As the Chinese New Year approaches, the sound of firecrackers in the village is always ringing.

Probably in that era, children had not much to entertain, and setting off firecrackers during the Chinese New Year was their greatest pleasure.

They would not set firecrackers in strings like modern times, but instead set them apart and set them apart one by one.

At that time, the family was generally not wealthy and could not afford it.

The children bought firecrackers, but they were all very precious. They took them apart, put them in their pockets, and set them down one by one.

Even if they are so frugal, they may not be enough for them to be allowed to celebrate the New Year. Often they are happy in the first day of the lunar calendar, and they will be clean when they are hot. When they are on the second day of the lunar calendar, they have to go to the door of their houses and pick up the adults and let go, and there is no sound.

Yao Yuan had such an experience when he was a child. Now, listening to the constant sound of firecrackers coming from outside, the sound of children setting off firecrackers, he couldn't help but feel a lot of nostalgia in his heart.

God gave him a chance and brought him back to this era, and he was lucky.

When it was just dark, the sound of firecrackers outside became dense, and there were strings of firecrackers mixed from time to time.

On New Year's Eve, there were no galas on TV, let alone TV.

It’s good for ordinary people to eat dumplings with meat filling at home, and there are no ones who prepare a sumptuous dinner like Yao Yuan.

Therefore, the dense sound of firecrackers will continue to ring through midnight, and adults and children will set off fireworks outside the house to keep up with the New Year together.

That is, when the sky started to get darker, Yao Yuan's dish began.

He stewed an aluminum pot on Aunt Jiang’s stove in advance, put a pot with a lid in the pot.

In the clay pot, there was a chicken that had been packed long ago, with red dates, chestnuts, onions and ginger seasonings. Without cooking wine, rice wine is used instead. The rest is oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and sugar.

Crock pots are lid and cooked in water. In this way, the flavor in the pot will not be lost and the taste will be much better than cooking directly in a pot.

This is called braised chestnut chicken, which he learned from the recipe he bought.

There was chicken stewed on Aunt Jiang’s stove, and Yao Yuan moved the rest of the dishes to his stove to cook.

He also made fried meat like Aunt Jiang. But his method of making fried meat is different from Aunt Jiang.

He added water to the starch, which was almost the same as porridge. He then beat two eggs with egg yolks inside, and used the bonding characteristics of the egg white to hang a thin layer of starch juice on the pork soaked with pepper water and salt in advance, then heat the oil in the pot until it smokes, and then put the meat that had been hung in the hot oil.

When the batter encounters hot oil, oily flowers immediately appear around it.

Before the meat was completely fried, Yao Yuan used a briquette to remove the meat. When the meat was cold, he put it in hot oil and fry it. Only then did he control the oil and put it on the plate. After the plate was filled, sprinkle pepper powder and let Meimei take it to Aunt Jiang's side.

The fried meat fried by Yao Yuan is bright in color, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and the surface is extremely thin on the outside, making it taste crispy and delicious.

The fried pork made by Aunt Jiang is not good. The thick layer of dough on the outside is almost the same as the dough cake. The meat inside has also lost its moisture and is hard to eat. And without the last seasoning of pepper powder, it is incomparable to what Yao Yuan made.

Meimei brought the fried meat here, and Aunt Jiang hugged her and was already waiting at the dining table. Kang Kang had a big belly and curled up his stomach, so he had to carry a chair to sit by the table.

Aunt Jiang stared at Meimei and put the plate on the table, then asked, "What is this?"

Meimei said with a expressionless face: "Fried meat."

Aunt Jiang muttered: "The meat I fried is white, why is it dark red when Dasha made it?"

He took a piece with his hand and put it in his mouth, immediately widened his eyes, and said to Kang Kang, "Well, it smells delicious!" and signaled Kang Kang to taste a piece.

Kang Kang also took a small piece into his mouth, and immediately said, "My real, he made it better than you."

At this time, Aunt Jiang took another piece and shook her mouth, and said casually: "Hurry up, try the meat fried by your father. This big fool, what else do you think he can't do? This one is more delicious than the restaurant!"

Shaking his teeth had grown all over, and he quickly finished the fried meat and immediately shouted: "Grandma, I want it more!"

Aunt Jiang took another piece and put it in her mouth.

Meimei stopped and said, "It's not time to start dinner, you have to eat it all!" After that, she also put a piece in her mouth, and then said, "My brother-in-law said that there are more delicious foods behind you. You are full now, and you will come up better later. Don't regret it if you can't eat it!"

Yao Yuan’s second dish is to peel the cooked eggs, cut a gap from it with a knife, then pick out the egg yolks inside, fill them with the adjusted meat filling, then wrap them in a paste and fry them in a oil pan and change their color and take them out to serve.

At this time, cut the eggs on the plate into four cloves, and the meat filling inside is cooked. Then, add some oil with a fried spoon, then add sugar and fry the color, and finally pour it on the eggs on the plate, and then add some garlic yellow. It is finished. It is called tiger skin egg.

This dish tastes sweet and delicious. The meat and eggs are cleverly matched, with excellent taste, full of color, aroma and taste, and is more delicious than the fried pork just now.

This time, Aunt Jiang was embarrassed to touch her mouth, so she only picked up a small piece of egg with chopsticks and shook it.

When Meimei came back, Yao Yuan had already started cooking the third dish, Crystal Elbow.

These dishes look good and delicious, but in fact, the cooking method is not difficult, the key lies in time and effort.

The chef who cooks a dish will know that an ordinary fried meat slice will have the heat, seasonings, and stir-frying evenly, which will affect the taste and color of the dish. All the cooking techniques will be used, which will really test a chef's level.

As long as you master the methods of these big dishes, you will usually make them as long as you know how to cook.

Yao Yuan was making New Year’s Eve dinner and wanted to make it delicious, so he didn’t dare to choose to cook. He didn’t have the ability to cook, so he could only choose these kung fu dishes.

At that time, people generally lacked oil and water in their stomachs, but instead preferred these big fish and meat.

Yao Yuan’s fourth dish is simpler. Put the eggs in a large bowl, add a small amount of water and stir well and put it in a pot to steam. After it is cooked, don’t move directly, then use a stir-frying spoon, add green onion and ginger to stir-fry some meat, pour it directly on a large bowl with the eggs, sprinkle with coriander and it’s done.

This is called hibiscus egg. When eating, stir the meat and the lower layer of cake together. It is fragrant but not greasy, and it is smooth and delicious.

After making these four dishes, Yao Yuan stopped cooking. After eating them later, he came over to make sweet and sour carp. There was also steamed eight-treasure sweet rice in the pot, and there was a chicken stewed on Aunt Jiang's stove over there. There were four adults and one child in total, so I couldn't eat these.

He first came out with Meimei, hung a long string of firecrackers in his yard, and asked Meimei to call her mother and sister to come over, and he was going to set off firecrackers.

After a while, Meimei shouted in the yard over there: "We are all afraid of this, so we can't go there, you can let it go!"

The firecrackers that Yao Yuan bought were all in the free market. The local firecrackers made by rural people made of newspapers were loud and loud when they set off.

Kangkang and Meimei were afraid of the noise. Even Aunt Jiang couldn't hear the noise, so she blocked her shaking ears with her hands and shouted to the door: "Let it go quickly, we can hear it here!" She asked Meimei to close the door again, fearing that she was scared.

Yao Yuan set off three strings of earthy firecrackers in succession, and the whole yard was covered with broken newspapers, so he stopped.

When Meimei heard that he stopped letting go, she ran over to join him, served the dishes, locked the door there, and came to Aunt Jiang's side.

At that time, during the holidays, many farmers in the countryside who could not live on could go to the factory and took advantage of the New Year to relax their vigilance and burglary. Therefore, even if there is no one here, the door must be locked.

Otherwise, in this environment where firecrackers are ringing everywhere, you may not be able to hear your door if someone breaks down your door.

Yao Yuan bought the size of an apple box this year, a whole box of firecrackers, and a lot of fireworks. He just wanted to celebrate in this year when everything was about to change and everything was about to start over.

Because starting from this time next year, the Third Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee will be held, and private sectors will be allowed to openly display his career.

Even if you have a good start this year, you can make a good fortune.

He went to Aunt Jiang's yard and set off three strings of earthy firecrackers, making the ground with snow-white broken newspapers.

Aunt Jiang and Kang resisted, but Meimei still closed the door and opened the door and let him enter the room after he was finished.

The chicken stewed on the stove in the room was already fragrant.

Yao Yuan went over, took the aluminum pot, paddled it with a rag, put the clay pot on the table, opened the lid, and a strong fragrance floated out, intoxicating.

On the table, Meimei had already opened Maotai and poured a teacup for Aunt Jiang and Yao Yuan. She drank the bottle of rice wine that Yao Yuan used to make cooking wine. Kang Kang took the child and could only drink boiled water.

Yao Yuan packed up the stove, sat down and picked up the wine glass, thinking of saying some auspicious words for the New Year.

Aunt Jiang couldn't wait to take the chopsticks, pick up a piece of chicken from the clay pot, take a bite and taste it by herself, nodding, "It smells so good!" Then she blew the remaining meat in her mouth and stuffed it into her shaking mouth, and said, "You stupid dad, you really do something like what you do. Try the chicken he made, it's the first time I know that this thing can be made so good!"

Meimei said to her mother: "Mom, can you make a fortune? We are all holding cups to celebrate you with New Year's greetings!"

Aunt Jiang looked at Meimei and smiled and said, "I'm not the one who feeds me this? Well, Dasha, just say whatever you want."

Yao Yuan asked her to disturb her and forgot a lot of thoughts again, so she had to edit the lyrics: "We wish my mother good health, happiness forever and a hundred years in the new year!"

Aunt Jiang brought up her wine, clinked the cups with everyone, took a sip, and put them down.

Then everyone took the chopsticks and started eating.

There was a small bowl in front of Yaosha. Aunt Jiang shook every dish in a small bowl, and when it was cold, she fed it. Yaosha had already reached into the bowl and started filling it in her mouth.

After everyone had a while, Yao Yuan said, "Mom, it's New Year's Eve, you should tell us a few words, right?"

Everyone looked at Aunt Jiang.

Aunt Jiang put down the chopsticks and hugged her, thinking about what to say. However, after thinking for a long time, she couldn't even think about what to say.

After a long time, tears fell again without speaking.

At this time two years ago, Yao Yuan was also sitting next to the stove, lowering his head to pick his nails, looking dazed. Aunt Jiang was so worried that she would not have the heart to celebrate the New Year!

At this time last year, my daddy was no longer stupid, and my parents were rehabilitated. However, life was not prosperous. I bought high-priced food and spent the remaining little money on some delicious food, so I spent it all. Their life was still difficult, and there was no difference between the New Year and on weekdays, just eating an extra meal of dumplings.

Now, they finally got through it!

Thinking about the past suffering scenes, it seemed like yesterday. Aunt Jiang's heart was overwhelming, and the ups and downs of sweetness, bitterness and saltiness surged into her heart.

In these tears, there are bitterness and grievances, and happiness and sweetness, which cannot be stopped.

After everyone persuaded him for a long time, Aunt Jiang finally stopped crying and shouted: "God, we finally got through it and saw that it was dawn!"
Chapter completed!