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It will be thirty in a blink of an eye. Today is a big day, and the village is full of festive atmosphere.But today, everyone is busy. It is not easy to prepare a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner.

Early in the morning, Lin Dashan was dragged by Gu Dong to the door to post Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters. Both Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters were bought in the city last time.The Spring Festival couplets read "Flowers bloom for prosperity, bamboos for peace", although simple, they are the most suitable.Gu Dong was holding the paste, and Lin Dashan was in charge of pasting it.The paste was thickly brushed, and the blessing characters and Spring Festival couplets were tightly pasted on the door of the house.

Once it was posted, Gu Dong ran into the house and dragged Gu Qiu out, smiling like a flower, "Brother, look, how did we post it?"

Gu Qiu looked him up and down, "Well...the post is very correct, not bad. After posting it, you should hurry into the house. It's so cold outside, don't catch a cold during Chinese New Year. Come on, both of you come in and help me " Lin Dashan showed a big smile, "Hey, we'll come in right away."

Gu Dong took Gu Qiu's hand and asked with a smile, "Brother, what am I doing?" Gu Qiu looked at his mischievous look, thought for a while and asked him to be responsible for lighting the fire.Gu Dong was amused when he heard it, "Haha, my brother is the best to me, and the fire is the warmest." Lin Dashan looked at Gu Qiu dotingly, and said with a smile, "Then I will help you."

Gu Qiu had already stewed the bone soup just now, the longer the bone soup is boiled, the better, so Gu Qiu stewed it early in the morning.As soon as the three of them entered the kitchen, the soup on the stove was already boiling. Lin Dashan took out some firewood from the stove and asked Gu Dong to watch the fire.

Gu Qiu was burning on the stove until the fire was on, and Gu Qiu asked Lin Dashan to bring over the wooden basin containing freshly shaved pork knuckles that was placed on the table.Gu Qiu wanted to fetch the boiling hot water, but was stopped by Lin Dashan, "Leave me alone, let me do this kind of thing, don't burn me. You can just direct me." Gu Qiu listened After hearing Lin Dashan's words, there was a touch of sweetness in my heart.

Lin Dashan poured hot water into the basin, and kept turning the pork knuckle with long chopsticks. After a while, a layer of blood froth floated on the surface of the water. Gu Qiu skimmed off the blood foam and fished out the pork knuckle.Lin Dashan consciously took the basin of dirty water and poured it out, then washed the wooden basin and brought it back.

Gu Qiu asked the strong Lin Dashan to cut the pork knuckle in half with a kitchen knife, but not completely.Gu Qiu went to get a clay pot, Lin Dashan saw that there was a spice bag in the pot, Lin Dashan pointed to the bag and asked Gu Qiu curiously: "What's in this bag?"

Gu Qiu replied, "There are some spices in it, such as ginger, cinnamon, star anise, pepper, and so on. Today, this elbow is marinated and eaten." He added some hot water and put it into the earthenware pot, and added some soy sauce. The clay pot was placed on the stove where the hot water was heated before, and the spices were boiled for about a quarter of an hour. Gu Qiu then put the pork knuckle into the clay pot to stew.

Pork knuckle is Lin Dashan's favorite. When his father was still there, he made it once in a while when the family had money, and most of it went into Lin Dashan's stomach. Later, after his father and father were gone, there was no one. I did it for him, and now his future little brother is also eating his elbows, he swallowed his saliva and smiled foolishly

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Seeing Lin Dashan's dumbfounded smirk on his face, Gu Qiu was a little speechless, the charm of this elbow must be too great.He secretly made a note in his heart that brother Lin likes to eat elbows, and he will make more of them when he has the opportunity.

Pork knuckles have to be stewed for at least six or seven hours. Gu Qiu asked Gu Dong to watch the fire carefully, and handed Lin Dashan a large bowl of boiled chestnuts, and asked him to remove the chestnut shells and skins, so that they can be cooked later. chicken to eat.The chestnuts have been opened before cooking, so it is very easy to peel.Lin Dashan took the bowl from Gu Qiu's hand, washed his hands and sat by the stove to peel it slowly.

Here, Gu Qiu quickly marinated the chicken pieces with green onions, ginger, wine, and soy sauce.After finishing all this work, Gu Qiu took out the white noodles he bought in the city last time.Farmers cannot eat fine grains like white flour every day. Gu Qiu cherishes it very much. He carefully scooped a small bowl of flour into the wooden basin, poured some water, and kneaded the dough carefully.After kneading the dough, cover it with a clean white cloth and let the dough rise.After finishing all this work, Gu Qiu was free to stop and take a breath.

Gu Qiuxiu rested and looked at the other two people who were busy in the kitchen, and felt that his heart was filled immediately, filled with a feeling called happiness and satisfaction.He moved a stool next to Lin Dashan, planning to help Lin Dashan peel chestnuts together.

"Don't touch it, I'll peel this one, you've been busy all morning, just warm yourself up to the fire, rest for a while, don't get tired."Lin Dashan grabbed Gu Qiu's hand that was reaching out to Lizi, and said softly.

After hearing this, Gu Qiu obediently sat by the stove to warm himself up. He looked at Lin Dashan's hands. They were the hands of a real rural man. The rough and dark palms were thick and warm. Although they were rough, they could hold Starting a home, holding it in your hands is particularly reassuring.

As if Lin Dashan had sensed Gu Qiu's heart, he stretched out his hand to hold Gu Qiu's right hand, rubbed it a few times, the soft feeling in his hand made his heart throb, and he swore secretly in his heart In the future, we must take good care of and cherish these hands, and never let them be disturbed by wind and frost.Lin Dashan let go of Gu Qiu's hand slowly, and said with a smile, "It's much warmer now, let's warm up more." Gu Qiu nodded obediently.

Time passed slowly in such a warm and sweet air. One morning passed, and the three people who had been busy all morning were a little hungry.

"Brother, what do we have for lunch?" Gu Dong squatted down in front of Gu Qiu and Lin Dashan pitifully and asked.

Gu Qiu deliberately teased him, "Oh, you and I are not hungry yet, Brother Lin, we won't cook at noon, and we will wait for the meal at night."

Gu Dong screamed: "No way!"

Gu Qiu was amused by his exaggerated reaction, "Seeing how pitiful you are, let's cook lunch. Ask Brother Lin what you want to eat."

Gu Dong immediately pounced on him, hugged Gu Qiu, and asked Lin Dashan, "Brother Dashan, what are you having for lunch?"

Lin Dashan looked dotingly at the two people having fun, smiled and patted his head, "Whatever you want to eat, let's do it for lunch." Gu Dong cheered: "Great, I want to eat batter. "(This is a kind of food in my hometown. It is called this in our dialect. It sounds a bit weird, but the literal translation is like this)

"Well, batter, what is this, is it delicious?" Lin Dashan was puzzled when he heard the strange name.

"Of course, this is delicious, especially when my brother makes it."When Gu Dong heard someone questioned him, he immediately refuted it strongly.

Gu Qiu explained with a smile, "This is a kind of pasta from our hometown. It doesn't seem to be available here. It's very simple to make. I'll make it for you to try." Lin Dashan showed a look of anticipation when he heard this.

This time it was Gu Qiu who was the chef, Lin Dashan was lighting the fire, and Gu Dong was in charge of waiting for the food.

Gu Qiu scooped some flour into a bowl, poured water, kneaded the noodles into a slurry, then cut some meat from the kitchen, cut the only two eggplants at home into small pieces, soaked them in water remove bitterness.

Lin Dashan had already heated up the pot. Gu Qiu poured some oil into the pot, poured the shredded pork into the pot and stir-fried, added some wine and soy sauce, and with a prickly sound, the aroma suddenly became intense. Gu Qiu Pour the drained eggplant into the pot and stir fry constantly.Eggplant is not easy to be cooked, so it needs to be fried for a long time before it tastes good. Then Gu Qiu poured an appropriate amount of water and half a bowl of bone broth into the pot and boiled it.

Gu Dong helped bring over the bowl containing the batter. Gu Qiu held a spoon in his right hand, scooped up a spoonful of batter, and squeezed quickly with his left hand. The batter quickly became an irregular noodle ball when it entered the hot soup. Sticking to the pan, Gu Qiu had to stir it from time to time.The noodles were not easy to cook, so Gu Qiu covered the pot and boiled it for a while, then added cabbage cut into small pieces and a teaspoon of salt into the pot, and the pot started to boil after a while.

The appearance of the batter was very ordinary, and it was mixed together, but Lin Dashan thought it was made by Gu Qiu, so he must give face, so he took a big bite with a spoon, the taste was beyond his surprise, very delicious, the dough was soft and sticky Waxy and tasty.Lin Dashan took several mouthfuls in spite of the heat.

Gu Qiu watched his expression change, and smiled: "This doesn't look very good, but it tastes good. The eggplant inside is very delicious, you have to try it." Lin Dashan nodded and ate hard. No time to look up and speak.

Originally, Gu Qiu planned to make more and send them to Jiang Tao's house for them to taste, but because Lin Dashan was so popular, the extra bowl ended up in his stomach, so he had no choice but to give up. Thinking about doing more next time.

After finishing the sumptuous lunch, Gu Qiu and Lin Dashan were a little bit overwhelmed, and they both sat at the dining table to digest their food. Only Gu Dong, who couldn't rest for a moment, made a fuss tenaciously, arguing to play with the ones he bought from the city a few days ago. firecracker.Today, there were many children in the village playing outside with firecrackers at home. Gu Dong had been itching for a long time, so he took advantage of the time after eating to make an application to Gu Qiu.

Children like to play with firecrackers, but Gu Dong is still young, and Gu Qiu is worried that firecrackers will hurt people and firmly refuses.Seeing Xiaodong'er's pouted lips, red eyes, and aggrieved face, the dark-faced and soft-hearted Lin Dashan couldn't bear it: "Let him play, just for the New Year."

When Gu Qiu heard Lin Dashan's intercession, he hesitated but still disagreed, but seeing Gu Dong's pitiful look of anticipation, he got up and touched a handful of sweet melon seeds, coaxing him and said, "Firecrackers and I Brother Dashan also wants to play, but now we are too full to walk, so let's set off firecrackers together at night, okay? Gu Dong is a good boy, now you can eat some sunflower seeds, okay? "

Gu Dong is usually a very sensible child, now that he has the temptation of snacks, he will naturally give in obediently.

Lin Dashan looked at Gu Qiu's good ability to coax the children, and thought to himself that he was secretly happy. After Gu Qiu and I have a baby, we don't have to worry about it, hahaha~

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