At this time, there was already a circle of people in the courtyard, both adults and children.

The children each held a small rice ball in their hands and nibbled on it, laughing and watching as they ate.

Seeing that the eldest brother of the Jiang family came out with his sister in his arms, he hurriedly gave them the best position.

The steamed fragrant rice is yellow and bright, and the grains are distinct.

Poured into a special large stone mortar, three strong men held wooden hammers, took turns to hammer, while hammering and turning over while shouting "hey, hey, hey", very rhythmic.

This is a job that requires a lot of experience and effort.

The three strong men fought for a while, and then another group of people came on the field, taking turns to hammer, and played back and forth for about two quarters of an hour.

The fragrant rice in the stone mortar is thoroughly beaten into a delicate rice dough.

At this time, the elderly aunts came over with clean and oiled bamboo dustpans.

The beaten rice dough is packed into a large funnel-like device and pressed down with a trapezoidal wooden awl.

The rice dough is squeezed out of the round tube under the funnel to form a regular smooth cylindrical shape.

Then use clean and water-soaked scissors, cut it out one by one at a certain length, and place it on a special wooden board to dry, and the rice cake is finished.

The freshly beaten rice cake is the most delicious, fragrant and glutinous, and the Q bomb is chewy.

But because this thing is expensive, even if the onlookers are greedy, they can't do anything to ask for it.

It was the old Hu who took the initiative to cut some short sticks and distribute them to the onlookers.

The recipe for glutinous rice cakes is similar.

The best glutinous rice is steamed, scooped into a delicate rice dough in a stone mortar, and then pinched into a child's fist-sized agent, and then pressed into shape.

The recipe for rice fruit is much more complicated.

After soaking the glutinous rice, wash it, drain the water and scoop it into powder. Divide one-fifth of the dough, add water and rice dough, press it into cakes, and then put it in the boiled brown sugar syrup to cook.

The boiled dough is poured into the remaining rice flour pile along with the syrup, and it is mixed into several rice dough weighing more than ten catties, and left for two quarters of an hour to rise.

Then use a rolling hammer to roll out large dough cakes with a thickness of about one centimeter, and use a special scale to measure the noodles cut into about five to seven centimeters.

Then cut it with scissors or cut it into small strips about one centimeter wide, sprinkle it on the board to dry the steam, and finally fry it in an oil pan.

For a whole day, the courtyard of the Jiang family was filled with strange fragrances. Prepared rice cakes, glutinous rice cakes and rice sweets filled the three wings of the Jiang family.

After dinner, Old Man Jiang and Old Hu called their three sons and daughters-in-law to sit together and held a family meeting to discuss the matter of giving New Year's gifts.

After drinking two pots of tea, we finally came up with a reasonable charter.

The first is the New Year's Gift of the clansmen.

There are 47 households in the Jiang clan. With the addition of Lizheng, Zhao Liuzhi, Qi Tofu and Granny Yang's family have a total of 51 households.

Each of these families sends five rice cakes and five glutinous rice cakes, which add up to one. In addition, each family will be given another catty of rice fruit and two catties of meat.

Over the years, the Jiang family has been helped by relatives, friends and clansmen, and now that their own family is up, they naturally can't forget the big guy, otherwise they will forget their roots. Just like the Zhao family.

Zhao Liuzhi is younger than Jiang Wenyuan, two years older than Jiang Wenyuan.

When I was a child, a group of bear children in the village had a fight with other villages, and he would be the head of the child, and he helped Jiang Wenyuan carry a lot of beatings. Later, there were many foils.

His family has few fields, and when he sees that the Jiang family is too busy to farm, he will often come over to help.

Whenever there is a good thing, I don't forget to leave a copy for Jiang Wenyuan. Therefore, Jiang Wenyuan remembers his love very much.

Now that he has a good life, he naturally will not forget the brother who helped him carry the beating.

For example, Qi Tofu's house.

Although the Qi family is an outsider, because of their good skills in making tofu, their lives are not bad.

More than ten years ago, Old Man Jiang fell seriously ill and needed extremely expensive medicinal materials to save his life.

Lao Hu took his three sons to borrow all the clansmen, but still did not make up enough money for medicine.

After Qi Tofu heard about it, he took the initiative to borrow a sum of money from the Jiang family, which was enough to pay for the medicine.

Because of this kindness. The Jiang family is also very courteous to the tofu family.

As for Granny Yang's house, it is purely a convenient matter. Orphans and widows, it's not easy, it's a handful to be able to pull a handful.

The second is the three in-laws, and Jiang Wenxi's master's family.

Each of these four families has two boxes of rice cakes, five catties of rice fruits, five catties of brown sugar, a whole piece of muslin, a jar of ten catties of wine, ten catties of pork and two catties of fine tea.

Because the Lu family's mother's family is both an in-law and a husband of seven children, it has doubled on the original basis, and these Jiang family's big house and second room have no opinion.

As for Lao Hu's maiden family. Two years after the death of my brother and sister-in-law, my only nephew also died of illness.

The niece and daughter-in-law remarried with their three-year-old nephew, and there has been no news since. Don't mention it.

The third is the county magistrate, the county school's gentleman, the mountain chief, the school and a few courteous squires. These New Year's gifts are heavier.

Although the Jiang family said that they had a lifting person, they had a shallow foundation in the end, and no matter how they were put together, they were all ordinary soil instruments. Chiang

I didn't feel anything bad at home, and I was generous with what to give.

First, it is in line with the identity of the Jiang family, and secondly, it is free from the suspicion of deliberate clinging, but it is two times at ease.

The next day, the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month.

As soon as the morning dawned, Jiang Wenkang took his eldest son Jiang Yujiang, and Jiang Wenyuan took his son Jiang Yuchuan to set up a newly bought mule cart a month ago and rushed to the county seat.

In addition to the New Year's gifts sent to each family on the mule cart, there are also the three concubines of the Jiang family and Jiang Yuqing, a milk dumpling.

As for Jiang Wenxi, he took the rest of the family to give New Year's gifts to the clansmen door to door.

The speed of the mule cart is very fast, and when it reaches the city, it will be the beginning of the morning. Although it is still early, because it is almost the end of the year, the city is already very lively.

The three concubines took Jiang Yuqing to get out of the car at the city gate and went to buy New Year's goods.

The other two pairs of fathers and sons went separately to give New Year's gifts.

The other squires were sent by Jiang Wenkang and his son, and the county order and the county school chief teacher must be Jiang Wenyuan himself. The family agreed on a meeting time here, and went their separate ways.

Jiang Yuqing came to this world since he came, and he was the first to go out. Therefore, I am very curious about this lively ancient market.

The bluestone slabs or cobblestone streets will be able to run two carriages in parallel.

Most of the shops on both sides of the street are small buildings of two or three floors, lined up one after another.

On the front of the shop are various signboards carved from logs or framed with calligraphy, and even if you are poor, you will use a pole to pick a flag.

In addition, the small traders who are shouting and selling all over the street are full of antique fragrance and ancient charm, and the fireworks in the world.

The Jiang family's life is better, and the old Hu family is also atmospheric. I bought cloth and cotton early and put on new clothes for the whole family.

Especially the baby pimple Jiang Yuqing at home, which is from head to toe.

The big red tiger head hat, the tiger ears of the hat are decorated with a small silver bell, which jingles at the slightest movement.

A small red dress embroidered with a hundred butterfly and flower patterns, covered with a thick small cloak of the same color inlaid with rabbit fur.

On the feet are equally cute little tiger head cotton shoes.

The neck is covered with a collar decorated with a hundred bats pattern longevity locks, and the little chubby hands and chubby feet wear silver bracelets and anklets, and the red lotus birthmark on the forehead is bright and dripping, like a jade doll.

Therefore, no matter where you go, there are many people staring at Jiang Yuqing, and they all praise this doll for looking good, and it looks blessed.

The three concubines of the Jiang family went shopping all morning and bought a lot of things, and the back basket behind them was stuffed.

Even Lu's back basket put a lot of things. When passing by the embroidery village, several people couldn't help but walk in again. At this time, there are many people buying clothes in the store, and it is very popular.

As soon as the shopkeeper saw Lu, he happily greeted him: "Yo, junior sister, I haven't seen you for a few days." ”

The husband's surname of the shopkeeper is Chen, and he is called Mrs. Chen or the shopkeeper, and she is a pungent and refreshing character.

Her deceased husband had been taught by Lu Laoxiu for a few years, and because of this relationship, when she saw Lu, she also wanted to call her sister.

In the past, when the days were not good, the Lu family had to come to the store every month to sell embroidery, and they were taken care of by Mrs. Chen.

Since the Lu family gave birth to a daughter, there have been fewer comes.

First, there is not so much effort, and secondly, the situation at home is better, and she doesn't need to work day and night to embroider.

"There's a lot going on at home these days, and it's too busy. Take advantage of today's free time to come and see the Chen family's sister. ”

"It's a good feeling. I heard that your husband was admitted to the Juren, and you are now a Juren lady. Over the years, it can be regarded as a breakthrough. ”

Lu was happy in his heart and said, "With the help of the Chen family's sister Jiyan, I am doing well now." ”

When Mrs. Chen saw the fat doll in her arms, she said happily, "This is my little niece." Look at this little appearance, it looks like a jade girl in front of the Guanyin seat. It's really rare! ”

Mothers like children who are praised by others, and Lu is no exception.

Although there is an element of politeness in these words, she is still happy every time she hears others praise her daughter.

"Good baby, call Auntie!" Lu asked her to call someone. But there must still be politeness.

Jiang Yuqing also gave a few face-saving words.

"Ouch, that's good."

The three concubines each picked out a few clothes and prepared to make a gift when they returned to their parents' house in the second year of junior high school.

At the checkout, Mrs. Chen not only gave the best price, but also gave Jiang Yuqing two pairs of small tiger head shoes decorated with rice grains and pearls.

Lu couldn't refuse, so he had to accept it.

The three of them said goodbye to Mrs. Chen and went out of the embroidery village to continue shopping.

Seeing that the meal was over, everyone was a little hungry.

Lin suggested finding a place to cushion his stomach first, and then go to the city gate to wait for his mule cart after he was full.

The most important thing is that the child is hungry.

It is also inconvenient to breastfeed outside, the child has not eaten for most of the day, and his little stomach is rumbling with hunger.

The Lu clan had already heard two echoes.

This child is also sensible, presumably because he knows that his mother is inconvenient, even if he is hungry, he doesn't cry or make trouble, which is really distressing.

After walking for a while, she saw a good wonton stall on the side of the road, and it looked clean, so she went over and sat down at a clean table and asked for three bowls of meat-stuffed wontons.

While the stall owner was cooking wontons, sister-in-law Lin took Jiang Yuqing and put it on her lap to hug her and tease her.

Nine-month-old dolls, because of adequate nutrition, long flesh. It's okay to hug for a short time, but it's really tiring to hug for a long time.

Lin hugged Jiang Yuqing and shook it, and said with a smile: "Our good baby is really good, press your hands!" Thanks to you holding it for so long. ”

Lu Shi said shyly: "I only hugged her, and I didn't take anything." So many things depend on you and your second sister-in-law, and you are the most tired. ”

After a while, the wontons were delivered. The skin is thin and the filling is large, fragrant and delicious.

Lu wanted to take his daughter back so that his sister-in-law could eat. Lin refused, and said happily: "You eat first, I'll feed her!" I can't grab this job. ”

Not far behind, Zhu said: "I'm with you!" Then he pretended to glare at Lu Shi fiercely: "Eat you, it's none of your business." ”

It's not true.

Since Jiang Yuqing was able to eat supplementary food, the old Hu family, who fed the children, was basically rounded. Even the Lu family's mother-in-law has to stand aside.

Jiang Yuqing is an excellent baby, never picky eater, basically what to eat. The big gulp of dry rice is very fragrant.

When I'm happy, my fat arm will sway involuntarily. After a while, the silver peanut on the wrist will also make a crisp sound.

At this time, an arrogant voice sounded: "Milk, I want that ringing bracelet!" ”