First, there are many people eating at Tan's house today, nearly forty of them, and four tables will be placed.

Tan Junli's mother killed three five-pound muscovy ducks and four three-pound bearded fish.

Several concubines also helped her wash vegetables, cut vegetables, light fires, and fetch water.

Tonight I will eat bean curd rice, plus grilled fish and taro duck.

Don't look at these three, in fact, the way to eat grilled fish is very similar to eating hot pot, and even more enjoyable than eating hot pot, eating grilled fish is not just the taste of fish, but there are many, many vegetables and meat to eat.

The vegetables are cauliflower, lotus root, cucumber, bean sprouts, konjac, carrots, celery, garlic, and tofu pickles......

So having these three things is enough to entertain guests.

The bean curd rice has been prepared, and the grilled fish is also made quickly, and the four fish have been taken by Tan Junli's second aunt to be roasted on the earthen oven made by herself.

This type of oven is actually a large stove with a round wire mesh on top.

There is bamboo charcoal burning underneath, and the barbed wire is so large that you can grill four fish at the same time.

The grilled fish in Sichuan is also very famous, and the various signature grilled fish that are popular in the north and south of the river must be the favorite of many people.

Grilled fish is a special delicacy that originated in Sichuan Prefecture.

In the process of circulation, the three cooking techniques of pickling, roasting and stewing are integrated.

Fully drawing on the characteristics of traditional Sichuan cuisine and Sichuan-style hot pot, it is a flavor snack with amazing taste and rich nutrition.

Sichuan-style grilled fish is significantly different from traditional barbecue practices, it adopts the unique method of "grilling first and then stewing", which combines the essence of two cooking techniques: grilling and stewing.

It is said that the origins of Sichuan-style grilled fish came from Africa, and an African indigenous who caught fish had grilled the fish for a long time before it was cooked, so he added the fish to the soup and seasoning and grilled it, and found it more delicious than ever.

Tan Junli's second aunt is the best at making grilled fish, so she cooks this dish.

Since the duck needs to be stewed for a long time, after the rice is steamed, Tan Junli's mother is ready to make taro duck.

She first chopped the cleaned muscovy duck into pieces,

The cauldron is filled with water and boiled, and the duck pieces are blanched in a small pot to remove the remaining blood.

Then scoop up the blanched duck meat, and then heat the pot to fry the fat part of the duck meat to fry the oil.

Add all the duck meat and stir-fry it together to dry the water

, then put a little cooking wine and stir-fry until fragrant, then put ginger and garlic slices to continue to stir-fry to fry the duck oil.

Then put the taro, star anise, bay leaves, cinnamon and stir-fry well, put soy sauce, a little sugar, a little dark soy sauce and stir-fry well to color.

Finally, add water to cover all the ingredients, put an appropriate amount of salt to boil, remove the foam, put the mint and stir-fry for 1 minute, turn to medium heat and cook until the taro is soft.

The taro duck is ready, and the grilled fish over there is also ready to be cooked, and this dish must be eaten while boiling to be delicious enough.

When the time comes, the semi-finished grilled fish can be served with a side dish.

Tan Junli's second aunt walked to the hall with a thickened grilled fish rack stove, and asked several other concubines to bring another grilled fish rack stove.

This tray-like grilled fish rack stove is used to burn alcohol, and charcoal can also be burned.

However, the Tan family's charcoal is not the kind of smokeless charcoal used in restaurants, thinking that it is eaten on the table, so solid alcohol is put in.

Just this solid alcohol is because Tan Junli is getting married, so he bought a barrel back.

Tan Junli's mother added a few scoops of cold water to the pot and heated it so that it could be used to wash the dishes later.

Then he walked out of the kitchen with a large pot of taro duck.

When Tan's mother went out, Tan Dafu walked in, holding a flat pole in his hand, which was used to pick wine.

The two large jars of water and wine are burned hot with rice husks, and the hot water wine is packed in a large porcelain pot that can hold 30 catties, and then put it into a basket.

In the past, rural people used large tin pots to fill water and wine, and later found that drinking like this is easy to lead poisoning, so now many people have changed to porcelain wine pots, and some people who are afraid of falling also use iron pots.

Tan Dafu acted quickly, and after doing this, he carried water and wine to the hall.

At this time, there were four round tables in the hall, and there were already more than a dozen people seated.

Gu Qingying walked in with Xiao Mingrui, who had woken up, and Xiao Tina, who was sitting on the left side of the top, waved at her.

Gu Qingying changed her clothes, wearing a dark blue ruffled T-shirt with a white cherry pattern, a pair of light-colored thin jeans, and open-fingered sandals on her feet.

She tied her hair into a ponytail, and this simple and refreshing dress made her look a few years younger, like a girl who had just entered college.

When Gu Qingying approached, Tan Junli smiled: "Are you getting younger and younger?" What if tomorrow, the scenery of you and me, the bride, is covered? ”

Xiao Mingrui seemed to be in a good mood, he jumped up and ran to Xiao Tina, hugged her waist, and shouted, "Auntie! ”

Xiao Tina happily hugged him on her lap and quipped, "Ouch, little stone, you had a good rest in the afternoon?" You see, your face is like an apple. ”

The little guy's face was flushed, and he pulled Gu Qingying who came over and shook her hand, looking at her with clear eyes and said, "Well, my mommy will accompany me in the afternoon, and if you don't have nightmares, then I must have slept soundly." ”

Tan Junli's nine-year-old cousin Liu Shihan on the side snorted and asked, "This grilled fish tastes so fragrant today?" I am hungry. ”

Lu Yishan also said: "That's it, this grilled fish is so fragrant today, let's eat." ”

After hearing this, Tan Mu turned her head and said with a smile: "Eat, start eating." ”

Father Tan took them a pot of three-pound water and wine, poured a glass for Gu Qingying first, and said with a smile: "Country wine, take it out to entertain distinguished guests, don't be surprised?" ”

Gu Qingying hurriedly said: "How can it be, I think this is better than the liquor drunk outside." Enough is enough, too much. ”

Some people don't drink alcohol, so Tan's mother took out a chilled sour plum soup made with orange peel and gave it to them, and even Xiao Mingrui poured a glass.

At Gu Qingying's table, Tan Junli, as the host, picked up the cup first, and said with a smile: "Thank you for coming to my house, come, go first and then eat the food." ”

Everyone took a sip together, and after Tan Junli sat down, they began to eat with chopsticks.

The three major dishes are all spicy, and the little guy must not eat them, so in order to take care of him, Tan's mother made him tangyuan and non-spicy sesame sauce noodles.

It's rare that Xiao Mingrui didn't pick his mouth, and he ate it very face-saving.

Gu Qingying's cooking skills are good, and she actually has high requirements for food, but she has a good attitude and follows the local customs.

The authentic rural dishes are sometimes no worse than the taste she makes, and the food is "nostalgia".

Xiao Tina doesn't like to eat bearded fish, she picked up a piece of muscovy duck meat and put it in her mouth, chewed it a few times and said, "Well, this duck meat is not firewood, it is really fragrant." ”

Gu Qingying also tasted a small piece, nodded and said, "Well, it tastes good, and it feels much better than the flat duck in the imperial capital." ”

Mao Xiaofu smiled: "You can come, we think today's meal seems to be more fragrant." ”

Tan Junli also said: "With a beautiful woman by her side, everything is fragrant, it's good to go back to your hometown and live for a few days." ”

Xiao Tina smiled and said, "What kind of beauty is not beautiful, you are also beautiful." However, I ate foreign fast food abroad for a few years, and I dreamed of eating domestic food at that time.

It's miserable, our school is fried fish and potatoes except for potatoes and fried fish. ”

Tan Junli gave Lu Yishan a chopsticks of bearded fish that she couldn't reach, and said: "One, three, eat more fish, the fish will not grow oil, eat it with confidence." ”

"Don't talk about it, I won't dare to eat if I say it again." Lu Yishan said this, and the chopsticks didn't stop.

She took a bite of the grilled fish, felt the fragrance in her mouth, smiled so much that her eyes were crooked, and said, "Who grilled this bearded fish today, it's really good, it's much better than the ones in the store I've eaten." ”

Yu Xiaoxiao said: "It seems that your mother is decided!" ”

Lu Yishan was shy, and everyone laughed.

Gu Qingying also smiled, picked up the cup and said to Tan Junli: "Lili, let's have a drink, thank you for your hospitality." ”

"You're too polite, just treat this place as if it were your own." Tan Junli said with a smile.

Maybe the big guy just said, 613 still took it to heart, so he slowed down after eating some.

Dong Xiaolu, who was beside her, smiled and said to Ren Qianqian: "Come, Qianqian." We are not fat, we can eat openly. ”

Lu Yishan was anxious and said, "Hammer, do you discriminate against fat people?" I'm too lazy to cheap you, I'll clip a few more chopsticks and eat up the dishes, and I won't leave them for you. ”

The three of them began to fight for me, and Tan Junli laughed happily.

After a dinner, the big guy's belly was bulging, and the three who grabbed the vegetables to eat, especially the one who had eaten it, were slumped on the stone chairs in the courtyard to enjoy the coolness.

Lu Yishan began to regret it, "It's over, I also said that I want to lose weight, this looks like when I go back to work, it's strange that I don't have a swimming ring, and after a few days, they also said that they want to go swimming in the water park, and they can't wear swimsuits." ”

There were mosquitoes in the yard, and Gu Qingying was afraid of biting the little guy, so she didn't go out.

At this moment, the cry of Aunt Tan Junli's mother-in-law suddenly began to sound in the hall.

Soon several elderly women began to cry, and Gu Qingying was startled.

turned around and saw that among the several women who were crying a lot, there was Tan Junli.

What's going on?

"This is crying and marrying, our custom." Mao Xiaofu explained.

On the rural side of Sichuanzhou, it has always attached importance to "crying and marrying", and the saying goes, "If a girl doesn't cry, her mother's family will not be blessed".

The night before the wedding, the girl's good girlfriend and three relatives and six relatives and sisters gathered together, sat around a room, and took turns crying.

"Crying marriage", also known as "crying out of marriage", "crying marriage", "crying sedan chair" and so on.

It is the traditional marriage custom of Han, Tujia, Yi, and other ethnic groups, that is, the crying and singing ritual activities performed by the bride when she gets married.

Crying and marrying is mainly to thank the parents and elders for their nurturing grace and the care of the brothers and sisters-in-law;

Crying about the sadness of the joyful life of girlhood and the confusion and anxiety before the arrival of a new life.

There are also those who scold and make a matchmaker, in the past, the Sichuan opera "The Legend of the Willow Shade" had a fold of "British and Taiwan Scolding the Media".

I don't know when the custom of crying and marrying originated.

During the Warring States Period, the princess of Zhao State married to Yan State to be the queen, and her mother, Empress Dowager Zhao, "held her heel, cried for it, and wished that she would not return." “

It is about the long-lasting custom of crying and marrying.

This custom is still prevalent in the rural areas of Sichuanzhou, and it is similar with regional changes.

After marriage, it is difficult for a woman to meet her parents and brothers unless she has a discord with her husband or a change in her marriage.

Listen to the old people, earlier. If there is a girl who marries and does not cry, she will also be regarded by the neighbors as an uneducated person and become a laughing stock;

According to legend, there is a matter of a married girl who is not crying and is beaten by her mother, and crying to marry is called "sitting in the hall" in western Sichuan.

There are even lyrics:

The moon bends and shines in Huatang, and the daughter opens her mouth to call her father.

Parents raise children with empty hopes, like a dream of Nanke.

One foot and five inches to raise the child, and it is very wet and bitter when it is dried.

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Nowadays, however, the freedom of marriage is rare, but it is still preserved in some places.

At this time, Tan Junli's aunts, aunts, aunts, sisters and other female guests with five relatives and six relatives came to cry and persuade them to cry.

Several people sit around a table, first the bride cries, the bride cries, the others take turns crying, and finally the bride cries.

I only heard Tan Junli sing: "My mother, my mother, you do a dowry for your daughter, the road is a trough, and the road is hairy."

As soon as the chicken spoke, the mother walked on the road; The sparrow entered the forest, and the mother walked halfway. Red, red, green, and green are a few big blocks, and they make do a lot together......

I didn't repay all kinds of kindness, and I didn't repay ten thousand drops of nectar. I'm going to leave you tomorrow, I don't know what his house is, who to express my inner words to? My father, my mother, I am willing to serve the second elder and not to marry. ”

Mother Tan sang: "The girl is going to get married when she grows up, and her mother tells a few words: first, she must be filial to her in-laws; second, you should respect your husband; Third, we should be more harmonious and harmonious;

Fourth, we must be careful and virtuous, the tea and rice should be even, the fire candle should be careful, and the stir-fry should be clean;

Fifth, get up early, sweep the floor in front of the hall, and the distinguished guests come to the house, load cigarettes and hand tea;

Sixth, we must learn to tailor, so as not to ask for inconvenience, do not be greedy to play more, and rely on which one to rely on when you are poor in the future. ”

The mother and daughter of the Tan family cried and reconciled.

Soon it was Tan Junli's cousins' turn to sing: "There are twelve girls on the Solo tree, we have the same root and the same girl; Now my sisters are going to be separated, and they are so lonely when they leave home!"

Tan Junli: "Solo Shu came to Taiwan to Taiwan, I hope that my sister will be more forgiving in my heart, and I will accept my sister more, and my sister's teachings will be remembered!"

Tan Junli kept wiping her tears with her hands while sobbing, and the inseparable family affection made people moved, and everyone present cried.

Tan's mother's sisters also began to wipe their tears, and echoed: "My brother, my sister-in-law, a twelve-petal orange, brother and sister-in-law should be scattered;

A bamboo has 12 sections, and it is necessary to pick it up during the New Year's Festival; An egg has not turned yellow, and the sister's life is still very long; With a water tank and three hoops, you and my sister are not unfamiliar.

Sister kiss, sister kiss, pick a pomegranate and half a point, open the pomegranate 12 grids, and don't separate your heart every three or four times. ”

This kind of crying and singing takes about more than an hour, and although it is a ritual, you will really cry when you sing it.

In the folk of Sichuan, especially in the living customs of the Ba people, crying marriage is undoubtedly the most distinctive kind of wedding ceremony.

The bride began to cry before the wedding and cried until she left home.

In the past, most marriages were "the orders of the parents, the words of the matchmaker", and the woman did not understand the man and his family, and was full of worries about her future life.

Under such a marriage system, a woman's marriage is usually unhappy, so crying becomes inevitable.