In this era, there were not as many young people who went out to work in the countryside as in later generations, so every family was full of happiness. As soon as the moon is entered, every household is busy preparing for the New Year, not only preparing for the New Year's food, clothing, and use during the New Year, but also cleaning the home to welcome relatives and friends who come to the door.

In particular, eating Laba porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth month opened the prelude to the year. The ancient Spring Festival began on this day, and there was a folk song in the north: "Old lady, don't be upset, after Laba is the New Year."

The first thing to prepare in the wax moon is to eat, at this time in the countryside began to be busy steaming steamed buns, each family steamed a part of the pea buns, put some saccharin in the peas mixed with water, and the steamed pea buns are really fragrant and sweet. Then I used a big iron pan to make pancakes and two large pots of paste, which was almost enough to eat for a month.

Relatively wealthy families like Gao Yude and Liu Liben also make some rice cakes and jujube cakes, and steam a few large noodle fish. These are all products that children look forward to, and Gogarin also likes to eat them.

Most of the porridge drunk during the Chinese New Year is wheat and rice, which is basically pressed in advance, and there is a mill in each village.

At the end of the month, every household in the village began to prepare to fry some twist flowers, sweet potato slices, noodles and so on as a small food, used to entertain guests during the Spring Festival, the twist flowers have a sweet taste, there is a salty taste, at this time it is really delicious, and you can generally eat it until the fifteenth day of the first month.

In the countryside, I have to mention killing pigs during the New Year, and at this time they are all big fat pigs that do not rely on feed to fatten. This year, Gao Minglou and Liu Liben's family each killed a pig. Gogarin also wanted to join in the fun and slaughtered his own pig. was cleaned up by Gao Yude and his wife. There are only these four people in the family, and a pig can't eat it for a year!

Gogarin rubbed his red ears, which were twisted by his mother. He simply pulled Liu Qiaozhen and went to Liu Liben's house to watch the excitement.

Gogarin's favorite scene is to watch the scene of killing pigs, getting together with a group of children, huddled to watch the excitement.

I saw that the big fat pig was still screaming, a few strong people grabbed the legs, pulled the pig's ears, and suddenly lifted the pig to the pig killing bed, and the pig killer prepared a basin of hot water under the pig's neck to receive the pig's blood, looked at the position, a knife went down, when the white knife went in and the red knife went out, and there was no movement when the pig "whispered" a few times.

The next step is the slaughtering and meat splitting. The master master is skillful, and when he cuts it open, a large pile of stinky internal organs falls out and falls into the big basin. These are called pigs in the water, which are the least valuable, and some people want them. Some people specially ask for the "three pieces" of pigs, intestines, belly and other organs, and go back to eat them. There is a famous snack in the northwest, gourd head steamed bun, which uses the pig's large intestine as the main material.

Next, the pig slaughtering master used a slaughtering knife like an arm to make a finger, and he was as skilled as a cow, and in the blink of an eye, the big fat pig was divided into pieces of meat.

Gao Jialin is not rare in fatty pork, he took four big pig's trotters, and prepared to go back to make rock sugar pig's trotters for Liu Qiaozhen, which is his specialty dish. Liu Li was originally his father-in-law, so naturally he would not collect money from him.

In the blink of an eye, a pig was divided by everyone. Even the pig's head was bought, split into a braised stew and boiled, and a plate was cut as an appetizer when the guests came to the house to eat.

Liu Qiaozhen complained that Gao Jialin only took four pig's trotters, and didn't even ask for the fat pork belly that his father Liu Liben specially prepared for them. Gao Garin laughed, "Daughter-in-law, look at it! I'm going to kill you with my pig's trotters! ”

Roasted pig's trotters with rock sugar is a very unique Lu style dish, but it has spread in later generations, even otaku like Gogarin.

This dish cannot be popularized in this era, and the reason is that it costs too much sugar. Gogarin took out a large handful of rock sugar, boiled it in boiling water, and set aside. Liu Qiaozhen felt distressed!

Gao Jialin asked Liu Qiaozhen to wrap all kinds of spices in gauze and make spice bags. He began to process the pig's trotters, shaving the hairs with a knife, and plucking out the coarse hairs with tweezers. Then wash and chop into pieces with a large knife. Gao Jialin quickly cut the green onion and ginger into slices, and put them in a small bowl for later use.

This is the end of the preparations, and it is time to light the fire and prop up the pot and cook it officially. First of all, make oil in the pan, and when it is hot, add rock sugar water and fry until red. That's when it's time to get into the trotters. The trotters were all poured in, and Gogarin flew up and down with a shovel and stirred over high heat. Looking at it, pour in a tael of white wine and a large spoonful of soy sauce.

Gogarin scooped two ladles of water into the pot and let the water just cover the pig's trotters. Then pour the spice packets and green onion and ginger into it, and when the water boils, make the stove smaller. Just keep the heat low and simmer for 1 hour.

An hour later, Gogarin lifted the lid and the trotters were almost burned. Gogarin dipped his chopsticks in the soup and tasted the saltiness. I sprinkled a spoonful of salt on it, and then continued to simmer for half an hour, this time when the pot was boiled, the aroma was tangy, and the pig's trotters were completely cooked!

Turn off the heat and serve the vegetables, and this dish of roasted pig's trotters with rock sugar is completed.

Liu Qiaozhen picked up a large piece, blew hard, and then took a small bite. That sweet and smooth feeling made her can't help but be amazed!

"It's delicious! Brother Galingo, you really have a hand! ”

Rock sugar pig's trotters have the characteristics of fresh and sweet, tender taste, rich nutrition, and satisfying food.

In the blink of an eye, there were only a few left in a large cauldron. Gao Yude reacted at this time, and hurriedly stopped everyone from putting down chopsticks again.

"Garin, you blind one! If you have delicious food, don't bring a little to your father-in-law's house, and eat it yourself! ”

As soon as he said this, Gao Jialin was thick-skinned and didn't care, Liu Qiaozhen couldn't hold it anymore, and hurriedly said: "Dad, it's nothing, my parents have delicious food, stay close to our family first, don't worry!" ”

Gao Yude disagreed, picked the rest of the pot into a small basin, and asked Gao Jialin to send it over now. Gao Jialin had no choice but to take Liu Qiaozhen to send it to his father-in-law's house.

Liu Liben's family was also very happy to see Gao Jialin's young couple coming over. Their family was writing couplets, and when they saw that Gao Garin was coming, they immediately asked the son-in-law of this cultural man to write a few. Gao Garin did not shirk, and the original calligraphy was also practiced, and with a stroke of the pen, a few couplets were baked.

"Uplink: Dry and clean old habits, downlink: five lectures and four beautiful trees and new winds, horizontal criticism: farewell to the old and welcome spring.

Uplink: A year of good luck with spring, downlink: Four seasons of colorful clouds rolling, horizontal batch: all the best"

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Liu Liben applauded after reading it, and the couplet written by his son-in-law was trendy, festive and glorious.

Gao Jialin and Liu Qiaozhen are also stars in Liu Liben's house, and the pig's trotters sent are also welcomed by everyone. The two of them ate and drank here, and they forgot that they had to go home to make dumplings.

At this time, from the afternoon of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the dumplings are filled and wrapped, and this dumpling is generally eaten at four o'clock in the morning on the first day of the new year. Liu Qiaozhen naturally wanted to go back to work on this matter.

As soon as the sky is dark, I will be busy going to the ancestral tomb to invite the ancestors and ancestors to go home for the New Year. Gao Minglou took the lead, and took everyone surnamed Gao to participate in this ceremony together. Gao Jialin is naturally indispensable, as an outstanding young representative of the Gao family, he is busy all night. The elected representatives will go to the other people who invite the family to kowtow. The road in the village was covered with snow and mud, and this group of old and young masters kowtowed all over the village, and kowtowed for half the night, making Gao Garin dizzy and his waist and knees sore.

At this time, the main entertainment on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve is to play cards together as a family. Gao Yude and his wife don't know how to play cards, and Gao Jialin and Liu Qiaozhen are not interested in it. The family sat on the kang, eating dumplings and gossiping. Later, the dumplings were all full and tired, so Gao Yude and his wife rested.

Gao Jialin and Liu Qiaozhen went back to the new cave, and Gao Jialin hugged his daughter-in-law in the dark to tell her ghost stories, which frightened Liu Qiaozhen into his arms. What happened later speaks for itself.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Gao Jialin was called up early to set off firecrackers, eat dumplings, and put on new clothes to go to the village to pay New Year's greetings. He and Liu Qiaozhen had enough change on them, and when they saw the children, they had to give people New Year's money. Of course, when you see your grandparents, you have to kneel down and kowtow, and the old people will also symbolize kowtowing a little, and a dime is a lot of money.

Mr. and Mrs. Gogarin took a turn in the morning, took out nearly 10 yuan, and earned less than 5 cents. It's a big loss!

When the children have money, they immediately contribute to the village commissary, buying some firecrackers or buying new poker, etc., otherwise they will be confiscated by their parents. So today the business of the village commissary is also very good.

In the second year of junior high school, as a son-in-law, I want to go to my father-in-law's house. When Gao Jialin and Liu Qiaozhen returned to the door, they were also warmly welcomed by Liu Li's family. In addition to eating and chatting, it is to drink and play cards, and it is a whole day.

The bazaars in the countryside during the Chinese New Year are also hot spots. Naturally, Gogarin also wanted to join in the fun. He and Liu Qiaozhen followed the bustling flow of people, happily holding hands and moving forward.

Coming to the stone railing of the Dama River Bridge, Gogarin looked around, and the crowds of people gathered in all directions were passing through the bridge and into the streets. In the distance, a large cloud of dust rose above the streets of the city center, and the noisy sound of the city sounded like the hum of a swarm of bees.

Today, the trading market in Nanguan, the county seat, is so lively that it is simply dazzling. A large empty space was crowded with people of all kinds buying and selling things. It is dominated by vegetable markets, pig markets, livestock markets and cooked food stalls, forming four basic centers.

The other largest crowd center is the animal taming performance troupe in a county in Henan, which uses shabby blue cloth to enclose a large circle as a theater, and the croppers squeeze their heads to buy a ticket for two cents to watch bears play basketball and pugs jump in circles.

The market was filled with dust, the noise was as loud as a flood, and everywhere was filled with the smell of smoke and sweat from the croppers. All the people selling in the market are shouting, especially some business oil, and the sound of selling is simply a kind of performance art.