Rebirth: the fiery age of Mori Gong's children

Chapter 198 New Year's Eve

During the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, the whole family happily sits around the table, chatting while eating and drinking.

Although there are no TV programs or even radios these days, the whole family feels very happy, and this kind of life is very happy and satisfying.

The children are obsessed with eating these delicious foods, and basically don't touch the staple food much.

Sheng Liancheng and Sheng Xiping drank three glasses of wine, and then stopped drinking.If you don't eat so many delicious dishes, how can you just drink alcohol?

It took a little longer to eat this meal, and it was finally finished at five o'clock.

When everyone was full, Sheng Xiping didn't let his mother move. Instead, he led his younger brothers and sisters to clear the table together.

Then Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei washed the dishes and cleared the pot. Sheng Xiping found out the meat that had been kept for mincing stuffing.

There is a bathhouse in the forest farm, and Sheng Liancheng and his father took a bath on the day they went down the mountain. People in the Northeast rarely bathe so often in cold weather, so there is no need to wash during the New Year.

As for the others, they all found time to go to the bathroom to wash in the past few days.

This shows the difference between forest farms and agricultural cooperatives. If you switch to agricultural cooperatives, you don't have this condition, and you have to put them at home to boil and wash them.

Not to mention the inconvenience, it's not as comfortable as a big bathhouse.

After chopping the meat stuffing, chop the vegetables. The dumplings on New Year’s Eve are usually mixed with cabbage and radish.

The main reason is that the cabbage is too watery to count, and with some shredded radish that has been blanched, the dumpling stuffing is firm, so as to avoid the stuffing from sticking to the curtain after a long time of wrapping.

In the past, there was another thing to pay attention to, saying that radish is called radish, which is a homonym for Laifu, and cabbage is a homonym for Baicai.

Using these two vegetables to make dumplings on New Year's Eve has a good meaning.

Nowadays, they are not allowed to pay attention to these things, and the big guys don't mention it, but some customs still remain.

Once the meat and vegetables were chopped, Sheng Xiping would not be in charge of the rest of the work, it would have to be done by Zhang Shuzhen herself.

Anyway, it was still early, and Zhang Shuzhen was not in a hurry, so she went to make the noodles first, and then adjusted the stuffing.

On New Year's Day, the forest farm is powered all night.

Around seven o'clock, Zhang Shuzhen adjusted the dumpling stuffing, kneaded the dough, put the dough on the Nankang, and took her daughter to start making dumplings.

Sheng Xiping's skill in making dumplings is average, but he can help roll the dumplings.

As for Sheng Liancheng, he led Sheng Xi'an, Sheng Xikang and the others to fry melon seeds, pine nuts, hazelnuts and so on.

Why do you have to wait until New Year's Eve to fry melon seeds?Can't you fry it a few days in advance and leave it?

One reason is that there are a group of monkey children in the family, and those nuts are the children's favorite.

If it was fired in advance, I'm afraid it would be snatched away by these monkey children before the New Year's Eve.

Now at this time, melon seeds are also a rare thing. There are a dozen or twenty of them planted in the vegetable garden at home, and they are kept for the Chinese New Year to be fried for entertaining guests, and they will be gone after eating.

Pine nuts and hazelnuts can be sold for money, and they have to be given away, and the family can't keep many.

If you let the children eat in advance, and there is a guest at home, how can I treat them?

Another reason is, where to put it after frying in advance?

There are no plastic bags these days. At most, you can find a cloth bag to put it in the cabinet.

Most people in the Northeast put them in cloth bags and put them under the kang qin on the kang, because the kang is hot, and the melon seeds will not return to moisture or skin after drying.

But there is one thing, nuts are rich in oil, and they have been kept in a hot place, which is easy to harass.

So most people fry melon seeds or something on New Year's Eve.

It just happened to be fried and it’s okay to be idle. Grab a couple of nibbles and chatter while nibbling to prevent sleepiness.

Eating dumplings until midnight, most people can't stay up, and they can be more energetic when they have something to eat.

A family of eight eats, and the dumplings on the morning of the New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year are going to be made together. This dumpling must be indispensable.

Finally, now that the child is grown up, Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei can help with wrapping, and Sheng Xiping can roll the skin.

In the past, when the children were young, Sheng Liancheng had to make a couple's bag until very late.

At around 10:30, the dumplings were finished, leaving two curtains and carrying them to the outside warehouse, covered with a clean white cloth, and these were reserved for cooking tomorrow morning.

Put the remaining curtains on the kitchen table or pot table, and boil the dumplings later.

"Lao Sheng, let's cook the dumplings earlier, don't wait until twelve o'clock.

The boss hasn't had a good rest since he came back from the mountain. He cooked dumplings earlier, and it's time to go to bed after eating.

Tomorrow morning, his little buddies can't come over to pay New Year's greetings? Zhang Shuzhen looked at the clock on the wall and asked Sheng Liancheng.

Before putting it aside, Shenglian Chengdu requested that dumplings be cooked at 11:30 and eaten at [-]:[-].

But in the past two years, I don't care much about those rules anymore. Is it not the same when you eat?
It's okay to go early, after eating the dumplings, play for a while, digest and digest before going to bed.

"Okay, do as you say." Sheng Liancheng nodded and agreed.

In this way, Zhang Shuzhen called Sheng Xi'an and the others to gather firewood and light the east pot to boil water.

The firewood for cooking dumplings during the Chinese New Year is specially prepared.

Look for the kind of smooth, dry birch slats, and split them into even thin strips.

This kind of firewood burns very well, and it is very urgent to cook dumplings, and the cooked dumplings are delicious.

It was originally a big pot with many dumplings, if the fire was not too hot, the dumplings would be soaked in the water, and the skin of the soaked dumplings would lose their tendons, and the dumplings would not taste good.

The water in the pot boiled, and Zhang Shuzhen put dumplings into the pot with a curtain, calling Sheng Liancheng, "Dumplings are ready, let's set off firecrackers."

When Sheng Liancheng heard it, he quickly took out a set of five hundred firecrackers from under the kangqin.

He led his sons out of the house, hung the firecrackers on the clothesline outside, and lit the fuse with a match.

In the Northeast, most families are like this. The firecrackers bought are not placed in the cabinet, but are stuffed under the kangqin.

Most of the kang qins are placed on the kang, even if it is a kang, it is also warm.

So the firecrackers were baked on the hot kang, and they didn't get damp at all. After they were lit, they made a rattling sound.

For Chinese New Year, the louder the noise, the better. The louder the firecrackers, the better the life of the family.

However, most of the whips these days are five hundred, two hundred, or one hundred rings, and there are almost no firecrackers that ring thousands of times at every turn.

And apart from ordinary firecrackers, that is, Er Tijiao, there are very few other fireworks.

Anyway, even if there is, most people can't afford it. They just buy two hanging whips casually and listen to the movement at night at thirty, just go through the process.

The Sheng family did have quite a few second-handers, which Sheng Xiping always kept for hunting.

So at this moment, Sheng Xiping took out ten of them, and led his younger brothers to set them up in the yard.

In the courtyard of Sheng's family, there was a series of dings and dings, and there was a lot of movement.

Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei didn't dare to watch in the yard, so they stood at the door of the house, covering their ears.

Sheng Xitai was bold enough to stand in the yard with his brothers without covering their ears, just watching the second kick explode, and kept clapping and bouncing around.

"It's so fun, big brother, put another one, put another one."

(End of this chapter)