Chapter 124: Chinese New Year
On the thirtieth day of the lunar month, Lao Yuan took all the men of the old Yuan family back to Dali Village after lunch.
In the ancestral hall, together with the two cousins, they will kowtow to the ancestors of the Yuan family, and then send all chickens, ducks and big pigs' heads, so that the ancestors can have a fat year.
Uncle Yuan looked at the men of the Yuan family kneeling in the ancestral hall, and sighed in his heart, the prosperity of the old Yuan family, it seems that it has to rely on the cousin, look at the three sons of the family, and the grandsons have six, and they can be reborn, it can't be compared.
The Hu family is also worshipping their ancestors, but the atmosphere of their family this year is average, and the atmosphere is still a bit heavy.
After worshipping her ancestors, Heiwa took a few boys to her father-in-law's house and sent a bunch of supplements to the old couple.
He said to Father Hu, "Dad, I know that Niu Changshui has embarrassed you, and the second brother's family may have to be dispersed.
But, this kid, so vicious, I was very scared when I came back and heard it, if Xiao Wu and Xiao Liu had a good one, Cuihua would not be crazy, I couldn't soften my heart when I thought of this.
You and your mother don't worry, Xiaochuan and the two little nieces, let's raise them well, and when Xiaolian and Xiaohe grow up, they will be sent to my house, and a few grandmothers in the family will teach the little girls well.
Our second brother is still so young, but there is a big project to be built next year, and marrying a woman from a small official family will make it, in the words of your second grandson, the next one will be more well-behaved!"
If you dig out your heart like this, how can Daddy Hu not agree, his aunt is more intimate than his son, and he is also very good to his daughter, who doesn't envy him for having such a good son-in-law?!
"What's so uncomfortable about your father, it's not this, the second family will break up sooner or later.
Uncle, you don't know, since Niu Changshui and Niu Xi'er came to the capital, your second brother went home, and his clothes had to be washed by himself, and he couldn't eat a good meal.
On weekdays, I'd rather stay on the construction site than go back to the village, my wife, how many times have I said that people don't take my mother-in-law as a dish, this cow doesn't drink water, you can't force your head.
You said, she doesn't care about this man, and Xiaochuan's family doesn't even ask, and it is left at your house.
Xiaolian and Xiaohe, I didn't say anything, people disliked it first, they felt that they were not kids, they lost money and goods, and they were often hungry and the children screamed.
During the confinement, I asked the Laifu family to wash her feces and diapers every day, and stewed more than a dozen chickens, you say, how can this person be so conscienceless?"
Heiwa could only comfort her mother-in-law again, and pulled out the two little ones, coaxing her father-in-law and mother-in-law to laugh.
For this year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Cuihua plans to eat beef and seafood.
Cuihua asked the mother-in-law on the stove to wash out the ingredients that needed to be prepared, and then gave them a holiday, went back to their respective yards, and went to celebrate the festival with their families.
She also wanted to smuggle in the ingredients, and this group of people was in the stove room, which was inconvenient.
She didn't plan to use the frozen seafood, and fished a lot of fresh seafood from the sea.
All the shrimp are peeled out of fresh shrimp, chopped into minced shrimp, salted, a little starch and deodorized three-piece set, stirred into a puree, and then poured into a small bamboo tube that has been cut in half.
I made a full twenty catties of shrimp slippery, and the space sea shrimp and shrimp were slippery, who could resist the temptation?
A lot of large yellow croaker and cuttlefish were fished out, sliced out of meat slices, simply put into a meat grinder, and stirred into a meat puree.
Chop the pork fat into a puree and mix it with the fish, add minced green onion and ginger, Shao wine, salt, pepper and whip it clockwise.
When the water is slightly bubbling at the edge of the pot, pinch the fish paste into evenly sized balls and slowly boil the fish balls over low heat.
On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, the black baby was in the slaughterhouse, and the black cow in the slaughtering space took the most tender beef tenderloin, and said that the hanging dragon that the descendants said was cut into paper-thin slices and stacked on a plate, a whole six plates.
And Cuihua's favorite is the chest, which is actually a piece of meat between oil, tendons, and cartilage to protect the heart, with less yield and brittle after cooking.
They have saved the chests of two cows, and they will have to eat them tonight.
There are also few hand-beaten beef balls
No, this job is in the hands of Hercules Cuihua, it's the same as playing, and you can whip out dozens of catties in an hour.
If you can't finish cooking two large pots of beef meatballs tonight, you can freeze them and eat them for a long time.
I am afraid that the ingredients are not enough, Cuihua simply slaughtered a few Wenchang chickens, although there is no coconut water to match, but this kind of egg-laying hen for about a year, the meat is fresh and tender, and it is cooked quickly.
Chinese New Year, it's always indispensable, who made her a big tyrant with dozens of chickens!
In the vegetarian dishes, in addition to bean sprouts, lotus roots, radish, and cabbage hearts, Cuihua also makes a lot of soy products: frozen tofu, bean bubbles, bean skin, yuba, etc., which is her man's love.
Yuanfu can have a special table for eating hot pot, dig a hole in the center of the round table, leave a tandoor to put charcoal below, and surround it with solid wood.
You don't even need to put salt, and those with heavy tastes can dip in these seasonings such as oyster sauce, soy sauce, vinegar, sesame paste, chili oil, chopped pepper, and minced garlic.
Two large tables were set up, beef balls and fish balls were boiled in the pot at the beginning, and each person had a bamboo colander to eat by himself.
The four little children also sat on the children's dining chair made by Lao Yuantou, with a big wooden plate in front of each of them, holding a small spoon, and their mother was busy serving meat to them.
Watching Heiwa and Cuihua show everyone how to eat, and how long it will take, everyone is eager to try.
Yuan Laosan was drooling greedily, urging Lao Yuantou to hurry up and speak, to have a meal.
Old Yuan Tou had a stomach full of drafts, and wanted to say a few words, but he gave his old son such a beating, and he forgot what he wanted to say, so he only glared at him hatefully and said, "Then let's eat."
Today, everyone has a good lunch perfunctory, just to wait for this meal, who doesn't know, sister-in-law shot, delicious in the mouth.
Pick up a large piece of thin beef slices, put it in the colander, the bright red beef instantly turned white, and rolled up, even the anxious people were very satisfied with the speed of the meat cooking, scooped up the meat, and wrapped it in the seasoning.
"Wow, that's delicious!" Yuan Laosan said everyone's thoughts, although he looked at the ordinary clear water, he could be paired with this tender beef, and he would eat a bite, so fresh that he would lose his eyebrows, and take another bite, wanting to ascend to heaven.
Xiao Wu didn't raise his head when he ate, Cuihua scalded the meat for these two boys with a big colander, and the food was too fragrant, so he ate the meatballs when he was too busy, for fear of swallowing them, and each meatball was cut in half with scissors.
These children don't need to dip into the plate, they just eat the original flavor.
Fan Qinghe enjoyed herself while fishing beef for her son, and she also said to Cuihua: "Sister-in-law, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in your yard every year is my greatest expectation, no matter what you do, it will be delicious."
No one in the audience disagreed, holding the rice spoon at the third end, "Auntie, the meat is fragrant, I want to eat a lot."
"Okay, three-headed obedient, let's eat slowly, don't worry, there's still a lot of meat. When the chicken leg is cooked, the aunt will give you the chicken leg."
The three heads are happy to squint, and he loves chicken thighs too much.
Xiao Liu is gone, a chicken can have two legs, usually, this is exclusive to him and the fifth brother, he looked at Cuihua and did not speak.
"Little Six also wants to eat chicken legs? Today, my mother killed three chickens, and she has a lot of legs, so you all have a share."
"Mother, I want the shrimp to be slippery, the second big prawn!"
"Eat these on your plate first, and then my mother will burn you, you are not allowed to have big eyes and small stomachs, our family is not wasted!"
Xiao Liu just gave up, this guy's Pixiu attributes are becoming more and more obvious, the family, except for Xiao Wu, the twin brother, is only the most generous to Cuihua, the big head and the second head want to coax people, it all depends on the mood, and Dad is the last person.
Although they live in the same earl's mansion, the courtyard is so big, and the sisters of the Fan family don't like to come to their main courtyard on weekdays, so in Xiao Liu's heart, the three heads and the four heads are just acquaintances.
No, he also has a generous object, that is, to pick up children, and I don't know where this baby fits his eyes, in Dali Village, he has stuffed snacks for others to eat, which is brought back to the house, and he is willing to play with him.
Jingzhao Mansion also asked for a question
, this kid finally understood that the brother who had given him steamed buns and clothes a few times was not a good person, and he used it to frame the two little masters.
The little man has a lot of temperament, and he also said that when he saw Niu Changshui, he would bite him to death.
This beef and seafood hot pot was eaten for an hour, and the average person ate more than half a catty of meat, Yuan Laosan bluntly said that this meal can be managed for three days.
When the New Year was kept, the grandfathers took the young masters and set off firecrackers worth more than 50 taels of silver to welcome the new year in crackling and laughter.
The four grandmothers also scalded seafood hot pot in the yard, and the amount of cuihua was sufficient, and the housekeepers all shared a share, and they also gave them a lot of good wine.
Mama Chun chewed the beef and said happily, "I didn't expect that the day we left the palace was no worse than that in the palace, sisters, let's touch one, every year there is today, every year is today!"
A few people clinked glasses, drank wine, looked at each other, and laughed heartily, a few of them, those who came out of the palace, who can compare?
Little girls, give the mammies shabu-shabu, this is conditioned, in addition to the rules, eyesight is the first good.
In the palace, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is also indispensable, because the empress is pregnant this year, and the old tune of the Holy Empress Dowager is not good to repeat, but people are always very good at adding blockage to people.
"Emperor, you have to learn from the emperor, the emperor must not be favored, and you have to be wet with rain and dew."
Xia Hongdi had a cold face and asked impatiently: "I haven't heard that the emperor and the empress of which dynasty have a good relationship, and they can still be persuaded to go to the concubines, the queen mother, you are talking about this specialty, not the queen you are talking about, right?"
The Holy Empress Dowager was blocked by these words and was speechless, but the Empress Dowager, who had always had no sense of existence, said:
"The harmony between the emperor and the queen is a blessing for me, sister, don't you say? The daughter-in-law here of the mourning family is generous and decent, and the mourning family feels that no one can compare, and now she is pregnant with a dragon heir, emperor, you have to treat her well."
"Son remember, Queen Mother! In a few months, you'll be able to hold your grandson!"
Looking at the filial piety of other people's mothers and sons, the Queen Mother of the Holy Emperor couldn't help it, and wanted to drop the cup and leave the table, this little rabbit cub has never put her in her eyes, even this woman who has not stopped in the past, but has never lost her face on the spot, now dares to jump out and do right with her.
If it weren't for the fact that her henchman pulled her sleeves, she really couldn't control her temper.
Thinking about her next arrangement, she snorted coldly, and didn't say anything, this family banquet didn't make waves, singing and dancing, wine and food, but the other concubines didn't taste it.
If you want to send an autumn wave to the emperor, no one even looks at them, and the three nobles are like quails, what kind of background are they, but they don't dare to fight against these high-ranking concubines from noble girls, and honestly nest in their own palaces.
I thought that after the queen was pregnant, they would be able to pick up the leaks and drink some soup, but in addition to staying in his own palace, the emperor still went to Kunning Palace the most, and they didn't even have the qualifications to be jealous, that was his wife, the queen of the main palace