Laba Festival, commonly known as "Laba", is a traditional festival of the Han nationality. There is a folk custom of eating "Laba porridge" and soaking Laba garlic. In many places, Laba porridge, also known as "everyone's rice", is a festival custom to commemorate Yue Fei, and the whole of December here is called Lap Moon.

Early in the morning, the couple was busy worshipping their ancestors, and the old house also sent Laba noodles. Unlike the eight-treasure porridge of later generations, the laba porridge here is salty, and some radish, cabbage, vermicelli, and tofu are put in the porridge. The process is cumbersome: washing rice, pickles, chopping, and sorting, Wen Wan starts to cook porridge in the middle of the night, and then stews it over a slight fire until the early morning of the next day, and the laba porridge is considered to be boiled.

The boiled porridge must be sacrificed to the gods first, then given to relatives and friends, and finally drunk by yourself, all of which must be completed before noon. Wen Wan didn't like to drink this porridge, so she secretly added some diced meat and salted egg yolk to it. If she makes sweet eight-treasure porridge, her body is not convenient, and she doesn't like eight-treasure porridge either, so she doesn't bother to bother with that god.

The taste of this ancestor worship is also very strong, Lin Yuan solemnly prepared the boiled whole pork, the unslaughtered fish and the whole chicken with red paper; There are also fungus, tofu balls, bundled green vegetables, and three kinds of dried fruits: melon seeds, peanuts and walnuts, a total of three meats, three vegetables and three dried fruits.

After setting these up, then pour wine, set up dishes and chopsticks, and finally light two candles, and put a bowl of laba porridge in the middle. The next thing is to burn paper and bow down, Wan Niang couldn't bend down and had to bow three times with her hands together, and Lin Yuan did the rest together. After the paper was burned, Lin Yuan lifted the three chairs around the table in order, and said: "Harvest in the coming year, please disperse." Only here is the end of the entire ancestor worship ceremony, and you can divide the porridge and eat the porridge.

In the afternoon, Lin Yuan wore a hat and went out to the town to buy New Year's goods, Wen Wan also wanted to go, she hadn't been out for a long time. However, there is no excellent production technology here, so pregnant women can only rely on themselves to regulate their bodies, and the dirt roads are not easy to walk, and there are many people in the town. Just in case, Lin Yuan ordered her to only walk around the village and had to be supported by him, and she was not allowed to go out in winter.

It's one thing to be depressed and uncomfortable, if you are not in good health, it will be difficult to save it, Lin Yuan didn't want to choose one of the mother and son, glared at her or drove people into the house.

Once upon a time, there were children in Lizi Village who had children and closed their breath halfway, and the children were not born. After a room of people finished crying, they nailed people to death in coffins and buried them. The poor man woke up and gave birth in a coffin, and cried and scratched for two days and two nights.

A few days later, the family heard the rumor and opened the coffin to see, the person had already lost his breath and died in horror. His mouth was wide open due to lack of oxygen, his hands were bloody and his fingernails were broken, and there was a lifeless baby in his arms, and the coffin was full of scratched blood. Those who see it are shocked and can faint.

Therefore, in such backward conditions, Wen Wan knew that she could only share the fetus in peace.

She stood at the door and pulled him back, telling him to buy more maltose and come back, she wanted to eat peanuts and sesame candy.

It was dark early, and Lin Yuan Town returned after a trip of two hours, bringing back the candy that Wen Wan wanted. The snow-white malt candy is soft but not cheap, and ten catties of sugar cost half a copper coin, so it is not the New Year, and few people are willing to buy it.

After drinking some porridge indiscriminately, Wen Wan lit an oil lamp and excitedly taught Lin Yuan to make candy to eat, and the couple were busy filling firewood and cooking peanuts and sesame seeds. The more crushed the peanuts and sesame seeds, the more delicious they are, and you can start boiling sugar as soon as you heat them aside.

Put a little oil in the pot and then put in the maltose and keep stirring with a stick, it will turn into brown syrup in half an hour, Lin Yuan has never seen or eaten it, he is very interested in stirring with a stick in his hand, and men sometimes have a childish side.

"Xiang, take some and send them to someone when you're ready." Lin Yuan smelled the sweet fragrance and looked into the pot.

Wen Wan held her chin and smiled, "It has to be delicious to deliver."

Her little face was red against the firelight, she was pregnant, and her whole person exuded a gentle aura, Lin Yuan felt that there was no better person in this world than his mother-in-law.

Wen Wan dipped a little syrup in cold boiled water with chopsticks, took it out and put it in her mouth to bite it, it was crispy, and it didn't stick to your teeth, and the syrup was boiled. At this time, you can lay peanuts, Wen Wan likes peeled and crushed peanuts, which has a delicate taste and better appearance. It takes some effort to pour it into the syrup and stir it well, and Lin Yuan has saved her a lot of trouble.

After a while, the color and fragrance came out, and Wen Wan inhaled his nose and swallowed saliva, which was still the sweet fragrance that he often smelled when he was a child.

Wen Wan doesn't know how other families do it, but when she was a child, every time she watched her grandmother do this, she remembered the good taste of her childhood when she ate too much, and even remembered her traditional process.

Thinking of this gentle sigh, she was busy with work in her previous life, and the only grandmother who cared about her rarely went back to visit, and she would shed two tears when she died, I'm afraid that the only one who trembled was the white-haired old man.

She patted her head and chased away the mess. Command Lin Yuan to take out the boiled peanut candy and put it on the board to cool it down. Then you can make sesame candy in the same way, and when the sesame candy is boiled, you can cut the peanut candy, and the peanut candy at this time is a little warm, and it is best to cut and eat.

Wen Wan raised the knife and fell, neatly and skillfully cut the sugar into square slices, pinched and tasted the sweet fragrance, and succeeded!

He made a lot of sugar one night, and Lin Yuan also ate a lot, and the rest was put into a porcelain jar to mark it. Throw two sweet potatoes into the embers of the stove and eat them tomorrow morning. The sweet potatoes here are yellow-hearted, they are very sweet when eaten raw, and they are even more fragrant when cooked, but Qi Niang can only taste a little and can't eat more, otherwise the stomach will be uncomfortable.

Lin Yuan got up early in the morning and finished nibbling on the soft and sweet sweet potatoes, and happily carried the cloth bag to the outside to send sugar, in addition to the old house, there were relatives and friends, and villagers in the village. Wen Wan made these food snacks, and he carried a cloth bag and scattered them out.

The folk customs here are very simple, and they will want to share whatever is delicious with others, as if they can share some of the hardships and difficulties of life with each other. It is precisely because of sharing that the neighborhood at this time will be particularly close and enthusiastic. These simple but heart-warming habits are no longer visible in later generations.

When he arrived at a family surnamed Li in the village, Lin Yuan stood at the door and summoned a child with a comb and a bun, took out a handful of candy from the cloth bag and put it in front of him, "Dog, come here." ”

"Uncle Lin, what is this?" The dog sucked the green dragon under his nose into the nest with a sharp suck, and happily stretched out his hands to catch it.

"Candy made of peanuts and sesame seeds, bring it to you to taste" Lin Yuan looked at the thin child who kept swallowing his saliva, and couldn't help but send the candy in front of him.

The child's hands were small, and he couldn't hold the candy with his outstretched hands, so he turned around and shouted into the house, "Grandmother, grandmother!" ”

His grandmother walked out of the door with a smile on her face, unhurriedly took the candy and stuffed it into her arms, and took out a piece and fed it to her grandson.

"Fuchiko, why are you here? Your Wanniang is almost full-term, right? "She loved this offspring.

People are diligent and clever, not to mention, and often come over to help chop wood and carry water, and there is always a handful of snacks for her grandchildren in her pocket.

Lin Yuan touched the back of the dog's head, nodded and replied with a smile, "It's almost eight months." This is the candy she made, and the aunt doesn't dislike it. ”

"How come, it's too late to be happy, this rabbit cub can stretch his neck every day and look forward to you!" She was also happy to see her grandson gobbling up.

This is the candy that her family is reluctant to buy all year round! Yuanzi was willing to give it to her grandson to eat, and the life of coming to this child's house was indeed as good as rumored.

"Did you thank you, Uncle Lin? No rudeness! She slapped her grandson on the head lovingly, and it didn't hurt or itch.

Seeing that his grandson licked his fingers, he gently put a piece in his hand again, "Eat carefully, if you want it again, you won't have it." ”

It's not that she's stingy, if she eats with her children, what will she treat during the New Year? The family didn't even have the money to buy catties of sunflower seeds.

"Thank you, Uncle Lin!" The dog smirked and touched his head, revealing a mouthful of teeth sticking to brown candy, and the saliva flowed out of the corner of his mouth and was sucked back by him with a "hiss", sweet and fragrant, he had never eaten such delicious sugar!

Lin Yuan sent the candy to leave, the old lady pulled him and squinted at it, only to realize that the little doll was so big in a blink of an eye, "Don't go back, it's so easy to come here, when your Uncle Li comes back, you will accompany him to drink two cups, and the aunt will scrambled eggs for you to eat, is it feasible?" ”

She did her best to keep him.

Lin Yuan helped her, "No, auntie." Wan Niang is still waiting for me to go back at home, she should be in a hurry when I go back late. ”

The old lady reluctantly let go, "Yes, yes, then don't be in a hurry to leave, I'll go get some eggs for you to take back to eat." ”

Before Lin Yuan could answer, the old man quickly walked into the house to get the eggs. He smiled and shook his head, squatted down again, grabbed a handful of candy from the cloth bag and stuffed it into the dog's dirty pocket, "Collect it yourself and eat it slowly." ”

The dog was so happy that he couldn't see his teeth, and he drilled straight into Lin Yuan's arms like a cannonball.

After the candy was distributed and turned around the village, Lin Yuan had everything in his hands: eggs, radish, peanuts, and japonica rice. Although the farmer is poor, he still knows how to repay the peach. The good things of the white people, they don't want to go!