Just when Zheng Zhendong was thinking nonsense, Zhang Yumei had just returned home.

Jia Zhang, who had a gloomy face, scolded Zhang Yumei with mean words.

"You prodigal hoof, you're back after meeting the wild man!

Why are you so shameless? You can just stay at his house!

Anyway, he lives alone in the front yard, and no one bothers them to mess around! ”

Hearing Jia Zhang's scolding, Zhang Yumei instinctively felt weak for a while, but she thought of what Zheng Zhendong had just said.

can't be afraid that she will deliberately find fault, the more scared she is, the more Jia Zhang feels that something is wrong with the two of them.

So Zhang Yumei pretended to be calm and raised her voice and replied to Jia Zhang.

"Mother-in-law, since you think I'm in trouble, next time I go to the toilet, you can follow me!

Save you from being suspicious all day long and have nothing to do, if it doesn't work, I'll go back to my parents' house to live!

You can go shopping in the yard alone, and you won't be waiting to see me now anyway! ”

Listening to Zhang Yumei's words, Jia Zhang's family was completely panicked.

If she was really allowed to go back to her hometown, not only the neighbors in the courtyard, but also the relatives in the countryside would laugh at their Jia family.

Even if she is not afraid of people's jokes, if Zhang Yumei returns to the countryside, there will be no one to earn money to support herself.

Thinking of this, Jia Zhang's face instantly became nervous, for fear that Zhang Yumei would go back to the countryside, so he hurriedly opened his mouth to persuade.

"Meizi, my good plum, it's all my fault, you shouldn't be suspicious of you, I'm wrong?

Don't go back, or the relatives over there won't laugh at us! ”

Zhang Yumei didn't want to make a big deal out of it, so she borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, shouted a few more words, and after putting forward a few conditions, she didn't talk about going back to her hometown anymore.

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Early the next morning, Zheng Zhendong got up early.

First do Haduanjin in the front yard, and then start brushing your teeth and washing your face.

After cleaning up, Zheng Zhendong closed the door and came to the house in the east wing of the middle courtyard.

At this time, the whole family got up, and Qin Huairu had already started to make breakfast.

It didn't take long for breakfast to be ready, and the family began to eat.

Zheng Zhendong picked up the bowl and blew lightly on the stick noodle porridge, just as he was about to take a sip

, just listen to Zheng's mother.

"When you finish eating, Huairu will knead the dough and start steaming steamed buns!

The third child, you go to the third grandfather Yan Bugui's house to buy two Spring Festival couplets, and paste them at the door of the middle courtyard and the front yard.

Boss and Xinyi, don't be idle, let's make dumplings together! ”

Hearing Zheng's mother's words, several people responded one after another.

After a while, after breakfast, everyone cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks together.

Zheng Zhendong went out and came to the front yard, and at this time, the third master, Yan Bugui, was directing Yan Jiecheng to move the table.

Zheng Zhendong stepped forward, helped set the table, and then asked Yan Bugui.

"Three masters, are you ready to serve everyone again and write Spring Festival couplets?"

Yan Bugui smiled slightly embarrassed at first, and then said to Zheng Zhendong.

"It's Dongzi, I'm not looking at everyone, there are still shortcomings at the door for the New Year!

Just hurry up and prepare to write some and let everyone post on it.

Do you think we're doing this authentically? By the way, Dongzi, how many pairs do you want? ”

Zheng Zhendongxin said, a neighbor in the courtyard, you are embarrassed to ask for money, and you still ask me if I am authentic.

However, Zheng Zhendong also fully understands Yan Bugui's Grande character, so he didn't say much, first smiled awkwardly, and then spoke.

"Three masters, you can help me write two Spring Festival couplets, one for me to stick to the front yard and the other to the middle yard!"

Yan Bugui heard that Zheng Zhendong wanted two, immediately laid out the red paper, picked up the brush and dipped it in ink, and began to wave.

After a while, Yan Bugui wrote the Zheng family's Spring Festival couplets.

Zheng Zhendong took a closer look, and saw that the first of the two couplets was written.

"Flowers bloom rich and blessed, and bamboo reports peace and prosperity. Horizontal batch: wealth and peace"

After looking at the first one, Zheng Zhendong looked at the second one.

"People are prosperous and prosperous, and their studies are high step by step. Side-by-side: New Year's Progress"

After reading the Spring Festival couplets, Zheng Zhendong was very satisfied, and then took out the money from his pocket and handed it to Yan Bugui.

Yan Bugui accepted it after a little excuse.

Zheng Zhendong waited for the ink on the Spring Festival couplets to dry a little, so he took it back to his home in the middle courtyard.

After beating some paste, Zheng Zhendong called Zheng Zhenguo, who was chopping the stuffing, and went out to paste the Spring Festival couplets together.

The middle courtyard posted the couplet of wealth and peace, and the front yard posted the New Year's progress.

After pasting the two Spring Festival couplets, the Zheng brothers also returned to their homes in the middle courtyard.

Zheng Zhenguo continued to chop the stuffing, and after Zheng Zhendong washed the handle, he also came to help make dumplings.

It took more than an hour to wrap a total of five curtain dumplings, including dumplings with green onions, pork, leek, egg vermicelli, pork cabbage, mutton carrots and several fillings of three fresh.

At this time, Qin Huairu had already steamed the steamed buns in one pot and began to steam the second pot.

The rest of the Zheng family began to prepare for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the evening.

Zheng Zhendong grabbed a big rooster from the chicken cage and pulled the chicken feathers off the chicken's neck.

Said to the big rooster with words in his mouth.

"Don't blame the chicken, you are a dish in the world, leave early this year, come early next year!"

After chanting, use a kitchen knife to gently slash the chicken's neck, and the chicken blood gushes out instantly.

Zheng Zhendong hurriedly took the bowl in Zheng Xinyi's hand and controlled the chicken blood inside.

When the blood was almost gone, Zheng Zhendong threw the chicken into the air.

The big rooster flapped his wings a few times, jumped on the wall and stood on it, and just as he was about to crow, he fell down again due to lack of strength.

Zheng Zhendong stepped forward and picked up the big rooster and put it in the big basin for washing clothes.

After pouring hot water and soaking for a while, the chicken feathers are removed.

After all the chicken feathers are cleaned, the water in the large basin is cleaned, the chicken feathers are fished out and put into a sack to accumulate, waiting to knock the candy or collect the waste to collect.

After shabu the big basin, Zheng Zhendong changed the basin of hot water and began to disembowel the chicken.

Since the Zheng family doesn't like to eat chicken, Zheng Zhendong is too lazy to clean up.

After cleaning the chickens and draining the dirty water, I took the big pot and the cleaned chickens back home.

At this time, Qin Huairu had already steamed the second pot of steamed buns and was picking up steamed buns on the board.

Mother Zheng saw Zheng Zhendong come in with the packed chickens, so she opened her mouth and said to Qin Huairu.

"Huairu, the steamed buns are almost steamed, and it's time for lunch, just make a little bit of it!

There are a lot of dishes for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the evening, so everyone can eat more at that time! ”

"I know Mom, then I'll fry a cabbage, this will come out of the pot soon, there are freshly steamed steamed buns, let's eat in a while!" Qin Huairu said slowly.

After Qin Huairu finished speaking, he took a cabbage from the corner of the wall, picked up the rotten leaves, washed it with water and put it on the board, and began to cut the cabbage.

After cutting, wash it several times and put it in the basket to control the water.

Then sit the wok on the stove, pour in a small amount of oil, add fennel and peppercorns, stir-fry a few times, add green onions, ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, then pour in cabbage.

Stir-fry quickly, pour in a small amount of salted salt water after a while, cover the pot and simmer.

After simmering for a few minutes, add the tofu noodles and cook them together.

After more than ten minutes, lift the lid of the pot, pour in salt and garlic cloves, stir a few times and put it in the basin.

Zheng Zhendong saw that the food was ready, helped Qin Huairu bring it to the table, and the family began to eat.

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After lunch, the family sat down at the dining table, drank some water and chatted for a rest.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, I began to work again on Chinese New Year's Eve.

I was busy until six o'clock before I could finish the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

Seeing that the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was ready, Zheng's mother took out the spiritual positions of Zheng Baoyu and Zheng Chengji from the bedroom, put them on the offering table and found incense, and put a few dishes on the offering table.

Then the family began to incense with solemn faces.

After waiting for the incident, Zheng's mother pulled the food to the dining table, put away the spiritual seat, and arranged for Zheng Zhendong to set off firecrackers.

Zheng Zhendong agreed, took out firecrackers and walked into the courtyard.

Hang the firecracker on the tree in front of the door, light it, cover your ears and hide in the doorway.

I only heard a chaotic sound of "crackling", and when the firecrackers were over, Zheng Zhendong was just about to go home for dinner.

Several children in the courtyard ran to the place where the firecrackers had just been set off, ready to rummage through the squibs that had not exploded.

Zheng Zhendong was afraid that these children would break their hands, so he said to them with a straight face.

"Hey, why are you guys going back, don't you go back to eat Chinese New Year's Eve, what are you doing here?"

Several children knew that Zheng Zhendong was quite capable of fighting, and they were instinctively a little afraid when they heard him speak.

Then a few people looked at each other and ran away.

Zheng Zhendong saw that a few children had run away, and he touched his head in confusion, saying that these children were so afraid of themselves.

I'm not a man-eating tiger, and I don't look fierce, is it really so scary?

Zheng Zhendong, who couldn't figure out the reason, stopped thinking about it, and then went home for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

Zheng Zhendong arrived at the dinner table, picked up the wine jug and poured a glass for Zheng Mu, Zheng Zhenguo, Qin Huairu and himself.

Mother Zheng saw that Zheng Zhendong finished pouring the wine, looked at the table of dishes, and said to everyone with emotion.

"Thank you, thank you to the old man, I never dreamed of being able to eat so many dishes in the past!

Not only us, but even the landlord's family is not so luxurious!

These are all brought to us by the party, so you must keep them firmly in mind!

No matter when, our family must support the leaders of the file, listen to the words of the old man, and follow the old man, remember? ”

Zheng Zhendong and several people shouted loudly in unison, "Remember."

Mother Zheng was satisfied with letting everyone eat.

After a while, the atmosphere at the dinner table became lively.

Because of the Chinese New Year, everyone was happy, and the Zheng family let go of the amount of alcohol.

While drinking, everyone imagined the scene of the coming year's New Year.

While chatting happily, Zheng's mother suddenly lost her voice and cried bitterly.

This good New Year's atmosphere was completely destroyed by her.

Mother Zheng saw that everyone had lost their laughter, so she hurriedly said to everyone with a reluctant smile.

"You don't have to worry about me, go on, keep the fun!

I'm fine, really, I'm fine, you guys should eat and drink, I'll be fine in a while! ”

Although Zheng's mother said so, it is easy to destroy the atmosphere, but it is difficult to re-establish it.

After everyone drank a few more glasses of wine, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner ended hastily.

After tearing down the dishes, the family drank some tea, ate some peanuts and melon seeds, and started chatting again.

To explain, the salt used by the older generation to cook in the past was all large salt particles, not the fine salt we use now.

That kind of salt is not only uncanonical, but also unhygienic! There are a lot of impurities in it, and some of them are even more bitter than salty!

There's another chapter in a minute!