Good farming at the foot of Changbai Mountain

Chapter 37 New Year's Eve
"Jinghan, there are frozen pears bought by your mother in the box in the barn. You can take out some water to slow down and eat in the evening. It will take a while to slow down. Our family doesn't have anything delicious. I bought a lot this year. " Chen felt sorry for the child, and remembered that there was still something delicious at home, so she hurriedly asked Jinghan and the others to find it.

When Jinghan heard this, she agreed and went to the warehouse to look for frozen pears with a basin.I remember that it was the same when I was young in my previous life. There was nothing delicious in winter. At this time, frozen pears are very good.Gradually, there were not many frozen pears for sale. There are all kinds of fruits in winter, so it is no longer rare to eat frozen pears.After entering the warehouse, she found the box that grandma had mentioned, and Jinghan picked up a pot of frozen pears and brought them back.

Seeing this, Mrs. Xue scooped up a lot of cold water into the basin. The frozen pears need to be soaked in cold water. "Okay, let's go into the house and have a look. We'll have dinner in a while. The dishes are almost ready."

Jinghan, Jingya and the sisters entered the room, "Grandpa, my mother said that the food is almost ready, let's prepare to eat."

The old man nodded, "Okay, put the table quickly, let's eat later."

Wenhan and Wencheng came to move the table, Jingya and Jinghan entered the room holding the bowls and chopsticks, and put the bowls and chopsticks in order.It happened that Mrs. Xue shouted, "Hurry up and serve the dishes, the dishes are all ready."

The children rushed to serve the food in the house. There were exactly twenty people in the house, and two tables were set up.There are two plates of each dish, stewed fish, stewed chicken with mushrooms, bergamot cabbage, braised pork, pork noodles with pickled cabbage, braised pork ribs, muddled chicken, meatballs, fried mushrooms and day lily, fried pork with fungus, pork liver, elbow, in total Twelve dishes, almost all meat dishes.The old man was very happy when he saw it, "Oh, this year's dish is hard enough. It should be, this year our fifth high school, Hui Xin is going to get married, this is the last year at home, it should be good Come on, come and sit down, children, sit down quickly. Zhixin, have you bought some wine at home? Bring some wine, let us have a good drink tonight."

"Grandpa, I'm going to get the wine, you wait," Wen Han ran to the kitchen, found a small jar in the cabinet, and carried it into the room.Then I went to get some wine glasses and set them for grandpa, father and uncles.

Zhixin poured wine one by one, "Come on, dad, let's drink some, this year is enough for you to be tired. Third brother, I have to thank you, if you didn't tell your shopkeeper, our family's You can't sell the club for such a high price. Come, let us brothers toast our father together." The men began to drink.

Mrs. Chen led Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Zhu into the house, looking for a seat to sit down. Needless to say, Ms. Han, they had already sat there with their children.Mrs. Chen glanced at Mrs. Han, but said nothing.After everyone sat down, he said, "There are a lot of happy events in our family this year, so let's celebrate them well. We have specially kept a pig at home just for the New Year. Come on, today's dishes are delicious. Just eat when you open your stomach. Wenhan, you juniors, you don’t need to worry about anything, just eat. Our family’s life will get better and better in the future, and we will let you eat like this every day."

This year is the first time that she has lived a prosperous year, and Mrs. Chen is really happy when she sees the children eating deliciously.It would be great if every year could be like this year, not only adults, but even children think so.

Jinghan picked up a piece of braised pork. If no one liked to eat this thing in the previous life, it would be too fat.Here, it is a rare and good thing. It is really a kind of enjoyment to feel the smoothness in the mouth. "Eldest sister, Jingwan, Jingxian, try it quickly, this braised pork is good, not so oily, and very mushy." Jinghan called the big guys to eat together, and even put a piece of meat in a bowl for Jingxian.

"Thank you, Second Sister." Jingxian said while holding the bowl.

"Eat quickly. After we finish eating, we still need to fry melon seeds. I'll boil red water from the mountains for you to drink. It's good. I also slowed down the frozen pears. It's comfortable to eat some frozen pears at this time." When Jinghan thought of this Some delicious food makes my mouth water.

It's rare for the children to eat such a good thing, and each of them eats their mouths full of oil. Tonight's staple food is naturally steamed buns. The snow-white steamed buns make people appetite after looking at them. One bite is enough.Jinghan squinted her eyes, savoring the rare things carefully. At this time, the crops were all farm manure, without chemical fertilizers, so the taste was particularly fragrant.The steamed buns are chewy and full of wheat flavor, which is really good.

After all, the children are small, and they will be full without eating much. They pat their stomachs one by one, very satisfied. "Grandpa, grandma, we're done eating, you eat slowly." Jing Han saw that Jing Xian and Jing Wan were also full, so she led them off the table and went to play.

The old man and his sons drank some wine, felt that it was almost the same, and could not drink any more, so they said, "I have almost drunk, if you can drink, drink more, if you can't drink, eat, and don't drink too much, tonight These dishes are all delicious." As he spoke, he picked up a piece of steamed bun and ate it. "Well, this steamed bun is delicious enough, good."

Mrs. Chen ate quickly and was almost full, and Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Zhu were also almost full.Just now, Han Shi was secretly said a few words by Zhide, and the food at night was indeed delicious, so he didn't say anything else, and after feeding Wen Xing, he ate by himself.Jinghe ate there with chopsticks, and Han didn't care much about her.

After a while, when everyone was full, Xue Shi and Zhu Shi started to pack their things, and Jing Ya and Jing Han also helped.Huixin originally wanted to help, but everyone refused to let her go and rest.Huixin had no choice but to go back to her room.After Jinghan and the others finished clearing the table, they also ran to my sister-in-law's room to play with Huixin.

At this time, it was the end of the unitary hour, and Mrs. Chen led Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Zhu together to chop meat and vegetables for making dumplings at night.Wen Han went to fry the melon seeds, Jing Han found Shan Li Hong, put it in a small pot, added water and sat on the stove to stew.Anyway, the fire in the stove will not be cut off tonight, and there are a lot of tree roots, pimples and the like in it to resist burning.

The men had nothing to do, so they took out their cards and touched them. This card was Pai Gow.Anyway, between men, there is no winning or losing, just trying to have fun.The old man played good cards tonight, and he won three hands in a row. Everyone said that he couldn't miss a lottery, and he had to win something.Later, it was decided that it was better to play with some money.Men in the Northeast usually like to play cards and play money in winter.The Xu family's men are okay, they seldom go out to play for money, they just play for a while after the Chinese New Year.

Wen Han fried the melon seeds and put them in a dustpan. Xue went out with the dustpan and dusted them out, and dusted off the ones that failed.Then he entered the house with a dustpan, dumped a lot in the west room, and went to the east room again. "Come on, let's crack the melon seeds. This year's melon seeds are growing very well." After finishing speaking, he put the dustpan on the kang in the east room, and anyone who likes to eat can grab and eat.

The mothers and the others started together and chopped the meat and vegetables in a short while.Mrs. Chen mixed the stuffing, Mrs. Xue went to knead the noodles, and Mrs. Zhu moved the noodles into the house and put them on the kang.The old man led his sons to put a table on the ground and played cards.

After the dough was ready and woke up for a while, everyone started making dumplings.There are many people today, so we have to pack a lot, and we have to pack it for the morning of the first day of junior high school, so we have to start early.Huixin, Jingya, and Jinghan all came to help, and Jinghan was good at making dumplings.At this moment Wenxing, Jinghe, and Jingxian couldn't bear it any longer, and they all fell asleep. Mrs. Chen put them in Huixin's room, and found out the quilt to cover them.There is nothing wrong with Han now, so he washed his hands and made dumplings with everyone.

Mrs. Chen found copper coins, jujubes, and sugar, and put them in the dumplings. These were all festive things, just to win the prize.

Let's do it together, and the package will be fast.It started to be made in the middle of the hour, and by the middle of the day, it was almost done, and there were six full curtains of dumplings, all of which were placed there.

"Okay, let's all rest for a while, put these three curtains in the suite in the east room, and the remaining three curtains will be eaten tonight." Chen said.The dumplings on New Year's Eve are not like usual, you can eat so much, so three curtains are enough.Everyone took out the dumplings, packed up the panels and took them out, the women sat on the kang and chatted, and the children all ran to play.

Before it was midnight, I heard the sound of sparse firecrackers outside.At the end of Haishi, Mrs. Chen put the kang table in the yard, put steamed buns, incense burner bowls, three glasses of wine and three pairs of chopsticks in front.Xue went to the ground to light the fire, filled the pot with water, and waited for the water to boil before serving dumplings.

As soon as the child arrived, the old man led his sons to hang up the firecrackers, took out the burning paper, went to the table outside, and lit the burning paper.Zhixin also lit the firecrackers, and the courtyard was filled with the sound of firecrackers.

As soon as the firecrackers sounded, Mrs. Xue in the house put the dumplings into the pot, and poured all the Sangailian dumplings into it. Fortunately, the pot was big enough to cook.Wen Han and Jing Han each carried a big bag of firewood into the house, and shouted, "Bao Cai." This is a homonym, and it is an auspicious word, wishing good fortune for the next year.

Mrs. Chen took out a few strokes of the burning paper that the old man and the others had lit. They burned paper at the door, in front of the two stove pits, and in the north, and they were still chanting, nothing more than auspicious words or something.The sound of firecrackers outside passed, the old man led his sons to kowtow in front of the table, poured the wine in the glass on the ground, and then got up.

At this moment, the dumplings were already cooked, and Mrs. Chen asked while holding the bowl, "Have you earned?"

Mrs. Xue agreed, "I have earned it, and I have earned a lot." After finishing speaking, he took the bowl in Mrs. Chen's hand, fished out some with a strainer, and put them in the bowl. Mrs. Chen came outside with the bowl, Put the bowl on the table, and put a pair of chopsticks horizontally on top of the bowl.

(End of this chapter)