On the 29th day of the month, the employees in the manor happily took Cen Jiahua's New Year red envelopes to celebrate the New Year. {p)

Since the beginning of this year, I have not only been easier to work here, but also have a lot of income, which makes the employees very satisfied. In particular, some employees from Rongshu Village are very happy about the changes in their own homes in the village.

As for Li Hong, Mo Laodu and others had already left the manor a few days ago and returned to the provincial capital. If it weren't for reuniting with their families and grandchildren during the Spring Festival, they wouldn't be happy to stay away from this beautiful place and return to the city to receive air pollution.

However, they will still come back after the New Year's Eve. After all, they are already used to everything here, and they can be considered as a safe retirement here.

After the last batch of employees left, the huge manor suddenly became empty and quiet. Apart from Cen Jiahua's grandparents and grandchildren, all kinds of pets and migratory birds were left active in the manor. They did not have any habit of celebrating the New Year. As long as there was enough food, they celebrated the New Year every day.

With the arrival of his family one by one, the building began to regain popularity and became lively again. With everyone's help, Cen Jiahua's preparation activities naturally made great progress and began to be carried out one by one in an orderly manner.

First, I posted New Year pictures and the characters "Fu" at home. The festive New Year pictures and characters "Fu" suddenly set off the atmosphere of the New Year. As for the Spring Festival couplets, the old man took action himself, and posted joyful couplets on the small building, restaurant, kitchen and manor gates.

Cen Yi is a little older and understands that the Spring Festival means you can wear new clothes and have delicious food. The most important thing is to set off firecrackers.

Therefore, he has always been very excited about the arrival of the Spring Festival, and he is running wildly all day long. Lulu's shop does not understand the true meaning of the Spring Festival, but she is also very happy to be with whoever she wants to be with.

With the joint efforts of the whole family, the entire building was decorated with joy, and the atmosphere of the New Year was well created.

In the late days, Cen Jiahua didn't make too much stuff. She just had some fresh meat slices and fish fillets with vegetables. The whole family happily surrounded the side stove.

This side is not the popular ground aluminum alloy edge furnace nowadays. It is an old-fashioned ground brass edge furnace. This is only available for the preparation of the land for this year's Spring Festival. This brass edge furnace is larger than the general ground furnace. It is just suitable for the needs of a whole family.

Although the wall of this brass side furnace is relatively thick, it takes a lot of time to boil. However, after boiling, it keeps boiling for a long time. It is very suitable for families in many places.

The next day was New Year's Eve. However, Cen Jiahua's family has lived in the city for many years and has not left much traditional habits. The Spring Festival is just about preparing for eating and drinking. For this reason, Cen Jiahua has made a lot of preparations before. He arranged a lot of ingredients and recipes, and was waiting to show everyone's skills at the New Year's Eve dinner.

When they woke up early in the morning, Cen Jiahua and others began to prepare various delicious dishes and various foods needed for the New Year’s Eve dinner. In the south, because their living habits are completely different from those in the north, they do not need to steam buns or make dumplings. Instead, they make rice dumplings and bacci.

Cen Jiahua has already prepared the raw materials for these things. She is waiting for her mother and sister-in-law to make them. Relatively speaking, it is easier to fry the rice. After all, Cen Jiahua has observed a lot of them in Pang Hong. This time, with my mother's guidance, she quickly prepared a pot of rice.

However, making zongzi is not an easy task. It pays great attention to details. Once it is not done well in one link, it will fail.

First, soak the selected glutinous rice, then take it out and stir it evenly with salt, so that the rice dumplings will not be dry and tasteless. The mung beans that have been ground in stone mills must also be soaked in hot water, so that the layer of green clothes outside can be rinsed off and turned into golden mung bean mashed.

Unlike the triangular zongzi wrapped during the Dragon Boat Festival, the zongzi wrapped during the Spring Festival are all big guys, usually about one pound. In some places, they even pack more than ten pounds of rice dumplings, and those are the fat people from the Zongzi family.

The Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings are usually made of reed leaves or bamboo leaves, but the material used for the big meat rice dumplings is a plant made of "chop leaf". This plant grows between mountains and ridges, with wide leaves and smooth and green, which is the best material for making rice dumplings. In addition, it contains a large amount of chlorophyll and basic acids that are beneficial to the human body. It has a fragrant smell and feels like returning to nature when you smell it.

Brewing rice dumplings is a very technical job. Not everyone is capable of it. Even the elder sister and sister-in-law can only help Cen's mother. First, they put three "chop leaves" half-overlapping on their knees, poured a small bowl of glutinous rice into the top, and then spread some mung beans in the middle, and put a piece of pork in it.

However, if you want to choose half-fat, thin pork with skin, it is best to choose close to the bottom of the pig, which is the best choice. After the pork is timid, the thickness of the thumb and the length of the chopsticks, marinate it with salt, five-spice powder, etc. for a long time.

In this way, a layer of mung beans, a piece of pork, and a layer of mung beans were finally covered with glutinous rice, and then they started to wrap. The zongzi was not made of rope, but dragon beard grass. After scalding it with hot water, the dragon beard grass becomes extremely strong.

The wrapped rice dumplings are a bit like a trapezoidal cylinder, which looks chubby and very cute. The rice dumplings are neatly arranged in a large pot, and then they start to be immersed in cold water and simmer over heat.

Generally speaking, it takes 6 hours to cook the rice dumplings. When the rice dumplings are cooked, the room is filled with the fragrance of glutinous rice, and the fragrance of "chop leaves" is mixed with. It is really unforgettable. However, now the rice dumplings are just on the pot, and it will take tomorrow morning to wait for food.

In previous years, Cen Jiahua has always watched the fun and eaten ready-made guys, but this year the situation has reversed. In previous years, when I was in the provincial capital for the New Year, there were always chefs and others making New Year’s Eve dinner, but this year everything depends on Cen Jiahua himself.

Lao Dou and the old man: However, they were watching TV and teasing their grandson, and they were waiting for the New Year’s Eve dinner that Cen Jiahua and his three brothers started.

Look, Cen Jiahua is busy killing chickens and ducks with his two brothers. The kitchen is full of lively scenes. In the custom in the south, it is impossible to kill animals on the first day of the Lunar New Year, so there are a lot of things to prepare for the New Year’s Eve dinner. After all, these things will take more than two days to eat.

I don’t recommend spending money on the first day of the New Year, saying that I am afraid that I will spend money all year round, so the New Year’s money will usually go down on the second day of the New Year.

Therefore, Cen Jiahua and his two brothers brought back fat chickens, ducks and big geese in the farm, which were sacrifices for ancestors. Then, the pheasant farm and the hare farm were hunting wild game. After all, if you are guarding such delicious food, it would be a pity not to eat it during the Chinese New Year. In addition, the lamb leg in the refrigerator and the carp that brother-in-law Romon fished are all ingredients that need to be cleaned up for the New Year’s Eve dinner.

With the help of several people, Jiahua did not seem too panic and carried it all the same. The delicious dishes were also delivered to the living room of the small building in plates. Soon, the dining table was filled with various delicious dishes, and the charcoal fire in the brass-side stove was already burning.

Most of them worked hard all year, aren’t they just looking forward to the family reunion today and have a lively reunion dinner?

There are so many delicious foods on the dining table tonight, but we have to continue eating them on the first and second day of the New Year, so these will not be a waste.

The incense and candles inside and outside the house have begun to light up, and a rich sandalwood begins to permeate the air. The flames on the candles on the incense burner are jumping from time to time, as if indicating this prosperous life.

At this time, firecrackers began to sound at the foot of the mountain, which were firecrackers set off by the farmers before the meal. These sounds that were vaguely recalled in the air were thinking about people's announcement that New Year's Eve was coming.

When Cen Jiahua finally took out a whole roasted goose from the oven and delivered it to the dining table, it means that the New Year’s Eve dinner tonight is already ready.

Cen Jiahua took off her apron and shouted, "Cen Yi, set off firecrackers!"

"Okay!" Cen Yi, who had been a little impatient, was ready and rushed out of the door with a large plate of firecrackers.

This is a firecracker that hangs 200 times on the balcony of the small building, and a long section is placed on the ground. There are plants and trees everywhere in the manor, so it is more dangerous to set off fireworks, but there is basically cement on the small building, so it doesn’t matter if you set off some firecrackers.

"I'm going to let it go!" Cen Yi, who was a little excited, squatted on the cement floor and shouted.

Cen Jiahua's sister and second sister-in-law quickly carried Lulu and Yuexin into the inner room and closed the door. After all, the child's eardrums were not very sound yet, but they could not withstand such loud noises.

Cen Yi ignited the fuse and immediately ran into the small building, covered his ears and lay at the door to watch.

The deafening sound began to sound, "crackling", with loud noises of big firecrackers mixed in between, which was really powerful. For a moment, a piece of red paper flew at the door, accompanied by thick fog.

The smell of sulfur gunpowder permeated the air, and a feeling of celebrating the New Year surged in people's hearts. When I was in the city before, I hadn't let go of such a big firecracker for a long time, and the smell of celebrating the New Year was faint. During the Spring Festival, if firecrackers were not set off, then the New Year would not have much flavor.

After the firecrackers were set off, the New Year’s Eve dinner officially began.

ps: Alas, work hard! Thank you for your support!
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