Chapter 32: The New Year

The agricultural proverb sings, don't worry, children, it's the New Year after twenty-nine. The year in the countryside is all the days of the lunar calendar. Generally speaking, there are two kinds, there is a Chinese New Year's Eve, the Chinese New Year's Eve is the Chinese New Year's Eve, there is no Chinese New Year's Eve, and the twenty-ninth is the Chinese New Year's Eve. And this year, it happens to be the Chinese New Year's Eve of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Early the next morning, Yang Houpu took his youngest son to paste the pair, and the little girl Yang Wenyu made a move, one was responsible for fixing the pair on the front door frame, and the other was responsible for holding the paste bowl, waiting for him to use a brush to brush the paste to stick the pair steadily. The pair of the Yang family bought their own red paper and cut it by themselves, Yang Houpu has a good hand of calligraphy, several children have learned some fundamentals from him, Wen Juan has learned the best and the most, but the conditions are limited, just dip in water to make ink and practice more feel. You can help someone come to ask for this year, and Yang Houpu will write pairs for the people in the village, and write the word Fu.

The farmer's paste is very simple, it is made of thick noodles mixed with a little starch, and I don't dare to beat more, just a knuckle depth at the bottom of the bowl, which is enough to paste the pair of the door of the hall and the door of the stove, and then paste a small blessing word on the bedroom door. At this time, I just had a full meal, and no one was willing to throw it away.

"Dad, Happy New Year, bring the red envelope!" Yang Wenyu coquettishly gave her father a coquettish, wanting to save a cent or two of pocket money.

"Mother, Happy New Year, younger in the coming year!" ····· In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the family smiled and flattered each other.

Wen Juan gave Yang Mu a hand to fill the pot stove with firewood, both stoves have to fill firewood, Wen Juan, who has perennial experience in playing on the free time, is at ease with manipulating the two stoves, the big pot stove is making a family's breakfast, and there is some soup and ginseng with stewed bones and stewed meat mixed with water, and there is a grate on it, and there are steamed buns on the grate, and after a while, the pot is boiled and put some cabbage vermicelli and a little small crispy meat in it, and some anise powder and coarse salt are seasoned, and it is very delicious.

Wait until the pot is boiled again, simmer for a while, the steamed bread is slippery, the dish is cooked, and the family accompanies the steamed bread with a bowl, which is a rare delicacy. The old rule here in Xinsu is that you don't eat porridge noodles on the fifth day of the new year, so as not to be confused for a year. Basically, from the beginning of the Chinese New Year's Eve to the fifth day of the new year, the stew and steamed buns were like this in the morning, until the fifth night of the first year ate the noodles and leaves to repair the hole and break the five, and the next day the sixth day of the first year can return to the original diet, except for relatives walking around, it is basically out of the big year.

"Okay, Xiaozao can stop the fire!" After feeling the heat in the small stove, Mother Yang commanded Wen Juan. The small pot stove is just for a look, in preparation for going to the old cemetery to worship the ancestors for a while. Three or five steamed buns, a palm-sized piece of meat, a small handful of crispy meat... Fill a few fires with them, which means that after the fire is cooked, you can sacrifice to your ancestors.

After the fire, Yang's mother put these things that were slightly contaminated with a little heat into a bowl one by one, and put them into the bamboo basket on the board, one foot and a half in diameter, such bamboo baskets are mostly used to pan wheat, so they are also called wheat baskets. In the Taomai basket, the yellow table paper has been placed in the basket, as well as small hanging firecrackers, three or four pairs of chopsticks, two small wine glasses, and a bottle of local sweet potato dry wine at home. They have a high yield of sweet potatoes here, and only this is the only one who is willing to take them out to make some wine.

After pasting the pair, Yang Houpu took his youngest son Yang Wenjiang to carry the Taomai basket prepared by Yang's mother to the intersection outside the house to meet the eldest son and go to the old cemetery to sacrifice to the ancestors of the Yang family. Such a move, in the past few years, when the four olds were broken, they only dared to secretly burn some paper money for their ancestors when no one paid attention at night, and worshipped, and it was only last year that the Gang of Four was defeated, and they dared to worship their ancestors openly and openly to congratulate their sons to celebrate the New Year.

However, worshipping ancestors is all a matter for men, women, and children are fine, and they are basically not allowed to go to the old cemetery to worship their ancestors after the age of ten. Fortunately, whether it is the other girls in the village or the two girls of the Yang family, they are all accustomed to these and have nothing to mind. Besides, girls love beauty, and on the day of the New Year, it is not easy to wear a new dress or clean clothes with less patches, and the old cemetery is kowtowing and kneeling and stained with mud.

"Mother, you and my sister are busy, I'm going to comb my hair!" At this point, Yang Wenyu is particularly concerned, since she went to the old cemetery after being sensible and soiled the clean clothes she had just put on her body and dirty them, she never went to worship her ancestors again. After Yang Houpu and his son left, she ran back to the house to comb her hair again, she was in a hurry just now, she hadn't had time to tidy it up, and her new rubber band hadn't been used properly!

The kitchen matter, the morning meal, Yang Mother and Wen Juan are already almost busy, but no one says anything about Yang Wenyu, today's New Year, even if the people in the village love to beat and scold the children, they will endure their nature, no longer the last day of the year Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year The first day of the new year will beat and scold the children, so as not to bring bad luck to the new year, the people in the village believe this.

When the father and son who worshiped their ancestors came back, the rice in the cauldron would have already been ready. The family served rice and bowls, and had breakfast with He Meimei, and in the morning, Mother Yang and Wenjuan began to prepare the New Year's dinner. One side of the water and soil to support one side of the people, one place and one rule. In some places, Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is eaten at night, but most villages on the side of Hongxing Commune eat New Year's Eve at noon, which is the most solemn, and in the evening, they eat dumplings and rice balls.

In the past two years, the days have been better, and there is the game sent by Shen Weiguo before, this year's New Year's dinner, Yang's mother plans to take care of it well, and plans to cook a few more dishes, which can be regarded as a reward for the family's hard work for a year. In addition, this year is also the last reunion dinner for the three daughters before they get married in their parents' family.

took a frozen fish out to thaw, which was divided two days ago when the fish were raised in the reservoir, and their family divided two large and two small fish. The big cut is fried in the oil pan with starch flour egg hanging pulp, kept for the New Year's hospitality, the small two one hit the tooth sacrifice on the same day, one moved to stay today to prepare to make a braised fish, cook a bowl of small crispy meat, cool a mountain wild vegetable, a vermicelli, and then get two hot dishes, a shallot scrambled egg, a fried hare, and finally cut a pheasant ginseng with mountain mushrooms and potatoes to make the main dish, compared to previous years to be able to eat a vegetarian dumpling in the New Year is a luxury, this year's New Year is called extraordinary.

Except for the last pheasant stewed potatoes and mushrooms, the fish represents more than every year, and must be a complete indication of the good omen of the year, other dishes, Yang Mu is a small amount of small quantities. There are only five people in the family, and they can't eat too much, and they don't want to eat leftovers during the New Year, and it's a pity to waste a little bit of distress!

At noon, open the round table of hospitality at home, put a table of good dishes, invite Yang Houpu and Yang's mother to sit down, and the three children will do it in three directions, Wen Juan poured a glass of wine for her father, and the three children replaced the wine with water, and they raised a glass of glass to celebrate the end of the old year with a smile. "Every year there is more than that, every year there is today, and next year will be better!"

After currying a good mouthpiece, the family started to move after Yang Houpu moved his chopsticks. At the end of the year, it is also the most blessed time of the New Year, especially this year, because Wen Juan's family affairs are established, and she has enjoyed the New Year-like treatment two days in advance. However, even so, today's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is particularly highly anticipated and popular. There is a shortage of oil and water in the stomach for a year, and it takes only two or three meals, where can the gluttonous insects smell meat and get tired of it like later generations, but they think that green leafy vegetables eat well.

On the afternoon of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Yang Wenjiang and Yang Wenyu went out to find friends to play, Yang Houpu went out to talk to the old neighbors, and Yang Mu and Wen Juan chopped meat with noodles, selected vegetables and cut vegetables, and began to prepare dumplings for the evening Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

Mother Yang's hands are quick, and her hands are very fast to dig a few bowls of black noodles, just add water with one hand and stir with one hand, stir the black flour into a flocculent, and fold the dough into a dough with both hands.

Mother Yang is obviously more exquisite and skilled, which Wen Juan admires very much, the same flour water and basin in her hands are not so obedient to the command, she does not have the good skill of A-Niang, her skill in mixing rice soup and noodle water is okay, but before recovering the memory of later generations, for noodles, she is just a hand-in-hand, and A-Niang is not willing to let her practice wasting food. Therefore, she is now helping A-Niang chop the dumpling filling, and help make dumplings for a while, she is good at this.

Today is the Chinese New Year, and the situation is good, A-Niang is ruthless, cut the meat reserved in advance, and use wheat flour to liven the noodles. Even if this noodle is only ground out of stone grinding by itself, and the wheat bran is not delicate and blackened enough, it is called black flour, which is enough to cherish.

You know, in previous years, you can eat a vegetarian dumpling during the Chinese New Year, most of which are cornmeal and sweet potato noodles in the dough, only a little black noodles are put to do bonding, the dumplings of Sanhe noodles are not strong, a little water, it becomes a noodle soup, and even a noodle soup is good, when they are the most difficult, they can't even eat dumplings for two or three years, of course, at that time, it is already a good thing to be able to live.

When the sky was slightly dark, and it was still slightly bright, the sound of firecrackers in the village had already risen one after another, and the Yang family was also at this time, setting off the New Year cannon, bowing to the ancestors in front of the bar, and worshipping the king of the stove against the stove, starting to enjoy delicious dumplings, cleaning up after eating Chinese New Year's Eve, and saying that they would celebrate the New Year together in such joy.