There was good wine, there was good food, everyone was familiar with each other, after eating and drinking until twilight, several women helped Lily clean up the kitchen, and the men who were still sober helped to carry the tables and stools back to the neighbors, and the guests and hosts were happy before leaving.

Song Hao is more than 20 years older, the first time there were so many people to celebrate him on his birthday, he liked him from the bottom of his heart, and was willing to be close to him. ”

Song Dagui and his sister-in-law laughed beside them: "This kid has to practice for a long time!"

After sending everyone away, Lily came back and saw Song Haonian sitting at the table and smiling at her.

Lily walked over and touched his face: "Are you happy today?"

"Happy!" Song Haonian hugged Lily violently, buried his face in her arms, and muttered, "I've never been so happy." ”

Song Haonian's overexcited result was to pull Lily to have a child, and there was no reason to talk to a drunk person, so Lily had to follow him, and the two of them tossed for half a night before falling asleep hand and foot entangled.

After twenty-five and fifty-one, there are only three or four days left before the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the women of each family who know each other agree on the order, and each family makes steamed buns and beats rice cakes. Lily's family has few things to do, so they took the initiative to be the last in line, and first helped Liu Yi's sister-in-law, Wang Damiang and others to pack.

When it was Lily's turn, it was already the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, and after eating early in the morning, Liu Yi's sister-in-law, Dagui's sister-in-law, Song Ermei, Wang Damiang and others all gathered in her kitchen to help her steam more than 100 steamed buns and make dozens of catties of rice cakes.

Although there is no special person in charge of chopping wood, burning fire, fetching water, choosing vegetables, chopping stuffing, and mixing, there is a tacit understanding in it, which is orderly and does not go wrong.

Apricot likes to be lively, getting in and out of a group of adults, burning firewood in the kitchen, and the smoke is a little big for a while, so that her eyes are red.

Xing'er fanned the wind in front of her eyes with her little hand, and muttered a nursery rhyme in her mouth that she didn't know where to hear: "Don't smoke me with smoke and smoke, the dog chops wood, the cat burns the fire, and the mouse rolls out the face and laughs at me!"

Song Haonian who was chopping wood, Lamei who was burning the fire, and Li Caifeng who was rolling bun skins: "

Li Caifeng made a gesture to teach Xing'er: "I'm a mouse, so what are you?"

Xing'er hid behind Lily with a small person: "I'm a little mouse!"

The adults couldn't hold back for a while, they all laughed, and Song Ermei complained while laughing: "Ouch, don't make me laugh, my face is all spilled!"

Aunt Wang casually pinched a rabbit with dough to coax Xing'er to play, Xing'er's attention was hooked, and she took the dough rabbit to find her father: "Dad, look, rabbit!"

Liu Yi is beating rice cakes in the yard, he and Song Dagui have great strength, one person holds a mallet, Wang Xiaofu is small and flexible, turning the rice cake in the stone mortar with his hand, turning it over, smashing it, full of rhythm and tacit understanding.

Seeing Xing'er coming, Liu Yi hurriedly shouted: "Xing'er, don't come over, it's not fun to smash you!"

Xing'er muttered, "I won't tell you to smash it!" Standing aside along with Mi Xiang, it was fun to watch the adults beat rice cakes.

The steamed glutinous rice is mashed with a mallet while it is hot, and finally becomes a delicate and soft thing, buckled into the wood mold to shape, dotted with plum blossoms, the snow-white rice cake has five petals of red and bright plum blossoms, and the apricots can't help but "ah".

Liu Yi dipped red yeast rice and dotted a five-petal plum blossom on Xing'er's forehead, lining her two cheeks, white and tender, like a doll on a New Year's painting.

Song Dagui's son Ju'er has never liked to play with female dolls, but when he saw that Xing'er was good-looking, he had to play with her and stuffed her with his own cannonballs.

Wang Xiaofu said: "This kid is only so old that he knows how to look good." ”

Liu Yi laughed: "My apricots are good-looking!"

The rice cakes are made first, and the women in the house are still making steamed buns. There are three kinds of fillings, the same meat filling, the same brown sugar walnut filling, and the same bean paste filling. Meat buns are the simplest, large pieces of lean meat are chopped into cubes, and a little seasoning is added with green onions, vermicelli, cabbage, etc. Roll out the bun skin so that it is thick in the middle and thin on the edge, hold the bun skin in your left hand, scoop a ball of meat filling on the bun skin with your right hand, pinch one edge with your thumb and index finger, and flexibly handle the skin with the rest of your fingers

Accumulate it and finally form a pleated notch, which can be closed with a slight twist.

Brown sugar walnut filling should be added to the fried noodles, flour fried on the fire, walnuts peeled out of the flesh to fry crisp and sweet, and chopped brown sugar evenly stirred, although the filling is crispy when wrapping, as soon as the brown sugar melts in the pot, it will become fragrant and sticky.

More than a liter of red beans are removed from the sand, dusty and shriveled beans are washed away with water, boiled in a pot until they bloom, take them out and put them in a basin, and crush them with the back of a spoon. The beans are already ripe, and they become a batter when pressed.

Lily scooped a bowl of red bean paste and mixed it with sugar for Xing'er and Song Dagui's ju'er: "Help Auntie taste whether it's sweet or not." ”

The bean paste contains bean skin, which affects the taste, if it is filtered through the side with noodles, it is Chengsha, but the local people in Qingliu Town like the chewiness of the bean skin, and they do not pay attention to all the pressure when pressing the bean paste, or leave some bean grains to be delicious.

Mix the bean paste with sugar and wrap it into buns. Fifty of the same, a total of one hundred and fifty, enough for three people to eat until the end of the year.

Fresh rice cakes and buns just out of the pot are dried in a large bamboo plaque, and they can all be stacked in a pot after being cold.

If you want to eat it in the future, roast it on the fire, the skin is crispy, and heat it on the steamer to make it soft and sweet.

Wang Xiaofu was a little hungry when he beat rice cakes, came in to ask for steamed buns to eat, and asked Lamei: "What kind of stuffing are they?"

Lamei said: "The round one is a meat bun, the one is a pointed bean paste filling, and the smaller one is a sugar bun, which one do you want?"

Wang Xiaofu thought for a while, "You pick a bean paste for me." ”

Lamei had the heart to say, "You have your own hands", thinking that this person was here to help her family work, she swallowed the words back, picked a big bean paste bag and handed it to Wang Xiaofu, but saw Wang Xiaofu show two rice cakes in his hand: "Give you a taste." ”

Lamei quietly rolled her eyes: "My family's rice cakes!"

When did she want to taste it, and still need him to be courteous?

There were people coming and going in the kitchen, and there was smoke and water vapor, and everyone didn't know that the two were very involved in a lawsuit, and Lily only when they were all hungry, she picked a few of each bun and sent it to the man who made rice cakes, telling them to pad their stomachs first.

Eat cabbage soup and steamed buns at noon, the cabbage soup is based on a large piece of fatty meat, and individuals choose their favorite flavors to pick hot steamed buns to eat, and those who don't like to eat pasta can also use cabbage soup to soak rice cakes to eat. The skin of the bun is snow-white and soft. The meat bun is lean and solid, and every bite can bite into the meat piece and the bean paste bun is sweet, and the bean flavor is rich and the sugar bun flows out of the hot sugar juice as soon as you bite it, and it flows down the hand to the sleeve

Go and wipe clean.

Xing'er held a sugar bun in both hands, and ate it delicately in small bites, and the eldest sister-in-law looked at her lovingly: "In the end, the girl's family is more worry-free, look at how delicate it is!

Li Caifeng followed modestly: "You don't know how difficult she is, she is not a girl, she is a living ancestor!" She is a daughter of Xing'er, and she also wants to give birth to a son so that Xing'er can be her companion in the future, and she is particularly envious when she looks at the foal.

Apricot and Ju'er glanced at each other, one to the left and the other to the right, and turned their heads together: "Hmph!"

The short-lived friendship formed because of the good looks of the apricots and the fun of the colt cannon battle is gone.

The little doll is so fun, Song Haonian's eyes are hot, and he pesters Lily at night to ask her to give him a child. Lily was also willing, and afterwards touched her flat lower abdomen and said, "If only I could conceive now." ”

Pregnant in winter, it happened to be October when it was born, it was not hot, and it was able to eat a lot of nutritious things, which was good for both the mother and the baby.

Song Haonian kissed her: "The doll is fate, and those who are destined will come." ”

Chinese New Year's Eve people call the year closed, and the debt collection always comes to the door at this time, and some people cannot afford to change their debts and have to go out to hide debts. People who have nothing to do don't go out anymore, they are all at home guarding their wives and children's hot kang heads and waiting for next year.

The people in the town posted Spring Festival couplets, either to buy them on the market, or to write a pair of literate, Song Haonian also begged Xiao Xiucai to write couplets in previous years, but Xiao Xiucai didn't look down on him and didn't write it.

This year, this couplet was bought back when selling leather goods, and the red paper is tough and strong, not the inferior goods that will be broken when they are blown.

The words on the top are general, and the content is just some auspicious words such as peace and smoothness, Fulu and longevity, anyway, there are many people who don't know how to read in the countryside, and it looks good.

Song Haonian could only distinguish which end was up and which was down, but the upper and lower links stumped him, and Lily nodded to one of them: "I'm afraid it's not this?"

So he hit a pot of paste and smeared it carefully on the back of the couplet, Song Haonian was tall, and asked him to paste the couplet, and Lily stood far away in the back: "A little higher, a little lower, good!"

Lily will cut window flowers, cut a few with red paper and paste them on the window paper, Lamei's house, kitchen and cellar are not spared, and the house is full of festive atmosphere. The dinner on the 30th night is exquisite, and the family gods should be worshiped with slurry water, and they should be asked to bless the family house for a year. Lily under the good noodles to grab a bowl and hand it to Song Haonian, Song Haonian took the bowl inside and outside the house, the kitchen well around the circle, each place to use chopsticks to hold the noodles and throw them into the air, offering three

Next, light up the three pillars of fragrance, and then go to the next one.

After doing this, it was the turn of a few people to have dinner.

From the next day, the elbows were stewed in the pot, and after eating, I poked them with chopsticks, and they were already soft, but they had not yet left the bones.

It is rare to light candles at home, and the young couple bring Lamei, and keep watch by candlelight and braziers, and gossip. Sweet potatoes and hairy chestnuts are roasted in the brazier, and the sweet aroma constantly exudes.

When he arrived, Lily took the candle to the kitchen to look around, the elbow had been boiled soft and rotten from the bones, took out the meat and put it in the basin, tore it apart while it was hot, seasoned it with pepper powder and salt, and also called Song Haonian to pay tribute everywhere, and the three of them gathered around to eat New Year's meat. After eating the meat Jiaozi, Song Haonian went to the yard to light a firecracker, and there was a crackling sound from every household in the town, the new year has arrived.