Chapter 76: Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner (1)

Zhou Shujie saw that the two children were playing very well, neither bumping into each other, nor falling to the ground.

She was relieved to go to the field to work on her, but she would go into the house from time to time to take a look, and make sure that the two children were okay, and she was continuing to be busy.

First, boil a large pot of hot water in a foreign pot, which is used for washing meat and vegetables for a while.

I stirred a bowl of paste with boiling water from the stove, and took out the three couplets that my grandfather had written for her from the quilt.

Put a table on the ground floor of the house, and start pasting the couplet.

Zhou Shujie ran inside and outside the house several times, and finally pasted the three pairs of gates, the warehouse door, and the outhouse door.

At a glance, there were two left, one was pasted on the well, and the other was the blessing word posted outside the gate.

Zhou Shujie first picked up the well that said "Clear spring for 100 mouths, perfume for all people" and wiped the paste, and then went outside to paste it on the well.

The last one is a big blessing word, and the rest of the paste is smeared on this big blessing word.

Zhou Shujie carried it to the gate and pasted the word Fu upside down on the gate.

After pasting the couplet, I hurriedly went into the house and roasted my frozen hands by the fire, and the hands of this house felt numb when they were frozen.

When his hands were not so stiff, he put away the table on the ground again.

I went to the outhouse and took a few potatoes, sat on the edge of the kang, and beat the potato skins while watching the children.

Zhou Shujie plans to use this potato to shreds, put shredded cabbage, and shredded kelp to mix a cold dish. After beating the potatoes, wash them and set them aside.

Go ahead and prepare other things to use.

The old skin on the cabbage has been picked.

The seaweed has been soaked long ago, washed and rolled into rolls.

Put the chopped pheasant in a pot and blanch it.

The monkey's head, which was soaked in advance to be stewed with pheasants, was also washed out and torn into small pieces.

This dish (pheasant stewed lion's mane mushroom), Zhou Shujie plans to put it in a casserole to stew.

A hare was also unloaded by Zhou Shujie.

This hare, she planned to eat it in a dry stew, so she did not prepare other side dishes.

The fish was washed and the meat was chopped.

Even the noodles that were going to be used to make dumplings at night were reconciled.

Just wait for the evening to start making dumplings!

This year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Zhou Shujie plans to cook four dishes.

Except for one cold dish, the other three are meat dishes.

She wants to spend this year with her mother-in-law!

This is her first year of marrying into the Sun family!

It's also her first year back!

Zhou Shujie finished packing up these things for cooking at night.

Turned around and went into the house, and took out the hazelnuts that had dried in the fall.

Brush the cauldron in the outhouse, fill it with straw and start the fire, and fry the hazelnuts in the outhouse.

Now the peanuts, toffee, melon seeds, firecrackers, these things to be used for the New Year in the supply and marketing cooperatives are still not enough to sell.

The last time I went to catch the big set, before it was Zhou Shujie's turn, the firecrackers were already sold.

The two 100-ring firecrackers that are now on the kang at her house were sent to her by her second brother later.

Seeing the firecrackers and thinking about it carefully, Zhou Shujie knew that her second brother got it there.

He must have gone to find the girl who sold goods in the supply and marketing cooperative, haha!

Peanuts and melon seeds or something, Zhou Shujie didn't buy them, she had hazelnuts at home, she just thought about stir-frying them for the New Year.

You can't be in a hurry to fry the hazelnuts, you have to slow down and pull them diligently, otherwise you should fry the paste.

After frying for a while, Zhou Shujie took out two hazelnuts from the pot and tasted them.

I felt that it was almost there, so I put the hazelnuts in the dustpan and added a ladle of water to the pot.

I took the dustpan and went to the outside to dustpan twice, and blew out the small deflated and empty shells inside.

As soon as Zhou Shujie took the hazelnuts into the back room, he saw that his mother-in-law had woken up. The mother-in-law, who has slept once, is obviously in much better spirits than in the morning.

Take the hazelnut and put it in front of your mother-in-law.

Anyway, now Zhou Shujie is not busy, the things have been cleaned up, and the child is asleep, so she sits there and smashes the hazelnuts one by one for her mother-in-law to eat.

In modern times, if many children fall asleep, they dare not make the slightest noise for fear of disturbing the child.

In the countryside of Zhou Shujie's era, there has never been such a thing, and even Zhou Shujie's children can now sleep peacefully in the sound of his mother smashing hazelnuts.

Zhou Shujie smashed two handfuls of real sons for her mother-in-law. Seeing that she was a little thirsty from eating, she went to pour her a glass of warm water to drink.

After the mother-in-law drank the water, she took out the candy ball she bought again and put one in her mother-in-law's mouth.

The mother-in-law grinned as she ate the candy, and Zhou Shujie also laughed.

I looked at my watch, and it was still a little early before the time to cook.

Zhou Shujie talked to her mother-in-law for a while.

praised the beautiful clothes on her mother-in-law.

I praised my mother-in-law's hair well!

Actually, she combed this hair in the morning!

If you say anything else, your mother-in-law may not understand it very well, but she understands what she praises her!

As soon as she heard Zhou Shujie praise her, she looked at her clothes for a while, and raised her hand to touch her head for a while.

Time is almost gone.

Zhou Shujie also started to cook.

Dumplings should also be eaten at this meal tonight, dumplings at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and dumplings on the morning of the first day of the new year.

Therefore, I have to eat many dumplings this year.

The noodles have been reconciled a long time ago, and a piece of it is taken out of it, kneaded on the panel, and placed there.

I took a basin and divided the meat and chopped green onion a little, put it, oil, salt, monosodium glutamate, and stir well, which will be used for a while.

The rest of the meat filling is still left there and does not move, just wait for it to be eaten and mixed now, otherwise it will not taste good after a long time.

After mixing the dumpling filling, Zhou Shujie kneaded the dough and began to knead the mixture.

The mother-in-law watched from the side for a while.

glanced at Zhou Shujie and found that Zhou Shujie was not looking at her, so he leaned forward, wanted to reach out but didn't dare, and meowed Zhou Shujie with his eyes.

Looking at the mother-in-law's eager appearance. Zhou Shujie held back her joy and asked her mother-in-law: "Mother, do you want to play with dough, if you want to play, you have to wash your hands, you can't play without washing your hands." ”

When the mother-in-law heard this, she washed her hands and was able to play.

She got off the ground with a quick movement, dragged her shoes, and ran to the washbasin to wash her hands.

After washing, I put it in front of Zhou Shujie and let her see if it was clean.

Straight Zhou Shujie nodded and said, "It's clean."

With an innocent smile on her face, the mother-in-law picked it up and played with the dough in her hand.

Seeing her mother-in-law's smile, Zhou Shujie understood in seconds.

She has become a child of a few years old again, this is really a changeable mother-in-law.

One dough took sixty-one machines.

gave her mother-in-law a leftover sixty dumplings, and the time for a cup of tea was wrapped up by Zhou Shujie.

These dumplings can be cooked on four plates, and she and her mother-in-law can eat two pots each.

Zhou Shujie finished wrapping dumplings here, and her mother-in-law also finished her work.

The mother-in-law offered a treasure and held it up to Zhou Shujie with her hand.

Zhou Shujie looked at the palm of her mother-in-law's hand, and the dough was pinched into a rooster by her mother-in-law. You pinched it very similarly, and Zhou Shujie was a little surprised when she saw it.

My mother-in-law seems to have a lot of things, and she will surprise her all the time.

Zhou Shujie smiled and praised: "It's so good-looking! Mother, you are so good!"

When her mother-in-law heard Zhou Shujie's praise for her, it was as if she had received a lot of affirmation, and her eyes narrowed with joy.

Until Zhou Shujie cooked dumplings and asked her mother-in-law to eat.

She put the she had been holding in her hand on the windowsill.

As soon as the dumplings were brought to the table, the two children woke up one after another.

Zhou Shujie smiled and said to the lazy children: "You two are so in a hurry, hmm! Are you afraid of detaining you outside your helmet?"

The two children lay on the kang, watching his mother and grandmother eat dumplings, and after waiting for a long time, they didn't see that his mother had the intention of giving them to them.

was so anxious that you said "ah!" on the kang, and he said "oh" and stretched out his hand to Zhou Shujie.

This dinner, Zhou Shujie and her mother-in-law finished it with the sound of the child's soundtrack.