Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1209, Ming's New Year 2
In Nanshan Village, Tieling, Liaodong, there is heavy snow outside, and the world is vast. Nanshan Village is decorated with lanterns and festoons, and the lucky red is particularly bright in the white-capped world.

Sitting together, Li Damao's family is enjoying a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner.

The first-class flour made from self-made wheat is indispensable for dumplings, noodles, and glutinous rice balls. The meat stuffing in the dumplings is made of pork from our own pig farm, and some mutton stuffed dumplings are also made by buying some mutton.

The noodles are made into trouser belt noodles and braised trouser belt noodles according to the workshop of his hometown in Shaanxi. In the past, this was Li Damao's favorite food.

The sugar wrapped in the glutinous rice balls is high-quality Ryukyu sugar. The sugar has become cheaper and cheaper, and the common people can afford it. It is the favorite snack of Li Damao's children.

The fresh prairie lamb chops, boiled in water and sprinkled with some salt and pepper, are tender and fresh without a trace of mutton smell; the home-raised chicken is stewed with mushrooms from the deep mountains and old forests of Liaodong, and the broth is delicious.

Braised pork exudes a tempting aroma, but the children in the family don't like it, but Li Damao has a soft spot for it. In the past, he couldn't eat it even if he wanted to, and he couldn't eat it all year round. Twice braised pork...

Looking at the dishes on the table, and then at the children who were devouring them, Li Damao held the chopsticks, but his thoughts went back to the past.

In the past, he was still in his hometown in Shaanxi at that time. His hometown was on a high loess slope, where there were thousands of ravines and ravines, and it was extremely poor. Even drinking saliva was not easy.

People are poor, too poor to see any hope.

Competing to plant land for the landlord's family, but they can't even eat a few mouthfuls of food throughout the year.

In my memory, even during the Chinese New Year, my brothers would not let my brothers open their bellies to eat. If I eat more, I will inevitably be scolded by my old father.

Thinking about the days at that time, and looking at the eyes, I immediately felt satisfied.

Liaodong is better. Although it is colder in winter, the land here is fertile and there are countless fertile fields. As for the water, let alone.

The family has a thousand mu of fertile land, a pig farm, a harvester, a tiller, horses, cattle and sheep. This year, the grain produced in the field has piled up like a mountain. The price is low, and it is ready to be used to raise pigs. Pork is expensive and easy to sell.

"What are you thinking? Why don't you eat?"

At this time, Li Damao's wife touched Li Damao who was recalling.

"It's nothing, when I think about the Chinese New Year in the past, it's better now!"

Li Damao smiled and sighed.

"That's not nonsense, it's not good now, but it was good before?"

His wife didn't think too much, she picked up a piece of meat for him, and was busy picking up vegetables for the children.

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Golden Island Thousand River City.

When the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was eating New Year's Eve dinner to welcome the arrival of the New Year, it was still daytime in Qianhe City, but everyone was busy preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner at night.

The inside and outside of Qianhe City have been decorated, with red lanterns and festive couplets everywhere.

Hu Dashan was wearing brand new clothes, and looked left and right in his home. In the kitchen, his eldest wife was directing several concubines to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner.

His wife, Mrs. Xie, was from Ming Dynasty, but none of the concubines were from Ming Dynasty. The first concubine he took was a Korean, Mrs. Lee, who was taken by Hu Dashan when he was a sailor and went to North Korea with the ship. concubine.

The second concubine is from the country of Wa, and he was also the concubine he took when he went to the country of Wa. The third and fourth concubines are descendants of wealthy merchants in Huangjinzhou, who opened the gold mine here. , The women in the nearby tribes who were in the silver mine.

As for the fifth concubine, she came from far away Eastern Europe. She was a Slav, who was trafficked to the Golden Continent, bought by Hu Dashan, and finally became a concubine.

It is very common for one wife and several concubines to be here in Golden Continent.

Especially for people like Hu Dashan who was originally a sailor and started mining gold and silver after arriving in Huangjinzhou, almost everyone has several wives and concubines. Hu Dashan can only be said to be average. There are even dozens of wives and concubines.

"This Chinese New Year, you must eat dumplings. If you want to make this dumpling, you must roll the skin well."

"Second brother, you are the best at rolling noodles, you teach everyone well."

Sitting on a chair, Mrs. Xie was drinking ginseng tea produced in the north, watching several concubines rolling dough and making dumplings. Although she was old, she was not beautiful.

But who told her that she was from Daming and Hu Dashan's original spouse, so she had the final say on matters in the family, and Hu Dashan's concubines all listened to her.

"Yes~"

The second eldest, Mrs. Lee, is from North Korea, and she is the daughter of a small landlord in North Korea. She is beautiful and has always been Hu Dashan's favorite.

Hu Dahan looked at everything in the kitchen from the window, the second and third children were doing very well, the fourth and fifth children were not very good at it, and the fifth child from Eastern Europe seemed a little clumsy and was often scolded However, she still started to learn Daming dialect, and she didn't speak it very well, so she could only shed tears of grievance.

In the yard, more than a dozen of Hu Dahan's children were playing crazily. The big ones and the young ones were fixing things, fighting, crying and making noise, which made Hu Dashan unable to bear a headache.

There are too many wives and children, and it is very annoying. From time to time, children come over to ask for a hug, cry, and complain about their brothers and sisters bullying them.

Soon, the night gradually darkened.

There were two big tables in Hu Dashan's house, and he was barely able to sit down.

Hu Dashan looked at the dining table. Noodles, dumplings, and glutinous rice balls made from wheat flour grown here in Huangjinzhou, and salmon, a special product here in Qianhe City, are naturally indispensable. Chickens boiled with ginseng in the north, golden There is corn soup made locally in Africa, as well as meatballs made of the most local bison meat, roasted elk meat, smoked lamb, and a plate of chili powder next to it...

Huangjinzhou is extremely vast, with fertile land and rich products. It is simply a land given by God. It is a treasure land bestowed by God to the people of Daming. Immigrants who come here do not have to worry about eating and drinking. What they miss most is the taste of Daming’s hometown.

"Let's eat~"

Hu Dashan looked at his wife and concubine, and then at the children who could not wait for a long time, picked up his chopsticks and said.

As Hu Dashan moved his chopsticks, other people began to pick up their chopsticks to eat the New Year's Eve dinner.

Everyone ate very happily, talking and laughing, and chatting non-stop, except for Popova, the youngest concubine of Hu Dashan, who came from Eastern Europe. She couldn't help crying while eating.

"why are you crying?"

Hu Dashan looked at Popova, Popova was not very old, she was only in her teens, she was tall, fair-skinned, with blond hair, a high nose bridge, full of exotic style, and it was exactly the same , That's why Hu Dashan bought her for more than a hundred taels of silver.

"No, I just feel happy."

"In the past, in my hometown, even during the holidays, it was difficult to have much delicious food. I never thought that one day I would be able to live a life like this."

Popova wiped her tears and said that the life of the Slavs is actually very difficult.

On the one hand, she had to endure the exploitation of the nobles, and on the other hand, she had to endure the invasion of the Crimean Tatars. She was caught during an invasion, and then sold to Daming. continent.

Thinking of the place where she lived before, the horse bread and black bread she ate, and looking at everything in front of her, Popova also felt a little unbelievable that there is such a life that can be lived.

You must know that even the Slavic landlords and nobles may not be able to have the living standard of Hu Dashan's family. What's more, the Ming people are too good at making food, and there are too many delicious foods.

"Eat more if it tastes good."

Hu Dashan looked at Popova and said.

He used to be a sailor, traveled all over the world, visited many places, and saw many countries.

The more places he travels and the more countries he sees, the more proud he is of being a Daming native.

Most of the barbarians outside of Ming Dynasty are uncivilized, ignorant of education, ignorance of etiquette, and very backward. They can neither build a decent city, nor have any strong civilization and country. As for food, Daming even crushed the whole world.

He was not surprised by Popova's performance. When the two concubines he took in were descendants of wealthy merchants, when they first ate noodles and dumplings, they even thought they were the best food in the world.

There's no way, from the most primitive tribal stage to the civilized society of Ming Dynasty, just any thing is enough to make them feel extremely strange.

This Popova is from the Eastern European Slavs, and Hu Dashan deliberately went to find out about it. This is an extremely remote place, from Daming to the west, through the Western Regions and the Hezhong area. After arriving at Nanyun Province, it is in the north of the Black Sea. to a remote part of the Crimean Khanate.

He had never heard of this place before, and he didn't need to think about it to know that it was an extremely remote and backward place, and naturally it was far from being able to compare with Daming.

"Hmm~"

Popova nodded and ate the dumplings slowly, recalling bits and pieces of her hometown in her mind.

In my hometown, the roads are muddy, the houses are very dilapidated, and there is no sunshine. In winter, the cold wind blows and it is very cold. The food is horse bread and black bread, which are very hard and freeze in winter. Hard and needs to be grilled.

People dressed in rags and had to work hard throughout the year, but they had to hand over most of their harvest to the landlords and nobles.

Look at this place again. The brand-new and brand-new houses are built with reinforced concrete. There are fireplaces and firewood. The whole house is warm. The roads and yards here are hardened with cement, clean and tidy.

Of course, the most important thing is the food here, which is rich in variety and variety, so delicious that people forget everything in their hometown.

(End of this chapter)