When everyone's eyes were on him, Dong Changhai made up his mind and said, "Don't worry, I will work hard, it's better to rely on others than on myself."

There's nothing wrong with Feng County's family also wanting to protect themselves, and our Dong family has to fight for it, right? ”

Dong Xiucai nodded with satisfaction and said, "You brothers work together, their profits are broken, and you don't have great ability as a father, so you can still do it to help you teach the next generation!"

After the Spring Festival, the father will calculate the date, and set the marriage of the fourth son with Dean Tian earlier. Dean Tian still has some connections in Changhai County, and he can help as a last resort. ”

After Feng Xianling came to be a guest, the Dong family fell into a busy situation, mainly because some New Year's gifts had to be sent out in advance.

Those sent in advance do not need to come to the door to pay New Year's greetings, and as for their relatives to walk around during the New Year, the New Year's gift will be brought by the way.

The first thing is the annual gift of Feng County's order and the owner of the water village.

The owner of the water village is still the same as in previous years, as for Feng County, the main gift is food, of course, potatoes, sweet potatoes, vermicelli and vermicelli are necessary, Dong Changhe also copied a copy of some recipes for these four kinds of food.

These recipes were also experimented with by him during this time.

There are also canned fruits and fresh grapes with sand and begonia fruits.

He also took a few fine fabrics from Dong Changhu's cloth village and sent them to Feng County Lingna as New Year's gifts.

Of course, he also had a thought, hoping that when the county government would buy fabrics, he could go to his younger brother's cloth village to purchase.

Feng County's order did not hide it, and tactfully reminded Dong Changhe to take good care of Xue'er.

Naturally, people can mention such a mouthful, which is very much to give Dong Changhe face.

Dong Changhe gave a gift this time, and also mentioned the matter of potatoes and sweet potatoes. and illustrates its approximate yield.

Feng Xianling and Master Feng's excitement is self-evident, and when these two crops are ripe and harvested, they must not forget to call them and witness them with their own eyes.

After this matter was decided, Dong Changhe had a thought.

The Spring Festival has also arrived unconsciously.

This year, Cher, who is the first to do so, also wore new clothes. Perhaps because of the arrival of his younger brother Dong Chengze, it has brought new hope to this family that has been depressed.

This year's Spring Festival is much more festive than the atmosphere in the memory of the original owner.

In the early morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Dong Changhe personally pasted his home with red couplets and blessing characters written by him.

It is very interesting to paste couplets, for example, if there is a well at home, a lantern will be temporarily erected next to the well, and the lantern pole will be pasted with the words "The prince is here, the gods abdicate".

Locals also tie pine needles to lantern poles, a custom that has lasted for thousands of years.

I heard Dong Changhe say that there is an allusion to this, saying that Jiang Taigong helped King Wu of Zhou overthrow the rule of King Shang, and later there was a list of gods.

Jiang Taigong was ordered by his master Yuan Shi Tianzun to be a god, but in the end he forgot to give himself a god. I had no choice but to live on the roof of the people's house on the night of the thirtieth night of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Therefore, when the local people build houses and go up to the beams, they will write a couplet "Taigong is here, the gods abdicate", which means that Jiang Taigong is here, and other ghosts and gods should not come here to make trouble.

Therefore, during the New Year in Changhai County, every household will erect a red lantern in the yard and write this couplet to leave a place for the prince.

The cabinet where the clothes are placed must be labeled "gold and silver are precious", and the barn where the grain is stored must be labeled with the words "abundant grain".

Even the chicken coop and other places will have couplets such as "full of chickens and ducks, full of fat pigs, full of cattle and sheep" and so on.

This is the first time that Cher has really learned about these customs here.

In her previous life, she lived with her grandmother, but she didn't pay so much attention to the holidays.

And the left and right sides of the gate should be hung with two pieces of peach wood made of "peach charm". The names of the two door gods are written on the top, the left is hung with the gods, and the right is hung with Yu Lei.

Although the two immortals look fierce, they are the embodiment of justice and kindness among the people, and what they are best at is catching demons and monsters.

Therefore, as long as their names or images are engraved on the peach symbol, all demons can be exorcized.

In the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", there is a story of these two immortals.

During this period, firecrackers and firecrackers had not yet reached the homes of ordinary people, and only those with very good family conditions could afford firecrackers.

Ordinary people use firecrackers made of bamboo, or firecrackers, to drive away the "year".

Posting a couplet in the countryside means that the door is closed, so that no guests will come to disturb until the first day of the new year.

After the closure of the door, the family began to prepare lunch.

The average family in Chinese New Year's Eve will prepare even number dishes, with ten dishes being the most common, meaning perfect.

And when celebrating the birthday of the family, the dishes must be singular, and the reason is that Xue'er doesn't understand.

As for the dishes, there must be two dishes, fish and tofu, which means that there is more than every year, and tofu, which means that the family is blessed, and it is the homonym of tofu.

Dong Changhe and Yun's prepared a stewed mackerel and added newly made vermicelli.

The tofu is made with stewed pork ribs soaked in tofu, a wild pine umbrella stewed by a large rooster, and a dish of pork trotters in sauce.

Add in the pork rind jelly made from fresh pork rind, and that's a five-course dish.

Yun also prepared stewed potatoes and pork backbones with dried beans, stir-fried pork slices with fungus, and a dash of carrots and cabbage.

Mixed with a cold dish, it is the most common cabbage heart in the countryside at this time, plus shredded meat and vermicelli, as well as shredded sweet potatoes fried with sweet potatoes, mixed with rice vinegar and sugar, it tastes sweet and sour.

Then there is a pure meat dish, that is, the pork left only on the day of the pig killing, the half-fat and half-lean pork is cut into appropriate slices, and the soy sauce garlic dish is prepared, which is dipped in the garlic dish and eats with a delicious taste.

The last dish is a precious canned fruit.

Because in this era, both salt and sugar are precious things, and canned fruit is inseparable from sugar, so the Dong family itself is reluctant to eat it.

During this period, Yun's pregnancy ate a few hungry, but Xue'er and Dong Changhe generally didn't eat it.

Open a canned fruit during the holidays, and it will be easy to relieve after serving.

The staple food is, of course, steamed buns and rice cakes, which means that the year is higher and higher.

Dong Chengze is still a little baby who can't eat anything, Xue'er is responsible for watching her younger brother, and these meals are prepared by Dong Changhe and his wife.

At the same time, in the backyard of the county government, Feng Ling'er was personally arranging for the cook to cook meals.

Of course, there are four things sent by Dong Changhe.

According to the recipe he gave, she asked the cook to make a chicken stew with mushrooms and a pink skin in it.

The second dish is stewed pork ribs with potatoes, and the third dish is a local sauerkraut stew with pork belly and vermicelli.

Finally, Dong Changhe wrote the classic cold dish cabbage core mixed with fried sweet potato shreds......

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