sinovels Chapter 33
Chapter 33
After lunch, Lu Changge took a rest for a while and went into the house to see Erbao, and then resumed his morning work.
The popcorn and candied haws are ready, and the next step is to prepare the necessary candies for the Chinese New Year.
Candies are basically eaten by children, so Lu Changge made them all into soft candies.
The shape of the candy is a random sign-in reward obtained from previous sign-in.
There are orange petals, strawberries, five-petal flowers, leaves, and gold ingots.
At Xiaotuanzi's request, Lu Changge also made ten big lollipops.
If you have candies, you must have biscuits. Lu Changge looked through the biscuit recipe and finally chose rice flower cakes.
Lu Changge scooped up seven catties of rice, popped it into popcorn, and then proceeded to the next step.
Just as Lu Changge was washing the pot, Xiaotuanzi was about to be buried in the sea of rice flowers.
Xiaotuanzi stood on tiptoe, grasping the mouth of the cloth bag with one hand, and reaching for the popcorn with the other hand.
Put it directly into your mouth one by one.
The mouth is bulging and still moving, and at the same time, I still don't forget to poke my head to see if my father is back.
If not, retract your little head and continue eating.
Just when Xiao Tuanzi was eating to his heart's content, his collar was grabbed by the back of his clothes, and he was picked up and put aside.
"What do you eat?" Lu Changge asked while still holding onto Tuanzi's collar, bending down to look at him.
"Hmm..." Hearing Daddy's voice, Xiaotuanzi subconsciously put the hand that was still holding the popcorn behind her back.
However, Tuanzi forgot that he was still chewing in his mouth.
"You, you don't have to worry about eating so much." Lu Changge pointed at the little guy's forehead, feeling helpless.
"No, it's a good time." Xiaotuanzi swallowed the popcorn in his mouth, and smiled flatteringly at his father.
Lu Changge didn't say anything, and carried a large bag of popcorn next to him into the kitchen.
Xiaotuanzi on the side also followed, not forgetting to finish the handful he was holding.
"What is Daddy going to do? How about this?" Xiaotuanzi asked expectantly as he walked up and down beside Daddy.
"It's delicious, but you can only eat one piece later." Lu Changge said while asking Er Teng to put firewood in the stove.
"Ah? Why?" Tuanzi pouted, a little unhappy.
"Because you stole a lot just now, this is punishment."
"Okay..."
After the pot was heated up, Lu Changge added water and sugar into it, and after the fire boiled down, he added maltose into it.
Boil until thick and silky, then pour in the rice flakes.
Then stir evenly with chopsticks to ensure that every rice flower can be dipped in syrup.
After stirring well, the rice flakes are poured into a flat wooden dish covered with a steamer cloth.
Roll it out quickly and set aside to cool.
Wait for the cooling time before proceeding to the next pot.
The next pot is also poured out and flattened, and the first plate is also cooled.
Cut it into a square shape with a knife and put it in a clean cloth bag.
In the end, seven catties of rice crackers got a total of three bags of rice crackers.
After all the snacks are ready, it's getting late.
Lu Changge started preparing today's dinner.
It is good to eat mutton in winter, and it is also good to eat hot pot. The combination of the two seems to be even better.
So there is only one dish for dinner today, mutton hot pot.
Of course, for the sake of balanced nutrition, Lu Changge also washed a basket of vegetables and put them beside him.
When it's almost eaten, you can put some green vegetables in it.
It is not convenient to eat hot pot at home, and it is easy to linger.
For this reason, Lu Changge remodeled the main room early in the morning.
The door of the main room is installed to block part of the cold wind.
The dining table is transformed into a warming table so that the feet don't get cold while eating.
A charcoal brazier is placed in each corner of the room.
Of course, you have to pay attention to the ventilation of the room.
After dinner was ready, Lu Changge went into the room and asked the father and son to come out for dinner.
When he entered, Erbao had just been put to sleep by his mother's father, so he shouldn't wake up in a short time.
There is no ground dragon burnt in the main room, so the temperature will be lower than that in the house.
Lu Changge put on clothes for the dumpling, and asked his wife to wear more too.
After getting dressed, Xiaotuanzi couldn't wait to run out.
However, after walking into the main room, he found that the candied haws that he had to look at before three meals a day for the past few days were gone!
"Daddy!"
Xiaotuanzi pointed to the place where the candied haws were originally placed, and turned to his father who came in, saying, "The candied haws are nowhere to be seen! Did a mouse steal it?"
"No, daddy put it outside."
When Xiaotuanzi heard the words, he immediately ran to the yard to watch, and came back after a while.
"No! There's only Boo Boo on it!"
"It's inside, Daddy covered it with a cloth to keep it from getting dirty." Lu Changge scooped up a bowl of soup for his wife and explained by the way.
"Tuanzi sit down, it's time to eat." Seeing that he wanted to go out for another look, Su Qingyun called the little guy to stop.
"Oh." Xiaotuanzi hurried back to his place as soon as he heard that he was about to eat.
Lu Changge carried Tuanzi onto his exclusive high chair and helped him put on the scarf.
Then he scooped up a bowl of mutton that had been stewed so soft.
"Sir, what are you going to do tomorrow?"
"To make dumplings, the meat to be eaten during the Chinese New Year should also be prepared in advance." Lu Changge said as he picked up a piece of meat for his wife.
"I still have to pack it!" The dumpling next to him said in a vague voice while eating the meat.
"Okay, I'll make some buns for you."
After dinner, Su Qingyun and Xiaotuanzi went back to the house.
Lu Changge packed up the dishes and put them in the basin for Er Teng to wash, while he brought three basins of hot water into the house.
After the father and son finished soaking their feet, they lay back on the bed and went to sleep.
No.20 six days in December
Lu Changge is going to make all the dumplings for Chinese New Year today.
There are three types of dumpling fillings: pure meat fillings, vegetarian fillings, and mixed meat and vegetarian fillings.
Pure meat has beef filling, pork filling and lamb filling.
The mix and match includes chive and shrimp filling, chicken and bamboo shoot filling, and cabbage and pork filling.
Vegan only carrot stuffing and cabbage shiitake stuffing.
After adjusting the eight fillings, Lu Changge started rolling out the dumpling wrappers.
After finishing these preparations, it's already noon.
Lu Changge put away his things first, and then began to prepare lunch.
There was no rest after lunch, and I started making dumplings directly.
There are 60 dumplings each with eight kinds of fillings, and there are 480 dumplings in total.
It took Lu Changge an afternoon to wrap it up finally.
27 No.
Today's job is to deal with the ingredients needed for the New Year.
If you work harder now, you will be able to live more easily during the Chinese New Year.
Of course, Lu Changge dared to do this only if he had the memory, otherwise the chicken, duck and fish would be killed and eaten immediately.
In addition to processing all kinds of meat, vegetables also need to be washed.
Potatoes, taro, white radish, etc., cut into pieces, sliced and shredded, and cut everything that should be cut.
Then put the pots into the storage.
All the food and drink are ready, and the days are getting closer and closer to the end of the year.
Soon, New Year's Eve will arrive.
After breakfast, Lu Changge took out the couplets, window grilles and lanterns he bought earlier and put them in the main room.
Today, couplets and window grilles are going to be pasted up. Su Qingyun also came out to help after feeding Er Bao to sleep.
I bought five pairs of couplets to be attached to the gate, the main room, the main room, the west wing of Xiaotuanzi, and the kitchen.
Lu Changge originally wanted to buy four sets, but felt that the number four had a bad meaning, so he bought an extra set for the kitchen.
"Where should I post the couplet first?" Su Qingyun walked to Xianggong's side.
"I'll post the couplets, you go and paste the window grilles, and ask Dateng for help if you can't reach them."
Lu Changge picked out the couplet on the gate and the door god, and said.
"it is good."
When the group on the side heard it, they also said that they could help.
"Daddy! Erer and I hang up little lanterns!" Xiaotuanzi showed Daddy the little red lantern in his hand.
This little lantern was bought by Lu Changge and hung on the two fruit trees in the yard.
There are also two big lanterns in the corner, which are hung on both sides of the gate outside.
"Okay, you and Erto will hang small lanterns."
After the work was divided, Lu Changge posted the couplet door god, Su Qingyun and Dateng put on the window grilles, Xiaotuanzi and Erteng hung small lanterns.
After the division of labor is completed, start to work.
The little dumpling was too short to reach the branches, so Er Teng rolled up the dumpling and brought it up.
"Two Er, hang the nest there!" Xiaotuanzi held the small lantern in one hand, and pointed to where he was going with the other.
[good. ] Er Teng responded, and sent the little master to the location he pointed out.
After arriving at the place, Xiao Tuanzi hung up the small lantern in his hand.
After hanging it, he poked it with his finger, and the little lantern swayed back and forth with his movements.
"Good health!"
[Mmmmmmmm...it's really pretty. ] Er Teng said perfunctorily while hanging the lantern.
But still in time to send a new little lantern to the little master.
While paying attention to whether the little master has hung it up, Erto will give him a new small lantern in time, and at the same time hang up the lantern.
After all, I really have to wait for the little master to hang up, and I don't know that I have to wait until the year of the monkey.
In addition, it has to re-fix the small lantern that the little master hung up.
To be precise, the work of hanging the lanterns was basically done by Erto.
As for the little master, just be responsible and happy.
After the lanterns were hung up, Lu Changge also pasted up the couplets and door gods, and Su Qingyun's window grilles were almost ready.
After everything was done, Xiaotuanzi ran around the yard excitedly with a "wow".
Also ran to the gate to see the big lantern.
"Daddy, it's so healthy, it's all red!"
"The Chinese New Year is going to be prosperous, and the dumplings will wear new clothes tomorrow." Su Qingyun said with a smile.
"Is the clothes red too?" Xiaotuanzi seemed as if he wouldn't wear anything other than red.
"Correct."
After posting the couplets, Li Tugen and Li Xiaomin happened to come over, and each brought a basket of things in their hands.
Lu Changge didn't refuse, he just accepted it.
But when they went back, Lu Changge gave them each a basket of snacks and jerky.
After lunch, Lu Changge began to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner, and Da Teng helped.
As for Erto, he is busy taking care of his children, so he really has no time.
Tomorrow is the New Year, and the originally dreary atmosphere in the village has also been dissipated by the strong atmosphere of the New Year.
Lanterns were also hung in front of the gates of each household.
If the family is well-off, they will buy some red paper to fold small lanterns and hang them on the tree in front of the door.
The whole village looks prosperous and happy.
Xiaotuanzi held a candied haws in his hand, and carried a small satchel made for him by his mother's father, which contained many candies and biscuits.
Then he took Erhei out to show off with other children.
Xiaotuanzi played outside for a long time, and the candies and biscuits in the small satchel were shared before going home.
As the sky gradually darkened, Erto went to light the two big lanterns outside the gate.
Seeing Daddy bring dishes into the hall one after another, Xiaotuanzi rushed in.
"Wow! So much meat!" Saying that, Xiaotuanzi wanted to reach out for a piece.
"Tuanzi, you can't eat it yet." Su Qingyun hurriedly called out to him.
Tuanzi, who was caught by Mu's father, withdrew his hands behind his back with a bit of embarrassment on his face, "Tuanzi is not bad, and Tuanzi just wants to smell it..."
On the eve of New Year's Eve, we have to watch the year old, so this New Year's Eve dinner will last for a long time.
It's normal to eat from the moment you light up the lanterns until midnight.
Lu Changge specially prepared two hot pots, one with clear soup bottom, boiled chicken and carrots.
One is clear oil hot pot, which is made with peanut oil, chili and Chinese prickly ash. It is fragrant, spicy and delicious.
Lu Changge has a spicy taste.
It can be eaten without chili, but it tastes better with chili.
Xiaotuanzi saw that the other pot that Dad ate was delicious, so he wanted to try it too.
"Daddy, I want to do it again." Xiaotuanzi pointed to the pot in front of Daddy.
"It's too spicy, you can't eat it." Lu Changge shook his head and refused.
"Eat..." Xiaotuanzi's face grew more eager.
Children are like this, if they say they can't eat it, they just want to try it.
The more adults refuse.Children are more obsessed with it.
In the end, Lu Changge still brought him a piece of meat from a pan of clear oil.
Not surprisingly, Xiaotuanzi was so hot that his eyes watered.
"Are you still eating?" Su Qingyun on the side poured a cup of warm water for the dumpling and said with a smile.
"Time!" Xiaotuanzi took a sip of water, then continued to scoop up the piece of meat in the bowl.
I have to say that eating spicy food is also addictive.
After Lu Changge picked up three pieces of meat for the dumpling, he directly refused for the fourth time.
"Children can't eat too much spicy food."
Xiaotuanzi drooled with his teary eyes open.
After hearing what my father said, I could only immerse myself in cooking.
It's so spicy, hurry up and eat something to slow down.
Halfway through the meal, Erbao, who was sleeping in the room, woke up.
Er Bao didn't cry immediately after waking up, but turned around with his moist eyes open.
It wasn't until he realized that there was no familiar smell around him that Erbao opened his throat and howled dryly.
"Ah ah ah..."
Hearing Erbao's cry from inside the room, Su Qingyun put down her chopsticks reflexively, and was about to get up when she was pushed back into the chair by her husband.
"I'll go and hug it, you eat."
Carrying the child to the main room, Lu Changge fed him some milk, and then walked around the main room with him in his arms.
It was already an hour and a half after the child was put to sleep.
Lu Changge took the child back to the house and ate the second meal after returning.
And Su Qingyun and Xiaotuanzi were already full, and they were sitting over Nuanta playing puzzles.
After finishing eating, I cleared the table, and it was already around 09:30 in the evening and close to ten o'clock.
Lu Changge took a basket of melon seeds and nuts, and called the father and son into the house.
Tuanzi was very excited tonight, and he didn't feel sleepy at this point, pestering his father and father to play flying chess with him.
Flying chess is also a random reward for signing in before.
The chess board is made of a square cowhide, and the small chess pieces have four shapes of dragon, phoenix, tiger and turtle, and they are made of colored glass of different colors.
The whole dice is a cube of black jade, and the points on the six sides are dotted with rubies.
Xiaotuanzi didn't know if these were worth money, but he knew that this game was very fun.
Because the lucky value of the dumpling is extremely high, eight out of ten times it can be rolled to six points.
After playing for three rounds, Xiaotuanzi couldn't hold on any longer, and fell asleep directly on the quilt.
Su Qingyun on the side was also a little sleepy, her eyelids were constantly fighting.
"Sleep when you're sleepy." Lu Changge put away the flying chess.
"No, I have to watch the year..." Su Qingyun shook her head, trying to drive away the drowsiness, but it didn't work.
"I will guard."
As Lu Changge said, he hugged his daughter-in-law to the side of the bed, and hugged the dumpling in the middle, and then covered him with a quilt.
As soon as she touched the soft and warm quilt, Su Qingyun shrank into the quilt and fell asleep not long after.
……
On the first day of the new year, Lu Changge got up early.
[System, sign in. ]
[Ding—Successfully sign in on the 215th day of fleeing from famine, and get sign-in rewards: ten catties of rice, ten catties of flour, and ten catties of pork, beef and mutton.
Get a random reward for signing in: New Year's gift pack.
Rewards have been put into system space. 】
Seeing the rewards he got for signing in today, Lu Changge's first reaction was that there was a bug in the escape system.
[System, is there something wrong with today's famine escape system? ] Lu Changge said euphemistically.
[What's wrong? ] The system was puzzled.
[Sign in reward. ]
[ah?oh oh!Host, you said this, this is the special offer for the New Year, and it will return to normal in a few days. ]
The system took a look at today's sign-in rewards before reacting.
[It seems that you guys understand it quite well. ]
[Of course!Humanized service is a major feature of our check-in department. ] The system said proudly.
Indeed, even systems that are not human have wives, isn't it humane?
Lu Changge knew it in his heart, and secretly nodded in agreement.
After signing in, Lu Changge brushed his teeth and washed his face and started cooking dumplings.
Although Xiaotuanzi slept late last night, he woke up early thinking that he was going to go out to pay New Year's greetings today to ask for red envelopes and candies.
The first thing Tuanzi did when he woke up was to remove his pillow, and then he saw two big red envelopes at a glance.
Xiaotuanzi picked up the red envelope with a happy face, and then carefully got out of bed.
Lu Changge prepared the clothes he was going to wear today, and put them on the chair at the end of the bed
Xiaotuanzi's new clothes today are bright red, with gold ingots and copper plates embroidered with gold thread.
In addition to clothes and pants, there is also a pair of warm wool boots.
The hat is made of white rabbit fur, and it is attached to the fur gloves. It is not afraid that Tuanzi will not find it after taking off the gloves.
Putting on new clothes and a hat, Xiaotuanzi put the red envelope in the big front pocket, then tiptoed out of the room.
As soon as he went out, he saw his father coming out of the kitchen, and Tuanzi immediately ran over happily.
"Daddy, happy new year!" Tuanzi looked up at his father and shouted loudly.
Yesterday, Mu's father told him that if he saw other adults today, he should say happy new year to them.
Then they give candies or cookies.
"Well, go ask Erto to wash your face for you, and come over to eat dumplings after washing."
Seeing that his father left without giving him candy or biscuits, Xiaotuanzi looked bewildered.
Didn't you agree, give candies if you say happy new year, my father is lying!
After brushing his teeth and washing his face, Xiaotuanzi ran into the main room and said happy new year to his father again.
However, Daddy just responded and there was no other reaction.
Tuanzi couldn't help but said: "Daddy, Tuanzi Suo Happy New Year, why doesn't Daddy give you candies and biscuits?"
"It's over there, go get it yourself." Lu Changge pointed to the two plates of candy snacks on the other side of the low table.
This is for the children who will come to pay New Year's greetings later.
Xiaotuanzi subconsciously walked over when he heard what his father said.
However, it stopped after a few steps.
No, shouldn't it be given to him by his father?
"Daddy, you should be the one who gave it to Tuanzi."
Lu Changge: "???"
Does this make any difference?
Erto, who was on the side, saw the slow look of the master, and couldn't help saying: [Master, what the little master wants is the sense of ritual of asking for candies for New Year's greetings, why do you let the little master take it by himself? ]
Hearing Erto's words, Lu Changge looked down and saw the expectation in Tuanzi's eyes.
Seeing this, Lu Changge laughed inwardly, did he understand the sense of ritual at a young age?
"Okay, Daddy will get it for you." Lu Changge said, and walked over to grab a handful of candy biscuits.
Seeing that Daddy had taken a lot, Xiaotuanzi immediately opened his small satchel happily.
"Daddy, put it in the bag!"
"Here's the candy, can I have dumplings?" Lu Changge smiled lightly.
"It's wide!"
Xiaotuanzi sat on his chair and put on his scarf, but Mu's father did not come out.
"Father, Father Mu hasn't come here yet." Xiaotuanzi held the spoon in his hand and stared at the main house.
"Let's eat first, and Daddy will cook after your mother wakes up."
"Oh!"
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