Chapter 87: Chinese New Year's Eve

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Nana Hoshino turned on the TV early and tuned to NHK TV to wait for the "Red and White Song Battle" to start broadcasting, a traditional Chinese New Year singing program in Toei. On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, dozens of the most popular singers of the year were invited to attend, the singer was the red team, the male singer was the white team, the two sides competed against each other, and finally the audience judges voted to determine the winning team.

Some are similar to the Spring Festival Gala in China, which are must-see programs for the New Year, and even if you don't watch it, you will listen to it openly.

After turning on the TV, Nana Hoshino quickly got into the kotatsu, and the electric heater under the table was exuding bursts of warmth, instantly warming her little feet. She narrowed her eyes pleasantly, reached for a mandarin orange and began to peel it.

Satsuki Yayoi happily poured a cup of hot tea for Hoshino Nana, today's festival Hoshino Nana didn't let her study, she was full of energy, and the whole person was beaming.

Naoto Yoshihara sat opposite Nana Hoshino, looking at Yayoi Satsuki with some helplessness.

He thought that Yayoi Kotsuki would go home for the New Year, after all, her parents were there, but he didn't expect that she would still be here when she was about to eat. He endured it for two endurances and didn't ask out loud, and guessed that Satsuki Yayoi should still be playing a trick to hide from his parents.

However, this is not a tiger's den, since she likes to stay here, it is better to stay.

He moved his ass twice, and felt warm and wanted to sleep, and it was very comfortable to sit here lazily. The kotatsu is also called the warm table, the original small square table is one of the accessories of the kotatsu, there is a card slot at the bottom that can be installed with a thin electric heater, and a large cotton quilt is laid on the table to cover the space under the table to avoid heat loss, and then press a glass plate to form.

After sitting down, people can stretch their legs or even their entire body into the kotatsu to keep warm, which is a common object for Dongying to spend the winter.

When people's feet are not cold, the whole body will be warm, and it will start to snow in Tokyo these days, and this thing is the right time to use. However, Naoto Yoshihara is tall and has long legs, and he is not used to sitting cross-legged for a long time, so he changed his sitting posture when he was warm and comfortable, and stretched his two long legs under the table to make it more comfortable.

As soon as he stretched his legs, he invaded the territory of Hoshino Nana, Hoshino Nana had a strong sense of territory, and his face did not show his unhappiness, and he kicked with his little feet under the table, and he had to kick Naoto Yoshihara back - a quarter of everyone, fair and just, no one wants to eat more and occupy more.

Naoto Yoshiwara didn't care and yawned lazily. He has thick skin and thick meat, and although Nana Hoshino is more powerful than his peers, she is still more than an order of magnitude worse than him. He treated Nana Hoshino as if he was massaging himself, sniffing the aroma in the kitchen and hoping that Miki Momomiya would quickly bring the food, he was hungry.

Toei Chinese New Year's Eve is traditionally for the whole family to gather together for a steaming Nianyue soba meal, and Miki Momomiya got up this morning and began to prepare.

She doesn't need help from others, in her opinion, Naoto Yoshiwara is a man who shouldn't go into the kitchen, and Nana and Yayoi shouldn't work hard as a child, plus Nianyue buckwheat has a special meaning for housewives, and in a sense represents the dignity of housewives, so she insists on completing all the processes by herself.

The consumption of buckwheat in Toei dates back to the Jomon period, which is the Stone Age of Toei (before 100 BC). However, at that time, Toei did not have the technology to grind flour, so he could only boil the buckwheat and eat it, and the taste was terrible. It was not until the Kamakura period (10th century AD) that the flour processing technology of China was introduced to Toei, and Toei began to eat buckwheat flour, but the stickiness of buckwheat flour was very poor, and it could only be eaten with steamed cakes, and the taste was still not good.

Finally, in the Edo period more than 400 years ago, the technology of adding wheat flour to buckwheat flour to increase the taste, elasticity and viscosity was introduced from China to Toei, and soba noodles were born!

In China, especially in northern China, whether the dumplings are delicious or not is related to the face of a housewife, and the same is true in Dongying, the more soba noodles must be carefully made, and Miki Momonomiya attaches great importance to it!

It's a great way to show that she's a good housewife, and you can't just take things lightly.

Soba noodles are difficult to form alone, so wheat flour must be added, and if you add more wheat flour, the color of soba noodles will become lighter, affecting the "color", and the choice and proportion of wheat flour are also related to the taste of soba noodles. Fortunately, Miki Momonomiya is ingenious, and she has lived so much luck, and she has gone all the way to cooking.

She just made noodles for two hours, and the high-quality soba noodles from Izumo were the main body, and two appropriate amounts of high-gluten flour and one appropriate amount of all-purpose flour were poured into egg whites and chicken broth, and repeatedly beaten and kneaded, all the time, so that the dough was as smooth as a black pearl.

The noodles are then hand-pulled to make them long and uninterrupted, and finally placed in three in and three out of the boiling broth – the ingredients of which can be written on two sheets of paper and boiled for a full 36 hours.

In the end, Miki Momonomiya put the soba noodles into a wooden boat and sent them to the table, with more than 10 small bowls of lacquered flowers.

The lacquerware wooden boat has a black background and a red face, and the pattern is also very elegant and exquisite, and the rectangular shape is very huge, and there are high buckwheat noodles piled up inside, and the roots are brown and bright, and you can't see the head and tail. More than a dozen small lacquerware bowls of the same set contain raw eggs, radish puree, soup fish segments, etc., which are arched around its side, and it looks a bit spectacular.

"Wow......" Satsuki Yayoi exclaimed, her family conditions are good, but she has never seen this kind of elaborate Yue New Year soba, she used to eat the kind that is normally sold in the mall, how can she have this style.

Hoshino Nana swallowed a mouthful of saliva secretly, can the noodles be made like this? Sure enough, there is a specialization in the art industry. She stared at the soba noodles in a daze and muttered, "Sister Miki, you ...... It's really hard work. ”

Miki Momonomiya also sat in the kotatsu, and on the right side was Naoto Yoshihara, covering her mouth and chuckling: "This is what I should do, the vegetable sauce is too polite." ”

Saying that, she began to divide the meal for the three of them, and the soba noodles are different in various parts of Toei due to their customs, and here the Kanto "Kansai" people got together, so she had to prepare more ingredients for everyone to play freely according to their tastes.

She picked one first, shook her hand twice and picked it into the bowl, one noodle was half a bowl, her face was slightly red and she bowed her head to Naoto Yoshihara, and said according to etiquette: "Yoshihara-kun, long and long......"

One of the meanings of Soba noodles is that the family has a long-lasting relationship, and Miki Momonomiya used to serve her father a bowl of noodles during the New Year, which is the treatment of the head of the family and the tradition of the Momonomiya family.

Then she didn't dare to look at Naoto Yoshihara's facial expression, for fear of being exposed to the hidden meaning of "for a long time", so she hurriedly picked two more noodles and handed them to Hoshino Nana and Satsuki Yayoi bowls, and smiled softly: "Vegetable sauce, Yayoi sauce, live a long life!"

"Thank you, Sister Miki, let's go!" Nana Hoshino thanked Yayoi Satsuki together, and Yayoi Satsuki sighed even more: "It's amazing, Sister Miki, it's the first time I've seen such long and thin noodles, and they look so beautiful...... Who is taller between me and this noodle?"

After sighing, she smiled sweetly and said, "If I can eat Sister Miki's soba noodles every year, I will definitely live to be a hundred years old!"

Nana Hoshino didn't say a word, she had already poured a spoonful of broth and a spoonful of radish puree on the noodles with her hands and feet, and the whole ball got up and stuffed it into her mouth, and she instantly smiled.

Miki Momomiya smiled at Yayoi Satsuki, and peeked at Naoto Yoshihara again, only to see that his bowl was already empty. She hurriedly went to pick noodles again, and asked with concern, "Yoshihara-kun, the taste...... Is it still to your liking?"

Next year, I'm going to start researching Kansai recipes.

Naoto Yoshihara smacked his mouth, with an expression of Zhu Bajie after eating the ginseng fruit, and said helplessly: "This just put it in the mouth and it went into the stomach by itself, it's too slippery......" But he took another bowl and tasted it in a blink of an eye, only to feel that the taste was excellent and fragrant, and couldn't help but praise: "It's really fragrant, smooth, fresh, tender, and playful, Mishu, your craftsmanship is definitely enough to open your own store!"

Miki Momonomiya shook her head slightly, the ingredients she bought for this soba noodle were enough to buy a pig, and if she opened a store, she would have to pay for it, but she saw that Naoto Yoshihara was satisfied, and saw that Yayoi Satsuki was trying to suck the noodles into her mouth in one go, and then saw that Hoshino Nao's head was about to be stuck in the bowl, and she was suddenly a little overjoyed - great, everyone was satisfied, and this time the performance was full marks.

Naoto Yoshihara originally thought that tonight would make up a meal, which can be regarded as following the local customs - Toei Chinese New Year's Eve is dominated by soba noodles, and big fish and meat will only start tomorrow, but unexpectedly, Miki Momomiya's craftsmanship is not lost to ordinary chefs, and ordinary skills are seen.

He ate bowl after bowl, the bowl was small for one thing, but it did taste excellent. Fortunately, Miki Momomiya didn't know him on the first day, and the amount of preparation was enough.

Satsuki Yayoi and Nana Hoshino talked while eating, snickering from time to time, and Naoto Yoshihara didn't know where to find a bottle of wine and started to drink a few glasses, Miki Momonomiya took care of the three people on the table, adding noodles and vegetables, and soon there was only one bottom left in the wooden boat.

Hoshino Nana eats quickly, and she is the first to eat full. She looked at the three people in front of her, and sighed a little in her heart, the family has never been so lively, and her mother will be happy if she can see it...... She was in a trance for a moment, put these sorrows aside, took out three passbooks and cards and put them on the table, coughed lightly and said: "Sister Miki, Yayoi, it's the end of the year, this is the club's dividend, and it is also our common New Year's gift, you can use it to buy some favorite things......"

These passbook bank cards are still done by Naoto Yoshihara, and he doesn't care, watching the singer in the TV jumping up and down, looking at a pair of big white legs with great interest, and drinking a little wine from time to time, and Satsuki Yayoi has already slept with Nana Hoshino, it is impossible to see outside, curiously took the passbook and looked at it, and said happily: "A lot of money!"

Seeing that Satsuki Yayoi was happy, Nana Hoshino's fox smiled as if she had just stolen a chicken, pointed and said: "This is yours, Yayoi, the account falls under Sister Miki's name, you can pay the bill directly with this card, and you can ask Sister Miki to sign it for you once a month." The password is 200204, the year and month of your birthday in the Gregorian calendar, very easy to remember......"

Satsuki Yayoi was pleasantly surprised: "Nana, do you know my birthday?"

Hoshino Nana choked for a moment and said: "Your name is Yayoi, which means the first March of the grass and trees, we are the same year, March of that year is the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, you ......" She was basically desperate for Yayoi Kotsuki's braincase after these days of testing, and didn't say anything more, but pointed to a copy to Momonomiya Miki Le and said: "Sister Miki, this is yours, the password is written on the back of the passbook, but it is written backwards, you remember to reverse the order of numbers when you use money!"

Miki Momomiya hesitated and took the passbook from Yayoi Kozuki and glanced at it, and immediately felt a little panicked - although she knew that the money was a big number, it was still a little unreal to really put the money in her name.

Why is it so easy to make money? If it's so easy, then why are there so many poor people? Can you get so much money by sitting there for hours a day?

She hesitated and asked, "Cai-chan, I didn't do anything either...... I don't think I should take so much money, otherwise I should count my salary, right? How much ...... do you get every month?"

Nana Hoshino didn't answer this, Miki Momonomiya never refused to be happy, but said with a smile: "Our funds are already hundreds of millions, and it is appropriate to take out 100 million to treat everyone, Sister Miki will not say anything." ”

In the end, she took the card that belonged to her and shook it around, and after waiting for a long time to see that Naoto Yoshiwara didn't react, she was a little angry - although she was noisy with Naoto Yoshiwara all day long, but after all, she had experienced an incident together, she was the first companion in her life, and she personally admitted that she was the first man she wanted to believe, the feelings were by no means ordinary, and Naoto Yoshiwara was very secure in her, and she was willing to share success with Naoto Yoshiwara.

At this time, Naoto Yoshiwara didn't react, and he didn't care about her success, so it's strange that she didn't get angry!

She directly took the card as a dart and threw it at Naoto Yoshiwara's head, ignoring the fact that the card contained 50 million yen, and shouted angrily: "The two of us use one copy, I will change the password, you have to pay to call me first!"