The first concubine of farming

Chapter 34
"A Li, come and help tidy up, we are going back to the village." After the guests had left, Bai Yishi asked Pu Qiuli to help move the vegetable baskets to the ox cart.

Because they have all come to the streets these days, Bai Yishi has already made up for the new year's goods, so Bai Yishi no longer goes shopping. After Pu Qiuli helped move all the vegetable baskets to the ox cart Then he started to drive back to the village with Bai Yushi.

Two days later, on the 23rd of the wax month, it is the arrival of the new year.

In this Ping An Dynasty, Xiaonian is called the Stove King Festival, which is a day for folks to worship the stove. It is said that on this day, the Stove Lord will go to heaven to report the good and evil of the family to the Jade Emperor, so that the Jade Emperor will reward and punish him.

When offering sacrifices to the stove, Kanto sugar should be melted with fire and applied on the mouth of the Stove Lord, so that he could not speak bad words in front of the Jade Emperor, because there was a custom of "men do not worship the moon and women do not worship the stove" in the Ping'an Dynasty. Therefore, worshiping the Kitchen God is only limited to men.

Since rice was basically eaten in the Heian Dynasty, cooked food is generally not easy to preserve and must be cooked at any time. Unlike Fanwai people, they generally eat a lot of pasta, which can be baked at one time and stored for food. Therefore, for the people of the Heian Dynasty, "chai" is a Among the seven things in life 'firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea', the first is important. Without firewood, even if there is basic food, there is no way to eat it.

In Fanwai, it is generally enough for a village to have a stove for making pasta, unlike in the Heian Dynasty, every household must have a stove.

Since every family has a stove, there is a legend that says that in order to know the living conditions of his people in the mortal world, the Jade Emperor sent a supervisor, the Stove Lord, to each house to supervise and investigate. What this family has done for a year.

On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, it is time for the Stove Lord to report the situation to the Jade Emperor, and the Jade Emperor will also decide whether to reward or punish the family in the next year based on the report of the Stove Lord.

In the next year, the Stove Lord will come back to continue to supervise the family's actions. Therefore, on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the day of the New Year is not so much a celebration of the New Year, but it is actually a day for each family to send the Stove Lord to heaven.

"A Li, don't start the fire, go kill the chicken first, pluck the hair clean, after a while the Kanto sugar is boiled, then you can put it down and cook." The Kanto sugar coated in his mouth also thought that the chicken's feathers hadn't been plucked yet, so he called out to Pu Qiuli who was lighting the fire.

"Okay" Pu Qiuli replied, then lit the fire in the stove, stood up, scooped a basin of water in the pot, brought it to the yard, caught a chicken in the coop, killed it, and began to scald the chicken feathers , plucking.

"Chen'er, have you finished your homework? When you're done, come to the kitchen to watch the fire. Your brother, A Li, has no time to watch the fire." When Pu Qiu left to kill the chicken, Bai Yishi shouted again. He yelled to the study.

She is very busy now, she is cooking Kanto sugar and making other dishes at the same time, she has no time to watch the fire, so she has no choice but to call Bai Huachen to help watch the fire.

Bai Huachen who was in the study, when he heard Bai Yan's poem calling him to help, he dropped the brush in his hand and ran to the kitchen without saying a word: "Sister, I'm here to help you."

"Sister, brother is also here to help with things, and I want to help my sister too." Bai Huaxi had left as early as Bai Huachen, and he followed him to the kitchen.

"It's Xi'er. Since Xi'er wants to help, come over and help my sister remove the shells of these peanuts. After a while, my sister will use them to make delicious peanut candies for you." Seeing that Hua Xi also came, Bai Yanshi I knew he must be bored because no one accompanied him to read in the study, so he came to the kitchen to ask for help.

In order not to make her younger brother feel sad because of her rejection, she made some peanuts and gave them to Huaxi and said to him.

"Okay, sister, I'll help you remove the peanut shells." Huaxi took the peanut from Bai Yanshi's hand and said, then happily took the peanut to the side hall of the yard, sat next to a chair and started Peeled peanuts.

(End of this chapter)