Zhou Yu really didn't have an easy morning this morning, and after finishing his own work, he went to his uncle's house to help, because of the amount of activity, his face was sweating, and his aunt scolded his old man in distress, and tired his nephew like this. Wang Zhijiang didn't dare to refute, so he could only pout and express great disdain for his nephew.

Since dumplings can only be eaten at night, but today is a small year, so at noon, Wang Guilan still made a few dishes, a plate of stuffy mackerel, a pot of sauerkraut stewed with big bones, a fried garlic, and a cabbage and pork belly stewed tofu. The two families waited for the old man Wang Yunhai to come back from the village to chatter and then start the meal, everyone was eating and talking, and the atmosphere at the dinner table was quite warm.

"Xiaoyu, when I left your third uncle's house just now, I heard Huzi say that the big cherries on the mountain are already ripe?" Wang Yunhai put down the wine glass and asked with a smile.

"Oh, yes, I could have picked some today, but isn't this catching up with Xiao Nian, so I want to pick it again tomorrow, anyway, it's not bad for this day, and we're not afraid that this thing can't be sold, Qingqing and his second uncle have already ordered more than 10,000 catties of it, and we can sell it right away after picking it, and there is no burden."

"Ah, so smooth? Oh, it's really good, it's not easy for Xiaoyanagi's kid to do business, don't you see that these things in your hand are all sold for you? And the price is so high, it's really rare. Wang Yunhai stroked his beard and said with a smile on his face.

"Hehe, who is he not helping me? Who made him Qingqing's second uncle? Zhou Yu said beautifully.

A few elders think about it, and it seems that they should help from their own families, huh?

In fact, they just feel that they have inherited a lot of favors from Liu Sanpao and Liu Yunfei from their own point of view, but if they look at it from the perspective of those two, they also have a lot of favors from Zhou Yu. You must know that each of them has received no less than eight million benefits from Zhou Yu alone in the past few months. But these elders, led by Wang Yunhai, never thought about it. They are simple, they just blindly feel that they owe a lot of favors to others.

After dinner, Zhou Yu drove over to find Huzi, and the brothers went to the town. Pull back a cartload full of foam boxes for large cherries, and wait for tomorrow's picking to pick and pack them at the same time. It is in place at one time, and it can be sold directly after arriving in the provincial capital.

In the evening, the snow gradually stopped, and the western sky showed a dull yellow, and the sky became a little brighter, and it seemed that tomorrow should be a sunny day.

As the sky turned dark, the village began to hear the sound of firecrackers, which should be the children of which family really couldn't bear to put a few strings of firecrackers in advance to have a good time.

The dumplings have already been wrapped at this time, filled with cabbage and pork, and they are boiling in the pot at this time. Although everyone also loves to eat sauerkraut pork. But you can't eat sauerkraut stuffing during the New Year, otherwise why won't the days of next year be sour? The cabbage filling is good, it is homophonic with "Baicai", how festive and rich does it sound?

In the main room, Wang Yunhai and Chef Liu, as well as Zhou Ding, Wang Zhijiang, were watching TV and chattering. Chef Liu sent away the stove prince before it was dark, so he rushed over and waited to eat dumplings, and went back to the mountain with Zhou Yu in the evening.

The kitchen was steaming, and the dumplings with thin skin and large fillings were tumbling up and down in the pot, like big ingots. My aunt was stir-frying on the liquefied gas tank, while Zhou Yu took out a brand-new statue of the king of the stove from the drawer as requested by his mother, as well as a pair of small candles and a few incense sticks. Then I went to the cupboard and took out a few desserts that my mother had made in the afternoon, and prepared to start the sacrifice when the dumplings were cooked.

After the dumplings were boiled twice, Wang Guilan quickly took out a small bowl with a fence and put it in the pot before putting it on the plate. Due to the large number of dumpling packs. After loading six or seven plates, there was still a lot left in the pot, so Wang Guilan scooped the remaining dumplings onto the lid curtain and then sat in the pot to keep warm, and covered the pot with a lid at the end.

Zhou Yu helped his mother bring the hot dumplings to the dining table. Zhou Dingguo is shooting garlic at this time, for Northeast people, eating dumplings without dipping them in garlic sauce and vinegar is a violent thing.

Although the dumplings have been fished up. And my aunt has already fried four dishes, but she can't eat at this time. This stove has not been worshipped yet, how can you eat it first?

At this time, Wang Zhijiang and his family had already returned to their house with a sacrifice, and they would come back to eat after worshipping the prince of the stove.

Wang Guilan took Zhou Yu to paste the portrait of the stove master on a specially recessed place on the wall above the pot stove, the stove master on the portrait was white and fat, with an amiable smile, and the pair of wise eyes smiled, as if he was satisfied with the world he supervised.

The portrait is also accompanied by a couplet, the banner is "the head of the family" four words, the stove master is in charge of the kitchen in charge of the food, in the era of food can not be satisfied, he was enshrined as the head of the family, the accommodation of the vast number of people's desire for things and the good wish not to worry about food. On both sides is a couplet: "The heavens say good things, and the lower realms keep peace."

After pasting the portrait, Zhou Yu lit a pair of small candles on the wooden board in front of the portrait, and then lit a few pillars of incense, and then put the bowl of dumplings and a pair of chopsticks that were fished out first in front of the portrait. Those are some vegetarian foods, and most of them are sweets, I hope that the stove master can say a few auspicious words in the sky after eating the sweets.

There is a saying that "men do not worship the moon and women do not sacrifice to the stove", and the ceremony of sacrificing the stove is mainly presided over by the head of the family. Zhoujia Village also followed this custom, so after placing the tribute, Wang Guilan returned to the big house and replaced Zhou Dingguo, and the two men would worship later.

Zhou Dingguo glanced at his son after coming out, and then took out a paper pony and grain and grass from his pocket very seriously, and then knelt on the ground and burned it along with the old portrait, and muttered in his mouth: "Congratulations to the Lord of the Stove to say good things to the heavens, and the lower realm to keep safe." Then he continued to say the words.

When Zhou Dingguo was doing this, Zhou Yu was next to him and laughed vigorously, saying that he hadn't seen his father's sacrificial stove for a long time, and now it was really interesting to look at this scene.

Hearing the laughter, Zhou Dingguo remembered that his son hadn't knelt down yet, so he glared at him fiercely and said, "Why are you smiling at a rabbit cub, don't you kneel down for Lao Tzu?" Are you joking? Hurry up and worship the Lord of the Stove and ask him to forgive you. Maybe he will be happy for the old man and will bless you more smoothly in the coming year. ”

Seeing his father's serious appearance, Zhou Yu didn't dare to be cute at this time, so he quickly knelt down and said a lot in his mouth. Zhou Dingguo smiled at this time.

Seeing his tall and handsome son, Zhou Dingguo suddenly remembered something. Hurriedly kowtowed a few times and said: "Grandpa Stove King will go early and come early, bring a big fat boy, don't bring a cart to carry a burden (carry a burden), bring a ...... who pulls a bow and shoots arrows."

Zhou Yu couldn't help but smile when he heard this, and followed his father to learn again, and then the two of them stood up and took down the hemp candy and desserts that had just contributed to the stove prince, and went into the house to distribute them to Wang Yunhai, a woman and Chef Liu who were chatting, and everyone happily ate everything. These things have been touched with the spirit, and after eating, they can make the family pray for blessings and avoid disasters.

After Wang Zhijiang and his wife came back, everyone began to eat dumplings, drink wine and eat vegetables, and happily spent a peaceful and warm New Year.

Although it is already the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month. But on this day, the whole village of Zhoujia Village was empty, and they all happily went to the greenhouse on Phoenix Mountain to help Zhou Yu pick big cherries.

After a few months of growth, coupled with Zhou Yu's frequent watering of the space water, the size of these big cherries is called Da Yo, looking at it from afar, it looks like a small apricot, red and bright yellow crystal, not to mention eating, even if you look at it, you can drool all over the place.

Before picking, Zhou Yu said to everyone with a smile: "Aunts, aunts, uncles, and uncles, today is the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month." I'm sorry to call everyone over to help, but the big cherries are ripe in these two days, and if I don't pick them, they will all rot on the tree, and then I will die.

We're like this today. Anyway, I don't use pesticides for this cherry, so even if you eat it when you pick it, you can eat as much as you can. Before leaving in the evening, everyone packed some more and took them home for the elderly and children to taste, after all, we haven't eaten this thing before.

I'll tell you. But don't be polite to me, or look down on me. Do you know how to do it? ”

"Hahaha, you stinky boy, how can you be such a loser? Still eating while eating, are you really so hungry for us? And I've heard that the big cherries this winter cost at least seventy or eighty-one pounds, obediently, if you have enough to eat, you won't lose your life? A lady in the crowd quipped.

"Three mothers, no matter how much money is a catty, don't we just have this thing, even if it is a thousand yuan a catty, I am willing to give it to you. Okay, I'm still the same sentence, don't be polite, you can eat if you want......"

Although Zhou Yu said so, everyone is not stupid, the big cherries at this time can be sold at the ancestral price, especially the big cherries of Ergouzi are even bigger and smarter, and they must be expensive. I'm here to help instead of causing trouble, but I must not let the second dog have any losses. In other words, this child has been working for the welfare of the village for most of the past six months, if it weren't for the two dogs' family, they could earn thirty or forty thousand yuan in the past six months?

People's hearts are flesh and blood, especially these simple villagers, we have to respect others if we respect a foot, not to mention that the two dogs are not just a foot? It can be said that without Ergouzi, there would be no Zhoujia Village today.

So when picking cherries, although everyone was hungry, no adult had eaten one, but only picked a few for the children to try. But it's only a few, and when the child is addicted to eating and then wants it with the adults, it will be scolded by the adults, so he is reluctant to move out of the greenhouse to play outside, but the look of anticipation before leaving the house is really distressing and unbearable.

Zhou Yu was outside at this time calling when the big truck over there in the provincial city would come, so he didn't notice this, but Wang Guilan, who was also picking cherries in the greenhouse, saw all this, so he stepped forward and blamed the villagers who reprimanded the children, and then took three small boxes of picked cherries for the children to eat.

Now the little ones were so happy that they couldn't do it, and they said vigorously that the second aunt or the second grandmother was good, and they ran to the pond with the big cherries in their arms and ate the big cherries while watching the animals.

More than 2,000 large cherry trees took two days to finish, and only a very small part of the trees was left that was not ripe, and it was coming to the New Year, so Zhou Yu didn't plan to pick it again before the New Year, just keep it for the New Year to send some to relatives and friends to taste.

Zhou Yu had eaten big cherries from other places before, and they were delicious, but they still couldn't compare with themselves. These big cherries are not only big, but also bright red or golden in color, exquisite, beautiful and delicate, and the surface is crystal like a layer of wax, which makes people can't help but drool when they see it.

When you take a bite, a fragrance spreads instantly, sweet with a slight sourness, the thick flesh is soft and hard, and the taste is in the heart......

A total of 25,600 catties of big cherries can be picked, in addition to the 20,000 catties taken away, there can be a few thousand catties in the fresh-keeping warehouse under the mountain, and there are still a lot of big watermelons and big peaches in the library, and it is estimated that they can be sold almost a year ago. (To be continued......)