Reborn to be a country doctor

Chapter 39 39. New Year's Eve Dinner, New Year's Eve
"Yizheng, go and get the frozen lamb chops and sheep's hooves. Let's eat them all tonight. Yijing, take Yikang to the private plot in the backyard to pick some lettuce and white radish. The fire boils the water, it will be used later.”

In the kitchen, Lin Qingxi rolled up her sleeves, and started ordering Lin Yizheng and the others to do things. Immediately afterwards, the five of them got busy separately.

Before the fire was lit, Lin Qingxi scooped up two bowls of cornmeal and served them, planning to make steamed buns later.

As soon as they reconciled, Xiang Yijing and his brother came back after picking vegetables. Lin Qingxi asked them to wash the vegetables with the hot water in the copper kettle on the coal stove, and then she started to tinker with the lamb chops that Lin Yizheng brought over. And sheep's feet were thawed with warm water.

Lin Qingxi took a piece of bacon from the hanging basket and boiled it in an iron pot. After about ten minutes, she fished out the bacon and sliced ​​it, took out a piece of sauerkraut lump from the sauerkraut tank, washed it and chopped it, and took it out again. Cut off a handful of garlic leaves and set aside.

The big iron pot was poured with water and boiled. Lin Qingxi took advantage of the time to boil the water to fish out a big carp from the big water tank, scraped the scales and changed it into a flower knife, and then marinated it with sliced ​​ginger.

After the water was boiled, Lin Qingxi poured the hot water into the copper pot, took out the remaining hot water and put it in the wooden basin, then poured oil into the pan, fried the fish first, then drained the hot water in the wooden basin. Pour water into the pot, add sliced ​​ginger and a little salt, cover the pot, and steam the fish.

Next, Lin Qingxi deep-fried the lamb chops, and then stewed the lamb trotters with radishes. As for the lettuce, she planned to eat it raw, and sautéed the sauerkraut lumps.

As the sky gradually darkened, Lin Qingxi prepared six dishes, namely stewed radish with lamb's feet, lamb chops, braised fish, sauerkraut lumps, steamed bacon and lettuce.

After dinner was ready, the family moved to the main room. Instead of lighting the oil lamp, Lin Qingxi took out two flashlights and put them on the table. The whole main room was very bright under the light of the flashlights.

"There are five people in our family. I have prepared six dishes. It's okay if you can't finish them. Leftovers are allowed today. Tomorrow will be the new year. I wish our family better and better in the future," Lin Qingxi said, putting The lamb chops were torn apart, and everyone was given a lamb chop.

"Getting better and better!"

Hearing Lin Qingxi's words, even Xiang Yikang, the youngest, was very happy. They are all poor children who headed home early. The four of them, Lin Yirong, stayed with their parents for a month or two when they were born. Lin Qingxi brought her up.

Compared with their parents, they have the best relationship with Lin Qingxi and like her the most, which is why they would rather follow Lin Qingxi to Zhoujiatun than go to the frontier with Lin Qingping and his wife.

After eating, Lin Qingxi took Xiang Yijing to clean up the dishes, and Lin Yizheng took Lin Yirong and Xiang Yikang to wash up. After they finished washing, it was Lin Qingxi and Xiang Yijing.

After the five of them took a shower, they changed into new clothes. The family of five sat in the main room, chatting and watching the new year.

When it was almost early morning, Lin Qingxi saw that everyone was sleepy, so she didn't continue to watch the new year, but went to lock the door, and took everyone back to their rooms to sleep.

Lin Qingxi got up early in the morning on New Year's Day. She went directly to the kitchen to light a fire to prepare breakfast. There were some leftovers from last night. She heated them up, steamed ten big meat buns, and cooked another Pot of sweet potato porridge.

As soon as breakfast was ready, the four of Lin Yizheng got up one after another. Everyone took turns to wash up and then started eating.

After breakfast, Lin Qingxi took the bowls and chopsticks to the kitchen and put them in the kitchen. The custom in Zhoujia Village is that on the first day of the new year, you can light a fire in the kitchen to prepare breakfast, but you can't use a knife or a broom, and you can't scold the children or wash the bowls and chopsticks. , You have to wait until the second year of junior high school to do it, so that this year can go smoothly.

"Yizheng, here are the red envelopes for the four of you. You save them yourself. The things in the basket are for you to pay New Year's greetings. You go to the village chief's house first, then to the second uncle's house, and finally to the great-grandfather's house. Yet?"

Lin Qingxi put things into the basket while talking. She prepared three cloth bags, each containing half a bag of toffee, a catty of brown sugar, a dried hare and six meat buns.

"Understood, aunt, let's remember," Lin Yizheng nodded. It was his first time to pay New Year's greetings. Although he felt a little uneasy, as a man of the Lin family, he had to stand firm so that he could support my sister in the future.

"Okay, you guys go! Look at your younger siblings. If Yikang can't walk anymore, let him go to the second uncle's house and let him follow the second uncle to the great-grandfather's house to pay New Year's greetings."

Lin Qingxi nodded. She didn't need to go to pay New Year's greetings. After all, several of her apprentices were coming to pay her New Year's greetings today, and several families in the village would also be coming to pay her New Year's greetings, so she had to stay at home to greet everyone.

Lin Qingxi thought well. Although the Lin family is an outsider, they are also relatives in the village. They can barely be regarded as their own, but after knowing Lin Qingxi's extraordinary medical treatment, especially after leading everyone to collect herbs to make money, the Lin family is their own family. Yes, everyone admires her from the bottom of their hearts. On the first day of the new year, they will definitely come back to pay New Year's greetings. Not to mention anything else, only Zhou Jihong and the others must come.

Lin Qingxi boiled a pot of brown sugar ginger tea in a copper pot, warmed it directly on the coal stove, then carried the thermos, took a few bowls and went to the main room, put the things down, Lin Qingxi took some melon seeds and peanuts on a plate Candy and other snacks came out and placed on the low table in the main room, and then went to add firewood to the kang bed in the main room, and then sat in the main room and waited.

Lin Qingxi didn't have to wait long, and Zhou Jihong and the others came to pay New Year's greetings to the Lin family one after another. She sealed a fifty-cent red envelope for each of them, poured another bowl of brown sugar ginger tea, and random-checked that everyone had memorized a paragraph of textbooks. I grabbed a few handfuls of snacks and stuffed them into their pockets, and let everyone go home.

Of course, the reason why Lin Qingxi was so generous was also because the annual gifts they brought were very generous. Each family gave a piece of meat of about two catties and a fish of three or four catties, as well as some vegetables and vegetables from their own fields. food.

When they were apprentices, the six apprentices and the five families made a unified agreement that they would give Lin Qingxi 20 catties of grain, [-] yuan and other things as tuition fees every year on the first day of the new year. .

Lin Qingxi couldn't refuse, so she readily agreed, but she was more serious and serious when teaching.

As soon as the six apprentices left, other people in the village also came to the Lin family to pay New Year's greetings one after another. The people who came brought some things from home, which were more or less their own wishes. Zhou Guilin next door also brought his wife and daughter. A family of four came.

People who came to pay New Year's greetings sat at Lin's house for a few minutes and then went back. Even Zhou Guilin's family did the same. They sat at Lin's house for ten minutes, said a few words of gratitude, and then went back.

(End of this chapter)