The Blessing of the Qi Nv of Transmigration

Chapter 52 New Year's Eve ([-])

After lunch, Hu and Chen's family gathered in the living room of the main room and talked about how the two children of the Shen family fell into the hands of Ren Yazi. Mr. Shen said: "At the end of last year, the debtors came to press for debts. At that time My family and I are temporarily living in the earth temple next to the village. Our in-laws have long been dragged down by us, and we don’t know where they have moved. Other relatives and friends are avoiding us. We have nowhere to go. How can we give those people money? So he asked Fang Rui to sell his wife and two children. In order to let them leave temporarily, he first agreed to let him think about it for one night, and then replied to them the next day, but the daughter-in-law Cui was too scared, so she took advantage of us to go out to find him that afternoon. While they were eating, they ran away with their two children, and never heard from them again." Thinking of that period of time, all three of them showed expressions of distress.

As she said that, she cast her eyes on Shen Jing and Shen Xin, and asked in a trembling voice: "Jing'er, Xin'er, what happened after you left with your mother, where is your mother?"

Shen Jing said: "My mother took the two of us to Jinan Mansion to find her cousin, and took us all the way north while begging for food, but after walking for more than [-] days, my mother fell ill. The kiln factory of the earthen jars was abandoned, and we lived in it at night. There was straw in it, and it was leeward, and it was not cold at all. During the day, my younger brother and I went out to beg for food, and then brought them back to eat with my mother. On the [-]th, my mother's illness was almost cured, but my brother and I were targeted by child catchers outside. Those people caught us and put them in their pockets. They were bought and sold several times along the way. We just wanted to do our best. Because my original wife was from Shaanxi, I pretended to speak his accent and told my younger brother not to speak, thinking that one day they would sell us back to Anhuai Mansion as foreigners. We were sold back, and later met my uncle and cousin."

"But where is my mother now, whether she is alive or dead, we have no way of knowing."

After everyone heard this, on the one hand, they felt distressed and sad for Mrs. Cui and the two children, but also thanked Shen Jing for being smart and quick-witted. At any rate, the three recovered two, and one adult slowly inquired about their whereabouts. There is no rush.

He also asked Shen Fangrui how much money he still owed those loan sharks. Shen Fangrui said last month that it was 120 taels. They have been hiding in Tibet this month. I found a lender, spent 300 taels, paid off all the money, burned the IOU, and have nothing to do with these people since then.

Together they went to the government to report the missing person, leaving a little hope for rediscovering the Cui family, and there was no other way in the cold winter.

Let's say that the addition of these new people to the Hu family is a happy event, and the Shen family walks with wind.

Although the snow is still fluttering from time to time, it can't stop the pace of the New Year, let alone affect people's good mood to welcome the New Year.

27 to wash away guilt, 28 to wash away sloppiness.On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, in addition to taking a New Year’s bath, they also had to make rice cakes to make noodles. On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, the doors of the shops were closed, and the doors were closed to officially celebrate the New Year.

Except for the three guys who went back to their respective homes, this year the Hu family had a total of 100 people celebrating the New Year together. Although it was not comparable to those big families with dozens of people and more than [-] people, it was still full of people in the yard.

One morning, except for Xiao Yuer, Hu Yongqiang called the other seven apprentices to one place, gave each of them a hundred coins, and told them to go out on the last day of the day when people were buying new year's goods and the street was still busy. Go shopping and buy something you want. It doesn't matter if you come back for lunch or not, just don't play too late.

These people jumped up and cheered happily, together with the Hu Kang twins and even Xiao Yu'er, they walked out the door laughing and laughing together.I didn't come back until after dark, just in time for my meal, Shen said angrily: "You monkey bastards, I'm afraid you don't know how to come back if you're not hungry." Everyone said: "It's true that you came back because you were so hungry. , What is the name of the food sold outside, I can’t even put it down, how can it compare with the craftsmanship of the big lady!” Shen said with a smile: “You don’t know what else to buy when you go out, but this candy must be bought. Young master, look at these sweet-talking ones." Everyone said: "Truth, truth!" Coaxing Mrs. Chen so much.

After dinner, Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Zhou, the old lady of the Shen family, took Feng Ling and Feng Min to make glutinous rice balls. Mrs. Shen guarded a coal stove by herself and made egg dumplings. Chatting together, Hu Yongqiang and his new uncle who has been around for more than ten years are listening, laughing and interjecting a few words from time to time. The houses ran back and forth.

Yang Fei'er's words are really hard to come by, but she likes to read other people's writing the most. In her previous life, she read her grandfather's writing, and today she reads Hu Kang's writing. On the door of the house, the kitchen and the toilet, the front of the house and the back of the house, on the window lattice and even on the tree, Spring Festival couplets or blessings of different sizes must be pasted, which requires a special person to cut the paper and fold it into seven characters of equal size. Or five-character fontanel grid, so that the writer can divide the line spacing of the characters evenly.

Dozens of Spring Festival couplets were cut and written on paper tapes until almost eleven o'clock at the end of Haishi. Finally, all the work was completed. The others went back to sleep early. Only Yang Feier accompanied Hu Kang to write to the end, and spread them neatly on the ground to dry Hu Yongqiang and his wife, who got up early on the 31st, had no place to set their feet. They put away the dried Spring Festival couplets while walking along the way, and then they got out of trouble.

When I came out, I saw that the snow that had been falling intermittently for four days had stopped, and the snow in the courtyard was two feet thick.It seems that today is a sunny day, and Lian Dao said that the weather is beautiful, and it will not affect the people who go to the grave in the afternoon.

The four old people got up earlier than them. They were all people who were used to doing farm work all their lives, and they were also used to getting up early. They were sweeping snow in the yard, and they had gradually created a road in the shape of a field.

The breakfast on New Year's Eve is noodles with chicken soup and ingots. Ingots are eggs. During the Chinese New Year, eggs are called ingots. No matter how big or small a family is, each person must eat two, so that the harvest will be complete in the coming year.Everyone was eating breakfast when they heard the sound of firecrackers from far and near. It was that other people’s homes were already eating New Year’s dinner. There is a custom here that the earlier you eat the New Year’s dinner, the sooner you will get rich in the coming year.There is also a custom that between brothers who have separated families, whether they are old brothers who have already had children and grandchildren or young brothers who have just started a family, each family must prepare a New Year’s meal on New Year’s Eve and invite other families to eat. Big people have to go to several houses a day, taking turns to eat from morning to night, so they have to start eating New Year's dinner very early, otherwise, they may have to eat until the first day of the new year.Or between good friends, they will also invite each other to their own home for a New Year's dinner, and share the most sumptuous meal of the year in their own home, expressing the deep friendship between each other.

After eating the delicious, warm and salty Yuanbao Noodles in Chicken Soup, the children still have another important task—to paste Spring Festival couplets.

The door panel of the shop is pasted: Wheat crumbs are creamy and fragrant, the pattern is more colorful and flavorful than red silk, and the banner is written: Sweet and perfect.

Paste on the gate of the new house: safety is the blessing of the family, and filial friends can be the style of the children, and the vacancy is horizontally approved. It needs to be pasted at the same time as the firecrackers are set off during the New Year's meal.

The hanging flower door is pasted: the trees in the clouds are full of colors, and the mountains outside the door are dense.Horizontal batch: Spring is full of people
The front door of the main house is pasted: the mountains and rivers are beautiful and the spring is always there, and the life expectancy is boundless.Horizontal batch: happiness and longevity
The rest of the doors are pasted with Spring Festival couplets with auspicious blessings and expectations.

The New Year’s dinner was officially eaten. A Zhen, A Tang, A Shan and A Shui worked together to lift the long dining table in the kitchen to the main room. Yu'er set up chairs and benches.

All the female relatives were busy in the kitchen, and Yang Feier kept asking the boys to come in and serve food. First, there were four cold dishes: peanuts mixed with coriander, glutinous rice lotus root, preserved eggs, and pork skin jelly.Then began to serve hot dishes one after another, braised pork, braised fish, braised chicken, marinated, salted, egg dumplings, pork with dried plums, frozen bones, braised tendon, braised tripe, three delicacies pot, beef pot, whole duck with herbal cuisine , Stir-fried mountain delicacies, Stir-fried bacon with garlic, Stir-fried chrysanthemum chrysanthemum with slag noodles, Qian Chuanzi (tofu and cabbage fried vermicelli), Stir-fried celery, Spinach in soup, Stewed radish with big bones, Stir-fried lettuce with sliced ​​meat and fungus, Stir-fried pork liver with green onions, Tremella and water chestnuts Sweet soup, old goose soup.

A total of 28 dishes are served on the table, which are dazzling and fragrant. This New Year’s meal needs to be prepared for two days, because on the first day of the new year, knives, scissors, and needles are not allowed.Do not wash things, because washing and death are homophonic, and do not cook, otherwise there will be quarrels and family disharmony in the coming year.So on New Year's Eve, we need to prepare more dishes. The meals for lunch on the first day of the new year are all left over from New Year's Eve, which is called surplus every year.

Everything was ready. Mrs. Hu lit a bundle of incense and leaned against the threshold of the main room. Hu Kang held the door banner that had been placed on the long table in the main room with both hands. The back of the banner had been coated with batter. Hu Yongqiang led Yang Feier Together with Gemini and the five of them, they went to the door to set off firecrackers. When the firecrackers rang here, Hu Kang stood on the ladder and immediately pasted the banner: Spring back to the earth.

Invite the four old people to sit in the upper middle seat facing the gate, next to the old couple of the Hu family is Hu Yongqiang, the twins of the Shen family, Hu Kang and Yang Feier, next to the old couple of the Shen family, Shen Fangrui, who is calm and heart-warming, old man Qiu sits in Shen Xin's hands, The rest of the disciples sat casually, full of people, bustling and bustling, full of people.

Mr. Hu was the first to hold up the wine glass and raised it high to everyone, and everyone stood up with their glasses clattering. Mr. Hu said: "Looking at these days, I don't even dare to think about the past years. It's not good to celebrate the New Year today." I won't say much about things, I just want to look forward to a bright future, and hope that everything will be fine in the coming year! Do it!"

Everyone raised their heads and drank the wine in their glasses. They all drank sweet rice wine, even children would be fine if they drank it.

Hu Yongqiang picked up the wine glass and said to Mr. Shen: "The first glass of wine today is to respect my parents, but today I want to respect my father-in-law and mother-in-law first. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for coming, and relieved my children. His mother is your daughter's heart knot for many years, you can rest assured that from now on, I will serve you like my own son."

After finishing speaking, he drank the wine in the glass.

The elders of the Shen family nodded with a slight smile, and drank down the wine in one gulp.

Shen Fangrui picked up his wine glass and stood up to pay respect to the two elders of the Hu family, saying: "The family was killed for a while, fortunately your family took in, and I will work hard in the coming year to repay this great kindness."

Mr. Hu said: "When a hero is in trouble, you are still young, and you will still have a lot of opportunities and time in the future. Given time, you will definitely recover."

He and Wang raised their glasses to Shen Fangrui, and the three drank the wine together.

(End of this chapter)