When it comes to weddings, we have to talk about the "followers" and seats in this era.
Based on the idea of staying close to each other and following the crowd, and with the advice of Aunt Lang and Aunt Zhao, Yun Shu gave out an average of 10 cents, 20 cents, and at most 50 cents.
God knows how much perseverance it takes for her to keep her face from blushing, her hands from shaking, and her smile to others.
She, Wang (Jin) Yunshu, was a rich second generation in her previous life and a big boss who had inherited the throne in this life. She was still in such a decline in status. She was simply a scandal that could make ghosts laugh for a hundred years even if she returned to the underworld.
But in fact, Yun Shu, who thinks this way, is the most abnormal one.
The living standard is like this, the economic conditions are like this, and some people think that even a dime is too much, so they pay five cents!
It was only after experiencing this kind of thing several times that Yun Shu truly realized that some of her thoughts were not suitable for this era and needed to be corrected. The key point was the concept of money.
This is an era when ten yuan is the largest currency denomination, and this is an era when one penny can be used as lucky money.
Of course, this is also an era where money may not be enough to spend. If you want to go out to a restaurant, there is no one, only state-owned restaurants. To eat and eat meat, you must pay for it, and you must have food stamps and meat stamps before we can sell them to you;
I want to buy ready-made clothes, sorry, but I don’t have them. I want to buy cloth. The price is the same as the cloth stamp, and then go to a tailor. I’m sorry, I don’t have them (actually I do, but I don’t dare to do business anymore).
There are too many such facts that require Yun Shu, an "outsider", to be more cautious.
What's more, the Cultural Revolution is not far away!
(I have gone further and further away from the topic and given up on saving!)
After talking about the people, let’s talk about the seats.
In later generations, in rural areas, people would have to find artificial cooks, and there would be a team of chefs that would specialize in weddings and weddings; in the city, it would be easier, just book a hotel directly.
Now, it’s just cooking at home and building a shed outside.
Generally speaking, when a family holds a happy event, the whole village will come to sit down, ranging from seventy to eighty-year-olds, and even those who can't leave, no one will be left behind.
As for the banquet noodles, eight bowls are good if they include chicken and meat. Four bowls are more common.
The best dishes are pork stewed with vermicelli and chicken stewed with mushrooms.
Yun Shu also heard people say that some places are too poor and have to pay attention to it. The banquet is to drink soup with a big vat of stuffed sorghum rice. Generally, people have four soups, and good ones have eight soups. It is commonly known as "four legs." Eight legs”.
The conditions of the Qingxi Brigade in the entire Hongqi People's Commune are pretty good, but there are only a handful of people who can serve eight bowls of black-noodle steamed buns at the wedding banquet.
As for the tea and fruit snacks before the banquet begins, that is something that is beyond even thought.
But just like that, it was a rare moment for people in the village to indulge in meat.
There are many people who are shameless and pay a dime as a gift, and then seven or eight families come to have a feast.
There are also a lot of old women who don't want to eat. They come with bowls. As soon as the food is served, they put it into the bowl and take it away.
This is different from packing away the food for fear of wasting it, but this is not the only person doing this, and everyone seems to have become accustomed to it.
Yun Shu, who drank a lot of cold wind and wanted to deal with it immediately, left after finishing the matter:...
No one gave her a chance to deal with it!
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Finally, the weather became colder and colder, and in the twelfth lunar month, no one had a wife to marry a daughter. Yun Shu thought that she could finally stop "Mao Dong" to do her own thing, but she thought differently again.
Is your sauerkraut pickled?
Have you packed your sticky bean buns?
Do you have enough firewood for your home?
your home……
Through the kind inquiries from Xiu's aunts and sisters-in-law, Yun Shu discovered that her salty life had to go on.
How can a true Northeastern family not have sauerkraut and sticky bean buns at home during the Chinese New Year?
What a shame!
Xiao Zhuang was placed at Wangye's house and asked Da Zhuang and Haichuan to take the four mountain guard dogs to play with the ice sledge that she also wanted to play with. Yun Shu honestly, with the help of Aunt Zhao and Aunt Lang, stocked up on sauerkraut and made bean buns. .
Generally speaking, after the first snowfall in late autumn is the best time to stock up on sauerkraut, because sauerkraut must be pickled for more than a month before it can be eaten. Just in time for the twelfth lunar month of winter, a pot of sauerkraut and fish head soup can fully stimulate your appetite. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, and sorghum rice abuse your taste buds and make you regain your appetite.
But it’s not too late to pickle them now, just in time for the Chinese New Year. Dumplings made with pickled cabbage and pork are also a specialty in the Northeast.
Although sauerkraut is very simple, it is also very particular (for those who want to know, check it out online). The most important point is that during the pickling process, whether it is cabbage, the pickling tank, or the hands of the producer, they must be clean. , without grease suppression, it won’t work at all.
In addition, it should be noted that after blanch the cabbage in a pot until soft, take it out and drain it, and wait until the cabbage is cool inside and outside before putting it into the pickling vat, otherwise it will rot; the temperature is important, and the waiting time is even more important.
After pickling two jars of sauerkraut, Yun Shu pickled a jar of spicy cabbage (Chapter 42) and spicy radish under the guidance of Uncle Jianping's wife (Wang Tang's mother-in-law).
Thinking of having to live surrounded by sauerkraut and spicy cabbage in winter, Yun Shu quickly started her own heated kang planting business. She didn't care whether it could grow. Anyway, she had a hot spring brand greenhouse, and with the earth and wood gathering array, she could always It grows out, and this one at home is just a cover.
But apparently, she had to wait a little longer because she had to make bean bags.
It is said that sticky bean buns are the complementary delicacies of Northeastern Maodong. Maodong without sticky bean buns is an imperfect Maodong.
After Laba Festival, farmers will start scouring yellow rice and grinding flour to make sticky bean buns. When dividing the grains, the small grains distributed are mainly yellow rice and red beans, just for making sticky bean buns.
For example, Uncle Jianping's family still has to bake cakes because Aunt Jianping is a Korean girl.
For Yun Shu, whether it was sauerkraut or steamed bean buns, it was just a matter of doing as the Romans did. Just like everything she had never experienced before, her excitement only lasted three minutes.
In the twelfth lunar month, the New Year pig has to be killed, but before killing the New Year pig in the village, you must first go to the commune and hand in the task pig.
The Qingxi brigade built a collective pig farm, with a total of eight working pigs every year.
This year, half a bear and a half wild boar paid for the four mission pigs. You only need to turn in four more, and this year's mission is completed.
Generally speaking, the furs, medicinal materials, mountain products, etc. collected by ordinary people must be sent to the commune purchase station in order to make money legally.
Any remaining transactions are speculation. But the price given by the purchasing station is too low.
Just like this mission pig, fatness and thinness are determined by the first, second, third and third grades. The purchase price of the highest-end pigs is only 45 cents, and the pigs in the village can be raised to 200 kilograms, which is already considered very good; If they are thin and weak, the purchase price will be just over 30 cents; pigs weighing less than 120 kilograms will be rejected.
On the black market, pork without tickets can be sold for 2.5 yuan.
This year, except for two sows giving birth, the rest of the pig farm are knocking pigs.
Because of the bumper harvest this year, after killing one pig in the autumn harvest and another in the Mid-Autumn Festival (pigs cannot be slaughtered casually, both times were reported as sick pigs), there are still sixteen knocking pigs left.
After several discussions with the village party secretary, the team leader and the village party secretary decided that only two pigs would be left in the village to kill the New Year pigs, and the remaining pigs would be used at the purchasing station to exchange for money, and most importantly, for tickets.
In addition to the rebate meat stamps awarded by the state, they can also be exchanged for food stamps, sugar stamps, cloth stamps, etc. from the supply and marketing cooperative, so that members can buy new year's goods!
