I don't know if there is a habit of making frozen dumplings in the rural areas of other provinces in Northeast China, anyway, there are in the vast rural areas of Shuangcheng, Habin City, Longjiang Province, and it can be said that every household does it. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Wrapped frozen dumplings are similar to quick-frozen dumplings, which are made of the natural conditions of minus thirty or forty degrees outdoors in the Northeast winter, and the wrapped dumplings are placed outdoors, and they can be completely frozen after about one or two hours, and then put away (such as the aforementioned place, the Ye family's warehouse and other places that are both ventilated and not heated), and the eating method is the same as that of quick-frozen dumplings.

Other similar frozen goods include: sticky bean buns, rice cakes, sugar triangles, white bean buns, steamed buns, etc., but only dumplings need to ask neighbors for help, because the dumpling filling needs to be used as soon as possible after mixing, in order to maintain its umami as much as possible. Therefore, it is generally the neighbors in the neighborhood who discuss in advance the time of making dumplings on which day to avoid conflicts. After deciding the time, during the day, chop the stuffing (usually 2-3 different flavors of dumplings), mix the filling, mix the noodles, prepare the panel, rolling pin, flat ruler (you can also use chopsticks, but the flat ruler is more professional), and professional frozen dumpling tools - cover curtains, large baskets. A family of four like Ye Liangchen and them can eat one or two thousand frozen dumplings in a New Year's month, so making frozen dumplings is definitely a huge project, not to mention the preparations, it takes three or five hours just to make dumplings, or even longer.

It was really time for Ye Liangchen to come back, and throughout the winter, in addition to catching up with the market, the most lively thing for the Ye family was the day of making dumplings and the day when relatives reunited on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.

After a simple meal of dumplings, the neighbors came to help.

The first to arrive was actually the farthest away, Lozan and her mother, who had already moved away.

Ye Liangchen didn't know what Luo Shan's mother's full name was, but he remembered calling her Aunt Luo. The difference between Luo Shen and Aunt Luo is really a thousand miles, the former has a graceful figure, and the latter is unusually plump, in stark contrast to Aunt Luo's husband, a thin and withered man.

Xu is a fat man is really fat, and he has lived seven or eight years of poverty after marrying Luo's father. One day, one of Aunt Luo's cousins, who had been fostered in her home in her early years, returned from Japan to visit, and when she saw that she was poor, she sponsored them to learn from the Ye family and started a side business of raising dairy cows. Since then, it has been out of control, and now it has become one of the famous and wealthy families in the town.

Losan is their daughter, and they also have a four-year-old daughter. Although it has been several years since they moved away, the relationship between the two families is the same as before, and they must help each other on big occasions such as making soybeans and making frozen dumplings.

Aunt Luo's voice is notoriously loud, and she is also warm-hearted, and she has the best relationship with Ye Mu, Zhang Erniang, and Aunt Ma. Her laughter is particularly characteristic, making a duck-like cry of "quack", accompanied by a violent forward or backward movement.

The second one to come was Aunt Ma.

Aunt Ma's "Daidong" (as the name suggests, the person who organizes red and white ceremonies on behalf of the owner) who goes out of the town is extremely organizational and linguistic. Aunt Ma's eldest daughter has graduated from the health school and been assigned to the town hospital, the second son and Zhang Erniang's second son are classmates, the two are studying at the Habin Supply and Marketing Secondary School, and will graduate next year, and it is said that they have both found positions in the commune seed station.

Aunt Ma is a very difficult woman, she almost single-handedly provided for two secondary school students, because her husband divorced her very early and ran away with the mistress. Because of this, she has a unique position in the village, and everyone relies on her ability to do things, and at the same time admires her perseverance.

Aunt Ma is a person with a smiling face, she has never said anything to see her smile, but it is not a smile with a knife hidden in her smile, her smile is sincere, and she is a strong and confident smile in the face of countless hardships in the past, in my impression, she is very good to Ye Liangchen, and she can talk to Ye's mother the most, and many things are discussed between the two.

Then came five or six more neighbors, mostly women, and occasionally one or two good family men who were good at making dumplings and gave up money to work with the women.

Zhang Erniang came a little late today, because there was a guest at her house, more precisely, she should be a former tenant.

The Zhang family was one of the largest households in the town, the grandfathers were big landowners, many people in the town worked in his family's fields, and most of the land was gone after liberation, but there was only a compound left, called the Zhang family compound. In Zhang Erniang's generation, firstly, the people are no longer as prosperous as before, and secondly, they are not happy to get together to live together as before, and after the separation, a large number of houses were vacated in the Zhang family compound.

At that time, the town set up education, so it requisitioned a part of it, and gave some rent symbolically, and Rao was like this, and the big tiled house where the Zhang family lived still had three or four empty rooms, and a few teachers who did not have a house in the school rented it. After seven or eight years, the town center primary school finally had the money to build its own house and moved out of the Zhang family compound. At this time, most of the teachers who rented here also had their own houses, and one of them also became the town secretary, and people said that the feng shui of the Zhang family compound was good.

Zhang Erniang has four children, two boys and two girls, three of whom are married, and only the second son of the Zhang family is studying in the provincial capital with the son of Aunt Ma's family.

Because Zhang Erniang, who has always been kind to people, treats those tenants as if they were their relatives, many teachers' families are dual-income workers, both men and women are teachers, so many times Zhang Erniang is helping them take care of their children, so everyone is very grateful to her, and everyone has to buy something to see during the New Year's holidays.

Today's guests from Zhang's family are the town secretary's family. The town secretary is not a local, and his family will return to his hometown for the New Year in a few days, and he will not be able to come back until after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, so he came to visit Zhang Erniang's family in advance.

This year is no different, but Zhang Erniang agreed to come to the Ye family today to help, and hurriedly sent away the town secretary and his wife, but his only son, Gu Bofu, refused to leave anything. Gubofu likes Zhang Erniang very much, the kind Zhang Erniang is better than his strict teacher's mother in his eyes, although he is thirteen or fourteen years old, he still comes to Zhang's house from time to time to live, and tonight must be the plan again.

So Zhang Erniang brought Gu Bofu to the Ye family tonight, and this kid and Ye Meijing have been classmates for many years.

More than a dozen adults plus Ye Liangchen and Luo Shan, Gu Bofu and Ye Meijing, the scene is particularly lively!

Don't look at the crowd, but it's not messy at all, everyone has a clear division of labor, and the order of kneading, rolling cakes, and making dumplings is in order. While chattering, I was busy working, and the time passed like this.

(To be continued.) )