Chapter 26 The New Year
A large water truck is not a simple model or a roof stent that does not require very high size requirements, so the production of this water truck requires considerable patience. Another thing is that my uncle is not very skilled in using these new woodworking tools. Naturally, my job is now half the result with twice the effort. However, as my uncle becomes more skillful in using tools, his speed is getting faster.
But this is always a big project. The New Year has arrived before the work has been completed. The New Year is the happiest time for the children, but it is not right. Why didn’t you notice any movement in the children?
Isn’t there a poem that says, “A colorful cloud welcomes the dawn, and thousands of red candles move the spring.” Ah, I’m wrong, this is what Yuan Zheng went to court, and it was during Li Zhi’s time to be emperor. Now even Li Zhi’s father, Li Shimin, has not become emperor.
So in the countryside, "the new calendar has only been opened half a piece of paper, and the small courtyard is still filled with ashes of a blow-off rod." This is the festival for the people. By the way, blow-off rod, there are no firecrackers from later generations in this era, and the explosives are still in the hands of Taoists at this time.
Only then did Yang Heng realize that there was really nothing to be happy about during the Spring Festival and the New Year, but there was nothing to be happy for the children. At this time, there was no money to kowtow, no money to crush, and no saying of greetings to the New Year. It is said that the custom of greetings to the New Year was only made specifically after Li Er became the emperor, so there was a saying of greetings to the New Year since then.
So now, my father and mother have already prepared some bamboo poles and braziers. This Spring Festival is for adults to stay up to the New Year, that is, they will wait for one night on New Year's Eve, one night for two years, and two years are divided into five hours. The children do not have the patience.
This also reminded Yang Heng of the New Year when he was a child in his previous life. At that time, there was neither a TV nor a radio at home, nor even a electricity. Every time, grandma would say, "This New Year, God wants to give us gifts. There are also two nights of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and the fifteenth day of August, that is, during Jiaozi, the Tianmen will open. When the Tianmen opens, as long as you shout three wishes to the sky, God will realize your love for you
Your wish." But Yang Heng remembered that before there was a TV in the village, even before the Spring Festival Gala appeared, he had never realized this wish. He would fall asleep at around 10 o'clock at the latest, and then he would get up at around 3 o'clock in the morning to eat dumplings. But when he was waiting for the Spring Festival Gala, he became older. Every day, he would see the Spring Festival Gala ending with many people watching TV in the village office, and he forgot the saying that Tianmen opened.
"Grandma, why are you holding these bamboos?" Yang Heng's mind didn't turn around. Why are you holding some bamboos for the New Year? "Did you forget, do you like to burn bamboo the most during the New Year? This is the firecrackers we use to burn during the New Year to exorcise evil spirits."
Ah, by the way, firecrackers, these are firecrackers. I thought before that there was no gunpowder in this era, so naturally it was burning bamboo. Later generations called firecrackers, which came from then on.
"Then, grandpa, what else do we have to do during the New Year." "What are you doing? Your mother and I have to stay up until dawn. Just sleep. If you keep up, you don't have the energy either. Every year, you have to say that you stay up until dawn, but every time you fall asleep before the hour of Hai, you have not asked you to stay up late in the past few years."
"Then grandpa, can uncles watch the night together at our house?" "That's OK. Speaking of which, I and you are both ancestors, and you can do it no matter who you are in."
"That's good. Let's call all the four uncles' families, and we can stay together." By the way, since Yang Heng's family came back, these four uncles have taken all their food. Not counting, everyone's food is full of greasiness. Naturally, their life in the village has become a little difficult, and all envy, jealousy and anger have come out, even their own brothers and parents are like this. This is not to say who is good or bad, human nature is like this, and everyone is not fully cooperative and shattering each other. Therefore, Yang Heng could obviously feel that the uncles were a little bored and depressed compared to when they first met, but their health has improved a lot. Who can tell the right or wrong between gains and losses?
Since we decided to stay together for the New Year, some snacks need to be prepared, what, melon seeds, that's not, sunflower seeds are still in the Americas, candy, this dad really didn't buy it, so he couldn't bear to say it, so what should I prepare? At this time, the iron pot was used. Since the iron pot was made, it was impossible to stir-fry, because it was winter and there was no more dish. Even the cabbage and radish that Yang Heng had commonly used in his previous life, so this iron pot was not
What is the pot made? There is some rice among the grain purchased by my father. After Yang Heng made a meal of rice, both my father and my uncles fell in love with this kind of rice. Therefore, Yang Heng also accumulated a lot of pot crumbs, yellow and thin. Now take it out and cut it into squares and cubes, then fry some soybean oil in the pot, then stir-fry the crumbs in the pot, and then sprinkle them with crushed fine salt on it. This is a delicious snack.
Then what else should I want? Of course, this one can't be the only one. Suddenly, Yang Heng thought of stir-fried beans on February 2nd. Then, let's make this snack in advance. In fact, it's just the most common fried soybeans, and there are two things.
What else should I do? A lot of meat has been accumulated over the past period of time, and they are all made into bacon. So now I will cut a piece of bacon first. At this time, because the snow has blocked the mountain, I rarely see prey, so I have to eat these bacon, make some slices of meat, then take a brazier, cook charcoal, and let my uncle make some bamboo sticks for it, and grind some star anise, so that I can eat barbecue and barbecue. In order to avoid people falling asleep, the meat slices used for this barbecue need to be grilled as skewers.
Then there was the drink, which was Yang Heng's luck. Some time ago, when he was going up the mountain, he found a tea tree on the mountain, and he dug it back. He even collected some old tea leaves from the tea tree. The leaves were old, but it was also tea leaves. At that time, Yang Heng had experimented for a long time, and even wasted most of the old leaves before stir-frying out two taels of tea leaves. Of course, this is the drink at night, and this is also because he felt that the food he ate at night was too greasy, and even remembered the tea leaves after being dry. However, there was no good teapot to brew this tea, and he could only soak it in a large pot, and each person held a wooden bowl and drank it.
Chapter completed!