At first, Su Lei didn't listen to Meng Yufei's words well, he sat down and studied the dough, according to his own ideas, pinched and played with a few bags, crooked and unpresentable, I was afraid that he would open his mouth as soon as he got out of the pot, Meng Yufei didn't train Su Lei, just told Su Lei with a smile, this is the fruit of your labor, and you have to eat yourself first when the dumplings come out of the pot!

Su Lei looked at Meng Yufei's smiling expression, knowing that Meng Yufei was telling the truth, and then looked at the dumplings he made, no longer naughty, watching how his grandmother wrapped them, learning to pinch the dough tightly, and soon Su Lei got started, although it was still not very good-looking, but at least there was a shadow of dumplings.

Although the gentleman is far away from cooking, there is no such saying in the Meng family, Meng Huadong's dumpling is not good, but the rolling skin is quite quick, it used to be Meng Huadong rolling the skin, Meng Yufei and her mother and grandmother are responsible for the package, and now that her father is not here, Meng Yufei took over the task of rolling the skin.

In the past, Su Lei was a little too pampered, and he basically didn't know anything about housework, Meng Yufei was ready to train Su Lei, not to mention anything else, but at least simple housework and cooking must be learned, even if a person doesn't need to order takeout at home, he can become a warm man when he grows up, and now he has to start cultivating, he must be on par with Ouyang Yufan, good looks, good learning, good sports, and even cooking is a chef-level level.

In fact, the meaning of the phrase gentleman is far away from the kitchen in the original text does not mean that gentlemen should not enter the kitchen.

The source of this sentence is "Liang Hui Wang Zhangju" in "Mencius".

Original text: "A gentleman is also a beast, seeing its life, and can't bear to see its death; Hearing its voice, I can't bear to eat its flesh. It is a gentleman who cooks far away. ”

The so-called "gentleman is far away from cooking." It's just a psychological state that can't bear to kill, that is, the psychology of King Qi Xuan's "exchanging sheep for cattle", because he saw with his own eyes that the cow was about to be killed, but did not see the sheep about to be killed, "out of sight is pure", so the gentleman should stay away from the kitchen where chickens and ducks are slaughtered and killed.

The three of them chatted and wrapped up, and soon wrapped a large curtain of dumplings, most of which were made by grandma, and Su Lei's bag accounted for about one-fourth.

The curtain of Meng Yufei's house is that round. The cover which threads the sorghum stalk by hand. There are large and small, which are used to hold wrapped dumplings, or when steaming steamed buns at home, put the kneaded steamed buns on the curtain to rise.

This kind of lid is called a curtain in Meng Yufei's house. There are also places called cover pads, rackets, or grates. Each place has a different name. However, the uses are the same, and they are sold in general farmers' markets, and the plastic dumpling curtains sold in shopping malls and supermarkets are basically used. This kind of sorghum tree woven curtain is not for sale.

There are about 70 dumplings with a large curtain, and after a curtain is filled, grandma takes out a small curtain, and the three grandchildren also wrap the small curtain, which is enough for the family to eat tonight, so they clean up the board and do not wrap it.

Grandma first ordered a few small bowls of dumplings, and then opened the offerings that she bought at the market during the day, put them in small bowls and plates, and put them to the stove prince, and after dinner, you can "send" the stove prince to heaven.

When Meng Huadong and Yuan Xiumei came back, they made several dishes, and this time the dinner was not placed in the dining room, but on the coffee table in the living room, so that they could watch TV while eating dinner.

Meng Huadong opened a bottle of red wine and poured it for Yuan Xiumei and the old lady respectively, and poured a glass of white wine himself, as for Meng Yufei and Su Lei, they opened a bottle of juice instead of wine, and after the family raised a glass together, they chatted and ate.

Xiao Nian, if it is placed ten years later, Meng Yufei is probably eating the quick-frozen dumplings bought from the supermarket alone, and then Mango, Dongfang, Jiangsu Satellite TV stations take turns to change, look at the party on Chinese New Year's Eve, one night will pass like this, and the next day will still go to work, repeating the previous day's work.

Now that the family is around, even the young year is very old, the parents and grandmother, and a cute younger brother, even if there is no party where stars from all walks of life gather to watch, there is nothing bad, this is the most comfortable year Meng Yufei has ever had.

After eating a meal for more than an hour, after eating dinner and cleaning up the dishes and plates, grandma began the last process of sacrificing the stove: "sending" the stove prince to heaven.

The old lady muttered some words in her mouth, probably to ask the stove prince to return to heaven, say more good things, don't say bad things or the like, and wait until the New Year to invite the stove prince back to eat good, and then use a stainless steel basin to light a fire to send the stove prince away.

The air is not so bad in the current era, so the term ban on whips does not exist yet, listening to the sound of firecrackers outside, Su Lei was also a little itchy, and took the small firecrackers that Meng Huadong bought for him to put downstairs, Meng Yufei was not at ease, and also took a handful of Didi cores to accompany him to put them.

Su Lei dismantled all the small firecrackers, dismantled them one by one, took the lighter, lit a stick of incense, Su Lei also wanted to put the firecrackers in his hand and light them before throwing them, this dangerous practice was severely stopped by Meng Yufei, Su Lei had to pout and honestly put the firecrackers on the ground and then light them.

The droplet core in Meng Yufei's hand, after being lit, is not as bright as the fireworks stick of later generations, it is a kind of fireworks like firecracker leads, and after being lit, it will sprinkle flame-like fireworks dotted with stars, girls generally love to play this, Meng Yufei remembers that when she lived in the town before, a few girls next door got together during the Chinese New Year, and the shaking drops and drops in a circle will appear, one by one, very beautiful, and it lasts for a long time, and it can burn for about 5 minutes!

At 11 o'clock, when Meng Yufei was about to rest at night, there was a thin sound of firecrackers outside the house, and the first Spring Festival after Meng Yufei's rebirth was coming soon.

The next day, Meng Huadong and his wife went to the company, the old lady also went out, Su Lei was called out by his classmates to skate, Meng Yufei was the only one at home, Meng Yufei began to practice the piano, until Ouyang Yufan came to Meng Yufei's house at 9 o'clock, and the two began to study homework together.

"Something on your mind today?" Ouyang Yufan saw that Meng Yufei had read a page of the book for 10 minutes and hadn't turned the page, so he couldn't help but ask Meng Yufei.

"Huh? It's okay, it's just that I'm not in a state today, and I can't seem to read the book. Meng Yufei came back to her senses and replied to Ouyang Yufan with a bitter face.

"Do you want to go out for a walk? The sun is nice today! Ouyang Yufan put his hand on his chin and thought for a moment, and glanced at the sunshine proposal outside the window.

Meng Yufei directly closed the book, stood up and said, "Okay, I can't read the book anyway, it's better to go out and breathe." ”

The two put on their coats and went out of the house, went directly to the park from the back door of the community, and saw that the firecrackers seller had set up a stall on the side of the road, and the atmosphere of the New Year was getting stronger and stronger. (To be continued.) )