After graduation, I went home to keep bees

On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, Jiang Xiaoman began to prepare for the next New Year's Eve dinner.

The custom here in the early years was that on the 29th day of the new year, all the meat dishes to be prepared for dinner during the whole first lunar month were prepared.

In one day, two large pig heads, ten catties of bacon, a large pork leg, and several cured salted chickens and salted fish will be stewed.

After everything is cooked, cut it into pieces and put it on a plate, and put it in the cupboard. When the guests come, put the meat and vegetables on the steamer, heat it up, and then heat up two pots of cornmeal steamed buns and some fried vegetables. , the meals for a table of hospitality are ready.

Sounds convenient, doesn't it?

Jiang Xiaoman can use his painful lessons to tell readers that behind the convenience, it is the pain of the owner!

Before he took over his own kitchen, Jiang Youliang "followed the ancient method" every New Year's Eve, making a lot of dishes on the 29th year!

Then, throughout the first month, the two of them accompanied the guests who came to pay New Year's greetings, eating leftovers over and over again...

Jiang Xiaoman's deepest impression was that one year when Jiang Youliang was steaming salted fish, his mind was a little dizzy, and he actually added salt to the salted fish again!

That year his family's salted fish could kill people!

A plate of salted fish was served, and after the first unjust customer was overthrown, no one would touch him afterward. For the second meal, his father continued to heat up the plate of salted fish, and served it again, looking for the next one. Wrong kind of guests...

In short, the plate of steamed salted fish later successfully completed the "fifteen-day tour" on his family's dining table, even his cats refused to eat it!

In the end it just fell off.

Having learned the lessons from previous years, Jiang Xiaoman refused to eat leftovers this year, so he only cooked the dishes that he would eat from the [-]th to the first day of the new year——

No way, their rule here is that you can't use a knife or scissors on the first day of the new year, that is, you can't cook with a knife.

The first is the pig's head, carp and whole chicken used for ancestor worship.

The whole pig's head has been marinated and hung under the eaves to air-dry. The big pig's head is removed, the hair on it is burned off with fire, and then washed and set aside.

Cut a few small bamboos and place them vertically and horizontally in a rice-shaped shape under the large firewood pot. Put the pig's head firmly on it, fill the pot with half a pot of water, submerge the pig's head, and start cooking.

In order to save firewood, Jiang Xiaoman also set up a steamer on top, spread a double layer of cage cloth, and steamed a basket of steamed meat with flour.

This tamales can be made a lot at one time, and when the time comes, it will be served in a sea bowl, and the guests will heat up two plates. The rice noodles in the tamales will become softer the more they are steamed, and the fat and thin pork belly is also very delicious.

Carp must be marinated first, then coated with batter and egg liquid, and fried until golden on both sides. After being placed on a plate, tomatoes are fried separately to make a sweet and sour sauce, which is especially beautiful when poured on top of the carp!

In fact, the old way of the locals is to directly cook the whole carp in brown sauce and put it on a plate.

But Jiang Xiaoman disliked that it was unsightly, and he didn't eat the braised carp after it was cooked. If it was reheated for the second meal, the meat would be old, and it would fall apart when poked, which was not tasty.Later, he searched for the recipe of sweet and sour carp on his mobile phone.

The carp produced in this way looks better on the plate, and after offering sacrifices to the ancestors on the New Year's Eve, it will be eaten the next day, and it only needs to be heated through water.

Roasting a whole chicken is a test of cooking skills.

But this year Jiang Xiaoman changed his method. He used the air fryer sent to him by the brand to try out, and made a golden roast chicken!

When Jiang Youliang saw the chicken, he couldn't help but took out his phone and took two pictures.

The altar of Lao Jiang's family this year can be regarded as first-class and decent!

The ancestors lived in a newly built western-style building, ate roast chicken made in an air fryer, sweet and sour carp, and boiled pig's head. Wouldn't they wish his family Xiaoman a prosperous business in the coming year?

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In the blink of an eye, it’s New Year’s Eve. The custom here is to eat sweet wine glutinous rice balls on the morning of New Year’s Eve, which means that the family is reunited and sweet.

Jiang Youliang's cooking skills are not good, but wine making is a must!The family is not short of money this year. He bought [-] catties of glutinous rice early in the morning and made three large barrels of sweet wine!

Stir the steamed glutinous rice and sweet wine koji evenly, put it into a vat, dig a hole in the middle, and wait for the glutinous rice to ferment.The fermented rice wine is not as translucent as white wine, but a little turbid, similar to rice soup. The soaked rice wine is used for Chinese New Year hospitality.

Sesame stuffed glutinous rice dumplings, made last night, frozen in the refrigerator, get up in the morning, just take a pot, scoop a few spoonfuls of sweet wine to brew, cook the dumplings first, wait until the dumplings are cooked, scoop them out Just add a little water, pour in sweet fermented glutinous rice and boil it.

Jiang Xiaoman didn't like to add sugar to his glutinous rice balls, but he prepared brown sugar for his father and Jiang Baichuan alone.

Just after breakfast, his and Jiang Baichuan's cell phones started ringing non-stop.

In the past, everyone was stuck paying New Year's greetings on the New Year's Eve, but they have learned a lot in the past few years, and they started to pay New Year's greetings at different peaks.

There are so many New Year greetings to Jiang Baichuan!

He has been teaching at Langshan Village Primary School for these years. It can be said that many of the people in Langshan who are the same age as Jiang Xiaoman were formerly Jiang Baichuan's students.

Now that their own children have started to go to school, Jiang Baichuan is still their children's teacher, and his affection is very deep!

If it weren't for Jiang Baichuan's refusal to accept anything during the New Year's festival, it is no exaggeration to say that the food and drink sent by the parents during the New Year's festival alone would be enough for Principal Baichuan to open a canteen.

Unable to send anything, parents can only express their gratitude and blessings to Principal Baichuan on WeChat.

Jiang Baichuan replied with his mobile phone in his arms.

Jiang Xiaoman also grabbed his mobile phone and edited the greeting carefully. There are too many people who have helped him this year, and he cannot come to visit him one by one. New Year greetings must be delivered in time.

Jiang Youliang looked around, his cousin and son were immersed in the New Year's greeting mode of the new era, and suddenly felt that it was strange and boring, so he simply put on rain boots, swept the snow at the door, and piled up two big ones outside the yard The little three internet celebrities Bingdundun!

Not to mention, Jiang Youliang is quite talented in making snowmen!

After the copycat version of Bingdundun was piled up, he broke off a few bamboo leaves and stuffed them into the arms of the youngest Bingdundun. Looking at it this way, they were two Bingdundun and their greedy cubs.

Jiang Xiaoman didn't check for a while, but his father actually built such a big project at the door, but why does this "family of three" snowman look so much like the three of them?

This scene was also filmed by Jiang Xiaoman, and the fans who saw these three snowmen, no, Bingdundun, almost died laughing.

It took more than half a day to finally complete the necessary "send blessings online" link on New Year's Eve, and both uncle and nephew were exhausted.

Jiang Xiaoman ran to the storage room and moved a basket of sugar oranges bought years ago to the kang, and the family of three watched TV while showing off the sugar oranges.

Netizens are right, the Tangerine is indeed a bit magical.

Peeling is more convenient than grapefruit and oranges. One bite at a time, I can't stop.

Before I knew it, half of a basket of sugar oranges went down...

"I can't eat any more, put it away! I still have to save my stomach for the New Year's Eve dinner."

Jiang Baichuan put away the sugar oranges, washed his hands in the sink next to the bar, put on an old dress, and prepared the New Year's Eve dinner with Jiang Xiaoman.

Jiang Youliang was in charge of sitting under the stove and lighting the fire. Jiang Baichuan helped him handle the ingredients. Jiang Xiaoman brandished a kitchen knife and spoon, and with a tripod next to him, he was cooking and shooting videos.

"Start preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner! I don't know how many dishes you will cook for the New Year. Here in Langshan, no matter how poor the family is, we have to prepare ten bowls of dishes for the New Year's Eve."

"I remember that the family conditions were not good in the past, and sometimes I couldn't make up all the pieces. I just cooked a pot of fried noodles, filled several bowls, and added vegetables to make up ten bowls."

"But it's all right now. Whether it's going out to work or farming at home, no matter how difficult the family is, we can still afford ten bowls of food on New Year's Eve! Let me show you the ingredients for the New Year's Eve dinner prepared by our family this year!"

With that said, Jiang Xiaoman picked up the tripod and took a picture of the ingredients prepared for the New Year.

The whole big pig’s head that has been cooked, grilled chicken, sweet and sour carp, beef, mutton, pork, carp for the New Year’s Eve dinner, as well as soaked wild mushrooms, mushrooms, fungus and white fungus, various fresh vegetables, and Frozen prawns and octopus... The chopping board Jiang Xiaoman designed was already the largest in the village, but he still almost couldn't fit it!

"Let me read the recipe for my family's New Year's Eve dinner~" Jiang Xiaoman coughed, and took a written note from the refrigerator door——

"Stewed beef brisket with potatoes, stewed lamb with carrots, braised carp in brown sauce, tamales, braised pork with mushrooms, roasted chicken with wild mushrooms, braised prawns in brown sauce, braised hairtail with shredded radish, and two vegetarian dishes, one with spinach in soup, and one with pork belly and braised cabbage."

Good guy!They are all hard dishes!

Fortunately, in Jiang Xiaoman’s new kitchen, when the house was built, the problem of smoke exhaust was considered, and a high-power exhaust fan was specially installed on the wall next to the chimney, and the cooking gas stove was also equipped with lampblack. machine.

So even if three pots are cooking in the kitchen at the same time, there is no cooking fume everywhere in the kitchen like in the old houses before.

Jiang Xiaoman's cooking is very clean and neat, and he can manage three pots at the same time - first, stir-fry the stewed beef brisket with potatoes, add water and stew, and then start cooking wild mountain mushroom roast chicken in another pot next to it. After the stew is finished, go to the gas stove to fry the prawns and octopus. These two dishes need to be fried first to be delicious.

Jiang Baichuan watched happily from the side, and said with a smile that he knew that Jiang Xiaoman was so talented in cooking, so he simply didn't want to go to college at first, and went directly to New Oriental for two years of training, and when he came out, he found a good master to guide him for a few years. Not good, now he is also a master with a monthly income of [-].

Although he is on the education front, Jiang Baichuan himself has no obsession with high education.

He forced the children in the mountains to study, not necessarily that they all go to college, but that only after going through a complete compulsory education can an ignorant child form correct values ​​and views of right and wrong, at least know what What to do and what not to do.

He still remembers a news a few years ago, saying that there was a man who was a habitual offender of stealing battery cars. The police arrested him and asked him why he kept stealing battery cars despite repeated admonitions.

As a result, it was astonishing that the man said that he didn't know anything, and he didn't want to go to the factory to suffer, so he could only survive by stealing battery cars.

Netizens burst out laughing at this slightly shaky news, but Jiang Baichuan felt infinitely sad after reading it.

Because this man seems to be an adult, but he has no correct concept of right and wrong and morality at all. In his opinion, "stealing battery cars" and "working in factories" are both occupations for making a living. It's terrible.

It's hard for Jiang Baichuan to imagine that if they hadn't received a complete compulsory education, how many "men who stole battery cars" like this would appear in the future...

Thinking of this, Jiang Baichuan glanced at his nephew in relief.

He also knows that it is not a long-term solution to forcibly drag the children to school by relying on his own home visits.

After all, he can manage elementary school, but not junior high school.

As long as Langshan is still as poor and isolated as it is now, there will still be countless children who may not even go to junior high school, or drop out of school to marry, or be sent by their parents to be "apprentices" for others to earn money for the family .

Therefore, what Xiaoman did was right.

Only by making the common people of Langshan rich from the root, so that every household can afford their children's tuition, can more students go back to school...

Thinking of the New Year's blessings he had just received, Jiang Baichuan suddenly regained strength in his heart!

Just now, several students he taught in the past sent him WeChat messages, saying that they were wrong, they should not have listened to him before, and they dropped out of school and went to work before finishing junior high school.It turned out that people who graduated from high school or junior college, even entered the factory to work, were promoted faster than them!

These students got married early, and now their children are also studying in Langshan Primary School.

They sent messages to Jiang Baichuan, and they all expressed the same meaning: Principal Jiang must urge their children to study hard!Even if they stay up late and work overtime every day, they still have to pay for their children to study for university entrance exams!If you can't pass the undergraduate exam, a junior college is also good...

This is because there is a way to make money, so that you will have the confidence to say this!

Jiang Baichuan felt that if the villagers followed Jiang Xiaoman and the others to raise bees and make money, maybe there would be more "Jiang Xiaoman" from Langshan in the future?