Xu Shiyan and his family stayed here until half past seven. Xu Haiyuan and Xu Jinping were both sleepy, so Xu Chenghou let them go.
Before going out, Xu Chenghou also whispered to his son and daughter-in-law not to spank their children.
It's normal for children to be greedy. The two children also suffered a lot today and were very uncomfortable. Don't beat them when you go home.
Xu Shiyan was left speechless. He took the children home and gave them a scolding lesson with a straight face.
The girl was timid and was scolded by her father until she burst into tears. Xu Haiyuan must have been frightened as well, so he stood there obediently and did not dare to say anything.
After Xu Shiyan finished training the children, he asked them to relieve themselves quickly to avoid peeing on the bed at night.
When the two babies came back from peeing, they took off their clothes and got into bed, and fell asleep soon after.
At around eleven o'clock, Su Anying specifically asked the two children to get up and pee, but both children said they had not peed.
As a result, just after twelve o'clock, Xu Haiyuan crawled out of his bed and poked Xu Shiyan. "Dad, I peed on the bed."
When Xu Shiyan heard this, he quickly turned on the light, and then he saw that his son's bed was all wet. It was so big that he peed.
Before Xu Shiyan could say anything, the girl over there also got up and said, "Dad, I need to pee."
Without saying a word, Xu Shiyan picked up his daughter and ran to the outer room. He had to leave his son's quilt to his wife.
When Xu Shiyan came back with his daughter in his arms, Su Anying had already taken out the mattress that her son had peed on, threw it aside, and spread a new mattress.
"I wonder if you two will dare to eat so many cans in the future? You won't be able to count the food you eat.
Xu Haiyuan, you are already six years old, and you are still peeing on the bed. Isn’t it embarrassing?"
While Su Anying was taking care of her son, she deliberately buried her son.
Xu Haiyuan is a very shameless child. When his mother said this, he lost his composure and puckered his lips to cry.
"How dare you cry tonight? I'm going to whip you, believe it or not?"
Su Anying stared, and Xu Haiyuan was so frightened that he held back his tears.
"Okay, okay, don't make them cry in the middle of the night.
The key is that there are two younger ones, wake them up and you won’t have to sleep tonight."
Xu Shiyan had no choice but to be the peacemaker, holding his daughter and son in his arms and coaxing them to sleep.
"Dad, I will never eat so much again." Xu Haiyuan lay in his father's arms and murmured with his eyes closed.
This child has a very strong self-esteem. He still peeed on the bed at such an old age and was scolded by his mother. He could really remember such embarrassing things for many years.
"Well, well, go to sleep. Go to bed quickly. I will be busy at home tomorrow. You have to help dad with work."
Xu Shiyan patted his son on the back and coaxed him to sleep.
After the New Year, every household starts to get busy.
On the 24th, when cleaning the house, Xu Shiyan and his son tied a new broom to a stick and lifted it up to sweep away the dust on the wall.
Xu Haiyuan is so young, but after lifting it for a while, his arms get sore.
But this child was so stubborn that he wouldn't stop even if his arms were sore. He gritted his teeth and continued until he was so tired that he was sweating and couldn't even lift his arms.
Twenty-five glued windows.
The windows of the Xu family are double-layered. When winter first came, Su Anying cut strips of newspaper and glued the window seams. There was no need to glue them again at this time.
So today, I’m making tofu at home.
Su Anying soaked some soybeans in advance, and early in the morning on the 25th, she asked Xu Shiyan to go to the mill to push water for the mill.
When Xu Shiyan came back from grinding, the old couple and Xu Shiqin also came over. They quickly poured the bean foam into the pot and brought it to a boil.
Xu Chenghou is the best at making tofu. Even though he was inexperienced in the past, he knows a lot of skills.
Pack the boiled bean paste, strain out the soy milk and keep some tofu. The bean dregs can be fed to pigs.
Xu Chenghou specially scooped out a ladle of soy milk, asked Su Anying to find a household item to put it in, put some sugar in it, and gave it to Xu Haiyuan brother and sister.
This time, the two brothers and sisters learned their lesson. No matter how good the drink was, they would not drink more. Each drank a small bowl, and Xu Shiqin picked up the rest.
Scoop out some more, burn it with plaster and let it sit until it becomes tofu curd.
I'll make a stew in a while, make some pickles, pancakes, etc., and you'll have breakfast.
When making tofu here, brine is used.
It is said that when you add brine to tofu, one thing will be reduced. Sure enough, as soon as the brine is stirred in, the soy milk turns into floc.
A wooden square plate with holes for water leakage was laid with a coarse cloth, and then the floc that had been dotted with brine was scooped in.
When it is full, cover it with cloth, cover it with a wooden board, and press it with a stone.
Just wait until the moisture inside is almost controlled and the tofu is formed, then take it out.
Over there, Su Anying used another pot to bake chopped green onion pancakes, and used a horse spoon to marinate them on the stove.
Put the ordered tofu curd into a bowl, add some chopped green onion, chopped pickles and so on.
Spoon a spoonful of braised vegetables on top of the fragrant scallion pancakes. This is a delicious meal in the morning.
After breakfast, the tofu happened to be about the same. Xu Chenghou and Xu Shiyan worked together to put the tofu into another square plate.
The white and quivering tofu is very appetizing at first glance.
Xu Chenghou took a knife and divided the tofu into large pieces.
"We'll keep half of it for ourselves, and you can send some to the Han family, and then give some to Lao Liu's master. It's the Chinese New Year, that's what it means."
Make tofu during the Chinese New Year, and your friends and family will get some points.
Donggang is a rural area, and many people make a bag of tofu to eat during the New Year.
Not so in Shenchang and Songjianghe. They are both workers. They don’t farm their own land, so they can’t make tofu without beans.
That's why Xu Chenghou said that he would give some to every house.
I keep these at home, soak some of them with cold water, and put them in a cool place. You can keep them for a few days and eat them slowly.
For the other part, simply cut it into small pieces and freeze it outside to form lumps of frozen tofu.
After the tofu is frozen, there are little eyes inside, and the cabbage and other things are left to stew. The frozen tofu absorbs the flavor of the soup, making it especially delicious.
Xu Shiyan put a few pieces of tofu in a basin and gave them to the Han family first, and then went to give some to Master Qin and Guo Shouye.
Master Qin was very happy to see Xu Shiyan and told Xu Shiyan that Xu Shiqin should have time to go there.
The medical subsidy money has come, and Xu Shiqin has to go and sign before he can receive it.
Xu Shiyan thanked Master Qin and then rode home.
Twenty-five makes tofu, and twenty-six naturally kills a pig.
Xu Shiyan didn't raise pigs this year. Su Anying lived in the mountains for half a year and then came back to give birth. How could she have time to raise pigs?
Zhou Guilan, on the other hand, was pretty good at catching two piglets at the beginning of spring.
After raising it for a year, the weight is less than 200 kilograms. I just killed one end to celebrate the New Year and saved the other end for killing in the spring.
When you kill a pig at home, and everyone comes to help, you must treat the guests, and you must have authentic pig-killing dishes.
The helpers all ate deliciously, and by the end they were all drunk and staggering.
On the twenty-seventh day, Xu Shiyan caught two sheep from the breeding farm and killed them.
On the breeding farm, the ewes keep their milk to make milk tofu and feed it to the sables, while the rams can only eat meat when they grow up.
Now that life is getting better, I will kill two sheep during the Chinese New Year and eat them in different ways.
At twenty-eight, we started steaming steamed buns.
Zhou Guilan showed her unique skill by steaming several pots of various jujube steamed buns.
Brother and sister Xu Haiyuan and Xu Jinping were stunned. I had never seen so many jujube steamed buns before. They were so beautiful.