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Chapter 25 A Rarely Lively Day

On the day of Chinese New Year, Tong Xiaojing's house was extremely lively.

The happiest one was Tong Tianhai, who got up to work before dawn, and even called a few good friends and relatives in person the night before, inviting everyone to come to his house for a reunion year.

Tong Xiaojing hadn't come home for the past few years when she was studying abroad. There was only the husband and wife at home, so she didn't have any sense of celebrating the holidays. Now that her baby girl is back, it must be a lively time.

The second uncle directly closed the workshop, and even brought Sun Zhe and Sun Zhe's grandparents over to join in the fun.

As soon as the sun came out, Li Yuan and Grandma Sun Zhe were busy preparing ingredients together. His father drove Grandpa Sun Zhe out to buy wine and vegetables early in the morning, and the second uncle took Sun Zhe to post couplets at home.

Several people worked together and got busy.

The second uncle and Sun Zhe were on the gate together. After pasting the upper and lower couplets, the second uncle moved the ladder to the main entrance to put up the banner.

Sun Zhe was young, and his movements were light. Just as he was about to step forward, he was stopped by his second uncle.

"Let me post the banner. Once it is posted, it will not be stuck for a whole year. It cannot be posted crookedly, but it must be posted squarely." As the second uncle said, he climbed up the ladder himself, reached the highest point, and started to post the banner .

"Girl, show me if it's right?"

Tong Xiaojing has been standing aside and can't help. She really wants to help, and no one will let her intervene. She was not included in the division of labor and cooperation at the beginning, just let her idle.

Hearing that the second uncle finally called her at this moment, he immediately stepped forward to check.

"Second Uncle, go a little further to the left."

"Done yet?"

"A little bit further down, just a little..."

"Are you ready?" Tong Tianhai couldn't see the specific distance, but carefully followed Tong Xiaojing's words and moved the banner, carefully changing the distance.

Seeing that the banner was finally pasted squarely, Tong Xiaojing nodded: "Okay."

"Then I posted it."

Tong Xiaojing watched her second uncle put the four copybooks of "Fuxing Gaozhao" directly above the gate, and smiled.

It's been a long, long time since this house has been so lively.

After posting the couplets, Sun Zhe and his second uncle went to the back room to paste the blessing characters. These blessing characters were the styles selected by his father after a night of shopping in the market the day before.

Smelling the aroma of chicken, Tong Xiaojing took a deep breath. It was the smell she was most familiar with, delicious steam pot chicken.

Tong Xiaojing hurried into the kitchen, where her mother was cutting vegetables on the chopping board, and Grandma Sun Zhe was sitting in front of the stove, adding firewood to the stove.

"Wow, it smells so good! Mom, can I have a piece first?"

Hearing Tong Xiaojing's voice, Li Yuan pretended to be serious and said, "What are you busy with? This is tonight's New Year's Eve dinner. It's rare for the whole family to gather together. When everyone arrives later, we will burn paper for the ancestors before eating." Woolen cloth."

"Oh." Tong Xiaojing snorted, leaned forward, and stared at the steam pots on the stove. Steam pot chicken is her favorite, and the steam pot feast is the most characteristic delicacy in Jianshui, Yunnan. The first choice for entertaining distinguished guests or having something to celebrate.

My mother stewed chicken in a steam pot, as well as pork ribs and lotus root, steamed meat in a steam pot, and stewed tofu in a steam pot...

The steam pots were of different colors, and each steam pot was emitting gurgling heat, as if telling her that they had worked hard on the cooking and that they could eat it right away.

Tong Xiaojing took out her mobile phone, took a video of this scene, and sent it to her best friend Sun Mengmeng. This is the Chinese New Year, and Sun Mengmeng's home is in Sichuan, so I don't know what to cook right now.

Just after her video was sent, Sun Mengmeng typed the video.

She looked at Sun Mengmeng's video request, and immediately answered it. Soon, Sun Mengmeng's approaching face appeared on the phone.

"Can I say that I'm envious?" Sun Mengmeng hummed with a suffocated expression on her face, "I also really want to taste the steam pot that you talked about a thousand times in my ear during college." Chicken! As a professional foodie, I am very happy to be able to eat the specialties of my hometown. Do you know that my family is spending Chinese New Year at my cousin’s house tonight. They are making dumplings, but I want to eat our Sichuan food more than dumplings. Special smoked bacon, cold chicken, spicy sausage!"

"Haha, tonight's dishes are all my favorite, and we also prepared a steam pot feast."

"Your steam pot banquet is so unique, I've never eaten it before."

Tong Xiaojing pointed the camera at the steam pot on the stove, and introduced all kinds of steam pot banquets to Sun Mengmeng.

"Our Jianshui steam pot banquets all use purple pottery steam pots as cooking utensils. The ingredients are fumigated on the stove to cook a whole table of banquets. The combination of meat and vegetables can use steam pots for all kinds of dishes. do it."

When the dishes are on the table, the steamer is directly used instead of the bowl. The big steamer is accompanied by a small steamer. The table is full of steamers, which is particularly shocking.

In the past, the steam pot banquet was the top dish of Yunnan-style banquets. It was well-known all over Yunnan. Among the top ten famous banquets in their ancient city Lin'an (Lin'an is the ancient name of Jianshui), the steam pot banquet is even on the top of the list. Now the pace of life is fast. , The steam pot feast is only made when it is important.

"When you have the opportunity to come to Yunnan, I will definitely make you a full set of steam pot banquets, big and small, but you need a big table to fit them."

"That's great. As expected, Jingjing is the one who loves me the most." Sun Mengmeng said proudly in the camera: "Whoever you want to come to Sichuan when you are free, I will take care of you personally. You can eat in the east of the city." In the west of the city, five stews a day are not the same."

"Hahaha……"

The two chatted and laughed, and briefly chatted about the time to go to Shanghai together next year.

Sun Mengmeng and Tong Xiaojing are college classmates, both of whom major in design. Tong Xiaojing wants to join a design company, while Sun Mengmeng dreams of entering a comic production company, and then use comics to express all the imaginative stories in her mind. displayed in the form.

The two made an appointment to go to Shanghai to rent a house together, find a job together, take care of each other, and work hard together to shine.

When Li Yuan heard that they had agreed to go to Shanghai on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, she also followed to watch Sun Mengmeng in the video.

"You are Aunt Yuan, right!" Sun Mengmeng called Li Yuan enthusiastically when she saw Li Yuan.

"Yo, this girl actually knows me." Li Yuan smiled and hurriedly called Grandma Sun Zhe to come forward and say hello to Sun Mengmeng.

"Xiaojing and I are best friends. Every time I mention my hometown, Xiaojing will tell me about you. She likes your steam pot chicken the most. It makes me hungry."

Li Yuan couldn't help laughing when she heard this: "Girl, come to Jianshui to play when you have time, and Auntie will make you whatever you want."

"Well, good!"

Tong Xiaojing and Sun Mengmeng chatted briefly again, and when she heard her father's voice outside the house, she hung up the phone.

Immediately turned around and ran out of the yard to the door to pick up Tong Tianhai who came back from shopping.

"Hurry up and get a bucket to hold this fish, the river fish I bought specially."

(End of this chapter)