The days passed like this, and it was the end of the year in a blink of an eye.

Wu's precious son Yang Changfu also came back, he usually went to school in the town's college, and occasionally came back for a day or two, and the college was on holiday during the Chinese New Year.

Although he was on vacation, he ran to the town all day long, and listened to Wu's words that he followed the county magistrate to meet the rich people in the town, in order to be an official in the future.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and every household in Linshui Village is also busy, even the children are helping to do some work, and everyone has a smile on their faces.

In Linshui Village, there is a New Year's slip: "Twenty-three, sacrifice to the god of the stove, twenty-four, sweep the house, twenty-five, grind tofu, twenty-six, kill the New Year's pig, twenty-seven, slaughter the rooster, twenty-eight, put the noodles, twenty-nine, steamed steamed buns, stay up for a night on the thirty nights, twist and twist on the first day of the New Year"

The Yang family is not separated, so Xiao Yue doesn't have to prepare anything by herself, just go over to help when she is working.

To sacrifice to the god of the stove, you have to use stove sugar, Xiao Yue can't do it, so she can only burn the fire, and the stove sugar is made by the Li family and the Lin family.

Of course, Wu was in charge of supervising the work, and she sat at the kitchen door and watched her three daughters-in-law make stove candy to prevent them from eating secretly.

In the evening, Old Man Yang took the three sons of the Yang family to worship the god of the stove in the kitchen.

It is easy to clean the house, so each of them sweeps his own house.

Wu didn't call a few daughters-in-law to sweep at this time, because there were money, keys, food, etc. hidden in Wu's house, and she didn't want others to know where to put these things, so she had to do it herself.

After Li finished cleaning, he went out to chat.

Lin cleaned the house behind closed doors, not afraid of choking her with the dust. The Lin family is a thoughtful person, and she is afraid that the rest of the Yang family will see the things in their three houses and close the door of their house all day long.

When Xiao Yue and Yang Changfa got married, their house had just been cleaned, and the house was still very clean, so Xiao Yue only tidied up everything symbolically.

The day of grinding tofu was Xiao Yue's cooking day, and early in the morning, Wu gave her the soaked soybeans and asked her to take them to the house with a mill in the village to grind them into soy milk. The one with a mill in the village sells tofu, and the people in the village only make tofu during the Chinese New Year, and they buy a little bit of what they eat from the tofu factory on weekdays.

The tofu workshop was opened by a family surnamed Chen, a couple in their 30s, and the people in the village called them Uncle Tofu and Aunt Tofu. The two have only one son, Chen Jun, who is a wealthy man in the village on weekdays who drives ox carts to sell tofu everywhere and in the town during gatherings. The family just built a new house last year, a beautiful blue brick house, with a courtyard wall surrounded by stones, which looks neat and clean. The front is the tofu factory, and the back is the place to live, and you can give 5 yuan after grinding the beans.

When Xiao Yue arrived, there was no one in front of her, so she shouted at the door: "Aunt Tofu, are you there?" ”

"Here," Aunt Tofu came out with a smile on her face, wearing an apron, and holding a broom in her hand, "It's Changfa's daughter-in-law, come and grind beans." ”

"Hmm. Aunt Tofu is sweeping the house. ”

"Well, clean up the back of the yard, all right, you pour the beans up, and I'll go and drive the donkey over."

"Okay, thank you, auntie."

"It's okay, it's okay."

Xiao Yue poured the beans onto the millstone, and Aunt Tofu led the donkey over, covered the donkey's eyes with a cloth, and the donkey began to circle around the millstone. Xiao Yue was chatting with Aunt Tofu.

After grinding, Xiao Yue paid the money and went back with the soy milk, the tofu was made by Wu himself, because this is a dish to entertain guests during the New Year, Wu is not worried about the craftsmanship of several daughters-in-law, she makes it herself every year, and she will bring it to her house after the tofu is done.

The Yang family raised 2 pigs, sold one and killed one, and more than half of the meat of the pig was sold, according to Wu's words, it is enough to have a meat taste for the New Year, and if you eat more meat, you should be hungry next year.

On the day of the pig killing, the butcher came over early in the morning, and Old Man Yang took Yang Changgui and Yang Changfa to fight together, and Xiao Yue and Lin boiled hot water together. The butcher was very skilled, and after killing the pig, he helped to divide the meat into pieces, packed up his things and carried the pig's head away.

In Linshui Village, in addition to paying the butcher, they will also give a few catties of meat, Wu takes money very seriously, and thinks that the butcher should not collect meat anymore if he takes the money, so he gives the pig's head to the butcher every year.

On the day of steaming steamed buns, Wu called out all three daughters-in-law early in the morning, and the noodles were reconciled the day before, and the house was warm and placed in it overnight.

The custom of Linshui Village is to steam several pots of steamed buns and steamed buns in the previous year, one is to eat in the first month, and the other is to pray for good weather in the coming year, a bumper harvest of grain, and a surplus of grain for every family. People in Linshui Village generally steam steamed steamed buns for a few days around the 26th day of the lunar month, and on the day of steaming steamed buns, outsiders are not allowed to come to the house, otherwise it will be unlucky to surprise the warehouse god in charge of grain. Therefore, if someone is steaming steamed buns, they will close the door, and others will know that this family is steaming steamed buns at a glance and will not go to the door.

The stuffing of the bun is tofu, cabbage, and radish, and because of the amount to be used, it has been all cleaned and cut into small cubes the day before, and now it is just seasoned and even, and the noodles are a mixture of cornmeal and white flour.

Wu took his three daughters-in-law to make steamed buns, and the hard work like kneading dough was done by Yang Changgui, and Yang Dabao was burning the fire. There must be steamed buns in the first pot, because after the pot is cooked, you must first sacrifice to the gods before you can eat it, and the adults are busy with the children running before and after.

After the buns are out of the pot and sacrificed to the gods, they will be sent to their mouths one by one without caring about being hot, and the adults will not care about them at this time. However, the Wu family still has to take care of the daughter-in-law, and there are more than two per person, so it took a whole day of busy work to finish it all, put the buns and steamed buns in the clay pot, and the Wu family brought them all to his house.

Xiao Yue is already too lazy to pay attention to Wu's temperament, Wu likes to say that everything is in her own hands, and she has put the meat, tofu, steamed buns, and buns prepared for the New Year in her own room these days, so that there are all kinds of flavors in the house and the place where she settles is getting smaller and smaller.

Today, I steamed steamed buns and didn't make dinner, Wu divided steamed buns and buns for everyone, Xiao Yue took 3 steamed buns and 2 buns and a big bowl of water back to the house, today the family is busy Xiao Yue can only go into the house every once in a while to see Yang Changfa, he is also very bored in the house alone.

Yang Changfa also kept staring at the door in the house, and when Xiao Yue came in, he immediately said, "Daughter-in-law, you're back, the steamed buns are finished?" ”

Xiao Yue nodded, and brought dinner to Yang Changfa to eat, she had a sore back after a busy day, she had no appetite to eat, and after washing, she lay down weakly beside Yang Changfa.

Yang Changfa finished eating and turned around to see Xiao Yue lying beside him with his eyes closed, he reached out and pressed Xiao Yue's waist slowly, the tense soreness of his body slowly relaxed under Yang Changfa's massage, and before he knew it, Xiao Yue fell asleep, Yang Changfa knew that she was tired, covered her with a quilt and fell asleep beside her.