After a busy schedule, New Year's Eve finally arrived. After breakfast, Grandpa Xu took down the waxed pig heads and tails hanging in the kitchen and washed them clean.

The pig head and pig tail were put into the pot and cooked, and the beef was stewed on the coal stove.

After all the kitchen work was done smoothly, Grandpa Xu took a knife and prepared to go to the yard to fetch the chickens and bleed them.

After leaving the kitchen, I didn't see the chicken. After searching for a long time, I finally found it behind Xiao Jin's nest.

I saw Xiao Jin domineeringly pressing the golden pheasant to the ground and pinching the golden pheasant's neck with its right paw.

The golden eagle is the natural enemy of the pheasant. This chicken, which was already scared to death, almost died after being tortured like this by Xiao Jin.

Grandpa Xu quickly drove Xiao Jin away, but Xiao Jin did not protect the food from Grandpa Xu, and allowed Grandpa Xu to take the chicken away.

"Xiao Yu'er, please teach Xiao Jin a lesson, you see, this pheasant is beaten to death by it!" Grandpa Xu shouted to Jin Huan, who was practicing calligraphy while carrying the chicken.

Jinhuan put down his pen and hurried over to take a look. Most of the hair on the pheasant's neck was bald, but fortunately there were no wounds, so it didn't delay Grandpa Xu's killing of the chicken.

"Zu Zu, I just lost some hair, so you can kill the chicken without delay!" Jin Huan said to Grandpa Xu with a smile.

Grandpa Xu angrily wiped the chicken's neck, "It's what you're used to! Otherwise, it would be so bold as to run wild at home!"

Jinhuan handed Jinhuan a bowl to catch the chicken blood with a playful smile, and Xuzuye glanced at Jinhuan.

"Have you finished writing three large characters? Why are you following me around? Are you trying to fish in troubled waters again?"

Jinhuan had no choice but to return to the table resigned to his fate and continue to practice calligraphy. Grandpa Xu had always refused to use pencils and pens.

He said that to practice calligraphy, you must first learn calligraphy with calligraphy. Later, hand-written calligraphy will naturally look good. If you don’t lay a good foundation for calligraphy, the characters written with a pen will be crooked and awkward.

Fortunately, Jin Huan is very enlightened now. If it were the same in her previous life, she would have been driven crazy.

Now the characters of "Jin Huan" are quite decent.

Grandpa Xu stripped the pheasant and left three feathers on its tail. (Legend has it that three feathers are left on the rooster used for sacrifice to attract and protect the soul)

After disembowelling the pheasant, he gave all the internal organs to Xiao Jin, then took the chicken into the kitchen and cooked it.

At this time, someone knocked on the door. Jin Huan hurriedly opened the door, and it turned out that Xu Jiajun was here, carrying a few fish in his hand.

"Xiao Yu'er, where is your ancestor?" Xu Jiajun asked.

"My Zuzu is cooking in the kitchen!" Jinhuan quickly took his fish and went to the kitchen and shouted: "Zuzu, Uncle Jun is here!"

After shouting, Jinhuan poured hot water for Xu Jiajun, showing very thoughtful etiquette.

Xu Jiajun picked up the word "Jin Huan" and praised Grandpa Xu: "Grandpa Six, your writing of Xiao Yu'er is really good!"

"Don't praise her. I worried a lot about the word "her" and it took me more than half a year to write like this!" Grandpa Xu was actually very happy after hearing Xu Jiajun's praise, but he was still symbolically modest.

Jinhuan was directed to put the fish in a basin and raise it. When she came out of the kitchen, she carried a five-pound jar.

Xu Jiajun knew that Jin Huan was actually very strong, but he still couldn't help but stood up and helped her take it.

"Uncle Jia Jun, I honor you with this jar of wine. I will take it with you when I go back later!" Jin Huan pointed to the jar placed on the table.

Xu Jiajun was pleasantly surprised. He had already finished drinking the few kilograms of Erguotou he had bought in the second half of the year. Now Jin Huan offered him wine. He was so happy that the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes were alive.

He stepped forward and sniffed, "Why does it taste bad?"

"The mouth of the jar was sealed with mud!" Jinhuan took off the red cloth on the top of the jar, revealing yellow mud.

Grandpa Xu looked at Jin Huan's proud appearance, and smiled and said to Xu Jiajun:

"Junwazi, you are lucky today!

This wine fish is so precious, I won’t be allowed to touch it at ordinary times.

I can give it to you today, which means she is happy to celebrate the New Year today! This is a rare opportunity!"

Xu Jiajun happily took out another pair of embroidered shoes from his pocket, "I almost forgot, your aunt made these new ones for you. She said she would wear them in spring!"

Made of red rush suede and yellow jasmine flowers embroidered on the upper, it looks particularly delicate and cute.

Jinhuan took it and teased Xu Jiajun: "Uncle Jiajun, if I don't give you wine, you won't be able to remember the shoes my mother-in-law made for me!"

Xu Jiajun pinched Jin Huan's nose, "Your baby's mouth is just for chewing. I forgot that I have to come back for a while. How can I wear your shoes when I take them back?"

Xu Jiajun sat for a short while and then went home happily holding the jar of wine.

When the pig heads, pig tails and pheasants in the pot were cooked, Grandpa Xu picked them up, used the pig heads, pig tails and chickens, lit incense and burned paper at home to worship the gods.

After worshiping the gods, Grandpa Xu put the pig heads, pig tails and pheasants into his basket, and also took the incense, wax paper, money and other items, and prepared to go up the mountain to visit the grave.

His family's ancestral grave is behind Xiaolong Mountain. I originally thought that their tribe was small in number, but Jin Huan was shocked when he saw a bunch of large and small graves. It turned out that Grandpa Xu's ancestors were actually prosperous.

Pass.

Grandpa Xu put down his basket and began to pull up the weeds in the cemetery. After finishing sorting, he began to introduce to Jinhuan the owner of each grave, who was buried in such and such, and what Jinhuan should call it.

After hearing this, Jinhuan was even more confused. They were all at the level of great-great-grandfather, so they must have been confused, so they could only obediently follow Grandpa Xu, burn incense and kowtow.

After the money for the scented wax paper was burned out, Grandpa Xu packed up his things and took Quanhuan home.

After arriving home, Grandpa Xu began to prepare the New Year's dinner.

Cold pepper chicken, cold pig ears, pork face and garlic sprouts twice-cooked pork, braised beef with radish, braised carp, and evergreens cooked in broth.

There are two cold dishes and four hot dishes. The portions are not big, but they are all considered meat dishes. A New Year's meal of this level is rare not only in the village, but also in the city.

Everyone in the family was counted, only the grandfather and grandson. In order to keep the atmosphere from being deserted, Grandpa Xu specially asked Jinhuan to open a jar of rice wine and let Jinhuan drink a small cup with him.

Jinhuan even clinked glasses with Grandpa Xu in a serious manner, wishing their family a prosperous life in the coming year.

Grandpa Xu was inevitably sad on days like this, and felt that it would be better if his grandchildren, grandsons, and wives were all here.

Jin happily made jokes, said auspicious words and sang songs, trying her best to make him happy.

Later, he also figured out that the people who passed away would never come back. With his little great-granddaughter by his side, he could live a happy life without any dissatisfaction.

When Xiao Jin heard the sound of Jin Huan singing, he flew to the window sill and joined in the fun by chirping, but unfortunately the accompaniment could not keep up with the tune.

It jumped up and down and screamed quite anxiously, making Jin Huan and Grandpa Xu laugh.

The portions of the New Year's dinner dishes are small, but a little of everything is left on the plate.

It is a custom here to leave some food for the New Year's dinner until tomorrow, the first day of the Lunar New Year, which means there will be more than enough for successive years.

When Grandpa Xu cleared the table, a little baby poked his head at the door.

Grandpa Xu carried a tea tray filled with peanuts and melon seeds candies, and grabbed a handful for each of the children who came. The children thanked them, held their pockets, and rushed to the next house.

Jinhuan didn't follow the little kids out to visit each other to greet the New Year. After all, she was not a real little kid. She didn't care about these candies, peanuts, melon seeds and peas, and she couldn't be embarrassed to ask for snacks.

Nowadays, every family is not rich, so when little kids come to visit their homes to pay New Year greetings, the generous hosts take out snacks to entertain them, while the stingy ones simply coax the kids out of the house.

If you eat lunch late, you won't feel hungry at dinner time.

Grandpa Xu ordered two bowls of hand-cut noodles and two poached eggs on top.

Jinhuan was puzzled when he saw the egg noodles. Grandpa Xu usually didn't eat much because he knew that apart from eating pasta in the morning, Jinhuan also liked rice for the remaining two meals.

"Xiao Yu'er, this is the birthday noodles that Zuzu gave you! You are one year older today!" Grandpa Xu handed the chopsticks to Jinhuan with a smile.

This surprised Jin Huan. Her birthday was exactly the same as her birthday in her previous life, both on New Year's Eve. This was indeed quite a coincidence.

After Jinhuan had some noodles, Master Xu gave Jinhuan two red envelopes, each containing a big unity card. "Zuzu, why did you give me two red envelopes!"

Grandpa Xu touched Jin Huan's head and said, "One is lucky money and the other is a birthday red envelope!"

Jinhuan immediately put the red envelope into his pocket with a smile, and said with a smile: "Thank you Zuzu, I wish you good luck, wealth and good health in the coming year!"
Chapter completed!