Chapter 129: The Great Year
When I went home at night, although everyone was very tired, Yang Xiaobei was just shouting tired. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoBut the harvest is full, and the baskets of fish divided according to the head are happily brought back by everyone. People who work and play crazy all day are wet with clothes and shoes, but they can't take a bath and sleep right away, and it's best to dispose of the fish overnight, otherwise it will not be good to put it the next day.
Because the temperature was too low at night, Yang Laohan decided that the father and son would kill and wash the fish. Well, although this is the work of the women, but it is night, and no one sees it......
When Yang Xiaobei got up the next day, he saw that the processed fish had been hung up with palm leaves and hung in a long string in the house. These fish and meat should be cooked in advance on the 28th and 29th to prepare for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. In addition to the fresh fish needed for the Chinese New Year's Eve meal, all of them are smeared with salt, and after marinating, they are smoked into cured fish, and a few dried chili peppers are put to cook out for special rice, which is not easy to spoil, which is a rare delicacy after the year.
And after the fish in the pond are grasped, there is another thing to eat during the New Year, that is, lotus root. There is no need to divide this, thousands of kilograms of lotus root have been produced in any pond, no one can eat so much, generally they dig as much as their own family eats, after all, digging lotus root is not an easy task, tired and cold. Every year, most of the lotus roots are rotten in the mud, and very few are utilized.
Yang Xiaobei knows that this lotus root is also a business, and if it is done well, the red lotus root in northern Hubei is tender and fragrant, and it is also famous for its deliciousness. But now it's still collective, and there are a lot of things that aren't so flexible. Second, if you want to do this business, it is best to start digging lotus root one month before the year, and now this time has already passed. There must still be someone who buys it, the question is who does it? Forget it, let's keep it in my heart and talk about it later.
There are still a lot of things to be busy in the past few years, and basically revolve around "eating". In the non-stop beating of tofu and killing chickens, it has reached the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month. On this day a year ago, Yang Xiaobei was still catching the high-speed train in Puhai in the morning! The world is impermanent! This year, she was already busy with croquettes early in the morning.
There are the most things to do today. As mentioned earlier, the reunion dinner here in my hometown is breakfast, and it is better to be early. Last year, because I sent my second aunt to the hospital, my family was almost the last family in the village to celebrate the New Year. So this year, it's more and more important to rush a little earlier. All the time-consuming dishes have to be done today, including fried meatballs, boiled pork head, fish jelly, etc.
There is no extra meat to make meatballs, and now they are all vegetarian lotus root balls, sweet potato balls, mung bean balls, and so on. However, when it comes out of the pan, it is crispy and tangy, and it is not much worse than meatballs. Sister Rong is just in the kitchen and doesn't leave, it's better to be sister-in-law! There is meat to eat every day at home, and there are delicious meatballs for the New Year, and there is one and another one! Sister-in-law is the best! Sister Rong prayed silently that it would be good if my sister-in-law would never get married!
waited until Yang Xiaobei ate while frying, and Sister Rong had to eat a round belly, and then it was almost over to steal food (is it okay to eat brightly!). ), and then use the frying pan of the fried meatballs to start frying the fish. The way to make fish in my hometown is to fry the fish thoroughly, put it on the bean paste, dried chili, green onions, ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, add water to boil to taste, and finally add shredded white radish. The shredded radish absorbs the fresh and spicy taste of the fish, which is the essence of this bowl of fish!
The highlight of the evening is to cook the pig's head, put a whole smoked pig's head into a large pot, and cook it until you can insert chopsticks through. Then the bones are dismantled with bare hands, and the meat is left for a plate of final appetizers. Of course, the bones that are dismantled will not be wasted, and there is always some meat on them that cannot be removed, so everyone will gnaw on one piece at a time!
Don't mention this image. The gnawed bones are left for Wang Xingren, and they can be gnawed for three months!
In the midst of the hustle and bustle, it was finally the Chinese New Year's Eve. For Yang Xiaobei, getting up at 6 o'clock in the morning can almost offset the anticipation of the New Year. But I can't help it, there's still a big table of dishes to cook! After two hours of busy work, I finally soothed my wounded heart with a table full of rich dishes. Well, only good food can be forgiven!
This year, the Yang family celebrated the New Year in the old house, and the uncle's family also arrived. Everything is the same as last year, except that the children are a year older, and the family has a happy New Year. Different from last year's newcomer, this year Yang Xiaobei has been loved by so many children. The little ones know that only the sister-in-law has countless delicious food, and the big ones such as Sister Fang and Sister Ling will pester the sister-in-law to ask about the latest style, and only the sister-in-law looks the best in dressing! Now the "red people" in the family are except for Yang Xiaobei, who is not thinking about being a second person.
When worshipping his ancestors at night, Yang Laohan chattered alone in front of Grandma Yang's grave and muttered for a long time. The past year has been a tumultuous one for him, and there is so much to say. The youngest son was finally admitted to college and married. The daughter-in-law is a good one, and the in-laws are also good. My daughter is sensible and capable, she has attended a training course and will become a doctor next year. He also made a lot of money in business, and he took it out to build a house for his brothers......
"Hey, old woman, our family's good days are coming! It's a pity you can't see it. In the end, Yang Laohan smoked a dry cigarette and said softly to his wife underground. The woman who had married in a red dress appeared in front of him again, with a hearty smile, a quick worker, and so many children, all of whom were well raised. Pity......
"Daddy! Why aren't you coming home yet? It's too cold outside, beware of the cold! When the eldest daughter who went home to the grave saw that he had not returned, she knew that her father was talking to her mother again, and she was busy finding the mountain. When she was young, her father was upset but often went to stay in front of her mother's grave, and since her little sister was lost, she never went again, she knew that her father felt that she had no face to see her mother. No, the little sister is back, and he starts to like to run up the hill again.
Yang Laohan is also sixty years old. In the countryside, he is already relatively old, and Sister Yang thinks that he always runs up the mountain badly, according to superstition, doesn't this mean that he wants to go up the mountain? Besides, if my mother thinks that she misses her father, what if she brings him over? The brothers and sisters can already have no mother, but they don't want to go to their father so early.
Seeing that his eldest daughter came over, Yang Laohan couldn't say "whispers" to his wife anymore, so he got up and went back without saying a word. The family is already very lively, and the daughters and sons-in-law haven't seen Yang Qitai for a long time, and they all make fun of "college students"!
On the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve and the 15th day of the first month, candles and oil lamps were lit in every room, all of which were lit up. The children were all here, everyone was talking and laughing, and the children were running around like crazy. A large population means prosperity and hope. Under the bright lights, surrounded by children and grandchildren, festive and lively, Yang Laohan's little melancholy that had just sprung up had long disappeared without a trace.