Chapter 201: Busy New Year
After the small year, it is not far from the big year.
Twenty-four sweep the house, twenty-five paste the windows, twenty-six stew pork, twenty-seven kill a chicken, twenty-eight handfuls of dough hair, and twenty-nine steamed steamed buns.
Qiaolian's house was still cleaned up by Qu Weiyang last time he came back, and the walls inside were pasted with newspapers.
Last year, Qiaolian was pregnant and couldn't paste the wall, so it was a year, and it was not easy to make up this year, so on the twenty-fourth, Qiaolian deliberately took a clean broom and swept the wall, and then hit the rice dumpling to paste the wall again.
Yesterday, I took the opportunity to go to the county, Qiaolian bought a lot of wallpaper back, including pure white and flowers.
Needless to say, the flowers are authentic northeast wall enclosure flower paper, red and green flowers, anyway, it looks particularly festive and lively.
The white one is the kind of full-open white paper, which is thicker than the one sold in the supply and marketing cooperatives at this time, and it is best to paste the wall.
So Qu Weiyang sat on the kang and brushed it with a broom dipped in the glutinous brush, and Qiaolian went from the kang to the pasted wall on the ground.
Paste the big white paper first, paste the top of the road from the bottom, and then paste a layer of wall fence at the bottom, the white wall is red and green and the wall is surrounded by big flowers, not to mention how festive and bright.
Of course, this cost is not low, and it will cost a lot of money.
But Qu Weiyang didn't ask a word, his daughter-in-law is not a person who is just a day, besides, it is worth spending some money to clean up the house and the windows are clean.
The big white paper is one meter long and more than 70 centimeters wide, and only the walls are pasted without the roof, and only two rooms are pasted, and the kitchen is not bothered.
The work was done quickly, and by the afternoon, both rooms were completely finished.
Qiaolian turned out the New Year's pictures she specially bought in the county, including portraits of leaders and chubby and cute dolls.
Under Qu Weiyang's guidance, it was also pasted on the wall, and the room suddenly had a more New Year's flavor, and it looked much more lively.
The walls were pasted, and the windows were pasted on the twenty-fifth day. At this time, only the big cities could afford to use glass, and the countryside still used window paper to paste.
The paper for pasting windows is best cotton paper, with strong toughness and high transparency, and then treated with grease to make it more transparent, so that the lighting in the house can be good.
Qiaolian bought the best cotton paper, which looks thin, but the stretch is particularly good, and the paper that pastes the window cannot be too brittle, otherwise it will be easy to break when the wind blows.
There are three monsters in the Northeast, one of which is the window paper beard, which is also exquisite.
The winter style in the Northeast is large, and if the window paper is pasted inside, it will be easily blown off as soon as the wind blows, so it must be pasted outside, so that the wind is not easy to blow out.
Fortunately, the temperature on the 25th was okay, quite warm, and the rice was not so easy to freeze on the window lattice, and the window paper was quickly pasted.
"Yes, the windows are all pasted, waiting for me to cut some window flowers and paste them when I am empty, and add some joy to the New Year."
This year is not forbidden to post pairs of window flowers, but the first two years of the Qu family is still in the filial piety period, and it is somewhat necessary to avoid it, so Qiaolian did not Zhang Luo.
This year is different, Qu Weiyang is at home, and the Qu family has also calculated filial piety, so naturally they will come as lively as they want.
"Okay, you can look at it, as long as you think it looks good, you can dress it up however you want."
Qu Weiyang knew that his daughter-in-law was skillful, and Qiaolian's needlework was very famous in Shijiagou.
It is really his blessing to have such a clever daughter-in-law, as long as Qiaolian likes it, she will cut whatever she likes, and it will look good to add a little joy to the New Year.
"That's it for today, don't be too tired, take a break, there's nothing else to do anyway, the rest is to make food, let's just watch and get a little."
After two days of cleaning and pasting the walls and windows, Qu Weiyang was afraid that Qiaolian would be tired, so it was just noon, so he shouted that Qiaolian was resting.
Qiaolian thinks about it, there is really no work at home, the old lady was here a few days ago, helping Qiaolian make all the family's new clothes and shoes, which saved Qiaolian a lot of work.
Now it is enough to steam a few pots of steamed buns and boil some meat, and the rest will be made until the Chinese New Year's Eve.
"Okay, then rest, I'm really a little tired from sticking the wall for the past two days." It's not easy to paste the wall, it's very hard to climb up and down, Qiaolian pasted the wall for a day yesterday, and her tired back hurts and hurts uncomfortable.
So on the afternoon of the twenty-fifth Qiaolian rested, she didn't do anything, and on the twenty-sixth day, she cooked meat, and on the twenty-seventh, she didn't kill the chicken, but steamed steamed buns.
This year, Qu Weiyang is at home, Jia Junjiahe is also older, and there is basically no need to coax, Qiaolian has leisure, so she steamed a lot of jujube steamed buns.
There are the most traditional round steamed buns with jujubes, and there are lotus rolls that are steamed with jujube stamens like a blooming lotus flower.
There are jujube mountains with large jujubes, and small hedgehogs with thorns cut out with scissors, and black beans and red beans as eyes.
Everything is exquisite, chic and vivid, but Jiayuan Jiakang and them are dumbfounded.
"Mom, how did you do that? It's so pretty, Mom, teach me quickly, I want to learn from you. ”
Especially Xiao Jiayuan, girls are more interested in cooking, looking at the different shapes and exquisite jujube flower steamed buns in the pot, Xiao Jiayuan can't wait to learn from her mother immediately.
"Silly girl, these are not things that can be learned in a day or two, when you are older and older, your mother will lead you to do it together, you are still a little younger, and you dare not use a kitchen knife.
Come on, let's do it, I'll teach you to be a hedgehog first, it's simple, you can learn from me. ”
The girl is willing to learn, and Qiaolian is naturally not good at dampening the enthusiasm of the girl, so she chose a type that Jia Yuan can master, the little hedgehog.
Qiaolian taught Jiayuan to knead the steamed buns, then make the steamed buns into the pointed mouth of the hedgehog, and then use sharp scissors to cut out small thorns on the hedgehog's body.
Wait for the thorns on the body to be overgrown, and then use red beans as mouths and black beans as eyes to plug them, and a small hedgehog is made.
"Dad, you see what I did, this is what I did. I'll be a little hedgehog, and my mom taught me to be a little hedgehog. ”
Jiayuan was very happy, holding the little hedgehog she made to show Qu Weiyang.
Qu Weiyang nodded again and again, "Okay, our Jiayuan is the best, she learns really fast, and she does it really well." ”
Qu Weiyang has always been good at coaxing children, and Jiayuan is really doing well, so he praised Jiayuan with a smile.
Jiayuan's happy little face flushed, and she hurriedly put the finished hedgehog steamed bun on the curtain, and steamed it out of the pot later. "Mom, I'm going to do it again, okay?"
"Okay, so what's not to do? As long as you like it, your mother will be happy to do anything. ”
Such an old child does not regard work as a tiring thing, but as a pleasure.
You have to take advantage of the child's interest to let her have more contact and more work, and when she is older and more proficient, let them do it and others are not happy.
Qiaolian is not stupid, how can Jiayuan miss such a good helper? So he coaxed Jiayuan and helped her make a lot of little hedgehog steamed buns, and kept them to coax the children to eat, which couldn't be better.
Looking at the scene of the mother and daughter teaching and learning, and enjoying themselves, Qu Weiyang felt that this moment could not be happier.
Of course, we must ignore the two naughty eggs in my arms who are desperately trying to break free from the shackles and want to run to the panel.