On Chinese New Year's Eve, Kang Mingsong woke up at six o'clock in the morning.

Today his task is also very heavy, because he has to handle the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

As far as cooking is concerned, whether it is his mother Xiu Chengyan or his father Kang Dazhi, they are all complete laymen, and their cooking basically stays at the level where they can cook and eat, and if they want to make any tricks, it is difficult for a strong man.

In fact, before Mr. Cummingsong was in the fourth grade of elementary school, his grandmother was responsible for the family's cooking. In the summer of the fourth grade, after his grandmother died, this matter fell to Cummingsong.

It's not that Kang Mingsong has that awareness, but that the family was too difficult at that time, his father Kang Dazhi went out to work, the eldest sister Kang Mingmin was married, and his mother had to be busy with the work in the field, and the second sister Kang Minghui had to feed the pigs, so cooking was a relatively simple and easy job, and Kang Mingsong had to take over.

Because he has been learning to cook with his grandmother since he was a child, although Kang Mingsong has not learned cooking skills, his meals are still very good.

Walking out of the bedroom, the cold weather made Kang Mingsong involuntarily shiver, and subconsciously pulled up the hat of the down jacket.

Although the beginning of spring has passed, the temperature in the morning is still very low in the mountain village located at a high altitude. Not to mention that it's still early February, and even if it's another month, it's not uncommon for ice to freeze in the morning.

The sky was still very dark, only a few stars in the sky were blinking their tired eyes, and the night owls in the woods not far away came from a bleak sound, which seemed to be extremely silent.

If you were in the city, you wouldn't be able to see such a bright night sky, because the light pollution was so bad.

However, Kang Mingsong soon discovered that he was not the first in the family, and his father Kang Dazhi was already busy in the kitchen, and he was plucking a big rooster that had been killed and scalded with boiling water.

This is also one of the only two things Kang Dazhi needs to do for this year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the other is to kill fish.

For the slaughter and slaughter, Kang Mingsong basically did not do it.

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When Kang Dazhi slaughtered chickens and fish, Kang Mingsong began to make breakfast.

This morning's breakfast was relatively simple, I got some to eat casually, and Kang Dazhi, who had already processed the chicken and fish, went out with a bag on his back.

He was going to go to the graves of the deceased elders of the Kang family.

Today's main task of Kang Dazhi is to go to the graves of the deceased elders on both sides, in the morning it is the Kang family's side, and after lunch, it will be the turn of the Xiu family.

This job is not easy, because whether it is the Kang family or the Xiu family, they are both big families, and there are many elders who have passed away. Don't look at Kang Dazhi now just carrying a bag, that's because the main thing in the grave - fireworks and firecrackers are still in a cousin's shop in the market town.

After Kang Dazhi went to the market town, he would bring the fireworks and firecrackers that he had already bought, take the car of Kang Mingsong's cousin Kang Mingyao, and go to his hometown to go to the graves of the elders of the Kang family.

This year, Kang Mingsong's family made a lot of money, so there were a lot of fireworks and firecrackers prepared, and Kang Dazhi couldn't get them away by himself.

There is no ban on fireworks and firecrackers in the backing townships, for the backing townships with a vegetation coverage rate of more than 70 percent, especially the emission of almost no industrial waste gases, it is impossible to cause any air pollution if a little fireworks are set off during the Chinese New Year in a year.

Therefore, for some villagers who go out to work and earn a lot of money, they will take the opportunity of the New Year to set off fireworks and firecrackers.

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After Kang Dazhi went out, Kang Mingsong began to cook dishes for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

And his mother, Xiu Chengyan, will be responsible for helping him, such as lighting a fire in front of the stove, or preparing some hot water or something.

Kang Mingsong spent most of his time today on the main dish of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, abalone in broth. This is also the first time in so many years that the Kang Mingsong family has used such high-end ingredients in the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

If it was in previous years, no one in the family would be willing to spend money like this, after all, ingredients like double-headed abalone and three-headed abalone, the price is simply staggering, it is thousands of pounds.

At that time, in order to be able to make a down payment for Cummingsong to buy a house a day earlier, the family was eager to break a penny in half to spend.

But even if Kang Mingsong made hundreds of thousands of dollars this year, when Xiu Chengyan learned that he had spent 10,000 yuan to buy four double-headed abalones, he still scolded him for being a loser for a long time.

It's not so bad to have money!

It's just that this double-headed abalone has already been bought home, and there is no way to return it, and Xiu Chengyan has no choice but to admit it, but he has three chapters with Kang Mingsong, and such a thing must not appear for the second time.

Regarding his mother's words, Kang Mingsong happily agreed, but he didn't think so.

He believes that as the conditions at home improve day by day, she will gradually change her mindset.

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Dried abalone is soaked in cold water for 48 hours, then soaked in boiling water overnight to allow it to stretch out naturally, return to its original state, wash it and put it in a steamer, and steam it for 12 hours.

A large number of ingredients such as pork bones, pork belly, lean pork, pork ribs, old hens, and ham are processed through a series of techniques to make broth.

Put the soup stock and dried abalone in a casserole and simmer for 8 hours to complete the delicious dashi abalone.

Among the Chinese cuisine, top dishes such as dried abalone in soup stock and Buddha jumping over the wall require the chef to have enough time and patience to cook them.

In the past three days, Kang Mingsong has completed all kinds of preliminary preparations, although this dish is a new challenge for him, fortunately, it is now the Internet era, thanks to the blessing of Baidu, which is almost omnipotent, Kang Mingsong has already done a good idea of the procedure of this dish.

Kang Mingsong put the broth and prepared abalone in a large clay urn and simmered them in a separate small stove, with iron birch charcoal, which provides a steady amount of heat, underneath.

When the dashi and abalone are simmered in a clay urn for 10 hours, the dashi and abalone become a top-notch dish.

After the abalone is served in the pot, Cummingsong can start to focus on other dishes and prepare for today's lunch.

In fact, in many families, there is no lunch today, because most families' Chinese New Year's Eve dinner will be served at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, which is not much different from the usual lunch time.

However, because Kang Mingsong plans to do a big job this year, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner will definitely not start early, and he will have to wait until the evening, so this lunch still has to be eaten.