In the rural areas of China, generally in the middle of the lunar month, the flavor of the New Year begins to become stronger, and every household begins to slaughter the New Year's pigs one after another, purchase New Year's goods, and prepare for the arrival of the New Year.

However, in recent years, due to the general improvement of people's living standards, so, in the countryside is not every household will slaughter the New Year pig every year, after all, the cost of raising pigs has increased now, and raising pigs is a more annoying thing, so many people would rather spend a little money to buy a more than 100 catties and a half pig for the New Year.

Zhou Xing's family is ready to kill the pig today, and the grandparents got up early in the morning to boil a large pot of water with a big iron pot, and when the water was about to boil, the grandfather went to the village to call the pig to kill, and called two other people to come to help catch the pig.

When the pigs in the pigsty saw Zhou Xing and his party coming to their pigsty, they seemed to feel that Zhou Xing was here to kill him, so he screamed restlessly in the pigsty.

Either way, it can't escape the fate of being slaughtered today. As the pig killer hooked the pig's mouth with an iron hook, the pig howled and screamed, and the fire rushed into the pigsty, scratching the tail and pulling the ear. As for Zhou Xing, he knew that he was pushing the pig's butt behind and letting the pig move forward.

From the pigsty to the slaughterhouse, the pig kept making a terrible cry, hissing and cracking the lungs, but no matter how badly it screamed, its fate was already sealed.

The so-called pig slaughtering table is actually to put a bench in an open place next to the house, and then everyone grabs the pig and puts it on the bench so that it can't move, and then the pig killing knife goes in and out of the red knife.

With the pig killer's pig-killing knife stabbed into the pig's neck. Large strands of blood were bubbling out. It's still steaming hot on a winter morning. The pigs are crying less and less. In the end, the faint can only be heard by standing near it.

Finally, the pig died. At this time, the pig killer cut a small hole in the skin of the pig's hind leg, and then used one of his special tools, that is, an iron rod, to slowly poke it through the small opening of the pig's hind leg just now, and then stabbed it with the iron rod for a while. The iron rod was pulled out, and the pig killer blew vigorously on the small opening that had been cut in the back of the day.

As the pig killer continued to blow, the pig's whole body slowly puffed up like a balloon. Finally, when the pig killer saw that it was almost over, he immediately brought a few straws and tied the small opening of the hind leg to prevent the air that had been blown in it from escaping.

Next, put the pig into the large wooden barrel prepared in advance, and then bring out the boiled water, and pour the boiling water and cold water on the pig in a certain ratio. Such. The pig killer can then start shaving off the hair on the pigs.

It takes an hour or two for a pig to be slaughtered to be divided into pieces of pork. When the pig killer divides the slaughtered pork into pieces. Grandma has already cooked the meal.

The dishes are very simple, they are all materials on the pig, pork fried chili, a little garlic leaves are put in it, the pork liver is still fried chili, and then the pig's blood is made into soup.

After the pig is killed, it is naturally impossible to eat blood, in other words, even if you are allowed to eat the pork with blood, you can't eat it all, a two or three hundred years of pigs, slaughtered, at least more than 100 catties of pork.

So, this is the time to make bacon.

After a few days, when all the salt has been put into the pork, the pork can be threaded with rope or other things and hung on the stove.

In the countryside, firewood is generally burned to cook rice, so bacon is hung on the stove and will soon become bacon.

Zhou Xing's favorite thing to eat is the lean meat of bacon, which is called fragrant and chewy, much more delicious than fresh pork. As for those who like to eat fatty meat, when they bite into the golden fat meat, their mouths are greasy and greasy, but when they eat it, they are fat but not greasy.

The pace of the Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and the villagers have nothing to do at the end of the year, basically gathering in groups of three or five to play small cards to kill time. Of course, there are naturally those who play small cards and those who play cards, playing in the dark, the sun and the moon have no light, and a dozen is at least a day and a night.

Such a play of cards will naturally lead to a family war, which is essential.

Zhou Xing has no interest in playing cards, and sometimes he can't stand the pull of his good buddies and goes to play with them for hours. Every time, Zhou Xing's luck is very good, and he wins.

Now, Zhou Xing's childhood friends complained one by one, "I originally thought that Zhou Xing, the big boss, would win a little money here for the New Year, but now it's good, he won, it's really depressing!" ”

On the evening of the 28th day of the lunar month, there is a custom in Zhou Xing's hometown, that is, to stew radish with pig bones at night. As for why there is such a custom, Zhou Xing didn't know, and asked his grandparents, but the grandparents just kept it down, and they didn't know the reason.

Zhou Xing estimates that this may be because of eating radish in winter and ginger in summer, and radish is considered to be ginseng in the dish, which shows its high nutrition. And on the night of the 28th day of the lunar month, the family slowly stewed the pork bones and radishes in the fire, and when the aroma is overflowing, it is the time when your appetite is satisfied.

At this time, you can pick up the rice bowl, take out a piece of pork bone, eat it unscrupulously, and then eat a few sweet turnips, and drink a few mouthfuls of delicious soup, and your little belly will be full.

On the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, it was the night of the reunion year, and at this time, the wanderer returned to his home, and ate a reunion dinner with his relatives, and happiness overflowed this hut.

Zhou Xing sat at the table with his grandparents eating a reunion dinner, looking at the white-haired grandparents, Zhou Xing couldn't help but think of how good it would be if his parents were still there.

However, this was a happy moment, and Zhou Xing couldn't express his thoughts, so he quickly suppressed this unhappy thought.

"Come on, grandparents." Zhou Xing sandwiched a piece of chicken in each of his grandparents' bowls.

"Xiaoxing, you eat too, eat more." Grandma said with a kind face.

Although there are not many dishes on the table, they are all home-cooked side dishes. But. This meal was very warm. It's very happy.

Not long after the reunion dinner, a burst of dazzling fireworks soared into the sky, and then exploded, instantly illuminating the sky as if it were day.

"Bang, bang......"

There was the first one to take the lead in setting off fireworks, and subsequently, more and more people set off fireworks, so much so that the sound of fireworks explosions was never heard. The dark night is no longer the color of pitch black, but becomes colorful.

This situation will continue intermittently until about one o'clock in the morning on the first day of the new year.

To be honest, Zhou Xing hates people who are still setting off fireworks in the middle of the night from the bottom of his heart, everyone else is going to sleep, but you are happy to set off fireworks, who can still sleep, this is a very immoral behavior.

What's even more infuriating is that on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, it was not yet five o'clock. The fireworks began to sound one after another. Zhou Xing was angry, but he couldn't help it. Knowing that this is all done by those children, they are very energetic, and they are so focused on hanging the fireworks that they still have the heart to sleep.

This is similar to when Zhou Xing was a child, when it came to the New Year, the happiest thing was not to receive the New Year's money, but to be able to set off firecrackers.

The first day of the new year, of course, is to go to the New Year. And here in Zhou Xing's hometown, when he goes to someone else's house to pay New Year's greetings, he has to set off firecrackers. Therefore, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the sound of firecrackers is everywhere, and the air is also filled with the unpleasant smell produced after the firecrackers explode.

The custom of Zhou Xing's hometown, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the New Year's greeting cannot go far away, and the scope can only be in the village. Only from the second year of junior high school can you go far away and go to the homes of six aunts, seven aunts and eight aunts.

On the first day of the new year, Zhou Xing's mobile phone can be said to be the most tired, not only to call several of his women to pay New Year's greetings, by the way to say a few words to their families, but also to call Mr. Qian and others to pay New Year's greetings, and finally, Zhou Xing thought of No. 2, and also wanted the old grandfather's team leader, Jiang Feng.

Therefore, Zhou Xing has been making phone calls for more than two hours in a row, but fortunately, Zhou Xing's mobile phone card has a lot of phone fees, otherwise it would have been shut down with those few long-distance calls.

When Zhou Xing was in the second and third years of junior high school, he went to his uncle and several aunts' house, and his uncle and aunt were very happy to see Zhou Xing's appearance.

On the fourth day of the new year, Zhou Xing was going to go to Wang Xiaochen's house, and now he has established a relationship with Wang Xiaochen, and Wang Xiaochen's parents have agreed. Therefore, the future father-in-law's family must go to worship this year.

As early as the evening of the third day of the new year, Zhou Xing called Wang Xiaochen in advance, saying that he was going to come to her house the next day to pay New Year's greetings, and asked Wang Xiaochen and their family not to go out the next day.

Zhou Xing carried a lot of things and drove to Wang Xiaochen's house. It was only ten o'clock in the morning when he arrived at Wang Xiaochen's house, but when Zhou Xing just stepped into Wang Xiaochen's house after setting off firecrackers, he saw that Wang Xiaochen's main hall and room were full of people.

Zhou Xing greeted the relatives of Wang Xiaochen's family one by one, and then, those female relatives in Wang Xiaochen's family, especially middle-aged women, launched a strong attack on Zhou Xing, one question after another, making Zhou Xing, who had practiced fooling skills, almost unable to parry. In the end, Wang Xiaochen came to help Zhou Xing break the siege.

Since Wang Xiaochen and Zhou Xing had a skin-to-skin kiss that night, Zhou Xing hugged her in front of everyone, Wang Xiaochen is not shy anymore, and sometimes Wang Xiaochen will take the initiative to tease Zhou Xing, this is the difference between before and before going to bed!

When Wang Xiaochen's relatives learned that Zhou Xing was a boss, they were all very surprised, and began to ask Zhou Xing about what company he opened, and whether he wanted anyone in the company, her son had just graduated from college, but he was smart, and asked Zhou Xing's company if there were any people.

Zhou Xing can be regarded as having seen the power of these six aunts, seven aunts and eight aunts, as long as they have one mouth, then you are ready for a rout.

Fortunately, one of Wang Xiaochen's cousins pulled Zhou Xing into the room to play cards with them, and Zhou Xing was completely out of the sea of suffering.

Wang Xiaochen has been sitting beside Zhou Xing like a gentle wife, and every time she sees Zhou Xing winning, she has a smile on her face, and she looks like a little woman.

"Xiaochen, you have been guarding your boyfriend, are you afraid that we will eat your boyfriend?" Wang Xiaochen quipped with a table.

"Hmph, I'm just afraid that a few of you will partner up to make a ghost and want to win Zhou Xing's money." Wang Xiaochen raised his head and said.

"Look, look, they all say that girls are extroverted, and they haven't married yet, they all say things like this, if they marry in the future, then they have to go." Wang Xiaochen's cousin said, shaking his head.

Wang Xiaochen was teased by his cousin like this, and he couldn't help but fly his cheeks. Seeing that Zhou Xing was just holding his mouth and snickering, Wang Xiaochen became angry. Okay, you Zhou Xing, I was talking for you just now, and I was teased by my cousin, you are good, not only did you not help me speak, but you are still snickering on the way, you really deserve to be beaten!

"Make you laugh, make you laugh!" Wang Xiaochen secretly pinched Zhou Xing's waist fiercely.

Zhou Xing instantly gasped in pain, and Wang Xiaochen's three cousins saw this and hurriedly asked Zhou Xing what was wrong.

"It's okay, it's okay." The ugliness of the family should not be publicized, how could Zhou Xing say it.

Wang Xiaochen's cousins glanced at each other, and then said at the same time: "Brother-in-law, don't pretend, we all understand this, because we are all from the past and have experienced it." (To be continued......)