It is difficult for the farmer's sister

Chapter 34 Preparations for the Year Ahead

As for the follow-up story, Su Rui still listened to what Aunt Hua came over in the afternoon.

"Your uncle sued your uncle and your grandmother for beating her."

Su Rui asked: "...beating?"

Aunt Hua nodded, "Yes, someone joined in the fun this morning and went to the county government with the yamen servant."

"Your aunt, just roll up your sleeves. There are welts all over. It is said that the official sent a woman to check your body. There are welts on your body..." Aunt Hua finished. , trembling all over.

Sure enough, one cannot be judged by one's appearance, Uncle Su's face does not look like a vicious person, "What are you going to do, uncle?"

Aunt Hua sighed: "Oh, we want to reconcile. Her children all agree."

Su Rui suddenly thought: "When she was being beaten, why didn't my cousin and the others ignore it?"

Aunt Hua looked at Su Rui with your silly expression: "Do you think that your grandma and your uncle will fight in front of Chen Dong and the others? Every time you pay them, you hit them."

Su Rui didn't expect this, and touched her nose in embarrassment.

"Well, what about my aunt and Queen Li?"

Aunt Hua recalled: "It seems that your grandpa and the others went, and the discussion was to pay 30 taels of silver."

"Auntie agreed?"

Aunt Hua shook her head: "No, your aunt asked to reconcile and leave, and then build a small yard for her at the foot of the mountain. She will bring your cousins ​​and sisters to live with them. They will give you five acres of land and 50 taels of silver."

Su Rui thought to herself, Mrs. Wang is really a good mother, making troubles for Su Yi, and for her own children not to be bullied by the stepmother in the future.

In fact, Wang's age is only over 30, and she can marry someone if she wants to.

"Did my grandfather agree?"

Aunt Hua sneered: "What can I do if I don't agree? If I don't agree, my aunt will kill her and sue your grandma and the others, and go to jail."

Su Qiao thought for a while, and then asked affirmatively, "My grandfather must have asked for it, right?"

Aunt Hua glanced at Su Qiao approvingly, "Yes, your grandpa requested that your aunt is not allowed to marry or have a wife, otherwise the five acres of land will be taken back."

Su Rui curled her lips: "My grandfather, that's it. All interests must revolve around them."

"Actually, I think that if my aunt and Li are separated, they will definitely get better..."

As the saying goes: "After Laba is over, it is the New Year." Once Laba is over, some families are in good condition, and those who raise pigs start to kill pigs one after another.

No one wants pig's trotters or pork ribs.Su Rui bought some more, which was a penny more expensive than the county seat, but she didn't have to run away.

Seeing the pig's small intestine, Su Rui thought of the modern sausage. The casing on the outside is to wash the pig's small intestine, scrape off the oil on it, and wash it carefully before filling it with meat.

Su Rui bought all the small intestines of the pigs, and another hundred catties of pork.

After returning home, Sister Su Rui cleaned the small intestine.

Cut the pork into pieces with a fat-to-lean ratio of [-]:[-], and when it was about to be marinated, I realized that the seasoning was not complete.

Su Rui found that there were chili peppers sold in this dynasty, but there was no prickly ash, so she couldn't make spicy sausages, so she had to make Cantonese-style sausages as the next best thing.

There was no wine at home, so Su Chenrui asked Su Chenrui to borrow five catties of rice wine from Aunt Hua's house. Aunt Hua would brew dozens of catties of rice wine every winter to drink during the New Year.

Add [-]:[-] salt and sugar, stir well, and marinate for an hour.

I went to Mr. Lin's house again, found several bamboo joints of similar thickness, and asked Mr. Lin to help them get through and smooth them out.

Put the casing on the bamboo tube, tie the casing at the end, and then Su Ying and Su Chenrui held it, while Su Rui and Su Qiao filled it in little by little until it was all filled, and then divided it into ten sections with cotton thread. Tie them up at a distance of about one centimeter and place them in the kitchen.

A few days later, the sausages were half-dried, and Su Rui took six sections to prepare for the old house, Su Changle, and Su Changying's three families to taste in two sections.

When the sausages were dry, Su Rui slaughtered the first litter of rabbits and the remaining nine rabbits.

After Laba, there was supposed to be a New Year's gift, but Su Rui was a few days late because of waiting for the sausage.

Three bamboo baskets, each with a chicken brought back from the winter catch, a slaughtered and skinned rabbit, two sections of sausage, and a pack of snacks. The old house gave an extra rabbit.

Because Su Chenrui was going to enter the private school in the village after the new year, and the private school was run by the village head's family, so he prepared an extra New Year's gift, a rabbit and a snack.

This time, Su Rui didn't even send the New Year gifts. Su Chenrui sent them to the village chief's house and the old house, and Su Ying sent them to Su Changle's and Su Changying's houses.

Again, only Su Changle, Su Changying, and the village chief's family returned the gift, and the old house kept things, but they didn't speak when they met.

It's almost Chinese New Year, there are a lot of things to prepare at home, Su Rui and Su Qiao are busy every day without touching the ground.

Sister Su Rui divided the leftover meat from making sausages into three parts, one part was prepared to be braised in brown sauce and put in a porcelain bowl to freeze, one part was made with croquettes, made with dumplings, and the other part was made with steamed buns.

First of all, braised pork is used for sending the stove on the New Year's Eve, receiving the stove on the New Year's Eve, eating on the first day of the new year, and welcoming the God of Wealth on the fifth day.

For the meatballs, use the leftovers, chop them, add shredded radish, a little flour and eggs, mix well, and fry the radish meatballs.

According to the ancient custom, no sharp tools are allowed from the first day to the fifth day of the new year, including kitchen knives and scissors, but as soon as the fifth day passes, the common people call it "Bao Wu", and all taboos about the Chinese New Year can be broken.

So Su Rui and the others have to prepare more dumplings. The dumplings are one and a half catties of noodles, plus two catties of meat mixed with cabbage, which is the amount of 480 dumplings. Su Rui plans to prepare six catties of noodles, twelve catties Jin of stuffing, ready to make [-] dumplings.

In this dynasty, buns were eaten in the morning from the first day to the fifteenth day of the lunar new year, so Su Rui counted six people in her family, and one person counted as two in the morning. If Su Chennan didn't count, it was ten, and fifteen days was 150 One, Su Rui plans to make 180.In case that wasn't enough...

All the materials have been calculated and distributed. Sister Su Rui has started making dumplings in the past few days.

Su Rui makes dumplings very quickly, and she can make dumplings by herself, so Su Ying and Su Qiao rolled the dumplings.

More than 400 dumplings sound like a lot, but they are actually not that many.They were all wrapped up and put in the courtyard to freeze hard, then they were put into a clean basket, covered with a cloth, and hung on the porch to freeze.

When I get up the next day, it's another day of chopping stuffing, and I have to chop stuffing for buns.Carrot meat and cabbage meat, it's not that Su Rui is unwilling to take out leeks from the space, but because there is really no excuse to take them...

Yesterday morning I chopped radish and meatball stuffing all morning, in the afternoon cabbage and meat dumpling stuffed, and at night I slept and dreamed, I felt like I was chopping stuffing...

Su Chenrui is chopping the stuffing, Su Rui is kneading the noodles, after chopping a kind of stuffing, Su Qiao adjusts the taste, Su Ying and Su Qiao roll out the skin, Su Rui makes the buns, steaming them in one pot, busy work It takes one day to make the buns.

Su Rui and the others were already paralyzed from exhaustion. In the evening, they ate two steamed buns and steamed an egg custard for Su Chennan, which was regarded as a settlement for dinner.

The next day was the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, and two or three days later would be the new year. Su Rui told her siblings to be at home, and she went to the county town to buy the missing bowls, bowls, spoons, and soup bowls.

Before going out, Su Wan and Su Chennan wanted to go, but Su Rui didn't agree, "There were a lot of photo shoots in the past, if you went there, you would be arrested accidentally, and then you won't be able to come back, and you won't be able to see the eldest sister. "

Hearing that they will be photographed by Huazi, the two younger ones are honest.

This is really not Su Rui's coaxing, it's true, when the Chinese New Year is approaching, those traffickers will pretend to deceive the children.

In this dynasty, human trafficking was legal, and there was no modern and advanced network system. Once it was lost, it was basically impossible to find it.

Those who are lucky are sold to officials and officials as servants, and those who are unlucky are sold to dirty places like kilns and brothels.

(End of this chapter)