After signing a series of unequal treaties, Li Mingyuan successfully made a down payment on his little brother from Qiuzhu's clutches.

After feeling that his little brother was back in his control, Li Mingyuan let out a sigh, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said, "Qiuzhu, you have fallen!" ”

Qiuzhu: "······! ”

After the early morning episode, the two also got up in a hurry to get busy, today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, although the health of the house and the like have been cleaned, there is only the Spring Festival Lian, but the house maids have also gone back a lot, after all, everyone has to go home for the New Year. In addition, the area of the Hou Mansion is really huge, so it is inevitable that there will be a shortage of manpower.

Chinese New Year's Eve is the last day of the old year, in order to welcome the new year, this day has been busy since early, for a big meal in the evening, the last meal of the year, you must eat better than ever.

In Liangzhou, Chinese New Year's Eve is to eat wontons at noon, so the next night, you have to buy wonton skins and choose the dishes. After eating in the morning, the cooks start chopping pork and preparing the wontons.

The wonton wrappers here are very thin, not as thick as those in Li Mingyuan's previous life, and they are almost catching up with the dumpling wrappers, which are not delicious at all.

"It's time to eat!" Because many people went home for the New Year, the Hou Mansion was suddenly deserted a lot, and the kitchen ladies in the kitchen roared loudly at the door, and all the people who were busy with their work hurriedly ran to the kitchen to eat wontons.

To Li Mingyuan's surprise, even the old lady went to the kitchen with the support of the maid and came to the front line to inspect the work.

After eating fragrant dumplings, everyone got busy again, and Qiu Zhu was pulled by the old lady, ready to make braised pork. Li Mingyuan also wanted to go up to help, but was mercilessly rejected by the old lady, saying that he was afraid that Li Mingyuan would mess up, which made Li Mingyuan, who was hit hard today, have more urge to wipe his neck.

In Li Mingyuan's impression, braised pork is one of the hot recipes, with pork belly as the main ingredient, and the cooking technique of braised pork is mainly casserole, and the taste is sweet. Braised pork is a well-known local dish, which fully embodies the characteristics of this dish "thick oil red sauce".

As a very dignified foodie, Li Mingyuan said, since you don't let me do it, then I'll watch from the side, and when you do it well, we won't get it for nothing. So, the thing was set up in the kitchen like a stake.

Whether it is in the past life or now, on the issue of eating meat, Li Mingyuan found that it is always difficult to reconcile, what is the reason? Because some people like to eat lean meat because the lean meat is chewy, some people like to eat fatty meat because the fat meat is fragrant, some people feel that the lean meat is hard, difficult to chew, some people feel that the fat is greasy, difficult to swallow, but only the braised pork dish, the meat is five varieties and three layers, after the production, the delicacy can not be described in words, fat but not greasy, can be called a classic dish in Chinese cuisine.

In fact, now that the power of the Hou Mansion is now, a good roast meat is nothing, and there is no need for the old lady to cook it himself. But after listening to the old lady's nagging when cooking, Li Mingyuan realized the story behind the seemingly simple braised pork.

It turned out that Xiahou's family had always been not very wealthy, and it could even be regarded as poor. Xiahou Yong's father died early, leaving orphans and widows to depend on each other, as long as it was the New Year, the old lady was willing to weigh some meat, and make the favorite braised pork of the Hou Ye to satisfy his hunger.

Now, decades have passed. The original orphans and widows are now destined to be princes. But the poor old lady of the year did not forget, and Xiahou Yong did not forget, so this braised pork was established as a dish that must be eaten on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve of the Hou Mansion, which can also be regarded as a bitter beet.

"To make braised pork, water is the most particular. The water should be put away at one time, don't boil it dry, and if you really want to add water, remember to add boiling water! The old lady pulled Qiu Zhu beside him to teach by example, and it seemed that he wanted to teach her the ability to make a good roast meat.

When the braised pork is ready to be cooked, there are already intermittent firecrackers at this time, and it is the families that are preparing to worship the Bodhisattva, the god of the stove in the kitchen, and the god of wealth in the main room must be worshiped one by one, incense, and kowtow. The air is filled with the smell of incense, the smell of firecrackers, and the unique smell of the New Year.

Fortunately, the kitchen of the Hou Mansion is relatively large and can accommodate multiple chefs to operate at the same time, otherwise, at the speed of the old lady, everyone can only eat braised pork on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Fireworks and firecrackers flew together, and the group sat up and smiled. Singing and entertaining the night, the sky is full of stars and silver men.

The joy and peace of Chinese New Year's Eve make the big guy forget the hard work of the year. They drank happily. Although there is no Spring Festival Gala here, it still warms Li Mingyuan's heart.

After eating, according to the old rules, everyone has to keep the New Year. At the same time, the elders will give the younger generations New Year's money at this time, so Li Mingyuan is quite looking forward to how many red envelopes he can receive this time, and he completely forgets that he is already a twenty-year-old person.

In Li Mingyuan's expectations, Lao Taijun began to give out red envelopes, and the first to get it was naturally Xiahou Yong's son Xiahou Bin. The second is Li Mingyuan. The red envelope is thick, but in fact, there is not much money in it, because they are all copper coins with small denominations, but everyone doesn't care about these.

Invited to guard the New Year's Arong family, the wax torch passed red to the blue yarn; Thirty-six years have been wasted, but since then I cherish the years.

The observance of the New Year is a relatively grand project on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, and the custom of observing the New Year has both the feeling of regret and nostalgia for the passing years like water, and the meaning of placing good hopes on the coming New Year. It is human nature to cherish the years, so the great poet Su Shi wrote the famous sentence of "Keeping the Year": "There will be no year next year, and I am afraid of worrying about it; Work hard tonight, the boy can boast! This shows the positive significance of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Although it ushered in a new year, it also meant that I had grown a year old. The burden on his body was also a little heavier, and Li Mingyuan couldn't help but look back at Qiu Zhu sitting beside him. He was dressed in a light blue cotton coat with a bow tied around his waist. A plum hairpin is inserted in a simple bun, and the long hair hangs down to the waist like a black waterfall, simple and elegant.

"I must marry you!" Somehow, Li Mingyuan took advantage of the big guy's inattention to kiss Qiuzhu fiercely, and leaked domineeringly.

"Okay, if you don't obey me then!" After exercising in the morning, today's Qiuzhu has a tendency to develop from a cute girl to a female man, after being fragrant by Li Mingyuan, instead of being shy, she proudly gestured with a scissor hand, and directly killed Li Mingyuan in seconds.