Chapter 370 Chinese New Year [2]
This means that the second child is not planning to have a baby? !
Grandpa Qin was angry and heartbroken, and almost burst into tears. He glared at Second Uncle Qin fiercely and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? Learn from me, otherwise you second wife will not be able to get the dividend today."
Today’s sacrifice to the stove is also the Little New Year’s Eve in the north. After several families have eaten the Little New Year’s Eve dinner together, they will share the dividends.
"Sure, I'll learn." In order to get a share of the dividends, Uncle Qin fought hard, but because he couldn't see Qin Xiaogu's leisure time, he also captured him to prepare things for the stove.
Grandma Qin took Aunt Qin, Aunt Xu, Granny Zhu, several female medical apprentices and others to make corn rice cakes.
Grandma Qin said to Aunt Qin while making it: "This is a specialty of our hometown in Zhongyuan Prefecture. After steaming the corn and glutinous rice, beat it into a ball with a stone mortar, and then use a cake mark to shape it. The corn and glutinous rice were soaked yesterday and are already steaming in the big pot.
Due to the large number of people, Qin Xiaomi’s house alone had three big pots of steam.
Half an hour later, the corn and glutinous rice will be steamed.
"Fifth uncle, the stone mortar has been washed, should it be placed in the main room?" Brothers Qin Eryong, Xu Erjun, Qin Ying and Qin Jie came over carrying three stone mortars and asked.
"Let's go to the main room. It's too cold outside. Let's make rice cakes in the main room to keep it warmer." Grandpa Qin said.
Not long after, Aunt Xu, Aunt Qiao, Mrs. Su, Qin Eryong’s daughter-in-law, Qin Dashi’s daughter-in-law He, and Qin Dayan’s daughter-in-law Gong also came over carrying corn and glutinous rice that had been steamed at home.
"Pour the two kinds of rice into the stone mortar and start beating." Grandma Qin directed from the side.
“Hey.” Qin Eryong and the others immediately started beating the rice.
The three stone mortars were beaten at the same time. A quarter of an hour later, the first batch was beaten, which exhausted Qin Eryong and the others: "It's too sticky, hard to beat, and tiring."
Second Uncle Qin said sarcastically next to him: "Er Yong, you are not thirty yet, and you are just working You are so old, how can you say you are tired? Get up quickly and continue working. After making the rice cakes, you still have to knead the dough and make the steamed buns. What will you eat during the New Year? ”
Righteous and awe-inspiring, it sounds very reasonable.
But...
"Can you stop talking and do the work!" Qin Xiaomi opened the door of the left wing and shouted towards the main room.
Uncle Qin pretended to be deaf and didn't answer at all.
Grandpa Qin couldn't stand it anymore. He grabbed Uncle Qin by the back collar and dragged him to work.
The family and the servants worked hard for an hour, and finally made 120 kilograms of corn rice cake... It was yellow and very beautiful.
He started kneading dough to make steamed buns without stopping.
The stove was not enough, so I used the stove in the workshop to steam buns together. I was busy until mid-afternoon and steamed 500 large buns.
On the other side, Old Man Xun, Xu Zhengmao, Su Sanping and others had finished killing the fish. He then heated a pot with oil, fried a dozen carps, and fried two pots of soybeans for the Qin, Jiang, Xu Qiao and others to use as a memorial stove.
After finishing my work, I hurriedly made a New Year’s Eve dinner.
The hands and feet worked hard for half an hour, and at the beginning of the day, the New Year's Eve dinner was ready.
Stewed fish with perilla, pot-roasted pork, stewed pig trotters with soybeans, stewed chicken with mixed mushrooms, sweet and sour pork ribs, stewed blood sausage with sauerkraut, water spinach, and freshly cooked steamed buns.
There are many meats and vegetables, and the portions are sufficient. There is no shortage of tables now, three tables have been set up.
Grandpa Qin took the men from each family to sit at the same table, Grandma Qin took the women to sit at the same table, and Aunt Qin took the unmarried girls and the babies to sit at the same table.
The eyes of several families were red as they looked at the table full of food.
Qin Cunquan stood up, drank water instead of wine, and paid tribute to Grandpa Qin: "Fifth Uncle, the good life we have now is all because of your family. We will remember this kindness from generation to generation, you... ..." Tsk, Second Uncle Qin's teeth hurt when he heard this, and he said, "Quan, please don't do this sad thing. It's unlucky and will delay our meal. , hurry up and sit down to eat, you will get dividends after eating, that is a lot of money for the boss, are you not in a hurry? You are not in a hurry, I am, this is the first time for our second house to receive a dividend!"
Well, Qin Cunquan was crying when he was talking, and Uncle Qin suddenly said this, forcing his tears back.
Hahaha, Qin Liupo laughed and wanted to make a sentence, but she was afraid that Qin Xiaomi would find trouble and deduct the bonus, so she quickly shut up... She had to be honest about the bonus today, and she couldn't find anyone who could deduct the money for Qin Xiaomi. Chance!
Grandpa Qin said with a smile: "Our family has died together, so there is no need to say anything unnecessary, let's start dinner."
"Hey." Qin Cunquan sat down.
Grandpa Qin moved his chopsticks.
Qin Sheng, Qin Mao, Xiao Jiang Erlang and other children saw him using chopsticks and started eating happily.
But they eat very restrainedly, putting away their chopsticks when they are nine-tenths of full, and do not dare to eat more... They have escaped famine and are afraid of not having anything to eat at the next meal, so they always want to save some food for the next meal.
Grandpa Qin said: "Eat more, don't be reluctant to eat. We have escaped famine and our bodies have suffered losses. We need to eat more meat to recover our bodies."
Qin said this. Grandpa Qin and grandma often told several families that they were afraid that they would be too frugal and reluctant to eat, which would harm the children's health.
He said again: "Let each of us drink half a bowl of red date porridge."
Grandpa Qin spoke, Qin Sheng, Qin Mao and the others ate another half bowl of porridge.
After finishing the New Year's Eve dinner, Uncle Qin called out: "Ms. Xu, come and clear the dishes quickly, don't delay our calculation of dividends!"
He pointed to Qin Liupo: "Sixth Aunt, sit down, no need You clean it up.”
The leftovers are all his, Aunt Six can’t take them away!
Qin Liupo stood up and took the basin to prepare the leftovers. When she heard this, she gave him a hard roll of the eyes and said with a smile: "Er Zhuang, your parents are the ones in charge now."< br>
It’s useless if you don’t want to give it, I can ask your parents for leftovers!
Qin Xiaomi didn't have time to watch the two of them fighting, so he said: "Second uncle, quickly bring the account book. Grandpa and grandma, please bring the banknotes. After the dividends are divided, our family will have to sacrifice the stove."
The custom in my hometown is to worship the stove in the evening.
After hearing this, Second Uncle Qin stopped arguing with Mrs. Qin Liu, jumped up and said, "Second Uncle, go get it now!"
Half a quarter of an hour later, several families were sitting around At the clean dining table, waiting to receive dividends.
"Uncle Cunquan has to be busy with the affairs of Si Lifang, so from now on, my second uncle will settle the accounts. I will calculate the accounts he calculated, and I will ask Jiang Dalang to calculate them again for you in public. Once again, make sure there are no mistakes, everyone can rest assured." After Qin Xiaomi finished speaking, he looked at Uncle Qin: "Let's start reporting the accounts."
"Here we come!" Uncle Qin opened the workshop's dividend account book and said, "My eldest niece is a capable person and found us a very profitable business..."
Qin Xiaomi interrupted him: "Don't That's nonsense, hurry up and pay the account!"
Secret Uncle Qin was unhappy when he was scolded, but looking at the profit amount in the account, he felt happy again and said happily: "The workshop and Xue The big accounts of the family have been calculated, and now the report is the net profit of the workshop."
Ahem, he cleared his throat and glanced furtively outside the door to make sure no one was eavesdropping, then said: "This month, the net profit of our workshop is 15,800 taels!"
"Oh my God, is it really that much?" Second Aunt Qin couldn't believe it.
Second Uncle Qin blinked at her: "Yes, that's so much."
"There are really 15,800 taels. Not to mention silver, there are rice grains for both young and old!" Second Aunt Qin covered her heart, extremely excited.
"Look at you two, you two have never seen the world, but it's just more than ten thousand taels, what does it count?" Qin Liupo wanted to mock them two idiots, but she thought that more than ten thousand taels would be enough. In the end, each family could only get a few hundred taels. She languished and said at a loss for words: "Anyway, you don't need to be too excited."
Because excitement is in vain.