60s Splendid Life

The twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month of this year is New Year's Eve.

Twenty-nine is the Chinese New Year here, and every household will kill chickens to worship gods. They have a land temple and a Wangye temple. People in the village go to these two temples to worship gods during the Chinese New Year.

The sound of firecrackers was crackling early in the morning. Lu Jin squatted in his yard to kill a chicken. What he killed was a hen raised at home. The killed chicken began to pluck after being rolled in hot water. The two squatted by the basin to help.

With the efforts of several hands, the feathers of a chicken were quickly plucked.

The chicken with its feathers removed is white and tender, and the chicken legs on both sides are bulging. It looks like a well-raised chicken.The chickens in their family have never been hungry even in winter, and they are still fed twice a day, so can they not be fat?

"Okay, you two go wash your hands, and the rest of you brother will do it." After the chicken feathers were taken off, Lu Jin asked the two children to wash their hands, changed the water in the basin, and asked his sister to help him from the bucket Scooped two spoonfuls of clean water down.

Fortunately, the water in the bucket is soaked in hot water, and the water temperature is warm, otherwise, if you squat outside in winter and soak your hands in cold water, your hands will freeze.

Pick up a knife and cut a knife under the chicken buttocks, and pull out the internal organs.

"..." At this moment, Lu Jin felt that it was good for them to eat pork. If he wanted to eat chicken, he had to kill the chicken!He remembered the bewilderment and fear of killing a chicken with a knife for the first time when he worked in a small restaurant in the summer vacation after he graduated from the third year of junior high school. He closed his eyes and grabbed the chicken and scratched it with the knife. .However, since he learned how to kill chickens during that summer vacation, he didn't have the fear he had when he started killing chickens, but that didn't mean he liked doing this job.

Wash the gutted chicken back and forth several times, pick out the edible ones from the remaining chicken guts and wash them together, put the remaining garbage in a bag, throw it into the trash can, and take it out later Throw it outside.

It didn't take long for the chicken to be in the pot, and it turned into a soy sauce chicken with red sauce.

Taking advantage of the time when the chicken was cooking in the pot, Lu Jin also stewed a braised meat, beancurd bamboo and vegetables in a dry pot.In the winter, he is too lazy to cook vegetables, because the fried vegetables will be cold before they finish eating, so what they often eat at home this winter is all kinds of stewed vegetables, which can be put on the small stove to cook slowly. While stewing, eat while stewing, and don't worry about it getting cold in the middle of eating.

When the chicken in the pot is cooked, their stew is ready, put in a little sugar and salt to taste, cover the lid, Lu Jin puts his hands on a towel, holds the two ears of the casserole, and holds the pot Went back to the inner room and put the casserole on another small stove.My sister and Chenchen followed behind and brought over the bowls and chopsticks, and he went back to the kitchen to cut up the cooked soy sauce chicken, and brought the whole plate to the house.

Other people's homes went to worship gods early in the morning, but Lu Jin's family didn't go, not because he didn't believe in ghosts and gods, but because he didn't have the habit of worshiping gods.There is a saying that goes well, if there is a Buddha in the heart, the Buddha is in the heart, so whether to worship the gods or not, he feels that it is the same, as long as the heart is in awe of the gods.It is not necessarily that those who worship God every day can eat meat every day. Those who do not worship God will have nothing to eat, so it is not possible to ask God for everything, the most important thing is to work hard on your own.

So instead of going to worship God early in the morning, he felt that it would be more practical to eat the freshly prepared dishes first, "Dinner is ready!"

"Wow~" Chenchen and Xiaobao opened their mouths wide when they saw so many dishes.

"Come on, give us a chicken leg for Xiaobao. Xiaobao is the youngest baby in our family. Give me a chicken leg for my younger brother. Brother and sister, don't you have any objections?" Lu Jin deliberately left a few chicken legs and chicken wings, and put a A big chicken leg was given to the youngest child. Seeing that his brother and sister both shook their heads and said they had no objection, he put another chicken leg in his sister's bowl: "Then I will give another one to my sister. My sister still passed No in the final exam this time." .1, so this chicken leg is rewarded to my sister."

Lu Qinglian didn't expect to get a chicken leg, her eyes widened. She glanced at her younger brother, wondering if she should give him the chicken leg.

Lu Jin gave a little girl the look that you can eat it, and gave her younger brother a chicken wing, "Chenchen passed the No. 2 exam in our family, and I will reward a big chicken wing. I hope we can eat it in Chenchen." You can learn to fly with chicken wings, and next time you will try to tie for the first place with your sister, do you have confidence?"

"Yes!" Once he heard that he could fly after eating chicken wings, Lu Haochen was no longer envious of your chicken drumsticks in the bowls of his sister and brother, but his chicken wings were the best!

Seeing the expression on the child's face, Lu Jin knew that the child was fooled by him, and gave his sister a look that you should eat quickly, and he also took another chicken wing, which happened to be a chicken with two drumsticks and Two chicken wings, the four brothers and sisters of their family will be divided.

It was the first time I made soy sauce chicken at home. All three children felt very fresh when they ate it for the first time, including himself who may not have eaten it for a long time. The four of them almost finished one soy sauce chicken in one meal, leaving only a few pieces of chicken behind. in a basin.Because there is chicken to eat, I don’t eat much of the braised pork and bean curd stick pot. The whole pot has not been touched much, so I can keep it for lunch.

The remaining chicken head and chicken neck Lu Jin was cut into smaller pieces, and poured into the cat bowl to satisfy lazy appetite.

The kitten, which was only the size of a palm when it was picked up at the beginning, has grown up now. It is amazing to climb over the wall to catch mice every day. Before, it could only be fed with minced meat, but now it can be eaten with bones and meat.

"Xiaojin, have you posted the couplets at home?"

"Not yet, I'm going to post it later. Brother Bocheng, have you had breakfast? Why did you come to our house?"

"Eat, eat. Auntie asked me to come over and see if you have posted couplets here. Let me help you paste couplets. Does your family prepare couplets?"

"Yes, yes, we'll post it ourselves later, don't bother Brother Bocheng."

"No trouble, no trouble, it will be faster if I help you."

"Is the sticker in your house ready?"

"My father and elder brother are here, and they are working on it. I will post it here for you and then go back to help."

Lu Jin couldn't resist Lu Bocheng, so he took out the couplets at home and pasted them up, because this house had been unoccupied for a long time before they came, so there were no old couplets on the door, so there was no need to put the old couplets on the door like other people's homes Only when you tear it off can you stick a new one, just stick the new one on, which is very trouble-free.

The bright red couplets are pasted up, and it looks a little different.

After posting the couplets, Lu Jin invited Lu Bocheng to their house for a drink of water, but the other party waved his hand and said he would go back home to help, so he went back to their house.

Lu Jin watched the people go away, turned around and cleaned the house, and took their three children to Aunt Qin's house next door to see if there was anything that could help, but it was not helpful, but The little ones had a great time playing together.

At this time in the morning, many people in the village went to put on a god and came back to have breakfast, and they all posted couplets outside their doors.

After posting the couplets, Aunt Qin’s family still made glutinous rice cakes. They pounded the glutinous rice in the yard, poured the cooked glutinous rice into the stone trough, and beat it continuously with a hammer. Finally, the glutinous rice turned into a soft and sticky dough. Good peanut bean paste is wrapped in it, and rolled into a ball, two or three bites a piece, very fragrant.

Several children in their family ate several glutinous rice cakes at Aunt Qin's house. When they left, Aunt Qin found a bag for them to pack. There were more than a dozen of them, and asked them to take them home to eat.

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Just when they got home, they heard someone knocking on the door. Lu Jin went to open the door. Seeing that it was their uncle, he asked, "Uncle, why are you here? What's the matter? You want to come in." Sit down?"

"I won't go in, I'll just stand at the door and talk to you a few words." Lu Jianguo stood outside the door without any intention of going in, and said, "Your grandfather asked me to call you to go home for dinner tonight."

Lu Jin paused, and then said: "Our family also killed chickens and fried vegetables today. There are still vegetables in the pot, so we won't go there for dinner tonight."

Sure enough, upon hearing his words, Lu Jianguo frowned, and looked at him with disapproval.

"At the end of the day, we are still members of the same family. Even if the bones are broken, the tendons are still connected. Even if you have been separated, you are still members of our old Lu family... The past has passed, what are we as children and grandchildren? For the rest of your life that you can remember and hate your elders, your grandpa intends to let you go back, so you might as well take your younger brothers and sisters back, and after the Chinese New Year, go back and have a family meal together." Lu Jianguo knew that his nephews hated them in his heart, and they were the ones who did it back then. That's not right, but it's been so long, why can't you let it go?

Originally, he felt a little sorry for his nephews and nieces, but after the nephew refused to go back again and again, Lu Jianguo felt that this nephew was not very sensible.

Lu Jin, who was considered not very sensible by the elders, thought for a while, and had no choice but to respond: "Okay, let's go back tonight, thank you uncle for calling us." Isn't it just to let them go back for dinner?Since there are free meals, it's fine for them to go back, so that they don't have to send someone to invite them every festival, or they go outside and say that they are ignorant and unfilial.

Isn't that disgusting?At that time, whoever is disgusting will not know!Lu Jin thought bitterly in his heart.

Lu Jianguo didn't know what his nephew was thinking. After getting an affirmative reply, he was ready to leave. Before leaving, he told his nephew to go there earlier.

"Okay, we will go earlier." Lu Jin replied with a smile.

When the person walked away, the smile on his face disappeared in an instant, and he closed the door behind his back.

When he returned to the house, he didn't tell the three children that the people from the old house came to ask them to go back to eat. They ate glutinous rice cakes at their Aunt Qin's house at noon. Everyone's stomachs were still full. They had lunch again, and they had nothing to do in the afternoon, so they simply climbed onto the kang to take a nap.