When Li Yu woke up, it was the new year. He turned around and saw a set of crimson embroidered dresses on the bedside table. Li Yu took them and put them on and went outside. Li Qing saw Li Yu coming out wearing new clothes. Feeling that her eyes were brightening, she smiled and praised, "Sister, you look really good in what you are wearing today."

Li Yu glanced at him and looked at him pretending to be angry, "Don't you think your sister looks good in old clothes?"

Li Qing quickly smiled and bowed to apologize, "I was wrong. My sister looks better in old clothes."

Li Yu burst out laughing, "What do you want to eat for breakfast?"

"I've heated up the cold dishes and rice from last night, and I'll wait for you to get up and eat them."

After the siblings had eaten and fed the chickens and pigs, Xiao An also came to take the big ox out for a walk. The siblings went to Li Mei's house to pay New Year's greetings and Chen Yaohui's house to pay New Year's greetings. Li Yu had a rare day of leisure.

On the third day of the third grade of junior high school, Li Yu discovered that the rapeseed in the field had grown buds, the wheat had begun to turn green, and the fence walls surrounding the plants had begun to sprout green shoots. It was time for the rapeseed and wheat seedlings to be fertilized to increase nutrients.

Li Yu used a hoe to clear the ditch in the field, then went back to the house and hitched up the ox cart, and asked Li Qing to move all the buckets and wooden basins at home to the ox cart. The three of them came to the ditch, and Li Yu discovered that there was something in the ditch. The water was much shallower than before, so Li Yu decided to fill the reservoir with water after applying fertilizer.

Xiao An and Li Qing pulled the oxcart to the edge of the ditch, filled it with water, and pulled it to the field ridge. Li Yu scooped out the manure water from the manure tank, mixed it with water, and began to fertilize.

Li Yu, Xiao An, and Li Qing worked hard for several days to fertilize both rapeseed and wheat.

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Li, Qian and a dozen other women also came to work. Li Yu asked Li Mei to take them to work, while he, Li Qing and Xiao An continued to transport water and pour it into the reservoir. pool.

On the afternoon of the 14th, Li Yu began to prepare for the barbecue and hot pot the next day. Li Yu first went to the bamboo forest to dig a piece of bamboo and came back, split it and cut it into long bamboo sticks, ready to be used to skewer venison skewers.

Peel the bamboo skewers, grind the fennel, pepper and aniseed in proportion, then stir-fry the soybeans and sesame seeds. After the soybeans are cooked, grind them into powder with the sesame seeds and set aside. Then grind the soaked peas finely and put the pea powder into water to settle. Strain out the starch and prepare to make meatballs.

Early the next morning, Li Yu took advantage of Li Qing and Xiao An to go out to herd cattle. He took out the goats and wild deer from the space at home, put them on the chopping board, disembowelled them, washed and blanched the offal. After putting the cutting plates in place, cut the venison and mutton, add seasonings and marinate them in the basin.

Zhou Jia and his old servant Uncle Zhou went to the small ancestral hall of the Zhou family. Zhou Jia looked at the memorial tablets of his grandfather and mother, twisted incense and lit them to worship, then knelt in front of the tablets and said, "Grandpa, mother, I have found the woman I love. Yes, I want to ask her to marry me tomorrow, and I hope you two will help me realize my wish."

Uncle Zhou stood aside and looked at Zhou Jia with sour eyes, praying silently in his heart, "Old Master, Madam, please your spirits in heaven to bless the young master to be safe and smooth, and not to suffer from those unreasonable disasters again."

Zhou Jia knelt in the ancestral hall for a while before getting up and walking out. Uncle Zhou followed behind with brisk steps and said, "Master, should I take out the betrothal gifts prepared by the madam and clean them up, and give them to the young mistress then?" go."

Zhou Jia hesitated for a moment, "Okay, let's see if there is anything else we need to add?"

"Hey! I'll go right away." Zhou Bo happily trotted to the warehouse to clean up the betrothal gifts.

Zhou Jia looked at Uncle Zhou's back, smiled and shook his head: This old man, as long as he agrees to get married, he will be in high spirits.

Li Yu went to the field with the vegetable basket and took out pea tips, rapeseed moss, coriander, garlic sprouts, lettuce, radish, and went home to get some taro and scraped them clean. He also took some fish from the space and washed them. Apply seasoning and set aside.

Put the remaining two fish into gauze bags and put them into the pot together with the lamb chops, lamb hooves, and lamb bones to make the soup base.

Li Mei, Zhao Di and Lai Di came to help with glutinous rice wine and glutinous rice cakes. Lai Di was happy to see that Li Yu had prepared so much food. She quickly washed her hands and asked Li Yu diligently, "Cousin, you want me to help." What are you doing?"

Li Yu looked at her happy look and pointed to the venison in the basin with a smile, "You and cousin Zhaodi should skewer all the meat on bamboo skewers. Don't skewer too much, otherwise some of it will be undercooked."

"Cousin, when did you go hunting in the mountains again?" Li Yu pretended not to hear, Laidi didn't care, and took Zhaodi to sit at the small wooden table with a basin to skewer the meat.

Li Mei put the glutinous rice wine and glutinous rice cakes in the kitchen, came out with a smile and asked Li Yu, "Yu'er, what can aunt do for you?"

Li Yu pointed to the vegetables in the bamboo basket and said, "Aunt, help me wash the vegetables, and I'll chop the meatballs."

Li Yu took out a piece of meat and cut it into slices. He put some ginger and rice and started to chop the meatballs. The meatballs that Li Yu chopped with great strength tasted chewy and smooth.

Li Yu chopped the meat into puree, added starch, egg white, a little salt and a little wine. Li Yu grabbed the meat and squeezed it into a meatball. He kneaded all the meatballs and put them aside for later use. Li Yu started to prepare the meat. As for the dipping sauce, sesame seeds, crushed peanuts, pepper powder and red oil chili are added to the dipping sauce. It is put in a bowl. It smells spicy and looks oily and it will definitely taste good when dipped into the mutton.

When the food was ready, Li Yu began to put the burning charcoal into the copper hot pot, ladle the cooked soup from the pot into the copper hot pot, and then put the mutton, haggis, intestines, meatballs, and taro into the pot to cook. With.

The bottom of the pot was boiling. Li Yugang wanted to ask Li Qing to invite Zhou Jia, but Zhou Jia and Ji Xiang came with gifts.

Zhou Jia saw the busy people in the yard handing gifts to Li Yu, smiled and said to Li Mei, "Aunt Li, you will make a fortune in the New Year."

"Okay, okay, we will all get rich." Li Yu saw Zhou Jia wearing a new red robe, looking even more red-lipped and white-toothed, handsome and upright, Li Mei sighed in her heart again: Such a good son, if he can match my family's Yuer Duo OK!

Li Mei asked Zhou Jia to sit in the main room and brought tea with a smile, "Mr. Zhou, you're welcome!"

Zhou Jia quickly stood up and took the tea cup, and said respectfully: "Aunt Li, I will do it myself, you don't have to worry about me."

Li Mei smiled politely, "My Qing is bothering you in school. He should be obedient!"

Zhou Jia smiled and nodded, "Ah Qing is very good, and he studies very hard. He will be successful in time."

After hearing this, Li Mei laughed so hard that she couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear, "If you are really promising, it will be because of your good education, Mr. Zhou."

When Li Qing came back from outside, he saw Jixiang helping Manman burn the charcoal fire in the yard, and greeted happily, "Brother Jixiang, happy new year, I wish you a fortune."

Jixiang looked at Li Qing and patted him with a smile, "Aqing, Brother Jixiang wishes you to obtain fame as soon as possible."

"Thank you." Li Qing walked into the main room and bowed happily to Zhou Jia, "Sir, A Qing wishes you good health and all the best."

Zhou Jia took a red envelope and handed it to Li Qing and said with a smile: "Sir, I also wish you success in your studies as soon as possible."

Li Yu set the table and looked around but didn't see Liu Changmin asking strangely: "Aunt, why hasn't uncle come yet?"

Before he finished speaking, Liu Changmin's voice was heard, "Xiaoyu, my uncle knew that you were ready from afar. Just look at me and come as soon as I smell the fragrance."

Li Qing ran over and pulled Liu Changmin, "Uncle, come and sit down."

Li Yu called Zhou Jia out and everyone met and greeted each other again. Li Yu smiled at Zhou Jia and Jixiang and said, "Mr. Zhou, Jixiang, we are all gathered together today to celebrate the Chinese New Year. One is to celebrate Mr. Zhou's birthday, and the other is that everyone It’s fun and lively to get together.”

Zhou Jia turned to Ji Xiang and said, "Today our master and servant don't need to be formal. You can sit down and let's have fun together."

"Yes, young master." Li Qing pulled Ji Xiang, "Brother Jixiang, sit next to me and Brother Xiao An."

After everyone sat down, Li Yu poured the glutinous rice wine, raised the bowl and said with a smile, "We wish Mr. Zhou that today will be the same every year, and that he will be happy every year."

Everyone picked up their bowls and blessed Zhou Jia. Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu with a smile, "Thank you Xiaoyu, thank you for celebrating my birthday."

Laidi looked at the dumplings in the pot and said, "Let's just stop being polite and eat the delicious food first."

After hearing this, Li Mei smiled and shook her head, "Look at how long it will take for this girl to grow up?"

Li Yu smiled and used serving chopsticks to pick up a dumpling for Lai Di. "Lai Di is right, let's start eating! Mr. Zhou, Ji Xiang, everyone is welcome!"

After eating for a while, the younger ones couldn't sit still. Li Qing and Laidi took Xiao An to grill the skewers. Ji Xiang saw that they were in a hurry and the meat was burnt, so he hurried over and smiled at Li Qing, "Ah Qing, come here, Brother Jixiang will teach you how to make kebabs."

Li Qing hurriedly handed the meat skewers in his hand to Jixiang, "Brother Jixiang, look at me, the meat is burnt. You can grill it for me and I will learn from you."

Jixiang smiled and took the meat skewers and put them on the grill. He quickly brushed some oil on the meat skewers and flipped the meat skewers from time to time so that they could be heated evenly. The three children studied carefully for a while, and Jixiang put the grill on the grill. The good meat skewers were distributed to several people, "How do you like it?"

After Li Qing and others took it, they didn't care about burning it. They quickly bit off a piece and chewed it a few times before swallowing it. Laidi gave a thumbs up, "It's delicious, better than boiled food."

After Li Qing learned how to grill the meat skewers, he gave them to Li Yu, "Sister, try it. How do you think I grilled it?"

Li Mei and Liu Changmin pretended to be angry and pointed at Li Qing, with plaintive expressions on their faces, "Ah Qing, you are so partial. You roast the meat for your sister and not for your uncle or aunt."

Seeing this, Laidi quickly put the grilled meat skewers into their hands, "Mom, dad, you have me!"

Everyone laughed, and after a few children adjusted the atmosphere, everyone was no longer so restrained.

Zhou Jia smiled and said to Li Yu: "You make this pot well. You can make food no matter where you take it."

Li Yu smiled and said, "That's why I ordered it, Zhou Jia, you're welcome to eat it."

When Zhou Jia heard Li Yu call his name, her eyes were filled with joy. She looked at Li Yu's blushing face after drinking, and for some reason looked at her red lips. Zhou Jia quietly pinched them. After thinking for a moment, he thought to himself: Zhou Jia, why are you acting like a slut?

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