MTL - Go Back To 1980 and Enjoy It-Chapter 123 Officials, three people, four boatmen, five

Chapter 123 Officials, three people, four boat owners and five

 As students begin to take vacation, the Spring Festival is getting closer and closer.

Hakka people usually worship the Kitchen Lord from the 23rd to the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month. There is a saying of "officials, three people, four boatmen and five", which means that for official families, they worship on the 23rd day, and for ordinary people, on the 24th day. On the 25th, people in Shuishui hold a ceremony to worship the God of the Kitchen God, commonly known as worshiping the Kitchen God.

 This day is also called Xiaonian.

 In addition to offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God, the New Year also begins with general cleaning.

This kind of general cleaning basically only happens once a year. It requires the whole family, old and young, to work together for a whole day to clean the inside and outside of the home.

The same was true for the Deng Shirong family in previous years, but this year the family built a new house. The eldest daughter usually takes good care of the new house. She will remove any cobwebs she sees and sweep the floor every day to keep it relatively clean.

 Therefore, this year’s general cleaning only requires a touch of dust, which is much easier than in previous years.

Deng Shirong had already made arrangements for this New Year Pig. Two of the pork belly slices were fried into pork belly, which he brought back to his eldest son and daughter-in-law on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

Deng Shirong smiled and said: "It doesn't matter to me which day you want to start work. It mainly depends on your own situation. If you want to start work earlier, choose the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. If you want to start work later, choose the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. Everyone obeys the majority. ”

This year is Deng Shirong's first year after his rebirth, so he naturally pays more attention to it. On the 25th day of the 25th, he went out directly to buy candies, biscuits, dried fruit preserves, melon seed pastries, etc., as long as they were needed during the Spring Festival. He bought a lot of things in large and small bags, and filled up the grain he brought out.

The main reason is that there is no need to clean up the old house. Deng Shirong plans to plant lychee trees as soon as possible after the Chinese New Year, and then demolish the old house at home, then build a water wall and then lay a cement floor. By then, the view will be wider, and the front of the house will be The open space is large enough to make the house look more beautiful and grand.

 The result is obvious. Workers unanimously demand that work start on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.

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 In this era, rural people did not have refrigerators, so the only way to preserve pork was to marinate it with salt.

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 The fair days of Shuangwang Fair are the 2nd, 5th and 8th of the lunar calendar, so the 22nd, 25th and 28th of the twelfth lunar month each year are the days when people in Shuangwang realm prepare new year's goods.

Deng Shirong also understood after hearing this. Workers in this era are not like those in later generations. During the Spring Festival, they wish their bosses could give them a long holiday of one or two months. Now everyone's conditions are not good. Maybe the workers want to start working early to make money. It really makes them They may not be happy if they stay at home until the eighth day of the Lunar New Year before starting work again.

Deng Shirong thought about it for a moment and said, "We will start taking holidays after we pay everyone's wages, and we will start working again on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. What do you think?"

Because his father had promised that the money he earned would be kept by his wife, so after receiving the salary, Deng Yuntai did not give it to his father, but happily put it into his own pocket, making the young Deng Changyuan extremely envious. Don't want it.

“Jiu Gong, I also choose the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. Now there are many places to use money at home. If I can make money two days earlier, I will make money two days earlier.”

After knowing everyone’s thoughts, Deng Shirong made the final decision: “Okay, let’s start construction on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.”

On this day, Deng Shirong’s family kills the New Year pig.

Deng Yungui nodded and said, "Okay, let's ask them for their opinions."

The surgeon was naturally Chen Dacong, Deng Shirong’s brother-in-law. This was notified in advance, so around ten o’clock in the morning, Chen Dacong and his wife and Chen Daming came over to help.

 At the end of the year, it’s time for the villagers to prepare New Year’s goods.

Then, the two wives and brothers gave me a rear hip, the kind with pig legs, and basically dug out half of the pig's hip, which weighed more than 20 kilograms.

“Uncle Jiu, how many days of leave do you think should be given to the workers?” Deng Yungui asked.

“Uncle Jiu, it’s the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. My son has reached the age of marrying a wife. It’s really hard not to work hard to make money.”

Thinking of this, Deng Shirong said: "Yungui, how about we pay everyone this month's salary first, and then ask everyone for their opinions?"

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 After the Little New Year, every household is busy celebrating the New Year.

Before New Year's Eve, offerings are made to Baigong (the God of the Earth) and to Huaguang (the Great Emperor Huaguang, the legendary Horse Lord with three eyes). In the realm of Shuangwang, every household will be blessed at the beginning of the year and will be blessed at the end of the year. I want to repay the blessing.

Deng Shirong went over to get the chimney as soon as he came back, sat down and said with a smile: "Half of it is used to entertain relatives, and the other half is for your elder brother and sister-in-law to take home when they return home on the second day of the Lunar New Year."

Deng Yungui said: "Uncle Jiu, it's okay to have a holiday starting today, but it's not until the eighth day of the Lunar New Year that we start working. Isn't this a bit long? The workers may want to start working early to make money!"

There was also the third sister's house. Deng Shirong gave two front legs and the meat on them, which totaled about twenty kilograms, and asked his eldest son to give them to him.

Deng Changbiao said: "Master, I listen to you. Work will start whenever you say."

“Jiu Gong, I choose the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, so I can start working early and make money early.”

 After the two bosses unified their thinking, they gathered the workers together and began to pay the last wages of the year. Deng Yuntai worked less days because of his marriage last month, resulting in an income of only more than 180. This month he was more diligent than in the previous months, and his income also broke through a new high, earning 237. bucks.

 Seeing the various New Year’s goods in Guluoli, Deng Yunzhen’s eyes widened and she asked, “Dad, why did you buy so many things?”

After paying the completion money, Deng Shirong said: "The cylinder tile factory is on holiday from now on. Yungui and I have set two dates for the start of work next year, one on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year and the other on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. When do you want to start work?"

 Cylinder tile factory.

Of course, life is difficult for everyone in this era. It is impossible to go to the supermarket to shop like crazy in later generations. You can just buy some candies, biscuits, and melon seeds. If conditions are good, you can buy some tea and pastries, and you can take them out during the Spring Festival. Entertaining guests.

Two bosses, Deng Shirong and Deng Yungui, are discussing the holiday at the cylinder tile factory.

 After busying myself with these things, the time has come to the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

 The rest will be kept at home to eat during the New Year.

 The twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month.

 When he came back, his children and the eldest daughter-in-law were all shocked!

 Zhang Xiuping felt warm after hearing this. She could imagine how shameless she was after buying so many years' worth of goods for her to take back to her parents' home. Her father-in-law really had nothing to say to her.

Although Deng Shirong has a system space where time is static, things look the same when they are put in and taken out. The effect of keeping things fresh is ten thousand times better than that of a refrigerator. But this must not be exposed to the second person. He can only follow the popular practice and salt the uneaten pork and hang it up.

As for the offal, you definitely can’t keep it. It’s best to eat it while it’s fresh.

 (End of this chapter)