Lucky Star Gao Zhao

Chapter 17

As the saying goes, on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, it is also the day to send off the Kitchen God and the Kitchen King to celebrate the New Year, and it is usually held at dusk and night.

Gao Zhao asked her father to make her a crutch two days ago. She must get down and walk two steps for her own convenience, not to let the room breathe, and her aunt has to carry it out. The most important thing is What's more, I don't want to solve the problem on the kang anymore.

Yesterday, Gao Zhao asked her mother and aunt to help her take a bath, took off all her clothes, and used a big bathtub. The injured leg was only lightly wiped off. The splint was removed after the doctor came. A splint was put on the back of the clothes.

This time I changed to a newly made cotton trousers with large trouser legs, which is convenient for the injured leg with splints to wear trousers.

Originally, adults and children would have to take a bath and get a haircut after the new year. There is a folk saying that "if you have money or not, shave your head for the new year", but Gao Zhao moved ahead because the whole family had to eat in the grandfather's yard during the new year, so she didn't want to show it. She showed up wearing cotton trousers with half of her legs, so Jiang agreed to her daughter's request.

After breakfast early in the morning, she slowly got off the kang with the support of her mother and aunt, and moved out the door with one foot on crutches.

It feels so good to be able to stand. I hear my two younger brothers running around outside every day. I feel envious in my heart. Or else, people with feet can’t understand the psychology of people without feet. When it’s her turn, those who can walk can’t understand. She lives on the kang every day.

It had been a month, and it was the first time he got off the kang and left the house, feeling a little dizzy. With the help of his mother and aunt, Gao Zhao went to his parents' room.

The younger sister, Qiaoyun, will wake up and play on the kang by herself. Jiang Shi asked Gao Zhao to watch her younger sister, and she also went to help the eldest aunt clean up.

Since Gao Zhao strongly demanded that her room be properly ventilated, she opened the door for most of the day, and she also ate lunch in the main room with the whole family.

Jiang Shi and Dagu talked about the busy things they had to do in the past two days, and they had to prepare the sacrifice stove before dark today.

In addition to using candy for the stove, you also need to bake green onion pancakes and set off firecrackers.Jizao candy is made of malt and added with sesame seeds. It is crispy and sweet. Children look forward to the Chinese New Year every year, and there are all kinds of food.

The yamen closed in the middle of the afternoon, Gao Wenlin went to his father's place after returning, Jiang Shi and his aunt directed several servants to be busy, Gao Zhao also returned to his room on crutches with the help of his aunt.

After such a breather, the air in the room felt fresh, and Jiang even changed the bedding for her. The inside and outside of the room and the kang were all cleaned, and she looked comfortable.

Gao Zhao called the two younger brothers in so that they would not have to go to their mother's to get food. He was glad that the two brothers were allowed to go to the kang, but they also stayed far away, and were going to listen to the elder sister's storytelling.

At dusk, Gao Chengji took the men of the family to the kitchen. Since men don't offer sacrifices to the moon and women don't offer sacrifices to the stove, they just placed sacrifices, which were brought in by him, Gao Wenlin and his son.

After they were all placed on the table, Gao Chengji took the lead to offer incense to the Lord Stove King who was set up in the altar on the kitchen wall. He rarely spoke, but he would say a few words at this time of year: Say more good things, don't say bad things.

This is to plug the mouth of the Stove Lord with stove candy, so that he will not speak ill.Gao Wenlin removed the statue of the Kitchen God from the wall, and lightly wiped the kitchen candy on its mouth. After Gao Chengji said those two sentences, he immediately burned it. Gao Wenlin shouted: "Send the Kitchen God to ascend to heaven on a horse!" end.

On the eve of the New Year's Eve, the Kitchen God will be brought home again, that is, the new Kitchen God statue will be pasted on the stove.

After welcoming the Stove King, the whole family had dinner at the grandfather's courtyard, and the fruits for offering sacrifices to the Stove were shared among the family members, mainly the children. After offering sacrifices to the stove, the bones of the feet will be healthy.

Even Gao Wenlin told her daughter to eat more. Gao Zhao saw that some of the sacrifices were covered with incense ash, but she didn't mind at all. The grandmother in the previous life always asked her to eat all kinds of sacrifices every year. , Children are not afraid of anything they eat, and they will not get sick for a year after eating anything.

The two younger brothers also ate some. It is an old tradition every year, and no one is unhappy. Even after eating at the grandfather's place, the younger brother does not dare to play around, and eats obediently.

When Gao Zhao came, she was supported by her father, and she came in on a crutch. She looked at her grandfather when she entered the door, and she shrank her head. She didn't know why, maybe she was guilty of being a thief, oh, she was not a thief, or she was a fool, and her grandfather was always supernatural. Nagging, so she is afraid of her grandfather, and usually tries not to be too ostentatious. The things she thought about getting rich before, she just thought about it. If it burns, it won't be worth it.

After eating, she went back to the house on crutches. The courtyard had been cleaned long ago without any snow, so she walked back slowly with the sound of crutches touching the ground. Skilled in walking with crutches.

The next day was the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, dusting and sweeping the house, Gao Zhao’s house didn’t need to be cleaned much, the aunt took a few servants to clean one by one, Jiang’s cut the window grilles with Gao Zhao in the west wing, and Qiao Yun played on the kang by herself , Sleep when you are sleepy.

Jiang is dexterous and can cut all kinds of window grilles. Gao Zhao is very clumsy, so he can only help. This year, he can't even help with stickers.

When it was pasted, Gao Cui came in, and took the cut ones to another room and pasted them.

While he was busy, the uncle and uncle from Gao's house came and went to the front yard.

People who are away will rush back to the ancestral house before the small year, and worship the stove and the ancestors. Gao Chengji and Gao Chengwang are the same father, but after the division of the clan, the ancestral hall is in the ancestral house, and Gao Chengji took his family to his father's grave Worship, but Gao Chengwang always wanted his brother to go back to the ancestral house to worship the ancestors together, but Gao Chengji just didn't agree.

And because the Gao Lu clan caused trouble almost every year, so he didn't go there any more. Therefore, every year at this meeting, Gao Chengwang would bring his son to see his eldest brother, always ashamed to apologize.

Gao Chengwang didn't know what Gao Lu's doing this year, and Gao Chengwang was very happy when he came. After he sat down and greeted his eldest brother, Gao Wenlin tactfully talked about what his aunt did this year, and then tactfully said that he was scared The daughter-in-law took her daughter to hide in her mother's house, and Gao Zhao broke her leg, and she is still lying there now.

Gao Chengwang's face kept changing after listening to his nephew's words, turning red, white, blue, black, red again, embarrassing, and Gao Wen bowed his head even more.

Gao Chengji still had an expressionless face, so Gao Chengwang didn't know what to say, so he took his son and hurriedly left in shame.

Gao Cui didn't dare to enter the house, and after inquiring outside for a while, she hurried in to learn from Gao Zhao, and said bitterly: "Yes! Let them have no face, even a woman can't be controlled, so let the aunt play outside, don't they know? I think it’s just pretending to be stupid, hoping that my father will be easy to coax, coaxing them back to the ancestral house to worship the ancestors, as if it was our house’s fault that they occupied the ancestral property, and it has nothing to do with them. Your father said well today, let’s see if they still have the face Come again!"

(End of this chapter)