Born into a farm family, I became rich by pressuring my parents.

Chapter 32 Preparation
She accompanied Bai to prepare meals, decorate the house, and make new clothes.

Jiang Jinyu was very interested in experiencing this for the first time. After all, in her previous life, celebrating the New Year in the city no longer had much of a New Year flavor.

Except for the New Year's Eve, when the family gathers together for a reunion dinner, preparations before the New Year are basically omitted.

Of course, Jiang Jinyu stared at the closed door longingly, thinking that it would be better if her mother could let her go out for a walk.

Compared to the mother and daughter who have been working in a house with a fire wall, Jiang Mingshun is much pitiful.

Not only does he have to go to the city every now and then to deliver goods, but he also has to take care of the shopping for his family.

“I finally don’t have to go back to New Year’s Eve anymore,” Jiang Mingshun took a sip of hot tea and sighed: “In previous years, the closer to the New Year’s Eve, the more leisurely I feel. I never thought that the New Year’s Eve would be such a troublesome thing.”

No, Jiang Jinyu pouted. In the past, during the Chinese New Year, their family of three could have a New Year's Eve dinner.

New clothes, sweets and snacks, visits to relatives and friends are all not for them.

Can this not be easy?

Mrs. Bai came over with a basin of cooked noodles: "Don't be idle, we still have a few dumplings to go. Hurry up and roll them out."

The number of dumplings used in a new year is not a small amount.

In Guangxin County, it has been a long-standing custom for relatives and friends to send dumplings to each other before the Chinese New Year.

People who didn't have money used thick bread and stuffed vegetables and radish, and it was fun to give a few to the family.

Rich people are more particular about it. In addition to the white dough, the fillings inside are also various, and most of them have meat in them.

There are also more discerning people who will make some pure meat and pure vegetarian dishes respectively, gather six or eight kinds of fillings, and send them out together.

This is what Bai Shi planned this year.

Jiang Mingshun consciously washed his hands and came over to pick up the rolling pin: "Everyone is in good luck this year. I see that the New Year pigs killed in the village are not enough. Butcher Wang has to go out to collect pigs every day."

Mrs. Bai picked up the rolled out dough, put her hands together and made a dumpling. She said, "That's more than that. Our family hasn't grown vegetables yet? I went to the village to find someone to buy some vegetables and radishes, but there weren't many people. There’s still some left.”

……

The orange candle light in the room shone through the window paper on the snow, reflecting a warm feeling.
From time to time, voices could be heard coming from inside, occasionally mixed with the childish laughter of children.

"Okay, I can just make a few dumplings to eat tonight!" Jiang Jinyu rubbed his hands and rubbed off the flour on them.

They made a total of [-] dumplings today.

In addition to keeping [-] to eat at home during the New Year, the rest will be given to friends with whom I have made friends.

While Bai was cooking the dumplings, Jiang Mingshun lined the basket with oil paper and put the dumplings in one by one.

This basket is to be hung outside tonight and frozen overnight before it can be hoisted to the beam in the utility room.

This will not only ensure that the dumplings will not spoil, but also prevent mice from eating them.

Because we didn’t have time to dig a cellar, we still use jars to store things at home. Things that are easy to break are packed in jars and left to freeze outside. Things that are not easy to break are sealed and placed directly inside the house.

Eight hundred dumplings are just the beginning.

In the next few days, Jiang Jinyu felt as if she was drowning in a sea of ​​flour.

Making buns today, rolling noodles tomorrow, baking pancakes the day after tomorrow, there really is no time to stop.

"Put your mouth up a little higher and you can hang the oil can." Bai patted Jiang Jinyu's face and motioned for her to go aside and play if she didn't want to.Jiang Jinyu took a small piece of dough and kneaded it in his hand, and said listlessly: "Mom, how much do you want to make?"

It’s not that she is impatient, she can still understand dumplings. After living here for several years, no matter how difficult the time is, seeing everyone giving them to each other every year has become an indispensable part of the Chinese New Year.

But do steamed buns, noodles, steamed buns and pancakes need to be made in hundreds at a time?
She had already asked, and these were made at home.

In this case, wouldn't it be better to eat it before cooking it?
She thought about it and asked directly.

Bai stood firm and motionless, without any feeling of being accused: "What do you know, little one? The more we do, the more we can show that our family is wealthy. When the New Year comes, who's family doesn't have some food left over?"

"If we don't make food and hang it out, how will the gods in the sky know how hard we have worked this year? How will the gods bless our family next year?"

Jiang Jinyu: "..."

Therefore, she complained feebly in her heart, Mom, are you kneading dough like crazy these days just to show off how rich you are to the gods?
Jiang Mingshun, who had been rolling out noodles for several days, took the opportunity to escape. He wiped the flour off his hands and picked up Jiang Jinyu: "Forget it if you don't want to do it. Dad will take you to make rice cakes to eat."

Jiang Jinyu was speechless about her father using her as an excuse to escape.

It is also a traditional custom to make rice cakes during the New Year. However, most of the paddy fields in the village are used to grow rice. Very few families will set aside an acre of land to grow glutinous rice.

Her family doesn't have paddy fields, so the glutinous rice used to make rice cakes is bought from the grain store.

Jiang Mingshun just bought twenty kilograms of glutinous rice a few days ago.

Just like flour grinding, there is also a place in the village dedicated to grinding rice cakes.

Thinking that in previous years, Jiang Jinyu always had to queue up for a long time to get a turn, and was arranged to queue up to blow the cold air every time, but in the end he couldn't share a few bites of rice cakes. Jiang Jinyu pestered his father to buy a small pestle and mortar to put at home.

Anyway, she has a small family, so a small pestle and mortar are enough.

Now that he has come out, Jiang Mingshun decided to bake all the rice cakes for this year's New Year now to avoid having to work again.

Twenty pounds of glutinous rice takes up several pots just for cooking.

Jiang Jinyu squatted on the ground and added firewood to the stove, thinking to herself, fortunately, they had many pots, otherwise they would not know how much time it would take.

The next day, Jiang Jinyu ran to the main room as soon as she got up. When she saw that there were no basins and flour on the kang table, she couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. She was finally done.

The familiar sound of chopping vegetables came from the kitchen.

Jiang Jinyu opened the curtain and ran over. Bai and Jiang Mingshun each took a knife and were chopping meat.

You don’t need to pack anything else!

Seeing Jiang Jinyu's horrified look, Bai Bai couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Okay, today we are going to fry meatballs. It's none of your business, so go back to the house."

Jiang Jinyu breathed a sigh of relief.

……

After all the busy work, the day of the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month finally arrived.

Jiang Jinyu was pulled out of bed by Bai Shi early in the morning.

"The hot water has been boiled. I'll pour it into a wooden bucket for you. You can go take a shower and wash your hair yourself." Bai Shi kept urging while putting a jacket on Jiang Jinyu.

After making sure that Jiang Jinyu had opened her eyes and stood firm on the ground, she let go of her hand: "Hurry up, I'm busy today, and I don't have time to stare at you."

(End of this chapter)