Chapter Twenty-Eight: After Laba is the New Year
Children, don't be greedy, it's the New Year after Laba. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoLaba porridge for a few days, mile la la twenty-three. Twenty-three sugar melons are sticky, twenty-four sweep the house, twenty-five make tofu, twenty-six boil and boil meat, twenty-seven kill New Year's chicken, twenty-eight handfuls of noodle hair, twenty-nine steamed steamed buns, play one night on thirty nights, and twist and twist on the first day of the New Year.
This is a nursery rhyme in the Northeast, singing about some customs that enter the twelfth lunar month, that is, the lunar month, until the New Year.
On this day, every household has to drink Laba porridge, and put together all kinds of grains and beans that can be found at home to cook a pot of sweet Laba porridge, which means a good harvest and the vision of the next year's harvest in the last month of the year.
There is a saying that says: Laqi Laba, freeze off the chin. This shows that the weather is very cold before and after Laba, so Laba porridge also has the meaning of sticking to the frozen chin, which is quite imaginative, right?
There is also a food that is also to be prepared on the day of Laba, and that is Laba garlic, as the name suggests, made on this day of Laba.
Since the day of Laba, the atmosphere of the New Year has begun to be rendered, and it is getting stronger and stronger, especially for children, who are especially looking forward to the New Year. You can get a new set of clothes, you can eat delicious food that you can't usually eat, and adults are rarely kind and pleasant, and the festive atmosphere makes people happy. Therefore, Laba is the beginning of the New Year's overture.
The women pulled cloth to make new clothes and shoes for the family, and the men repaired the courtyard walls of the house, and the tables, chairs and benches were also firm.
As for the old Zhou family, because they were looking forward to Zhou Jingran going home to visit relatives on the day of the New Year, the grandparents could not hide their joy. In addition, there will be another addition to the family soon, which can be regarded as a good thing.
Grandma counted the days every day, looking left and right to wait for the day of the new year. The second end felt that grandma wished that the days would be swishing to the twenty-third day of the lunar month.
The twenty-third day finally came in the hope of my grandmother, and my father got up early to go to the train station, because the train from my uncle came back only once a day, and it arrived at the Shiqiao Town Railway Station at four o'clock in the morning.
The grandparents at home are not idle, they want to kill the New Year's pig today, and invite relatives and friends to eat a lively pig-killing dish, so the second elder also got up early. Grandma gave her big fat pig a full meal at the end, and Grandpa went to find Uncle Tuesday, who could kill pigs in the village, the son of his grandfather's cousin and a relative of his family.
After the second end got up, after having breakfast with my mother, I moved her villain books and snacks to my mother's house, and asked my mother not to come out in the house. Killing pigs today, the family is coming and going, don't bump your mother, it's still a cat in the house.
Anyway, the second aunt and the old aunt are here today, and the eldest aunt and aunt of the relatives will come to help, and there is no one who is not bad. Pig killing dishes are also easy to make, as long as there are enough people.
After nine o'clock, relatives and friends came one after another. The second aunt was dragging a little boy in one hand, and it was the twin cousin of the second end, Zhou Lu Zhouyi.
The second end took two pieces of chocolate for each of them, which was brought back by his father from Guangzhou, and the second end specially left a piece for his cousin and aunt's cousin.
Zhou Lu Zhou Yi took the chocolate and said thank you to his sister cutely, and touched their little faces with a smile.
The second aunt is a shrewd and capable woman, watching her niece stuff chocolate for her son, and said to her grandmother with a smile: "Let's end ourselves as children, we know that we are hanging younger brothers, too sensible, do you say mother?"
Grandma can be said to be in a good mood today, and after listening to the words of the second aunt, she is naturally in a flying mood. "Duanduan, I like my younger brothers, our big treasure and second treasure are good. ”
Da Bao and Er Bao are the nicknames of the twins, and the nicknames of the twins here are not called Da Shuang Ershuang, but Da Bao Erbao.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were talking, and the twins had been led by the type to play all over the yard, and they took a small basket to peel garlic at the second end, and garlic sauce was indispensable for eating pig-killing vegetables.
"Grandma, grandma!" a cheerful shout came into the house, and it was evident that it was starting from the gate.
Grandma quickly stood up to greet her, muttering, "This is Kai Kai coming, this call is like a little bird." ”
The second aunt also followed the welcome out, this is the sister-in-law is back, and the sister-in-law must welcome the door.
Before the two ends cleaned the garlic skin on their hands, they heard the laughter of the old lady approaching, followed by a white hand to lift the door curtain and enter the house.
The second end met the old aunt's smiling eyes, and quickly clapped his hands and called: "Auntie!"
"Oh, my aunt has brought you persimmons, come here. Zhou Jingzhen put down her bag and greeted her niece.
Hearing this, the two ends happily jumped to the side of the old aunt, the old aunt's house has a big persimmon tree, which bears a lot of fruit every year, and it becomes a frozen persimmon in winter, which is super delicious, and it is much better than the later ice cream.
Zhou Jingzhen took out more than a dozen frozen persimmons from her bag, and then took out a large piece of beef, a packet of furnace fruits, and two bottles of liquor.
The second end looked at the old aunt's meal, and saw the expression of the second aunt who came in when she saw something, and secretly laughed in her heart that the old aunt was really amazing.
My aunt is the second aunt, although the family is separated, but the second uncle is the son of the grandparents after all, but the second uncle and the second aunt come to their house and rarely bring things to the grandparents. Although the grandparents didn't care, the old aunt was angry when she found out, so every time she deliberately took out the things she brought in front of the second aunt. is to knock the second aunt, but although the second aunt has a bad face, she still does her own thing.
At this time, grandma hugged the chubby Kai Kai into the house, and the uncle probably helped the grandfather prepare to kill the pig, the so-called twenty-four filial son-in-law, probably the old uncle.
Kai Kai has a good memory than Dabao Erbao, and when he sees the two ends, he shouts: "Sister Duanduan!"
The two ends smiled and pulled Kaikai's little hand, it's okay, it's hot, it shouldn't be frozen.
"Kaikai, what is this?" took the chocolate he had left for him from his pocket and held it up to show him.
The little fat man Kai Kai happily slipped out of his grandmother's arms and onto the ground, jumped to the two ends and stared at the chocolate in her hand.
"Chocolate, Sister Duanduan, chocolate. Kai Kai didn't hold it in his hand, and he didn't want to, he just looked at the two ends with his eyes, this trick was good.
Sure enough, the two ends couldn't stand Kai Kai's cute attack and handed the chocolate to Kai Kai. "Yes, chocolate, chocolate for Kai Kai. ”
The old aunt reminded Kai Kai on the side: "Did you say thank you to your sister?" and touched the pigtails at both ends and said, "You don't have to keep it for him, he keeps twisting snacks at home, you can eat it yourself." ”
"This chocolate is delicious, I specially left it for Kai Kai. The two ends leaned against the old aunt, and one hand was tightly pulled by Kaikai.
"Sister Duanduan, my mother will give it. Kai Kai held the chocolate in front of his aunt, this behavior surprised the second end, it is said that the old aunt and the old uncle love him so much, he can still give the delicious food to his mother first, it is not easy.
The old girl seemed to see through the thoughts at both ends, took the chocolate in Kaikai's hand, tore the wrapper, and made a gesture to put it in her mouth. As a result, Kai Kai, who had been staring at her, immediately screamed.
The old lady returned the chocolate to Kai Kai, and smiled at the dumbfounded two ends: "Do you think this kid is for me to eat?
Well, the little sun at home really lives up to its reputation.
When all the helpers came, the grandfather led the second uncle, the old uncle, and a few young men to the pigsty to tie up the big fat pigs. The two ends couldn't bear to see the scene of killing the pig, so they hid in the house and listened to the movement.
There was a lot of gossip in the yard, and then there was a howl like killing pigs. Sure enough, the pig knew that it was going to be slaughtered, and it screamed so badly. But this can't escape the fate of being tied up with four hooves and being stabbed.
A big pot has already been set up in the yard, a large pot of hot water has been boiled, and when Uncle Tuesday's knife technique is precise and decisive to give the pig a painful one, the second aunt on the side took a big basin in time and connected it under the knife, and the gurgling blood quickly flowed into the basin. The second aunt used a long-handled spoon to stir up the pig's blood, which was gradually increasing, to prevent it from coagulating.
After the blood was drained, Uncle Tuesday poured the hot water that had been boiled long ago on the dead pig, poured it several times, and began to shed its hair. Then it was disassembled, disemboweled, and put into a large basin, and then the parts were divided.
At this time, the kitchen is ready, first put a piece of pork belly in the pot and boil, sprinkle with peppercorns, and then pour some white wine. A few aunts have already cut the sauerkraut into thin strips and are ready to stew the sauerkraut.
This grandmother and the second aunt and aunt poured blood sausage together, added salt to the pig's blood, water soaked in green onion and ginger, stirred evenly, and poured a funnel into the cleaned casing. The blood sausage is filled one by one, and the meat in the cauldron over there is almost cooked, and the blood sausage is washed and thrown into the pot to cook together. After a while, the lid of the pot was lifted, and the grandmother pricked the blood sausage with a needle to prevent it from boiling.
The pork belly and blood sausage are cooked, taken out, the pork belly is cut into large thin slices, the blood sausage is cut into thick slices with an oblique knife, and neatly stacked on the sauerkraut stewed with large bones.
In addition, there are sauce bones, fat intestines, stir-fried pork liver, and a plate of bone-breaking meat to protect the heart, this pig-killing dish can be described as full of sincerity.
At this time, the domestic black-haired pig, the taste of pork is just one word, fragrant! The smell of the roasted meat in the yard is full, and the cats at the two ends are also in the house, and the kitchen yard jumps back and forth. The type led Erduan and his three younger brothers out of the kitchen, one of them holding a piece of meat in his hand and gnawing on it, and his little mouth was oily.
While the grandmother was preparing the meal, she looked at the door from time to time, thinking about her old son who was going home today. It's almost noon, why haven't you arrived home yet?
Seeing that the meal was about to start, even the two ends felt that even if the uncle didn't come back, the father should come back?
The whole family was thinking about the uncle, and at this time they ran into the courtyard with the three younger brothers going out to play, panting and saying to the grandfather: "Master, my uncle is back!
The type of person surprised the family, and they looked at each other, Zhou Jingran, who hadn't been home for two years, what kind of trouble did he make?