According to local custom, the meal at three o'clock in the afternoon is to be very rich. Deal with it at night, see how many leftovers you have, and then add them, if you prepare a hearty meal during the day, you can wrap dumplings directly at night.

"Kou Xi, you can do it!" Li Cuilian gave up the position of the spoon to Kou Xi: "You cook deliciously, your father has been thinking about your craftsmanship for a long time." ”

Kou Xi, who has been in this family for most of the year, can be regarded as shaking off her majesty, and she has to do what her daughter-in-law does. This Chinese New Year's Eve dinner should be made by her and Gao Liman, and as for Zhang Yao's family being a distinguished guest and holding a big belly, who dares to let her work!

According to Kou Xi's habit, it is necessary to prepare all the ingredients before making them. At this time, she stood at the door of the kitchen and muttered: "An old hen, a big goose, two big carp, a small elbow, fried spring roll shrimp chips, two pig's trotters, a whole pot of chicken feet, let's make it!"

Kou Xi pointed to the pot of pig's trotters with white flowers, and the chicken paws who didn't even cut their nails were speechless: "What time is this, how can I get it." I can't stew it in two big pots!"

"Don't you have to burn the kang in your house!" Li Cuilian rolled her eyes: "Use what you have in the house!"

Kou Xi was helpless and instructed Gao Liman: "You help me cut the nails of the chicken paws." My house will be used for braised meat. ”

Fortunately, Li Cuilian cleaned up the poultry things in advance, and the fluffy Kou Xi on it looked at the vice. put it in a big basin and brought it to the house, and said to Zhang Yao, who was sitting on the kang and eating melon seeds and peanuts while watching TV: "Second sister, you pull this little hair!"

Zhang Yao said lazily: "My eyes are not good now, and I can't see clearly." And said: "That little hair is afraid of something, just eat it!"

Kou Xi looked at Zhang Yao directly, and Zhang Yao provoked: "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"It's okay!" Kou Xi put the basin on the kang, returned to the kitchen and said to Gao Liman: "After finishing your nails, you can go back to the house to pick up your hair, the second sister can't do it, and her eyes are not good." ”

"What's wrong with her eyes?" Gao Liman was stunned: "Can you be blind when you're pregnant?" and don't let her contribute, what's the matter, sit on the kang and wait to eat!"

"Forget it, don't embarrass her, people are guests!" Kou Xi picked out the pig's trotters and elbows from the basin. Gao Liman snorted angrily: "When you work, you are a guest, and when you eat, you are your family." We are not worth much! Oh, it's still hello, your mother's family is raised on the kang by herself as a big lady. I can't do it, I have a brother and sister-in-law, and my sister-in-law is not happy to go home and not work!"

Gao Liman gritted his teeth in the direction of the house: "The eldest sister is different from the little sister-in-law, hey, why don't you have that good life and a good sister-in-law!"

Zhang Yao listened to it in the room, tears rolling in her eyes. Huo Dagui, the head of the family, led his grandchildren out to play artillery battles, and Huo Lu went to play cards, and Song Jiangang followed to see the excitement. At this time, Zhang Yao was the only one in the house, otherwise Gao Liman would not dare to say anything.

Li Cuilian entered the house while tying her belt, and looked up coldly to see Zhang Yao wiping tears there. Angry, he jumped up all of a sudden: "What are you doing?

Zhang Yao was taken aback and looked at her mother timidly. Li Cuilian gritted her teeth angrily: "You wipe those tears clean and hold them back for me!"

"For the New Year, you are crying in someone else's house, who are you cursing to death!" Li Cuilian was angry and stepped forward to give Zhang Yao a pestle and pushed Zhang Yao backwards. She was afraid that Huo Dagui would see that she would be discouraged, so she lowered her voice and roared: "What are you howling? Do you understand or not? Sitting on a hot kang head with delicious food and drink for you, what do you still want? Do you want people to blow you out, and you will be happy?"

Zhang Yao opened her mouth to confess a few words, but she never thought that Li Cuilian would not give her a chance to explain her grievances. Fierce threat: "Shut your big mouth!"

"Tell you!" Li Cuilian stretched out her hand and pointed at Zhang Yao's face: "Don't make trouble for me, you haven't seen how busy everyone is." That is, you have a big belly to let you enjoy here, don't have anything to do. ”

After speaking, Li Cuilian hurriedly walked to the kitchen, and saw Gao Liman cleaning up the fluff on the chicken and twisting her eyebrows: "It's almost enough, hurry up and cook." After a while, everyone came back, and the dish was not ready. ”

Kou Xi walked out with a pot of meat, and faced Li Cuilian at the door: "What's the hurry? We won't eat until three o'clock in the afternoon, and Huo Lu and the two of them can't find the master of the house if they don't look for themselves." Are you afraid they'll go hungry?"

"I'll go to braised pork, you clean up the chicken and goose first, make sure it's clean. After saying that, she went back to her room, Li Cuilian stomped her feet angrily: "This family is really no old and young, who are you talking to like this!"

"Mom, if you don't come to pick the hair, I'll chop the stuffing. Gao Liman, who had been keeping his head down, also felt tired and panicked.

Li Cuilian's eyes are not good, otherwise she would not be unclean. Twisted his eyebrows: "Let your second sister get it, I can't tire her!"

Gao Liman immediately complained: "Pull it down, my second sister said that her eyes are not good now." Let's chop it with me, I'll chop it after I'm done with the dumpling filling!"

There was no way Li Cuilian could only chop leeks and chop meat filling, she touched the fresh leeks with a rarity on her face: "Don't say it, Kou Xi is a special person, what is it really like." This leek let her raise, better than the flower. ”

Kou Xi returned to his house and poured cold water into the pot. Pour the elbow and trotters into the pot. I lit the fire to remove the blood first, and then I found the spice I bought at the wholesale market from the cupboard. Her seasoning can be more abundant than the dry mixing area of the material station, Sichuan pepper, star anise, cumin, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, tangerine peel, licorice, bay leaves, cumin, angelica. Wrap it in gauze to make a seasoning bag, add green onions, ginger and dried chili peppers, more than ten kinds. The water here boiled, blanched the blood, fished it out and set it aside.

Brush the pot clean, pour a little oil, throw a handful of rock sugar and boil the sugar color, and fry the dried chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, ingredients, ginger slices, garlic cloves, and green onions to make them fragrant. Put the pig's trotters and elbows in the pot, add water and pour in soy sauce and salt. Put the seasoning packet in, cover the pot and bring to a boil over high heat, and simmer over low heat.

Kou Xi walked next door and said to Gao Liman: "You help me watch the fire, I'll just go stew fish and stir-fry." ”

Gao Liman likes to do the things that burn the fire, not to mention the stewed meat in the pot. Kou Xi took out two more sweet potatoes and handed them to Gao Liman: "Put them in the stove pit and burn them, you haven't eaten anything in the morning." ”

Gao Liman was a person who was happy when he was a little cheap, and happily took the sweet potato to burn firewood.

Kou Xi is left alone in the kitchen here, and now he can do some work in peace without anyone disturbing him.

"Do you still want to fry garlic sprouts?" Li Cuilian saw a handful of garlic sprouts on the lid of the water tank, and couldn't help frowning: "It's the New Year, make more meat and vegetables, what are you afraid of!"