A few years ago, the four old, the statues in the temple were smashed by the guards, these years slowly the statues were invited back, the first and fifteenth days of the new year, every year's festival, there are also people to worship incense, although every year rich and noble have not grabbed the incense, but the blessing still has to go.

After eating, the sky was already bright, and the head pillar incense iron must not be able to catch up, and the whole family wore new clothes and walked to the temple with incense.

Iwagami Village, as the name suggests, is inextricably linked to the mountain, out of the village to the east, there is a large mountain, on this side of the mountain, facing the direction of the village, there is a vertical down a cliff.

I don't know from what era, someone dug the mountain to build a temple, dug a room like a cave in Shaanxi, the earliest worship is the land grandfather, convenient for the people to pray to God to bless the wind and rain, the five grains are abundant. Later, someone begged for a son, and dug a cave, for the son of Guanyin, and then more and more dug more, the Jade Emperor, the ancestors of the three Qing Dynasty are offered, for a long time, there are good men and women after the incense will clean up the weeds in front of the temple and then go, gradually, the range in front of the temple is getting bigger and bigger, and then it has become a lot of open space.

Later, because of the four old reasons, the Buddha statue was smashed, and no one dared to go to the temple to offer incense. That is, in the past few years, there are good men and women who secretly invite the statue back, and there is incense in the temple again. A shrewd businessman found out about this business opportunity, and he would also come over on this day to set up a stall, ** incense candle paper money. Later, a small temple fair was spontaneously formed here, selling everything, especially on the first day of the Lunar New Year, there were more people.

There is still some distance from the temple, and from a distance, I can see that the open space in front of the temple is crowded, and the foggy white smoke floats above the temple.

In the temple, there is a big incense burner in front of each statue, and there is a larger incense burner placed there at the door, you can go to the statue to offer incense, or you can directly in the big incense burner outside, all of them are the same, but if you need to line up to incense inside, if you are in a hurry, you can directly offer the incense in the big incense burner outside.

There are too many people on the incense today, the house is full of people, since the incense, every god needs to worship, the rich did not wait, after the incense was lit, he bowed a few times in all directions, and directly offered the incense in the big incense burner outside.

When it came to Guanyin, Fugui originally wanted to continue to offer it to the big incense burner outside, but after thinking about it, he changed his mind and prepared to pull it with Guanyin in person. He said to the jujube flower who was nibbling on the rock sugar gourd: "Jujube flower, you stand still, your mother and I will go in and come out on the pillar incense." ”

"Hmm." Zaohua nodded, and she didn't want to go in because of the miasma of smoke inside.

Fugui pulled the two seedlings and squeezed them in, grabbed the air, knelt on the futon with a plop, first kowtowed three times, offered good incense, and then began to murmur to ask God to bless, "The merciful Guanyin Bodhisattva, please give me a son, my Gou family is left with a single seedling, if I don't give birth to a son, the Gou family will be extinct here." ”

From Fugui pulling her to squeeze in, Er Miao knew what Fugui wanted to do, Er Miao lived well in her mother's house, she was not thin, after giving birth to jujube flowers, she was as fat as she was blowing, and it was not easy to conceive if she was too fat, until now, she has not been pregnant during this period.

Now, Ermiao has a heart, people have become diligent, fat is consumed unconsciously, and the body has a curve, but the child has not been on the body, like their husband and wife's age, which family has several children, just their family, guarding the jujube flower a single seedling seedling to live, when the family is poor, it is reluctant to fill the stomach, and there are fewer children and fewer children, and the burden is small, now that life is good, my mind is also moved, and I want to have a few more children, but the village loudspeaker promotes family planning every day, In the case of their family, the policy of having another child is still allowed.

For the matter of giving birth to a son, Er Miao is also anxious, and when he goes out, someone is pointing behind his back, saying that there is no end to the house, and it is faintly transmitted to the ears of the husband and wife, and no one feels uncomfortable. What's more, the year before last, I had a dispute with my neighbor because of a trivial matter, but I didn't expect the spicy old lady to ambush at the gate of Ermiao's house in the morning, and as soon as Fugui went out, she pounced on Fugui's neck and scolded blatantly: "I'll kill you!" ”

That time can destroy the honest rich nest, Er Miao is like a ball jumping high and scolding the other party, scolding and scolding, even the shovel has moved out, if it weren't for the rich and hard hugging her waist and not letting her come forward, she can't wait to shoot the old lady to death.

Rich and begging for a son, Er Miao also wanted to beg, she respectfully kowtowed three more heads, folded her hands, closed her eyes slightly, and prayed in her heart, "Bodhisattva, please give me a son, if I can give birth to a son, Bodhisattva, you can tell me to do anything." ”

The two of them chanted several times in a row, making sure that the Bodhisattva could hear it, so they left the temple gate with satisfaction, and led the jujube flowers to concentrate on the temple fair.