Chapter 122 Preparations before the New Year
After dinner, it was getting dark, but it was not too late.
Taking advantage of the faint light, Fan Jin went to the old village chief's house and told everything in detail.
He also told Shui Qing's suggestions.
Li Wen, the eldest son of the old village chief, said hurriedly and nervously: "Dad, Brother Jin is right. Once these rabbits get out and people in other villages raise them, can we still be able to sell them at a high price?"
"It's everywhere. Even Fucheng can't eat so much, right?" Wang Guifen, the eldest daughter-in-law, also echoed worriedly.
The second eldest child, Li Wu, said angrily: "This Sun Jinhua is so outrageous! Before the people in our village even raised her, she thought of sending her away.
If this were the case, you would give away a few and I would give away a few, and our village would never become rich. "
The third child, Li Gang, agreed: "We must not leak out! Dad, you have to come forward on this matter, and you have to get people in the village to guarantee it.
The later it gets out, the better off our village will be. "
The whole village will get better and life will be easier. Only when everyone unites will they not be bullied by outsiders.
The ability to cope with problems is also enhanced.
The old village chief understood the truth. He looked at Fan Jin and said affirmatively: "Your wife is knowledgeable and her opinions are very pertinent;
Boss’s wife, go to Chang Lin’s house and bring out paper, inkstone, pen and ink. "
Wang Guifen quickly ran to her son's house in three steps at a time.
Li Changlin studied at Fucheng Academy and had a break every ten days. His room was empty most of the time, but he still had paper, ink, pens and inkstones.
Taking out the paper and pen and placing them in front of Fan Jin, the old village chief continued: "I said, boy Jin, you write."
The general meaning is that whoever wants to change rabbits can only raise them at home and cannot leave the landscape village.
Rabbits that leave Shanshui Village, whether they are sold or given away, can only die!
Violation of this rule will be considered as voluntary removal from the village.
If you disagree, you don’t have to change. If you want to change, you must agree to the above regulations and sign and fingerprint in front of the whole village without any regrets.
The two of them worked together to write it.
The old village chief said: "Boss and Lao Er, you can summon the whole village to come tomorrow."
Li Wen and Li Wu responded with a loud sigh.
Fan Jin breathed a sigh of relief.
With the old village chief in charge, things are much easier to handle.
As long as the villagers do not do anything illegal, they are not afraid of the law, but they dare not ignore the village rules.
Especially something that has the unanimous consent of the villagers.
Once violated, there is no place for it.
After returning home in the dark, they told Shui Qing what the old village chief had done, and the two of them felt relieved.
In the following days, everyone is preparing for the New Year.
This year’s Chinese New Year is much more lively than before!
First of all, everyone is much richer.
Picking rice, picking mushrooms, and helping other workers to earn money have made life much easier for most families in the village.
Secondly, after most people helped Fan Jinshuiqing build his house, they took advantage of the slack farming season in winter to build their own houses with adobe.
Those with large populations and fast speeds have already moved into new homes.
Another example is Aunt Zhang's family. Although they haven't moved into their new home yet and the new house hasn't been built yet, they are still delayed in burning charcoal.
And burning charcoal is making money!
With money, you can eat well, and if you eat well, you will be in a good mood.
So even if I haven’t moved, I’m still full of energy and full of energy every day.
With food in stock at home, the New Year is no longer sad, and every household pays special attention to the New Year.
The same goes for Shuiqing's family.
The rice wine business cannot be shut down, as this is the apparent source of money.
Yan Qiu and Xing Hui still only need to be responsible for making wine, while Fan Jin and Fan He deliver rice wine to Fucheng every day.
The shopping list I came back gradually changed from daily necessities to preparations for the New Year.
Red paper, window grilles, new shoes, fabrics, pastries, candies...
Ling Ran was still responsible for feeding the animals.
Fan Jiang and Bai Ziqian switched from chopping firewood to digging winter bamboo shoots.
Winter bamboo shoots are sweet and soothing. They are delicious whether stir-fried or stewed with old hens.
Moreover, winter bamboo shoots are wrapped in a thick shell and are particularly durable and can be stored for a long, long time without going bad.
In winter when there are few dishes, it is a rare and delicious fresh dish.
The two of them dug basket after basket. In addition to leaving enough for their own food, they also wanted to send a lot of food to their uncle.
Shuiqing first made bacon and sausages.
My mother gave me a big basket before. She thought that bacon was unhealthy, so she should eat less of it.
It turned out that the fried garlic and green peppers were extremely delicious—fuck it being unhealthy, these are the healthiest ingredients!
Besides, these are additive-free ingredients. Compared with additives, too much salt would not be healthy.
Anyway, our ancestors were fine after eating it for hundreds of years.
So not only bacon was on the schedule, but sausages were also made.
Claypot rice with sausage and scallion oil, sausage with hand-shredded cabbage, stir-fried sausage with garlic sprouts, and fried rice with sausage and egg will all be arranged!
After finishing the bacon and sausage, we started making rice cakes and glutinous rice cakes.
You can cheat in the mall, but there is something interesting about doing it yourself.
Of course, she wasn't the one who did it.
It's a group of kids.
Homemade things always taste extra delicious.
After the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, life became even busier, including cleaning, washing sheets and quilts, grinding tofu, killing chickens and ducks, steaming steamed buns, making buns and dumplings...
There is only one stone mill in Shanshui Village, and people grinding flour and beans line up from morning to night.
Shuiqing's family didn't need to squeeze in. They had already bought a new stone mill and put it in the yard for their own use.
Fan Jin also bought a donkey, which can carry people and things, and can also pull the mill in his spare time.
On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, after Fan Jin came back from the county town, he first sent his mother a New Year's gift: winter bamboo shoots, soybean flour glutinous rice flour, and homemade tofu.
When Fan's mother saw the tofu, she smiled happily, and saw that the glutinous rice flour was okay, after all, it was also a fine grain.
When she saw the soybean flour and winter bamboo shoots, she curled her lips.
Winter bamboo shoots are everywhere on the bamboo mountain, they are not worth much, and they are fat-sucking, and eating too much makes you feel anxious!
She also has soybeans, if she wants to eat them, she can go to the stone mill to line up for grinding.
Sun Jinhua rummaged through the things with two fingers, and finally commented: "Soybean flour is delicious with glutinous rice balls.
But this soybean flour must be paired with sugar to taste good. You only gave soybean flour and glutinous rice flour, how can it be without sugar?"
Fan Jin pursed his lips and said nothing.
When he got home, he rode on his donkey again, and brought the same three dishes, but with more bamboo shoots and less fragile tofu, to Niutou Town to deliver to his father-in-law and mother-in-law.
When Hu's mother saw the bamboo shoots, she liked them very much and kept saying that all three of them liked to eat them.
Then she saw the soybean flour and glutinous rice flour, and praised them repeatedly: "These two need to be ground into fine pieces, which is time-consuming and tiring. It's amazing that you thought of it so carefully."
Finally, when he saw the tofu, although it was broken into pieces, he was still very happy: "This is perfect for making tofu dumplings, and it saves time and trouble."
Fan Jin listened quietly, his eyebrows curved, elegant and gentle.