Chapter 12: The Chinese New Year's Eve is busy
Chinese New Year's Eve, as one of the most important traditional festivals in China, means the end of the old year.
On this day, people will knock down the inside and outside of the home, and also paste the door gods, Spring Festival couplets, New Year's pictures, and hang lanterns.
There is an ancient poem: "Thousands of households always exchange new peaches for old charms", which is at this time.
Although with the development of the times, the flavor of the New Year in Huaguo seems to be worse every year, but in Zhangjia Village, this festive atmosphere can still be seen everywhere.
Two door gods are pasted on the doors of every house, which are brand new and appear particularly spiritual; The flaming Spring Festival couplets are pasted on both sides, expressing the joy of the arrival of the new year. The large red lanterns hanging on both sides of the gate sway gently in the breeze and make a creaking sound, like naughty children welcoming the arrival of the new year.
On the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, the villagers of Zhangjia Village got up early in the morning and began to work inside and out, although they had already cleaned their homes inside and out a few days ago, but the customs of thousands of years still made them feel that if they did not sweep the ground a few times today, it would not be considered Chinese New Year's Eve.
Of course, these busyness are for the adults, and this day is the happiest day for all the children, who are free to play outside during the day and crack firecrackers all over the village; At night, you can also get a red New Year's money, although this money can't be used immediately, but it is pressed under the pillow to sleep, and you will laugh when you fall asleep in your dreams.
On this day, Happy woke up early as usual, although he was busy until midnight last night for a group of food guys, but the biological clock that had already been immovable still allowed him to wake up from his sleep accurately.
"Wow!" As soon as he walked out of the room, Gray Boy called softly twice, and then ran towards the bun shop.
Happily raised his head in confusion, and then he realized. The light in the bun shop turned on, and there were bursts of noise from time to time.
"What's going on? Could it be that Uncle Hao Han forgot that today is a holiday? I came to the steamed bun shop happily and suspiciously, but found that it was my father who was busy on the desk, and when I looked at it, there were already forty or fifty wrapped dumplings on the table next to my father.
As for Gray Boy, he was squatting on the side and wagging his tail at this time, as if saying good morning to his father.
"Dad, why are you making so many buns, and we won't open today?" Happily and suspiciously, he walked up with a hint of concern. "You haven't recovered yet, don't be tired."
"It's okay," Bu Yuanting smiled and said, "I feel much better during this time, and my hands and feet are also strong." It just so happened that I saw that there was still some leftover meat filling in the shop, so I went to a nearby vegetable market to buy some dumpling wrappers. If you go late these days. There's nothing good left in the vegetable market! ”
"Dad, what age is it now, even if there is no vegetable market, there is still a supermarket!" Happy smiled.
"Come on! When the daring son grew up, he dared to laugh at his father for falling behind! Bu Yuanting raised his face and said.
Happy suddenly looked terrified: "Don't dare, don't dare." ”
It's just that those smiling eyes completely betrayed him.
The father and son exchanged their eyes, and suddenly they laughed.
"Dad. You can rest first, and I'll take care of the rest. He smiled happily.
"Okay, then I'll rest for a while." I got up early in the morning and ran to the vegetable market, and when I came back, I started making dumplings. Bu Yuanting did feel a little tired, but compared to the previous state of taking two breaths for two steps, his body was much better now.
After a brief wash, Happy went to the table and continued to wrap the dumplings.
The meat filling stored in the refrigerator is the remaining meat filling sent to Shuibo Liangshan, nearly 20 catties or so, the rise of happy buns, I forgot to pay attention to the number, and all the meat fillings were wrapped into dumplings.
When Happy came back to his senses, the meat filling was already empty, looking at the white and tender dumplings on the table, Happy and rough, there were at least hundreds of dumplings here, and suddenly smiled bitterly: "Dad, why did you buy so many dumpling skins?" Don't remind me, there are so many dumplings, are you planning to eat dumplings for the past few days? ”
Facing his son's ridicule, Bu Yuanting smiled and said, "Don't worry about this, dumplings will naturally have their place." By the way, I prepared some white porridge for you in the kitchen, put it in the rice cooker, it's still hot, go eat it. ”
"Oh." Happy then remembered that he hadn't eaten breakfast yet, took the rag on the side, wiped his hands, took off the apron on his waist and left the bun shop.
Since the five grains in the mountain god space matured, Happy changed all the rice grains at home to space rice.
Although they have lived in Jinghua for more than ten years, the favorite food of the Bujia father and son is fragrant rice.
After eating the white porridge, I happily returned to the steamed bun shop, but saw that my father had already covered the dumplings with gauze.
"Dad, Sister Nian Ying's side still wants me to send her a car of vegetables, I have to help over there by the way, I won't come back at noon, the rice has been soaked in water, you can put it in the pot and cook it at noon." Said happily.
"Zhilu said," Bu Yuanting waved his hand, "Don't treat your father and me as a three-year-old child, okay, I can take care of myself!" ”
"Hmm." nodded happily, squatted down and touched the head of the gray boy at his feet, and then went into the greenhouse in addition to the living room.
I moved some vegetables out of the greenhouse, of course, some of them were moved directly from the mountain god space, and I moved them to the rear compartment and set off happily in the off-road vehicle.
With the passage of time, the current popularity of Wenren Nianying's restaurant has reached an enviable level, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner has long been sold out, and those limited supply of the best vegetables have been enthusiastically sought after, and some people even directly opened a thousand yuan to let the restaurant make an additional stir-fried cabbage, but in the end it was rejected by the restaurant.
The restaurant's behavior also made customers realize that the so-called limited supply is not just a gimmick to sit on the ground and start the price, and the supply capacity of this superb vegetable is indeed limited.
Scarcity is expensive, and as a result, these limited-edition vegetables have a higher status in the hearts of diners.
But as long as someone can order a plate of limited supply dishes, it must be a very face-saving thing, and they can also grow a lot of face in the circle of friends.
When Happy drove to the door of the restaurant, the roads on both sides of the door were already full of cars, and all the parking spaces were packed.
happily greeted a few cooks who had been waiting by the door, and after this time of getting along, everyone became acquainted.
I sent all the vegetables to the kitchen, happily found a parking space to park the car, and went to the restaurant to help.
Although Wenren Nianying retained all the employees at four times the usual salary, but for the increasingly hot business, the manpower in the restaurant is still a little dwarfed.
After a few days of internship, Tang Qiaoqiao is still doing a good job, and when she saw Happy coming in, she happily greeted him, and then lowered her head to memorize the menu. It's not like the first time, when I saw Happy coming in, I immediately threw away the menu and left the guests to chat with Happy Happy.
smiled and said hello to Tang Qiaoqiao, happily went straight to the second floor, changed into the chef's uniform prepared for himself, and came to the kitchen.
At this time, Qiu Yin was directing the cooks to cook on the side, and when he saw Happy coming over, he suddenly laughed and scolded: "You kid is still grinding!" Hurry up and get to work, or the guests will overturn the restaurant! ”
smiled happily, then walked to his desk and began his daily routine - chopping vegetables.
In the whole kitchen, who else has better knife work than happiness? Who else has faster hand speed than happy?
So, a difficult and glorious task fell on Happy Happy's shoulders, and that was - chopping vegetables!
Chinese cabbage, greens, radish, cucumbers, lettuce, celery, tomatoes, eggplants, potatoes, etc., etc., but all the vegetables to be cooked have already been placed on the happy desk, just waiting for the happy knife.
Happy and not pretentious, with double knives, the brilliance rises.
At this time, the surrounding chefs will unconsciously stop what they are doing, their eyes are glued to happiness, and they are dizzy.
This kind of knife skill is really desirable!
I dreamed of when I would have such a knife skill, and then I returned to reality under Qiu Yin's scolding, fiddling with the pots and pans in my hands, what should I do.
An hour later, happily finished his work, and then ran to Qiu Yin's side in a hurry to watch how he instructed the chef to cook.
Although Qiu Yin can't do it himself, just by dictating, people can benefit a lot, which is the strength of the top ten chefs in China back then.
Under Qiu Yin's guidance, the cooking skills of the restaurant chef have indeed made great progress, from the beginning only relying on Qiu Yin alone, to now there are several chefs who can support it, which has to be said to be Qiu Yin's credit.
Compared with the hot and busy kitchen, the busyness in the restaurant seems a bit noisy, the guests are in a hurry to order, and you only buzz people's brains with every word.
After listening to Qiu Yin's instructions on braised bamboo shoots, Happy left the kitchen and moved to the restaurant.
From a certain point of view, happiness is a bit of a brick: I am a brick of socialism, and I can move it wherever I need it.
It wasn't until around two o'clock in the afternoon that the restaurant really got free.
Wen Ren Nian Ying wiped the sweat stains on her forehead, and said with a smile: "Happy, this time is really thanks to you!" ”
smiled happily and said, "What's the matter, I still have to thank Sister Nian Ying!" So that I can learn one dish every day, and in a few days, I will be able to set a table full of Han! ”
Tang Qiaoqiao suddenly smiled playfully: "Hehe, that dare is good!" Next time it's my birthday, let Brother Happy come and get a table full of Han! ”
"Uh......" Happy suddenly realized that his cowhide was blown up, and he didn't know what to do.
"Ha Lu Ha." The people present were all the people inside the restaurant, and when they saw the embarrassment of being happy, they immediately laughed. (To be continued.) )