In the end, what was left was for the family to eat and eat whatever they had. After a simple meal, Shaoan and Xiulian were surrounded by young people from Shuangshui Village and went to the wedding room of the two members of the production team.
How to make a wedding fuss has nothing to do with Wang Manyin's brother-in-law. It's just a simple fun in the village. Nothing excessive will happen like some wedding fuss. The prestige of the production team leader and Shaoan's fists as big as sandbags are not relevant.
Just kidding.
Although Wang Manyin felt that he was very young, only in his twenties, he still followed the older people and stayed with Sun Yuhou to clean up the mess.
There are no big fuss, simplicity also has the advantage of being simple, it is easy to pack up, more people have more power, wash what needs to be washed, throw away what needs to be thrown away, and return what needs to be returned.
After the Sun family was restored to its original state except for the red couplets and window grilles.
Wang Manyin and Lanhua, with their children, said goodbye to Mr. and Mrs. Sun Yuhou. The most tiring people in the wedding are the two newlyweds, and then the rest are the parents of the groom. I am definitely happy, but after a hard day's work, leaving early will also make it difficult for them to leave early.
The couple can rest early.
After Shaoan's work was finished, Wang Manyin also had to prepare for the New Year at home. Lanhua was busy cleaning the cave dwellings and the yard, unpacking and washing bedding, cleaning the windows, and putting up his newly cut window grilles, not to mention Lanhua.
All tricks work.
Although the aunts here in northern Shaanxi basically know how to cut window grilles, the fat dolls, blessing characters, happy characters, carps, ingots, and various flowers they cut from orchids can also illustrate the ingenuity of orchids.
In other words, only one of Wang Manyin's three-hole cave dwellings has a door or window. The windows are limited and the orchid cannot display its full potential, otherwise it would be possible to cut more patterns.
Wang Manyin was not idle either. He took his own sheep and asked Li Laishun to kill them. All three ewes were pregnant, so of course they had to be kept. The remaining ram was kept for food.
Wang Manyin's cooking inheritance includes knowledge of sheep slaughtering, but Li Laishun, who has to kill dozens of sheep every year, is not experienced enough. Wang Manyin doesn't know how to make sheep skins, the most important thing. Since he has to hire someone, he can't bother Li Laishun.
Already.
"Brother Laishun, I brought our sheep here!"
Of course, Li Laishun will not be idle. The production team must ensure that each person has a pound of mutton during the Spring Festival. In addition to the production team, there are also several villagers who slaughter sheep during the New Year, which is also troublesome for Li Laishun.
"I haven't visited your house recently. Your sheep are quite big."
"It's not bad, there's no shortage of feed, and the orchids are well fed."
The old way of killing sheep was the same time it took Wang Manyin to kill a few chickens. According to the rules of killing sheep in Gugu Village, you need to use mutton and haggis to kill the sheep, and treat the person to a drink.
Now that the Chinese New Year is approaching, the rule has become to give away half a pair of sheep. Li Laishun has killed not ten but eight sheep in the past few days. The family is not short of these, so he insists on not accepting them. The relationship between the two is not bad. Wang Manyin did not force it, so he just refused to accept it.
You can only take a complete sheep home.
"Brother Lai Shun, you must come to our house for a drink if you have time in the next few days. If you don't come, I will be in a hurry with you."
"I'll definitely go. Don't worry. When the sheepskin is ready, you can come to our house to pick it up."
Wang Manyin happily brought the mutton home. One sheep sounds like a lot, but the meat yield of sheep is far behind that of pigs. A sheep weighing about 100 kilograms only has 40 to 50 kilograms of mutton.
The mutton will definitely not be sold, and it is barely enough to feed his family. In the winter in northern Shaanxi, it is often minus 20 or 30 degrees Celsius, and there is a natural refrigerator outside. If not, Wang Manyin still has a small world where he can cheat.
If he had not completed the village's task of delivering pigs to the country, Wang Manyin could have kept all the big black pigs at home and eaten them himself.
"Manyin, you brought back even one sheep? Isn't there anyone in the village who wants to buy more mutton?"
Orchid, who was busy putting up window grilles, saw Wang Manyin coming back and said.
"Someone wants it, but I don't want to sell it. The family is not short of money now, so it would be great to keep it and eat it. Our cat and dog Dan like to eat meat the most!"
Even though the money is less this year, there is really no shortage of people in Gujin Village who want to buy mutton. For those families with men working in the city, they can buy as much mutton as they want.
Whether it is giving gifts to leaders during festivals or exchanging courtesy among colleagues, each other can be very happy. How can people from rural areas in the city not know a little bit about the world.
That is to say, the grain output in northern Shaanxi is too low to feed pigs. In the Guanzhong area where Wang Manyin has been, every household feeds two pigs. When one pig is handed over at the end of the year, the money can be sold to meet the family's annual expenses.
The remaining pig was slaughtered years ago and made into bacon, sausages, and bacon. The family has enough meat for the year. Even in the countryside, life is not bad.
"It's okay to keep it for food. Anyway, the family has no foreign debt."
Unless Wang Manyin wants to go out and wander around for a long time, Lanhua really rarely objects to Wang Manyin's various decisions.
With the mutton available, the family had a delicious mutton steamed bun for lunch.
In the afternoon, Wang Manyin killed two more roosters at home, deboned the mutton, cut it and hung it up to freeze. The smaller chickens were easier to clean, but it would take time to clean up the various offal parts of the sheep.
The blood, intestines, heart, liver, belly, head, lungs, tail, hooves, etc. of the sheep are all cleaned up, debris is removed, and the internal organs of each part are washed repeatedly.
A piece of tripe is often washed more than ten times, especially the sheep's lungs, which are treated very carefully, and then soaked in clean water overnight.
After everything is cleaned, put it into a pot with various seasonings and cook them separately. If you like to eat it, put it in the mutton soup and cook it, and you will have a delicious bowl of mutton soup.
Farmers only have a few days of leisure during the New Year from the beginning to the end of the year. Adults and children are all looking forward to the New Year, so the trouble of cleaning up the haggis is nothing.
"Lanhua, soak the soybeans at home. Tomorrow the village will organize to make tofu."
Tofu is also considered a delicacy. In rural areas, tofu is made by oneself. Most villages have no shortage of craftsmen who can make tofu. Some villages collectively prepare tofu and distribute it directly to each head. The soybeans in the jar village have been distributed to the villagers.
, you can use your own soybeans to make as much as you want to eat, which is more flexible.
The next day, each of them had a bowl of mutton soup in the morning. Wang Manyin and Lanhua took a basin of soaked beans and went to the brigade headquarters to line up to make tofu.
Making tofu can be roughly divided into five steps: soaking the beans, grinding the beans, boiling the soy milk, ordering the tofu and pressing the tofu.
It sounds simple, and it seems that you can make it yourself, but the technical content is still very high. If you miss the smallest detail, the quality of the tofu will be much worse.
Pay special attention to the two steps of cooking soy milk and ordering tofu. You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, so the heat and time of cooking soy milk are particularly important.
