Chapter 9 Celebrate the New Year in Full Swing
In a flash, it was February 4, 2000. Twenty-ninth of the lunar month. It is not a pity that there is no 30th lunar month on the first New Year of the new century, but the happy atmosphere in Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu's home seems to be celebrating the New Year every day.
Since Li Xiaoming handed over the car keys to Li's father, Li's father muttered about the cost, and at the same time ran to the Yuanxian Vehicle Management Office to complete the formalities, and also chose a particularly good license plate, 88666.
When Li Xiaoming saw this license plate, his heart became an amusement park for alpacas. What the hell?daddy666?
In the past few days, Dad Li has spent most of his time in the car, driving out for a walk from time to time, and when he came back, he was carrying a bucket and wiping the car up and down with a towel.
Li Xiaoming looked down from the balcony from time to time, and he could see Dad Li squatting in front of the car, touching left and right.
As for Li's mother, she is not very interested in cars, but Li Xiaoming likes the leather clothes she bought for her.
Li Xiaoming on the grandparents' side is much more real, wild ginseng, deer antlers, and cordyceps sinensis are all mentioned by the catty.
Grandpa Li likes to make some wine, and now the materials are much more upscale. Grandma Li likes to stew soup without any problems, and the rations of the old couple are very high-end.
But there are also bad places, Grandpa Li is old after all, this wine is too tonic for a while, and he didn't dare to touch the wine until the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month.
Early in the morning of the 4th, Li Xiaoming and Li's father went out to the vegetable market to purchase ingredients, which was also the last purchase of the New Year.
The two of them were strolling around the vegetable market, and at the same time, they moved all the vegetables and meat that they thought might be used or would be used in case to the car, and ran back and forth more than a dozen times, and finally returned home honestly after the trunk could not be filled.
In this era, there are almost no out-of-season vegetables, and seasonal vegetables and meat are the mainstream.
And the out-of-season vegetables of this era are not the kind of goods that want to vomit when you eat them in later generations, but they are really delicious and good, and the only problem is that they are expensive.
However, for the current Li Xiaoming, it seems that this problem no longer exists.
When the two returned home, they kept bringing a variety of vegetables and fruits that were rarely seen in this season, as well as the only two kinds of seafood that could be bought in the small county town - frozen hairtail and kelp.
It wasn't until Mama Li couldn't stand it anymore and began to let the two of them move things to the balcony that they completely saved the old-fashioned refrigerator that was about to explode.
After the father and son finished moving their things, Li Xiaoming rested for a while, then got up and went into the kitchen.
This year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is in charge of him, and if it doesn't start now, he won't be able to catch up at night.
In Li Xiaoming's memory, when he was a child, even until he grew up, every Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the family was a headache. All kinds of bacon, stew, roast, stir-fried meat. Anyway, no matter how much meat comes from, vegetables are not available most of the time.
The result of eating like this is that within two days, the thief will be uncomfortable when he squats in the pit.
This time, he was in charge, and he planned to balance the pairings between the dishes. Try to be nutritionally balanced.
Therefore, he set the recipe as a combination of six meats, six vegetables and one soup.
The meat dishes are: preserved meat, sweet and sour fish, shredded pork with fish flavor, braised pork with potatoes, pan-fried hairtail fish and roasted beef with radish.
The ingredients are: pickled tomatoes, cabbage in chicken sauce, shredded cabbage, shredded apples, cold salad and cold cucumbers.
The soup is stewed with kelp.
Li Xiaoming's arrangement is actually implicit, there are 6 dishes of meat and vegetarian each, which means 66 or 6 Shun, and one more soup becomes 13 dishes, which means that there are more than one month.
The cured meat platter directly simplifies the previous practice of putting all kinds of bacon at home as a dish into a single dish, so that people will not be tired of eating.
For other dishes, it's just just the ingredients, so let's do it. If you want to say that there are also meanings, but I will not repeat them one by one, and the hydrological 10086 words are omitted here.
Li Xiaoming was busy from less than 1 o'clock in the afternoon until 6 o'clock in the afternoon, and all the dishes were ready.
This is also limited to cooking conditions, not to mention natural gas in the source county at this time, natural gas is in the later generations, and the county seat of X has just been opened.
Liquefied gas has not yet been popularized in Yuanxian County, and Li Xiaoming's home has two honeycomb coals on one stove, plus an independent stove.
He has already taken a three-pronged approach, which is still very time-consuming, and if the conditions are more convenient, the time can be shortened by at least about 2 hours.
When the dishes were put on the old-fashioned deformed table, the time also came to half past six.
His parents, grandparents, and grandparents had already sat down, and the drinks, dishes, and chopsticks were all set up and waiting for him to be served at the end.
Li Xiaoming took out the small square stool and sat down, raised his wine glass and said to the elders: "Parents, grandparents, it's been hard work for a year, come, although today is twenty-nine, it can be regarded as Chinese New Year's Eve, happy Chinese New Year's Eve!"
The elders all happily raised their wine glasses and said, "Happy Chinese New Year's Eve!"
Grandpa Li took a sip of his home-brewed wine and quickly picked up his chopsticks: "I couldn't help it when I smelled the smell just now, I have to try our good grandson's craftsmanship today!"
After that, he first went to his favorite fish.
And Dad Li, a fat lover, pointed to the crystal clear braised pork.
As a vegetarian lover, Mama Li is particularly fond of desserts, and sugar-pickled tomatoes have become her favorite.
Grandma Li picked up the soup spoon and first tasted her grandson's stewed soup, how it compares with her craftsmanship.
The family was happily eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and before they knew it, the time was the annual Spring Festival Gala.
The first Spring Festival Gala of the new century, but the powerful superstars gathered, Feng Gong, Guo Da, Guo Donglin, Jiang Kun, and a series of actors, which dazzled Li Xiaoming.
Even if he had seen it before, it did not hinder his high interest in the slightest. This is much more powerful than those little fresh meat and the like after that!
Moreover, the family is happy and prosperous, is there a better picture than this?
At 0 o'clock, as the song of the Spring Festival Gala "Dragon Jubilee Millennium" sounded, the sky outside the window gradually began to bloom with colorful fireworks.
"Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming come out!
Chen Wu's time card was really accurate, Li Xiaoming smiled, stood up and went to the elders individually, and then ran towards the park with Chen Wu.
When the two arrived at the park, they saw that many of his classmates who lived nearby had gathered here, and the only vendor who was still open was selling his fireworks.
Everyone has a rare New Year's money and buys some cheap and fun small fireworks here.
And Li Xiaoming had a whim at this time, turned his head and asked Chen Wu: "You say, how about the two of us experiencing the feeling of burning money as a nouveau riche?"
Chen Wu is also a master who is afraid that the world will not be chaotic: "Yes, I'll go, I've never experienced more than two salutes in my previous life, let's buy them all?"
"Well, I've bought them all!"
After a while, the vendor happily closed the stall.
The two looked at the salute all over the ground, called some classmates to help, and cleared the venue.
When the flames of the fireworks burned out and after a short period of darkness, all kinds of fireworks burst into the sky, drawing splendid pictures in the sky in the new century......