Chapter 111: Buried in trouble

The largest containers at home are two large pots, and Su You prepares the dumpling fillings directly in the large pots.

Sesame oil, ginger juice, salt, chives, broth. For the dumpling stuffing, Su You doesn’t like anything too complicated, just chives or cabbage, just keep it simple.

Then start everyone making dumplings.

The dumpling wrappers are also made by machine, which is a hand-powered mini plate of a plate rolling machine. The dough is drier than hand-rolled dumpling wrappers. It is pressed into a thin wrapper by a roller, and then covered with a bamboo tube with edges sharpened by a belt sand machine to form a dumpling wrapper.

There are many ways to make dumplings, but Su You only knew four, so he taught everyone how to make dumplings, and then turned around and pressed the dumpling wrappers.

Dozens of kids making dumplings were a spectacular scene. Hachiko’s eyes were moistened when he saw such a lively scene at home: “It’s better to have more kids, and their popularity is different...”

The water in the big pot boiled, the dumplings were placed in the pot, and then they were served out in large plates.

Su You made a sweet and sour dip, and the garlic paste was heavy: "Come on, come on, let's eat!"

The children also cheered: "Let's eat dumplings!"

The dumplings stuffed with leek and pork were thin in skin and large in filling, and tasted great. Su Shi held half of the dumpling in his hands and said magnanimously to Su You: "For the sake of this dumpling, I forgive you!"

Su You smiled and said: "Let's leave immediately after breakfast tomorrow morning. If you don't leave, cousin Mingyun won't be able to forgive you!"

Everyone had eaten a bit too much at this meal, so Su You asked everyone to get a bowl of noodle soup: "This is called the original soup and the original food. You can't just sit around after eating, you have to move around, just in time to grind the rice milk! Tomorrow morning

Eat frozen cake!”

The rice milk was ground and sent to the greenhouse for fermentation. It was getting dark, so Su You arranged for everyone to rest.

When I got up in the morning, I dug out the baking soda made from grass ash from the warehouse and asked the children to bring out the rice milk for seasoning.

Meishan Danling Oil Parfait is a famous snack in later generations. The difference from cakes and cakes made in other places is that the sour taste produced by fermentation is neutralized. Small fat particles are added to the cake to adjust the taste, and then it is wrapped in the skin of corn cobs.

Steamed, the taste is less sour and more sweet and moist than similar methods in other places.

However, corn husks are not available now, so Su You combined the soaked cake method with the ingredients of oil parfait to make a new type of steamed cake.

Place small bamboo circles in the steamer, cover them with gauze, and then press each small bamboo circle. Countless gauze pits will appear in the steamer.

Pour the rice milk mixed with fat cubes, baking soda, and icing sugar into each pit, and steam it in a large pot.

I took four chopsticks and tied them together. After the rice cakes were steamed, I mixed the red yeast powder newly produced in the winery into paint. I dipped the chopsticks in the rice cake and quickly put a little on it, leaving a flower on the cake.

Bright red four-petaled flowers.

There are five steamed cakes for one child, which look really good on the plate.

The children ate happily, and Hachiko was also happy: "This is good, suitable for the elderly and children. This, and rice krispie treats, you must bring them when you go to Shijia Village to pay New Year's greetings."

After dinner, it was time to prepare things for Su Shi to return to the city.

All the remaining leeks were harvested, yesterday’s dumplings were fried, big capons, big fat ducks, fresh fish from the ditch, and Su You’s usual collection of dried mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots, and dried bracken filled a large cart and arranged for someone to drive it.

He left with Su Shi in a mule cart.

The children were still busy on this day, cleaning the house, preparing sacrifices, and then taking turns to take a bath and clean themselves up.

There is always hot water in the new house, which is needed by the chickens and ducks. There are water heating pipes on the outside of the two large kilns, and they also function as half boilers.

Su You hid in the study room to review his lessons. While flipping through the books, he polished the float body that he had made yesterday, and then used his fingers to paint the float.

Fortunately, my body is not allergic to lacquer now.

The painted float is sent to the greenhouse. There is a large wooden box in the greenhouse with a basin inside, and the basin is half filled with clean water.

Lacquer has a magical characteristic. When it encounters water vapor in the air, it can complex to form a paint film. Therefore, lacquerware is not only not afraid of water, but also hydrophilic.

The next work is to take it out every day, sand it smooth with fine sandpaper, then repaint it, and then put it in to form a paint film.

Apply seventeen or eight layers like this, well, that's almost it.

Hachiko poked his head in and said, "It's New Year's Eve today, you baby, just take a rest."

Su You raised his head and smiled: "Hachigong, this is the best rest for me."

Hachigong shook his head: "There will be a Nuo show in a while, why don't you go and see it?"

Su You was most interested in these intangible cultural heritages. Hearing this, he stood up and said, "It seems there weren't any in previous years?"

Hachiko said with a smile: "In previous years, cooking a chicken for my son was considered a New Year celebration, but can it be the same this year? Let's go, it's so lively!"

At this time, the sound of gongs and drums could be faintly heard outside the door, and everyone rushed out of the door to watch the fun.

Not only among the people, but also in the imperial palace, Nuo operas are performed on New Year's Eve, which are called "Nuo rituals".

Generally, the imperial city's marriage officials and other officials are selected, wearing masks, wearing embroidered clothes, holding golden spears and dragon flags, dressing up as door gods and generals, clowns in the church dressing up as judges, and the rest dressing up as Zhong Kui.

The little sister, the land god, the kitchen god, etc., paraded in the palace.

There is not much to talk about in the countryside, but the custom of wearing masks and colorful clothes is the same. There are also flags made of gold and various colors of paper, and gods and goddesses dressed up in paper official hats and crowns, who come beating gongs and drums.

, which is quite festive.

The team came over step by step. The third brother, playing the city god, patted his white nose and stretched out his hand to pull Su You into the team.

"Hey, I was just watching the fun..."

In addition to Su You, Li Shuanzhu and Liu Si were also caught. The third brother smiled and said: "There is no need to look for the three surnames this year. There will be a ceremony later, so you can come."

So Su You had no choice but to follow the procession and walk around the back mountain swamp and the Glass River.

After finding a place to stop by the river, Fifth Brother asked the three of them to dig three pits, one with a snake made of noodles, one with fried black potatoes, and one with a cooked egg.

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Then he gave each of them a hammer and a nail: "Here, let each of the three surnames nail three nails."

Su You smiled and obeyed, and asked: "Third brother, what's the point?"

The third brother said sternly: "You are not allowed to smile playfully, this is called hiding evil spirits! If you are timid, your illness will be eliminated, and the weather will be good in the coming year."

A long note sounded, and gongs and drums began to clang.

After burying "Sui" in the soil, everyone walked towards the ancestral hall.

On New Year's Eve, the yin energy is driven away to guide the yang. Today, people beat drums on the day before the twelfth year of the year to drive away epidemics, which is called driving away.

The ancestral hall has been arranged and cleaned. On this year's incense table, in the middle is the incense burner that Wu Zetian rewarded Wei Gong.

Each family began to offer sacrifices, mostly whole cooked chickens and ducks, eggs dyed red, steamed jujube rice, and deep-fried crispy fish.

Su You prepared a large square piece of sacrificial meat.

Next, each family is ranked according to the village, and the elders bring incense and candles and bow.

People in the Song Dynasty did not kneel down much, and this was one of them.

After the etiquette is completed, it is time to share the sacrifices and have a meal together with the elders and young ones of the clan.

It was the turn of the children of the Earth Temple to come on stage. The sacrifices from each family were processed for a second time. The crispy fish was heated with oil and poured with sauce;

Stir-fried chicken...

Make up for the remaining sour oil here. After killing the pig, the big pot for boiling the bones has not been turned off. When the meat is finished, add meat, when the radish is finished, add radish, when the soup is missing, add water, and now add croquettes and puff pastry.

Meat, one big basin per table.

There are also soup cakes for the occasion, and a large pot of chive dumplings at each table.

Of course, wine is indispensable. The mead brought by each family was poured in one place, and Hachiko added two bottles of Yongchun Dew to it. Everyone smelled it and said that the wine smell was much stronger.

But drink this wine slowly, and drink another kind of wine first, the old wine.

The old wine is Tusu wine, which is made by soaking traditional Chinese medicines such as rhubarb, atractylodes, cinnamon twigs, fangs, pepper, aconite, and aconite into the wine.

Everyone has to drink something, and they have to drink starting from the youngest child, that is Su Xiaomei.

Then came Suyou, Mouse, and finally Hachiko, who laughed loudly, drank a cup, and cleared the cup: "Let's have dinner!"

Then it became lively. There were also drinking tricks at country banquets, and everyone was eating happily with their chopsticks flying.

Many people have already thought about how to show off when going out: "What do you eat for New Year's dinner? We eat crispy meatballs and stewed radish in Kelongli, twice-cooked pork, watercress fish, and leek dumplings! What? You haven't heard of it?! Tsk tsk

Tsk, that smell..."

After the New Year's Eve dinner, everyone dispersed and went home to watch the New Year.
Chapter completed!