Chapter 168 Taste of the New Year
Lin Dongfa left and the sky became gloomy. In the evening, it began to rain lightly, and the cold and wet air began to penetrate into his clothes.
At this time, there is no mobile phone to check the weather forecast in real time. "It shouldn't snow today, right?"
"It has only had a few sleets this year, and it has never snowed seriously. "It's not surprising to see snow during the Chinese New Year." Gu Jiu rolled up his sleeves and prepared to wash his hands for dinner. "What do you want to eat tonight?"
"Let's eat hot pot."
"It's too late to make bone soup at this time. There are still two fish you bought in the morning. How about we make a fish hotpot tonight and save the remaining one for tomorrow's 30th anniversary?"
"Okay. , don’t cook too many vegetables, just wash the vegetables and then Make more vermicelli, don’t even have to cook the rice, you will almost be full if you eat vermicelli at night.”
Lin Shu sat at the table, which was covered with a cloth, and a stove was placed underneath. On the body, a fire was burning and the body was warm. There are melon seeds and peanut candies on the table. If there is a TV to watch TV series, it will be a complete must-have at home.
Xianfeng Village in the countryside.
Lin Wei saw Lin Xue back at noon. After lunch, Lin Wei was sent away. In the afternoon, he and his husband Deng Cai ground the soaked beans and made them into tofu.
After the tofu was pressed with stones, it was already time for dinner. After working for a few hours, and not wanting to make it too complicated at night, Lin Xue fried some green vegetables and fried some fat-free pork brought back from her mother with garlic sprouts.
You don’t know, the fat-free pork is very fragrant after being fried once, and then stir-fried with garlic sprouts and chili peppers, and drizzled with soy sauce, the flavor goes straight to Tianling Gai.
“Oh, prodigal bitches, you have started eating meat before the Chinese New Year, and you can smell the fragrance from afar. You were reincarnated as a ghost to death! You are so greedy!”
As soon as the food was put on the table, an old lady opened the door and walked in, with her eyelids drooped and an angry look on her face as usual.
I walked to the table, looked at the large pieces of fat-free pork on the table with a rich sauce, and swallowed unconsciously.
"Okay! You prodigal bitch, who in the village buys some meat for the Chinese New Year and doesn't wait to eat it during the Chinese New Year and when entertaining guests? Who is like you, frying meat out of season and cutting it into such a big piece?"
Zhuang Zhuang had wanted to start eating for a long time, but he didn’t want Cheng Yaojin to show up halfway. He was very unhappy. According to her words, their family shouldn’t eat meat tonight. How could this be okay?
“Grandma, my grandma gave this meat to us. Why can’t we eat it?”
“Your grandma gave it to you to eat during the Chinese New Year. I didn’t want you to miss the New Year now. If you don’t follow the rules, you’ll start eating.” Mrs. Deng was so annoyed.
She, an old lady who had endured hardship for decades, had not eaten so much meat in a bowl, but this prodigal woman from outside had eaten it first.
"Mom, please stop squirting here. If you keep squirting, your saliva will be all over the table. Do we still want to eat?" Lin Xue was full of irritation. She was really a dog-nosed person.
Now that her mother's family has grown up, why should she be angry with this old woman? Every time she has something good to eat at home, she has to come here to show off her power.
She didn't have the confidence to spoil her before, but now she doesn't want to spoil her anymore.
The worst we can do is have a quarrel and go to the city to work after the New Year.
Old Mrs. Deng’s voice stopped suddenly. Perhaps she had never thought that her usually silent daughter-in-law would dare to choke her.
After being stunned for a long time, I finally came back to my senses when I saw Lin Xue's disdainful eyes, and wanted to clean the table with a groan.
Lin Xue and the two children anticipated her movements, and in time, Lin Xue picked up the two food bowls on the table, and the two children picked up four bowls of rice, and exited the battle circle in time.
As you can imagine, Mrs. Deng only threw away a few pairs of chopsticks.
"Mom, what are you doing?"
"What are you doing? Are you going to let us eat?"
Deng Cai's face turned red with anger, and the veins on his forehead jumped.
"Okay, your wife dares to yell at me. You are also a white-eyed wolf. When you marry a daughter-in-law, you forget about your mother. You vent your anger with your wife in the same nostril. You don't treat me as your mother anymore, right?" ”
“Since you don’t treat me as your mother, why should I care about you?” It’s better not to eat, but to starve to death!”
Deng Cai was sad, but more importantly, he was angry, “You came here today just to make trouble, and you don’t want to make our family feel better?”
After finally eating a meal of meat, it’s messed up again. Can you not be annoyed?
"Boss, what you are saying is cutting my heart. Oh God, come and see, what kind of fate do I have? Why am I so miserable? I have made my son grow up with shit and urine since he was a child, so he married a wife. Forget about mother, we are a family Even if you avoid eating meat, you won’t think of being a mother!”
Old Mrs. Deng burst into tears, just like a opera singer on the stage. She also knew how to express her emotions in her voice, and it was the beginning of a one-man show.
When a show starts here, there are naturally a lot of people watching the show.
Not long after, the villagers who were bored at home after dinner were attracted.
Lin Xue brought the food into the bedroom and asked the two children to go in and eat quickly. She walked out and closed the door herself.
"Oh, it's such a cold day, old lady, what are you doing? Is it because your eldest son didn't bring meat or oil to your younger one, or because he didn't show you filial piety?"
What kind of virtue is Mrs. Deng? , everyone living around knows this, but they just haven’t found enough money to support the younger son.
It has become a routine for her to make trouble without taking advantage.
"I definitely didn't take advantage. I think the old lady sitting in the room clapping her legs and singing is not as effective as sitting outside."
"Otherwise, let her change places, outside It happened to be drizzling and the road was wet, which immediately doubled the effect.”
"Old lady, go cry outside and let the whole village see how biased and shameless you are."
"Haha."
Don't you see, the countryside loves to make noises. It must be middle-aged and elderly women, and middle-aged and elderly men who prefer to burn fire.
The old lady has been teased by everyone countless times, and her face has long been hardened into a fortress. You laugh at yours and she teases hers, and no one is delayed.
Everyone saw the old lady talking about just a few words over and over again. Everyone came over to ask Lin Xue as a joke.
"Daughter-in-law Deng Cai, what's wrong with your mother-in-law?"
"Oh, I know, your parents' family took you to stay for a few days. Did you bring anything good when you came back today for your mother-in-law to smell? Did you smell it?”
“Yes, it must be the dog’s nose that smells it” When she came here, Deng Cai’s daughter-in-law didn’t get what she wanted, so that’s a shame!”
“By the way, what did her mother-in-law bring her to make this old woman so greedy?”
< br>The power of the villagers’ gossip is overwhelming. You and I can restore the truth one sentence at a time.
Lin Xue didn't need to speak at all, she just had to stand by with her head lowered, acting like a poor woman who had been bullied.
Everyone did not hear Lin Xue’s answer. They thought they had guessed the truth and pulled out the youngest son of the Deng family who was hiding behind the crowd.
“Ouch, your mother is causing trouble here, how can you hide behind and try to pick up what’s already available?”
“Quick, quick, go and add fuel to your mother’s fire, or I’ll kill you. Mom carries it back. We are already separated, but I still want you. The eldest brother supports your whole family?”
“Ha, aren’t you forcing things on others? He is the beneficiary of the meat that the old woman plundered from her eldest son. How can he be willing to carry the old woman back when he thinks of eating meat in large quantities?”
“Anyone who buys some meat during the Chinese New Year is not waiting to eat it during the Chinese New Year, or entertaining guests during the Chinese New Year. No one has any extra meat to eat and give it to his younger brother and his family.”
“A grown man in his twenties always I want to suck on my good brother Blood, shame?”
Deng Jun’s face has not been cultivated to perfection. His face was burning with shame when he was pushed out. Now he saw the old lady crying with tears and snot in her nose, and she almost died. I vomited out all the disgusting food I had eaten the night before.
“Go back, don’t embarrass yourself here!”
Don’t look at the old lady who usually shows off her power in the big room, but in front of her little son, she is like a balloon that has been punctured, deflating in an instant. Don't even dare to fart. Facing her youngest son's low growl and his vicious eyes, she was so frightened that she had to pat her butt and leave even if she was unwilling to do so.
“Go~”
The onlookers couldn’t help but cheer and boo as the villagers dispersed before they had enough to watch.
By the time everyone left with their necks hunched by the cold wind, the food was already cold, especially the oil in the bowl of meat had frozen.
Lin Xue put the rice in the pot again and stir-fried it, and threw in a few pieces of meat. After the children finished eating, she and the child's father also wanted to eat a few pieces of meat to comfort their overly hungry stomachs.
Not long after, two steaming bowls of fried rice were ready.
Lin Xue held the rice bowl and said: "Press and dry the tofu I made in the afternoon. I will get up early tomorrow morning to fry the tofu. I made more tofu this time. I will give some to my mother and little sister when we celebrate the New Year on the second day of the new year. Past."
" Okay, listen to you, my mother and the others like the tofu we make here and say that the tofu we make here is better than the tofu made in other places, so I will give more away."
Deng Cai is still worried about tonight. It's not good anymore, the meat will not be preserved.
Now that the meat is guaranteed, he is still willing to give out some tofu.
On New Year's Eve, every household prepares New Year's Eve dinner early.
Gu Jiu and Lin Shu were no exception. They worked hard for half the afternoon and cooked a table of dishes.
I like to eat meat dishes, such as braised pork elbows, Sixi meatballs, fried winter bamboo shoots with bacon, steamed fish with pickled peppers, garlic pork ribs, and red date stewed chicken. They were afraid that eating meat would be too greasy, so the two of them made a few more vegetarian dishes. .
Add the seasonings to the leeks and tofu skin cut into strips and quickly stir-fry until the flavors are infused. It has a good meaning and will last a long time.
Stir-fried cabbage symbolizes wealth for the family.
The last one is pan-fried tofu and rice pudding.
Two people would definitely not be able to eat a table full of ten dishes, but for the sake of the New Year ritual, the two of them filled the table.
For the New Year's Eve dinner, considering Lin Shu's health, we prepared wine made from glutinous rice, which is called sweet wine here in the county.
Pour out the wine and put it in hot water with a small flask to heat it. Drinking it on this cold day will not hurt your stomach and has a warming effect.
"I used to hang around at home. I never thought that one day I would form a small family with you. This year you come into my home, and I will protect you for the rest of your life. Come!" Gu Jiu finished his emotional paragraph. He raised his glass excitedly and said, "May all our wishes come true in the Year of the Sheep."
Lin Shu pursed her lips and smiled, raised her glass and clinked it with him. Influenced by him, she repeated his words, "I wish our dreams will come true."
My dreams of having children will come true, and my career dreams will come true. Everything comes true, your family's wishes come true, and your family's health wishes come true.
One sentence, "Every wish comes true" summarizes all aspects.
"You have done an extraordinary job in cooking tonight. It is all delicious and delicious."
Putting down the wine glass, Lin Shu didn't know which dish to start with.
Seeing that she didn't know where to start, Gu Jiu smiled and helped her pick up a chicken drumstick, "Eat a drumstick. I wish you strong legs and feet when you are pregnant in the coming year, and your whole body will be strong when you give birth to a baby."
Lin Shuman With a black line on his head, "This is the first time I have heard such a blessing, thank you."
In return for the courtesy, Lin Shu helped him pick up a chicken wing, "Then I wish you to spread your wings and fly high next year. Remember to go home when you fly far."
"Haha. With you and the child at home, I will fly more No matter how high it is, my heart is with you and the child." Gu Jiu was happy, picked up the chicken wings and took a bite.
“This chicken is so fresh, don’t watch me eat it, try it quickly.”
Lin Shu's appetite has increased since she got over the early pregnancy symptoms. She put a chicken drumstick into her belly and took the big bone of the pork elbow. The bones were connected with a lot of soft lean meat that had been stewed. The taste was not too good.
Gu Jiu saw how delicious she was eating and asked, "How does it taste? Is it salty or bland?"
"The taste is just right."
Gu Jiu also took some. I tasted the piece of meat and it tasted just right. "Do you like eating this pork elbow with sauce?" , and some more lean meat?”
Lin Shu put down the meat on the bones and chewed the bones a few more times, put the bones aside, and took a sip of the warm sweet wine, “You can eat it. , I eat the skin of this sauced elbow to replenish collagen.”
After eating a piece of pig skin, it was a bit greasy. Lin Shu ate some leeks to relieve the greasiness, and then took his chopsticks to the Sixi meatballs.
Seeing that Lin Shu had such a good appetite, Gu Jiu suddenly felt that he also had a huge appetite.
Following the rhythm of Lin Shu's eating, Gu Jiu was full.
“Shu Shu, you’re leading the way tonight.”
“Haha, when you’re full, walk with me in the corridor to eat. You’ll make a pot of hot tea later. I’ll accompany you. You stay up late.”
"Not only will you accompany me to watch the New Year's Eve, but you will also make dumplings with me later." Gu Jiu helped her stand up, leaned over and kissed her red lips.
Lin Shu was suddenly attacked, his body leaned back slightly, and he said disgustedly: "You just ate meat in your mouth, have you wiped it clean?"
"How about my wife check it for me? Just a moment." As he spoke, Gu Jiu shamelessly moved his lips forward.
“Start playing hooligans after you’ve had enough to eat and drink!” Lin Shu shook his head funny and let him walk slowly around the patio with his support.
“It’s snowing!”
Gu Jiu reached out to catch the small snowflakes falling from the patio. Through the dim light, he could see the snowflakes falling from the sky.
A very small one.
Lin Shu tightened the scarf around his neck: "It's just starting to rain. Later we will place a few stools in the patio. The wrapped dumplings will be placed on the stools and frozen overnight. They should be ready tomorrow. It can be frozen.”
“Freeze more. We will have this for breakfast. We will go to celebrate the New Year the day after tomorrow and bring some to our parents."
Lin Shu glanced at him and chuckled: "Do you think you are the most filial son-in-law in the county? The delicious food is all about my mother-in-law.”
"My parents are good to me, so I will be good to them." Gu Jiu said proudly.
Lin Shu smiled and shook his head, hugged his arm and hung half of his body on him, and continued walking for ten rounds before sitting down to rest.
A pot of tea, a few plates of dried fruits, and a radio, it really feels like the quiet time has passed.
People's Broadcasting Station has the clearest sound quality. The two of them don't care about the programs broadcast there, only the process of enjoying it.
The dough is ready. One of them is rolling out the dough and the other is filling the stuffing. They work together very well.
As the snow falls harder and harder outside, more and more people set off firecrackers outside, and the smell of the New Year in the air becomes stronger and stronger.
Two chapters in one~
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