Chapter 6 Preparing for the New Year

To make a full moon for Cao'er, the Ming and Qing dynasties can also be regarded as confinement.

Soon is the small year, followed by the big year, and there are a lot of things to prepare. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, he couldn't do heavy work, so he stayed at home to watch the children, and also helped to do what he could for his mother-in-law.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law feel companion to each other because they get along for the month of confinement, and then work together at home.

Yun bride still makes egg fried rice for Ming and Qing at noon every day.

The Ming and Qing dynasties postponed saying that the family life was not rich, and he was already full moon, so he had to eat the same diet as everyone else. But the mother-in-law said,

"In the Ming and Qing dynasties, my mother gave birth to a baby, and I know that I can't fully recover in a month, and you can eat egg fried rice every day to produce milk, so that our grass can follow you to eat eggs."

"Mother, your body is also weak, and you have to eat an egg every day to not get dizzy. I ate, but what about you? ”

Ming and Qing knew that her mother-in-law would drink a bowl of egg porridge every morning, but since she was full moon, her mother-in-law made egg fried rice for herself, but she never drank egg porridge again.

"Well, it's strange to say, since Cao'er came home, my body seems to be much tougher, I don't have to eat eggs, and I don't feel dizzy."

The mother-in-law said while scrambling egg rice for Ming and Qing:

"It seems that this is our little lucky star. It's really fate with me! “

"You just have fun to eat, this egg, your mother's family in the month is still some uneaten, our chicken seems to know that there is a happy event, every day there are hens clucking, can pick up one or two eggs."

The mother-in-law had already fried rice while she was talking, and served it in front of Ming Qing:

"Eat it while it's hot. I raised two more chicks a while ago, and in a few months I will be able to start laying eggs again, and you will be responsible for making the grass eat well. “

"Well, thank you, mother."

Ming Qing knew that the eggs sent by her mother's family had already been eaten for her. The eggs in this fried rice were picked out by the mother-in-law herself from between her teeth for herself and the grass.

The mother-in-law let herself eat at noon, also because everyone went out to work, so that they would not see what to say more and less trouble.

Sometimes when everyone is having lunch at home, Bride Yun, no, this will also be Grandma Cao'er, will serve egg fried rice to the eldest daughter-in-law and say to the rest of the family:

"This is the egg sent by her mother's family in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there is still a little left, and the Ming and Qing Dynasties ate a good milk feed to the grass, and everyone has eaten the eggs sent by others to the Ming and Qing Dynasties to make confinement before, so don't be greedy."

As soon as Yun Bride said this, almost no one dared to speak, only Yun Xiu and Yun lingered in the egg fried rice that had just come out of the pot, as if their eyes would drool.

At this time, the Ming and Qing dynasties would always secretly call the two children over and give them half a bowl of one bite at a time.

This makes the six-year-old sister-in-law and the ten-year-old brother-in-law very fond of the amiable sister-in-law of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and they also like Cao'er even more.

In fact, these Yun Xin's mothers saw it in their eyes, and secretly told Yun Xiu and Yun Yi not to compete with Cao'er for food, but where did the two and a half children understand this, they only knew that the egg fried rice was a rare thing, fragrant, and they couldn't eat it at all, but now they can finally eat a few bites, and they can't control it at all.

Yun Bride also understood that seeing that Ming and Qing were also willing to give them food, she didn't know and didn't say anything anymore.

Three days after the full moon for Cao'er is the New Year, Yun Bride went to the village Yun Lao Wujia to weigh half a catty of pork, and made stuffed tofu with taro with the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and made a scrambled egg with fungus, fried meat with shredded white radish and a plate of steamed stuffed tofu for dinner than usual, even if the New Year was over.

Yun Yi and Yun Xiu are both very happy, because this winter has eaten better than in previous years. On the day of the full moon wine, everyone ate eggs, drank wine, and ate radish stew.

The next day, the bride Yun took the minced meat and broth from the radish stew that she had eaten the day before, along with the cabbage, and let everyone eat another meaty dish.

One day later, when the new year came, there was meat to eat, which was so much fun for the teenage children. A week later, the Spring Festival is the most anticipated for them, when the day comes, they can let go of their belly to eat all kinds of dishes with chicken, pork, fish, and eggs.

When it comes to food, almost every household in the countryside at that time is self-sufficient.

Pigs are raised in the pigsty, cattle are raised in the cattle pen, chickens are raised in the yard, ducks and geese are raised in the fields, and fish are raised in the mountain ponds.

The cattle in the south are mainly buffaloes, which are used to plow the land. When the cow is old and can't give birth to a calf and can't pull the rake, it becomes a meal on the plate for people to fill their stomachs.

Pigs are the earliest commodity economy in rural areas, and every family raises pigs, mainly to be able to add some use to their own families during the New Year's holidays. Although each family raises pigs, the time for killing them is different, so except for what they keep for their own food, the rest are sold to other families in the village.

Not every household has a mountain pond. If you raise fish in the mountain pond, you can eat and catch it as you like, and if other people want to eat it, they can buy and eat it. There are also many snails and mussels in the pond, and people in the village will always wear black suspender leather pants over the waist to go fishing, picking up snails and mussels.

The rice, peanuts, soybeans, mung beans, white sand beans, peanut oil, and sweet potatoes that the family eats all year round are all grown in their own fields.

Speaking of these crops, which must appear on people's tables in both urban and rural areas, their planting seasons and methods have been the same until now.

In the summer, at the end of July, the first crop of rice is ripe in the paddy fields, and the first season of peanuts in the field is also ripe. This is because the first crop of peanuts is ploughed in the paddy field, the heads of the rice seedlings are turned into the soil, broken into fertilizer, and the second crop of rice is planted.

At the end of September, we start pulling sweet potatoes, and in late October, we start harvesting autumn rice and autumn peanuts. Nearby schools have two holidays at the turn of spring and summer and summer and autumn, called farming holidays, and both teachers and students will go home to help harvest rice during these two times.

The year-round vegetables served on the Yun family's meal were grown in the small vegetable garden where grandma worked. Every morning and afternoon, my grandmother would go to the vegetable garden to water and fertilize the vegetables, and plant turnips, greens, taro, peppers, eggplants, ginger, onions, garlic, and so on according to the season.

Therefore, in addition to buying fertilizer, adults and children will pee on the urine bucket to hoard the urine of adults and children, and when it is full, they will pick it up in the vegetable garden and water the vegetable field with stream water.

Now it seems that although the people in this village work hard, they eat pure natural and extremely healthy.

Compared with today's young people, everyone is a little shorter, but all of them are tough and good at work, such as Yun Gang and Yun Jin, both of whom are only 1.65 meters, according to the standards of young people now, this is a second-class cripple, but the strength of a body, the body is full of strip-shaped muscles.

Yun bride has a pungent personality since she was a child, although she was sent by her parents to be a child daughter-in-law in the village and was oppressed, but she did not bind her feet, so she did housework, whether it was in the kitchen or in the vegetable garden, and she was also counted among the old ladies in the village.

This is not the Spring Festival is coming, and Cao'er already has two ducks and two sausages at home. The ducks are two ducklings that the family has bought a long time ago, and they grew up in the yard, and the pork in the sausage is what Yun Bride exchanged with the villagers with rice.

It's going to be the New Year, and the family has also burned peanut cakes and soybean cakes, which are all flour made of rice at home, and fried in an oil pot with peanuts and soybeans.

As for fresh fish and pork, because there is no refrigerator, they all go to the pig-killing person's house a day in advance to change or buy meat, and whether to exchange or buy depends on what the pig-killing family wants. It's the same with fish, go to the house of someone who has a pond and buy fish for the catcher.

Yun Yi also followed his two brothers to do farm work in the fields during the day, while Yun Xiu followed his mother and sister-in-law to clean up, wash clothes, and take care of the grass at home.

Yun Bride also thought about taking a day out of the past few days to take Yun Xiu into the city together, buy oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and buy Yun Xiu a pair of new shoes by the way.

Yun Yi's clothes, shoes and socks are all worn by his brothers, and Yun Xiu's clothes are also changed to Yun Bride's, and later the sister-in-law changed her sister-in-law when she entered the door, but there was really no way to change the shoes, so she had to buy them for her. In Yunxiu's opinion, this is the happiest thing, in addition to Cao'er wearing new clothes and new shoes and socks, the whole family has the opportunity to wear new shoes when they come over.

Yun Yi scoffed at Yun Xiu's new shoes, thinking that it was the stinky beauty of the little woman, and he didn't mind that he wore his brothers' old clothes and shoes and socks every day.

Of course, when it comes to the Spring Festival, our grass will definitely wear new clothes.

The pink tiger head hat, the red silk cloth shoulders, the pink corduroy jacket and trousers, the pink woolen socks and woolen shoes, all lying properly in the clothes box of the Ming and Qing dynasties, waiting for the Spring Festival to be worn on Xiaocao'er's body.

These red and pink new lines are all fabrics and wool that Yunxin specially bought in accordance with the requirements of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the Ming and Qing dynasties made them for Cao'er.

Everyone is looking forward to this year's Spring Festival, even the grass that has not passed a hundred days, it seems that everyone is approaching the New Year, happy events, busy a year to celebrate the happy mood, all day long with a smile on the face, see people on the dripping eyes and grin, as if also particularly happy to celebrate the first year after their arrival.