Article | Zhang Wenguang
After the victory in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, villagers became more energetic about the New Year again. As soon as the twelfth lunar month has just entered, the first traders to appear are those selling Stove God, family trees, door gods, almanacs, and sesame candies. The sight of these traders walking around the streets tells people that the New Year is coming soon, and it is time to send away the God who has been busy for a year and invite the new God of Wealth home.
Farmers are the most sincere believers. They have no higher or more luxurious desires. They only want personal prosperity, good weather, peace in the world, and safety for the whole family. God is often not satisfied with people's demands for this, and natural disasters and diseases are always around them.
On the twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month, Grandpa Kitchen King went to the West. Legend has it that the Kitchen God will go to heaven to report the good and evil in the world to the Jade Emperor on the night of the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In order for the Kitchen God to say good things to the mortals in front of the Jade Emperor, people bought sesame candies early and offered them to him, which meant that the Kitchen God would have a sweeter mouth. Some people also say that they buy sesame candy to stick it in the Stove Lord’s mouth and prevent him from talking nonsense. No matter what the purpose is, every family buys sesame candies, preparing to offer them to the Kitchen God on the night of the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Then, the Stove Lord, who had been scorched with smoke for a year, was removed from the wall behind the pot and burned, and the sesame candies that had been offered were given to the children to eat, saying that the children would live longer after eating them.
The sellers of sesame candy all carry a small gong and beat it loudly. Sesame candy is made of sugar syrup. Each stick is twisted like a twist. There are candy sticks as long as chopsticks and as thick as a finger. Some are round and some are flat. Sesame seeds are stuck to the outside. They look yellow and firm. It looks good, but when you put it in your mouth and bite it, it sticks to your teeth.
"Chun-ni! Chun-ni!" Chunni's mother called Chunni with a long voice. Chun Ni was embroidering shoes with Xiao Jin in the west room. When she heard her mother calling her, she said, "Oh - what are you going to do?" She also responded in a long voice. She lazily came out of the west room and asked, "What's the matter--?"
"I heard that there was a sesame candy seller in the corridor. Look behind the door. Is the hair stuffed in the wall cave enough to exchange for a piece of candy? If not, I can exchange it for an egg." Chunni was doing needlework on the kang in the west room of the north room. .
The hair that the couple usually combed was pulled from the comb, wrapped around their fingers, rolled into a bun, stuffed into the cave in the wall, and exchanged needles and threads.
Xiaojin stood behind Chunni, stretched out two fingers and whispered: "Two pieces, two pieces."
Chunni said loudly: "Can I change it to two pieces?"
Her mother said: "On the 23rd, a piece is enough for Grandpa Stove King."
Chunni went to the earthenware pot with eggs and picked them for a long time before taking them out. Two eggs that she thought were the smallest. Then he went to the cave under the corner door and found some hair locks. He and Xiao Jin went to the corridor to exchange for sesame candies.
Changrongzi was also standing there, holding an egg in his hand to exchange for sugar. Chang Rongzi handed the egg to the candy seller. The candy seller took out a sesame candy from the basket and handed it to Chang Rongzi. The sugar was a little sticky, so he poured the sugar from his right hand to his left hand and licked the sesame seeds on his right hand with his tongue.
Chunni looked at it and said, "That's for worship, why are you licking it with your tongue?"
"I licked my hands and didn't lick the candy, so you're nosy, huh!" "After that, Changrongzi pursed her already long mouth, took the candy and went home.
Chunni said: "Can we exchange two eggs and these hairs for three?"
The candy seller weighed the eggs in his hands and said, "This egg is too small." "
Then he looked up at the hair in Chunni's hand and said, "I'll pay for the replacement of three hairs. Can I give you two and a half hairs?" ”
Chuni said: “Can these hairs be exchanged for two packs of needles?” "
The sesame candy seller hesitated for a long time and said, "I really lost money on three pieces." "Reluctantly, he took out three candies. He also thought they were the smallest candies.
"From Nanjing to Beijing, what I bought was not enough to sell. "This sentence is not false at all.
After giving it to Chunni, Chunni and Xiao Jin walked home happily. Chuni took out one and handed it to Xiao Jin and said: "Take this one and go back first. West room, let's eat later. I'll give these two to my mother and take them to the north room. "
When Chuni's mother saw Chuni getting back two sesame candies, she tapped her finger on Chuni's forehead and said, "Greedy monkey.
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Chunni pursed her lips and made a face, turned around and ran back to the west room.
Chunni’s mother looked at her daughter’s slender figure and pursed her lips and smiled.
Chuni returned to the west room and saw Xiao Jin using her fingers to pick out the sesame candy stuck to her teeth. She also followed her mother's example, tapped Xiao Jin's eyebrows with her fingers and said, "Greedy monkey." "
The two of them were laughing and joking, when another voice came from the corridor, "Master, please ask the Buddha - yo!" "Screaming, Xiaojin pushed Chunni with his hand and said: "Your mother asked you to exchange eggs for the master again (that is, the new stove prince, door god, family tree, collectively referred to as the master). ”
Chunni glared at Xiao Jin and said, “Don’t talk nonsense. Master, you don’t need eggs in exchange for it, you just pay with money.” If you keep talking nonsense, Kitchen God will give you a stomachache. ”
Xiaojin shrank her neck, stuck out her tongue, stopped talking, and sat on the kang to continue embroidering her flower shoes.
I heard that Chunni’s mother was really He shouted loudly in the north room: "Chunni--"
Xiao Jin first raised his eyes and looked at Chunni, meaning: "How is it?" Let me guess right? ”
Chun Ni “Oh——! After a cry, he walked towards the north room and asked as he walked: "What's the matter?" Do people still embroider shoes? It's like calling a soul! If you can’t do it during the Chinese New Year, will you care if you can’t wear it? "Chunni deliberately pouted at her mother.
"Quickly take a dime from under the kang mat and go and invite the master. ”
Chunni’s mother ignored Chuni’s hanging face and pursed lips, and continued to give instructions.
Chunni opened the kang mat against the gable wall, and under the kang mat There were piles of shoes and broken jackets everywhere.
Chuni said loudly: "Where is the money?" "
Her mother said: "Look carefully, I remember there is a dime there. ”
Chunni searched for a long time before she found the folded dime. She took the dime and ran out.
Treating the Stove Lord is not like buying sesame candy, and They bargained for a dime, and they gave her a piece of paper with a portrait of the Stove Lord on it. Chuni looked at it like a painting.
Huh? No! She saw the problem. Isn’t the Kitchen God alone? Why are there three people on this paper? Didn’t you hear that the Kitchen God also had a wife?
In fact, there are three Stove Lords every year, but she didn't pay attention.
She took the Stove Lord to chase the betrayer, but luckily the betrayer was not far away.
The man who sold her to her chariot asked, "Isn't the master you sold the wrong one? The seller asked: "What's wrong?" ”
Chuni said: “I invited the Kitchen God alone, why are there three people here?” "
The seller was an old man. He seemed to have read a lot and had some knowledge. He said, "Daughter, you don't know why there are three people, do you? I'll tell you, and you'll know. This Stove Prince, whose original surname was Zhang, was a son of a wealthy family. He originally married Guo Dingxiang, but later he thought Guo Dingxiang was ugly, so he divorced her with a divorce note. He married the young and beautiful Li Haitang as his wife. Li Haitang likes to eat and is lazy to cook, so the couple just eat, drink and have fun, sitting on nothing. Suddenly one day while the two were sleeping until midnight, they were caught in a fire. Li Haitang couldn't trot and was burned to death, and he became blind. Such a huge family fortune was also in ruins. They make a living by begging on the streets. He begged for food at the door of his ex-wife Guo Dingxiang's house. Guo Dingxiang recognized him and asked him to warm himself in front of the stove and make a bowl of noodles. When Lilac Girl was serving rice, she secretly pulled off a piece of her hair and put it in the bowl, which was meant to imply her love for knotting her hair. As a result, Zhang Lang ate it up. He pulled the three-foot-three-inch long hair that only his ex-wife Guo Dingxiang had with both hands, and realized whose house he had arrived at. So he was so ashamed that he bumped his head in front of the stove and died. This day is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. The Jade Emperor wanted him to realize his mistakes and repent, so he named him the Kitchen King. The two women behind the Stove Lord are Guo Dingxiang and Li Haitang. If you don't believe me, go back and ask your adults to see if what I said is correct. "
Chuni's eyes widened after hearing this. Seeing that the betrayer stopped talking, she took the Stove Lord and ran back home. When she got home, she didn't ask his mother. , but first went to the wall behind the pot table to look at the Stove Lord. It was not like that. The Stove Lord posted on the wall was the same as the new Stove Lord I bought in my hand.
So, I smiled to myself. , threw the rolled-up portrait of the Kitchen God on the kang, and went back to the west room.
But she felt that she had learned a lot today, so she told the story to Xiao Jin vividly.
Zhang Wenguang, male, was born in Qiandezhuang, Tianjin on June 16, 1945 in the lunar calendar. In 1948, he returned with his parents to his hometown of former Zhangjiatun Village in Deping County, Shandong Province (abolished in 1956). In the autumn of 1963, he was drafted into the army. He has successively served as a soldier, correspondent, company secretary, officer of the Cadre Section of the Political Department of the Second Branch of the Logistics Department of the Shenyang Military Region, and political coordinator of the regular battalion agency. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1966 and served successively as branch secretary and regiment-level party committee member. In 1986, he transferred to Dezhou Agricultural Bank of China and served as office director and party branch secretary. Technical secondary school degree, intermediate political engineer title. He was a special correspondent for Dezhou Daily, Dezhou TV, Shandong Economic Daily, China Rural Finance News, China Rural Finance, and Shandong Rural Finance. Secretary, Texas Rural Finance Association. He has been rated as an outstanding correspondent by the Dezhou Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department for many years. Hobbies include wood carving, calligraphy, and writing. After retirement, he devoted himself to literary creation, and has successively written "Destiny and Road", "Trace of Time", "Fence Wall", "Chun Ni", "Old Photos", "Who is He", "Tiger and Bear War", "Laughter in the Family Courtyard" "The Old Man with Three Names", "Mother", "The Military Attache" and other long, medium and short stories. More than 200 ancient poems were published in "Today's Toutiao".
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