The door of the health room opened, and Yoyo followed his grandmother to the second master's house. Grandma was busy when she entered the door, standing quietly at the door of the stove, watching grandma cook.

Soak the kelp, golden needle, and salted fish in warm water and start preparing the cold dishes. Shred the young cabbage leaves, add green onion leaves, yellow ginger shreds, mix well with vinegar, sugar and salt, put on a plate and pour sesame oil on a tray and put it in a tray. Peel and shred the red and white radish, mix well with vinegar and sugar, and put on a plate.

Take out the fat mash left over from yesterday with egg whites and sugar, and form a jujube-sized meatball.

Wash the salted fish, sprinkle a small amount of white flour (wheat flour), mix well, and put it in the mixed sticky batter (millet noodles, the fish fried from the sticky noodles is crispy and charred). Put a little oil in the pot, grandma patiently fried one by one, the oil of the fried fish had a fishy smell, and the small half bowl of oil left over after frying the fish was served separately.

Brush the pot, put a little sesame oil, add sugar, boil over low heat until the silk is pulled, put in the dried steamed buns fried yesterday, mix urgently, evenly wrap the dried steamed buns in syrup, the golden dried steamed buns are crystal clear, and the glazed steamed buns are made.

At this time, a little boy over three years old suddenly broke into the kitchen, reached out and grabbed the glass bun, so frightened that grandma hurriedly raised the plate high. The boy is the eldest nephew of the second master's family, and his eldest daughter, Guijin's family, came.

When Gui Jin got married, her mother's family was poor and did not accompany the dowry, and her widow and mother-in-law were unsatisfactory, and often found trouble to make her angry. After giving birth to a boy, he got a lot better, but the child was spoiled by his grandmother, and it was annoying to be nasty.

Grandma picked out some dried buns and stuffed them into the dog's mouth, stopping his crying in time. "Hurry up and take it out, there are few things to prepare, and I can't let him eat any more. ”

Seeing this, the second grandmother also grabbed two and handed them to Youyou, but Youyou didn't answer, and hurriedly ran out of the kitchen to the yard to watch the excitement.

At about ten o'clock, there was a lively commotion outside the courtyard: "The new son-in-law is here!"

Soon, I saw the waiter (accompanying the guest) leading the two guests into the team headquarters and temporarily lent it to the second master as a guest house (hospitality room).

The new son-in-law is wearing a brand-new blue cadre uniform, but he is shorter, about 1.6 meters, medium in appearance, but with a shrewd look.

The man in the back was pushing two bicycles, and two wooden gift boxes were strapped to the back rack of one car. Osmanthus wore a new cotton coat and followed behind with a smile on her face.

Most of the people who followed behind were women and children, and there were also some half-grown young men, thirty or forty people. Everyone poured into the courtyard with the guests, shouting for gifts.

The second master ordered the gift box to be unloaded from the car and opened for everyone to watch. One box contains four gifts: two bottles of wine, two packets of sugar, four boxes of cigarettes, and four envelopes of fruit (four catties of snacks).

The other box is filled with white flour steamed buns and flower cake noses, which are considered two gifts, and the two boxes add up to six gifts.

According to the custom here, the new son-in-law of the general family takes four gifts when he visits relatives: two bottles of wine, two envelopes of fruit, white flour steamed buns and flower cake nose.

Gui Xiang's mother-in-law took six things, the gifts were heavy and the weight was sufficient, which caused a round of praise.

"Jingzhi white dry wine, Dajin Zhong smoke, in the end, the secretary of the family, want noodles!"

"This is to value the daughter-in-law, and the life of osmanthus will be better in the future. ”

"Osmanthus is taller than his son-in-law, and he is more handsome, can he still be aggrieved?"

"People don't want her to be handsome, so can a poor family like her want her?"

Through everyone's discussions, Yoyo also learned about the customs and habits at this time. Thinking of the expensive video materials in the nostalgic store in the later life, Yoyo took out a miniature video recorder from the space and secretly recorded it all.

Since then, Yoyo has developed a habit, and when he encounters relatively rare scenes, he unconsciously uses a video recorder to shoot them, leaving valuable video materials.

The second grandmother pulled her daughter up and down to look at it, and asked in a low voice: "Isn't it the habit (habit) of living in my mother-in-law's house?" ”

Osmanthus saw her mother's red eyes, and replied shyly: "I'm used to it, my father-in-law and mother-in-law treat me very well, and they don't make me angry." ”

"Is your man treating you well, is he angry with you?"

"Dare to be angry with our aunt and grandmother, and clean him up today to make you angry. A group of half-sized children shouted loudly and in a small tone.

"No one is really angry with me. Osmanthus was anxious to distinguish.

"Then what are you crying, Grandma?"

"When the girl saw her mother, she cried when she had nothing to do. Several older people explained.

Others are looking at the new son-in-law, but Yoyo is interested in the crowd gathered together, quietly observing, comparing with the images in the images of later generations.

Most of the elderly women at this time had small feet, although they were not as exaggerated as the legendary three-inch golden lotus, but they were not more than half a foot, wearing pointed cotton shoes, walking and wandering.

I was frightened to see it, and I couldn't see the slightest sense of beauty, and I really didn't know how distorted the aesthetics of ancient people were.

Most married women wear a haircut at the back of their heads, similar to the bud hairstyle of later generations. The unmarried young women up to the little girls wore two braids, and only a few had short ear-length hair.

After drinking too much tea, the new son-in-law was going to pay New Year's greetings to the elders, and was stopped by the accompanying guests and ordered to have a banquet.

Two fourteen or fifteen-year-old boys, one carrying a wooden pallet, delivered it to the guest room. One has a sake jug, a sake cup, and chopsticks on top, and the other is two cold dishes. Two cold dishes: cold cabbage shreds, sweet and sour radish shreds, white, red and green, bright color.

When the dish was served, it caused a lot of praise, "It's so beautiful, Grandma Yoyo can really think about it, and cabbage and radish can also make a dish on the table."

Yoyo has followed Grandma since he was a child, like a little tail, and Yoyo Grandma is the official name of Grandma in the village.

Seeing that the food was being served, Yoyo slipped into the kitchen again to watch Grandma show her powers. In the kitchen, grandma is frying balls of fatty meatballs.

There was a sizzling sound in the pot, and the oil in the fatty meatballs was slowly fried out and turned hollow, and the golden meatballs floated on the surface of the oil. Only then did Yoyo understand why this dish was called "frying oil", which really lived up to its name.

Grandma scooped up the floating balls on a plate, sprinkled with sugar while they were hot and mixed well, like a layer of snowflakes.

The frying oil and the glass bun that had been made were served, and two beets were served.

Take advantage of the hot oil in the pan, then heat the fried egg wrapped meat back to the pot, take it out and put everything in half in a circle on the plate. The white egg whites, with the red meat filling inside, resemble blooming flowers, are served along with the fried fish.

"Oh, Grandma Yoyo, how did you come up with it, this dish is better. ”

"It's just that Grandma Yoyo can make do with it, otherwise his family is so poor, and a table of eight can't be placed. ”

It's really a lot of people, and there are all kinds of birds when the forest is big.

Scoop out the oil in the pot, pour in most of the pot broth, put the braised pork, crispy meat, slippery meat, meatballs, kelp, and golden needles in a stack by the side of the pot, put cabbage vermicelli mung bean noodle balls in the middle of the pot, and put Sixi balls and whole chicken in the cage drawer above.

After the fire boiled, the low heat steamed for another half an hour. Lift the lid of the pot, take out the Sixi meatballs and chicken and put them on a plate, and then put the shredded egg cake on top and send it over in one piece.

Eight plates were served, and according to the rules here, the man began to destroy the meal. The escort on the woman's side politely humbled and said, "It's still early, let's continue drinking." As he spoke, he raised his glass to the wine.

At this time, the wine glass was a small glass cup, and one or two wines could reach eight glasses. There are two cups on one table, and the seats take turns drinking from each other. After drinking a circle of wine, it takes a bag of cigarettes (roughly fifteen minutes).

In the wine banquet of ordinary people, the guests urge the meal at least three times, drink a circle of wine and urge once, and the third time the host invites the accompanying guests to order the meal, which is roughly half an hour.

When Grandma heard the arrangement of the accompanying guests, she put the radish balls in the soup and heated them loosely, for fear that they would be broken after cooking for a long time, and the appearance would not look good.

Eight bowls were placed along the side of the pot, and grandma put vegetables in them one by one, braised pork, crispy meat, slippery meat, meatballs, golden needles, kelp and some vinegar to taste, after the radish balls were served, stir the remaining vegetables in the pot with a spoon, scoop out a bowl of New Year's dishes, pour sesame oil, and eight bowls are ready. Four bowls of meat dishes were served first, and four bowls of vegetarian dishes were rice, which were served together with steamed buns.

Grandma instructed the second grandmother to make hot steamed buns, declined their kindness to keep food, and led Youyou home.