"Niu Niu" is the dialect of Yuanmeng County, a name for small insects.

Looking for "Niu Niu" on the night of the 23rd means a good harvest in the coming year.

In the winter, there are generally no insects coming out.

Unless the bonfire is burning brightly, the temperature is too high and the small black shelled insects hiding in the nooks and crannies are disturbed and tricked out.

Mrs. Si welcomed Si Qingbai and Si Xuemei into the door, and Wan Hong hurried back to the house to help make tea and pour water.

A group of juniors were playing with a bonfire in the yard, competing to see who could find more "cows".

Si Yin felt it was childish and had stopped participating in these years.

Sichong is the most enthusiastic about the character of a child:

"Look, I found it!"

Suddenly, his sister threw cold water: "You don't cultivate the land, so what's the use of finding it?"

Si Chong:...Sister, I can bear it!

Si Chen hugged his daughter and found one at the base of the wall. He squatted down and the father and daughter chased the little black bug to see.

Suddenly, he also said:

"Xiao Chong, I have swapped out all the fields at home. I won't be farming anymore next spring."

Si Chong:...you are still not my biological brother!

Si Chen raised his eyebrows, his expression seemed to say: Cousin!

After Si Xuemei and Si Qingbai got married and went to Longcheng, their household registration was moved out and settled in Longcheng.

The fields at home no longer belong to them, let alone Si Yin and his brother.

When the bonfire was burned out and only a pile of hot ashes remained, Si Letian took two steamed buns out of the house and asked:

"I want to bake steamed buns to eat. Who wants it? Sign up!"

"I want it!" Si Chong responded positively, his childlike innocence still intact.

"I want to bake sweet potatoes." Si Chen said this for Yan Lixia.

"I want baked potatoes." Si Yin's preferences are different from others.

"Sister, you bake potatoes every year, can't you change them to different ones?" Si Chong complained without fear of death.

Si Yin glared at him and signaled to shut up.

"Sister, how much do you like potatoes!" Sichong and Lotte squatted beside the fire, each holding a chopstick with a steamed bun stuck on it, baking it.

"Shredded potatoes, sliced ​​potatoes, diced potatoes, mashed potatoes, even the potato flour that always breaks into crumbs when cooked, you like them all...ah!"

Si Chong got a military boot on his butt and became quiet.

Yan Lixia took out some potatoes and sweet potatoes, used firewood sticks to dig open the pile of red ashes, and simmered them in.

Within two minutes, the adults came out and shouted:

"Boys, it's time to offer incense to the Kitchen God!"

Since we are sending the Kitchen God to heaven, we must kowtow.

Si Qingbai led the team, and the men in the family, Si Chen, Sichong, and Xiao Ping'an, all had to kowtow.

Of course, little Ping An was held in his father's arms.

The female relatives will not go, this is a rule passed down from our ancestors.

In Yuanmeng County, female relatives are not allowed to go to any sacrificial occasion except white events.

The Kitchen God went up to heaven and wanted to ride a big rooster. Si Chen killed it this morning.

It had already been washed and cleaned, and it was placed in the middle of the sacrifice.

For the rest, except for some New Year food, the most important thing is sugar melon!

The Kitchen God’s responsibilities: God speaks good things and ensures peace in the lower realms.

Since you are going to return to life, how can you be allowed to talk nonsense?

The sugar melon must stick to your mouth!

After kowtowing, a group of juniors gathered around the ashes to look for the sweet potatoes they had buried.

The cooling time of the ashes is a bit short, and the sweet potatoes buried in them are very small, and the large ones cannot be cooked.

Si Chong went to kowtow, but Si Letian had already heated up the steamed buns. They were scorched on the outside and hot on the inside. He handed them over:

"Brother Chong, here you go."

"Thank you, sister!" Si Chong took it and smelled it: "Wow! It smells so good!"

"Xiao Chong, give me a piece." Si Yin used his strength at the critical moment.

"No! Sister, why do you always steal my steamed buns? When I ask you if you want to bake one, you always say no, and when it's cooked, you always steal my steamed buns!"

"Sister, I'll give you a piece." Si Letian just joined in the fun and wasn't hungry.

My aunt's family just came back and they didn't eat much on the way. My cousin must be hungry.

As smart as Lotte, I broke off most of it for my cousin.

Si Yin smiled, took it, and patted his little cousin on the head.

Si Chen, on his side, pulled the sweet potatoes out of the ashes, burned his fingers, and tried to peel them open for his wife.

Yan Lixia was sitting on a small stool, holding Xiao Ping'an in her arms. Xiao Yuanman had already gone to sleep.

It’s almost 10 o’clock for Xiao Ping’an, a sleeping bastard, and he still doesn’t fall asleep!

Yan Lixia saw Si Chen handing over the sweet potatoes and hurried to pick them up.

"Don't take it, it's very hot. Even your tender fingers won't blister even if you touch them?"

Si Chen's voice was not high, and his tone was very soft, with a hint of endearment.

The other three people next to them suddenly started cheering, "Yo yo yo!"

Yan Lixia was no longer so thin-skinned. She endured her embarrassment and opened her mouth to bite the sweet potato on Si Chen's hand.

The little Ping An in his arms watched his mother eating something that tasted so special and fragrant. He couldn't help it and the dolphin screamed and stood up.

Without squealing, the little guy threw up his arms and legs and rushed over to grab his father's hand.

"Hey, if you don't give it, you won't give it!" Si Chen teased his son and took the sweet potato away.

Wow, your son burst into tears.

The group of people laughed, and Si Chen moved the sweet potato over again and gave his son a lick.

Wow!

Xiaoping's eyes lit up!

What kind of delicacy is this?

This time, the arms and legs moved more happily.

The dolphin's voice started to soar, it yelled, it competed with its mother for food, and it would not stop until it was in its mouth!

For a seven-and-a-half-month-old baby, the lower two front teeth have fully grown in, and the upper two front teeth have just grown halfway.

Little Ping An's teeth came out relatively early, with two white tips appearing on his front teeth at five and a half months old.

Although Xiao Yuanman is chubby, her two lower front teeth have only recently grown in.

The sweet potato that was originally cooked for Yan Lixia was unexpectedly licked by Xiao Ping'an.

After Mrs. Si came out, she was annoyed: "Sweet potatoes are easy to make your stomach sink. My great-grandson is still a baby. How dare you feed him so much?"

Si Chen felt a little aggrieved: "Grandma, he's already had some non-staple food. That's all. Besides, what didn't we eat when we were kids?"

"How can it be the same? My great-grandson is so valuable!"

Si Chen:......-_-||

Yes, I am no longer your most beloved grandson!

…

Si Qingbai has a special status and is secretly protected every time he returns home.

They didn't eat much all the way back.

Therefore, Mrs. Si arranged for Wan Hong to cook dumplings.

I knew that we came here specially for a reunion on New Year's Eve. The dumplings were made during the day and we were waiting for this meal in the evening.

While the family was having dinner, Si Chen also brought a large porcelain basin of dumplings and sent them to his yard.

Si Chong followed over with a tall pile of foreign porcelain bowls and a pair of chopsticks in his hand.

This is for Si Qingbai's guards.

There were about ten people, all young men in plain clothes.

Tonight, they will take turns on duty and will not all rest in the house.

I'm so young, I'll eat you to death.

Si Chen was afraid that they would not have enough to eat, so he brought another basin over and asked:

"Is it enough? There are more at home!"

The older one was embarrassed and kept nodding his head, saying enough is enough.

There was a new egg who came to perform this task for the first time and said weakly:

"Half full."
Chapter completed!