Happy Farmer's Life

In the past two days, Du Weiming has bought a lot of roasted seeds and nuts, fried melon seeds, fried peanuts, and fried soybeans. There are not many snacks that can be eaten in this era, and he doesn't like candied fruit, so he only buys some pastries at most.Now that there are many people in the family, Du Weiming has always felt that it is a kind of happiness for the family to eat melon seeds, drink tea and talk around the table.

Eating a lot of melon seeds can easily get angry. Fortunately, Du Weiming has prepared for it. In the past two days, everyone's tea is honeysuckle or mint tea, which is cleared from fire, so everyone is fine.

On the morning of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Wang Wu went to the town to fetch pots, and the shops in the town were almost closed, and it was already afternoon when he came back without much delay.When Du Weiming saw this pot, he was very satisfied, haha, he could finally eat hot pot.In fact, Du Weiming wanted a copper one more, but copper is still relatively rare in this place, so the price can be imagined, even the price of iron pan is not cheap.

When eating hot pot, another very important thing is the sauce.There is no ready-made peanut butter or sand tea sauce in this place, so Du Weiming can only make it himself.Wash the peanuts, dry them, and fry them in an oil pan. They must not be burnt, and they should be fried on a low heat.After cooling down, remove the thin red coat on the peanuts, then place the peanuts in a bowl, and crush the peanuts with a wooden stick.It would be great if there was a blender, hey, modern technology still has its advanced features.

"Young master, take a break, let me try." Zhou Wen took the initiative to take over the work from Du Weiming.

"Okay, Zhou Wen, you do it first, and I'll make a chili sauce."

Wash the peppers, cut into small pieces, and stir-fry them in an oil pan.

After the peanuts are almost pureed, take them out and add a small amount of olive oil until the consistency is right.Du Weiming specially made two kinds, one is peanut butter, and the other has some larger particles in it. Du Weiming prefers to eat peanut butter with particles, which tastes more delicious.

Two sauces are almost enough.Before it was dark, Du Weiming started to work on the hot pot for the evening.Soak the fungus well, wash and set aside.Cabbage, white radish, tofu, green vegetables, mushrooms, rice cakes, fish balls, meat balls, egg dumplings, and the most important thing, mutton.Cutting mutton is a technical job. The mutton should be sliced ​​thinly and boiled in hot water. If the mutton is cut thicker, it will be stale and unpalatable after cooking for a long time.Wang Wu took the initiative to take over the job, and Du Weiming went to check it out. It was well cut, but he didn't notice it.Wang Wu thought to himself, if the former master knew that the kung fu he learned was used to cut mutton and was highly praised, he wondered how he would feel.

The pot that Du Weiming asked Wang Wu to order is the oldest shabu-shabu pot similar to the old Beijing hot pot. After the charcoal is heated and placed in the middle, it is ready to eat.The soup base of the hot pot is a broth made from pork bones. The pork bones I bought last time boiled a large pot of soup. If you want to eat, you can save some, which is very convenient.The sauce that Du Weiming chose is peanuts and peppers. Everyone has different tastes. The three sauces are served in three large bowls. You can adjust the flavor you want.What the doll eats is ordinary peanut butter.Du Weiming took a look, and everyone seemed to be different.

It was the first time for everyone to eat this thing called hot pot. The pot was placed in the middle, and there was a table full of side dishes beside it. They only started after seeing Du Weiming's demonstration.There will be a fishy smell in the boiled mutton. Du Weiming didn't make it at first, because he was afraid that some people would not be used to it.When everyone was almost [-]% full after eating, Du Weiming demonstrated the hot-boiled mutton. Unexpectedly, this food was loved by everyone, and the doll also clamored to eat it. Strong, two catties of mutton were all wiped out in a short while.Du Weiming had already finished the battle. Seeing that Wang Wu, Lian Da and the others seemed to be hungry, Du Weiming put some rice cakes in it to cook. This rice cake was made with the village chief. This year, Du Weiming asked them to make it. No one at home can make it, so this year I also made a lot of rice cakes.

"Brother, this hot pot is really delicious, shall we have it again tomorrow?"

"Wei Ming, this hot pot is good, let's have it again in two days."

In fact, Jingyuan has eaten something similar to this hot pot called Boxia Gong, but he has never eaten fish balls made by Du Weiming. It is really delicious with sauce.The most important thing is to eat around a table, which feels very warm.

Du Weiming was very happy that the hot pot was recognized by everyone, and nodded with a smile, "It's easy to eat, and you can make it whenever you want." There are so many people now, it's not like the old days when you practice calligraphy with Jing Yuan at night, and you can speed up by playing chess However, Du Weiming thought for a long time and felt that it would be great if he could have a set of mahjong. This is the quintessence of China, but it is not easy to make this mahjong.

Du Weiming talked about his idea, which aroused everyone's curiosity, Mahjong, what kind of stuff is this, I have never heard of it.After eating and drinking enough, everyone had nothing to do, so Du Weiming mobilized everyone to start playing mahjong.Wang Wu found a few larger pieces of wood and came back. He and Lian Da used an ax to chop the firewood he had prepared into small pieces. It's not easy for each one to be about the same size.Du Weiming, Zhou Wenjingyuan and Doll grind the small pieces of wood next to them. First, they use a knife to cut the small pieces of wood and then do some processing. Then they can only take a few big stones and grind them slowly on the table.Although this job is not easy to do, I finally made more than 30 in one night, so I can only continue tomorrow.

Liu Jingyuan was actually very curious about Du Weiming's special idea, mahjong, which he had never heard of before.I can be regarded as well-educated, and the neighboring countries have never had such a thing.In fact, last year, Jing Yuan tested Du Weiming. Where did the strange thoughts in his mind come from? Du Weiming explained that after accidentally falling on his head, some strange thoughts suddenly appeared in his mind.In this era, there is still a high degree of worship for those supernatural beings, so Liu Jingyuan has no doubts.It is estimated that this mahjong is also here.

On New Year's Eve, Du Weiming took Lian Da and Zhou Wen to work early in the morning.Jing Yuan, forget about his help, let him and Wang Wu continue to do that mahjong.Lian Daxian went to slaughter a live chicken. According to him, the chicken must be slaughtered to worship the ancestors.Du Weiming followed suit.Eating wontons at noon is easy to make. Cabbage is the most in the house, so the stuffing of wontons is naturally pork and cabbage stuffing.The meat sauce was chopped two days ago, the cabbage is chopped, squeeze out the water, add the meat sauce, salt, and mix well.Let Zhou Wen knead the dough, Du Weiming called Wang Wu, Jing Yuan said last night that he wanted to eat spring rolls, and Du Weiming agreed.In the morning, the spring roll wrappers are also made. In addition to the spring rolls, there are glutinous rice balls, and the glutinous rice has been soaked the day before.

After the wontons were wrapped, Du Weiming sent some to the village chief, Zhang Carpenter and others, and asked Lian Da to send some to the village entrance. Du Weiming also brought back some dumplings.Now that everyone has been together for a long time, they will walk around each other and give each other some food and so on.Delicious wontons are paired with boiled pork bone soup. It is comfortable to eat such a bowl of hot wontons in winter.

In the afternoon, I was busy preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner in the evening.In the traditional concept of Chinese people, the New Year's Eve dinner on New Year's Eve is extremely important, and they can't wait to cook all the delicious food for that meal.Baby went to take a nap very early, while Jing Yuan continued to fight the mahjong.It takes a long time to cook braised pork elbow and old duck flat tip soup, so Du Weiming will make these two first.Stew the elbow box old duck soup on a small fire, and Du Weiming began to make the red bean paste filling.

In order to keep the vegetables from getting cold in winter, Du Weiming racked his brains. Finally, he thought that in the past, selling popsicles in the countryside in summer would be done in a wooden box with a few old cotton jackets wrapped around it.Du Weiming also used this method to achieve a certain heat preservation effect. Otherwise, in such a cold day, when the last dish is served, the previous dishes will all be cold.

When the doll got up, it was Jing Yuan who helped her get dressed, and everyone else was busy.Wang Wu and Zhou Wen took a sneak peek. This kid is so powerful that he asked the prince to help him get dressed.Jing Yuan's attitude towards dolls is much better than Du Weiming imagined.Jing Yuan's personality is a bit cold, and he can still talk a few words with himself, but he hardly talks much with Wang Wu and Zhou Wen.Du Weiming doesn't know that, Jing Yuan usually doesn't talk much, so he talks more to you and Brother Huang.Even if Jing Yuan dared to say it, Wang Wu and Zhou Wen couldn't bear it.With this attitude, when Zhou Wen and Wang Wu first arrived, they thought his prince had been possessed by something, and they spoke so kindly.

"Brother, what are you doing delicious?"

"Brother is making elbows for this little glutton, braised in soy sauce, do you want to eat them?"

"Okay. Brother, can the doll help you?"

"Baby, go play with brother Jingyuan first, brother will call you for help, okay?"

"it is good."

When Du Weiming was very busy, Aunt Wang from the entrance of the village came.

"Li Er, are you busy?"

"Auntie, go sit in the main room."

Aunt Wang sent some pieces of yam, yam is considered a rare thing here, usually it can only be dug up by chance, and it takes a lot of time to dig it up. This time, everyone managed to dig some. Du Weiming usually takes good care of them. Plus, even though Yamato dolls have come to his house, he always thinks about them.Everyone really had nothing to give away, so they sent Aunt Wang to bring some yams.

Du Weiming sent some glutinous rice balls to Aunt Wang, but after some refusal, Aunt Wang also left.She also has to go back to make New Year's Eve dinner.As a result, Du Weiming was delayed for a while. Fortunately, the menu was agreed a long time ago, and Zhou Wen has been preparing it all the time, otherwise it would be too late.

Sauerkraut fish, braised pork knuckle, stir-fried diced rabbit, fried pork slices with yam, steamed dried bamboo shoots with bacon, steamed salted chicken, black fungus in chicken sauce, roasted chicken in sauce, sweet and sour short ribs, braised lamb in brown sauce, shiitake mushrooms and cabbage, steamed lion head, old Duck flat tip soup, and spring rolls.It is really a table full of dishes, and there is an incubator, otherwise so many dishes would be cold, just like that, the first two dishes are still a little bit cold.Du Weiming found rice wine, and everyone filled a glass, even the dolls got a little bit.

Looking at the table full of people, Du Weiming was sincerely happy. The New Year is only lively when there are many people. Today is much more lively than last year.What I envied most in the past was the kind of big family. When eating, there were always people at the same table. I could only eat with my sister at first, but after my sister got married, there were more people.

Seeing that Du Weiming seemed to be in a daze, Jing Yuan gave him a slight push.Du Weiming raised his cup, "May everyone's wishes come true, let's have a toast."

After a toast, everyone sat down to eat. This sumptuous table of dishes can be regarded as a reward for everyone's hard work for a year.Lian Da never thought that he would be able to eat such a meal around the table with his doll, and he could be regarded as an account to his brother.Zhou Wen and Wang Wu were also very happy.Not to mention the dolls, everyone ate delicious food and drank small wines, the dolls only had a little, and they could only drink water later, and Du Weiming was the same.Not to mention his drinking capacity.After eating a meal for more than an hour, the food on the table gradually lost its temperature, but the atmosphere in the room became more and more enthusiastic.