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Chapter 35 Preparations before the New Year

"Speaking of bringing cigarettes, I really need your help next year." Xie Fugui's heart moved, thinking about the house he would build himself next year:

"In the spring of next year, I am thinking about re-building our house. The raw bricks inside will be replaced, and the beams in the house will be better. The palm beams are still used now, which is too dangerous.

Therefore, I thought that I would invite the master to come over and rebuild the house in the spring.

By then, tobacco and alcohol will be indispensable. You go to many places, and you know better than me where tobacco and alcohol are cheaper.

When you go out, help me bring five cartons of cigarettes, and I'll give you the money when you set off."

"Sure." Qin Qiang agreed.

For Qin Qiang, it was common for him to carry things for others on a daily basis, but now he was just carrying things for his uncle, so it was not an embarrassing thing.

"What are you talking about standing there? Let's go in and have a drink of water." Xie Chunfen came out with some sugar water to greet everyone.

Paying a New Year greeting is the first visit to your home in the new year, so the first cup of tea will definitely be sugar water, with deep blessings, hoping that the new year will be sweet and your life will be smooth and free of hardships.

Eating and drinking a glass of sugar water before the New Year's Eve meal is to show that the host's family has a good harvest this year. To put it simply, it is mainly for showing off.

Every household prepares sugar water for New Year greetings, but not every household prepares sugar water for New Year's Eve dinner. It is always prepared by families with better economic conditions.

There is no doubt that the conditions at Xie Chunfen's home are still good.

Xie Jingyan took a sip and had to say that Xie Chunfen put a lot of sugar in it.

Even in later generations, a cup of sugar water did not contain so much sugar. The bottom of the tea cup was still full of undissolved white sugar.

Regardless of her past life or future life, Xie Jingyan does not have very high requirements for sweets. In her previous life, the most sweet thing she ate was fruit. If it was synthetic, she would drink milk tea. In fact, she has not particularly liked pure white sugar water since she was a child.

However, she knew that Xie Chunquin was being polite to them, so she naturally did not waste it.

Fortunately, considering that we have to eat next, there is only half a cup of sugar water in one cup.

The New Year's Eve meal is very rich, including fish and meat. The main reason is that living standards have improved, so most people will have chicken, duck, and fish during the Chinese New Year.

At noon, it is at Xie Chunfenjia, and at night it is at Xie Qiufenjia.

On the 28th of the New Year, it was Xie Fugui’s family and Grandpa Xie’s family.

On New Year's Eve, everyone is at home.

On New Year's Eve, Xie Fugui's family has been busy since the morning.

"It smells so good." Xie Jingyan took a deep breath while looking at a small jar of minced meat with sweet noodle sauce, a jar of fried tofu and boiled meat, and a jar of braised fish fillets in the kitchen. The atmosphere of the Chinese New Year was still strong now.

Looking at the kitchen, there were originally piles of firewood at the door, but now they have been sorted out and a temporary storage table has been built.

There is a jar of salted crabs on top, and next to it is a clean basin with a chicken and a duck in it. They are boiled directly. When it is time to eat, they are cut into pieces.

shape, and then serve it on the table. When eating, just dip it in the local soy sauce and eat it directly. This is the white chicken and white duck here.

There are not many spices in it, so it is very original. However, the chickens and ducks here are usually raised by themselves, so even without the aid of spices, it is still very delicious.

In addition to these, there are also a lot of meatballs, fish balls, bell dumplings wrapped in tofu skin, and egg dumplings made of eggs placed on the fine sieve on the side.

Then there are some side dishes, such as winter bamboo shoots, spinach, pork skin, sprouts, leeks, etc.

In addition to these, there is a kind of snack that best reflects the local characteristics, that is dumplings, and today's protagonist is naturally indispensable for dumplings.

Tuanzi is a kind of glutinous rice balls, but it has one more braid than glutinous rice balls, which means reunion.

The fillings of the dumplings here are mainly sweet, usually bean paste and brown sugar filling, white sugar lard filling, brown sugar and sesame filling, or pure sugar filling. It depends on each family's preference.

Xie Jingyan's family all likes the aroma of sesame, so they want to wrap it with brown sugar and black sesame filling.

The dumplings are all freshly made on New Year's Eve and then cooked.

However, because it is glutinous rice food, children generally do not give more than four, as four represents four generations living under the same roof.

For adults, depending on their appetite, they can eat four or five if they are small, and ten if they are large.

There are good meanings during the Chinese New Year. The fourth is four generations living under one roof, the fifth is five blessings, and ten is perfect.

Of course, except for four and five, the others generally have even numbers, such as six, which represents six or six, and eight, which represents eight sides.

Anyway, the Chinese New Year is all about auspiciousness, and auspiciousness comes from whatever comes.

Xie Jingyan woke up early and followed Luo Jinlian in the kitchen.

Even Xie Ruyan, who always likes to run out, did not go out at this moment. Instead, he was sitting on the fire stool behind the large stove in the kitchen, waiting for the sweet potatoes to be simmered inside.

"Mom, let me learn how to make dumplings from you." Xie Jingyan looked at Luo Jinlian's skillful hands and the round and cute dumplings, and wanted to try it too.

There is a difference between glutinous rice flour dough and flour dough. The glutinous rice flour dough is indeed very glutinous when eaten, but it is not as soft as flour when wrapped.

Desserts made from flour can come in a variety of ways, mostly because the flour has a unique softness after fermentation.

Glutinous rice flour cannot produce this kind of softness, so the water ratio of glutinous rice flour and flour must be controlled well, and after kneading into a paste, the speed of wrapping the dumplings must be fast.

First roll it into a marble shape, then press it in the middle, turn and retract it with one hand, and quickly make it into a small bowl. Add the filling, put the small bowl between your thumb and index finger, and use both hands to

Use the pinching pressure of your fingers to seal the filling, leaving a small braid at the end, which is particularly cute.

However, it is easy to say, but not easy to make. If the noodle bowl is not done well, it will easily become thick on both sides and thin in the middle, and then the bottom will leak when you pinch it.

Luo Jinlian directly pinched a small amount and gave it to Xie Jingyan. She didn't expect Xie Jingyan to be able to wrap dumplings, but she allowed Xie Jingyan to learn how to do it.

In her concept, women will have to return to their families when they grow up, so they have to do it themselves during the New Year and festivals. It would be good for Xie Jingyan to learn how to make dumplings.

You have to learn how to make dumplings and rice dumplings.

Luo Jinlian learned good cooking skills from Luo Qishi at a very young age. She didn't expect Xie Jingyan to learn her own cooking skills, but she didn't want her to be an idiot in the kitchen.

"Knead it yourself and try it. If it's wrapped well, I'll give you another dose. If it's not wrapped well, you can eat the final product yourself." Here in Luo Jinlian, there is no such thing as food waste.

(End of chapter)