Chapter 62: Chinese New Year's Eve
At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Yang Yun began to prepare dinner, the big bones in the pot had already boiled out the taste, Yang Yun poured some chicken soup, and then poured in mushroom tofu, and then added a few red dates to improve the freshness, not only nutritious but also replenish qi and blood. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Add pepper, shredded green onion, shredded ginger, and chicken broth to the soaked dried fish, season and cook and serve.
Yang Yun also made a fried egg with shredded radish, and added the marinated pig in the morning, the meat she ate at home was rich enough, and she cooked other dishes to sacrifice to the gods and ancestors.
Yang Yun cut the tofu into slices, then put it in a pan and fry it until golden brown, add soy sauce, shredded green onions, shredded ginger, brown sugar, vinegar, and stir-fry it into a dish of sweet and sour dried tofu. Yang Yun counted a total of eight dishes, which were to be used to sacrifice to the gods and ancestors. Braised pork belly, chicken soup fed with dried fish, stewed pork knuckles with red dates, vegetarian radish cake, sweet and sour dried tofu, boiled chicken, peanut candy and red date cake made up a total of eight bowls of dishes.
These dishes are packed into two bowls, one for the gods and one for the ancestors. Grandpa and Yang Yong moved a table and put it in the room where grandpa lived, and then placed the tablets of Yang Yun's father and mother and Yang Yong's father and mother on the table. Yang Yun saw that there was another tablet next to the four tablets, and the name was not written on the tablet, Yang Yun was very puzzled, could this tablet without a name be the Yang family's family?
"Grandpa, what is this tablet with no name written on it?" Yang Yun asked the doubts in her heart.
"It's the benefactor of our Yang family, and the benefactor doesn't have a name, so we have to worship it every year."
"I see." Yang Yun saw that his grandfather didn't want to talk more about the people in this tablet, so he didn't want to ask again.
After grandpa and grandma arranged the eight bowls of dishes, they asked Yang Yun, Yang Xuan, and Yang Yong to kneel in front of the tablet and kowtow to the four deceased parents. After the three of them kowtowed, Yang Yun saw that her grandmother couldn't cry anymore, her grandfather's eyes were also red, and the two old family members sent the white-haired people to the black-haired people, and the family was separated forever.
Yang Yong and Yang Xuan also cried, and Yang Yun was also very sad in her heart, whether it was the blood connection between the original owner and the family, or thinking of her parents who she could never see again in her previous life, tears flowed involuntarily.
"Okay, don't cry, everyone don't cry, today is Chinese New Year's Eve to celebrate the New Year, let's have a good year with Hele as a family." After all, grandpa is the pillar of the family, and he quickly cleaned up his sadness. Grandpa and grandma put the tablets back up after burning the paper, Yang Yun finally saw grandma lock the tablets in the cabinet, no wonder I hadn't seen the family before, where to place these tablets.
A few people helped to clean up the things, and the grandmother herself went to the village temple in the village to worship the gods, so she took a few dishes to the pot and heated them separately. In the evening, the family had a hearty Chinese New Year's Eve meal with these dishes.
Braised pork belly, chicken soup fed with dried fish, stewed pork knuckles with red dates, sweet and sour dried tofu, boiled chicken, fried egg with shredded radish, braised pork in water, vegetarian radish cake, Cantonese radish cake, and stir-fried bean sprouts. There are just ten dishes, and there is also a shiitake mushroom bone tofu soup, which is not counted in the dish. There are fish and meat, this is really the well-off life that Yang Yun yearns for, and I only hope that next year will be more than like this every year.
It's a pity that there are no oranges here in winter, Yang Yun remembers that in her previous life, she spent the New Year in the south, and she always wanted to take a pair of oranges to pay New Year's greetings, which meant good luck. Yang Yun and her family helped her grandmother clean up the dishes and chopsticks after eating, there are a lot of dishes cooked today, and there are a lot of leftovers in each dish, which also means that there are more than one year in a row, and you can't use the knife tomorrow, take a broom, and the cold vegetables will not be dropped, just eat leftovers tomorrow.
Yang Yun cleaned up the kitchen by the way, and then took a comfortable hot shower with hot water, I haven't taken a bath for several days, and it's too cold to wipe it with some hot water for a day. Yang Yun felt that when the spring was opened, she suggested that her grandfather build a shower room, Yang Yun missed the tap water in her previous life too much, and she could take a hot bath every day.
Yang Yun put on a skirt for the first time, this is the first skirt that her grandmother helped Yang Yun make, since Yang Yun came to Zhoujia Village, she has always worn a long jacket and long pants underneath. Most of the little girls in the peasant family are dressed like this, because the girls have to help with the work, it is very inconvenient to wear skirts, and only girls over the age of thirteen or fourteen will wear skirts when they start talking about others. Because Yang Yun's father passed away, the family couldn't wear red, so Yang Yun's skirt was made of light green, which looked like spring.
Yang Yong and Yang Xuan both wear blue, Yang Xuan's round little face looks like a New Year's doll in blue, but it's a pity that it's a New Year's doll in blue.
Yang Yun once looked at herself on the water, there was no mirror at home, and she couldn't see the water clearly, she just felt that she didn't look too bad, looking at the appearance of her grandparents, she should have looked good when she was young. This will Yang Yong also grow, not to mention that he looks very handsome, but the kindness of the big brother next door is still there, so Yang Yun feels that she should look like the little girl next door, and it is a fantasy to make people amazing at a glance.
The family was free, sitting in the house of grandparents to bake the fire, preparing for the vigil, it was too boring, Yang Yun took out the pen and ink, drew the cards played in the previous life, taught the grandparents to play the landlord, and thirteen cards. Yang Xuan's study, Yang Yun decided to give him three days off, and only started to study in the fourth year of junior high school, during this time Yang Yun was bored at home to test the words that the brothers learned, which will be a thousand words The brothers have all recognized, Yang Yun picked some new words from the medical book and taught them.
The Yang family can't set off firecrackers this year, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, Yang Yun can only think of some tricks to play, so he thought of playing cards, just like this Chinese New Year's Eve, Yang Yun and her grandmother played cards and had a lot of fun. If you have to play, time flies quickly, and after 12 o'clock in the morning, the sound of New Year's firecrackers in the village will sound. Yang Yun, Yang Yong, and Yang Xuan knelt on the ground and kowtowed to their grandparents, and said in unison:
"I wish my grandparents a happy New Year, good health, and happiness." This was discussed by the three brothers and sisters in advance.
"Good, good, good, get up. Grandpa and grandma also wish our family's Xiaoyong, Xiaoyun, and Xiaoxuan a safe and happy New Year, and healthy growth. ”
After the three brothers and sisters paid their New Year's greetings to their grandparents, the grandparents gave the three of them ten copper plates for the New Year's money, and the New Year's money could not be wrapped in red paper, so they gave it directly to the three children. The three of them thanked their grandparents. Yang Yun took out the New Year's gift for her family. Yang Yun couldn't think of anything to give, so she finally helped her grandparents make a pair of cotton socks and a pair of cotton gloves for Yang Yong and Yang Xuan.
The family was very happy to receive the gift, especially the grandparents took the pair of cotton socks in their hands and touched them for a long time, and Yang Xuan jumped up with joy, the gloves that his sister helped him make were so beautiful, each of the two gloves was embroidered with a cartoon monkey, Yang Xuan belonged to the monkey. In fact, Yang Yun didn't embroider it, but drew a cartoon monkey pattern with charcoal, and then cut it out and sewed it on, Yang Yun didn't know how to embroider at all. Yang Yong's cattle are the appearance of cartoon cows.
The family resigned from the old year and ushered in the new year in laughter. This is also Yang Yun's first New Year in Zhou Haoguo. Because the New Year has ushered in, the family eats snacks, plays cards for a while and goes to rest. In fact, the vigil does not have to be kept until dawn, as long as the vigil is past zero morning, it means that the old year has passed, and the first day of the new year represents the new year.
(There is really no Chinese New Year's Eve vigil until dawn in Bird's hometown, they all set off firecrackers after 12 o'clock in the morning, and go to bed after the firecrackers.) )