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Chapter 28 New Year's Day
It will take more than two months to celebrate the new year after New Year's Day, so the educated youth will have to wait until the beginning of February to have the opportunity to go home for the annual reunion.

Therefore, the old educated youths discussed that everyone would gather together on this day to be lively, after all, New Year's Day is also a serious festival.

However, since Bai Li'an passed away and Shao Hua returned to Beijing, Chen Liang and his group rarely came to the east. Yun Ling occasionally heard them chatting in private, and thought it would be bad luck for people to die here, so people on both sides seldom interacted, and there was a clear distinction between them. posture.

So the other party's New Year's Day party did not call anyone here.

But this afternoon, Sun Qian and Guo Jiyun came arm in arm and knocked on Yunling's door.

Yunling was surprised: "Why are you here?"

At this time, they should be preparing dishes, right?
Sun Qian raised her eyebrows: "Huh? Didn't Silan inform you? Let's celebrate New Year's Day together!"

"In the morning, I said we would spend New Year's Day together, but I thought you would be over there." Yunling took the rice dishes, opened the door and welcomed them in.

Guo Jiyun lay paralyzed on the kang, waved his hands and said, "I don't want to get together with them. I turned [-] corners while talking, and I'm exhausted."

Sun Qian and Yun Ling looked at each other, smiled and shook their heads, helpless at her straightforwardness.

When the guests arrived, Yunling, as the host, naturally had to get busy.

She took out several large plates from the cupboard, poured peanuts, melon seeds and sugar cubes on each plate, and placed them on the kang table, next to a small plate, which was used to crack the melon seeds and throw away the skin.I went to the big vat in the snow outside the house and took out a few frozen pears and frozen persimmons, and soaked them in a pot of warm water to melt. The sweet and juicy smoothie taste was very strange to them outsiders who ate it for the first time.

But Guo Jiyun and Sun Qian didn't come here for nothing, they just followed her around and did what they said.

Today, everyone agreed to bring their own rations, and each person will add an extra dish. The rich will bring meat, and the ordinary will bring vegetables.

Guo Jiyun’s hometown is from Harbin Province. Her family sent several red sausages by mail. This time she brought them together, cut them up and put them on the plate. Slices of maroon oval sausages are spread on the white plate, and they are arranged like Like a big red peony, it is very festive.

It just so happens that her cooking skills are average, so she is free from the tedious steps of cooking.

Sun Qian's family is in Shanghai, and among the higher-level New Year's Eve dinners there, there is a special dish-Eight Treasure Duck.

This dish requires a lot of expensive ingredients according to the serious method. In the freezing Northeast region, even if you have money, you may not be able to get it together.She simply simplified the recipes, the requirements are not so high, just home-cooked flavors are good.

She cut the back of the tender duck bought from a villager's house, dug out the internal organs, and cut the duck's feet; then submerged the whole duck in boiling water, scalded it, took it out and washed it, and wiped off the water with a dry cloth; then smeared soy sauce, Rice wine, sugar and other seasonings are buckled into a large bowl with the duck belly up.

Yunling helped her cut a large piece of meat from the whole smoked ham hanging from the eaves, and cut it into cubes together with soaked dried shiitake mushrooms.I took out the wild chestnuts picked on the mountain in autumn, shelled them, and took the meat; I also chopped the washed chicken, and the fragrant glutinous rice was also grown in the system, washed them clean, and steamed them with water.

Finally, stir-fry all the ingredients with lard, green onion and ginger, add soy sauce and sugar to taste, pour it out and mix it into the glutinous rice, fill it all into the duck belly, and steam it in a cage for three or four hours until the duck meat is crispy Remove after rot.

Yunling only participated in part of the vegetable cutting process, and felt that this dish was very troublesome, so she couldn't help asking: "Is this really a simple version?"

Sun Qian wiped off her sweat, wiped her hands with a dry cloth, and replied: "The dishes in the Shanghai market are quite exquisite. My family has made this before, and it also includes scallops, shrimps, green beans, winter bamboo shoots and chicken gizzards... This side is not near the sea, so I simplified it a lot.”

Guo Jiyun glanced at the steamer on the iron pot and sighed: "You guys really know how to eat it. This dish is so fancy that it would be very expensive in a state-run restaurant!"

There is only one iron pot, and now it is used, and it will take at least three or four hours to wait, so the three of them had to move their positions.

Yunling tiptoed to probe at the door of the next door, and found that it was still dark inside, wondering why she hadn't come back yet?

Chu Silan said this morning that she would go to the county seat, but it was almost evening and she hadn't come back yet.Yunling was a little worried, would something happen to her on the road alone?

If she didn't come back after dark, Yunling planned to go outside the village to look for it.

At this time, Qian Li happened to be at home preparing to make dumplings. The stuffing was pork sauerkraut, six parts sauerkraut and four parts pork. The sauerkraut was the vat that the three of them pickled together in autumn.

She can be called the only one among these few girls who doesn't stick to the sun. In Yunling's words, if it is not necessary, don't let her cook.

Sun Qian stared blankly at Qian Li's rolling out the round dumpling wrappers, her brain short-circuited for a while, she didn't know how to evaluate so as not to hurt her self-esteem...

Guo Jiyun is a straight-hearted person, he couldn't hold it back for a long time, and hid behind Sun Qian's back, he secretly laughed.

Qian Li pursed her mouth, pressed a few dough balls hard, and vented weakly: "It's still that the dough is not kneaded well, no matter how you roll it, it won't be round..."

She muttered in a low voice, but Yun Ling beside her heard it clearly, suppressed her smile, and taught her hand in hand.

"Hold the rolling pin with your right hand, pinch the corner of the dough with your left hand, and roll it while turning it. The dough should be four times thicker in the middle, so that it won't leak when you wrap it..."

She stood behind Qian Li's side, clasped her delicate hands, her voice was gentle and gentle, without any impatience, she taught over and over again.

"It's so round!" Qian Li picked up the dumpling wrapper, her almond eyes were round, and she was as naive as a deer, and praised her, "Your craftsmanship is really good."

Yunling's hands kept working hard, and rolled out a piece in a few strokes, and each piece was generally identical, and the difference could not be seen with the naked eye.

"In the past, our family used to make dumplings every festival, and the whole family had to do it. No one could be left behind."

Mentioning this, Yunling suddenly felt homesick.

To be honest, she is not an emotionally sensitive person.

It is not even an exaggeration to say that she may be a little cold-hearted in the eyes of outsiders.Even her stable elder brother complained that she didn't care about people when she was a child, and she couldn't be funny no matter how much she was teased. When she grew up and could read, she would be bored reading in her parents' study every day, growing up like a nerd.

But in fact, her ability to develop such an independent character also stems from her parents' occupations.

Yunfu and Mica go around the hospital every day. Hospitals in the capital are busier than other ordinary hospitals, and the patients they receive are more difficult and complicated. Therefore, they are not only always ready to stand on the operating table, but also work overtime, not to mention after work. I have to go home and study international medical materials, and I can't take care of a child like Yunling.

When Yunling was young, she was brought up by her grandparents, who was an old doctor of Chinese medicine, and his way of bringing up the baby was extremely rough—put the cub aside, and the grandfather read a book, while Yunling lay beside him and vomited bubbles; Ling hugged the little toy Zhu Xiao and crawled around...

As a result, Xiao Yunling gradually learned to read, read and identify herbs at a young age.

When they are older and no one needs to take care of them, my grandparents will return to their hometown Yunxing to take care of them.She lives with her parents and nanny Qi Ma in the capital. Whether it is going to school or going to the hospital, she always makes up her own mind.

In fact, Yunling felt that this was quite good, she was used to relying on herself for everything and not relying on others.If she had been indecisive at the beginning, she would not have made the most rational decision immediately after the incident at home—resolutely go to the countryside, and make reasonable plans for her future life based on the current situation, instead of crying and begging for help.

At that time, she felt that there was no room for improvement, but the family network needed to be managed. Her parents had many old friends, and they might be able to take care of each other after leaving the capital, so she would visit them one by one before leaving the capital.

Perhaps because Yunling was only a 17-year-old girl, her speech was not qualified enough, and outsiders thought she couldn't be the head of the family when they saw it, so many people who followed the wind made trouble at that time, but fortunately, there were uncles and uncles to protect her.Even when the Yun family was at their worst, no one really dared to bully them face to face, but gossip behind their backs was unavoidable.

Her mind gradually drifted away, and she couldn't help thinking about whether her parents in the capital would have a hot meal of dumplings on New Year's Day?
But after thinking about it, Yunling lowered her eyes and sighed silently.

She knows the temper of her parents best. It is common for her to forget food and sleep when she is busy with work. She probably will even forget that today is New Year's Day.

Eye sockets are getting moist, but rationality restrains emotions. Today is a joyous day, so I can't shed tears in front of everyone.

Yunling raised her head slightly, blinked her eyes twice, and returned to normal.

Good things take a long time, and when the Chinese New Year comes, you can take annual leave to go back and have a look.

(End of this chapter)