Civilian Edition Traveling Farming Diary

New Year's Eve!

In fact, the New Year’s Eve in the village is no different from the usual, but every household will make dumplings for dinner at night—except for the very poor.

Our family not only has to make dumplings, but also to post Spring Festival couplets.

The Spring Festival couplets were given by the storyteller’s family. Chen Xiang said that people in towns and counties usually post Spring Festival couplets. It’s rare to hear that there are couplets posted in the village. He has never posted them before. I am very excited and looking forward to the Spring Festival couplets. This is very new to him and to any villager.It is said that only the village chief and Lang Zhong's family can post Spring Festival couplets in the village.

Chen Xiang got up early to boil the paste, put water in the pot, added the noodles and kept stirring, the paste was formed, he boiled a little, it was noodles!

Let the paste cool, and we will go to the door to paste Spring Festival couplets.

I first wiped off the dust on the wall by the door with a dry cloth, then brushed the paste, and quickly pasted the Spring Festival couplets. Chen Xiang also wanted to try it, so I asked him to paste it on the bottom, and I slapped the place where he couldn't reach it. Just go up.

Many children in the village came to watch the fun and asked me what was written on it. Although I don’t know how to write traditional Chinese characters, most of them can be recognized even with a mask. The characters on this couplet are even easier to recognize: "Peace and safety for a family, a prosperous New Year's Eve", horizontal comment: The whole family is reunited.How simple!

Haha, it doesn't matter, the Spring Festival couplets are meant to celebrate, and although the Spring Festival couplets are a bit rusty, the blessings in them are still good, so that's it, it would be nice to have Spring Festival couplets.

When posting the blessing, Chen Xiang told me to post it backwards, so as to have the meaning of blessing, of course I obeyed.

After the Spring Festival couplets were posted, all the children in the village circled around curiously, reading those words over and over again, and some even stretched out their little hands to ask me word by word. I was suddenly very touched, these children are so curious. , but in this backward era, except for the Spring Festival couplets, there is not even a big character in the village, and they have no possibility of going to school in this life.

I taught them word by word, and the children were very happy. When I saw Chen Xiang staring at those words, I made up my mind to let Chen Xiang know how to read and read.

Of course, I am also the same. I also don’t know a lot of characters, and I can’t read ancient Chinese. I don’t even understand the writing format of those articles. That’s not what I imagined before, just reading from left to right vertically!

I used to think that going to school was a very difficult thing, but now driven by these dirty village children, I feel a little thirsty for knowledge.

After the Chinese New Year, go to the town to buy a book. The Three Character Classic and Thousand Character Classic will do. Read all the characters first.

The children read the words on the Spring Festival couplets for a while, and then wanted to touch the Spring Festival couplets, but they were very sensible, and they were afraid of breaking the Spring Festival couplets.

I said touch it, don't touch it, just tear it off.

A child cautiously stretched out his hand to touch a corner of the Spring Festival couplets, then quickly withdrew his hand, looked at his red fingertips in surprise, and said, "It's so red!"

Some children gathered around to look at it, and seeing that I was pampering, they all went up and touched it several times, and my Spring Festival couplets suddenly turned into flowers.

Haha, children are really fun. I don’t mind the Spring Festival couplets getting dirty at all. I think there is nothing better than children’s innocence and cuteness. I would like these children to make trouble at my door.

The children made a fuss, stretching out their red palms to wipe their companions' faces.

A child booed: "Miss Chun, you have blush, and you are looking for your in-laws!"

"Brother Xi, let me smear your red lips, will you be my husband?"

"..."

They were crazy, and Chen Xiang and I also followed suit. I quietly smeared my finger red, squeezed in front of Chen Xiang, and whispered: "Ah Xiang, let me put on some lipstick for you too?"

Chen Xiang's face turned red, and she said in embarrassment, "What are you talking about!" Then he lifted his foot and entered the door.

When the children saw it, they booed outside, shouting that Uncle Chen Xiang was shy and so on.

I flicked the brains of a few children who were leading the booing, and they rubbed their heads and laughed even harder.

The children all said that Uncle Zhang Cheng was really kind, and the village head and doctor never let them touch the Spring Festival couplets.

At that moment, I felt that I had integrated into the village and became a real villager.

In the end, I didn't put any lipstick on Chen Xiang, ha, but his original lip color is already pretty.

In the evening we made dumplings, yes we did!

It was also the first time I made dumplings in my life, and each one was terrible, the soup was spilled all over the floor, and it was staggering. Chen Xiang was not very good at making dumplings. He said that he hadn’t made dumplings a few times before, but he made two. After one, you can make dumplings with thin skin and big stuffing. Each one is round and round, like a small ingot, which is very beautiful.

While making the dumplings, he boiled the water. When the dumplings were finished, the water was boiled. Chen Xiang threw the dumplings into the boiling water pot one by one, and kept stirring them with a long-handled spoon so that the dumplings would not stick to the pot. will break.

I was still in charge of lighting the fire. From time to time, I watched the dumplings in the pot lined up and being stirred up and swimming around like fish. The soup was dyed in color after a while. It was the ugly dumplings I made that broke the skin...

But it's also kind of fun, isn't it?

Chen Xiang added cold water twice, saying it was called some dumplings, and when the water boiled for the last time, he said it was ready to eat.

The dumplings are all floating on the water, like a group of white and fat seals huddled together, very cute.

Chen Xiang served the dumplings, and I set the table, picked up some pickles, cracked two salted duck eggs, and mixed a big bowl of pork head meat with onions.This table of New Year's Eve dinner is complete.

We ate on the warm kang. The dumplings were stuffed with pork and cabbage. There was a lot of pork, and the taste was very delicious. When you bite into it, the soup will flow out, which is delicious.

Chen Xiang brought two bowls of dumpling water, saying that the original soup turned into the original food, and it was easy to digest after drinking.

What a perfect New Years Eve!

We are all fed up, with sweat dripping from our foreheads, very satisfied. Chen Xiang's clothes and shoes are ready today, and tomorrow we can all wear new clothes for the New Year. Look at this life, it's delicious.

We don't keep the New Year's Eve, mainly because we don't have a clock or a mobile phone. We don't know when the New Year's Eve will be, and we have to go to bed when we are sleepy.

The warm heat made me relax physically and mentally. I leaned on the quilt, held Chen Xiang's hand, and invited him to stay again.

"I want to have you with me at the beginning of the new year, okay?"

This time Chen Xiang didn't refuse, he blushed and said, "Then I'll get my own quilt."

I smiled and said, "Okay."

When Chen Xiang came back with the quilt in his arms, I had already got into the bed, and I left the kang head to him, it was warmer there.

He blushed and asked me to turn my back, I wondered: "Can't face to face?"

He was angry: "I want to take off my clothes!"

Ah, well, I turned my back and heard the rustling sound of undressing behind me, I felt a little hot, you know.

I heard the sound of Chen Xiang throwing off the quilt and getting into bed, I asked him: "Are you ready?"

He hummed quietly.

I propped up my upper body and blew out the candle.

Yes, tonight we lit candles, red ones.