Chapter 298: Chinese New Year
Father Li saw that Li Zhao was interested in this, and said: "Your father-in-law came earlier, and he also confirmed the identity of our village farm, and now all the staff have become farm workers. It's just that the salary is not high now, not as much as you said last time, and now the salary is set at eighteen, plus the twenty-eighth day, it is considered to have been paid for two months. β
Li Zhao is also quite satisfied when he hears it, this salary is at least much stronger than before, and it is bound to increase in the future, it is still possible for everyone to take twenty or thirty, it is not high, but it is definitely a lot, much stronger than people in most places, Li Zhao said: "This salary is also okay, much stronger than before." Well, there must be a lot of people coming over to propose to the people in the village, right? If so, be sure to inquire about the situation before agreeing. β
Father Li also continued: "Of course, there are many people who want to marry, and there are indeed many people who have a bad reputation, but the matchmaker, you and I have said hello, and if you introduce our village into one, you will be given five yuan for running errands, as long as the reputation is good, whoever introduces it has problems, you will never ask her to introduce it again, so you can rest assured." β
Li Zhao also put his mind at ease, after all, if there are a few problems in the village, it will be a big trouble, of course Li's father has no opinion on arranging Li Zhao like this, so he patted his ass and said: "You are old and wise, you have to do this, we will definitely develop here in the future, if you come to a few delicious and lazy things, the atmosphere in the village will be damaged." β
Hearing Li Zhao's sycophants, Li's father was also satisfied, and then said: "The five hundred catties of rice tickets in front have been bought, and they will be divided at the end of the year." As for the New Year's goods sent, there are a bit more, about four or five thousand catties, mainly meat, melon seeds, peanuts, canned food, candy or something, some of them are left in the canteen, and some of them are divided. β
Li's father is very satisfied with the current situation, after chatting about the situation in the village, Li Zhao is ready to cook himself, because he brought back a lot of seafood today, Li Zhao needs to teach his mother the method, otherwise these things will be wasted, you must know that what Li Zhao brought back is all good things, if you do it casually, it is estimated that it will be difficult to eat.
Li Zhao was ready to cook by himself, and now the kitchen was lively, Li Zhao's mother and sister-in-law were just fine, Su Ya also came in, and later Wang Jun and Nastya saw this situation and also squeezed in to help. All of a sudden, the kitchen became the most lively place in the Li family, and of course Li Zhao also made it according to the recipe given by He Yuzhu. With Li Zhao's memory, he had memorized it after reading it a few times, and combined it with some recipes sixty years later, he started cooking.
Li Zhao and others were busy cooking, and Li Xing took a few children to start pasting couplets, which were no longer very particular after sixty years, and were more about a festive picture, so some people began to paste couplets from the sacrificial stove, until the Chinese New Year's Eve, when they wanted. Of course, there are also people who post it when they open after the New Year, after all, they don't pay much attention to these after 60 years, and no one cares.
In the old society, it was not the case, and the sticking of couplets was a very important thing, and it was generally not posted until the Chinese New Year's Eve. At the beginning, it was a door god, and there was a peach charm, but Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the price was too great, so he changed it to a couplet. And in ancient times, there was also a rule, that is, after the Chinese New Year's Eve posted the couplet, you could not come to the door to ask for accounts.
Therefore, people are divided into bad people, and the sooner they post it, the more bad it is, and they are afraid that they will not post couplets and others will come to the door to ask for debts. I still remember the singing section of Yang Bailao in the white-haired female middle school "Ten miles of wind and snow are white, and I came home for seven days to hide from the debt", at that time, it was only posted in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and Yang Bailao had to go out to hide his debts because he had no money to pay his debts.
Of course, this custom is only conventional, and it can be broken. is also about Yang Bailao, I thought that on the evening of the thirtieth day, I would paste the couplet even if I avoided the debt, but who knew that when I met Huang Shiren, who did not follow the rules, I was finally forced to be helpless, sold my daughter, and finally hanged my family, which is also the reason why the New Year is said to be an adult.
The ancients were accustomed to face the door from right to left, so generally the right side is the upper link, the left side is the lower link, and the upper link is generally ended by the sound of the voice, that is, three or four sounds, and the lower link is generally ended by the flat sound, that is, one or two sounds. Sixty years later, no one pays attention to it anymore, and it is all casually pasted.
According to the menu given by He Yuzhu, Li Zhao made a few dishes, plus a few home-cooked dishes, and a large table of meals was completed. However, there was a joke at noon, without him, Nastya was too good to drink, basically drinking alone at the whole table, and in the end, if Li Zhao hadn't stopped him, he would have to drink Father Li's down.
In the afternoon, I began to prepare for the evening food, first of all, steamed steamed buns, it is very difficult to eat white noodles once in this era, and the hardships of this era are unimaginable to many people. Sixty years later, all kinds of common foods are rare in this era, and for most ordinary families, a pot of steamed buns will be steamed on the thirtieth night.
Of course, don't think about the white noodles, they are all ground out of the stone mill in the village, and there is a problem with this kind of noodles, that is, the bran is not removed, so the flour is black, and the steamed steamed buns are actually black. In this way, steamed buns can not be eaten several times a year, and they are steamed according to the head during the New Year, and the better ones may be steamed two or three per person, and the worse ones may only have one or even half.
And the main food is still the same as usual, mainly wotou sweet potato. Lijia Village is relatively good, and in many places, I am afraid that I can only cook a little more sweet potatoes than usual during the New Year. Li Zhao's family is very different this year, although the steamed buns are still black, they are ready to steam a few more pots, which is rare.
Li Zhao can't do this thing of making steamed buns, and his mother and sister-in-law can do it at home. Of course, Li Zhao also has something to do, that is, chopping stuffed dumplings. Today, Li Zhao brought back a lot of meat, and Li Zhao is also going to make several kinds of dumplings. First of all, pork filling, many people say that it will be pork and green onion filling, in fact, you can also put a lot of other things into it, such as radish, celery, camellia, etc., all of which can be mixed into the filling.
There are also beef filling, mutton filling, and egg and leek filling, and of course, vegan filling, as long as they are well matched, they are all very delicious. Of course, the customs of eating during the New Year are also different, just like in the north, in fact, the Lantern Festival was also eaten dumplings at the beginning, and the Lantern Festival was transmitted to most parts of the north in the seventies and eighties.
And unlike the north, there will be a lot more tricks in the south, such as Lantern Festival, rice cakes, etc., and each place also has its own characteristics. Unlike in the north, almost just a dumpling passes all the festivals. After dinner in the evening, everyone sat together and chatted, which is also the most distinctive place in this era, there is no TV and no mobile phone, but it is more New Year's flavor. After sitting for a while, Li Zhao also took out all kinds of fireworks he had bought in advance and handed them over to everyone to set off.
There are still many types of fireworks in this era, but they are all relatively expensive, and the kind of fireworks bombs that are sixty years later are basically not easy to see now, after all, they are too expensive, and other gadgets are basically available. Like spray flowers, spinning classes, incense sticks, small gift flowers, etc. There are also some very rudimentary ones, such as a kind of papier-mΓ’chΓ© cracker, which is about the size of a firecracker, with gravel at one end and medicine at the other, which will explode as long as you drop it hard.
At this time, everyone turned into children, especially Nastya, who had completely let go of herself, and was now holding a pack of cannons to blow up Li Zhao's two little nephews and nieces, of course, the two little people did not show weakness, and from time to time they would turn back and fight back, and shout Nastya happily, especially the Ulla, which was so distinctive.
And Wang Jun and Su Ya are holding incense sticks and spraying flowers, throwing them from time to time, or just a fire tree silver flower, while Li Xing and Li Zhao's eldest nephew is obsessed with small flowers, and from time to time they come to the open space, farther than anyone else. And Li Zhao has turned into a dog's leg and serves everyone.
Of course, the movement here also attracted the people of the village, and most of the people in the village gathered at the door of Li Zhao's house. Li Zhao had already thought of this, and while greeting people, he also began to send things to the children, of course, mainly candy, if all the fireworks were issued, Li Zhao couldn't afford it, he really couldn't buy so much.
Let's put it this way, these cannons are still very cheap now, and a string of small cannons is only a dime, and the kind of inferior cannons that Nastya is playing now are also very cheap, you can buy twenty or thirty for a dime, and it doesn't cost five yuan in total for her big bag. Soon the three chasing people stopped, there were too many onlookers, Nastya was embarrassed, and she also sent the cannon in her hand down.
Now count the ones in her hands that are the least valuable, the most, and more suitable for sending to the children in the village. Nastya is also generous enough, basically every child is divided into dozens, Li Zhao doesn't care about her, she sends it down, she has little left in her hand, seeing this situation, Li Zhao took her another bag and let her have a good time.
Li Zhao bought a lot of fireworks this time, and only one-third of them were taken out today, enough for a few children in the family to play for a few days, after all, Li Zhao couldn't stay at home for too long, not to mention going to pay New Year's greetings, and all kinds of engineering construction would start soon after the New Year, Li Zhao didn't dare to stay at home for too much time.
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Chapter 298: Free Reading for the New Year.