After breakfast, Li Tie's family got busy.
Of course, Ivan is such a big beauty, but she can't help much on the side, and when the chickens, ducks and fish are killed, Li Tie said to Ivan with a smile: "Ivan, come, let's beat this chicken and duck together!"
” When Ivan heard this, she was very happy, everything here was so fresh, she was full of curiosity, after the chicken and duck were killed, what kind of trick was going to be done?
Isn't it just plucking?
Well, Ivan really hasn't seen it.
Li Tie held the fat chicken in one hand and the fat duck in the other, and said to Ivan: "Beating the whole chicken and duck is a delicate job!"
The chickens and ducks should be scalded in boiling water first, so that they can be plucked.
After plucking the feathers, they are burned with firewood until they are golden brown, and the fluff on the chickens and ducks is burned off, and the skin and meat that have been burned in this way are also very fragrant.
Then the chicken and duck are disemboweled, the internal organs are removed, and they are cleaned.
Like the intestines of chickens and ducks, as well as the liver and kidneys, they are all good things, we call it water here, and you can eat authentic chicken water today!
” "Chicken, chicken, into the water?"
Ivan was curious to learn.
Li Tie nodded and said, "Yes, it's called to go into the water!"
This is a local dialect, in written words, it is called chicken offal, duck offal. ” Ivan learned a few more new words, and happily watched Li Tie scald the fat chicken and duck with boiling water, and the two began to sit on the small bench and pluck their hair.
Li Tie's father went to the street early in the morning to buy some vegetables and came back, and now the family is busy frying crispy meat and fish to prepare the New Year's meal.
Ah Huang has been wagging his tail beside Ivan, and today he is going to have a tooth sacrifice, and there are a lot of scraps that will become a delicacy in his eyes when he kills chickens, ducks and fish, so he has always wagged his tail by Ivan's side.
Ivan also found that this ordinary yellow dog looked really smart, no worse than those shepherd dogs and pet dogs.
Li Tie's nephew Yang Guang has been following his mother's side, and the little guy also peeks at Ivan from time to time, maybe in the eyes of children, Ivan is such a foreign beauty, which also makes him very curious, how can this foreign aunt who can't speak Chinese become his aunt Of course, this foreign aunt is very generous, last night, his mother Li Ying opened the red envelope and saw that there were 200 yuan in it!
You must know that this is at the end of the 90s, and the red envelope of 200 yuan is really a super large red envelope in the countryside!
Generally speaking, during the Chinese New Year, relatives give red envelopes to children, at most ten or twenty yuan, and if you give a hundred, it is possible for rich relatives in the city to give so much.
Li Tie and Ivan cooperated very tacitly, and after a while, the fat chicken and duck were beaten out, and the chickens and ducks that had been burned by firewood were golden and golden, dripping with oil, and especially fragrant.
Shen Huan put the chicken in the big foot basin, yes, this is the foot basin, which is usually used to wash clothes and feet, but Li Tie didn't care about it for a long time, because the family had been doing this when he was a child, but Ivan was a little surprised and said: "Li, didn't this basin wash his feet last night?"
How can it be used to wash and eat?
” Li Tie then remembered, alas, Ivan is a foreigner, and when he saw such a thing, he was afraid that he wouldn't even be able to eat, so he hurriedly said: "Ah, Ivan, I'm sorry, I really didn't think of this."
But we are like this in the countryside, and there is no other pot in the house!
What to do?
” Ivan couldn't cry or laugh, he didn't expect that rural China would be like this, but since they all came, and they all became Li Tie's girlfriends, of course she couldn't help but follow the customs.
Seeing that Li Tie was a little embarrassed, Ivan hurriedly said: "Ah, I'm sorry, Li, I just said it casually, I don't mind, really, it's all because I have a lot of mouths, I knew I wouldn't say it!"
” Li Tie smiled and said, "Do you really not mind?"
” Ivan blushed and said, "Aren't you Chinese idioms called love house and wu?"
Now that I'm going home with you, I'm going to accept everything you have, including these customs!
” Li Tie was also a little moved when he heard this, Ivan is really sincere to him now, although he knows that he is not worthy of her, if it weren't for Shen Huan's matchmaking, and that time he happened to meet a hooligan, Ivan was moved, he wouldn't have a chance at all.
Li Tie's nose was sour, and he hurriedly said: "Ivan, thank you!"
I'll treat you well in the future, I swear!
” Ivan was also so moved that she was about to cry, at this time she came to China thousands of miles away, and at this time she really found a sense of home.
Li Tie's hands and feet are very nimble, he has been doing these jobs since he was a child, the chest and belly of the chicken were cut open by him, and then the useful internal organs were also washed by him and put in the bowl, and those unwanted tracheas and lungs became delicious in the mouth of the yellow dog.
Li Tie's mother, Wang Sufang, began to raise dust, and Li Tie inadvertently saw his mother's thin body, in the house, holding a broom tied from bamboo branches, beating dust.
Her waist can't straighten up, it's very laborious, her face has a lot of wrinkles, her hair is even grayer, people who are only fifty years old look like they are in their sixties, and even one of her hands is also due to rheumatism, and her finger bones are frighteningly big, and she can't straighten up, when she sees this scene, Li Tie only feels extremely sad, as if something is stuck in her throat.
He suddenly remembered a song that was played every day on the campus radio when he was in college, and it was a song in praise of his mother.
A rival that cannot be modified Bring out the warmth always in the back Always wordy, always pay attention I don't know how to cherish and feel too guilty Intoxicated by the scales, she does not appreciate Mother's love never gave way Determination to rush to the heart and struggle Kindness can be repaid in the end...
This song "I Really Love You" shows the unrequited love of mothers all over the world for their children!
Li Tie looked at his mother's back, and felt sour in his heart, he knew that he was not a genius, but he must work hard to make his family live a better life!
His parents have worked hard for him for most of his life, and he should live a happy old age, and he can't continue to work hard, Li Tie is also afraid that his parents will leave him because of overwork and illness.
Ivan noticed Li Tie's strange appearance, and she hurriedly asked, "Li Tie, what's wrong with you?"
” Li Tie came back to his senses at this time, he almost scratched his hand with a knife just now, Li Tie hurriedly said: "I'm fine, let's get it done, go burn paper to worship the ancestors." ” Every year on the 29th day of the Lunar New Year, this event is held.
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Be pious when burning paper, so that the ancestors will bless their children and grandchildren with good health and success.
Li Tie is also secretly praying that the ancestors of the Li family must bless themselves and change the fate of the family, and this burden will be all on him.
At ten o'clock in the morning, Li Tie's family gathered in front of the ancestral tablet in the hall and began to burn paper to worship their ancestors.
Regardless of whether they have made a fortune or not, every family has this custom during the Chinese New Year.