The Lucky Farmgirl has a Pocket Dimension

183 New Year's Eve

Early in the morning, Zhao Zhitong, Zhao Ya, Zhao Cheng and Zhao Yu crawled out of the warm blankets, because today they can wear new clothes!

After the new clothes were made, they had been hungry for a long time.

Sun Mei has always refused to let them wear them, saying that these are New Year's clothes, and they can't be worn until the New Year's Eve. They are looking forward to this day, but they have been looking forward to it for a long time.

Before going to bed last night, under the shining eyes of the babies, Sun Mei took out everyone's new clothes and put them on the bedside. The excited babies almost didn't fall asleep.

No, when it was just dawn outside, they all got up, put on new clothes and new shoes, and sat on the bed reluctant to get off.

If Zhao Dong hadn't said that he would post couplets after dinner, Zhao Zhitong would probably not be willing to step on his new shoes on the ground.

For breakfast, Sun Mei specially served a large bowl of noodle soup to keep cold. After cooling, it became a paste. In this age without tape, this can be used to paste couplets.

Just after breakfast, the little ones couldn't wait any longer, and pulled Zhao Dong to post couplets.

After everyone summed it up, they decided to start posting from the backyard.

So, Zhao Dong carried the cold paste, a stack of couplets under one arm, followed by a bunch of radish heads, and rushed to the backyard.

When they arrived, Zhao Dong put the couplets on the stone table in the backyard, and Zhao Zhitong and the others followed, and together with Zhao Dong, they flipped through the couplets.

At this time, Zhao Cheng, Zhao Yu, and Zhao Ya could already recognize a lot of characters, and their arithmetic was getting better and better. At this moment, they were all staring at the couplet seriously.

Zhao Ya held a four-character couplet, and exclaimed happily: "I can recognize these words, it's 'Five Grains'!"

Zhao Zhitong held his small face with his small hands, his big eyes flickering, and he exaggeratedly said: "Wow, Sister Yaya is so awesome."

Zhao Ya's face turned red all of a sudden.

Zhao Dong brushed the paste on the door, and then pasted the door god on it. Hearing what some little guys said, he asked with a smile, "Then, take a look, where should this 'five grain harvest' be pasted?"

Hearing the words, the little guys couldn't help thinking, Zhao Zhitong's eyes lit up, and he said happily, "Daddy, put it in the warehouse!"

Zhao Dong nodded and smiled: "Well, not bad."

Then he shouted: "Quick, don't look at it, you guys come over and help me take a look, are the couplets on both sides about the same height?"

A few babies ran over in a hurry.

"A little higher, over, and a little lower..."

Then, a few babies started screaming, high for a while, short for a while, chirping and chirping.

Under the command of Zhao Zhitong and others, the final couplets were still not aligned...

Looking at the couplets with one tall and one short, Zhao Dong felt that these children were really unreliable, so he picked out the four-character couplets and handed them to Zhao Zhitong: "Go and take your little brother and sister Yaya, Study how to post these couplets, and leave Zhao Chenglai to help me."

"Wow!" Zhao Zhitong's eyes lit up instantly, and he blinked and asked, "Daddy, did you ask us to post it?"

Zhao Dong laughed: "If you are sure where to post it, if you can reach it, post it."

"Great!"

Zhao Zhitong jumped up happily in an instant, as if he had received a major task, he solemnly took the couplet from Zhao Dong, and led Zhao Ya and Zhao Yu to study it with his head down.

They have already decided on the "five grains and harvest", so the three little guys are going to post this first.

Zhao Ya: "What kind of glue shall we use?"

Zhao Zhitong: "Use Daddy's paste, I'll go to my mother and ask for another bowl!"

After speaking, he trotted to the front yard.

"Sister, wait for us to go together!" Zhao Ya and Zhao Yu hurriedly chased after her.

When the three little guys ran into the kitchen out of breath, Sun Mei was cooking radishes for making dumplings in the evening.

Zhao Zhitong ran up directly, hugged Sun Mei and said, "Mother, mother, give us a bowl, and tie a brush for us."

Sun Mei added a piece of firewood and asked, "What do you want this for?"

The three little guys said in unison: "We are going to post couplets."

Sun Mei laughed, wiped her hands, went to the bedroom, and walked out with an old cloth after a while.

The rags are wrapped around a wooden stick, and after being tied, they can be dipped in paste and brushed on the door panels.

Then he took a bowl out of the cupboard and handed it to the three of them: "Be careful."

San Xiaozhi nodded heavily, then trotted back to the backyard, took a small half of the paste from Zhao Dong's paste bowl, and ran to the warehouse with the bowl in hand.

Zhao Dong asked Carpenter Wang to build a few wooden rings, and stacked them up to store grain. At that time, there were two tall grain sheds in the warehouse.

Zhao Zhitong: "Let's post it on Liangtun."

Zhao Yu and Zhao Ya nodded.

Then, the three little guys started to move, Zhao Ya was in charge of holding the paste bowl, Zhao Yu was in charge of brushing the paste on the grain, and Zhao Zhitong was in charge of pasting the couplets on it.

After posting it, the three of them felt that they were full of achievements, and ran out happily.

For those that need to be posted to high places, a few little guys will move the stool to post them. Anyway, there is no difficulty to stop them.

For a while, there was constant sound of playfulness and joy, and the yard was very lively for a while.

After they pasted up all the couplets, it was almost noon, and Zhao Dong started to help Sun Mei chop meat.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The sound of knives hitting the chopping board rang out in the kitchen from time to time.

Sun Mei squeezed out the water from the boiled radishes, put the dried radishes into a basin, then mixed them with chopped pork, ginger and scallion water, and various seasonings to make dumpling fillings.

During the Chinese New Year here, they make dumplings stuffed with radish and pork. After the dumpling stuffing is mixed, the aroma comes out before the dumplings start to be wrapped.

Zhao Zhitong and Zhao Ya squatted aside and watched seriously.

Zhao Zhitong: "Mother, I also want to make dumplings later."

Zhao Ya raised her hand again and again: "I want it too."

Zhao Yu and Zhao Cheng are not far behind.

Sun Mei smiled: "Okay, then I'll roll out the dough and you guys will make dumplings."

Naturally, the little guys are not very good at wrapping, so after wrapping, there are all kinds of weird shapes, but the little guys are very happy, thinking that the wrapping must be delicious.

With the sound of firecrackers, Sun Mei brought out a few bowls of dumplings first, and began to worship the God of Wealth and the Stove Lord. Zhao Zhitong and the others followed Sun Mei, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing to the God of Wealth several times.

After the worship, each of the little fellows got a bowl of delicious dumplings, held them on the table together, and ate them happily.

Zhao Dong thought of something, and suddenly asked, "Aren't you going to the village ancestral hall to worship the ancestors tomorrow?"

Sun Mei recalled, "It seems so."

In my memory, every year on the first day of the Lunar New Year, members of the Zhao family would go to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors. However, it is the eldest son of each branch who can really enter the ancestral hall and worship the immortals as representatives.

And the Wang family of Zhao Zhai has always been dissatisfied with this. She wanted her third son, Zhao Chun, to worship as a representative of their branch. However, the eldest brother Zhao Xia was there before, so it was never Zhao Chun's turn.

Now that the eldest brother is gone, it should be Zhao Dong who went to worship as a representative.