115: one year(1/3)
In addition to sending relatives, the remaining pork mother stopped some whistles and could eat them for more than half a year.
There is also a portion cut into small pieces, cooked, pressed into the jar with salt, and ready to eat slowly in the coming year.
Zhao Peng told his mother that he no longer needed to store pork like this, and the family now had no money, so we can buy fresh meat to eat.
But my mother insisted that people should not forget their roots.
You can't just float away if you have some money.
Always have a sense of crisis and wealth. If you can do it simply, you will lose it simply.
Always be prepared for any trouble.
Zhao Peng felt that what his mother said was also very reasonable.
After the pork is processed, it is the pig's blood and intestines.
Zhao Peng likes to eat enema very much. In the past, he always gave them some after the feeding was done by others.
Not satisfied with eating.
This year I had pig blood and intestines, so my mother prepared the taste and poured a lot of enemas on it, and hung it on the clothesline, like countless thick earthworms.
The rest is lard.
They were all slowly finished.
When Zhao Peng and his mother were cooking lard, they remembered the embarrassing thing about their second uncle in the past.
One year he cooked a pot of pork and poured it into the jar one spoonful after another. However, when he hugged the jar from the table to the chopping board, the jar was too hot and could not hold it, so it fell to the ground on the spot.
All the pork was sprinkled on the ground, and the people were burned.
So Zhao Peng was careful this time.
It’s not that I’m afraid of losing lard, but that I don’t want to make myself look so stupid.
He was so old that he was still laughed at by his mother.
After processing the pork, my mother also cut a lot of diced radish and other things, blanched them all in water, and then dried them out.
According to the customs of my hometown here, there are many rules in the first month.
For example, sometimes you cannot use a knife, and sometimes you cannot open fire.
Therefore, people will process all the ingredients for the first lunar month and set aside in the twelfth lunar month.
Of course, there is another reason to process the ingredients, because many relatives will come to the first lunar month.
The custom here is that all relatives come and have to have at least one meal before leaving.
Zhao Peng's family has many relatives. If they are not handled properly, they will not be able to cook dozens of people in a short time.
It's also interesting to say.
When Zhao Peng's family was poor in his previous life, he basically had only three or two relatives.
Later, Zhao Peng was a little capable in a big city, and his father retired, his sister finished his Ph.D., and his younger brother started working, and his family’s financial conditions were relatively better.
Relatives started to greet the New Year.
One year, on the third day of the first lunar month, more than 40 people came from all over the world.
Sitting in a large yard full.
At that time, the relationship between Zhao Peng's father and his uncles was restored.
Although Zhao Peng felt very uncomfortable, he could not help but see his parents choosing to forgive him.
Fortunately, this kind of thing will not happen in the future.
If a bad person does evil and put down the butcher's knife, he can become a Buddha immediately. If a good person does anything wrong, he will fall into hell. Who will always be a good person?
Just put down the murderous intent in your hands when you don’t want to do bad things.
That's too cheap, bad guys.
On New Year's Eve, Zhao Peng and his brother were driven up by their father before dawn.
Although he is already a big shot outside now, he has become more docile and obedient in front of his father.
He now understands this truth.
The more incompetent a person is, the bigger his temper is.
The real defense break is precisely because someone else has told the right idea.
If others say something wrong, they will not really hurt themselves.
My father used to have a bad temper because of incompetent anger.
The same is true for me to be rebellious before.
There is no difference between good and bad between two people, it is just that they have different identities.
If it were him in his previous life, it would probably be the same.
I got up with my younger brother and wanted to sweep the yard, chop firewood, and then set off firecrackers.
Nowadays, many big cities no longer allow fireworks to be set off, but Qingcheng is vast and sparsely populated, and the custom of fireworks and firecrackers is still maintained in the countryside.
During the Chinese New Year in 2000, the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year was even more intense.
When Zhao Peng and his younger brother got up, the sound of firecrackers were everywhere in the village, and it was endless and lively.
According to the old people, you must get up early on New Year’s Eve, otherwise you will be lazy for a year.
So Zhao Peng and his younger brother are driven up early every year.
Of course, the mother was earlier than them.
Mother wants to prepare spicy red noodles in the morning.
Eating spicy red noodles on the morning of New Year’s Eve is a custom in Qingcheng.
The noodles should be hand-rolled very thin, and the soup should be made particularly red with cooked oil and chili peppers. Add meat, tofu, and various diced radish and other dishes.
Long means longevity.
Red means hope to be prosperous next year.
Many ancient customs have beautiful meanings.
As these seemingly troublesome customs slowly disappear, the emotional bond between people gradually fades a lot.
Sometimes, form is a substantial external reaction.
If there is no form, there will naturally be no substance. If the form reaches a certain level, the substance will naturally come slowly.
Zhao Peng especially likes spicy red noodles.
You can eat three or four bowls in one meal.
Although the bowls at home are not very large, the amount is still considerable.
This year, there was another brother-in-law during the Chinese New Year. My mother rolled out sixteen handfuls of noodles, and they were all eaten clean.
Zhao Peng burned the fire in front of the stove and made his back hurt.
He tried hard to maintain the obedient child so that his mother would not feel that he had changed.
No matter how energetic he is outside, he is still the honest child at home.
After dinner, I started to write couplets.
The red paper was bought in advance, and my father was mixing the gold powder.
In fact, I can also write it directly in ink, but my father didn’t know where the gold powder came from, so he insisted on using gold powder as a couplet every year.
However, when my father was about to start writing this year's couplet, he was intercepted by Zhao Peng.
He is going to write recently.
Zhao Peng wrote very well in his previous life and could draw.
This is all learned later.
My father was still in the era of Zhao Peng's study. I remember that Zhao Peng's writing was like a dog crawling, which was very bad.
In my father's words, it's just a handful of rice on the ground and let the chickens talk casually. It is probably the words written by Zhao Peng that look much better.
Therefore, with a half-believing and half-doubted attitude, he felt very disappointed when he saw Zhao Peng's big words "Flying Snow Welcoming Spring" written on the paper.
Even if he writes couplets, he can't deal with Zhao Peng.
Zhao Peng was very proud.
There will always be a battle between father and son.
However, the relationship is so good, there is actually a certain battle.
The so-called growth of a man is actually the process of gradually catching up, surpassing, and even covering up the father.
Only when children are more powerful than fathers can civilization improve.
To be continued...