The New Year is getting closer and closer, as the saying goes, after a small year is the year, on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the Qi family got up early in the morning and began to pick up.

"Twenty-three, the sugar melon is sticky, and the Lord of the Stove wants to go to heaven", the Lord of the Stove is the great god that every household in the countryside must worship.

He is in charge of the firewood, rice, oil, and salt of each household, that is, the ration officer of each household.

Legend has it that it is still the brocade guard sent by the Jade Emperor to the human family.

Every year on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, he must return to heaven to serve.

Lord Stove has countless shadow clones and knows everything about your family.

If after going to heaven, his old man said one or two words that he didn't like, the Jade Emperor would subtract some yang longevity from the family.

The lighter ones will last for three or two months, and the more ones will last for twenty or thirty years.

Our mortal lifespan in the human world was originally only a hundred years, and we could only try our best to ensure the safety of our own family.

At this time, the sugar melon appeared, and the sugar melon was sticky, in order to stick to the mouth of the prince.

It is a big and *** white pond on a plate, three inches long and one inch wide, and the king of the stove can't help but taste a piece.

But when you eat it, although it is very sweet, it is very sticky.

The Lord of the Stove went to heaven with a sweet mouth to report on his work, but it was difficult to say some bad things with a long mouth.

The families of the world will be happy.

Early in the morning, the kitchen was in full swing, kneading dough and boiling soup, and everyone was busy.

Qi Shuning also got up early, first packed up all the books he had collected in the past few years, and then packed up some clothes that he couldn't wear, ready to give them to other children in the village.

Qi Shuhua and Qi Shuran heard about it, and they also cleaned up together, although there were still children at home, but Qi Huaixin was a boy after all, and he didn't pick up the leftover clothes of his sisters, so it was better to give them to the children in the village.

When the three sisters carried three bags of clothes to Li Zheng's house, Li Zheng was stunned.

In Li Zheng's opinion, this can't wear clothes, change it, fight it, it's still a great clothes.

As the saying goes, three years for the new, three years for the old, and another three years for sewing and mending, this dress can be worn for too long if you wear it carefully.

In the past few years, although the Qi family has become rich, the Qi family's family has not changed except for the better clothes, never high-profile, never publicized, and all the maids and maids raised by the Qi family are also very low-key, and there has never been anything to bully people.

Therefore, when the three sisters sent the old clothes, Li Zheng thought to himself, what happened to this Qi family?

When the house is cleaned up, the sky will be dark, after all, the winter is short, and the dark is early.

Qi Dali's family, plus Qi An and Fulu Shouxi, as well as a few maidservants, plus the three big families of Changgong who bought it back, all gathered together.

The family first went to the stove room, set up a table, offered incense to the stove lord in the shrine on the stove wall, and offered sugar melons made of starch sugar and noodles, and then put paper horses made of bamboo strips and forage for livestock aside. Using caramel to worship the king of the stove is to make his old man sweet.

Qi Huaixin smeared the sugar around the mouth of the king of the stove, and said while applying: "Say more good things, don't say bad things." ”

This is to plug the mouth of the king of the stove with sugar, so that he will not say bad things.

After coating the mouth of the king of the stove with sugar, he took off the idol and ascended to heaven with paper and cigarettes.

Qi Dali took Qi An and the other men to pile sesame straw and pine branches in the courtyard, and then invited the statue of the stove that had been offered for a year out of the shrine, along with paper horses and forage, and set it on fire. The courtyard was illuminated by the fire, and at this time, the family prostrated around the fire, and prayed while burning: "This year is the twenty-third again, and I will send the stove king to the western heaven." There are strong horses, there is forage, and the road is safe and windy. ”