Since Beijing can't go back, it is natural to spend the New Year at Wang Xuanjue's house, so in the past two days, Song Hui and Liu Yun went out to buy the things needed for the New Year as soon as they were free.

Some dishes, snacks, firecrackers and so on were basically prepared, and he even took the time to buy some new clothes for Wang Xuanjue. Although it can't be compared with the one bought in Beijing, Wang Xuanjue doesn't dislike it, this is Song Hui's intention, no matter how bad the clothes are, they are good.

In the countryside, unlike in the big cities, you can buy everything in the supermarket, and everything in the countryside can only be bought in different places.

For example, pork, some people in the countryside have their own pigs, and they are fed with rice husks and wild vegetables and pigweed, which can grow and bear fruit. At the end of the year, he invited a special pig killer to come and slaughter it, and sent him some pork with red envelopes, and most of the rest was kept for himself.

If you feel that you can't finish eating, then reserve some of your own food, and take out the rest to buy, at this time there will be many villagers to buy pork, which is very fresh, and the refrigerated pork raised in the city is not the same

Therefore, generally in the countryside, when the New Year is approaching, you can always see a lot of people around the door of some people's homes, and most of them go to buy pork.

Song Hui also experienced it, early in the morning of the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Wang Xuanjue invited someone to come over to kill the pig after three households. A sturdy big black pig was hung upside down, and the pig killer sharpened the pig killing knife, and the white knife went in and out of the red knife, and a few hundred catties of black pig were dismembered in a few rounds.

This scene was really bloody, Song Hui only looked at it a little and didn't dare to look more, the miserable howl of the big black pig was too disturbing, Song Hui was so frightened that he hurried home, and after a while, when the little grandson of the family came to call, she followed Liu Yun to buy pork again.

The villagers were enthusiastic, and when Wang Xuanjue's family came back, they brought a lot of Beijing specialties and snacks to distribute to everyone, and the one who bought pork was one of them. Now seeing Song Hui and Liu Yun coming to buy meat, they originally asked for twenty catties, but they were stunned to give twenty-two or three catties, and they also gave a pair of pig ears.

This made Song Hui embarrassed, thinking that they were buying vegetables in Beijing supermarkets or vegetable markets, which time was not short of catties or two? Those vegetable sellers were afraid that they would go bankrupt if they gave a little more, which is like the countryside, and it is not enough to give more, and they also gave a pair of pig ears. Although there are people in the countryside who want to be as strange as Wang Xuanjue and her aunt, most of them are still old-fashioned and warm-hearted!

"Tut-tut! It's so fresh! How can Beijing buy such good pork! Carrying most of the basket of pork, Song Hui sighed as he walked, and he looked at the quality of the meat, he didn't want to buy it in the supermarket, and he had to open it to see a little lean meat.

"No, it's home-raised, and it's all food! I bought the meat today, and I will buy two old hens tomorrow, and by the way, I will see if there are any native eggs, and I will bring them back to you later. ”

Liu Yun felt that this person was a strange creature, and he sharpened his head ******** and drilled into the city. When I became a city person, I began to look down on the countrymen, and I didn't want to think that I was a rural person.

After a period of time, the life of big fish and meat in the city began to think about the local goods in the countryside, what local chickens, ducks, eggs, and even the wild vegetables that were originally fed to pigs have become good things. I really can't figure out what this person thinks!

"Hey~! This is good, my family's National Day and his four siblings will be born around May next year, and I don't know what to send! "Local eggs are very scarce in the city, and they are good things that money can't even think of!

"Yes! Then I'll ask someone to ask if there are more, and I can make up for this when I have children, and I can get a few old hens. ”

"Hmm!" The two happily discussed how to buy a few old hens, but they didn't know that after the outbreak of SARS in the country, everyone was talking about poultry color change, especially in the city, who would dare to eat poultry!

Since the twenty-eighth year of the year, Song Hui and Liu Yun have started to cook, such as egg dumplings, glutinous rice balls, lotus root balls and other cooked foods that can be preserved are all made in advance, so that they can be directly boiled and eaten in the pot when they are thirty years old.

For lotus root can also be made into balls, Tang Guoqing's own children are unheard of, in their cognition, lotus root is generally eaten as a vegetable, and there are really too few of these things in the north, it can be regarded as a new product!

There are also six people from the Tang and Wang families, Tang Guoqing and Wang Zhouyang don't go to the village to play chess and mahjong, Wang Xuanjue and Tang Hengfei don't go shopping, and they all went into the kitchen early in the morning on the 28th.

The division of labor between the six people is clear, and Wang Zhouyang taught Tang Guoqing to rub the lotus root with a special thing, and be sure to rub the lotus root into a mud. Wang Xuanjue taught Tang Hengfei to knead the mud-like lotus root (tuan read the second tone) into small balls, about half the size of a ping pong ball.

Liu Yun and Song Hui fried the kneaded lotus root balls in the pot, and they had to watch the heat carefully, so as not to let the balls scatter. Wait until the fragrance comes out and watch the color change from light to dark, at this time it is almost out of the pot, and you can eat it directly after it cools for a while, one bite at a time, especially refreshing!

The same is true for glutinous rice balls, followed by other cooked foods, and in just one morning, six people have done all the work to be done in two days.

At noon, I eat fried rice cakes with sugar and boiled rice cakes, don't they all say that the food in the north is different from that in the south, this is one thing. Dumplings in the north, rice cakes in the south!

The southern rice cake is made by grinding fresh glutinous rice and forming a rectangular cake with a snow-white color and soft taste. The long rice cake was cut into small pieces, and then boiled with the lotus root balls and glutinous rice balls fried in the morning, and the fragrant Song Hui and Tang Guoqing couldn't wait to swallow the pot.

The sugar fried should also be cut into small pieces to prevent it from being flavorful, and the white sugar or brown sugar should be fried all the time, which is not much worse than the desserts sold outside.

"I've always heard people say how the rice cakes in the south are, I don't know if I don't eat them, but they are no worse than the dumplings in our north. And this lotus root ball, I said, how did you southerners come up with such a way to eat it? "One person even eats two big bowls, Song Hui can't walk, lying on the sofa with a shy stomach and reminiscing, deciding that he will have to bring some back when he goes back in the future, it's really delicious.

Liu Yun looked at Song Hui with a smile, how many years does this have to be in starvation prison to achieve this virtue? "What can you think? Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to draft the water, the south is rich in these things, of course, how to eat delicious and how to come! ”

By the twenty-ninth of the year, the six people cleaned the house inside and out, changed the stickers that should be pasted, steamed and fried, and after everything was done, they sat back and waited for the arrival of the Chinese New Year's Eve!

Early in the morning of the thirties, before Wang Xuanjue got up, he could hear the sound of the children downstairs playing small cannonballs, laughing and noisy, and the atmosphere of the New Year was really strong.

Lifting the quilt and putting on a padded jacket, Wang Xuanjue leaned by the window and watched the children running around at the entrance and end of the village, leaving behind the sound of firecrackers everywhere they went. How long has it been since you've had such a cheerful year?

Although he had already taken a bath on the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth day, he thought that he would not be able to change the bathroom for the next three or five days, so Wang Xuanjue still ran into the bathroom and took a comfortable shower.

Looking at the cabinet full of clothes, Wang Xuanjue began to worry again, the New Year! It's definitely going to be a new outfit, but how do you match this cabinet full of clothes? Alas~! I knew that when I came from Beijing with my father, I didn't have to stay for an extra box of clothes.

The outdoor temperature in the south is much higher than in Beijing, although there is no heating in the north, but Wang Xuanjue's house is very advanced and equipped with air conditioning, and the heating is turned on all day and night, and it is not too cold in general.

So, you don't have to wear those heavy down jackets. I chose a big red knee-length straight woolen coat with a hood on the back, a white low-neck sweater underneath, and a big red plaid skirt over black leggings, which reached the middle of the thigh.

On his feet was a pair of black calf-to-calf British cowhide boots, which Tang Hengfei brought back when he came back from England. Knit the hair on both sides around the top of your forehead in a hoop, pin a few pearl hairpins on it, and use a splint to loop the loose hair behind you into large waves.

With a coffee-colored scarf around his neck and the buttons of his coat open, he dressed like this, not to mention how foreign he was. At least in the countryside where the aesthetic standard is generally low, Wang Xuanjue is definitely the only one.

Song Hui and Liu Yun had already gotten up, and they were chatting with a few aunts and aunts who came to visit the door, Wang Xuanjue went downstairs to forage for food, and saw these neighborhood elders smiling and greeting, and their mouths were like aunts and aunts smeared with honey.

"Oops! Your Juejue really deserves to be a TV star, this one is good-looking! One of the aunts eagerly looked at Wang Xuanjue's dress, and a little girl sitting next to her was eating chocolate on the fruit plate, and she was very greedy when she saw Wang Xuanjue's body.

"Yes, yes, yes! It's exactly like the star on that poster! Ay! Where did you buy your Juejue's clothes? Is it expensive? I'll buy one for my girl another day! It was an aunt in her thirties who spoke.

Wang Xuanjue, who will be thirteen years old after the New Year, has begun to look like him, and his face is becoming more and more similar to the goose egg face in his previous life, but there is still thick baby fat on his cheeks.

With round apricot eyes, slender eyebrows, and a small cat arc mouth, he doesn't smile like a smile, so he looks cute when he was a child, and he is delicate when he grows up. Wang Xuanjue's loss is not high, if he only compares in the south, it can be counted, but in the north, he is really compared to a hobbit.

Liu Yun smiled awkwardly, most of Wang Xuanjue's clothes were sent back by Tang Hengfei from abroad, or she bought them from the brand stores she was used to, anyway, the money was earned by Wang Xuanjue herself, who would she spend if she didn't spend it? So when the aunt asked like this, Liu Yun couldn't speak.

Song Hui doesn't have Liu Yun's awareness, she is a native of Beijing, and her family background is not bad, but she is still not as sophisticated as Liu Yun for some people.

smiled and beckoned Wang Xuanjue, who was eating breakfast, to his side and sat down, "This dress was brought back from England by my son, but it is not expensive, it is about eight or nine hundred!" ”

Before she finished speaking, Song Hui felt that Liu Yun was holding her arm on the side, so she looked at her suspiciously. Liu Yun motioned with her eyes to look at the aunt who had just asked for money for clothes, Song Hui followed the line of sight, and finally realized that she was talking too much.

Wang Xuanjue knows that her Aunt Song is a person, she doesn't mean to show off her wealth, but she has never had a hard life since she was a child, and she never worries about money, so she is very indifferent to money. You must know that the coat of eight or nine hundred yuan on her body is enough for the aunt's family opposite to buy several new clothes.

Sure enough, as soon as she heard that a coat was a thousand yuan smaller, the aunt's eyes changed, "My good girl!" Then we can't afford to wear it, so we need a thousand! "I thought in my heart, this Wang family used to be poor, but I didn't expect it to be really developed now, and even a thousand yuan of clothes would be willing to buy for a child.

A bun was not enough for Wang Xuanjue to stuff her teeth, and she was too lazy to be an animal for these aunts and aunts to see, so she ran into the kitchen and enjoyed breakfast alone.