Chapter 37: The Countdown to the New Year
In winter, it gets dark early, Liu Qin and Qin Shan arrive home at about five twenty o'clock, at this time, the sky is already faintly dark, and there is generally no need to wait until six o'clock, the sky will be completely dark.
There are no wires at home, and there are no electric lights, and the Qin family uses kerosene lamps for lighting at night, but Liu Qin and Li Chunhua both feel that ordering this thing is burning money, which is too wasteful, and they basically don't light it at night, unless it's winter when they eat at night, then it's not okay!
This winter, there has not been snow like cotton wool, and the snow that looks like pearl rice has snowed several times, and the ground has frozen a few times, but soon the light rain melted away.
The tofu bought back in the morning was made into soup in the evening, and three eggs were put in it, which was the result of seven or eight days of labor by the four old hens in the family.
If you don't eat it now, when you wait until the New Year, you will definitely be taken by Liu Qin to her mother's house for the year's ceremony, and when the time comes, she will definitely not even be able to eat the eggshell, so it is better to fight now, and everyone will drink egg soup together!
On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, killing pigs and cutting New Year's meat, Li Chunhua went out with a basket early in the morning.
On the way, she thought of the previous days in the village, and every today, it is the happiest day for the people in the village, and the big fat pig that has been raised for a whole year can finally be slaughtered and eaten.
At that time, she was often the first to line up at the field, the fat meat in the belly of the big fat pig, the oil refining was fragrant, she didn't eat meat that day, and the oil and water stained in the big iron pot at home when refining oil stewed a cabbage and big radish, she was beautiful.
On the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, with lard residue and Chinese cabbage, the mixed filling is old and fragrant, and the dumplings wrapped in cornmeal white noodles and dumpling skin are worth a bite, and the hard work of the year is worth it.
When she came to the vegetable market, Li Chunhua originally thought that she had come early enough, but people abound earlier, and those who lined up were all ten meters away from the pork stall.
In the past, there was only one market selling meat stalls, but today there were four of them for the first time, and as soon as people carrying pork appeared, the scene was rioting, and those in front wanted to keep their positions, and those in the back were unwilling, and those who cut in line abounded, and after a while, the team was completely chaotic, and everyone was huddled together, desperately rushing forward.
Li Chunhua squeezed forward desperately, but she didn't know who was behind her, and when she pushed, her body was crooked, and she twisted her feet.
If you hadn't held the person in front of you in time, you might have fallen, and when the time comes, you don't know what you will be stepped on!
This foot is twisted, let alone grabbing meat, just standing normally, she feels uncomfortable, at this time, she will naturally not be reluctant, knowing the current affairs, she quits the team, and she is slow and limps back.
"Where's the milk, the meat?" As soon as Qin Qing saw Li Chunhua appear at the door of her house, she immediately pounced, but only saw an empty basket, which made her very disappointed.
"Don't you see my foot twisted? just cares about the flesh and meat, and it hurts you for so many years. Li Chunhua stretched out a finger and pointed it on Qin Qing's head, and said with a stern face.
Her feet were twisted, and cold sweat broke out on her aching forehead, but her granddaughter, who had been hurting for so many years, came to her for meat as soon as she came up, and she didn't care about her at all.
", why did you twist your foot? You okay? ”
"Does it hurt? Do you want me to find you a doctor? ”
"It's all my fault, I was happy to see you come back, and I didn't even notice that you were injured." Qin Qing immediately went up to support Li Chunhua and said intimately.
She just went away with joy, how did she know that her feet were twisted!
was supported by Qin Qing, who was more than half a head shorter than her, although it was not very comfortable, but Li Chunhua was satisfied, as long as Qin Qing had this heart, then she didn't hurt her in vain.
"No, how expensive it is to find a doctor!"
"With that money, I might as well buy something delicious and eat it in my stomach, the medicine is bitter, expensive and unpalatable, eating that thing is simply a sin, I won't do it."
"Help me in and sit first."
After sitting down, Li Chunhua was really relieved and finally safe.
I lifted my trouser legs, took off my shoes and socks, and looked at my ankles, and there was a big swollen bag on it, red and purple, which looked really serious.
Just simply touched the big bag with her hand, and it hurt her teeth and grinned.
"Hiss~"
"Qingqing! Go and bring me the bruiser that your parents have under their bed, and rub your feet, it must be twisted. ”
After rubbing with medicinal wine, Li Chunhua's sore face turned white, she didn't sit on the stool, and went back to the house to lie down, it is foreseeable that she will spend the next few days in bed.
On the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, slaughtering chickens to catch the big set, this day can be lively, except for Li Chunhua, the rest of the people in the family are ready early in the morning, they all put on their own most decent clothes, and go to the market.
At other times, private markets are not allowed, but today is an exception, whether it is in the city or in the town, the market is crowded with people, some are holding their own things to sell, and some are looking at things to inquire and bargain.
Stalls such as selling red couplets, red lanterns, and red paper-cuts needed for the New Year are full of people, and business is good.
A family of eight walked on the road, and after a while, they dispersed, and when they saw something interested, they would stop and watch for a while
Qin Xi is curious about everything now, and it didn't take long for her and Qin Jiang to fall behind.
didn't keep up, she wasn't in a hurry, she had money in her pocket, and in this rare day when she could buy something to eat without a ticket, she still planned to spend a wave! It is indeed inconvenient to walk with the family.
After all, she couldn't explain the source of the money in her pocket.
Across the Qinxi River, she smelled an oil fragrance, which was too fragrant and overbearing for her who lacked oil and water.
She didn't expect that one day, she would still have a time of gluttony.
"Brother, let's go ahead and take a look, I smell the oil, and I don't know what I'm frying."
"Okay." Qin Jiang shrugged his nose, he also smelled it.
As soon as he smelled it, his saliva couldn't stop swallowing.
"It's a twist flower, this hemp flower, it looks really delicious, brother, let's buy two and try it!"
"Okay."
"Is there a steamed bun that sells over there? Let's go check it out! I'm going to eat big meat buns. ”
"I want to eat it too."
"Okay, then buy two big buns, two big steamed buns, and we're going to have a big meal here today......"