Today is New Year's Eve. We got up early and found that the adults had already bought the fish. This is a dish with special significance for the annual "New Year's Eve dinner", with a beautiful wish for "more than enough every year."

Everyone divided the work and cooperated in a tacit understanding. Those who washed carrots washed carrots, those who took care of pig heads took care of pig heads, and those who killed chickens killed chickens. The whole morning was spent in busy preparations such as lighting fires, washing vegetables, and cooking meat.

I saw that a large pot of meat had been cooked in the large iron pot in the kitchen. There was a pig head, a pig's foot, a pig tail, two sausages, a chicken, and half of the liver. Waiting for the afternoon meat.

After cooking, pick it up and prepare it to worship the gods, then add the carrots and cook. After the carrots are boiled and raked, add the "Changlongcai" - washed and unbroken cabbage greens.

In addition to helping the adults, our job is to remove the old door gods and couplets from the door, and then stir up some paste to put the new door gods and couplets on the door.

The "handover" of the old and new door gods and couplets is a very serious and "ceremonial" detail. Don't be impatient. Especially don't stick the new ones crookedly or damaged.

Wash and cook some big dishes, and invite the old door gods and couplets down. It’s almost noon. Let’s have a simple lunch and continue to work as fast as possible for the “New Year’s Eve dinner”.

My mother continued to be responsible for cooking. When the time was almost up, my father instructed us to put up all the door gods and couplets at home. Finally, we put up the door gods and couplets on the courtyard door, which is the gate.

This year's door gods are still "Yuchi" and "Jingde". What's interesting is that the couplet on the door is "Go out to seek wealth, and start a business at home and prosper."

The wish is really urgent and simple.

The one in the main room is more traditional, with the words "Firecrackers say farewell to the old year, and the golden dragon roars to welcome the new year", and the horizontal comment is "peace and auspiciousness". The east room is "every year is smooth sailing, and everything goes well every year", and the horizontal comment is "lucky stars are shining high". The north room is

"Hard work leads to a business, diligence and frugality lead to happiness", and the horizontal comment is "Be of one heart and one mind". The one in the kitchen is "Diligently raise the six animals and the prosperity will be prosperous, and the harvest will be abundant." The horizontal comment is "There will be fish every year." On the door is a

A paper-cut painting of a fat baby holding a big carp. The couplets in the blockhouse were written by myself, "The flowers and trees bloomed in the spring breeze overnight, the green mountains and green water on both sides of the bank", and the horizontal comment "Never fall into the blue clouds" showed that I faced the unchangeable objective

environment, and still maintain a positive attitude.

After my mother put the pig head, pig's feet, pig tail and chicken on the table, we also posted the door gods and couplets on the door. My father asked me to light the firecrackers, and then everyone in the father also lit the fragrant wax and started to worship the heaven and the earth.

God. Thanks to God's blessing, the family is safe and has spent a year without illness or disaster.

After the worship ceremony was over, we all quickly helped our mother carry the pig heads, pig feet, pig tails and chickens to the kitchen. At this time, the real "New Year's Eve dinner" began to be served.

Cut a bowl of pig ears and mouth, a bowl of pig tongue and liver, a bowl of sausage, a bowl of pork leg, a bowl of pork butt, a bowl of pig tail, a bowl of chicken, and then

A fish plate with spicy whole fish, a bowl of yellow fried "grey tofu", a bowl of crispy peanuts, a bowl of fried dried potato slices, a bowl of cold lobster root, and finally a large bowl of "Long Cai" with carrots and cabbage.

.There are thirteen dishes in total, which is completely the "nine bowls" banquet standard.

These dishes were placed on a large table, and if they couldn't be placed, they were placed on top of each other. Then, the freshly steamed rice was scooped into one or two ceramic wine glasses and pressed tightly with hands, and then three pieces of paper money were placed on the shrine.

Pour the rice out of the wine glass and put it on the paper money. This is a "god-reverent" fasting meal. Make three fasting meals.

After the fasting meal is ready, scoop out four bowls of rice and place them on the four sides of the "Eight Immortals Table". Also pour four glasses of white wine and place them on the four sides. Just open the caps of the bottles of beer, Sprite and Coke and place them on the table.

Get all these ready. Place two pieces of paper money on the four long benches on the four sides of the Eight Immortals Table. Then place nine pairs of chopsticks on the Eight Immortals Table. Finally, light a pair of wax and a stick of incense on the shrine, and place it on the shrine.

Also light a pair of wax and a stick of incense on the ground below, and a pair of wax and a stick of incense outside the main room door.

Then the mother began to mutter something. "This year's New Year's Eve dinner has been prepared. His mother-in-law, his second aunt, the ancestors of the Mu family, all of you will come to my house to have a reunion. Those

The 'friends' who came with you are just chatting and chatting around. Don't be polite. You can eat whatever you want and cook whatever dishes you want. Life is getting better now. Everything is cooked.

Pig heads, pig legs, chickens are also whole chickens, and fish are also whole fish. If you like white wine, just eat white wine, and if you like beer, just eat beer. If you don’t like wine, just drink it..."

We gathered around the stove and waited until Mother finished "reciting" what she said. Then when the fragrant wax was almost burning, Father would take a little bit of each dish, mix it into a bowl of rice, and pour some white wine.

, pour some drinks and make "water rice". Then pour the water rice into a corner of the courtyard. I don't know what "spell" he whispered in a low voice. Anyway, we never heard it clearly.

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After completing this series of "rituals", the extra bowls and chopsticks are removed, and the family sits around to eat. Usually the father and mother sit in the "upper eight seats", which is the position with their backs to the shrine.

, the direction of the north. The remaining three directions of east, west and south are up to us three brothers to sit at our own discretion.

After a busy year, the family finally put down the "burden" of the year and happily sat down to eat the "New Year's Eve dinner". What is indispensable is the adults' "remembering the bitter and thinking of the sweet" and "

"One Year Summary". It is also indispensable for the three brothers to give their own "study reports. It's just that this year, I don't need to report. Because I have graduated and I am facing the problem of "employment". And this problem is not something I can master.

, we can only "resign ourselves to fate" and take it one step at a time.

Everyone's situation has been reported. The "New Year's Eve dinner" is almost finished. It's time to "express determination." The younger brothers all expressed their determination very well. Xiaojie said: "I will study hard and strive to get an ideal exam."

Technical secondary school." Brother Jun said: "I want to study hard and strive to get above 80% in every subject next year."

The adults were very satisfied with the "determination" of the two younger brothers. In the end, it was my turn. I didn't know what to say. I could only say: "If there is an exam after the year, I will try my best to take it. If I can pass it,

If I have a job, I will go to work. If there is no exam, or if I do not do well in the exam, I will find my own way out." I dare not say "I can't afford the exam". After all, this is the "New Year's Eve dinner" and "saying goodbye".

, it's more about "welcoming the new year". I also have a little "taboo". I'm afraid that it would be unlucky to say "I can't afford to take the exam".

Father began to "conclude". "It's been almost half a year since my boss graduated, and his job has not yet been confirmed. Don't be afraid of this. We have already waited, so we will wait for a year. No matter whether you have a job or not, you will be able to do it by then."

I'm eighteen years old. The second and third children should work hard and study hard. Now the family has almost paid off all the debts. But 'a bowl of rice' cannot be eaten by one person. The three of you have to eat it as a family.

a little……"

I didn’t hear clearly what my father said next. According to the “rules”, soup is not allowed as the first bowl of rice during the New Year’s Eve dinner. Yes, if you drink soup as the first bowl of rice, you will often encounter people when you go out.

Even if it rains, I don't know whether this "legend" is true or not. Anyway, it is a "tradition" in my family. After the "first bowl" of rice is finished, the "second bowl" of rice can be "drinking soup".

My throat was a little choked. I barely ate the first bowl of rice, and quickly scooped out some rice for the second bowl, and ate it with the soup. After eating, it was the rule in the house to scoop out some rice and twist it.

Put the vegetables in your own bowl. This is the "third bowl", and of course it is "can't be finished." You have to say something: "If you can't finish it this year, save it for next year." This means "more than enough every year."

"Bar?

After the New Year’s Eve dinner, it’s time to sit around the stove and “fry melon seeds,” “fry peanuts,” and “bake and wash the sand.” These tasks are all “single-handedly handled” by my mother. My father calls on our three brothers.

People fight "Fourteen".

On one side, they were frying "melon seeds", on the other side, they were playing "Fourteenth Fight", and on the other side, the "Spring Festival Gala" was playing on the TV.

At this time, the mother will inevitably "complain", "I am the 'long-term worker' of your family. After dinner, you play cards and bully me for being illiterate. It is late on New Year's Eve and I have to do this for your family."

That."

My father would smile and say, "It doesn't matter, the two of us will carry it. When I win the money, I will give you half of it."

Mother: "What if you lose?"
Chapter completed!