Chapter 40: New Year's Greetings
The second day of the Lunar New Year is the day when the married girl returns to her parents' home.
Because there are no elders in the family, Lin Guizhi must stay at home to receive the younger generation of the eldest sister-in-law's family to pay New Year's greetings, so he can only send five children to his mother's house to pay New Year's greetings.
Early in the morning, Lin Guizhi packed up the New Year's gifts and sent the five children back to their parents' house.
Her maiden home is in the Lin family's house, which is half an hour away. Early in the morning, the road was full of people coming and going to pay New Year's greetings, and the five sisters met an acquaintance from time to time, stopped to say hello twice, and chatted a few more words, and when they finally arrived at their grandmother's house, they had been walking for almost an hour.
As soon as I approached the yard of my grandmother's house, I saw my little cousin Lin Feng, who was only five or six years old, coming out of the yard.
Seeing their group, Lin Feng immediately shouted into the courtyard with a smile: "Grandma, father, mother, second sister, they are here." ”
While shouting, he rushed to Wang Li, hugged Wang Li's legs, and said happily: "Second sister, you are here!" Did you bring me delicious peanuts? ”
Wang Li picked him up and said with a smile: "Xiaofeng, what should I do, my sister forgot to bring delicious peanuts to Xiaofeng today." ”
Lin Feng frowned, and said reluctantly: "Then, the second sister must remember to bring it next time, I want to eat the crispy peanuts that the third brother brought me last time, you will bring a lot of them next time!" ”
Wang Li almost laughed, but she couldn't help it, Wang Fang and Wang Xia couldn't help it.
"Xiaofeng, if you call me a good sister, the third sister will give you crispy peanuts, okay?" Wang Fang leaned to Lin Feng's left and said temptingly.
Without waiting for Lin Feng to answer, Wang Xia also came to Lin Feng's right to tempt and said, "Xiaofeng Xiaofeng, you also call me a good sister, and the fourth sister will also give you delicious crispy peanuts, okay?" ”
Lin Feng listened, blinked his eyes, looked left and right, and said in embarrassment: "However, the second sister is a good sister." ”
I could only hear the sound in the hall and the adults who came out to see it laughed.
Wang Li was moved to kiss Lin Feng's little face one bite after another, and smiled softly: "Xiaofeng is so good, second sister is sorry for you, second sister brought a lot of crispy peanuts this time, will Xiaofeng eat enough." ”
Lin Feng immediately nodded obediently, imitating Wang Li's appearance of kissing him just now, and his little mouth took the initiative to kiss Wang Li's face, only making Wang Li's heart gurgle and bubbling, and also making the eldest aunt who was standing on the side watching the excitement jealous, this child has never kissed her like this as a mother! At night, you must let him kiss himself like this, no, one kiss is not enough, at least ten kisses!
The aunt's family has arrived, this time it is still the same as before, the aunt and his wife, the second cousin and his wife arrived early with the five little cousins, and the second cousin Chen Minwei was the one who watched the excitement just now.
Wang Mei entered the hall as early as when Lin Feng hugged Wang Li, she always thought that she was the first person in the Wang family, but she really couldn't stand that Lin Feng didn't like her and liked the second child, so she simply didn't see it, and went directly into the hall to see her grandmother.
When Wang Li and her second cousin entered the hall and paid their respects to their grandmother, uncles and aunts, everyone sat down to talk casually, of course, Xiao Lin Feng still occupied Wang Li's arms and followed Wang Li to sit on the stool without moving.
Grandma, as in previous years, first asked Wang Mei, how is the family? Is her mom and dad healthy? He called Wang Aiguo to him again, grabbed a handful of hard candy and stuffed it into his pocket.
Wang Aiguo's face was flushed with shame, and he hurriedly stopped his grandmother's hand that he had stuffed into his pocket, and said embarrassedly: "Mother, I have sugar, keep this for Xiaofeng and Pingping Xiaohu." ”
Hearing his words, the eldest cousin-in-law Xia Lan hugged her daughter tightly, opened her face and said with a smile: "Pingping is still young, where do you dare to give her hard candy, you eat, you eat,"
The eldest aunt Chen Siya also squinted her eyes and said with a smile: "Xiaofeng is not uncommon to eat sugar now, he asks me every day when you are coming and how many crispy peanuts you have brought him." ”
Aunt Lin Guihua glared at her daughter-in-law Liu Yan, who was holding her grandson and didn't speak, and hurriedly said: "Xiaohu is still young, patriotic, you can eat!" ”
Wang Li pursed her lips and smiled, and continued to feed peanuts to Xiaofeng.
This kind of peanut rice is still in the previous life she opened an early shop to make money and then opened a small restaurant when the recipe came out, after making it, it tasted fragrant and refreshing, and each guest who ate gave a small plate for free, as a result, the guests still wanted to eat it, so that they simply put this as a main dish on the recipe, and there were many people who came to eat it.
However, now the raw materials are insufficient, not only did not put egg white, nor flour was put when frying, but corn starch was used instead, five-spice powder, chicken essence was not used, only a little chili powder was put in, and even the fried oil was made of cottonseed oil. Even with such corners, in this era of no snacks, this simple peanut is enough to attract children.
After she came back, she once fried two catties of peanuts, and when Aiguo came back to deliver fish, she asked him to bring most of the catty to Xiaofeng to eat, and this time, she fried five catties, and this time she brought half of it.
In her previous life, the only one who fought for her in front of her parents was Xiaofeng, and then Xiaofeng has been very close to her.
Wang Mei felt very uncomfortable, seeing that the family was revolving around Wang Li and Aiguo, she wanted to jump out and scold, but she didn't dare. She purred her eyes and stole over her two cousins.
The eldest cousin-in-law Xia Lan married into her uncle's family three years ago and only gave birth to a daughter, Lin Ping, and the second cousin-in-law Liu Yan is the daughter-in-law of the eldest aunt's family, and gave birth to her son Chen Xiaohu a year ago.
Mothers all hope that their children can be loved by their elders, so Xia Lan will not talk about it, she gave birth to a daughter, and she has a brother-in-law who is only five or six years old in front, and she can bear the love of her daughter without the love of her elders.
But Liu Yan is different, she gave birth to a son! And he is the only male of the fourth generation, shouldn't everyone hold her son like a golden pimple? Why do you want to hurt the stupid Wang Aiguo of my aunt's house? If it hurts Lin Feng, she is better, it is her uncle's old man, and her grandmother's careful liver, but why does Wang Aiguo want to? Why don't you see that they love her man, that's also her grandson!
Wang Mei slowly moved to Liu Yan's side, and while looking at Chen Xiaohu, she said seemingly casually: "Second table search, Xiaohu is really good!" What do you usually give him to eat? It's grown so big. ”
Liu Yan said proudly: "Hey, this child may eat with his father, he used to eat rotten porridge with vegetable soup after weaning, and recently gave him some dry rice mixed with cabbage, or sweet potato roasted and melted, and he can eat most of it at a meal."
Wang Mei exaggeratedly said: "Really! Xiaohu is really capable! When my family was patriotic, he was not as powerful as Xiaohu, and he didn't break until he was almost two years old, no wonder Xiaohu was so big and so tall. ”
Liu Yan glanced at Wang Aiguo proudly, thinking, why is he so short after eating so much milk. He held his son in his arms again, thinking that he would still raise his son by himself.
Wang Mei blinked, said in her heart, what a fool, deliberately looked at Xiaohu left and right and said: "Or the second cousin-in-law will raise people, my mother said, my family is patriotic almost two years old and doesn't like to eat, every time my father feeds him a mouthful of maltose, he is willing to eat a mouthful of rice, but at that time the family was poor, where is there so much sugar for him to eat, fortunately my mother-in-law and uncle and aunt are good, every time we come, we have to give Aiguo a big bag to take home, Aiguo can eat, if it weren't for the insect teeth that gave birth to later, Aiguo still has to eat maltose before eating." Xiaohu is really well-behaved, don't be like your cousin, you panic when you eat. ”
Liu Yan's smile froze on her face, and she was half angry in her heart, feeling that her mother-in-law and her aunt were partial, and she actually gave the patriotic young man a big bag of sugar, but refused to give half of his little tiger!
She has been married to the Chen family for less than three years, and she has never heard her husband Chen Minwei say that his mother-in-law gave him candy when he was a child, and she has never seen her mother-in-law and uncle give her little tiger candy to eat. Why does Wang Aiguo have it, but her family Minwei doesn't? Her little tiger doesn't have it?
At this moment, she didn't think about it at all, her husband Chen Minwei was twenty-three years old, more than ten years ago, not long after the liberation of the whole society, and there was a shortage of materials everywhere, where was the condition to buy these things for the children to eat? Not to mention Chen Minwei, even his cousin Lin Yun, his grandson and son, do not have this treatment. It is only after ten years, after recuperation, that the society has accumulated surplus wealth, which can make people live a little more freely and add some snacks to their children.
Wang Aiguo is also stained with age and gender, and the other Wang Mei, Wang Li, Wang Xia, and Wang Fang do not have this treatment. As for Chen Xiaohu, which parent dares to give a one-year-old child a nod to eat hard candy? Don't be afraid to choke children!
But Liu Yan didn't think about this at all, she saw her grandmother stuffing melon seeds and peanuts into Wang Aiguo's pocket again, and looked at her son's little hand stuffed in his mouth, and couldn't help but say sourly: "Mother, Xiaohu also wants to eat some sugar, patriotism, you let the two of you give Xiaohu a taste." ”