Steward Wu stayed in Luoxia Town for five days, and Wu Changming and his son Wu Qiude led and looked at the surrounding places, and then went to Fuqing Buns to have a look.

On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, Steward Wu set off for Beijing, and Wu Qiude went with him, he was going to buy the house in advance, take care of it, prepare for Wu Yanxun's entry into Beijing, and prepare for his own family.

After all, according to the importance that the Wu family attaches to their own family now, the Wu family in Luoxia Town has great hope of entering Beijing.

On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, the Fuqing steamed bun shop was closed, and Luo Laotian's family and Hua Kaixun were dressed warmly, holding a hand stove in their hands, and got into a carriage and went to Luojia Village.

Compared with the previous five carriages, this time it was even worse, a full ten, and the five carriages were full of New Year's gifts.

In the house of Luojia Village, Luo Ergang's family will go to see it every day, pick it up, and burn the kang every few days, so Luo Laotian and they can live directly when they get home, and they don't have to clean it up.

Luo Ergang's family took a few drawers of frozen white flour dumplings, as well as cabbage and dried vegetables.

The dumplings with pure meat filling, cabbage oil residue filling, dried vegetable eggs, and cabbage meat filling are very rich, and Luo Ergang's family has packed so many flavors of dumplings this year, which is really full.

The bird's nest sent by Wu Qiuwan was sold by Tuo Tianzhuang and they took it to the county seat, and they got one hundred and twenty taels, forty-five taels and one tael, and the bird's nest Luo Ergang's family with more than two taels was all sold, and one was not left, just kidding, how could such expensive things be eaten by themselves, not a waste of silver.

The family has money, the foundation is hard, this year Luo Ergang's family is also very rich in New Year's goods, and even a piece of Luo Laotian's family has been prepared, the dumplings have been wrapped for them, and a lot of fresh cabbage stored in the cellar and dried vegetables in summer and autumn have also been collected.

At noon, the hot dumplings were in the stomach, Wang Guihua burned a pot of rice cereal, and everyone pasted the joyful couplets and blessing characters inside and outside the old house.

"Whew, it's so cold, it feels colder than the capital, it doesn't make sense." Wu Qiuwan was still a little trembling when he held the stove.

"The kang hasn't burned up yet, just wait a little longer." Wang Guihua smiled, "But after listening to your words, I am relieved, I want to come and go to the capital, I should be able to withstand the cold." ”

"Absolutely." Wu Qiuwan affirmed, "The cold in the capital is a little different from the cold here, the cold feeling here is cold to the bones, and the capital will not." ”

"Let's eat the pot at night, it's hot, it's the best time to eat now." Luo Qinglian proposed.

"Qinglian, you're doing well, we have no opinion." Wu Qiuwan agreed, and she also wanted to be a little bit of a pot.

Wang Guihua and others are even more looking forward to it, "Pot? I haven't eaten it, but it seems that I have another bite to eat at night. ”

"Cheng, then I'll go and prepare first." Luo Qinglian put on her cloak.

"I'll go too." Hua Qinghe got up and said, "I'm going to prepare what I like." ”

"Go ahead." Wu Qiuwan is not restricted, and it is a big advantage for women to know how to cook.

"I'll go, I'll go." Luo Jiamiao also went to join in the fun, and it was the first time they had heard of the pot, so they had to take a look.

In the kitchen, both stoves are boiled with hot water, and in winter, everything must be mixed with hot water, otherwise there will be no eyes on both hands.

Luo Qinglian first used a clay pot to break the big bones, added water, salt and ginger slices and stewed them.

Pork, beef, and venison, all of which are frozen tightly, put them in hot water to warm up a little, Luo Qinglian took a knife and cut them into thin slices, and this kind of meat is cooked as soon as it is hot.

Luo Jiadi also came to help, took over the work in Luo Qinglian's hands and said, "Qinglian, leave this kind of effort to us, we will listen to your arrangement." ”

"Okay, chop the lean meat into puree, I'll make meatballs for you, mix tofu and make tofu meatballs, these are delicious in the pot."

"Miss, what do you want to eat?" Luo Qinglian asked Hua Qinghe.

"Let's cut some noodles, I don't want to eat rice at night, and I will put some noodles in the pot at the end and fill my stomach." Hua Qinghe said.

"I'll make a face." Liu Xiangxiang took the basin and went to scoop the white noodles, "I'll cut more, I heard Qinghe say this, I also want to eat noodles, they must have this idea." ”

"Tofu is cut into such thick slices, and the fish is made into fish balls, I remember that there are a lot of seafood, and we want two soup bases for the pot today." Hua Qinghe said, "Big bone broth and seafood soup base. ”

"Yes, there is a mandarin duck pot." Luo Qinglian took out the mandarin duck pot with a smile on her face, "I specially asked Brother Zhan to find it before." ”

"Clever." Hua Qinghe praised it.

"Eldest sister, Xiaomiao, what do you want to eat?" Hua Qinghe asked.

"Cabbage, mushrooms, and dried vegetables are also soaked, but there are too few vegetables in winter." Luo Jiahe said.

"By the way, there are also artichokes, cut into slices, blanched, glutinous and delicious." Hua Qinghe said.

Artichoke Luo Ergang's family has a kind, after Hua Qinghe's family went to Luoxia Town, the land also let Luo Ergang's family be responsible, they didn't plant, Hua Qinghe gave all the remaining potatoes stored in the cellar to Luo Ergang's family, when it was harvested in November, the yield was very high, and now there are a lot of fresh artichokes stored in the cellar.

"Eldest sister, I used to talk about eating meat, but this year's New Year is worried about vegetables." Luo Jiamiao looked at Luo Jiahe and covered his mouth and smiled.

Luo Jiahe was stunned for a moment, and then smiled, "This shows that we don't have to worry about eating meat at home, which is something to be happy about." ”

Luo Jiamiao nodded in agreement.

"Knock knock—" The door of the Luo family was slammed.

"Who?" Liu Lan came out of the house and went to open the door.

"Auntie." Outside the house, Lu Haoyong, who was wearing a thick jacket, wearing gloves to rub his ears, and his nose was red from the cold, saw Liu Lan a little shy.

"Haoyong, why are you here, quickly, enter the house." Liu Lan hurriedly beckoned her future son-in-law into the house.

"Auntie, I'll send you New Year's goods, so I won't go in, and I'll rush back to the town when I wait for you." Lu Haoyong said with a smile, but his eyes unconsciously looked behind Liu Lan when he was talking.

As a person who came over, Liu Lan couldn't see it, "Then you have to go in and drink hot tea." ”

Liu Lan beckoned Lu Haoyong into the house and asked Luo Changgen and them to move the New Year's ceremony.

"Ouch, what's wrong with this hem, it's a fall on the road?" Wang Guihua looked at the muddy and somewhat wet hem of her clothes and asked Lu Haoyong.

Lu Haoyong touched his head embarrassedly, "The ground slipped, and I was careless when I got out of the car...... and fell. ”

"Yougen has a new jacket, you go and change it." Wang Guihua said, "It's getting late, why don't you stay here for one night?" It's the same room with Yougen.,Anyway, you lived together when you were in private school.。 ”

Wang Guihua's proposal, Lu Haoyong was a little moved, it would not have been so late, but on the way to Luojia Village, he met an uncle who was carrying a child to the town, Lu Haoyong sent them to the town in a carriage, and then came back, it was too late.