There is a statue of the Bodhisattva King of the Stove next to the stove in Song Haonian's house, and there is a small couplet on it: God says good things, and the next session will be safe.

In folklore, the Stove King Bodhisattva can supervise the affairs of the family, check the merits and sins of people, and settle the accounts with heaven at the end of the year. Therefore, the local custom is not to smash the bowl and smash the pot, let alone throw and fold chopsticks, chopsticks are the crutches of the Stove King Bodhisattva.

Lamei came back in a hurry to buy caramel before the gathering, and first helped Lily clean up the New Year's goods brought back by Song Haonian, many things that Lily couldn't put in the house, and they had to be piled up in her house.

While cleaning up, she thought to herself: The eldest brother-in-law treats the eldest sister so well, I don't know what I can meet in the future

She naturally looked at the golden hairpin on the lily's sideburns, and she wanted to be happy and envious, happy that the eldest brother-in-law treated the eldest sister considerately, and envied that she didn't know if her lover could treat her so well in the future.

Lily was a little uncomfortable, touching her head: "Doesn't it look a little weird?" She has always worn no ornaments on her body, and she wears a hairpin for the first time, which is not very customary.

Lamei shook her head and said with a smile: "You have white skin, you just look good when you wear this!"

Lily pursed her lips and smiled, Song Haonian only knew how to praise her for her good looks, but she couldn't tell where she looked good, and sure enough, the girl was more discerning.

Eat oil and vinegar noodles in the evening, fry bacon with pickles, just eat soon after the sky gets dark, lily Zhang Luo sacrifice stove things: a pair of candles inserted in the steamed bun, placed in front of the portrait of the Bodhisattva of the stove king, and a few small dishes.

In some places, "men don't worship the moon, women don't worship the stove", but Aoyagi Town does not pay attention to this, and women can participate in things such as moon worship and sacrifice stoves. After all, the family's food and clothing must be adjusted by the housewife, and if the woman does not take care of it, the family will not have a good life.

Song Haonian lit a candle with a fire fold, lit three incense sticks with a candle flame, bowed three times, inserted it in a small incense burner, and prayed in a low voice. Lily was next to him, and when he heard some words praying for the safety of the house, he also said silently in his heart: "May the coming year be safe and all the best." ”

Song Haonian poured another glass of wine in front of the portrait, and then used the caramel to stick to the mouth of the Stove King Bodhisattva to prevent him from speaking ill of the heavens, and then took off the portrait and stuffed it into the stove to burn it.

A wisp of green smoke rose up, this is considered the Stove King Bodhisattva to heaven, Song Haonian looked at the pumpkin seeds, apples, pears and other things on the plate, and grabbed some for Lamei, "This thing is blessed, taste it." ”

Lamei took the pumpkin seeds back to her house, and Lily took the food to the table in the house, went to the kitchen to carry two buckets of hot water, and sent Song Haonian to take a bath.

At this time, she found that Song Haonian had lost a lot of weight this time, and the ribs on her thin body were bulging one by one, and the relief was general. She was shocked and distressed: "Why is it so thin!"

Song Haonian hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I don't have anything to do, I just didn't eat well on the road." "I am used to eating my daughter-in-law's craft, and the more I sleep outside, the more homesick I become.

Lily barely squeezed out a smile: "In this case, I will take care of it when I come back." As he spoke, his voice trembled, and a line of tears fell.

Now Song Haonian was frightened, he got up from the water and wanted to hug Lily, and when he saw that he was **, he didn't have to stain her clothes, so he rubbed his hands anxiously: "Don't cry, don't cry." ”

He is a big man, and he has always been careless, even if he asks his father and brother to be driven out of the house, he is just cold-hearted. Lily cried, and he felt as if he had both hands grasping his heart, dipping it in the sour juice, and wringing it out again.

It was sore and painful, and it was so sad that I couldn't do it.

Seeing him in such a hurry, Lily was clearly sad, and tasted a hint of sweetness from her sadness, and hated him: "You sit back quickly!

Song Haonian sat back in the bathtub and smiled: "Daughter-in-law, I won't make you angry, don't be sad." ”

Lily sighed: "Where are you provoking me, don't I feel sorry for you." ”

If you want to live a good life, you must work hard. It's one thing to understand the truth, she will not feel any less distressed about Song Haonian, and she is full of thoughts of taking advantage of the Chinese New Year to make up for his body.

"I know you feel sorry for me," Song Haonian looked at Lily, the more he looked at it, the more he loved it, and couldn't help but take her hand and probe down, "Then you feel distressed and distressed here first"

Lily's hands were burned like fire, and her whole body burned, and she pretended to glare at him fiercely: "What are you doing?"

Song Haonian loves her fierce appearance the most, like a cat cub with a milky voice, not scary at all, but it tickles his heart.

Song Haonian jumped up from the water, pulled the handkerchief three or two times to dry his body, and hugged Lily with his iron-like arms: "Raw doll!"

A night of joy.

On the twenty-fourth day of the next lunar month, the custom should be dusted, and Baihe got up early to put on the bed, pot stove, chest of drawers and other items, put on old clothes, and covered his head with a towel, and Song Haonian and Lamei were also dressed in the same way.

All the dust that has accumulated for a year should be swept away on this day, so that it can be clean and welcome the new year. Lily is diligent on weekdays, and the house is cleaned up inside and out, so the work of cleaning up is easier.

Tie a long bamboo pole to the back of the broom, remove the spiders and soot from high places, remove the tables and cabinets, and clean the corners of the dust.

Soak the sheets and dirty clothes in the water, and wash the clothes after the dust is finished.

The dust choked, and Lily turned out her mask and put it on, revealing only a pair of eyes outside. The work of cleaning the high places was handed over to Song Haonian, and she only had to fetch water and scrub the furniture until the house was shiny inside and out, and there was no trace of dust in sight.

After changing out of dirty clothes and soaking them in water, the clothes to be washed were piled up high in the basin, and the two hands of Baihe Lamei were soaked in the water so red that they were like carrots.

Song Haonian felt sorry for his daughter-in-law, and when he didn't spare Chai He, he couldn't stop boiling hot water and pouring it into the basin, he still wanted to wash his clothes, but Lily didn't let him, he worked too hard outside this time, and she was reluctant to go home and ask him to do too much work.

After washing his clothes and hanging them on the fence, everyone washed their hair and wiped their bodies, and it was already dusk when they were done. The house was bright and clean, and the people were tidy and tidy, and the beds were neatly spread out with freshly beaten bedding in the sun.

When these bedding were stored in the box, in order to prevent mold and insects, the lily picked some camphor leaves and dried them in the sun to replace the mothballs. The bedding is naturally stained with the smell of camphor and sun, which makes people feel warm and joyful in their hearts. After dinner on this day, the young couple went back to Dunlun, Song Haonian was very satisfied, hugged Lily and told her about what he saw on the road: "When it snowed heavily, a few of us had nothing to do, we just wanted to find a foot shop to live in." Who wanted to faintly hear someone calling for help, but they didn't hear it, just my ears

Spirit, I heard you. ”

"Then you're going to save people?" Lily just asked in vain, her husband was a scoundrel for a few years when he was young, and he never did anything bad after settling with Liu Yi and others, Liu Yi is a person who is anxious for justice and righteousness, and when he meets someone on the road on a snowy day and calls for help, he doesn't go to help.

Song Haonian said: "It's a mile, let's take a look in the past, a big carriage overturned on the ground, I will make enough money in the future, I will buy you a carriage like that, spacious and comfortable." ”

He imagined it for a moment, and then told the story, "That place was a pit, and after the snow was covered by the coachman, it was only flat ground, and he drove the car so fast that he would have overturned? ”

Don't look at the wind and rain in this year, it is not fun to be injured in the wild in heavy snowy weather, and how many must not freeze to death in any year? In case someone takes a fancy to his money, he will kill people and sell more goods, and his body will be buried in the heavy snow, but I am afraid that no one will find out until the spring of next year.

The person in the car, according to himself, was a businessman who was doing business in the capital, and he was in a hurry to rush home for the New Year, and he didn't want to overturn on the road.

To save people in the end, Liu Yi and the others temporarily wrapped the wounds of the merchant and the coachman, put a splint on their legs, and sent them to the nearest town.

The merchant sent a letter to his family, and thanked several people for his kindness, and paid for them to buy large cotton jackets, and sent them many things.

Only then did Lily understand that the things that Song Haonian brought back still had a thank you gift from the merchant.

Song Haonian smiled and said, "Daughter-in-law, that Uncle Wang is like you, and he likes to see my face." ”

Lily was stunned for a moment, and laughed: "I am your daughter-in-law, who is Uncle Wang! Eighty percent of them see how handsome you look and want to accept you as a son-in-law." ”

Song Haonian scratched his head: "He asked me if I was married, I told him that I was married, and my daughter-in-law is very good!"

The room was dimly lit, and Lily smiled.

"The rouge gouache and hairpins I brought back this time were picked by Uncle Wang for me, do you look good?"

Lily said: "It's very good, if you hadn't gone through this experience, I wouldn't have needed such a good thing." ”

Song Haonian was beautiful: "A good person like you should use the best things." ”

He always felt that his daughter-in-law was capable and smart, and he was hard-working, and Lily never complained, lived with him wholeheartedly, greeted him with warmth, and was considerate and considerate, and he couldn't wait to take out his heart and give it to her, so that she would not be wronged again.

Lily thought to herself, the businessman named Wang Jin was afraid that he had taken a fancy to Song Haonian from the beginning, and he really had the idea of recruiting him as a son-in-law.

didn't want this nerd to have no second thoughts about her, so Uncle Wang had no choice but to stop and only make a righteous man as a friend. Meeting this person is her biggest luck.