Wearing eighty books, the little widow turns into a rich woman

On the morning of the New Year's Eve, Lin Lan asked Xiaodouzi to change into a bright red turtleneck sweater, a brown children's jacket, and new cotton shoes.

Lin Lan kissed him: "Well, my son is so handsome today, like a doll in a New Year painting."

Xiaodouzi also kissed her: "Mom, when will Uncle Xiangyang come to post Spring Festival couplets?"

Lin Lan glanced at the alarm clock: "Go wash your face, brush your teeth and eat breakfast, and Uncle Xiangyang will be here soon."

"Yeah!" Xiaodouzi ran out.

Lin Lan went to the yard to dry the clothes.

Qiaohui carried the teapot and poured him a pot of hot water: "Dou Zi, we are having glutinous rice balls this morning, how many do you have?"

Xiaodouzi thought for a while: "I'll eat three."

"Okay!" Qiaohui scooped up the glutinous rice ball powder, added water and kneaded it well, then took out the glutinous rice ball cores made by Wu Shufen from the cupboard, wrapped more than a dozen glutinous rice balls and put them on the cutting board.

Open the lid of the pot, put the glutinous rice balls into the pot, shovel the lid with a shovel a few times, wait for the glutinous rice balls to float up, scoop them into a bowl, bring them to the table, and say loudly: "Cousin, eat the glutinous rice balls."

"Here we come." Lin Lan straightened the last piece of clothing, hung it on the hanger, and carried the basin into the kitchen.

Qiaohui smiled and said, "We're already eating, we won't wait for you."

Xiaodouzi pointed to the bowl: "Mom, I'll eat three."

Lin Lan picked up the chopsticks: "Eat enough, I have to go to the street later."

Xiaodouzi nodded: "My aunt's glutinous rice balls are big, three are enough."

The glutinous rice balls made by Wu Shufen add lard to the core, which tastes sweet and smooth, fat but not greasy, waxy but not sticky.

The three ate glutinous rice balls, warmed up dog food for Wangcai, and when they started cooking pig food, Li Xiangyang arrived by bike.

Xiaodouzi went up to meet him, looked at him and said, "Uncle Xiangyang, I have been waiting for you for a long time."

Li Xiangyang rubbed his head: "Uncle came here after pasting up the Spring Festival couplets at home."

"Oh! I'll get you some paste." Xiaodouzi said, turning around and running towards the stove.

Lin Lan opened the main room and brought out a high stool: "Xiangyang, you are high enough to step on it."

"Paste the door first."

Lin Lan took out the Spring Festival couplets at the gate and handed them to him.

Xiaodouzi handed over the porcelain basin containing the paste.

Li Xiangyang took over and smeared the paste on the door frame with a brush, and first pasted the first couplet: safe and good luck inside and outside;

Xiaodouzi looked at the gold letters on the red background, clapped his hands and said, "Wow! It's so beautiful."

Li Xiangyang got off the high stool, and the three of them stood at the door watching for a while, then went to the main room, the kitchen room, and the pigsty, and replaced all the Spring Festival couplets at the door of the chicken pen with new ones.

After the red Spring Festival couplets are pasted, the flavor of the New Year is even stronger.

Xiaodouzi looked at Li Xiangyang who was standing on the high stool: "Uncle Xiangyang, Brother Dandan said that they will also post Spring Festival couplets this morning. Will our house also post it?"

Li Xiangyang posted Liu Hu Xing Wang: "Yes, I have to post the shops and the houses over there. Uncle will take you with me later."

Xiaodouzi nodded, thought for a while and asked, "Where are we reuniting today?"

Li Xiangyang jumped off the high stool and rubbed his head: "Grandpa Li is already preparing for the New Year's Eve at my uncle's house."

"Then let's hurry up!" Xiaodouzi urged.

Li Xiangyang nodded: "Uncle, go push the cart."

Lin Lan came out with a bucket of pig food. Seeing the two people pushing the cart out, she said with a smile, "Go and post the Spring Festival couplets. I'll go there after I've fed the pigs."

"Okay, let's go first." Li Xiangyang rode away with Xiaodouzi.

After the four pigs were full and cleaned the pigsty, Lin Lan went to the vegetable field to chop some vegetables, plucked some garlic sprouts and celery, and went back to fetch the cured chicken, new clothes, new shoes, and two bamboo tubes of tea inside.

Qiaohui took out two pairs of insoles and said to Lin Lan, "Cousin, I made two pairs of insoles for Uncle Li."

Lin Lan took it and looked at it. Seeing the double happiness characters she embroidered, she nodded and said, "That's right, the stitches are fine and tight, much better than my cousin."

"Really!" Qiaohui looked at her happily.

Lin Lan nodded, and took him to Li's house by bicycle. When he opened the courtyard door, he saw Lao Li with an apron tied around his waist coming out of the kitchen.

The two said in unison: "Dad, (Uncle Li) wished you a New Year."

"Okay, okay, I will give you the New Year's money after dinner." Lao Li looked at the two happily, and took the back: "There is one more dish, and there is sugarcane I just burned in the kitchen, you go Take it and eat."

Everyone loves to eat burnt sugarcane in winter. The old man said that burnt sugarcane can cure coughs. In cold weather, children also like to hold warm burnt sugarcane in their hands.

"Hey!" Lin Lan agreed, and followed into the stove, saw the sugarcane in front of the stove, took two knots, and handed one to Qiaohui.

With one bite, the cooked sugarcane skin is easily torn off, and the bite is hot and sweet.

Lin Lan was eating the sugar cane, and saw that Lao Li had prepared all the dishes. On the big round table were sausage platters, oily cured goose, and spicy sausages.
Spicy and refreshing cold chicken nuggets, in the steamer there are moderately soft, fat but not greasy sweet roasted white rice noodles, oily rice noodles, and steamed pork with five flavors...

"It smells so good!" Qiaohui sniffed, "Uncle Li is so amazing, he cooked so many dishes in one morning."

Old Li, who sliced ​​the meat, said happily: "When I finish the incense bowl and Xiangyang and Douzi come back, we will start the reunion."

Qiaohui hadn't seen how incense bowls were made before, so she smiled and said, "Uncle Li, I'll learn from you."

"Okay!" Old Li cheerfully replied.

He sliced ​​a piece of front leg meat, chopped two shallots, chopped green onion, and shredded a small piece of ginger, chopped them together with the meat into minced meat, added appropriate amount of salt, white pepper powder, soy sauce, pepper powder, mixed well,

Beat two more eggs, filter out the egg whites, add an appropriate amount of red sweet potato powder, add a little water to dissolve, pour the powder into the meat filling, stir in one direction until the meat is strong and set aside.

Beat the eggs, spread a circle of fat on the bottom of the pan, put the egg liquid into the frying pan with a spoon, and shake the pan to make the egg skin even in thickness.

After the egg skin is fried, spread the gorgon powder juice, put the minced meat halfway on the egg skin, wrap it tightly, seal it and put it in a steamer, poke it with a toothpick a few times, steam it, cut it into a section about one inch long and set aside.

Put the crispy meat at the bottom of the bowl, soak the dried yellow flowers, put the steamed fragrant bowl on top, pour the broth into the steamer and steam again.

At twelve noon, there was a burst of firecrackers in the street from time to time.

When the fragrant bowl was about to be steamed, Xiaodouzi ran into the yard: "We are back."

"The food is served." Lao Li shouted happily.

"Here we come." Yang Zhigang and Xiaodouzi ran over smiling.

A few people brought cured vegetables and steamed pork to the main room, and Lao Li put the juicy red watercress carp on a plate. The reunion dinner has fish, which means more than every year.

The steamed incense bowl is brought out of the steamer and sprinkled with chopped green onions, followed by golden and crispy crispy meat...and a plate of hot and sour kimchi.

After they sat down, Lao Li looked at them cheerfully: "Eat, twist as you like."

After Qiaohui took a piece of crispy incense bowl and ate it, she praised: "The incense bowl made by Uncle Li is delicious."