In the afternoon, the three neighbors each sent a gift in return, Zhang Dashan's house was a large piece of wild boar, and the other two families heard that they were short of beans and garlic, so they also sent some.

In the evening, all the men in the family were led by Zhou Bo to the stove room, set up a table, and offered incense to the king of the stove in the shrine on the stove wall, and offered sugar melons made of starch sugar and noodles. Using caramel to worship the king of the stove is to make his old man sweet.

The yard has long been piled with sesame straw and pine branches, and then the statue of the stove that has been offered for a year is invited out of the shrine, together with paper horses and forage, and set on fire, and the yard is illuminated by fire in an instant.

Zhou Bo led the whole family of men to kowtow around the fire and pray: "This year is the twenty-third again, and I will send the stove king to the western sky." There are strong horses, there is forage, and the road is safe and windy. The sugar melon offered is sweet and sweet, please say good words to the Jade Emperor. ”

Yukimi took the women of the family, with open containers of different sizes and shapes, loaded with well water, clean snow in the courtyard and a little alum, the weather was cold, and after a while, it froze into a state of water in the edge of the frozen, and then Yukimi took the lead in knocking a small hole in the upper ice with a hard object, and then poured out the water, and finally heated it slightly outside the container, took out the ice body, put a wheat straw filled with beeswax in the hollow and lit it, and the flowers and candles in the lamp flickered, and the halo spread out from the inside out.

Zhou Bo led everyone to send the stove god as soon as they heard the exclamations and chuckles of the sisters in the outer courtyard, and the cheers of the children, mixed with Zhou's mother and Du's mother anxiously and quietly calling their aunts and grandmothers, and couldn't help but take everyone outside when they heard the sound.

Most of the people in Pingshan Village are fenced yards, only the Zhou family has a large high door, and the courtyard wall is extremely high.

At this time, there was a series of strange shiny things lined up on the wall of the courtyard, as if they were lamps made of ice, and the soft light and shadow fell into his eyes, as if the moon was clear, and there was a gentle persecution, so that everyone could not help but stare sideways.

Nayukimi was standing on a high wooden ladder, using a small pot in his hand to water the ice lamp, so that it was easy to fix the ice lamp on the wall.

Faintly, Zhou Bo saw that there were water droplets gathering on the body of the ice lamp, as if to melt, but gently and gently, just like the tears of the legendary merman in the book legend, there was a kind of soft and charming luster, and Xue Jian, just clinging to the left of the lamp, with a cheerful sweet smile on his face, under the hazy shadow of the lamp, vaguely came down from the moon, and the clothes and belts flew in the wind, just to match this good day, people were suspicious in the dream, and I was afraid that the beauty would pass away with the wind.

It turned out that everyone was not admiring the lanterns, but appreciating the beauty of the beauties on the wall under the moon.

After only being stunned for a moment, Zhou Bo's face darkened, and he said coldly: "Don't give it to me quickly!" ”

Xue saw that her hand shook and was startled, fortunately there were three or four people under the ladder to support her, otherwise she would really have to fall down, she slowly climbed down the ladder with a smile, ran to Zhou Bo's side, pretended not to see his black face, and took his hand: "Da Lang, look at the beauty, isn't it?" ”

Her little hands were cold, and Zhou Bo was even more angry, "If you like to be weird, why don't you just stay on the wall all night?" ”

Xue saw pouting and muttered in a low voice: "You affect the atmosphere......" was glared at by Zhou Bo, and he didn't dare to say any more, only to find that his hand was held by Zhou Bo's warm big hand, and he had to talk about the fact that the lights were not as bright as the young master tonight, and he trotted all the way back to the bedroom.

When the others saw them leaving, they sighed, some complained that the other people's voices attracted the eldest brother, some were eager to try to make their own ice lanterns, and there were even Liulang and Erhu who added color while adding chaos to the house, San Lang turned around and went back to the house, and when he came back, he actually took a lot of paint, which added a lot of color to the ice lantern, and the Zhou family compound was very lively for a while.

Early the next morning, Zhang Dashan came to ask Zhou Jinsheng to go hunting, the big tiger and the second tiger took Wu Niang and Liulang, and sent them directly to the bottom of the Daqing Mountain with the ice bed, Zhang Dashan really experienced the speed and enjoyment of a luxurious ice bed, and praised it, he thought that the big tiger and the second tiger were accompanying Wu Niang and Liulang out to play, where did he know that going out to ice fishing every day was the main thing of the Zhou family.

After they left, a group of children gathered outside the courtyard of the Zhou family for a while, pointing curiously at the ice lamp on the wall.

In fact, the wick made of wheat straw inside has burned out at this time, but I saw those tempting lights last night, so it is no wonder that the children got up early in the morning to watch.

Xue saw that although he had a crazy time at night, he was still frozen by the north wind on the wall after all, his nose was a little unbreathable, and he was also scared, for fear of being reprimanded by Zhou Bo again, so he had to beat his spirit.

Because the Zhou family is very unlucky this year, they pay more attention to today's removal of Chen Buxin's bad luck.

Erniang took the lead, and everyone did their best to clean the room, clean the utensils, and disassemble and wash the bedding, hoping to sweep all the bad luck out of the door and welcome the New Year cleanly.

At noon, Zhou Ma and Du Ma made a few dishes at random, but the children immediately pointed them out, which made Zhou Ma and Du Ma sneer.

After lunch, the children still had to play with Xuejian, but Zhou Bo said that he was uncomfortable, and asked Zhou's mother to burn the hot kang.

Back in the bedroom, Xue sighed and went to the inner room to clean up the bed.

Zhou Bo pretended not to hear, sat at the desk by the window outside, holding a book and looking.

Xue saw waiting to change his clothes, waiting and waiting, the hot kang was warm, the futon was comfortable, and he slowly leaned on the head of the bed and fell asleep, in a daze, someone picked her up and helped her go to her coat, lay down on the bed, covered the quilt, and Xue saw that she fell asleep deeply.

When Xue Jian woke up again, it was already the middle of the night, and she felt that her throat was dry, and someone had already helped her up, and brought the water cup to her mouth, the water was still warm, Xue saw that she drank it in one go, and then raised her head to see Zhou Bo's cold face.

Xue thought to herself, at this time, should I kneel down and thank you? No, it's too cold on the ground, so it's not as warm and comfortable as on the kang; Should I make a promise? No, I'm a roommate, as if I promised it eight hundred years ago; So what the hell should I ......

Someone knocked her head hard, Zhou Bo looked at her with a smile, she realized that she seemed to be babbling, she covered her mouth, and planned to kill and didn't admit it, "Always knock on my head, sooner or later you will knock me stupid." ”

Zhou Bo sneered: "It's stupid if you don't knock you!" Don't hurry up to serve your young master, I'll change clothes, a dumb girl with no eyes! ”

"Yes, young master!" Xue saw that he knelt on the bed to help Zhou Bo undress, "Why are you so tall." ”

Zhou Bo looked at her ruddy little face under the candlelight, her pink lips, and a trace of snow hidden in her profane clothes, and couldn't help but be stupid.