The next day is Laba, in modern Laba is no longer a festival, at most is to eat Laba porridge, but some merchants also use the name of Laba to send Laba porridge for free in front of the store to solicit business.

But in this era, Laba is a small festival, folk legend, this day from ancient times to the present is the day of sacrifice to ancestors and gods, earlier Taoism said that this day is "princely La", is the day of the five emperors to give birth to the blessing of the people, and so on Buddhism came in, this Laba became the day of Buddha's enlightenment.

Regardless of the denomination, Laba is a very important festival.

In the south, it is necessary to eat Laba porridge, but in the north it is Laba rice, the material is not japonica rice, but yellow rice mixed with a small amount of rice, just because the weather in the north is cold, there has long been a saying of "Laba seven Laba, freeze off the chin", so Laba has to eat Laba rice made of yellow rice on this day, and it is taken that the yellow rice sticky can stick to people's chin and prevent it from falling.

On the first night, the yellow rice was soaked first, and peanuts, tree kernels, walnuts, red beans, and melon seeds were soaked together, and the red dates were pitted and soaked, and the pine nuts were washed and washed, and the laba rice was steamed early in the morning.

Without breakfast, Li, who believed in Buddhism, took the white lotus and took a carriage to the Puji Temple in the county to offer incense.

It is the oldest temple in Heishui County, and the incense is also the most prosperous, I heard that Laba can also line up to lead the Laba rice in the temple when you go to incense, and those who eat it will be healthy and live a long life.

Because of this, the Fang family also followed the car to go to the incense, and the Zhu family and the Wang family may also want to go, but they always have to keep someone at home to work, so they just do it.

There were several children in a row, and they had to stay at home because there was no one to bring them.

Xu Wenlan doesn't think there's anything, what kind of bustle hasn't I seen in modern times? Even the temple fair is not a big deal, at most it is similar to a garden party.

It was Zhu's pickled garlic, and Xu Wenlan followed for a long time.

Laba garlic, Xu Wenlan has seen it, but she has never eaten it, when she looks at the green garlic cloves, let alone eat, she has to blink when she sees others eating it, and she always thinks that this thing is broken? How is it green!

When pickling garlic today, Xu Wenlan helped throughout the whole process, picking up garlic so that both hands were full of garlic, and even if he washed it with pancreas, he couldn't wash it.

This laba garlic is simple, it is purple garlic and rice vinegar, Zhu also specially told Xu Wenlan that the pickled laba garlic cannot be used with old aged lab, or the color will be dark, and it will not look good, and the taste will be too good.

Zhu also thought that Xu Wenlan wanted to learn more, who knew that she was just watching the fun.

The purple garlic was peeled, dipped in rice vinegar, and the jar was sealed, so that it was pickled and ready to eat on Chinese New Year's Eve.

There is a legend that if it weren't for Laba, the pickled garlic would not have turned green, but Xu Wenlan was deeply skeptical.

This Zhu's pickled garlic, while Wang's pickled garlic is sweet garlic.

Sweet garlic is similar to laba garlic, but white wax is used, and white sugar is added.

White sugar is an expensive thing, usually Li is locked in the food cabinet, but today when he left, he took out the sugar jar, and deliberately drew a line, which means that the pickled sugar and garlic are quantitative.

But even so, the few girls who stayed in the house all ate a mouthful of candy by themselves, although it was really just the amount of licking the sweet mouth with the tip of their tongues, but it also made Brother Bai Ribbon and Cao'er very satisfied.

Before dawn, Shangxiang left, Shangxiang had to hurry early, most of them didn't eat, and they had to wait for Li and them to come back before they could eat.

Soon, the Li family came back, but this time there was an extra fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, but it was the Li family who deliberately took a detour and went to the county private school to pick up Bai Yingtian, the fourth child of the Bai family.

For this fourth uncle, who is studying and preparing to take the road of the imperial examination to become a big official, Xu Wenlan has long admired the name.

Looking at it now, but it is not Er'er, according to Li's statement, her son is called a talented and dignified person, if you want to say it elegantly, it is better than Pan An, and only better than Song Yu.

can be seen by Xu Wenlan, this person looks average, far less good-looking than Bai Shengwen, and even Bai Shengwu is a little more heroic than him. As for the talent, I don't know for the time being, but the sour temper of the reader is accurate to learn, the eyes are above the top, the nostrils are facing the sky, and the pride is boundless.

Not to mention anything else, it is his long shirt, which looks a little satin, is actually white, although there are a few green bamboo leaves embroidered on the hem, but you are white in winter, either pretending or pretending.

I didn't bother to pay attention to this cheap fourth uncle who didn't look good, Xu Wenlan said hello and withdrew, helped with the bowl and chopsticks, and waited to eat Laba rice.

But the dishes and chopsticks are set, but they can't be eaten.

Most of the Han people outside the Guanwai come from the Guannei, and there are few ancestral tablets at home, and the Bai family does not offer them, but they do not sacrifice to their ancestors, but the gods are to be sacrificed.

First, a full bowl was served, and the old man Bai held it, followed by the four sons, and first went down to the stove - at this time, Xu Wenlan realized that there was still a stove god under the stove! It's so smoked that you can't see it.

This is not the official day of worship to the god of the stove, but on the day of Laba, you have to stick the chin to the god of the stove.

After sacrificing to the god of the stove, and going to the backyard, the god of the well also wanted to sacrifice, so he stuck a piece of laba rice at the mouth of the well. Then there is the house god, the door god, the road god, and then a large family of men go out.

It stands to reason that there is nothing to do with worshipping the gods, but Xu Wenlan is watching the excitement from afar.

When I went out, I met my neighbor Uncle Wang on the road, who was also leading a family of two sons and grandchildren, and when I met on the road, I didn't speak, nodded, and staggered by.

This is to go to their own fields, the remaining half of the bowl of laba rice is divided into several places symbolically thrown in the field, the old man Bai is still kneeling in the frozen ground kowtow, reciting words in his mouth.

Xu Wenlan didn't understand it too much, but probably asked for a good harvest next year, a bumper harvest or something.

Later, Bai Shengwen explained to her, feed Laba rice to the field, this is fertile land, the field has received your love, it will not be frozen in this coldest day, and in the coming year, it will return you the richest harvest.

It sounds superstitious, but to go deeper, it shows that the ancients knew how to be grateful, unlike modern times, who take all kinds of from nature, but never know how to return, so that their respective disasters are getting worse and worse, what sinkholes don't come like this?

It's easy to finish the sacrifice, and it's finally ready to eat, Xu Wenlan only thinks that this bowl of rice is really the best thing I've ever eaten in my life, not to mention how rich the ingredients are, and I'm so hungry that I feel delicious.

Li was really good to Bai Yingtian, he looked at Bai Yingtian without concealing it, served Bai Yingtian a meal, and deliberately added a lot of sugar, mixed it before handing it to Bai Yingtian, and his loving appearance seemed to be eager to feed him personally.

Other people are not so good, if you want to add sugar, it depends on Li's look.

Eating laba rice, in addition to sugar, there is also cooked lard, but Xu Wenlan thinks it is too greasy, even if Zhu wants to mix it for her, she refuses.

In the end, no sugar was added, and no lard was added, but the original Laba rice tasted sweet.