Chapter 353
After eating the New Year’s Eve dinner, I cleaned up the table a little, took the rest of the meals and so on to the kitchen, and kept it warmed up tomorrow on the first day of the New Year. The most important thing in the whole dish is fish. Every household will leave the fish on the night of New Year’s Eve on the first day of the New Year to make a good deal: there is surplus every year!
Cang Hai took Fang Wu and Qi Yue to pack the table, while Shi Wei and Xiaomin put their snacks on the coffee table in the living room, turned on the TV, everyone sat on the sofa, or sat around the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala. Although the Spring Festival Gala is full of complaints every year, it seems that the Spring Festival Gala is not as good as the New Year atmosphere is missing on New Year's Eve in the countryside.
"Canghai, don't be busy, come and watch TV. The Spring Festival Gala is about to begin." Qu Guowei picked up a watermelon seed from his palm and put it in his mouth and knocked it while urging it to the busy Canghai.
Canghai smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll chop the fillings. I'll wait and watch the Spring Festival Gala while everyone makes dumplings. Wait until the dumplings are ready. When the night watch is hungry, everyone will eat."
The dumplings for next year have to be wrapped now, otherwise everyone will not know when to sleep on the first day of the Lunar New Year. If you make dumplings again, it will definitely be breakfast and lunch.
After hearing what Cang Hai said, Qu Guowei put down the melon seeds in his hand and stood up from the recliner: "Let me find a knife, and I will help you chop the filling."
"No, no, you can watch your TV, the godmothers and the others have done it all. I can make the meat stuffing myself. There is no need for so many people to help you, why don't you help me with it later?" Cang Hai said hurriedly.
Qu Guowei sat down again when he heard this: "Then I will help make dumplings later. By the way, the dumplings are bigger and too small to eat any filling!"
"Don't worry, you will definitely be satisfied." Cang Hai said happily and continued to move things into the house.
The meat and other things were stored. Canghai killed two pigs at home during the Chinese New Year. Of course, these two pigs were not kept by Canghai's family. Half of them were sent to the teacher's house and half of them to his father-in-law's house. The remaining one was distributed to the villagers and more than half, and the remaining fine meat and beautiful lard were all kept.
Today, the meat used to make dumplings is stored in the Canghai space. Compared with the water tower, the meat stored in the space is better.
The pork was about five kilograms, and it was fat and thin. After I got it in the house, Cang Hai used a knife to remove the skin of the meat. Then he cut the pork belly, which was three parts fat, into small pieces, then put a chopping board on the basin, and started chopping it up.
The knife in Canghai's hand was very sharp. The blade stuck to the meat like cutting paper, and it was broken. Waiting for the large pieces to become smaller pieces, two knives were used together. The chopping board and the blade wanted to make a crisp sound. After the filling was made, Canghai grabbed a handful of small garlic, small ginger and the like in the bowl next to it and put it into the filling. He continued to chop it up. When the ginger and garlic became evenly blended into the meat filling, he added a spoonful of soy sauce, and then continued to chop until the filling was almost impossible to see the meat. It was almost a paste of meat. This was the official chop.
When Canghai was chopping the stuffing, Xu Xiaomin started cutting vegetables. She wanted to cut leeks, celery and vegetables into pieces. Unlike meat, vegetables cannot be chopped into foam. Once they were chopped into foam, the water in the vegetables would be lost. Therefore, the vegetables had to be carefully cut into pieces. For such a job, Xu Xiaomin or Canghai had no such skill. She could cut them safely, but she had to go home to celebrate the New Year's Eve. As for Qi Feng, Qi Yue, Fang Wu and others could not expect them.
As soon as Hu Shijie came, Qi Feng was considered a junior, so everyone in the room stood up one after another.
"Sit down, I'll just come over and take a look, it's pretty good." Hu Shijie had a smile on his face.
Canghai knew that there must be something wrong with the old man coming here, and it was inconvenient to say it here, so he waited for everyone to talk a few times and took the grandfather and grandson out to his study.
After entering the house, Canghai blew a little smoke, so Ping An naturally had no. The boy was sitting on the sofa with his head shrank and touching the tiger's head.
"Oh!" Hu Shijie lit the cigarette and sighed: "It's the New Year, I don't want to make a joke, but the eldest daughter-in-law is really out of tune. The second couple watched the fun with a smile. I felt so happy that I rushed out safely and brought me over to discuss with you."
Hu Shijie was also quite helpless. His eldest son's family is now full of money, and his younger son's family lives harmoniously and warmly. This made Hu Shijie reflect on whether he was too good to his eldest son's family in the past and raised his eldest son into an A Dou who could not be helped.
As soon as Hu Shijie finished speaking, Li Lida's voice came from the door: "Is Haiwazi in the house?"
After hearing this, Cang Hai immediately went to the door and welcomed Li Lida in.
"Oh, Brother Hu is here too!" Li Lida said with a smile.
Hu Shijie asked: "What are you doing when you are not at home watching the Spring Festival Gala?"
"Aren't you here too? I'll discuss something with Haiwazi. My Li Qun is preparing to celebrate the gift at the end of the first lunar month. I will ask Haiwazi to make a turnaround for the shortages of money on hand. According to the rules of our countryside, we will use the income from our family in the melon farm," said Li Lida.
The rule of borrowing money in the countryside is not to mention nine or thirteen, but it is also ten or eleven. The interest rate must be included, which is much higher than that of the bank. However, if you ask someone for money, you may not necessarily borrow it, because everyone knows that it is difficult to borrow money. When you borrow money, you are grandsons and when you repay the money, you are the old man. Even if you are blood relatives and close friends, you are rarely borrowing money. Because everyone is afraid of deadbeats, and no one’s money is blown by the strong wind.
Li Lida's character is believed in Canghai, not to mention that Li Lida has clearly shown his carriage, so the money can be paid back steadily.
"How much do you borrow?" Cang Hai asked.
Li Lida said: "120,000 yuan, I will pay you back within two years."
Cang Hai nodded after hearing this: "Then I will call Shi Wei over. I don't have that much money on hand, so let her transfer the money to you."
"No hurry, no hurry!" Li Lida said: "The letter came from someone else in the afternoon. I think it's not good to borrow money in the first month, so I'm rushing to talk to you at this time."
Cang Hai smiled and left the house to call Shi Wei to the study. Shi Wei didn't say anything after hearing this, waiting for Li Qun to come over and transfer 120,000 yuan to Li Lida with his cell phone.
After Li Lida drove Li Qun away, he wrote down the repayment date and the amount of repayment. If you lend this 120,000 yuan, you will have to pay it back in two years. Even if you pay it back tomorrow, it will be the same amount. If you get it after the period, you will get three points of profit in one month. It is really not low. However, this is the rule for private loans now.
Li Lida is also very ruling. The old man knows that there are rules for doing things, and this is even more so when borrowing money. When it is placed openly on the surface, everything cannot escape the word "reason". If you are entangled with unclear things, you will definitely have conflicts.
"Okay! Keep this thing in hand. If you lose it, I won't give you any money," Li Lida said readily.
"Are the kids alike?" Hu Shijie asked after waiting for Li Lida's work to finish it.
"Well, in the afternoon, I gave the right letter! I'm waiting for a good day in April to get the marriage together," Li Lida said with a smile.
"How much is the betrothal gift?" Hu Shijie asked.
Li Lida said: "68,000! In total, it is less than 150,000. I have borrowed a little more. At that time, I will make a good deal of the new kiln that has been dug. I can't compare with Haiwazi. Ping'an's whole kiln for the children to live after marriage."
"So little?"
Li Lida said: "When marrying our village, his daughter still gets a salary, why don't he say that he gets a salary? The salary is close to home. The most important thing is that the in-laws are reasonable and they are not ready to emptiate my family and let my daughter marry her to help pay the debt. The last half of this money has to be dowry and be used by the younger generation."
Li Lida was obviously quite satisfied with this marriage and praised his in-laws.
"Why are all we encountering in a state of great power?"
"Our wife is not as good as the one you love in your family. She is a primary school teacher in the town. She is a girl with a job with a job, so you can't afford a 100,000 or 200,000 yuan? This one in our family is a country kid. As long as you live a good life, there is not so much attention." Li Lida smiled.
He said this, but Li Lida had no sense of self-modestness. It clearly means that your wife will be married to her head.
After seeing Li Lida away, Hu Shijie stopped talking. With Li Lida in front, even Yan Meijuan had to follow this path, otherwise it would be unreasonable.
After walking down the whole set, I had to ask Canghai to borrow 400,000 yuan, plus the private loan, so I would be happy to repay it. Hu Shijie had to borrow it for ten years? Who is the bank? Without this rule, it will last for three years. After the marriage, the whole family will have to tie the belt around for three years.
Canghai would not get angry about this. It was not worth it. If you want to borrow the New Year, Yan Meijuan and his wife would still use the output of the melon field to repay. As for the loan of Ping An, Canghai ignored it at all.
After seeing off Hu Shijie, Cang Hai took Ping An back to the house.
Seeing Canghai coming back, Meng immediately shouted, "Brother, I want to set off fireworks!"
Canghai replied: "Qi Yue, take Meng Meng and Ping An to set off fireworks. I still have to make dumpling stuffing."
"Okay!" Qi Yue was waiting for Cang Hai's words. After hearing this, she flipped it up from the sofa: "This broken party makes my head hurt, but it's still interesting to set off fireworks!"
Waiting for Qi Yue to take Meng and Ping'an out, Fang Wu naturally couldn't sit still, and followed Qi Yue out to set off fireworks.
So everyone treated the matter of peace as a topic to chat.
Qi Feng sighed and said, "It's rare that there are still parents like this!"
Qu Guowei said: "Yan Meijuan is a bad person and treats people well. She has a good neighborhood relationship. She doesn't know if this one is obsessed with or why, but she looks down on her eldest son and is determined to dig up the eldest son and fills the younger son. Alas!"
Xu Xiaomin said: "No wonder people say that when they get married in the countryside, they just peel off their skin! These hundreds of thousands are just to emptie their wealth."
"Not every family is like this." Cang Hai told Li Lida's family again.
"Is this a teacher's price so high? Is it business? It's clear price?" Qi Feng shook his head when he heard this.
Cang Hai smiled and didn't respond. After the meat was chopped, he took Shi Wei to go outside to watch the fireworks.
Chapter completed!