Siheyuan: Starting from Building a Village

In the following days, Xu Damao really persisted.

In the morning, there was no need for the third child to call him, he would get up on his own and increase his running from ten laps at the beginning to twenty laps.

He also performed military boxing in a very professional manner.

Run, practice boxing, take a shower and eat in the morning.

Movies were shown in the morning for three consecutive days. Finally, after Xu Damao returned the projector, he went back to Hope New Village.

In the afternoon, my sparring partners are Li Xiangdong, Lao San, and Er Lang.

In this way, the schedule is quite tight.

In about a week, Xu Damao had a completely new look. He walked with a straight back, his eyes no longer wandered around, and he looked less wretched. He slowly transformed from a soft egg to a tough guy.

Although he was cold, tired, and aching all over from being beaten up by several people from time to time, Xu Damao enjoyed it.

What’s even more exciting is that after each training session, we go to the bathhouse to take a bath. It feels so good.

It also made Xu Damao more determined to change jobs.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye it was the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month.

There is a recipe called Twenty-Six Beef Stew.

Among all festivals, the Spring Festival is the most grand and the most anticipated. Every time the Spring Festival comes, people will prepare everything they need for the New Year in the ten days before the New Year.

Every family in the north steams buns, makes dumplings and dumplings.

There is also the most popular dish among children (including fried meatballs, fried hemp leaves, etc., of course, boiled meat and boiled large bones are also on the same day.)

Even the poorest families will eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year. It doesn’t matter what the filling is, as long as they are dumplings.

Today, I hope that New Village will also start to pass the oil.

Because so many things were needed, two wood-burning stoves were built directly on the open space outside the canteen.

This time, I specially made two large pots, each with a diameter of 1.5 meters, which can cook 50 kilograms of meat at a time.

Liu Guozheng directly prepared a cow, which weighed about 600 kilograms. (A one-year-old cow weighs about 600 to 700 kilograms.)

The cattle were processed in the second world.

Each part is divided clearly, and those suitable for making dumplings, stewing, and stir-frying are all left out.

No matter whether it is beef, offal or beef bones, just put the other parts into the pot and cook them. Don’t do anything else in the morning, just cook the beef.

The children's job is to carry firewood, make fire, and sit and wait to chew big bones. Not only children like this, but adults also like it.

In the cafeteria, under the leadership of Master Yuan, the things that need to be fried are prepared.

The things that need to be fried have been discussed long ago, and the ingredients are also ready.

Meatballs are indispensable during the Chinese New Year, especially mung bean flour meatballs, which are the childhood nightmare of many people. The meatballs fried before the New Year can be eaten until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Some meatballs are even eaten until they grow mold but are not finished.

Radish meatballs, sweet potato meatballs.

The sweet potato balls are fried and eaten immediately. They are fried until crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. They taste fragrant, especially the sweetness of sweet potatoes, which is even more intoxicating. It’s not that they can’t be kept, but after a day or two, they won’t taste as good as when they are freshly cooked.

Mung bean flour meatballs and radish meatballs can be used to make meatball soup, or they can be made into bowls and eaten in many ways.

There are also fried hemp leaves, which can be eaten as snacks.

Fried tofu can be eaten in many different ways. The most common way is to cut it into tofu shreds or use tofu blocks to make salty soup.

Meat is fried chicken nuggets, fried fish nuggets, whole chicken, whole fish. This is essential.

This is all the work of Master Yuan and his colleagues. If they are new to the job, they won’t be able to control the heat and will either cook it too light or too heavy, thus wasting ingredients.

After cooking the beef in the morning, I continued with the pork in the afternoon. I also prepared a pig.

Pork, pork liver, and pork intestines are all excellent cold dishes.

Reserve the meat for dumplings and cook the rest together.

Because we ate too many beef bones in the morning, no one was left to eat pork bones in the afternoon. We had been eating too much greasy food all day.

I had to make a pot of hot and sour soup to help relieve the greasiness and digest the food.

An interesting thing happened in the afternoon.

That is, Xu Damao wanted to find someone to continue practicing with, but Li Xiangdong and others were reluctant to move, so Xu Damao found Chen Huwei.

Chen Huwei agreed with a smile.

Half an hour later, Xu Damao came back.

Dejected and hit.

According to Xu Damao, from beginning to end, Chen Huwei's sleeves were not touched, it was a completely one-sided beating.

Xu Damao was so angry that he gnawed two more big bones.

On the second day, which is the 27th day of the lunar calendar, the main task of the day is to steam buns and make dumplings.

Making dumplings before the New Year is also a custom in rural areas in the north. The fillings of the dumplings are usually vermicelli and radish, vermicelli and fried dough sticks, or vermicelli and eggs. The key to making the dumplings delicious is actually the vermicelli.

Vermicelli must be soaked in broth.

Of course I hope that there is no shortage of meat in the new village. In addition to vegetarian stuffing, there are also beef and pork, but not much.

In the afternoon, I will prepare the family version of the bowl.

For example, chicken nuggets can be cooked in a pot, put all in a bowl, and then steamed again. During the Chinese New Year, when guests come to your house, you can simply heat them up and put them directly on a plate to make a dish.

There is no need to do that when you are eating with your family. You can just steam it and serve it on the table.

There are various types, depending on what ingredients you prepare. Usually they are chicken nuggets, fish nuggets, ribs, crispy pork, meatballs, braised pork, tofu, etc.

Basically the same as the Eight Great Bowls.

If you prepare well before the New Year, you will have a much easier time during the New Year.

We worked together for two days and prepared most of the ingredients in the plan.

It is the 28th day of the lunar calendar, and there are only two days left until the New Year. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve.

No matter how reluctant Xu Damao was, he had to leave because his parents were at home and he had to go back for the New Year.

Before leaving, I took some meatballs, braised meat, and a few buns.

In the afternoon, Nan Yi came over and took over Master Yuan's job of preparing the dumpling fillings.

There are three kinds of dumpling fillings: beef, mutton, and pork.

The last person to come back was Li Dabao. He came on a tricycle, carrying couplets, New Year pictures, firecrackers, red lanterns, and the four-piece set for the Chinese New Year.

All the people related to Hope Village were present.

Men, women, young and old all helped make dumplings.

Judging from the situation, it goes without saying that we will eat dumplings in the evening.