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In Daqin, the month of La is the month with the most festivals throughout the year, starting from the eighth month, the twelfth, the sixteenth, the twenty-third, until Chinese New Year's Eve, the next few days are festivals, plus the various industries in the next year, so the month is also the busiest month of the year.

According to the customs of Daqin, Laba Day is also Puji Day, the whole country and the temples are set up to boil the Seven Treasures and five flavors of porridge with disciples and the people, called "Laba porridge", also set up red dregs, with bran and fruits, bamboo shoots and taro for it, for monks, or to give Tan Shi, noble houses and other homes. From the court to the common people, they will cook porridge with fruit miscellaneous ingredients and eat. Wealthy and noble families often help the temple on the one hand, and build a porridge shed on their own to give Laba porridge on the other.

Nianfu such a family is quite particular about Laba nature, the official kitchen began to peel the fruit scrubber, with yellow rice, white rice, Jiang rice, millet, water chestnut, red beans, peeled jujube paste, etc., boiled with water, externally dyed red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnut, pine nuts, and white sugar, brown sugar for point dyeing. Boil all night, until the next day, the first bowl of the pot for the Buddha, the second bowl for the ancestors, the family worships the ancestral tablet, and then get together and eat, and the porridge is not noon.

The sacrifice begins at the beginning of the sun, and in winter the days are short and the nights are long, and it is generally not until the beginning of the morning (seven o'clock) before dawn, but Nian Yu still gets up early and dresses up and waits for the sacrifice to begin.

In the annual sacrifice, except for the sacrifice of the family god, all the people participate in the worship, and the rest of the sacrifices are generally only men in the ancestral hall and worship with incense offerings, the wives kowtow in the courtyard, and the concubines usually do not even have the qualifications to enter the courtyard. Often after the sacrifice, the concubine is not qualified to participate, at best, there are some decent people to enter the hall, but they can only stand behind their own master and mother.

Xia Xiaoman doesn't have a "master mother", so according to the rules, he doesn't have to go there. In the past few years, the "original" has once or twice followed the second lady to serve and enter the banquet scene, so this time Nian Liang also asked Xia Xiaoman if he wanted to go. Although Xia Xiaoman was very interested in looking at the ancient sacrifices, she was not interested in people eating and watching her, and then she was afraid that she would not be able to do those rules and regulations. Laba only waited for Nian Liang to clean up this day, watched him go out, and then planned to go back to his house to sleep beautifully.

At the beginning of the morning (seven o'clock), the sacrifice begins in the halo of the rising sun. First of all, the old lady alone carried the lotus bowl and served the first bowl of porridge into the small Buddha hall, offering porridge, bowing, incense, praying, and kowtowing in the courtyard for both men and women; After a while, the old lady came out, and then took the second bowl of porridge with a black porcelain bowl embedded with gold wire to form a family emblem, and took the male of the family into the ancestral hall to worship the ancestral tablet, and the female dependents headed by the old lady were still kowtowing in the courtyard.

Unlike many festivals and sacrifices in the year, Laba's sacrificial offerings are only few, the process is very simple, and it does not take long, which also sets aside time for the Laba feast later.

The Laba banquet of the Nian family is located in the Mingluan Building of the main courtyard of the middle road. This building is actually a theater viewing building, which is two stories high and faces the stage. The second floor is divided into two sides of the male and female viewing seats, but the first floor is a very bright main hall, which is specially prepared for family banquets or entertaining relatives and friends during the New Year's holidays. At eight o'clock, the men and women of the family gather together to eat the Laba porridge cooked in accordance with the rules in the kitchen of Guanzhong the day before, and the Laba porridge cooked by themselves in the small kitchen of each room will also be served to the old lady and the whole family to share.

The porridge is sweet, but most people's mental heads are not on the porridge, but with the corner of their eyes looking at the fifth grandmother who has disappeared from everyone's field of vision for nearly a month.

Since the fifth grandmother knocked out the west door last month, everyone thought that there would be a result this time, either the fifth grandmother couldn't come back at all, or the old lady regressed and separated. Either way, it's not a bad thing for most people – getting rid of a domineering shrew, or putting some money in their pockets. Who knew that the old lady went back to the palace and didn't move except for a trip to the Changshengju, but the fifth grandmother came back early the next morning, and then said that she couldn't get sick, and she didn't see who came to "visit".

The whole family is afraid that it will end with the punishment of the fifth master, speaking of which, the fifth master is not beaten for his daughter-in-law once or twice, the board and whip have been, and the big guy stretched his neck to see what tricks he could play this time, but the fifth master was bizarrely not punished, and he was not even ordered to go to the sixth master's side to make amends - anyway, this time it was the fifth grandmother who made trouble to the sixth master, and the ninth master made trouble last time, and the fifth master also made amends to this little brother.

Anyone was curious about what was going on, but no one dared to ask, and of course, they couldn't ask anything—the person concerned was silent about the events of that day, and the mouth of the servant who was waiting close was not only sewn on, but it was simply cast so tightly with molten iron, and it didn't show any wind at all!

This calm continues to this day.

As soon as the fifth grandmother Wu appeared, she attracted the attention of most people, she was ruddy and magnificent; The waist is very straight, walking steadily, kneeling and kowtowing during worship are also extremely neat, and there is no need to help anyone to get up, in short, this person who claims to be sick in bed for a month does not look sick at all.

When she arrived at the banquet, the second grandmother half-truthfully asked for warmth, but Wu's face was as if she had been shaved white, and she didn't have any expression at all.

The fourth grandmother is the most clever in the daughter-in-law of the word generation, and the seventh lady is the most clever in the daughter-in-law of the word generation at home, and now these two people are sitting at the table of the elders headed by the old lady and funny, it is lively over there, and the atmosphere on the table headed by the second grandmother is a little cold,—— the fifth grandmother gagged with porridge, the seventh grandmother is the person who has no words, the ninth grandmother has always been with the fifth grandmother, and she refuses to say a word at this time, and several little girls are even more immersed in drinking porridge and ignoring everything.

The second grandmother lasted a few words, but she was rarely responded, and she was not interested in saying anything more. Fortunately, the meal didn't last long, and it ended early to avoid a lot of embarrassment.

According to the customs of Daqin,——, no matter how much Laba porridge is left after noon, it can only be poured out, otherwise it is unlucky - so the banquet of the masters ends early, and the servants are also given time to drink the porridge.

When the men were eating here, they were seated according to their age, and Nian Liang was between the fifth master's visit and the seventh master's friendship.

The two old men are going to Meizhou to announce it on the day of the twelfth sacrifice of the family god, so now verbally, they are still in a state of blocking the news, but all kinds of gestures can make people find clues, and there are too many ears in the family who love to listen to the corners of the wall, and there are too many brains that love to analyze, so there are also people who are more than enough to get some rumors.

The seventh master Nianyi seems to be a person who has received some kind of faith, and the banquet is enthusiastic about Nian's forgiveness. Usually the two of them don't see each other often, and they can count it on one hand if they talk about it in a month, but what they say at this meal today is worth half a year. And the fifth master's visit is still as usual, there are a lot of polite words that should be said, and there is no nonsense for the rest.

Nian Liang was like a mirror in his heart, and he coped with it, and he felt that this porridge was tasteless. After the banquet, he walked back on the chariot, and suddenly remembered the porridge boiled by Laba Manniang in previous years.

Manniang doesn't know how to make high-quality dishes with those delicacies from the mountains and seas, but she can turn over ordinary dishes such as cabbage and radish into many tricks, and make them extremely delicious, especially the porridge, which is a must, and even the old lady and the old lady are also praised. When he first ate it, he praised Manniang and asked her how she got this. Manniang only smiled reluctantly, saying that the family was poor, so she would not feel that life was difficult only by eating these ordinary dishes in a different way.

He suddenly sighed, in previous years, as long as he wanted to, he could eat the food made by Man Niang at any time, and he never thought about these things, but now it is difficult to eat those, he remembers some details more and more, and in addition to regret and sorrow, he has added pity to Man Niang's life experience.

Nian Liang shook his head self-deprecatingly, thinking that those were useless, so he hurried back and let her eat porridge before noon.