Chapter 39 39. New Year’s Eve dinner and New Year greetings

"Yizheng, go and get the frozen lamb chops and lamb hooves. Let's eat them all tonight. Yijing, take Yikang to the private plot in the backyard to pick some lettuce and radish. Yirong, you bring them back.

Boil water with fire, we will use it later."

In the kitchen, Lin Qingxi rolled up her sleeves and began to order Lin Yizheng and the other four to do things. Immediately afterwards, the five of them got busy.

Before the fire was lit, Lin Qingxi scooped up two bowls of cornmeal and served it, planning to make steamed buns to eat later.

As soon as they made the noodles, Xiang Yijing and his brother came back from picking vegetables. Lin Qingxi asked them to wash the vegetables with hot water from the copper kettle on the coal stove, and then she started to fiddle with the mutton chops that Lin Yizheng brought over.

And the sheep's hooves were thawed in warm water.

Lin Qingxi took a piece of bacon from the hanging basket and cooked it in an iron pot. After about ten minutes, she took out the bacon slices, took out a piece of sauerkraut lump from the sauerkraut vat, washed and chopped it, and then

Cut off a handful of garlic leaves and set aside.

Pour water into a large iron pot and bring it to a boil. Lin Qingxi took advantage of the boiling time to fish out a large carp from the large water tank, scraped the scales and changed it into a cutter, and then marinated it with ginger slices.

After the water boiled, Lin Qingxi poured the hot water into the copper kettle, poured the remaining hot water into a wooden basin, then poured oil into the pot, fried the fish first, and then put the hot water in the wooden basin.

Pour water into the pot, add ginger slices and a pinch of salt, cover the pot, and steam the fish.

Next, Lin Qingxi fried the lamb chops and stewed the lamb trotters with radish. As for the lettuce, she planned to eat it raw and fried the sauerkraut dumplings.

It was getting dark, and Lin Qingxi prepared six dishes, namely stewed lamb trotters with radish, lamb chops, braised fish, pickled cabbage dumplings, steamed bacon and lettuce.

After dinner was ready, the family moved to the main room. Lin Qingxi did not light the oil lamp, but took out two flashlights and put them on the table. The whole main room was very bright under the light of the flashlights.

"We are a family of five. I have prepared six dishes. It's okay if you can't finish them all. Leftovers are allowed today. Tomorrow is the new year. I wish our family better times in the future," Lin Qingxi said, adding

The lamb chops were torn open and each person was given a piece of lamb chop.

“Getting better and better!”

Hearing Lin Qingxi's words, even the youngest Xiang Yikang was very happy. They were all children of poor people who had already headed their own families. When Lin Yirong and the other two were just born, they only stayed with their parents for a month or two, and later they became

Brought up by Lin Qingxi.

Compared to their parents, they have the best relationship with Lin Qingxi and like her the most. This is why they would rather follow Lin Qingxi to Zhoujiatun than go to the frontier to live with Lin Qingping and his wife.

After eating, Lin Qingxi took Xiang Yijing to put away the dishes. Lin Yizheng took Lin Yirong and Xiang Yikang to wash up. After they finished washing, Lin Qingxi and Xiang Yijing were there.

The five of them took a shower and put on new clothes. The family of five sat in the main room, chatting and watching the New Year.

When it was almost early in the morning, Lin Qingxi saw that everyone was sleepy, so she didn't continue to watch the New Year's Eve. Instead, she locked the door and took everyone back to their rooms to sleep.

Lin Qingxi got up early on the first day of the new year. She went directly to the kitchen to light a fire to prepare breakfast. There were some leftovers last night. She heated them up, then steamed ten large meat buns and cooked another one.

Pot sweet potato porridge.

As soon as breakfast was prepared, Lin Yizheng and the four of them got up one after another. Everyone took turns to wash up and then started eating.

After breakfast, Lin Qingxi took the dishes and chopsticks to the kitchen and put them away. The custom of Zhoujia Village is that on the first day of the new year, you can light a fire in the kitchen to prepare breakfast, but you can't use the knife or broom, and you can't scold the children or wash the dishes and chopsticks.

, you have to wait until the second grade of junior high school to do it, so that this year can go smoothly.

"Yizheng, this is a red envelope for the four of you. You can save it yourself. The things in the basket are for you to pay New Year greetings. You go to the village chief's house first, then to the second uncle's house, and finally to the great-grandpa's house. You know

Is it done?"

Lin Qingxi put things into the basket as she spoke. She prepared three cloth bags, each of which contained half a packet of toffee, a pound of brown sugar, a dried hare and six meat buns.

"I got it, aunt, we'll remember it," Lin Yizheng nodded. This was his first time to pay New Year greetings. Although he felt a little uneasy, as a man of the Lin family, he had to stand firm so that he could support his sister-in-law in the future.

"Okay, you go! Keep an eye on your younger brothers and sisters. If Yikang can't walk, let him go to his second uncle's house and let him follow his second uncle to his great-grandfather's house to pay New Year's greetings."

Lin Qingxi nodded. She didn't need to go to pay New Year's greetings. After all, several of her apprentices were coming to pay New Year's greetings to her today, and several families in the village would also come to pay New Year's greetings to her, so she had to stay at home to greet everyone.

Lin Qingxi thought well. Although the Lin family was an outsider, they were also relatives in the village and could barely be considered one of her own. But after learning about Lin Qingxi's extraordinary medical skills, especially after leading everyone to collect medicine and make money, the Lin family became her own family.

Yes, everyone admires her from the bottom of their hearts. She will definitely come back to pay New Year greetings on the first day of the new year. If nothing else, Zhou Jihong and the others will definitely come.

Lin Qingxi used a copper kettle to boil a pot of brown sugar ginger tea and warmed it directly on the coal stove. Then she took the thermos kettle and a few bowls to the main room, put the things down, and Lin Qingxi took some melon seeds and peanuts on a plate.

Candy and other snacks came out and were placed on the low table in the main room. Then they added firewood to the kang bed in the main room, and then sat in the main room and waited.

Lin Qingxi didn't wait long, Zhou Jihong and others came to pay New Year's greetings to the Lin family one after another. She sealed each person a red envelope worth 50 cents, poured a bowl of brown sugar ginger tea, and randomly checked that everyone had memorized a section of the textbook.

I grabbed a few handfuls of snacks and stuffed them into their pockets, then sent everyone home.

Of course, the reason why Lin Qingxi was so generous was because the New Year gifts they brought were very generous. Each family was given a piece of meat of about two kilograms and a fish of three or four kilograms, as well as some vegetables and fruits produced in their own land.

food.

When they first became apprentices, the six apprentices and five families agreed to give Lin Qingxi fifty kilograms of grain a year, twenty yuan and other things as tuition fees, which would be given to Lin Qingxi on the first day of the new year every year.

come over.

Lin Qingxi couldn't refuse, so she readily agreed, but she became more serious and serious when teaching.

After the six apprentices left, other people in the village also came to Lin's house to pay New Year's greetings. Those who came brought some things from home, more or less their own wishes. Next door, Zhou Guilin also brought his wife and daughter.

A family of four came.

People who came to pay New Year's greetings sat at Lin's house for a few minutes and then went back. Even Zhou Guilin's family sat at Lin's house for about ten minutes, said many words of gratitude, and then went back.
Chapter completed!