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Chapter 147 Preparing for the New Year 3

Today is the 28th day of the lunar year. After finishing breakfast, Xu Han started to make the dough.

Lu Chuan went back to digging holes. There was nothing special that required him to do at home, and he was idle at home, so he could only go digging holes.

I don’t know how he spent those few years alone. It must have been so boring in that era without mobile phones and televisions!

Because I made a lot today, I made several bowls of noodles in a row and put them all on the kang. The higher the temperature, the faster they will rise.

Making dumplings is a must during the Chinese New Year. I prepared steamed buns some time ago, so I won’t make them today. I will just make dumplings. It happened that all the dumplings in the space have been eaten up, so I will make some next time.

First, let’s make a tofu vermicelli filling. Cut the tofu into smaller cubes, then put them in the pot and stir-fry with oil. When it turns golden brown, serve and set aside.

Chop the vermicelli and fungus that have been soaked in advance into fine pieces, put them into the pot and stir-fry them, then put them together with the tofu and set aside.

Take out the carrots, wash them, grate them into thin strips, squeeze out the water, and put them in a bowl.

Add appropriate seasonings to the pot, and then add coarse and fine chili powder.

Heat oil in a pan, pour the hot oil over the chili powder, and the aroma will be instantly stimulated.

After stirring evenly, the vegetarian buns with tofu vermicelli filling are ready.

In addition, Xu Han also prepared vegetarian buns stuffed with dried vegetables, vermicelli and tofu, and meat buns stuffed with mutton and beef.

After the fillings were prepared, Xu Han started making dumplings in the room. She placed the dumplings directly on the steamer for a second proofing.

The steamed buns that have been proofed should be put into the space first, because it is slow for one person to make them, and they will crack and rot easily if they are proofed for too long.

After wrapping two sets of steamers, it was already lunch time, so Xu Han started steaming the buns directly.

Just as they were lighting the fire, Lu Chuan came back. "The meal isn't ready yet! Do you want to eat something first?" Xu Han asked.

“No need. Aren’t we making dumplings today? We can just eat the dumplings later.” After saying that, he sat down and started to light the fire.

Xu Han started to cook some soup in a clay pot. Today she made hot and sour soup with ham, mushrooms and tofu. It was sour and spicy and very appetizing, and best to drink in winter.

After the soup was made, the buns were almost cooked. You could smell the fragrance as soon as you opened the steamed buns. After putting them all into the backpack, they were stored in the space. Then the two of them started eating the hot buns fresh from the oven.

"These two pots of steamed food are spicy tofu with vermicelli and vermicelli with tofu and dried vegetables. Which one do you want to eat?" Xu Han asked.

"Then let's try them all! The buns I made before didn't have tofu, I think they should all be delicious." Lu Chuan picked up one in each hand and started eating.

Xu Han also picked a dried vegetable dish. After taking a bite, she felt that it was indeed good, so she said, "It's quite delicious."

"I think they are all delicious, even better than meat!" Lu Chuan commented.

"Only you think vegetarian food is delicious. Ordinary people can't even eat vegetarian food, let alone meat." Xu Han joked.

"I can hunt. Are you afraid of not having meat to eat if you follow me?" Lu Chuan joked with Xu Han.

The two played around for a while, and after lunch, Lu Chuan continued to dig holes outside, while Xu Han continued to make dumplings.

Xu Han was busy wrapping and steaming the buns at the same time, and finally finished wrapping all the buns at around 7:30.

At dinner, Xu Han and Lu Chuan ate mutton noodles with dried wild amaranth, which was also delicious.

The next day, time flies by so fast! Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, so I won't cook today.

The main task of the two people today is to clean the house, including the yard, warehouse, woodshed, house, kitchen and other places, every corner must be cleaned.

Just rearrange what needs to be rearranged. There is not much room left in the space now.

Every night, the two of them would use wooden barrels to freeze some ice and put it in the space. In order to save space, Lu Chuan made a new square wooden barrel, which was not very thick or very large.

But if you make more molds, you can freeze a lot of ice cubes at a time.

A lot has been accumulated during this period of time. Fortunately, the space can be stacked and will not fall down.

It remains the same as when you put it in and when you take it out; it is completely still.

Otherwise, if so many things are piled together, it would be troublesome if one thing falls down or another.

Xu Han and Lu Chuan sorted out the warehouse, cellar and woodshed together. They tidied it up again and placed things that could be placed outside, and things that could not be placed inside the space.

After another round of tidying up, a small amount of space was freed up.

After finishing, he cleaned up and then Lu Chuan went to clean up the front and back yards.

Xu Han was responsible for cleaning the house. She took out the things that needed to be washed and washed them quickly. There was still one day tomorrow to dry them!

Wash all the dirty clothes, sheets, quilt covers, and dirty shoes.

Re-scrub what needs to be scrubbed, mop the floor, pull out the furniture that needs to be moved out first, and clean every place that can be cleaned.

Use a broom to sweep the beams, door frames, etc., there are cobwebs in some places.

Although we clean every day, there are still some dead corners that are not cleaned. This time we will take advantage of the New Year to clean them all.

At noon, the two of them simply ate some steamed buns and some fried vegetables, and then continued to work.

The kitchen is the most difficult place to clean, it is all greasy and black. Lu Chuan got some white lime and repainted the walls. Fortunately, it was relatively simple and was done in a short while.

But the beams were still black and there was no range hood, so the fumes from cooking usually went up there.

After I finished cleaning the house, it looked brand new. Although the layout didn't seem to have changed, it felt like a lot had changed.

It looks more comfortable. Let’s celebrate the New Year in a clean way. New year, new beginning!

It was already dark at this time. Xu Han took out the hot pot from the space and said, "Let's eat beef hot pot today!"

A reward for two people who are exhausted after cleaning all day.

The two of them enjoyed the hot pot while drinking some fruit wine.

Xu Han said, "Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. Let's prepare more food! Make everything from scratch, without using the food in the space. We have to celebrate the New Year well with just the two of us, so we can't be careless."

Xu Han still attaches great importance to traditional festivals in her heart, and goes home to celebrate every festival with her family.