After the matter was explained, Xia Ning returned to the Song family, it was half past four in the afternoon, and the ladies of the Song family were all staying in the public tent.

"Auntie, I'll discuss something with you."

After Xia Ning sat down, she was ready to do the second thing.

Mother Song looked puzzled, "What's the matter?" You name it. ”

"Isn't it Chinese New Year's Eve in three days, I see that the village reserves are basically winter vegetables and potatoes, although they can fill their stomachs, but their bodies will not be able to bear it after a long time."

When I first moved in, in fact, the Song family gave each family a piece of old bacon, after all, everyone consumes a lot of physical strength every day, and if there is no oil and water in this stomach, how can this work be energetic?

In order to build a house as soon as possible, and not to let everyone get tired and lie down, everyone was originally a poor peasant household fleeing, and there was very little reserve grain to carry, not to mention any old bacon.

Therefore, for the old bacon sent by the Song family, each family is very happy to take it, considering the daily work of their own family, each family no longer picks and instigates, every day cut a few slices to cook soup or stir-fry vegetables to eat, how much can also be stained with oil and water, and the rest of the nutrition can only be supplemented by eggs and bones bought in the town.

But the money in everyone's hands is very limited, even if they want to eat meat every once in a while, there is no such condition, until now, the old bacon that the Song family gave before has long been eaten, but fortunately, the potatoes were collected in time, at least they will not be hungry.

Otherwise, I'm afraid this day will be difficult.

Xia Ning walked around the village today, although she didn't see the situation in every household, but from the faces of everyone, it could be seen that everyone lacked meat nutrition, and almost no one in the entire village was a little fleshy, all of them looked like thin monkeys.

And estimated the time, even if you save meat, the old bacon should be finished.

Therefore, Xia Ning had an idea in her heart.

Mother Song sighed helplessly, "It's not, it's not a big deal to eat potatoes and pickles every day, two days ago, there were a few villagers who wanted to secretly go up the mountain to hunt, but fortunately they were stopped by Jiang Orion, and they didn't want to think about it, how can there be any beasts to fight in this winter?"

It is estimated that they have long been hiding in the mountains, and the terrain in the mountains is complicated, how long have they been in the village? The most important thing is that those few people have no hunting skills, so recklessly going up the mountain is completely fatal. ”

"Aunt, I think so, isn't it about to celebrate the New Year, not only to welcome the New Year, the village should also be a little more festive, in addition, this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is also related to the fortune of the coming year, naturally you have to eat better, in order to pray for a good omen, so I want to prepare a New Year blessing bag for each family to make everyone lively."

Xia Ning didn't go around in circles, she directly expressed her thoughts, today she walked around the village, and she didn't notice a little joy for the New Year, it didn't look like she was going to celebrate the New Year at all, and she didn't even see a little red.

In the 21st century, although the smell of the New Year has faded a lot, every household will still prepare New Year's goods, decorate the house, etc., and you can still see some festive red, but the village is deserted and pure, so pure that you can't feel any New Year's flavor at all.

"You're right, the New Year is going to have a New Year, and it's unlucky to be lifeless, but what about the New Year blessing bag you said? Sounds interesting. ”

Mother Song agrees with Xiao Ning's idea, for them, some inheritance customs are engraved in their bones, especially on such an important day as the New Year, for them, this is not only a festival, but also a prayer and good wishes for the future.

Only the better the preparation and the more lively the atmosphere of the ceremony, can we look forward to a good fortune in the coming year.

Therefore, there are some customs that cannot be lost or less.

Hearing Xia Ning's words, several ladies in the tent also looked at Xia Ning, full of curiosity about the 'New Year Blessing Bag' in her mouth.

"Sister Xia, is the lucky bag a cloth bag sewn from red cloth?"

Song Chuying tilted her head and guessed, she remembered that when she was fifteen years ago, when she went to the temple to offer incense, she saw the masters giving blessing bags, that is, palm-sized dark red cloth bags, which were not very exquisite.

The bag contained a pinch of fragrant rice, saying that it was a tribute to the Bodhisattva and a blessing to all sentient beings, so as soon as she heard Sister Xia mention the blessing bag, she thought of the small cloth bag in the temple.

"Sister Ying is so smart, it's a lucky bag made of red cloth."

Xia Ning smiled and touched her little head appreciatively, and then, her gaze explained to everyone.

"I'm going to make a big blessing bag, that is, a New Year's gift bag, put a few couplets in it, a pair of red lanterns, two big red papers, everyone can also cut the window flowers, it is more convenient to make some red seals, and then put some red dates and peanut candy, plus two sausages, eight beef meatballs, what do you think?"

Hearing this, Song Laotian's eyes lit up, "This lucky bag is good, the New Year's goods you said are better, if every household in the village has these New Year's goods, then this New Year will be decent, but so many things can work?" ”

I have to say that Xiao Ning said that this lucky bag is too good, mainly for the village people to be particularly practical, although the items that should be prepared for the New Year are not very complete, but these things take into account several important points, so that everyone can have a festive New Year.

It's just that so many things are even troublesome to prepare, right?

Mother Song followed up and said, "Yes, Xiao Ning, have you carefully calculated how many supplies you need?" Our village is not the 30 or so families it used to be, but several groups of people have been added one after another, plus the people you brought back yesterday.

There are still many people who are alone, even if they are counted as two people as a family, there are a total of 72 households in our village, and there are a lot of materials needed for this stall, can you really afford it? ”

In the future, the second daughter-in-law wants to help the villagers, and she naturally supports it, after all, this is also a good thing to accumulate virtue and happiness.

In fact, the Song family still has some pickled meat and mountain goods in the inventory, although it is not as good as fresh meat and vegetables, but it is also a good ingredient, but it is not good for them to take these things to help the people in the village.

After all, these things are not their own Song family in the true sense.

Their Song family's life is the best in the village, and they basically don't have to worry about eating and drinking, thanks to Xiao Ning, otherwise they have money, and they may not be able to live so comfortably in such a chaotic world.

Therefore, as a beneficiary of Xiao Ning's help, they have no reason to prevent her from helping the villagers, but as her family, they naturally have to consider her interests.