Rebirth Farmer Yaomei

Chapter 91 Methods
On New Year's Eve, after eating the most sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner of the year, the whole family went to the yard to set off firecrackers.This year Ningliang bought a lot of new patterns, some of which were heard and some were seen, most of which were never seen in Sanjia Village.

In fact, Ning Wan has seen more firecrackers than this before, but at that time she couldn't play with them by herself, and now there is only her one and a half-year-old child in the house, so she can't enjoy it happily.

Dad kept laughing and helping her get firecrackers, handed them fire, and said: "Set off more firecrackers today, and your luck will be even better next year!"

Ning Wan said, "Father, you can also play a few!"

The father set up a firecracker, but he also handed the incense sticks to his daughter, "Father is happier seeing you setting off firecrackers than doing it yourself!"

Firecrackers were set off at the Ning's house, and many children came to watch, it was very lively, when Yu Shi saw that Shitou had woken up, he wrapped him up tightly and watched him for a while before going back.

In a remote place like Sanjia Village, there is no lantern festival and night market to visit, so people go back to the house to watch the new year after the firecrackers have been let off.A few lamps were lit at home, Ning Liang was drinking, and Yu Shi was gossiping until midnight.According to the custom in Sanjia Village, every family would have another meal of dumplings at this time, and nine out of ten families would make dumplings stuffed with pork and sauerkraut, which was the favorite of the Ning family.

Dumplings stuffed with pork and sauerkraut are not difficult to make. The pork that is half fat and thin is chopped hard into the meat filling. When chopping, you can add green onion and ginger.After the minced meat is chopped, add oil, salt and pepper and mix well. At this time, you must put more oil, so sauerkraut is the most oily.

Take out the sauerkraut from the sauerkraut tank, go to the outside to help wash it leaf by leaf, and then leave the sauerkraut heart that everyone loves, and chop it into fine pieces, then grab the excess water with your hands and stir it in the meat filling. It became sauerkraut stuffing.

Ning Wan was mixing the stuffing, while Mother had reconciled with the noodles earlier, pulled them into small pieces, and rolled them into round dumpling wrappers. At this moment, Dad also washed his hands to help make dumplings.

In Sanjia Village, as long as there are women in the family, men generally do not cook.The same goes for Dad, he can carry water and firewood, feed pigs and donkeys, but rarely enters the kitchen.But making dumplings during the Chinese New Year is different. He happily makes dumplings with everyone every time.Every time I make dumplings, I still say: "I just married your mother for the Spring Festival, and I taught your mother how to make dumplings."

Ning Wan has heard it many times, and she knows what her mother will say after connecting.Sure enough, my mother said: "We don't eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year. We eat rice cakes, tofu, and fish, so your father said that you want to make dumplings. I don't know what to do. I want to ask the second aunt and the third. My aunt was afraid that they would scold me, so she stayed in the house."

Dad said proudly: "Actually, I haven't made dumplings before, I just watched others make them. But I still took your mother to make a pot of dumplings!"

Mother hurriedly exposed him, "That pot of dumplings is half cooked!"

"But I drank all the dumpling soup that was boiled, so it wasn't wasted!"

After so many years, no matter it is father or mother, they are very proficient at making dumplings. Mother rolls out the skin, and father and Ning Wan make it together. After a while, they made a curtain of sauerkraut dumplings.The dumplings were made, but there was some noodles left, so my mother laughed and said, "There is food to eat leftover!"

In fact, no matter the leftover noodles or leftover stuffing are good metaphors, some people even keep the dough stuffing just right. Anyway, dumplings will be made tomorrow on the first day of the new year, and then the leftovers will be made. Just add things in.

While waiting for the water to boil for the dumplings, Mother pointed to the dumplings on the curtain and said, "Your father makes lying dumplings, he is a lucky man, and Waner makes sitting dumplings, all of which look like gold ingots. There must be money to spend…”

Although they all have the same skin and the same filling, the dumplings made by everyone are different. The dumplings made by my father are slightly larger, with the two corners spread out and leaned back, as expected, like a half-lying appearance, while Ning The dumplings made by Wanbao are all upright, with the two corners wrapped towards the center, and they sit very neatly, but the dumplings rolled by the leather bag by the mother are different, with a big belly like a little fat man.Therefore, it is not unreasonable for the people of Sanjia Village to often talk about the temperament of the dumpling maker to the dumplings.

Just as she was talking, the water boiled, so the mother put all the dumplings into the pot, and kept pushing with the back of the strainer. Seeing the water boil again, she took the cold water sent by Ning Wan and added it in. The water in the pot boiled again, and the dumplings were cooked three times.

After dipping in the garlic paste, each person ate a few more, and then drank a bowl of dumpling soup, the so-called "turning the original soup into the original food". After eating dumplings, you must drink dumpling soup.Everyone's belly was full and their bodies were warm, so they all went to bed.

Woke up early the next morning, it was New Years Eve.Get up together and pay New Year's greetings to your parents first.There is also a custom in Sanjia Village, that is, boys have to kowtow during New Year greetings, but girls don't need to, just give a blessing.

With smiles all over their faces, father and mother each took out a red paper bag to Ning Wan, "Take it, this is lucky money."

Ning Wan held it in her hand, but it wasn't very heavy. When she opened it, it turned out that what was wrapped inside was not copper coins, but silver ingots shaped like flowers, and she didn't know where her father got them.Ning Wan laughed, "My parents' lucky money is so generous!"

"The stone is still small, and you are the only one in the house, so it should be thicker!"

The annual dividends are all distributed by Ning Wan, so she has an approximate amount in her heart. The mother of the stone saved it for him, the father's has almost been spent, and the mother has used a lot, and her own, I kept them all, and now with the new year's money, the most private houses in the family are myself and stones.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, both Ning Xian and Ning Qing couldn't come back because of their children, and only the two brothers-in-law came to pay New Year's greetings, but the eldest aunt and uncle came together, and brought sister Xi along.Ning Liang and Yu Shi were very happy, they took out all the delicious food at home, and cooked a hearty meal.

The uncle and the two brothers-in-law stayed for one night and then went home, but the aunt stayed behind with sister Xi, "Usually when I come here, I am always in a hurry, but now there is nothing at home, and you are not short of food here, so I will take it Let’s stay together for a few more days and let’s spend time together.” In the past, every time the eldest aunt went back to her mother’s house, she really didn’t dare to live longer. Although the younger brother’s house would not be without food, it was not that there was surplus food, and an extra mouth would be a burden.

Yu Shi also laughed, "My sister is still such a quick-talking person, and now the family is living a better life. Even if you two live here for a year, you won't have to worry about having nothing to eat!"

Sister Xi visited her uncle's house when she was a child, and then came back after a few years, and felt that everything had changed, "My uncle's house is already much better than ours!"

The Ning family changed the furniture, repainted the house, and added a lot of supplies. It is no wonder that Sister Xi was very curious about many things, and finally asked the eldest aunt with fondness, "Mom, we also wash the washbasin like the uncle's house. Shelf, buy a new copper basin, with fragrant soap; build a dressing table, set up a large mirror, put a dressing box, put jewelry, makeup powder in it, and add a shavings vat..."

The aunt first agreed to a few things, and then laughed loudly, "My aunt! Mom doesn't have so much money to buy them all. You will marry a rich family in the future!"

Sister Xi blushed when she heard this, and turned her head to Ning Wan's Westinghouse.

In Sister Xi's eyes, the Ning family has changed a lot, but in fact Ning Wan knows that the family just bought more daily necessities. Needless to say, it is incomparable with the real wealthy family, even the Zhao family is far behind.Sister Xi just felt uncomfortable because Ning's family was not as good as her aunt's, and she didn't know her own family, otherwise, how could she go to someone else's house and say such a thing.

So Ning Wan smiled and pulled Sister Xi and said, "Cousin, after the new year, you and your aunt are also thinking about how to make money. We are not afraid of hard work, and we can add things with a little effort."

Sister Xi shook her head, "There are no mountains in our house, and we can't pick mountain products. How can we make money?"

"Who said that only picking mountain products can make money?" Ning Wan felt that Lishu Village is closer to Hutai County, and there are more ways to earn money than Sanjia Village. When she and her father couldn't survive in Sanjia Village, that's why she went to Lishu Village , I obviously feel that it is easier to make a living than Sanjia Village.Now she told Sister Xi how she made money at that time, "You are good at needlework, you can go to Ruihongfeng to buy some cloth and make purse handkerchiefs, sell them in the shop, and make a few every day." , I'm afraid I won't have more than ten or twenty Wen?"

Sister Xi shook her head, "It's just a small amount of money, and I'm very tired every day."

Ning Wan wanted to say that this job was the easiest one she had done back then. It was even more difficult to wash and mend clothes. In winter, she had to smash the ice on the river to do laundry, and her hands were cracked from the cold. Tired and bitter?
Thinking that Sister Xi has been kept at home by her aunt, she has never been forced into a desperate situation like herself, and she has never done too tiring or difficult work, so Ning Wan helped her think of other ideas. Frozen autumn pears on the table, "You have a lot of pears in Lishu Village, which can be made into frozen pears and sold in Hutai County in the twelfth lunar month. Which family here doesn't buy a few catties during the Chinese New Year?"

"Pears are already heavy, but they get heavier after freezing. How can they be sent to Hutai County?" Sister Xi shook her head and said, "We don't have a donkey in our family."

"The pears are too heavy," Ning Wan thought again, "Auntie's fried dough twist is so good, it's not as good as you and auntie fried twisted doughnuts and sold them in Hutai County. There are many soldiers there, and many of them have no families. With the military salary in hand, many people are tired of eating in the military camp and come out to buy food, and there are also many people in Hutai County who are living well, and it is no problem to buy snacks for their children."

"This business is good," Sister Xi said after thinking about it, "But it's not easy for me as a young girl to show my face in Hutai County, and I'm too embarrassed to sell things."

Although my aunt's family background was stronger than my own before, she was actually an ordinary farmer, and sister Xi was not a lady of the family, so why should she not show her face?It's not about going out to do bad things, what's there to be ashamed of relying on your own hard work to earn money!

"In this case, you are really like what my aunt said, you can only marry a rich family," but Ning Wan shook her head, "However, I still think that it is better to earn money by myself, and it is hard to spend it, and No one dares to look down on you anymore!"

(End of this chapter)