Li Xiaoqing and the three children did not go to play for a while, but went to the kitchen to help Li Xiaoran.
Grandma Xiaohuzi followed Zhao Xiu, smearing the selected pork piece by piece with salt and marinating it in a clay pot.
Several big men are picking up two pig heads, pig trotters, pig tails, pig large intestines, pig small intestines together.
This is a meticulous job, handed over directly to Luo Cheng.
Guandongshan and Li Shun took the ash and went to the side of the stream to wash the pig's large intestine and pig's small intestine.
No way, this thing is delicious but it smells too bad.
If it is really cleaned at home, I don't know how much water it will take, and the whole yard will be smelly, so the two people chose to go to the river to clean.
When the two of them came back from the outside with a stink all over, Li Xiaoran also prepared the lunch for lunch.
A total of two tables were cooked, both meat and vegetables, as well as the big bone stewed radish soup that Xiaohuzi's grandmother loved most.
"I remember that we haven't pushed Douhua for a long time!" Zhao Xiu looked at such a large table of dishes, and suddenly remembered something: "Suddenly want to eat Douhua!"
"If you want to eat, arrange it! It's too late today, let's eat tomorrow!" Li Xiaoran was also a little greedy when his mother said this.
"If you want to push Douhua, go to my house!" He Hui remembered something, and said: "Our two families have not had a good gathering, so I will come to my house to eat Douhua tomorrow night, and it will be a reunion together. Fifth Aunt, you also bring Little Huzi with you!"
"Okay, old lady, I can't do anything else, I can still add beans to you while you are grinding!" Grandma Xiaohuzi agreed with a smile.
"Great, brother Xiaohuzi can play with me again tomorrow!" Guan Kang said happily.
Guandongshan saw that his son was much more cheerful than before, and he also became happy.
"That's right, come to my family for the New Year tomorrow night! I know you will have a noodle stall at noon, so I will invite you to dinner!"
"Okay! Li Shun happily agreed!"
"Exactly, I also want to taste what this bean curd tastes like!" Luo Cheng said with a smile.
"Yes, yes, I want to try it too!" Luo Ziyang followed.
As soon as the brothers said what they said, everyone else watched.
"You haven't eaten bean curd, have you?" Li Xiaoran asked.
Luo Cheng and Luo Ziyang nodded at the same time, indicating that they really had never eaten.
"Hey, you are really, I don't know how many delicious things you missed!" Li Xiaoran laughed and joked: "It's okay, tomorrow we will go to Aunt Hui's house to eat beancurd, so that you can also taste it. Things to eat!"
"Yes, come tomorrow, Aunt Hui will take care of it!" He Hui said with a smile.
Next, everyone ate happily.
After eating and drinking, everyone did not rest and continued to help.
Cutting meat and cutting meat are women's business, and men do it when they move the jars and stuff sausages.
There are so many people and great strength, it only took one day to marinate the meat and sausages in Luo Cheng's house.
Afterwards, a group of people sat together again.
Some people knead the dough and roll the dumpling skin, and some people make the dumplings with fillings.
"It's not New Year's Eve yet, so why don't you wrap the dumplings ahead of time?" Luo Han said with a smile.
"Don't be poor, go wash your hands and pack together!" Luo Cheng waved after seeing Luo Han.
Luo Han also felt that making dumplings was something he had never experienced before, so he quickly washed his hands and came over to make dumplings together.
At first Luo Han Bao's dumplings were too ugly, but gradually they became proficient.
"Look, it's not difficult to make dumplings! If I live abroad in the future, I must be able to survive with such a good skill of making dumplings!" Luo Han said proudly.
When Luo Cheng heard this, he couldn't help pouring cold water on him.
"Look who would hire someone to make dumplings!"
Luo Han was speechless when he heard Luo Cheng's words.
"Hey, you can't say something nice!" Luo Han complained.
"I will say it nicely, but I won't say it to you!" Luo Cheng said in disgust.
As soon as these words came out, everyone couldn't help laughing, did they still look at Li Xiaoran with playful eyes.
Li Xiaoran said that he was also shot while lying down, very innocent!
In the evening, the meals are more hearty.
Several people have come up with their own housekeeping skills, and each dish looks much better than the noon one.
Yes, the most popular thing this evening was the dumplings filled with leeks and pork.
Of course, there are a lot of dumplings, and there is a lot left after eating some.
Li Shun and Zhao Xiu duo stuffed some dumplings and took them home.
"Right, I think Yuan Cheng lives alone in the shop now! Why don't someone send some cooked dumplings over there!" Li Xiaoran suddenly remembered that they had missed someone.
Luo Cheng thought for a while, then said, "Send these wrapped dumplings directly to Yuan Cheng! He can cook them himself if he wants to eat them, there is a pot over there!"
Li Xiaoran nodded and packed some dumplings for his father to deliver to Yuan Cheng.
"It would be nice if there was an ice cellar, these dumplings can be frozen directly!" Li Xiaoran couldn't help sighing when he saw so many dumplings left.
"It's not snowing outside. If it snows, we can get some ice into the cellar, and we can get an ice cellar out! However, it can only be used for a short time, and in summer No way!" Luo Cheng said.
Li Xiaoran suddenly remembered something, so he asked, "Xiang Gong, can you find the saltpeter!"
Luo Cheng squinted his eyes when he heard Li Xiaoran's words.
"Saltpeter? Are you talking about the saltpeter used in alchemy?"
"Yes, that's the saltpeter! You only need to get some saltpeter, and I can make ice for you!" Li Xiaoran said with certainty.
"Are you sure this is okay?" Luo Cheng was surprised when he heard Li Xiaoran's words, and asked eagerly.
"If you can't do it, put the saltpeter again, and I'll make it for you!" Li Xiaoran said when Luo Cheng didn't believe it.
"Wait, I may not have other things, but saltpeter really does!" After saying that, Luo Chengcheng went to Luo Ziyang.
The brothers went out of the house together and came back with some saltpeter after a while.
Li Xiaoran carefully identified everything and determined that it was the saltpeter she needed, and then asked Luo Cheng and Luo Ziyang to fetch two buckets of water.
Soon, the water will be ready.
Li Xiaoran didn't know how much saltpeter was needed, so he could only add it in small amounts and many times.
Soon, the saltpeter was dissolved in the water, and the surrounding temperature became much lower.
And the bucket of water froze and turned into ice cubes in front of Luo Cheng and Luo Ziyang.