Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Chapter 260
The taste of the New Year in the countryside is very strong, no matter how poor you are, you will have a sumptuous New Year’s Eve dinner.

Zhang Neng asked Shen Xingwang to bring the message early, and wanted to come to Shen Yuan and Ji Xun's house for the New Year's Eve dinner.

There was one more guest, and it was the first year in ancient times. Shen Yuan paid special attention to it. He bought more than a dozen catties of fat beef, a leg of mutton, pork trotters and knuckles, chicken, duck and fish, etc., all the ingredients needed for the whole first month. Well-prepared, there is no need to consider the issue of freshness when dripping into ice in winter.

When Shen Yuan got up in the morning, he took out the new clothes that he had prepared. Ah Xun and Afeng had washed and dried new clothes from the inside to the outside. The uniform light green outer shirts for the family of three were specially ordered by Shen Yuan with a little thought. Made parent-child outfits.

Especially in her own body, the narrow-waisted jacket highlights her figure, and then she puts on a light green cloak with a fox collar, her long hair is tied in a single bun on the top of her head, her figure is graceful and graceful, and she complements her delicate face Ji Feng exaggerated the beauty when he saw her.

Ji Xun is wearing a long gown with straight breasts and the same fox fur collar cape. He is 1.9 meters tall and stands on one foot, which makes Shen Yuan stunned. Such a tall and handsome man is the man who embraces her every night Woolen cloth.

Ji Xun was fully dressed and sat in a wheelchair. Shen Yuan pushed him to the main room. The charcoal fire had already been blazing, and the room was very warm.

"Sister-in-law, Ah Feng won't go out to play today. I want to help my sister-in-law cook the New Year's Eve dinner." Ji Feng's dress is the same as that of his elder brother and sister-in-law, with a cape with a fox fur collar. The snow-white fur collar makes the little guy look like white jade, and his teeth are neat Pure white, cute and good-looking when she smiles.

Just as Shen Yu'an was about to say no, there was the sound of chaotic footsteps in the courtyard, and a few young men in the village opened the door of the house a crack, rolling their eyeballs to probe their brains.

"Ah Feng, go play, sister-in-law doesn't need to help." Shen Yuan rubbed the little guy's head, took out a dozen big money from his wallet and handed it to him, "You have to pay attention to safety when playing firecrackers, do you hear me?"

"Yeah, Ah Feng knows." Ji Feng took the big money with a happy face, and ran away with his friends.

"You've worked hard." Ji Xun embraced Shen Yuan's waist from behind, feeling an inexplicable emotion in his heart.

This is the first time he has lived such a humane year.

Shen Yuan turned around, squatted down in front of Ji Xun's wheelchair, looked up at him with a smile on his face: "Ah Xun will have to work hard today, and say hello to Mr. Zhang, Mr. Zhang is our benefactor.

"Okay, this one, give it to Ah Xun."

The two were talking, when footsteps came from outside the house, Zhang Neng pushed the door open with a smile and came in.

"Miss Shen, Mr. Ji, excuse me." He said as he walked into the house, carrying two bags of gifts in his hand.

Shen Yu'an generously took the things in Zhang Neng's hand, and greeted with a smile: "The wind is so strong, did you froze along the way? Mr. Zhang, hurry up and warm up in the house." Although the weather cleared up, the wind was strong, and it was a bit embarrassing.

Shen Yuan picked up the things into the house, and took out the chessboard by the way, Ji Xun and Zhang Neng played chess familiarly, Shen Yuan made tea for the two of them, and went to the kitchen to get busy.

In the morning and at noon, I cook some dumplings casually, and the New Year's Eve dinner in the evening is the highlight.

Ji Xun and Zhang Neng were fighting inseparably in the main room, while Shen Yu'an was busy in the kitchen.First make two steamed dishes, braised pork with preserved vegetables and pork ribs with lotus-flavored glutinous rice.

The pork belly is selected from fat and thin fine-quality pork belly. It is scalded in a hot pan and cleaned. It is fried with sugar, water and various spices, boiled for half an hour on high heat, and then deep-fried until it is caramelized. hours, then cut into pieces and put them in a bowl for steaming.

Lotus-flavored glutinous rice pork ribs is even simpler. Put the soaked glutinous rice, diced mushrooms, carrots, ginger, and garlic in a bowl, add salt, soy sauce and other seasonings to marinate for half an hour, then wrap it with soaked dried lotus leaves and steam in a pan.

These two dishes were steamed in one pot. The steamer was big enough, and I made two servings of each dish. After it was done, Shen Yuan took the time to send a copy to Aunt Zhou's family. Of course, the food box was full when I came back, Uncle Shen I also made two or three bowls of steamed pork with steamed pork and pork buns with a few brothers.

At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, a series of big dishes and hard dishes came out of the pot one after another. Ji Feng left the cannon stick outside for a day and now he came home, drooling and running back and forth, helping to set the dishes, Carry the flagon.

In a short while, the table was filled with steaming dishes.

Braised pork with preserved vegetables, steamed fish, pork ribs with lotus-flavored glutinous rice, chaotic chicken soup, pot-wrapped pork, steamed pork with flour.
In addition, a small charcoal-fired stove was set up. A pot of red oil was rolling on the bottom of the stove. A plate of mutton rolls, a plate of beef rolls, and various vegetables such as tofu, cabbage, and potato slices were placed beside the stove. This hot pot was strongly requested by Ji Xun. He hadn't eaten spicy food during the time he was recuperating from his injuries, and he was so greedy.

After all the dishes were served, Shen Yuan also devoutly worshiped the Bodhisattva and burned paper money, wishing the family safety, health and success.Then he took out a large pile of firecrackers and put them in the yard.

How daring a person is usually? But he dared not light the firecrackers, and Zhang Neng took the job.

At this time, firecrackers were crackling all over the village, and each household began to eat the New Year's Eve dinner. After setting off the firecrackers, Zhang Neng wiped off the firecracker crumbs and went into the house. The four sat down and started to move.

The two big men naturally wanted to drink some wine, and after the wine was poured, they began to move their chopsticks.

The braised pork is soft and mellow, fat but not greasy.The steamed fish is very fresh and tender, and the chicken soup is delicious. Especially in the "hot pot", put a chopstick in the mutton or beef roll and shake it in the boiling soup and it will be cooked immediately. The taste of eating is absolutely amazing.

Ji Xun and Zhang Neng have never tasted delicacies from mountains and seas? But this New Year’s Eve dinner was the most delicious and refreshing one they ate.
They also drank a jug of wine, and in the end both of them were slightly smoked.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, it started to snow again. Zhang Neng had no intention of going back, so he took Ji Xun to play chess again.

Shen Yuan tidied things up, boiled hot water for everyone to take a bath, and then washed and dried the clothes. You can’t take a bath and wash clothes on the first day of the new year, because it will wash away the good luck of the year. Although these customs are cumbersome, Shen Yuan enjoying the moment.

It was past [-] o'clock in the evening when I was completely busy, but I couldn't sleep. The folk custom on the [-]th New Year's Eve is to keep the year old. The family reunite together and the candles will last all night.

But in the end, Ji Feng and Zhang Neng couldn't bear it anymore and went to bed, while Shen Yu'an and Ji Xun stayed up until the third watch, set off firecrackers to welcome the New Year and the God of Wealth entered the house, and then went to bed to rest.

Early the next morning, Ji Feng came to pay New Year's greetings to his elder brother and sister-in-law. The little guy said auspicious words all the time, and all of them came to ask for two big envelopes and happily went to play.

After waking up, Shen Yu'an solemnly paid New Year's greetings to her husband, asking for a big envelope and a deep kiss.

After that, I went to pay New Year's greetings to Zhang Neng, and got a big package, so I went to make breakfast happily.

(End of this chapter)