A Rural Life in the 70s

The third month of the twelfth lunar month, according to the custom of S province, is a 'small year'. After this day, it will officially enter the preparation process for the New Year.

In the early days, this day was still the day when the kitchen prince was sent to the heavens. Every household had uncovered the portrait of the kitchen prince who had posted for a year, and put it on the mouth of the prince of the stove, let him say good things to God, and then sent the stove prince into the stove. The stove prince went back to the heavenly report.

After breaking the old four, it is rare to stick the stove prince, and all kinds of old customs have been simplified, and only the food will not be disappointed. The Song family business is busy, there is no time to do too many too complicated dishes, Zhong Yuqin and Xiao Qiu Niang are both home, hands and feet and glutinous stuffing, and when the people come home, they have already wrapped up four or five. Cover curtain dumplings. Stuffing is the most common cabbage pork stuffing in northern winter, but because of the meat, the seasoning technique is also superb, and the most plain cabbage pork dumplings are also aroma, and they are happy and satisfying.

Xiaoqiu took out a can of plum wine, gave it to the old man and his wife, and gave it to Chengjiang to pour the small ones. The family ate and sipped and said, laughing and happy. It was in the S province. As the saying goes: Dumplings are on the wine, the more you drink, the more you wow!

Twenty-three sugar melon sticks, twenty-four sweeping the house, twenty-five grind tofu, twenty-six stewed lamb...

As the calendar goes by, the year is getting closer.

On the fourth month of the twelfth lunar month, Liu Fangfang was taken to the Zhaofeng Garden by Song Xiulian to see the accounts. Xiaoqiu and Qiao Xi stayed to help Zhong Yuqin clean. When Qin Lan had eaten breakfast, he drove to Zheng Qiu Shi, who took over the New Year in the city.

It was snowing the night before, not too big, but also three or four centimeters thick. After the snow, the temperature plummeted. After the snow was compacted, it became ice and the road surface was particularly slippery. It took only two hours to go to the provincial capital. After the road freezes, the time spent may double or even more.

Zhong Yuqin usually loves to clean, and the room is cleaned up. Xiaoqiu takes Josie and moves it. It is not tired, and there is no common violent dust. It is easy to finish in one morning. It is.

I sent lunch to Zhaofengyuan, and took Liu Fangfang back to rest. In the afternoon, Xiaoqiu and Josie went to Zhaofeng Garden to help.

On this day, the wholesale orders were all completed, and the welfare orders used by the units were all completed. Everyone was relieved.

Xiaoqiu, when they returned home, they were already in the palmlights. They went to pick up Zheng Qiushi and others, and they haven’t arrived yet. Fortunately, at noon, Xiaoqiu received a call from Qin Lan, saying that the road slipped slowly, but safety can still be guaranteed.

The family washed and arranged, and then prepared the rice bowl with the chopsticks. Finally, the motor sound of the car came from the gate. Wang Limin first got up and greeted him. Then, Song Shengshu and the children also put down their work and greeted them. .

The car has stopped at the gate, Zheng Qiushi's face is ruddy, wearing a lead gray down jacket to get off the bus, seeing Song Shengshu quickly smile and walk a few steps, the two hands in one place, Zheng Qiu Shi haha ​​smiled: "Old brother I am bothering again."

Song Shengshu smiled and said: "What foreign language is said, we don't need these old people to go, go to the advanced house, have a good meal, and talk while eating."

This evening, Song Shengshu took out the Maotai liquor of Wang Limin's filial piety, and Zheng Qiushi's two brothers guarded the warm wine jug, one person and one small donkey, while drinking while drinking, Zhong Yuqin and Xiaoqiu were all small. After leaving, the two songs of the Song Shengshu Zheng Qiu Shi on the table are still sipping, and Wang Limin has been laughing and sitting with his hands.

This time, Xiaoqiu brought back the sculptures and the video tapes on the beach.

The work of Zhaofeng Park was basically completed, and everyone was relieved. They also had the heart to play and watch TV. So, the video of the shooting sculpture was brought to the beginning.

Xiaoxia Xiaodong and Chenggui are three small, Chenghe, which are inevitably attracted at once. Even after seeing it again, Josie sat in front of the TV and watched his dedication and could not turn his eyes.

Xiaoqiu quietly walked out of the house and went to the small warehouse in front to help Zhong Yuqin pack some of the collected souvenirs and prepare them to be dispersed in Beijing.

There are S province specialties dried persimmons, golden silk jujube, traditional roast chicken, Boshan meat chop, good golden hooked seaweed, dried salty squid, noodle fish, sea rabbit, dried scallop, scallop column, and real wild The sea cucumbers that have been caught are scattered in most of the house.

Xiaoqiu looked at so many things, and smiled in his heart. He explained with a whisper in a whisper: "This time, the scorpion is going back by train, so many things he can't bring, it's better to pick a few, let him bring back to express a meaning, When we return to Beijing after the end of the year, we will bring the rest back..."

Zhong Yuqin frowned slightly and said: "I have prepared what you are going back..."

Xiaoqiu really couldn’t help but laugh, took Zhong Yuqin’s arm and smiled and said: “Hey, our days are only a few days, how can we be so extravagant. These things, I and the nephew are enough. The rest, you leave some for Xiao Xiao and Xiao Yan... Xiao Yan came back and walked around and used it. Otherwise, so many things will be brought to Beijing, and it will be bad if you can't eat it. What a pity."

Zhong Yuqin sighed his granddaughter and sighed and shook his head. "You have always had an idea for your gimmick. You will be the master of this time... Since you pick a few, you should first cook the chicken, the meat and the sea cucumber. The fish, sea rabbits, and scallops are brought back, and the cooked meat can't be kept. The fish and sea rabbits are good for cooking in the New Year."

The two mothers negotiated properly, and they were packed and returned to the house together.

When I entered the house, I saw Zheng Qiushi being answering the phone. He smiled and said with a microphone: "...I knew that I would wait for two days, come with your car, save the train station, you don't know, I don't know. The old arms and the old legs are almost scattered. What? You are also on the train? Yes, OK, the little guys have opened a loaf of bread, and let them go to the station early to wait. Um, um, OK. I handed the microphone to Limin, Xiao Wu, you have something to say to him."

While smiling and handing the microphone to Wang Limin behind him, he smiled and said: "Xiao Wu still thinks about your hare!"

"That's easy to handle," Wang Limin said with a smile. He took the phone and went to laugh. Hehe greeted the other party. "It’s not easy to set a rabbit. It’s a hand to come. Now everyone from all walks of life is busy doing business, no. A few of them have to work hard, and there are so many wild rabbits in the field. If you go anywhere in the field, you can pick up a few more, and many of them are going to be catastrophic."