After eating a beautiful dinner, someone went to clean up the mess, and the rest stood up and went around in circles directly in the inn, no way, I was too full to eat, and I was uncomfortable even sitting, even Wang Ya too.

The next day, Wang Ya prepared lunch according to her own ideas, and in the evening, the mutton came in handy, the haggis soup was the first, and then the honey roasted lamb leg, roasted for a whole hour, until the outside was charred and the inside was tender, it was considered to be roasted, of course, the taste was also very fragrant, and the braised mutton, etc., everyone who ate again supported their stomachs and walked collectively in the snow.

On the third day, it was the main event, Wang Ya was ready to make hot pot, because the mutton slices did not know when they could be cut, so Wang Ya prepared the mutton shabu in the evening, at noon, everyone ate fried bean sprouts, fried cabbage, and then bamboo shoots, these two days are all meat, everyone will be a little tired, so, don't look at just a simple fried greens, everyone also likes to eat.

The sauce beef has been ready, Wang Ya took it out, and cut a plate while it was hot, so that everyone could taste it, as a result, Wang Ya herself couldn't stop eating, so she cut two more plates, and then she finally relieved her cravings, so she stopped eating it, and sealed the sauce beef painfully, and waited until the New Year to eat it.

If you want to eat hot pot, you must have the bottom of the pot, although the family bought two pigs, and they have been slaughtered, but there are a lot of chickens and ducks at home, plus the newly hatched, the chicken shed and ducks are a little crowded, simply take advantage of the New Year, and make hot pot, just discuss with Wang, kill five of the same, at night, just make duck soup to make the bottom of the pot, Wang thought about it, and agreed, and took the children to catch the five fattest male ducks. With the five fattest roosters, slaughtered, the killed and washed chickens are put in the yard to freeze, and they will not be broken, and the male ducks leave two, and the remaining three will directly cook duck soup and make the bottom of the pot at night.

When I heard that Wang Ya was going to make hot pot and it was delicious, everyone began to look forward to it, because there was beef and mutton. There are relatively many things that can be shabu-shabu, and besides, mutton-shabu, the main thing to eat is not mutton, that's how to say. The greens still have to be prepared, and there are not many materials at home. Wang Ya put the bean sprouts. Take it out, there are meatballs, fish balls, and fish balls with bursting sauce, which are called hot pot ingredients in the south, and there are sweet potatoes, potatoes, cabbage, and radishes in the cellar, which are also taken out, and the radishes are washed and sliced. Peel the sweet potatoes and potatoes, wash or slice, and wash the cabbage. Cut off directly. There are also beef shutters, which is also a good shabu-shabu, after thinking about it, Wang Ya felt that it was not enough, so she made a fish slide again, and there was no shrimp to buy at this season, so the shrimp slide could not be done, but the fish slide could still be done.

After thinking about it, Wang Ya took out the dry goods at home again, such as fungus, shiitake mushrooms, hazel mushrooms, and soaked them, and they can also be cooked in hot pot, and they can be eaten when they think about it, just like that, they still prepared a lot of things.

The most prepared is the mutton slices and beef slices, because some children seem to be unaccustomed to eating beef, and some are not used to eating mutton, and this kind of weather, to cut mutton slices, and there is no kind of machine, can only be cut by hand, a thick cloth is padded on it, and then cut down piece by piece, not to mention, the thickness is not well mastered.

It is a little hard to prepare, but when it is served on two tables again in the evening, everyone does not feel hard, the top is a small iron stove, and then the top is the hot pot, pour the bottom of the pot inside, add good charcoal to the small iron stove, and after a while, the bottom of the pot in the hot pot will be opened, gurgling and bubbling, at this time, everyone wants to eat what they want to eat and put it in, wait for a while, and then pick it up after it is cooked, this taste is really good, very delicious.

As for the sauce to be dipped, Wang Ya was a little difficult, and after thinking about it, she still made a garlic sauce and a spicy sauce casually, and the bottom of the pot was also divided into clear soup and spicy.

Of course, the key is that the taste is good, they only thought that the food would become delicious after exquisite cooking, but they didn't expect that there was no need to do anything, eating hot pot is also a kind of food, just simply blanching it in the pot and dipping it with sauce, even if it is not dipped in sauce, the taste will be very good.

For a while, everyone began to gobble up again, in other words, this has been eaten for a few days, and it is not a good thing to be decisive, and when the hot pot is finished, Wang Ya slumped on the chair, while thinking, while calculating how many catties everyone will gain because of eating so much in one meal this winter.

After tossing the hot pot, the rest of the beef and mutton were sealed by Wang Ya, and every day it was normal to use pork to cook, white rice, in this way, occasionally cut a piece of beef or mutton to make a dish, often without sweeping it away.

One day later, the Hakka inn also closed, Wang and Wang Ya quickly calculated the profit of the last month, and then issued a year-end bonus according to everyone's performance, everyone has a lot of money, the less is ten taels, and the more is twenty or thirty taels, which is less than half of the salary on weekdays, but because it is paid at one time, this money is enough.

In the next few days, everyone began to be completely busy with the New Year's affairs, for example, cutting ribbon paper, writing blessing characters, and writing couplets, because there are many doors in their homes, and there are many blessing characters and couplets to be written.

Within two days, the New Year began, and on the first day of the Lunar New Year, there were many children who came to pay New Year's greetings, that is, Zheng Rong and them, because they were more familiar with Uncle Niu, made an appointment to go to Uncle Niu to pay New Year's greetings, and other people, they didn't dare.

Wang prepared a red envelope as usual, as for the children who came to the house to pay New Year's greetings, Wang had already prepared all kinds of pastries, all of which were fried cakes and frosting made by themselves before, when the children came, they grabbed a large handful of them alone, and the children almost couldn't go, if it weren't for Wang's foresight, they prepared a bamboo tube for them to load, these children are estimated to be because of a lot of delicious food, obviously can be taken away, but because their hands are too small to take away crying.

In this way, the children came to pay New Year's greetings and walked away happily with a bamboo tube, you must know that these fried cakes, sugar cakes and other things are not so easy to have, even if the life of the family is better now, but it can't be so luxurious, and these things can be eaten in the Wang family.

Some children eat enough here, Wang will also bring a bamboo tube to the child, at the beginning of the Wang family New Year's greetings are not many, but as the children go back to bring a full of delicious bamboo tubes, come to the Wang family to pay New Year's greetings more and more, here are many snacks, you can also take it back, like to eat, is the nature of children, so, the children in the village are attracted to come, however, although some eat more and take away, or do not eat here, directly bring back, just come to worship once a New Year will not come, even if you come, It's just a little bit of food here, and the Wang family asks them to bring things away, but they don't bring any of them.

Let Wang and Wang Ya have a good impression of these children.

Although Wang Sheng did not come back for the New Year, but because it was going to be spring, there were many scholars who did not come back for the New Year, most of them were some people who wanted to be admitted to the Jinshi, so these people studied together in the academy, and everyone had a companion, but they were not alone.

And the Wang family knew that Wang Sheng would not come back for the New Year, although he was a little unhappy, he still brought five hundred taels of silver over, for fear that Wang Sheng would not be able to eat and dress well over there.

Living in the college, although you don't have to do anything, the college also has a canteen, but it is not completely restricted from students not to go out, occasionally there is a canteen to get tired of eating, and they will go to the restaurant outside to rub a meal.

Wang's money came in time, Wang Sheng has not officially given a gift to Ziqi since he worshipped the teacher, although Ziqi said no, but this is a number of gifts, although Wang Sheng traveled before there are still a hundred taels of silver, but I don't know when Lu Dao will be spent, so, just simply bought a gift, Zi Qi also knows Lu Dao, so he always says no, if you really want to give a gift or wait for Jinshi.

Wang Sheng usually even eats more economically, of course, Wang Sheng is not ambiguous about the flowers, for example, if a classmate beckons Wang Sheng to go to dinner, everyone will take turns to treat them, and Wang Sheng will also take it out.

Wang Sheng didn't have the idea of taking the initiative to ask Wang for money at all, because in Wang Sheng's eyes, all this money was earned by Wang's family, although it was indeed a family that could be used, but Wang Sheng felt that he didn't know what the situation was at Lu Dao's family, and he was worried that Wang's would just report good news and not bad news, so he would never take the initiative to ask for money, anyway, he still had some of them, but if Wang would bring it, it would mean that the economy was not tight, so Wang Sheng also took it.

Now with Wang's five hundred taels of silver, Wang Sheng can prepare a good thank you gift for his teacher, one hundred taels of silver, even for a teacher who teaches in Yingtian Academy, it is a lot, you must know that Lu Dao, their monthly salary, that is, ten taels of silver, unless it is particularly famous, there are only a few dozen taels a month, of course, these are not considered gifts from students.

Therefore, Wang Sheng's one hundred taels of silver to buy things is really a lot, Wang Sheng thought about it, as if he saw that the grinding and inkstone used by the teacher were old, and the quality did not seem to be very good, so he could buy some better ones for the four treasures of the teacher's study.

At Wang Sheng's time, it was really not easy to study, if it weren't for Wang Sheng's early shit luck and being admitted to Xiucai, and then finding a job copying in the yamen, taking the opportunity to copy a few books by himself, and going home to study, Wang Sheng would not have the current grades. You must know that the salary is only a few hundred yuan a month, and a book, if you want to buy it, it costs about seven taels of silver, which is really not cheap. (To be continued......)