Parents are busy farming

The father and daughter entered the kitchen.

The maltose has started to harden.

Ye Yongwang quickly turned the pot and pushed the syrup inside to the edge of the pot.

Use your hands to place the harder sugar in the center of the pot.

After there was no more liquid sugar, Ye Yongwang took out all the sugar.

Work together with Ye Zifen to pull the candy into long strips, then fold it in half and pull it again.

After ninety-nine and eighty-one times, the sugar has turned off-white.

After folding it in half for the last time, Ye Yefei took out a rope.

Use a rope to cut the long strips of sugar into three-inch sugar melons.

The candy fell into the dustpan with cooked bean flour.

Wang Tinghe came over to help, and immediately shook the dustpan to let the cooked bean powder stick to the sugar.

Just like this, a sugar melon is ready.

After a busy day, I finally made more than 20 sugar melons.

After making offerings to the Kitchen God, he burned the paper image of the Kitchen God posted in the kitchen.

Then the family sat together and ate sugar melon.

It breaks into pieces with a slight tap, and is extremely crispy when you take a bite, but once it enters your mouth, it starts to become sweet and sticky.

It is said that the purpose is to seal the mouth of the Stove Lord, so that when he goes to heaven to report what happened to his family this year, he will only say good things.

Whether true or false, it does bring benefits to children.

"What are you going to do tomorrow?" Zhi Fei asked Zhi Fen while eating a sugar melon.

"Make bacon and sausage!"

After hearing this, Ye Ziwei grinned and showed eight teeth.

On the twenty-fourth, Ye Zifen got up early and went to the warehouse to get four big scoops of beans.

She was in a hurry to make breakfast, so she asked Ye Zifei and Ye Ziwei to pick out the beans.

"Are you going to pick up so many?" Ye Zifei asked puzzledly.

"Make some for my sister's house. She can take it back and eat it."

After hearing this, Ye Zifei nodded.

These Chinese New Year days are very busy. If only in an ordinary family, a child of Zi Zifen's size would only have to wait for food.

But Ye Zifen not only has to take care of the kitchen, but also is responsible for giving gifts to each household.

Cut the pork hind legs into dices, add seasonings, mix well and stuff into the casings.

Then use soaked grass to divide it into sections, each section is about five inches.

Cut the pork belly into long strips and coat it with salt. In addition to salt, the pigment is ground into powders such as peppercorns, aniseed, bay leaves, Amomum villosum, cinnamon, fennel, etc.

After marinating for half a day, dip it in water and punch it with a rope.

Hang it in the kitchen with the sausages, then light the pine wood and put some tangerine peel and pine branches on top.

Just smoke them overnight, then put them in a cool and ventilated place, and they won't go bad if left for a year.

At dusk, Ye Zifen was about to close the door when she saw Zhang Gaoyi standing not far from her house, wandering back and forth.

Thinking that something happened, he waved to Zhang Gaoyi.

Zhang Gaoyi ran over.

Ye Zifen asked him: "What's wrong? Are you here to find me?"

Zhang Gaoyi nodded.

"Tell me what's going on!" she asked directly.

"Well...I...I once heard you chatting with Xiaoliu. It seemed like you were weaving by yourself, right?"

Zhang Gaoyi was hesitant, but thinking of her sister, she finally asked.

"Yes! What's wrong?" Ye Zifen looked at him suspiciously.

"I want to lend you some cloth on credit and give you money when I have money."

"How much?" Ye Zifen asked.

"I don't know either. Can you make clothes? Do you know how much is appropriate?"

Ye Zifen shook her head, she didn't know what Zhang Gaoyi was going to do!

"Would you like white or ginger? I haven't had time to get it recently, so I only have these two colors."

Zhang Gaoyi frowned, not knowing which one to choose.

"Forget it, I still have about two feet of ginger cloth, give it all to you! Just give me two taels of silver in the future."

After Ye Zifen finished speaking, she went home and entered the weaving room, and gave Zhang Gaoyi the more than two feet of ginger cloth.

She knew a little bit about the situation of Zhang Gaoyi's family, so she told her: "Wait until your sister leaves the village before giving it to her."

Zhang Gaoyi nodded, took the cloth and left.

As for how he would hide the cloths, it was not Ye Zifen's responsibility.

On the 25th, she started delivering gifts door to door.

The county magistrate's family, the chief bookkeeper's family, my sister's family, my uncle's family and the old Lu family all prepared gifts.

This year, the bookkeeper came to help at home, and he also prepared a copy of the New Year gift for his family. It is best to reciprocate the courtesy and get to know each other well.

First she went to the magistrate's house. She was no stranger to the magistrate's house because she used to come there often to play and was familiar with the magistrate's children.

The county magistrate's wife probably guessed that this little girl would come today, and asked her daughter-in-law to prepare some hometown specialties early.

When the county magistrate's wife received the list of things that Zi Zifen had brought, she nodded with satisfaction, not only because of the generous gifts Zi Zifen gave, but also because most of the gifts Zi Zifen gave were unique to her family, and some were her own. Made by hand.

When Ye Zifen entered the inner hall to salute the county magistrate's wife, the eldest daughter-in-law of the magistrate's family had already helped her up.

Zi Zifen took a look and saw that there were quite a few people in the room, including the county magistrate's wife, several daughters-in-law, and three grandson-in-laws.

Almost all the female relatives in the family are here.

"Fifth girl, come here quickly." Mrs. Hong called Ye Zifen to her side.

He took her hand and looked up and down, "Why do I think you've lost some weight?"

"You have good eyesight. I found a boxing master a few years ago and learned some self-defense. I also exercised a lot. Can you tell me I've grown a lot taller?"

After Ye Zifen finished speaking, she turned around to let Mrs. Hong have a clear look.

"Yeah! I've grown taller, and my figure is about to come out. We Zifen will definitely be a beauty when we grow up." Mrs. Hong praised.

"Why do you think of practicing this?" asked the eldest granddaughter-in-law of the county magistrate's family.

"I want to exercise my body. Although I am weak and irritating, I always feel that being healthy is a blessing!"

"Girl Zifen is right, being a woman is not easy, and giving birth is a big difficulty. The weaker children are not very prosperous, and the children they give birth to are not strong!" Mrs. Hong said to the daughters-in-law at home.

"That's what mother said." Several daughters-in-law agreed.

After staying at the magistrate's house for more than an hour, the magistrate's family returned half a car's worth of gifts when leaving, which made Ye Zifen particularly embarrassed.

Then we went to Master Liu’s house. Master Liu didn’t expect that the little girl would give them a New Year’s gift today.

Mr. Liu’s wife warmly entertained Zifen. Zifen had a heavy task today, so she sat down for a while and then said goodbye.

The Madam Registrar also understands that everyone is very busy at the end of the year.

I prepared some return gifts for Zifen and walked out of the second door.

Ye Zifen then went to her sister's house and her uncle's house, both of whom were relatives, where she dropped off her things and left.

After returning home, Ye Zifen took out the gift in return and after sorting it, she and Ye Yongwang took a bunch of things to the old house.

Since that time when I came to ask for firewood, the old man didn't come to the door again. I don't know if it was Lu Zili who stopped him, or if he was really scared after the fall.

Both father and daughter were walking through the market with their hands full of things.

The people in the village knew immediately what they were doing!

When Ye Yongwang and Ye Zifen entered the Lu family's old house, Lu Bai saw what they were holding and quickly invited them into the main room.

When Mrs. Lu saw them coming in, she immediately went to grab the things they brought.

After discovering that there was no pork, my face immediately turned cold.

"Your family killed the New Year pig a few days ago? Today you bring these things to your door. Who are you?"

Mrs. Lu Bai looked at them carefully when they entered the door, and found no trace of pork. She was dissatisfied, but there was no room for her to speak.

"My aunt knows that our family doesn't raise pigs. We bought pigs to give gifts to several families in the county. Unlike your family, we raise big fat pigs ourselves."

Ye Zifen said lightly.