Siheyuan: When I became the control group of Qin Huairu

At around 3:00 p.m., Yang Hehua's New Year's Eve dinner was ready. Wearing an apron, she placed all the dishes on the eight-immortal table. Then, she stood at the door, lifted the cotton door curtain, and shouted to Xiuxiu and Manman, who were having a great time, "Xiuxiu, Manman, come back, wash your hands, and eat the New Year's Eve dinner!"

"Here it comes! Mom——"

Yang Hehua's voice was like a switch. Not long after her voice fell, various voices calling the children to go home for dinner began to rang out in the yard.

The two little girls played until their faces turned red and they were sweating. They put the toys in their hands on the cabinet in the room before coming over to wash their hands.

Xiao Qian poured the water.

Yang Hehua had already locked the door. She found a dozen incense sticks and a stack of paper money according to the number of people. She lit the paper money in an abandoned iron basin and also lit the incense. She distributed them to Xiao Qian and the other two who had come over. Each of them held three incense sticks, bowed three times to Xiao Dong's photo on the wall, and then inserted the incense sticks into the incense burner.

Now is the time to break feudal superstitions. When burning incense to the deceased in the family, we have to avoid being seen in public and do it in private.

If you celebrate the New Year in the countryside, in addition to worshiping the deceased elders in the family, you also have to worship the mountain god, the land god, etc.

However, in the old city, it was simplified a lot.

In fact, every household holds a ceremony to pay homage to their ancestors on New Year’s Eve.

It's just that it hasn't come out in the open.

Yang Hehua did the same as in previous years. Before burning incense, she said something to Xiao Dong's photo and then invited a few people to have New Year's Eve dinner.

Today is the last day of 57. Yang Hehua prepared a very sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner, with fish, meat, meatballs, tofu, chicken, goose, fried peanuts, cold pig ears, bean sprouts, cabbage and other vegetables, a total of twelve dishes, as well as side dishes like Laba garlic and pickled radish.

What was different from later generations was that there were no carbonated drinks on the table. Instead, there was apple juice and pure milk prepared in advance by Yang Hehua.

All the lotus flowers are packed in glass bottles.

One person has two choices.

Xiuxiu and Manman both chose milk, while Yang Hehua and Xiao Qian both chose apple juice.

As for Xiaobao who was placed on the stool, he would occasionally drink Yang Hehua's apple juice and his two sisters' milk.

After taking a few bites of the food, Yang Hehua raised her glass and said a few auspicious words. Everyone took a sip of the drink in their hands and then continued eating, chatting as they ate.

The New Year's Eve dinner was not finished yet, but the sound of "bang-bang-bang" of firecrackers could be heard outside the house. Now, no one in the house had any appetite to eat. Xiao Qian took the lead and took the 200 firecrackers that had been bought long ago to set them off in the yard.

Yang Hehua was standing on the steps at the doorstep with Xiaobao on her back, watching them set off firecrackers. Originally, Yang Hehua was thinking of buying some firecrackers from the mall for her family to play with, but because of the unstable factor of Su Qinmi, she did not buy any.

"The year goes away with the sound of firecrackers, and the spring breeze brings warmth to Tusu."

The lively Spring Festival is always accompanied by the sound of firecrackers, which carry people’s expectations for the New Year and a better life.

Most families can only buy small firecrackers with 100 bangs for their children during the Chinese New Year, while wealthier families can buy firecrackers with 200 or 500 bangs.

Families with many brothers would break the whole string of firecrackers into small pieces and give each child dozens of small firecrackers.

Most children will not set off all the firecrackers at once, but will set them off one by one, in order to satisfy their "firecracker addiction" every day during the New Year holidays.

These children with firecrackers hold a stick or half a stick of sparkling incense in their hands and put their own small firecrackers in their pockets. Their walking posture is different from usual, not to mention the smug little expressions on their faces!

Not all the children in Yang Hehua's courtyard have the opportunity to set off firecrackers. After all, everyone's family conditions are different, and when food and clothing become a problem, buying firecrackers is a particularly luxurious and wasteful thing.