There's a hassle with drying this stuff, though—you have to guard against sparrows. The steamed glutinous rice is an irresistible temptation for sparrows, so they have to watch it every minute.

Li Yunlian tied a long bamboo pole to a white plastic bag and drove sparrows here.

When Zhou Heng and the others finished lunch, Li Yunlian called Zhou Faqiang to help with the work and mashed the other half of the steamed glutinous rice.

New Year's goods are delicious and not easy to make.

Zhou Heng put the bowl and said, "I'll come." ”

Pounding glutinous rice is done in a special tool. It is a relatively large stone, which has been dug out by the craftsman into a large nest, and the inside is extremely smooth. Just put the glutinous rice in it and pound it with a wooden pestle.

It looks simple, this is manual work, glutinous rice is sticky, and it is very heavy to lift it after it is stained, and it will be a joke when you can't get rid of it.

Zhou Heng was young, so he snatched the wooden pestle and came by himself.

When I made New Year's goods by myself, I really felt like I was going to celebrate the New Year.

Zhou Ying also finished eating, came out and saw her younger brother busy working, and sighed: "Now, you can buy any New Year's goods, and there are fewer people who make their own New Year's goods." ”

For example, she doesn't have any New Year's goods to do during the New Year, so she takes some from her parents' family and buys some more, and the New Year will be very rich. It's pretty much the same with the people in the city.

But she is a bit exaggerated, for example, Zhou Heng is busy now, and it seems that there is no one for sale in the market. This kind of New Year's goods are relatively old-fashioned, too troublesome to do, and almost all of them are slowly eliminated and forgotten.

In the past, the Chinese New Year was really busy for many days, and it was the feeling of "children looking forward to the New Year".

For example, in the wax moon, you have to prepare bacon, make sausages, pickle fish and chicken, make fried food, fried rice, fried peanuts, etc., fried twist flowers, fried fish, boiled sugar, tofu, etc., as well as all kinds of pastries and the like.

Why do "children look forward to the New Year"? Because there are so many delicious foods.

In the past, I was reluctant to spend money to buy it, and I did everything by myself, but the busy wax moon is the flavor of the year in my memory.

Now that I have money, I can buy anything, and the smell of the New Year is gone.

However, some people may also say that they don't have to do it themselves, and that person is relaxed, which is also a kind of saying. Anyway, the times are advancing, and there are ways to celebrate the New Year.

Zhou Ying saw Wang Rui watching from the side for a long time, and said, "Wang Rui, you also follow your uncle's example, come a few times, will you eat it when this is done, can you help for a while?"

Wang Rui looked very easy, and rolled up his sleeves arrogantly: "Let me come!"

As a result, as soon as he made a move, the wooden pestle stuck to the glutinous rice, and he couldn't pull it out, so he suffocated his face with all his strength, causing the yard to laugh.

It's going to take a bit of ingenuity.

Zhou Heng took back the wooden pestle and said with a smile: "Little friend, you still have a few more years to eat." ”

Wang Rui replied: "You are the child!"

Wang Siqi stepped forward and said with a smile: "Brother, I am a child." ”

"Yes, yes, you're a kid. Wang Rui gently tugged at her pigtails.

After a burst of laughter, Zhou Heng finally pounded the glutinous rice balls, and his mother had to make the rest herself. The glutinous rice dough has to be kneaded into thick strips, then cut into pieces and dried, which is a delicate job.

Wang Rui was a little bored, so he had to find a way to have some fun.

Seeing that his uncle was finally free, he asked him in a hurry, "Uncle, can you still get fish now?"

Catching fish and shrimp is his favorite.

Zhou Heng took the wild sour jujube honey tea that Jiang Xiaoxuan brought to him, took a sip, and said, "Now that others contract fish ponds, they are all making fish in dry ponds, do you want to go and see them?"

"Okay, okay, I'm going to see it. Wang Rui was very excited.

When he came to his uncle's house, he just wanted to catch chickens and fish, and he completely realized the prototype.

The chickens on the mountain can't be caught again, and besides, if you don't catch them, you can eat, so don't worry. Then go get fish.

During the Chinese New Year, it is also the time of the harvest of fish pond farmers.

In the past few days, there are fish ponds near the city every day to catch fish, and Zhou Heng's family has bought a lot of them, pickled and dried into dried fish, for next year's first half of the year.

This is preserved fish.

The literal meaning of preserved fish is the fish pickled in the wax moon, and the fish that is usually pickled cannot be called preserved fish. During this month, the temperature is the lowest, and the fish can be dried every day without smelling, and after drying, they can be put away and kept dry for a long time.

The kitten at home covets the fish every day, I don't know how long it has been coveted, jumping up and down, but it is broken.

The big fish is dried into dried fish, the small ones are fried or boiled directly, and then the smaller ones are wrapped in batter and fried, and the fried small fish can also be packed in a bag to keep it dry.

These are all in the category of New Year's goods.

The closer you get to the Chinese New Year, the heavier the breath of the New Year, and the more things you have to prepare.

Like this kind of bacon and bacon fish, Li Yunlian is the weight of the two families, and Zhou Ying takes a lot of it from here every year.

However, Wang Zhihong will also give money for meat and fish to the money, and will not let them post money, but in addition to money, this hard work is real.

How could there be so many places for him to dry bacon and bacon! He also knew the friendship between his father-in-law and mother-in-law.

Therefore, the scale of this bacon and bacon sausage in the courtyard of Zhou Heng's house is really not small.

Li Yunlian heard Wang Rui say that she wanted to go to see the fish, and hurriedly said: "Xiao Heng, there is a family in the friendship village that is going to fish today, and the pond is all done." ”

What that means: Take them to play.

Zhou Heng thought to himself, this is still treating me as a child.

The Friendship Village is their neighboring village, not close, and you have to drive there to save time.

Zhou Ying said with a smile: "Anyway, I don't have anything to do, so let's go with you to have a look." ”

She wanted to see the spectacle, too.

After the contracted fish pond is pumped out of the water, the fish are tossing and jumping in it, densely packed, the scene is still very spectacular, it is gratifying to watch, I don't know how many people are watching.

At that time, the fish I bought was the freshest.

Jiang Xiaoxuan happily took the camera and followed. This kind of village and town culture, thousands of people and thousands of faces, is very vigorous.

Zhou Heng deliberately squeezed her: "You also go to see it?"

"Why can't I go?" Jiang Xiaoxuan asked rhetorically.

Zhou Ying gave her help: "That's right, women should be strong and can't be bullied by men." ”

Zhou Heng was suddenly unconvinced: "Sister, which side are you standing on?"

"I'm definitely on the woman's side!" Zhou Ying said as a matter of course, and then high-fived Jiang Xiaoxuan, both of whom laughed and became confidants.

"Then you guys go for the drive. Zhou Heng stopped opening the door.

"You want to be beautiful, you're a man here, do you still want to drive?" Zhou Ying said loudly.

She is very bad at driving, not to mention the speed of the turtle, and can only take simple routes, and parking must be in a very spacious place.

The last time I went to the provincial capital, Zhou Heng helped her stop, she didn't stop for a long time, and she almost couldn't open the door and couldn't get out.

has a younger brother here, why use her to drive.

Zhou Heng deliberately tricked me: "You are united, and you still want me to be a cow and a horse, and I am not stupid." ”

Zhou Ying pushed him into the driver's seat with a smile and rewarded him: "Be fine, be honest." ”

Li Yunlian looked at the children with a smile.

The children's children are so old, and they can still laugh and joke so affectionately, better than the previous generation, she is happy when she looks at it.

The people of the older generation quarreled endlessly for some big butt things, their own families were not harmonious, and cousins and cousins moved around less and were not intimate.

In their generation, they can still laugh and laugh at such a big age, and discuss things with each other, which is like a real family member.

Zhou Heng was forced to drive the car, with several people, large and small, Wang Rui sitting in the co-pilot, Jiang Xiaoxuan, Zhou Ying, and Wang Siqi sitting in the back.

Zhou Ying was also carrying a large basket and a small bucket, and she might have to buy a bunch of fish back in a while.

The cold weather has this kind of benefit, just buy fish and shrimp or something and bring it back directly, don't be afraid of high temperature and smelly.

The big yellow dog must also follow, anyway, it is not far away, Zhou Heng also let it get into the car and play together.

Wang Rui still remembers the stone pot fish he ate last summer, when his uncle was still buying fish fry, and he felt that the fish he ate that time was the best in his memory, and he thought that he would eat it again today.

There are a lot of fish here today, so it would be nice if my uncle made that kind of fish again.

Zhou Heng asked him: "Wang Rui, when will your father have a holiday? Won't it be until the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve?"

"I don't know, he doesn't know himself. Wang Rui replied indifferently.

Zhou Heng smiled: "Even if he doesn't care about you, can he not worry about your sister?"

Wang Siqi sat in the back, not participating in their conversation, and was happily singing the newly learned songs, out of tune and not knowing where to go, and singing very highly.

Ten minutes later, when I arrived at the place where the fish pond was cleared in the next village, there was already a bunch of people there.

Several people were busy in the pond that was already the bottom of the pond, loading buckets and barrels of fish on the case, and there was a large field on the case, and several piles were piled high, and they were busy trading.

The trading of large barrels, large lining and large bags is no longer sold one by one as usual in the market.

Now I buy fish for the New Year, and I buy a lot of fish at any house.

Wang Rui saw this scene for the first time and exclaimed: "What a big pond." ”

Zhou Heng smiled and asked him, "How is it better than my fish pond?"

Wang Rui glanced at him and said, "How does this compare with yours, yours is a lake, okay!"

However, my uncle's fish can't be eaten yet, and it grows so slowly!

Wang Siqi was dressed like a balloon, and when he saw a few piles of fish, he clapped his hands with joy: "There are so many fish!

This may be a big difference between the north and the south for the Chinese New Year, the south has more fish meat, and the north has more mutton or beef.

The fish raised in the fish pond, in addition to being large and fat, are not very distinctive, and they are basically common economic fish species.

After the fish is fished here, they will pull it to the market to sell, and this is the income of the fish pond for a year.

Approaching the Chinese New Year, everyone's face is filled with a soothing smile, and the busyness of the whole year will not leave the anger in the wax moon.

When it comes to the wax moon, people begin to pay attention to what they say, and they only say good things to each other, with the old saying that "when you reach the wax moon, you can't talk nonsense".

A few people walked up to the fish pile to see if they wanted to buy some more fish.

In the front basin, the black half of the basin attracted their attention, and the half of the basin here was full of loaches, eels, etc., which were more distinctive than fish.

The rest of the fish in the house were available, but they didn't buy them, so Zhou Heng bought some.

In the summer, he didn't have to buy these things to eat, he could get a lot of them in the pond himself, and eat them for a summer. However, after the winter, I was very busy, and the water was cold, so I didn't do this myself.

Now that I've met it, I want to eat it again.

There are also a lot of river shrimp in another pot, and there is also a pot of small fish, which are also bought separately.

There was also a basin with a few peculiar fish, many people gathered around to look at them, but few people bought them - among them was a pair of red carp, which were particularly good-looking, shiny, swimming around in the basin.