Back To Qiqi Farming To Raise Children

Xu Shiyan went home with a pot of vegetables to accompany his wife, and didn't go back to Xu's house in the evening.

Most of the noisy young people in the village were drunk at noon, went home to sleep with their heads covered, and didn't get up at night.

Only a few people came over at night, and with Zhou Guilan watching, these people didn't have the nerve to make trouble in the bridal chamber, so they just sat for a while and left.

After two days of turmoil, it was finally peaceful and quiet. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and got a good night's sleep.

This year is the twenty-ninth New Year's Eve of the twelfth lunar month, and the New Year will follow immediately after the wedding.

Fortunately, the Xu family has nothing to do, just wait for the New Year in peace.

Because it was said in advance that the family will be separated after the year, so Xu Chenghou said that Xu Shiyan and his wife must come back on New Year's Eve this year.

In this way, Xu Shiyan and his wife had nothing to do, they just cleaned up the house and prepared some food.

In a blink of an eye, it was the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, and at nine o'clock in the morning, Xu Shiyan brought his wife back home to help the family with chores.

The brothers erected lantern poles in the yard, and hung red lanterns made by Xu Shiqin.

Then the red paper was cut, and Xu Shide wrote couplets, blessing characters, spring strips, etc. with a big bucket brush.

The gate, the door, the barn, the pigsty, and the chicken coop are all posted.

The barn is full of grain, the pigsty is full of fat pigs, and the chicken coop is full of golden roosters.

After posting this circle, the flavor of the New Year is stronger. With the window grilles with the Chinese character Happy posted before, the courtyard is full of red and festive.

They were busy posting couplets outside, and cooking inside the house. According to the rules of the Xu family, there were three meals on New Year's Eve.

Eat casually in the morning, have a reunion dinner around four in the afternoon, and make dumplings at night to keep the year old.

There are four daughters-in-law in the family, Su Anying is almost seven months pregnant, and Wu Qiuyan is more than three months pregnant.

The two pregnant women couldn't do much work, so they could only help with washing vegetables and grilling onions and garlic. The main thing was that Zhou Guilan took Xue Xiulin and Wei Mingrong to work.

The reunion dinner on New Year's Eve is the only meal throughout the year, which is a big deal.

Therefore, Zhou Guilan had to cook in person, and she also had to cook some dishes that she couldn't eat on weekdays.

For example, the Xu family's traditional dishes, confused chicken and bergamot cabbage, are must-haves every year.

Confused chicken is actually chopped chicken into pieces, marinated with seasoning, then wrapped in batter and deep-fried.

If a chicken does this, it can be fried in a pot, and then stewed with soup.

No one can see which piece of meat is in the batter, so it is called confused chicken.

In fact, this is the method that I had to come up with during the difficult years.

It's not much to stew a chicken directly, but it can make a big pot and eat it.

Bergamot cabbage is simple, boil the cabbage with boiling water and slice into thin slices.

Draw a few strokes along the veins of the leaves, wrap the inside with meat stuffing, and steam in a pan.

In this way, the cabbage absorbs the umami taste of the meat filling, and relieves the greasy meat, making it fragrant and sweet in the mouth.

In addition to these two traditional dishes, there are also stewed potatoes with rabbit meat, stewed sauerkraut with big bones, stir-fried roe deer meat, fried meatballs with mushrooms and dried fruits, jelly skin, pig's trotters, stewed fish with thin scales in clear water, sweet and sour pork ribs, exactly ten dishes, Perfect in every way.

The rabbit meat and roe deer meat were naturally brought back by Xu Shiyan before, and he also went to smash ice holes in the river to catch the fine scale fish.

There is a piece of fish in the reunion dinner, which means more than every year, which has a good meaning.

Thankfully, we didn't eat all the meat brought back by the third child, so we just saved it for Chinese New Year.

This year's ten dishes are all hard dishes, so the children can eat them openly and eat whatever they want.

Zhou Guilan had already ordered the menu, and while busy frying chicken, she chatted with Xue Xiulin and the others.

Xue Xiulin was cutting sauerkraut over there, and when her mother-in-law praised her uncle, she stopped cutting vegetables.

In the past, this third uncle was the least present in the family. He was silent and inconspicuous on weekdays.

But now, the third uncle is the one my parents-in-law praise the most.

Before, why didn't I think that the third uncle was so capable?

Mom, if you don't tell me, I forgot to ask, who did the third child learn to hunt from? No one in our family knows how to do this, no one taught him, how did he know how to do it?

Xue Xiulin was puzzled, as if her brother-in-law had changed since she got married.

Zhou Guilan also stopped frying chicken, Yeah, I really forgot to ask, who did the third child learn this skill from?

In the past, I just saw him catching fish and catching shrimps. Didn't he know that he could also hunt? I really have to ask him when I have time.

Having said that, Zhou Guilan also became curious, yes, no one in the Xu family knows this, who did the third child learn from?

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law talked and chatted while cooking, frying and frying in the kitchen.

Until after three o'clock in the afternoon, all kinds of dishes were prepared and served on the table one after another.

There are many people in the family, and there are still two tables in the southern kang and the northern kang. The old couple Xu Chenghou and his sons, as well as the two daughters-in-law who entered the house this year, eat at the southern kang.

Xue Xiulin, Wei Mingrong, Xu Shiqin and a group of children are in Beikang. Both tables have the same dishes, eat whatever you want.

Xu Shiyan looked at the table and saw that it was all meat and vegetables, so he hurriedly asked his mother.

Mom, I remember last time I brought back some sorbet dumplings, grape cakes, Shanli red skins, etc., right?

Where did you put it? Find it out, soak it in water, put it in a pot and steam it for a while.

This dish is good, but if it is eaten in this way, I am afraid that the children will have indigestion.

It would be fine if these dishes were prepared in a normal day and mixed with other dishes.

But if they put them all up at once, I'm afraid that the children will eat too many and easily suffer from indigestion.

In case of diarrhea tomorrow morning, it would be bad.

Shanlihong is wild hawthorn, which has the effect of invigorating the spleen and stomach and promoting digestion. The grape cake is sour and sweet, appetizing and relieving greasy.

Put them in a pot and add water to steam them, just like drinking fruit juice, which is good for children.

Oh, look at me, I forgot about this stubble.

Just thinking about how rare it is to have so many delicious foods, let the children open up to eat, forgetting that their spleen and stomach are weak.

Zhou Guilan was reminded by her son and suddenly realized.

Isn't it? Even if the family has not run out of oil and water this winter, the stomach is still empty after all.

If you eat like this, adults may just make up for it, but how can children stand it?

Therefore, Zhou Guilan hurriedly went to the ground and searched out the things that Xu Shiyan had brought back from the cabinet.

Grab some pears, mountain grape cakes, Shanli Hongpier, etc. and put them in a basin, wash them twice with clean water, then add clean water and put them in a pot to steam.

Seeing his wife busy, Xu Chenghou suddenly remembered the situation in his hometown in Kuandian.

Well, when I was young, our family still had silver mines, and my grandma made these in autumn.

The same is true during the Chinese New Year, steamed in a pot, sour and sweet, the taste is very good.

Our family was in good conditions at that time, with dozens of acres of land and a large orchard, which contained all kinds of peaches, sago, and pears.

There are many pear trees in our house, and there are all kinds of pear trees on the whole Kaner, such as sharp sour, flat-topped pear, flower-covered pear, and frozen pear.

Xu Chenghou seemed to have flipped some switch, and talked about things in his hometown.