Reborn 1960之巧女当家

Chapter 51 Preparing for the New Year ([-])

The scene in the drying yard is very lively, which means that this year's life is a little better. In the past few years, during the famine, even during the Chinese New Year, there was no meat to eat. The year before last, there was meat, but the days just eased and there were not too many pigs. Each family also divides eight taels and one catty.

This year, these three big fat pigs are enough for each family to share a dozen or twenty catties of pork for a good year. The village kills the pigs to eat pig rice together. Of course, the good meat is distributed to everyone. Therefore, only the pig's head and pig's offal are used to make pig-killing rice.

The pig-killing rice was placed in the big canteen of the village committee, and the dishes and chopsticks were brought by the villagers themselves. The women in the village were so busy that no one would be lazy at this time.

By the time the big bowls and bowls of dishes were served on the table, the children could not help but sit on the table, but the children did not dare to eat by themselves because the adults had not spoken.

Everyone sat down at the table. After the village chief spoke, chopsticks were flying all over the busy table. Xia Nuan also grabbed a lot of meat in the first place. Of course, he didn't forget to divide the meat he grabbed Give some to the family.

These days, even if Xia Nuan wants to have table manners, it’s not enough. The only people who can eat meat freely throughout the year are the New Year’s Day. If she eats slowly, the dishes on the table will be snatched before she takes a few bites. It's over.

Although there were not many dishes on the table, at any rate, the oil inside was much larger than usual, and everyone ate with a lot of oil in their mouths and were very satisfied.

When she got home, Wang Ximei started to work again before she had time to rest. She cut up the pork and took a piece of pork that she wanted to use now, rubbed the rest with salt and hung them to the beams of the house.

"Mom, what are you doing with the meat? Let me help you!" Xia Nuan is still very interested in these New Year customs, and she can get gold coins for nothing without her doing anything.

"Hey... Nuan Nuan, don't move. Mother is going to fry some meatballs and crispy meat today. Go and play with your elder brother and the others. There will be hot oil here later, be careful not to burn you."

No matter how proficient Xia Nuan is in cooking, Wang Ximei always feels that it is too dangerous for Xia Nuan to enter the kitchen, and she can handle these things by herself.

"Mom, I know how to do it, so let me watch it. I want to learn, or else I can't do it? I'll just watch you do it." Xia Nuan acted like a baby to Wang Ximei because she didn't want to be kicked out of the kitchen , this is the first time she has come here for the new year, of course she wants to see how everything is done.

"Study? I think you, a greedy cat, are waiting for it to be fried and eaten later. Who grabbed the meat on the table at lunch just now?" Wang Ximei looked at Xia Nuan's pitiful look and wanted to Looking at her in the kitchen, she couldn't help but tease her a few words out loud.

"Then...that's because I was worried that you would have nothing to eat after other people robbed the meat. That's why I robbed the meat like that." Xia Nuan felt embarrassed when Wang Ximei mentioned this matter at this time.

"Okay, you can watch it if you want, but don't use a knife or get too close to the stove, the oil in the pot will splash out." Wang Ximei carefully instructed Xia Nuan before starting to do her own thing.

Wang Ximei has been doing housework all year round, so she is also very agile in the kitchen. I saw that she chopped half of this piece of meat into minced meat, added seasoning, and then made the minced meat one by one smaller than a table tennis ball. meatball.

After Wang Ximei made all the minced meat into meatballs, she began to pour oil into the pot.

The Xia family planted a lot of soybeans in the private plot this year, and all of them were squeezed into oil, so the Xia family really didn't lack oil this year.

Xia Nuan obediently helped Wang Ximei to light the fire, but she didn't want to go out and Wang Ximei was worried that she would be too close to the pot, so she could only let her sit on the small bench to help light the fire.

The smell of fried meatballs filled the entire Xia family, even Wen Hao and the others in the main room could smell it, and a few greedy cats followed the smell and found the kitchen.

Watching Wang Ximei's fried meatballs come out of the pan, Wen Hao was so greedy that his mouth was watering.

"Mom, let's help you taste it first and see if it tastes good?" Wen Zhi asked Wang Ximei with a smile while swallowing his saliva.

Even if there is no shortage of oil in the house, cooking is usually just dipped in gauze and wiped in the pan. There is only one chance to fry meat like this one a year.

"No, this meat is not cooked. I can't eat it now. Mother will fry the crispy meat for you to eat later." Seeing that the children were really hungry, Wang Ximei agreed, but the meatball was only fried on the outside and inside. Don't feed them if they are not cooked.

"Okay..." The children waited eagerly for Wang Ximei to fry the crispy meat.

Wang Ximei wrapped the pre-seasoned and marinated meat strips with batter and fried them in a frying pan. The crispy meat is much smaller than the meatballs and is easy to cook. It takes less than half an hour for all the crispy meat to be fried. All right.

Wang Ximei served a small bowl of crispy meat and sprinkled homemade chili noodles on top, "Here, I can't eat any more after eating these, it's easy to get tired and I have to eat at night, if I eat too much, I won't be able to eat for dinner. "

The few of them got the crispy meat they were thinking about, as if they were cute little mice who had stolen the sesame oil. Xia Nuan picked up a piece of crispy meat and put it in her mouth. She could clearly feel the crispy outside of the crispy meat when she bit it. Li Nei, besides, the soybean oil and pigs are all raised by the family, not the feed pigs like the ones in the future, and they taste very delicious.

There wasn't much crispy meat in the bowl, and one person could finish it with two pieces, but these two pieces aroused the greed in their stomachs. Seeing the remaining crispy meat, the children couldn't help but want to steal it.

It's just that the thoughts of a few children can't be hidden from Wang Ximei, "Okay, don't steal it. Now that you've finished eating, you won't have anything to eat until the Chinese New Year. And these are half-finished products that are not cooked. You just ate them. The ones are perfectly fried."

Afterwards, Wang Ximei also fried pork ribs, oily fruit, twisted rice and so on. Wen Hao couldn't bear it and simply left. If they stayed in the kitchen any longer, they would definitely not be able to resist stealing food.

Only Xia Nuan watched Wang Ximei busy and secretly remembered, thinking that she could try to help Wang Ximei next year, but she is a foodie. In this day and age, it is better to learn how to do it by yourself instead of waiting for others to do it for you.

Thinking about Xia Nuan, she started to feel dazed. She was wondering if she should choose a cooking course in the system to learn, but she didn't know if this cooking skill would be available in the system.

Wang Ximei's movements were quick, and she made a lot of delicious food in this afternoon.

In the days that followed, Wang Ximei, Xia Zhongguo and even a few children from the Xia family helped prepare the things needed for the New Year.

Of course, no matter how busy Xia Nuan was, he never forgot to drag Wen Hao and the others up for a run every morning. Chu Tianling was also very active after the snow melted. Seeing how serious he was studying, Xia Nuan knew that he also liked practicing martial arts. This seems to be a common problem of boys!
This time, the one who was not very active turned into Wenhua. The reason why he had to exercise was to protect Xia Nuan. It was fine to get up and run every day, but since Xia Nuan and the others brought back so many textbooks from the county, Wenhua I just want to stay at home and read a book and don't like to go out.

But if someone hadn't dragged Wenhua out, he could have stayed at home for a whole day with his textbooks in hand, except of course going up the mountain to hunt pigweed. It would be nice if their personalities could complement each other.

It's not good for Wen Hua to stay at home all day and read books, so Xia Nuan simply dragged him out to exercise every day. If Xia Nuan didn't drag him along, he would definitely not want to come out.

Time passed quickly and it was already the New Year's Eve. Xia Nuan, Wen Hao and the others came back from exercising outside and saw Wang Ximei and wanted to ask where to celebrate the New Year this year.

"Mother, do you want to go back to the old house for the Chinese New Year this year? Can you celebrate the New Year at your own home?" Xia Nuan already knew what kind of character she was after being in contact with Grandma Xia during this period of time, and also knew her attitude towards their family. how is it like.

Xia Nuan didn't want to go to the old house to celebrate the New Year at all, maybe she didn't eat a good meal and got angry instead.

And she's not a masochist, and she doesn't care about being scolded by others. In short, she just doesn't want to go to the old house.

(End of this chapter)