The firelight in the stove licked the bottom of the pot happily, and exploded from time to time, as if it felt the joy of the New Year, and it was also uncontrollable and cheerful singing, and many little stars popped up in an instant.

In their cheerful songs, the beer and duck soup stewed in the pot also began to bubble, and the fragrance filled the room.

Although this local chicken soup and beer duck have been eaten a lot in recent months, the smell can still easily wake up the cravings in the stomach, which makes people salivate.

year, presumably also in this wafting fragrance, otherwise, this chicken soup, this beer duck seems to smell much more fragrant than usual.

The beer duck is ready, and then there is the grass carp.

Eating fish for Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve night seems to be a custom in most parts of the country, symbolizing that there is more than enough every year.

Grass carp steamed. However, it was an incomplete grass carp, and its tail had been cut off by my father when it was slaughtered just now, and it was attached to the wall outside the gate.

It's a strange custom.

Every year, the grass carp must be eaten for the Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve meal, and the tail of the grass carp must be attached to the gate.

It is said that the purpose of this is to tell others that our family has fish for Chinese New Year's Eve.

Fish is a type of meat, and it is one of the meats that the mountain people have never fed.

Although the market price of chickens and ducks is more expensive, the mountain people have their own raising, so they do not feel expensive.

In the past, pork was even cheaper, and almost every household had pigs.

These chickens, ducks and pigs are all raised by the mountain people themselves, which is not a rare thing, but this fish is not raised by themselves and needs to spend money to buy, so it has naturally become a luxury in the eyes of the mountain people.

If you eat fish for Chinese New Year's Eve, it means that the family's life is okay.

In order to show off this 'okay' to the neighbors, the mountain people put the fish tail on the wall of the door, so that no matter who came to the door, they could see the fish tail firmly stuck to the wall.

Later, this practice gradually became a custom, and even in today's era when this pork is expensive, mountain people still stick fish tails on the walls.

However, the meaning has obviously changed, the former mountain people were to show off to their neighbors, but now the mountain people are obviously for the beautiful vision of 'more than every year'.

This year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is richer, in addition to the chicken, duck and fish that must be in previous years, there are also some seafood products this year, as well as beef and mutton and other things.

However, in line with the principle of not wasting it, each dish is made as little as possible.

Even the grass carp on the table today is the smallest and smallest of the several grass carp that Liu Qingshan bought back, only more than a catty.

After the table full of food is placed together, the smell of the New Year becomes stronger.

"Four bowls, four pairs of chopsticks. Liu Yuanhe commanded.

When Liu Qingshan heard this, he hurriedly brought four bowls, four pairs of chopsticks, and four stools.

Today's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is eaten in the hall.

Near the altar, you need to put an empty bowl, a pair of empty chopsticks, and an empty stool.

This place is reserved for grandpa.

Although grandpa is gone, he has always lived in everyone's hearts.

"It's time to eat, Dad. Liu Yuanhe stood in front of the god platform, shouted at the statue, and then began the annual Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

Although the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is also a meal, because it is a Chinese New Year's Eve meal, it always feels extra fragrant.

The table full of food seems to be smudged in the twilight from the patio, and it looks particularly attractive.

And the smoke and fire from the black tiles on the top of the kitchen also shrouded the twilight of Chinese New Year's Eve with a thin veil, like a tassel embedded in the sky.

Zihui squatted by the stove, looking at the food in the pot with burning eyes, swallowing from time to time.

"Zihui, bring in some more firewood. The second uncle commanded.

"Oh. Zihui hurriedly stuffed the firewood in his hand into the stove.

Don't look at this guy's young age, but he's a veteran of making fires.

Probably because the children of the poor are in charge of the family at an early age.

However, this time he seems to have made a mistake and mistakenly put a pine wood into the stove.

The pine wood was used for fire, not for burning, so as soon as the pine wood was in the stove, smoke billowed from the kitchen.

Zihui didn't say a word, and ran out, leaving the second uncle in the kitchen while flipping the food in the wok, while coughing non-stop: "Ahem, Zihui, I asked you to put firewood, what did you put it." ”

Zihui stood at the door, looking at the kitchen with thick smoke, the second uncle, who had blurred his figure, and said embarrassedly: "I seem to have thrown the pine wood that made the fire into it." ”

"Ahem, you scoundrel. ”

Xuanxuan ran over when she heard the sound, and when she saw that her second uncle was trapped in the smoke and coughed all the time, she immediately leaned forward and leaned back with joy.

Zihui pushed her and glared at her, but when he looked back at the second uncle, he couldn't help laughing.

After a while, the second uncle fished out the pine wood with a fire clip and threw it into the ditch in the patio, and the kitchen gradually returned to its original appearance.

In this way, Zihui returned to his post and continued to work.

After the second uncle fished the sauerkraut intestine out of the pot, he began to cook the braised pork again.

Their Chinese New Year's Eve meal is simpler, with chicken, fish, pork, and some cheaper pig offal, such as large intestine, small intestine, pork liver and the like.

The price of these pig offal is only more than ten yuan a catty, which is very cheap compared to pork that costs dozens of yuan a catty.

"What do you eat at Big Brother's house?" Zihui asked, "Are there shrimp?"

"Yes, your eldest brother bought shrimp, crabs, snails, beef, and mutton, and his family ate well. The second uncle replied casually.

However, then I thought about whether this would hurt Zihui's self-esteem.

After all, it was also the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and his Qingshan brother's family ate so well, but his family could only eat these cheap goods, so he quickly said: "However, I tell you, it's not good to eat too many things, there are many parasites, it's better to eat pork, pork is also expensive, and now pork costs dozens of dollars a catty." ”

"How much is a pound of pig's large intestine?" Zihui asked.

"Hmm. The second uncle thought about it, and couldn't tell him that this pig's intestine was very cheap, but he couldn't lie and deceive him, so he said, "If this plate of sauerkraut pig intestine is sold in a restaurant, it will have to be sold for fifty or sixty yuan a plate." And that's not all. ”

Zihui's eyes widened in surprise, looking at the pig's intestine on the table, and suddenly felt that this pig's intestine was actually very fragrant.

It's really fragrant, the second uncle's cooking skills are not bragging.

In the past few decades, he has been in charge for decades, and he has long practiced his good skills.

It's just that I don't know if such a fragrant taste will hook Xuanxuan's big gluttonous worm.