A few days later, they went to the city to purchase New Year's goods, and Lily and Song Haonian brought freshly smoked bacon and sausages to Lamei, Chen Bin and others.

Lamei said: "Business is good in the new year, we want to do it for a few more days, and then go home when we are young." "Lily helped clean the house and dry the bedding so that they could go back for the Chinese New Year.

Baiyi agreed, and before the two sisters could say a few words, they saw Song Haonian and Qingsong coming in together. It turned out that Song Haonian went to Chen Bin's house to deliver meat, but Chen Bin was not there, according to Liu's shopkeeper, he went back to the capital to see his uncle.

Shopkeeper Liu was there, took the things, and gave a return gift, and it happened that Qingsong was called by Yueniang to do something, so he followed Song Haonian to his third sister's house.

Lily asked Qingsong again: "How many days do you have a holiday in the next year?"

Qingsong said with a smile: "We can put half a month in the next year, from the beginning of the year to the eighth day of the new year, and I will go back with the third sister when the time comes." ”

It's good that they have company, Lily let go, and handed over the burden that Wenwa's father and mother entrusted them with to Qingsong: "Give it to Wenwa, don't turn it around!" Qingsong said: "Am I that kind of person?"

The son nagged him to death.

Lily and Song Haonian came out of Lamei's house, bought some food and drink, took a cart and pulled them home, and prepared for the New Year.

Put the New Year's goods in the house and cellar, the cellar is full, Lily looked at the pile of potatoes in the corner, and couldn't help but be greedy: "Why don't we fry a few and eat?" She plans to save the potatoes for spring to make seeds, and she can't eat good things every day, and the taste is really tormenting.

Song Haonian laughed: "You can eat if you want, it doesn't matter if you don't eat it, I'll buy it again." ”

Now the lily was happy, picked two or three big potatoes out, and then pulled two dried red peppers and peppers into a bunch and dried them under the eaves, and the red was very beautiful.

When you come back, peel off the potatoes with a planer and soak them in water. In winter, the potatoes wilt slightly, but they become plump and crisp again after a little soaking.

This planer is something that Lily has learned in his life, a piece of iron is bent and beaten, and then a handle is installed. Not only can you peel potatoes and sweet potatoes, but it is also very convenient to peel apples and pears.

Don't look at it now, in two years, when every household in the town eats sweet potatoes and potatoes, the planer will be useful, maybe she can make a small profit.

After the family was well-off, Lily ordered two new vegetable mounds, one cut raw meat and one cut cooked food. Anyway, she is a housewife, as long as she doesn't do anything out of line, Song Haonian will not object. Take a potato and put it on the vegetable pier, cut it into large thin slices, and then take a few slices and stack them on top of each other, and cut them into shreds as thin as noodles. Originally, there was a rub at home that could be used to rub shredded radish, but the shredded potatoes cut out were more crispy, and the lily now has very good knife work, and the shredded potatoes are cut evenly

Thin.

Soak the shredded potatoes in water to prevent them from turning black on the one hand, and soak off the starch on the other hand, so as not to be unpleasant when stir-frying.

The rice sits on the stove, the lily is on the other stove, heat the rapeseed oil, throw a handful of peppercorns and fry them thoroughly and then take them out, cut the green onions, ginger and garlic and stir-fry until the fragrance overflows, the color is golden, the dried chili peppers are soaked and cut into sections, and the minced garlic is put in and fried until fragrant.

When the fire is to the maximum, put the shredded potatoes in and stir-fry quickly, adding vinegar halfway to keep the shredded potatoes crisp and tender, so as not to over-fry. As soon as the potatoes are cut off, they are removed from the fire, and the green onion and salt are added to the residual heat of the iron pot and stirred evenly, and the sour and spicy aroma of the shredded potatoes goes straight to the nostrils.

When Lily was in middle school, she lived in the school, and she was reluctant to eat in the cafeteria, so she cooked and ate by herself, and she could eat a bowl and a half of rice when she fried a piece of shredded potatoes.

Song Haonian, a strong young man, can eat better than her, and eats two bowls of rice in one go with the crispy and sour spicy shredded potatoes, and then he is willing to stretch his chopsticks into another plate of fried bean sprouts with oil residue, and Lily looks funny: "It's so delicious?"

"It's delicious!" If it weren't for Lily's still a little concentration, I was afraid that Song Haonian would decide to finish the small pile of potatoes in the cellar on the spot.

"Then next year we will have more potatoes. Lily is very happy, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, tomatoes are all things she likes to eat, and there are many ways to cook.

Song Haonian said: "I saw Uncle Sheng before, and he also asked me if I would rent those acres of land to them next year, I thought that you were going to plant more and more things now, so I didn't agree, I just said that I would come back and discuss with you." When he split the family, the old Song family gave ten acres of land, which is not considered good land, and it is also suitable for planting sweet potatoes and corn, Lily smiled and said: "I was about to say this, it is better not to rent it next year, and now our family's money is enough, just the tofu shop can return to the capital, and the vermicelli workshop is more profitable,

To say that we are not afraid of people's jokes, that is, the two of us will not do anything from now on, sit and eat the mountains and empty mountains, as long as we don't eat the delicacies of the mountains and seas, we can eat for nothing for ten years. ”

"With these two inputs, the two yuan of renting land is not the most important, and we also grow vegetables, the ten acres of land are the best to grow sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn, and the land next to the house is well protected and easy to take care of, so it is used to grow vegetables. ”

Song Haonian nodded and said: "Just do as you say, I said before that I would hire someone to help, but I can't delay it any longer, I will definitely hire it next year, otherwise the two of us will not be busy." ”

He is a big man, he is tired, he is tired, and he is reluctant to let his daughter-in-law be tired.

"At the beginning of the year, I will let out the rumors, saying that we want to hire people, there are people in the town who want to find some way, we don't dare to pay according to the wages of Liufu Zhuangzi, so we will give less, and there are people to do the work. ”

Liufu Grange is paid well, and Lily is not given so much here, but the work is easy, as long as the wind is released, there will definitely be a lot of idlers to do the work.

While discussing their future plans, the young couple roasted chestnuts in the brazier to eat. The lily skin is tender, the chestnuts are pinched on the fingertips, and they are so hot that they blow straight, so Song Haonian won't let her do it: "I'll pinch it if it's not hot, I'll peel it for you." ”

As soon as the hairy chestnuts are roasted, they bloom into the mouth, exuding an attractive sweet fragrance, he picks up one and blows away the floating ash, gently pinched the shell, and then peels it clean, and when it reaches the lily's hand, it is still a hot chestnut kernel.

Lily ate one by herself and fed one to Song Haonian's mouth, only to hear him say: "I made a wish in front of my ancestors for the Chinese New Year last year, and I have to buy a sheep to go back to repay my wish this year." ”

"What wish did you make?" Last year, Lily only cared about fighting wits and courage with the Niu family, and he didn't know that he still had such a wish. Song Haonian said with a smile: "It's nothing more than a wish for peace and health, I want to think that killing a chicken in the New Year will pass." I didn't think there would be a lot of things this year, first my father-in-law fell and was injured, and then you got sick again, plus Xiaofu and Lamei went to the city, but fortunately, there were no major problems, I

Thinking about it, let's kill the sheep and make a wish. ”

When Lily heard that he did not hesitate to include Li Mingjiang and Lamei in the ranks of his family, his heart warmed, and he nodded and said, "Then I have never bought a sheep, I don't know what it looks like." ”

Song Haonian has a lot of experience: "The sheep in our neighborhood are not very good, they have a smell, and the sheep that have to be raised in the saline-alkali land in the north have no smell at all, and they are very fragrant when boiled in water alone." ”

Lily's eyebrows bent: They are really affordable in the countryside, and they are still talking about rewarding the gods and repaying their vows, so let's talk about food again.

Song Haonian himself couldn't help laughing, and said: "I wasn't like this before, I was all with you and was brought by you." "Lily is diligent and capable, but she refuses to wronged herself in the matter of eating, and thinks about how to eat comfortably all day long. The countrymen pursue this, the young couple has no big ambitions, and it is best to live a good life together, and sure enough, in the past few years, Song Haonian called Lily to bring

Yes, I also began to think about eating.

The two talked for a while, and felt that Song Haonian went out to the thatched house, and as soon as he opened the door, he "drank", "It's snowing!"

The snow is not big, the crystal clear snowflakes are fluttering, and the ground is a light layer of white, which is reflected brightly, and there is no need to turn on the lights. came back to clean up, a bed of fire kang drove away the cold, and the two of them had their own intimacy.