On Chinese New Year's Eve, the entire courtyard is lit up, even if no one is in the house, lights or candles.

In the room where the meal was eaten, more than a dozen candles and lard lamps were lit, illuminating the whole room, and a large family sat around the table to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, a few cold dishes, a few hot dishes, fish, meat and chicken.

The fish is made by the farmers in the river in the north of the back mountain, digging an ice hole in the ice, and then putting a net into it, waiting for a few days to get something, most of them are crucian carp, so this fish is fish soup, stewed with tofu.

The meat came from the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the newly killed pigs in the Zhuangzi, as a lifting person, Xia Ru naturally got a lot.

Put it in a pot and cook it together, and then process it when you eat it, either stir-fry it or make it cold.

The chicken is the free-range chicken fed with wheat bran in the yard, Xia Yuan took a bite, this should be an old chicken in the waning mountains, very old, raised must have been old, the meat is some firewood, and it is stuffed with teeth.

In addition to these dishes, there are also some dim sum brought back from the capital, but these things are just a cushion for the stomach, and if you really want to be full, you have to wait until the dumplings.

That's right, Daming's Chinese New Year's Eve is also to eat dumplings, or there is the custom of eating dumplings, dumplings and Jiao have the same sound, in the Chinese New Year's Eve, the turn of two years, the moment of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, dumplings have special significance, take the meaning of changing the age of Jiaozi.

Of course, Daming does not have a TV and cannot watch the Spring Festival Gala, so the dumplings on Chinese New Year's Eve have not yet fallen to the embarrassing position of the later life.

The three words of dumplings will not be hated by countless people, but the Ming Dynasty paid more attention to eating dumplings, and the emphasis was on keeping the year's bag, and it could only be eaten when it was a child.

After eating a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for nearly an hour, Xia Shu and Zhao Yuerong left the table first to make dumplings in the stove room, and Xia Zhu led Xia Chen to carry a bag of artillery and didn't know where to go.

Xia Ru was drunk, sat in his seat, and chatted with Xia Yuan: "Happy, I'm so happy, Brother Yuan, I told your aunt this morning, I was admitted to the lift."

Hey, when your aunt thought that I was studying in my room all day, and said that I had the fame of this talent and could be exempted from tax and servitude, she was satisfied and happy in her heart, and she had to test what to do.

After failing the list twice in a row, she always said that I was not the material for the exam, and it was in vain to study all day, so it was better to talk to her more with this effort, so I didn't argue with her many times, and she also had several awkward fights with me. ”

"Hmph." Xia Ru laughed happily, "But now that I have been admitted to the lifting of people, I finally raised my eyebrows, I killed her majesty in front of the grave, and I also told her, you looked away at the beginning, I studied all day in vain, and now my husband is already lifting, it is lifting."

I have endless leisure every day, I don't read any more books, and my husband can talk to you every day, and talk a lot with you, but you can."

Speaking of this, Xia Ru choked up and couldn't say any more, and then he wiped his tears desperately with his cuffs, not wanting the tears gathered in his eyes to slide down the corners of his eyes.

"I can't cry, I'm all admitted to the lift, why are I crying, let her see the joke, this is a matter of raising eyebrows, yes, raising eyebrows!"

Xia Yuan looked at him silently, turned his head to look at the courtyard again, and then said, "Uncle, let's go out and set off fireworks." ”

"Okay, let's go, set off fireworks!"

As he spoke, Xia Ru suddenly got up, wiped a handful of tears with his cuffs, and walked towards the courtyard first.

Xia Yuan silently followed, and then shouted in the courtyard, "Little camellia, quickly take Shu Niang out to watch the fireworks together." ”

Soon, the two girls patted the flour on their hands, and then ran out of the stove room, seeing this, Xia Ru quickly wiped a handful of them on his face with his sleeve, and sniffed hard.

Xia Yuan dragged out a large wooden box from the hall, took out all the fireworks inside, and placed them in the open space in front of the courtyard one by one.

There are many types of fireworks that he came from Zhu Houzhao, such as flower cannons, thousand flower bombs, flash cannons, and third-level waves.

At this time, the sky in the distance was also lit up, and clusters of fireworks exploded in the sky.

These fireworks all came from the north, which is the direction of the capital, perhaps because the night was very dark at this time, or maybe there were no buildings that were too high, and the view was not obstructed.

Or maybe these two conditions are met, so that you can see fireworks set off dozens of miles away.

These fireworks are large and small, the small ones are almost blurry, and you can't see them unless you look closely, but you can still see the big ones.

Xia Yuan estimated that it was put in the palace or the house of the nobles in Beijing, there is a big fireworks stand in this era, it is the culmination of fireworks, how huge it is, it is three or four meters high, if you look at it closely, the whole sky is bright.

And standing at such a distance, you can only see a cloud of fireworks exploding, and even a little faintly, which is not interesting.

But the fireworks that the people of Xiajiazhuang watch every Chinese New Year's Eve are basically from the capital, but this year is blessed.

Put the fireworks boxes one by one, Xia Yuan beckoned; "All stand back, all stand back, I'm going to start ignition."

As he was talking, there was a sound of soaring footsteps not far away, and when he turned his head to look over, there were two small red lanterns shaking and shaking, and when the two lanterns were close, he saw that it was the two brothers Natsusuke.

Xia Yuan quipped: "Yo, you two have quite smart noses, you know that you are going to set off fireworks, and you came back smelling the smell?" ”

"No, we saw the fireworks in the northern capital, remembered that we had them at home, and then ran back to set off the fireworks."

"Uh-huh, set off fireworks."

Xia Chen nodded, and snorted hard, just as Xia Ru also sniffed at this time, the little kid turned his head to look over, and then he was happy, "Hehe, Dad, you are also a snot baby." ”

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Soon, the little kid paid the price for his words.

was hit twice on the head, and was kicked twice on the buttocks, Xia Chen held his head with one hand, and covered his ass with the other, pouting, sobbing and wiping tears.

He was very aggrieved, he was going to be teased by his eldest brother about his runny nose and said that he was a snot baby, and his father was beaten if he said he was a snot baby.

Xia Yuan sighed faintly, why bother?

He took out the fire fold from his arms and handed it to Natsusuke next to him, "Here, the big brother will give you the matter of igniting the fire, remember, run away if you light it, don't be blown up." ”

"Hmm."

Natsusuke nodded heavily, took the fire fold, blew it up with a pop, and then couldn't wait to step forward, aimed the fire fold at the lead of one of the fireworks boxes, and then heard a sizzling sound, sparks flew everywhere, and he quickly ran away like crazy.

There was a thud, and a flame burst out of the barrel, soaring into the air, rushing into the sky, and then exploding in the air with a snap, lighting up the night sky on this side.

(End of chapter)