Twenty-three, sugar melon dipping; twenty-four, sweep the house; Twenty-five, send the king of the stove; Twenty-six, steamed steamed buns......

The pace of the year is getting closer and closer, and every household is starting to get busy with the New Year. The bazaar began to have every day after the twenty-third day of the lunar month, and the women of all families began to buy fish, meat, vegetables, sugar, wine, cakes and fruits to prepare for the New Year.

Rural people are willing to buy New Year's goods after a year of hard work, and those who have money and those who don't have money are all buying big bags and small bags at home.

Father Zhou went out early and returned late this time, and he was busy killing pigs for others every day.

Many families have slaughtered the pigs for a year for the New Year, and the pork can be sold for some money, and some can be given to relatives and friends.

Pig offal is also a rare delicacy, pork liver and pork loin are fried, and pig blood is the best to use to roast tofu. There are also pork belly and pig intestines, and the fragrance of Chinese cabbage can make the child's mouth water.

Fatty pork is used to marinate oil, the lard is fragrant, the oil residue is mixed with sugar, and the delicious can swallow the tongue. Whenever the family is about to kill pigs, the children in the family are anxious to watch the excitement and wait for delicious food.

During the Chinese New Year, pork is the main delicacy, and chicken, duck, beef and mutton are eaten less by rural people.

This year, the two pigs of the Zhou family were relatively fat, and one was sold by Zhou's father.

Father Zhou ruthlessly killed the other one, so that the family could also have a good year.

When killing the pig, he invited a few strong men to come and tied the pig with a strong rope.

The bloody scene was only watched by Dabao, and Zhou Xiaoyun took Xiaobao and Erya to hide in the house and didn't dare to come out. Zhou Xiaoyun felt a little furious when he heard the sound, and he didn't come out with Xiaobao Erya until the terrible screams were over.

The pork was about 100 catties after the scale, and Zhou's father generously gave two or three catties of pork to the few people who helped.

Not every family is willing to kill the pigs for the New Year, and the rural people have no other income, so they can only save some money by collecting some grain from the field and selling the pigs at the end of the year. Most of the families sold their pigs to pig dealers and exchanged them for money.

Zhou's father gave some pork to his uncle's family and aunt's family, and asked his uncle to drive a tricycle into the city to bring some to the third uncle's family in the city.

The rest took a part of it and sold it in the market, and during the New Year, there was no money to buy less, there was more money to buy, in short, every family bought meat, and dozens of catties of meat were sold out after a while in the market.

The money from selling pork is just right to buy New Year's goods, and when he goes home, Zhou's father is full of things in his left hand and right hand, and Zhao Yuzhen happily carries a few big-headed silver carp in a basket and pickles them with coarse salt to eat during the New Year.

Dabao saw that the bag in Zhou's father's right hand contained some delicious melon seeds, sugar, cakes and fruits, and he swallowed so much that he was so hungry that he wanted to eat it, but he was glared at by Zhou's father's eyes and didn't dare to squeak.

Father Zhou put the New Year's goods in the bag on top of the high wardrobe, this is the New Year's Eve to entertain relatives, of course, he will not let the children eat now, Dabao and Xiaobao can only sigh.

Zhao Yuzhen pickled a few fish and put them in the jar, and there was a jar full of pickled sauerkraut and Chinese cabbage in the winter, and some eggs and duck eggs were saved, and she was ready to slaughter two chickens and ducks each, and then buy some tofu and the like.

There are still more than 20 catties of pork and some pig offal at home, which can be said to be very rich.

The smell from the kitchen attracted several children, and it turned out that Zhao Yuzhen was boiling lard.

The fat, sliced pork crackled in the pan, and in a short time a lot of transparent lard came out. At this time, few people eat salad oil and eat lard, and Zhou Xiaoyun especially likes to use lard to stir-fry dishes with an indescribable fragrance, which is far from being comparable to light salad oil.

Zhou's father kept stuffing the straw to the bottom of the pot, and there was a big long chimney sticking out of the house on the earthen pot stove, and the straw burned very vigorously, and a lot of black smoke floated down the chimney to the outside of the house, looking like a black dragon from afar.

Some of them drifted into the house, and Zhou's father bore the brunt of the smoke enough, and the kitchen was filled with the smell of smoke and lard, and it was not good to say whether it smelled good or bad.

However, none of the four brothers and sisters of the Zhou family were willing to go out, and they were all waiting for the moment when the lard was boiled.

When the pork in the pot slowly became smaller, there was more and more oil, and the lard was finally almost boiled. Zhao Yuzhen scooped the oil into a large basin with a spoon, and then scooped up the oil residue with a colander and put it in a large bowl. The oil residue gives off a strange fragrance, golden and attractive.

Dabao grabbed the scalded with his hand and shouted: "Eh, burn me!" ”

Zhao Yuzhen was distressed, angry and funny: "Look at you, you're in a hurry, wait for it to be cold before eating." ”

When the heat has cooled down a little and the oil residue becomes crunchy, take one and stuff it in your mouth. Not to mention how fragrant and delicious it is, Zhou Xiaoyun feels that this is simply a delicacy in the world, and if it is mixed with some sugar, it will be the peach of the gods in the sky.

Dabao and Xiaobao still care about what kind of sugar they want, and one person grabs a handful of food.

The second girl is too young to reach it, and she cries when she sees her brothers in a hurry.

Zhou Xiaoyun hurriedly led his sister to the table and began to feed Erya, who was fed and ate a few bites and finally stopped making trouble, and her little mouth kept opening to eat. Zhou Xiaoyun had no choice but to feed her, and took time to eat two bites in the interval between the two things.

After a while, a large bowl of oil residue was eaten clean by the four brothers and sisters of the Zhou family.

The gluttonous worm in the stomach was fed by Dabao and Xiaobao went out to play, Zhou Xiaoyun knew that his parents were busy and had no time, so he automatically took Erya to play on the side.