The Spring Festival is approaching, and the joy of the New Year has been squeezed into the snowy sky, and the voices of every household can be heard in Nanshan Village today. The women of the family turn the men around, sometimes killing chickens and sometimes moving things.

It's rare for children to shout that this one wants to eat chicken, and that one wants to eat meat. What the hell are these kids. They all know that they can do anything during the New Year, but adults will be satisfied, they are looking forward to this day, and they like the New Year the most. From the beginning of the white sky, the sound of chickens, dogs barking, the sound of begging for money, and the gossip of all kinds of neighbors sounded leisurely and leisurely, one after another, as if there was no end.

Qingling and they also got up early, and the family cleaned up the house together. This year is the first year that the Su family has spent here, and the Su family brothers plan to spend it together, and the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner will be eaten at Brother Su's house. The others each cook a few dishes at home. When the time comes, everyone will get together and there will be a big table of dishes.

Brother Su's family makes fish, and Brother Su said yesterday that his family Yunyu and several children of the same age in the village went to the river to dig a frozen fish and caught a lot of fish. There is no river near their village, so it seems that they have run quite far.

Qingling prepared chickens here. This chicken was sent by Wang Dashi's family two days ago, and it happened to be raised in the kitchen for the past two days. Qingling and they are not too embarrassed to accept it, during this time, Wang Dashi's family often came to help, and the firewood at home was sent by Wang Dashi with a few young people. Half of the room was full. Don't worry about firewood this winter. From time to time, he also sent vegetables and green onions to the brothers of the Su family.

They were all embarrassed.

Qingling and Mingzhu washed and cut the dishes to be used together. Then he kneaded the dough and set it ready.

The three children in the family also went outside to play, and in the past few days, they have learned to sing nursery rhymes with a few children in the village, and they sing to Qingling and Su Jingyun at home every day.

"Children, don't be greedy, children, after Laba is the New Year. Laba porridge to drink for a few days, 23 miles, 24 sugar melons, 25 sweep the house, 26 boiled meat, 27 kill New Year's chicken, 28 handfuls of noodles, 29 steamed steamed buns, 30 nights of play, and twist on the first day of the New Year. ”

Having had enough of the fun at this point, they rushed into the kitchen again.

Looking at the two chirping chickens around the corner of the kitchen, Yunxi and Yunyuan stared at the rare tiger. Coquettishly pulled the corner of Qingling's clothes and told her that she wanted to eat chicken.

The little fat man also wanted to ask for it. He knew that meat was delicious.

Qingling was happy in her heart, these two children could open their mouths to ask for things, which was a good thing. The explanation is out of sight. Especially a child who is so sensible as Yunyuan. In fact, this child is too sensible because he is afraid and insecure. It's rare to speak, and Qingling has to be satisfied with whatever she says. And it's just such a trifle as eating a chicken.

And it's good to eat chicken, it's best to have one chicken and three to eat.

Qingling pondered while boiling the hot water. When spring comes, they also hatch some chicks and raise them at home, otherwise it will be troublesome to keep looking for people to buy eggs if they want to eat eggs. The eggs are okay, but if you buy them, you can buy them in the village. But if you want to eat chicken, it's not easy to buy it in the village.

The hens raised in the village are kept to lay eggs, and people are definitely reluctant to sell them, and there are few people who raise roosters. If you kill and eat, it is too luxurious for the people in the village. Except for who kills chickens to eat during the New Year's holidays. The hen is considered an important property of the villagers. The eggs laid by these chickens are saved up every day. When I got to a certain amount, I bought some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.

Qingling looked at the two chickens, they had been in good spirits, and the other was a little tired of it, lying on their stomachs and not moving much. There are a lot of people in the New Year, so let's kill both.

Wait for Qingling to carry the little rooster and hold the knife. Walking out to the courtyard to kill, a few children followed. Su Jingyun happened to walk in.

Seeing Qingling carrying the chicken, she was a little stunned, and after a while, she reacted and said, "This is to kill the chicken." ”

"Well, for the New Year, you can't miss chicken, and just a few children want to eat it." Qingling finished speaking.

Su Jingyun looked at the children who were behind Qingling, stretched out his hand to lift the chicken over, and took the knife with the other hand.

"I'll kill you." The majestic carried the chicken and went out.

Several children hurriedly surrounded Su Jingyun and shouted, "Dad, Dad! We're going to kill the chickens now, okay? ”，

"Okay." Su Jingyun said. Several children all looked at Su Jingyun with starry eyes.

But after a while, Su Jingyun was holding the chicken feet hard, waiting with the upside-down corns, and several children on the side saw him standing there with a kitchen knife in one hand and a rooster in the other hand for a while, Yunxi couldn't help but shout again, "Dad."

"Well, don't worry, wait for Dad to see." Su Jingyun picked up the kitchen knife and made a few strokes on the chicken, a little unsure of where to start, he hadn't killed the chicken once.

While recalling that Qingling killed like this. Oh, by the way, the first step is to wipe your neck.

This knife went down, the chicken's neck was not wiped off, and a few hairs were lost, and the rooster was in pain, and suddenly struggled violently.

Su Jingyun's hand was pecked a few times, and he didn't catch it for a while. As soon as the chicken broke free from Su Jingyun's hand, it flew all over the yard. Su Jingyun chased behind.

When the chickens broke free, the children were still a little scared at first. But after a while, he shouted on the side of excitement to cheer for his father.

"Daddy, left, left."

"Dad, a little faster, a little faster."

When life is threatened, the chicken instantly becomes a fighting chicken. Su Jingyun ran for this chicken for a long time, but he didn't catch it after catching it for a long time. I was pecked a few times, and I saw red.

Qingling came out to take a look, and the chicken feathers were flying all over the yard. had to go over and outflank Su Jingyun left and right, and then arrested the chicken.

After catching the chicken, Qingling shouted that Yunyuan took a stoneware bowl and put it on the ground, squatted down, stepped on the rooster's wings with one foot, stepped on the rooster's claws with the other, reached out and grabbed the rooster's neck, tore off a few hairs, and Qingling picked up a kitchen knife to kill. With a hard stroke on it, the blood suddenly flowed out and fell into the clay bowl, and not a single drop was wasted.

This one was killed, and Qingling went into the kitchen to catch the other one. Hand it to Su Jingyun. After Su Jingyun took it, he followed the steps of Qingling to kill the chicken just now, and successfully killed the chicken. There were no further incidents.

Several children gathered around, "Dad, mother, I will help you kill chickens in the future." "This is what Yunyuan said. Intimate.

"Dad, mother, I'll help you catch chickens in the future, Dad was so stupid just now, but this chicken is so fierce." This is Yunxi, and she laughed at her father.

"Dad, mother, mother, I'll help you eat chicken." This is the little fat man. Thank you so much.

Qingling and Mingzhu clean up the chicken. There was already a fire burning in the stove, and there were cleaned whole chickens in a wooden basin next to it. These chickens are home-bred local chickens, which are fat but not fatty, and the meat quality seems to be good.

The so-called three eats are three ways for a chicken to eat, and there is no fixed statement as to which three, which varies from place to place. Qingling plans to cut half of it for white and half for braised wine, and leave the chicken head and chicken feet and large skeleton for stewing soup.

She first boiled the water, put a few large sections of green onion and ginger into the water to remove the fishy smell of the chicken, a small amount of rice wine star anise to improve the freshness, the most important thing to cook the chicken is to control the heat, so that the water is hot but not boiling, this is to make the chicken tender and elastic, he just submerged the whole chicken into the water.

In southern cuisine, the chicken is soaked in half, soaked in hot and unboiled water for a while, and then brought out the chicken to cool in cold water, and finally simmered in hot water. While doing it, Qingling also explained some tips to the pearl on the side from time to time.

After that, wash and chop the green onion and ginger, chop the garlic into a puree, put it in a small bowl, add sugar, salt and sesame oil, mix it thoroughly with the fresh soup soaked in the chicken, then take out the chicken and chop it into small pieces, put it on the plate, and pour the seasoned juice on the chicken. The flesh color is white with belt butter, with the fragrance of scallion oil, the taste is extremely delicious, and you will never get tired of eating it for a long time.

The other half is chopped into pieces. Blanch the blood powder with water. Remove and set aside. Pour oil into the pot again, put in ginger slices and peppercorns after the oil is hot, burst out the fragrance, pour in the chicken nuggets, add soy sauce, add water after stir-frying the oil, not too much, just don't have the chicken nuggets, add salt, simmer for a while, and wait for the soup to be finished and put in the green onions, you can put it out of the pot and put it on the plate.

On the other side, stew the remaining chicken heads, chicken feet and large skeleton in soup. Qingling fried a dried vegetable with minced meat and scrambled eggs with leeks. Finally, the eight treasure rice is steamed. Almost. Qingling packed the vegetables and put them in the basket. Call the family. The basket carried by Su Jingyun went to Brother Su's house together.

Before he reached the door, Yun Yu greeted him. took the basket in Su Jingyun's hand. When I came in, I saw that there were already a few dishes on the table, steamed whole fish, scrambled eggs with leeks, and large bone radish soup. The portion is sufficient.

"Come on, the dishes here are also ready, and if they don't do well, everyone can make do with them." Seeing that Jingyun's family was coming, the Qi family happened to come out of the kitchen and got busy entertaining. Everyone said a few kind words. Then put the dishes brought by Qingling on the table.

At this time, Su Jingchen and Su Jinghua's family also came. Jingchen brought a pork stew with wild vegetables, stir-fried radish slices, and a stack of cloud slice cakes. Su Jingli's side is charred fried meatballs, minced eggplant and a bottle of soju.

As soon as the dishes of several houses were put on the table, the table was full of all of a sudden. Qi hurriedly shouted in the direction of the kitchen: "Yan'er, your uncles and aunts are here." The steamed bread is almost ready, you quickly bring the steamed bread. ”

Yun Yu hurriedly stood up, "I'll go to the kitchen and take a look, and help Yun Yan get it together." ”

"You stay here and go to the kitchen less. Talk to your uncles. I'll take a look. After Qi finished speaking, he smiled apologetically at Qingling. I went to the kitchen.

didn't have a moment, so he and Yunyan worked together to bring up the basket of steamed buns. Everyone rushed to help. I forgot that this could feed a large number of people. How can it be less. At this glance, Yunyan lost a lot of weight, and learned to do all the work at home.

Because of the Chinese New Year, everyone didn't say anything.

It's just that after Yunyan was served, several adults took turns to serve Yunyan a few times. Occasionally, a few children will follow along with a few words of fairy tales.

The atmosphere slowly warmed up, and everyone also broke the previous rule of not saying anything and sleeping silently. You and I are talking about how I feel during this time.

Although it is cold and snowy outside the window, the house is as warm as spring. In the distance, the lights flickered in the shadows, and the sound of firecrackers and barking dogs was faintly heard. After eating, it was already late to clean up, and everyone dispersed.