Chapter 100 Mission Accomplished
Four things need to be prepared for ancestor worship: a bowl of steamed buns, a bowl of tofu, a bowl of pork and a fish.
Lu Xing had already started lighting the stove early in the morning. He had to steam the buns himself, and there was no time to make tofu, so he could only ask someone else to buy some for him.
Although the two black pigs have been raised for less than a year, they have grown a lot of meat. After the Chinese New Year, Lu Xing plans to find someone to kill one of the pigs.
Xiaobai and Xiaohua have been playing outside these two days, mainly because after the young people outside came back, the villagers cooked delicious food these days.
As for the leftover bones and the like, they are given away to the cats and dogs in the village.
So they will go to whichever restaurant has more delicious food these days.
The pork and fish for ancestor worship do not need to be cooked in a complicated way. After frying them in oil, steam them together with the steamed buns until cooked.
All she had to do was check on the fire from time to time and put some firewood in to keep it from going out.
After the four dishes are prepared, you can start worshiping your ancestors.
There was no memorial tablet or portrait in her house. There was only an incense burner in front of the table and four dishes placed behind it.
First light six incense sticks, then burn yellow paper.
After burning the yellow paper, bow three times to the table.
Lu Xing kept saying in her heart that she hoped her ancestors would bless them with peace and safety in the new year.
Then put the incense in the incense burner, and when the incense is burned out, the ancestor worship is over.
After that, we went to the kitchen to worship the Kitchen God.
When worshiping the Kitchen God, you need to light three incense sticks facing the earthen stove.
There are three pots on the earthen stove. It is said that the largest pot is where the Kitchen God lives, and people face that direction when worshiping him.
Lu Xing didn’t know what other people said to the Kitchen God, but she usually asked him to bless her with good food and drink in the new year.
This year, there is a new system, and she also has a new wish, hoping that the system can complete its tasks smoothly.
The system was a little curious. [Host, why do you offer sacrifices during your New Year's Eve dinner? Isn't it the tomb-sweeping ritual on New Year's Day?]
Isn’t this the same thing?
Lu Xing: "Of course it's different. Today is New Year's Eve, the last day of the year. The main purpose of worshipping on this day is to reunite with the family. Even for deceased ancestors, we hope that they can have a full meal on this day."
"New Year's Day is the first day of the new year, a fresh start. Just like young people who leave for work say goodbye to their parents on the day they leave, we should also say goodbye to our ancestors before we plan to do anything in the new year."
“It’s a kind of spiritual sustenance.”
After talking to the system, Lu Xing started preparing the New Year’s Eve dinner.
I don’t know what the custom is in other places, but the dishes used in ancestor worship cannot be wasted and have to be cooked and eaten again.
Lu Xing still remembers that when she was little, her mother told her that this dish would be blessed by the ancestors after offering sacrifices to them, and asked her to eat a few more bites so that the ancestors would bless her more.
Lu Xing stewed a soup with fish and tofu, made braised pork with pork, and finally made stir-fried vegetables.
There are enough dishes for her to eat alone.
The system was afraid that she would be bored, so it told her stories it had collected to keep her company.
After dinner, we were supposed to stay up all night until midnight.
Lu Xing was old and couldn't hold on any longer, so he went to bed early.
The next morning, she had an unexpected visitor.
Early in the morning, Lu Nianjun came to pay New Year's greetings to Lu Xing, carrying two pork legs. "Auntie, Happy New Year."
"This is our specialty smoked pork leg. It keeps for a long time. I brought it here especially for you to try."
When he heard that Lu Xing wanted to find someone to help slaughter a pig, Lu Nianjun immediately said that he could do the job.
Normally, it would take three or four young men to help hold down that big white pig. I don’t know if it was because the little black pig from Lu Xing’s family was too small, or because Lu Nianjun was too strong, but he held down the black pig by himself.
When slaughtering a pig, you must first drain the blood and use a basin to catch it so that you can make pig blood soup.
Lu Xing doesn't eat offal, and was originally worried about what to do with the pig liver and intestines. Coincidentally, someone in the village wanted to try the taste of the black pork.
Lu Xing simply sold all the internal organs and pig heads to the villagers.
Half of the remaining pork will be used to make pickled pork for next year, a quarter will be left for Lu Nianjun to take back, and the rest will be given to several good sisters, one portion each.
Just then, Lian Hua and her family came to pay New Year's greetings. Xingxing wore her new clothes and obediently wished Lu Xing a happy New Year. "Grandma Lu, Happy New Year."
"Happy New Year, Happy New Year."
Lu Xing gave him a small red envelope and also gave them a piece of black pork to try.
Lu Dazhuang is now in the stone business. According to Lianhua, the business is pretty good.
Wang Fang’s new job is also pretty good. Lian Hua feels no regrets seeing that the three of them are finally together again.
After seeing them off, several of Lu Xing's adopted relatives also came to visit. When the fertility office was cracking down on excessive births, Lu Xing helped them a lot. During the Chinese New Year, several of her nephews and nieces came to pay New Year's greetings, and then they went to visit the graves with her.
Lu Nianjun also wants to go.
There were several people walking on the road, it was much more lively than when Lu Xing went to the grave alone last year.
Several people helped to clean the grave of Lu Xing's family members thoroughly.
"Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister, I'm here to see you."
"I've made a lot of new friends this year, and I've even found a few godparents for my brother and sister. You won't have to worry about no one visiting your graves in the future."
On the way back from sweeping the grave, several nephews and nieces invited Lu Xing to their home for dinner.
After rejecting them, Lu Xing suddenly heard a familiar ding sound. She had also heard the same sound when she bound the system.
[Host, the exploration level has reached 100%! We have completed the mission!]
[After completing the mission, your wish will be granted. Host, what wish do you want to make?]
"Is the mission completed so quickly? It feels like time has passed so quickly."
[It's been two years. Considering the average system time of one year and seven months to complete a task, our speed isn't very fast.]
After binding to the system, Lu Xing learned a lot of things that he didn't know in his previous life, and his life became much more interesting than in his previous life.
Her wish is to know more interesting things in the future.
[Wish received, being fulfilled——]
Then the system went silent.
Lu Xing saw Lu Nianjun off.
After the Chinese New Year, most people continue to leave their hometowns to work outside.
There was still no movement in the system.
As usual, Lu Xing and her friends gathered under the big tree at the entrance of the village to chat. Occasionally, when they had nothing to talk about, they would make an appointment to go to Hong Xiahua's house to watch a melodrama.
The husbands and mothers-in-law in TV dramas are always bad, and the heroines are always particularly miserable. Lu Xing and the others like to gather together and watch while cursing the bad guys.
Lu Dazhuang, who was in the stone business, gave her a very beautiful tombstone.
She could have her name engraved in large letters on it, and this time she could also engrave a cool saying underneath.
But now, she hasn't decided what to carve.
In the mid-to-late 1990s, society developed rapidly.
But this seems to have nothing to do with Xiaoshi Village. The mountains block their contact with the outside world, and Xiaoshi Village remains the same as before.
The mountains are still mountains, the water is still water, but the roads are better built and the power lines are more stable, so they won’t suddenly trip in the middle of the night.
Lu Xing was almost forgetting about the system.
As time passed, Lu Xing's sisters died one after another.
She lived longer in this life than in her previous one, and when she was about to die, she finally thought of what to engrave on her tombstone.
[Lu Xing, 1937-2020, I've been to this place before, it's not bad, it's worth the trip]
When the system came to find her, Lu Xing was squatting in front of the tombstone and admiring her own tombstone, just like when they first met.
【Host, I will fulfill your wish. 】
"OK."
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Recently, a new system was introduced in the system training class, which uses the appearance of a chicken.
A system came forward curiously and said, "Hello, my name is 77, what's your name?"
Chicken System: "My name is Lu Xing, you can also call me Xingxing."
While they were chatting, the big system on the podium was speaking, "Welcome all systems to participate in our 569th system training. Only systems that successfully graduate can go to other universes."
"I am very happy to be able to teach you all, and I hope everyone can graduate successfully."
"goodbye."
【Author has something to say】
Finished
The system's mission is complete
Lu Xing went to the system training class to eat melons
After thinking about it, the place where the story begins is both the end of the story and a new beginning.
See you in the next book.
Thank you all for your support, thank you so much
I hope you all eat and drink well.
Kiss~(●v●)
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