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Chapter 37 New Year's Eve

"Jinghan, there are frozen pears you bought by your mother in the warehouse box. Take out some and use water to slow them down and wait for the evening to eat. The food will be slow for a while. There is nothing delicious in our family, so I bought a lot this year." Chen loved the child. When he remembered that there were delicious foods at home, he quickly asked Jinghan and the others to find them.

When Jinghan heard this, he agreed and took a basin to the warehouse to find frozen pears. I remember that when I was a child in my previous life, there was nothing good in winter. At this time, frozen pears were very good things. Later, there were no one selling frozen pears. There were all kinds of fruits in winter, so I no longer had a lot of frozen pears. After entering the warehouse, I found the box that my grandmother mentioned, and Jinghan picked up a basin of frozen pears and brought them back.

When Xue saw this, she quickly scooped a lot of cold water into the basin. The frozen pears should be slowed down with cold water. "Okay, come in and take a look. We'll have a meal in a while. The food is almost ready."

Jinghan, Jingya and sisters entered the house, "Grandpa, my mother said the food is about to be ready, let's prepare for dinner."

The old man nodded, "Okay, hurry up and put the table, let's have a meal later."

Wenhan and Wencheng came to move the table. Jingya and Jinghan and others held the bowls and chopsticks into the room, and arranged the bowls and chopsticks. Just as Xue shouted, "Come up and serve the dishes, the dishes are ready."

The children served the dishes in the house with all their hands. There were exactly twenty people in the house and two tables were placed. Each dish was two plates, including fish stewed, chicken stewed mushrooms, Buddha-hand cabbage, braised pork, pickled cabbage pork vermicelli, braised pork ribs, confused chicken, meatballs, fried mushrooms and daylily, fried black fungus meat, pork liver, elbow, and a total of twelve dishes, almost all of which were meat dishes. The old man was happy when he saw it, "Oh, this year, this dish is hard enough. It should be that our fifth family won the prize this year, and Huixin is going to get married. This is the last year at home, and it is time to have a good time. Come on, come and sit down, and the children, hurry up. Zhixin, have you bought wine at home? Come on some wine, let's have some drinks tonight."

"Grandpa, I'll get the wine, you'll wait," Wenhan ran to the kitchen, found a small jar in the cabinet, and carried it into the house. Then he went to get a few wine glasses and put them on wine glasses for his grandfather, father and uncles.

Zhixin poured wine one by one, "Come on, dad, let's have some drinks, this year is enough for you. Third brother, I have to thank you. If you hadn't told your shopkeeper, our mallet wouldn't be sold at such a high price. Come on, let's give our dad a drink together." The men started drinking.

Chen led Xue and Zhu into the house and found a seat to sit down. Needless to say, Han had already sat there with his children. Chen glanced at Han and didn't say anything. After everyone sat down, he spoke: "We have many happy events in our family this year, so we will celebrate and celebrate well. We specially kept a pig at home for the New Year. Come on, today's dishes are so delicious, and we can eat them all with our stomachs. Wenhan, you juniors don't have to worry about anything, just eat them. Our family's life will get better and better in the future, and we will let you eat like this every day."

This year is the first time that this year has been a wealthy year. Chen is happy to see the fragrance of the children eating. If it could be like this year every year, how great it would be. Not only adults, but also children think so.

Jinghan picked up a piece of buckle. If no one liked it in his previous life, it would be too fat. Here, it is a rare good thing. It feels so smooth when put in his mouth. It feels so smooth. "Sister, Jingwan, Jingxian, try it quickly. This buckle is good, not that oily, and it is very mushy." Jinghan called everyone to eat it together, and also picked up a piece for Jingxian and put it in a bowl.

"Thank you, second sister." Jingxian said holding the bowl.

"Eat soon. After the meal, we still have to stir-fry melon seeds. I'll cook the red water from the mountains for you to drink, but it's fine. I've also slowed down the frozen pears. At this time, I'll feel comfortable eating some frozen pears." When Jinghan thought of such delicious food, she felt her saliva flowing out.

It is rare for children to eat such a good thing, and their mouths are full of oil. The staple food tonight is naturally steamed buns. The snow-white steamed buns make people feel appetite when they see it. Just take a bite, it is so refreshing. Jinghan narrowed his eyes and savored the rare things carefully. At this time, the crops were all farm fertilizer and no fertilizer, so the taste was particularly fragrant. The steamed bun was chewed with a strong wheat aroma, which was really good.

After all, the children were young and could not eat much, so they were full. They patted their belly one by one, and were very satisfied. "Grandpa, grandma, we have finished eating, you can eat slowly." Jinghan saw that Jingxian and Jingwan were full, so she led them off the table and went to play.

The old man and his sons drank some wine and felt that it was almost the same and could not drink any more. He said, "I've been drinking almost the same. If you can drink, drink more. If you can't drink, eat. Don't drink too much. This dish is delicious tonight." As he said that, he picked up a steamed bun and ate it. "Well, this steamed bun is delicious, good."

Chen was eating quickly, almost full, and Xue and Zhu were almost the same. Han had just said a few words secretly by Zhide, and the dishes at night were indeed delicious, so he didn't say anything. After feeding Wenxing, he started eating by himself. Jing and he was holding chopsticks and eating, and Han didn't care much about her.

After a while, everyone was full, Xue and Zhu began to pack their things down, and Jingya and Jinghan also helped. Huixin was going to help, but everyone didn't let her go and let her rest. Huixin had no choice but to go back to her room. After Jinghan and the others finished packing the table, they also ran to their sister-in-law's room to play with Huixin.

It was already the end of Youth. Chen led Xue and Zhu to chop the meat fillings and vegetables together, preparing to make dumplings for the evening. Wenhan went to stir-fry melon seeds, Jinghan found the red mountain, put them in a small pot, added water and sat on the stove to stew. Anyway, the fire in the stove will not break tonight, and there were a lot of tree roots, lumps and other things inside, which were anti-burning.

Men have nothing to do, so they use cards to draw cards. This card is Paijiu. Anyway, there is no winning or losing between men, just to have fun. The old man has a good card tonight. He won three games in a row. Everyone said that he can't lose a lottery, and he has to win something. Later, he decided to play a little bit. Men in the Northeast usually like to play cards and money in winter. The men of the Xu family are fine, and they rarely go out to play money, but they just play for a while during the Chinese New Year.

Wenhan fryed out the melon seeds and put them in the dustpan. Xue took the dustpan out and flew out the broken basket, and then brought the dustpan into the house, fell a lot of it for the west room, and went to the east room again. "Come on, knock melon seeds, the melon seeds are growing very well this year." After saying that, he put the dustpan on the kang in the east room, and grabbed anyone who likes to eat.

My mother and mother started together, and soon chopped the meat and vegetables. Chen mixed the filling, Xue went to knead the noodles, and Zhu moved the panels and other things to the house and placed them on the kang. The old man led his sons to put the table on the ground, and still played cards.

After the dough was ready, everyone started to make dumplings. Today there were many people, so they had to make a lot of them, and they also had to make them on the morning of the first day of the lunar month, so they had to start early. Huixin and Jingya and Jinghan came to help, and Jinghan was good for making dumplings. Wenxing, Jinghe and Jingxian couldn't bear it at this moment, and they all fell asleep. Chen put them in Huixin's house and found the quilt covered. Han was fine now, so he washed his hands and made dumplings with everyone.

Chen found copper coins, jujubes, and sugar and put them in the dumplings. These are all festive things to get a good start.

Let’s do it together and it will be almost done. The ones that start to be wrapped in the middle of Xu, and by the middle of Hai, the dumplings with the entire six curtains are all placed there.

"Okay, let's take a break. Put these three curtains in the suite of the east room, and eat the three curtains tonight." Chen said. The dumplings on New Year's Eve are not as usual, and they can eat them so much, so the three curtains are enough. Everyone took the dumplings out, packed the panels and took them out. The women also sat on the kang and chatted, and the children all ran to play.

Before midnight, I heard the sparse sound of firecrackers outside. At the end of the Hai Dynasty, Chen put the kang table in the yard, put steamed buns, and incense burner bowls, and placed three glasses of wine and three pairs of chopsticks in front. Xue went to the ground to burn the fire, added water to the pot, and waited for the water to boil, and then you could put the dumplings.

As soon as the second arrived, the old man led his sons to hang the firecrackers, took out the burning paper and went to the table outside, lit the burning paper. Zhixin also lit the firecrackers, and for a moment the yard was filled with the sound of firecrackers.

As soon as the firecrackers sounded, Xue's house put the dumplings into the pot, and poured all the dumplings in the three-cover curtain. Fortunately, the pot is big and can still be cooked. Wen Han and Jinghan each hugged firewood into the room, and shouted, "Let's hold money." This is a homonym, it is auspicious word, I wish you good fortune next year.

Chen took out a few burning papers that the old man and the others lit. At the door, in front of the two stoves, and Zhengbei, they burned papers, and were still muttering, just some auspicious words. The sound of firecrackers outside passed, and the old man led his sons to kowtow in front of the table, then poured the wine in the wine glass on the ground, and then got up.

Just then, the dumplings were already cooked, and Chen asked with the bowl on the side, "Have you earned it?"

Xue agreed, "I made a lot of money." After that, he took the bowl from Chen's hand, took out a few of them with a lever, and put them in the bowl. Chen took the bowl outside, put the bowl on the table, and then placed a pair of chopsticks horizontally on the top of the bowl.
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