Li Xuan's return home caused a sensation in the village. Others went up the mountain to fetch firewood, but Li Xuan went up the mountain and actually hit a black bear and came back.

Li Xuan repeatedly explained that he picked it up on the mountain, and he didn't know which hunter didn't kill the black bear, but ran to the mountain before he died, and happened to let himself pick it up. Everyone can only sigh at Li Xuan's good luck.

There is a custom of killing "New Year pigs" in the Northeast for the New Year, and this year Li Xuan's family directly killed "New Year Bears". This black bear was sorted out by Li Xuan's father. The bear's paw was left alone. Bear skin can be peeled off to make a bear skin mattress. Bear bile can be used in medicine, and it is soaked in soju by my father, and it is said to have a bright effect.

There were nearly 300 catties of bear meat, and it was divided into more than 20 portions. Li Xuan rode a bicycle to the homes of relatives and friends. Principal Zhou, the head teacher Mr. Wang, and Mr. Zhao's family also sent a copy.

This year, Li Xuan's family has money, and they bought a lot of New Year's goods, and sent one to his grandfather and grandfather's family respectively. At Li Xuan's special request, he bought two more black-and-white TVs and sent one to his grandfather and grandfather's family.

The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and Guyu Village is becoming more and more lively. At that time, the New Year in the countryside was both busy and festive, anyway, the New Year's flavor was very strong, and adults and children liked the New Year.

The children all changed into clothes that they were usually reluctant to wear, and played in the streets and alleys, mainly with firecrackers.

At that time, the countryside was not rich, and there were basically no flowers to buy. The children took apart the 200 or 500 firecrackers they bought at home and set them off separately.

Some children take a piece of incense from home and light it for a long time.

Some people tie the bottle left after eating the canned food with a rope, tie a small wooden stick on the head of the rope, and put half a candle in the canned bottle, which is a small homemade lantern, which can not only illuminate, but also serve as a fire source for firecrackers.

Children go out to play at night, and they won't go home until they burn out the candles in the lanterns.

The adults are also busy. Some people are "running oil", that is, making some fried food, mainly fried twist flowers, tofu puffs, potato cubes, radish balls, etc., among which the best ones are fried cakes and potato tongs.

The fried cake is made of sticky corn flour and wrapped in bean paste, and then fried in oil, and when it comes out of the pan, it is fragrant, sweet and sticky, and it makes people drool just thinking about it.

The potato clip is the first knife to cut through when cutting potatoes, the second knife to cut more than half, and the third knife to cut through, which becomes a thick potato slice with a seam in the middle, put the good meat filling in the middle of the potato slices, and then wrap a layer of starch paste outside, put it in the oil pan and fry it, it is really delicious.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the New Year is celebrated, and the king of the stove is sacrificed. Legend has it that on the 23rd day of the lunar month, the Lord of the Stove wants to ascend to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor of the heavens about the good deeds or evil deeds of the world, and every family must hold a ceremony to send the God of the Stove, hoping that the Lord of the Stove will say more good things and don't say bad things.

It is said that the Jade Emperor will hand over the fate of the good fortune and fortune that this family should get in the new year to the Lord of the Stove according to the report of the Lord of the Stove. Therefore, for the family, the report of the Lord of the Stove is really of great interest.

When worshipping the king of the stove, Li Xuan's mother had to ask Li Xuan to come over and pay a few respects. But Li Xuan's worship led to a small episode.

During the first worship, the tablet of the Lord of the Stove actually shook three times involuntarily. And the king of the stove who is far away in the fairy world is enjoying the incense of the offering. Although the fairy world is very chaotic now, a little immortal like the Lord of the Stove is generally ignored. Only the people of the mortal world take this god seriously and often worship it. Originally, the king of this stove was sitting on a chair enjoying it. Suddenly, the chair shook three times, and I sneezed three times involuntarily.

"What's going on? I've never had anything like this happen in all these years of becoming a god?"

Just when the Lord of the Stove was thinking nonsense, Li Xuan had a second worship with his mother in Shui Lanxing. This worship, the tablet of the stove king at home was actually broken from the middle.

And the Stove Lord of the Immortal Realm fell directly from the chair and spit out a mouthful of blood. When I looked back, I saw that the leg of my chair was broken.

Although the chair of the Lord of the Stove is not a magic weapon, it is also a fairy thing, why did it break out of thin air?

And this stove prince was even more terrified, "Which god have I offended?" ”

At the house of Blue Mercury Li Xuan, Li Xuan was about to prepare for the third bow, but his mother Song Yuhua shouted: "Don't worship soon, why is the tablet of our stove king broken? It must be the gods who blame it! What should I do?"

As soon as Li Xuan heard this, if he didn't worship it, he wouldn't worship it! In his dream, he had even seen Taishang Laojun, and this stove prince was said to be of a low grade, and he really didn't pay attention to it.

How did he know, fortunately he didn't continue to worship, otherwise the Lord of the Stove in the fairy world would have to shed his skin if he didn't die. Li Xuanke is one of the chosen ones of the Mandate of Heaven, and he is responsible for saving the entire universe, how can this stove prince be able to afford his worship.

After worshipping the king of the stove, it will be the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month. This is the dust sweeping day, every household year-end cleaning, cleaning the environment, cleaning all kinds of utensils, dismantling and washing bedding curtains, sprinkling and sweeping the courtyard, dusting and cobwebs, happy and hygienic, clean and welcome the New Year.

On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, kill the "New Year Pig". Relatives and neighbors went to help. After killing the pig, cut a large piece of fat pork and boil it, then pour some blood sausage, and put a pot of sauerkraut in the pot, which is the very famous "pig killing dish". Everyone gathered around the table to eat and drink, laughing about the good year of this year.

At that time, people generally lacked oil and water in their stomachs, and the favorite in the countryside was fat pigs, and the fatter the better. Everyone will use their fingers to measure the thickness of the fat, a few fingers thick is called a few finger fat, there are two finger fat, three finger fat, four finger fat, the fattest one is called a slap fat, it is the most expensive. It is difficult to see more than four finger fat, and it is generally good to be able to buy three finger fat.

Some people will also buy some lard to go back, heat it in a pot to make dizzy oil, and store it in a small jar. Put a small spoonful on the stir-fry, it is very fragrant.

On the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, catch up with the big set. Every household goes to the market and purchases New Year's goods, such as firecrackers, Spring Festival couplets, incense and candles, burning paper, various gifts for children, and various head flower ornaments for girls.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, put the face on the hair. Everyone was busy steaming rice cakes and steamed bean buns.

When steaming rice cakes, the mixed noodles are pinched out of various patterns, some are flower-shaped, some are fish-shaped, and a few large red dates are placed on top.

The steamed bean bun is wrapped in the bean paste in the noodles, and the bean bun mold is carved out of the pattern, and the steamed bean bun is written with words, generally with words such as blessing, longevity, and happiness, indicating that in the new year, the blessing is long, happy and healthy!

In short, there is something to do every day before the New Year, and you have to finish all the things that have been done before the New Year.

Finally, in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, you can have a reunion dinner. Li Xuan's family made a large table of delicious food, and the whole family of five ate Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together. Watch the Spring Festival Gala while eating.

This is the first time Li Xuan's family has watched the Spring Festival Gala, because the family had no money to buy a TV before. At that time, the Spring Festival Gala was still very interesting, and it may also be that there were not enough artistic cells of the masses at that time, and I was very happy to see it, unlike now, no matter who directs the Spring Festival Gala, it stinks, and it will always be criticized for being incomplete.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Li Xuan began to go to his relatives' houses to pay New Year's greetings door-to-door. Starting from grandpa's house, then to uncle's house, and then to those who are related to their relatives, they have to pay homage.

When celebrating the New Year in the countryside, the younger generation should pay New Year's greetings to the elders, and the elders should give the younger generations red envelopes. When the brothers came back from the New Year's greetings in the morning, they each received a bunch of red envelopes. At that time, the rural income was relatively low, and the largest red envelope Li Xuan received was two yuan, one yuan, and five jiao.

This year, Li Xuan's parents also prepared a lot of red envelopes for the children who came to visit the New Year. Because of the wealth, each red envelope is ten yuan, so that the children who received the red envelope were happy for a long time. Because ten yuan was a lot at that time, you could buy a lot of fun and delicious food.

Li Xuan's mother also quietly wrapped a big red envelope of 100 yuan and gave it to Zhao Bing, who came to pay New Year's greetings. Li Xuan's mother looked at Zhao Bing like she looked at her daughter-in-law, and ran away with a red face.

At that time, he got married at the age of eighteen or nineteen in the countryside, and Li Xuan would be fifteen years old after this year, and his mother had already begun to book a daughter-in-law for him in advance.

In rural areas, it is a year before the first month of the new year. For a whole month, everyone was eating, drinking, and merrymaking. In short, the New Year is joyful.