It was already 12:30 noon when the offerings at several nearby temples were completed. How had these women ever worked so hard? They had not had any water from early in the morning to noon. They were tired and hungry. When they got home, they sat on the sofa and were too lazy to move.
"You two can make some braised food to fill your stomachs first. I'm going to start cooking the New Year's Eve dinner!"
Xu Yang smiled at this group of women and entered the kitchen.
Because it was the New Year's Eve dinner, the uncle's family all got together, cooking and washing the dishes. Xu Yang's cousins moved out the big round tables in their respective homes and moved them into the central hall.
After tidying up, it became a temporary restaurant, with three tables that can seat more than thirty people.
The raw materials for cooking today are very rich. In addition to the existing vegetables, fish, chickens and ducks, there are also dragon loaches and snake eels that are always rare to taste.[
Xu Yang also specially killed a terrifying earthly violent bear from the secret realm, and used a pair of bear paws to make a honey-steamed bear paw dish. The honey was of course taken from the honeycombs in the medicine fields in the secret realm, which was better than Xu Yang's
The honey in the back mountain is much better!
There was also an underage dragon elephant whose trunk was also made into an elephant trunk soup by Xu Yang.
It wasn't until after 4 o'clock in the afternoon that all the dishes were finished. There were meat and vegetables, dried fruit snacks, and fruit platters on each table. There were more than 20 dishes, which made the hungry girls waiting for dinner drool.
Because it was a family dinner, Xu Yang and his family didn't drink much, and Xu Yang wasn't trusting the wine on the market, so he simply took some special fruits from the secret realm and squeezed them into fresh juice. Those Tianyuan that were originally used to make elixirs
Fruit, star fruit, Fengxue pear, etc. are all directly squeezed into juice, which is a waste of resources.
"Today is New Year's Eve, let's have a drink! Let's get rid of the old and welcome the new. From tomorrow on, it will be a new year. I wish everyone a happy new year and all the best!"
Xu Yang stood up first and toasted to the elders and peers at the three tables.
For a while, there was a lot of drinking and drinking. It was very lively. After having enough wine and food, Xu Yang went upstairs to sit and have a rest to digest the food in his stomach, because there was another important event in the village later.
"Ayang, hurry up and go to the temple! The dragon dance is about to begin! Why are you, the dragon head, still at home!"
Xu Yang had just been sitting there for less than half an hour when someone started shouting downstairs.
From New Year's Eve to the eighth day of the first lunar month, dragon dances are held in the village during this period. A long dragon requires the cooperation of more than ten people to dance. Because most of the young people in the village are abroad, Xu Yang dances the dragon head.
When the girls heard that there was something interesting happening again, they immediately became energetic and followed Xu Yang to the temple.
When Xu Yang and others arrived at the temple, the dragon had already been unfolded and its body had been occupied by many people. Only the head and tail of the dragon were still untouched. Xu Yang and his younger brother Xu Huanhu occupied the head and tail respectively.
At the gate of the temple, there were many young people lighting lanterns, raising flags, and holding eighteen kinds of weapons. It was very lively. Because Xu Yang wanted to participate in the dragon dance, the girls could only watch in the crowd.
There are only middle-aged and elderly people and children in the village all year round. Only during the New Year period will a few young people appear. Seeing so many beauties at once, many people went straight to take a peek at Fatima and others.
Fortunately, Bian Mei and other female bodyguards were more vigilant, protected the girls in the middle, and used their stern eyes to scare away those wild bees and butterflies.
At seven o'clock in the evening, the event finally started.
First, the elder who chanted sutras began to chant sutras to the statue of the god. The drummers and gong players on the side all cooperated with the beating. When the sutras were recited to the final stage, the drums became louder and louder. As the sound of sutras was chanted, the sound of music was played outside the temple.
firecracker.
A big red flag advertising the Xuantian Temple in Xiaolin Village was unfurled. A young man carried the flag and walked out of the temple first, followed by a young man carrying a small lantern.
The gongs and drummers followed, followed by two teenagers holding big red lanterns, which had already been lit. In the past, red candles were used for lighting, but now they have been replaced by small batteries and light bulbs. Safety issues have been greatly improved.[
The people in front had walked a long way, and Xu Yangcai carried a huge dragon head and nodded three times in front of the Xuantian God Statue, and then rushed out of the temple gate. The dragon body and tail behind him immediately followed.
"Ayan! Come on!"
No one among the girls shouted, but soon they all started shouting.
Xu Yang glared at them, danced the dragon head and ran towards the house of a Buddhist and Taoist believer.
Tonight is a sleepless night. Every household of believers will register in the temple in advance, and Xu Yang and the others will visit each household according to the registration form and send blessings from gods and Buddhas.
Xu Yang came to the first house holding the dragon head, and then danced with the dragon body in front of the house for a while and then stopped. The chanter started chanting sutras, and the gongs and drummers inserted the gongs and drums appropriately. They all cooperated for a long time.
"Thank you for your hard work! This is the money for the sesame oil for the temple! This is the red envelope for you!"
This believer handed over two red envelopes, one for the dragon dancers, and the other for the temple blessing, who is responsible for the daily affairs of the temple. The money is not a lot, but it is an auspicious number, and it is just a thought.
Xu Yang took a red envelope and put it in his pocket. When he looked up, he found that all the girls were looking at him with smiles, as if they were amused that he, a man who was about to become a successful man, was taking such a small advantage.
Xu Yang smiled helplessly. He was not greedy for the money. It was custom. Even if he didn't want it, he still had to take care of the dragon dancer behind him.
The family members of the believers also took out candies and snacks and distributed them to the surrounding villagers. Fatima and other women felt it was fun and took some token tokens.
After about twenty minutes, the chanting and the sound of gongs and drums became more intense, and the surrounding crowd shouted, ‘Dragon! Dragon!’.
Xu Yang reminded the dragon dancers behind him to prepare, because they were about to leave. As the chanting fell and firecrackers sounded, the flag bearers, gongs, drummers, lantern players and others began to leave. Xu Yang led the dragon dancers to dance the dragon crazily.
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The huge dragon head was as light as a weight in Xu Yang's hand, like an object, sometimes left and now right, and suddenly passed under the dragon's body, and the dragon's body followed Xu Yang closely behind, a dragon moving vigorously like a living animal.
Finally, after walking twice in front of the door, Xu Yang held up the faucet and nodded it three times towards the head of the household and the door, and then ran away. Looking from a distance, it looked like a real dragon flying.
House after house, this activity is boring, but it is essential. Every Buddhist and Taoist household hopes to be blessed by gods and Buddhas!
At first, there were many villagers watching, but as time went by, few people followed.
Especially the two sisters, Mitsuko Nakayama and Keiko Nakayama, yawned again and again. They walked with Xu Yang to several villages during the day and ran for several hours at night. These two sisters have been pampered since childhood. When have they ever suffered so much?
, if it weren’t for Xu Yang dancing with the dragon, they would have gone back to sleep long ago.
"Bian Mei! Take them back to rest, we can't go back until midnight!"
Stopping in front of a believer's house, Xu Yang called Bian Mei while he was chanting sutras and told her to take a few women home first.
"Well, let's go first!"
Bian Mei thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.[
Originally Fatima wanted to wait, but when he saw Zhongshan Guangzi yawning beside him and Xu Yang's persuasion, he finally agreed.
"Dingle bell!"
A phone ringing woke Xu Yang from his sleep.
"Hey! Who is it? It's so early in the morning. It's so disturbing!"
Xu Yang muttered.
They kept working until 1:30 in the morning last night, and finally parked the dragon in the ancestral hall to wait for the next day's activities. They ate some midnight snacks in the temple before going home, and finally fell asleep, but were woken up again.
"Brother! Happy New Year to you! Where are mom and the others, have they gotten up?"
The voice of my second brother Xu Xuefeng came from the other end of the phone.
"It's already 8 o'clock in the morning, you should get up. I went to bed very late last night to perform the dragon dance. It was probably 1 o'clock in the evening and you haven't gone to bed yet! There are a lot of things happening in the company recently, please work hard!"
Xu Yang raised his hand to look at the time, then lay back and said lazily.
"Well, our negotiations with George are almost over, and you will need to sign the contract in person."
Xu Xuefeng reminded.
"Yes, I understand. Happy New Year to the employees of the company for me! Let's discuss it with the senior management. Give the employees a red envelope for good luck."
Xu Yang ordered.
"Okay! Then I won't disturb your sleep!"
Xu Xuefeng smiled and hung up the phone.
Xu Xuefeng had just hung up the phone, and then there were several more calls to say New Year greetings. Now Xu Yang was completely sleepless, so he had no choice but to get up.
After sending a few blessing text messages to his friends, Xu Yang washed up and went downstairs to have breakfast.
All the women at home were not at home and must have gone out to play. Fortunately, porridge was prepared for him, and even the leftover dishes from yesterday were heated in the pot for him.
Xu Yang made do with a small meal, but he received calls from two silly girls, Leng Qingqiu and Miao Sisi. Xu Yang casually chatted for a few words and then hung up.
Xu Yang didn't plan to go out either. He just stayed upstairs and surfed the Internet for a while.
Immediately afterwards, Xu Mengfei, Yu Minjia and other company employees, as well as Chen Zhengzhong, Yu Zhengsheng and other members of the 55 Federation, also sent text messages or made phone calls. In short, the number of calls in this moment was more than Xu Yang usually makes in a month.
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After finally clearing up for a while, it was lunch time. Fatima's voice called him to eat could be heard from downstairs.
After lunch, we will start to get busy again, because in the past few days we have to dance with dragons and go to temples and businesses in various villages in Wenshui Town to send blessings.
Today is more tiring than last night, because the distance traveled is much longer. Last night, we only traveled in our own village. In the next few days, we will travel throughout Wenshui Town. So when the Dragon Team left Xiaolin Village, Zhongshan Photon and Fati
Mai and other women are not going to follow him.
Dragon dancing is a physically strenuous activity that lasts for eight days, which is unbearable for anyone. In addition, there are relatives to visit to pay New Year greetings, so the dragon's body has been replaced by batches of people, and only Xu Yang has been responsible for the dragon dance.
There were dragon dances during the day, and there were opera singers in the temple at night. Xu Yang and the others were definitely not interested in these. He took the women to taste various popular snacks at the entrance of the temple, which made the women happy.
On the night of the eighth day of the first lunar month, Xu Yang led the dragon dance team around and around the village. The sound of gongs and drums was close and short, which reminded believers that the dragon was about to return to the sky and everyone should turn off the lights.
Of course, believers of other religions such as Christianity and Catholicism will naturally not turn off the lights.
After worshiping their ancestors at the ancestral hall, Xu Yang and the others danced the dragon back to the Xuantian Temple. After praying to the gods and Buddhas, it was not until 12 o'clock in the morning that they burned the dragon's head and tail, and then notified all believers that they could turn on the lights.
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Then it was time to eat supper again. Everyone should have fun, and those who didn’t want to go home to sleep. Xu Yang said hello to others because he had to catch a flight the next day and went home. (To be continued. If you
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