clang farming notes

The next morning, just after dawn, everyone was busy.

First, burn the fire and steam the steamed buns to be served. This is specially made and several circles smaller than ordinary steamed buns.After steaming, put a little red dot on it, and put it on a plate in five stacks, making a total of five plates.There are five kinds of dried fruits prepared, put them on a plate and put them away.As well as a whole big pig's head and a whole chicken, all of them were taken to the east room for offering - since the beginning of winter, the three members of Du's family lived in the west room, and the east room was vacant to store things. It was relatively cold, and it was easy to put things in. In the first two days, Du An and Du Zhongping tidied up a little bit and set up a table for ancestor worship.

After setting up all the sacrifices, the family of three tidied up and came in to kowtow together.

Du Zhongping lit the incense, knelt down and prayed sincerely. In the past, he would not believe anything, but even if it was not for himself, even for the two around him, he had to be in awe.In this life, I don't want to be rich and powerful, but I just want to live peacefully with the people around me, so that I can die in peace and joy.

Jin'er knelt behind her father, imitating Du Zhongping's movements and kowtowed.He didn't understand what he was doing, but the two adults were very serious, so he subconsciously became obedient.

After finishing this task, it is not finished. I should have gone to the ancestor's grave to offer some paper money a year ago, but the Du family's ancestral grave is too far away, so I can only burn some paper money at the crossroads.

The paper money was prepared last night, the three of them put on thick clothes, Du Zhongping was holding Jin'er, Du'an was holding a large bundle of yellow paper, and followed behind with tongs and other things.They picked a crossroad heading south, and met many people on the road, holding yellow paper and other things in their hands, but they just nodded when they saw people, and they didn't say hello to each other.When they arrived at the place, they burned the yellow paper together, then knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times to the south, which was regarded as a complete ceremony.

After these things were done, most of the dignified atmosphere disappeared.When they arrived at home, Zhao Ba and Fang Sheng had been waiting for a long time, and the little sadness in Du Zhongping and Du An's heart also flew away when they saw their smiling faces.He took off his big clothes, drank some hot water, and started to get busy.

Boil the paste first, paste the Spring Festival couplets and blessings that have been prepared in advance, and paste the red couplets on the gates and doors of the two houses, and the festive atmosphere comes out all at once.Inside the house, on the doors, on the cabinets and even on the walls, there are a few blessings pasted on them. Some of them were pasted by Jin'er himself. Although they are a bit crooked, they are still highly praised.

The dumplings filled with meat had already been made and frozen, but the vegetarian dumplings that Thirty'er ate that day had to be made fresh.Du Zhongping and Fang Sheng were making vegetarian dumplings with Jiner in the house, Du An and Zhao Ba were busy making some fried meatballs, vegetarian meatballs, etc. in the kitchen, and they also wanted to chop some fine meat fillings and save them for making Sixi at night For meatballs, I burned another big pot, put big bones, hung some broth, and reserved dumplings or wontons. I was very busy.

The dense steam and the fragrance floating in the air make people feel at ease and soft, and feel happy while busy.

There were scattered noises outside, probably older children setting off firecrackers.The children can only buy some firecrackers for them to play during the Chinese New Year. They are reluctant to set off all the firecrackers at once, so they take down the firecrackers and set them off one by one.

There are not many children in the village, except for a few like Lizheng who got married and had children, who came from other places to visit relatives this year, otherwise, the village would be much more lively.

In the afternoon, Duan prepared the things for the New Year's Eve dinner, and prepared to start several pots at the same time in the evening, so as not to slow down the cooking, and the dishes in the back were served, and the dishes in the front were cold again.

Du An asked Zhao Ba to help light the fire. You must know that when Zhao Ba Fangsheng started the fire himself, it was Fang Sheng who started the fire. Zhao Ba had a lot of experience in lighting the fire.And he has cooperated with Duan several times. Duan praised that his kung fu of burning fire has reached a certain level. If there is a big fire, there will be a big fire, if there is a small fire, there will be a small fire, and he can switch between the big fire and the small fire, much better than the other two. .

Zhao Ba was very proud of this, and he was able to steal a little bit from time to time in the kitchen, expressing his willingness to help.

At the New Year’s Eve dinner in the evening, Duan tried his best: a fish in sauce, clean the fish, cut a few knives across the fish, marinate it with shredded green onion and ginger for a while, and fry it in an oil pan. , salt and other seasonings to make a sweet and sour juice. After the fish is fried, pour it while it is hot. It tastes crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. I ate hooves at dinner, and I will have more energy to spend money at home in the coming year—this is what Zhao Ba said. Du Zhongping thinks that at least eating it is good for the skin. You know, the winter here is very dry and the skin is very uncomfortable. If it is useful, He doesn't mind eating it often; Sixi meatballs are fried and shaped first, and then steamed in a pot. The name is good and the taste is good; It’s festive just looking at it; it’s also stuffed with refined meat, mixed with crushed white tofu, beaten with raw eggs, put it into the broth, and made meatball soup, and sprinkled some chopped garlic sprouts before serving, the taste is full of deliciousness .

The cold dish is cut into Duan and boiled to make skin jelly: the pig skin is washed clean, chopped and boiled with water, and when the pig skin is almost melted, put it in the pot to cool, and it becomes a relatively transparent skin jelly, which can be eaten When it is cut, it is topped with some garlic sauce or something. It is slightly elastic, refreshing and not greasy.Duan was afraid that the vegetables were all meat, so he shredded the tender cabbage heart and mixed it with salt, vinegar and other things to relieve the greasiness.

The New Year's Eve dinner was very enjoyable, the four adults all drank a little wine, and even Jin'er had a bowl of honey water to clink glasses with, looking very happy.The specially bought candles swayed with warm light, illuminating the smiling faces of several people.One year's hard work can be comforted today. After these few days, I will work hard for the next year. The days are always getting better and better, and the more enjoyable it is.

After the New Year’s Eve dinner, several people sat around on the kang, and placed fried melon seeds, peanuts, chestnuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, candied fruit, etc. in the middle, boiled water on the brazier to make tea, and began to watch the night seriously. Interesting stories in the village, teasing Jin'er who is extremely happy, telling local legends and stories, and talking about the farming plan for the coming year... Jin'er can't hold on to sleep anymore, and the adults must insist on setting off firecrackers until midnight to welcome the gods. Light a bunch of bonfires in the yard, implying that the coming year will be prosperous.Cook some vegetarian dumplings and eat them, and the thirty-year-old dumplings are not called dumplings, but ingots. Eat a few more, and you will earn more in the coming year.

When we arrived at Zishi, the sound of firecrackers sounded almost simultaneously in the village, and bonfires were lit up in the yards of each house.Zhao Ba went to the yard to set off firecrackers and light a bonfire, Du An went to the kitchen to cook dumplings, Fang Sheng took the bowls and chopsticks to set them up, and Du Zhongping was busy waking up Jin'er.At that moment, everyone gathered at the table and ate dumplings. Under Du Zhongping's instructions, Jin'er paid New Year's greetings to all present, said the auspicious words taught early, and got red envelopes from several people.The four adults also paid New Year's greetings to each other, and they couldn't stand it anymore, so they went back to sleep, and tomorrow they have to get up early to go to various houses in the village to pay New Year's greetings.

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We got together early in the morning, and the three members of Du's family changed new ones from inside to outside, from top to bottom. Du Zhongping quickly swept the floor, took out a plate and filled it with melon seeds, peanuts, and candies, and waited for a while There are people who come to pay New Year's greetings.Duan cooked the dumplings and hurriedly cleaned up after eating.

Don't worry about it, the farmers all get up early, especially the children, who will come to pay New Year's greetings in a while, and it will be a joke to be stuffed into the bed, and the adults will just joke a few words, and the children have no gatekeepers Yes, the whole village who can shout knows.

Sure enough, after a while, Dazhu and Erzhu came to pay New Year's greetings. They respectfully saluted Du'an Duzhong, and the two of them took out the red envelopes they had prepared. In fact, they were red paper wrapped in some copper coins. , can be regarded as a small fortune, of course, the biggest possibility is to hold it in your hand for a while, and then it will be confiscated by adults when you go back.

The two children refused to stay for a while, and they wanted to go to other people's homes to pay New Year's greetings. Du Zhongping didn't stay too long, but grabbed a lot of peanuts and candies for each of them, and told them to often come to Jin'er to play.

Several groups of people came one after another, Du An Du Zhongping guessed that it was almost the same, so he put on thick clothes for Jin'er, and Zhao Bafangsheng went to Lizheng's house to pay New Year's greetings when they were all together.

As expected, Lizheng's house was very lively, Lizheng was sitting in the room talking to people who came to pay New Year's greetings, while Mrs. Wang was busy pouring water and entertaining guests with melon seeds and so on.Dazhu and Erzhu had already walked around and came back. There were many people in the room. Mrs. Wang thought they were in the way, so she patted Erzhu's buttocks and sent them to the courtyard to play.So a few people saw it as soon as they entered the courtyard, and Erzhu shouted at the top of his voice: "Mother, Bashu Zhao and the others are here."

Some people came out to welcome them inside, several people rushed into the room, everyone saluted after a while, Jin'er repeated a few auspicious words taught by Du Zhongping and Du An several times, and received several red envelopes.

Everyone sat down to talk, but Jin'er lay in Du Zhongping's arms and refused to go to the ground. There were so many people, he was a little shy.After a while, the door opened a crack, revealing half of Er Zhu's head, and greeted Jin'er: "Come out and play."

Jin'er was a little moved, and looked up at Du Zhongping.Du Zhongping put him on the ground, gave him a small bag, and asked him to go out to play with Er Zhu.

Jin'er is wearing big hairy clothes today, but she is short and round.Once outside, Jin'er handed a small bag to Erzhu. Erzhu opened it and saw that it was a small whip. He was very happy: "Give it to me? You don't want to play?"

Jin'er pushed, "Here you are." Er Zhu felt that Jin'er was really kind. Da Zhu took a piece of incense to light the firecrackers in his house, and it was not his turn to set off the firecrackers.

It turned out that two years ago, the Du family took Jin'er to the market to buy things, and saw a child pestering an adult to buy a small whip. Jin'er didn't know what it was, but it was red and pretty, so he asked for it.

Du Zhongping is used to children, he thought it was okay for a boy to like firecrackers, so he bought it for him, although Duan thought he was too young to let it go, but adults would not waste it if he bought it back, and he didn't object.As a result, Duane went back and disassembled two to demonstrate to him, and he said nothing and didn't touch them.

Dazhu will be eleven after the new year, so naturally he won't play with the two little ones grabbing firecrackers, but now that there are people in the house, if they make a noise and startle the house, they will be beaten up when they leave Therefore, he ignored Erzhu's request to light a stick of incense and set off a few immediately, and just agreed to give him all the firecrackers, and not one for himself, and only set them off at night when no one was around.

Erzhu thought for a while and agreed.Because of accepting Jin'er's gift, Er Zhu thought about giving Jin'er something, after much deliberation, he led Jin'er to his chicken coop.

Lizheng's family usually picks eggs at Erzhu's house. Today, after getting up and having dinner, they went out to pay New Year's greetings. They haven't picked them up yet. Erzhu decided to give Jin'er the right to pick eggs today, as a return gift.

Jin'er was really interested, he had never picked eggs, only cooked ones.It’s just that he didn’t dare to touch the chickens walking back and forth in the open space, especially the rooster, which held its head up and scratched the ground with its paws from time to time. It was very scary. Every time he walked towards the chicken coop, the chicken Just staring at him, he didn't dare to move.

In the end, there was no way, Dazhu took the stick and pushed the chicken away, while Erzhu was covering him and accompanied him to the chicken coop.There were three or four eggs in the chicken coop. After thinking about it, Jin'er lifted up his skirt and put the eggs in one by one. Xiao Dian followed Er Zhu to put the eggs in the place where Mrs. Wang usually put them, even sticking to the clothes. I can't care about a few chicken feathers.

Dazhu waited for the two little ones to go far away before releasing the chicken, and rushed up to take care of it.Du Jiajin'er looks more precious, and besides, Uncle Du treats his brothers very well on weekdays, even though he is still treated like a child at such an age, and Uncle Du is not a few years older than himself, sometimes it really makes me feel a little embarrassed , but I still like it very much, and now I have to take good care of Jin'er in my own yard.

The adults in the room took their leave after talking for a while.They all stayed up all night last night, and they came out early to pay New Year's greetings, and they can catch up on sleep when they go back.

On the way back, Jin'er hugged Du Zhongping's neck, and told him how to pick eggs, how Da Zhu chased away the chickens, how Er Zhu picked eggs every day at home, and so on. Ping also raises a few chickens at home, so that he can pick eggs every day.

Du Zhongping was perfunctory, only saying that there is no place to buy chickens in winter, and we will wait until we meet.But I secretly made up my mind that I can't agree to raise chickens at home. Not to mention disturbing people's dreams every morning, it is unbearable to step on chicken manure if they lift their feet at home.

When they got home, several of them went back to their own rooms to catch up on sleep.

Originally, on the second day of the new year tomorrow, those who are married will go back to their natal homes, and even those who are far away will have to leave today, but the few bachelors in the family don't need to think about this.A few years ago, someone sent a message to Zhao Ba. Several brothers in the camp took turns to visit him and asked him to drink. Zhao Bafangsheng was not very good at his craft, so he asked Du An for help tomorrow, so he could introduce him to his brothers. We know each other, and it will be more convenient for us to do anything in the future.