Back To Qiqi Farming To Raise Children

  Chapter 99 Chinese New Year

  Xu Shiyan went home with a pot of vegetables to accompany his daughter-in-law, and didn't go back to Xu's house in the evening.

  Most of the noisy young people in the village were drunk at noon, went home to sleep with their heads covered, and didn't get up at night.

  Only a few people came over at night, with Zhou Guilan watching, these people were not ashamed to make trouble in the bridal chamber, they just sat for a while and left.

   After two days of turmoil, it was finally peaceful and quiet. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and got a good night's sleep.

   This year is the twenty-ninth New Year's Eve of the twelfth lunar month. After the wedding, the Chinese New Year will follow.

   Fortunately, the Xu family has nothing to do, just wait for the New Year in peace.

  Because it was said in advance that the family will be separated after the year, so Xu Chenghou said that Xu Shiyan and his wife must come back on New Year's Eve this year.

   In this way, Xu Shiyan and his wife have nothing to do, they just tidy up the house and prepare some food.

   In the twinkling of an eye, it was the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month. At nine o'clock in the morning, Xu Shiyan brought his daughter-in-law home to help the house.

  The brothers erected a lantern pole in the yard, and hung up red lanterns made by Xu Shiqin.

   Then the red paper was cut, and Xu Shide wrote couplets, blessing characters, spring strips, etc. with a large brush.

  Gate, door, barn, pigsty, chicken coop, all posted.

  The barn is full of grain and grain, the pigsty is full of fat pigs, and the chicken coop is full of golden roosters.

  After posting this circle, the flavor of the New Year is stronger. With the window grilles with the Chinese character "Happy" posted before, the courtyard is full of red and festive.

   Busy posting couplets outside, and cooking inside the house. According to the Xu family's rules, there are three meals on New Year's Eve.

  Eat casually in the morning, have a reunion dinner around four in the afternoon, and make dumplings at night to keep the year old.

   There are four daughters-in-law in the family, Su Anying is almost seven months pregnant, and Wu Qiuyan is more than three months pregnant.

  These two pregnant women can't do too much work, they can only help with washing vegetables and grilling onions and garlic. The main thing is that Zhou Guilan leads Xue Xiulin and Wei Mingrong to work.

   The reunion dinner on New Year's Eve is the only one meal throughout the year, and that is a big deal.

   Therefore, Zhou Guilan had to cook the stove herself, and also had to cook some dishes that she couldn't eat on weekdays.

  For example, the Xu family's traditional dishes, confused chicken and bergamot cabbage, are must-haves every year.

  Stupid chicken, in fact, the chicken is chopped into pieces, marinated with seasoning, then wrapped in batter and deep-fried.

  If a chicken does this, it can be fried in a pot, and then stewed with soup to eat.

  No one can see which piece of meat is in the batter, so it is called confused chicken.

  In fact, this is the solution that I had to come up with during the difficult years.

   There is not much to stew a chicken directly, but it can make a big pot and eat it.

   Bergamot cabbage is simple, blanched with boiling water and sliced ​​into thin slices.

   Draw a few strokes along the veins of the leaves, wrap the inside with meat filling, and steam in a pan.

   In this way, the cabbage absorbs the umami taste of the meat filling, and relieves the greasy meat, making it fragrant and sweet in the mouth.

In addition to these two traditional dishes, there are also stewed potatoes with rabbit meat, stewed sauerkraut with big bones, stir-fried roe deer meat, fried meatballs with mushrooms and dried fruits, jelly skin, pig's trotters, stewed fish with thin scales in clear water, sweet and sour pork ribs, exactly ten dishes, Perfect in every way.

  The rabbit meat and roe deer meat were naturally brought back by Xu Shiyan before, and he also went to the big river to smash the ice hole to catch the fine scale fish.

  There is a piece of fish in the reunion dinner, which means more than every year, which has a good meaning.

   "Thankfully, we didn't eat all the meat brought back by the third child, and we just saved it for Chinese New Year.

  These ten dishes this year are all hard dishes, let the children openly eat them, and eat whatever they want. "

  Zhou Guilan had set the menu early on, and while busy frying chicken, she was chatting with Xue Xiulin and the others.

  Xue Xiulin was cutting sauerkraut over there. Hearing her mother-in-law praising her uncle, she stopped cutting vegetables.

   In the past, this third uncle was the least present in the family. He was silent and inconspicuous on weekdays.

  But now, the three uncles are the ones that the parents-in-law talk about the most.

  Before, why didn't I think that the third uncle was so capable?

   "Mom, if you don't tell me, I forgot to ask, who did the third child learn to hunt from? No one in our family knows how to do this, no one taught him, how did he know it?"

  Xue Xiulin was puzzled, as if her brother-in-law had changed since she got married.

  Zhou Guilan also stopped frying chicken, "Yeah, I really forgot to ask, who did the third child learn this skill from?

  In the past, I only saw him catching fish and catching shrimps. I wonder if he can also hunt? I really have to ask him when I have time. "

   Having said that, Zhou Guilan also became curious, yes, no one in the Xu family knows this, who did the third child learn from?

  The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law talked and chatted while cooking, frying and frying in the kitchen.

   Until after three o'clock in the afternoon, all kinds of dishes were prepared and served on the table one after another.

  There are a lot of people in the family, and there are still two tables in the southern kang and the northern kang. Xu Chenghou and his wife brought their sons, and the two new daughters-in-law who entered the house this year had dinner at the southern kang.

  Xue Xiulin, Wei Mingrong, Xu Shiqin and a group of children are in Beikang. Both tables have the same dishes, eat whatever you want.

  Xu Shiyan looked at the table and saw that it was all meat and vegetables, so he hurriedly asked his mother.

   "Mom, I remember that last time I brought back some sorbet dumplings, grape cakes, and Shanli red skin, right?

  Where did you put it? Find it out, soak it in water, put it in a pot and steam it for a while.

  This dish is good, but if it is eaten in this way, I am afraid that the children will have indigestion. "

  If these dishes are used in normal days, they will be made the same for a meal, mixed with other dishes, and it will be fine.

   But all of them are placed on the table at once, for fear that the children will eat too much and easily suffer from indigestion.

  In case of diarrhea tomorrow morning, it will be bad.

  Shanlihong is wild hawthorn, which has the effect of invigorating the spleen and stomach and promoting digestion. The grape cake is sweet and sour, appetizing and relieving greasy.

  Put them in a pot and add water to steam them, just like drinking fruit juice, which is good for children.

   "Oh, look at me, I forgot about this stubble.

  Just thinking about how rare it is to have so many delicious foods, let the children open up to eat, forgetting that their spleen and stomach are weak. "

   Zhou Guilan was reminded by her son and suddenly realized.

   Isn't it? Even if the family has not run out of oil and water this winter, the stomach is still empty after all.

  Eating like this, adults may just give in, how can children stand it?

  So, Zhou Guilan hurriedly went to the ground, and found out from the cabinet what Xu Shiyan had brought back earlier.

   Grab some pear tuozi, mountain grape cake, Shanli Hongpier, etc. and put them in a basin, wash them twice with clean water, then add clean water and put them in a pot to steam.

  Xu Chenghou watched his wife busy, and suddenly remembered the situation in his hometown in Kuandian.

   "Well, when I was young, our family still had silver mines, and my grandma made these in autumn.

  It’s the same during Chinese New Year. Steam it in a pot, it’s sweet and sour, and it tastes great. "

   "The conditions of our family were good at that time. We had dozens of acres of land and a rather large orchard, which contained all kinds of peaches, sand fruits, and pears.

  There are a lot of pear trees in our house, and there are all kinds of pear trees, such as sharp sour, flat-topped pear, flower cover pear, and frozen pear. "

  Xu Chenghou seemed to have flipped some switch and talked about things in his hometown.

  (end of this chapter)