Build a farm from the mountains

Chapter 196
Wu Hao drives the car to deliver things, and each family gets a different distribution, and those who are short of fuel will be given more meat. Everyone will know that he has beaten the bear meat, and they insist on keeping him for dinner.

Instead of chatting with Widow Zhang, I have to chat a few words when I go to other people's homes. It's dark when I get home, and I'm going to bed after dinner and prepare for the new year tomorrow.

He got up late today, put on his clothes and went to the main room to see his parents about to have a face-to-face meeting, so he reminded him: "Stop the bag!"

Eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year in Northeast China is actually quite "scary". The days from the junior year to the fifth day are very busy. Some people make dumplings on the day of the new year and can eat them until the New Year.

It's easy, you can eat it after heating it up, and you can continue to make dumplings on Chinese New Year's day. Lazy old ladies will make more dumplings and eat them until the sixth day of the new year.

Even if today's people are short of oil and water, they can't eat dumplings filled with meat, and they will definitely not be able to eat them even for a few days.

Gao Lijuan nodded: "Just eat today's food. The horses, dogs and minks have been fed, but the mountain donkey has not been fed yet."

"I'll feed it." Wu Hao went out to mix fodder for the mountain donkeys. These little guys are familiar with people, and they can eat and drink without worrying about predators.

Every day after eating and playing for a while, I go to sleep. I live more comfortably than humans. I don’t hide from being touched twice. I just eat with my head down.

Wu Hao went into the room to feed the two little fat worms, and looked at the four puppies who slept after eating, all of them were quite fat.

Now I can eat some leftovers, and I am not picky about food. I can also eat corn noodles mixed with potatoes, but I have to put malted milk in it, and they can’t eat too dry ones.

After he took care of the animals and entered the house, the noodles were reconciled, and he washed his hands and went to the kang to help make dumplings.

Xiaonian eats at home in the morning, and eats at the second grandfather’s house in the front yard at night. There are many people in the front yard, and it is difficult for everyone to eat dumplings. Every year, there are two kinds of fillings, one meat and one vegetarian.

One is sauerkraut dumplings, which are filled with the oil left over from boiling lard. Sauerkraut and oil residue are a perfect match. Sauerkraut likes oil, while oil residue is greasy. When they are neutralized together, they taste delicious.

The second type of dumpling is all meat. Some people don’t have so much meat and put some radishes in it, while others make dumplings stuffed with potatoes.

Especially the poor people on Lao Maozi's side often eat stuffed potatoes.

30 years later they also eat.

The lack of New Year's flavor in later generations is not just a matter of setting off firecrackers, but also a lack of popularity. Nowadays, people have to eat and stay overnight when they travel from house to house during the New Year.

The visits in later generations are to deliver express delivery, and I can't wait to put down my things and leave.

There are only two or three people in the family, and sometimes the children don't come back for the New Year, so can it be lively?
Nowadays, there are many people in the countryside, and the panels and tables in every household are not small. Wu Weiguo put a panel one meter long and seventy to eighty centimeters wide on the kang.

Gao Lijuan put two small bowls of noodles on the panel, and Wu Hao took one bowl and prepared to roll out the noodles. Although there are only four people in his family, it is difficult to adjust.

My mother and I ate dumplings stuffed with boiled sauerkraut, and our father and I ate steamed dumplings stuffed with donkey meat.

The steamed dumpling skin is thick and hard to bite, and the oil inside is still hot. My wife and I like to eat soft noodles.

Wu Hao glanced at his younger sister who was holding a small rolling pin. This child was eager to try and waited for a long time. He was young last year.

She makes trouble making dumplings at home. She has grown up a lot this year, and makes dumplings a lot in winter, even though she is only four years old.

People have also learned how to roll the dough, don't underestimate the rolling dough, most adults can't roll the dough round, although the dough she rolled is not very good, but at least it can be used to make dumplings.

The small bean buns and other items on the panel are all ready, and he sat there like a little adult, patted the panel and looked at the elder brother: "Noodles!"

Wu Hao grabbed a piece of noodles for her and let her play with it. Not much work is better than making trouble.

Xiaodoubao had a serious expression on her face. She picked up the Gada noodles and rolled them into a ball with her two small hands. At this moment, she frowned, feeling that something was wrong with the noodles.

Put it on the panel and press it with your small hands, "Oh!" Before you press it, you kneel up and press it down, and you encourage yourself: "Yeah~"

I raised my little hand and saw that the sides were flattened around, and the middle was still bulging. Why can't I press it?She tilted her head to look at her elder brother: "You fooled me!"

"Who fooled you?" Wu Hao gave her a white look, and stretched out his hand to flatten that side.

Xiao Doubao stared at the flattened face for a moment, she still didn't understand the difference between strong and weak, and thought she was wrong.

He picked up the small rolling pin made by his father to roll out the dough, pressed it with his right hand and pushed it back and forth, and pinched the dough with two fingers of his left hand in a circle.

She felt that this side could not be rolled out, and she gritted her teeth for a long time, but the other side was flattened around, and the middle was still bulging. When she was distracted and pulled back, she pressed her left thumb.

The ten fingers connected to the heart, and she felt pain just touching the fingertips, and her eyes fogged up with the sound of "Oops", and she held up her thumb to show the three of them.

The three of them didn't look at her. At this time, coaxing, although they don't know how to behave, they will definitely cry. Xiaodoubao sees that no one pays attention to her.

Wiping tears with his right hand, he opened his mouth: "Ahh~ahhh~"

She blew air on her thumb, flicked it twice, and put it in her mouth. It still hurt, so she stood up and ran around twice, waiting for the pain to stop.

Walking to the side of the panel with her hands behind her back, she lowered her head with a stern face, her head did not move, and her eyes scanned left and right to see the three people.

Seeing them sniggering, I get it!

Sitting down and muttering: "It's not reliable!"

She just wiped her face all over, Gao Lijuan waved her hand: "Your face is like a dog's butt, go wash it and play with it."

Now that my hand doesn't hurt anymore, I want her to go, what can I do?Just look at the two basins with the probe.

It doesn't look right.

Wu Hao snickered, the steamed dumpling noodles were hard, the noodles old Wu made today were much harder than before, and it was a bit difficult for him to roll the noodles, let alone a four-year-old girl.

Xiaodoubao pointed to the obviously whiter bowl of noodles in front of her mother and said, "Give me that."

Gao Lijuan grabbed a piece for her, the little girl was a little dazed looking at the oval dough piece after rolling it out, why is it so soft?

Tilting his head to look at the elder brother: "You lied to the child!"

"You want the noodles yourself! Don't rely on me!"

"Hmph!" Brother Xiaodoubao didn't have any tricks at all, and moved to his mother and continued to roll out the dough.

She doesn't know how to make dumplings. She just made them, and one dumpling is almost hexagonal. When she finishes making one, all three of them will be wrapped.

After Wu Weiguo finished cooking the dumplings, he fished out a few with a strainer, put them behind the pot, and then brought out the statue of the Stove Lord who had been placed behind the bowl shelf.

He is the head of the family, and the priest must let him come.

The portrait of Lord Stove has only been sold in the last two years, and it is painted on paper, which is relatively simple.

Wu Weiguo placed another plate of stove candy on the stove, which was the Kanto candy bought from the market a few days ago.

There is also a set of kowtows for offering sacrifices to the stove: "The Stove Lord, whose surname is Zhang, rides a white horse and holds a silver gun... God says good things, and he returns to the palace to bring good luck."

Wu Hao knew what the words were, but his father chanted them so fast that the brother and sister glanced at each other and couldn't catch them clearly.

Wu Weiguo put the portrait of the Stove Lord on a big rooster made of sorghum straw and burned it in the fire next to the stove, and the Stove Lord reported to the Jade Emperor.

Wait until the New Year's Eve, and then bring the Stove Lord back and continue to be the head of the family.

After the simple ceremony, Wu Hao led his sister to the yard to set off firecrackers, which made a "crackling" sound after they were lit.

The animals in the house seemed to be "hairy". The dog and the mink heard the sound of firecrackers, the dog lay still, and the mink ran into the barn again.

The mountain donkey was so frightened that it ran around twice and hid in a corner. They are naturally afraid of this sound.

Xiaodoubao didn't like to play firecrackers, so she covered her ears to watch the firecrackers were set off. She went into the house and went to the kang. When the three of them were seated, she pointed with her chopsticks, "I want wheat ear dumplings!"

The dumplings in the shape of ears of wheat are made by Gao Lijuan, implying a good harvest.

In fact, whether it is the dumpling skin or the dumpling filling, they are all the same. Children always think that this kind of dumpling is more delicious.

When my sister opened her mouth, Wu Hao had to make dumplings for her. Half of the time for eating every day was serving others.

After dinner, hang up lanterns with Lao Wu, not to mention now, even in the future, lanterns will not be hung at the door of every house.

Some people hang lanterns above the main entrance, maybe only one.

Sometimes it is windy at night in the Northeast, so Wu Weiguo prepared three wooden poles, two vertically and one horizontally nailed to the front, shaped like a door frame, so that they can stand upright and be stronger.

Wu Hao took out two lanterns, ropes and two small iron rings, and he fixed the iron rings on the side of the wooden pole.

Putting in the rope, the lantern can be retracted up and down, and the father and father inserted the wooden pole into the holes dug long ago on both sides of the gate.

There are also many origins of this lantern pole, and the most widely circulated one is related to Jiang Taigong.

After Jiang Ziya became a god, he found that he had forgotten to seal himself, so he had no choice but to squat on top of the lantern pole.

A more reliable saying comes from the Manchus. Nurhachi used a Solo pole to worship the heavens. The common people couldn't get a Solo pole, so they erected a simplified version, which gradually evolved into a lantern pole.

The father and father returned to the house after hanging the lanterns. Gao Lijuan cut and hung money on the kang, and Wu Weiguo took a small basin and paste.

Wu Hao took out the New Year pictures. He still remembered that in the past few years, his family didn't have much money, so he didn't buy any New Year pictures for several years.

Mother took a rag and carefully wiped the surface of the old New Year paintings over and over again.

This year's New Year's pictures are also bought a lot. Wu Hao picked up a "Fat and Big Fish" New Year's picture.

On it is a chubby and cheerful little boy, sitting on a green lotus leaf, holding a small fishing whip in his hand, and at the other end is a hooked big red carp flying up to the surface of the water.

This year, the walls are not pasted, so the New Year pictures must be posted. He took the old Wu Hehao's paste and went to the kang to stick the New Year pictures on the wall. Compared with the old newspapers, the New Year pictures are a bit awkward.

This big fat boy successfully attracted Xiaodoubao's attention. She tilted her head to look at it with her fingers in her mouth, and choked out a sentence for a long time: "He's so fat!"

This sentence made the three of them laugh. They must have learned it from other children. It is possible that Li Erhuai said that the second daughter-in-law is fat, so she will remember it.

Wu Hao picked up the second New Year picture and pasted it on the other wall. This one is called "First Swim". A young mother is standing in the water, holding the swimming ring with one hand.

Picking up the water with one hand, smiling all over her face, teasing her child, the fat and white kid hugged the inflatable deer with his eyes wide open, and started playing in the water for the first time.

The third one is "Liu Bei Recruiting Marriage" New Year painting. Wu Hao bought it because of the festive colors. Today's New Year paintings are not as many as later generations, and most of them are about the autumn harvest.

Gao Lijuan can't post the money after cutting it, and the Spring Festival couplets haven't been written yet, these two must be posted together. Today is a small year, so I can't go to Lao Liutou to write.

The second uncle in the front yard can't write well. There are several old men in the village who can write Spring Festival couplets. Old Liu is so angry that his daughter is treating her better now. Let her find him tomorrow.

Wu Hao cleaned the ashes on the walls of the inner room, cleaned up the floor, pasted up the New Year pictures, and went to the front yard to help in the afternoon.

After the firecrackers were set off at night, more than a dozen people ate together, the adults drank and chatted, and the children ran around after eating.

With them, this year will be full of joy and laughter. In fact, the Chinese New Year is a lively one. The most important thing is to have a group of children by your side.

I went to bed late yesterday, and the four of us got up late today, and it was past nine o'clock after feeding all the animals.

Wu Weiguo waited for the old girl to finish her meal, took out some red paper for Spring Festival couplets and five or six catties of pork and said, "Take old Liutou's house and let him write Spring Festival couplets."

Xiaodou put on her shoelaces and cap, looked at the big piece of pork, went to the door and took out a small wooden stick with a hemp rope tied on it.

He waved his little whip and said, "I can't carry it, give me a harness."

Wu Weiguo thought about it too. He came to the yard and put his things in the cart, and the silly roe deer came with a wave of his hand.

After he had fitted the car, Xiaodoubao patted the compartment: "Bring me a pad."

She thinks it's cold, and it's comfortable to sit on a cushion.

"Go out to catch up with the uncle!" Wu Weiguo muttered, and went into the house to get a small mat for someone to put in the car.

Xiaodoubao got into the carriage and sat cross-legged, waving the whip like a young adult: "Drive!"

She didn't need to call, the silly roe deer walked out, normally it would only turn the second street, but today it turned directly when it saw a child on the first street.

Little Tudou saw the silly roe deer in the yard, and shouted as he ran out, "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, let me play for a while."

As soon as he came out of the gate, the silly roe deer "woof woof" spun around and bit him, and when he couldn't catch up with the carriage, he opened his mouth to scare him.

Little Tudou ran into the yard, pointed at it and said angrily, "Silly roe deer!"

This guy wouldn't let him get in the car. He was a little scared when he bit someone, and he didn't have any tricks with the silly roe deer.

Xiao Doubao turned around and sat down on the carriage and said, "It won't pull you, and neither will I."

Little Tudou stamped his feet angrily, and ran to the door to see his father.

Wu Gang's head hurts. This silly roe deer just pulled the cart the day before yesterday and felt fresh.

It can't beat the big kids, and if it dares to get on the car, it will get down, and it doesn't move anyway.

When it has slowed down, it will choose children to pull. It doesn't recognize age, it will look at the height of the head, and it will pull around the child who is a head shorter than Xiaodoubao.

When other children dared to approach, they chased and threatened them with "Wow, woof, woof".

The day before yesterday, I took Little Tudou home, but Wu Gang hasn't picked it up yet.

Many children in the village ran home to be adults if they couldn't play with a carriage. Today, many people came to ask him to make a pony carriage, and he couldn't afford it for a few dollars.

The labor cost is not enough, and the wood cannot be broken without a chainsaw, so he can't let him go to the wood factory to buy it.

It was a bit reluctant to spend 23 to make a toy, and the others dismissed the idea, so he was relieved.

Wu Gang looked at the remaining planks and at the big ewe.

This ewe is honest, he can make a smaller carriage, and let the sheep pull the son to play, so that the kid won't cry.

The silly roe deer frightened the children for a long time in the alley before going out, went south on the village middle road, walked to the intersection behind the small shop and stopped.

It didn't know which way to turn, turned to the west and saw two people coming out, it didn't hear the order to stand and stared.

Xiaodoubao sat upside down in the carriage and lowered her head. Those children wanted to ride in the carriage, but the silly roe deer refused to do it, so she couldn't raise her head to answer.

I felt that the car stopped before I looked up, I didn't see the place when I looked east, I was stunned when I looked west, and then I also looked at the two in a daze.

Husband and wife take the young man out to have a meeting on the middle street, where they can sit in the sun by a fire.

Seeing the stopped carriage and the little girl looking over, she subconsciously stopped, as if encountering a "natural enemy".

(End of this chapter)