Rebirth of the farmer's daughter-in-law

Chapter 36 Cutting the Western Window Grilles Together (2)
When the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month is considered to be the Chinese New Year, every household starts to get busy.Meng Duo got up early in the morning, and the family started making Tangguaer after breakfast.

"Second sister-in-law, what are you doing?" Siya asked curiously.

Meng Duo replied with a smile: "23 sticky melons, 24 cleaning day, 25 pasting windows, 26 stewed meat, 27 killing roosters, 28 making dough, 29 steaming steamed buns, staying overnight at 23 nights, New Year's Eve Twist and twist. It’s New Year’s Eve on the [-]rd of the twelfth lunar month, and every day is special. Today I’ll make candied melons for you, and you should stand obediently so as not to burn you.”

Meng Duo remembered that in the previous life, he was young and ignorant, and Meng Da was a man who was careless and didn't care about housework.Since the Meng family's parents passed away, the family has never had a decent year.

Siya was so curious about being Tangguaer that even Sanchun ran out of the house to watch the excitement.

"Sanchun, bring the corn leaves instead of sticks." Meng Duo ordered, and opened a bag of sugar bought by Meng Da.

She told Sanchun to add firewood to the stove slowly, lest the fire would be too hot and the sugar would be boiled.She put a little water in the pot first, and then poured the sugar in and stirred slowly with a spoon.

Seeing that the sugar had melted into a liquid and bubbles gradually formed, she swiftly picked up the clean bamboo stick that was put aside, put it in the pot, dipped it for a while, then put it on the cutting board and patted it.

Do this a few times until all the syrup sticks to the pan.The candied melons on the cutting board solidified into flakes, and Meng Duo picked them up and stuck them in the window cracks one by one.

"Second sister-in-law, when can I eat?" Si Ya asked, licking her lips.

Meng Duo replied with a smile: "Greedy girl, wait a little longer, until the Tangguaer is completely cooled before it becomes sweet and crisp."

After Siya heard this, she guarded Tangguaer and did not move. After a while, Meng Duo picked three, gave one to her and Sanchun respectively, and asked them to send one to Fuwa, which contained chestnuts, peanuts, Guazi also grabbed a cloth bag.

The two children held hands and ran away, Meng Duo hurriedly shouted: "Don't run, be careful to fall! Don't ask for anything from your aunt, come back quickly and don't play on the road."

"We know." Sanchun agreed.

You Sanchun was relieved of Meng Duo, this kid was smart but not reckless, he was taught by Meng Da in the last fight, and now he acts more prudently.

Sure enough, the two children came back soon, the candied melon in Sanchun's hand was gone, and more than half of the candied melon in Siya's hand was left to be licked.

"Eat less, and be careful when the time comes." Meng Duo knew without thinking, that Si Ya must have finished eating early and rubbed the food in San Chun's hands.

Children in the country don't have much snacks to chew on. The life of the Meng family has always been tight, and they never prepare anything for the children to eat.Siya is very envious when she sees other people's children taking out a handful of peanuts and melon seeds from their pockets, and now she is also living like this.The left pocket is filled with roasted peanuts, the right pocket is filled with chestnuts picked by Meng Da from the mountains, and she is holding sweet and crunchy candied melons in her hand.
The next day is 24 house sweeping and offering sacrifices to the Stove Prince, and every household gets up early to work.The whole Meng family mobilized. Meng Da took the duster and dusted off the dust from the heights.Meng Duo took his uncle and sister-in-law to wipe the kang mats and window frames below.After working for a long time, the room became spotless, and Meng Duo was so tired that his back ached.

Sanchun saw her and hurried over, and lightly beat her on the waist, "Second sister-in-law, are you comfortable?" Siya saw a bowl of water poured over.

"Yeah." Meng Duo smiled gratifiedly, "People say that waist teeth only grow at the age of 70, and the second sister-in-law is not tired, just straighten up a little bit and it will be fine."

After being naughty for a while, the two children fell asleep on the kang.Meng Duo covered the child with a quilt and sat aside doing needlework.The sun shone in and the whole room was warm. For a moment, she also felt sleepy, and fell asleep on her side at some point.

Meng Da chopped some firewood, washed his hands and came in, seeing her nestled on the edge of the kang, sitting and sleeping, and frowned.He walked over lightly, took off her shoes, placed them beside Siya along her body, and pulled the quilt over her body.

When Meng Duo woke up, he was startled, then raised his eyes to see the sky outside and hurriedly got up.When she came out of the house, she saw Meng Dazheng squatting under the stove and lighting a fire.

"I actually fell asleep..." She said shyly, "I'll come, uncle, go back to the room and rest."

Meng Da didn't stand up after hearing this, and replied indifferently: "In my own home, I sleep when I'm sleepy, and eat when I'm hungry. How can I be so particular about it? I don't have much to do. I can't get tired from burning the fire. Leftovers I will heat the rice in the pot, and we can eat later, you go and call Sanchun and Siya up."

Although this Chenjia Village is a small place, and the rules are not that big, but there is no reason for a man to do housework if there is a woman in the family.

"Go in quickly." Meng Da raised his head and saw that she was not moving, and urged, "Just add this to the fire, and you don't want to touch it."

After hearing this, Meng Duo went in, woke up the two children, and put the kang table to pick up bowls.

After eating, candles were lit for half an hour longer than ever before, and Sanchun and Siya sat cross-legged on the kang and played with cloth bags.Meng Duo dragged the sewing basket to him, in which were yellow and blue paper and scissors.

"What?" Meng Da asked in a good mood, with the corner of his mouth raised.

"Tomorrow, I will change the window paper. I want to cut some window grilles and stick them on it. We can't use bright red in our house, so I chose yellow and blue." Meng Duo's hands are very flexible, and he cut a beautiful snowflake while speaking. come out.

Meng Da's eyes darkened, thinking of his second brother who had just passed away, and thinking of the New Year's Eve not to make everyone feel uncomfortable, he picked up another pair of scissors with a smile and started cutting.

His hands are big, and the big scissors look small in his hands, but his movements are too clumsy.It took a while to cut out an object, and before Meng Duo raised his eyes, he shrugged and threw it into a ball in the basket.

"What did you throw away? It's a waste." Sanchun said with blinking eyes, reached out and picked up the crumpled paper-cut, opened it and looked at it carefully for a while.

"What's this?" Siya tilted her neck to see, "Duck? No. Pheasant? It doesn't look like either."

"Brother, what exactly did you cut?" She pouted and asked.

"Little idiot, you can't even tell." Sanchun looked at her head with his fingers, "It's obviously a big white goose that's alive and well."

Meng Da's face became more and more ugly when he heard this, and Meng Duo, who had been holding back by the side, finally couldn't help laughing.

I saw the scissors in her hand flying up and down, and cut out a window grille in a short while, on which was a pair of mandarin ducks playing in the water.

"Oh, it turns out that elder brother wants to cut mandarin ducks." Sanchun suddenly realized, "Could it be that the mandarin ducks that elder brother cut are not of the same species as second sister-in-law's? Why can't we find any similarities?"

(End of this chapter)