The meat that Li Mei bought back waited for about seven days to marinate before it could taste good. The bacon can only be put on www.biquge.info for a few months without spoiling. This time, because of the time, the number of days of pickling did not reach that long, only five days, Li Mei took out the meat and washed it twice with hot water.

Wash the meat and wait for the wind to blow it clean. Therefore, in this way, the day when Li Meineng smoked meat was already the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month.

Early in the morning of the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Li Mei went to see the meat, and when she saw that there was no moisture, Li Mei built a simple stove with mud and stones in the courtyard. However, this stove is not used for other stoves, and it is not used for cooking, but for bacon, so this stove is straight on both sides, but empty in the middle.

After the stove was ready, Li Mei went to find some long thick wood, skewered the meat with wood, and then put it on top of the stove, and finally found something unwanted to cover it, so that the smoke would not run out.

After all this is done, the meat is smoked, and this smoked meat is also methodical, and you can't use good wood, so as not to burn the meat. Wet wood is the best, so not only will there be more smoke, but the meat will not burn. Just add some cypress branches to it from time to time. To be honest, every time I smoked pork in the past, I had to add cypress branches, and I heard that this one with cypress branches would be more fragrant, but Li Meizhi had never eaten any difference. Now she thinks about cypress branches, also because she used to add it every time she smoked meat

The meat was smoked for a day, and the meat basically turned yellow, so Li Mei put out the fire and didn't smoke it again. After extinguishing the fire, Li Mei moved the smoked meat to the house and hung it.

Looking at the smoked pork, Li Mei couldn't help but swallow her saliva, and endured it for a long time before she resisted the urge to take it down and cook it.

In later generations, I often heard this expert say that it is not good to eat too much bacon, and that expert said that it is not good to eat too much bacon. However, people like them here, when they should smoke bacon during the Chinese New Year, they smoke bacon when they should eat it, and they still eat it, and they don't take what those experts say to heart anyway.

Li Mei didn't take these words to heart, if she had taken them to heart, she wouldn't have done them today. Because bacon has become indispensable in their lives.

Li Mei smoked in her yard for a day, and Tang Nengzhen was already dissatisfied. Now I saw that the bacon was finally ready, but Li Mei didn't keep a piece and took it back to her room directly, and she didn't mean to take a piece of meat to them at all.

Li Mei really didn't plan to give bacon to Tang Nengzhen this time, she didn't plan to eat these meats at all, she planned to take all of them to the army when she joined the army in the future.

"Sister-in-law, aren't you going to grind some rice balls?" asked Liu Hongmei with a smile during dinner in the evening.

Hearing this, Li Mei shook her head directly, "I'm too lazy to grind alone, my mother-in-law said that she will send me some to make rice balls tomorrow." ”

"Sister-in-law, your mother's family is really good to you. Hearing Li Mei say this, Liu Hongmei immediately smiled.

"Your mother's family is also good to you. ”

The two praised each other about their mother's family, and Li Mei also asked casually, "I don't seem to see Zijun and his grandmother today, they didn't grind rice balls, don't they plan to eat rice balls when they are divided into one year in the new year?"

Tomorrow will be the Chinese New Year's Eve, and according to rural customs, Mozi will rest on this day. If you don't grind the rice ball noodles today, it means that you won't be able to grind them tomorrow.

Li Mei didn't grind, that's because her mother's family would send it to her. But Tang Nengzhen and their family of three, does she expect someone to send her some?

"I don't know. Liu Hongmei shook her head, "Anyway, the little glutinous rice ball noodles in our house are enough to eat on the morning of the first day of junior high school, and there is no superfluity." ”

Liu Hongmei's next sentence was not said to Li Mei, she deliberately said it to Zhao Wenhua. It means to tell Zhao Wenhua that they don't have many families, and Tang Nengzhen wants to ask them, but it's impossible.

I don't know if Zhao Wenhua understood the meaning of Liu Hongmei's words, anyway, he only had his dinner, and he didn't say a word.

This was originally asked by Li Mei casually, so Tang Nengzhen didn't care about whether they wanted to eat dumplings on the first day of the Lunar New Year. What she is most concerned about is whether the Zhao family will have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together this year.

New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year's Eve dinner has been very important to the Chinese people since ancient times. Even the poorest people will cook a table of good dishes to sacrifice their ancestors on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

This year, the Zhao family has split up, and so far, Zhao Tianzhu's in-laws have not come to tell them whether they will have Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together tomorrow or eat their own families.

"What are you planning for this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner?" The father-in-law and mother-in-law did not make any plans, and Li Mei had to be next to Liu Hongmei. After all, Liu Hongmei was more interested than her when she married into the Zhao family, and the customs of the Zhao family knew more than her.

"Until now, my father-in-law has not told us the meaning of eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together, and I think 80% of them are eating their own this year." "Liu Hongmei has long considered the matter of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. Therefore, as soon as Li Mei asked, she directly told Li Mei what she thought in her heart.

Regarding Liu Hongmei's conjecture, Li Mei is very much in agreement. "What does our family usually do during the Chinese New Year?"

"We don't have any special places in our house, and we usually do our best to make a table of dishes at night. Then ask the old man (ancestors and ancestors) to come back, and after sending the old man away, we can eat. By the way, sister-in-law, don't forget the most important thing, on the first day of junior high school, you have to get up early to burn paper money at the grave of the old man......"

The paper money that was originally given to the elderly was burned on the last day of the year. But now that the four olds are broken, they are not allowed to believe in these things. But everyone is afraid that they will not burn some paper money for the old people during the New Year, and the old people will not have a good life underground. When everyone was in the first year of junior high school, they secretly went to burn paper money for the elderly in various families without waiting for dawn.

Although this is done secretly, everyone basically knows it. As long as you don't make a fuss, basically every household does this.

In the past, the Zhao family was not separated, but Zhao Tianzhu took several sons to burn paper before dawn. But now that they are separated, and they don't eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together, this paper-burning thing is probably also a separate action.

Liu Hongmei: They are okay, although they are separated, they can let their men go. But Li Mei is very embarrassed here, she is a woman, and she asked her to burn some paper in the middle of the night, isn't this embarrassing for her?

Originally, she was afraid of this kind of thing, and asked her to burn paper alone, and she dared there. For the first time, Li Mei felt that Zhao Yuanchao was not at home, which was really inconvenient at all.

However, Li Mei also thought about it. When it comes to burning paper for the old man, she will directly ask Zhao Wenhua to let her go, which is really absolutely impossible.