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Chapter 271 New Year's Eve Dinner

Chapter 270 Two New Year's Eve Dinner
Li Junge's family didn't have such a bad habit. Everyone set up a table of eight immortals in the middle of the hall, three stools, one on the top and one on each side.

There is no stool at the bottom, only three sticks of incense and two candles are lit under the table, and the other three sides are respectively placed with bowls, chopsticks and wine glasses. A little dry rice is placed in the bowls, and the chopsticks are placed on the bowls. Each side has two pairs of bowls and chopsticks and two wine glasses. Fill up with white wine, and put three cooked dishes on the table, regardless of whether they are hot or cold.

In this way, it is regarded as setting a table of meals for the ancestors and inviting them to come back for dinner.

Dad has already asked Fourth Grandpa to write the fire list, and it is the same in every family regardless of gender.

The next step is stacking paper. Dad dragged out a big broken pot, and then each house stacked each house, stacking them up like bricks and building blocks.

Wang Meixian and Jing Zilun Ma Cuiru thought it was fun, and they argued for more money.

The aunt turned her head and smiled while counting the paper: "You can't code this well, you can come back later when you burn the paper for the ancestors!"

Put the paper money in a box like a brick wall, put it on the fire list, and my father first burned a pile of paper money outside the basin.

This is used to get rid of the little ghosts, in order to prevent them from robbing the property given to the ancestors.

Then the aunt called the children of each family over to light the fire, hoping that the ancestors would bless them first if they wanted to bless them. This was also the good intentions of the elders.

Li Junge, who is not young, was represented by him, and together with the six children, they took the money paper to light the fire, and set the burden paper on fire.

After the burden paper was lit, the second aunt found a yellow thorn stick for each of the younger ones, and beat it around the burden paper fire, which was also an offering to prevent lonely ghosts from robbing the ancestors of the family.

A few little ones didn't know the importance of this ceremony, so they played happily with sticks. The adults began to pay respects to the ancestors under the table, chanted eulogies, and invited the ancestors to come to eat New Year's dinner and collect paper money.

After the burden paper is burned, the incense wax is basically used up, and the ceremony is basically over.

But the ashes can't be thrown away, they have to be carried back by the uncle and sprinkled on the graves of the ancestors in the back mountain.

Mom and Dad started to tidy up the Eight Immortals table, first removed the incense sticks, and then collected the dried rice in the six rice bowls.

Li Junge explained to A Yin and Hei Hei Zong: "There are two customs here, one is to splash water on the rice, and the other is to cover the New Year's rice."

The six bowls of rice are divided into two portions, and one portion is to be taken to the roadside outside the house after everyone has eaten the New Year’s meal, and the bowl is turned upside down on the ground, waiting for the wild dogs, wild cats, and some lonely souls who have no one to sacrifice to enjoy it, which is considered a kindness Heart, can also be regarded as a charity event.

Covering the New Year's Rice is to put another portion of rice in a bowl and cover it with a saucer, put it on the side of the incense table under the tablet, and wait until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and then open it for viewing.

If the rice turns red, it means a bumper harvest of sorghum in the coming year, and sorghum should be grown; if it is yellow, it means a bumper rice harvest in the coming year, so rice should be grown; if it is white, it means a bumper harvest of sesame seeds in the coming year... and so on, based on the color change of rice Corresponding to the color of the grains to determine the harvest of the coming year.

This also reflects people's good wishes for good weather and good harvests.

After explaining a set of rituals, Li Junge felt his mouth was dry. Ayin expressed his understanding, while the black, white and brown three kept nodding.

After burning the burden paper and serving the gods, it's time to serve the appetites of the living.

Mom and Dad, A Yin began to serve cold dishes, steamed dishes, boiled dishes, and soup dishes on the table, and Li Junge started to go into the kitchen to prepare stir-fried dishes.

Assortment of cured meat, folded ear root mixed with red vegetables, scallions mixed with yuba, the big rooster that has just been sacrificed is cut into white chicken, sweet roasted white, salty roasted white, squid balls with crispy pork roasted winter bamboo shoots, snow konjac and sour cowpea roasted duck, garlic cabbage head roasted Tripe strips, stewed chicken soup, stewed radish in bacon soup... brought out like flowing water.

In the kitchen, my mother smiled and said to A Yin: "Good girl, you should have sat at the table, but today I won't treat you as an outsider, so you can greet the guests with us."

Ayin blushed and said: "Auntie, you and uncle should go eat first, it's rare for old man and brother to come back, you should talk to them more, Erpi and I managed to get here."

The mother smiled and said: "Okay, we will start eating when we finish serving the ready-made dishes, Yao'er, you should be quicker! Come quickly!"

Li Junge was cooking watercress fish, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, it's very fast!"

A Yin began to cut the meat with a knife head, and took out the watercress fish in the middle. Li Junge quickly fried a chicken and duck offal with pickled peppers, a piece of shredded pork with yellow fungus, and then fried twice-cooked pork, shredded pork with celery, and fried again. A piece of vinegared cabbage and stir-fried purple rapeseed.

Then he took off his apron and came out.Find a place to eat with Ayin.

39 people opened four tables, black, white and brown liked little dolls, and squeezed into a table with six dolls.

It seems that they are still chatting happily, and Li Junge doesn't know how they communicate.

Squeezed to this table together with A Yin, first made a quick pass to get the bottom line, and said to Aunt Bai: "You guys eat first, I will go to toast with A Yin."

Aunt Bai smiled and said, "Go ahead, don't worry about us, Jungle's food is really delicious, and the children are very polite to pick up food for us!"

Li Junge smiled and said: "Then you should eat more, just don't look outside. By the way, I guess you are not used to drinking high-grade wine. This prickly pear rice wine is made from a kind of wild fruit in the mountains, and the alcohol content is not high. You can all drink some, but don’t drink too much, there are still a few customs at night.”

Zongba was surprised and said: "Anything else? I finally know what Alice and Shirly mean when they talk about rules... But your wine is really delicious. Come on, taro... head! I'll toast you too, cheers! .”

Taro hurriedly put down his chopsticks and raised his cup: "Good rice... Baba! Let's have a drink! Happy Chinese New Year!"

A Yin couldn't stop laughing, the two of them even called out this bad nickname.

Take A Yin to the main table first, this table is full of elders, only my mother is not at this table, there are exactly ten people.

As soon as she saw the two little ones coming, the aunt booed: "Oh! The chef is here! Not bad, Piwa's skills are enough to open a restaurant! Good girl Ayin, thank you for your hard work!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "If my family eats, I don't have to play alone, right? How about I respect Ah Yin together?"

The uncle booed again: "That can't be done! When you opened Junwei's new store, you gave us a place to support! I know your drinking capacity very well!"

Li Junge hurriedly begged for mercy: "Oh, uncle, I'll be watching the Spring Festival Gala later, and besides, there are international friends over there, so pay attention to the international influence!"

The old man laughed loudly: "You don't come here, you pay attention to the influence now! When you called someone taro dumpling cake, didn't you think about the international influence?"

The taro and the rice dumpling turned their heads: "Sir, did you call us?"

The old man raised his glasses to the two of them dumbfounded, and the two of them were flattered and drank one too.

The people at the table were laughing, and the uncle said: "Piwa is good everywhere, but this monkey's temper can't be changed. A Yin, you have to tighten up in the future!"

Ayin just pursed his lips and smiled.

Li Junge said: "Yes, if you go alone, you can go alone! Ah Yin doesn't drink much, so let's drink one mouthful, and I have a full glass here, so start with the fourth grandpa! Fourth grandpa, all the children and grandchildren are back this year. It's been decades. The happiest day right? Come, I wish you good health and a long life than Nanshan."

Today is a big day, two tables of men drank Wuliangye, a circle of elders bowed down, four liang of wine did not stop.

After drinking, I came to the table of the lobby brother. This table is Li Jiajun's generation plus Alice and Shirly. Li Junge directly squeezed the lobby brother out of half of the stool and sat down next to him, saying: "It's no good, it's no good, let's go down with half a bottle... ..."

The second cousin hurriedly said: "Hey! Erpi, then eat something and press it!"

The hall brother curled his lips and said: "Look at him pretending! Hurry up, I haven't been back for so many years! What rules were there at the last table, what rules are there at this table!"

Li Junge said: "Isn't it? Huh? We happen to be in pairs at this table. Let's respect each other!"

This is another five cups.

The next step is to go to my cousin's side, and after a lap, it's a little less than a catty.

Back at the children's table, I saw Taro frowning and touching his neck.

Li Junge asked with concern: "Taro, what's the matter?"

Wang Meixian said: "Brother Taro is not good, he eats fish and talks, and the fishbone gets stuck in his throat! It's been a long time!"

Li Junge said: "Hey! There are so many freshwater fishbone, this is still a bit troublesome, grandma! Uncle! The taro was stuck in the throat by the fishbone."

Grandma quickly stood up and said, "The kid quickly follow me into the kitchen."

Uncle and Li Junge also followed in, and Aunt Bai and Zongba were also very concerned, so they also followed.

Grandma said to the uncle: "When burning the burden paper, is there any ancestor god who missed it?"

The uncle picked his forehead and recalled it again, and said, "No!"

Grandma shook her head, took four chopsticks, soaked them in water, and put them on the stove with the chopsticks upside down, and began to call out the names of the ancestors one by one.

After reading it all over, the chopsticks still couldn't stand up.

The uncle said, "Aunt Wu, look, I'm not wrong, am I?"

Grandma was also surprised: "That doesn't make sense?"

The uncle slapped his forehead: "Hey! Don't tell me the neighbor went to the wrong door?!"

Grandma suddenly remembered something and said, "Oh! Accountant Tang started a new house this year, don't tell me old Tang can't find his house when he comes back?!"

Before the words were finished, the chopsticks stood still. Li Junge was not surprised by these things. Although the black, white and brown three could speak Chinese well, the Jiachuan dialect spoken by the uncle and grandma was vaguely understood by them. The kitchen was inherently gloomy. Damn, I was terrified when I saw the chopsticks standing on the stove again.

I heard grandma say to the chopsticks: "Old Tang, how did you do it! The house has been rebuilt, but the foundation is still the same! Why don't you dare to go in? Don't worry, your Shaoping can do a good job. The Xiangxin house is yours! The daughter-in-law is also virtuous, and the baby is good! They are waiting for you to have the New Year’s Eve dinner! What are you doing here? Hurry up!"

The old man also said: "By the way, let me give the voice to the old aunt too. Lijiagou is doing well this year, why don't you go back and have a look? These three are guests, don't look at them, they are all good people!" There will be many foreigners like this in our Lijiagou in the future, so don’t be surprised if you see them! Did you hear that?”

Strange to say, as soon as the two of them finished speaking, the chopsticks were slowly thrown away.

(End of this chapter)