Chapter XXXVIII. Eat dumplings on Chinese New Year's Eve
Heavy snow fell all night.
Yesterday morning's snow was very thin, and Su Yantuan's snowball was the size of an egg. This morning, it was covered in snow outside, and the trees were covered in a thick layer of snow. With such a thick snowfall, Su Yan doesn't have to have a good time?
She gathered a lot of snowballs, and while Pei Jing was not paying attention, she threw snowballs at his back, who knew that his back seemed to have eyes, and he dodged with a dodge.
Su Yan threw several fist-sized snowballs in a row, and he didn't even touch the corners of Pei Jing's clothes, and he didn't fight back, just dodging to the side.
It has been snowing for the past two days, and Su Yuan has not gone down the mountain to study, and when he heard the laughter of his sister next door, he hurriedly ran out. Grab a snowball and throw it at my sister's back.
"Good! Su Yuan, you actually bullied your sister, look at me! As he spoke, he turned around and threw the snowball in his hand at Su Yuan.
"Brother-in-law, I'm here to help you, come and save me!" Su Yuan shouted as he ran, and turned around behind Pei Jing.
"Pei Jing, you get out of the way for me!" Su Yan didn't throw it at her younger brother, and she felt a little upset.
Pei Jing smiled and dodged to the side, and Su Yuan, who was hiding behind, was exposed. Su Yan's eyes were quick, and a big snowball smashed into Su Yuan's chest.
"Brother-in-law!" Su Yuan looked like he was crying, and his eyes complained to his brother-in-law why he didn't block him.
"Alright, it's cold outside, you go into the house and have a fire, and I'll shovel the snow off the roof."
"Brother Yuan, you go and call your mother over and eat here at noon." Su Yan patted the snow on her hands.
"Hey! I'm going to call my mother. Su Yuan ran to the next room with a smoke.
Su Yan returned to the hall, and there was a brazier in it. She wanted to take some sweet potatoes out and roast them, but then she thought about it, the sweet potatoes in the gourd are all used to make seeds, eat a few now, and plant a few less plots of land in the future, which is not cost-effective. In the end, she dismissed the idea of baking sweet potatoes.
The mother and son were cooking a fire in the house, and Pei Jing shoveled the snow off the roofs of the two houses.
The heavy snow fell intermittently for three days before stopping, and when the snow melted, the Chinese New Year was approaching.
On this day, taking advantage of the good weather, people in the mountains went to the city one after another to buy New Year's goods.
Su Yan's family was not exempt from vulgarity, and a group of people followed Pei Jinghao down the mountain to purchase New Year's goods.
In the village, the second and fifth masters stayed behind, the fourth bought grain, and the other four masters were divided into two teams and took people down the mountain to collect the filial piety money of each family.
Because the Chinese New Year is approaching, the county is very lively. Stalls of all sizes were packed with people. It's a world away from the deserted roads of the past.
Su Yan and the others bought a lot of things, and they didn't return to the mountain until the afternoon when they ate in the restaurant.
Su Yan handed over the food supplies and other things in Wolong Village to Wu Jin and others to buy. Because the Chinese New Year was approaching, Su Yan said that she wanted to make cotton clothes for people who were living in difficulty under the mountain, and she pulled a lot of cloth and weighed a lot of cotton. After buying good things, Wu Jin led people to drive the full ox carts back to Wolong Village in advance.
The three masters of the lone wolf village and the sunspots, seeing the snow melting, their minds also became active. Heizi fanned the flames on the side, and Hou usually instigated Gao Kui from time to time, and Gao Kui led people up and down. In the end, Wu Xiang decided to send people down the mountain to send letters to the other eight village owners, and invited the major village owners to go up the mountain to discuss matters.
The top two black soil villages and the first Baiyun village owners are very disdainful, don't think that they have set the ranking, but usually no one is convinced by anyone, and there is no less filth between several big villages. The two owners of the village unanimously decided to let a little Hello run errands.
Those few green forest villages and Haohan villages that were squeezed down ranked five or six, they were not convinced by this Panlong Village that suddenly appeared. As soon as they received Wu Xiang's invitation, they all geared up and wanted to get a piece of the pie.
The few villages at the end of the crane are reasonable, they are not fooled by the big cake painted by the lone wolf village, they don't plan to contribute, they just want to pick up the cheap next to them now. They don't want to be squeezed down by the top 10 stockades for a small profit.
Su Yan has been shopping for a day, going up and down the mountain, and when she gets home, she is so tired that she lies on the bed and doesn't want to move.
Pei Jing is a person who practices martial arts, and this point of road is not a matter for him at all. Seeing that Su Yan was so tired, he consciously cooked and boiled water.
Su Yan was a little annoyed when she saw this, "Hey, we went shopping for a day, and we forgot to buy people, and we have to work hard to cook!" ”
"Nothing! We will buy it again after the Chinese New Year. Pei Jing came in with a bucket of hot water. The two of them went to bed early after washing.
Here, Panlongzhai was celebrating the New Year happily, and he didn't notice that a conspiracy against them was unfolding.
Before Chinese New Year's Eve, Wu Jin bought two big pigs and a few small piglets in which village. The big pigs were killed and ate meat, and the small piglets were raised in the pigsty in Wolong Village.
It was cold, Su Yan was afraid that the pigs would not eat it, so she took out part of the sweet potato vine in the gourd and found a reason, so that Wu Jin could take it to the bottom of the mountain to feed the pigs.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, in the village, nearly 300 people, old and young, ate Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together, and it was noisy and lively. pulled Pei Jing to drink one by one, although everyone is a brother, for a few single dogs, no one does not envy the owner of the village, if you want kung fu and kung fu, you want beauty and beauty. It's a winner in life.
In Wolong Village below the mountain, everyone is wearing new clothes and eating a sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve meal. Some of them wore new clothes made of cloth and cotton bought by Su Yan, and some of them had a few dollars in hand, bought some cloth, and asked the women in the village to make them.
Su Yan's mother and son went home to make dumplings after eating, how could they not eat dumplings during the New Year? Picking mushrooms, chopping pork, and getting busy together, Su Yan finally adjusted the dumpling filling. Zhang was also busy making noodles on the side.
Pei Jing was poured a lot of wine at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and Li Yanwen and Li Yanwu pulled him to keep vigil, and he refused his brother's invitation without saying a word, causing several brothers to laugh at him.
"The sixth brother and the seventh brother are really not interesting, the eldest brother is in a hurry to go back and hug his daughter-in-law, what are you two doing to stop the eldest brother?" Ge Zhuang's loud voice made Pei Jing, who had just stepped out of the door on his front foot, hear it clearly.
"I just don't think it's been a long time since I've sat with my big brother." Li Yanwen scratched his head embarrassedly.
"Hey! It's only to blame that we don't have a daughter-in-law, if we have a daughter-in-law, who would sit here in the cold? Old Fifth Guo Huai said in a rough voice.
Pei Jing smiled and returned to the courtyard, Su Yan and the two had already made a lot of dumplings. Pei Jing washed his hands and came to help.
Zhang, who was rolling dumpling skins, glanced at his son-in-law, with a smile on his face. Zhang is not the kind of woman with an old-fashioned mind, who thinks it's a good thing for men not to touch the kitchen. In the past, when Su Quan was there, Su Quan also helped with some housework, and now seeing that his son-in-law is so caring, he is even more satisfied with Pei Jing in his heart.
It wasn't until the end of the day that they finished wrapping all the dumpling fillings. Pei Jing hurriedly boiled water to boil dumplings.
"Take a cauldron and cook it, and send two pots to your brothers who are keeping vigil." Su Yan finished wrapping the last dumpling in her hand.
Ge Zhuang led a few people around the fire, and when he felt a little hungry, Pei Jing brought a large pot of fragrant dumplings.
Ge Zhuang couldn't stop thanking him, "Thank you, big brother, this is different when we become a family, in the past, we were all so big-eyed, how could we think that we could eat hot dumplings today!" ”
"Are you going to eat it with your hands?" Pei Jing was a little unhappy, he hadn't even eaten a bite of dumplings himself.
"I'm going to get the dishes and chopsticks for my brothers!" As soon as the old eight slipped away from the smoke, he disappeared.
Soon a pot of dumplings with soup and dumplings was finished, and Pei Jing returned to the yard with the empty pot.
At this time, a pot of dumplings on the stove was just cooked, and Zhang scooped up a bowl of dumplings for each of them, took the empty pot, and placed another pot of dumplings.
Pei Jing didn't need to be instructed, he carried most of the pot of dumplings and sent them to the group of brothers.
The group of night vigilers, most of the half bowl of dumplings hung out the gluttonous worms in the stomach. The soup in the bowl was drunk, and I was not satisfied.
"Second brother, these dumplings are too delicious! Let's go to the big brother's yard and have a look! Let's see if there are any dumplings. Eat most of this bowl of dumplings, you can't go up or down, it's really uncomfortable! Guo Huai stared at the empty bowl, feeling uncomfortable.
Ge Zhuang drank the last sip of soup and stood up directly, "Aren't you talking nonsense?" He ignored everyone and walked out of the door of the council hall first, colliding head-on with Pei Jing who was holding the pot.
"Oops! Big brother has worked hard! Brother, I'll just come! Ge Zhuang exaggeratedly took a pot of dumplings.
The people behind him hurriedly squeezed over.
"Alright! Don't squeeze Lao Tzu! Squeeze it, you boys lick the bottom of the pot for me! ”
The people behind him hurriedly and cautiously retreated, for fear of touching Ge Zhuang.
"There is also a pot of dumplings, come and serve it after eating, remember to send the pot over." After Pei Jing finished instructing, he turned around and left.
It wasn't early in the morning when Su Yan and the others finished eating the dumplings, and they didn't keep watch, so they went back to the house to sleep.
Several people in the council hall ate two and a half pots of dumplings, and several people stayed up until the second half of the night before they went back to the house to sleep.