take a wife to support the family

Chapter 103

There is good wine, good food, and everyone is acquainted. After eating and drinking until dusk falls, a few women help Lily clean up the kitchen, and the men who are still awake help carry the tables and stools back to the neighbors. Huan, just leave.

Song Hao is more than 20 years older. It was the first time that so many people came to celebrate his birthday. They liked him from the bottom of their hearts and were willing to get close to him. When he was excited, he drank a little too much. Liu Yi was still very nervous before leaving. Sorry: "Brother and sister, accidentally let Da Nian drink too much, please bear with me."

Song Dagui and Dagui's sister-in-law laughed loudly: "This kid's drinking capacity needs to be practiced!"

After sending everyone away, when Baihe came back, she saw Song Haonian sitting at the table smiling at her.

Lily walked over and touched his face: "Are you happy today?"

"Happy!" Song Haonian hugged Lily fiercely, buried his face in her arms, and murmured, "I've never been so happy before."

The result of Song Haonian's over-excitement is that he wants to drag Lily to have a baby. There is no reason to talk to a drunk person, so Lily has no choice but to follow him.

After 25, there are only three or four days left before the New Year's Eve. The women who are acquainted with each other have agreed on the order, and each family makes buns and rice cakes.Lily's family has few people and few things to do, so she took the initiative to be the last one in line, helping Mrs. Liu Yi, Mrs. Wang and others to pack first.

When it was Lily's turn, it was already the 29th of the twelfth lunar month. After eating early in the morning, Mrs. Liu Yi, Mrs. Dagui, Ermei Song, Mrs. Wang and others gathered in her kitchen to help her steam more than 100 buns and make several more. Ten catties of rice cakes.

Everyone chopped firewood, lit the fire, fetched water, chose vegetables, chopped stuffing, and mixed ingredients... Although there was no dedicated person in charge, there was a kind of tacit understanding in it, orderly and without any mistakes.

Xing'er likes to be lively, she slips in and out among a group of adults, the kitchen burns firewood, and the smoke is a bit heavy for a while, making her eyes red.

Xing'er fanned her eyes with her little hand, while chanting a nursery rhyme she had heard somewhere: "Smoke and smoke don't smoke me, dogs chop firewood, cats light fires, mice roll dough and laugh at me to death!"

Song Haonian who was chopping firewood, Lamei who was lighting the fire, and Li Caifeng who was rolling out the buns: "..."

Li Caifeng tried to teach Xinger a lesson: "I'm a mouse, so what are you?"

Xing'er relied on her small size to hide behind Lily: "I'm a little mouse!"

The adults couldn't hold back for a while, they all laughed, Song Ermei complained while laughing: "Oh, don't make me laugh, the face is all spilled!"

Aunt Wang casually pinched a rabbit out of dough to coax Xinger to play with. Myolie's attention was drawn away, and she took the bunny to find her father: "Dad, look, rabbit!"

Liu Yi was making rice cakes in the yard. He and Song Dagui were strong, each holding a wooden mallet, while Wang Xiaofu was nimble, flipping and smashing the rice cakes in the mortar with his hands, full of rhythm and tacit understanding.

Seeing Xing'er approaching, Liu Yi hurriedly shouted: "Xing'er don't come over, it's no fun hitting you!"

Xing'er muttered: "I won't ask you to smash it!" Follow Mi Xiang and stand aside, watching the adults make rice cakes on their feet, it's very fun.

The steamed glutinous rice is mashed with a wooden mallet while it is hot until it becomes sticky, and finally becomes a delicate and soft mass, which is put into a wooden mold to shape it, and decorated with plum blossoms. The snow-white rice cake is covered with five red plum blossoms. ah" uttered.

Liu Yi dipped in the red yeast rice and placed a five-petal plum blossom on Xing'er's forehead, which set off her two tender, white and tender cheeks, just like a doll in a New Year painting.

The son of Song Dagui's family, Juer, has never liked to play with female dolls. Seeing that Xinger looks good at this time, he insists on playing with her and gives her his firecracker.

Wang Xiaofu said: "This kid, he knows how to look good at such a young age."

Liu Yi laughed loudly: "My Xing'er is pretty!"

The rice cakes are ready first, and the women in the house are still making buns.There are three kinds of stuffing, one meat stuffing, one brown sugar walnut stuffing, and one red bean paste stuffing.

Meat buns are the simplest. Large chunks of lean meat are chopped into dices, and seasoned with green onions, vermicelli, and cabbage.Roll the skin of the bun so that it is thick in the middle and thin at the edge. Hold the skin with your left hand, scoop a ball of meat stuffing on the skin with your right hand, pinch one edge with your thumb and forefinger, and gather the skin flexibly with the rest of your fingers to form a multi- The gap in the pleats can be closed with a slight twist.

Fried noodles should be added to the brown sugar walnut stuffing, and the flour is fried on the fire. The walnuts are peeled off and fried until they are crispy and sweet. Stir evenly with the chopped brown sugar. It will become thick and sticky.

One liter of red beans is picked to remove sand, washed with water to remove dust and shriveled beans, boiled in a pot until it blooms, fished out, placed in a pot, and crushed with the back of a spoon.The bean grains are already overripe and become batter when pressed.

Lily scooped up a bowl of red bean paste, mixed it with sugar, and gave it to Xing'er and Ju'er from Song Dagui's family: "Help my aunt to taste whether it's sweet or not."

Bean paste contains bean curd, which affects the taste. If it is filtered with noodles, it will become clear sand. The locals in Qingliu Town like the chewiness of bean curd. tasty.

Mix the bean paste with sugar and wrap it into buns.The same fifty, a total of 150, enough for three people to eat until the end of the year.

Fresh rice cakes and freshly baked steamed buns are all hung in the big bamboo boards, and they can all be put into a pot after they are cooled.

If you want to eat it in the future, bake it on the fire, the skin is crispy, and heat it on the steamer again, it will be soft and sweet.

Wang Xiaofu got a little hungry after eating rice cakes, so he came in and asked for steamed buns, and asked Lamei, "What kind of stuffing are they made of?"

Lamei said: "The round ones are meat buns, the pointed ones are red bean paste stuffing, and the smaller ones are sugar buns, which one do you want?"

Wang Xiaofu thought for a while, "You pick me a bean paste."

Lamei intentionally said, "You have hands." Thinking that this person came to help her family with work, she swallowed her words and handed a big red bean paste bun to Wang Xiaofu. A piece of rice cake: "I'll give you a taste."

Lamei quietly rolled her eyes: "My family's rice cake!"

When does she think she can't taste it, and still needs him to show his attention?

There were people coming and going in the kitchen, and there was smoke and water vapor blinding the eyes. Everyone didn't know that the two had fought a lot of lawsuits. Lily only thought that they were hungry, and specially picked out a few of each bun for making rice cakes. The men sent it to them and asked them to pad their stomachs first.

At noon, I eat cabbage soup and buns. The cabbage soup is made with large pieces of fat meat. Individuals choose their favorite flavors to pick hot buns to eat. Those who don’t like noodles can also eat rice cakes soaked in cabbage soup.

The bun skin is white and soft.The lean meat inside the meat buns is solid, and you can bite into pieces of meat with every bite; the bean paste buns are sweet and rich in bean flavor; the sugar buns flow out hot sugar juice as soon as you bite down, and flow down your hands into your sleeves, Ju'er Jumping up and down in anxiety, Mrs. Dagui hurriedly dragged him over to wipe it off.

Xing'er held a candy bun in both hands, and she ate delicately. The eldest sister-in-law looked at her lovingly: "After all, don't worry, girl, look how delicate! My family is a devil!"

Li Caifeng followed modestly: "You don't know how difficult she is, she is not a girl, but a living ancestor!" She is only a daughter of Xing'er, and she still wants to have a son to keep Xing'er company in the future. I was very envious when I was a child.

Xing'er and Ju'er looked at each other, one to the left and the other to the right, turned their heads in unison: "Hmph!"

The short-lived friendship formed because Myolie looks good-looking and Juer is fun to fight firecrackers is gone.

The little doll is so playful, Song Haonian is envious of it, and at night he pesters Lily to ask her to give birth to him.Lily was also willing, and touched her flat belly afterwards and said, "It would be great if I could conceive now."

I was conceived in winter, and it happened to be October when I was born. It was not hot, and I could eat a lot of nutritious food, which was good for both the mother and the baby.

Song Haonian kissed her: "The baby is fate, and those who are destined will come."

The 30th year is called the New Year's Eve, and debt collectors always come to the door at this time. Some people can't afford to pay their debts and go out to hide their debts.Those who have nothing to do don't go out anymore, they all stay at home with their wives and children on the kang and wait for next year.

People in the town post Spring Festival couplets, either go to the market to buy, or ask people who can read and write to write a pair. Song Haonian asked a young scholar to write couplets in previous years, but the young scholar didn't like him. Do not write.

This year this pair of couplets was bought when I was selling leather goods. The red paper is tough and strong, not the kind of inferior goods that will break when blown on.

The initials are average, and the content is nothing more than auspicious words about peace and prosperity, blessings, wealth and longevity. Anyway, there are many illiterate people in the countryside, so it's good to look good.

Song Haonian can only tell which end is the upper end and which end is the lower end, but the upper and lower lines baffle him, Lily clicks on one of them: "I'm afraid it's not this one?"

So he made a pot of paste and carefully wiped it on the back of the couplet. Song Haonian was tall and asked him to paste the couplet. Lily stood behind and looked at it: "A little higher, a little lower, good!"

Lily can cut window grilles, and cut a few with red paper and pasted them on the window paper. Lamei's house, kitchen, and even the cellar were not spared, and the home was immediately full of festive atmosphere.

The meal on the [-]th night is very particular, and the family gods should be worshiped with water noodles, and they are asked to bless the family for a year.Lily picked up a bowl of good noodles and handed it to Song Haonian. Song Haonian took the bowl around the house, outside the house, and around the kitchen well. Everywhere he went, he used chopsticks to hold the noodles and threw them into the air, offering them three times. , light three pillars of fragrance, and then go down one.

After doing this, it was the turn of several people to have dinner.

The elbows were stewed in the pot from the next noon, and poked with chopsticks after eating, they were already soft, but the bones were not yet separated.

It is rare to light candles at home, and the young couple brought winter plums, watched the new year by candlelight and a brazier, and chatted some gossip.Sweet potatoes and chestnuts are roasted in the brazier, emitting a sweet aroma.

When it was Haishi, Lily took a candle and went to the kitchen to look around. The elbow had been boiled until it was soft and rotten. She took out the meat and put it in a basin. After offering a sacrifice, the three gathered around to eat New Year's meat.

After eating Roujiaozi, Song Haonian went to the yard to light a firecracker, and every household in the town heard the sound of crackling, the new year has arrived.

(End of this chapter)