The opportunity that Wu Lian'er is talking about is the unique festival of rewarding the gods here in the north - the first day of November every year.

It is said that the festival is to reward the god of harvest for giving people food and all the gifts of the harvest, and it is hoped that she will continue to bless everyone with good weather and more food and resources next year to survive the long and barren winter in the north.

The festival is a collective celebration festival, generally based on the village as a unit, each village will preside over a grand ceremony, and then the village elders will put down incense in the direction of the mountain in the village, offer sacrifices, and then lead the villagers to bow.

Of course, in the eyes of many villagers, all these sacrifices are just a scene, and the most anticipated is the bonfire party at night.

It's a hundred family banquets!

Each household in the village will provide a dish or staple food, which will be mixed with some of the banquet needs collected by the village apportionment to the households, and placed it on the village grain field. A bonfire is lit in the middle, and people who have worked hard for a year will rarely abandon their old grudges at this time, get together to drink and laugh, and enjoy this rare happy time.

It has just been a light snowfall in the past two days, but it still can't stop the enthusiasm of the villagers in Beishan Village.

In the morning, An Xiao and Xiao Lingyue also participated in the solemn ancestor worship activities in the village, and then the whole village set out to prepare for the big banquet in the evening.

An Xiao has never participated in such an event, but with the Liu family and them, she only needs to follow them and do as she is told.

But obviously, things were not as simple as she thought.

Just after following Liu to clean up the tables and chairs on the side, a woman in a brown smock came over and said with a smile at An Xiao: "I heard that An Niangzi's cooking skills are good, anyone can do these idle jobs here, An Niangzi might as well go to the stove room to help!" ”

"Auntie, who did you listen to, I don't cook at home." An Xiao quietly looked at the woman in front of her who was as close as if she was her own family, and took two steps back with a smile: "Today is a big day, and I am also participating for the first time, so let's follow my sister-in-law to do some simple work, it will not be good to miss everyone's business when the time comes." ”

It's fat in the stove room.

This is what Liu mentioned when he told her about the arrangements for the Reward God Festival in previous years.

Because it is said that so many ingredients were prepared, but in the end, how much was at the banquet in the evening, but only those in the stove room knew it, and those who were deducted naturally fell into the hands of those people in the stove room in the end. Therefore, most of the people who can get the work of the stove house are close to the daughter-in-law of the village chief who is responsible for arranging the work, or they are members of the Wu family.

Where is her turn to get this little girl who has only been in the village for less than half a year?!

What else did the aunt have to say, but she saw An Xiao turn her head and greet a few women next to her who were cleaning up the tables, chairs, dishes and chopsticks: "Auntie said that there is still a shortage of people to help in the stove room, are there any aunts or sisters-in-law who are willing to go?!" ”

As soon as I heard that there was still a shortage of people in the stove room, the other women here listened to the greeting, where could they wait, and after a while, they all came around, squeezing the aunt who came to call people in the middle, and the gossip made her face turn green in an instant, but she had to deal with it with a smile on her face.

An Xiao looked at the chaos in front of him and smiled, turned around quietly, and went with Liu to continue to busy with the work that had been interrupted just now, and no longer paid attention to it.