The next day after returning from the holiday is the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the northern New Year.

The custom in the northwest of Lu is that on the evening of this day, a delicious meal will be cooked, and then the prince of the stove will be sent back to heaven to report on his work.

Usually prepare some pastries, such as sticky cakes, to stick to the mouth of the king of the stove, so that he does not speak ill of him; I also prepared such as caramel and maltose to sweeten the heart of the prince and let him only say good things.

Wait until the Chinese New Year's Eve to post couplets and invite people back to continue to guard the kitchen stove.

It was cloudy for a long time, but it finally snowed last night, and it rained so hard that it didn't stop for almost the whole night.

But yesterday Chen Mingliang was really tired, and he was not in the mood to enjoy the snow.

It was very late to clean up the last pig.

After the neighbors happily took the pork away, he had to help his mother boil the pig's blood, clean the pork belly and pig's intestines, then clean up the hair on the pig's feet, and then smashed the pig's bones and stacked them in a pot, accompanied by spices, filled with water, and prepared to simmer overnight.

Wait until the next day when the meat falls apart, and then remove the meat scraps from the bones.

Then you can go to sleep, and the snow is already falling.

I woke up early this morning, of course, and was called up by my mother.

The work is not finished yet, and this year Xiaonian can rest, but I have to finish the rest of yesterday's work

Remove the minced meat from the pork bones with a knife first, and then help pour it into the pork belly;

Then pour a mixture of pig blood, minced meat, starch and other mixtures into the intestines, which is the blood sausage.

When they are all tied, they are put together in a pot to cook, and the spare space in the pot is replaced by pig bones, and there is not much else, that is, there are many pig bones.

Re-heat the bottom of the pot and bring to a boil.

Then I had to sweep the way out again, the snow was very thick, and I had to use a shovel to shovel, and yesterday's muddy water was frozen today.

You also have to go up to the roof and remove the snow from the roof.

When that's done, I'll have to cook.

Because at this time, Zhang Chunhua was going to wait for Chen to get up tomorrow, the child was still young, and he had the gas to get up, so he needed to coax him for a while.

Chen Mingliang is in the kitchen for breakfast.

He made a pot of millet porridge on a honeycomb coal stove and steamed a few white flour cakes by the way.

A few people had breakfast on a cold morning.

Chen Mingliang washed the dishes, Zhang Chunhua changed into boots and went out to catch up with the New Year's fair, and he didn't bring his younger brother on a snowy day.

However, my younger brother has three pig urine bubbles to play with, and he doesn't make a fuss, after all, he is in the first grade.

Of course, he won't be bored at home, he has already gone out to find Xiaoxia and them to show off, and he has to play football in the snow today.

When you're finally free, let's take a break.

No, as soon as he sat by the stove for a while, Chen Dongfang brought two friends from the same village to play with him.

The two children who came with them were brothers.

are also twins, they look the same ugly, but the name is very beautiful, the eldest is called Chen Liwen, the second is called Chen Liwu, the brothers are able to be civil and martial, both civil and military.

The real name is pretty good.,The nickname is a little embarrassing.。

I don't know who gave this nickname, anyway, it's been called since I was a child, one of them is called a steel egg, and the other is called an iron egg, and I know it's hard when I hear the name, but I don't know who is harder.

The two eggs work together, and their profits break gold.

Chen Mingliang is not stingy in hospitality, he just killed three pigs, and there are many pig bones.

He directly took an enamel basin and brought a whole pot of pork bones to entertain his friends.

After all, it hasn't been the New Year yet, and I haven't seen meat for a long time, and the three of them are full of oily hands like hungry wolves. Chen Dongfang is no exception, there is no image of a beautiful man.

After eating the bones, everyone drank a large bowl of bone broth, and felt that the soup was about to reach their throats, so they stopped.

Several people rested around the stove for a while, and they all died.

Chen Mingliang said, it snowed yesterday, and the snow is so heavy, let's go catch rabbits.

"Catch rabbits, yes, what do you want to prepare?" The three of them don't quite understand

"I have a net at home, and you don't have a fork at home. In case you encounter a badger dog, you will have several years of hand rubbing oil, you see you are still called a steel egg, and it has been blown into a cracked egg by the wind. Chen Mingliang used the induction method.

"Catch rabbits, this can be had.!"

Chen Dongfang happily agreed, this can indeed be had.

For Chen Mingming, this kind of life has not been experienced for many years, and there is a kind of pleasure of going out to hunt.

The four of them walked together and set off towards the riverbank and fields.

In winter, it is not time to catch hares, and on sunny days you can catch them with nets or guns, and you can catch them directly on snowy days.

The best time to catch a hare is definitely after the snow.

The main thing is that it is easy to find rabbit traces, and the footprints are stepped on in the snow, and you can see them from afar. Moreover, rabbits can't run fast in the snow, and people can easily catch up.

Chenzhuang is on the edge of the Yellow River.

The embankment of the Yellow River is very well repaired, the inside and outside sides are built with stones, and the joints are fed with cement, and it is very strong.

Rabbits do not and cannot nest here.

The second embankment of the Yellow River is different.

The so-called second embankment of the Yellow River is actually the moat embankment of the artificial canal derived from the Yellow River.

The canal is used for irrigation for agriculture, and it also plays a role in draining the Yellow River during the flood season to prevent the Yellow River from bursting.

The configuration of the second embankment is poor, it is a pile of pure loess, and some wild shrubs grow on it.

The source of this loess mound is the soil accumulated by dredging and digging the river every year, and when it is accumulated, it becomes a river embankment.

Now Lanxiang Technical School is not very famous, there are not many excavators, and the rural river dredging is mainly dug by hand, which is still a grand event.

In fact, this is a bit similar to the servitude of ancient times.

Each winter lasts about twenty days to a month. Each village brought its own dry food, and the food and shelter had to be on the river embankment, and the men came out to work collectively to manually clean the silt at the bottom of the river to prevent it from affecting the irrigation in the coming year.

Such a river embankment is the most suitable for making holes.

In addition to mice, there are also hares and badgers.

Hares are very common and cannot be extinct.

There were fewer badgers, and later they all became protected animals.

Badger meat is average, badger skin is okay, badger oil is a good thing.

Badger, Dongshan local also called badger dog. It actually looks a bit like a dog, it is more fierce, it can bite, it is not easy to grasp with bare hands, and it is necessary to use a fork.

Speaking of badgers, I unconsciously remembered Ru, and then remembered the young man Runtu written by Mr. Lu Xun......

It's what and what.

Badgers are good, but catching badgers is harder.

Iron Egg They still brought two forks, of course they had to be cleaned, because this kind of fork is usually used to fork cow dung, otherwise, you know.

A group of people packed up and went out.

They all wore hats with big ears on their heads and plastic sheets tied to their feet to prevent snow from entering.

On his shoulders he resisted the dung fork and took several snakeskin bags, one of which contained matches, straw paper, kerosene, sulfur, paprika, etc.

Very experienced and well stocked.

It's all about the experience accumulated in the local area for many years.

After a while, we walked to the embankment.

The weather is okay today, there is no wind, and although the weather is not completely clear, it will not be so uncomfortable.

It's still cold, but it's in a good mood.

Luckily, as soon as I got up to the embankment, I saw a black hole, which was obviously a rabbit's nest.

The entrance to the cave has been pushed open by the rabbit, and there are still a few footprints at the door, and the footprints of the rabbit are very rhythmic.

With the two hind legs together, the two front legs are the left leg in front and the right leg in the back, jumping and walking.

The rabbit went out in the morning to explore the road and did not go far.

Because the footprints are only a small patch, after all, the snow is still too big, and the rabbit should be in the hole.

Sure enough, after letting go of the thin dog, the dog roared desperately at the hole, which smelled a different breath.

I looked around again, but I didn't see any other exits from the rabbit hole.

However, there must be another exit from the three caves of the cunning rabbit, but it is covered by snow.

But don't worry, anyway, with such deep snow, the rabbit can't run fast or far.

I broke some branches from the surroundings and came back, some dry and some wet. It was crushed, doused with kerosene, and then took straw paper out of his pocket, lit it, and stuffed it down the rabbit hole with a little brimstone.

The branches burned violently and crackled under the impetus of kerosene. Throw a little more wet grass and leaves into it, and it will start to smoke violently.

If it's not enjoyable, throw away the chili powder.

The smell of smoke and sulfur fills the hole, and you will feel suffocated, and if you can't pee in it, the smell will be even worse.

Not to mention the smell of rabbits, even people can't stand it.

Sure enough, three or five minutes later, a rabbit suddenly jumped up from the snow, and the thin dog reacted the fastest, catching up with it in a few steps, and came back biting the rabbit.

It didn't end there, not long after the first rabbit went out, another rabbit ran out from behind.

They turned out to be a couple, and the rabbit in front of them originally planned to use themselves to lure the enemy away, but in the end, the whole army was wiped out.

In half a day, I caught 7 hares, all of which were quite fat and big, at least five or six catties each.

Although I didn't encounter badgers, the harvest was already available.

The second embankment has reached the end, and the Yellow River embankment is in front of it, and if you look for it again, you will have to go to the other side of the river.

The ice in the river is not thick on a snowy day, and it is not safe to cross the river directly.

If you want to get there, you have to go around the embankment of the Yellow River.

The Yellow River has also frozen. The snow is covered on it, and there is a feeling of Qinyuan spring written by ***.

The Yellow River is an above-ground river, and the fields along the river need to be irrigated by the Yellow River.

Protection is difficult, and water diversion is convenient.

It is enough to take the culvert out of the Yellow River, pass through the sluice, and then release it into the artificial river outside.

In order to ensure safety, there are sluices on the inner culvert and outer side of the Yellow River.

Whenever there is a shortage of water, both gates are raised at the same time to release water.

Therefore, the water intake of each artificial river has a special watchman, which is a formal staff.

Careers are important, but work is very leisurely.

They also lay a net at the exit of the culvert, an iron net that is raised and lowered by a block of pulleys, and a cage that allows them to catch fish while releasing water, which is a means of generating income.

Today, there is no one in the duty room.

Let's go catch fish, the Yellow River carp is big!

I don't know who made the suggestion, but everyone agreed.

A few people put rabbits in bags, and catching fish is more fun than catching rabbits.

Open the gate and release the water to catch the big carp of the Yellow River!