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The table for worshiping the ancestors was set up in the middle room of the back room, and there was a table for the Eight Immortals against the back wall.Zhang Taiping unloaded the landscape paintings on the wall and built the family tree. The family tree was scattered in the form of a binary tree. Some branches disappeared a few generations ago, and most of them ended in the previous generation of the old man. This is also the case of most family trees. The common situation, those years caused the continuation of many clans to disappear in the long river of history, and the old man's branch has continued.Generally, only the names of people who have passed away will appear on this genealogy, and at the bottom are the names of Zhang Dashuai's parents. There is still a place above these two names, because the old man is still alive and well.

After the genealogy is hung up, an incense burner with fine sand is placed on the table in front of the Eight Immortals.A pair of the largest candles are placed on both sides of the censer. Between the candles and the wall where the family tree is hung are three plates, a plate of bananas, a plate of oranges, and a plate of big red apples that Zhang Taiping came out of space. Four apple cores and oranges are placed on each plate, and the bottom three and the top are stacked together.

Sacrificial stoves can be completely handed over to women, and men don’t need to intervene, but men do all the worship of their own ancestors. After placing the tribute and candles, Zhang Taiping went to the room to take the portraits of his parents and grandma. came out and stood against the wall in front of the family tree.

After thinking for a while, Zhang Taiping went into the room and took out a jar of wine and put it beside the Eight Immortals table.

The old man looked at the portrait in silence for a long time, his back was bleak, his eyes were full of loneliness, and his body was filled with an indelible sadness.Seeing Zhang Taiping's jar of wine placed on the corner of the table, he finally couldn't control his emotions, his eyes filled with tears, and the gray-haired old man who had seen the ups and downs of his life could no longer maintain his usual calm state of mind at this moment.

The loss of a mother in a young age, a wife in middle age, and a child in old age are the three major tragedies in life.

As for whether the old man lost his mother when he was young, the old man has never told others about his past, so Zhang Taiping has no way of knowing, but it is a fact that he lost his son when he was old. The unfortunate death of Zhang Taiping's parents hit him hard, and then his wife Then he went away, causing the old man to live alone in the mountains and forests for a long time and refused to come out. The sadness in his heart could not be resolved.

It's just that the old man is also very human, his feelings are fleeting, and he calms down his emotions in a blink of an eye, standing in front of the table and thinking about something.

After Zhang Taiping prepared all the food, he called Yaya in. Although the women in the family were not allowed to be present when the ancestors were invited to worship the ancestors, the women here refer to women who married in with a different surname, and their offspring were not included. Of course, Yaya wanted to Worship.

First, two big red candles were lit, and then Zhang Taiping set off a bunch of firecrackers in the yard, and the sound of the thunderbola firecrackers invited the spirit of Zaitian over.After the gods returned, Zhang Taiping first lit five sticks of incense and handed them to Yaya, then lit five sticks for himself and He Ye, then knelt down and held up the incense sticks and kowtowed three times, the little girl followed suit, Zhang got up, Zhang Taiping put ten sticks of incense in the incense burner.

The old man did not kowtow to offer incense with Zhang Taiping, the genealogy tree had the names of his son and daughter-in-law, and there were portraits on the table, so no elder kowtowed to salute.After Zhang Taiping's father and daughter finished their business, they held five sticks of incense and lighted them, and with half-clasped hands they looked at the genealogy tree and put the incense into the incense burner.

After the firecrackers were lit, even if the ancestors invited them back home, the candles would stay on for a while.

The New Year's Eve dinner is not a sumptuous one, but a warm reunion.Only Sister Cai Yazhi was busy in the kitchen, and Fan Ming and Yaya were watching variety shows in front of the TV. The New Year’s Gala has not started yet, but variety shows celebrating the New Year are very good in various places. Stare at the TV.

The old man Zhang Taiping and Xing Rushui sat and chatted together. The old man had experienced many twists and turns in his life, and his experience was rich. After years of precipitation, his knowledge was naturally extraordinary. What surprised Zhang Taiping was that this woman, Xing Rushui, was also very knowledgeable. The knowledge is particularly complex, chatting with the old man about tea art, weapons, famous masters' fists and feet, and farm harvest, even the Feng Shui theory that the old man said casually.Zhang Taiping knew how important he was, he didn't make a fool of himself, so he just sat beside him and listened silently.The chat between the two of them didn't have a specific number, it should be a chat, where the chat went, there was no silence, and the old man couldn't help but treat each other differently at the end of the chat.

Don't eat too late for the New Year's Eve dinner. The sisters will prepare the meal around eight o'clock.

A circle of people sat down around the table. There were not many dishes on the table. First, there were four cold dishes, followed by four hot dishes and a soup.These are Cai Yazhi's kitchen. During this time, she and Xing Rushui have learned a lot of cooking skills. When she is free, she will check some menus online under Zhang Taiping's guidance and try to make them. After this period of hard work, his cooking skills have really improved. He was originally a person with a high quality and a heart, but because of real life, his early development was restrained. In fact, his learning ability is still very good.

The first few dishes tonight are "color" and "fragrance".The four cold dishes are: cut a plate of beef, and a plate of frozen meat. This frozen meat is frozen by the villagers themselves with pig head meat. It is definitely much greener and more affordable than the ones sold in Daji. Thin flakes, uniform and neat knife technique, has already begun to show the talent of a chef.

The other two cold dishes are spiced peanuts and shredded onions.The five-spice peanuts are original in color, and the boiled peanuts are soaked in five flavors to make them tasteless. It is delicious and there is no harm to the human body caused by fried peanuts. It is really a good thing to drink.Dry shredded onion is to cut the onion into thin strips and put it in a basin, sprinkle with salt to let the water flow out, then press out the water and let it cool down, so as to remove the natural spicy taste and make it taste better Refreshing and delicious.

The hot dishes are sweet and sour fish, scrambled eggs with leeks, fried meat with lotus vegetables, and cauliflower with minced meat. The soup is a simple vegetable soup made from enoki mushrooms and green vegetables picked from the mountains.

The main course tonight is actually this sweet and sour fish. The red juice is poured on the fish, exuding bursts of mouth-watering sweet and sour aroma.Eating fish symbolizes surplus every year, and there will be fish in the feast at noon tomorrow, and tonight will symbolize that some leftover meals will be left unpacked until next year, which also means surplus every year.

These dishes are delicious even if you don’t eat them. Let’s not talk about the taste. Difference.

After the old man spoke, Zhang Taiping tasted the sweet and sour fish with a chopstick, nodded to Cai Yazhi who was full of expectations and said, "That's right, this level is much better than the cooking skills in restaurants outside."

After hearing this, Cai Yazhi's face was full of joy. One of the reasons she learned cooking was to cook for her family, and the other was to save the need for a cook when the family opened a farmhouse.

The family had a warm reunion dinner, and everyone was very happy with the warm and relaxed atmosphere.In fact, if you think about it carefully, none of these people really enjoyed such a warm and relaxing New Year's Eve at this time.Needless to say, the old man spent several years on the mountain alone; Fan Ming had only Xing Rushui by his side because of his health, so he was insulated from this warm and cheerful environment; The sisters have been working hard for their lives all these years, and the tight life never allowed such a luxurious New Year's Eve dinner; as for Zhang Taiping himself, there is no chance to experience this kind of experience in two lives. The atmosphere, once did not cherish this kind of opportunity, so this is also his first warm New Year's Eve dinner in the true sense.

After eating, Sister Cai Yazhi went to the kitchen to prepare the ingredients for tomorrow. Tomorrow morning at six o'clock, I will have an early meal. Some people make longevity noodles, and some people make dumplings. This has something to do with economic relations and people's laziness .Zhang Taiping's family prepared dumplings. Except for the old man who went to the back room to guard the house to prevent the candles from collapsing and catching fire, the other six people sat around on the kang and watched the New Year's Gala while making dumplings.

Seeing Cai Yazhi take out a few coins, Fan Ming asked in puzzlement, "Sister Yazhi, what are you doing?"

Cai Yazhi made a gesture of putting it in a dumpling.

Fan Ming became even more curious. Why put coins in the dumplings?How can I eat this, and asked: "What if I eat it in my stomach?"

Cai Xiaomei explained next to her: "Put coins in the dumplings to test everyone's luck. Whoever eats the coins at that time will prove that he is blessed. Don't worry about eating them in your stomach. You are not Zhu Bajie. The coins are so big. At that time, it will be nothing more than a toothbrush."

"Luck test?" Fan Ming was amused when he heard it, and said, "Let's give up a few more."

Cai Yazhi smiled and shook her head.It was Cai Xiaomei who explained again: "You can only put as many coins as there are people, and it won't work if there are too many."

There is a custom of staying up for the new year in the countryside. After making the dumplings, no one went to bed. Fan Ming yelled that he was going to stay up for the new year and couldn’t sleep all night. So the four women took out a deck of poker and played cards on the kang. I also brought counting tickets, but they are all dime tickets. The purpose is not to win a lot of money, but to have fun.

The little girl dozed off while watching in front of the TV, Zhang Taiping tucked her under the quilt and put her in a comfortable position, then turned on the computer and connected to the Internet.

After the twelfth, when the New Year's bell on TV rang twelve times, Zhang Taiping came to the yard and first lit a big thunder cannon, which woke up the whole village, and then lit a large string of firecrackers. Resignation, the new year comes.Drive away bad luck, usher in the new year, usher in a new beginning.

The firecrackers in Zhang Taiping's house had not finished, and the firecrackers in the village started one after another. Suddenly, the whole village was filled with smoke, and the real face of the village could not be seen clearly, but there were laughter and laughter in the smoke. , Breeding expectations for the coming year and a beautiful vision for the new year.

Many people can feel that after this year, the village may usher in another opportunity, because there is that tall and strong man in the village.