Chapter 27 Approaching the New Year
The twenty-fourth day of the lunar month is the day of dusting and sweeping the earth. Leisurely got up very early, and after eating, he led Wanyun and Wanxue to clean the small courtyard where he lived, inside and out.
It's okay to leave these cleaning tasks to her subordinates, but she feels that she hasn't experienced the feeling of doing housework like this for a long time. So he rolled up his sleeves and went into battle himself.
Not to mention, after a day of cleaning, I finally cleaned up my small courtyard. Looking at the spotless room, she is especially accomplished now! Well-it's just that I'm a little tired, I must be used to the days when I come to stretch out my hands and eat to open my mouth, this is not good, I have to change.
On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, push and grind to make tofu. Legend has it that on this day, the Jade Emperor will visit the lower realm, and the bitterness expressed by eating tofu dregs will be seen by the Jade Emperor, and he will give this family a little more luck in the coming year.
"Miss, aren't we going to the kitchen today to see the grinding tofu?" Lying on the bed at this time, her back hurts, and she is letting Wanyun pinch her legs!
"No...... replied weakly.
Yesterday she was busy cleaning, but she was tired. After being busy yesterday, I slept and my waist was sore, my back hurt, and my legs were cramped! Ay! This body is a little pampered, and I often can't experience it when I don't work, but I suddenly come to experience it once!
Woo woo woo ~ my waist is so sore! (╥╯﹏╰╥)ง
"Miss, the slave has prepared hot water, you can take a bath, it will be much more comfortable." At this time, Wanxue walked in and said softly.
"Well, that's all there is to it." Still talking about the weakness.
With the help of Wanyun and Wanxue, she took her to the bath place, took off her clothes and sat in the bathtub, the warm water covered her whole body, and she instantly felt a lot of fatigue.
Leisurely tired, twenty-five days in bed resting all day; When the twenty-sixth arrived, she still got up early. Why? Hehe, I slept too much yesterday and I can't sleep a little bit today. Of course, this is not the point, the point is to slaughter the pig today!
I heard Qin's mother say that on the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month in Nancang County, every household has to slaughter pigs and cut New Year's meat. If the conditions are good, buy a pig and slaughter it yourself; Families with poor conditions will also save a little money to cut meat and eat it for the New Year.
"Miss, I'm going to kill the pig!" Wanyun excitedly ran in from outside to report.
"Is the butcher coming?" Leisurely stood up and asked her, her eyes were shining, and she was also very excited.
"Here, I'm sharpening my knife!"
"Let's go—" Hearing that the butcher had already begun to sharpen his knives, he leisurely pulled the evening clouds and evening snow and ran out. She'd never seen a pig slaughtered!
When they came to the slaughtering site, the pig had already been killed and was bleeding there, so she didn't see the bloody slaughter.
At this time, the servants brought a large bucket of hot water and asked the butcher to wash and dehair the pigs. The pigs that have been shed are white and fat, and they are very clean.
After all this is done, lift the pig to the meat cutting case and divide it! Cut off the head, remove the trotters, and cut the tail of the pig; Then disemboweled, and the pig was taken out of the water. Then it's time to divide the pig's body into pieces.
"Brother, what should I do with all that pig blood and water?" Leisurely saw Qin Haoran standing on the side, walked over, and asked.
"You're here!" Qin Haoran saw his sister coming over, raised his hand and rubbed her head before saying, "Those are useless, of course they were thrown away!"
"Huh? Throw away! What a waste! When he heard that he was going to throw away those things, he immediately opened his eyes wide and said, "Don't throw them away, I'm useful, let someone carry them to the kitchen for me, and I'll deal with them!"
"What does Yoo want it to do? So dirty! Qin Haoran saw that his sister had already ordered his subordinates to take those pigs into the water, and asked suspiciously.
"Of course, it's cleaned up and eaten!" When I thought about the good dishes I could make with those things, my saliva almost flowed! After looking at the scene, I felt that there was nothing to see, so I might as well go back and get those things!
"Brother, I'll deal with those things! Wait a minute, those two pigs are killed, and you can have the pig's blood and pigs go into the water for me. After instructing Qin Haoran, he didn't give him time to answer, so he left with Wanyun and the others.
Seeing the leisurely departure, Qin Yanran swallowed back what he wanted to ask. Looking at the back of her leaving, he shook his head helplessly.
Youran's family bought three pigs with a lot of size to kill this year, so there are a lot of pigs with blood pigs in the water. Leisurely enter the kitchen, ask the cook to find her a coarse cloth clothes to wear for kitchen work, put them on, and teach them how to deal with these things!
This pair hasn't been cleaned up yet, and the next one has been sent over! In this way, it was already three hours before the three pairs of pigs were finished in the water.
“…… Yuer, what is this? Qin Yanran has been here for a while, and he didn't speak when he saw that his sister was busy. At this time, I really couldn't hold back, so I pointed to the thing in front of me and asked.
Look at the thing, it's red, it's cut into boxy pieces of tofu and soaked in cold water in a large wooden basin.
"Huh? Brother, are you back? Busy out there? Leisurely glanced back at the visitor, and saw that it was her brother, so she turned back and resumed the work at hand.
"Well, it's done! You haven't said what it is? ”
"Oh, the blood tofu made of pig blood back then! You can stir-fry and eat. ”
"What about these?"
Leisurely glanced at the things he was pointing at, and replied one by one: "This is a boiled pig in the water, you should know." This is the casing that is peeled off from the large intestine and small intestine of pigs, and I use it to make sausages. ”
"Sausages? What is it? Eat? Qin Haoran blinked a pair of good-looking apricot eyes, and his face was full of doubt.
"Well, yes, it's food. And it's delicious! When it is ready, my brother must eat more. Said to Qin Yanran with a leisurely smile, his eyes bent into a good-looking crescent, revealing small white teeth, which looked very cute.
"Okay, I'll definitely eat more." Qin Haoran rubbed her little furry head and said with a slight smile.
For the rest of the time, you were busy making these pigs into the water and making sausages. She didn't even go to the New Year's fair on the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, she just made a long list and asked Qin Haoran to buy it for her according to what was written on it.
Busy and busy, it came to the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month. This day is the day of beating cakes, steaming buns, and sticking window flowers.
I didn't participate in the cake steaming bun or something, and I left it to the cooks. And she took the evening clouds and the evening snow, followed the chrysanthemum and Jin Niang to cut the window flowers and paste the window flowers together.
It is not possible to cut window flowers leisurely, she will cut a circle at most, and the great thing is to cut a 'Xi' word. But this is a New Year's post, not a family sticker, so the 'great' of leisurely is useless. Obediently learned from those daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law, fortunately she is smart, and it will be the easiest to cut a few times.
After cutting the window grille, paste the window grille! After pasting, the whole house looked red, and it was extraordinarily joyful.
"Miss, this magpie Dengmei's window grille is beautiful, can you post this?" At this time, the three of them chose the window grille and prepared to paste it in the leisurely room. Wanxue lifted a window flower to show Youran and asked her how about pasting this?
"Well, that's good." Leisurely looked at the window grille she lifted up, nodded and said.
"Miss, this is not bad!" Wanyun brought up a window flower of 'Pisces Sending Blessings' and said leisurely.
"Well, this one looks good, too."
"Miss, this 'Double Butterfly Peony' is also good."
"Miss, this 'more than every year' is also very good!"
"Miss, this 'New Year's blessing' is good, the meaning is good......"
"Miss, this ......"
Youran: "...... which one does she choose?" Is it okay to stick them all up? (;  ̄д ̄)
In this way, the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month ended in a discussion......
On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, the day when you go to the grave to invite your ancestors to make a big offering.
Since Youran's family left the Nanyu Mansion and couldn't go to her grandparents' grave, this year, Father Qin was going to go to the grave of Youran's grandfather.
In the early morning, the steamed buns are steamed in the kitchen! In the ancestral hall, an incense table, an offering table, and an incense burner were prepared. After breakfast, Qin's father led the whole family up and down to make offerings to the ancestors of the Qin family first.
"Qin Huaihai, the unfilial descendant, because he is not in his ancestral hometown this year, cannot go to Shangxiang in person, so he leads the whole family to ask for guilt to the ancestors and ancestors. I hope that the ancestors will not be surprised, and ensure that my Qin family will be safe and smooth in the coming year. After speaking, they collectively kowtowed.
After that, Qin's father took Qin's mother, Qin Yanran, Youran Siran Enran, and the housekeepers Yu Bo, Yu Cheng, Yu Fa, Wan Lei, Wan Li, Ju Niang, Lan Niang, Wan Yun Wan Xue and others, went to the ancestral tomb of the Su family together!
The ancestral graveyard of the Su family is in a small village under Nancang County, called Qingxi Village. It is said that there is a long bend in the clear stream that flows through the entire village, hence the name.
The Su family counts several generations up, and they are also authentic farmers; In the family of his mother's wife and grandfather, he became a landlord. When I came to my grandfather, because my grandfather was smart and good at management, he became the first big landlord in Nancang County.
A leisurely group, sitting in a carriage and carrying things for going to the grave, came to Qingxi Village. As soon as I arrived at the entrance of the village, I heard the cry of a little doll. Leisurely and quietly lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked out, and saw several plainly dressed women gathered together, pointing at the carriage, not knowing what to say.
The curtain was lowered leisurely, and after a while, the carriage stopped! Uncle Yu Cheng's voice sounded outside the car, and said, "Miss, it's time to get to the ground!"
"Hmm!" Leisurely responded.
Wanyun Wanxue got out of the carriage first, and then walked down leisurely. Outside the car, Qin's father, Qin's mother, her eldest brother and others had already gathered together. A few people walked a few steps and joined them.
"This is a cloud girl, right?" At this moment, a dozen people came out of the village, and it was an elderly man who walked in the front and the middle position.
"Yes, I'm Xiuyun!" Mother Qin took a few steps forward to meet the old man, her eyes were a little excited with tears, and she asked with a slight smile: "Third uncle, are you in good health all these years?" Xiuyun hasn't visited the third uncle a few times over the years, and the third uncle should not be blamed. ”
"What are you talking about! You are married far away, and it is not easy to come back and lie down, not to mention, which daughter who is out of the house does not do her best for her in-laws, the third uncle understands. The third uncle took Qin's mother's hand and patted it lightly to show understanding.
"This ...... It's Master Qin, right? The third uncle said to Qin's mother, turned his gaze to Qin's father, and asked.
"Third uncle, you're welcome, just call me Huaihai!" Father Qin also stepped forward, stood with Mother Qin, reached out and patted Mother Qin's back, and said with a gentle smile.
"Okay, good......" The third uncle couldn't stop laughing when he heard Father Qin's words.
"Oh, yes! Come here, come and see Uncle Waizeng. Mother Qin finally calmed down her excitement and called the leisurely brothers and sisters over.
"Say hello to my great-uncle." A few people stepped forward and saluted.
"Alas, alas, good boys, get up quickly......" The third uncle seemed to be a little excited and a little happy to let them get up.
"Okay, don't stand here and talk. Let's go home. Only then did the third uncle realize that he was still outside, and said happily: "Heshun, you take a few steps back, tell your mother and daughter-in-law, and say that Yun'er is back, and let them prepare tea and snacks."
"Alas! Got it, Daddy! With that, a middle-aged man ran back the way they had come.