In a blink of an eye, it was the twenty-ninth day of the New Year, and Mu Xiu's family happily pasted the Spring Festival couplets, not only at the door of the hall, but also on all the doors of the courtyard and at the gate, all of which were pasted with red couplets and blessing characters, and the chicken coop was pasted with five animals thriving, and the rice cylinder was pasted with more than every year.

Mu Xiu went to Widow Chen's house again and sent a bunch of New Year's goods, Qiu Caiyun originally insisted on not accepting it, until he finally said that after Qiu Caiyun went to work, he would pay his salary and return it to Mu Xiu, and Qiu Caiyun accepted it.

On the thirtieth day, to keep the New Year at night, Mu Xiu tied an apron to the kitchen, made fried meatballs, crispy meat, and lotus root clips into buckle bowls, and all kinds of delicious food were brought out of the kitchen like running water, and a table full of delicacies was really tempting, red braised prawns in oil, sweet pork ribs, Mu Xiu did not forget to take out a bottle of Moutai.

Mu Ping will occasionally drink a little wine during the day, and at this time he will take out a wine glass, fill it for everyone in the family, raise the wine glass, and say first: "Come, let's have a drink." The whole family raised their glasses and drank the wine in one gulp, and even Mu Xiu drank it along.

"Good wine." Chen Jianqiang went down with a glass of wine and immediately knew that this was not ordinary liquor.

Even people like Chen Xuhui, who often don't drink alcohol, can feel the difference, the liquor he drank before was spicy and unpleasant, but after drinking this wine, he only felt that after a slight spicy throat, his stomach suddenly became hot, and it was the kind of warmth that made people warm all over.

Although Chen Xuhui and Chen Jianqiang are not Mu Xiu's family, but now they get along day and night, they are as cordial as their family, everyone sits together, some old and young, and those who don't know think that this is a big family.

Seeing everyone talking and laughing, full of yearning for the future, Mu Xiu's heart was also warm, unconsciously, the regret of being an orphan in the previous life was filled with these family members in front of him, and these people in front of him will be the deepest and deepest bond in his life.

Unconsciously, in the middle of the night, Li Pandi and Mu Xiaohua had already fallen asleep, Zhou Shuilian and Mu Xiaoshu went back to their rooms to accompany the children, in the hall, Chen Jianqiang and the old couple, Chen Xuhui, Mu Shui and Mu Xiu were still sitting there to keep the New Year, a few people talked and laughed, and finally survived the twelve o'clock after setting off the firecrackers, and then they went back to their rooms to rest.

Mu Xiu lay on the hot kang, drank a little wine, and fell asleep slightly, and when she opened her eyes, the sky was bright, and she slept so deeply, and the new year began.

During the Chinese New Year, the days fly by, from the first to the third day of the new year, everyone does not do anything, that is, eat, drink, play and visit the New Year, but every family in the village has children, and the families are not very rich, so everyone in the village has an unwritten rule, that is, not to give the children New Year's money......

However, although there is no New Year's money, this family will stuff a few peanuts, and that family will give a handful of melon seeds, and the children are very happy to get these snacks.

The villagers who have a good relationship on weekdays, all gather together for the New Year, go to your house for dinner today, come to my house for dinner tomorrow, the children are even more crazy, the big children lead the children, go to the firecracker shredded paper, and also pull out a lot of firecrackers that have not been burned, collect them, and then go to the side of the road, see someone coming, light one, and throw it at the feet of passers-by.

Just listen to the "bang" of a firecracker explosion, often can frighten passers-by, this group of children to see each other's frightened expressions, will be happy to laugh, some people scolded a few words and left, and some people, chasing to teach them a lesson, this group of children will disperse, and then look for the next intersection, continue to play pranks.

Life in the countryside is so simple and happy, Mu Xiu's house is the favorite place for children to go, because there are a lot of delicious things, Mu Xiu let Li Pandi take a variety of snacks to entertain the little friends, invisibly, Li Pandi became the little leader of this group of children, and ran out to play with the friends every day, the little girl who went back to Yingwu Village with Mu Xiaoshu and was bullied by the children was reborn and became a sunny and cheerful and confident big sister.

It was not until after the seventh day of the Lunar New Year that there was a big bazaar in the countryside, and the shops in the county town were also opened one after another, and people were all happy and full of energy, and there was an endless stream of people shopping.

Mu Xiu counted the days, it was about to be the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, you can wrap some rice balls to sell, pack more, and send them to the county seat, so that the store can also put them on the ......

Mu Xiu has strong execution, she will act immediately when she thinks of where, she told Mu Xiaoshu and Zhou Shuilian her ideas, and the three of them hit it off, divided their labor, and began to make preliminary preparations for making dumplings.

Mu Xiu first washed the impurities, chaff and other suspended matter in the glutinous rice, then soaked it in water, put it in the house where the kang was burning, and waited for four hours before grinding.

The three of them soaked more than 40 catties of glutinous rice, and after putting all the big pots and pots, Zhou Shuilian fried sesame seeds and peanuts in the kitchen, and Mu Xiu and Mu Xiaoshu stood next to them, grinding the fried sesame seeds and peanuts.

Last time Mu Xiu was in the county seat, she saw a small stone mill, about fifteen centimeters in diameter, she looked at this stone mill small, thinking that she could grind some rice noodles or something for Xiaohua to drink in the future, so she bought it back, only did it once, Zhou Shuilian was troublesome, Mu Xiu watched Mu Xiaohua drink thick rice porridge fragrantly, and gave up the plan to make rice noodles.

At this time, this small stone mill is just put in handy, put the fried sesame seeds in, and soon grind out the sesame powder, and after grinding all the sesame seeds into powder and loading it, Mu Xiu adds white sugar with lard, stirs evenly, melts, and then pours the sesame seeds into it, stirs well, and the sesame filling is ready.

In the same way, grind the fried peanuts into peanut flour, also add lard and sugar, evenly dissolve, stir well, and the peanut filling is ready. The osmanthus stuffing can just use the osmanthus sauce made by Mu Xiu, and when all the rice balls are ready, Mu Xiu went to look at the glutinous rice, grabbed a handful, the glutinous rice soaked particles are loose, and the glutinous rice is soft and can be put into the stone mill.

The glutinous rice is ground into a pulp with a stone mill, the grinding mouth is hung with a cloth bag, and the rice milk that slips out is connected with a cloth bag while grinding, and a cloth bag is ground up, and it is taken to the outside porch to hang up and drain.

The three of them were all women, and they were all tired after doing this for several hours, so Mu Shui and Chen Xuhui began to grind until the evening, when they finished grinding all the glutinous rice.

There are more than 20 cloth bags hanging on the side of the corridor draining water, which can be taken off the next morning, and the cloth bags are filled with semi-dry and half-wet glutinous rice flour, which is more delicate than the dry-ground glutinous rice flour.