33. Preparation before the year (20th day of the 12th month of the lunar calendar)
As for the follow-up story, Su Rui still listened to Aunt Hua come over in the afternoon.
"Your aunt sued your uncle and your grandmother and beat her."
Su Rui asked, "...... Beating? ”
Aunt Hua nodded, "Yes, someone joined in the fun in the morning and followed the official to the county government's mansion." ”
"Your eldest aunt, just roll up your sleeves, it's all whip marks. It is said that at that time, the official sent a woman to check your eldest uncle's body. It's all whip marks all over her body..."Aunt Hua finished speaking, and her whole body trembled.
Sure enough, people can't look good, Uncle Su doesn't look like a fierce person, "What are you going to do?" ”
Aunt Hua sighed: "Alas, I want to leave." Her children agreed. ”
Su Rui suddenly thought: "When she was beaten, why didn't they care about her cousin?" ”
Aunt Hua looked at Su Rui with your stupid expression: "Do you think that your grandmother and your uncle will be in front of Chen Dong and them?" Every time, they are spent, and they are beaten. ”
Su Rui didn't expect this, and touched her nose embarrassedly.
"That, what about my aunt and after leaving?"
Aunt Hua recalled: "It seems that your grandfather and they went, and the discussion was to pay thirty taels of silver." ”
"Auntie agreed?"
Aunt Hua shook her head: "No, your eldest aunt asked to leave, and then build a small yard for her at the foot of the mountain, she wants to take your cousins and cousins to live with them, and give five acres of land and fifty taels of silver." ”
Su Rui thought to herself, the Wang family is really a good mother, for Su Yi's trouble, this is for her children not to be bullied by their stepmother in the future, and they are also making trouble.
In fact, Wang's age is only in his thirties, and he can marry someone if he wants to.
"Did my grandfather say yes?"
Aunt Hua sneered: "What can I do if I don't agree?" If you don't agree, your aunt will bite you to death and sue your grandmother and they will go to jail. ”
Su Qiao thought for a moment and asked affirmatively, "My grandfather must have a request, right?" ”
Aunt Hua glanced at Su Qiao approvingly, "Yes, your grandfather demanded, your eldest aunt is not allowed to marry or recruit, otherwise you will take back five acres of land." ”
Su Rui pouted: "My grandfather, that's it, all interests must revolve around them." ”
"Actually, I think that the eldest aunt and the separation will definitely get better and better..."
As the saying goes, "After Laba is the New Year." "As soon as Laba passed, some family conditions were okay, and those who raised pigs began to kill New Year's pigs one after another.
Pig's trotters and pork ribs, no one wanted. Su Rui bought more, which was more expensive than the county seat, but she didn't have to run hard.
Seeing the pig's small intestine, Su Rui thought of the modern sausage, the outer layer of casing, which is to wash the pig's small intestine, scrape off the oil on it, and then fill the meat after careful cleaning.
Su Rui bought all the pigs' small intestines and bought another hundred catties of pork.
Returning home, Sister Suri cleanses her small intestines.
The pork is cut into pieces and diced in a fat-to-lean ratio of 1:4, and when I am about to marinate, I remember that the seasoning is not complete.
Su Rui found that there were chili peppers sold in this dynasty, but without peppercorns, they couldn't make spicy sausages, so they had to settle for the next best thing and make Cantonese sausages.
There was no wine at home, so he asked Su Chenrui to borrow five catties of rice wine from Aunt Hua's house, and Aunt Hua would brew dozens of catties of rice wine every winter and drink it during the New Year.
Add 1:2 salt and sugar, stir well and marinate for an hour.
I went to Mr. Lin's house again, found a few bamboo knots of similar thickness, and asked Mr. Lin to help open them up and smooth them out.
The casing was put on the bamboo tube, and the end of the casing was knotted, and then Su Ying and Su Chenrui took it, and Su Rui and Su Qiao poured it in little by little until they were all filled, and tied it up with a cotton thread at a distance of about ten centimeters, and put it in the stove.
After a few days, Su Rui, who was half-dried in the sausage, took six sections down and prepared the old house, Su Changle, and Su Changying's three families to taste it in two sections.
When the sausages were dry, Su Rui slaughtered the rabbits in the first litter of the family and the remaining nine.
After Laba, she was supposed to give a New Year's gift, but Su Rui was a few days late because she was waiting for the sausage.
Three bamboo baskets, each with a chicken brought back from winter fishing, a rabbit that has been slaughtered and skinned, two sausages, a bag of snacks, and an extra rabbit from the old house.
Because Su Chenrui was going to enter the private school in the village after the New Year, and the private school was opened by the village chief's family, he prepared an extra New Year's gift, a rabbit and a snack.
Su Rui didn't send the New Year's gift this time, Su Chenrui sent it to the village chief's house and the old house, and Su Ying sent it to Su Changle's house and Su Changying's house.
There is only Su Changle, Su Changying and the village chief's family have a return gift, and the old house is a thing to collect, but they don't talk when they meet.
It's almost the New Year, and there are a lot of things to prepare at home, and Su Rui and Su Qiao's busy feet don't touch the ground every day.
The Su Rui sisters divided the leftover meat from the sausage into three portions, one was prepared to be braised and put in a porcelain bowl to freeze, one was croquettes, dumplings, and one was steamed buns.
First of all, braised pork, small Chinese New Year's Eve to send the stove, Chinese New Year's Eve to be connected to the stove, the first day of the new year to eat, and the fifth day of the new year to welcome the God of Wealth are all used.
For meatballs, use the remaining leftovers, chop and add shredded radish, a little flour and eggs, mix well, and fry the radish meatballs.
Ancient customs from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year are not allowed to use any sharp weapons, including kitchen knives and scissors, but as long as the fifth day of the Lunar New Year is passed, the common people call it "Breaking Five", and all the taboos during the New Year can be broken.
So Su Rui and the others have to prepare more dumplings, the dumplings are one and a half catties of noodles, plus two catties of meat stuffing mixed with cabbage, which is the amount of eighty dumplings, Su Rui plans to prepare six catties of noodles, twelve catties of stuffing, and prepare to pack four hundred and eighty dumplings.
In this dynasty, you have to eat steamed buns from the first day of the new year to the fifteenth morning, so Su Rui counted the six people in her family, one person counted as two in the morning, Su Chennan didn't count, that was ten, fifteen days was one hundred and fifty, and Su Rui was going to make one hundred and eighty. Just in case it's not enough...
All the ingredients were calculated and distributed, and the Su Rui sisters began to make dumplings first in the past few days.
Su Rui makes dumplings quickly, and it is good to pinch them with one hand, so Su Ying and Su Qiao rolled the skin, and she made it by herself.
More than 400 dumplings sound like a lot, but it's not much. When they were all wrapped and frozen in the courtyard, they were put into a clean basket, covered with cloth, and hung under the porch to freeze.
When I got up the next day, it was another day to chop the stuffing, and I had to chop the stuffing. Radish meat and cabbage meat, it's not that Su Rui is unwilling to take out leeks from the space, but there is really no excuse to take them...
Yesterday morning, I chopped the radish meatball stuffing in the morning, the cabbage meat dumplings in the afternoon, and I dreamed when I slept at night, and I felt that I was chopping the filling...
Su Chenrui chopped the stuffing, Su Rui was mixing noodles, waiting for a kind of stuffing to be chopped, Su Qiao adjusted the taste, Su Ying and Su Qiao rolled the skin, Su Rui wrapped the buns, steamed in a pot, and it took a busy day to make the buns.
Su Rui and the others were already tired and paralyzed, and they ate two steamed buns in the evening, and steamed an egg custard for Su Chennan, which was considered a solution to dinner.
The second day is the twentieth day of the lunar month, and after two or three days is the new year, Su Rui explained that her younger siblings were at home, and she went into the county to buy the bowls, bowls and spoons, and soup pots that were missing.
Before going out, Su Wan and Su Chennan wanted to go, but Su Rui didn't agree, "There were a lot of flowers a year ago, if you go, you will be arrested accidentally, and you won't be able to come back then, and you won't be able to see the eldest sister." ”
I heard that I would be patted away, and the two little ones were honest.
This is really not Su Rui's coaxing, it is true, as soon as the Chinese New Year is approaching, those traffickers will disguise themselves to deceive children.
In this dynasty, human trafficking was legal, and there was no modern advanced network system, so as long as it was lost, it was basically impossible to find it.
If you are lucky, you will be sold to the eunuch's house as a maid, and if you are unlucky, you will be sold to a dirty place like a kiln brothel.