This New Year is very lively, even in the past, when I was in my hometown, it was impossible for the people of the old Li family to get together so well, just like Liu Jinju often said, "The daughter who marries is someone else's family".

Since Li Chunlan and Li Dongmei got married, this is the first time they have eaten a fortune meal with their mother, brother, and younger brother.

Li Yadong originally wanted to call Zhang Chunxi over, but he called Fengtai and learned that he had gone home two days ago, so he gave up.

For this year's fortune dinner, Li Yadong specially put forward two opinions, both of which were adopted by his family.

First, change the time of the fortune meal to the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

The fact of getting up in the early morning of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve every year to eat a fortune meal has always made Li Yadong deeply hate.

He also asked the village elders why there was such a custom. The old people said that it was because they were poor in the past, and they set the fortune meal to get up in the early morning to eat, so they had no appetite and couldn't eat too much.

Li Yadong feels that this custom must be changed, after all, it is not as good as before, and now life is better, what kind of effort is it to honestly live according to the poor customs of the past?

For the customs left by our ancestors, we naturally have to follow them, and as for those that can be improved, we must naturally keep pace with the times.

Second, since it is in the north, then follow the customs of the locals, and this year's fortune meal will be eaten dumplings according to the customs of the north.

The family started to work after breakfast, the men went out to buy New Year's goods, the women made food at home, and some kung fu dishes had to be prepared in advance, as far as eating was concerned, southerners were more particular than northerners.

Here's a very simple example: meatballs.

Northerners make meatballs, mostly a few vegetables, or add some meat chopped and flour.

The southerners are different, the most common fish balls in the south, a dish that must be eaten during the New Year, basically every housewife will make it, but it is such a dish, if it is taken to the north, it is completely a kung fu dish only in the restaurant.

Take the fresh silver carp, slice the belly meat, remove the fish bones, chop into fish puree, and then add an appropriate amount of seasoning, mix in starch, and stir thoroughly.

In this era, there is no such thing as a blender, it is all manual, and if you want to make fish balls delicious, this process theoretically lasts as long as possible.

So, sometimes a stirring is an hour or two, and it's tiring to think about.

Li Yadong went out early in the morning with his eldest brother and second brother, didn't drive, got a tricycle, and didn't come back until noon, purchasing a whole car of New Year's goods. Towels and other daily necessities, vegetables and meat to eat, artillery battles and fireworks are all available.

As soon as I walked into the yard, I smelled a strong aroma wafting out of the kitchen, and I ran into the kitchen to see that it was my mother Hu Xiuying who was frying crispy fish.

Didn't I mention the steps of making fish balls, which usually only take the belly part of the fish, because there are fewer spines, and the other parts are naturally impossible to waste, so they are used to fry the crispy fish.

Cut the fish into pieces of the same size, coat them with flour, and fry them in a pan of oil until golden brown.

There are also many ways to eat, stir-fry and eat, hot pot, you can eat.

Li Yadong couldn't wait to pick up a piece from the sieve, and his mouth was full of oil.

I probably don't have to cook at noon, because there are so many delicious foods in the kitchen.

After frying crispy fish and fried meatballs, fried meatballs and fried lotus root clips, there are many things that can be fried, after frying, it is not only conducive to storage, but also convenient to eat, the easiest way is to put it in the hot pot, put it in and cook it hot.

The women in the family have a clear division of labor, Hu Xiuying's fried food here has not been finished yet, and Li Chunlan's chicken blood glutinous rice over there has also come out of the pot.

The New Year must be inseparable from chicken, duck and fish, compared with the other three, the rural people in the south prefer chickens, and every household has a raise, no matter how much the New Year has to kill a few.

The old hens raised in the countryside are full of treasures.

Chicken blood glutinous rice is a special snack in Li Yadong's hometown, which seems to have never been seen in other places.

When killing chickens, keep the chicken blood, then mix glutinous rice into it, put some salt, and steam it in a steamer. Using a kitchen knife to cut the chicken blood glutinous rice like a red date cake into strips, there are also many ways to eat it, depending on personal preference.

But Li Yadong couldn't wait anyway, and he had already come up with a small bowl, and he was as anxious as he was, and there was also a Li Erbao.

The little guy is very excited, he has never gone out in the kitchen, he has been "fishing" here, "fishing" there is fishing, and his little belly is round.

At noon, Chen Yue'e still took the time to cook a pot of rice, as for the dishes, it was simple, Li Yadong had a ready-made charcoal stove here, and an alcohol stove also had it. The freshly made delicious food in the kitchen, a little bit of the same, cooked a pot of hodgepodge.

After eating, those who are not busy continue to be busy, and those who are busy are divided into two shifts, one is responsible for making dumplings, and the other is responsible for pasting couplets.

Li Yadong was assigned to the dumpling-making team, after all, he came up with the idea, and others are not very good at it.

Let's just talk about rolling dumpling skins, none of the women in the Lao Li family know it.

The main problem is the differentiation of the diet between the north and the south, they will only roll the kind of square "wrapping dough", which is called copying hands in some places.

For round dumpling wrappers, this skill still needs to be learned.

Li Yadong had to teach everyone how to make dumplings by hand, so the progress was a little slow.

But then again, the fortune meal of the Chinese New Year's Eve, a table is full of delicious, how much dumplings can be eaten as a staple food, that is also fake.

The main thing is the atmosphere.

For southerners, "dumplings" may be just a kind of food, but for northerners, it is far more than that, and it symbolizes some beautiful meanings.

Even if they are not at home, some ancestral worship ceremonies still have to be carried out as usual, in Hu Xiuying's words, "I also invite my ancestors and ancestors to come to the capital for the New Year."

As night falls, the lights come on.

Fireworks can be seen everywhere in Sijiu City, and after a busy day, everyone in the Lao Li family finally sat down at the table.

The dining place was in the hall of the East Wing, and Li Yadong specially moved the TV set.

The family was eating a fortune meal while watching the Spring Festival Gala, which was called a pleasant one.

"Come on, let's raise a glass together, our family's fortune meal has not been so together for some years, I wish everyone a better life in the future. Hu Xiuying took the lead in lifting the wine glass and sent the first blessing.

In fact, she was a little uncomfortable before, because she couldn't go back to her hometown for the New Year, but now she looks at the scene full of children and grandchildren in front of her, and she is relieved: as long as the children and grandchildren are there, it's fine. It doesn't really matter if she's spending the New Year there.

Everyone stood up in unison, and drank the wine in their glasses in a burst of laughter.

The subsequent words of blessing were basically continuous, and everyone turned on the toasting mode one after another.

The number of people is indeed a bit large, although it is Feitian Moutai, but no matter how good the wine is, it can't stand drinking like this, and I feel a little dizzy after a few laps.

But that's okay, just pause for a while and watch the party first.

In the sketch "Pepper Noodles", the performance of Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao, a pair of golden partners, amused everyone.

After resting, everyone continued to fight, among the old men, Huang Guodong was the first to disarm and surrender, which was also expected.

Before I knew it, the countdown to zero had already begun on the TV.

"Erbao!" Li Yadong waved his hand, Li Erbao suddenly understood, and ran out of the door in a hurry.

He didn't sleep until now, just for this stubble, his cousin Qiqi had already gone to meet with Zhou.

By the time everyone came to the door together, Li Erbao had already carried all the fireworks that had been placed under the eaves to the yard and placed them neatly.

“4！”

“3！”

The voice of the host was heard on the TV in the "......" hall.

“1！”

When the word "1" fell, the sky of the capital seemed to be dyed red by the glow in an instant, and the sound of artillery was everywhere in all directions.

Li Yadong also lit his own fireworks in a timely manner and joined the ranks of this universal celebration.

"Bang!"

Fireworks soared into the sky.

The family snuggled up under the eaves and looked up, all smiling.

Li Yadong disappeared at some point, and when he reappeared, he had an extra Seagull brand camera in his hand.

"Click!"

The beauty of this moment was recorded by him forever.