Mountain Village Chicken Tycoon

Chapter 92

In 2003, on September 9th in the Gregorian calendar and August 24th in the lunar calendar, at five o'clock in the morning, the East Ridge of Fenghuangling Village was bustling.

Cui Honghan's family came, so did Liu Yuren's family, and even Ma Jinchang's elderly mother came to help.

The Zhao family will build ten houses, which is a big deal.

The ground has been laid out, and Ma Jinchang and Liu Yuren have cleaned up a lot of rubble on the gravel ridge these days.

Early in the morning, Zhao Qingshan's second aunt, Liu Yuren's wife, and Zhang Huifen were busy buying offerings, while the men pasted red paper on the handles of shovels and shovels, and placed firecrackers in the deserted area north of Suishi Ridge. On the field, things were placed in a haphazard manner in the south.

These days, in Zhaizi Village, when there is something to do at home, many people have already started to order food in the restaurant of the village household.However, there are no farmers' restaurants around Fenghuangling Village, so when something happens and you need to buy food and drinks, you can only do it yourself.

Before the market was released, in Zhaizi Township, only the canteen of the Township Supply and Marketing Cooperative in Zhaizi Village could be regarded as a restaurant.However, at that time, everyone had no money, and eating a meal in the canteen of the supply and marketing cooperative was unaffordable for ordinary people.

Then when red and white work, you need to cook and serve people.In the past, almost every village had three or two cooks who specialized in cooking for the red and white affairs of each household. These people were not from a professional background, but the fried dishes were very delicious, and they were very popular among the young and old in the village.Moreover, these farmers' cooks are all men, and ordinary women can't handle such a big scene.If there is an old man who died at the age of 90 or [-] in the village, there will be [-] or [-] tables for the mourning guests, and it will not work if you don’t have enough physical strength.

In the past, everyone’s concept of money was very weak. When there was something at home, take two packs of cigarettes and go to the farmer’s cook’s house to say something, and the other party would happily come to help, and never mentioned any hard work or expenses.

Later, everyone's concept of money became stronger and stronger, and each of these peasant cooks had to open peasant restaurants, and then it was unrealistic to use free labor.

Fenghuangling Village is a small village, and it is impossible to make money by opening a restaurant. The original farmer’s cook had already gone to work in the Zhuanghu’s restaurant in Biezhaizi Village. So in 2003, if anyone in Fenghuangling Village had a job, they had to do it by themselves. Start cooking.

Breaking ground is a happy event. To respect Tai Sui, we need to make offerings.

Zhang Huifen's third aunt is optimistic about burning paper at ten o'clock in the morning, then setting off firecrackers and kowtow, and then start breaking ground.

Different places have different customs. In central Shandong, firecrackers must be set off for any happy event.In some places, firecrackers cannot be set off indiscriminately, but if someone suddenly set off firecrackers during the Chinese New Year, it means that someone in his family is dead.

The three women picked and washed the green vegetables early in the morning, then cut them and put them on the plate.

A total of ten dishes were prepared, four meat dishes, four green vegetables, and two fried boxes.

After picking and washing the vegetables, Zhang Huifen asked Zhao Qingshan's second aunt to chop the stuffing, and then she was busy frying vegetables, while Liu Yuren's wife was arranged to cook the chicken.

Ten dishes, four meat dishes, one each of stewed chicken, live fish, pork liver, and pork head meat; four green vegetables, one each of celery, tofu, tofu skin, and broccoli; Lotus root box and fried potato box.

The stewed chicken is more than a year old, the ruby ​​variety, and weighs eight catties.This chicken has been around for a long time, and the head of the firewood pot is not cooked for three or four hours.

The chicken is killed at 05:30, and then the chicken is stewed at 09:30, and the chicken can be put out of the pan at about [-]:[-].

The live fish is carp, on a plate and tied with a red string.

Braised pork liver and pork head meat were placed on a plate, which looked very attractive.

Everyone came early, so they didn't eat breakfast, and then Zhang Huifen fried a pot of chili tofu skin, and everyone ate it.

At eight o'clock, Zhang Huifen and Zhao Qingshan's second aunt started making dumplings.After a while, Ma Jinchang's old mother came, so the work of lighting the fire became the old lady's work, and Liu Yuren's wife also washed her hands and went to the house to start making dumplings.

After breakfast, at 08:30, nine of Liu Wendong and the others also came, and then Zhao Qingshan arranged for Liu Wendong to go to Xiaomiao Village to invite the witch.

Liu Wendong didn't know the way, so Zhang Huifen followed him into the car.

The autumnal equinox has just passed, the autumn air is crisp, the temperature is just right, and there are happy events. Everyone is very happy.There were [-] or [-] people present, talking and laughing, very lively.

Zhang Huifen's third aunt came to Dongling at nine o'clock, and then she checked all the things she had prepared, and finally she was very satisfied and said to Zhang Huifen with a smile: "My niece is a decent person, and the things I prepared are complete. Good again."

Along with Xiaomiao Village, there is also Zhao Qingshan's grandmother.After a while Liu Yutang and his nephew also came.

Looking at the time, there were still eight hours before the expected time, so Zhao Qingshan was at the front, carrying the square table with Liu Tao, followed by Liu Wendong and the others, each carrying a plate of dishes.

Immediately behind Liu Tao is Liu Wendong, who is holding a plate of stewed chicken.The chicken had just been dug out and was hot, so he wrapped a rag around the plate to keep from burning himself.Following Liu Wendong were Zhao Qingshan's two cousins, the eldest cousin Cui Jianxin was holding a plate of fish, and Cui Jianzhong behind was holding a plate of pork head.

One chicken and two fish, this is more particular in rural areas.

It was more than 30 meters from the house where Zhao Qingshan lived in Dongling to the place where the ceremony was held on Suishi Ridge. The road was not easy to walk, so everyone was very careful.

Zhang Huifen's third aunt followed behind the young men holding the dishes, holding incense, and behind them, Zhang Huifen's mother held the incense basket, Liu Yuren's wife and Zhao Qingshan's second aunt carried paper money, and Ma Jinchang's old mother He was carrying two pockets of folded gold and silver foil.

Zhang Huifen was holding the torn red cloth rope and documents in her hands. The god-respecting documents were written by Ma Jinchang, and they were in very standard block letters.

Zhao Zhijiang, Cui Honghan and the others carried teapots, wine bottles, tea bowls, wine cups, chopsticks and so on.

The table was placed facing south, then all the dishes were placed, the tableware was placed, the incense basket was placed, and three sticks of incense were inserted, and Zhang Huifen's third aunt had better mutter something on the north side of the set square table facing south.

Finally, burn paper, set off firecrackers, and everyone kowtows to the south.

After setting off the firecrackers, Liu Yutang, Zhao Qingshan, and Zhao Zhijiang symbolically shoveled the soil twice, and the ceremony was considered a perfect completion.

Then, the boys packed all their things back into the house, followed by hot dishes and poker games, and everyone waited for another hour to eat lunch.

The entire opening ceremony is considered a relatively small ceremony among the many ceremonies in the countryside. When the beam is erected, such a ceremony will alarm all relatives and the whole village.

(End of this chapter)