Chapter 144: Cake
Shen Yuehua was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and said suspiciously: "Let me come up with an idea?" Is that appropriate? ”
Li Guifen said with a smile: "What's inappropriate, you read a lot of books, you know a lot of things, and your ideas must be fresh." ”
Hearing her say this, Shen Yuehua thought of a very suitable thing, that is, a birthday cake, which has become an indispensable thing when celebrating birthdays in modern times.
Rural people in this era did not have this awareness, but in the Republic of China, there were wealthy merchant families who would prepare cakes for their birthdays.
And the birthday cake was originally one of the pastries she wanted to make zuò before, but because they had too few people, they were shelved later, but Shen Yuehua never gave up this idea, and even preferred to make zuò birthday cakes than the four seasons pastries to be the main one.
On the other hand, she couldn't teach the Zhang family the complete secret recipe of making zuò mung bean cake before, and she also felt a little unhappy in her heart, this time the cake can be made in front of them, and it doesn't need to be exquisite, it just needs to taste about the same.
This is also a craft, very practical and fresh, and it belongs to the first one in this era.
Shen Yuehua thought so, so she said: "Mother, I think when the eldest brother celebrates his birthday, we can give him a holiday on that day, and we will help him do the rest of the work, so that he can enjoy the blessings, and the other is the meal to be made that day, which is more hearty than usual, of course it is eggs and longevity noodles in the morning, and when I have time at noon, I will fry a few big dishes, and in the evening I will make a birthday cake and a sumptuous dinner, so it's about the same." ”
To be honest, Shen Yuehua didn't have a bottom in her heart, she had a birthday when she was still in good health in her previous life. They all hold a birthday party in a five-star hotel and invite business partners to exchange feelings.
And she mentions yì this one. In fact, it is some of her employees, most of whom celebrate their birthdays like this.
She felt that her previous mention was okay. I just don't know what Li Guifen thinks.
She raised her eyes to look at Li Guifen, and saw that she was thinking about something, she was immersed in thought, and Zhang Jianguo had already finished drying her clothes, walked straight over, and said, "Fourth brother and sister, have you finished washing your clothes?" I'll go hang it for you. ”
Shen Yuehua smiled and said, "En." I'm done, so thank you big brother. ”
Zhang Jianguo took the wet clothes, twisted them easily, wrung them half-dry, and walked over to the rope to dry the clothes.
As everyone knows, Li Guifen and Shen Yuehua's eyes fell on her, and Li Guifen looked at her taciturn eldest son, with a slightly melancholy expression on her face.
She pondered for a moment, then finally nodded and said, "Okay." Then let's do what you said, I'll go to another house to catch a few chickens and raise them, our family is too busy this year. I don't have time to raise chickens when I'm busy, so now that I'm free, let's raise some. ”
She stood up, patted the wrinkled clothes on her body, turned back to Shen Yuehua and said with a smile: "As for the birthday cake, I have to trouble you to make it, our family doesn't understand that, you can just get it, if there is something missing." Just tell your third brother and let him go to the county town to get it back. I'll go back to my room and rest for a while. ”
Shen Yuehua saw that her face was tired, and she remembered the scene she had just seen. knew that Li Guifen was not really tired, in other words, her heart was tired, not her body.
Shen Yuehua could understand her feelings, so she said, "Mother, you go and have a good rest, and when it's time to eat lunch, we'll wake you up." ”
Li Guifen smiled and turned to leave, while Shen Yuehua looked at the sewage in the basin and thought that she still had a few clothes that she hadn't washed, so she would bring the clothes over from the room and wash them one by one.
When he was done, he took it himself, went to the clothesline, and hung the clothes on tiptoe.
At this time, it was almost time to make lunch, her body is much better now, so she began to cook, some time ago because of the severe morning sickness, she vomited after a while after entering the kitchen, Li Guifen did not force her to cook when she saw it, and several sisters-in-law no matter what they thought in their hearts, they were considerate of her.
And now that Shen Yuehua's health has improved, and the morning sickness has almost passed, she began to cook with her.
A woman is the most vulnerable in the first trimester of pregnancy, and she may miscarry if she is not careful, but Shen Yuehua has been pregnant for more than three months now, and her body is much stronger in this life than in her previous life, so this baby is considered to be stable.
When she went to the kitchen, she saw that in the corner of the kitchen against the wall, there were full of vegetables, these were all vegetables grown by the Zhang family themselves, most of which were common in the Northeast, such as Chinese cabbage, sweet potatoes, potatoes......
Shen Yuehua walked over and washed three cabbages, took several large potatoes, and took several tomatoes.
She poured water into the big iron pot, put some spices in it, and started a fire to boil.
At the same time, she washed the cabbage and cut it into slices, peeled the potatoes and cut them into cubes and put them on the cutting board, and cut the tomatoes into small pieces, and used this pot of soup as the base for cooking the noodles for a while.
She opened another iron pot, and opened a basin with a lattice, and in the basin was the noodles sent last night, and people in the Northeast eat noodles more often, but now the conditions are not very good, and they can't eat noodles at three meals a day, even if they eat noodles, they must put some other dishes that are full, such as potatoes, which can save a lot of noodles.
Shen Yuehua knows how to ramen, but her skills are not very good, so she doesn't force herself, and the Zhang family can all ramen, she just needs to find someone to come over and ramen.
Thinking so, she went out for a walk, most of the Zhang family has been at home recently, if it weren't for her insistence on cooking, from the time she entered the kitchen, someone would have followed her to cook.
She walked a few steps away and saw Zhang Jianye, Zhang Jianye looked lean, and his twin brother Zhang Jianwei looked the same, but the momentum on his body was completely different.
They all work in the field, and both of them can do it, Zhang Jianye looks stunned with a bit of a literary atmosphere, while Zhang Jianwei looks naïve, so that familiar people can distinguish between the two people very well.
Shen Yuehua saw him and saw that he didn't have anything to do. He stepped forward and said, "Third brother, I don't know how to ramen." Come over and help with the ramen. ”
Zhang Jianye was stunned for a moment, then nodded. followed Shen Yuehua to the kitchen, and after washing his hands, he picked up the dough and put it on the cutting board, dipped it in flour and began to pull up the noodles.
Zhang Jianye's subordinates are also neat, and the noodles pulled out are thin and long, too much taller than Shen Yuehua, Shen Yuehua's cooking skills are good, but the ramen is a little difficult. After practicing for a period of time, it didn't work, and she didn't like to eat noodles very much, so she didn't embarrass herself.
Right now, seeing that the dough in Zhang Jianye's hands easily turned into slender and long, never-broken noodles, I couldn't help but feel that people were amazing.
Thinking so, she praised it and said, "Third brother, your ramen skills are really good." ”
Zhang Jianye shrugged and smiled. Remove the lid, place the noodles in the pot and stir a few times with a spoon. The movements are also very skillful, and it can be seen that it is a man who has cooked, which makes Shen Yuehua a little surprised.
Zhang Jianye tasted the taste, added some seasoning, and said: "How many brothers do we have, the eldest brother, the second brother, me, and the fourth brother." The fifth brother has been cooking with his mother since he was a child. In the past, when I didn't marry a daughter-in-law, I used to cook in pairs. At the beginning, the level of cooking was very poor, and it was unpalatable to eat, and then it was really not good, so I could only learn by heart, and the fourth brother also learned, he made the most trouble, but he didn't want to learn to cook, saying that it was only a woman who did it, and after being smoked by my father a few times, he cooked honestly, I remember his cooking skills, or the best one in our family, the fourth brother has been smart since he was a child, but he rarely puts his mind on the right thing, but as long as he learns by heart, he learns quickly and well. ”
He said with a smile, but Shen Yuehua was taken aback, she never knew that Zhang Jianbin could cook, speaking of Zhang Jianbin This man, she really didn't know much.
What she now knows is that he was a soldier in the army, and now he is fighting on the battlefield, and he writes well, and he loves his wife......
Listening to Zhang Jianbin in other people's mouths, he is like a big boy full of ruffians, with a willful personality and extremely smart.
Shen Yuehua looked a little dazed, and when she was thinking nonsense, Zhang Jianye had already cooked a pot of noodle soup, and the tomatoes were put down when they were about to come out of the pot.
Shen Yuehua saw that he had started to serve rice, so he hurriedly took the soup spoon and scooped it up.
Rows of rice bowls were placed on the tray of serving dishes, Shen Yuehua walked out with the tray, and when she crossed Zhang Jianye, she thanked her from the bottom of her heart, Zhang Jianye raised her eyebrows and smiled, took the other tray up, and said, "It's not a big deal, no thanks." ”
Shen Yuehua pursed her lips and smiled, and when she walked to the hall to put the tray on the table, she found that she had cooked so early today that there were few people here.
Shen Yuehua asked the children to call someone, and after a while, everyone arrived, and the family had lunch together, sat and chatted and dispersed.
Shen Yuehua returned to the house, fetched water and wiped her face and body, it was hot in summer, and the summer in the Northeast was also long, and it would not cool down until the end of September, and now she was still suffering from the summer heat, she first washed her clothes today, and then went to the kitchen to cook, her body was sweaty, and the smell of food, when she scrubbed, she changed her clothes, washed the dirty clothes, and lay on the bed refreshed.
She turned over lazily, and she didn't know how Han Nianjun was talking to Xia Yuzheng, but she could know the result by night at the latest, although she didn't have morning sickness, but the habit of drowsiness of pregnant women was still maintained, but fortunately, she had nothing to do recently, so she changed to a comfortable position and fell asleep lying down.
When she woke up, it was afternoon, she wiped the dust on the furniture again, and then she still had to move to the new home, just like the old wardrobe in the room, although the new house hit the new wardrobe, but the old wardrobe will not be lost, but placed in the storage room next door, put the wardrobe there, you can hold a winter quilt, or other gadgets that are not commonly used.
Shen Yuehua was idle, and after finishing her work, she got the newspapers of the past few months from Zhang Jianye and began to browse them quickly.
It was already September 1977, and a major event occurred in August, which was written into the history textbook, that is, the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which was described in detail.
The main content can be summed up in three aspects, one of which is to expose the conspiracy of the **** counter-revolutionary group, announce the smashing of the "******", and mark the end of the Cultural Revolution, which can be regarded as the real end of the Cultural Revolution.
Even though Shen Yuehua had known the news for a long time, she still felt a sigh of relief in her heart when she saw the report in the newspaper again.
As for the second point, it is natural that in the future, we must still take the struggle between the two classes and the two roads as the key link, and this point is the work of the party, Shen Yuehua only glanced at it slightly, and then looked at the last point, which is also the most important point.
That is the fundamental task of the new era, to build China into a modern socialist power, since the emergence of this task, it has led to many subsequent policies.
Shen Yuehua looked at these news, of course, there are still many policies and guidelines, and she read them all word for word.
In her previous life, she lived in a mess, and she didn't know much about this history, and she really began to take the initiative to understand the policy, and because she was in business, she could only take the direction of the future and find more ways to make money.
And now if you look closely, you can appreciate the shock of history, the wave of the times swept in, like a raging storm, rolling the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
Shen Yuehua couldn't help laughing, she folded this newspaper carefully and sandwiched it in Zhang Jianbin 's letter, these are all things to bring with her after moving, and they are really good things.
She waited, and finally waited for the upcoming glorious era, and she couldn't help but look forward to the news that Han Nianjun brought back.
Shen Yuehua thought so, and worked more neatly, and actually cleaned up all the furniture, and packed all the small things, except for a few changes of clothes, and daily necessities, all the other things were packed, and they were waiting to move later.
And after finishing the work, she also had a sore back, and she could barely straighten her waist, but fortunately, she beat herself a few times, and the effect was obvious.
She wiped the water casually, then leaned back on the bed and closed her eyes to recuperate.
And just as he was about to fall asleep in a daze, there was a knock on the door.
Shen Yuehua woke up suddenly, blinked in a daze, heard the door being knocked a few more times, and Zhang Cuilian's voice calling her cousin in an affectionate tone came from outside the door, so she guessed that the person who came was Han Nianjun.
She rubbed her eyes, and when she was sober, she got up and opened the door.
As a result, I really saw Han Nianjun standing outside the door with an expressionless face and a little embarrassed, Sun Anhe who looked like a good show, and Zhang Cuilian who was staring at Han Nianjun.
(To be continued.) )
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