Zhou Xiaoan squatted at the door of the coal shed peeling potatoes, leeward here, it was finally not so cold.

Peizhou is located in North China, although it is not as cold as the Northeast, and it will freeze and snow in the lunar month. Most families move their coal stoves to their homes in the winter to keep warm while cooking.

But the Zhou family is too small, and there is no place for a stove in the house, so they can only cook outside all year round.

Today, Zhou Yuehai went home for dinner, Wang Lamei moved out all the things for the New Year, and said regretfully, "The non-staple food store will only have meat tomorrow, or I can also make dumplings for your uncle." During the Chinese New Year, two taels of green onions were supplied, and one person also had two catties of noodles, and he was wrapped with radish and green onion filling, which seemed to be rare when he was a child......"

In fact, it is the old man Zhou who loves to eat radish and green onion dumplings, in the past 30 years, Wang Lamei and Zhou Yuehai have eaten together with one hand, and she doesn't know what Zhou Yuehai likes to eat.

Give Zhou Yuehai something to eat, and the two daughters-in-law in the family have no opinion at all.

When the uncle comes back, it means that every month in the future, the family will have an extra forty or fifty yuan, one or twenty catties of food stamps, as well as scarce military cloth stamps and industrial stamps.

Moreover, Zhou Yuehai has a high level in the army, and his treatment is good, and he can occasionally send them precious rice, flour and some special commodities that cannot be bought in the market.

And if he comes over during the New Year, it means that the family will definitely be able to have a fat year.

Therefore, everyone had a smile on their faces, and even Ma Lan, who had just made a big fuss and was suppressed, didn't toss anymore, and honestly went to the front yard faucet to wash the cabbage with a big basin.

Today, Wang Lamei not only fried radish balls, but also took out a fresh Chinese cabbage, which was easily snatched back from the grocery store and prepared to make dumplings for the New Year. Today, I will use it to fry a sour and hot cabbage, make a shredded potato, and go to Aunt Bai to borrow bacon.

Aunt Bai's family is also small, and she is cooking outside like the Zhou family, and she heard it shouting across the yard, "Aunt Bai, our little brother-in-law is back, and he sent the bacon from your rural hometown to cut a piece of it for me, let Xiao Shui go to line up tonight, and buy meat and return your fat refining oil!" ”

Aunt Bai's rural hometown played two wild boars last year, and the production team handed over one to the state, killed one and distributed it to the members, and the old man in the hometown was worried about his grandson, and he was not willing to eat more than two catties of pork made into bacon, so he sent them all.

This year's Chinese New Year, the state will supply two taels of more meat per person to the urban population, but not everyone can buy it, and the non-staple food stores have limited supply, and they are all posted on the first day, and they have to queue up in the middle of the night, and they will be gone if they are late.

In this cold winter, there is no strong man in the family, who can go to the middle of the night to queue up to grab meat?

So Wang Lamei said with confidence, Zhou Xiaozhuan is strong, in good health, doing tunneling work underground, and can grab a big fat piece every year!

Aunt Bai happily cut a piece of bacon for Wang Lamei, which was very generous and had to be half a catty. The piece of meat sent by my hometown is only two catties at most.

She is very willing to exchange bacon for fat, half a catty of fat can be eaten for several months after refining big oil, and there are some oil stars in the children's bowls every day, and this hard bacon will be gone after a few more meals.

"Her Aunt Wang, your brother-in-law is on vacation in the army? Haven't been back in years? Can you spend the New Year at home? Aunt Bai was very envious, "Is he thirty?" Became the chief, right? ”

Zhou Yuehai's disappearance was specially sent by the army to do work and let the Zhou family keep it secret, so the neighbors didn't know.

"It's the thirty-first day of the Chinese New Year's Eve! Be the head of the regiment! The troops are busy, so they can only go home for a meal and have to leave! Wang Lamei and Yourong looked up and smiled honorably, who doesn't envy their family for having a little uncle who is a big hero!

If you don't take care of the military family, you can't do it with her and Mrs. Wang, how many people are staring at it!

Seeing that Wang Lamei refused to talk about Zhou Yuehai, Aunt Bai accosted her a few more words before going back to steam her vegetable dumplings and boil sweet potato dried gruel.

What a madness! It's a grease pan croquettes again, and a few fried dishes! Did you earn that?

I have been gnawing on my brother-in-law for more than ten years with my mother's family, and I don't even have a daughter-in-law to help Zhang Luo in my thirties, isn't it just that I am afraid that I will not help you when I get married!

It's really wolf-hearted and has no conscience!

Wang Lamei cut a bowl of bacon and steamed it, and took a small bowl of meatballs to her mother's house to borrow a coal stove to stir-fry.

Zhou Xiaoling took a ball from the bowl and stuck out her tongue at Wang Lamei with a smile, Wang Lamei glared at her with disgust, seeing that her daughter-in-law didn't pay attention to this, and stuffed her with another one.

Zhou Xiaoling took two balls, one was secretly stuffed into Zhou Feng's mouth, and the other was given to Zhou Guoqing, the eldest brother's little nephew.

Zhou Feng went to Ma Lan Xianbao with the balls in his mouth, and Zhao Yindi looked at Zhou Xiaoling's eyes with joy, "Lingzi, go to the stove to bake the fire, you are not in good health, don't freeze." ”

By the way, I glared at Zhou Xiao'an, who was shrunk on the edge of the coal shed and peeled potatoes, and didn't complain that her mother-in-law didn't want to see her! I don't understand anything at all!

Zhou Guoqing is the only boy in the family grandchildren, and he is the youngest, only he dares to blatantly take a ball to eat.

He also ran to Zhou Xiaoan's side and showed off angrily, taking revenge on her for eating alone just now.

In this era, unless you are particularly spoiled by children, or you are the most favored little grandson in the family, it is easy to cook something delicious, and if the guests don't eat it, you can't give him the first food. Otherwise, it is uneducated.

So you can imagine how much hatred Zhou Xiaoling's behavior of giving Zhou Xiaoan pills has caused her.

Zhou Xiaoan peeled the potatoes seriously, not weak at all.

It was really not her who grabbed the food with the children just now, she didn't eat the ball, and she had to go into Zhou Xiaoling's mouth after tossing around, and in the end, Zhou Xiaoling was sensible and humble, and she knew that she was distressed, and she couldn't fall well.

There used to be a lot of things like this. The Zhou family didn't understand it, and she, an outsider, summed up the rules after watching it a few more times.

And the relationship between the two sisters-in-law and the children and Zhou Xiaoan has long been provoked to break, and a few pills can't be repaired at all, so why does she still suffer this loss?

After Zhou Xiaoan finished peeling the potatoes, he unceremoniously called Zhou Xiaoling, "Zhou Xiaoling, I can't get water on my cracked hands, you go wash the potatoes, my aunt is in a hurry to use them." ”

Zhou Xiao'an, a stone separator at the mine, has been picking stones from the coal piles on the conveyor belt every day since he was 15 years old.

A nineteen-year-old girl with calluses on her hands and palms as rough as those of a man doing manual work. She didn't know how to maintain it, and she had to wash the dishes and do housework when she got home.

Zhou Xiaoan didn't care about it before, but now Zhou Xiaoan won't let himself suffer this crime anymore.

As soon as Zhou Xiaoan spoke, before Zhou Xiaoling could say anything, Zhou Yan and Zhao Yindi glared at her first.

Zhou Xiaoling smiled at the two, and walked over to care for Zhou Xiaoan gently and gently, "Second sister, can I help you into the house and lie down for a while?" After peeling potatoes for so long, you're tired, right? ”

Zhou Xiaoan was speechless, this person can't speak well? Isn't she tired of always thinking about digging holes for people?

There are four potatoes in total, and she is used to housework, Zhou Xiaoling said this to make her admit that she was grinding foreign workers or that she was pretending to be sick?

Fortunately, Wang Lamei came back and sent Zhou Xiaoling to wash the potatoes quickly, she had to hurry up and fry the cabbage, and the Wang family had to use the coal stove to cook at night.

The door of the Wang family's house has been closed tightly, and they have always been lacking in confidence in front of Zhou Yuehai, and every time he comes, he can hide as far as he can.

Wang Lamei sat the aluminum pot for stir-frying on the stove, wiped the water in the pot, and took a small bowl with a piece of white cotton yarn soaked in oil.

She rubbed the white cotton yarn in the pot twice, thought about it and rubbed it twice, and said to herself to find a reason, "Today is a little bigger, your uncle will come back once in a few years, and it is not easy to have a meal at home." ”

Only then did Zhou Xiaoan understand that this piece of cotton yarn was used for this purpose.

Cooking oil is too scarce, if you use a spoon to put oil in the pot, the two taels of oil a month are not enough to stick to the spoon, so everyone came up with this method.

That's it, I usually don't want to wipe the pot with oil cotton yarn when cooking, so I can occasionally wipe it and borrow some oil stars.

Wang Lamei instructed Brother Zhao Yindi while stir-frying cabbage, "Put away the small pot of croquettes quickly!" Don't let anyone wash it! There's a lot of oil stuck to it! When you use it to mix dumpling stuffing during the Chinese New Year, you don't need to put oil. ”

In order to save oil, she used a small field pot sent back by Zhou Yuehai for croquettes, which is said to be Lao Maozi's thing, a small one, which is enough to cook a bowl of porridge, but she really can't fry a cabbage, or you don't need to fry the croquettes in the oil pot, then it's called fragrant!

As soon as the cabbage came out of the pot, Zhou Xiaoquan, who went to pick up people at the entrance of the alley, ran back, "My uncle is here!" ”