Rebirth of the Nine-Three Era

Decide who will be invited to drink.

One person from each family of the Yin clan in the village came, and village cadres were also invited.

Friends of Yin Yuan and Hong Bing, classmates who studied together, and teachers at dad's school.

An acquaintance who is relatively familiar in the neighborhood and usually gets along well with.

Use these two days to inform.

Many of Yin Yuan's classmates and acquaintances in the village were still working outside and had not returned home. Yin Yuan had no choice but to tell their parents at home about this matter.

Tell them 28 that if their children don’t come back, their parents can come and drink.

Won't charge a penny as a gift.

Sun Zaohua renovated the bathroom in two days, and Yin Yuan paid him the labor.

The craftsmanship is not very good. If you go to Jiangming to decorate for others, this craftsmanship will definitely not be good.

But it doesn’t matter in the village, as long as it works.

24 On New Year's Day, my father told me that there were two pigs raised in their school and asked the pig butcher Li Fengshou to kill the pigs.

As soon as Yin Yuan got up, he heard the sound of pigs wailing from the village opposite.

It has been a habit for many years that the village primary school raises two pigs every year. After slaughtering them at the end of the year, they sell them at market prices. The income goes to the school's finances and subsidizes some of the school's expenses.

However, all the pig water is allocated to a few teachers as a welfare.

No one in the village expressed any objection.

The school also has another fish pond, covering an area of ​​more than an acre.

Usually, each class has a labor class every week, and the teacher arranges for the students to pull weeds and feed the fish.

Some find wild vegetables to feed the pigs.

It can be said that the fish in the fish pond and the pigs in the pig pen were raised by students looking for food.

Yin Benfan is responsible for selling pork at the village gate.

When the mother saw her son getting up, she told him: "After breakfast, you go and replace your father for half an hour and let him come home for breakfast."

Yin Yuan came to the village gate and saw many villagers surrounding it.

Li Fengshou was busy cutting and weighing the pork.

Yin Benfan recorded every order of pork sold and collected the money, with an abacus beside him.

Yin Yuan asked his father to go back to have breakfast and he would do it for him.

Li Fengshou said with a smile: "Boss Yin is back, do you know how to make an abacus?"

Yin Yuan said: "I don't need an abacus, I can make no mistakes in my mental arithmetic."

Yin Benfan knew that his son knew how to make an abacus, so he got up and left.

Take back the portion of pork liver and a pair of pig intestines.

"Teacher Yin, how many kilograms of fresh pork can you bring back?" Li Fengshou stopped him.

The price of pork has increased a lot this year, reaching 4.5 yuan per catty. Villagers who buy pork only buy one or two catties.

Yin Yuan asked Li Fengshou to cut a few kilograms of ribs and let his father carry back a few kilograms of lean meat.

Dad came over after breakfast. He went to the backyard of the village small house to watch the fish pond netting fish.

Du Rongjun squatted by the fish pond, saw Yin Yuan, and greeted him with a smile: "Boss Yin, you should pick some of the largest grass carps to make fish balls?"

"The largest fish pond in the school is only two or three pounds. How big can a fish that has only been raised for a year be?"

"You are wrong. The largest one weighs four or five kilograms. Every year when Principal Li asks people to buy fry, he always buys big fish weighing more than a kilogram and raises them, not the small fry."

As long as it is fish raised on grass, the taste will still be original and fresh.

Fish raised on feed will have less umami flavor.

He said to Du Rongjun: "In two days, your cousin will come to help me prepare a banquet for eight tables. When buying fish, he should buy fish from this fish pond, and for pork, he should buy this kind of domestic pig."

While they were talking, a van drove to the entrance of the village. Two young men got out of the car and asked the villagers who were buying pork: "Does the Yin Yuan family live near here?"

Yin Benfan replied: "I am Yin Yuan's father. Do you have anything to do with him? He is watching the fish in the backyard fish pond."

The visitor said: "Hello, Uncle Yin. I am Ge Liang, Du Rongjun's cousin. Yin Yuan made an appointment with me yesterday to help you prepare a banquet for eight tables. Bring something over today. There is a fish pond here. Net fish? Then I have to buy the fish."

He came to the fish pond in the backyard, and Du Rongjun introduced him and Yin Yuan.

Ge Liang said to Yin Yuan: "I used a van to pull a large water tank to put the fish. I bought the fish here and kept it in the water tank. Later I will come over to make fish balls, meat balls, fried fish and fried meat. "

At this time, several villagers who were pulling nets for fishing pulled the nets to the shore and were taking out the fish one by one and throwing them into the fish cages.

Ge Liang picked eight grass carp weighing three to four kilograms and paid.

The villagers who were netting fish were surprised to find that there were two turtles in the net.

The price of turtle is ten times more expensive than grass carp, and no one here wants to buy it.

Yin Yuan said to sell it to me. It would be good to buy it back and make turtle soup.

He picked a grass carp weighing more than five pounds and two turtles.

Brother Ge Liang brought eight grass carps to Yin Yuan's house, filled a large water tank with water, and raised the fish in it.

The van also brought a stove, various ingredients, oil, rice, sauce and vinegar, and even bowls and chopsticks.

"Is the dining table enough? Can I borrow eight dining tables from nearby neighbors?"

Ge Liang asked Yin Yuan's mother.

Zhou Yafei said: "I have two sets of dining tables at home. If I borrow six more sets from my neighbors, I should be able to borrow them."

Anyone who holds a banquet still needs to borrow a dining table.

No one will stock several sets of dining tables.

Ge Liang said: "Then just help me borrow eight sets of dining tables, and I will prepare the rest."

He looked at the other building of the warehouse and said, "It's okay to put a dozen dining tables on the first floor of the warehouse here, or use a room as a temporary kitchen."

Yin Yuan paid him part of the money.

Wanting saw him come back with two turtles and said happily: "I saw my mother frying turtles and making soup with old hens. It tasted particularly delicious."

Yin Yuan said: "We also have old hens at home. I will catch one and kill it, and make this dish for you to eat."

Although my mother does not raise pigs, she does raise a dozen chickens and two geese at home.

Yin Yuan went to catch an old hen, slaughtered it, put hot water in it, plucked the feathers, and removed the internal organs.

At this time, my father came home and said that both pigs were sold out.

He came back with a bowl of cooked pig's blood in a big bowl.

He said: "There is a man in Xiashan Township who built a pond to raise soft-shell turtles and giant salamanders. There is a mountain spring water there. Many wealthy bosses and cadres in the county often go to buy soft-shell turtles and giant salamanders. There are others. A person keeps snakes. Nowadays, people learn to enjoy it when they have money."

Yin Yuan said: "When the Red Soldiers come back tomorrow, we will buy a few and eat them. We couldn't afford them before, but now we have money, we can buy any good things and taste them."

Mom has finished processing the chicken.

Yin Yuan said: "Let me fry this chicken and turtle stew."

He fetched ginger and shiitake mushrooms and peeled a winter bamboo shoot.

Slaughter the soft-shell turtle, cut open its back shell, peel off the butter inside, put it into boiling water, and gently tear off the membrane on the soft-shell turtle's back shell.

Remove and cut into pieces and boil in hot water for a few minutes.

Cook the chicken for a few minutes as well.

Heat the oil, add the chicken and turtle meat, stir-fry, and add sliced ​​ginger and winter bamboo shoots.

Add a small amount of chili pepper, pour water and simmer for 10 minutes.

A sweet and delicious chicken and turtle stew is done.

Another plate of fried bacon mixed with winter bamboo shoots.

Two plates of green vegetables.

A bowl of egg soup.

Wanting and her parents ate it and they all said that Yin Yuan was a good cook and she could leave the kitchen to him during the Chinese New Year.

After lunch, my parents were still busy in the kitchen.

Cut open the fish, take out the fish meat, and mix various ingredients in a certain proportion.

Cut a few pounds of lean meat to prepare meatballs.

Dad put the fish and lean meat in two pots and prepared to chop them with a kitchen knife.

Yin Yuan thought: Dad can't finish these two big pots of meat in one afternoon.

It’s just that there is no home blender to buy right now.

"Dad, you chop the fish, and I'll chop the lean meat."

Chop lean meat, appropriate amount of carrots, water chestnuts and ginger into puree, add appropriate amount of sweet potato starch, add light soy sauce, appropriate amount of salt, and water to form meatballs.

It took Yin Yuan several hours to make the meatballs.

Dad's fish balls are a bit more difficult in comparison. The proportions of various ingredients must be precise and a certain amount of strength is required when kneading.

The fish balls should be chopped into finer pieces.

After kneading the meatballs and fishballs into balls, boil water and put them into a pot to cook them, then pick them up and put them on a plate. Add water to cook them before eating.

Mom and Wanting were frying fish and pork ribs in the kitchen.

Wanting was lighting a fire under the stove, her face burning red.

That night, my mother cooked a dish of steamed braised pork skin with dried prunes and vegetables, boiled fish balls with pork skin, and mixed taro with green vegetables.

Wanting repeatedly praised that Hakka food tastes better.

Yin Yuan also asked her: "Would you like molded tofu? That is fermented bean curd. I guarantee that the molded tofu made by my family here will definitely taste better than the ones bought in Jiangming Supermarket."

He took a porcelain bowl, went to a closed clay jar in the kitchen, and picked up square, slightly yellowed fermented bean curds.

At the same time, Wanting smelled the tangy aroma of tofu base and couldn't help but salivate.

Yin Yuan took out the soaked chili pepper and ginger from the clay pot and filled a bowl full of them.

He asked Wanting to try it.

"Does it taste different from the ones bought in the supermarket?"

After Wanting tasted it, she exclaimed: "It's really different."

Mom smiled and said, "If it tastes good, take all those cans of molded tofu to Jiangming after the Chinese New Year. Your dad and I make our own tofu and brew it with shochu after the mold is ready."

During dinner, my cousin Hong Ping brought freshly made tofu on a large plate.

"This is tofu that just came out of the box at my house. My mother asked me to bring a bowl over."

Zhou Yafei said: "Your uncle and eldest brother made fish balls and meat balls, as well as fried pork ribs and fried fish this afternoon. You just happened to be here, so take some back, otherwise I will send some over tomorrow."

There is nothing to exchange with the third child’s family, and with the second child’s family, they usually send some delicious food to them.

When the fourth child and his wife go home, they usually have dinner at the eldest brother's house.

The third child's family had a good life in the past, but the eldest brother and the second brother's family took advantage of his family.

Seeing that there was turtle and chicken soup on the table, Hong Ping ate a bowl of it without hesitation.

After eating it, I said it tasted good.

After taking a shower, he was sitting in the living room watching TV when someone called him outside the door: "Yin Yuan, is Yin Yuan at home?"

Yin Yuan opened the door and walked out.

Du Rongjun and Li Qingyun stood outside, carrying an air gun and holding three flashlights in their hands.

"Yin Yuan, are you interested in going to the woods at the foot of the mountain to hunt birds?"

Du Rongjun said: "At night, those sparrows stand on the trees to sleep. If you shine the strong light of the flashlight, they will stand motionless on the branches and let you shoot them with an air gun. There is no problem in shooting more than a dozen in a night."

Li Qingyun also said: "Go ahead, there is nothing to do at home anyway. It will be delicious and sweet to make some sparrow soup. Your wife is from a big city, she must have never drank it."

In this era, no one controlled the sale of shotguns in shopping malls, and many people in rural areas still had blunderbuss at home.

There were frequent incidents of hurting people, and only later were they completely confiscated.

Yin Yuan shook his head and said: "Go to the woods at night. The mosquitoes are high and there are many thorns. If you step on something accidentally and get bitten, it will be terrible. It's better not to go."

In my previous life, my economic conditions were poor. When I returned to the village, I often went to the woods with Du Rongjun and others to shoot sparrows with an air gun at night.

One time, three or four people went there. For some unknown reason, Du Rongjun shot Li Qingyun in the thigh and was later sent to the hospital for surgery. Li Qingyun could no longer walk smoothly.

From then on, none of the young people in the village said they would go to the mountains to hunt sparrows at night.

Now that the economic conditions are better, do I need to take risks again?

"Haha, Boss Yin is the big boss now. He is more delicate and doesn't want to go to the mountains to hunt sparrows at night. Forget it, let's go."

Yin Yuan kindly reminded them: "It's dark on the mountain at night, so pay attention to safety."

Du Rongjun said: "You think this is your first time going up the mountain. You are already old, so what else will happen? I will send a few sparrows to your family to make soup tomorrow morning..."

Naturally, Yin Yuan couldn't dissuade them from the fact that he shot Li Qingyun with an air gun in his previous life, otherwise they would definitely think that he had a mental problem and just hoped that they would be fine.

Several people in the family also heard what the two young men outside were looking for.

Mom said: "The last time the Red Soldier came home, he also went to the county town and bought an air gun and a dozen boxes of aluminum bullets. They are in his room. If you want to play with them, you can open the door for you."

Wanting advised: "It's dark and full of mosquitoes on the mountain, so don't go there."

Yin Yuan told his mother: "From now on, when the Red Soldiers say they want to go hunting sparrows at night, they will tell them not to go. Since we don't need that much money, if you want to eat sparrows, you can often buy them in the market."

This little sparrow costs three yuan each.

Some people hang nets everywhere in the mountains and forests and collect them the next morning. They can collect dozens of them in a day.

Earn dozens or hundreds of dollars a day.

Pan Yulin in the village specializes in doing this.

During the day, this man went to the fields to meet frogs and catch snakes in the mountains, forests and grasslands. He left several acres of land at home to his frail wife to take care of, and he did not help during the busy farming season.

He said that I could make more money than the cadres in my unit by wandering around the mountains, forests and fields.

Dad supports Yin Yuan’s idea.

I slept until midnight when someone knocked on the courtyard door.

"Who knocks on the door in the middle of the night?"

Wanting also woke up.

The parents next door also woke up and got up to open the door.

A few minutes later, the father said to his son outside the door: "It's Du Rongjun and the two. Li Qingyun's thigh was injured by Du Rongjun's air gun bullet. They want you to drive Li Qingyun to the county hospital."

This thing still happened like in the previous life.

He dressed and walked outside to the yard, only to see Li Qingyun moaning in pain, with a pool of blood on his right trousers.

Du Rongjun looked panicked.

“Help Yin Yuan, can you start work and take us to the county hospital?”

Without saying a word, Yin Yuan found an old blanket from the room and put it on the back seat of the car, and asked Du Rongjun to help Li Qingyun sit on it.

Don't let Li Qingyun's blood stick to the car seat.