After crossing over, it's hard

On the morning of the nineteenth day, Grandma Li came to Li Ran's house in a hurry, grabbed Li Ran's hands, and asked anxiously: "Xiaoran, Xiaoran, have you seen my second child (Feng Xiaohua's son)?" )?"

Li Ran was inexplicably asked by Grandma Li who suddenly ran into the yard. He helped Grandma Li, comforted him and said, "What happened to Grandma Li? Don't worry, tell me slowly, who is missing?" Already?" Li Ran told Grandma Li to sit down on the small stool next to her, while Uncle Zhang and Xiao Yuan in the yard were spreading the peeled tea oil kernels on the mat to dry.Ji Nan has already gone out to ask the village butcher to come to his house tomorrow to kill the New Year pigs. The sale of the pigs has already been agreed with Zhang Guihua's family, and the money has already been paid.

Grandma Li sat down on the small stool, crying with snot and tears, clutching her thigh pants tightly with her hands, and crying incoherently, "It's Erwazi who disappeared, he is from my old| Son, I went to ask him to have breakfast this morning, but he disappeared." After Feng Xiaohua and Li Er died, Grandma Li was worried that Er Wazi would live alone in his own house, so she let him live with her.

That night, she brought him back from Li Ran's house. Aunt Li thought that he had just lost his father, Mu, so she didn't say anything about him, but just let him go back to sleep.Unexpectedly, it was only a day later. This morning, seeing him get up late and come out to eat, he called from the room. Unexpectedly, the bed was cold and the child was not there at all.At first, Grandma Li didn't care, she just thought that the child got up early and went out, but she didn't come back for a long time, Grandma Li went out to look for it a little bit worried, and she was also afraid that the child would be like the fish that went to Li Ran's house that day. He went out to do bad things like sprinkling powder in the house, but he searched all over Jijia Village and found no one.Grandma Li became anxious, and searched again and again with Gousheng and Li San, but they couldn't find anyone.Grandma Li was also in a panic, thinking that Er Wazi would be at Li Ran's house like that night, so she rushed to Li Ran's house in a hurry.

Li Ran understood what had happened, and said to Grandma Li: "I really didn't see this child. I haven't been to the house until now, and there is no child in my family. Grandma, you have searched the whole village." Didn’t you find the child? Don’t hide somewhere or the child went out to play, and have you asked relatives at home?”

"I've looked for it, I've looked for it all, there is none at all, and there are no relatives in the family. Erwazi's grandma has long since gone, and he and his uncle's have long since stopped contacting each other. It is possible to go to his uncle's house at all. This child Ah, I don't know where I ran around, I'm really anxious." Li Ama has calmed down a little now, shaking her head and said.

"Then when did you find out that he disappeared? Do you know about when?" Li Ran asked again.

Grandma Li shook her head and said, "I don't know, I don't know when he disappeared, but I went to wake him up for dinner this morning and found out that the child was gone!" In fact, when Erwazi moved in, Li Ama Mama wanted him to live in the same room with Gousheng, but the second boy didn't like Gousheng, and Gousheng didn't like Erwazi either. The two of them couldn't deal with each other, and they didn't agree to live in the same room. Grandma Li had no choice but to Let Erwazi live in a room alone, otherwise, I won't know when Erwazi left!

If you can't ask anything, and you can't find anyone when you look for someone, there is nothing you can do.But Uncle Zhang next to him thought about it thoughtfully, and said to Grandma Li: "It's not an option for Grandma Li to wait like this, so let's go to Lizheng's house, find Lizheng, and tell him to mobilize the people in the village, call The people in the village help to find someone, this way, you will find more people, which is better than you looking here by yourself. And you can also ask anyone who has seen Erwazi before!" Grandma Li listened After hearing Uncle Zhang's words, as if he had found the backbone, he turned around and ran to the main house in the village.Li Ran followed behind and hurriedly ran.

After Li Zheng heard Grandma Li's words, he readily agreed, but his husband said a few words that were not pleasant, but no one paid any attention to him at this time.Li was yelling in the village to tell everyone to go to his house for a meeting, and to tell everyone something.It’s Maodong’s slack season, and everyone has nothing to do. As soon as Lizheng’s call was heard, the courtyard was full of people at Lizheng’s house, and they were discussing what Lizheng was looking for. something to say.

Li Zheng stood at the front, cleared his throat and shouted loudly: "Everyone be quiet, I am looking for you today. It is Li's grandma's grandson Erwazi who is missing. I want everyone to help find it."

The villagers below heard Li Zheng's words, and their discussions became louder and more numerous.Some villagers asked: "When did this disappear?" Some people also said that it must have been photographed by the Huazi, right?Immediately someone disagreed and said, "How is this possible, the second child is so big, how could he be photographed by the stalker!" pending,,,,

Lizheng cleared his throat again, and shouted loudly: "Okay, okay, don't talk about it anymore, has anyone seen Erwazi before? If not, everyone can help you find it. If you have relatives in the surrounding villages, you can also help me." You can ask if anyone has seen Erwazi before!"

At this time, a man stood up and said to Li Zheng, "I didn't see that Erwazi today, but I saw it just yesterday. The Erwazi took someone who had never seen him to see his house." , as if he wanted to sell it to him. Why didn’t the grandma of the Li family know about this? I thought you knew, and I was thinking about it yesterday.”

After listening to this man's words, the man and Fu Lang next to him suddenly realized, as if they had thought of something, they also stood up and said: "Listening to what he said, I also remembered, I saw it yesterday, and the second child is indeed with I visited someone, and even went to see their family’s fields. Oh, yes, that person seems to be from Pinghe Village. The elder brother of my cousin’s husband Lang married into that village. I used to go to their place. I saw it when I was visiting relatives in the village." At this time, other people also spoke about what they saw yesterday.

Li Zheng asked everyone to search separately, and come back immediately if there is news, and asked those villagers who knew the stranger to go to Pinghe Village to see what was going on.Everyone split up to look for them until the sun went down. The villagers who went out to look for people all returned to the village one after another, but they didn't bring back any useful news. It was just that the person who went to Pinghe Village came to the news. As everyone thought, he sold the land and the house to him.As for why Erwazi found him and wanted to sell the house to him, it is unknown.

After searching for two or three days like this, they still couldn't find anyone. Li Ran's family originally planned to kill pigs on the [-]th, but they specially postponed it for two or three days for this matter.However, someone asked in the town, saying that they saw Erwazi leave in a carriage, but they didn't know where he went, but they couldn't find it anyway.

Grandma Li fainted out of anger when she heard the news.old?The Er's family left such an incense stick. Grandma Li originally thought that her body could last for a few more years, and Erwazi would grow up by then, and the elder | Er left behind more than ten acres of fields and houses. It can be considered that the family has property. When the time comes, he will marry the second son to the husband and start a family, that is to say, the merits and virtues will be consummated.But who knew that now that the son was dead, the grandson also ran away.Grandma Li was not in good health before, but now that she has been so stimulated, her health is even worse, and she can only lie in bed every day to recuperate.

And why did the second child buy a house and run away?It turned out that Er Wazi gave medicine to Li Ran's fish that day and was caught on the spot. Although Li Ran said that he would not settle accounts with him, Er Wazi didn't believe it at all. It will definitely be settled after the autumn, seeing that his mother was put in prison for stealing some worthless vegetables.Erwazi, who was afraid of being settled by the autumn queen, hurriedly found someone to sell the family's house and field, and ran away with the money.In fact, he had previously planned to sell his house and land to live alone. He hated this grandma and Gousheng very much.

The matter passed like this, and it is unknown how the villagers discussed it.On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Li Ran's family slaughtered the New Year's pigs as scheduled.This slaughtering of pigs, in Jijia Village, is to invite relatives and friends to eat pig-killing rice.The pigs were cleaned by the butcher and placed on the boards on the benches in the corridor of the eaves.

Ji Nan and some people who came to eat pig-killing rice were cleaning the blood left by the slaughtered pig in the yard, while Li Ran was busy with the noon slaughtering pig-rice, Zhang Guihua who came to eat pig-killing rice.Grandma Ji is helping.This pig-killing rice is mainly eaten from pigs.Li Ran cleaned the large and small intestines of pigs, put them in the nest and boiled them again, and then rubbed them with corn flour at home to remove the peculiar smell. The large and small intestines can make two good dishes, and the large intestines can be used last time at home The glutinous rice flour left over from making rice cakes is made, the large intestine is fried with rapeseed oil, and then the glutinous rice flour mixed with water is poured down. It is a very simple and delicious dish.The small intestine can be stir-fried, and the dried chili at home is also a delicious dish.

The pork liver is cut into thin slices, which is used to fry the pork liver.The pork belly was cleaned and marinated. Li Ran stuffed the glutinous rice that was soaked yesterday into it, stuffed it tightly, steamed it in the nest, and waited until it was cooked. It was very fragrant and delicious. This is Li Ran’s grandma alive. A dish that I like to cook very much, it is an indispensable dish on the New Year's Eve dinner table every year.The pig's blood was used by Li Ran to make a sauerkraut stuffed pig's blood.The pork lung is made with spicy pork lung, which is also a good dish, and it is very spicy.

In addition to these pig internal organs, Li Ran also made braised pork, stewed pork ribs with dried beans, braised hoofs, etc., as well as stir-fried cabbage and sliced ​​white radish.The people who came to eat were full of oil, sweating all over their bodies, and extremely refreshing. They all gave Li Ran a thumbs up, praised Li Ran for his good craftsmanship, and asked Li Ran how to cook his favorite dishes Yes, Li Ran replied with a smile.

After killing the New Year pig, there is really not much time left before the New Year.Fortunately, everything for the Chinese New Year is almost ready at home, except for the firecrackers for the Chinese New Year.The day after killing the New Year pig, Li Ran took Ji Nan and Uncle Zhang to make sausage and bacon at home.Although the pig bought in Zhang Guihua was not considered big, it weighed [-] to [-] catties. After the blood was drained and the internal organs were removed, the weight of the clean meat had to be [-]|[-] catties.Li Ran planned to make half of the sausages and bacon, and the remaining half was salted for later eating during the first lunar month, and the other half was frozen to be eaten fresh during the Chinese New Year.

The whole family spent two days cooking sausages and bacon, and Li Ran was going to make rice candy, which was also a special food in Li Ran's hometown in his previous life.Rice candy is made from malt and glutinous rice. The wheat Li Ran has long since dropped it in a burlap bag in the well at home. The temperature in the well in winter is high, allowing the wheat to germinate.You can start cooking when the wheat buds are about five or six centimeters in size. The glutinous rice is also soaked two days in advance.

Although it is not difficult to make rice candy, the process takes a long time. It starts in the morning and is not cooked until the sun goes down in the afternoon. The glutinous rice and malt are boiled into beige-colored thick sugar .At this time, the men and husbands that Li Ran had already said hello to help came. In fact, they were mainly from Grandma Ji's family, Zhang Guihua, and Wang Liu's family. Grandma Li was still resting on the bed, and Li Ran Did not bother.

Put the sticky sugar in the pot into a ball and put it on the pillars that have been prepared in the corridor. A Chinese character holds a bamboo stick of [-] to [-] centimeters and whips it in a figure-eight shape, beige|colored The sugar sticks to the bamboo stick and pulls out long strands, and the sweet fragrance wafts around the room.

When the sugar is whipped to a certain extent and it becomes off-white, it is considered good. Put this ball of sugar on the rice flower that has been fried with glutinous rice and put it in the dustpan, so that the rice sugar will not stick.Wrap the fried sesame seeds in the ball of rice sugar, then twist it into a thin strand, and cut it into three to four centimeters long and half a centimeter wide with scissors.In this way, there will be sesame seeds in each rice candy, put one in your mouth, it is sweet and fragrant, but it will not make people feel sweet and greasy.In addition to this, Li Ran also made a kind of mashed peanuts, sesame seeds, and fried almonds, mixed with the thick sugar just out of the pan, and then cut into pieces less than half a centimeter thick and seven or eight centimeters long Lumpy, sesame, peanut and almond blend together, fragrant and sweet, very delicious.Rice candy is a very good snack. Li Ran followed his grandparents in his previous life, and his family had no money, so he just used this to make snacks, and put it together with rice crackers fried with glutinous rice. It is tightly packed and can be eaten for half a year without any problems.

Li Ran did a lot this time, and it wasn't until after nine o'clock that it was completely finished. It was getting late, and the people who came to help were tired, and the children who came to play with them were already on Li Ran's bed After going to bed, Li Ran didn't have more people to help, and each of them wrapped two or three catties of rice candy as a thank you gift.The next day, Li Ran went to deliver a few catties of rice candy to Grandma Li's house, and visited Grandma Li by the way.Grandma Li's health still didn't improve, she was still resting in bed, taking this medicine every day.Li Ran confessed that Li San and Gou Sheng's family had no money, so they went to his house to borrow money, and they must heal Grandma Li.After comforting Grandma Li again, Li Ran finally returned home.

Time flies to 27. Here in Pingyang Town, married buddies, some time before the new year, they have to visit Mu's family to see the new year. Otherwise, it would be unfilial, even Feng Xiaohua, who has a very bad relationship with the Mu family, would go back every year, but there was nothing to take back.Then there is the movement between relatives and friends.

Both Li Ran and Ji Nan had no relatives, so they ended up at ease.Originally, Li Ran was going to Jinhua's house to see off the new year. After all, Jinhua raised him, but Li Ran hated Jinhua so much that he didn't want to go, and he didn't even pretend to be.Let others talk if they like to talk, Li Ran is too lazy to bother.

What shocked Li Ran was that on the 27th, he received an annual gift from Zhao Youting.On the 27th, not long after Li Ran's family had breakfast, Zhao Youting's subordinates came to their house in a bullock cart and accused them of crimes, saying that his boss was busy, so he didn't come in person.Of course Li Ran understands that a boss like Zhao Youting must be very busy at the end of the year.It is said that Zhao Youting is already pleasantly surprised at the thought of coming to his house to send off the New Year.

The subordinate didn't stay any longer, the things were delivered, and he left after sitting for a while, saying that there were still many things to deal with, so Li Ranji Nan didn't stay any longer.The things Zhao Youting sent were not many, but they were worth a lot of money, and they were all special products from the south.Like southern specialty oranges, these oranges are on the market in Ba|Jiufen, they can be preserved until now, they are still so fresh, and they are still very big. In this winter, they are very rare.After all, unlike the modern times where Li Ran lived in his previous life, fresh fruits can be eaten all year round.In addition to oranges, there are also four bolts of cloth in a southern city. The cloth in that city is very famous, and the price is not low if you buy it in a cloth shop.Four pieces of cloth, the black and navy blue ones should be for Ji Nan and Uncle Zhang, and the plain white and tender sky blue ones should be for him and Xiaoyuan, very thoughtful.

Then there are some special sea fish near the sea in the south, such as cuttlefish, squid, scallops, etc., which are all dry goods.The things prepared by Zhao Youting are very delicate and precious.Li Ran was thinking about how he should return the gift.

It was around ten o'clock, and Ji Hai and his husband came to Li Ran's house with a burden, and they also came to send off the new year.In Daqing country, being a door-to-door brother-in-law is like a married brother, except that a door-to-door brother-in-law is not like a married brother who has to go back to Mu's house to see the new year.The door-to-door brother-in-law may or may not go with his former relatives, just like Ji Wangcai did not go with his own mother's father.Here, most of them will not interact, because those who are door-to-door brothers-in-law will somewhat resent their father, Mu, who sent him out to be door-to-door brother-in-law cruelly.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything, like Ji Hai who took the initiative to be the son-in-law of the family, and had a good relationship with the elder brother of the Amu family, so he naturally went.Li Ran and Ji Nan warmly entertained Ji Hai and his wife, insisting on keeping them after breakfast and dinner, and asked Ji Nan to drive them home in a bullock cart.

Up to now, there are really only two days left on the 28th and 29th before the Chinese New Year.Li Ran's family also has relatives who want to visit. At first, I thought only Zhang Wang's family wanted to visit. The brother who is married can also go to pay New Year's greetings after the new year] Wait until the 29th to go, who knows that Zhao Youting will come again.Li Ran had to go to Pingyang Town on the 28th and 29th to send off the New Year.

This time, the whole family was dispatched except Uncle Zhang.I am going to go to the Zhang family first, after all, it is considered an elder's family.Of course, the annual gift prepared by Li Ran's family is not as good as that sent by Zhao Youting.They are some common things in the countryside, plus freshly made rice sugar and sugar cane buried in the ground were dug out in advance, and each family sent [-]. Compared with Zhao Youting's, it is of course simple, but it is very thoughtful .

The author has something to say: this week is really too busy, and there is an exam tomorrow, but it should get better starting from next Monday, and the daily updates can almost be resumed