Chapter 787 - Preparing for the New Year
The eldest son, Han Zhishan, is also ten years old, although he is short among children of the same age with his father, he has a smart brain, studies well and loves to ponder, and it is no problem to see his three younger brothers.
Han Daofa's family has many children and a lot of work, and their family has been eating together all these years, and it is no problem to spare an old man to help Han Daorong's family buy New Year's goods.
At eleven o'clock in the morning, my aunt and uncle asked him to ram back, and at the same time asked him to bring back a pot of fried meatballs and let him share them with everyone in the village to taste.
Aunt Hongying took the women of the garment factory to help steam steamed buns in the canteen, and she didn't go home for lunch.
's own lunch was made by Chef Zhiru, Didi and Zhigao, followed the little girl, there was a lot of food at home, Zhiru made eight dishes out, and also made a seaweed soup.
A few children were at home one morning, but they didn't stop eating meatballs. Uncle and grandfather ate it when they came back, and they were full of praise for the beef meatballs.
Grandpa and Grandma are also eating for the first time. Grandma Yoyo said: "Sister-in-law, there are so many famous foods all over Kyoto, I think our beef and mung bean balls here are also a must." ”
Youyou told grandma: "Uncle and grandma said that this beef mung bean balls were selected as tribute by the imperial court before, and they must also be famous." ”
Grandpa Yoyo said regretfully: "It's a pity that there is too little beef, and it is difficult to promote this food." ”
Not to mention the past, even now, the degree of agricultural mechanization is still very low, ploughing cattle are still an important productive force in the countryside, and they are cared for by people, and only the old, weak, sick and disabled ploughing cattle will be slaughtered.
Youyou and his aunt and uncle, when they were eating, rested for more than half an hour, and then fried the croquettes after the meal, and finally fried all the meatballs before five o'clock in the afternoon.
The basins and buckets were vacated, and the dustpans and baskets were filled with fried meatballs, and they were placed everywhere in the storage room at the back of the building.
After the raw beef was processed, the patriotic uncle went home in the afternoon and brought back half a fan of pork, and after dinner, he started to clean up.
Uncle Aiguo, the director of the meat factory, did not work in vain, he packed up the pork, which was particularly neat, and after more than half an hour, the flesh and bone were separated. The pots and pots at home are full again.
In addition, he also bought dozens of catties of pig's head water and pig's trotters and elbows, fortunately they were cleaned up, boiled in boiling water after returning home, washed in warm water and then put into a large pot to boil, a big pot full of water.
My aunt said that these things have to be marinated in a pot for one night to make the taste strong and taste fragrant.
Before the meat factory was built in Hantun Village, every household had never cut off the pig water all year round, and everyone learned a first-hand marinating technology.
In the past few years, only during the Chinese New Year, a pot will be marinated, and several dishes can be produced in the water to entertain relatives and friends. Pork liver, pig ears, and pork head meat can be served cold, pig's trotters can be boiled and jelly, or they can be directly used as a snack, and stir-fried pork belly is also a meat dish.
It's also strange that in the past few years, from August 15 to early summer, I didn't think it was delicious. I haven't eaten much in the past two years, but I miss it a little. However, everyone will only marinate a pot to satisfy their hunger during the New Year's holiday.
In the past two years, I have eaten in the canteen, although there are meat dishes every day, but when I eat pigs in the water, there are really not many.
Several children in his own family were hungry when they saw that the pig's trotters were hungry, and they were still too few of twenty big pig's trotters, Zhixin shouted: "Grandma, I can eat one myself." ”
The patriotic uncle said, "Wait, I'll buy some more." So he put on his coat and went out.
In more than ten minutes, he was back. Good fellow, this time he directly asked for fifty pig's trotters and packed them in a woven bag.
Aunt Hongying and her aunt and aunt were then busy, they boiled the pork belly and elbow pig's trotters prepared to make braised pork in a pot twice, took them out and dried them, and then smeared them with syrup and braised them in an oil pot.
Braised pig's trotters are marinated directly in the pot. He took out the pig's trotters that had been put in first, dismantled the bones and chopped them, and put them in another pot to boil the meat jelly separately.
My aunt and uncle were so busy all day that she was so tired that she beat her waist with her hands from time to time, but she always had a happy smile on her face, especially when she heard the children's innocent words, she laughed happily and was full of energy.
Early in the morning of the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Aunt Hongying cleaned up the meat that was marinated yesterday. After boiling for a night, the pig's trotters were stirred with chopsticks, and the pig's trotters were broken into the soup, scooped into a large bucket basin, and carried to the study to cool slowly.
Early in the morning, Li Baoguo asked the delivery vehicle to bring barrels of roast mutton, roast beef, and tripe beef offal, which are the famous food of the Muslim restaurant in Xiguan, Linshui, with 50 catties per barrel, and 200 catties of cooked food alone.
There are also all kinds of southern fruits, plus dozens of boxes, two large bundles of sugarcane, at least more than 200 catties, the rarest is a big watermelon, which must also have more than ten catties. A truckload of things, just for the Yoyo family, occupies most of the carriage.
The dim sum ordered by Hantun Village and Shimiao Village in the consignment point is only required on the 29th day of the lunar month, and fortunately, thanks to the coordination of Yuyu, we can ensure everyone's needs.
After breakfast, the children got busy again, chopping meat filling, peeling green onion and ginger, and sticky dough balls, everyone had work to do.
Youyou and his aunt are still in charge of frying things, big crispy meat, small crispy meat, braised meatballs, Sixi meatballs, lion's head and fried lotus root box, and finally fried sticky noodle meatballs, and they were busy all morning.
Sticky noodle balls are made with boiled sweet potatoes and sticky noodles, there are round, oblong and oblong, and when you eat it, it is sweet and sticky.
"Don't eat it, it's hard to digest if you eat too much. ”
In fact, my aunt and uncle are too worried, their children have an iron stomach, and they are active at an age, as long as it is not at night, they can digest anything they eat.
At noon, not only did one person nibble on a braised pig's trotters, but also drank a bowl of beef meatballs.
In the afternoon, my aunt and uncle took the children to clean up the yard, and this afternoon, the family will come back.
On the twentieth day of the lunar month, Hongying took the time to clean their house, and the heating was turned on for the first two days. My aunt and uncle took the children today, and they still wiped each house again, the floor was mopped clean, and the thermos was filled with boiling water.
The bedding on the balcony was put in, and her old man dried the covers of each house early this morning.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, all the factories in the village were closed. The workers went home happily with the Spring Festival benefits issued by the factory.
This year, the Spring Festival benefits distributed to workers in Hantun Village are more abundant than those of August 15. Twenty catties of alfalfa pork, ten catties of dim sum, ten catties of fresh lotus root, two carp of more than three catties, a box of instant noodles, a box of ham sausages, and a box of green vegetables are worth more than 240 yuan, which is close to the salary of March.