Because of the elimination of the four olds, there is no need to pay attention to the feudal superstition of sticking up the doors and hanging lanterns, and the so-called "removing the old and welcoming the new" cleanup was also cleaned inside and outside the first two days.
Therefore, the only thing that everyone can pay attention to during the New Year's Eve is to pay some attention to food.
In the kitchen at the moment, the busyness is in full swing.
The Muyi people are chopping fish, and are going to make some fish **** later.
Huang Qiuhua took Liu Xiaocui and Qin Anle to pack the ingredients for the New Year's Eve dinner, while Chen Chuncao was responsible for setting the fire.
The whole stove is filled with the smell of all kinds of food.
The thirteen sea fish used for the wedding banquet were kept in a large bucket, and the Muyi people chose a small sea fish to make fish balls, which can also be regarded as an additional side dish for the hot pot.
Although we are eating hot pot tonight, Muyi people are still going to make a salad of shredded kelp, a sweet and sour fish, and a sweet soup with mashed glutinous rice flour and egg drop after the meal.
The New Year's Eve dinner on New Year's Eve is about reunion and happiness. The better the ingredients on this table are prepared, the more it can indicate that the life in the coming year will be full of crops, food and clothing, and good days will be more than enough.
So, how can the New Year's Eve dinner be without fish?
On the stove, bone soup was boiled in a pot, with a few jujubes and wolfberries floating in the soup, and a few slices of ginger, but nothing else.
Mu Yiren wanted to put some medicinal herbs for health preservation, but she also had to be able to buy it.
In another pot, the bacon sausages that were salted and dried some time ago were boiled. The hot pot lacked side dishes, so the bacon sausages had to be used as the dish.
The small pot in the middle is heated with hot water, so that everyone can use hot water at all times.
In the yard, it was also a busy scene. Qin Dafu and his son were really busy building a yellow mud stove by the courtyard wall. They needed to build two large earth stoves, and they happened to be in charge of one.
If you have a wedding banquet in the countryside, you will cook a large pot of dishes with an earthen stove in your own courtyard. The banquet will be placed directly in the courtyard. There are still a few days left. Available in a few days.
There are only so many people in a production team. If anyone has a happy event, basically the entire production team will attend. There is no need to send any wedding invitations.
Even if there is a quarrel and friction, it is necessary to invite them together in etiquette, and no one will deliberately leave such a family behind.
This is a collective consciousness, and there can be no independent exclusion.
"Third, have everyone on the team been notified?" Qin Dafu asked worriedly.
Qin Mingsheng took the shovel and the soil, "Don't worry, Dad, I've been notified from house to house these two days."
Even the big house they didn't want to see was notified.
Qin Dafu nodded and warned again, "That's good, you can think about it again, there is nothing you have yet to prepare, and hurry up to prepare these two days."
There are only a few days left, and it will be over in the blink of an eye. After all, marriage is a big event, and it cannot be sloppy.
Qin Lao Er looked a little hesitant, and finally asked, "Do you want to inform the eldest sister?"
In an instant, there was a brief silence in the air.
Qin Dafu sighed, "Then if you go to your sister's side in the afternoon, let's talk about it as usual. Maybe Anxi can come back on such a day."
Even though they said that, the men didn't hold out much hope. Even if they called someone, the fierce old lady of the Zhang family would not let them go.
"Okay, I'll go after lunch." Qin Lao Er responded.
His sister hadn't been back to her mother's house for several years. If the three brothers hadn't sneaked over to take a look every once in a while, they wouldn't have known whether his sister was alive or dead at her husband's house.
The lunch at noon is very simple, each person has a bowl of bone soup noodles. Although there is no meat or vegetables, everyone still eats it very happily. After all, noodles are also real goods.
Besides, they have to save their stomachs for a good meal at night.
After lunch, Qin Mingsheng greeted Mu Yiren and went out with Qin Taiping with a cloth bag.
This is the second time that Mu Yiren has heard the name of the eldest daughter of the Qin family.
Usually, the Muyi people have never heard anyone in the Qin family mention anything about the Qin family's eldest daughter. Everyone's behavior is obvious.
There must be some bad things involved, so everyone in the Qin family chose to remain silent.
Although Muyi was curious, he didn't talk too much, and he would naturally know what he should know.
In the afternoon, several women from Muyi continued to work in the stove.
Mu Yiren wants to boil the hot pot ingredients. For her, eating hot pot is of course the spicy hot pot ingredients, which is called hot pot and the taste of hot pot. However, considering that there are pregnant women and children at home, so What the Muyi people are going to make is the mandarin duck pot. The white soup base has already been boiled, and now the soup base for the red pot is still lacking.
As for the iron pot for eating hot pot, a few men in the family have already taken care of it, and a layer of iron sheet is added to the middle of the pot as a partition.
And Huang Qiuhua and several people are responsible for cutting the side dishes and loading them on the plate.
The potatoes were cut into pieces and soaked in the pot, the radishes were also cut into thick slices, and the cabbage was cleaned one by one, and placed in a small dustpan, and then there were the mung bean sprouts on the dustpan.
It was exchanged by Huang Qiuhua a few days ago. A total of three catties of soybeans and one catty of mung beans were exchanged. Because of the lack of vegetables at home, Huang Qiuhua soaked the mung beans that day.
The soybeans didn't move, they were going to be kept for two days to send out soybean sprouts for cooking at the wedding banquet.
One catty of mung beans can produce about five or six catties of mung bean sprouts. Today, Huang Qiuhua harvested a wave first, ready to eat in hot pot tonight.
The piece of kelp picked up from the sea was more than one meter long. The Muyi people divided the kelp into two parts, cut half of it into shredded kelp, and used it for salad dressing. Everyone changed the pattern to taste the deliciousness of kelp.
As for meat dishes, the pheasant and the hare that I brought home a few days ago, each ate half of it during this time, and the rest is ready to be cooked in hot pot today.
Therefore, meat dishes include small pots of sausage and rabbit meat cut into pieces, a bowl of bacon in slices, a bowl of fish meatballs, a small pot of air-dried spare ribs, and a small portion of chicken offal.
Then there is a small bowl of cleaned sea prawns, which Huang Qiuhua has never done before, and is cleaned according to Muyi's steps.
Looking at the twelve side dishes of seven meat and five vegetarian dishes on the table, Muyi was satisfied, and finally it was no longer the monotonous dishes before.
It is not easy in this backward small village to be able to match these twelve ingredients.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, a few women finally finished their work in the stove and sat in the yard to bask in the not-so-hot sun.
"Girl Jane, why are you here?"
With sharp eyes, Huang Qiuhua saw Jian Yan standing at the gate of the courtyard.
Jian Yan stood at the gate of the courtyard with a basket in his hand, and said with a smile, "Aunt, I'm here to bring you some snacks."
Mu Yiren was also happy when she saw a friend come to her door. Most of the time, she stayed at home and didn't hang out in the village much, so she was not very familiar with the villagers.
To say that they can be regarded as friends, there is only one brief.
"Yanyan, come in~"
Seeing that Jian Yan was standing at the door and didn't move, Mu Yiren could not help raising her voice to greet her, and at the same time got up and walked towards the courtyard door.
Jian Yan smiled lightly and handed out the basket on her wrist.
"I won't go in, Yiren, bring in the food!"
Hearing this, Mu Yiren frowned slightly, "They've all come to my house, why do they have to sit down and then leave? Our family doesn't have so much attention, don't think too much, come in quickly!"
When Mu Yiren said that, she directly pulled Jianyan into the door. She didn't believe that if she entered the door, it would bring bad luck to the host.
Besides, she has already added Jianyan to the group of friends in her system contacts, how could she still be unlucky?
Jian Yan was pulled by Mu Yi without noticing, and panic flashed quickly on his face.
"I just came to deliver something and left. I don't need to sit down. I'm still rushing back."
Liu Xiaocui had already brought out a bench from the main room, and Huang Qiuhua greeted, "Girl Jane, just sit down when you come. You are a rare guest, and it is rare for my aunt to see you coming to the door."
"Jianyan, sit down!" Mu Yiren patted the bench.
For a while, Jian Yan was in a dilemma, but seeing everyone greeted him so warmly, Jian Yan sat down with an uneasy mood.
"What delicious food did you bring?" Mu Yiren asked with a smile.
Jian Yan brought out a large bowl from the bamboo basket.
"I made some pan-fried fish cakes with my grandmother, and I'm here to give you a bowl as an after-dinner snack!"
The Muyi people took over the big bowl, and the fish cakes were fried to a golden color.
"It smells so good~"
Huang Qiuhua smiled very casually, "This is a good thing, you should keep it for you to eat."
Jian Yan said with a smile, "I made a lot with my grandmother, enough for us to eat, this fish cake is not a valuable thing, if it weren't for Yiren, how could my grandma and I eat it, and thanks to Yiren's blessings for today's Chinese New Year , Grandma and I can also have a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner."
Jian Yan's words are not polite or compliment at all, but a heartfelt thank you. If it wasn't for Yiren's kindness and benevolence, she would not have been able to buy food if she had divided her gold bars. It was impossible for grandma to pick up the leaks and bring back four big fat fish.
Now, all food is in short supply, even a single marine fish can be sold for two or three yuan, and when converted into coarse grains, it can be eaten for a few days.
Everyone said so, and Huang Qiuhua was no longer polite, "Then go back and thank your grandma for us."
"good."
Seeing the other party accept it calmly, Jian Yan's mood is much more relaxed. This is the first time she has given something to others. For the past 19 years, she has always been on the side of being rescued, and she is the one who can give back. strength.
Being able to give something as a gift like today gave her a sense of achievement and satisfaction, which was very fresh, and even gave her a sense of pleasure from the inside out.
She also has the ability to give something back to the good people around her who have helped her.
"Come on, give it to me!" Huang Qiuhua took the big bowl and put it in the stove.