Chapter 2 Mugwort and the New Year
Su Yan was distracted, the light dimmed, and a figure appeared outside the window of the room.
"Oh, how is it so affectionate early in the morning? Wanzhen, are you kneading your glutinous rice flour? ”
Against the light, she couldn't see her appearance clearly, she could only vaguely see a general outline, quite young, Su Yan blinked, listening to the tone of this speech, this human nature is very spicy, and it is quite complementary to Su Ma, who is honest and has no character in her memory.
Su Ma let out an "oops" and hurriedly went out.
Su Yan waved her little hands and kicked her short legs, and she also wanted to go out to see the excitement.
Su's father smiled and hugged Su Yan, who was dancing with her hands, and also went out.
I saw that in the yard, Su Ma was adding a spoonful of green steaming paste to a large ball of white powder in a large stainless steel basin, which should be glutinous rice flour, kneading it a few times, adding another spoonful, and kneading it again...... And so on and so forth.
Another young woman with chopsticks mixing the filling of the two sea bowls? Su Yan stretched out her neck and took a look, one bowl was filled with dried radish, and the other bowl seemed to be shredded coconut-
The smell of green mush was very familiar, Su Yan rubbed her nose, and finally remembered what it was-her favorite moxa!
Su Yan felt that her saliva was about to come up!
Mugwort is a snack that is unique to them. After the Chinese New Year, after harvesting the crops, there will be a small grass called Tian Ai in the field, only pick the sharp tips of the grass and the unflowered buds back to dry, when you want to use it, add water and sugar to boil for about 20 minutes, it will be boiled into the green paste that Su Ma poured into the glutinous rice flour just now, kneaded into the dough, and then wrapped in different flavors of fillings according to personal preferences......
Su Yan likes to eat salty radish filling, the same taste as Su's father, while Su's mother likes sweets and loves to eat shredded coconut stuffing - hey! The thought makes your mouth water!
While mixing the stuffing, the young woman looked at Xiao Su Yan who was being held and smiled for a while, shook her head for a while, and only felt that this baby was really cute.
At this time, Su Yan also recognized that this was Li Sumei, the daughter-in-law of Uncle Wenxing's family diagonally opposite.
It has been two years since Li Sumei got married, and her stomach has not moved, so it is inevitable that someone will secretly point fingers. Her own personality is quite powerful, and she loves to make friends with those who are honest and heartless. Su's mother Li Wanzhen is a well-known honest person in the whole village, so Li Sumei has the best relationship with her.
Li Sumei worked very quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the stuffing was ready, and Su Ma over there also kneaded the flour skin, and the two of them divided the flour skin that had been kneaded into green into two parts, and each person wrapped it up one by one.
Su's father wanted to tease Su Yan to learn to walk, put Su Yan on the ground, and after she stood firm, he took two steps back, holding a small piece of hair cake in his hand, and clapped his hands at Su Yan.
Su Yan looked at Su's father, she was generally interested in hair cakes! Decisively turned around and walked to the steamer with the mugwort that had been wrapped a few steps away, pointed to the dumpling type wrapped with radish filling, and wanted to tell Su's father that it was better to steam these first to eat, I don't know if the vocal cords and tongue have not fully developed, I held it for a long time, and only held out one sentence: "Dad!" Eat! ”
Then I felt my legs go limp, and quickly held on to the low table where the steamer was placed. Looking up again, the three adults looked at her with dumbfounded expressions......
"Oh my God! You can talk! It took a while for Su's father to reflect, "You'll call me!" ”
"Wow!" Su's mother was also excited, and clapped her hands at Su Yan, "Hello, come!" Scream Mommy. ”
Su Yan let go of her hand and staggered towards Su's mother, smiling on her face and keeping her mouth: "Mom! Mom! "Oh my God! She seems to be getting more and more used to this kind of cute day!
After snuggling into Su's mother's arms, Li Sumei, who was teasing her on the side, smiled sweetly again: "Auntie! ”
Li Sumei covered her chest and looked frightened: "My mother! You're not 9 months old, right? I can already walk! He still speaks so fluently! It's going to call people! Why is it so cute! After that, he reached out and hugged Su Yan into her arms and rubbed it for a long time, and then sighed, "It's a pity!" Lost a little weight. ”
Su Ma looked at Su Yan, her nose was a little sour, and she was indeed thin. After giving birth to Su Yan, her parents-in-law began to plan to divide the family, Su Yan was not yet a month, and her parents-in-law and three sons and one daughter had moved to a newly built red brick and blue tile new house, leaving only two rooms of the old mud house for the eldest son's family.
Su's mother did not eat well during confinement, and the milk was naturally insufficient. Milk powder is a high-priced and rare thing, and they don't have that money, so they have to add some fish soup and rice soup to supplement it when feeding Su Yan. If you are older, you will occasionally eat some fish porridge. Meat is rarely bought, and fish is cheaper by the sea to eat the sea.
"I heard that your two younger brothers are talking about marriage?" Seeing that the Su family and his wife were gloomy, Li Sumei quickly changed the topic and asked Su's father.
"yes." Father Su said lightly.
"Your eldest brother wants to talk about the daughter-in-law has a relative who is my mother's neighbor, and I heard that she asked for a gift of 500 yuan!" Li Sumei is well-informed.
"Really?" Su's mother couldn't help but ask, her face was not obvious, and there was still shallow envy in her eyes, she married Su's father without asking for a gift money. It's a bit of a loss to think about it now, "When my family gets married in the future, I have to take good care of it, and my family has a solid background." ”
Su Yan touched Su's mother's face comfortingly, when her parents got married, her mother confiscated the gift money Su Yan had also heard about it, she thought to herself, it seems that her previous romanticism was inherited from her mother!
Su Yan shook her head gently, she remembered Fan Ye's golden sentence - I don't need to marry a wealthy family, I will be a wealthy family myself! She doesn't have such a big idea of a wealthy family, but in this life, she will definitely make it easy for her family to live and no longer have to worry about money!
In the end, Su Yan didn't eat it. It was made of glutinous rice, and she was too small for fear of choking her. Later, Su's father saw her staring at him with drooling, and his heart softened and wanted to give her a taste, but Su's mother stopped him.
The mugwort is used to worship God during the New Year. It turned out that this day was already the twenty-eighth year of the year, and the atmosphere of the New Year in the village was quite strong, and every family was washing and scrubbing. Su's mother was also busy cleaning all kinds of utensils, watching Su's father hugging Su Yan and playing on the side. However, he was never willing to do many New Year goods, except for making some mugwort festivals, that is, he bought Su Yan a new set of clothes, and by the end of the Chinese New Year's Eve, he killed one of the three chickens that raised his own eggs, boiled chicken soup, and cut some pork belly, plus various vegetables such as cucumber and beans produced in his own vegetable garden, which was quite rich.
On the first day of the new year, a string of small firecrackers was set off, which was simple, but Su Yan's pistachio was amused from time to time, and the year passed happily.
And Su Yan, who was less than nine months old, began to think about making money while selling cuteness, and in a flash, she reached the age of three......