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Chapter 272 Happy New Year

Chapter 270 Three Happy New Year
Grandma brought a bowl of clear water, drew circles on the water with two fingers, murmured a few words, then handed the water to Taro and said, "Come on, baby, give it a try!"

Taro took the bowl, tried to drink two sips, and touched his neck again: "Oh God! It's really good!"

Aunt Bai's eyes are full of little stars: "Jungle, your grandma can also use magic?!"

Zongba beat her chest and stamped her feet: "Oh! Too bad I didn't take a picture of it!"

Grandma put the bowl back and said: "It's okay, it's okay, it's just a neighbor. The house was newly built at home, and we can't find our own home when we come back. Let's go back and continue eating."

This is an understatement, just like a neighbor who came to ask for directions on a normal day.

A few people came out of the kitchen, and the uncle went back to sit at the table, still teasing: "This old Tang, boars can't eat chaff! Shaoping repaired the house, and he was too scared to enter the new house!"

Seeing that everyone is telling a joke and listening to it as a joke, it's like looking at a small matter, and they don't understand it. It was a supernatural event just now, okay!
Li Junge led the three of them back to the table, poured a bowl of chicken soup for each of them, and said, "It's nothing, although it's strange to say nothing, but it's really a common thing. Those Before the old man passed away, he loved our elders, isn’t he still loving our elders now? There’s nothing to be afraid of when he comes here! The main reason is that he’s scared because he’s never seen a face like yours. Let’s make it clear now It'll be fine."

The trio of black, white and brown want to cry but have no tears, there is no reason for it!It's not our fault that we grow up like this!And we scared him!I almost peed my pants in fright, okay?

After this little episode, everyone continued to drink and eat vegetables with smiles on their faces, but no matter how enthusiastically Li Junge and A Yin tried to persuade them to eat and drink, the black, white and brown trio would never touch the delicious watercress fish again.

After eating, the tables and seats were removed, and four braziers were dragged in. Everyone looked at the distant field and chatted by the fire.

This is actually an old custom on New Year's Eve, commonly known as "guarding the field ridge". According to legend, if you guard the field ridge for 30 days, the field ridge will not be washed away by floods in the coming year, which indicates a good harvest.

However, since the Spring Festival Gala, this custom has basically been abolished.

This year is different, it is not easy for the old man to come back, so everyone picked up the old custom again.

Sitting together, there were many topics to talk about. From the changes in the country, the changes in Jiachuan, the changes in the village, and the changes in each family, the old man smiled and listened with gusto.

The children were taken away by Alice and Shirly again, along with Zongba and Taro, they did not let go of cleaning and throwing cannons, and followed the children along the ditch, dancing and making noise.

Li Junge's family didn't have time to participate. They had to be busy putting up Spring Festival couplets and door gods.

The time for posting Spring Festival couplets in Jiachuan must be after the New Year’s meal, and Spring Festival couplets cannot be pasted before the New Year’s meal.

So after dinner, Dad took out the door god and couplets and asked Li Junge to paste them on.

Ordinary people's homes are nothing more than praying for blessings and wealth and safety, so the content of the red couplets is also written around this theme.

The content of this year's couplet is very simple: "As the sky increases, the years increase and the life increases, and the spring is full of happiness and happiness in the world."

The door god is Yuchi Jingde on one side and Qin Shubao on the other.

In fact, most urbanites do not know that there are generally three colors of Spring Festival couplets, namely red, yellow, blue or green.Different colors have different emphasis.

In rural areas, in the year after the death of a relative in the family, that is, in the first year, yellow couplets are pasted, blue or green couplets are pasted in the second year, and red couplets are posted again in the third year.

The content of the previous two years is generally about chasing after the end and thinking about relatives, such as "the kindness and kindness will always remember the relatives, and the festive season will come again without laughing" and so on.

Those who understand the local customs can know from the yellow and green couplets that a relative has passed away in the past two years.

During the first month, sometimes there will be performances by people playing dragon lanterns, dancing lions, shooting guns and singing coin boards. When you see yellow and blue couplets pasted on the door of the main house, you know that the family is still observing filial piety, refuses all entertainment, and will not go to the door. Ask for red envelopes to ask for money.

If there is a new couple in the family getting married in the first month of the twelfth lunar month, a wedding couplet needs to be posted.At this time, marriage couplets are also used as Spring Festival couplets. They are pasted on the door of the main house for one year, and the content is changed again.

After doing this, the whole family also joined in the chat. It was not until after ten o'clock that everyone got up and called the children back, ready to go home.

The little ones were still fighting and didn't want to be separated. In previous years, everyone played together until midnight and slept directly at Uncle Erpi's house.

Then the mothers came out to teach. This year is the first year that Auntie Ayin has spent at Uncle Erpi's house. No one is allowed to make trouble. At most, come tomorrow early to pay New Year's greetings to Zuzu.

After everyone left, the family started to clean the room again. Everyone had to clean the kitchen stove and the large open dam all over the house before the first day of the new year, because it is taboo to sweep the floor on the first day of the first lunar month, and there are many lice in a year .

After the kitchen was cleaned up, Dad took the rice dumpling paper and put it on the side of the road; Mom and Grandma picked up all the knives at home and hid them.

Do not use a knife in the morning on the first day of the new year to ensure peace and safety throughout the year, no accidents and no bloody disasters.

Li Junge moved the yellow pumpkins at home outside the house. Yellow pumpkins are old pumpkins, "Lao Nan", "Old Difficult", rural customs, old pumpkins are kept at home for the New Year, and the elders will die in the next year, so please invite them all out.

After finishing these, grandma began to burn incense and candles for the kitchen god, and dad began to fill the water tank at home with water.

In the past, we went to fetch water from the well, but now we have tap water, but the custom is still the same, in short, we have to fill the water tank.

According to Feng Shui, "the mountain manages the people and the water manages the wealth". Filling the water tank means that the fortune will be rolling in the coming year and the four seasons will make a fortune.

Then everyone began to take turns to take a bath to wash off the filth and clean their bodies to welcome the arrival of the new year.

While working, Li Junge explained to Black, White and Brown, and the three of them listened with great interest.

When everyone comes out of the shower in turn, it's time to prepare for the new year.

Twelve o'clock on New Year's Eve is the time of Zishi, which is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month.People set off firecrackers one after another at this time to welcome the arrival of the New Year, commonly known as "Jie Nian".

Li Junge and his father started to set up firecrackers, each with [-] rings, one on each side.

After the arrangement is complete, well, there is only half an hour to watch the Spring Festival Gala.

When the countdown started on TV, Li Junge and his father came out of the house and stood on each side, ready to light the cannon.

When the host on TV said the words "Happy New Year" together, the firecrackers exploded "crackling".

The whole village is filled with the sound of firecrackers, flames, smoke, and the smell of gunpowder in the air.

Everyone's income is good this year, and many people even bought big fireworks. After your house puts off mine, the sky is full of gorgeous fireworks.

Black, white and brown raised their heads and opened their mouths wide, watching so much that they almost forgot to take pictures.

Li Junge and A Yin began to send greetings to grandma, father, and mother one by one. A Yin also took out three red envelopes. Inside were 1000 and [-] yuan new notes that Li Junge stuffed in, expressing "the moon is red", and smiled. Pass it to the three elders.

After working, you can no longer ask for red envelopes, you must be filial in reverse.

Grandma, father, and mother are going to rest, and A Yin and Li Junge send Black and White Brown to the farmhouse.

When they came to the gate of the farmhouse, Li Junge asked the three of them to come over early tomorrow morning and "grab the ingot" with them.

After leaving Jiuchangju, the two walked back along the village road hand in hand. Li Junge said to A Yin: "A Yin, happy new year."

Ayin smiled lightly, and squeezed Li Junge's fingers: "Well, Erpi, Happy New Year to you too."

The firecrackers in the village will not stop tonight, and there will be a faint "cracking" sound from time to time.

This is the young people who can't sleep and are still playing around.

Ayin said to Li Junge: "Erpi, will you still wear big cloth clothes tomorrow?"

Li Junge smiled and said, "No, tomorrow I will wear the suit you bought for me last time. Oops, I forgot to prepare new clothes for you!"

A Yin smiled and said: "I prepared it myself, and I also prepared a new set for you. You, you really don't pay much attention to this."

Li Junge smiled and said, "Ayin, you are so kind! Having a daughter-in-law like you is so worry-free! Come on, come on my back!"

Ayin smiled and said, "What for?!"

Li Junge squatted in front of A Yin, and said with a smile, "I'll carry you! You've been working for us in Lijiagou for half a year, and you don't want me to work for you for a while? Come up quickly!"

A Yin said: "Oh, stop making trouble!"

Li Junge insisted: "No trouble, come up!"

A Yin laughed and said: "Then you are not allowed to play tricks!"

Li Junge rolled his eyes: "Is this the image I have in your mind?"

A Yin smiled and said, "It's not in my heart, but you are the image in the hearts of netizens!"

Li Junge smiled and said, "I don't do that to my daughter-in-law, can't I come up? Can't I come up?"

After speaking, he backed up with his buttocks pouted, and grabbed A Yin's leg with his hands.

A Yin giggled coquettishly: "Don't make trouble, I'll come up!"

After speaking, he lay on Li Junge's back, and put his face next to Li Junge's ear.

Li Junge laughed loudly, picked up A Yin's legs, stood up and ran: "Daughter-in-law, let's go home!"

Ayin screamed "Ah", and then laughed so hard that she lay back on Li Junge's back again...

After a night of nothing, Li Junge woke up early the next morning and heard that grandma was already busy outside.

I went out and said happy new year to grandma, and then started to wash.

There are many taboos on the first day of the first lunar month. In addition to not sweeping the floor, you cannot pour water outside the house, because water is wealth, and pouring water outside is pouring money outside.

Therefore, the water for washing face, brushing teeth, washing dishes, feet, and even washing clothes in the morning of the first day of junior high school should be filled in large buckets or basins, and then poured out after the second day of junior high school.

When he finished, the whole family got up. Ayin not only prepared a new set of clothes for himself and Li Junge, but also prepared for his parents and grandma. The three elders were so happy that they couldn't find the north. A Yin was thoughtful.

Li Junge and A Yin wear jeans and short down jackets, grandma wears a long down jacket, mother wears a water red jacket, and father wears a short woolen overcoat.

Dad stretched out his sleeves for mom to see: "Hehe daughter-in-law, look at A Yin bought me this suit, and made me look like a village cadre."

Mom rolled her eyes: "The cadres in the village are not as imposing as you, are they?! Hurry up to collect firewood, let's hurry up and pack ingots, and three foreign friends will come later!"

There is almost no such custom in the outside world. Picking up firewood is "picking up money", and you can't go to the back of your house. Usually, the male owner goes to the roadside to pick up some unowned firewood and returns, expressing that he will bring the foreign money home.

(End of this chapter)