Chapter 248 Chinese New Year, picking up cannons
“That’s right.” Li Aimin nodded and said, “Xiao Kai! During the holiday, the food will be left to you.”
“Why, Isn’t the food I cooked delicious?” Ye Xin looked at Li Aimin and asked.
“It’s delicious, who can say it’s not delicious?” Li Aimin said quickly, fearing that he would be punished for being late.
Ye Xin can still cook, but she is far behind Liao Kai, because they are not on the same level at all.
"Hum!"
Ye Xin's "hum" startled Li Aimin.
He is not afraid of settling accounts in person, but is afraid of settling accounts later. He is afraid because he doesn’t know how he will be dealt with.
"Uncle Liao, it's almost time. Let's go to the sauna first!"
"Yes, yes, yes, let's go to the sauna."
To be honest, this was the first time I took a sauna during the day, and it actually made me feel a little sleepy afterward.
Actually, it’s normal. It’s just like after eating a full meal. It’s caused by insufficient blood supply to the brain.
After using the sauna and taking a bath, Li Jiayi and the others returned to the main room, and then Ye Xin and the others went to take a sauna.
"Dad, Uncle Liao, you guys chat first, I'll go upstairs to rest for a while."
"Well! Go ahead! I'll call you when we have dinner." Li Aimin said.
"Okay."
Upstairs, Li Jia entered the room and locked the door, then entered the space.
I originally wanted to take a nap in the space, but after entering the space, I didn’t feel sleepy anymore.
In this case, let’s do something in the space. I don’t usually eat much outside, so I just took advantage of this time to make something.
Take out a large piece of pork belly, which weighs at least thirty kilograms. With a thought, this piece of pork belly turned into diced meat of about one inch.
Wash the diced meat, put it aside to cool, and then take out forty or fifty pig trotters.
One thought, the pig's trotters were clean, but Li Jiayi still cleaned them.
Next, we prepared beef brisket, tomatoes, etc.
Yes, he is going to make three dishes, one is braised pork, one is stewed pig trotters with soybeans, and the other is stewed beef brisket with tomatoes.
He didn't cook them one by one, but cooked three dishes at the same time. Anyway, there were more pots in the deep processing room.
It took more than an hour to prepare all three dishes and put them into the space while they were hot.
Seeing that there were still a lot of steaming steamed buns and rice in the still space, I stopped making them.
Then Li Jiayi went to the back mountain again, collected some mature Ganoderma lucidum, and sprinkled Ganoderma lucidum spore powder on it.
Looking at the harvest of Ganoderma lucidum, Li Jiayi was very satisfied. These things are full of money!
Don’t talk about the future, it is worth a lot of money now.
However, he has no intention of selling it because there is no shortage of this wild Ganoderma now.
Let’s talk about it later! You must know that in later generations, it will be difficult to find wild Ganoderma lucidum, and Ganoderma lucidum is basically cultivated.
At that time, these Ganoderma lucidum will play a big role, and when the ginseng and Polygonum multiflorum have reached a certain age, they can be sold together.
Anyway, if placed in a static space, the medicinal effect will not be lost.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Li Jiayi came out of the space.
When we came downstairs, there were only two sisters, Ye Xin, Xu Wenwen and Li Jiaqi, in the main room.
Li Jia knew without even thinking that Li Aimin and Liao Kai were cooking in the kitchen.
“Mom, aunt.”
“My son is up?”
“Are you here together?”
Ye Xin and Xu Wenwen asked Li Jiayi in unison.
"Yeah!"
"I just got up, come over and drink some tea." Ye Xin poured an enamel jar of tea to Li Jiayi and handed it over.
"Thank you, Mom!"
"Brother, do you still have persimmons in the house?" Li Jialin asked softly.
"Persimmons? It's not the second sister. There are no persimmons at home?" Li Jiayi asked.
"Yes!"
Li Jiayi scratched his head helplessly and asked: "Isn't this right! I remember there were quite a few yesterday!"
" "Little brother, you don't need to pay attention to her, she has finished all those persimmons," said the eldest sister Li Jiaqi.
“No, second sister, you finished eating so many persimmons in one day? You know it’s not good to eat too many persimmons. You might as well eat more fruits.”
The Li Jia family may not have much else, but they have a lot of fruits, such as apples, peaches, jujubes, pears and sugar oranges.
There are also chestnuts and walnuts.
“I still think the persimmons are more delicious.”
“The persimmons are gone, and they are all gone before the Chinese New Year. If you want to eat them, wait until after the Chinese New Year!”
“ Humph! I know you still have it, but you just don’t want to give it to me.”
Li Jia spread his hands and said, "You can think whatever you want! Anyway, it's gone."
It's okay to eat more fruits, but you really can't eat too much persimmons, including persimmons.
"What are you three muttering about?" Ye Xin turned around and asked.
“Mom, Jialin has eaten all the persimmons and asked for more from her younger brother.”
Hearing what the eldest sister Li Jiaqi said, Ye Xin glared at Li Jialin and said, “You’re so stupid The girl doesn’t have enough to eat, how can she eat so many persimmons?”
After speaking, he looked at Li Jiayi and said: "Son, don't give her persimmon cakes in the future."
"Oh! I know, Mom." Li Jiayi grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the plate on the Eight Immortals table and ate them. Then he stopped talking to the second sister.
From the New Year's Eve until the Chinese New Year, Li Jiayi never went out to sell anything.
The reason why I didn’t go out was of course to stay at home with my family!
Of course, he didn't go out to sell anything, and he didn't lose his business, such as providing food and meat to the black market Master Long and Master Wu.
Because this does not require him to come forward, he still has to do it.
The other thing is that I went to Master’s house and gave Master some New Year’s goods.
I gave it to Master, and I couldn’t forget Lao Li, who also gave me New Year’s goods.
On the evening of the 30th, Liao Kai made a particularly sumptuous dinner with meat dishes provided by Li Jiayi.
It can be said that the 30 nights were much richer than last year, maybe because there is one more person this year! Anyway, Liao Kai showed all his skills.
Looking at this large table of dishes, the second sister Li Jialin started to drool. This is a standard foodie!
Xu Wenwen even said: "Isn't this too luxurious?"
Only Li Jiayi did not take it seriously. This table of dishes is definitely considered a luxury in this era, but compared with Comparing later generations, that's all.
“Okay, let’s eat.” Li Aimin took out two bottles of Maotai, opened one and poured the wine on it.
"Brother Li, sister-in-law, let's toast you two." Liao Kai pulled Xu Wenwen up and said.
"Oops! No matter how respectful or disrespectful, let's touch one together!" Ye Xin said.
“Yes, touch one.” Li Jia said as he picked up the juice.
"Come on, let's drink."
"You brat, go ahead and drink. You can drink, but there's nothing I can do." Li Aimin said while holding the wine.
"Uh!"
"Just do whatever you want, just do whatever you want." Liao Kai said quickly.
Just kidding, this cup of three or four taels is still Moutai with over 50 degrees Celsius. If you really drink it in one gulp, you can imagine the consequences.
The three siblings don’t drink, so they stopped eating halfway through the meal and sat next to them drinking tea and eating melon seeds.
There is a saying here in the imperial capital that they stay up all night, but there are still people who do something wrong, and they basically stay until after twelve o'clock.
The meal didn't officially end until after nine o'clock. Ye Xin, Xu Wenwen and the eldest sister Li Jiaqi tidied up the table and kitchen.
Then I went back to the living room to drink tea and eat melon seeds. I didn’t keep a vigil last year, but I plan to keep a vigil this year!
Actually, the reason why there was no vigil last year was because it was a cold winter.
At this time, Liao Kai pulled Xu Wenwen's sleeve.
Xu Wenwen reacted immediately, took out three red envelopes from her pocket and said, "Here, here are the red envelopes your Uncle Liao prepared for you."
After saying that, he handed it to the eldest sister Li Jiaqi, the second sisters Li Jialin and Li Jiayi.
"Thank you, Uncle Liao! Thank you, Auntie!"
"You're welcome."
There is no need to be polite with red envelopes. As for the amount of money, it doesn't matter, because this Just for good luck.
But based on Li Jia’s understanding of Liao Kai, this red envelope is definitely not small.
"Here, this belongs to me and your dad." Ye Xin also took out three red envelopes and handed them out.
"Thank you, Dad! Thank you, Mom!"
At this time, Li Aimin suddenly said: "We seem to have forgotten something."
"What is it?" Ye Xin asked .
“It seems we forgot to set off firecrackers when we were eating.”
"Ah! It seems to be true!" Liao Kai scratched his head and said.
No way, at that time everyone’s attention was on this big table of food, who would have thought of the need to set off firecrackers!
You know, because of the Chinese New Year, Li Aimin spent a lot of money! I bought three firecrackers with ten thousand rings.
One hanging on the evening of the 30th, one hanging on the morning of the first day of the lunar month, and one hanging on the evening of the 15th day of the first lunar month.
But now that the thirty-night reunion dinner has been finished, the firecrackers have not been set off.
The reason why it is said to be a big investment is of course because 10,000 firecrackers are not cheap.
Although this thing does not require a ticket, it is really expensive. A small hanging whip with a hundred rings costs 2 cents.
As you can imagine, this whip with thousands of rings and thunder costs twenty-five yuan a piece.
Ten cannons plus one thunder refers to the big whip of this era. Behind the ten small cannons is a big cannon.
Three hanging firecrackers cost 75 yuan, so it can be said that few people are willing to buy them.
"It's okay, Dad. It's not past twelve o'clock anyway, and it's already thirty o'clock to put it in now."
"That's right, then you can take it out and put it out!"
"Okay. ”
Li Jiayi came out of the house and came to the east wing where he lived before, where the firecrackers were placed.
Li Jiayi took one of the three large ones, put them directly on the ground when he came to the courtyard, and lit them with matches.
The sound of crackling sounded in the courtyard. Although the sound of firecrackers was heard throughout the imperial capital, they were all sporadic sounds.
Basically, there is no such thing as being stored for such a long time at once.
When he set off firecrackers, he immediately attracted all the children in the yard.
I guess some of the children had fallen asleep and got up from the bed at this time.
Pick up the cannon!
In this era, especially during the Chinese New Year, as soon as you hear ten cannons and one thunder being fired, a group of children will immediately run over.
As if he knew it, Li Jiayi went over and opened the moon gate.
Sure enough, a group of children were already standing outside the gate.
Seeing Li Jiayi opening the door, none of the children ran inside.
Li Jiayi smiled and said: "It's not finished yet. You can come in and pick it up after it is finished."
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(End of this chapter)