Eighty-eight, the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve

As soon as Qiē was ready, it finally arrived at the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Tie Dan'er's mother got up early in the morning, boiled the batter of the Spring Festival couplets, and added a little glue into it, which was more sticky.

Gu Haiping and Tie Dan'er took a paste basin and a couplet, swept the outside wall with a broom, and then quickly applied the hot paste on it, and immediately pressed the Spring Festival couplets on it, a little slower, the paste froze into ice, and there was no way to stick the Spring Festival couplets.

Gu Haiping and Tie Dan'er were quick with their hands and feet, and it didn't take long to paste all the Spring Festival couplets in the two courtyards.

Tie Dan'er praised Gu Haiping: "In the end, he is a scholar, his brain is quick, and he works fast and well!"

Shandan answered: "Then I'm not a scholar, I post couplets with you every year, and I haven't seen you praise me." My hands are numb from the cold, and it's hard work. "A look of grievance.

"You're doing a good job, but you're not as good as Haiping Mali. Tie Dan'er saw that her sister was jealous, so she hurriedly said.

Since she was a child, Tie Dan'er has let Shandan, coaxing her to spoil her, and Shandan has not been strong, so her mother asked Tie Dan'er and Erlian to let her more, not to make her angry and make her cry.

As soon as Shandan started crying when he was a child, it didn't end until he cried out of breath and his face turned purple, and his mother was always frightened and at a loss, so it was strictly forbidden for the other two children to provoke Shandan.

Tie Dan'er and Erlian are also used to letting Shandan do everything. Never argue with her and make her angry. Now that Shandan has grown up, the family has become accustomed to it, and they still take care of her as usual.

The first time Gu Haiping came to Shandan's house, he found that the family seemed to be careful about Shandan's handling of things and talking, which was very uncomfortable.

How did he know about the hardships of Shandan's childhood and childhood.

Although she is pampered, but the family's hard work has been deeply imprinted in Shandan's memory since childhood, her mother's strength and hard-working have also deeply affected her, and her brother and sister's early dropout of school also gave her a great stimulus, she has no slack and shirk, and has already tied the family's future and hardships with her own future and destiny. She figured out that Guò would study and be admitted to university, and then have the ability to repay the love of her parents and siblings.

After the mother cleaned the cauldron, she prepared the stew for noon, and the skeleton of a sheep was all stewed in one pot.

The weather of the Mongolian Plateau belongs to the alpine zone, and the food all year round is steamed, stewed, boiled, stewed, and most of them are a large pot of vegetables plus steamed buns, unlike the southerners who have several dishes and one soup for every meal.

Stew, like stew, puts all the ingredients together and cooks them in one pot for a complete nutrition. The main thing is to eat hot dishes, you have to fry several plates, and before the dishes are ready, they have already cooled down, how to eat?

Moreover, there is a shortage of vegetables, and only potatoes are the main vegetables all year round.

Mongolian steppe people dig the way to eat potatoes to the end of the mountains! You can eat dozens of tricks: potato stuffed buns, dumplings, pies, shredded potatoes (vinegar, sweet and sour, minced garlic, cold salad...). Potato chips, frying, cooking, and everything else.

There are also different foods that can be made with various ingredients: fish and fish, noodles and noodles, noodles and cakes, and noodles...... Wait, wait.

Almost every day's diet is inseparable from the shadow of potatoes, so stews, stews, except for beef and mutton is the world of potatoes, soaked in the juice of meat, the potatoes in the entrance are delicious and sweet, so naturally there is nothing to say.

Potatoes are the king of vegetables, its nutritional value is very high, almost all kinds of elements required by the human body, especially plant cellulose can also promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and timely discharge of human waste.

Therefore, the Mongolian steppe people eat little green vegetables all year round, and most of them eat milk, pasta, potatoes, and meat, but they are all strong and healthy. Most of this is also thanks to the blessing of potatoes.

Tie Dan'er simmered a pot of mutton for an hour or two, then added peeled and hob-cut potatoes and stewed for half an hour. Add potato vermicelli and cook for a while while when it comes out of the pot, sprinkle with chopped green onions, and a pot of fragrant stewed lamb is out of the pot.

Gu Haiping's home is in Qianshan, which belongs to the agricultural area, and he has never raised many sheep, nor has he seen a big pot of mutton stewed like this. The meat has not yet come out of the pot, and the aroma has already come to the nose. He also felt the boldness of the steppe people eating meat and drinking wine in large bowls.

The so-called front mountain people and back mountain people are bounded by the Yinshan mountain range, and in front of the Daqing Mountain, where Hohwa is located, is the agricultural area, which is also commonly known as the front mountain, and behind is a large grassland, which is the pastoral area or the back mountain of semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral pasture.

It has always been the people of the front mountain who look down on the people of the back mountain, and the people who come back to the mountains who look down on the people of the front mountain.

The people in front of the mountain said that the people in the back mountains were stunned, and the people in the back mountains said that the people in the front mountains were traitorous.

In fact, the world of the grassland people in the back mountains is vast, with herds of cattle and sheep, and what is achieved is a broad vision and chest, and the spirit is naturally open-minded and broad. The Qianshan people exchanged the few foreign goods that were lacking in the grassland for the cattle, horses, and sheep of the grassland people, and then sold them at a high price. The simplicity of the grassland people was calculated and used by the Qianshan people.

After taking advantage of them many times, the shrewdness of the former mountain people also left a bad impression on the grassland people, and they were reluctant to deal with them more.

The natural environment in which the Qianshan people live is suitable for planting all kinds of crops, the land is scarce, the agricultural civilization is naturally developing rapidly, and the transportation is also relatively developed, so the Qianshan people are lively and calculating.

The first time Gu Haiping came to Shandan's house, Shandan's mother heard that he was from Qianshan, and her heart was not very happy, but fortunately, Gu Haiping had the shrewdness of Qianshan people, and he did not lose the kindness of the grassland people, so he won the trust of the two old men.

Busy and busy, it was almost noon, Tie Dan'er's mother put the stewed pot of mutton bones in a large basin, served it on the kang table, and the family sat around and began to eat meat and drink. The wine is not much, and it is not until the sunset calms the nerves that the Mongolian men can let go of their respective amounts of alcohol and drink booze.

Gu Haiping also washed his hands and sat at the kang table, picked up a bone and gnawed it like everyone else, Tie Dan'er poured a few wine bottles full of wine, and asked everyone to toast, Tie Dan'er didn't drink alcohol, Fan'e, Shandan and Erlian meant it, Tie Dan'er's mother and Tie Dan'er, Gu Haiping each drank a bottle. Tie Dan'er's son Xiaoyu is also already running around, and he can eat meat in large pieces.

Gu Haiping dipped a little wine with chopsticks and put it in Xiaoyu's mouth, everyone thought that Xiaoyu would cry spicily, but Xiaoyu tasted it sweetly, and the family was happy. Hehe, this kid is another one who can drink.

Gu Haiping drank some wine and blushed his face, looking like he was drunk, so when Tie Dan'er poured the wine again, Shandan said not to pour it for Gu Haiping, he couldn't drink wine, and she didn't know how much Gu Haiping had drunk.

Gu Haiping also shirked and said that the amount of alcohol was not good, Tie Dan'er poured two more bottles and said: "Come to the riverbank grassland, how can you pass the customs without drinking three bottles?" Although the local custom is that the brother-in-law does not joke with his brother-in-law, Tie Dan'er and Gu Haiping are the same age, so they joked with Gu Haiping.

Shandan looked at it and was not easy to persuade, she was embarrassed to make her brother feel that she was protecting Gu Haiping, and if she stopped it, it would look small. He also jokingly said: "Brother, I see if you see that there is less meat in the basin, and first get drunk with a mouth that eats less meat?"

The whole family laughed, and Tie Dan'er also laughed: "Hehehe, no! We have meat, but not as much wine as sheep! Haiping is a guest, how can there be a reason not to give guests good wine?"

Tie Dan'er's mother persuaded Tie Dan'er: "Drink less at noon, you still have a livelihood to do in the future, so don't drink too much personally." ”

Tie Dan'er just stopped.

After lunch, the family began to take their seats and prepare for the evening greeting event.

Tie Dan'er's mother and two daughters make dumplings, and they want to eat net mutton stuffed dumplings on the first day of the new year, which is Tie Dan'er's favorite, because when he was a child, his family life has been poor, and there is not enough meat to eat a meal of clean meat dumplings on the first day of the new year.

I eat it every other year, but the iron egg has never been satisfied, which may be the reason why the deficit in childhood cannot be made up for in a lifetime.

Lamb filling, increase green onions. When preparing for the New Year's goods in the lunar month, meat and eggs, carrot eggs, and cabbage eggs are ready.

Meat, eggs, and eggs are to slice the frozen whole roll of mutton or pork first, then cut into strips, then cut into cubes, and then chop, kneaded into a round ball and put it in the natural freezer (granary) to freeze, which is the meat and eggs.

Carrot eggs are first shredded with a rubber, then cooked in a pot of boiling water, cooled and kneaded into a ball. The soup from the marsh carrots is the raw material for boiling the sweets. The cabbage eggs are chopped a little first, and the marsh is cooked and cooled and kneaded into balls.

In the first month, I have to eat dumplings every morning, and the night before, I will take all kinds of eggs home to thaw, and then chop some more, add seasonings to make dumplings well, and the previous work saves a lot of steps for making dumplings in the first month.

In the wax moon, Tie Dan'er's mother has already carried a pot of green onions, which is used for cooking in the first month.

Mung bean sprouts, soybean sprouts or black bean sprouts that are grown in the lunar month are the main appetizers in the first lunar month.

The three mothers wrapped the dumplings and put them on the dumplings, and the dumplings were neatly aligned, like a white-feathered swan about to go into the water!

Tie Dan'er and Gu Haiping prepared firewood for the fire at night, as well as artillery battles and fireworks.

When Shandan was a child, there were only a few second kicks and a small string of firecrackers at home during the New Year, so Shandan and Erlian got up early on the first day of the new year, got up early to go to each courtyard to pick up the firecrackers that were not lit on Chinese New Year's Eve, and took them home to light them again.

Most of the poverty in each family has been picked up by themselves, and only a few of them have escaped the net.

There are also some that the fuse did not sound after burning, so Shandan picked it up, broke it in half and used a little fire, "Ah-" sparks flew everywhere, a puff of blue smoke rose, and the thick smell of gunpowder permeated the whole room, and the family was intoxicated with this New Year's smell.

Nowadays, life is rich, and every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, I buy a lot of fireworks.

When I arrived at sunset, I heard that every household was lighting the first cannon battle, and I was calm.

An Shen is roughly to tell the immortals who will come to duty in the coming year, and everyone is ready to welcome the arrival of a new round of immortals.