The salted fish couple is fleeing famine

Chapter 154
This year's New Year's Eve, the sun is still out, and it is so warm that people mistakenly think it is spring.

Old Yuantou finally stopped work on this day, had lunch, brought offerings, and led his three sons and six grandchildren to the ancestral hall to burn incense for their ancestors.

Cuihua is the hostess who brings new ideas every year. This year, she plans to make a dish that will bring all the birds back to their nests. Well, it is the Poon Choi that modern Cantonese people love to cook.

This is a hodgepodge that only needs to prepare the ingredients in advance, put them in the pots in order, add the broth and simmer until cooked.

Soak sea cucumbers, dried oysters, shiitake mushrooms in advance, and prepare soft-boiled shield fish.

Fresh meats include: chicken nuggets, chicken feet, goose feet, trotters, beef tendons, all blanched in water to remove the fishy smell.

Put a bamboo mat on the bottom of the casserole (to prevent sticking to the pan), first spread chicken nuggets and pig feet on the bottom, then chicken feet and goose feet, beef tendons on top, and put the water in the space that has not been filled with ingredients.

Turn the heat to low and simmer for two hours until the clear water turns into a pot of milky white soup.

The seasoning is also simple, soy sauce, oil, sugar, seasoned soup pot, then add soft-boiled shield fish, scallops, oyster meat, and shiitake mushrooms.

Continue to simmer the newly added ingredients for half an hour, and finally add soaked sea cucumbers, fresh prawns, and egg dumplings.

Before serving, put some cabbage heart into it and cook it to relieve the greasiness.

The essence of the ingredients permeates down layer by layer, and the cycle forms a perfect freshness. This kind of heroic and expensive Poon Choi is just a luxury on New Year's Eve.

Cuihua made eight pots in one go, and sent two pots to Hu's family in Dali Village, and one pot to Yuan Damei's house, and the masters of Yuan's house could finish two pots in one night.

Brother and sister Zhao Leiting, Qingyi, Qinger, and four nuns can also be divided into two basins.

Poon choi casserole is gurgling in the charcoal stove, and the table is also full of cured meat platters and appetizers, and the main course is cured meat claypot rice.

Old Yuantou spoke more and more like an old man, as usual, he spoke before meals:

"This year our Yuan family is going smoothly again, and it's been a peaceful and beautiful year. Both your mother and I are in good shape! The eldest, second, and third are all working hard to support the family, and the daughters-in-law are also well-managed. My eldest Sun Xiaosun is healthy, I hope our family will be better in the coming year!"

"Father, what you said is really good!" Hei Wa took the lead in singing praises to Old Yuan Tou, and also toasted the old man with a glass of wine.

The old man drank the wine and moved his chopsticks. Everyone has been waiting for this moment for a long time. They haven't eaten the soft-bodied shield fish for a long time.

The old Yuantou, Heiwa, Yuan Laoer, Yuan Laosan, Yuan Wenjie and Yuan Wenwu were at the same table, and Mrs. Ma was at the table with three daughters-in-law and four little kids.

Xiao Liu raised his small water glass and said to Cuihua, "Mom, cheers!"

It was too much fun for everyone, so Cuihua had no choice but to hold a fruit wine glass and say to Mrs. Ma: "Mother, let's have a toast too. I hope the next year will be smooth and successful, and you will have two grandchildren!"

These words made Mrs. Ma very happy. Isn't her greatest wish now to hold a grandson?
He happily clinked glasses with Cuihua, and drank a glass of fruit wine in one gulp.

The Fan sisters also had red faces, and Cuihua toasted with a few children, otherwise her children would be in a hurry.

No mother can feel at ease when she can eat with her little baby.

Picking vegetables, shelling them, and supervising eating vegetables, all mothers in the world are the same.

"Auntie, shield fish is the best time!" Santou became lively the day his father came back. He wanted to hug his father and cry, but he didn't remember anything when he hugged him.

"Eat more of the three heads if it tastes good, don't worry, chew slowly!" Cuihua also picked up another shield fish for him, making the three heads smile happily.

"Mother, the pig's trotters are thin and tender!" Xiao Wu obviously loves pig's trotters more. The pig's trotters that have absorbed the essence of seafood are no longer ordinary pig's trotters, and they are so rare that they drop their eyebrows.

"Then you can only eat one piece, or you will get tired of it!" One piece of this pig's trotter is half a piece. If there is no limit, Xiao Wu can eat two.

"Mom, I'm the most obedient, I ate two cabbage hearts!" Xiao Liu felt that he was obedient.

"Do you think Mother didn't see that you ate two shieldfish, three prawns, and a chicken leg?"

"Hey, mom, you have really nice eyes, how about I have another cabbage heart?"

In the palace, without the Holy Empress Dowager's New Year's Eve dinner, the meal was exceptionally harmonious. The Holy Mother Empress Dowager even teased the half-year-old little prince, reluctant to blink.

"The queen has worked hard in the past six months. En'er has been so well-fed, it doesn't look like she was born prematurely."

"Queen, don't work hard, this is what a daughter-in-law should do. Seeing them healthy and healthy is better than anything else!"

"Grandmother, my brother is so funny, he can roll over very nimbly, he is a nimble little fat man."

"Hehehe, Yaoyao, it's better for the little baby to be fatter, and the fatter will be blessed!"

Ever since she had a younger brother, Princess Jingyao no longer thinks about her younger brother, Ertou’s brother’s sixth brother. Her younger brother’s milk is fragrant, and jiojio can pinch it whenever she wants.

Apart from Concubine Xian who was thrown into the cold palace and Concubine Shu who served the Empress Dowager, only Concubine Hui who gave birth to the third prince and second princess remained among the high-ranking concubines.

The old concubine An (mother and concubine of the fourth prince) of Shu Palace, with several concubines from before Xia Hongdi ascended the throne and nobles who came in during the draft, was at the other table, cautious and afraid to speak.

The prince toasted his father with his three younger brothers, and each recited his own poems.

Overall, it was a relaxed and pleasant family banquet. Xia Hongdi, who was half drunk, followed Empress Gao to Kunning Palace.

The youngest son is half a year old, and his queen won't let him go to bed, it's unreasonable!

Amidst the sound of firecrackers, the boys in Yuan's mansion set off firecrackers endlessly, and they wouldn't go back to their rooms unless they were too sleepy.

"Daughter-in-law, happy new year! Long life!"

"Husband, happy new year! Be safe and happy!"

This is already more than [-] New Year's Eves that the couple have spent together. How can it be possible to get tired of such a beautiful day?
At the moment of Zizheng, Xia Hongdi went to the southeast room of the Hall of Mental Cultivation to hold the pen opening ceremony, and then led the clan and first-rank ministers who had been waiting outside the palace to the auditorium to hold the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven.

After completing the sacrifice ceremony, Xia Hongdi and Empress Gao will go to Kunning Palace to worship the gods. After the sacrifices to the gods, the emperor will go to the ancestral temple to worship the gods of the ancestors.

After offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors, Xia Hongdi went to the dragon chair in the Hall of Supreme Harmony to accept the worship of the civil and military ministers.

Therefore, on the first day of junior high in Uncle Zhongqin's mansion, Mrs. Uncle Zhongqin was the object of kowtowing by the girls and servants in turn to pay New Year's greetings.

Cuihua's red envelopes are all in big frames, and the little girls have sweet little mouths, and the auspicious words are not repeated.

Zhao Leiting and Nannan are the first wave. Seeing that Zhao Leiting has grown into a big man, Cuihua couldn't help but say:
"This year's spring banquet, my aunt is going to start seeing your daughter-in-law for you. Lei Ting, you are 17 years old this year. You have already eaten. Tell my aunt what kind of daughter-in-law do you want to find?"

Zhao Leiting blushed, and said in a low voice: "I believe in Auntie's vision, Auntie, let me make the decision!"

"Okay, Auntie will definitely choose a good wife for you!"

Zhao Leiting kowtowed to Cuihua again, he really took Cuihua as his aunt, the brother and sister were able to survive together because of their aunt, and have a good day today.

It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a second-born parent, but he intends to support his aunt for the rest of his life. I believe that his aunt will not treat him badly.

For breakfast on the first day of junior high school, Yuan's family ate big glutinous rice balls, stuffed with brown sugar and sesame seeds and fresh meat and shepherd's purse.

The smooth Q-ball glutinous rice balls are about the size of a child's fist. The ratio of wine rice to rice is just right. They are soft and not sticky to the teeth. Eat a few and drink half a bowl of original soup. The original soup turns into the original food, perfect!

Yuan Wenjie and Yuan Wenwu took their four younger brothers and began to pay New Year's greetings and beg for red envelopes to all the elders in the Yuan Mansion.

"Grandpa, I wish you a happy new year, with good fortune like the long flowing water in the East China Sea, and a longer life than Nanshan!"

"Okay, okay, okay, my good grandson really knows how to say it!" Old Yuan Tou, who made a fortune last year, wrapped the red envelope with such grandeur, and he sold it like a small gold ingot.

"Grandpa, grandpa, I wish you a prosperous and prosperous life!"

"Hahaha, come on, there are all of them, and there are red envelopes!" Old Yuantou is so happy, he feels that this year he will work hard for another year, and use the money he earns to give red envelopes to his grandson, which feels great .

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Uncle Zhongqin's mansion entertained Sister Yuan back to her natal home. Ding Jia was very happy, and held Lele to send old Yuan Tou New Year's greetings.

"Father-in-law, Happy New Year!" Lele, who has a baby voice, is the favorite of the group today. When she came out of his father's arms, she was snatched away by her uncle.

"Lele, what do you want to say to uncle?"

"Wish you prosperity and wealth!"

"Hahaha, good! Uncle will give you a big red envelope!"

The little girl was overjoyed, anyway, everyone loves red envelopes, and she wants too.

Hei Wa also said: "This year, I will come to my uncle's house to read and write, okay?"

Ding Jia immediately refused: "Brother, Lele is only over one year old, less than two years old. I'll send you home when I'm five years old!"

"Brother-in-law, Doudou has come to our house since she was three years old!"

"Well, I'm really reluctant, I'm really young!"

Sister Yuan didn't care, she ate candies with Cuihua and the others and watched the excitement.

"Sisters and sisters, let me tell you, years ago, Zhao Qingshan's mother-in-law bought a whole set of red gold jewelry in the silver house in the town. I went to buy a small bracelet for Lele that day, and it was so real!"

"Zhao Qingshan's salary is so high?"

"Then I don't know? Anyway, the brick kiln business is still very prosperous, and I have to ask the second and third for the money they share."

"Then I'll ask your brother to ask. This has something to do with my natal family, so it's better not to create two accounts!"

"Well, you ask the eldest brother to ask the second brother and the others. Our family no longer has money, so we can't watch others steal our money!"

After Ding Jia's family returned, Cuihua and Heiwa mentioned the matter of Zhao Qingshan's daughter-in-law. Heiwa frowned, because the brick kiln was not large, and he distributed the profits to Yuan Laoer, Yuan Laosan, and Hu San After the cow, I didn't ask any more.

When they found Yuan Laoer and Yuan Laosan, they scratched their heads: "Brother, we don't really understand the account book, anyway, the money allocated every year is more than the previous year, but we don't ask any more questions!"

"You guys are really good. After so long, you still don't know the account book! Don't pass this year, if you don't understand the account book, don't do anything this year!"

Yuan Laoer and Yuan Laosan wanted to cry. For those who celebrate the New Year, if they say such scary words, can they learn the account book in a few days?But their eldest brother didn't mean to be joking at all, and they almost shut themselves up in fright.

Hu Sanniu, can he be better than these two?

Heiwa was speechless, the three of them would be very satisfied if they shared 300 taels of silver per year, but this offending thing, the three of you will look at me and I will look at you.

Hei Wa's face was dark: "This is a big business. You not only don't understand the account books, but you don't ask about it in detail. If it's really your own ancestral property, how many years can you do it if it's in your hands?
I don't care what method you use, after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, if there is still no regulation, don't open this brick and tile kiln, anyway, you don't take it seriously, just close it! "

How can a business of 300 taels of silver be closed this year?The three of them are stumped!
(End of this chapter)