Chinese New Year's Eve is Chinese New Year's Eve, and villagers usually set off firecrackers when it is time to do so, but in the afternoon, the village has sporadic firecrackers.

Every family is busy cooking Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and Sisi's family is no exception.

She went to Zhao's house early in the morning to buy five catties of pork belly to make button meat, and also caught a chicken in the chicken coop, and Lu Yan also brought back two fish from outside.

Although Sisi's craftsmanship is not good, a little rusty, but she can still eat it, she has not cooked for a long time, and she plans to show her hand today and make a plum vegetable button meat.

Before making the buckle meat, the meat should be marinated first, and when kneading the pork belly, Si Si looked at his greasy hands stained with pork, and was a little disgusted with himself, but he continued to do it.

Time flies!

Sisi looked at the scenery outside the window and couldn't help but think.

How long have you been here? It's been almost three years! Now that I'm almost used to life here, it's a good thing if I stay here all the time! After all, there is Lu Yan here!

Si Si, who suddenly realized what he was thinking, turned red all of a sudden, and the strength in his hands couldn't help but increase.

"Sisi, Sisi?"

"Huh?"

Si Si looked at Lu Yan who appeared beside him in confusion and asked, "What's wrong?" What are you calling me for? ”

Lu Yan came in with the fish and looked at Sisi with some confusion, "You...... Do you want to tap it, the meat is about to be crushed into a mud by you. ”

"Huh?"

Si Si looked at what he was doing, and quickly let go of his hand, sure enough, the good meat was about to fall apart, if it wasn't for Lu Yan reminding himself, this buckle of meat would have turned into meat puree.

"Otherwise, you go and rest, or I'll come!" Lu Yan looked at Si Si who was always distracted, and said with some anxiety.

"No way!" Si didn't think about it, and immediately refused, "I want to come by myself, don't interfere." ”

"When my meat is marinated, let's stew the chicken first, wait for the chicken to be cooked, then fry the fish, and then fry the button meat!"

"Okay, it's all up to you." Lu Yan looked at Si Si's insistence, and didn't say anything, just kept an eye on Si Si.

"I've killed the fish and scraped the scales, you get yours, I'll marinate the fish."

Jixiang is also helping to wash vegetables next to the well in the yard.

Two hours later, a large table of Chinese New Year's Eve dinner assisted by Lu Yan and Si Si was ready.

The chicken is directly made of white cut, but the remaining chicken offal is used to make soup with white radish, and the fish is Si Si's favorite sweet and sour sauce, which is poured with a layer of sweet and sour sauce that she mixes herself, looking crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and the plum cabbage button meat covered with plum vegetables that is fried fat but not greasy, and the little gluttonous cat can't stop drooling.

But Ji Xiang was very well-behaved, and he waited until the whole family sat down before moving his chopsticks.

"Hmmm! My mother's craftsmanship is getting better and better, and this plum cabbage button meat is really delicious. ”

Si Si was praised by Ji Xiang, and he was so happy, "Then you can eat more, and I'll decorate it for Aunt Zhao first." Let them taste it too. ”

She was about to take the buckle meat away, but Aunt Zhao came first.

"Lu Yan, Sisi, auspicious, for the New Year, I'll send you some pork ribs, fried at home, fragrant and crispy, but delicious."

Aunt Zhao walked in with a smile on her face and put the bowl on the table.

"Auntie, you came just in time, I just wanted to find you!" Si Si said in surprise: "We have accepted your pork ribs, but you also have to accept our family's buckle meat." I just made it and it tastes pretty good. "March Chinese

Si Si stuffed the bowl of buckle meat in his hand into Aunt Zhao's arms.

"I see that your family's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is also quite rich." Aunt Zhao looked at the table of dishes and said with a smile.

"This isn't the first year I've spent in the village! I just want to live a better life. Si Si smiled playfully and said nothing else.

Aunt Zhao chatted for a while, and then left.

"It's so boring just to eat vegetables!" Si Si said: "Lu Yan, don't we have glutinous rice sweet wine?" Why don't we all have a drink? That's not drunk. ”

"Okay, I'll go get it." Lu Yan went to the house and took out half a jar of glutinous rice sweet wine left over from the previous time, and poured some into Si Si and his own bowl.

"I'm going to drink it too!" Ji Xiang looked at Lu Yan with blank eyes, but saw that Lu Yan didn't pour it for himself, so he hurriedly said.

"You're a child, you can't drink this!" Si Si smiled and nodded his forehead, "I'll give you a drink when you're older." ”

"Oh." Jixiang was a little unhappy.

Si Si looked at him like this, thought about it, took out the honey given by Old Man Yao, and got some honey water for Jixiang to drink, and Jixiang became happy.

"Let's touch a wine bowl!" Si Si picked up the wine, his face was a little red: "This is the first year we have spent in Sweet Water Village, and I hope that in the new year, we can get better and better." ”

"Uh-huh!" Lu Yan also picked up the bowl, touched it, took a sip, and said: "There is also auspiciousness, you must study hard, practice martial arts well, and make progress in the new year!" ”

Jixiang will be nine years old this year, and in two years he will be able to take the children's exam, and after passing all five levels, he will be a little Xiucai, and then he can go to the academy to study.

Although many boys in the village are studying in the school, but because of the late enlightenment, the level is not enough, and it seems that the youngest auspicious is the one who reads the best.

Ji Xiang said: "Uh-huh! Don't worry, Daddy, I will definitely work hard, and I will protect Daddy and Mom in the future. ”

The sweet aroma of wine is accompanied by the strong aroma of food, and the family is harmonious, talking and laughing, blessing each other, and looking more and more warm.

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The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was particularly supportive, and after the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Lu Yan boiled water again, and the family took turns to take a bath.

When it gets completely dark, it's time to start the New Year's celebration.

In the past, Si Si never kept the year, in modern times, every day is a person who sleeps at one or two o'clock in the morning, and there is no difference between keeping the year and not keeping it, but now it is different, usually it is an early rest, and today I look at the outside is very lively, and I also have the interest of keeping the year.

The house was cleaned up by them very clean and tidy, and the red paper-cut was pasted, which looked particularly festive.

Si Si felt bored, and as soon as he sat down, he began to do needlework, took out the fabric he bought, and planned to make clothes.

Ji Xiang is growing his body day by day, the clothes he just made will not be worn for long and will become shorter, Lu Yan went up the mountain to hunt for shoes, the mountain is also cold, make thick clothes, and then have two or three pairs of cloth shoes to wear. Now it's spring clothes, but in a few months the weather is going to get hot again, and it's time to prepare summer clothes.

Si Si was making clothes, Lu Yan and Ji Xiang were by her side, chatting, and Si Si interjected a few words from time to time.

Ji Xiang was young, and he began to feel sleepy after the time of sleep, so Lu Yan carried him to the room, covered him with a quilt, and when he came back, Si Si had already put away the needle and thread.

"It's a bit of an eye drain, I'll do it during the day!"

Lu Yan was worried that Sisi would be bored, so he shared with her the interesting things he had encountered before.

Although the New Year is boring, it is not sad for the two of them to chat and laugh.

Just halfway through the hour, they finally heard the deafening sound of firecrackers outside, and Si Si and Lu Yan also took the firecrackers prepared at home to the gate of the courtyard.