After watching the officers take Huang Cuihua and others away, Du Wanying and her daughter rushed home with their eldest brother who was selling vegetables.
This farce came suddenly and ended quickly, but it also caused a great shock to Du Wanying. It seems that the life of the victims after the earthquake is not as good as imagined!
The twenty-ninth day of the lunar year.
The 29th day of the 12th lunar month is also called the 29th day of the lunar year or the Little New Year's Eve. Since ancient times, people have believed that the first and last days of the year should not be too busy, so you should not do too much work on New Year's Eve.
Everything needed for the Chinese New Year must be prepared before New Year’s Eve.
The twelfth lunar month can be said to be the busiest month of the year, because people start preparing for the New Year from Laba, starting from the Little New Year until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
The main things to do today are to worship ancestors and steam buns.
Visiting ancestors on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month is also commonly known as "visiting the graves of the previous year". It reflects the traditional virtues of the Chinese people of respecting, honoring and loving the elderly, and is a manifestation of filial piety.
Ancestor worship on this day can also express the descendants' gratitude and longing for their ancestors, express gratitude to the ancestors' spirits in heaven, and pray that the ancestors can bless the descendants with peace and success in the new year.
Today, steaming buns means "prospering day by day".
There are also some taboos.
The first rule is that quarreling is prohibited.
The Chinese New Year is a time for joy and happiness. Many migrant workers take advantage of this time to return home, but the long journey inevitably makes them feel irritable.
If you have a minor conflict with someone on the road, don't say anything harsh or violent. Remember that the Spring Festival is a time for joy. Nothing is impossible, so everyone can go home and celebrate the New Year peacefully.
The second rule is that you cannot say anything unlucky.
During the Chinese New Year period, try not to say words like "broken, broken, dead", and even homophonic words should be avoided as much as possible.
During the Spring Festival, everyone hopes to hear good words, which is also a good omen for the coming year. You may think that saying one or two bad words is insignificant, but it can easily cause a bad impression on others.
Why not say a few words to acquaintances when you meet them: Happy New Year, Congratulations on your prosperity or something nice. It will make others happy and you will be happy too. Why not do it?
There are a lot of things to do today, so everyone got up early in the morning.
First of all, Bai Yuer and her family will arrive at 11 o'clock today. Zhao Fangling and Du Shuisheng must go to pick them up. It is definitely not enough for just the two of them to go. A few more people must go to help carry the luggage and so on.
However, year-round ancestor worship is also the most important ceremony of the year, and the entire family must attach great importance to it.
The 29th day of the 12th lunar month is the traditional day for ancestor worship. On this day, every household visits the graves to ask for offerings from their ancestors.
Ancestor worship is a Chinese tradition of respecting and caring for one's parents. It is not only a form of filial piety, but also a deeply rooted concept of kinship.
After breakfast, Du Yuanhong and his family arrived.
(The Du family didn't have any extra rooms, so Du Yuanhong and his family stayed at their own home and came over in the morning.)
Du Shuisheng took his three sons back to his hometown. Since Wu Xiuzhen and Du Yuemin were old, they stopped going back and forth.
After the four men in the family left, the women in the family also started to get busy.
The first thing we need to do today is steamed buns, which are the staple food during the Chinese New Year. In addition to steamed buns, we also need to steam flower rolls, bean curd, etc.
Zhao Fangling arranged everyone to do what they were good at in an orderly manner. For example, Du Wanying was responsible for making steamed buns and bean buns, and her sister-in-law was responsible for kneading the dough.
Grandpa was responsible for lighting the fire, while mother and grandmother were responsible for making steamed buns.
In addition, the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month is also known as "The 29th, go get some wine."
In the past few days, every household has prepared food, and in the next few days they will prepare some wine.
For adults, wine is an essential part of the New Year's dinner. So why do people say "dajiu" (get wine) instead of "buy wine" (buy wine)?
This was because many people in those days could not afford to buy bottled wine. People would use their own bottles or plastic bags and buy wine from the supply and marketing cooperatives, which would put the wine in large containers, which was much cheaper.
After Du Wanying finished wrapping the steamed buns and bean buns, Zhao Fangling sent her out to buy some wine.
However, if this job fell on Du Wanying, she would definitely not go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy wine.
Why spend money on bad wine when there are better wines in the space that don’t cost money?
But now Du Wanying is in trouble because there are too many people on the road! She can't find a chance to enter the space.
After all, it is the New Year, and the atmosphere is different. There are constant pedestrians coming and going on the road, and everyone's face is filled with happy smiles.
Finally, half an hour later, Du Wanying found an opportunity to enter the space. She put the ingredients into the brewing machine with her mind and turned to go to the kitchen.
She had to treat herself well for the New Year, right? First, she made kebabs out of the sheep she had killed earlier, then she used her mind to pluck various vegetables.
Since it was a barbecue, beer was a must. Du Wanying took out the beer that had been placed in the refrigerator, thus completing the preliminary preparations for the meal.
But she didn't have time to eat now. She was so busy today, and it wouldn't be good if she went out to buy a drink for more than an hour.
If it took forty or fifty minutes, it would be understandable. After all, there would be a lot of people going to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy wine today, so there would definitely be a queue. If she hadn't returned home in more than an hour, Zhao Fangling would probably think she had fallen into a wine jar.
Making sure that there was no one around, Du Wanying came out of the space directly and walked home with the white wine.
It was almost time to pick up Bai Yuer and her family. Thinking of this, Du Wanying quickened her pace and walked home.
But she probably didn't need to answer it, after all, it was almost noon and she still had to cook.
Sure enough, as soon as she got home, she saw her parents and her eldest and third brothers were already getting ready to leave.
"Yingying, you're back. We're going to the station to pick up our in-laws. You don't have to go. Just rest at home for a while."
Zhao Fangling said this in a refreshed tone, unable to hide the smile on her face.
"Okay, Mom and Dad, be careful on the road."
Zhao Fangling reminded: "Well, by the way, Yingying, don't rush to cook. You still have time to do it after taking a break."
"I know, Mom."
Only after watching her parents and brothers riding farther and farther away did Du Wanying turn around and go home.
"Grandma, sister-in-law, I'm back."
Tang Xiao hurried out of the kitchen when she heard Du Wanying's voice. "Little sister, Mom told me before she left that you should rest for a while after you come back before cooking. There's still time, so don't worry."
"I know, sister-in-law. I met my parents at the door when I came back just now."
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