Chapter 084: A Family Reunion for the Lantern Festival
At half past six in the afternoon, Chen Yuan and the three returned to Qingyun.
Huang Bo opened the bread and sent Su Muying home first. Su Muying was anxious about her home, and when she arrived at the door of the house, she couldn't help but get nervous.
Chen Yuan said with a smile: "It's all home, why are you suddenly nervous?" ”
"It's the first time I've been away from home since I was a kid, and after so many days, my mom must have wanted me to die." Su Muying said worriedly, "I don't know what to say about me later!" ”
What Su Muying was worried about did not happen. When Liu Ping saw Su Muying come back, her eyes instantly turned red, she took a few steps forward and directly pulled Su Muying into her arms, and her voice was faintly crying: "Muying, you're back!" ”
Su Muying's heart was sour, and she actually shed tears.
Seeing this, the Soviet army blamed: "Isn't this all good, why are you crying?" ”
Liu Ping adjusted her mood and said with a smile to Chen Yuan and Huang Bo: "I'm really sorry, let's go up to the house quickly!" ”
Chen Yuan and Huang Bo carried things into the house, but found that a person was lying on the kang and was sleeping. Chen Yuan stepped forward to take a look, this person was actually Liu Jianjun, Su Muying's uncle in the same village!
Su Muying also discovered her, her face immediately changed, and her little heart was suddenly clouded. She asked in a low voice, "Why is my uncle here?" ”
"Alas," Liu Ping sighed and said, "Didn't you say it when I called you two days ago?" As soon as your uncle came back, he went around looking for people to inquire about what had been reported. I tossed for several days, and I didn't have a clue at all, but I drank a lot of wine. It's like this every day. If your aunt is annoyed, you won't allow him to go home. No, you came to our house this afternoon? ”
"How can this be?" Su Muying said dissatisfiedly, "Our family is so big, he occupies the kang, where do we sleep?" It's not summer, you can lay the floor......"
"Otherwise, you can spend the night at your grandmother's house tonight!" Liu Ping proposed.
Su Jun's eyes widened: "What are you doing at her grandmother's house?" Muying, your grandmother's house is more spacious, so you can accompany your grandmother. ”
Chen Yuan was afraid that the two would quarrel because of this matter, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "It's better to be like this, just let Mu Ying go with me, and tomorrow morning, I will send her back!" ”
Liu Ping was a little reluctant, but the Soviet army readily agreed.
Su Muying glanced at the sleeping figure on the kang, and quietly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart. I don't know why, she is extremely reluctant to stay with this figure on the kang now. It would be best to be able to spend the night at Chen Yuan's house tonight.
Su Muying opened the suitcase, took out the contents one by one, and whispered at the same time: "This is the gift I brought back to you from Kyoto." This is a scarf and gloves for mom, and this is a lighter for dad. And something to eat. ”
In the end, Su Muying took out a large plastic bag, which was full of Lantern Festival. She whispered, "I wanted to celebrate the holiday with you today, but ......"
The attentive Chen Yuan found that Su Muying actually shed tears as she spoke. He knew what she was thinking. The reason why Su Muying was willing to go home with him was entirely because of the person who was asleep on the kang! He has enlightened many times, but Su Muying has never figured it out. Alas, this confused little girl!
After Su Jun and Liu Ping sent Su Muying and the three of them away, they returned to the house. The constant snoring sound reached the ears of the two of them, and they couldn't help but get irritated.
Su Jun couldn't help but say: "It's hard to bring my daughter back, alas! ”
"What do you mean?" Liu Ping said dissatisfiedly, "Do you think her uncle is hindering you?" ”
"That's not what I meant," Su Jun explained, "Jianjun has a home and can't go back, can't he go to his mother-in-law's side?" Mother-in-law is usually timid and afraid to sleep alone, how good would it be if there was Jianjun as a companion? ”
"What's good?" Liu Ping retorted, "My mother hates Jianjun drinking the most, and you don't know it." Is it interesting to say that now? ”
"What's interesting and boring!" The Soviet army was a little angry, "Don't you want to celebrate the holiday with your daughter?" ”
Liu Ping stopped talking. In fact, in her heart, she also complained about Liu Jianjun. He didn't come early or late, but when Su Muying came back, he ran to her house and fell asleep! Liu Ping carefully looked at Liu Jianjun's face, the yellow was white, and it was clear that he had overdrunked it! I won't be able to wake up in a short time, so I might be able to sleep until the second half of the night. Alas!
After coming out of Guanzhuang Village, Chen Yuan has been holding Su Muying's hand. He didn't say much, no matter how big the truth was, it wouldn't work when it came to Su Muying. She has a knot in her heart, and she can only slowly unravel it by herself.
Different from the dull atmosphere of the Su family, the old Chen family was full of the joy of the festival. When Chen Yuan and Su Muying came back, they pushed this joyful atmosphere to a high tide!
During the Lantern Festival, boiling Lantern Festival is essential.
After so many years of the Lantern Festival, many people may not know that Lantern Festival and Tangyuan are not the same.
Lantern Festival is eaten in the north, and tangyuan is eaten in the south, which are two foods with different practices and tastes.
Lantern Festival generally uses only vegetarian solid sweet filling, which is cut into small pieces, dipped in water and repeatedly rounded in glutinous rice flour until the right size, and its surface is dry. The filling of the glutinous rice balls is meat and vegetarian, first mix the glutinous rice flour into a dough, wrap the filling like a dumpling and then knead the round. The taste of the glutinous rice balls is more delicate and smooth than that of the Lantern Festival.
After arriving at Chen's house, Su Muying's mood gradually improved. Together with Chen's mother and second aunt, she came to the kitchen to cook Lantern Festival!
The second aunt added water to the pot, and Chen's mother lit the fire. Su Muying put aside the Lantern Festival that had been prepared a long time ago.
Mother Chen looked at the Lantern Festival and said, "This is the Lantern Festival you brought back from Kyoto?" It does look different from what we usually buy. ”
Su Muying grinned and said, "In order to buy these Lantern Festival, Sister Li and Brother Huang and I queued up all morning!" ”
The second aunt was a little unconvinced, and said, "Do you have to wait in line for so long to buy Lantern Festival?" Is this Lantern Festival made of gold? ”
"This Lantern Festival is not made of gold," Su Muying said with a smile, "I heard those old Kyoto people say that the Jinfang Lantern Festival is the most authentic, so I asked Sister Li and Brother Huang to accompany me to buy it." When we arrived, the queue to buy the Lantern Festival was 300 meters away! There are also guests from Tianjin Wei who drove over to buy it! ”
"What?" The second aunt still didn't believe it.
At this moment, Su Muying saw that Chen Yuan and Huang Bo also got into the kitchen, and hurriedly asked Huang Bo to help testify.
Huang Bo smiled and said, "That's true, but we queued up all morning and didn't buy Jinfang's Lantern Festival." The crew rushed back when the celebration banquet began. Thanks to a brother in the crew, he waited in line until half past two in the afternoon, when he finally got on. It's not easy to buy these Lantern Festivals! ”
The second aunt finally believed it, she looked at the Lantern Festival next to her, swallowed her saliva unconsciously, and said, "I want to taste how delicious this Lantern Festival is, it has attracted so many people to queue up!" ”
Su Muying pursed her lips and said, "When I was queuing, I heard from the people around me that this Jinfang Lantern Festival is not ordinary. It has a set of strict production procedures: first of all, the best Jiang rice is fed in, the coarse noodles that come out first when the noodles are milled are used to make rice cakes, and the fine noodles are used to make Lantern Festival. There is not a single bit of scum in the noodles. The Lantern Festival stuffing is also the best material to choose. They strictly follow the cost list and never cut corners. Those unqualified fruits will be singled out, and the peach kernels will be selected one by one. Lantern Festival stuffing is ready to be made. After the Lantern Festival is shaken, pick out the small, broken ones and don't want them. The Lantern Festival they produce, as long as the pot is boiled, it floats on the water surface when boiled, and it swells, and the skin is soft after cooking, and the filling is like porridge, which tastes sweet......"
"Muying, are you running to the house to help others advertise?" Chen Yuan interrupted her and said with a smile, "You don't have to talk too much first. Later, if the Lantern Festival cooked is not delicious, wouldn't it be a slap in the face? ”
Su Muying muttered dissatisfiedly: "I didn't say this, why did you hit me in the face?" Brother Chen Yuan is so bad! ”
Chen Yuan laughed and said, "Okay, it's all my fault." To express my sincerest apologies, I decided to make you a delicious meal, how about never eating it? ”
Hearing that there was something delicious, Su Muying immediately became happy, but she quickly reacted and said, "The dishes at home are almost ready, where do you still need to do it?" You are clearly deliberately deceiving me! ”
Now Chen Yuan was really wronged, and he didn't say much, "You just wait!" ”
Chen Yuan and Huang Bo went into the kitchen, just to prepare a few more dishes. Huang Bo has two of his best dishes, and he wants to take this opportunity to show his hands. Chen Yuan is also thinking the same way.
The two of them prepared separately. Chen Yuan took local materials, cut a section of winter melon, and then carefully cut it into towers with a fruit knife.
After Su Muying saw it, she came over and asked curiously, "Brother Chen Yuan, what are you doing?" Is it so troublesome to stew a winter melon? ”
Stewed winter melon? Chen Yuan smiled slightly, without explanation.
The winter melon tart cut 36, and Chen Yuan took out another bag of shrimp. The shrimp was bought by Chen Qingjiang. Shrimp is too expensive these days, and the average rural family will not buy this kind of thing. Chen Qingjiang originally wanted to cook and eat the shrimp when he bought it, so he saved the skin. But he was stopped by Chen Yuan, and he remembered a very interesting dish - shrimp paste and winter melon tart.
That's exactly what he's cooking!