allonlinenovel Chapter 493 Supplementary
Chapter 493 Supplementary
As the saying goes: "Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest."
Sure enough, at this moment, snowflakes slowly fell from the sky like goose feathers.
The snowflakes were light and elegant, gradually covering the entire Tangjia Village in a world of silver.
The chimneys of every household were spewing out billowing white smoke, like white dragons rising into the sky.
At the same time, bursts of tempting aroma quietly emerged from the crack in the door and drifted in the air.
Just take a quick sniff and it seems like you can smell the fragrance from the west end of the village to the east end.
All the people of the Nine Clans were extremely busy this winter. They had to work and had no time to prepare various foods for the New Year.
So while work is down, we are busy preparing food for the New Year!
Not only them, but other families in the village are also like this.
Almost every household is busy.
Some families were stewing delicious pork on the stove, with bubbles bubbling in the pot;
Some are frying the fish in oil until golden and crispy.
The whole village was immersed in a rich festive atmosphere.
The large dining hall of the Jiuzu clan was extremely lively and hot.
I saw several huge iron pots lined up in a row, filled with pieces of temptingly colored pork stewed inside.
After being cooked over a long slow fire, the pork has an attractive color and a fragrant aroma.
But this stewed pork is not to be eaten right away! They will first marinate it with an appropriate amount of salt. During the New Year, when you need to stir-fry meat dishes, you can cut the cooked meat and stir-fry it directly.
Especially the dumplings stuffed with cooked meat and leeks, which are truly unique in the world. Once you have eaten them once, you will definitely want to eat them again.
And the soup used for stewing meat will not be wasted.
The women of the Jiu clan would also use the broth and add some chopped pig skin to cook together.
After cooling and solidifying overnight, you can enjoy the smooth, chewy, strong and fragrant pork skin jelly early the next morning!
Whether it is eaten directly cold or with sauce, the taste is wonderful!
Little Yang, who had been busy stewing the meat in the kitchen, poked a few holes in the meat with a long bamboo chopstick. Seeing that it was almost done, she quickly called out:
"Sister-in-law, have you finished cutting the pork skin jelly? I'm about to cook the pork here."
"I've already cut it, but I'm wondering if I could add some lean meat to the pork skin jelly. It would taste better that way."
Hearing the eldest sister-in-law's proposal, Xiao Yang replied readily:
"Okay, sister-in-law, take out the lean meat later and you can cut some and put it in. We can afford pork anyway, so we can make it any way we want!
Oh, and Douzi's brother and sister-in-law, please go add some more firewood to the stove, we'll need a lot of it to cook the stew later."
Shen Douzi's wife was concentrating on making round meatballs. When she heard Xiao Yang's call, she responded:
"Okay, I'll go right away!"
As he said this, he put down the unfinished work in his hands and hurried to fetch firewood.
The women were busy with their own work, the pots and pans made crisp sounds when they collided with each other, and a rich aroma filled the air.
For a while, the women were so busy in the huge conference room that they could hardly move around.
Grandpa Guo's eldest daughter-in-law was probably too busy and flustered, and she almost bumped into her younger brother and sister-in-law who were coming towards her.
She exclaimed, "Oh, you better watch your way, I almost knocked you down!"
But at the moment, her brother and sister were busy frying meatballs and had no time to pay attention to her.
Just as Shen Douzi's wife went to fetch firewood, she felt a little overwhelmed.
I saw the round meatballs being put into the boiling oil pan, instantly causing a crackling sound of frying, accompanied by bursts of fragrant aroma wafting away.
It's not just the cafeteria that is busy. Because there are so many foods to prepare today, the stoves in more than a dozen households are all busy. Of course, the bath pots are not included, because those things really cannot be used for cooking.
The two stoves in Shen Youyou's house were occupied by the girls and were used to dip candied haws for everyone.
Not only can it be dipped in candied haws, but also in...
Although the cotton machine that made plastic cotton could no longer be used, the kids kept asking for it, so Shen Tiezhu made a new small machine for them.
It is made specifically for this purpose. Right now Sanzhuang and Ermao are doing it.
After making one, they would stick it on the bundled straw mat. If you didn’t know, you would think they were going to do a small business.
Shen Mazi's family stews and fries fish. These fish were caught by Shen Zhiqiu and the villagers after they dug out the ice hole net.
It’s true, there are so many fish in this river, and every household in the village has received a lot of them.
In previous years, when there were more fish caught, the villagers would sell some of them. But this year, they have no time to set up stalls.
We don't get off work until the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, and there are still a lot of things to do at home, so how can we have the free time?
Perhaps a more important reason is that now every household has someone working in a workshop, and the lowest-paid family can get more than ten taels of silver every month.
After all, the Jiuzu workshop needs a lot of workers. Even if it is not the whole village, every household has at least three or four people working in the village.
Even if you don't work in a workshop, you can work as an hourly worker helping out in the workshop.
For example, slaughtering pigs and washing pork for large-scale pig farmers.
For example, washing sweet potatoes and corn in a starch workshop. As long as you are not lazy, you can find a job to make money in Tangjia Village.
So the fish distributed to the villagers this year were all prepared for their own consumption, and the nine clans received a lot.
Shen Youyou's mother, Li Jingshu, was frying cat ears, small twisted dough sticks, and corn crackers at Grandma Hua's house.
During the Chinese New Year in her previous life, she would also fry all kinds of snacks for her daughter. She felt more reassured when she made them herself than when she bought them outside.
At that time, there were many flavors that could be made, including salt and pepper, spicy, and sweet. The more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes, and it is crispy and crunchy.
When staying up on New Year's Eve, watching the Spring Festival Gala, you can just grab some and eat them, it's so delicious.
Although the Spring Festival Gala is gone and we can’t make spicy food, we can still have salty and sweet food.
Pieces of cat ears, pieces of corn crust, and delicate and small fried dough twists were put into the pot.
After a while, the color turned golden.
Li Jingshu served some to the little kids separately, under the pretext of letting them taste the cooking time first.
"How's it going?"
"It's delicious, with a nice burnt aroma."
The big iron pot at Master Shen’s house is used to stew big pork elbows. This thing is not easy to taste, so stew it today and soak it in the soup overnight. When you eat it tomorrow, just heat it up.
It is guaranteed to be soft, tender and fragrant, and the meat will fall off the bones immediately when you pick it up with chopsticks.
There are other families who also stew various foods that can be prepared in advance.
For example, Shen Zhixia’s family and Shen Tietou’s family were stewing chicken.
There were fifty little chickens in total, all free-range at home. Needless to say, the meat tasted delicious.
Lift the lid of the pot and the aroma of meat will fill the air.
Anyway, every household is busy.
In previous years, my family didn’t have the conditions to do so, but this year I am willing to spend the money since I have earned it.
I just made a lot of candies to keep for the New Year.
For example, the sweet and refreshing winter melon candy can not only clear away heat and reduce internal heat,
It has the fresh fragrance of winter melon and the sweet taste of sugar, and is loved by the whole family, especially children.
For example, candied lotus root, candied water chestnuts, candied lotus seeds, candied bamboo shoots, sesame candy, and pine nut candy.
The production methods of these types are similar and they are all traditional candies.
Almost all women of the nine tribes can do it.
No matter what era, sugar is a symbol of sweetness. Eating sugar during the Chinese New Year is a symbol of sweetness.
Whether for adults or children, it is a yearning for a better life, and they hope that life in the new year will be as sweet and beautiful as sugar.
Of course, in addition to sugar, we also need dried fruits such as melon seeds, peanuts, pine nuts, chestnuts, walnuts, etc.
However, melon seeds and peanuts had to be bought with money, while pine nuts, chestnuts, walnuts and the like were picked by the boys from the Nine Tribes before going up the mountain.
New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve means "the end of the month and the year", and people get rid of the old and welcome the new, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new one next year.
From the early morning, everyone was chopping stuffing and kneading dough to make dumplings for the midday meal.
The dumpling fillings are all leeks cut from Shen Youyou’s greenhouse.
Just eat the ones with leek and cooked meat filling.
Both men and women were busy, and now the men from the Jiu clan were very skilled at making dumplings.
In Shen Zhiqiu's words: "How can our family be the same as other families? The women in our family can earn their own money.
And they earn as much as men, so why should women do the housework at home?"
The men of the Nine Clans also said, "Third brother, we didn't say we wouldn't do it. You're almost there. Men in our family have the lowest status."
When the plump white dumplings were put into the pot, the pot immediately became lively. The white dumplings rolled in the water like happily jumping little fish.
The kids nearby couldn't wait any longer, staring at the pot with sparkling eyes: "This time they're all meat dumplings with thin noodles!"
"It's still the kind that's enough."
Not long after the dumplings were put into the pot, steam began to rise from the steamer of steamed buns.
Each big white steamed bun is plump and round, exuding the unique aroma of wheat.
The women were skilled at making and cooking dumplings, with satisfied smiles on their faces.
After eating dumplings, people have to offer sacrifices to their ancestors. On the makeshift ancestral offering table, there are ten dishes, including pig head, roast chicken, braised fish, pork elbow, pig skin jelly, etc.
Eight kinds of candies, six kinds of dried fruits, and four kinds of snacks.
There is also persimmon wine and jujube flower steamed buns.
Now that life is good, we have to offer good things to our ancestors.
Row after row, from old to young, from male to female, knelt solemnly in turn.
Respect the heaven, respect the earth, respect the ancestors, and also respect the plaques of loyal and righteous people.
Mr. Shen, the patriarch of the family, also expressed a very grand wish, hoping that the war in the northern border would be settled as soon as possible, because their good life was really hard-earned.