After I Lost My Job, I Went Home To Farm

As the New Year is approaching, all the villagers who have gone out to work have returned to the village. The once cold village has become very lively, and the sound of children laughing and slapsticking and the sound of gun battles can be heard everywhere.

Every household in the village hung up red lanterns and splendid lanterns, and the whole village looked beaming.

The Gu family is no exception. Two big red lanterns are hung on the gate, and there are also a few small lanterns wrapped around the pear tree in the yard. When the lights are plugged in at night, they flash and flash, and they must be very dazzling.

"There's a New Year's atmosphere." Grandma Gu looked at the cheerfully furnished home, her eyes narrowed with laughter. In the past, Nannan had to wait until the New Year's 30 to come back every year, and she, an old woman, didn't have the leisure to arrange these things.

Now I feel that these decorations are strangely beautiful in this dilapidated courtyard. The most important thing is to see the festivity, and I feel happy in my heart, "It looks like our home is not so old."

"It's not old." Gu Yinan looked at his small courtyard. Although the courtyard has been built for more than 20 years, grandma has always cherished this courtyard. Only some green moss on the outer wall is fresh, but it also has a little more vitality.

Grandma Gu shook her head, "The furniture in the house was bitten by mice, and the ground in the kitchen was also dug a big hole by Xiao Huang."

"Grandma, we'll redecorate the interior of the house after the new year, and then replace it with a new set of furniture." Gu Yinan wanted to replace all the doors and windows in the house, and lay the floor along the way.

"It will cost a lot of money." Although the granddaughter can make money, Grandma Gu is still reluctant.

Gu Yinan said, "Grandma, we just need to live comfortably."

Grandma Gu was silent for a moment, she felt that she shouldn't be so petty, she seemed too new to the world, she could spend the money her granddaughter made as she liked, and she always said that spending money would be too stingy, "You can just decide. good."

Seeing that grandma agreed reluctantly, Gu Yinan couldn't help laughing: "Then I will study and choose a style you like."

Grandma Gu thought for a while: "If I want, I like the blue tiles and blue bricks in our yard. I don't like the bells and whistles in the city."

Gu Yinan hummed, "Then I'll look for it and show you the bells and whistles."

"Okay." Grandma Gu continued to sit on the chair and pick out the soaked soybeans. Suddenly, a cannon sound came from outside the yard, which startled her.

During the New Year period, children are relatively well-off, and they like to buy a box of guns for a dollar to play. It’s okay to just play in the open space, but some children are playful and like to tease people, which is hard. The timid girls and the old people with bad hearts suddenly banged around, and the souls were scared.

"Who is setting off a cannonball outside?" Grandma Gu got up and walked to the gate of the courtyard, watching a few children standing on the bluestone path outside her yard playing a cannonball fight, "Don't throw the cannonball into the vegetable field, it will damage my vegetables. I'll pay you back."

The child was also afraid of losing money, so ignoring her grandmother, she ran towards the small road in the fruit forest, and then played gun battles along the road.

After the children walked away, Grandma Gu sat back on the chair: "Every time during the Chinese New Year, these children always like to shoot guns, and they don't know what to do. Their parents don't even look at them. What about people?"

Gu Yinan glanced at a group of children playing on the small road in the distance. How could their parents control them? These children also want to play when they see others playing, maybe even more than who has the highest blast.

"It can be considered as picking it up." Grandma Gu handed the big soybeans to Gu Yinan, "Hurry up and grind the beans, and make tofu later."

Gu Yinan took the soybeans and was about to go to the kitchen when he suddenly heard a loud noise from the direction of the small road, and then heard the sound of a child crying.

"What's the matter?" Grandma Gu hurriedly walked to the gate of the yard, squinting at the direction of the road, but she couldn't see anything clearly from the distance, and she was a little worried in her heart. What happened? "You go and see, but don't let anything happen."

Gu Yinan looked at the direction of the crying, and vaguely saw several adults running over: "Someone has passed, it should be fine."

Grandma Gu retracted her gaze, "It's fine if someone goes there, we won't get involved."

I thought it was just the child who was frightened by the sound of the cannonball, but in the evening, I found out that the child threw the cannonball into the tightly covered manure pond.

The child in the gun battle was directly blown away by the air flow, and has now been sent to the county hospital for treatment. The other children who were far away were splashed with feces and washed several times at home to remove the stench. Wash clean.

The village chief also used the village's loudspeaker to give a solemn warning: "Everyone should take care of their children. If something happens, even the New Year will be uneasy."

"I'll just say there's going to be an accident in the cannonball battle." Thinking of the kid who was still alive and kicking not long ago, he was injured and hospitalized in a short while, Grandma Gu felt very uncomfortable, "If I'm a mother, I'll have to give him a shot when he's injured. Don't you think it's too long a life to throw it into a septic tank that has been built so tightly?"

Gu Yinan has no feelings for other children, but feels that the world is too impermanent, "After this time, they will definitely have a long memory."

Grandma Gu snorted: "It's not a long memory, it's better to have a barbecued pork!"

"Grandma, I'm going to grind the beans." Gu Yinan walked to the kitchen with the soaked soybeans, washed the beans and put them into the soy milk machine to make soy milk. After a while, all the soaked beans were ground into pulp.

Originally, Grandma Gu wanted Gu Yinan to use a stone grinder to grind soy milk, but now looking at the soy milk that has been polished, she thinks it is better to use a soy milk machine, as the grinding is delicate and fast.

After grinding the soy milk, you need to filter it with gauze cotton cloth. Pour the filtered soy milk into the pot and cook slowly. When it boils, skim off the scum, add brine in proportion, and pour it into the tofu after it is slowly formed. In the prepared square wood grinder, compact the tofu, and then put a heavy object on it to press it down.

Waiting for the shape, Gu Yinan put the filtered bean dregs into a large bowl, added eggs, flour, a little minced meat, leeks, salt, five-spice powder, etc., and stirred evenly, then put the pancakes in the pan, slowly one by one. Slow fry until golden brown and ready to serve.

The bean dregs cake that just came out of the pot is fragrant and crispy. It has the bean fragrance of soybeans, the egg fragrance of eggs, and the fat fragrance of fatty meat. When you take a bite, your mouth is full of crispy fragrance, which makes you want to eat more and more.

"Xiang." Grandma Gu likes to eat fatty meat, so she likes this mouth-watering bean dregs cake so much that she can't stop eating a few in a row.

Gu Yinan picked up the remaining bean dregs cakes and put them on the top of the cabinet, "Grandma, don't eat too much, be careful."

Grandma Gu has the expression of how you waste food, "It won't taste good when it's cold."

Gu Yinan said: "It's not good to eat too much fried food."

Grandma Gu sighed in her heart, she can't eat anything, what's the meaning of life?

The little yellow who was lying on the ground stared at the bean dregs cake, grandma can't eat it for me!

Grandma Gu looked at Xiao Huang who was screaming: "Then you feed two Xiao Huang, Xiao Huang has been watching for a long time."

Gu Yinan glanced at Xiao Huang, "Okay, let Xiao Huang eat two."

Xiao Huang opened his mouth with the bean dregs cake in his mouth and ran back to his nest to taste it slowly, without giving Grandma Gu a look.

Grandma Gu sighed, this white-eyed wolf!

After Gu Yinan distributed the bean dregs cake to Xiao Huang, he took out the ribs and pork belly. After cutting them, he added eggs, starch, salt, pepper powder, etc. After stirring evenly, he started to fry the crispy meat. Eat all the crispy meat that was fried before. It's gone, and now I'll fry another five kilograms.

While Gu Yinan was frying, grandma ate it secretly, nodding from time to time and commenting: "Fried well."

"Grandma." Gu Yinan helplessly looked at the grandma who could steal and eat so happily with one hand, how could she still act like a child?

"Just eat the last piece." Grandma Gu wiped her mouth and said casually, "You continue to fry, and you have to prepare other dishes after frying."

In previous years, it was Grandma Gu who prepared the meals. This year, because Grandma injured her hand, she could only do it by Gu Yinan. The new head chef felt that there were only two people in the family, so there was no need to do too much, but the previous chef disagreed. It must be said that there must be plenty of vegetables and meat in the new year, so that there will be no shortage of food in the coming year.

Gu Yinan could only follow his grandma and cook according to grandma's request. After preparing the required dishes, his face was shiny and his body smelled of oily smoke. If Xia Xing saw it, she would have laughed and said that she had changed from a little fairy to a greasy aunt.

Although they had prepared the dishes, they were celebrating Chinese New Year at noon, so they had to get up early to cook the next day. After a simple breakfast, Gu Yinan took out the tofu he made yesterday, cut it into small pieces, and simply fried it. After both sides are golden brown, it is used to make 'tofu buns'. In some places, it is also called pregnant tofu, meat-filled tofu clips, and the names are different.

The method of 'tofu buns' is very simple. Use a knife to make a slit in the middle of the tofu, and then pour the prepared meat filling into it, and then use it to cook after all the filling is done. In fact, you don't need to fry the tofu cubes, just frying it a little can make the tofu not easy to break, and it will taste more fragrant.

After making the 'tofu buns', Gu Yinan made egg dumplings with the remaining meat stuffing. After all the sausages, bacon, steamed pork, crispy meat balls, salty roasted whites, and sweet roasted whites were prepared earlier. Wait for steaming together.

In addition to these dishes, Gu Yinan also made cold dishes and hot dishes according to grandma's instructions. The hot dishes must include braised chicken, braised fish, and a pot of pork trotters, bones, seaweed and radish soup.

Although it looks like there are quite a lot of varieties, but Gu Yinan is afraid that he won't be able to finish it, so he cooks a small amount of each, just enough for two people, and he doesn't worry about wasting it.

By the time everything was done, it was already 12 noon. At this time, the sound of firecrackers rang out in the village one after another.

After lunch, the villagers would visit each other in the afternoon, and in the evening they would go home by themselves. After dinner, the whole family would watch the gala in front of the TV.

With the broadcast of the gala, the mobile phone vibrated from time to time, and many congratulatory messages sent by people who were frequently contacted and who were not contacted often were similar in content.

Gu Yinan picked it up a few times, and then continued to watch TV with grandma. Grandma couldn't take her eyes off her, but she was leaning on the sofa in a boring way, holding her cheeks and looking out at the yard, the rows of white lights. , like the twinkling stars, a bit romantic.

Gu Yinan picked up his mobile phone and took a photo, sent it to the circle of friends, and said a happy new year.

Xia Xing quickly commented on her: "Happy New Year dear."

After commenting, Xia Xing sent another WeChat message to Gu Yinan, "Also watching TV with grandma?"

Gu Yinan said yes, "Happy New Year."

"Let's have fun together." Xia Xing sent Gu Yinan a picture of the snow outside the window, "Look at the snowman I built today, isn't it cute?"

Gu Yinan looked at the fat snowman in the photo and said it was cute against his heart.

Xia Xing added: "I really envy you, there is no need to sweep snow in winter."

Gu Yinan smiled back to her: "But I don't have heating here, I rely on my uprightness to resist the cold."

Xia Xing thought of the joke on the Internet: "Is it basically relying on shaking to keep warm?"

Gu Yinan did not rely on shaking to keep warm, she directly turned on the air conditioner to keep warm.

Seeing her solemn reply that the group was heated by the air conditioner, Xia Xing collapsed on the sofa with a smile, causing the grandparents, grandparents, uncles and aunts of the Xia family to look back at her, worried that she would suddenly go crazy.

Xia Xing retracted his legs and sat upright: "I just saw a joke..."

The phone rang again, Gu Yinan looked at it, and found that Song Huai had sent him a Happy New Year.

The corners of Gu Yinan's lips rose slightly. It turns out that the boss also relies on the mobile phone to manage the relationship? Quite dedicated, "Mr. Song, Happy New Year."

Sitting in the deserted and spacious house, Song Huai looked at Gu Yinan's reply in seconds, and his heavy and lonely mood was inexplicably lightened by two points, "Miss Gu also has a happy New Year."

Gu Yinan has a good impression of Song Huai. In addition to the matter of grandma changing hospitals and sending vegetables, the two have been in contact more recently, "Has Mr. Gu had the New Year's Eve dinner?"

"I've eaten it." Song Huai celebrates the New Year alone every year. The nanny and auntie go home for the New Year after finishing the meal at noon.

Gu Yinan looked at the answer of such a straight man, and she didn't know what to say for a while. If she hadn't known that the other party had been very cold, she would have thought that the other party was perfunctory and unwilling to talk to her more.

At this time, several households in the village set off fireworks, and the fireworks were gorgeous and beautiful.

It was probably because the fireworks were so beautiful that Gu Yinan was in a good mood. After thinking about it, she returned to Song Huai and said, "Fireworks are being set off outside, and the fireworks are beautiful."

Song Huai raised his head and looked out of the glass window. He could see the fireworks show on the property from a distance. At this moment, he also felt that the ordinary fireworks looked a little better than he imagined, "It's a coincidence, I'm also setting fireworks here."

Gu Yinan pursed his lower lip and smiled: It's quite a coincidence.