"Child, child, don't be greedy, it's the New Year after Laba.

Laba porridge, after a few days, Lili Lala twenty-three.

Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky, twenty-four, sweeping the house,

Twenty-five, make tofu, twenty-six, go to cut the meat,

Twenty-seven, slaughtering chickens, twenty-eight, putting the face hair,

Twenty-nine, steamed steamed buns, thirty nights to stay up for a night,

The first day of the new year twisted and twisted. ”

The crisp voice of the children outside the gate sang Jiang Zhixia's familiar nursery rhymes.

Jiang Zhixia listened to this nursery rhyme and felt kind and sad. Familiar songs, but no familiar relatives by your side.

In the past two years, every year during the Chinese New Year, Zhixia will think of the past in his previous life and be sad for a while.

Fortunately, during the New Year in the palace, Zhixia, as a palace maid, is not idle, so this sad mood will not last forever.

This year is the first year that Jiang Zhixia has been free, and it is not a year that has been busy as a palace maid.

Entering the wax moon, it is considered to have crossed the threshold of the New Year.

On the eighth day of the lunar month, Jiang Zhixia and Aunt Zhang picked up all kinds of round beans, rice grains and the like, and after adding starch sugar, they boiled a pot of hot and glutinous Laba porridge. Xiaoman was happy and drank three bowls.

On the sixteenth day of the lunar month, the Wei family next door had a great event--- Wei Zhuxian finally got married.

Wei Zhuxian married the sister of his classmate.

The woman is six years younger than Wei Zhuxian, and she is nineteen years old this year. The woman decided on the family affair at the time of the marriage. However, the woman's family loved the child, so they agreed to marry when they were seventeen years old.

As a result, before getting married, the man passed away.

Later, the woman's family searched and searched for a good family. The classmate thought that Wei Zhuxian hadn't said anything about his family yet.

Although Wei Zhuxian is a little older, he can't stand the fact that he was a talent at a young age. In particular, there is a reason for these two autumn falls. The first time was because Wei Zhuxian was sick, and this time it was because there were too many shade students and prison students, which led to a decrease in the number of civilian children.

Therefore, when Wei Zhuxian's classmates came to Wei Zhuxian's house as a guest, they knocked on the side.

Listen to the sound of gongs and drums, and listen to the sound of speech.

After listening to Wei Zhuxian's classmates, Aunt Li discussed with her son, and asked Mrs. Zhu to inquire about the girl's situation.

After understanding all aspects, Aunt Li was satisfied and invited Mrs. Zhu to go to the woman's house to propose marriage.

The woman's family only thought about it for a day and agreed.

So, both parties wanted to get married before the Chinese New Year, so the marriage was handled very quickly.

Jiang Zhixia didn't go to the wedding banquet, but just asked Uncle He to send the gift money on his behalf.

Aunt Li did not strongly invite her to participate.

After all, the two families had talked about their family affairs before, although it didn't work out and only Mrs. Zhu knew, but it was always a little embarrassing. It's good to be convenient to come and go on other things, but it's better to avoid suspicion at the wedding banquet.

After the lively banquet in the alley, everyone prepared things for the New Year a little faster.

Buy chicken, duck, fish, and other ingredients, buy new clothes to wear for the New Year, and choose various lanterns and couplets.

Jiang Zhixia didn't receive all kinds of game from Zhuangzi like she did in the Guogong Mansion of Dream of Red Mansions, after all, her Zhuangzi was too small.

However, she only sighed slightly, then took out the silver, and asked Uncle He to start purchasing all kinds of things for the New Year.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the sugar melon is sticky.

As soon as it came to the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Aunt Zhang began to make sugar melons according to custom.

Jiang Zhixia has seen it with good caramel --- Jiang Zhixia, but it is actually maltose from the previous life. After boiling into juice, letting it cool slightly, and lowering the temperature somewhat, it begins to rub and pull vigorously, waiting for the sugar to become white, and then begin to make long, round, and square sugar melons of various shapes.

What Jiang Zhixia misses the most is the bulging pumpkin-like sugar melon in his previous life. So, she made many pumpkin-shaped sugar melons by herself.

Unexpectedly, this pattern won unanimous praise from everyone.

After all, it is not easy for ordinary people to eat sugar, where can they think of so many kinds of pictures.

It is only the big families that they will have time to toss so much.

So, Jiang Zhixia, who was excited, made a lot of pumpkin-shaped sugar melons and distributed them to the children in the alley. The children cheered in the alley.

On the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, sweep the house.

On this day, Uncle He, Aunt Zhang, and Xiaoman took a broom and began to sweep the house. Although the house was cleaned every day and there was not much dust, they still swept it according to custom.

Zhixia also wanted to participate---- after all, when she was in the palace, this kind of work was used to it. However, in the end, it was blocked by Uncle He's family.

In their words, when there is no New Year, let the master clean the house by himself. What's more, this work is not tiring.

Jiang Zhixia couldn't resist them, so he had to change this house to another and wait for them to finish cleaning.

On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, make tofu.

This kind of thing is made of tofu, in fact, Jiang Zhixia will do it.

In my previous life, whenever I was celebrating the New Year, my mother would make tofu at home. Zhixia will give her mother a hand. On that day, Zhixia would start by drinking soy milk, eating tofu brain, and then ending with a piece of hot old tofu.

Since her mother died, Zhixia has never made tofu again.

In this life, although Zhixia can do it, he feels sad when he thinks of his mother, so he handed it all over to Uncle He's family and Aunt Zhang. I'm drawing on the couch table.

Twenty-six, go to cut the meat, twenty-seven, slaughter the chicken, twenty-eight, put the dough hair, twenty-nine, steamed steamed buns.

Zhixia asked Uncle He to buy some chicken, duck and fish meat before Zhixia and put them away. But in the past few days, according to the custom, Uncle He still went to the street to buy some meat, chickens and ducks and other things, and even bought a piece of venison.

Zhixia regretted that he couldn't buy beef. Today's ploughing cattle are protected by the law and cannot be slaughtered easily. There are really that kind of cattle that die of old age, and it is difficult for those meats to be sold in the market, and they will be given early by some well-informed big families.

Of course, if the powerful really want to eat beef, they have a way.

This law is just a formality, and the real constraints are only ordinary people.

Uncle He cleaned up the chickens, ducks, fish, etc., and then cleaned them.

The meat I was going to eat recently was wrapped in oiled paper and hung with a rope in a cool place on the kitchen wall where the sun did not shine. The temperature of the weather outside is a natural refrigerator.

The meat that I didn't eat for the time being was put in Zhixia's homemade freezer--- and at the coldest time, some ice cubes were taken and poured together with water, and covered with thick fur felt to form a simple freezer.

When the weather is hot, the ice will naturally melt a little, but now it is basically below freezing, even if it melts a little during the day, it freezes again at night as soon as it cools down.

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Aunt Zhang also steamed a pot of soft steamed buns according to custom.

In the blink of an eye, the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve has arrived.