Chapter 743

Compared with the capital city, the weather of Zhangjia village in Northeast China thousands of miles away is even colder. At night, there is no ghost shadow on the road, let alone the night when the families close to worship the kitchen god.

According to legend, the kitchen god was originally a star in the sky. Because of his fault, he was relegated to the world by the Jade Emperor and became the "director of the eastern kitchen".

He sat in the middle of the kitchen stoves of each household, recording how people lived and how they acted. On the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, the kitchen god would go up to heaven and report the good and evil of the family to the Jade Emperor for reward and punishment. Therefore, on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, people offer sacrifices to the kitchen god.

Zhangjia village is located in the north of China. It is different from the south. It takes the 24th lunar month as the Lunar New Year's Eve. It has always followed the tradition of the 23rd lunar month as the Lunar New Year's Eve.

The custom of "men do not worship the moon, women do not worship the kitchen stove". Therefore, sacrificing to the kitchen god is limited to men.

In the kitchen, father Zhang drove away the women and girls. He took out a kitchen god statue from his underwear pocket and pasted it respectfully in front of the stove. He said, "don't be surprised.".

On a table set in front of the stove, there are four kinds of candy, water, beans and hay, and a milk sugar is melted with fire and stuck on the kitchen god's mouth.

Originally, a few years ago, he stuck the kitchen god's mouth with Guandong sugar, so that he would not speak ill of the Jade Emperor. He also intended to make the kitchen King's mouth sweet and just say good words.

But Zhang's father thinks that immortals are also human beings, and they should like milk candy more than Guandong sugar. Since the kitchen god is sweet, you must use the best.

I didn't see them. Since the beginning of using milk sugar, the days are better. For this, he began to tell his two old brothers in private that they must use milk sugar since last year.

Whether Uncle Zhang and Uncle Zhang believe it or not, ordinary people still don't want to tell!

Zhang's father led the two brothers to kneel on the ground and kowtowed three times. He stood up and took off the image of the kitchen god and burned it together with the grass and horse. He kowtowed and prayed while burning.

After the ceremony of sacrificing the kitchen god, father Zhang motioned to his wife and his daughter-in-law to come in and clean up the mess. Even if each family secretly secretly worships a sacrifice, it may not be conspicuous in front of outsiders. It is better to have less trouble.

In the main room, father Zhang sat on the Kang with his legs folded. He took out his long pipe and took out the leaves from the basket. After lighting it, he took a deep breath and slowly spit it out with half narrowed eyes.

"Dad, are you comfortable?"

Zhang Guofu looked at his younger brother's frowning and pounding his father's back with a straight smile.

"Yes, you've been hammering all night."

Hearing this, Zhang Guofu couldn't help laughing.

"Dad, are you really going to the capital after the new year? Or don't go, I and big brother are in the county, something can talk to you and your mother. Far away, we can only catch the blind

Zhang Guofu shook his head in disapproval: "it's no good if you don't go. It's lovely and happy. No one in our family has passed by. It's not good-looking. Dad, you go to live with your mother for a few days and come back. "

"Big brother, do you think this time is the same as last time, you can come back after staying for a week? Our family small five letter every day asked whether the supply of food is not enough, how about the body and bones of parents, and how the capital is good. I don't think we can go home until two or three years ago. "

Zhang's father grinned when he thought of the old son's letter to himself about the Hutong courtyard where he could see the palace in the room, and what little grandson didn't take with him.

"Dad, don't worry about laughing. What do you think is in the capital? We still have your old brother in the village, and you have a large number of old friends in the county town. What's it like to go to the capital? "

Zhang Guofu heard that his parents were going to live there for a long time! He was silent for a while, and looked at Zhang's father eagerly: "Dad, you'd better not go, let my mother go there, take a look at Jiaojiao and come back."

Father Zhang gave him a blank look.

"Hehe, let the second younger sister and his mother go together."

"No. She's like a sister-in-law. Mother don't go, Dad, you go! When the time comes, you will say that you are worried about your mother. As long as your mother doesn't go to the capital city, Xiaowu doesn't dare to keep you. "

Zhang's father, worried that his two daughters-in-law would hear it, glared at him: "nonsense! We agreed. After the first month, your mother will take your daughter-in-law and their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law into Beijing. Wait for Jiaojiao to give birth to a baby soon, then I will talk with my mother. It's no use worrying less. Don't look at you, uncle Zhou is so delicate. There is no shortage of people in the family to serve the baby. "

Mr. Zhang frowned. What the hell are you doing? I don't have a lock on my mouth. I'll say anything when I come back. And his sister-in-law, although it seems to have been changed now, who can guarantee the truth.

Zhang's father, Lao Chengjing, couldn't see that his two sons disagreed. But his family Jiaojiao said reasonable, should show some muscles to show people, also can't hide tuck in.

I know the temperament of the first two daughters-in-law. Just take the past, let Jiaojiao adjust a few hands, go to see the sperm of those people in the capital, so as not to be implicated in his son.

"Dad, I'm going to see if my elder sister can go on holiday and ask her to accompany my mother."

Zhang's father gave his second son a look: "go back and let Lao Zhang take care of his family? Your elder sister can't leave. She has to take care of the family. Your brother-in-law is a good man, but he has no idea. "

"Where's the second sister?"

Father Zhang shook his head: "the water thrown out by the married girl. She has her little family, and the children are still young. "Zhang Guofu's two brothers looked at Zhang's father in surprise. You know, his father treats their five brothers and sisters equally, but he doesn't have any preference for boys.

Father Zhang hesitantly knocked on his long pipe and said in a low voice, "I'm going to let your mother take your daughter-in-law to see the world. Only when she sees more danger and more knowledge can she not live by her temper. "

Zhang Guofu and his brothers looked at each other.

"When I write a letter to Xiao Wu, he will understand what I mean. A family in addition to the men to stand up to live, but also the mother-in-law, understand the sense of propriety. In this way, the day will be more and more prosperous. "

Zhang's father closed his mouth. Some things can only be understood by themselves. It is useless to say too much.

In the bedroom of the main room at night, Mrs. Zhang blew the light and lay on the Kang beside her wife. She thought of the surprised and happy faces of the two daughter-in-law, and felt a little uneasy.

"Father, do you want to discuss this idea with Xiao Wu first?"

Zhang's father said with a smile: "no, your old son can guess his Laozi's plan as long as he knows that you take his two sister-in-law in the past."

"How about Jiaojiao? Do you want to say hello to her first? I'm afraid that the child is so stupid that he doesn't know how to hide his family and take everything out. "

"No. She can't trust anyone except us

"Yes. I'm just worried about these two moths. "

"Some time ago, brother a Guang told me that it was going to be windy again. I don't worry about the children we have. I worry about the two daughters-in-law. In the past, you asked Jiaojiao to press down the minds of these two people for me, especially the boss. "

"The more you talk, the more mysterious it is. You'd better go together. I'm afraid it won't work. "

Zhang's father patted his wife, "I can't leave in the first month. I've been busy working in the village for a whole winter. It's almost over. What's next? I have to keep an eye on it. This is your old son secretly leading the village. I have to watch him and don't let him get involved.

What's more, this time you've asked little five, what's the school going to do with the baby? I can't. We may have to go and take care of our little grandson. No matter how careful the servants are, we can't compare with watching the children ourselves

Zhang's mother said that when she saw her wife, she did not persuade her again. Her wife has a pen account in her heart. As for what account, she doesn't understand. She just listens to his arrangement.

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