The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 232 Another New Year's Eve

After sending off the Second Manager Yin and his group, Geshan Village returned to normal, and every household continued to be busy celebrating the New Year.

The Su family is no exception. Ning understands that this may be their last New Year in Geshan Village. Even if Su Yunduo prepared many unnecessary things in her opinion, she just watched silently.

In order to live this year well, Su Yunduo has worked hard. In addition to remaking various flavors of dried meat floss, she even gave homemade rice cake candy, peanut candy, sesame candy, and malt candy to her during the Chinese New Year in her previous life. Made it out.

Coaxed a few younger brothers very happy.

Not to mention the younger brothers, even Su Yunduo looked at the food that was only available during the Chinese New Year in his childhood memories in his previous life, and his eyes were reddened by his family behind his back. I don't know how his parents in the previous life are doing now?

Sadness only lasted for a moment, Su Yunduo quickly adjusted his emotions, facing Ning's worried gaze, he only said that there was sand in his eyes.

Su Yunduo was able to make this candy and that candy, I really have to thank the old doctor for thanking Lu Jinkang, because of them, Su Yunduo has all the tools and materials for making rice crackers.

Originally, Su Yunduo was still a little worried about how to pop the rice into rice crackers, but unexpectedly, she only spoke up a month ago, and Lu Jinkang sent her a popcorn machine half a month ago.

Although it was only the most crude machine and the security was not very good, Lu Jinkang made it very considerate. Along with the machine, he sent a person who specialized in operating the machine.

So what rice flower, wheat flower, soybean flower, corn flower... as long as Su Yunduo can think of, they will all burst out for her.

With this flower and that flower, and the old doctor's sons specially sent white sugar, brown sugar and her homemade malt candy from the capital, Su Yunduo's rice cake candy, peanut candy, sesame candy and so on were extremely successful.

In addition to popcorn and sugar as the main ingredients, Su Yunduo’s popcorn candy also adds an appropriate amount of fried peanuts, sesame, walnuts, and melon seeds. A thin piece of popcorn candy combines the crispness of popcorn and the aroma of sesame, peanut, and walnut. , the sweetness of caramel, which melts in the mouth, is full of the strong taste of the New Year in Su Yunduo's childhood memory in his previous life.

When Su Yunduo first tried to make it, she was not very successful. The main reason was that the cooking of syrup was either done at a high temperature or overcooked. Fortunately, after several attempts, she finally mastered the knack.

Making popcorn candy is a labor-intensive job. After all, Su Yunduo is just a 14-year-old girl. After much deliberation, she decided to teach Ning Zhongshi the craft of making popcorn candy, and added several new varieties to Ning's grocery store.

Ning’s rice cracker candy was put on sale on the day when Su Chengzhi returned to Geshan Village from Fucheng on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Because of the foundation of dried meat floss, the new product caused looting as soon as it was put on the shelves, and the business was so hot that Ning Zhongshi couldn’t keep up with it alone.

Although Ning Zhongping did not go to the border town with Lu Jinkang, he had an errand assigned to him by Lu Jinkang, so he really couldn't help Ning Zhongshi much.

Ning Huafeng and Ning Huaan could go home and help Ning Zhongshi after delivering the food, but the two brothers could only help for a few hours at most, and they were still too busy, which made the two brothers exhausted.

After two days like this, Su Yunduo felt that he would get sick due to exhaustion, so he asked his two cousins ​​to go home to be Ning Zhongshi's helpers, and handed over the delivery of food to the county town to Qiu Xi and Liu Yuzhu. The two day laborers in the village went to finish it.

In the rush, finally ushered in another New Year's Eve.

Early this morning, Su Zechen clamored to wear new clothes, but was lightly reprimanded by Ning Shi, obediently obeyed Su Yunduo's arrangement, followed Su Chengzhi, and helped Su Chengzhi grind ink and cut paper.

This year, more and more people from the Su family asked Su Chengzhi to write Spring Festival couplets. In addition to those from the same village, some villagers from neighboring villages who were related to the village also asked relatives and friends to ask Su Chengzhi for a couplet.

Su Chengzhi has a good temper, so he naturally responds to requests. He wrote this for half a day, until a strong smell wafted from the Su family's kitchen, and he finally sent away the last fellow.

Su Chengzhi pinched his sore wrist, calmed his breath, and wrote the last two Spring Festival couplets with one stroke of his pen.

What is written in Yifu is: everything is going smoothly and every year is good, everything is going well, backgammon, and auspicious stars are shining.This is for the yard gate.

The first pair wrote: Don't say that the food and vegetables have no flavor, but you must know that the bean and millet have a real fragrance.This is going to be attached to the kitchen door.

In addition to the Spring Festival couplets, the word "Fu" on the doors of each room is naturally indispensable.

Before Su Chengzhi finished writing, before the ink dried, Su Zexuan had already taken the batter prepared by Su Yunduo and waited aside.

This year's window grilles were cut by Su Yunduo's grandmother and sent by Ning Zhongping as a gift. By the way, Su Chengzhi brought back Spring Festival couplets written by Su Chengzhi himself.

With a son-in-law, it is naturally impossible to buy Spring Festival couplets from outside or ask others to write them.

After the Spring Festival couplets and window grilles were pasted up, and red lanterns were hung, the courtyard of the Su family suddenly looked joyful, and with the scent wafting from the kitchen, the atmosphere of the New Year was even stronger.

Su Chengzhi took his two sons to finish the Spring Festival couplets, window grilles and lanterns, and Su Yunduo and Ning Shi were also very busy with the New Year's Eve dinner.

The next step is naturally the highlight before the New Year's Eve dinner-sacrifice.

Last year's New Year's Eve, the brothers and sisters urged Su Chengzhi to start a family and establish a family. This year, the brothers and sisters seemed to have made an appointment, and they never mentioned anything about starting a family and establishing a family. How to worship depends only on Su Chengzhi's own wishes.

On the contrary, it was Su Chengzhi who respectfully enshrined the one-page so-called genealogy from the secretary on the table full of offerings, and then led his sons to kneel down and kowtow, even Su Zerui, who had just turned one year old, was caught crooked by him kowtowed.

After the sacrifice was over, Su Chengzhi glanced at Dongshan from a distance, then looked away to watch Ning and Su Yunduo clean up the altar, opened his mouth and finally did not say what was in his heart, sighed secretly in his heart, his eyes were dark and gloomy.

Ning slapped Su Yunduo who was beside her lightly: "Your father should want to go to Dongshan to pay his respects."

Su Yunduo saw Su Chengzhi's look at Dongshan. Even if Ning didn't remind him, as long as Su Chengzhi wanted to go to Dongshan to worship, could she still object?
Since the Ning family somewhat satisfied Su Chengzhi's wish, Su Yunduo naturally would not stop her, and nodded slightly at Ning's family, and the mother and daughter went into the kitchen together with the offerings.

When Ning came out again, she was carrying a big food box in her hand, followed by Su Zexuan who was carrying incense sticks and other worship supplies.

Ning handed the food box in Su Chengzhi's hand and said, "Take the brothers to the mountain to worship."

Su Chengzhi glanced at the kitchen in surprise, and then at Ning's. Although he didn't say anything, his reddish eye circles said everything.

Su Chengzhi took his three children to Dongshan to visit the graves of the old Su family's two old men. This was the first time Su Chengzhi went to the cemetery to worship since their family was kicked out by Su Fugui and Yang.

Maybe the two old people's love for him had some kind of purpose, but Su Chengzhi knew in his heart that without the care of the two old people when he was young, it is not certain whether he could survive with Su Fugui and Yang's disposition.

Su Chengzhi's feelings towards these two old people are a bit complicated, but what he remembers most is that these two old people treated him well. On New Year's Eve last year, because the old Su's family was still in Geshan Village, he couldn't go up to the mountain to worship.

Later, the old Su's house was set on fire and paid for murder, and he wanted to completely cut off from the old Su's house, so whether it was Qingming or July [-]th, he didn't even burn the paper for the two old people.

After Su Yunying's incident, his mood calmed down a lot, but after Su Yunying's incident, he went to Fucheng to study, and knowing that Su Yunduo hated the old Su's family, it was naturally impossible to mention the matter of burning paper for the old man. Unexpectedly, Su Yunduo today Yun Duo will personally prepare sacrifices for him, so that he can go to Dongshan to pay homage to these two old people.

Su Yunduo didn't know what Su Chengzhi was thinking, and to be honest, she didn't care much about Su Chengzhi's thoughts, she just didn't want Ning to make things difficult.

(End of this chapter)