Chapter 135 New Year
"Don't worry, sister. I'll take Xiaohao with me then?" Jiang Suan said excitedly.
Jiang Rong waved his hand, signaling the two to leave quickly, then turned off the tablet, crawled into the soft and warm quilt, closed his eyes and went to sleep.
At this moment in the quiet room, the breathing gradually became steady, and a slight snoring sound continued.
In the evening, Jiang Rong went downstairs to prepare dinner.
The two younger ones, Jiang Suan and Qi Hao, have returned and are boiling water for a bath.
Some big cities now have electricity and internet access, but in small places like Qingshan Village, it has not yet been popularized. So in order to save money, Jiang Rong, Jiang Suan and Qi Hao usually use firewood to boil water for washing.
Except grandma, of course.
Jiang Rong went to the yard and took a look. The two children brought back a lot of things, ten full buckets.
Jiang Rong looked at so many fish, shrimps and the like and could only sigh at the youth's overwhelming energy.
"Sister, we've put the little ones back." Jiang Suan ran out of the bathroom after taking a shower. After saying this, she rushed back to her room.
Jiang Rong nodded and looked at the grass carp, crucian carp, silver carp, loach, yellow eel, turtle, snail, river clam, river shrimp...
I was thinking silently about what to eat in the evening.
Stir-fried snails with perilla, stir-fried river clams, braised fish with shredded radish, spicy shrimp, then a plate of eggplant and a river clam soup.
After finishing his thoughts, Jiang Rong waved his hand and put everything except the ingredients that would be needed later into the space.
She now had to go to her grandmother's vegetable garden to pick some garlic and onions, and bring back two radishes.
When she walked back from the vast expanse of white snow, Jiang Suan and Qi Hao had already dressed up again and appeared in the kitchen, waiting for Jiang Rong's order to start helping prepare the ingredients for dinner.
Jiang Rong brought everything in, and then took charge of cutting the butts of the snails and killing the fish, which were a bit more troublesome.
Jiang Suan and Qi Hao were responsible for washing and cutting the vegetables.
While cleaning, Jiang Rong asked, "Do you two want to go to study with your brother Xin Jue?"
As the center of the country, Beijing has the fastest post-disaster recovery speed and will certainly not lag behind in education.
Jiang Rong usually doesn't pay much attention to the studies of his two younger brothers, and mostly lets them teach on their own. Jiang Suan is fourteen years old this year, and will become an adult in a few years.
Jiang Rong has been thinking about this problem sometimes recently, and feels that bringing them both back has actually delayed them a bit.
After all, society will slowly return to normal.
"Sister, you don't really want Xiaohao and I to go to Beijing to study?" Jiang Suan looked devastated.
Qi Hao also looked at her nervously.
"No, I just asked to see what you think." Jiang Rong was not the type of person who made all the decisions on his own.
"Then I definitely don't want to. I still want to stay with grandma and you forever."
"I don't want to go either."
Jiang Suan, Qi Hao and Jiang Rong's attitudes were not very firm. They just talked to them in a consultative manner and expressed their opinions immediately.
"Then don't go, but you both have to listen carefully to the classes I picked for you, okay?" Jiang Rong suddenly changed the subject.
Ginger and garlic...
Well, it turns out his sister has other intentions than drinking!
"I heard you." Although they understood Jiang Rong's little thoughts, the two little ones could only respond in unison.
After about a year of observation, Jiang Rong found that Jiang Suan was more interested in knowledge of physics and chemistry, while Qi Xiaohao liked painting.
There is no one specialized to teach them now, so Jiang Rong can only find more relevant professional videos for them to watch, and then send them to specialized training when they are older.
Of course, the premise is that they themselves are willing.
Jiang Rong felt that the supplies in her space were enough for their family of four to squander for several lifetimes.
If these two little guys really don't want to go to a bigger place, I can definitely support them myself.
Of course, as of now, Jiang Rong feels that he is just idle and thinking too much.
*
The ninth day of the second lunar month is New Year’s Eve.
This morning, Jiang Rong, Jiang Suan, and grandma Qi Hao got up early, and everyone put on new clothes.
When washing clothes, Jiang Rong had to rob half of the mall's clothes. The clothes in his space were piled up like a mountain and are now being slowly consumed.
A few days ago when the weather was good, the whole family did a thorough cleaning. It took the three of them two full days to finish cleaning. Today, all they have to do is prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner.
There are also Spring Festival couplets!
Around nine o'clock in the morning, we started preparing to post the series.
Jiang Rong had bought a lot of bright red colored paper when he was stockpiling supplies. Now he cuts it, writes on it, and then pastes it himself.
First couplet: Heaven's will brings spring back to life
Second line: People's hearts are happy, kind and virtuous, and auspicious.
Horizontal banner: Say goodbye to the old and welcome the new
Jiang Rong had found the couplets online when she and Jiang Suan were putting up Spring Festival couplets. She wrote down some of them at the time, and now she picked a couple that she thought was suitable and wrote them down. The characters weren't very pretty, but they were okay.
After pasting the Spring Festival couplets, set off firecrackers first.
Jiang Rong had previously asked Jiang Suan and Qi Hao to deliver two bundles of firecrackers to each of the other four families in the village.
At about this time, the sound of firecrackers could be heard one after another.
In addition to their village, there were also faint sounds of firecrackers coming from other places.
Jiang Rong took the lighter, lit the fuse, and then ran to the side quickly.
A family of four stood at their doorstep, watching the crackling firecrackers with smiles on their faces.
It has been about five years since the end of the world, and it was not until this year that they finally had a good New Year with some festive atmosphere.
After pasting the Spring Festival couplets and setting off firecrackers, it’s time to paste window flowers.
Grandma Jiang can cut red ones with various patterns.
Grandma was so happy to cut the hair that she cut so many that Jiang Rong asked Jiang Su and others to deliver them to other families.
Then he started to prepare dumplings. He would have a simple lunch at noon, and then he would start preparing the ingredients for dinner in the afternoon. It would take him an entire afternoon to prepare, Jiang Rong had a feeling...
Pork, tofu and chopped green onion filling, shrimp, corn and seaweed filling, pork and corn filling, coriander and pork filling, celery and pork filling, leek and egg filling, pork and mushroom filling...
I made 30 of each. If you can’t finish them, you can save them for breakfast later.
The dumpling wrappers are made of flour bought before the end of the world.
Jiang Rong likes to eat flour dumplings, but Jiang Suan likes to eat taro dumplings, and Qi Hao is very curious about taro dumplings.
So grandma made several flavors of taro dumplings for the two of them.
If the taro dumplings are made well, the skin will be thin, smooth and chewy, but it will still be harder to chew than flour skin. Jiang Rong hates chewy things.
She doesn't like to eat most hard things because she feels her cheeks get sore from chewing them.
At noon, Jiang Rong ate two large plates of dumplings by himself, mostly with pork, tofu and chopped green onion fillings.
And she likes to eat it with soup, and with some seaweed and dried shrimp.
Grandma ate a bowl and a half of the flour dumplings she ate with her.
Jiang Suan and Qi Hao finished all the taro dumplings that grandma made today.
By the end of the meal, I couldn’t even straighten my waist, I was so full!
After dinner, there is no time to rest. After washing the dishes, I have to start preparing ingredients for dinner.
To make braised pig’s trotters with soybeans, the trotters must be stewed in a pressure cooker until they are soft, otherwise my grandma won’t be able to eat them.
However, Jiang Rong and the other three young people didn't like it to be too soft and tender, and they thought it lacked chewiness, so she prepared to make two portions, one for grandma and one for the three of them.
In addition, Jiang Rong also plans to make some braised pig's trotters, duck necks, duck frames, duck intestines, chicken feet, duck paws, duck wings, crabs, shrimps and chicken wings.
There are ready-made ones in these spaces, but Jiang Rong wants to try making it himself. After all, it is healthier to make it yourself, but the taste... I guess he needs more practice.
If you are making braised food, these ingredients must be washed in advance, then put into the seasoning and steamed, waiting for the sauce to be absorbed and the flavor to be absorbed.
Fortunately, she had collected a lot of spices, such as white cardamom, angelica dahurica, cinnamon, star anise, nutmeg, licorice, cloves, fennel, bay leaves, grass knives, galangal, cardamom, amomum, thyme, cumin seeds, chili peppers, and Sichuan peppercorns.
Other ingredients needed include salt, chicken essence, MSG, white sugar, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, sweet noodle sauce, soybean paste, sugar color, maltose, red yeast rice powder, salad oil, etc.
It is quite troublesome to make this. Jiang Rong follows the recipe and puts each ingredient in by weight, otherwise she is afraid that the taste will change if she puts too much or too little.
However, Jiang Rong directly handed this troublesome matter over to Jiang Suan and Qi Hao.
She went on to prepare the rest.
For example, if you want to eat hot pot or barbecue in the evening, you can cut them fresh yourself.
The hot pot ingredients include pork tenderloin, tender beef, marbled beef, fat lamb rolls, prawns, duck blood, beef tripe, tripe, fresh fish fillets, fish balls, and shrimp balls.
The barbecue ingredients include pork belly, beef belly, bacon, chicken wings, small ribs, plum snow pine boards, eye meat, tri-tip meat, top brain slices, and beef ribs, with beef being the majority.
The vegetarian dishes include fresh lettuce and coriander grown in grandma’s own vegetable garden, dried kelp that she had stockpiled before and soaked in cold water, giant mushrooms that she had stockpiled during the apocalypse, half-human-high greens, soccer-ball-sized tomatoes, a person-high white radish, and enoki mushrooms that she had grown at home.
Because there are only four people in my family, we don’t pay too much attention to the New Year celebrations. We just cook whatever they like to eat.
After winter comes, we often make dishes like hot pot and barbecue at home.
In addition, today is Chinese New Year, and Jiang Rong is rarely extravagant. He turned on the air conditioners in several places where he needs to stay. At present, because there is no electricity, he is still using the electricity generated by the oil-burning generator that Xin Jue helped install before. However, most of the time, he still uses solar energy and oil alternately. In addition, Jiang Rong does not usually squander power, so the consumption is actually not too great.
In addition, after the end of the world, people's bodies gradually returned to their previous state. Jiang Rong is no worse than before. He is the second person in the family who is afraid of cold, besides his grandmother.
The myopia problem that had disappeared earlier due to her supernatural physical fitness has slowly returned. Fortunately, the degree of myopia has not increased much, so she is still wearing the same pair of glasses she wore before the apocalypse. Generally, she doesn't wear them when she doesn't need to look at something carefully.
In addition to hot pot, barbecue and braised food, these are the foods that young people like to eat.
Then there are some home-cooked dishes, boiled fish, pan-fried crucian carp, steamed sea bass, spicy beef, cola chicken wings, spicy shrimp, stir-fried snails, radish and pork ribs soup, tomato and potato beef brisket, morel stewed chicken, beer duck, stir-fried clams, spicy squid tentacles, braised hairy crabs, spicy chicken offal, dry-baked mantis shrimp, garlic abalone, garlic oyster vermicelli, clam shrimp paste, spicy razor clams, garlic lettuce, fish head stewed with tofu, garlic enoki mushrooms, hot and sour potato shreds, spicy oyster mushrooms, boiled vegetables...
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