After breakfast, Qu Weiyang led Wang Zhiguo and Jiakang to find a place to smash ice holes and fish on the river.

Qiao Lian didn't stop it, so she had to toss it by Qu Weiyang, this person, as soon as he came home, he must be all kinds of madness up the mountain and down the river.

Anyway, it's not a big deal today, except for sticking a pair of vertical lantern poles, just thinking about making food, let him toss.

The men all went to the river to play around, so Qiaolian led Jiayuan to make paste, and posted window flowers and hung money and blessing characters everywhere in the house. The couplet does not belong to Qiaolian, waiting for Qu Weiyang to paste it.

The two of them worked very quickly, and after a short time, they posted the window flowers and money.

The red window flowers and colorful hanging money reveal people's expectations and yearning for the New Year, and express the joy in people's hearts.

The snow-white window paper is pasted with red window flowers, no matter how you look at it, it is festive, just like Qiaolian's mood at the moment.

Although Qu Weiyang also spent the New Year at home last year, Qu Weiyang was still recuperating from his injuries at that time, which was different from this year.

Now that Qu Weiyang has completely recovered, and he has returned to work and is often at home, this feeling is different, and Qiaolian is particularly happy this year.

"Let's go, that's it outside, the rest of the couplets, wait for your dad to come back and let him post them, let's not care.

The two of us went back to the house to pack up and prepare for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the afternoon. This year, several uncles are celebrating the New Year in our house, and our mother and daughter have to come up with some unique skills to let the uncles have a good New Year. ”

Qiaolian stood in the middle of the courtyard, looked around, and felt quite satisfied, so she entered the house with the rice, and Jiayuan followed Qiaolian and also entered the house.

The western pot in the kitchen was steaming, and the pot was bubbling with pheasants and hares.

Qiao Lian had already planned to make a few smoked chickens and rabbits today, and kept them for the next few days.

Of course, there was no household wealth at home, so she could only put the pheasants and hares in the pot until they were seven or eight ripe, and then smoked them with ingredients.

This saves time and materials, otherwise it will be too laborious to smoke it all.

There are a lot of ingredients in the pot, and at this time, the rich aroma wafts out with the heat, wafts to the nose, and if you smoke your nose, you will smell the aroma, not to mention how tempting.

"Mom, what are you putting in this pot? Why is it so fragrant? Xiao Jiayuan couldn't hold back and asked.

Qiao Lian thought about it, and then said, "It seems that there are star anise, cinnamon, peppercorns, spices, fennel, nutmeg, bay leaves, dried ginger, soy sauce, sugar, and salt, and that's it."

What do you think? Feels good, right? Wait for a while to take it out and then put it in the pot to smoke, it will be even more delicious. ”

Qiao Lian reached out and rubbed her daughter's head and smiled. "You're still young, and when you're older, your mother will teach you how to cook."

"Come, let's start processing other materials now, it's rare for uncles to come to our house for the New Year, today's meal must not be too bad, and we can't embarrass Dad."

Come on, now is the time for our mother and mother to show their skills, you give your mother a hand, and let's show your hands to the uncles. ”

Qiao Lian already had a plan in her heart, so she led Jia Yuan and began to process all kinds of ingredients.

Wild boar ribs stewed with sauerkraut, chestnut stewed duck, stir-fried venison, pot wrapped meat, shredded pork with Beijing sauce, pork stewed vermicelli, chicken stewed mushrooms, pork trotters in sauce, bergamot cabbage, Sixi meatballs, these are already ten dishes.

"Well, the smoked chicken won't be served today, and I'll eat it tomorrow, otherwise there is already a chicken stewed with mushrooms on the table, and it's heavy, just have a rabbit today."

Qiao Lian muttered as she processed the ingredients.

"Skin jelly counts as one, fried dried fruits can count as one, and then let's have mung bean sprouts, too many meat dishes are not good, and I am tired of eating it."

Even if the Qu family has a good life, they usually eat a lot of vegetable oil and water, but this New Year is full of meat dishes, and Qiaolian can't stand it.

So I had to think about some vegetarian dishes, but fortunately she sent a pot of mung bean sprouts in advance, and it was good to eat it when it was scalded.

"There's one left, let's see what your dad can get back, if there are fish, then we'll save trouble."

There are also fish in the system, but Qiaolian doesn't dare to take it out, it's not last year, there is no big set this year, she can't find an excuse to take something out that doesn't belong to this season.

Especially this year, there is Wang Zhiguo and they are here, not her own family for the New Year, Qiaolian is more worried about revealing any flaws.

It's just a small thing that is inconspicuous, like a live fish or something, forget it, don't make a mess.

Some of the ingredients for the dishes set by Qiao Lian were prepared in advance.

Like duck and chicken, they are stewed out in advance and put outside, just take it back and heat it up, and add other ingredients to stew it again.

It's this wild boar ribs, which need to be stewed. So Qiaolian came back with a pork rib, picked up a sharp kitchen knife, and began to chop with a clang.

After all, wild boar is different from domestic pork, wild boar is thick and hard, and this wild boar bone is naturally more difficult to chop than domestic boar bones.

Qiaolian's kitchen knife is sharpened in advance, and it is extremely sharp, even so, it takes a bit of effort to chop the bones of wild boars.

Just chopping it, Qu Weiyang came back, "Daughter-in-law, why don't you wait for me to chop bones?" I'll do this job. ”

Qu Weiyang took the knife in Qiao Lian's hand and helped Qiao Lian chop the ribs.

Not to mention, Qu Weiyang has strength in his hands, watching him chop ribs, he is much faster than Qiaolian.

"Wang Zhiguo, what about them? Why didn't I come back with you? What about Jiakang? Qiao Lian saw that only Qu Weiyang came back, and felt puzzled.

"Zhiguo, they are all crazy, smashing the ice hole there, I smashed one of them is too little, and I found a place to smash it.

He also said that he would compete with me to see who could catch a fish. I asked Jiakang to show me there, and if there was a fish, I dragged it up.

Don't worry, the ice on the river is quite thick, a foot or two thick, it's fine. I came back and thought, is there anything I can do to help? ”

Qu Weiyang has energy in his hands, and he works neatly, and when he speaks, his hands rise and fall, and a pork rib is quickly chopped.

"What's the other work? Leave all the hard work to me. ”

Qu Weiyang chopped up the ribs, washed his hands, and walked around the kitchen to see if there was anything else he could do to help.

"Well, it's a bit of a life for you to do, give me a simple stove in the yard, and then bring out the cauldron in the barn for me.

I'm going to smoke the chicken and the rabbit, it's not good to be in the house, it's going to be all over the house, it's easier to get outside. ”

Smoked chicken and rabbit will be better if you use a serious stove, and it will be a bit troublesome to use a pot, but the taste is almost the same, but the smoke is heavier.

In the warehouse of the Qu family, it was the pot that Qu Weiyang bought back that year, it was a little bigger, and it was not usually used.

Later, Qiaolian specially bought a smaller pot and replaced it, and the big pot was placed in the warehouse and kept for when killing pigs or making tofu.

At this time, Qu Weiyang found a stone, built a simple stove pit, and moved the cauldron out to support it.

"Daughter-in-law, do you think this is okay? If something doesn't fit, I'll do it all over again. ”