Looking forward to the Chinese New Year

Actually, I look forward to the Chinese New Year as much as the children, but I don't count my fingers like they do. It's only a few days before the first day of the first month. Chinese New Year can have a long holiday, enough time to stay with my mother, and I can eat mustard meat steamed by my mother for every meal, which I never eat outside. I am not afraid that my meat will grow day and night in those days. Whenever we frequently hold chopsticks to the steaming and fragrant mustard meat, I can see the happiness and satisfaction on my mother's face from the arc drawn by chopsticks.

mom is very nervous. Every year, since the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, she has been busy scrubbing all the utensils that can hold food without touching the ground in the biting cold yard. When she saw us, she smiled and took off her wool hat to show us the sweat on her head. On the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, she began to set out to steam steamed buns and steamed jujube hill bean buns. We complained bitterly that she was asking for trouble. Just order some steamed bread on the street. What's the smell of the steamed bread she said she bought?

On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, no matter how busy we are, we sisters have to take time to go home. On that day, we want cook the meat fried meatballs and fried hemp leaves. Although I have been out of the countryside for a long time, my mother still keeps the habit of being in her hometown, and likes to fry the New Year's goods in cook the meat. For this reason, she always began to collect sticks and branches in summer and waited for the fire during the New Year. Only she can master the cooking temperature of the earth pot when frying all kinds of new year's goods.