83. A sumptuous New Year’s Eve dinner

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and the Lin family is all here this year, but because Zhang Man and her son live at home, we discussed with the old Zhou family that the two families will come to the Lin family to celebrate the New Year together. After all, Zhang Man and her son cannot move easily.

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A few days before the Chinese New Year, it snowed heavily in the sky again. This year's winter seems to be extremely cold. The wind is biting outside, but the house is warm. Lin Qingxi filled the kang in each room with enough firewood.

Enough.

Early in the morning on the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, Lin Qingxi and Xu Linliu went to work in the kitchen. Xiang Yijing took the initiative to go into the kitchen to light a fire for them. Lin Qingping and Pingliu took the three brothers Lin Yizheng to deal with them in the yard yesterday.

A roe deer, a pig and about ten or twenty pheasants and rabbits were brought down from the mountain.

"Little sister, we have had a reunion this year. In the past few years, your brother and I were the only two people in the army. We all had the reunion dinner with everyone in the cafeteria. It was quite lively. After the meal, we all chatted.

Everyone will go back to their homes the next day," Xu Lin looked at Lin Qingping and the others in the yard with a smile.

"Sister-in-law, didn't my brother say he plans to become a professional? Let's see if he can come back to celebrate the New Year with us, or I can bring Yi Zheng and the others to you to celebrate the New Year," Lin Qingxi said nonchalantly.

Every day when people are together is a Chinese New Year.

"The relationship is good. Your brother has this intention. I don't know if the army will release him. With your brother like this, he is more likely to stay in the army." Xu Lin shook her head. She didn't have much hope for her husband's professional career.

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"It depends on the situation! Sister-in-law, when we eat dumplings tomorrow morning, you put the noodles on it first. After my brother has finished processing the roe deer, we will make dumplings stuffed with roe deer and eat them. We will make more meat buns and freeze them if we want to eat them.

Eat when you have time," Lin Qingxi said, the movements of her hands becoming more and more deft.

"Okay, little sister, do you want to send something to the next door?" Xu Lin pointed to the Zhou family next door. Logically speaking, it should be the Zhou family who sent the things. However, the Zhou family's situation is special, and Zhou Mingming doesn't understand.

At home again.

"Send it over! Let Yi Zheng send a pheasant and hare over later, and cut up a piece of about five kilograms of wild boar meat and two kilograms of roe deer meat to send over. We will keep the rest of the roe deer meat for ourselves, and let my brother do it later.

Cut four six-pound pieces of meat and send them to your uncle, second uncle, aunt, and the Zhang family respectively. I will keep the rest of the meat to marinate, and then I will take some of it to the army for you to eat."

Listening to Lin Qingxi's words, Xu Lin felt warm in her heart. In fact, they really didn't lack food and clothing in the army. After all, they were going to the battlefield at any time. How could the country lose money to them? It's just that they didn't have that much food.

That's all.

"You should also keep some more meat to eat. The four children are still growing, and you also need to eat. Don't let yourself suffer." Xu Lin shook her head. Her little sister values ​​​​love and was taught well by her parents. Although she is young,

Small, but experienced in doing things.

"I know, sister-in-law, you don't have to worry about me," Lin Qingxi said nonchalantly. She had a lot of food in her space, and she was not someone who would treat her badly.

The aunt and sister-in-law made lunch while chatting and laughing. The lunch was relatively simple. They stewed a chicken and cooked noodles, and then fried a plate of pickled beans and spicy rabbit meat.

After lunch, Lin Qingping and the others continued to prepare the game. Lin Qingxi rushed Xu Lin and Xiang Yijing to the main room to make dumplings and steamed buns, while she stayed in the kitchen to prepare for the evening reunion dinner.

Lin Qingxi first took out the fish she caught two days ago and the meat she got from killing the pigs. Because Lin Qingping went to help, she divided the fish into three large pieces and the meat into five kilograms. She also spent extra money.

I bought two big stick bones and a two-pound piece of lean meat.

The five kilograms of pork belly and fish were salted before, so there was no need to add salt this time. Lin Qingxi put the marinated fish and pork belly on hemp rope and hung them on the bamboo pole on the stove. These were made into cured fish and bacon.

Save it for next year.

Da Banggu stewed soup for Zhang Man to drink yesterday. Jin Dahua, the old Zhou family, also brought two pig trotters and two ribs. Lin Qingxi stewed them into soup for Zhang Man to drink. The ribs were stewed in soup the day before yesterday, and the pig trotters were stewed in soup the day before yesterday.

Just for lunch.

Lin Qingxi hung up the fish and meat, and also hung up ten rabbits. The pheasants were all raised in the chicken coop, and the stew was left for Zhang Man to stew. After all, she needed to replenish her body now.

Soon, everyone from Lao Zhou's family came over, and the Lin family's yard became even more lively. The men were all looking for work in the yard, and the women also went their separate ways. Jin Dahua took her two daughters-in-law to the backyard to live in their own land, and to live in the second bedroom.

Sister Sun and her two daughters-in-law were helping Lin Qingxi in the kitchen, while Zhou Jin was chatting with Zhang Man in the room.

"Er Jinzi, you and your two sisters-in-law are responsible for getting out the staple food for the evening. As for the dishes, I have almost prepared them. What should we eat as staple food?" Lin Qingxi was not polite when she saw Sister Sun coming in with her two daughters-in-law.

"What's there? Steamed buns or noodles?" Aunt Sun asked with a smile. No one was picky about food and they all ate whatever was available.

"Then let's make meat buns. I happen to have some roe deer meat left. I'll cut the pork belly into pieces and make steamed buns stuffed with pickled cabbage and meat. How about that?"

Lin Qingxi thought about what she had at home. There was no shortage of meat, white flour, black flour, and cornmeal. Lin Qingping bought them from the black market a month ago. Zhou Mingyi also sent some to her home during this time.

The grains I ate several times were white flour, cornmeal, rice and other fine grains.

"Okay! I'll make the stuffing and let your two sisters-in-law knead the dough. We'll make some mixed noodles of black flour and corn flour, and we're making some mixed noodles of corn flour and white flour. Do you think it's okay?"

Aunt Sun asked, her niece asked them to come over for dinner, but she refused to let them bring food, so she could only start from other aspects. If she asked her niece to do it, she would probably end up with white flour.

"Okay, Er Jinzi will come as soon as she comes." Although Lin Qingxi wanted to make all the flour dishes, she also knew that the old Zhou family would not agree, so she didn't mention it.

"Okay," Sister Sun nodded, smiled brightly, and started to prepare the staple food. She also knew where the Lin family's cellar was, so she could just go down and get the food to make it. Lin Qingxi didn't care about her and was busy with her own business.

stand up.

She cut the vegetables that needed to be cut, put them in a basin and placed them on the table next to the stove. Then she freed up the chopping board there to make stuffing for Zhang Chunli's sister-in-law.

Lin Qingxi took the fried pork, meatballs and fish out of the cupboard in the morning and put them on the stove. She first cut the chicken into pieces and put them in a clay pot, then put two slices of ginseng in, and then put them in the clay pot.

The stove began to simmer over low heat, and she also began to steam vegetables on the stove.

Before steaming the vegetables, Lin Qingxi fried the pickled vegetables and put them under the soup bowl. She put the pork belly slices on top. Then she fried the steamed fish soup and poured it on top of the fish. Lin Qingxi put the fish and

The braised pork with pickles and vegetables is placed in the basket, and then the basket is placed in the back pot to steam, and the front pot is used to stew the meat.
Chapter completed!