allonlinenovel Chapter 169 Chinese New Year 1
Chapter 169 Chinese New Year 1
This made the old couple of the Chu family very busy. There were two sick people and a pregnant woman in the family, and they all needed to be well nourished.
Old Master Chu was looking for food everywhere all day long, such as chicken, fish, and pork bones!
Old Mrs. Chu cooked soup with different kinds of flowers, and within a few days, all the family members were full.
Just after the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, Chu Hua hurried over specifically to celebrate the New Year.
Yang Bangming also brought back the men in the village. The faces of the villagers were filled with happy smiles, and their wallets were bulging. Many families planned to have a good year and save some money to prepare to build new houses. People's living standards seemed to have improved all of a sudden, and the smell of meat wafted from the village from time to time.
The family hasn’t had a good New Year’s celebration for many years, and this year is a rare reunion year, so Chunni plans to have a good New Year’s celebration.
On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, Chunni's family started to get busy with cleaning. Even the ceiling was not spared. This is called raising dust.
Legend has it that the Kitchen God lives in every household on earth. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, he will go to heaven to report the situation on earth to the Jade Emperor. In order to make the Kitchen God only say good things in front of the Jade Emperor and avoid being punished, people use candies and tributes to see the Kitchen God off, which formed the later custom of "worshiping the Kitchen God"!
Of course, Chunni could not offer sacrifices to the Kitchen God, because there is an old saying that "men do not worship the moon and women do not offer sacrifices to the Kitchen God."
In the evening, He Yanqing led Xia Zhi to solemnly worship the Kitchen Bodhisattva and sent him to heaven for a banquet.
On the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, the men in the family began to put up Spring Festival couplets. The women were busy frying crispy meat and Shaoguoyuan. Shaoguoyuan is actually meatballs, mostly pork, with some tofu, diced radish, pickles, wrapped in sweet potato flour, fried in oil, the fragrance can spread to most of the village. Some steamed dishes are also prepared, such as the salty Shaobai that Xiazhi likes to eat, the sweet Shaobai that the old man likes, and Xiangwan. Speaking of Xiangwan, it is actually meat wrapped in egg skin and steamed, cut into one centimeter rolls, which are delicious in soup or eaten alone. Now that the weather is cool, these dishes can be kept for a few days, so Chunni's family prepared these dishes in advance.
Of course, you also need to prepare some fried peanuts. When you fry peanuts, mix them with sand to prevent them from getting mushy and make them more crispy and delicious. You also need to fry some soybeans and broad beans and put them in your pocket so that you can take them out anytime, anywhere and chew them. They are crunchy.
In this age when candy is unaffordable, these are children's favorites.
Of course, everyone has made a lot of money this year, and even the stingiest families are willing to buy some malt sugar to sweeten their children.
On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, Chunni's family began to kill chickens and ducks. There is a rule in Shizishan that poultry should be killed on the seventh day but not on the eighth day. As the name suggests, poultry for the New Year should be killed on the twenty-seventh day, not on the twenty-eighth day. Chunni bought a fat pig and killed it and kept it for the New Year, and made all of it into bacon. Pigs in those days did not eat feed, but ate pig grass from wild vegetable fields in the mountains. They were not as fat and strong as in later generations, but they tasted much better than in later generations. The bacon was delicate, with fat and lean parts, fat but not greasy, and full of meat fragrance, without the fishy smell of feed pigs at all. Chunni's family could not finish eating so much bacon, so they had to send some to their uncle's family, and they had to bring some back when they returned to the army during the summer solstice, and they had to send some to Xue Shaohong's family, Li Shuhua's family, and so on.
Chunni also asked He Yanqing to kill two chickens, two rabbits and a goose to eat during the New Year.
On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, Chunni and her family went to the neighbor's house to celebrate the New Year. In the past two years, Yang Bangming has done a good job in Pengcheng and has a good reputation. At the peak, he had hundreds of people under him and made a lot of money. Of course, Chunni has a share. As for how much she made, Chunni said that she spent all the money she earned there. Chunni bought a small yard and a piece of land in Yangcheng. Thinking of this, Chunni was secretly happy.
Yang Bangming also bought a small courtyard next to Chunni's house and also bought some land. He still believed in Chunni's vision. Even if he spent half of his family's assets, he was still happy.
His family had a very prosperous New Year.