The New Year’s Eve dinner is really important to the Chinese. On New Year’s Eve, a family reunion gathers next to the table to have a reunion dinner can almost be said to be a custom in the blood of the Chinese.

No matter thousands of miles apart, the family will always reunite on this day and sit together as much as possible, while tasting food not only rewards the hard work of the year, but also talks about blood and family affection together. This is no longer just a custom but the core of Chinese culture.

The New Year’s Eve dinner at Canghai’s family is naturally extremely rich, with chicken, duck, fish and meat, and vegetables, fruits and vegetables.

Of course, there are three outside households at home, and Fang Wu is chasing Qi Yue, which is understandable.

But the two old men, Qu Guowei and Xu Sheng, did not go back to their homes to celebrate the New Year, which made the people in the village a little confused, but no one would ask that.

As for Canghai, I wouldn't ask, that was someone else's family matter, Canghai was not interested in inquiring, anyway, Canghai was full of fun.

"What should I do with these things?" Qi Yue looked excited now. Their family was not so lively during the New Year before. The New Year's Eve dinner was just something I usually eat, but it was just a little more grander than before. It was not like Canghai, where it was done here and there. The whole village was barking with people, and it seemed that the air was filled with a New Year's atmosphere.

Canghai turned his head and looked at him. He was about to open his mouth and asked Ping'an to do it. When the words came to his mouth, he remembered that today was New Year's Eve, no matter how good Ping'an was, he had to go back to his home to work on the New Year's Eve dinner.

"No one can kill a chicken?" Cang Hai asked.

Qi Yue looked around and said, "I won't know anything anyway!"

"I didn't expect you either!" After saying that, Cang Hai turned his gaze to Fang Wu.

When Fang Wu heard this, he waved his hand: "I can't do this job, but I'm happy to do it after killing the job."

Hearing the boy Fang Wu say, Cang Hai shook the water in his hand twice, wiped the apron in front of him, picked up a kitchen knife, and walked towards the kitchen door, the chicken, duck and big goose tied up.

"Give me three empty bowls!"

Canghai took out the chicken first. The big rooster in his 10-pound pound tastes good now. This year it will present a plate of braised chicken at the New Year’s Eve dinner table.

When Qi Yue heard Cang Hai's words, he immediately followed Cang Hai with a small bowl.

When Qi Yue arrived outside, Cang Hai had already grabbed the chicken wings with one hand and held the chicken neck back in his hand, and the other hand began to pluck the hair on the chicken neck.

Waiting for a gap in the chicken's neck to see the skin, Cang Hai grabbed the knife at his feet, and directly touched the chicken's neck, and immediately heard the chicken's struggle fiercely.

Cang Hai threw away the knife in his hand and controlled the chicken with both hands: "Where is the bowl!"

After waiting for a second, I didn't get the bowl. When I turned my head and saw Qi Yue standing behind me with a grin, I was stunned. When I saw her appearance, Cang Hai said, "What are you doing when I'm standing there? I'm not wiping your neck. Get the bowl for me quickly!"

"oh!"

Qi Yue came to his senses and quickly handed the bowl in his hand to Canghai. Canghai instantly pointed the bleeding hole of the chicken neck at the bowl, and soon half of the bowl of chicken blood accumulated in the bowl.

Seeing that there was no blood flowing out of the chicken's neck, Cang Hai threw the chicken twice, and then threw the chicken out of his hand. The chicken, which had been dried up, fluttered on the bloody ground for two seconds and then stopped moving.

The chicken stopped moving, Canghai turned his head and picked up the duck again. In this way, the duck was also slaughtered, and then the big goose. The three were slaughtered in less than ten minutes.

"If you put it in ancient times, you can be an executioner." Qi Yue looked at Canghai killing three birds in a row, and subconsciously touched his neck. When he saw the knife wiping the chicken's neck, Qi Yue felt a fur on his spine.

"You can be an executioner by killing a chicken and duck? Hurry up and don't be too slow and help me pick up the chicken and duck. You and this kid Fang Wu will scatter the hair," Cang Hai said.

Qi Yue held the duck in one hand and grabbed the chicken in the other: "Then what are you doing?"

"Can I have nothing to do?" Cang Hai blanched his eyes and picked up the big goose's neck and walked into the kitchen.

When we arrived at the kitchen, the hot water in the big pot had been boiled. Canghai threw the big goose into the wooden basin and took a scoop of water to pour it on the big goose in the basin.

"Hurry up and dial it cleanly, everyone will eat it at night." Cang Hai threw down a sentence and stood back on the pot.

Now, in addition to the pot of boiling water, there is steaming chicken in the other pot. Although this thing is called Bi Chicken, it has nothing to do with chicken. The main ingredients are meat and yam. The two are mixed together and covered with loaves at the bottom. The meat that has been beaten into a paste is spread on the loaves, and the yam paste is spread on top. The stuff that is steamed on the pot is called Bi Chicken. This thing is a delicacy of Jiangbei generation. Canghai used to be the best sign for restaurants. Usually, Canghai doesn’t want to make this thing very troublesome, but today is Big Eve. When will it be revealed if you don’t show your hands at this moment?

In addition to steaming chicken, Canghai’s specialty dish is also cooked in the small pot: Baizhang Chicken.

Seeing that the water in the pot was boiling, Cang Hai lifted the lid of the pot and gently inserted it into the chicken with chopsticks. Seeing that the chopsticks were easily immersed in the chicken, he knew that the chicken had been cooked, so he reached out and took the chicken out of the pot. The chicken that was taken out was directly immersed in ice water. The chicken made in this way would be more delicious and tight.

After taking out the chicken, the steamed chicken on the pot was also done. Canghai was busy bringing the steamer aside and putting it on the table. He uncovered the steamer to let the steamed chicken in the cage cool down. Only when the chicken was cooled down could he cut into slices and cook.

After finishing all this, Cang Hai looked at it and asked, "What can I do?"

"Don't rush to stir-fry the food, it's only past four o'clock now," Xu Xiaomin looked up at Canghai and said.

Cang Hai looked at the clock hanging on the wall and found that it was only 4:30 now, and it was a bit too early to cook. I wanted to cook and found that Fang Wu and Qiyue's hair had not yet been cleared.

After thinking for a while, Canghai took out the cooked beef knot, peeled eggs, salted duck eggs, etc., and began to prepare the cold dishes for the evening.

When Qi Yue saw it, she immediately stood up: "I'll do this!"

"You honestly take it over, do you have to do this?" Cang Hai said to Qi Yue.

Qi Yue said, "I don't want to do this, it tastes too much."

Qi Yue doesn't like to wield hair because when dry water burns the chickens and ducks, it will emit a nauseating smell. She almost vomits at Qi Yue. Now that I see a more relaxed job, I naturally have to change jobs.

Seeing Qi Yue's appearance, Cang Hai had no choice but to nod: "Go and wash your hands!"

Shi Wei saw that Qi Yue didn't want to do the work of plucking hair, so she plucked the sharp edamame in front of her and found that it was almost a plate. So she said to Canghai: "Cook the edamame first, I will do the work of plucking hair."

When Canghai saw this, he had to take out his hand that was about to reach into the basin, took the edamame and started washing the edamame. After washing the edamame, he added salt, and dried star anise and pepper to cook salted edamame. This is an excellent dish to serve.

Waiting for the edamame to be served, Cang Hai squatted down and helped Fang Wu and Shi Wei to pluck the hair together. The three of them quickly handled the chickens, gooses and other things.

Cang Hai picked up the duck and went to the faucet to wash the duck carefully, and then clamped out the extra fuzz on the duck with a clip.

"Oh, it's so lively."

At this moment, Zhang Jiusheng pushed open the curtain and walked in. Seeing five or six people squatting in the kitchen of Canghai's house, he immediately said with a smile.

Cang Hai turned his head and saw that Zhang Jiusheng was carrying an oversized basket on his back. The basket was covered with cloth, and he couldn't see what was half filled inside.

"This is for you, it's all semi-finished products," said Zhang Jiusheng.

"You have everything at home, what else do you send to make? Keep it for your own food." Shi Wei stood up, shook her hand and said politely.

Zhang Jiusheng smiled and said, "You don't have this at home. It's all seafood. I'll let the kitchen handle everything you can. If you can't handle it, you can think of a way to do it yourself."

Shi Wei took the basket, opened it and found that there were two big guys on the top, one was a big crab like a small pot lid, with countless thorns growing on the crab shell, and the crab was still alive and was spitting small bubbles in its mouth. The other was a big green-shelled lobster, one of which was about four or five kilograms. As for what was placed below, Shi Wei didn't notice it at all.

"No one can do this thing!" Shi Wei scratched her head a little when she saw the big lobster and king crab.

"This is simple. I'll send you how to make it on your phone later! The remaining yellow croakers and so on are cooked. You can add some vegetables and cook them. They will be cooked as soon as they are cooked. Well, I won't tell you much, I have to say goodbye to my house!" Zhang Jiusheng said.

Cang Hai heard this and asked, "How many did you buy?"

"Not many, each family has an Aolong and a king crab. Everyone can enjoy the fun during the New Year and try seafood." After Zhang Jiusheng said that, he opened the curtain and walked out.

"Oh! Shi Wei, I think we can call the third uncle, aunt and family of three over here. So many things are really..." Cang Hai didn't know what to say.

Lobsters and king crabs must be eaten, but if they are left overnight, they will die.

The whole family can't eat the dishes prepared now, but now there are two more big hard dishes, so there are more leftovers.

"Then you shout!" Shi Wei said.

When Cang Hai heard this, he left the door and turned to the door of Uncle San’s kiln. He stretched his head and looked in. He found that there was no one in the kiln. When he arrived at the kitchen, he saw that there was no fire at home. He immediately understood that Uncle San’s family must have had the New Year’s Eve dinner with someone else’s house tonight. Without asking Cang Hai, he knew that this was with Wei Wenkui’s family.

When I ran to Uncle Wei's house at the foot of the slope, I saw that not only Uncle Third Family, but also Uncle Five was at Wei Wenkui's house. The three families gathered together and were just filled with a large round table.

Canghai is not easy to call his uncle's family now, and the other person is full of vegetables and bowls, so he had to chat for a few more words before turning back home.

"What's the matter?"

Cang Hai replied: "They are all at Uncle Wei's house, and there is a table, so let's deal with it ourselves."

After saying that, he saw Mr. Xu Sheng fiddling with the lobster, so he asked, "How do you do this?"

Xu Sheng smiled and said, "So you guys don't know how to do it!"

"I have stayed in a small restaurant. Such a noble thing can only eat the money from working for a month. How can I make this thing?" Cang Hai smiled.

Xu Sheng said, "Then you guys stand aside, I'll show you something!"

After saying that, Mr. Xu picked up two pieces of cloth and put them on the head of the shrimp and the other part of the shrimp tail. He and Mr. Qu Guowei straightened the shrimp hard.

"You must use this kind of shrimp before making it. If you don't use it, the shrimp will smell like urine after it is cooked..." Mr. Xu Sheng said while trying.

In a short while, Canghai saw a stream of water coming out from under the shrimp's belly.

"I'm going, I really don't know," Cang Hai said.

Taking advantage of the remediation of Mr. Xu Sheng, Cang Hai was secretly learning from the side. Not to mention that Mr. Xu had a really good way to cure lobsters. His movements were like flowing water. This was definitely not something that could be pretended. He must have such skills after he was familiar with it.

"You always seem to be really rich. Do you want to eat this place often?" Cang Hai joked.

"You boy can't afford it?" Xu Sheng said to Cang Hai.

"Hehe!" Cang Hai smiled.

Xu Sheng finished processing the lobster and asked Canghai to steam it in a pot. Then he started processing the king crab, waiting for Zhang Jiusheng's secret to curing and crawling crabs to send it. Canghai's two-piece steamer in the morning.

After the shrimps were put on the pot, Canghai then started to cook big dishes, such as old duck bamboo shoots, braised big goose, and everything was cooked one by one.

After the dishes were cooked, a few stir-fryed. When the soup in the pot was cooked, everyone started to set up the table to eat.

This meal can't be eaten in the kitchen. The big round table is placed in the center of the living room. The room is warm like spring. There are a large table of dishes, and the big round table is full of them.

As soon as he sat down, a sound of firecrackers came from outside. Cang Hai slapped his legs: "I almost forgot about this matter and set off firecrackers!"

I haven't celebrated the New Year in the countryside for more than ten years, and I can't fire artillery in the city. If I hadn't heard other people's fire artillery, Canghai would have forgotten this custom.

He hurriedly took a firecracker and lit it and threw it outside. A thousand red firecrackers exploded in front of the kiln in the sea with fire.

Accompanied by the crackling sound of firecrackers, Canghai raised the wine in his hand and said to everyone on the table: "Everyone raises your glasses! Celebrate New Year's Eve together!"

“Happy New Year’s Eve!”

Everyone raised the cups in their hands one after another.

There is no requirement for drinking with a reunion dinner. If you want to eat something white, it will turn white. If you want to drink something red, it will turn red. It looks like Meng Meng, then you will naturally drink a bottle of orange juice. Usually Shi Wei doesn't let her drink these unhealthy drinks, except today, so Meng Meng is so happy to hold a cup of orange juice alone.
Chapter completed!