This year's Chinese New Year's Eve, there is actually a big sun, warm and dry, making people mistakenly think it is spring.

Old Yuan Tou finally stopped work and took a holiday on this day, ate lunch, took offerings, and led his three sons and six grandchildren to the ancestral hall to burn incense for his ancestors.

Cuihua is the mother of new ideas every year, this year, she plans to make one, a hundred birds return to the nest, well, it is the modern Cantonese Chinese New Year's Eve dish love to make poon choi.

This is a smorgasbord that only needs to be processed in advance, put in a pot in order, and simmered with broth.

Soak sea cucumbers, dried oysters, and shiitake mushrooms in advance, and prepare soft-boiled shield fish.

Fresh meat includes: chicken pieces, chicken feet, goose paws, pork knuckles, beef hoof tendons, all blanched to remove the fish.

Put a bamboo mat at the bottom of the casserole (to prevent the pan from sticking), first lay the chicken pieces and pork feet on the bottom, then the chicken feet and goose paws, and the beef hoof tendons on the top, and put the water in the space that has not covered the ingredients.

Reduce the heat to low and simmer for two hours, until the water turns into a milky white soup.

The seasoning is also simple, soy sauce, oil, sugar, and a soup pot with good flavor, and then put in the soft-boiled shield fish, dried scallops, oyster meat, and shiitake mushrooms.

Continue to simmer the newly added ingredients for half an hour, and finally top the soaked sea cucumbers, fresh prawns, and egg dumplings.

Before serving, put some cabbage hearts in it and cook it to relieve greasyness.

The essence of the ingredients penetrates down layer by layer, and the cycle forms a perfect freshness, and this bold and expensive poon choi is just a luxury on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Cuihua made eight pots in one breath, sent two pots to the Hu family in Dali Village, sent one pot to Yuan's eldest sister's family, and the rest, the masters of the Yuan Mansion were able to kill two pots in one night.

Zhao Leiting's brothers and sisters, Qingyi, Qinger, and four grandmothers can also get two pots.

Poon Choi casserole grunts in the charcoal stove, and the table is filled with lap-mei platters and hors d'oeuvres, as well as cured claypot rice as the main dish.

Old Yuan Tou spoke more and more in the tone of an old lady, as usual, before his meal:

"This year is another smooth and prosperous year for our Yuan family, and it is a year of harmony and beauty, and your mother and I are very strong! The eldest child, the second child, and the third child are all working hard to make money to support the family, and the daughters-in-law are also well-run, my eldest grandson and youngest grandson are all healthy, I hope our family will be better in the coming year! ”

"Dad, you're so nice!" Heiwa took the lead in singing praises to Lao Yuantou, and also toasted the old man with a glass of wine.

The old man drank wine and moved his chopsticks, everyone had been waiting for this moment for a long time, Soft-hearted shield fish, they haven't eaten it for a long time.

It is still a table of Lao Yuantou, Heiwa, Yuan Laoer, Yuan Laosan, Yuan Wenjie and Yuan Wenwu, and Ma Shi has three daughters-in-law and four little children at a table.

Xiao Liu raised his small water cup and said to Cuihua, "Mother, cheers!" ”

I couldn't be happy for everyone, Cuihua had to hold the fruit wine glass and say to Ma's: "Mother, let's also touch a cup, I hope the coming year will be smooth, and you will hold your two grandchildren!" ”

This made Ma Shi very happy, isn't her biggest wish now to hold her little grandson?

happily clinked glasses with Cuihua, and simmered a glass of fruit wine.

The Fan sisters are also full of red faces, and Cuihua also toasts with a few children, otherwise her children will be in a hurry.

No one who is a mother can eat with her baby with peace of mind.

Picking vegetables, peeling shells, supervising the eating of vegetables, the world is the same.

"Auntie, the shield fish is the best!" Santou has become lively since the day his father came back, and he wanted to hug his father and cry, but he was hugged by his father and didn't remember anything.

"Eat more delicious three-headed, don't worry, chew slowly!" Cuihua also gave him another shield fish, which made the three heads smile happily.

"Mother, the pig's trotters are sparse!" Xiao Wu obviously loves pig's trotters more, and the pig's trotters that have absorbed the essence of seafood are no longer ordinary pig's trotters, and they rarely lose their eyebrows.

"Then you can only eat one piece, otherwise you will get tired!" This pig's hand, one piece is half a piece, if there is no limit, Xiao Wu is estimated to be able to gnaw two.

"Mother, I'm the best, I ate two cabbage hearts!" Xiaoliu felt that he was obedient.

"Do you think my mother didn't see it, you ate two shield fish, three prawns, and a chicken leg?"

"Hehe, mother, your eyes are so good, then I'll eat another cabbage heart?"

In the palace, without the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner of the Holy Empress Dowager, the meal was extraordinarily harmonious, and the Queen Mother, teasing the half-year-old little prince, was reluctant to blink.

"The queen has worked hard for half a year, and En'er is so strong, it doesn't look like she was born prematurely."

"Queen mother, don't work hard, this is what daughters-in-law should do, watching them be healthy and healthy, it's better than anything else!"

"Imperial grandmother, my younger brother is fun, he can turn over and turn over flexibly, he is a flexible little fat man."

"Hehehe, Yaoyao, the little doll is good to be fat, and only when you are fat is blessed!"

Since she has her own brother, Princess Jingyao no longer thinks about the sixth brother of the two-headed brother's family, her younger brother is milky and fragrant, but Jiojio can pinch it if she wants.

In addition to the virtuous concubine who was beaten into the cold palace, and the concubine who guarded filial piety to the queen mother, there was only Concubine Hui who gave birth to the third prince and the second princess among the high-ranking concubines.

The old man of the Shu Palace, An Concubine (the mother concubine of the fourth prince), took a few concubines before Xia Hongdi ascended the throne and the nobles who came in during the draft, at the other table, cautious and did not dare to speak.

The crown prince took his three younger brothers to toast his father and the emperor, and each recited his own poems.

It was a relaxed and pleasant family banquet, Xia Hongdi, who was half-drunk, followed Queen Gao to Kunning Palace.

The youngest son is half a year old, and his queen still doesn't let him go to bed, it's just unreasonable!

In the sound of firecrackers, the boys of Yuan's mansion put up firecrackers, endlessly, not sleepy, they won't go back to the room.

"Happy New Year, daughter-in-law! Many happy returns! ”

"Happy New Year, husband! Peace and joy! ”

This is already more than 20 Chinese New Year's Eve spent by the couple together, how can such a beautiful day be tired?

At the moment of Zizheng, Xia Hongdi went to the southeast room of the Yangxin Hall to hold an opening ceremony, and then led the ministers of the clan and Yipin who had been waiting outside the palace to the auditorium to hold a ceremony to worship the sky.

After completing the sacrifice to the heavens, Xia Hongdi and Empress Gao will also go to Kunning Palace to worship the gods, and after the sacrifice to the gods, the emperor will go to the temple to worship the ancestral gods.

After the worship of the gods and ancestors was completed, Xia Hongdi went to the dragon chair of the Taihe Hall to accept the worship of the ministers of civil and military affairs.

Therefore, on the first day of the Zhongqin Mansion, the girls took turns to kowtow to the object of the New Year's greetings, which was Mrs. Zhongqinbo.

The red envelopes sent by Cuihua are all packed in large frames, and the little girls' small mouths are sweet, and the auspicious words are not repeated.

Zhao Leiting and Nan Nan were the first wave, seeing that Zhao Leiting had grown into a young man, Cuihua couldn't help but say:

"At this year's Spring Banquet, my aunt is going to start showing you your daughter-in-law, Thunder, you are seventeen years old this year, and you are eighteen-year-old, tell your aunt, what kind of daughter-in-law do you want to find?"

Zhao Leiting's face turned red, and he whispered: "I believe in my aunt's vision, aunt, you call the shots for me!" ”

"Okay, auntie must choose a good daughter-in-law for you!"

Zhao Leiting kowtowed to Cuihua again, he really took Cuihua as his aunt, and the two brothers and sisters were able to survive all the way because of their aunt, and they had a good life today.

It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a reborn parent, but he plans to carry the work for his aunt for the rest of his life, and I believe that his aunt will not treat him badly.

For breakfast on the first day of the new year, Yuan Fu ate large rice balls, with brown sugar sesame stuffing and fresh meat and cabbage filling.

Smooth Q bomb rice balls, the size of a child's fist, the ratio of wine rice and rice is just right, soft and glutinous and not sticky to the teeth, eat a few, and then drink half a bowl of original soup, the original soup turns into the original food, perfect!

Yuan Wenjie and Yuan Wenwu took their four younger brothers and began to greet all the elders in the Yuan Mansion and ask for red envelopes.

"Grandpa, I wish you a happy new year, as blessed as the long flowing water of the East China Sea, and the longevity of the Nanshan Immortal Pine!"

"Good, good, good, my good grandson will really say!" Old Yuantou, who made a fortune last year, wrapped up the atmosphere of the red envelope, and shot a small gold ingot.

"Grandpa, grandpa, I wish you a good life and another spring!"

"Hahaha, all of them, all of them!" Old Yuan Tou was so happy, he felt that he would have to work hard for a year this year, and use the money he earned to give his grandson red envelopes, which felt too good.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Zhongqin Bofu entertained Yuan eldest sister to return to her parents' home, Ding Jiale hehe, holding Lele to the old Yuan Tou New Year's greetings.

"Happy New Year, father-in-law!" Lele, who has a milky voice, is a group pet today, and when he came out of his father's arms, he was snatched away by his uncle.

"Lele, what do you want to say to your uncle?"

"Wishing you prosperity!"

"Hahaha, good! Uncle will send you a big red envelope! ”

The little girl is very happy, anyway, everyone loves red envelopes, and she wants it too.

Heiwa also said: "I'll come to my uncle's house this year to read and write, okay?" ”

Ding Jia immediately refused: "Eldest brother, Lele is only more than a year old, less than two years old, and after the age of five, I will send you home!" ”

"Brother-in-law, Doudou came to our house at the age of three!"

"This, I'm not reluctant, I'm really young!"

Yuan Damei didn't care, she ate candy with Cuihua and a few people, and watched the excitement.

"Brother and sister, let me tell you, a few years ago, Zhao Qingshan's mother-in-law bought a whole set of red gold jewelry in the silver building in the town, and I went to buy a small bracelet for Lele that day, but it was really true!"

"Zhao Qingshan's salary is so high?"

"What do I know? Anyway, the brick kiln business is still quite prosperous, and you have to ask the second and third children about their share of silver. ”

"Then I'll go back and ask your brother to ask, how does this have something to do with my mother's family, but don't make two accounts!"

"Well, you let the eldest brother ask the second brother about them, no matter how rich our family is, we can't watch others greed for our silver!"

After Ding Jia's family went back, Cuihua and Heiwa mentioned the matter of Zhao Qingshan's daughter-in-law, Heiwa frowned, because the scale of this brick kiln was not large, he divided the profits to Yuan Laoer and Yuan Laosan, as well as Hu Sanniu, and he didn't ask.

found Yuan Lao Er and Yuan Lao San, and they scratched their heads: "Big brother, we don't understand the account book very well, anyway, there is more silver every year than the previous year, but I didn't ask again!" ”

"You guys really can, it's been so long, and you still don't know the account book! Don't pass this year, don't read the account book, don't do anything this year! ”

Yuan Lao Er and Yuan Lao San want to cry, for the New Year, if they say such scary words, can they learn the account book in a few days? But their eldest brother didn't mean to joke at all, they almost shut themselves up with fright.

Hu Sanniu, can he be half a little better than these two?

Heiwa was speechless, the three of them, each person divided three hundred taels of silver a year, and they were very satisfied, but this offending thing, the three of you, you look at me, I look at you.

Heiwa had a dark face: "This is a little bit of business, not only do you not understand the account book, but you also don't ask specifically, if it is really your own ancestral business, it will be in your hands, how many years can you do it?"

I don't care what method you use, after the fifteenth day of the first month, if there is still no charter, this brick kiln will not be opened, anyway, you don't take it seriously, just close the door! ”

How can a business of three hundred taels of silver be closed this year? The three of them are numb!

(End of chapter)