Early the next morning, Liu He started to work in the kitchen. He mainly prepared evening sacrifices and the New Year's Eve dinner for the whole family. These days are the most tiring days for women in the year, especially for families with hundreds of relatives, worshiping ancestors, visiting friends, offerings, New Year's Eve dinner, and all the food and supplies are prepared by the women in the family. Men do not cook, which is a custom that has been passed down for thousands of years. (Of course, a single person counts)

Fortunately, Lao Liu's family is thin and has only a few distant relatives who are like no other than the New Year. Liu He does not need to prepare too much. Compared to others, it is much easier.

To worship ancestors, there must be wine, meat, grain, and fragrance. The wine must be large bowls, the meat must be whole pieces, the grain must rise, and the fragrance must last. From New Year's Eve to the end of the Lantern Festival, the vegetables must be changed every day, and the incense must remain intact. These are a considerable expense, but for worshipping ancestors, few people will complain.

In the morning, Wang Zhihong sent someone to deliver the 120 guan to the Liu family early, which brought Liu Yi a great surprise. He had thought that Wang Zhihong would give this money after the New Year, but he didn't expect that Wang Zhihong would deliver it on New Year's Eve. From this point of view, Wang Zhihong seemed to have a lot of benefits this time.

But this has nothing to do with Liu Yiu. Now the most affordable one is to get money.

When the ox was sent a few days ago, Liu Yiuan was considering whether to customize a few plowshares for land reclamation and land use. However, there was too much gap in the money in his hand, so he had to put it aside. Now that he has money, these have to be put on the agenda.

Liu Yiu is now a small landlord with wealth. Such as sowing, harvesting, and plowing, these basic production equipment must be well done, and the best ones must be used. Otherwise, if someone has cows but does not have corresponding equipment, isn’t that a joke?

It is now the early Taitang period, and most of the plows used by farmers were straight plows. There was one in the old Liu family. Liu Yi had studied it several times and concluded that this era was too crazy, so could such plows be used to cultivate the land?

The straight-shaft plow is not only bulky, but also exhausts physical strength to use, but also extremely difficult to turn or regress. The lack of sufficient flexibility will greatly affect the efficiency of farming and is not suitable for rapid land reclamation and farming.

Therefore, if Liu Yi wanted to prepare the thirty hectares of wasteland before spring plowing, he had to make some improvements to this tool.

As for how to change it, Liu Yi has been thinking about this question these days.

When he recalled, he remembered that when he learned the chapter on ancient farm tools in history classes, his history teacher gave a detailed introduction to the curved plow in the late Tang Dynasty.

It seems that in order for every student to understand the structure of the curved plow well and its advantages over other plows, the teacher specially found a curved plow model for students to refer to. He also explained in detail the manufacturing process of the curved plow and the use of each component according to the model.

But most students didn't pay attention at all at that time, thinking that the curved plow was no longer necessary, and now it was not necessary. What's the use of understanding so clearly? Unfortunately, Liu Yiu also thought so at that time.

So, after a class, he only remembered the approximate shape of the curved plow, and knew that it was composed of eleven parts. As for the names of those parts, he didn't know.

With his only remaining memory, Liu Yiuan drew the rough shape of the curved plow on paper. Now he can only ask some experienced masters or blacksmiths to try it out to see if he could make the curved plow with this picture.

But it is the end of the year now, and everyone is busy with sacrifices, greetings, and visiting friends. I can’t invite anyone to come. Everything has to be done after the end of the year.

Liu Laoshi ordered a bowl of paste from the kitchen and started to paste red paper and door god. The door god was pasted on the main door and red paper was pasted on the small door and side door.

When it gets dark, two big red lanterns must be hung on each of the main entrances of the main hall, lit up the red candles inside and kept them lit until dawn the next day. This is also a custom passed down in ancient times. It is said that this is to scare away the "Xi" beast that only appears on New Year's Eve.

This day passed quickly, and it flowed to dusk with Liu Xiaohui's laughter and joy.

Liu Laoshi once again drove Liu He to the main hall and led Liu Yi and Liu and his brothers to welcome the stove god who was sent to the West during the New Year.

The ceremony of welcoming the Kitchen God is much simpler than when I gave him away, or it is not a ritual at all. I just light two incense trees and hang the newly bought or invited portrait of the Kitchen God again.

After that, sacrifices began to be made to ancestors.

Liu Laoshi first placed the offerings on it, then lit an incense plant, bowed three times in front of the ancestors' spirit cards, knelt on the ground, muttering something in his mouth, how could he ask for the ancestors' protection and keep the family safe? After saying that, he stood up and stood aside.

Next are Liu He family, Liu Yi, Liu Er Tiao, and Liu Xiaohui. From high to low generation, they take turns to burn incense, kowtow, and worship before the case.

Seeing that the whole family had finished worshiping, Liu Laoshi led the family to the yard and asked Liu Yiji to light the bamboo he bought back in the morning. After listening to the sound of the trumpets when the bamboo burned for a while, he said, "Okay, let's have the New Year's Eve dinner!"

As soon as Liu Laoshi finished speaking, Liu Xiaohui and Liu Erjo rushed to the dining table in Zhengtang. Tonight's meal was the most sumptuous of the year. No wonder they were so anxious and happy. And no one would blame them at this time, because the New Year needed the children's joy.

However, there were fewer dumplings in the New Year’s Eve dinner, which made Liu Yi feel that there was less flavor of the New Year.

This afternoon, he thought of going to the kitchen to pack a few, but as soon as he entered the kitchen door, he was driven out by Liu He. Making New Year's dinner is the patent of women, and the male at home is not allowed to interfere. Liu You wanted to make some suggestions, but when Liu He was criticized, he did not say anything more.

Liu Yiuan poured a glass of wine for Lao Liu, brought it to Liu honestly, and said, "Dad, I will toast you on behalf of me, my second brother and younger sister. Thank you and my mother for your teachings to our three brothers and sisters over the years. We wish you and my mother good health, longevity and eternal youth!"

"Well, okay, okay, I'll drink this wine!" Lao Liu had never heard of such fresh jokes before. He thought his child was sensible, so he happily took the wine glass and tilted his neck to pour all the wine in the glass.

Lao Liu was so weak that after a glass of wine, his face turned red. He picked up the chopsticks and picked up a sip of the dish, and said, "Born by the blessing of my ancestors, I, Liu Fengkai, can have you in this life. Especially you, the Liu family has you, it is my blessing for me, Liu Fengkai!" Then he picked up the wine glass and said, "Come on, take advantage of my happiness today, let's have a few more cups."

"Yes, dad." Liu Yipeng picked up the wine glass and touched Lao Liu for a moment, and then drank it on his back. He was still waiting to drink with Lao Liu again, but Liu He interrupted, "Don't drink too much, you two will stay up tonight. What should you do if you are both drunk?"

"Oh, yes, yes, I have to stay up tonight, so I'd better drink less." Lao Liu put down his glass and said to Liu Yi: "Let's drink tomorrow, let's have dinner first."
Chapter completed!