"Then grandma, let's eat whatever you want!" Fang Menan joked with a smile. "How about fancy porridge! Winter health is the best. ”

"No problem, listen to you." Grandma smiled and waved.

Fang Monan got up and went to the big kitchen at the bottom of the mountain to make dinner, which was made of jujubes, red beans, sago, rice, oats, and porridge, and each rice had to be soaked for about 2 hours, so that it would taste soft and sweet. Bring the fire to a boil and simmer for an hour.

Very good!

On the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, sweeping the ashes is a thorough cleaning. As the saying goes: "Resignation, resignation, the New Year is coming." "After the New Year's Festival, the first important item on the agenda is to clean up the ashes. In terms of timing, you can choose a warm day with a sunny day from the 24th to the 26th of the lunar month.

Because in the course of a year, due to the constraints of various taboos and habits, a thorough cleaning is seldom carried out, so on the day of the dust, the whole family works together, everything that can be moved, or things that have not been moved due to taboos, including tables, chairs, benches, chests and clothes, are all moved, some moved to the yard, and some moved to the middle of the house. The whole family swept and wiped, and the house was thoroughly cleaned up and down, inside and out, and the windows were clean.

Tables, chairs, benches or pots and pans, if there is dirt, should be washed with alkaline water to make the utensils look new.

Finally, the dust is collected in a dustpan and poured into a ditch at the head of the village or on the side of the road to let the water wash away. The significance of cleaning ash is not only cleanliness and hygiene, but also indicates that the year's bad luck, distress and poverty will be swept away and thrown away like dust. to welcome the new year.

The custom of cleaning ashes has a long history and is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and there are many years when the customs in the festival have been gradually diluted, but the custom of cleaning ashes has been passed down from generation to generation. Even in the new millennium, people are not tired of it, not only in the rural areas, but also in the organs, factories and mines, and during the Spring Festival, the offices and workshops must be cleaned, and the doors and windows will be wiped clean to show people.

At this time, you will feel the big disadvantage of the house, and it is really tiring to clean it every year! Fang Monan directly used the Cleansing Spell this year. Finally, there is a place to use. Grandma took all the people away. Grandma was dumbfounded, but in fact, the room was cleaned almost every day, not too dirty. But it's the New Year! Clean up according to custom.

For the first time, Grandma watched her granddaughter use the spell so clearly, and she was even more excited than her granddaughter.

"Whew! Or this is the most practical. Grandma said with a smile. Hand wave. If only we did. I don't think I can finish it in a day. ”

"Hee-hee-hee......"

It's about to be the New Year, and everyone is busy preparing New Year's goods, not to mention what to eat. This year, Fang Monan killed the pigs on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, and experienced a strong nostalgia.

Killing pigs during the New Year is a traditional folk custom, also known as "killing pigs during the New Year". In the past, it was a big deal to kill pigs in the New Year, and most of them had to kill pigs in the month of Layue, and prepared meat for the New Year's dumplings and dishes, and there was a nursery rhyme saying that "children, children, don't cry, and kill pigs when they enter the month" to a certain extent reflects the mood of people looking forward to killing pigs and eating meat.

When he was a child, Fang Monan didn't remember the situation of killing New Year's pigs, grandma had no land to raise pigs, and at that time, she was poor, and her aunt's pigs were also close to the end of the year to exchange money, and there were not many people who could eat in their mouths.

This year, the three 'butchers' of Dashan, Wang Jiabao, and Chang Jiuchun don't need Fang Monan to wave their hands when they kill pigs. The three of them were quite solemn and grand about "killing New Year's pigs", and they even burned high incense and set off firecrackers,......

Although Fang Monan is not a child, he still watched the three of them "kill the New Year pig" with great interest. The cry of the big black pig is really miserable, but Guan Dashan, the attack is also neat, and he is killed with a knife, which reduces the pain of the pig.

"Dashan, this is a good technique! It seems to be the knife of the village. Grandma said with a smile. You see, not only do it cleanly and quickly, but also do not "spoil" it, that is, waste useful things, and put the pig's flesh and head, hooves, sewerage offal, blood, bones and other parts in order, and divide them into categories and use them for their own purposes. ”

With Grandma's explanation, Guan Dashan neatly dismembered a big fat pig of nearly 200 catties.

Several big men neatly separated the pork one by one, including chopped dumpling filling, fried meatballs, fried crispy meat, steamed pork, braised pig's head, boiled pork skin jelly, braised elbow, etc., filled blood sausage, powder sausage, and of course, pork ribs and big bones.

"I'm back." Before the person arrives, the sound comes first, a crisp and pleasant familiar sound.

"Yo he...... Where is this fashionable girl! Aunt Lian looked at the girl standing not far away and smiled, "Tut...... Qiu Lian became almost unrecognizable to me. ”

It's really a modern girl, "It's just in time, we're killing the New Year's pig!" Fang Monan beckoned to her.

"Hee-hee...... It's better to come early than to come sooner. Qiu Lian said with a smile, "I'll change my clothes later." ”

Qiu Lian carried the simple duffel bag in her hand and entered her room, as clean as when she left. He quickly changed into his home clothes and came out to help.

"Killing New Year's pigs is a big deal in our Northeast farmers, because the average family is once or twice a year, which is almost equivalent to a festival." Qiu Lian changed into a regular dress and walked over.

"Come on...... Qiu Lian will introduce it to you. Aunt Lian smiled and introduced Vera and Vikara to each other.

I've heard about each other for a long time, but we just met today, and after everyone greeted each other, they started to work.

Fang Monan selected more than a dozen pieces of pork belly with skin and pork bones to cook together, boiled a large pot full of water, and put star anise, pepper, cloves and other big ingredients, tangerine peel, astragalus, and wolfberry in the pot.

"Oh! This pot is bigger than the pot used in our team's big pot rice period. Guan Dashan said with a smile.

"Our family is full of meat tigers, and these will be enough to eat." As Fang Menan spoke, Xiao Ash roared unwillingly.

"I forgot about you! You're the meat tigers! Fang Monan smiled and pointed his finger at the big leaves, the three of them.

"Hehe......" everyone laughed.

Soon the thick smell of meat spread, and everyone snorted very unproductively, it was too fragrant.

Fang Monan is responsible for filling blood sausages, which are the traditional food of the Xibe people, and the pig's large intestine is washed with salt for later use; Soak the glutinous rice that has been soaked in water for about three hours in advance, mix it with fresh pig blood, and then mix the fine minced meat, pepper, minced garlic, salt, and chopped green onion together, pour it into the large intestine, and tie the two ends with twine. Then put the filled enema in a steamer and steam for about 50 minutes, then slice and serve.

When Fang Monan was making blood sausages, the three big men began to chop the filling of the croquettes and cut the crispy slices of meat.

Fry the tofu first, then fry the sweet potato balls, and fry the twist!

Croquettes are divided into vegetarian meatballs and meatballs. First fry the vegetarian meatballs, rub the carrots and white radishes into shreds, add mung bean flour, an appropriate amount of salt, green onions, ginger, garlic, and thirteen spices. Shape the balls into a pan of hot oil.

Meatballs, then chop the meat, then beat in an appropriate amount of eggs, with a variety of condiments, put in starch to stir it evenly and have a certain viscosity, and then grasp the meat filling tightly with your hands, and the meat filling is naturally exposed between the fingers, and fry it in an oil pan, which is the meatballs.

A group of gluttonous cats are eating while frying, and after frying, they are almost finished, and then they put down a bowl of clear soup and noodles, deal with a meal, and then dry.

It took a whole afternoon of work to blow up everything that should be fried. The others are freshly made and eaten first, and the taste is even better.

The meat and big bones are also cooked, tear off the meat from the big bones by hand, put some, chopped green onions, coriander, and vinegar and mix it cold.

A large piece of pork belly with skin is just taken out of the pan, brushed with soy sauce, colored, and made into fermented bean curd. The taste: sweet and salty, fat but not greasy, and the aftertaste is endless.

For the meat tigers, it is absolutely delicious.

Although the practice of blood enema is simple, the slices are eaten hot, the taste is fragrant, oily but not greasy, the taste is unique, delicious and delicious.

The white meat is fat but not greasy, the meat is rotten and mellow, the blood sausage is bright, delicious and tender; With leek flowers, fermented bean curd, chili oil, garlic paste and other condiments, it is more mellow and fragrant, tender and refreshing.

Two kinds of appetizers, the sky is beautiful, there are snowflakes, green ants are newly brewed wine, and the red clay stove is small. If you want snow in the evening, can you drink a glass of nothing?

Have a drink, hurry!

Of course, after killing the pigs, it is indispensable to kill the pigs on the whole table to treat everyone.

After eating, I was covered with the smell of oil smoke and green onions, and I couldn't go to bed without taking a bath. I'll do it tomorrow, I'm so tired for the New Year!

Twenty-six noodles, twenty-seven steamed buns, the most important thing is steamed jujube flower cake, this is used for incense. There are many types of offerings, including family offerings, heaven and earth offerings, etc., and they are of different sizes, including jujube cakes.

Steaming is the busiest, labor-intensive, especially kneading dough is more tiring. The most important thing on the farm is the strong people, kneading the dough is definitely better than the other, and the dough is kneaded smooth and smooth.

Grandma said with a smile while steaming, "At that time, when it was time to steam the roots of the year, the housewives in the neighborhoods were willing to help each other. Even children and the elderly come in handy – jujubes; If it is the new daughter-in-law's offering, and the smile is good, people will praise her for her skill, and the new daughter-in-law will be so beautiful that she will close her mouth. ”

"Nowadays, people are lazy, they buy everything on the street, I think it is still steamed by themselves, the heart is the best, and the taste is the best!" Old Man Lin said with a smile.

"Oh! Grandpa, believe in this too. Fang Menan said playfully, "Your old man is a materialist. ”

"With your little magic stick, I can still be materialistic." Old Man Lin joked with a smile.

"Hehe......" everyone laughed.

There are many people and great strength, before dark, finally steamed steamed buns, 28 Guan Dashan and Wang Jiabao were on vacation, and Aunt Lian's salary was settled to them, and a big red envelope was also issued, which was the sum of a year's salary. The fried things, steamed steamed buns, and the New Year's goods bought by grandma were each taken home.

"That's too much! How do we bring it back. Guan Dashan looked at things like small mountains and scratched his head.

The fat man laughed, "It's okay! The convoy's car, heading south, will take you for a while, isn't it done? ”

"That's right! Yes! When grandma heard this, she then prepared New Year's goods for the two of them.

Of course, grandma can't forget to give benefits to the employees of the hotel and the old house. (To be continued......)

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