The next day came to the twenty-second day of the lunar month, according to the customs of the old Northeast people in the winter of the cat, from the beginning of Laba began to prepare for the New Year, and the taste became strong in the twentieth year of the lunar month.

Although it is a special period, and the revolutionary Spring Festival is emphasized on the radio speaker, ordinary people have worked hard for a year, and what they are worried about is to try to have a decent year.

So Zhou Lanxiang still got up early in the morning and began to prepare for the New Year.

Her house and old house have just been cleaned up thoroughly, there is no need to clean them, the clothes and new shoes for the New Year are also ready, and she is mainly preparing to eat these days.

Han Jin also came over early in the morning as usual, but instead of carrying water and sweeping the yard to burn the stove, he brought a hemp bag, and when he saw that the fragrance was fragrant, he took out the contents of the sack in the same way.

Yesterday, he was afraid that it would affect her sleep, so he endured it and didn't show her at night.

First of all, a set of thick snow-white quilt cotton tires, as well as the quilt of white flags and the back and mattress surface of the red cotton cloth printed with large peony flowers, are all brand new things, especially the cotton tires of the quilt, which are neatly wrapped in tissue paper, Xiaoshan poked carefully, for fear of breaking it: "Brother Jin, I see that a female teacher in our school bought this when she got married." ”

I heard that it is rare, and I went to a big shopping mall in the provincial capital to ask an acquaintance to buy it! The teacher's mother-in-law couldn't wait to hang her two new sets of bedding on her door for a few days!

Now when married, there are few people who use the county cotton tires sold in the store to make quilts, one is expensive, difficult to buy, and the other is that no one is willing to use so much good cotton for a quilt, they can use less and use less, or fluff up the old cotton bomb into it.

Of course, if there is gold, it must be attached to the face, and when the quilt is ready, no one can see whether it is new cotton or old cotton.

Han Jin was also quite satisfied with this set of cotton tires, but he didn't like the quilt very much, "I heard that the county department store used to sell silk quilt noodles, called jacquard quilt noodles, and there were many people who got married a year ago, and they were sold out!" You deal with this first, and then change it if there is a good one! ”

Zhou Lanxiang knew his temper, he bought it back so sincerely, if she didn't want it, he would definitely be unhappy, so he accepted it without saying a word, "You don't need to change it, this is good!" ”

Han Jin didn't talk about the quilt anymore, but he still made up his mind that when he saw that jacquard silk quilt in the future, he would have to buy a set for Xiangxiang and come back.

What was left in the sack was daily necessities and food.

Although the rice bowls and plates with fine magnetism are not described, the porcelain is delicate and white, which is very different from the ordinary coarse porcelain sold in the supply and marketing cooperatives. Han Jin didn't say where he came from, Zhou Lanxiang could guess a little, he must have followed the path of Uncle Zhao.

Below are a few glass cups printed with Dongfang Hong, as well as two small enamel tea jars with lids, Han Jin took out an enamel tea jar as big as a big basin and showed it to Xiangxiang: "This can be put on the stove or brazier to make harmony porridge!" ”

Xiangxiang happily hugged the big tea jar over, "It's so big!" That's enough for us to eat! ”

When they were young, in the afternoons or evenings of winter, the children were not hungry, and the grandfather was reluctant to let Xiangxiang light the fire again and be busy cooking one more meal, so he cooked the only meal he could cook for them, and the grandfather himself named it Hehe Porridge.

It is to mix the leftover ready-made things at home, millet dry rice or sorghum rice porridge or something, put potatoes and vermicelli in it, and then find the leftover noodles and other pasta at home, if not, take half a bowl of noodles to make a few gnocchi and put it in, then cut a few slices of bacon, put a little salt, and use a large tea jar to put it on the brazier or stove and stew it.

When the stew was warm and fragrant in the house, I gave each of them a bowl, and let them drink the soup warmly.

I don't know how many cold winters, the three of their grandparents and grandchildren all came over like this, drinking hot porridge around the stove, grandpa comfortably smoking his cigarette pouch, telling them stories, or making a stinky little jin lose his temper with him, but as long as Xiangxiang sat there with a smile, he wouldn't run out if he was angry, so he stalked his neck and put his anger on the old man.

In the end, Grandpa laughed, Xiangxiang gently coaxed him, and he forgot why he was so atmospheric just now.

Here are some daily necessities that are urgently needed at home, such as a tin thermos pot printed with peony flowers, a few pieces of soap, a piece of soap, toothbrushes and toothpaste, towels, and even soap discs.

Below is the grain, most of the bags, all fine grains, 100 catties of flour, more than 20 catties of rice, and even more than 20 catties of Jiang rice.

Han Jin took out Jiang Mi alone, "Keep it for us to eat rice cakes for the New Year!" ”

Xiangxiang loves to eat this kind of soft sweets the most, and he specially found someone to buy two catties of white sugar and half a catty of sesame seeds in order to make rice cakes.

The rest is the jujube made into jujube steamed buns, a small bag of peanuts and dried longan, which are not available in the north, and the rest is dried goods such as kelp, shrimp, and rice skin.

"I brought a lot of hazelnuts, pine nuts and chestnuts back from the forest farm, and a bag of frozen pears, which is ripe thyme, it smells good, carry it tomorrow, and then touch some hair, this year we will deal with such a New Year, and we will prepare well in advance next year."

After Han Jin finished speaking, he went outside and brought in an ice lump wrapped in grass for Xiangxiang to see, Uncle Zhao asked someone to buy pork fat for us, a total of four pieces, when do you see when it will be fried?

Zhou Lanxiang was particularly happy to see it, now the pork supply of people in the city is tight, everyone buys meat to buy fat, and the non-staple food store can only buy lean meat if there is no acquaintance, if there is fat, I don't know how rare it is!

Uncle Zhao must have taken a lot of favors to buy them so much oil, "Xiao Jin, you should go to the city again a year ago, I have cut two more leeks these days, you send them to Uncle Zhao, and then send him some dried vegetables." ”

Han Jin thought about it and felt that Xiangxiang was still missing two new clothes for the New Year, so he agreed: "Then let's go together." ”

Zhou Lanxiang also wanted to buy something more for the family, besides, she had a lot of food in her space, but she didn't have much money in her hand, so she happily agreed.

Han Jin went on to say their preparations for the New Year, "I brought back some pheasants and rabbits, enough for us to eat for the New Year, as well as three roe deer legs and half a wild boar, let's keep the roe deer for ourselves, and the wild boar will be taken to the city to exchange some pork with Uncle Zhao to eat, and it would be better if there was beef." ”

Xiangxiang dislikes wild boar meat hard, and she doesn't like to eat this since she was a child.

He didn't take all the things he got back from the forest farm, most of them were put in the old house, there were wings and large warehouses over there, and everything was insured in the courtyard.

After putting everything away, after breakfast, Zhou Lanxiang was going to dismantle and wash the quilt today, and the newly bought doughcloth quilt had to be washed before it could be used.