Chapter 21: Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner
Time is a thing that sometimes feels slow, and sometimes it doesn't pass.
From the twenty-fifth year to the Chinese New Year's Eve, in six days, Zhang Bufan felt that he hadn't watched a few movies, why did it pass......
Then he snapped his fingers and counted them.
"If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", "Mei Lanfang", "Ip Man", "Nanjing Nanjing", "Crazy Racing", "Women Are Not Bad", "Dream of Stars", "Peach Blossom Luck", ......
He doesn't pick topics, nor does he look at the comments and ratings on the Internet, just look at them one by one.
became a screenwriter for "Bullfighting", and followed Guan Hu behind the monitor for a month, but I didn't feel what was going on at the time, but as a result, I watched a movie and saw the sequelae.
watched the first part, Zhang Bufan gave himself a slap.
watched the second part, Zhang Bufan closed his eyes for ten minutes to adjust his emotions, and covered his ears in order not to be affected, so that a film was watched in two parts.
By the time of the third and fourth parts......
It doesn't matter, love doesn't come or not, substitute it, analyze it, analyze it, and don't prevent me from watching the whole movie.
Then,There's a new book.。
is different from dreaming, although Zhang Bufan substituted himself into it when watching the movie, in fact, it was more from subconscious analysis.
What is recorded after the dream is more like a diary, a diary that records the life experiences of each character.
And after watching the movie, what is recorded is the analysis notes.
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By the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhang Bufan finally stopped watching movies, and he almost watched it.
Early this morning, Zhang Bufan got busy, took out the New Year's goods frozen in the freezer, and began to thaw them early.
He bought the New Year's goods in the past few days, and every day after watching the movie, he went to the supermarket and vegetable market, turned around, and came back with some things.
I simply got some lunch at noon, took a nap, recuperated my energy, got up in the afternoon, and threw myself into the project of making Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
After all, Lao Zhang's family is a family of cooks, and other things can be fooled, but they can't be fooled in food, especially the Spring Festival, which is the most important year of the year.
The old Zhang family's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is exquisite, four cold dishes and eight hot dishes, a total of twelve dishes, this is a tradition, and the family has no to do with the number of people.
When Daddy Zhang took his daughter-in-law out of the North Drift, in his old home in Sichuan Province, it was always Zhang Bufan's grandfather who personally cooked, every year, no matter whether Daddy Zhang didn't go back for the Spring Festival that year, when he went back, the family of four ate this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and when he didn't go back, there were only two Zhang Bufan left, and they also ate so many Chinese New Year's Eve dinners.
This tradition has not changed since Zhang Bufan's arrival.
If you want to cook such a big table of dishes, it is not easy for Zhang Bufan to be alone.
After a morning, all kinds of frozen ingredients were basically thawed, and Zhang Bufan took them out of the sink one by one and began to deal with them, which has become a habit, so he is particularly organized.
First of all, there are four cold dishes, husband and wife lung slices, red oil belly silk, northern Sichuan cold powder, and spicy red.
That's right, it's spicy red, the old Zhang's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner definitely didn't have this before, but since Zhang Bufan met the girl, this dish has become a home-cooked dish for him.
The cold dishes are durable, and they are served directly after they are done, and they are still in the lobby of the restaurant, but Zhang Bufan has already cleaned up the whole thing, and all the extra tables and chairs are piled up against the wall, leaving two identical square tables together, covered with a piece of cloth, and it becomes a long table, with five chairs around the table.
When the cold dishes are finished, it's the turn of the hot dishes.
The traditional Chinese Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, except for those particularly partial minority ethnic groups, actually most of them have some consensus, that is, chicken, duck and fish meat are indispensable, and love or not to eat is actually not related, but the traditional Chinese people feel that these on the dinner table represent wealth and reunion.
Of course, the old Zhang family is the same, and although Zhang Bufan "rebelled" and put a piece of skin on the table, he didn't dare to change it.
Douban live fish, spicy chicken, camphor tea duck, Mao Xuewang, steamed sausage, steamed beef, mapo tofu and plum cabbage button pork.
The whole eight-course dish, there is no vegetarian, the same is the tradition of the old Zhang family, according to the words of Zhang Bufan's grandfather: eating meat can grow the body! Eat grass every day, do you want to be baa?
When a dish is ready, it is first put on the stove to heat up, and the small restaurant gathers the efforts of Daddy Zhang, which can be seen from this kitchen.
In such a small restaurant, there are only five stoves in the kitchen, two firewood burners and a gas stove, right? In the capital, which is shouting about environmental control every day, there are two wood-burning stoves, and it has been able to pass the safety and health inspection for so many years......
When it's all done, it's time to serve.
There is also a long table with a chair in front of the head, and two chairs facing each side on the left and right sides.
The live fish of the watercress is placed in the center, the spicy chicken is placed in front of the left hand, the camphor tea duck is the upper hand of the left hand, the steamed sausage is placed next to the live fish of the watercress as far as possible in the center, Mao Xuewang and mapo tofu are placed on the right and placed in the middle of the right, the steamed beef is placed on the corner of the upper hand on the right hand, and the last plum vegetable button meat is placed in front of the position in front of the head.
After the food is served, the dishes and chopsticks are served, five pairs of chopsticks and five bowls, set up in front of the chair, and pour a glass of wine one by one on the side.
Then he turned around and ran into the bedroom, one or two trips...... A total of four trips in and out, please come out of four photo frames, divided into left and right place, the left hand is the grandfather, the lower hand is the grandmother, the right hand is the father and mother Zhang, Zhang Bufan himself sat on the chair in front of the head, the same is the traditional rules of the old Zhang family, this means, this old Zhang family, in the future, Zhang Bufan is in charge.
At this point, the busy work is finally over.
Zhang Bufan sat down on the chair, smiled left and right and said, "Grandparents, parents, it's the New Year again, happy New Year." ”
Picked up the chopsticks, first clamped the duck head of the camphor tea duck, and put it in the nearest bowl, "Grandpa, try this camphor tea duck, in order to teach me this dish, you have finished the ducks in the vegetable market, how about it, I am still passable with this craft, right?"
Another chopsticks spicy chicken, also a bowl in front of him, "Grandma, this is your favorite spicy chicken, try it, is it better than grandpa?"
Then there is Mao Xuewang and Mapo Tofu, there is a spoonful of Mapo Tofu in each of the two bowls on the right hand, there is an extra blood clot in the upper bowl, but there is a piece of meat in the lower bowl, "Mom and Dad, you two don't have to fight, I made more of these two dishes this year, you guys, just open up and eat." ”
Finally, when it comes to himself, he picks up a chopstick fish and meat, and then picks up the wine glass in front of him.
"Happy New Year, everyone. ”
Drink it all.
It's Chinese New Year......