Chapter 256: A Busy Year
Xu Shiyan's family stayed here until half past seven, Xu Haiyuan and Xu Jinping's brothers and sisters were sleepy, and Xu Chenghou released them.
Before going out, Xu Chenghou also whispered to his son and daughter-in-law that they must not beat their children.
Children, it's normal to be greedy, and today the two children also suffered, and they were uncomfortable, so they were not allowed to fight when they went back.
Xu Shiyan was speechless, led the children home, and reprimanded the two children with a straight face.
The girl was timid, and she was trained by her father to shed tears, Xu Haiyuan was probably scared, and stood there obediently and didn't dare to pout.
After Xu Shiyan trained the child, he asked the two babies to hurry up and relieve their hands, so as not to really pee on the kang when they slept at night.
When the two babies came back after peeing, they took off their clothes and went into the quilt, and they fell asleep after a while.
At eleven o'clock, Su Anying specially called the two children to get up and pee, and the two babies said that they didn't pee.
As a result, just after twelve o'clock, Xu Haiyuan crawled out of his bed and stabbed Xu Shiyan. "Dad, I'm urinating."
When Xu Shiyan heard this, he hurriedly turned on the light, and then saw that his son's bed was all wet. It's a big pee.
Before Xu Shiyan could say anything, the girl over there also got up, "Dad, I want to pee." ”
Xu Shiyan didn't say a word, picked up his daughter and ran to the outhouse, and his son's bed could only be handed over to his daughter-in-law.
When Xu Shiyan came back with his daughter, Su Anying had already pulled out her son's peeed mattress and threw it aside, and re-laid a mattress.
"I think you two will dare to eat so many cans in the future? I didn't count the food.
Xu Haiyuan, you look like you're six years old, and you're still urinating, are you ashamed? ”
Su Anying cleaned up for her son, and deliberately buried her son.
Xu Haiyuan is a very face-saving child, when his mother said so, his little face couldn't hang up, and he was about to cry when he opened his mouth.
"How dare you cry tonight? I'm going to smoke it, believe it or not? ”
Su Anying's eyes widened, so frightened that Xu Haiyuan was stunned and held back his tears.
"Alright, alright, don't make them cry in the middle of the night.
The point is that there are two smaller ones, wake them up, and you won't have to sleep tonight. ”
Xu Shiyan had no choice but to be a peacemaker, holding his daughters left and right in his arms and coaxing them to sleep.
"Dad, I'm not going to eat that much again." Xu Haiyuan lay in his father's arms, muttering with his eyes closed.
This child has a strong self-esteem, he still urinated on the kang at such a big age, and was disciplined by his mother, such a shameful thing, he can really remember it for many years.
"Well, well, go to sleep, hurry up and go to bed, tomorrow there are things to do at home, you have to help Dad work."
Xu Shiyan patted his son on the back and coaxed him to sleep.
After the New Year, every family began to get busy.
Twenty-four sweeping the house, Xu Shiyan took his son, tied a new broom to a stick, and raised it to sweep the ashes on the wall.
How old is Xu Haiyuan, after lifting it for a while, his arm is sore.
But this baby is strong, his arm is sore, he can't stop it, he gritted his teeth and continued, and in the end, he was tired and sweaty, and his arm couldn't be lifted.
Twenty-five pasted windows.
The windows of the Xu family are double-layered, and when it was just winter, Su Anying cut it into strips with newspaper and pasted the cracks in the windows, so there was no need to paste it again.
So on this day, tofu is made at home.
Su Anying soaked some soybeans in advance, and early in the morning of the twenty-fifth day, she asked Xu Shiyan to go to the mill to push the water mill.
When Xu Shiyan came back, the old couple and Xu Shiqin also came over, and quickly poured the bean foam into the pot and boiled over the fire.
Making tofu, Xu Chenghou is the best, don't look at him before, he didn't know a lot of skills.
The boiled bean foam is wrapped, and the soy milk is filtered out to keep some tofu, and the okara can be fed to the pigs.
Xu Chenghou specially scooped out a scoop of soybean milk, asked Su Anying to find a home to pretend, put some sugar, and give it to Xu Haiyuan's brothers and sisters to drink.
This time, the two brothers and sisters learned a lesson, no matter how good it was, they didn't drink much, each drank a small bowl, and Xu Shiqin picked up the rest.
Scoop some out again, point it with gypsum and let it stand, and it becomes a tofu brain.
After a while, boil a marinade, get some pickles, cakes or something, and breakfast will be ready.
To make tofu here, it is all made with brine.
It is said that it is brine and tofu, and one thing drops one thing. Sure enough, as soon as the brine was stirred in, the soy milk turned into flocculent.
In a wooden square plate with eyes that can leak, a coarse cloth is laid, and then the flocculent that has been dotted with brine is scooped in.
It was filled with a cloth and covered with a wooden plank, and a stone was pressed on it.
Wait for the moisture control inside to be almost the same, the tofu is formed, and then deduct it.
Over there, Su Anying used another pot to cook green onion cakes, and also used a horse spoon to beat the marinade on the stove.
Put the ordered tofu brain in a bowl, and put some chopped green onions, chopped pickles, or something.
Scoop a spoonful of marinade, and eat the burnt green onion cake, not to mention how fragrant it is in the morning.
After breakfast, the tofu happened to be almost inseparable, Xu Chenghou and Xu Shiyan worked together to deduct the tofu into another square plate.
Bai Shengsheng's trembling tofu is particularly appetizing at first glance.
Xu Chenghou took a knife and divided the tofu into large pieces.
"Let's keep half of it for our own family, you send some to the Han family, and then send some to the sixth master, for the New Year, that's what it means."
To make tofu during the Chinese New Year, relatives and friends have scored some points.
Donggang is a rural area, and many people will make a bag of tofu to eat for the New Year.
Shenchang and Songjiang River are not good, they are all workers, they don't farm at home, and they can't make tofu without beans.
That's why Xu Chenghou said, send some from door to door.
Leave these at home, some of them are plucked with cold water, put them in a cool place, and you can put them aside for a few days to eat slowly.
The other part is simply cut into small pieces and put outside to freeze into lumps of frozen tofu.
After this tofu is frozen, it is full of small eyes, and there is stewed Chinese cabbage or something, and the frozen tofu absorbs the taste of the soup, which is particularly delicious.
Xu Shiyan filled a few pieces of tofu in a basin, first sent them to the Han family, and then went to send some to Master Qin and Guo Shouye.
Master Qin was also very happy to see Xu Shiyan, and told Xu Shiyan to let Xu Shiqin have a free trip.
The money for the medical subsidy has come down, and Xu Shiqin has to sign it to receive it.
Xu Shiyan thanked Master Qin, and then rode home.
Twenty-five makes tofu, and twenty-six is naturally killing pigs.
Xu Shiyan didn't raise a pig this year, Su Anying lived in the mountains for half a year, and then came back to give birth, how can he have time to raise pigs?
It's Zhou Guilan, it's good to catch two little pigs at the beginning of spring.
After raising it for a year, less than two hundred catties, it was just to kill one head for the New Year, and the other end was kept for the beginning of spring and then killed.
If you kill pigs at home, everyone will come to help, so you must have a treat, and there must be authentic pig-killing dishes.
The people who helped them all ate beautifully, and they were the last to drink.
On the twenty-seventh day, Xu Shiyan came back from catching two sheep from the farm and killed them.
The ewes on the farm keep the milk to make milk tofu and feed the sables, and the rams can only eat meat when they are raised.
Now that the days are better, kill two sheep for the New Year and eat them differently.
When I got to the twenty-eighth, I started steaming steamed buns.
Zhou Guilan showed a unique skill, all kinds of jujube flower steamed buns, steamed out of several pots.
Straight Xu Haiyuan and Xu Jinping looked at the brothers and sisters, they had never seen so many jujube flower steamed buns before, they were so beautiful.