Red apricots make spring

Chapter 98
Last year, she was so busy with Mrs. Liu's affairs, and the family was poor, so she hadn't had a good time in years. She just cooked a table of dishes at random, and after everyone ate together, set off a string of firecrackers and it was over.This year, life is finally a little better, Ruan decided to prepare more comprehensively, and the family will have a more prosperous year, so before the age of [-], they have already started to get busy.

Wen Gang said that he was going to arrange the New Year's goods, so Ye Ruan asked Xiaohuan to write a list, and handed it to Wen Gang to buy one by one the next day.Xiaohuan has learned quite a lot recently, she can read and write, and her handwriting looks much more beautiful than Wenrou's, which makes Wenrou, the older sister, a little ashamed. She is still not used to writing brushes, and feels tired Ink is extremely troublesome, coupled with lack of patience, she often practiced a few characters before throwing away the pen, but she still knew how to find excuses for herself to cover up, saying that she didn't need to be a champion, and she didn't want to be a talented woman, so she practiced so well. What does the word do?
Seeing that Wen was about to go out, Mother Wen repeatedly asked him to bring back some incense and various dried fruits.Meridian incense is used to worship the heavens, big and small shuangbao are used to worship gods, and sandalwood and rue are used to worship ancestors.These rules are set there, but the poor family didn't pay so much attention to it. In the past, the Wen family had difficulty even buying two catties of meat to make dumplings, so naturally they didn't care about their ancestors.This year, the family is getting richer. Mother Wen thought of her ancestors, fearing that she would be blamed for not being filial and affecting her luck in the coming year, so she decided to hold a sacrifice. Unfortunately, all the charcoal money she saved was spent on it. up.

So Wen Gang piled big and small bags of New Year's goods at home one after another.I bought a pine and cypress evergreen tree, and hung various gold and silver coins and dyed dried fruits on it, so it was called a money tree.The narcissus was bought, put in the house, and the flowers bloomed, bursting with fragrance.There are also winter jasmine, wintersweet, green peach, and camellia. These fragrant flowers are piled up all over the house, adding to the atmosphere of the New Year.

You can buy all kinds of sweets and pastries in shops outside, but the taste is not as good as the ones you make yourself. Wen Rou just sent Wen Gang to buy some candied fruit and fried melon seeds, and then he lit a fire and boiled peanuts and roasted chestnuts in a pot.Milk is not easy to get here, and nougat can’t be made, so she made a lot of bean curd candies, pine nut dumpling candies and osmanthus candies, divided them into small packets, and piled them up in a storage box. Who wants to eat them? Just take a bag and put it in your arms, it can be sweet all day long.

I don’t know why Ruan Ruan thought of lollipops again, so Wen Gang cut a lot of bamboo sticks, made many plum heart lollipops, wrapped them in glutinous rice paper, tasted sour and sweet, very popular with Xiaohuan, When she had nothing to do, she took one in her mouth, and happily helped Rourou with her work, her appearance made people laugh.

Pastries and other things are left alone, Wenrou didn't plan to make too much, just made some Su-style orange cakes and matcha nine-layer cakes, these are Mama Wen's favorites, sweet but not greasy, soft, glutinous and delicate .Wen Gang loves salty food, so Wenrou made soft fried shrimp cakes for him and crispy egg rolls for Xiaohuan.As for herself, she remembered the shredded radish pancakes and sauerkraut pancakes that she used to eat at the school gate when she was a child. She made a lot of them in order to get nostalgic, but Wen Gang and Xiaohuan robbed them all before she ate much after they were fried. .

Making these sweets and pastries is just a small matter. The main event is on the day of the New Year's Eve. Early in the morning, Ruan Rou is busy making Xiangru, spreading egg dumplings, making eight-treasure rice, and occasionally stops for a rest. She still hasn't forgotten to ask Wen Gang to cook her Prepare two copies of all kinds of food, and send them to Qian Liu and Wang Shun's family.

In the evening, a whole table of dishes has been prepared. Drinks include preserved rabbit in five-spice sauce, roasted crucian carp with chives, braised duck gizzards, smoked tofu, and hot dishes are even richer. Stir-fried assorted vegetables, roasted vegetarian chicken, stir-fried pork belly, boiled chicken, steamed pork, simmered knuckles in sauce...

Wenrou doesn't want to be too particular, she cooks home-cooked dishes, the most conspicuous thing is the hot pot in the middle of the table, it's like a hot pot, you can eat while cooking, she uses long-boiled broth as the base, and puts a lot of eggs in it Dumplings, Taiping Yan, Qixing fish balls and quail eggs, and a lot of raw meat, fish and vegetables, you can boil and cook what you want.

Of course, a plate of fish is indispensable during the Chinese New Year, so there is more than enough every year!As soon as Rou Rou brought a plate of steamed fish to the table, she heard someone knocking on the door.

"It must be Brother Ye!" Wen Gang suddenly jumped up from the table, and rushed out to open the door.

Sure enough, it was Ye Yu who came back, taller, wearing a thick padded coat, his face was flushed from the cold, and with a few strings of firecrackers in his hands, he beat the snow on his body outside the door. When he saw Wen Gang, he first smiled He gave him a light thump, and said with a smile: "Did you write the couplet outside the door? Your writing has improved!"

"Come in and talk, it's cold outside!" Mother Wen lifted the cotton curtain with a smile on her face.

"Smells so good!" Ye Yu sniffled first when he entered the door, put the firecrackers aside, rubbed his hands together, and then poked his head to look at the dishes on the table. The joy of the Chinese New Year overflowed his face.

The fellows Qian Liu and Wang Shun who were invited to have the New Year's dinner, when they saw Ye Yu came back, they stood up respectfully and watched their conversation with a smile.

Gentle looked at Ye Yu carefully, and felt that he seemed to be more cheerful than before. Maybe it was a big festival, and after a long absence, he talked a lot, so he smiled and said: "Sit down quickly, I will wait for you, why are you so angry?" Come back late?"

"I wanted to come back a few days earlier to help you clean the house, but the teacher in the martial arts gym was sick, and she helped the master take care of it for a few days, and then she came back late." Ye Yu smiled awkwardly, "I'm really sorry, I didn’t do anything, I just ate ready-made food when I came back.”

"Family, what are you talking about?" Mother Wen was also in a good mood today, and she sat down with him and said, "Just come back!" Then she waved to Qian Liu and Wang Shun and said, "You guys Sit too, what are you doing standing?"

"Gang'er, it's time to take out the good wine you hid?" While Wen Wen was talking, Xiaohuan had already started cooking and took the wine glass back and put it on the table, and Wen Gang also served the osmanthus brew he had hidden to the whole jar out.

She smiled gently and said: "Today we can't miss a single one. Everyone should drink two cups to cheer up the fun and drive away the cold." To be honest, it was the first time in her life that so many people had a New Year's Eve dinner together. No matter how hard I lived in ancient times for more than a year, I finally felt the warmth of home.

Everyone sat around and ate the New Year's Eve dinner. Mother Wen went to cook dumplings, and Ye Yu took Wen Gang and Xiaohuan to set off firecrackers outside. The last bit of regret in my tender heart.

After eating the dumplings, Qian Liu and Wang Shun were in a hurry to go home to eat the New Year's dinner with their families, Rourou didn't want to keep them any longer, they sealed red envelopes of five renminbi each with red paper, stuffed a lot of tea and food for them to take away, and then looked at After they thanked them and went out, they closed the door tightly, and the family continued to drink and eat fruit to keep vigil.
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