On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, there is a special name in many places in China - Little New Year.

There is a folk song that children sing during the Chinese New Year, "The Twenty-Three Sugar Melon Sticks", which means that the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is to worship the Kitchen God every year, which means that the New Year is about to begin.

In ancient times, there was a saying that officials three people and four boats five, which meant that the government sacrificed the kitchen on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, while ordinary people paid the kitchen on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month. The latest one on the water was on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month. After two, this custom gradually evolved into "23rd, celebrate the Little New Year."

However, Wang Yong really ate sugar melons when he was a child. One cent is small, and one for five cents is much larger. You can hold it in your mouth for half a day, which is very resistant to eating! This thing is so sticky!

However, there is no custom of "sweet melon sticking" in the local area, nor is there a custom of offering sacrifices to the kitchen. Local people usually clean the house on this day, which is called eliminating the old and welcoming the new.

Schools, usually primary and junior high school students, are on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month during winter vacation. Wang Yong was absolutely impressed by this.

"Hey! Wang Yong, do you remember that on the day of winter vacation that year, we posted the "Winter Vacation Homework" that was bound into a booklet for the first time."

Speaking of this, Dawei, who was holding a cigarette in his mouth and even smoking, touched Wang Yong with his shoulders, with a cramped smile on his face. Wang Yong gave him a dissatisfied look. How could he forget that, and he will never forget it in his life!

It was when he was in the third grade of elementary school. During the winter vacation that year, the teacher did not assign winter vacation homework as usual. He had to recite the text several times to check, how many essays he had to write, how many numerical learning questions he had to do, and how many new words he had to write thirty or forty times.

Fortunately, the rural areas of Gangcheng were still very backward and poor at that time. For example, the children nowadays learned English classes from childhood, which only started in junior high school. This way, there was a winter vacation homework missing. There was no need to worry about having to attend cram school during the Chinese New Year, so you could have fun.

What makes Wang Yong most annoyed about the winter vacation homework is composition. This thing requires the number of words, but it is not possible to write less. There is no requirement for describing scenery or recording events. It is just one sentence, ten essays, each of which cannot be less than three hundred words!

God! I don’t even want to write new words according to the book, so I don’t have time to rack my brains to write essays for you! But at that time, Wang Yong had a brilliant plan.

He has a book "Excellent Essay on Primary School Students". With the book "Selected Classified Essays for Primary School Students" in Dawei, it almost covers all his compositions in six years of elementary school.

However, if you want to do this so that the teacher can’t find any faults, there are many tips. If you copy it, you can’t just copy it all in a daze, without any changes.

Wang Yong summarized a series of experiences, such as: names, whether they are place names or people's names, must be changed; and some plots that are obviously inconsistent with your identity must also be changed.

For example, someone else's composition is written by a child in the city. You, a rural child, also writes how to clean your own room, the bathroom, clean the kitchen, wipe the glass, and then how to get tired and sweaty, keep a pile of garbage and send it to the trash can downstairs.

You are really a fool to be a teacher! When did you live in the stairs at your house?

In my uncle's words, you are seriously skeptical of the teacher's IQ! You are scolding naked: Teacher, you are a fool!

The fat guy, a slut, had done such a thing. The slut did not remember that he had not written any of his ten essays on the last day of the holiday. So he copied the essay book according to the composition book. However, there was also a masterpiece he wrote and it was said that he had worked hard to write.

So there was a joke that had been passed down by their primary school for many years.

The title of the composition is "My Day", which is a very ordinary topic, but the genius Fatty wrote this composition so heart-wrenching and touching!

His composition is written like this: I have nothing to do this day. At around nine o'clock in the morning, my mother was lifted up from bed. At half past nine o'clock, I started eating after washing my face.

Today’s breakfast was rice porridge and pickled vegetables, which I didn’t like. At 9:40, I hurriedly finished a bowl of porridge and stopped eating it, and then cleaned it up and left the house at 9:50.

The whole text is about what time I did, what time I ate, what time I did with my friends, and what time his father asked him to buy something.

The teacher wrote a comment in red at the end of this essay: You have a strong sense of time! But it is best not to use it in writing essays!

The composition here was posted directly on the blackboard behind the class by the very bad Chinese teacher. It was posted for a whole semester. It was not until the end of the semester that the fat man exposed it under the guise of cleaning the teacher.

I am off topic, or the matter of homework that year. The teachers did not assign homework that year because each student was given a book with more than 30 pages of "Winter Vacation Homework".

I don’t know what the great god thought of to make money. It is said that the entire Beihe Province, whether it is in cities or villages, whether it is elementary school or high school students, has given each book to each book.

But at that time, at least Wang Yong and the others were very happy. Because this winter vacation homework not only included various Chinese and math exercises, but also many small stories, jokes, scientific common sense, brain teasers, etc. How could these rural children who rarely come into contact with extracurricular reading materials be unhappy?

However, there is another saying that this matter is unpredictable, that is, the answer can be printed on the back of this book "Winter Vacation Homework"!

This made those naughty kids who were unwilling to use their brains so much fun! It was very simple to copy and save much time to play!

Of course, this situation cannot always happen. It is useless for the second year of winter vacation and during the summer vacation, the teachers learn well. They directly tore off the answers to the "Summer Holiday Homework" before sending them to the students, which made Wang Yong and the others complain.

In Wang Yong's memory of the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, in addition to the winter vacation, he also usually helps his parents clean the guards at home when he goes home from school.

Moving a stool, moving the table, and wiping the glass is the most annoying thing for Wang Yong. No matter how he did it, the glass was still fancy in the end, and his mother caught it and preached.

There were bungalows in the countryside. At that time, there was no house with reinforced concrete structures that are now. They were all made of wooden beams and there was no ceiling (suspended ceiling). So over the past year, there were always some spider webs and other things left in every corner.

The bedding on the kang is usually moved to the yard for drying, or piled up on the open space, and other furniture and decorations will be covered with a piece of cloth or sheets, old clothes, etc. to prevent dust from falling out when cleaning the house.

Of course, if it happened to be snowing or windy that day, the bedding would be stacked directly in a corner of the kang and covered with sheets to prevent dust from falling on it.

When it comes to cleaning the house, it’s very simple. It’s only ten minutes to get it done. Take a broom, tie it up with a long pole, and sweep the spider webs and dust on the roof beams around the house.

Then my mother would always take off the old clothes, bedding, etc. at home, wash what should be washed, and work hard until it was almost noon.

Since the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is called the New Year, the food on this day is of course much better than usual. The conditions for stir-frying several dishes are different, and each is fixed. But there is one point that is the same for every family, that is, the meal must have fish and meat.

Meat is the stewed meat that every rural family needs to prepare during the Chinese New Year. The method is very simple, just the time for blood medicine.

Cut the large pieces of pork belly into small pieces they are used to, then pour them into a large iron pot and start refining first. When the oil in the meat is almost done, weigh the oil, then start adding soy sauce, pepper and other ingredients, and then add water to stew it.

After the meat is cooked, it will be stored in a large bowl or basin. In the cold winter, it will not break even if it is left for ten or half a month.

When you want to eat, you don’t have to put anything else. Just put it on the cage and steam it, and you can taste this dish of stewed meat. However, this dish was indeed a delicacy for many rural people who lacked meat in that era, but it made Wang Yong very depressed.

Because he didn't know when it started, he hated eating fatty meat. He usually pinched dumplings at home and chopped the fatty meat into fillings. As long as he found that there was a little fat in the dumplings, he didn't have to think about it and would throw off his chopsticks and throw his temper at it.

The fat meat of the stewed meat made Wang Yong dislike it, and the lean meat part was completely depressed. He had been big in his teeth since he was a child, and no one knew about orthopedics at that time, so when he ate lean meat, he would stuff his teeth, which would make you feel uncomfortable and make you lose your appetite.

What Wang Yong likes the most is fish. No matter what the family conditions are, eating a fish on this day is a custom that every family has never changed. Even the most difficult family will have a fish on the dining table on this day.

Just like making stewed meat, fish is also stewed in one pot. All the fish prepared for the New Year are cleaned up, and then put them in a large pot and stew them together. When eating, put them in the pot to steam them. I don’t know how many years of tradition this method has followed.

Families with good conditions generally eat carp, grass carp, and of course they also buy sea fish such as tilapia, pomfret, and yellow croaker. Those with poor conditions at home will eat silver carp, or mackerel or swallow fish in the sea.

By the way, there is another type of fish that is very rare. Generally, it will be snatched and collapsed. This thing is the best among local fish, with delicious taste and tender meat. However, due to environmental pollution and other reasons, this kind of fish is rare.

Hairfish had more bones and less meat. At that time, there were very few stewed fish, but it was not because it was expensive. In fact, hairtail was quite cheap locally at that time, but few locals ate this kind of fish.

Imagine that the gorgeous hairtails that are now packaged, and some are called swordfish, are listed on the list of gifts in a grand manner. Wang Yong is always very puzzled. What is the delicious food of this thing? (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

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