The whole family travels through time and space, and the three of them struggle together

The next day, New Year's Eve.

Perhaps God knew that today was Chinese New Year, so he quietly started snowing in the middle of the night to celebrate. When we woke up early in the morning, the ground was covered in white, which was truly a sign of a good harvest.

Zhou Sisi and An Ge'er were both up early today, despite Chen Xiuying's urging. It was snowing, so they needed to eat early so they could have a snowball fight with their friends after dinner!

After breakfast, Lou Ji and the others did not go up the mountain today. They left Xu Wu to light the fire for Chen Xiuying, and the others cleaned the yard with Zhou Dajiang.

There is a rule in the countryside that if someone in the family dies, you cannot post Spring Festival couplets, so there is no need to post couplets with the word "Fu" on them. Just clean the yard.

So, after sweeping the front and back yards, they also swept the top of the greenhouse to prevent it from collapsing. They also needed to check the stove inside the greenhouse regularly. Even though the stove hadn't gone out last night, the temperature inside the greenhouse had dropped significantly due to the snow, so they still had to check it regularly and add some coal briquettes.

Chen Xiuying started making dough early in the morning. She had to cook for more than 20 people today, so she had to plan her schedule in advance. However, since the appointment was in the evening, she still had more time.

After breakfast, she steamed some brown sugar steamed cakes for her family to eat. They tasted better when they were steamed on the same day.

Because Zhou's mother had lunch with Zhou Dajiang's family, she came early with some things to help.

The old lady not only brought the braised goods, but also brought the pig's head.

Seeing this, Chen Xiuying quickly stepped forward and took over. "Mom, why did you take so many things?"

"There are so many people, so we need to take more to make sure it's enough for your family. We can't just eat it all! Can you see if this pig's head can be braised?" said Zhou's mother.

"We can braise it, but we don't need to eat it all today, right? It's enough to have the braised ingredients."

"You don't understand. Let's eat tonight for good luck and prosperity for the coming year!"

Chen Xiuying thought to herself, isn’t the red pig head a symbol of good luck?

"Okay, I'll do it right away!" Since my mother-in-law said so, let's do it. Who doesn't want to have a good start in the next year? Braised pig's head takes time, so if I make it now, it will be ready when I use the pot in the afternoon.

So, Chen Xiuying decisively called Zhou Dajiang.

"Mom wants to eat pig's head tonight, you hurry up and clean the pig hair." As she said that, she stuffed the pig's head into Zhou Dajiang's hand. In modern times, the ones she bought are all cleaned, and she had never processed this kind of thing before, so in times like this, the man had to do it.

Zhou Dajiang held the pig's head in his hands, and the more he looked at it, the more terrified he felt. No, he had never dealt with it before, and besides, he couldn't do it alone! He called his wife, but she ignored him and only left him with her back.

Zhou Dajiang had no choice but to carry the pig's head to the greenhouse to find Lou Ji. In the end, it took Lou Ji and him, one holding the pig's head with a stick and the other lighting a torch, roasting it in circles, up and down, left and right, until it was finally burned clean.

After processing the pig's head, the rest was handed over to Chen Xiuying. After cleaning the pig's head, Chen Xiuying put it in the pot, added various seasonings, let it simmer slowly and left it alone.

She also had to prepare lunch. Since there were only nine people at lunchtime, Chen Xiuying prepared eight dishes: steamed sea bass, braised pork, stir-fried pork with celery, fried peanuts, chive and egg pancakes, stir-fried shrimp, baked pumpkin with egg yolk, and garlic-fried bok choy. The staples were steamed cakes and rice.

An Ge'er ate his favorite braised pork and rice in broth again, and accidentally ate too much. Chen Xiuying was so angry that she rubbed his stomach and said, "Some people's stomachs burst after eating braised pork, but you're okay, you didn't burst. Do you want to eat some more?"

"Auntie, I won't dare to do it again! Oh, it hurts so much, auntie, please rub it for me again. An Ge'er knows his mistake now!"

Seeing his pitiful appearance, Chen Xiuying couldn't bear to say anything more. She just asked Zhou Dajiang to continue rubbing the child's belly while she went to the warehouse and found the hawthorns Zhou Dajiang had bought. Then, she removed the cores and boiled water, finally making An Ge'er drink half a bowl of hawthorn water before letting him go out to play.

Zhou Sisi watched her mother make hawthorn water, and she remembered the hawthorn drink she drank in modern times. So she leaned on Chen Xiuying and whispered, "Kaiwei? I want to drink it."

Zhou's mother, who was standing by, heard this and said, "Whitting your appetite?" Then she looked at the hawthorn juice Chen Xiuying was holding and nodded, "Yeah! It's quite appetizing."

Only Chen Xiuying understood, what a greedy girl, she wanted to drink a drink. What can I do with the one I raised? Just spoil her!

So she nodded Zhou Sisi's little head vigorously, and went to the warehouse to get out half a basin of hawthorns.

When Zhou Sisi saw that her mother agreed, she happily picked up her and her brother's gloves and ran out to find her younger brothers and sisters to make a snowman.

Seeing her daughter leave with the gloves, Chen Xiuying called Zhou Dajiang over and said, "Your daughter wants to drink Kaiwei. Hurry up and pick out the hawthorn seeds."

Zhou Dajiang was stunned and looked at Chen Xiuying, "Open the guard?"

Chen Xiuying nodded and said, "It's the one you were thinking of."

This made Zhou Dajiang furious. "What a naughty kid! He demands more than me every day! I've been busy all morning. I finally have a break, and all they can do is find work for me."

Although he said that, he still carried the small basin to the dining room. It would take too long to pick the hawthorns one by one, so he had to sit on the kang and pick them slowly.

Zhou's mother didn't understand their riddle, and the old lady had eaten too much at lunch and was a little confused. After helping to clean up, she went back to her room to sleep.

As soon as Zhou's mother left, Zhang, Li and Wang came over carrying things.

Because Chen Xiuying had previously stipulated that no one could bring more than two items, Zhang brought four rabbits and a large piece of pork; Li brought half a rack of spareribs and four large cabbages; and Wang brought a large bag of pickled radish and dried vegetables, and a large piece of mutton.

Chen Xiuying was speechless. "Why did you bring so much? I've already prepared everything."

Zhang smiled and replied, "We didn't bring much. Didn't you say we were only allowed to bring two? Look, we only brought two. Not much more!"

Li and Wang also nodded, "Yes, yes, I didn't bring any extra!"

Chen Xiuying couldn't do anything about them, so since she had them, she decided to do more.

She planned to pick out the time-consuming and pre-processed things first, and do them one by one.

Zhang, Li and Wang also cooperated with her. They soaked the dried vegetables in advance, chopped the ribs that Li brought, cut the meat, picked and washed the vegetables and then cut them. The four of them cooperated well with each other, and everything was carried out busily and orderly.

By the time the sun set, the twenty dishes prepared by Chen Xiuying were all ready.

Fried knife fish, fried lotus root boxes, fried shredded radish meatballs, fried river shrimp, braised pig head, mouth-watering chicken, spicy rabbit head, celery with peanuts, cold shredded cabbage, stewed meat with tofu, braised spare ribs, stewed chicken with mushrooms, dry pot rabbit, stewed spare ribs with sauerkraut, stir-fried lamb with green onions, stir-fried pork with sour radish, scrambled eggs with leeks, Mushu pork, Mapo tofu and pickled fish.

The smell was so good that the children would run back to the kitchen from time to time to take a look. The most common question they asked was: "When is dinner ready?"