Chapter 66

The new year is getting closer and closer. In a twinkling of an eye, there are only a dozen days left for the Chinese New Year. It's snowing outside, and I can't resist everyone's good mood to celebrate the new year.

Luoxia village has such a doggerel telling the villagers what they want to do from the 23rd year of the twelfth lunar month: "23, sacrifice to the kitchen god; 24, house sweeping day; 25, grinding tofu; 26, cutting new year's meat; 27, killing a chicken; 28, making noodles; 29, steaming steamed bread; 30 nights, watching a night, and twisting at the beginning of the new year."

Because of her abundant money, Lin Qingwan decided that her first year in Daxi Dynasty must be good. This is also a strange problem in Lin Qingwan's last life. When he gets to the next year, he likes to toss and turn.

She asked Yang tiegen to go to the pork vendor to buy pork in advance, and directly brought back two whole pigs that had been killed. The pig head, pig hoof, spare ribs and the like were kept for the new year's Eve. The others were still infused with wax to taste fresh.

The restaurant in the town closed on the 27th and went home for the Spring Festival. It was not until the 15th day of the first month that the restaurant opened. Lin Qingwan didn't stop making fresh cured meat because other people were closed. She discussed with Yang and the couple of Sanfang and prepared to reserve more before the new year, because there would not be a large amount of pork on the market for a long time after the new year.

In order to do this, Lin Qingwan asked Yang tiegen to buy several hundred catties of pork. He also asked him to tell the butcher who ordered the pork every time. He told him to send the pig to Yang's house as soon as there were pigs after the new year.

So these days, several people have been very busy. Yang and Sanfang are busy making fresh cured meat in advance. They even take Yang's daughter-in-law, Zhou's, to fight together. Because Lin Qingwan is pregnant, she won't let her interfere, so she has to prepare new year's food at home.

Lin Qingwan is going to prepare some new year's products in advance according to the new year's Eve in her previous life, so she salted some of the unloaded ribs, made them into wax spareribs, salted a jar of bacon, and asked Yang tiegen to buy some large grass carp and chicken to come back and pickle the preserved fish and chicken.

When everything was cured, she hung them up with straw ropes and hung them on the beams.

During this period, Yang Tiezhu didn't know why his daughter-in-law wanted to do these strange things, but he played some tricks on her. Wan Wan has many ghost ideas and knows a lot about food. Yang Tiezhu is very clear in his heart, so he did not ask her.

It seems that they are food, and then he will just eat.

By the time Yang's side had finished all the fresh cured meat, it was almost the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. After a day's rest, several people began to be busy with the new year's day.

Twenty three is to sacrifice the kitchen god. In the past, Yang Tiezhu and Yang tiegen both offered sacrifices to the kitchen god together with the other side of the main room. This year, they had to sacrifice to the kitchen god themselves.

Before sacrificing to the kitchen god, Lin Qingwan doesn't know how to make it. However, Yao's family makes the kitchen sugar every year.

Early in the morning of the 22nd day, Yao took the materials prepared in advance to the second room to make the cooking sugar with Lin Qingwan.

In order to make cooking sugar, you need to make "enzyme" in advance. Lin Qingwan doesn't know what "enzyme" is. Yao explains it to her. It is to soak a few catties of millet with water, soak it thoroughly, and then pay attention to moisture and keep warm to let it sprout. Because of the cold weather outside, Yao put the soaked millet in his room. After two days, the germinated millet will grow about half an inch of white bud, and then the germinated millet will be ground up with water and millet. These broken millet with juice and water is the "enzyme" for cooking sugar.

The "enzyme" was made by Yao in advance, but explained the production process to Lin Qingwan.

Lin Qingwan listened vaguely, but still remembered the production process.

As Yao talked to her, he steamed a large pot of Minzi rice. After the millet rice is ready, put it on the side to air for a while. If it is not hot to touch, put the "enzyme" in it, and then start to stir it. Stir it evenly and put it aside.

Yao said that the cooking sugar can only be started after almost all the Minzi rice has turned into thin sugar juice. Generally speaking, it will be about an hour or two.

After lunch, Yao went to see what was in the pot, and the millet rice in the pot had turned into thin sugar juice.

She put the pot directly on the stove, lit the fire, added some earth honey in, and let it boil. When it was less than half dry and thick, Yao took the pot down.

After a while, when the sugar in the pan was almost dry, Yao began to rub the cooking sugar on the chopping board and rub it into long strips.

Lin Qingwan was surprised to see it. This is the ancient simple version of making sugar, but she did not expect that this small yellow rice can also be used for sugar.

She was going to try one. Yao refused to let her take it. She said that she would put it outside for one night to taste it. Now it is not delicious.

Lin Qingwan looks at the two girls who are looking forward to her and looks at the sugar. She thought that all the children could bear it, so could she.

After a night of freezing outside, Lin Qingwan got up early the next morning and brought the candy in. First of all, I feel a taste of it. It's very crisp and sweet.

But it is far fetched to say that it is very delicious. After all, in my last life, I had no shortage of candy and chocolate. However, Lin Qingwan has hardly eaten any sugar since she came here. She takes a piece of it and thinks it's very good.The two girls liked it very much. Lin Qingwan gave them a piece of it. Both of them were reluctant to eat it. They put it into their pockets after biting a little bit. Later, they took it out of their pockets and bit a bit.

Lin Qingwan looked very sad. He boasted about the two girls and told them to eat hard. If they didn't eat enough, she would make it for you.

After thanking their two aunts, the two little girls were still reluctant to bite the candy. Lin Qingwan had no choice but to touch her nose.

The sacrifice to the Kitchen God began after the evening. When Yao cooked the meal, he took Lin Qingwan to the outside room, leaving only Yang tiegen and Yang Tiezhu in the cubicle.

Since the two rooms and three rooms were separated, the cubicle has been used as a kitchen stove. After all, the cooking stove was built well, but Yang tiegen bought a pair of kitchen gods to stick on the wall of the cubicle.

In the past, Lin Qingwan didn't understand why he wanted to stick a kitchen god's statue, but after listening to Yao, he understood. It turns out that there is not only a sacrifice to the kitchen god, but also a "seal" of the kitchen god's mouth with cooking sugar.

Lin Qingwan asked why she couldn't watch it. She didn't understand why until Yao explained it to her. It turns out that there is a custom here: "men do not worship the moon, women do not sacrifice to the kitchen god.".

Lin Qingwan curled her lips and thought that it was clearly discriminating against the vast number of working women!

After a while, Yang Tiezhu and Yang tiegen came out. Yang tiegen took out a newly bought Kitchen God portrait and pasted it to the kitchen god's position in the cubicle.

Then, several people began to put the food on the Kang Table to prepare to eat.

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