Miao'an's farming life

In winter, the days are short and the nights are long, and the sun is always sleepy and lethargic. It always feels like the days go by so fast.

In a blink of an eye, it is the 29th of the twelfth lunar month. This year is a small year, so there is no New Year's Eve, and 29 is New Year's Eve.Since yesterday morning, the sky has been gloomy, and snowflakes began to fall at night. When I woke up this morning, there was already a thick layer on the ground, and it didn't mean to stop at all, floating all over the mountains and plains.

As the saying goes, "28, make the noodles; 29, steam the steamed buns", Miao An made the noodles yesterday, put them next to the brazier at night, after a night of fermentation, depending on the degree of pores in the dough, it is ready to make steamed buns.Mo Su didn't know how to do this kind of skill-requiring work for the time being, so he helped knead the dough to make it more chewy and delicious.

"what is this?"

Yoyo was on the side, watching Miao An's movements intently. A piece of dough was kneaded on the panel for a while and then it became a round steamed bun. He knew this one, but what was that flat one with a bend?

"This, noodle fish, is asking for more than every year." Miao An explained without stopping while pinching out the general shape of the fish.

Every year during the Chinese New Year, his mother will make all kinds of steamed buns. In addition to the traditional ones, there are noodle fish, flower rolls, Zaoshan, etc., which can be steamed in several pots.He is not interested in this, he only helped to make noodle fish, so now he can only cook noodle fish.Miao An didn't expect that Yoyo didn't know her. It seems that the family has never done it before.

Alas, it’s right to think about it, when you can’t bear to eat and don’t want to wear it, you only eat white noodles during the Chinese New Year, and you don’t pay attention to any tricks.

Use the side of the small wine cup to press out fish scales, use soybeans to make fish eyes, and a fat noodle fish is ready. Miao An puts it on the top of the lid, and turns to Yoyo to show him enough.

"Don't move, this one can't run." Miao An laughed.Yoyo squatted there, just stretched out her index finger, seemed to want to poke the head of the fish again, but silently withdrew her hand when she heard the warning.

After making a pot, Mo Su had already cleaned the big iron pot, and Miao An simply sent Yoyo, who had been circling around the noodle fish, to light the fire.

"I'll give you a whole strip after it's steamed." He threw out the reward, and after hearing that, Yoyo hurried to the kitchen.

"Mo Su!"

Feeling relieved, Miao An turned around, only to see that Mo Su was staring at Mianyu with a serious face, and his fingers were still pressing on his head, poking a shallow hole.

Mo Su, who was caught, paused, slowly withdrew his hand, touched his nose and ran to the kitchen, Miao An couldn't laugh or cry at his hurried back.The more we get along, the more we can discover Mo Su's childish side. He is more surprised and delighted at the same time. He likes Mo Su like this. Miao An, who couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, looked at the small hole on the noodle fish and subconsciously put his own Put your fingers up too.

Tsk, something feels wrong, Miao An raised his head, and saw Mo Su and Yoyo leaning on the door together, only their heads were exposed, looking at him eagerly. "Cough cough", the embarrassed Miao An coughed a few times, picked up a steamed bun full of steamed buns and changed the subject, "It's time to put it in the pot."

The two walked over, Mo Su's eyes were full of jokes, Miao An couldn't help but find a crack in the ground to sneak in, and laughed haha, even if he didn't say Miao An knew he was laughing at him, finally couldn't help it Laugh along with me.

After lunch, the snow stopped slowly all night and morning, but the sky was still cloudy.Miao An and Mo Su boiled paste to paste Spring Festival couplets. The upper couplet is on the right and the lower couplet is on the left. The New Year picture door god sent by the boss.Earlier, there were peach branches they had found. They wrapped the peach branches about [-] centimeters long with yellow papyrus strips and inserted them on the eaves, which also meant to pray for blessings and drive away disasters.

After that, the New Year's Eve dinner can be prepared. The main force is of course Miao An. The three of them first prepare the necessary dumplings for the New Year. Not only for New Year's Eve, but also for the first day of the New Year.

In the evening, the sound of firecrackers being set off in the village began to be heard one after another. The firecrackers here are still very primitive, just simply listening to the lively and lively sound, not as advanced as modern salutes and fireworks.

Miao An and Mo Su also bought some, and Yoyo has long been eager to set off firecrackers.Er Pang's family bought it last year. Hearing about it, Youyou has always been very greedy.Miao An entrusted this activity to Yoyo very enlightenedly, but he also asked Mo Su to watch from the side, otherwise, for this big Chinese New Year event, he would not be afraid of anything but just in case.Soon, the two grandparents, one big and one small, had a great time playing with firecrackers, and the sound of crackling echoed everywhere in the yard.

Although it always feels weird without the Spring Festival Gala, the New Year atmosphere in the village is much stronger than the modern one, and Miao An who is in it is also affected, especially when the New Year's Eve dinner is served, Miao An suddenly has the feeling I feel that modern festivals have almost become a pretext for holidays, and customs have been ignored instead. This kind of pure enjoyment of a festival atmosphere has not been seen for a long time.

The star of the New Year’s Eve dinner—the dumpling, is made of ordinary pork and cabbage stuffing, and the cabbage is the ones that Miao An used to grow in the back of his house.In addition to dumplings, there are cabbage fried meat, chicken stewed mushrooms, boiled fish, and a sparerib soup.

Speaking of pork ribs, Miao An bought them from the butcher's house on purpose, thinking that he would take advantage of the Chinese New Year to get enough calcium.And it turns out that he really likes the thick soup cooked with big pig bones, especially after breaking open the bones, the bone marrow inside is extremely delicious, and it is simply delicious in the world.

Before, he preferred the red bone marrow at one end of the bone, which is rich in hematopoietic stem cells, which helps to replenish blood, while the yellow bone marrow in the middle is actually fat. Every time, his mother always talked about getting fat and eating more than anyone else. many.

But now, if it wasn't for the New Year's Eve, where there would be no meat, Miao An would pick and choose. Miao An happily picked out a few bones and smashed them, and gave each of them one, and he began to enjoy the delicious food.

"Why is it swollen?" Miao An said vaguely, sucking the big pig bone until it made a "chirp" sound.

Mo Su and Yoyo held the bones, but did not move, but looked at Miao An with complicated expressions.

"Xiao An, you... don't you still have a lot of meat?" Mo Su finally couldn't help it, frowning and said distressedly.

Yoyo also sighed seriously, her eldest brother is too pitiful, hasn't he been eating bacon these days, why is he still eating bones so happily?

Miao An with glossy lips was speechless after understanding their eyes.Oh my god, no one knows how delicious it is?No wonder Mo Su looked so strange when he heard that he wanted to buy bones.They are so pitiful, how much deliciousness has been missed.Sucking his fingers, Miao An disliked that he was getting rougher in his heart, took the big pig bone in Yoyo's hand and explained to him, asking him to try it, and Yoyo did it hesitantly, his eyes instantly turned Lighted up, and nodded to Mo Sukuang, Miao An was very satisfied with this, and looked at Mo Su as well.Mo Su couldn't bear the pressure, so he tried, but he was also captured.The principle of the New Year's Eve dinner is to eat slowly, and the three of them started a carnival on the tip of their tongues.

After eating, Mo Su, the head of the family, took out a red money bag, which was heavy, and it was lucky money for Yoyo.

Youyou laughed so hard that she couldn't see her eyes, hugged Mo Su and said loudly, "Thank you brother! Brother is the best."

Miao An next to him coughed heavily, Yoyo understood, and hugged him like a dog, "Brother is the best too."

Miao An nodded in satisfaction, then deliberately pretended to be dissatisfied and reached out to Mo Su, "Where's my lucky money?"

Mo Su frowned when he saw him laughing, and hugged him and kissed him, "All my money is yours."

It can only be said that Miao An is still thin-skinned and blushes at a word, this Mo Su is getting more and more glib.

Watching the New Year's Eve at night, the bored Miao An ran to the small study and cut a stack of relatively hard paper, and asked Mo Su to write on it.Mo Su, who didn't know why, drew a bunch of talismans on it as instructed, watched Miao An excitedly bring the brazier to the bedside, and moved the small table to the bed, and greeted him and Yoyo.

"Come, come, I'll teach you how to play." Miao An said while fiddling with the paper.

Because there was no cinnabar, Miao An asked Mo Su to write various poker cards on paper, such as spades 2 hearts 3, and then began to explain the rules to them, both of them looked confused.Seeing that they didn't understand, Miao An simply rolled up his sleeves and started the actual combat. Within three rounds, the two of them understood. Mo Su even won one round. Miao An struck while the iron was hot and proposed to lose. People post stickers, of course, use toilet paper, and good paper is quite expensive.

Both Mo Su and Yoyo agreed, but soon Miao An regretted it. He wanted to crush them with his rich experience, but the winning or losing of poker really depends on how many rounds you have played, and the one who was crushed in the end was actually Miao An, the toilet paper strips on her face are covered with a thick layer.

"Xiao An, why don't you stop playing for now." Mo Su said after playing the last card, he put five cards on his face, and he felt a little distressed when he saw Fu Lang's face fluttering.

"no!"

Miao An, who was full of fighting spirit, resolutely refused, and still didn't believe this evil. Hey, why did Youyou only have ten chapters on his face, and it was so embarrassing to stop playing like this.

"Haha, bro, you lost again." Yoyo threw down the paper in her hand and shouted.

The battered Miao An lay on the table, feeling hopeless.It's true that the apprentice starved to death of the master.

At midnight, Mo Su and Yoyo set off some more firecrackers.

Afterwards, the three of them played intermittently all night, probably because of the freshness, even Yoyo didn't feel sleepy.At dawn, Miao An's luck seemed to have finally returned, and he won a game handsomely. He happily tore off the toilet paper strip on his face, jumped out of bed, and said while stretching: "It's time to stop playing. Pack up and go to New Year's greetings."

Cough, in fact, he was just afraid of playing again and losing again.

Mo Su also got out of bed, and seeing that Yoyo's legs seemed to be numb, he leaned over to rub his legs.Miao An went to the kitchen to boil hot water for washing. Peach branches should be put in the pot. The boiled water is light brown and has the fragrance of grass and trees.

After washing up and changing into new clothes, the three kowtowed at the altar in the yard, worshiping God and praying for blessings.After eating the dumplings, the three of them were ready to go out.The first thing to do when opening the door is to set off firecrackers. After the sound of firecrackers, the ground is covered with broken reds, which are as bright as clouds and brocades. They are called "full house red".