The Culinary Tycoon

On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, the sun is warm and warm in winter.

Le Geer took out the quilt covers and sheets of all the family members and washed them, and the four men were responsible for cleaning the house.

When they were young, their cured meat was selling well. Even Grandpa Chang and Chang Hao helped out at the snack bar. The snack bar didn't have a holiday that day, but got off work half an hour earlier, so the house hadn't been cleaned yet.

Put on a bamboo hat, tie a clean new broom on the long penny, and you can sweep the house.

The two teenagers didn't have much strength, and after holding up the penny for a while, their hands became sore.Yu Qingze asked them to sweep the floor and wipe the tables and cabinets.

The four men cleaned the inside and outside of the house, and removed the cabinets and beds one by one.

"Hey, Xiaohao, here is a copper hairpin." When Jiabao was cleaning under Changle's bed, he found a hairpin covered in mud in the ground between the bedpost and the wall, and it had already been buried in the soil. Mostly.He pulled out the hairpin and said to Chang Hao.

"Where? Let me take a look." Chang Hao went over, took it over and looked carefully, and said, "I haven't seen it, it doesn't seem to be my brother's, and I haven't seen him use it. I'll ask grandpa."

"Grandpa, we found a hairpin." Chang Hao grabbed the copper hairpin and went out to the main room to ask Grandpa Chang, and added: "It doesn't seem to belong to my brother."

"What hairpin?" Grandpa Chang stopped what he was doing, turned his head to take a look, paused, reached out to take it, gently wiped the dust on it, and said, "This is yours."

Chang Hao's eyes widened, and he asked in surprise, "What about me?"

When Chang Hao's father passed away, he was only two years old. He had no memory of his father, only the worship during the Chinese New Year.As long as he can remember, there are only his elder brother and grandpa.

"Yeah." Grandpa Chang looked at the hairpin for a while, and then said: "When you were young, you played with it and accidentally lost it. Your brother has been looking for it for a long time but still can't find it. Where did you find it?"

Chang Hao replied: "Brother Jiabao found it in the corner between the pillars of my bed and the wall. Move the bed away, and you can see it. It's all buried in the soil."

Grandpa Chang gave him a oh, then handed him the hairpin, and said, "Take it and wash it, and give it to him when your brother comes back."

"Oh." Chang Hao took the hairpin and went to the kitchen to wash it off.

When Le Geer came back, he saw the hairpin in his younger brother's hand, he grabbed it excitedly, stroked it over and over again, smiled silently, but his eyes were moist.

Seeing his brother's excited look, Chang Hao said, "Brother, grandpa said this is Ah Mo's hairpin?"

Le Geer nodded.

"I lost it when I was a kid?"

Le Geer continued to nod.

"I'm sorry, brother." Looking at his brother's appearance, Chang Hao knew that his brother treasured this hairpin. Although he didn't have much impression of his father, his brother had a deep relationship with him.

Hearing this, Brother Le shook his head, touched his younger brother's head, and said it was okay.

Le Geer put the hairpin inside the house and put it away carefully.

Le Geer was very happy to find something he hadn't seen for many years by accident, and it was his grandma's relic.

On the second day, on the 29th day of the new year, Le Geer's family wanted to kill the New Year pig.

Early in the morning, before dawn, the whole family got up, and Chang Hao and Jia Bao also got up to watch the fun.

The man who invited the village who is good at butchering pigs and the men who were invited to help came, as did Wen Li and Brother Chang's family.It is a custom in the village to invite relatives and acquaintances to help and have breakfast together when slaughtering pigs.Brother Chang's family slaughtered pigs yesterday, and Geer Le's family also used to have breakfast in the past.

The buddies are boiling water and steaming rice in the kitchen.They boiled three large pots of boiling water and prepared them.

The men moved two very large long stools and placed them in the yard. Afterwards, they entered the pigsty. The butcher hooked the iron hook around the pig's neck and dragged it out. .

The fat pig howled and roared, waking up everyone around.Once I heard, oh, butchering a pig, I heard it often these days, and fell asleep peacefully.

Some people helped to drag the pigs in front, and some people chased them behind. With a little effort, they dragged the pigs out of the pigsty and into the yard.Several people worked together to lift the pig to the bench and put it on the side, and then several men pressed the pig's limbs and body hard to prevent it from moving.

Chang Hao, Jia Bao, and the children from Brother Chang's family and Wen Li's family were all watching curiously. Although they had seen it once yesterday, they still couldn't take their eyes off it.

Seeing that Le Geer had prepared the wooden basin, the pig butcher told him to fill it with blood later, and then he saw the location and slaughtered the pig quickly.

Seeing this, Le Geer quickly took the wooden basin to fill the pig's blood.

After filling the pig's blood, Le Geer immediately brought the basin to the kitchen and added some water and salt to make it solidify.

In the yard, when the pig stopped moving, the man who killed the pig cut a hole a little above the pig's hind feet, and then began to blow air into it.After playing the drum, several men carried the pig into a large wooden basin, and then began to pour boiling water on the pig, and then began to shave the pig's hair.

After shaving the pig's hair, he hung the pig upside down on a ladder, and then began to disembowel and disembowel it...

Seeing that pig hair, Yu Qingze thought of one thing, swept all those pig hairs together and put them under the eaves.

After the pig's viscera were taken out, Yu Qingze immediately asked Brother Chang to take the pig's intestines to clean, and he was going to make a blood sausage for everyone to try later.

The men in the yard were busy chopping pieces, while Yu Qingze and Le Geer started washing, chopping, and cooking.

After a busy morning, the meal is ready.Country people, everyone is not so particular, just put tables and stools in the yard and eat.All the people added up and sat at three tables, which was very lively.

The meal is served.

Pork blood sausage, stir-fried pork liver, stir-fried kidney, braised pork, stir-fried pork, braised fat sausage, cured meat platter, vinegared Chinese cabbage, lean meat soup.

When everyone smelled the aroma of the dish, they immediately regained their spirits. After taking another sip, they couldn't stop their chopsticks and said it was delicious.

After Brother Le put all the dishes on the table, he looked around, seeing if he saw his second uncle, he went to find his uncle, gesturing why the second uncle didn't come.

"You said your second uncle?" Wen Li looked at Chang Le's gestures and guessed it. Every year, he would ask him again.

Chang Le nodded.

Wen Li shook her head, and said, "You know, every year you call him, he doesn't come over, it's fine, just leave him alone, go and eat."

Hearing this, Chang Le was silent for a while, and then gestured again: I'll call him.

With that said, he untied his apron, called Chang Hao, and went out.

"Hey, Brother Le..." Wen Li watched from behind, sighed, put down the bowl and chopsticks, and followed them.

When he arrived at the second uncle's house, his second uncle was also sitting at the door of the kitchen drinking porridge. When he saw the two brothers Le Geer coming in, he was stunned.

"Xiao Le, Xiao Hao, what are you doing? Are you here? Isn't this just having breakfast?"

Chang Le gestured twice.Chang Hao said, "Second Uncle, my brother told you to come with us for breakfast."

Chang Sheng paused for a moment, lowered his eyes, then raised his head and said with a silly smile: "I won't go, you go back to eat, it's cold, and the food will be cold later."

Chang Le looked at his second uncle for a long time, and then made a long gesture.

Chang Hao: "My brother said that what happened back then was an accident. I don't blame you, so you should stop blaming yourself. My father and Ah Mo never blamed you. My brother also said that the family is fine now, and he is now too. Very good, brother Yu is good to him, and we will get married next year, so you should let go of the past and live a good life."

Hearing this, Chang Sheng's nose was sore, he quickly turned his head, stretched out his hand and wiped his eyes, and said in a low voice: "If I didn't take a look at you, you wouldn't... well, let's not talk about this, you go back to eat, Don't worry about me, go back quickly."

Chang Le frowned, stepped forward and snatched the bowls and chopsticks from his second uncle's hand, put them in the kitchen, then pulled his second uncle's wrist and left.

"Hey, Xiao Le, wait, wait..." Chang Sheng was a little flustered, but he couldn't hold back Brother Le's strength, and was dragged away all the time.

When he met Wen Li at the door, Chang Sheng asked Wen Li to help hold Brother Le.

Wen Li pouted at him, and said: "If you have the ability, you can pull it yourself. It's like this every year. If you are told to go, you won't go. You are getting old, and you have to let Brother Le and the others come to invite you!" She turned her head. go forward.After walking a long way, he sniffed hard, blinked, and held back the soreness.

Chang Sheng: ...

So, Chang Sheng was dragged to Chang Le's house by Brother Le.

"Hey, Chang Sheng is here, come, come, sit here, Ah Ze cooks good food, let's have a good drink." Someone at the men's table saw Chang Sheng, and shouted.

Le Geer dragged Chang Sheng directly to that table, and then added bowls and chopsticks for him. With these guys around, his second uncle would not be able to leave.

Grandpa Chang and Yu Qingze were also at that table.Seeing Chang Sheng sat down, Yu Qingze poured him a glass of wine and toasted first: "Second Uncle, I'm looking forward to your coming. It's the Chinese New Year soon, let's have a good drink, come and go, and wish a happy New Year .”

Chang Sheng still didn't let go, seeing Yu Qingze toasting at the table, subconsciously picked up the wine glass, and replied: "Happy Chinese New Year!"

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After eating the pig-killing rice in a lively manner, everyone was full of praise for Yu Qingze's craftsmanship, and finally understood why his dim sum shop was so prosperous.

This craftsmanship is absolutely perfect!

After breakfast, the man who killed the pig stayed to help chop up the remaining pork, and everyone else went back one after another.

They kept the meat needed during the Chinese New Year, and they turned the extra meat into bacon, and some of it was made into prickly meat and put it in a jar to marinate. After a whole morning of work, they processed the whole pig's pork over.

The next day, New Year's Eve.

They got up early this morning.The whole family is wearing new clothes made by Le Geer, and they are very energetic.

After breakfast, Grandpa Chang and Brother Le were busy slaughtering chickens and ducks. Yu Qingze took two teenagers to post couplets, lanterns, and New Year pictures.

After posting, everyone prepared the New Year's Eve dinner together, very busy.

The New Year's Eve dinner here basically starts in the middle of the afternoon and lasts until the evening, and then eats dumplings later in the evening.

The New Year's Eve dinner was well prepared, including chicken, duck, and fish; Yu Qingze also bought some mutton and made braised mutton; he also stewed pig's trotters, and put sweet potato vermicelli in it, which was also delicious.

"Come, come, come, the last dish, there is 'Yu' every year! Xiaohao, it's time to set off firecrackers!" Yu Qingze put the last dish of braised fish on the table, and shouted to Chang Hao who was in the yard.

"Oh! Good!" Chang Hao had been waiting to light the firecrackers for a long time. Hearing Yu Qingze's voice at this moment, he lit the burning incense in his hand to the fuse of the firecrackers.

Crackling - crackling -

New Year!

After paying homage to the ancestors, five people sat around a table, and it was finally time for dinner!

This was Yu Qingze's first New Year's Eve dinner after coming here, and it was also the happiest New Year's Eve dinner he had in the past 12 years since his grandfather passed away.

Because, he finally once again celebrated the New Year with his family.

He was very happy and very interested, but it was a pity that Grandpa Chang was drinking traditional Chinese medicine and could not drink alcohol, so Brother Le accompanied him to drink a few glasses.

The two teenagers couldn't drink, so Yu Qingze bought fresh apples and oranges and squeezed juice for them.The two teenagers also had a great time drinking.

After eating this meal for a full hour, Brother Le just lay down and got drunk.

Yu Qingze helped him into the room and put him to sleep. He also took a nap for a while, and then got up to make dumplings again.

In the evening, the family ate dumplings again, gathered around the charcoal brazier, ate melon seeds, peanuts, red dates and so on, chatting and watching the year, the atmosphere was very happy.

Le Geer was making shoes while listening to their chat.These are cotton shoes made for Jiabao, and there is one shoe that has not been put on. He wants to finish it tonight, so that Jiabao can wear new shoes tomorrow.

After chatting for a while, Yu Qingze remembered the pig hair he left on purpose when he slaughtered the pig yesterday, so he went to find a piece of wood, picked up the knife he borrowed from the village chief's house, and began to sharpen it.

"Brother, what are you doing?" Jiabao asked.

"I'll see if I can make a toothbrush." ​​Yu Qingze said while cutting.He remembered reading on the Internet that the ancients used pig bristles to make toothbrushes at first, and made small holes in the wooden strips, and then stuffed the bristles into them.

Hearing this, Chang Hao asked curiously, "Toothbrush? Is it for brushing your teeth?"

Yu Qingze nodded, and said: "It's not very convenient for us to use willow branches all the time, especially in winter, when the willow branches are all withered. If I can make them, it will be convenient for us to brush our teeth in the future."

"Oh, what's it like?"

"Probably, this wooden strip is thinned a bit, and then rows of small holes are cut out in it, and then the pig hair is threaded into it to fix it..."

"How is this fixed?"

"Well, you have to think about this, or you should think about it together?"

"Oh, then let's think about it, can we tie it up with a rope?"

"If the rope is wet with water, it will break after a long time, right? Use iron wire?"

"Like a shuttlecock, it won't fall out when it's filled up?"

"..."

The two young boys began to discuss each other with each other.

After staying until midnight, Grandpa Chang couldn't bear it anymore, so he went to bed first.The two teenagers were also drowsy.

Yu Qingze asked the two of them to go to bed, and then watched the new year with Brother Le.

"Brother Le, if you're sleepy, go to bed too, I'll just keep watch."

Le Geer shook his head, raised the shoes in his hand, and signaled that he would not be sleepy if he had work to do.

So, one of them made shoes, the other made toothbrushes, secretly kissed each other from time to time, and felt that it didn't take long for the sky to dawn.

Seeing the dawn light in the sky, the two looked at each other and smiled.

It's a new year.