Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky, twenty-four, sweeping the house, twenty-five, grinding tofu, twenty-six, stewing mutton, twenty-seven, slaughtering roosters......

As the days of the New Year get closer and closer, the flavor of the New Year is getting heavier and heavier. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Every family began to get busy around the Chinese New Year, rushing to sell pigs and chickens and ducks, or harvesting vegetables from the field and sending them to the market to sell, all thinking about saving more money before the New Year.

Rural people are willing to buy New Year's goods after a year of hard work, and those who have money and those who don't have money are all buying big bags and small bags at home.

Although Lin Caiwei's family bought some New Year's goods in Xicheng, the New Year's goods they bought last time were only a small part, because they couldn't take them because they bought too many clothes.

In addition, for many years in the countryside, the goods are made by the locals themselves, and the quality is better and cheaper.

So on this day, their family drove a three-wheeled motorcycle to sell New Year's goods.

The bazaar is more lively than ever, with people coming and going.

After Lin Aiguo found a place to park the car, he followed Guan Lanfen's mother and daughter to work silently as coolies.

There is a big stall at the entrance of the bazaar, which is full of all kinds of Spring Festival couplets and different styles of blessing characters, the fiery red color with gold powder edging, the meaning is excellent, symbolizing the New Year is prosperous, full of gold and jade.

The stall was full of people, and the little daughters-in-law and big girls gathered around to pick and choose, ask about the price, and then take the Spring Festival couplets and leave satisfied, and continue to shop at the next stop.

Guan Lanfen also squeezed in and picked out a very beautiful couplet and blessing characters, she made money this year, and she was confident, so she decided to buy a better one.

After paying, I walked inside, there was a small stall to buy pastries, on which there were all kinds of self-made pastries and desserts, winter melon candy, mille-feuille pastry, baked cake slices, cat feces candy, peanut candy, nougat, and there were many people standing in front of the stall.

This is the New Year, and I have to weigh more than ten catties of candy and pastries to bring back to entertain the guests of the New Year, and give the children snacks to eat.

So they are all generously weighed a few catties, pay quickly, and continue to sweep the goods at the next stall.

Lin Caiwei doesn't like sweets, but her mother likes it, and she also needs to entertain guests, and she also needs to prepare for her grandparents and grandparents, so she has to buy more candy and put it away.

There are also all kinds of fruits, oranges, apples, oranges, bananas, apples, grapefruits, and other seasonal fruits, Guan Lanfen bought two boxes of each, which was so bitter that Lin Aiguo, who was following him, had to go back and forth.

Then there are the dry goods, fried peanuts, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, chestnuts and so on.

There are also all kinds of drinks that I usually like to drink, and I bought two cases.

Next are chickens, ducks, fish, and pigs, this year Lin Caiwei's pigs are gone, Guan Lanfen thought about buying a good pig from her mother's family.

Why do you want to buy so much, because the custom of the New Year in Xiaotun Town is to buy a lot of pork, cut it into the size of a baby's fist, put salt and fry it in oil, after frying, if you don't have much, you can eat it during the whole New Year.

If there are more, some people directly fry half a pig, after frying, soak it in lard, and then store it in that kind of one-meter-high urn, which can be eaten for a year and a half, and will not be bad.

Like Lin Caiwei's family, they have to marinate bacon in winter every year, and pork is indispensable, and since starting a stall business, the signature breakfast, broad beans and potatoes bacon stewed rice, at least her homemade bacon.

Four or five chickens were bought, two ducks were bought, and a few fatty fish were picked up, and these were brought back to be raised first, and slaughtered on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

The bazaar is full of blue and blue, and there are all kinds of cheap stall clothes, those with poor family backgrounds, gritting their teeth, and having children buy a set of New Year's clothes, can only be bought here, so these stall owners are doing well, and the so-called counting money to hand cramps.

At this time, when I came to the pork stall of Lin Caiwei's grandmother's house, there were too many people, and Lin Caiwei's uncle Guan Zhongbao and aunt Guan Lanzhen were all helping to weigh the meat.

Guan Lanfen took advantage of the fact that there were a little fewer people, and stepped forward to say hello, "Mom, business is very good these days, leave us a pig, and it will be done at the market price." ”

"Okay, I know, ask Aiguo to come to our house tomorrow morning to get it, your father is good to kill now", Zou Yufeng took the time to reply, and the action of cutting meat on his hand did not stop.

Guan Lanfen hurriedly agreed, turned around and saw her sister Guan Lanzhen, and teased, "Yo, you are here for my busy man, thinking that you are busy with objects and don't even return home." ”

"Sister, what are you talking about, don't talk nonsense, I'll ignore you", as she spoke, Guan Lanzhen glared at her eldest sister, which made the young men around the meat stall feel distracted for a while.

"Okay, okay, don't talk about you, Xiaobao, what about our dad", Guan Lanfen said funny, turned her head and asked her little brother.

Guan Zhongbao frowned and complained, "Sister, our dad is busy killing pigs, there are too many people killing pigs recently, my dad wants me to go, so I will flee to our mother, but it's so busy here, I'm almost tired." ”

"Okay, you can be content, be careful that our dad beats you!", Guan Lanfen scolded with an angry smile.

"Mom, bring me fifty catties of fat first, I'll take it back to refine oil", Guan Lanfen no longer paid attention to her younger brother and said to Zou Yufeng.

Holding the fat meat divided into several bags, Lin Caiwei and her parents went home in the car.

When he got home, Lin Aiguo moved the New Year's goods piled up on the car to the hall, and Guan Lanfen took a few basins of water and prepared to wash the fatty meat.

After washing, cut it into pieces, heat the pot, pour the fat into it to refine the oil, and when it is poured in, the pot makes a magnetic sound, and gradually the oil begins to seep out, and the air exudes a strong fragrance.

Fifty catties of fat meat refining oil can not use the small pot that usually stir-fries, but the big pot on the stove, so it can only be lit with firewood.

Lin Aiguo sat next to the stove, stuffing straw and wood into the bottom of the pot from time to time.

There is a long chimney on the stove facing the outside of the house, standing on the roof, emitting thick smoke, which is very spectacular from a distance.

There are also fish that have slipped through the net, and some smoke makes Lin Aiguo cough non-stop, so he has to cover the fire hole with a lid from time to time, but this cover cannot be covered for a long time, otherwise the fire will be extinguished.

"Weiwei, you go out and wait first, it's too choking in this kitchen, and the oil residue will come out after a while, and your mother will call you", Guan Lanfen looked at her daughter who was coughing from the smoke, and said distressedly.

Lin Caiwei nodded, moved a small bench and sat outside, she took a deep breath of cold air, and instantly felt much better.

In the future, you must buy a range hood, so it is really troublesome to burn the fire, and it also pollutes the environment, and the kitchen is smoked black, which looks dirty, and it also has an impact on health.

Thinking of these, she misses practical appliances such as air conditioners, range hoods, and refrigerators.

In the cold air, the fragrance wafting everywhere, Lin Caiwei felt that although the weather was cold, her heart was very warm. (To be continued.) )